It would be great to be able to get this on phones. I know most VoIP/SIP type applications work fairly well on 3g, but if you don't have 3g coverage (or are on a smaller cell company who only licenses EDGE from the other GSM carriers) then it kinda-sorta works with 3 second delays and the occasional garbled audio. For example, my Nokia N95 on Immix doesn't get 3g (Immix didn't opt for 3g coverage from T-Mobile or AT&T even if the phone supports it and you're on their networks) but does edge at around 350kbps or so. Fring voice calls work, with the flaws mentioned earlier. If I'm on WiFi with my phone, obviously it's much better and the delay + garble disappear even if the other side is on a 3g link (in that case Verizon).
With more and more people with smart phones, it would be sweet to be able to bundle the codec in such a way that the phones would be able to use it in applications such as fring, google talk, etc so you could talk to any one of your smart phone friends without needing to use any minutes, and if they are the ones you talk to the most you could drop your minute plan down to next to nothing.
(It would be even sweeter for me since the only people I really call all have smart phones, I could just get a Verizon or AT&T data only plan for $35 or whatever and make all my calls via SIP)
Well, back when I had AT&T (way back) it was free to receive texts, and something like 10 cents to send. There weren't any Texting plans at the time. Sprint also use to (I think they brought it back recently) have a free incoming call plan as well
I just want to add, I just send a text to my home number from my unlocked AT&T phone via my Immix wireless service (which is currently on the T-Mobile tower). Within about 15 seconds I got a text reply saying:
"Your message was successfully delivered to phone number 814-692-####. Thanks for using Text to Landline from Immix Wireless."
"There's no easy way to know for certain that a given phone number is mobile vs landline"
Bull crap. Send a text to your house number. I know FOR CERTAIN Verizon Wireless will text you back in about 1 second saying the number is a land line number, and to confirm you want them to call the number and read your text to whoever answers.
If it's sooo hard to tell, this service wouldn't be responding in such a quick fashion. I guess the only case where it *MAY* be difficult is if someone ported a land line number to a cell phone, but I've never myself heard of anyone doing this. I'm not saying it hasn't been done, but most people will just get the first mobile number they get with their first cell phone and port that if they ever change wireless carriers.
What if you have an older set that doesn't support HDMI, or doesn't support the HDMI handshake? This is something my parents would actually use, but their TV (HD ready Panasonic CRT) doesn't have any HDMI/DVI inputs..
My grandfather is also damn close to 90. Joined the military at age 16 (obviously lied about it), went into the air corps and passed, even with getting sick for the first year or so, because his flying was so good.. learned on bi-planes at that. Went on to fly B-17s in WWII over Europe, was involved in other conflicts, and retired as a Colonel in the Air Force working in the Pentagon. Just wanted to throw that one out there too:)
Grab a cheaper bluray player that supports DLNA, or if you have DirecTV the newest updates for some of the units with ethernet jacks support DLNA.. hell even a lot of TV's now do..
Plug bluray/tv/directv receiver into your LAN, setup a DLNA server, and you're done. Period.
There's a few helpful links for you. No need for a PC for the client side, and can setup the DLNA server on a choice of OS's. Don't over-complicate things
The big black rectangle is an iPad, the smaller one is just a Nokia phone, and the wristband is blacked out to hide the guys' cheap ass "Rolex" watch he purchased on Canal Street!
Nope.. and even the included gratuity for parties of x size or more doesn't *need* to be paid either. They're just saying they already added a tip of whatever percent into the bill so it's easier for everyone (and to make sure the waitress/waiter gets a tip after being tied up with such a large party). We had a party of 8, and the service absolutely blew. It took 35 minutes for the girl to ask what my friend and I wanted to drink, and about another 40 minutes for the drinks to appear. No refills came for anyone, it was just really really bad service. The bill had the included tip of 15% or whatever it was, but the service was so bad we left enough money to cover the food + drinks and a 7% tip. I then walked over to the manager and let him know we were leaving a 7% tip and not the "included" 15% so he knew the bill would look like they were shorted even though they weren't. He thanked me, and apologized for the issues and all was good
I know it's not as popular as it once was, but after all it's the grandfather of the group. Back when I first started playing around with linux in around 95/96 the only book(s) you could really find included a copy of Slackware. I purchased two books, one with RedHat and one with Slackware. I know one of the two had a kernel in around 1.2.13 or so, and the other 1.1.something. But that was back in the days where getting X to work was part skill and part magic, among many other things that weren't nearly as easy as what you can do today. Again, just based on age and the fact it was one of the biggest Distros in years passed and helped (in my mind) pave the way for a lot of the newer distro's, I don't believe it should be in a 2nd tier but in the 1st tier myself.
