that's due to safety. how'd you like your mug recorded if you're testifying against someone and your pic ends up all over the internet as "the snitch" if you were ever in a situation where you were eligible for the witness protection program... your pic is the last thing you want taken.
probably not a good idea to take pictures of the jurors either.. (tampering/threats or worse)..and cameras could be allowed if the judge says so.. cameras aren't illegal.. it's a rule, not the law.
OJ Trial?, Court TV? (before it was truTV, it was basically live coverage of ongoing homicide trials). nevermind the part where you, for the most part, can get a trial transcript just for the asking - it's public record for christ's sake.
"Honorary knighthoods, given to individuals who are not nationals of a realm where Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II is Head of State, permit usage of the honour as a post-nominal but not as a title before their name. These recipients are classified as honorary members of the Order they receive, and do not contribute to the numbers restricted to that Order as full members do."
the original deathstar explosion was a blown up scale model suspended from the ceiling of the Cow Palace in San Francisco. They have atmosphere in the Cow Palace.. so the smoke and all that was "real" not much you can do about it esp. back in the late 70's
I'd love to see space battles done realistically some day..at least they got space flight right in BSG (the new one).. the Vipers used thrusters to turn on their axes (to do a 180 for example).. they even used a reverse thuster to counter the spin. SW and ST (and just about every other SciFi movie I've seen uses that WWII dogfight wide banking turn as if control surfaces (flaps) work in space. The flight scenes in Apollo 13 or From the Earth to the Moon also got it right, but I don't consider those SciFi.
n order to determine which people may need special assistance because of their visual disabilities, various governmental jurisdictions have formulated more complex definitions referred to as legal blindness.[2] In North America and most of Europe, legal blindness is defined as visual acuity (vision) of 20/200 (6/60) or less in the better eye with best correction possible. This means that a legally blind individual would have to stand 20 feet (6.1 m) from an object to see it—with corrective lenses—with the same degree of clarity as a normally sighted person could from 200 feet (61 m). In many areas, people with average acuity who nonetheless have a visual field of less than 20 degrees (the norm being 180 degrees) are also classified as being legally blind. Approximately ten percent of those deemed legally blind, by any measure, have no vision. The rest have some vision, from light perception alone to relatively good acuity. Low vision is sometimes used to describe visual acuities from 20/70 to 20/200.[3]
If I have the ability to buy a 10$ paper back book and have it read to me, why the hell would I buy the 40$ audio book?...because there's something to be said for professional narration? You're not paying for (just) the content.. you're paying for the hours the person sat down and read it for you.
I could listen to Stephen Fry read the phone book and love every second of it.. the synthesized voice gets on your nerves after a while.
Yes, it's an all-touch-screen device. Yes, I've always said that touch screens and blind people don't go together -- it's suggested, usually by slightly dumb people, that I could just memorize where all the icons were and then I could touch the screen at the right spot and get the right thing to happen... Do they really think they could withdraw $100 from an ATM that way? Dial a phone?
But, the iPhone and iPad have an ingenious and delightful interface that actually makes the touch screen a pleasure to use.
There will be a proper, full-featured review of the iPad in AccessWorld soon. These are just the first impressions of a so-far-happy customer.
they don't need to patent that. why use biometrics to detect the HUMAN using the device. jailroken-ness can be detected w/o biometrics. this is a measure to prevent unauthorized use (as it it's not your device to begin with)
The patent, titled "Systems and Methods for Identifying Unauthorized Users of an Electronic Device," describes several ways a device could sense who is using an iPhone or iPad. Among the methods considered are voice print analysis, photo analysis, heartbeat analysis (!), hacking attempts, or even "noting particular activities that can indicate suspicious behavior."
If the various analyses detect someone who is not authorized to use the device, it could set off a number of automated features designed to protect the device's data, suss out the offending party, and alert the device owner. Sensitive data could be backed up to a remote server and the device could be wiped. The device could automatically snap pictures of the unauthorized user and record the GPS coordinates of the device, as well as log keystrokes, phone calls, or other activity. That information could be sent along with an alert to any useful service, such as e-mail, voicemail, Twitter, Facebook, or a "cloud service" like MobileMe.
refusing to charge or just SAYING it's not charging?
i have a USB hub (unpowered) that works fine for syncing. last night I got the "I'm not charging message", but the next AM, it was charged (up from about 75% or so)..
people who get "official" apple chargers are the same crowd who buys Monster cables. fuck'em
exactly. if some platform (or 2) reach a overwhelming majority of the market.. it MIGHT make sense to build these apps. for now, webapps are what they need. accessible via mobile or desktop. you don't need an iphone (specific) app.
meh. we had to give our marketing squad a corner of the site where they can push new content whenever they want.. they fuck something up every week (and blame us because they can't cut and paste an URL).. they've done worse shit than the BBC -
and FYI that's field hockey.. the pakistanis have a FIELD hockey team.
