The answer to this---IIRC-- from what I read is that a universal garage door opener rolls through the codes until it gets to one that works. It can do that if it knows where to start, and it does know where to start because the user sent it a seed signal from the OEM opener.
It's like modulo arithmetic, I think: go far enough and you loop around to the same answer, or at least an answer. In this case, the answer is a code that works.
I'd post a link to the Wikipedia article that I read sometime ago explaining this, but I'm too lazy. More importantly, the link to rolling codes is already in the Slashdot summary so I'm sure you can get to the page explaining universal garage door openers and rolling codes from there easily (and the ensuing lawsuits from garage door manufacturers against the universal remote manufacturers).
Bennett,
Can Cynaogen run on your phone? Have you considered it? Market forces have created a ROM that beats standard ROMs in many ways, and its name is Cyanogen.
Google seems to have an aversion to them. First, Google substituted LABELS for folders. Now they're substituting TABS for folders.
This is one area where Outlook Client (desktop client) wins: FOLDERS. In OUTLOOK, I can easily set up rules to put emails into folders to reduce clutter and increase organization. AND IT WORKS.
A-la the Granby bulldozer, it needs metal-concrete-metal composite armor and tank treads. Also, protect the cameras with acrylic cases to prevent damage to them and fit compressed air guns onto them to clear off debris. Imagine how much more protected it would be then!
At first I thought: "Well, they should have bought UStream's Pro service in order to whitelist their broadcast, but an update to the founder's apology says that Ustream will whitelist free streams as well:
Users of our paid, ad-free Pro Broadcasting service NOTE: UPDATED CLARIFICATION and those free broadcasters who notify Ustream in advance they have copyrights permissions (Ustream's messaging to our broadcaster community how this process works is inadequate. We are resolving this now) are automatically white listed to avoid situations like this and receive hands-on client support.
Read the rest of the article.They found that pinning is popular.
Good. It should be obvious by now, but that is what I do. I've pinned 23 items to my Start Menu: Assorted Libraries, Calculator, Command Prompt, Firefox, IE, Chrome, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.
If they don't have pinning or something like it... (O-o)
You what else?!? Somethings don't have a context menu option to "Pin"them. Only LATER did I find I could still drag and drop something and Windows would pin it instead of of moving the link/program/etc. Yay for inconsistency! /rant
They took away* Quick launch, so I tried using the taskbar as my "go to place" for shortcuts, but pinning it to it sucked.
I therefore switched to pinning things to the Start Menu (even though there is no Right click - > "Sort my pinned items by name" option). Now they want to take it away?!? Not cool.
I've put a few hours of testing in with the Windows 8 Developers preview, and let me tell you, if users don't know how to use shit now, wait till they see tiles. Can you click and drag to swipe? Noooo. You have to use the scroll wheel. Can you ever reach the edge of the tiles by scrolling? Nooooo.
Judge went above and beyond in the scope of his/her ruling so far that he/she is blindly favoring the MPAA:
The 12-page injunction took issue with nearly every argument Zediva made in its defense, and even went further, arguing that since Zediva's users could occasionally encounter movies that were "out of stock," consumers would be confused about how streaming video services work, potentially ruining the market for Hollywood.
Oddly, Martin also argued that Zediva's service, which charges per movie, could cause "confusion or doubt regarding whether payment is required for access to the Copyrighted Works."
If you would like to continue tethering...here are details on the plan:
-DataPro 4GB for Smartphone Tethering
--$45 per month (this gives you 4GB in total, combining both your smartphone data plan for $25 and the tethering feature, $20)
Users don't always notice the speed gap because websites are sometimes tailored to mobile phones, Blaze said. The difference will become more obvious as users demand richer experiences and move to tablet computers with larger screens, said Guy Podjarny, chief technology officer of Blaze, whose business is helping companies increase website download times.
Maybe their customers are ISPs who charge by usage?