And to add to that, moonlight 1.0 couldn't do a lot of stuff supported by Silverlight. Even if you installed moonlight on ubuntu as a way to try to view silverlight websites, it just didn't work. Rumor was Moonlight 2.0 was "near release" and would most likely fix the issues I was personally encountering, but I never bothered to try again.
Seriously. WW II games, Battlefield Vietnam.. you play as the Americans or as the Vietnam.
Hell even SOCOM (which is a game I was severely addicted to) you played as US Seals or The Terrorists, which changed depending on the maps you played and the versions, but a lot of them were setup with Taliban type Terrorists.. and the fact that spoke Arabic backs up this point. My friend from Palestine was amazed we could speak arabic so well when we played LAN games until we told him the game actually said the phrases (such as (ok slashdot doesn't do arabic characters lol) which should read I have the hostages if google translated correctly, as well as Rahelah or however it's correctly spelled, which means Voyage or other similar terms depending on the dialect according to my friend but in game was said when you tossed a grenade)
I guess the mass media missed that whole family of games, huh?
and if you remember the original iPods and batteries, how much was it again to get a new battery + replacement from Apple? Oh, over half the cost of the iPod to begin with?
I work with in car navigation units quite often, and have for the past 10 years.
There's many issues with your arguments. Some TomTom's offer a feature when the end user can correct errors that may pop up right on the GPS unit its self (insert POI's, correct a road if it's a one way, etc). This gets uploaded to a community database at TomTom when the unit is plugged into the PC.
As for Google Maps, they only compared it on ONE system. What about Windows Mobile, BlackBerry, or iPhones? I know google maps on the iPhone really lacks a ton of features. On my BlackBerry, it doesn't give voice prompts (and only ONE out of the many, many GPS apps for the BlackBerry I have tried over the years claims to do this, but I never got it to work in the 7 day fully functional demo).
The Garmin app on the BlackBerry is really nice, as it has the same layout as a Garmin SatNav system. It even integrates Panoramio, so any photos that have been uploaded to Panoramio to be placed on Google Maps can be pulled up in the Garmin app and give you directions to anything you see that may interest you in the area you're currently in.
As for the Google Maps app, you DO NOT need 3g. It's just slow to load the maps if you don't have it. My current setup is a BlackBerry Storm from Verizon I had unlocked and moved to Immix (a GSM provider). The Storm only supports 3g in the 2100MHz band, and the services I'm able to use (Immix towers, AT&T towers, T-Mobile towers, plus 10 other smaller GSM providers) use 1900MHz for the 3g. Google Maps has worked fine on EDGE and GPRS, although like I said it's slow to update.
The Latitude feature built into Google Maps is also very handy. The first time I went to my friends cabin I had to use Latitude to really find my way. There's no real address there, and since he was already out there fishing, I was able to just pulled him up on Latitude and hit Directions To. Made it easy to find may way. It also came in handy in Atlantic City when half of our group went to a club at one casino, and we went to hit the slots and what not at another casino. When it was time we wanted to meet up (around 1:30am), we just Latitude'd my one friend and it made tracking down where they were at a ton easier.
So while Google Maps does have a ton of pluses to it (free, traffic info, driving, walking, and biking directions, latitude etc), it also has many downsides (no voice prompts unless it's an android phone, no latitude on iPhone.. at least not that my friend was ever able to find, doesn't work fully without cell service.. if you lose data yes you're route is still shown but the map around you can't be updated/filled in).