sure it does. there's no contract with ATT on a used phone. that $99 dollar phone will cost you almost a grand in airtime (24 months @ $40/per for voice only)
Fortunately, this one has a happy ending. AT&T spokesman Mark Siegel tells me:
“What your readers are seeing is a routine update of the daily data activity on their devices—whether the iPhone or other handsets—to ensure billing accuracy. Customers are not charged for any data usage as part of this routine update
if you manage to see this.. check to see if your client has logs (and browser usage stats). cater to the largest segment.. maybe the top 3
unless your client is ok with forcing a browser on their customers.. it's your job to make the site work in the ones that are used the most.
since you said freight and passage, I'm thinking your client is a commercial shipper moving bulk freight.. not tins of cookies for the grandkids.
that said, the browser distribution will probably be narrow (corporate clients) vs. every grandma's browser. unfortunately.. commercial clientele probably means ie6 is going to be in that top 3.
so if this was an "apple" policy why would they force you to buy something from a 3rd party they don't want you to buy at one of their own stores (and take their cut of that sale directly).
it's like blaming Sony because the BestBuy monkeys try to sell you a protection plan with a tv.
there were rumors of this kinds of shit at ATT for the frist phone. turned out it did happen in some stores - to boost sales of high margin items.
Apple's probably kicking in a ton of support.. and I doubt they're only using these for web/word processing or whatever - they may have an entire Apple back end that's not mentioned in the article?... Mac only applications? who knows?
suppose you could fucking read? that's kind of the point of slash dot and the internet in general. maybe these kids "forced" to buy something will have an advantage over the likes of you someday.
"Parents can pay for the computers upfront or lease them from the district, with the option to buy after three years. The payments should work out to about $20 to $25 per month, Hayes said. The cost also includes free tech support.
"We realize for some families that will be a stretch," he said. In those cases, the district will provide financial assistance.
Students who don't participate will be able to borrow a school-provided laptop during the day, but they won't be able to take it home, Hayes said."
regardless of which side your on... we're talking about who gets the rights to spam us with ads...
we hate pop ups we hate spam we hate commercials we never "swat the fly" to win an ipod. we install AdBlock we install FlashBlock we install popup blockers
yet we're arguing over who has the rights to put more shit in our faces?
WHAT THE FUCK. fanboyism has no place here - marketing and ads are a COMMON ENEMY.
do the developers get? let's say Android and iOS have equal market penetration.. 100M devices each. Jobs said devs get 60% of the cut. Do AdMob participants get the same?
why not let the devs make this decision? assuming market penetration is equal, as a dev, I'd go for the option that gives me the most back.
i know market penetration isn't equal, and won't be for a while... and I seriously doubt that AdMob revenue sharing favors the developer. how much of the AdMob business plan is based on an ASSUMED share of Apple's mobile devices?
I think google is afraid their recent purchase isn't going to pan out as well as they'd hoped (in the short term).
if your terms are equivalent, what's the problem - don't give me the philosophical "market competition" bullshit, because iAd an AdMob both want all of the market. At least Apple's not trying to hide it.
yes because this makes sense to Joe Public consumer - 50 cycles per degree, whereas a cycle is a line pair which is two pixels, so the angular resolution of the eye is 0.6 arc minutes per pixel.
apparently you've never been through Ben Gurion. I am an American, but Asian.. so I don't look Jewish. They "interviewed" me but it's not what you think. Some dude just walks up and starts talking to you.. how are you, where are you going.. it's VERY passive... they're watching for body language as I give my answers. your not being interrogated it's in the terminal, they don't haul you off to an office or anything. it takes about 2 minutes per person.
I tend not to care if they're not speaking English (or a language that I speak). does that make me a nosy motherfucker? anybody else experience the same?
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that's due to safety. how'd you like your mug recorded if you're testifying against someone and your pic ends up all over the internet as "the snitch" if you were ever in a situation where you were eligible for the witness protection program... your pic is the last thing you want taken.
probably not a good idea to take pictures of the jurors either.. (tampering/threats or worse) ..and cameras could be allowed if the judge says so.. cameras aren't illegal.. it's a rule, not the law.
OJ Trial?, Court TV? (before it was truTV, it was basically live coverage of ongoing homicide trials). nevermind the part where you, for the most part, can get a trial transcript just for the asking - it's public record for christ's sake.
but it's not full knighthood
Regan cannot be "Sir Ronald Regan" - he's not a citizen of the commonwealth.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_the_British_Empire
"Honorary knighthoods, given to individuals who are not nationals of a realm where Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II is Head of State, permit usage of the honour as a post-nominal but not as a title before their name. These recipients are classified as honorary members of the Order they receive, and do not contribute to the numbers restricted to that Order as full members do."
stores right outside those bases better stock up.
