Has anyone actually asked for Google to search their friend's facebook updates?
When I am looking for information on Google, the ABSOLUTE LAST THING I want it to return is a bunch more blog spam crap about useless regurgitated information, or requests to buy corn for their farm.
I don't get this whole "social search" trend going on. Am I the only one who really does not give a crap what my Facebook or Twitter friends are looking at? If I wanted to look at it, I would have clicked it when it showed up in my update stream. I don't need to cluttering up my search results.
If you had RTFA, you would see the ADK is Arduino based, in fact they specifically called out Arduino both in the ADK docs and multiple times in the video presentation.
Basically all the ADK is is a standard way for Arduino to communicate with Android, so that people can write smarphone apps that will work with any ADK-compliant Arduino device. That is all.
Er.. so? I can stream from my Asus TF-101 to any DLNA device under the sun, not simply an Apple TV. I can stream DIRECT TO MY TV, which is a Samsung flatscreen that has DLNA support.
But really this has nothing at all to do with the parent since you can't compare plugging in an HDMI cable to streaming to some external device? It is not even remotely the same thing. (Also, the iPad does not even have an HDMI port, you have to BUY an ugly and cumbersome external dongle).
Perhaps his point is you don't have to use special software like Handbrake or buy special cables to use HDMI. All this stuff works out of the box on any Android tablet, including playing any format under the sun. I like Moboplayer for this.
I think part of the thing these reviewers all miss is that every Android tablet has a MicroSD slot. There is no point paying $100 for 16 Gb of storage. It's highway robbery. I don't know why anyone in their right mind would get the 32GB version over the 16Gb version.
This of course is very different from the iPad which has no such slot.
And Samsung is the world's second largest semiconductor MANUFACTURER, after Intel.. including providing a lot of chips to Apple.
Meanwhile, Apple is in the middle of a giant lawsuit against Samsung for it's mobile phone division, which is starting to seriously make a run for crown of the Android market, and is eating away at Apple's business.
As an example, 5 years ago the iPhone did not even exist on the market. Today it is 4 generations ahead of the original, the OS 5 generations, and phones of the original's caliber are considered extremely outdated and nearly useless (no 3rd party apps, slow CPU, 2G, etc) to the point that you can pick them up on eBay for $50 when they used to sell for $400.
Unless the lifespan is cut to something reasonable like 12 months, then software patents have no place. The whole point of patents is supposed to be to encourage innovation. The reality however is a) There is innovation aplenty in the software world regardless of patents, b) In the software world, the truth of the moniker "innovate or die" is a lot more of an incentive to innovate than software patents.
I had my apartment buzzer forwarded to my cell phone back in 2004. I imagine millions of people worldwide who do not have landlines do the same thing. What is so novel about this?
The reason you can't use electronics during takeoff and landing has nothing to do with additional interference, it has to do with distraction. They want you to be able to see and hear any and all instructions from the flight crew immediately. If you have earphones on that are not connected to their systems (where they can pre-empt them), then that is not possible, and dangerous.
If you flew more often you would realize that this policy in fact will be the one causing confusion.
What do you do when you wanto fly from A to C through B, but Southwest only flys from A to B and from B to C you have to take another carrier? You have to book on TWO seperate sites.
Also, even if Southwest does fly from A to B to C, they may not have the best fare from B to C, so by flying the whole way with them you are throwing away money.
As I pointed out in another comment - Google Profiles and Google Accounts are two totall different things. Just because you have a Google account doesn't mean you have a public profile. You have to manually go to google.com/profiles and make one youself. Unless you did that then you don't have one. And the whole purpose, as it says on that sign-up page, is so that when people search for your name your profile will be returned.
This has nothing to do with Google Accounts. It is talking about Google Profiles. The incredible majority of people who have Google Accounts would not have Google Profiles set up because unless you go looking for it you won't even know what it is.
www.google.com/profiles
The whole point of setting up your Google profile IS SO THAT YOU WILL BE INDEXED BY GOOGLE - that is why this story is so ridiculous. This guy just downladed 30 million profiles and said "look, I indexed them!"
Umm... what do you think Google does for a living? Why do you think I made this profile anyway? It is so that I would be included accurately in their index!
Having an accurate and controllable Google result come up when people search for your name as a professional is very important in today's job market, especially the tech sector. It could make or break you getting the job. That is why these profiles exist.
The whole purpose of creating a Google Profile is so that your profile will be included in Google's index.
In fact the Google Profile mission statement says exactly that. The whole thing is geared around you wanting to be returned when people search for you.
A doctor could not claim copyright over a review without confirming that the reviewer is a patient of theirs, which is a violation of HIPAA. These so-called doctors don't actually have a leg to stand on here.
What I don't get is, in Chrome the URL bar *IS* the search bar. You click in it and type whatever the heck you want and Google gives it to you.