I just think if the author of the article really wanted to compare, they should have used more than just a TomTom as Garmin and TomTom use different maps (or last time I checked they had, one used TeleAtlas while the other used Navteq), as well as Google Maps on different phones other than just an android based phone. While they were at it they should have also tried TomTom and Garmin's apps for the various phones. I know there's a way to get the Garmin app onto an SD card and have it work with Windows Mobile so the data signal isn't needed other than to first calculate the route IIRC.
And last but not least, when we left Brigantine, NJ to head back to central PA, google maps was having us go back into AC to catch the Atlantic City Expressway, on a Sunday afternoon. My friend accidentally took 30 West, and we pulled over to tell my wife behind us to lead since his iPhone with Google Maps was having issues with the AT&T service down there, and my BlackBerry's battery had died. The Pioneer AVIC-N3's nav system actually told them to take 30 West anyhow, which my friend who travels in Jersey a lot said was a much smarter route, instead of traveling farther in AC and catching all the people leaving the beach. In the end it did work out well.
TomTom does have a feature to correct errors right on the GPS unit its self. It then stores that and uploads it to a database when you plug the GPS into your computer for an update or whatever. I'm guessing if there's enough reports of the error the system changes it in the database, or at least flags it for review
Yup, the year after I graduated. I had heard a piece of the plastic trash can split off and stuck (not deep) into his chest. Argh, I can't believe I don't remember the teachers name... I think he was taught Drivers Ed among other things.
This is nothing new. The Blackberrys have the push feature for both service books as well as applications. It may be referred to as an "update", but there's been times where, on a restart or even without, a new "application" appears on my home screen
the opto-isolator won't protect the other CANbus devices from malformed or conflicting packets and/or your device not following proper protocols/priorities on the CAN
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It would be great to be able to get this on phones. I know most VoIP/SIP type applications work fairly well on 3g, but if you don't have 3g coverage (or are on a smaller cell company who only licenses EDGE from the other GSM carriers) then it kinda-sorta works with 3 second delays and the occasional garbled audio. For example, my Nokia N95 on Immix doesn't get 3g (Immix didn't opt for 3g coverage from T-Mobile or AT&T even if the phone supports it and you're on their networks) but does edge at around 350kbps or so. Fring voice calls work, with the flaws mentioned earlier. If I'm on WiFi with my phone, obviously it's much better and the delay + garble disappear even if the other side is on a 3g link (in that case Verizon).
With more and more people with smart phones, it would be sweet to be able to bundle the codec in such a way that the phones would be able to use it in applications such as fring, google talk, etc so you could talk to any one of your smart phone friends without needing to use any minutes, and if they are the ones you talk to the most you could drop your minute plan down to next to nothing.
(It would be even sweeter for me since the only people I really call all have smart phones, I could just get a Verizon or AT&T data only plan for $35 or whatever and make all my calls via SIP)
Soooo, since when is good a Popular CHILDRENS website. Pretty sure it's a general age website.
Well, back when I had AT&T (way back) it was free to receive texts, and something like 10 cents to send. There weren't any Texting plans at the time. Sprint also use to (I think they brought it back recently) have a free incoming call plan as well
I just want to add, I just send a text to my home number from my unlocked AT&T phone via my Immix wireless service (which is currently on the T-Mobile tower). Within about 15 seconds I got a text reply saying:
"Your message was successfully delivered to phone number 814-692-####. Thanks for using Text to Landline from Immix Wireless."
"There's no easy way to know for certain that a given phone number is mobile vs landline"
Bull crap. Send a text to your house number. I know FOR CERTAIN Verizon Wireless will text you back in about 1 second saying the number is a land line number, and to confirm you want them to call the number and read your text to whoever answers.
If it's sooo hard to tell, this service wouldn't be responding in such a quick fashion. I guess the only case where it *MAY* be difficult is if someone ported a land line number to a cell phone, but I've never myself heard of anyone doing this. I'm not saying it hasn't been done, but most people will just get the first mobile number they get with their first cell phone and port that if they ever change wireless carriers.
