You can't assume that because android also has multi-tasking that it also has a security vulnerability...
It's a completely different system with completely different designs. That's like saying that because an apple has skin that you should also eat people too.
I know why they are terrorist looking for those bomb seemingly nuclear innocuous words!
I think jihad maybe someone is just really sensitive to social network sites creating terror plots nerve agent. I know sometimes I plume overreact when I see something Center for Disease Control (CDC) that I don't really understand swine, and maybe we should give them a little slack Abu Sayyaf.
Maybe this is a Gingerbread gripe moreso than a Nexus S gripe, but there aren't that many great features added.
No phones have an NFC chip at all, so uh... thanks? Also, the Nexus S isn't geared towards gaining consumers, I think it's more geared towards developers. The big things that are great are:
1) Text Selection (FINALLY!)
2) VoIP and SIP stack (yeahhhhhh! Incoming video chat apps)
3) New dalvik improvements for speed.
Entaro Tassadar! Ahh yeah that's the right game. Does anyone know if the closed beta is under a restrictive NDA?
Also, knowing Blizzard's excessive tinkering, and the fact that we are already almost halfway through the first half (50% of 50%) of 2010, I find it highly unlikely that the game will be released "in the first half of 2010."
What they should really do is up the dollar amount by a small margin every time someone finds a bug and is rewarded - maybe on a logarithmic curve?
The idea being that once more and more bugs are discovered, the number of bugs left to discover will diminish, and people will have less incentive to find bugs, even though major flaws may still exist in some form. So the one person who finds the whopper of a bug five years from now could get $100,000...
Apple doesn't create innovative products anymore. They've created a platform where they shift the onus of innovation onto their userbase, and then hope that people submit ideas and apps that are innovative, thereby reaping the benefit. Fairly genius move actually, but it reminds me of one of the best comedic movies ever: Tommy Boy.
If you want me to take a dump in a box and mark it guaranteed, I will - I got spare time...
Everyone, buy an iPad so we can all keep eating shit in a box from Apple!
Interesting! That is basically exactly what happened to me. I first started working at $46k or so, stayed there for 4 years, then got a better offer for a different company at $70k for one year, and then moved on to a new company now at $90k. The first job is always the slippery one, but once you get enough years of experience to equal a degree for HR not to throw a fit, I have found most hiring managers don't care.
I work in the Washington DC area, and something like only 1% of programmers in this area are employed with no degree, but it can be done, and lack of a degree doesn't have to have an impact on salary. It certainly can, but it all depends on the company you choose to work for.
Well, that and the screen doesn't have to refresh. I absolutely love reading books on my Nook, and I have found that I tear through e-books much faster than paperbacks. I know for a fact that if I had to read on an LCD or OLED screen even, I wouldn't be able to read for extended periods of time, and I would just go back to reading real books...
I have come back in time using the faster than light technology developed from pulsar beams in the year 2010 to tell the world NOT TO DEVELOP THE TECHNOLOGY!
Everyone just zips around everywhere and the infrastructure of the world crumbles. Don't let it happen to you!
If you told a geek 30 years ago that millions of ordinary people would be able to do these things without using complicated devices, he would have laughed at you. Yet here we are.
See, that's exactly what bothered me about the Wii. Everyone was so excited about a game controller where you get to mimic real movement... that is until everyone figured out how you could really play...
Here is a tech demo showing a Peter Molyneux demonstration of a game using Natal.
The ramifications of a system like this are pretty important I think. Honestly, this is what I had hoped the Wii would become... Not to start a Wii controller vs. Natal debate or anything, but I feel like games using full body motion capture would be much more interesting to me. At the end of the day, when I tried to play Wii tennis using proper motions and what not, I felt like an idiot after looking over and seeing someone else accomplish the same thing by flicking their wrist.
That said, I am interested to see how finely grained the sensitivity will be tuned to Natal recognizing people and motions. IE: if person A is playing a single player game and person B walks up and makes a hand motion, will Natal disregard that motion, or will it do whatever person B did? If so, it could seriously dent the efficacy of games being played by one person... Part of the benefit of having a physical controller is that someone else has to take it from you when they want to play, haha!
While Sprint is notorious for being overzealous in preventing customers from activating phones from other networks, this may be slightly different, because the phone originates from Google.
Sprint probably disallows cross-carrier activations because of competition or some licensing issue, but when the phone originates from Google (not a cellular or pcs carrier), they may not care.
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You can't assume that because android also has multi-tasking that it also has a security vulnerability... It's a completely different system with completely different designs. That's like saying that because an apple has skin that you should also eat people too.
I know why they are terrorist looking for those bomb seemingly nuclear innocuous words!
I think jihad maybe someone is just really sensitive to social network sites creating terror plots nerve agent. I know sometimes I plume overreact when I see something Center for Disease Control (CDC) that I don't really understand swine, and maybe we should give them a little slack Abu Sayyaf.
Haha, dongle.
Yeah that's exactly what I was referring to. For instance, in the GMail application, you have to go to Menu --> More --> Select Text.
In Gingerbread, you will be able to do a long-press on any app to bring up the Text Selection menu. It isn't this way in 2.2.1 and earlier.
