The spectrum from a LED bulb is better than florescent. Many people don't like florescents simple because the color temperature isn't as close to incandescent.
From what I've heard, LED can come in several ranges.
IIRC, one of the big issues with the existing black boxes is that they are in a format only the OEM can read.
I didn't see anything in TFA about making a standard, any news about that?
I'd love the ability to put an app on my laptop or phone & review the data logs my car can produce. There a ton of data in a modern car that could be very useful to an owner. Even more if you're a parent with kids that drive.
You must have had better experience with running into those. Many of the users I support have programs that still require local admin rights to run properly.
Go tell that to the iOS Dev Team. They're having a hell of a time getting the 5.x jailbreaks from the sound of it. I know they did for 5.0.1, but 5.1 is still not there yet.
Instructions First install the System Requirements above, including Visual Studio 2010 Professional, Premium, or Ultimate and the Windows Phone Developer Tools RTW. Then click on VBWP7SetupENU.msi from the files in the download section above, to install the necessary components for Visual Basic.
GP doesn't know what they're talking about. If I need Visual Studio, this isn't for laypersons to make apps with.
The point isn't to great a killer app that sells. The point is that almost every user has the need that isn't met by an existing app.
Sometimes, what the want the phone is out of reach without considerable programming skills.
Most of the time, though, some simple scripts or macros would make the phone do what they want.
I'm not a programmer by trade, but I've taught myself some basic scripting (BASIC,.bat &.cmd) because it makes my primary job easier.
I'm not going to make killer-app.bat that sells tons, but I have a few I've kept for a few years because they suit me perfectly since I could make them to my specs. THAT is what is missing from phones right now.
Do you jump people's ass in the same way when they call IT and say "I have a problem with *MY* laptop"? Or, would you commend the helpdesk person that snaps back with "It is the *company's* laptop, not yours"?
You're not the gatekeeper.
If I'm given the keys (passwords) & told to only allow people in the gate that are allowed (policies), WTF would you call me? Not the gatekeeper, but the person that opens the gate?
users aren't getting new technologies jfor the hell of it they're getting them because they think theyll be able to do a better job.
I understand this, and I can sympathize. However, the expectation must be managed for both ends.
If you expect IT to fix anything that has an IP address on every part of the OSI model, then IT has to be able to control every part of it. The environment should have killer uptime, and will also be very stale & move like a dinosaur.
However, if you want to have your staff take care of their own gear, call the Apple Genius Bar or the Best Buy Geek squad when their system breaks, then IT should be able to be far more agnostic. You won't get VPN access, but setting up Citrix or other Terminal Services along with web-based apps should be expected. It can be very agile, but will require self-reliant non-IT staff to be able to manage their own gear.
Another are schools like the one in TFA, which is at least financially prepared to move to full tablets; in that case, I don't see why would she have to be "paid for or stupid" to choose a full tablet over an e-ink device.
Point taken. I'm venting my own personal frustration to the state of textbooks in general & not paying as much attention to TFA.
Worse UI than a textbook? Not a black & white one, which is most of my kids' books. They are more expensive and FAR heavier.
Sure, when the price of iPads or other tablets drop to a better level, AND the school IT departments figure out how to lock them down, AND the teachers learn how to use them, I'm cool with putting them in the classroom.
However, my 1st & 4th grade kids currently have tons of black & white, heavy, paper books that they have to lug around, and I pay several times the cost of a small Kindle every year for these books.
An e-ink device can be put in place right NOW. There is almost no training to them.
I've been around long enough to hear about a computer in every classroom, mobile laptop carts, and one laptop per child. What I've seen with every one of these is about 2 teachers in every school "get it", while the rest have no idea how to use them properly. I don't see how a tablet will suddenly fix this.
I don't want to wait for the teachers to adapt, I just want them to permit my kids to bring their e-ink reader instead of a big ass book. Right now, the biggest barrier to this is getting the same textbooks in ereader format that they use for the paper books.
When an e-ink device is a fraction of the cost of an iPad & has the classroom advantage of being better suited for text and poorly suited for games, I come to the conclusion that she is either paid for or stupid.