What if you have an older set that doesn't support HDMI, or doesn't support the HDMI handshake? This is something my parents would actually use, but their TV (HD ready Panasonic CRT) doesn't have any HDMI/DVI inputs..
My grandfather is also damn close to 90. Joined the military at age 16 (obviously lied about it), went into the air corps and passed, even with getting sick for the first year or so, because his flying was so good.. learned on bi-planes at that. Went on to fly B-17s in WWII over Europe, was involved in other conflicts, and retired as a Colonel in the Air Force working in the Pentagon. Just wanted to throw that one out there too :)
Grab a cheaper bluray player that supports DLNA, or if you have DirecTV the newest updates for some of the units with ethernet jacks support DLNA.. hell even a lot of TV's now do.. Plug bluray/tv/directv receiver into your LAN, setup a DLNA server, and you're done. Period.
http://www.obsessable.com/feature/home-media-streaming-101-dlna-explained/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Living_Network_Alliance
http://www.dlna.org/digital_living/how_it_works/
http://www.rbgrn.net/content/21-how-to-choose-dlna-media-server-windows-mac-os-x-or-linux
There's a few helpful links for you. No need for a PC for the client side, and can setup the DLNA server on a choice of OS's. Don't over-complicate things
and it only works for international calls....
how about the carriers blocks the access, and not skype per say. Most carriers block ANY type of VoIP/SIP client period
The big black rectangle is an iPad, the smaller one is just a Nokia phone, and the wristband is blacked out to hide the guys' cheap ass "Rolex" watch he purchased on Canal Street!
Nope.. and even the included gratuity for parties of x size or more doesn't *need* to be paid either. They're just saying they already added a tip of whatever percent into the bill so it's easier for everyone (and to make sure the waitress/waiter gets a tip after being tied up with such a large party). We had a party of 8, and the service absolutely blew. It took 35 minutes for the girl to ask what my friend and I wanted to drink, and about another 40 minutes for the drinks to appear. No refills came for anyone, it was just really really bad service. The bill had the included tip of 15% or whatever it was, but the service was so bad we left enough money to cover the food + drinks and a 7% tip. I then walked over to the manager and let him know we were leaving a 7% tip and not the "included" 15% so he knew the bill would look like they were shorted even though they weren't. He thanked me, and apologized for the issues and all was good
I know it's not as popular as it once was, but after all it's the grandfather of the group. Back when I first started playing around with linux in around 95/96 the only book(s) you could really find included a copy of Slackware. I purchased two books, one with RedHat and one with Slackware. I know one of the two had a kernel in around 1.2.13 or so, and the other 1.1.something. But that was back in the days where getting X to work was part skill and part magic, among many other things that weren't nearly as easy as what you can do today. Again, just based on age and the fact it was one of the biggest Distros in years passed and helped (in my mind) pave the way for a lot of the newer distro's, I don't believe it should be in a 2nd tier but in the 1st tier myself.
and the B-G's!
And to add to that, moonlight 1.0 couldn't do a lot of stuff supported by Silverlight. Even if you installed moonlight on ubuntu as a way to try to view silverlight websites, it just didn't work. Rumor was Moonlight 2.0 was "near release" and would most likely fix the issues I was personally encountering, but I never bothered to try again.
Seriously. WW II games, Battlefield Vietnam.. you play as the Americans or as the Vietnam.
Hell even SOCOM (which is a game I was severely addicted to) you played as US Seals or The Terrorists, which changed depending on the maps you played and the versions, but a lot of them were setup with Taliban type Terrorists.. and the fact that spoke Arabic backs up this point. My friend from Palestine was amazed we could speak arabic so well when we played LAN games until we told him the game actually said the phrases (such as (ok slashdot doesn't do arabic characters lol) which should read I have the hostages if google translated correctly, as well as Rahelah or however it's correctly spelled, which means Voyage or other similar terms depending on the dialect according to my friend but in game was said when you tossed a grenade)
I guess the mass media missed that whole family of games, huh?
and if you remember the original iPods and batteries, how much was it again to get a new battery + replacement from Apple? Oh, over half the cost of the iPod to begin with?
Hybid... I do believe Tesla Roadster is all electric...