This seems to be going to discourage people from searching for things. I know the first thing my wife would ask me is "how do i search?" People are not used to clicking a "search" button to bring up a box, that is very passe.
The official platform for Google Talk is not Windows or Mac, it is GMail.
The GMail Google Talk client is the one with the most features. Which makes sense, considering that it will be the client their ChromeOS runs.
Now that Android supports native video in Google talk for both 2.3.4 and honeycomb, I expect a renewed push for video in all Google Talk clients. However, I also never see the desktop client matching the GMail one for features.
I had a chance to watch a playthrough of LA Noir at PAX, and if the whole game is anything like what I saw, it is going to be a massive blockbuster. It may even outsell Red Read.
"It's just some scamming weirdo gabbling nonsense words and peddling invisible snake oil."
Sounds like most religious ceremony to me.
At the end of the day a wedding is nothing more than a legal contract. All of the other stuff is just ceremony. I think this is a great way to do a ceremony that at least has some grounding in reality.
Once all cars on the road were self driving and mesh networked, they could travel at MUCH higher speeds, because there would be near chance of collisions with other vehicles. Speed limits would be totally obsolete.
Chrome's sync not only syncs all settings and bookmarks, but extensions and THEIR settings as well. I can download Chrome on any new PC and log into my Google account, and have everything exactly as my home PC, in seconds.
All location tracking in Android is totally optional, in fact you are explicitly asked if you want to enable it the first time you turn on your phone, there is no way to even skip the question.
Yes because a device will never become popular without implementing standards like USB Mass Storage... oh wait.. iPhone perhaps? The iPhone is basically the most un-standard locked-down device around. There is a free standard for each and every thing the iPhone can do, and apple doesn't implement any of them out of the box - the only way to do it (if you can at all) is jailbreak the device and/or install a ton of paid third-party apps.
... at least in Android. You have to explicitly turn it on if you want to do it. So this story is mostly FUD IMO, unless it is iPhone only, in which case it should specifically say "iPhone" instead of "Smartphones"
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Seriously.
Has anyone actually asked for Google to search their friend's facebook updates?
When I am looking for information on Google, the ABSOLUTE LAST THING I want it to return is a bunch more blog spam crap about useless regurgitated information, or requests to buy corn for their farm.
I don't get this whole "social search" trend going on. Am I the only one who really does not give a crap what my Facebook or Twitter friends are looking at? If I wanted to look at it, I would have clicked it when it showed up in my update stream. I don't need to cluttering up my search results.
If you had RTFA, you would see the ADK is Arduino based, in fact they specifically called out Arduino both in the ADK docs and multiple times in the video presentation.
Basically all the ADK is is a standard way for Arduino to communicate with Android, so that people can write smarphone apps that will work with any ADK-compliant Arduino device. That is all.
Er.. so? I can stream from my Asus TF-101 to any DLNA device under the sun, not simply an Apple TV. I can stream DIRECT TO MY TV, which is a Samsung flatscreen that has DLNA support.
But really this has nothing at all to do with the parent since you can't compare plugging in an HDMI cable to streaming to some external device? It is not even remotely the same thing. (Also, the iPad does not even have an HDMI port, you have to BUY an ugly and cumbersome external dongle).
The original Galaxy Tab runs Gingerbread. The Xoom, Transformer, and Galaxy 10.1 run Honeycomb. It is night and day different.
Not to mention these tablets all have high performance Tegra 2 chips while the original Tab was running only a Hummingbird.
You are basically saying you tried Windows 98 and hated it therefore Windows 7 has to be just as bad.
I have an Asus Transformer and LOVE IT. It's an amazing machine, and I don't have the handcuffs on that my iPad-owning friends have.
Perhaps his point is you don't have to use special software like Handbrake or buy special cables to use HDMI. All this stuff works out of the box on any Android tablet, including playing any format under the sun. I like Moboplayer for this.
You can get a 16GB EEPad for $399.
I think part of the thing these reviewers all miss is that every Android tablet has a MicroSD slot. There is no point paying $100 for 16 Gb of storage. It's highway robbery. I don't know why anyone in their right mind would get the 32GB version over the 16Gb version.
This of course is very different from the iPad which has no such slot.
And Samsung is the world's second largest semiconductor MANUFACTURER, after Intel.. including providing a lot of chips to Apple.
Meanwhile, Apple is in the middle of a giant lawsuit against Samsung for it's mobile phone division, which is starting to seriously make a run for crown of the Android market, and is eating away at Apple's business.
Fun times ahead.
As an example, 5 years ago the iPhone did not even exist on the market. Today it is 4 generations ahead of the original, the OS 5 generations, and phones of the original's caliber are considered extremely outdated and nearly useless (no 3rd party apps, slow CPU, 2G, etc) to the point that you can pick them up on eBay for $50 when they used to sell for $400.