I just got a Samsung Focus S Windows Phone 7.5. It came installed with both AT&T and Samsung bloatware.
15 minutes after I had the phone powered on, all of it was gone. I just deleted it.
I came off iPhone because I hated how controlling they were of the OS. I WANT to like Android, but the level of shit I have to deal with to get a bare OS without all of the bloat is more than I want to hobby with on a phone I need to depend on.
Windows Phone, while it has some pretty huge downsides (anemic app selection, limited multi-tasking), has turned out to be the least restrictive of the three. I just didn't see this coming, honestly. I expected to be an Android user.
1. This is a global site, refering to an event that can be viewed (directly or indirectly through streaming) globally.
2. If an event is relevant for more than 1 timezone, UTC IS THE STANDARD. Every one of our computers uses UTC offset, this shouldn't even be a debate.
Sure, if your local paper lists a time, list local time. When you're talking about what time a flight departs, the departing airport time makes sense. Posting things on a website that is global suggests you should put it into a timezone that the globe uses to mark time, not 1/24th of it.
This whole thing if over LTE, though, which can be shared. We're no longer fighting over CDMA & GSM (or iDEN). Those standards still exist & are used, but will eventually be replaced with LTE.
Nothing prevents AT&T from investing more into its HSPDA+ that they call 4G, same as nothing prevents them from buying tower time from T-Mobile. They just don't want to spend that much money.
Good for you, you know your CONUS time zones. Do you expect someone in India to remember all of the CONUS TZs, or would you like the New Zeland time for the eclipse? The point is that UTC is global, just like this website.
With a bit of logic, hybrid drives could be faster & more durable than either SSD or HDD.
Have the drive detect what blocks are being read freqeuently & written infrequently. Move those blocks to SSD. Likely, this will be OS files that are only changed on patches & application executables.
SSDs can last a very long time if all they're doing is reads.
At the same time, the HDD is moving its head far less doing all of these lookups.
Faster performance, greater life.
All of that said, I don't know if anyone is making a drive that does this. I know that there are SANs that do this type of thing, though, such as Compellant.
There is a difference between: -company fscked because data was lost on a single laptop hard drive and -pain in the ass that the latest work the employee did on the plane is now inaccessible because they can't produce their password
Key escrow is great in those situations, and I've had to use it before.
Cut the maize- grow healthier grains, healthier fruits and veggies- why are my tax dollars going towards making my neighbours into fat pigs?
It gets better. Wait until the USA has national healthcare. They they'll use tax money to make people fat (maize), then use tax money to deal with the health issues from being fat! PROFIT!
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The spectrum from a LED bulb is better than florescent. Many people don't like florescents simple because the color temperature isn't as close to incandescent.
From what I've heard, LED can come in several ranges.
Better explanations: http://www.agreensupply.com/what-is-warm-white-and-natural-daylight-cool-white-color-for-led-light-bulbs/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_Temperature#Lighting
All that said, that is worth maybe $5 to me, but not $30.
Those are only real-time though, correct?
I'm thinking more of something that has the logs, not the current values.
It was a real-world problem for Toyota in 2010:
http://phys.org/news186942408.html
Or, do you have a link to something that would read their black box data?
IIRC, one of the big issues with the existing black boxes is that they are in a format only the OEM can read.
I didn't see anything in TFA about making a standard, any news about that?
I'd love the ability to put an app on my laptop or phone & review the data logs my car can produce. There a ton of data in a modern car that could be very useful to an owner. Even more if you're a parent with kids that drive.
which well-behaved applications will respect
You must have had better experience with running into those.
Many of the users I support have programs that still require local admin rights to run properly.
Don't you know that higher resolution means smaller text?
Sure, when you have a proper application & OS, you can resize the text all you want, and also get the benefits of much better graphics.
However, most end user reaction to seeing over 2000 lines was "The text is too small. Change it back."
Why give them something better* & more expensive if they don't want it?
*I suppose that better could be that lower res = lower graphics card power use = longer battery life & cheaper cost.
Go tell that to the iOS Dev Team. They're having a hell of a time getting the 5.x jailbreaks from the sound of it. I know they did for 5.0.1, but 5.1 is still not there yet.
