I want to be able to track my glucose levels (for example) as I go, not with a third party solution (that requires a needle). This is the kind of innovation that is needed. Otherwise it's just an app.
What made the earlier Nexii (4, 5, 7) a success was, in no small part, the sticker price, way lower than Apple and other were selling similar products. With these, you were getting great devices (with shortcomings for sure, but not deal breakers) for a bargain price. You could get a nexus 7 for less than 200USD. That to me was the power of Nexus, to the point where I would easily overlook hardware/software issues.
Now that those are gone for good, we are left with the Nexus 6 and 9. They are priced on the high end (really high end). At that point, it's only fair to compare it to the competition on equal grounds. The Nexus 9 is the forgotten child, still not updated to 5.1, and with performance that is not up to a iPad Air 2, nor its build quality. The Nexus 6 is monstruosly big (if you loke those sorts of things) but the performance is OK at best. Apple used to be blamed (correctly) for sticking to small screen size, when everybody else had plenty of choice. Now you can get bigger or smaller phones from them, but not for Google.
I loveD Google's products, but I am no fanboi. With the passing of the Nexus 7, I can't say I feel the same way any more.
The watch doesn't go beyond measuring heart rates. Diagnosing and following diabetes require a lot more data. Where does that come from? ResearchKit might be the best thing after sliced bread, but it relies on user input. So, it's just a hyped up data aggregator, with cloudy statements on where the data will end up.
Wake me up when we will have some functional hardware able to probe uninvasively blood pressure glucose levels, etc. That is innovation. Otherwise it's pure marketing BS.
They can actually becoming rather acidic. Increase in CO2 results in its absorption by the oceans as carbonic acid (H2CO3), with related decrease in pH. This is responsible for bleaching and ultimately from making life in the acqueus environment impossible. It's obviously a matter of concentration.
"Hexagonal" graphene can sustain temperatures in excess of 2000C. 730C for this pentagonal graphene seems much lower, which also suggests a much lower stability.
Many of the 2 year old "good phones" run 2 year old Android. As good as the hardware is, the software matters too. Android One is after that, by providing good enough hardware on current software.
9 out of 91 are actual scientist or their discipline *somehow* has something to do with science. All the others do not. Look, everybody is entitled to their opinion and advocate for a particular change within their community. But this isn't any different than, say, a (small) group of citizens advocating for something that affects their community. The real question is: What about the vast majority of other academics at Harvard whose field of expertize would be more insightful towards this goal? Why are they not on it? Answer: because energy policy is difficult, and cannot be trivialized. You only make it simple IF you think it's simple and you have no idea of the overall capabilities, policy, economics and scientific/technological opportunities available today.
I agree that more sensible and truly free solutions like libreoffice offer the best compromise. But it's not only about freedom, it's also about features. If you do very light work, GDocs are OK. But anything a little more sophisticated than a simple letter or a basic spreadsheet are completely mishandled by GDocs (mostly in their mobile version). What I am saying is that while GDocs are very convenient, I end up using an actual suite (MS Office or Libreoffice) because of the full set of features that it provides. GDocs simply doesn't cut it. It would be about time for Google to get serious and provide a product that it's not just free but also capable to satisfy the needs of more advanced users. Libreoffice, under these circumstances, is the best option.
The article seem to imply, that real and best enterpreneaurs only make software companies. But actual innovation takes place in many other filelds. My point is that what makes the difference and is precursor to success is knoledge and ingenuity. While you can argue that the latter does not require formal education, for knowledge that might not be true. For a software company once you actually master the tools required, education is probably not always needed (although, it won't hurt or actually may be beneficial, see Jeff Bezos). The "kid coder" prototype is what made Zuckerberg and the likes. Other fields are much much different. How can you run a biotech company based on your own non formal education? Or a nanotech company? All of the companies where knowledge cannot be acquired simply by having a computer at your disposal, require some form of formal education. Look at any biotech management to see what I mean.
It's no secret that innovation in the low-end of the market is high on the priority of manufacturers. Margins are low, and in combination with carrier policies, it's much more profitable to focus on high end handsets. Low end one are few years ago tech, repackaged, with unoptimized software. Google itself has been guilty of pushing Android to perform well on the high end, neglecting the low-end. Gingerbread still lives because it is the last Android OS to perform somehow well on low-end hardware. Even Google Glass, heck, runs on Ice Cream Sandwich, because Jelly Beans is too heavy for it. KitKatt is supposed to bring a fresh approach to low-end devices, we will need to wait and see. But there are clear responsibilities in software and hardware makers if such low performing devices exists. So, just like it did on the desktop, I hope Firefox OS will provide the incentive for the "other" OSes to push the boundaries on the low-end.
