well considering that Google Maps for win Mobile does exactly the same thing - and so do the android apps we can make the assumption it wasn't a Patent thing.
and considering that they can identify the app (hence they block others but not google maps) it can't be block all because of a few, and of course google isn't smart enough to rate limit connections
and considering that they don't give any terms or options to licence it except to use the API model for Android - it can't be..
wait? it is.. google decided to open up their API so devs would use it - they made it free so lots of small devs would use it - then they forced them to switch to "their" platform if they wanted to keep using it..
of course as a consumer using a GPS app on win Mobile i just wake up one day and my phone can't download maps and the app dev can only say "sorry" thank google for forcing the switch to android.
i'm not saying google is as evil as MS but they are not the clean company everyone likes to make them out to be.
it is either because it was only popular for a small group, someone threatened them with a patent, or it was being abused.
how about another hypothesis - because the options you provided are very narrow - they wanted to make sure that platforms that that don't benefit them can not use their resources EVEN if it means screwing over previous agreements. AKA google branded or Android works fine..
I fully agree that instant gratification is more the culprit for the quick shift in society than anything else. If you look at what just about everything is designed to do now days.. it's just sad..
between that and the everything is disposable attitude people have - it is just really sad
I remember when Columbine happened - i was in the den with my mom and we where watching the news.. they showed this "Violent GAME" that the kids had played - and it was the original DOOM - now my mom had remembered me playing that and looked at me odd when i started laughing..
i then explained. - this "Expert" on ABC was showing this "Violent GAME" which allowed kids to go around killing everything without any remorse or consequences..
what was on the screen was the starting level - he was running around with the rocket launcher and gold eyes (aka god mode)
so he had to cheat at the game to get the skewed point of view he wanted across
when google maps came out they allowed 3rd party devs to use the API to pull images for their apps as long as the all was designed to keep the per user request rate and transfer rate under a certain amount. this allowed for a lot of really useful info to be added to existing GPS apps..
when they released android they narrowed the focus of that agreement so that for smart phones it only applies to it - meaning that my win mobile GPS app that could use it and had been using it for years and was released under that it could - now can't - and Google actively blocks it.
while yes you can say but it was free - well Google hasn't given me a way to pay for it EXCEPT to get an android device and another program that may or may not do what i need it to.
they may not be as openly blatant was MS with their ways.. but they are can be just as slimy with a bait and switch.
While this might be amazing effecient for a Silicon cell Silicon has a limited EM absorption range.
think of all the diffrent wave lenghts of light/em there is - Si can only grab a portion of that and induce a current. what ender06 was saying is that multi junction cells (aka Solar cells with Si and Other methods) are going to beat out Si only cells.
The other issue is that silicon misses out on a fair chunk of the solar spectrum. Anything after 1100nm is not converted, its simply below the bandgap.
what ender06 was saying is that multi junction cells (aka Solar cells with Si and Other methods) are going to beat out Si only cells.
while this will help with the Si style conversion - we still need to figure out ways of getting the rest of that energy
i'm not sure how much of that Si can capture - it seems that they are slowly coming up with ways of using it to capture more or different parts of that spectrum BUT you will only hit 100% efficient when you can figure out how to grab all of it.
(if only we could make a black hole and somehow generate energy off the passing light/matter into it j/k maybe:) )
my only problem with Track Points is that 90% of them don't have the ability to do acceleration (harder you push it the faster it moves).. so i always feel like i'm waiting for the cursor to get where i want it - and if you just knock the sensitivity up to make it faster you lose precision
the lenovo x200's have really nice track points - but they have to as they removed the touch pad
which means now i need one or more less to get the same job done - OR i don't need to add one for an increased work load or i could power extras down for later days or or sell them to another group.
any time you can make existing equipment more efficient the gains are wonderful because you have already made the investment in buying and maintaining the hardware
Total cost of ownership for equipment is far more than the initial cost to purchase it - and it is a cost i'm going to pay - so if i can get more out of it for that cost - that is a benefit
Except they didn't stop NBC from replaying it for days after the event.
I didn't see it happen live instead i first saw it in the crap hour of commenter's right before the opening ceremonies..
