IE: You give Google Voice the number you want to dial, then the number you want it to connect you to, and Google calls you and when you answer, it dials the number you want to call. Once the call connection is made, it's still just using your regular phone network (cellular or otherwise).
Right now I am using Sprint on an old plan that is rather inexpensive. My plan is as follows:
1000 Anytime minutes
Nights and Weekends Start at 6pm
Unlimited SMS/MMS Unlimited Data
And for that I pay $40 (base plan) + $20 (SMS/MMS) + $10 (data) - 25% discount for a total of $52.50. I haven't found a comparable plan with all the additionals for anywhere near that price on any other network, but I'm starting to get tired of not having access to some of these exciting new phones. Does anyone using T-Mobile have any insight into what it would be like switching to T-Mobile?
I know that Verizon and T-Mobile phones use SIM cards, so theoretically you could unlock those phones and switch networks, but why won't there be a Sprint version?
Maybe I'm just ignorant, but it seems either A) shortsighted of Google to ignore the largest cellular network, or B) stupid of Sprint to pass up such a kickass phone...
It's been a long lonnnng time since I've actually seen a spam message that I didn't immediately recognize as spam... Maybe some people are completely ignorant of the fact that someone on the internet is out to take your money (*gasp!*), but honestly, how can the amount of effort expended in creating spam compare to the amount of money they receive from suckers who click on "V1AGRA!11!!" links?
with sales of the Wii dropping by 67 percent in the US
Couldn't this be because enough households already have a Wii?! I mean, they make a good enough product that doesn't break every other year, and then they're surprised when sales slip... Maybe it's just that everyone already has one!
The Project Natal tech demo for Milo demonstrates a robot that can read human emotion. As far as I can tell, this is a real demo where the Milo AI thing reacts to the emotions on the girl's face and responds accordingly.
If people are afraid to question what we now consider laws in physics, mathematics, etc, then there will never be breakthroughs in learning.
I mean, there are extremes, and people shouldn't be disbelieving scientists just because they're scientists, but at the same time, we shouldn't always take things at face value just because Bill Nye the Science Guy says so. There is a happy medium...
The system is set up in such a way that when people put massive amounts of effort into adding contributions or what not, they aren't rewarded with anything for doing it other than more rules and regulations and difficulty in posting more edits and content.
Couple that with the natural tendency of people to burn themselves out of things after a while and the natural idea that as the wiki grows, it shouldn't need edits on old content and people have less and less to contribute, and you end up with a declining contribution pool... It's bound to happen inevitably, it's just a matter of when and how they deal with it when it starts to happen.
What I've heard from doctors and nurses around the DC area is that if you have flu-like symptoms outside of the flu season (which starts week 40), then they can be reasonably certain (99%) that it is H1N1.
Well sure, I would be mortified if something that extreme actually happened. But in history, the stupidity of a select few ruins the freedom of a much greater population.
The government could pass a bill requiring auto makers to turn most cars into partial Farraday Cages.
This would potentially block people's cell phone or other portable distractions, and allow them to concentrate solely on the road. I'm not sure how well it would work with the windshield and all, but the reality is that the only viable solution to distracted driving is to remove the distractions.
The reality is that it was only a matter of time before someone came up with something like this, with examples like Microsoft Photosynth, but this is an unbelievable implementation.
I'm not 100% sure, but I can definitely see the potential for Google to snatch this up really fast and incorporate it into Picasa or even google image search or something. The fact that something like this allows anyone (not just artists) to come up with novel images with minimal effort is fantastic. I do wonder how canned the images were though. IE: did they GIS for an image first, then use the image as a basis to draw the stick figure, knowing that their algorithm would pick the image they selected in the first place? I would like to see a live demo with an unplanned audience member doing the drawing. Then I'll really be impressed.
RTFA... He ran the script on the library computer, and the computer had a cookie set that allowed access to the PACER system without inputting a password.
That's like saying that wheels were originally designed for motorcycle use, not bicycle use. Different markets yes, but you still expect that the wheels on your Ducati will work just as well as the wheels on your kid's training bike.
Ever tried getting your Facebook data into, say, MySpace? Good luck with that.