... That it will be the most widely used browser. It grew a lot early on, but other and in many cases better products came along. Firefox browser now is all but the leader. Given the identical marketing strategy is used for Firefox OS, I just don't see how it can only be conceived that it will become the Mobile OS to beat. Seriously, has the author ever seen one of the cheap android phones out of China?
That is the stock quickoffice viewer. What we are talking about here is the editor, which is a separate app. It's free in the play store for any android 2.2+:
Really? If you go to the play store page for quickoffice, you will see that all that is required for Quickoffice to run is Android 2.2. BTW, I am not talking about the quickoffice viewer that comes with every android, but rather the editor. Check again here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.quickoffice.android&hl=en
The version that allows for editing MS docs has been recently released in the play store for any android user. Kitkat only has it installed by default, but otherwise it's one install away.
You can always use the No-script add-on, if typing on the address bar is to nerdy for you. Unless you have some weird voice controlled browser, there is nothing easier than that. Non needs about preaching people about semantics, "pal".
I use tor and firefox. But I don't use firefox that is bundled with Tor (v1.7ESR), but my own (v22). I run private mode, and I use the convenient FoxyProxy extension to redirect my network connection to either tor or for a direct connection. FoxyProxy allows me to specify what sites I would need to redirect to Tor and what not. Fairly simple, really.
1. Go to about: config. 2. Search for javascript.enabled. 3. Toggle off. 4. No javascript. Alternatively, install no script. 5. Stop spreading nonsense.
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... and I refer it to the tattoo, obviously. You would never wear it where the Watch was designed to be.
Said the Man himself.
I want to be able to track my glucose levels (for example) as I go, not with a third party solution (that requires a needle). This is the kind of innovation that is needed. Otherwise it's just an app.
What made the earlier Nexii (4, 5, 7) a success was, in no small part, the sticker price, way lower than Apple and other were selling similar products. With these, you were getting great devices (with shortcomings for sure, but not deal breakers) for a bargain price. You could get a nexus 7 for less than 200USD. That to me was the power of Nexus, to the point where I would easily overlook hardware/software issues. Now that those are gone for good, we are left with the Nexus 6 and 9. They are priced on the high end (really high end). At that point, it's only fair to compare it to the competition on equal grounds. The Nexus 9 is the forgotten child, still not updated to 5.1, and with performance that is not up to a iPad Air 2, nor its build quality. The Nexus 6 is monstruosly big (if you loke those sorts of things) but the performance is OK at best. Apple used to be blamed (correctly) for sticking to small screen size, when everybody else had plenty of choice. Now you can get bigger or smaller phones from them, but not for Google. I loveD Google's products, but I am no fanboi. With the passing of the Nexus 7, I can't say I feel the same way any more.
The watch doesn't go beyond measuring heart rates. Diagnosing and following diabetes require a lot more data. Where does that come from? ResearchKit might be the best thing after sliced bread, but it relies on user input. So, it's just a hyped up data aggregator, with cloudy statements on where the data will end up. Wake me up when we will have some functional hardware able to probe uninvasively blood pressure glucose levels, etc. That is innovation. Otherwise it's pure marketing BS.
They can actually becoming rather acidic. Increase in CO2 results in its absorption by the oceans as carbonic acid (H2CO3), with related decrease in pH. This is responsible for bleaching and ultimately from making life in the acqueus environment impossible. It's obviously a matter of concentration.
Yes. Graphene does not "melt". it sublimates at very high temperatures. That's why graphite crucibles are used in foundries.
"Hexagonal" graphene can sustain temperatures in excess of 2000C. 730C for this pentagonal graphene seems much lower, which also suggests a much lower stability.
No, their slogan is... "Beta". It's all a matter of expectations...
Many of the 2 year old "good phones" run 2 year old Android. As good as the hardware is, the software matters too. Android One is after that, by providing good enough hardware on current software.