Sorry - on the moral road yea don't post it - on the other moral road - use it to show how news and the IOC have zero shame or respect for people but only for cash.
It's probably more likely for the elements in a true random sequence to be similar to each other than for them to be evenly divided.
i would say for true random it is equally as likely that the elements would be similar to each other as they would be evenly divided. does this mean that we should mix the 2? but then either way we are influencing the outcome.
1234 - Even 1111 - similar 1144 - mix
if you have a limited space 4^4 (as an example) cutting out similar or evenly divided is going to have a measurable impact on the space.. True random will show the whole space..
I tend to fit with the question "how do you know what random is?"
its a hard question - i think it would be best if we can just come up with a close enough generator where the odds of someone predicting the next key is no larger than the odds of getting that key. (not sure if that phrasing works outside my head)
not sure about the Bar's but the 55+ living communities are an interesting thing - that is normally due to a city ordinance for utilities hookup.
see Old people use less water and power and sewer than young people because the normally don't have kids or other family - in fact the number of people in a house hold is usually 1/2.
this allows for the developer to do higher number of homes or apartment in a given area without having to foot the bill for increasing the utilities run to that parcel of land. They get a permit for using the connections with a 55+ community - then get to uses that permit as their reason for restricting sales - and keeping it restricted via HOA agreements.
I'm not saying it's right at all.. BUT that is how it works..
yea it's not just the consumer side - but the biz side too.. i ca get a 1440x900 on a 12.1 in x200 but can't get any larger than that on a 15 in R50.. sorry but where are the good screens?
and yes almost all of them are TN - it seems that IPS has all but disappeared...
you joke but the gold plated actually serves a purpose.. but it has nothing to do with the quality of the picture.. it serves an anti corrosion role.....
but that oxygen free copper humm can't get enough of that
the let alone now part is wrong - if you take alook around 80% of laptops being sold today have that shitty 1366x768 screen even when they are 15in..
sorry but sadly the quality of the average screen has been going down hill for a long time.
I know it's bad form to reply to your self but wanted to note this.. A warrant gives the police special access to a location or information, something not publicly available. If it goes through that they don't need a warrant then could we not use this as a stepping stone to justify any member of the public requesting the same information from the telecom's? not just for our selves but for any one.. it's just a different way of looking at it - and one that should commonly be viewed
more than likely they are wanting the tower data - BUT depending on the phone - and the towers that may be "hey i was talking to him" or "hey the 3 of us where listening to him here is the strength so you can triangulate" or "yea that phone associated with me - here is it's header data - oh see the GPS info in it?"
either way - you may have a phone that only allows GPS data on 911 calls - i bet there are ALOT of phones where that isn't an option - and ALOT more phones where people have no idea it is even in there. Most people have no idea about the e911 location information for emergency calls being added in after Sept.11th.. And if i remember correctly there was recently evidence that some carriers where having the location data on all the time not just for 911 by default.
if they can get it past that they don't need a warrant - then what they find in the records would be on the same level as seeing something in plain sight. meaning that even if now it doesn't normally have GPS location - in 2 years it might be the norm.. and they already have a warrant waver..
as far as i'm concerned they should need a warrant to get it.
and while i'm more than willing to admit this is a personal feeling from personal experience.
even if both are built right.. the mechanical will last longer than it's electronic replacement.
heh - ok see i own an MG - and I've had the fun of redoing the wiring in it (didn't bother with a harness just ran my own).
and i can tell you one thing... that smoke kit would have come in handy..
I will say one thing though - at least the switches are easy to take apart to clean the contacts..
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I'm aiming for a VPN/Tunneling SubInternet - i currently do this with friends/family/work - makes life a lot easier.
well considering that Google Maps for win Mobile does exactly the same thing - and so do the android apps we can make the assumption it wasn't a Patent thing.
and considering that they can identify the app (hence they block others but not google maps) it can't be block all because of a few, and of course google isn't smart enough to rate limit connections
and considering that they don't give any terms or options to licence it except to use the API model for Android - it can't be ..
wait? it is.. google decided to open up their API so devs would use it - they made it free so lots of small devs would use it - then they forced them to switch to "their" platform if they wanted to keep using it..
of course as a consumer using a GPS app on win Mobile i just wake up one day and my phone can't download maps and the app dev can only say "sorry" thank google for forcing the switch to android.
i'm not saying google is as evil as MS but they are not the clean company everyone likes to make them out to be.
it is either because it was only popular for a small group, someone threatened them with a patent, or it was being abused.
how about another hypothesis - because the options you provided are very narrow - they wanted to make sure that platforms that that don't benefit them can not use their resources EVEN if it means screwing over previous agreements. AKA google branded or Android works fine..