Windows Mobile 6.1 and 6.5 phones handle the Exchange Active Sync (EAS) protocol great. You can buy a mainstream HTC Touch HD2 or Touch Pro 2 and sync all you like on my Exchange server if you work in my organization.
There are two rasons why I use a Touch Pro 2:
1. Full EAS support.
2. Google has chosen to snub MS by making Android (for the moment, at least) support remote wipe and encryption only through Google Apps accounts.
In other words, google is making it a lot more complicated and inconvenient. My current WinMo phone does this better. Let's compare.
Currently, if I want to reach a company, I use one type of interaction: voice interaction. It goes like this:
1. I tell my phone, "Call GOOG 411." My phone asks me if I want to call "GOOG 411" or whatever and gives me a chance to confirm or correct myself.
2. I ask GOOG 411 for "Company X, Anytown USA"
3. I listen to the results. Google gives me a chance to verify them and correct myself.
4. I say which result I want. Google calls the business for me.
All that without taking my eyes off of what I'm doing (walking, driving, doing the dishes, taking out the trash).
Soon, when I want to reach a company, I'll have to do a more complicated routine:
1. Launch Voice Search (VS for short).
2. Ask for "Company X, Anytown USA."
3. Voice Search terminates.
4. To review the results on the screen, I have to take my eyes off what I am doing.
5. If they're incorrect, I'm out of luck. My current VS session has ended and I need to start over.
6. Assuming I found what I wanted, I try to remember the phone number of the business I want to reach.
7. I launch Voice Actions (VA for short).
8. I tell Voice Actions to dial the ten digit number I've hopefully remembered.
9. VA doesn't ask me if it understood me correctly. I watch the screen to see if has. If VA got it wrong, I have to launch VA again.
This is ridiculous. Notice how Google has made me take twice as many steps to reach a business. Notice how Google is forcing me to mix three types of interaction:
-Voice interaction to initiate search and make the call
-Screen viewing to check the results
-Touch interaction to scroll through the results
What a step back in functionality this is! I hope Google is paying attention and fixes this. Until they do, I have good reason to stick with my WinMo phone. It does hands-free stuff better.
The iOS ecosystem is pretty good.So good, in fact, that I've thought about getting an iPad or iPod touch and using it as a phone with a non-AT&T cellular/WiFi mobile hotspot. I could get a latest gen iPod touch (or maybe even an iPad) install Skype on it, pair it with a portable WiFi hotspot from Virgin Mobile* or Sprint**, and use it as a phone.
*Virgin Mobile is 3G service from Sprint at $40/month
**4G service from Sprint in the Minneapolis-Saint Paul area at about $70/month, I think?
I'll be damned then. I want to buy into Apple's "We're selling a platform" model but without their walled-garden application eco-system and without being tied to the AT&T network.
To anyone who would ask, the answer is "No, I don't want to jailbreak. I won't jailbreak." Because if I buy an i-device while Apple is still enforcing their walled-graden, it looks like to them that I support it. But I don't. And I won't.
In short, I want great apps and upgrades available for HTC devices like what are available for iOS devices. Unfortunately that's not in the cards for me, because, like you said, HTC doesn't roll that way.
Slashdot Mirror
Hey, bleh... I assume you are happy with the software you are using. I'd be interested in something like that. What's it called?
The answer to this---IIRC-- from what I read is that a universal garage door opener rolls through the codes until it gets to one that works. It can do that if it knows where to start, and it does know where to start because the user sent it a seed signal from the OEM opener.
It's like modulo arithmetic, I think: go far enough and you loop around to the same answer, or at least an answer. In this case, the answer is a code that works.
I'd post a link to the Wikipedia article that I read sometime ago explaining this, but I'm too lazy. More importantly, the link to rolling codes is already in the Slashdot summary so I'm sure you can get to the page explaining universal garage door openers and rolling codes from there easily (and the ensuing lawsuits from garage door manufacturers against the universal remote manufacturers).
