Modern smartphones are small computers that happen to have suitable hardware for accessing the voice network. It really is disingenuous to call these devices "phones", because you can still get feature phones that do basic voice/text/web with far less than 2GB (albeit with much less flexibility).
A huge part of the benefit of something like Google Glass is the whole augmented reality thing, which pretty much requires a camera to work at all.
Yes, there are some things you could do without a camera, but it would be vastly inferior device--and besides, nobody will be able to tell if the wearer has a camera or not, so they'll need to assume anything vaguely Glass-like will have a camera and act accordingly.
If you can get away with sharing one kernel (and ideally one distro for userspace), a container-based solution is likely going to be less resource-intensive overall.
It'll send text messages, voice, video chat, etc. over your data plan to any other BBM user. That way it burns through your data allotment rather than your voice/text allotment.
It'll be particularly handy if you have, say, a 3G tablet that doesn't do voice, or if you have access to a cheap data plan but your voice calls and texts are relatively expensive.
I have no problem with a woman that gave birth getting some time to rest up and recuperate...especially after a C-section.
That said, the bigger problem in the USA is that you *only* get 8/16 weeks. Up here in Canada we get a year of partially paid leave, some of which is reserved for the mother but most of which can be taken by either parent.
I only took 3 weeks off work for each of my kids, but I work from home so I'm also available if needed during the day.
textplus and textme are both free, both use your data plan, and both give you a separate real phone number so that your friends just see regular SMS messages--though coming from a different number than your "real" number.
The last mile to the house is a natural monopoly. Once you get to some sort of switching station then you could have real competition with physical hardware from different competing ISPs colocated in the same offices and using separate upstream bandwidth. That's more than just "competing bill-printing services".
I have no idea if this is what they do in the UK, but it's *possible*.
I'd say they're okay for creation at best...at least the kind that I do.
Given the choice I'd *far* rather use a full-sized keyboard/mouse and big monitor (1920x1200 but I want to go bigger) for just about anything creative--writing code, retouching photos, editing video, or even just writing this comment.
As blue collar jobs get automated, there will be blue collar workers that are not suited to white collar jobs.
Heck, now white collar jobs are being automated or offshored. Royal Bank just got in the media up here in Canada for offshoring IT services for back-end financial teams.
In real life, I see most of the benefit of automation going to the owners/shareholders of the companies, and that money doesn't necessarily stay in the community where the factory is (or even in the same country).
As we get better at technology, we will be able to automate more and more tasks....so what is the end result? Presumably we should start planning for it now so we don't get caught by surprise.
What can we do in expensive places (North America, Europe, Japan, etc.) that can't be outsourced/insourced/automated?
I see automation doing more and more work that used to be done by "unskilled" labour. Given that not everyone can do "skilled" labour, what do we do with the people that used to do the "unskilled" labour?
Also, the stuff that can be automated is moving up the chain...so what are you going to do when *your* job gets automated?
As someone else pointed out, increased productivity led us from the 100+ hr work week to the 40-hr work week...but then we stayed at that level of work while automation continued to increase. The workers didn't get the benefits of the extra productivity, the owners did.
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Modern smartphones are small computers that happen to have suitable hardware for accessing the voice network. It really is disingenuous to call these devices "phones", because you can still get feature phones that do basic voice/text/web with far less than 2GB (albeit with much less flexibility).
A huge part of the benefit of something like Google Glass is the whole augmented reality thing, which pretty much requires a camera to work at all.
Yes, there are some things you could do without a camera, but it would be vastly inferior device--and besides, nobody will be able to tell if the wearer has a camera or not, so they'll need to assume anything vaguely Glass-like will have a camera and act accordingly.
People buy real estate all the time in the hopes that it gains in value...why should domain names be treated specially?
If you can get away with sharing one kernel (and ideally one distro for userspace), a container-based solution is likely going to be less resource-intensive overall.
If the laws of the land are too onerous, the correct solutions are either to change the laws or else go somewhere else.
It'll send text messages, voice, video chat, etc. over your data plan to any other BBM user. That way it burns through your data allotment rather than your voice/text allotment.