I fully agree that instant gratification is more the culprit for the quick shift in society than anything else. If you look at what just about everything is designed to do now days.. it's just sad..
between that and the everything is disposable attitude people have - it is just really sad
I remember when Columbine happened - i was in the den with my mom and we where watching the news.. they showed this "Violent GAME" that the kids had played - and it was the original DOOM - now my mom had remembered me playing that and looked at me odd when i started laughing..
i then explained. - this "Expert" on ABC was showing this "Violent GAME" which allowed kids to go around killing everything without any remorse or consequences..
what was on the screen was the starting level - he was running around with the rocket launcher and gold eyes (aka god mode)
so he had to cheat at the game to get the skewed point of view he wanted across
nahh they should just follow Miami's lead
http://idle.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=10/03/01/169217
stop the few people left who do care and the bum's will starve to death - making room for more non bums in NYC to pay more taxes..
am i off base? or was i wrong in thinking all laws have a money side to them?
the one thing i use google for alot is
X site:msdn.micosoft.com
it is pathedic that it is easier to search the MSDN from MS than to use it's search or even the local install
actualy good did .
when google maps came out they allowed 3rd party devs to use the API to pull images for their apps as long as the all was designed to keep the per user request rate and transfer rate under a certain amount. this allowed for a lot of really useful info to be added to existing GPS apps..
when they released android they narrowed the focus of that agreement so that for smart phones it only applies to it - meaning that my win mobile GPS app that could use it and had been using it for years and was released under that it could - now can't - and Google actively blocks it.
while yes you can say but it was free - well Google hasn't given me a way to pay for it EXCEPT to get an android device and another program that may or may not do what i need it to.
they may not be as openly blatant was MS with their ways.. but they are can be just as slimy with a bait and switch.
actually i was wrong - just looked at the order form
http://www.microsoft.com/surface/Pages/HowToBuy/HowToBuy.aspx
and it looks like the cheapest you can get is going to be >13k and ~16k if your a developer.
so the price has actually gone UP from when it was first released.. and it STILL comes with Vista not Win7
actually you can by an MS Surface table - they are jsut far far far far far far far (i'll stop now but it keeps going) to damn expensive ~10k each.
I think you missed his point
While this might be amazing effecient for a Silicon cell Silicon has a limited EM absorption range.
think of all the diffrent wave lenghts of light/em there is - Si can only grab a portion of that and induce a current. what ender06 was saying is that multi junction cells (aka Solar cells with Si and Other methods) are going to beat out Si only cells.
The other issue is that silicon misses out on a fair chunk of the solar spectrum. Anything after 1100nm is not converted, its simply below the bandgap.
what ender06 was saying is that multi junction cells (aka Solar cells with Si and Other methods) are going to beat out Si only cells.
while this will help with the Si style conversion - we still need to figure out ways of getting the rest of that energy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Solar_irradiance_spectrum_1992.gif
i'm not sure how much of that Si can capture - it seems that they are slowly coming up with ways of using it to capture more or different parts of that spectrum BUT you will only hit 100% efficient when you can figure out how to grab all of it.
(if only we could make a black hole and somehow generate energy off the passing light/matter into it j/k maybe :) )
my only problem with Track Points is that 90% of them don't have the ability to do acceleration (harder you push it the faster it moves).. so i always feel like i'm waiting for the cursor to get where i want it - and if you just knock the sensitivity up to make it faster you lose precision
the lenovo x200's have really nice track points - but they have to as they removed the touch pad
which means now i need one or more less to get the same job done - OR i don't need to add one for an increased work load or i could power extras down for later days or or sell them to another group.
any time you can make existing equipment more efficient the gains are wonderful because you have already made the investment in buying and maintaining the hardware
Total cost of ownership for equipment is far more than the initial cost to purchase it - and it is a cost i'm going to pay - so if i can get more out of it for that cost - that is a benefit
but now we have cuved edges and smooth colors - and wait.. still using a square dot to show it.. crap
Except they didn't stop NBC from replaying it for days after the event.