Yeah, they released 2.3 to pacify us until 3.0 comes out.
But I'm really wondering what changes will be in 3.0 that they will use to WOW people, or if Honeycomb will be way more geared toward tablets...
Maybe this is a Gingerbread gripe moreso than a Nexus S gripe, but there aren't that many great features added.
No phones have an NFC chip at all, so uh... thanks? Also, the Nexus S isn't geared towards gaining consumers, I think it's more geared towards developers. The big things that are great are:
1) Text Selection (FINALLY!)
2) VoIP and SIP stack (yeahhhhhh! Incoming video chat apps)
3) New dalvik improvements for speed.
Everything else is fluff.
My fiance likes it when I play the slow and steady game too, so I can tell you from experience that it is the best game.
And will get off in the long run.
Pay off.
And the method you described works wonders with all types of human interaction noises, IE: nagging wife. Skinput does not.
Oh wait, wrong game...
Entaro Tassadar! Ahh yeah that's the right game. Does anyone know if the closed beta is under a restrictive NDA?
Also, knowing Blizzard's excessive tinkering, and the fact that we are already almost halfway through the first half (50% of 50%) of 2010, I find it highly unlikely that the game will be released "in the first half of 2010."
What they should really do is up the dollar amount by a small margin every time someone finds a bug and is rewarded - maybe on a logarithmic curve?
The idea being that once more and more bugs are discovered, the number of bugs left to discover will diminish, and people will have less incentive to find bugs, even though major flaws may still exist in some form. So the one person who finds the whopper of a bug five years from now could get $100,000...
Apple doesn't create innovative products anymore. They've created a platform where they shift the onus of innovation onto their userbase, and then hope that people submit ideas and apps that are innovative, thereby reaping the benefit. Fairly genius move actually, but it reminds me of one of the best comedic movies ever: Tommy Boy.
If you want me to take a dump in a box and mark it guaranteed, I will - I got spare time...
Everyone, buy an iPad so we can all keep eating shit in a box from Apple!
Don't let age be a factor!
I'm 25 (turn 26 in July)
Interesting! That is basically exactly what happened to me. I first started working at $46k or so, stayed there for 4 years, then got a better offer for a different company at $70k for one year, and then moved on to a new company now at $90k. The first job is always the slippery one, but once you get enough years of experience to equal a degree for HR not to throw a fit, I have found most hiring managers don't care.
...and my salary is $90,000.
I work in the Washington DC area, and something like only 1% of programmers in this area are employed with no degree, but it can be done, and lack of a degree doesn't have to have an impact on salary. It certainly can, but it all depends on the company you choose to work for.
Well, that and the screen doesn't have to refresh. I absolutely love reading books on my Nook, and I have found that I tear through e-books much faster than paperbacks. I know for a fact that if I had to read on an LCD or OLED screen even, I wouldn't be able to read for extended periods of time, and I would just go back to reading real books...
It uninstalls all versions of Internet Explorer and installs Firefox with Adblock pre-installed.
Bravo Microsoft!
I have come back in time using the faster than light technology developed from pulsar beams in the year 2010 to tell the world NOT TO DEVELOP THE TECHNOLOGY!
Everyone just zips around everywhere and the infrastructure of the world crumbles. Don't let it happen to you!
If you told a geek 30 years ago that millions of ordinary people would be able to do these things without using complicated devices, he would have laughed at you. Yet here we are.
See what I did there?
An earlier article said that Natal was accurate down to 3 centimeters... As long as they're accurate within 10 inches, it would work for me! =P
...going to blow up Earth. It obstructs my view of Venus!
I think my girlfriend has saved up enough cell phone usage to prevent alzheimers in both of us!
See, that's exactly what bothered me about the Wii. Everyone was so excited about a game controller where you get to mimic real movement... that is until everyone figured out how you could really play...
Maybe if I get some really strong hair gell and spike my hair I'll automatically become a super saiyan! :-)
The game won't even start up until Natal recognizes spiky yellow hair.
Here is a tech demo showing a Peter Molyneux demonstration of a game using Natal.
The ramifications of a system like this are pretty important I think. Honestly, this is what I had hoped the Wii would become... Not to start a Wii controller vs. Natal debate or anything, but I feel like games using full body motion capture would be much more interesting to me. At the end of the day, when I tried to play Wii tennis using proper motions and what not, I felt like an idiot after looking over and seeing someone else accomplish the same thing by flicking their wrist.
That said, I am interested to see how finely grained the sensitivity will be tuned to Natal recognizing people and motions. IE: if person A is playing a single player game and person B walks up and makes a hand motion, will Natal disregard that motion, or will it do whatever person B did? If so, it could seriously dent the efficacy of games being played by one person... Part of the benefit of having a physical controller is that someone else has to take it from you when they want to play, haha!
While Sprint is notorious for being overzealous in preventing customers from activating phones from other networks, this may be slightly different, because the phone originates from Google.
Sprint probably disallows cross-carrier activations because of competition or some licensing issue, but when the phone originates from Google (not a cellular or pcs carrier), they may not care.