The same guy that wrote on libressl website, proudly, this:
This page scientifically designed to annoy web hipsters. Donate now to stop the Comic Sans and Blink Tags
http://www.libressl.org/
9 out of 91 are actual scientist or their discipline *somehow* has something to do with science. All the others do not. Look, everybody is entitled to their opinion and advocate for a particular change within their community. But this isn't any different than, say, a (small) group of citizens advocating for something that affects their community. The real question is: What about the vast majority of other academics at Harvard whose field of expertize would be more insightful towards this goal? Why are they not on it? Answer: because energy policy is difficult, and cannot be trivialized. You only make it simple IF you think it's simple and you have no idea of the overall capabilities, policy, economics and scientific/technological opportunities available today.
I agree that more sensible and truly free solutions like libreoffice offer the best compromise. But it's not only about freedom, it's also about features. If you do very light work, GDocs are OK. But anything a little more sophisticated than a simple letter or a basic spreadsheet are completely mishandled by GDocs (mostly in their mobile version). What I am saying is that while GDocs are very convenient, I end up using an actual suite (MS Office or Libreoffice) because of the full set of features that it provides. GDocs simply doesn't cut it. It would be about time for Google to get serious and provide a product that it's not just free but also capable to satisfy the needs of more advanced users. Libreoffice, under these circumstances, is the best option.
The article seem to imply, that real and best enterpreneaurs only make software companies. But actual innovation takes place in many other filelds. My point is that what makes the difference and is precursor to success is knoledge and ingenuity. While you can argue that the latter does not require formal education, for knowledge that might not be true. For a software company once you actually master the tools required, education is probably not always needed (although, it won't hurt or actually may be beneficial, see Jeff Bezos). The "kid coder" prototype is what made Zuckerberg and the likes. Other fields are much much different. How can you run a biotech company based on your own non formal education? Or a nanotech company? All of the companies where knowledge cannot be acquired simply by having a computer at your disposal, require some form of formal education. Look at any biotech management to see what I mean.
It's no secret that innovation in the low-end of the market is high on the priority of manufacturers. Margins are low, and in combination with carrier policies, it's much more profitable to focus on high end handsets. Low end one are few years ago tech, repackaged, with unoptimized software. Google itself has been guilty of pushing Android to perform well on the high end, neglecting the low-end. Gingerbread still lives because it is the last Android OS to perform somehow well on low-end hardware. Even Google Glass, heck, runs on Ice Cream Sandwich, because Jelly Beans is too heavy for it. KitKatt is supposed to bring a fresh approach to low-end devices, we will need to wait and see. But there are clear responsibilities in software and hardware makers if such low performing devices exists. So, just like it did on the desktop, I hope Firefox OS will provide the incentive for the "other" OSes to push the boundaries on the low-end.
It's not about the OS as much as it is about the carrier. In the US it's always been.
... That it will be the most widely used browser. It grew a lot early on, but other and in many cases better products came along. Firefox browser now is all but the leader. Given the identical marketing strategy is used for Firefox OS, I just don't see how it can only be conceived that it will become the Mobile OS to beat. Seriously, has the author ever seen one of the cheap android phones out of China?
That is the stock quickoffice viewer. What we are talking about here is the editor, which is a separate app. It's free in the play store for any android 2.2+:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.quickoffice.android&hl=en
Really? If you go to the play store page for quickoffice, you will see that all that is required for Quickoffice to run is Android 2.2. BTW, I am not talking about the quickoffice viewer that comes with every android, but rather the editor. Check again here:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.quickoffice.android&hl=en
The version that allows for editing MS docs has been recently released in the play store for any android user. Kitkat only has it installed by default, but otherwise it's one install away.
Am I wrong or Sony is an actual (and official) Android OEM?
... it's not a bug. You're holding it wrong.
You can always use the No-script add-on, if typing on the address bar is to nerdy for you. Unless you have some weird voice controlled browser, there is nothing easier than that. Non needs about preaching people about semantics, "pal".
I use tor and firefox. But I don't use firefox that is bundled with Tor (v1.7ESR), but my own (v22). I run private mode, and I use the convenient FoxyProxy extension to redirect my network connection to either tor or for a direct connection. FoxyProxy allows me to specify what sites I would need to redirect to Tor and what not. Fairly simple, really.
1. Go to about: config. 2. Search for javascript.enabled. 3. Toggle off. 4. No javascript. Alternatively, install no script. 5. Stop spreading nonsense.