There's many issues with your arguments. Some TomTom's offer a feature when the end user can correct errors that may pop up right on the GPS unit its self (insert POI's, correct a road if it's a one way, etc). This gets uploaded to a community database at TomTom when the unit is plugged into the PC.
As for Google Maps, they only compared it on ONE system. What about Windows Mobile, BlackBerry, or iPhones? I know google maps on the iPhone really lacks a ton of features. On my BlackBerry, it doesn't give voice prompts (and only ONE out of the many, many GPS apps for the BlackBerry I have tried over the years claims to do this, but I never got it to work in the 7 day fully functional demo).
The Garmin app on the BlackBerry is really nice, as it has the same layout as a Garmin SatNav system. It even integrates Panoramio, so any photos that have been uploaded to Panoramio to be placed on Google Maps can be pulled up in the Garmin app and give you directions to anything you see that may interest you in the area you're currently in.
As for the Google Maps app, you DO NOT need 3g. It's just slow to load the maps if you don't have it. My current setup is a BlackBerry Storm from Verizon I had unlocked and moved to Immix (a GSM provider). The Storm only supports 3g in the 2100MHz band, and the services I'm able to use (Immix towers, AT&T towers, T-Mobile towers, plus 10 other smaller GSM providers) use 1900MHz for the 3g. Google Maps has worked fine on EDGE and GPRS, although like I said it's slow to update.
The Latitude feature built into Google Maps is also very handy. The first time I went to my friends cabin I had to use Latitude to really find my way. There's no real address there, and since he was already out there fishing, I was able to just pulled him up on Latitude and hit Directions To. Made it easy to find may way. It also came in handy in Atlantic City when half of our group went to a club at one casino, and we went to hit the slots and what not at another casino. When it was time we wanted to meet up (around 1:30am), we just Latitude'd my one friend and it made tracking down where they were at a ton easier.
So while Google Maps does have a ton of pluses to it (free, traffic info, driving, walking, and biking directions, latitude etc), it also has many downsides (no voice prompts unless it's an android phone, no latitude on iPhone.. at least not that my friend was ever able to find, doesn't work fully without cell service.. if you lose data yes you're route is still shown but the map around you can't be updated/filled in).
I just think if the author of the article really wanted to compare, they should have used more than just a TomTom as Garmin and TomTom use different maps (or last time I checked they had, one used TeleAtlas while the other used Navteq), as well as Google Maps on different phones other than just an android based phone. While they were at it they should have also tried TomTom and Garmin's apps for the various phones. I know there's a way to get the Garmin app onto an SD card and have it work with Windows Mobile so the data signal isn't needed other than to first calculate the route IIRC.
And last but not least, when we left Brigantine, NJ to head back to central PA, google maps was having us go back into AC to catch the Atlantic City Expressway, on a Sunday afternoon. My friend accidentally took 30 West, and we pulled over to tell my wife behind us to lead since his iPhone with Google Maps was having issues with the AT&T service down there, and my BlackBerry's battery had died. The Pioneer AVIC-N3's nav system actually told them to take 30 West anyhow, which my friend who travels in Jersey a lot said was a much smarter route, instead of traveling farther in AC and catching all the people leaving the beach. In the end it did work out well.
TomTom does have a feature to correct errors right on the GPS unit its self. It then stores that and uploads it to a database when you plug the GPS into your computer for an update or whatever. I'm guessing if there's enough reports of the error the system changes it in the database, or at least flags it for review
Yup, the year after I graduated. I had heard a piece of the plastic trash can split off and stuck (not deep) into his chest. Argh, I can't believe I don't remember the teachers name... I think he was taught Drivers Ed among other things.
This is nothing new. The Blackberrys have the push feature for both service books as well as applications. It may be referred to as an "update", but there's been times where, on a restart or even without, a new "application" appears on my home screen
Dawn?
Well not all the codes are standard.
Here's an example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On-board_diagnostics#OBD-II_Signal_Protocols
the opto-isolator won't protect the other CANbus devices from malformed or conflicting packets and/or your device not following proper protocols/priorities on the CAN