Taliban or otherwise.. they're going to want to play.
the original deathstar explosion was a blown up scale model suspended from the ceiling of the Cow Palace in San Francisco. They have atmosphere in the Cow Palace.. so the smoke and all that was "real" not much you can do about it esp. back in the late 70's
I'd love to see space battles done realistically some day ..at least they got space flight right in BSG (the new one).. the Vipers used thrusters to turn on their axes (to do a 180 for example).. they even used a reverse thuster to counter the spin. SW and ST (and just about every other SciFi movie I've seen uses that WWII dogfight wide banking turn as if control surfaces (flaps) work in space. The flight scenes in Apollo 13 or From the Earth to the Moon also got it right, but I don't consider those SciFi.
you realize there's a concept of legally blind, right?
you retain some sight, but not enough to say drive or read (normal sized text)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blindness
n order to determine which people may need special assistance because of their visual disabilities, various governmental jurisdictions have formulated more complex definitions referred to as legal blindness.[2] In North America and most of Europe, legal blindness is defined as visual acuity (vision) of 20/200 (6/60) or less in the better eye with best correction possible. This means that a legally blind individual would have to stand 20 feet (6.1 m) from an object to see it—with corrective lenses—with the same degree of clarity as a normally sighted person could from 200 feet (61 m). In many areas, people with average acuity who nonetheless have a visual field of less than 20 degrees (the norm being 180 degrees) are also classified as being legally blind. Approximately ten percent of those deemed legally blind, by any measure, have no vision. The rest have some vision, from light perception alone to relatively good acuity. Low vision is sometimes used to describe visual acuities from 20/70 to 20/200.[3]
If I have the ability to buy a 10$ paper back book and have it read to me, why the hell would I buy the 40$ audio book? ...because there's something to be said for professional narration? You're not paying for (just) the content.. you're paying for the hours the person sat down and read it for you.
I could listen to Stephen Fry read the phone book and love every second of it.. the synthesized voice gets on your nerves after a while.
apparently the BLIND think it's pretty slick
this is the American Foundation for the Blind. ORG
http://www.afb.org/blog/blog_comments.asp?TopicID=6149&FolderID=25
Yes, it's an all-touch-screen device. Yes, I've always said that touch screens and blind people don't go together -- it's suggested, usually by slightly dumb people, that I could just memorize where all the icons were and then I could touch the screen at the right spot and get the right thing to happen... Do they really think they could withdraw $100 from an ATM that way? Dial a phone?
But, the iPhone and iPad have an ingenious and delightful interface that actually makes the touch screen a pleasure to use.
There will be a proper, full-featured review of the iPad in AccessWorld soon. These are just the first impressions of a so-far-happy customer.
here's more.
http://www.afb.org/afbpress/pub.asp?DocID=aw110206
they don't need to patent that. why use biometrics to detect the HUMAN using the device. jailroken-ness can be detected w/o biometrics. this is a measure to prevent unauthorized use (as it it's not your device to begin with)
http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2010/08/apple-considering-identification-of-unauthorized-ios-users.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss
The patent, titled "Systems and Methods for Identifying Unauthorized Users of an Electronic Device," describes several ways a device could sense who is using an iPhone or iPad. Among the methods considered are voice print analysis, photo analysis, heartbeat analysis (!), hacking attempts, or even "noting particular activities that can indicate suspicious behavior."
If the various analyses detect someone who is not authorized to use the device, it could set off a number of automated features designed to protect the device's data, suss out the offending party, and alert the device owner. Sensitive data could be backed up to a remote server and the device could be wiped. The device could automatically snap pictures of the unauthorized user and record the GPS coordinates of the device, as well as log keystrokes, phone calls, or other activity. That information could be sent along with an alert to any useful service, such as e-mail, voicemail, Twitter, Facebook, or a "cloud service" like MobileMe.
refusing to charge or just SAYING it's not charging?
i have a USB hub (unpowered) that works fine for syncing. last night I got the "I'm not charging message", but the next AM, it was charged (up from about 75% or so)..
people who get "official" apple chargers are the same crowd who buys Monster cables. fuck'em
exactly. if some platform (or 2) reach a overwhelming majority of the market.. it MIGHT make sense to build these apps. for now, webapps are what they need. accessible via mobile or desktop. you don't need an iphone (specific) app.
better stronger faster.
the episodes with bigfoot scared the shit out of me.
and the one with the mars probe that went all HAL on 'em.
meh. we had to give our marketing squad a corner of the site where they can push new content whenever they want.. they fuck something up every week (and blame us because they can't cut and paste an URL).. they've done worse shit than the BBC -
and FYI that's field hockey.. the pakistanis have a FIELD hockey team.