Edit
This might be relevant http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chamberlain_Group,_Inc._v._Skylink_Technologies,_Inc.
Bennett, Can Cynaogen run on your phone? Have you considered it? Market forces have created a ROM that beats standard ROMs in many ways, and its name is Cyanogen.
Why did you get voted to +4 with a scathing ad hominem attack on me?
Why did the polite replies that enlightened me about the multiple inheritance get voted so low?
What are the clickable buttons along the top of thee new Gmail if not tabs? What would you call them?
Google seems to have an aversion to them. First, Google substituted LABELS for folders. Now they're substituting TABS for folders.
This is one area where Outlook Client (desktop client) wins: FOLDERS. In OUTLOOK, I can easily set up rules to put emails into folders to reduce clutter and increase organization. AND IT WORKS.
A-la the Granby bulldozer, it needs metal-concrete-metal composite armor and tank treads. Also, protect the cameras with acrylic cases to prevent damage to them and fit compressed air guns onto them to clear off debris. Imagine how much more protected it would be then!
At first I thought: "Well, they should have bought UStream's Pro service in order to whitelist their broadcast, but an update to the founder's apology says that Ustream will whitelist free streams as well:
http://www.ustream.tv/blog/2012/09/03/hugo-awards-an-apology-and-explanation//
PS: How are free streams supported? Do they have ads inserted into them, or what?
Read the rest of the article.They found that pinning is popular.
... (O-o)
Good. It should be obvious by now, but that is what I do. I've pinned 23 items to my Start Menu: Assorted Libraries, Calculator, Command Prompt, Firefox, IE, Chrome, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.
If they don't have pinning or something like it
You what else?!? Somethings don't have a context menu option to "Pin"them. Only LATER did I find I could still drag and drop something and Windows would pin it instead of of moving the link/program/etc. Yay for inconsistency!
/rant
Gah! Pinning to the taskbar! Horrible!
They took away* Quick launch, so I tried using the taskbar as my "go to place" for shortcuts, but pinning it to it sucked.
I therefore switched to pinning things to the Start Menu (even though there is no Right click - > "Sort my pinned items by name" option). Now they want to take it away?!? Not cool.
I've put a few hours of testing in with the Windows 8 Developers preview, and let me tell you, if users don't know how to use shit now, wait till they see tiles. Can you click and drag to swipe? Noooo. You have to use the scroll wheel. Can you ever reach the edge of the tiles by scrolling? Nooooo.
*Hid it/buried it/made it generally inaccessible
The 12-page injunction took issue with nearly every argument Zediva made in its defense, and even went further, arguing that since Zediva's users could occasionally encounter movies that were "out of stock," consumers would be confused about how streaming video services work, potentially ruining the market for Hollywood.
Oddly, Martin also argued that Zediva's service, which charges per movie, could cause "confusion or doubt regarding whether payment is required for access to the Copyrighted Works."
http://www.dangerouslaboratories.org/radscout.html
The article linked to is lifted from Gizmodo, word for word. Check the "From" link on the linked to site, and you'll see.
If you would like to continue tethering...here are details on the plan:
-DataPro 4GB for Smartphone Tethering
--$45 per month (this gives you 4GB in total, combining both your smartphone data plan for $25 and the tethering feature, $20)
Users don't always notice the speed gap because websites are sometimes tailored to mobile phones, Blaze said. The difference will become more obvious as users demand richer experiences and move to tablet computers with larger screens, said Guy Podjarny, chief technology officer of Blaze, whose business is helping companies increase website download times.
Maybe their customers are ISPs who charge by usage?
Windows Mobile 6.1 and 6.5 phones handle the Exchange Active Sync (EAS) protocol great. You can buy a mainstream HTC Touch HD2 or Touch Pro 2 and sync all you like on my Exchange server if you work in my organization.