From the "but-you-can-never-leave dept?" More like from the "no-shit-sherlock" dept... Why on earth would a company allow customers to automatically populate another company's website with your data? What I've found with social media sites is that if you invest so much time into inserting your data into their site, you are going to be much less inclined to go to the same thing again and again on other websites. Even if you don't like the interface as much as you may like some other site, you may feel a bit lazy and stick around. Whereas if the company said "here you go, click this button to transfer your profile to !" people would be jumping ship all over the place and it would be much more difficult to retain customers.
I have to say that I am excited about the prospects of a chat/im/document/wiki/social network collaboration system all rolled into one, but I am very skeptical if they will be able to pull it off the way they have been touting it.
For starters, most people are very well ingrained into their way of using the particular applications that accomplish the things Wave does (all independent of each other), so I think a massive component to the success of Wave will be how good the integration tools will be. Will we be able to import contacts from Exchange straight into Wave? Will we be able to use waves in email services other than wave? IE: Could a wave user interact with a wave with someone who is using MS Exchange the same way as they interact with someone who is using Wave also?
That said, I think Wave could seriously revolutionize the standard of email communication, and I really hope for all our sake they are able to pull it off.
Who wants to place bets on how long it will take before the "Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool" flags this plugin as malicious software and automatically removes it?
"But it's a security risk!" they'll say...
I seem to remember back when Microsoft first introduced the removal tool, that it flagged IE as harmful and deleted it.
Well, the first question that comes to my mind is this:
Why even bother using IE in the first place? The tab structure of Chrome is way better in my opinion. I'm not sure if IE8 supports tab dragging, but in Chrome, I love the ability to drag individual tabs out of the main window so that the tab becomes its own independent window. Often I'll have some code reference up on my main monitor, and I'll drag a hello world (or some test equivalent) page as a tab out of the main application. In IE, you'd have to run the program again to achieve the same result.
Barring asinine security policies that prevent you from being able to use Chrome altogether, I just don't see the benefit of a plugin at all when you could just be using Chrome. *shrug*
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Google Voice basically just relays the call.
IE: You give Google Voice the number you want to dial, then the number you want it to connect you to, and Google calls you and when you answer, it dials the number you want to call. Once the call connection is made, it's still just using your regular phone network (cellular or otherwise).
Interesting. Mod parent up!
Right now I am using Sprint on an old plan that is rather inexpensive. My plan is as follows:
1000 Anytime minutes
Nights and Weekends Start at 6pm
Unlimited SMS/MMS
Unlimited Data
And for that I pay $40 (base plan) + $20 (SMS/MMS) + $10 (data) - 25% discount for a total of $52.50. I haven't found a comparable plan with all the additionals for anywhere near that price on any other network, but I'm starting to get tired of not having access to some of these exciting new phones. Does anyone using T-Mobile have any insight into what it would be like switching to T-Mobile?
Yes I read the summary, and I've been following information about the nexus as it became available last week.
Put your provider's SIM into the Google phone and off you go.
Sprint uses CDMA, not SIM.
Nice troll. But try again.
I know that Verizon and T-Mobile phones use SIM cards, so theoretically you could unlock those phones and switch networks, but why won't there be a Sprint version?
Maybe I'm just ignorant, but it seems either A) shortsighted of Google to ignore the largest cellular network, or B) stupid of Sprint to pass up such a kickass phone...
PSSSH - Awwww year. That's the stuff.
Here's the sound from the game
Well I mean I can understand how people can fall for links in ads on a website somewhere, but emailed spam, really?
It's been a long lonnnng time since I've actually seen a spam message that I didn't immediately recognize as spam... Maybe some people are completely ignorant of the fact that someone on the internet is out to take your money (*gasp!*), but honestly, how can the amount of effort expended in creating spam compare to the amount of money they receive from suckers who click on "V1AGRA!11!!" links?
I'm just sayin'...
with sales of the Wii dropping by 67 percent in the US
Couldn't this be because enough households already have a Wii?! I mean, they make a good enough product that doesn't break every other year, and then they're surprised when sales slip... Maybe it's just that everyone already has one!
The Project Natal tech demo for Milo demonstrates a robot that can read human emotion. As far as I can tell, this is a real demo where the Milo AI thing reacts to the emotions on the girl's face and responds accordingly.
If people are afraid to question what we now consider laws in physics, mathematics, etc, then there will never be breakthroughs in learning.
I mean, there are extremes, and people shouldn't be disbelieving scientists just because they're scientists, but at the same time, we shouldn't always take things at face value just because Bill Nye the Science Guy says so. There is a happy medium...