sure it does. there's no contract with ATT on a used phone. that $99 dollar phone will cost you almost a grand in airtime (24 months @ $40/per for voice only)
brings the trolls out
it's not just iphones. it's ALL PHONES FROM ATT.
http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/18/another-iphone-mystery-explained/
Fortunately, this one has a happy ending. AT&T spokesman Mark Siegel tells me:
“What your readers are seeing is a routine update of the daily data activity on their devices—whether the iPhone or other handsets—to ensure billing accuracy. Customers are not charged for any data usage as part of this routine update
did anyone answer this guys question?
if you manage to see this.. check to see if your client has logs (and browser usage stats). cater to the largest segment.. maybe the top 3
unless your client is ok with forcing a browser on their customers.. it's your job to make the site work in the ones that are used the most.
since you said freight and passage, I'm thinking your client is a commercial shipper moving bulk freight.. not tins of cookies for the grandkids.
that said, the browser distribution will probably be narrow (corporate clients) vs. every grandma's browser. unfortunately.. commercial clientele probably means ie6 is going to be in that top 3.
"Australian iPad buyers have been forced to buy all manner of unnecessary add-ons including screen protectors, docking stations, covers,"
in March Apple banned the sale of screen portectors in both the online and retail stores here in the states.
http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/news/comments/apple-bans-protective-screen-film-from-apple-store/
so if this was an "apple" policy why would they force you to buy something from a 3rd party they don't want you to buy at one of their own stores (and take their cut of that sale directly).
it's like blaming Sony because the BestBuy monkeys try to sell you a protection plan with a tv.
there were rumors of this kinds of shit at ATT for the frist phone. turned out it did happen in some stores - to boost sales of high margin items.
Apple's probably kicking in a ton of support.. and I doubt they're only using these for web/word processing or whatever - they may have an entire Apple back end that's not mentioned in the article?... Mac only applications? who knows?
suppose you could fucking read? that's kind of the point of slash dot and the internet in general. maybe these kids "forced" to buy something will have an advantage over the likes of you someday.
"Parents can pay for the computers upfront or lease them from the district, with the option to buy after three years. The payments should work out to about $20 to $25 per month, Hayes said. The cost also includes free tech support.
"We realize for some families that will be a stretch," he said. In those cases, the district will provide financial assistance.
Students who don't participate will be able to borrow a school-provided laptop during the day, but they won't be able to take it home, Hayes said."
regardless of which side your on... we're talking about who gets the rights to spam us with ads...
we hate pop ups
we hate spam
we hate commercials
we never "swat the fly" to win an ipod.
we install AdBlock
we install FlashBlock
we install popup blockers
yet we're arguing over who has the rights to put more shit in our faces?
WHAT THE FUCK. fanboyism has no place here - marketing and ads are a COMMON ENEMY.
do the developers get? let's say Android and iOS have equal market penetration.. 100M devices each.
Jobs said devs get 60% of the cut. Do AdMob participants get the same?
why not let the devs make this decision? assuming market penetration is equal, as a dev, I'd go for the option that gives me the most back.
i know market penetration isn't equal, and won't be for a while... and I seriously doubt that AdMob revenue sharing favors the developer. how much of the AdMob business plan is based on an ASSUMED share of Apple's mobile devices?
I think google is afraid their recent purchase isn't going to pan out as well as they'd hoped (in the short term).
if your terms are equivalent, what's the problem - don't give me the philosophical "market competition" bullshit, because iAd an AdMob both want all of the market. At least Apple's not trying to hide it.
yes because this makes sense to Joe Public consumer -
50 cycles per degree, whereas a cycle is a line pair which is two pixels, so the angular resolution of the eye is 0.6 arc minutes per pixel.
hahaha http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retina_display
interestingly, I did a guick google search for retina display -iphone4 and -retinal (that's some kind of medical procedure). I wasn't able to find anything in the first 10 pages of results about a retina display w/o apple being mentioned. Where is the spec this guy is referring to.. there's no mention of it on his site http://www.google.com/search?q=Retina+Display+site%3Adisplaymate.com&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
well not quite. the star wars kid didn't piss off all of Chicago and need police protection. besdies Bartman was an adult..
apparently you've never been through Ben Gurion. I am an American, but Asian.. so I don't look Jewish. They "interviewed" me but it's not what you think. Some dude just walks up and starts talking to you.. how are you, where are you going.. it's VERY passive... they're watching for body language as I give my answers. your not being interrogated it's in the terminal, they don't haul you off to an office or anything. it takes about 2 minutes per person.
well, how may airliners that take off from Israel have been hijacked since the 70's?
they "SPOT" people too.
I'm not saying it's practical (in a place like OHare).. but apparently it works.
we could learn something from the Israelis as far as airport security goes.
I tend not to care if they're not speaking English (or a language that I speak). does that make me a nosy motherfucker?
anybody else experience the same?