There are two rasons why I use a Touch Pro 2:
1. Full EAS support.
2. Google has chosen to snub MS by making Android (for the moment, at least) support remote wipe and encryption only through Google Apps accounts.
SCENE: MOZILLA FIREFOX WINDOW
/facepalm
Firefox title bar: "Access to this site is blocked"
Firefox document body:
Content blocked by your organization
Reason:
This Websense category is filtered: Denied.
URL: http://www.facebook.com/
Options:
Click more_information to learn more about your access policy.
Click Go_Back or use the browser's Back button to return to the previous page.
More_information link leads to this not-so-helpful explanation:
Your Websense policy blocks this page at all times.
And we demand... a shrubbery!
Ni!
No, that's OK. Verizon already gave my my money back for my Droid Incredible powered by Google.
In other words, google is making it a lot more complicated and inconvenient. My current WinMo phone does this better. Let's compare.
Currently, if I want to reach a company, I use one type of interaction: voice interaction. It goes like this:
1. I tell my phone, "Call GOOG 411." My phone asks me if I want to call "GOOG 411" or whatever and gives me a chance to confirm or correct myself.
2. I ask GOOG 411 for "Company X, Anytown USA"
3. I listen to the results. Google gives me a chance to verify them and correct myself.
4. I say which result I want. Google calls the business for me.
All that without taking my eyes off of what I'm doing (walking, driving, doing the dishes, taking out the trash).
Soon, when I want to reach a company, I'll have to do a more complicated routine:
1. Launch Voice Search (VS for short).
2. Ask for "Company X, Anytown USA."
3. Voice Search terminates.
4. To review the results on the screen, I have to take my eyes off what I am doing.
5. If they're incorrect, I'm out of luck. My current VS session has ended and I need to start over.
6. Assuming I found what I wanted, I try to remember the phone number of the business I want to reach.
7. I launch Voice Actions (VA for short).
8. I tell Voice Actions to dial the ten digit number I've hopefully remembered.
9. VA doesn't ask me if it understood me correctly. I watch the screen to see if has. If VA got it wrong, I have to launch VA again.
This is ridiculous. Notice how Google has made me take twice as many steps to reach a business. Notice how Google is forcing me to mix three types of interaction: -Voice interaction to initiate search and make the call
-Screen viewing to check the results
-Touch interaction to scroll through the results
What a step back in functionality this is! I hope Google is paying attention and fixes this. Until they do, I have good reason to stick with my WinMo phone. It does hands-free stuff better.
There's one in today's woot:
http://www.woot.com/blog/viewentry.aspx?id=14532
http://www.woot.com/
Couldn't maybe a work around be: "Don't respond to 37 thousand requests in 260 seconds from an attacker?" At least not from the same IP?
The iOS ecosystem is pretty good.So good, in fact, that I've thought about getting an iPad or iPod touch and using it as a phone with a non-AT&T cellular/WiFi mobile hotspot. I could get a latest gen iPod touch (or maybe even an iPad) install Skype on it, pair it with a portable WiFi hotspot from Virgin Mobile* or Sprint**, and use it as a phone.
*Virgin Mobile is 3G service from Sprint at $40/month
**4G service from Sprint in the Minneapolis-Saint Paul area at about $70/month, I think?
I'll be damned then. I want to buy into Apple's "We're selling a platform" model but without their walled-garden application eco-system and without being tied to the AT&T network.
To anyone who would ask, the answer is "No, I don't want to jailbreak. I won't jailbreak." Because if I buy an i-device while Apple is still enforcing their walled-graden, it looks like to them that I support it. But I don't. And I won't.
In short, I want great apps and upgrades available for HTC devices like what are available for iOS devices. Unfortunately that's not in the cards for me, because, like you said, HTC doesn't roll that way.
I'd pay for an officially supported updated HTC Sense for an existing phone.
Can I? No? iPhone users can upgrade iOS on existing devices. Why can't I do the same with HTC Sense?