Unless the lifespan is cut to something reasonable like 12 months, then software patents have no place. The whole point of patents is supposed to be to encourage innovation. The reality however is a) There is innovation aplenty in the software world regardless of patents, b) In the software world, the truth of the moniker "innovate or die" is a lot more of an incentive to innovate than software patents.
I had my apartment buzzer forwarded to my cell phone back in 2004. I imagine millions of people worldwide who do not have landlines do the same thing. What is so novel about this?
The reason you can't use electronics during takeoff and landing has nothing to do with additional interference, it has to do with distraction. They want you to be able to see and hear any and all instructions from the flight crew immediately. If you have earphones on that are not connected to their systems (where they can pre-empt them), then that is not possible, and dangerous.
If you flew more often you would realize that this policy in fact will be the one causing confusion.
What do you do when you wanto fly from A to C through B, but Southwest only flys from A to B and from B to C you have to take another carrier? You have to book on TWO seperate sites.
Also, even if Southwest does fly from A to B to C, they may not have the best fare from B to C, so by flying the whole way with them you are throwing away money.
As I pointed out in another comment - Google Profiles and Google Accounts are two totall different things. Just because you have a Google account doesn't mean you have a public profile. You have to manually go to google.com/profiles and make one youself. Unless you did that then you don't have one. And the whole purpose, as it says on that sign-up page, is so that when people search for your name your profile will be returned.
This is a total non-story.
No, IT IS NOT.
This has nothing to do with Google Accounts. It is talking about Google Profiles. The incredible majority of people who have Google Accounts would not have Google Profiles set up because unless you go looking for it you won't even know what it is.
www.google.com/profiles
The whole point of setting up your Google profile IS SO THAT YOU WILL BE INDEXED BY GOOGLE - that is why this story is so ridiculous. This guy just downladed 30 million profiles and said "look, I indexed them!"
Umm... what do you think Google does for a living? Why do you think I made this profile anyway? It is so that I would be included accurately in their index!
Having an accurate and controllable Google result come up when people search for your name as a professional is very important in today's job market, especially the tech sector. It could make or break you getting the job. That is why these profiles exist.
The whole purpose of creating a Google Profile is so that your profile will be included in Google's index.
In fact the Google Profile mission statement says exactly that. The whole thing is geared around you wanting to be returned when people search for you.
What a non story this is.
A doctor could not claim copyright over a review without confirming that the reviewer is a patient of theirs, which is a violation of HIPAA. These so-called doctors don't actually have a leg to stand on here.
What I don't get is, in Chrome the URL bar *IS* the search bar. You click in it and type whatever the heck you want and Google gives it to you.
This seems to be going to discourage people from searching for things. I know the first thing my wife would ask me is "how do i search?" People are not used to clicking a "search" button to bring up a box, that is very passe.
The official platform for Google Talk is not Windows or Mac, it is GMail.
The GMail Google Talk client is the one with the most features. Which makes sense, considering that it will be the client their ChromeOS runs.
Now that Android supports native video in Google talk for both 2.3.4 and honeycomb, I expect a renewed push for video in all Google Talk clients. However, I also never see the desktop client matching the GMail one for features.
I had a chance to watch a playthrough of LA Noir at PAX, and if the whole game is anything like what I saw, it is going to be a massive blockbuster. It may even outsell Red Read.
I've had it pre-ordered for months.
Why do people make such a big deal about targetted ads?
What difference does it make what is on the billboard?
"It's just some scamming weirdo gabbling nonsense words and peddling invisible snake oil."
Sounds like most religious ceremony to me.
At the end of the day a wedding is nothing more than a legal contract. All of the other stuff is just ceremony. I think this is a great way to do a ceremony that at least has some grounding in reality.
Once all cars on the road were self driving and mesh networked, they could travel at MUCH higher speeds, because there would be near chance of collisions with other vehicles. Speed limits would be totally obsolete.
The only hiccup is pedestrians and wild life.
Chrome's sync not only syncs all settings and bookmarks, but extensions and THEIR settings as well. I can download Chrome on any new PC and log into my Google account, and have everything exactly as my home PC, in seconds.
All location tracking in Android is totally optional, in fact you are explicitly asked if you want to enable it the first time you turn on your phone, there is no way to even skip the question.
Yes because a device will never become popular without implementing standards like USB Mass Storage... oh wait.. iPhone perhaps? The iPhone is basically the most un-standard locked-down device around. There is a free standard for each and every thing the iPhone can do, and apple doesn't implement any of them out of the box - the only way to do it (if you can at all) is jailbreak the device and/or install a ton of paid third-party apps.
... at least in Android. You have to explicitly turn it on if you want to do it. So this story is mostly FUD IMO, unless it is iPhone only, in which case it should specifically say "iPhone" instead of "Smartphones"