The system is set up in such a way that when people put massive amounts of effort into adding contributions or what not, they aren't rewarded with anything for doing it other than more rules and regulations and difficulty in posting more edits and content.
Couple that with the natural tendency of people to burn themselves out of things after a while and the natural idea that as the wiki grows, it shouldn't need edits on old content and people have less and less to contribute, and you end up with a declining contribution pool... It's bound to happen inevitably, it's just a matter of when and how they deal with it when it starts to happen.
So was it created in the Fermilab?!
What I've heard from doctors and nurses around the DC area is that if you have flu-like symptoms outside of the flu season (which starts week 40), then they can be reasonably certain (99%) that it is H1N1.
Here you go
Skip to 1:43 for the relevant section.
Well sure, I would be mortified if something that extreme actually happened. But in history, the stupidity of a select few ruins the freedom of a much greater population.
Remove the distractions!
The government could pass a bill requiring auto makers to turn most cars into partial Farraday Cages.
This would potentially block people's cell phone or other portable distractions, and allow them to concentrate solely on the road. I'm not sure how well it would work with the windshield and all, but the reality is that the only viable solution to distracted driving is to remove the distractions.
The reality is that it was only a matter of time before someone came up with something like this, with examples like Microsoft Photosynth, but this is an unbelievable implementation.
I'm not 100% sure, but I can definitely see the potential for Google to snatch this up really fast and incorporate it into Picasa or even google image search or something. The fact that something like this allows anyone (not just artists) to come up with novel images with minimal effort is fantastic. I do wonder how canned the images were though. IE: did they GIS for an image first, then use the image as a basis to draw the stick figure, knowing that their algorithm would pick the image they selected in the first place? I would like to see a live demo with an unplanned audience member doing the drawing. Then I'll really be impressed.
Sure, someone needs to come up with Internet Axplorer created by Macrosoft.
RTFA... He ran the script on the library computer, and the computer had a cookie set that allowed access to the PACER system without inputting a password.
That's like saying that wheels were originally designed for motorcycle use, not bicycle use. Different markets yes, but you still expect that the wheels on your Ducati will work just as well as the wheels on your kid's training bike.
Ever tried getting your Facebook data into, say, MySpace? Good luck with that.
From the "but-you-can-never-leave dept?" More like from the "no-shit-sherlock" dept... Why on earth would a company allow customers to automatically populate another company's website with your data? What I've found with social media sites is that if you invest so much time into inserting your data into their site, you are going to be much less inclined to go to the same thing again and again on other websites. Even if you don't like the interface as much as you may like some other site, you may feel a bit lazy and stick around. Whereas if the company said "here you go, click this button to transfer your profile to !" people would be jumping ship all over the place and it would be much more difficult to retain customers.
I have to say that I am excited about the prospects of a chat/im/document/wiki/social network collaboration system all rolled into one, but I am very skeptical if they will be able to pull it off the way they have been touting it.
For starters, most people are very well ingrained into their way of using the particular applications that accomplish the things Wave does (all independent of each other), so I think a massive component to the success of Wave will be how good the integration tools will be. Will we be able to import contacts from Exchange straight into Wave? Will we be able to use waves in email services other than wave? IE: Could a wave user interact with a wave with someone who is using MS Exchange the same way as they interact with someone who is using Wave also?
That said, I think Wave could seriously revolutionize the standard of email communication, and I really hope for all our sake they are able to pull it off.
Who wants to place bets on how long it will take before the "Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool" flags this plugin as malicious software and automatically removes it?
"But it's a security risk!" they'll say...
I seem to remember back when Microsoft first introduced the removal tool, that it flagged IE as harmful and deleted it.
Well, the first question that comes to my mind is this:
Why even bother using IE in the first place? The tab structure of Chrome is way better in my opinion. I'm not sure if IE8 supports tab dragging, but in Chrome, I love the ability to drag individual tabs out of the main window so that the tab becomes its own independent window. Often I'll have some code reference up on my main monitor, and I'll drag a hello world (or some test equivalent) page as a tab out of the main application. In IE, you'd have to run the program again to achieve the same result.
Barring asinine security policies that prevent you from being able to use Chrome altogether, I just don't see the benefit of a plugin at all when you could just be using Chrome. *shrug*
Where's the /sarcasm tag when you need it?