It'll be particularly handy if you have, say, a 3G tablet that doesn't do voice, or if you have access to a cheap data plan but your voice calls and texts are relatively expensive.
Barnes and Noble have already won against Microsoft on these patents, so they can't be all that great.
As has been mentioned already, B&N already won against Microsoft regarding these patents so clearly they're not exactly paragons of validity.
The other players don't want to upset Microsoft because they sell Microsoft products on their hardware.
If you're stretched for cash, consider either Photoshop Elements or one of the other competitors like Corel PaintShop Pro.
smokers and the obese are actually *cheaper* in the long run, because they die earlier and thus save money in health care in their declining years.
Old people are expensive due to chronic issues.
I have a WebOS tablet running the linux kernel with an alternate userspace that can run Ubuntu as an app in a chroot.
I can run Android emulation on top of a "regular" desktop linux distribution.
And any given full linux distro is far more than just the linux kernel and GNU stuff on top.
I have no problem with a woman that gave birth getting some time to rest up and recuperate...especially after a C-section.
That said, the bigger problem in the USA is that you *only* get 8/16 weeks. Up here in Canada we get a year of partially paid leave, some of which is reserved for the mother but most of which can be taken by either parent.
I only took 3 weeks off work for each of my kids, but I work from home so I'm also available if needed during the day.
Realistically women need some physical recovery time that men do not, especially if they have a C-section.
That said, I'm *so* happy to be in Canada where we can take up to a year of parental leave, most of which can be taken by either parent.
Since we are producing more and more energy, the absolute amounts of pollution emitted each year is still increasing.
Basically all the "green" energy is offsetting the increase in "dirty" energy.
As long as he didn't do anything but push the standard control buttons, I think he's entitled to whatever he can get.
If the casino thinks they're paying out too much, they can sue the maker of the video poker machine.
textplus and textme are both free, both use your data plan, and both give you a separate real phone number so that your friends just see regular SMS messages--though coming from a different number than your "real" number.
technically, LKML is a mailing list that happens to be mirrored to one or more newsgroups
Being able to patent a communications protocol is actually worse than being able to patent a specific implementation of that protocol.
The last mile to the house is a natural monopoly. Once you get to some sort of switching station then you could have real competition with physical hardware from different competing ISPs colocated in the same offices and using separate upstream bandwidth. That's more than just "competing bill-printing services".
I have no idea if this is what they do in the UK, but it's *possible*.
I'd say they're okay for creation at best...at least the kind that I do.
Given the choice I'd *far* rather use a full-sized keyboard/mouse and big monitor (1920x1200 but I want to go bigger) for just about anything creative--writing code, retouching photos, editing video, or even just writing this comment.
I ask because I have no firearms acquisition certificate, but I have shot handguns at ranges under the supervision of their staff.
Presumably there is some mechanism to allow someone to fire your weapon without actually "transferring" it to them.
That said, I've also gone plinking with a .22 at my grandparents farm as a kid with my uncle...which I pretty sure is totally illegal. :)
As blue collar jobs get automated, there will be blue collar workers that are not suited to white collar jobs.
Heck, now white collar jobs are being automated or offshored. Royal Bank just got in the media up here in Canada for offshoring IT services for back-end financial teams.
In real life, I see most of the benefit of automation going to the owners/shareholders of the companies, and that money doesn't necessarily stay in the community where the factory is (or even in the same country).
As we get better at technology, we will be able to automate more and more tasks....so what is the end result? Presumably we should start planning for it now so we don't get caught by surprise.
What can we do in expensive places (North America, Europe, Japan, etc.) that can't be outsourced/insourced/automated?
I see automation doing more and more work that used to be done by "unskilled" labour. Given that not everyone can do "skilled" labour, what do we do with the people that used to do the "unskilled" labour?
Also, the stuff that can be automated is moving up the chain...so what are you going to do when *your* job gets automated?
As someone else pointed out, increased productivity led us from the 100+ hr work week to the 40-hr work week...but then we stayed at that level of work while automation continued to increase. The workers didn't get the benefits of the extra productivity, the owners did.