I didn't see it happen live instead i first saw it in the crap hour of commenter's right before the opening ceremonies..
Sorry - on the moral road yea don't post it - on the other moral road - use it to show how news and the IOC have zero shame or respect for people but only for cash.
It's probably more likely for the elements in a true random sequence to be similar to each other than for them to be evenly divided.
i would say for true random it is equally as likely that the elements would be similar to each other as they would be evenly divided. does this mean that we should mix the 2? but then either way we are influencing the outcome.
1234 - Even
1111 - similar
1144 - mix
if you have a limited space 4^4 (as an example) cutting out similar or evenly divided is going to have a measurable impact on the space.. True random will show the whole space..
I tend to fit with the question "how do you know what random is?"
its a hard question - i think it would be best if we can just come up with a close enough generator where the odds of someone predicting the next key is no larger than the odds of getting that key. (not sure if that phrasing works outside my head)
not sure about the Bar's but the 55+ living communities are an interesting thing - that is normally due to a city ordinance for utilities hookup.
see Old people use less water and power and sewer than young people because the normally don't have kids or other family - in fact the number of people in a house hold is usually 1/2.
this allows for the developer to do higher number of homes or apartment in a given area without having to foot the bill for increasing the utilities run to that parcel of land. They get a permit for using the connections with a 55+ community - then get to uses that permit as their reason for restricting sales - and keeping it restricted via HOA agreements.
I'm not saying it's right at all.. BUT that is how it works..
yea it's not just the consumer side - but the biz side too.. i ca get a 1440x900 on a 12.1 in x200 but can't get any larger than that on a 15 in R50.. sorry but where are the good screens?
and yes almost all of them are TN - it seems that IPS has all but disappeared...
you joke but the gold plated actually serves a purpose .. but it has nothing to do with the quality of the picture.. it serves an anti corrosion role.....
but that oxygen free copper humm can't get enough of that
the let alone now part is wrong - if you take alook around 80% of laptops being sold today have that shitty 1366x768 screen even when they are 15in.. sorry but sadly the quality of the average screen has been going down hill for a long time.
ok that actualy sounds like it would be fun to spend a morning at...
sadly i know they are 2 words.. i just seem to never remember to hit the space bar when holding shift..
I know it's bad form to reply to your self but wanted to note this.. A warrant gives the police special access to a location or information, something not publicly available. If it goes through that they don't need a warrant then could we not use this as a stepping stone to justify any member of the public requesting the same information from the telecom's? not just for our selves but for any one.. it's just a different way of looking at it - and one that should commonly be viewed
more than likely they are wanting the tower data - BUT depending on the phone - and the towers that may be "hey i was talking to him" or "hey the 3 of us where listening to him here is the strength so you can triangulate" or "yea that phone associated with me - here is it's header data - oh see the GPS info in it?" either way - you may have a phone that only allows GPS data on 911 calls - i bet there are ALOT of phones where that isn't an option - and ALOT more phones where people have no idea it is even in there. Most people have no idea about the e911 location information for emergency calls being added in after Sept.11th.. And if i remember correctly there was recently evidence that some carriers where having the location data on all the time not just for 911 by default. if they can get it past that they don't need a warrant - then what they find in the records would be on the same level as seeing something in plain sight. meaning that even if now it doesn't normally have GPS location - in 2 years it might be the norm.. and they already have a warrant waver.. as far as i'm concerned they should need a warrant to get it.
and while i'm more than willing to admit this is a personal feeling from personal experience. even if both are built right.. the mechanical will last longer than it's electronic replacement.
heh - ok see i own an MG - and I've had the fun of redoing the wiring in it (didn't bother with a harness just ran my own). and i can tell you one thing... that smoke kit would have come in handy.. I will say one thing though - at least the switches are easy to take apart to clean the contacts..