Nevermind, I just saw the requirements:
Instructions
First install the System Requirements above, including Visual Studio 2010 Professional, Premium, or Ultimate and the Windows Phone Developer Tools RTW.
Then click on VBWP7SetupENU.msi from the files in the download section above, to install the necessary components for Visual Basic.
GP doesn't know what they're talking about. If I need Visual Studio, this isn't for laypersons to make apps with.
The point isn't to great a killer app that sells. The point is that almost every user has the need that isn't met by an existing app.
Sometimes, what the want the phone is out of reach without considerable programming skills.
Most of the time, though, some simple scripts or macros would make the phone do what they want.
I'm not a programmer by trade, but I've taught myself some basic scripting (BASIC, .bat & .cmd) because it makes my primary job easier.
I'm not going to make killer-app.bat that sells tons, but I have a few I've kept for a few years because they suit me perfectly since I could make them to my specs. THAT is what is missing from phones right now.
Again it's the company network.
Do you jump people's ass in the same way when they call IT and say "I have a problem with *MY* laptop"?
Or, would you commend the helpdesk person that snaps back with "It is the *company's* laptop, not yours"?
You're not the gatekeeper.
If I'm given the keys (passwords) & told to only allow people in the gate that are allowed (policies), WTF would you call me? Not the gatekeeper, but the person that opens the gate?
users aren't getting new technologies jfor the hell of it they're getting them because they think theyll be able to do a better job.
I understand this, and I can sympathize. However, the expectation must be managed for both ends.
If you expect IT to fix anything that has an IP address on every part of the OSI model, then IT has to be able to control every part of it. The environment should have killer uptime, and will also be very stale & move like a dinosaur.
However, if you want to have your staff take care of their own gear, call the Apple Genius Bar or the Best Buy Geek squad when their system breaks, then IT should be able to be far more agnostic. You won't get VPN access, but setting up Citrix or other Terminal Services along with web-based apps should be expected. It can be very agile, but will require self-reliant non-IT staff to be able to manage their own gear.
Yet with all of that, a Cat 5e cable still wins.
I use wireless on the couch or easy chair. Other than that, if I'm going to be plugged in for power, why not networking too?
Exactly. How do you see a photon?
You +1 AC? -6, here, AC is dead to me. Grow a spine. :)
Another are schools like the one in TFA, which is at least financially prepared to move to full tablets; in that case, I don't see why would she have to be "paid for or stupid" to choose a full tablet over an e-ink device.
Point taken. I'm venting my own personal frustration to the state of textbooks in general & not paying as much attention to TFA.
Worse UI than a textbook? Not a black & white one, which is most of my kids' books. They are more expensive and FAR heavier.
Sure, when the price of iPads or other tablets drop to a better level, AND the school IT departments figure out how to lock them down, AND the teachers learn how to use them, I'm cool with putting them in the classroom.
However, my 1st & 4th grade kids currently have tons of black & white, heavy, paper books that they have to lug around, and I pay several times the cost of a small Kindle every year for these books.
An e-ink device can be put in place right NOW. There is almost no training to them.
I've been around long enough to hear about a computer in every classroom, mobile laptop carts, and one laptop per child. What I've seen with every one of these is about 2 teachers in every school "get it", while the rest have no idea how to use them properly. I don't see how a tablet will suddenly fix this.
I don't want to wait for the teachers to adapt, I just want them to permit my kids to bring their e-ink reader instead of a big ass book. Right now, the biggest barrier to this is getting the same textbooks in ereader format that they use for the paper books.
When an e-ink device is a fraction of the cost of an iPad & has the classroom advantage of being better suited for text and poorly suited for games, I come to the conclusion that she is either paid for or stupid.
I just got a Samsung Focus S Windows Phone 7.5. It came installed with both AT&T and Samsung bloatware.
15 minutes after I had the phone powered on, all of it was gone. I just deleted it.
I came off iPhone because I hated how controlling they were of the OS. I WANT to like Android, but the level of shit I have to deal with to get a bare OS without all of the bloat is more than I want to hobby with on a phone I need to depend on.
Windows Phone, while it has some pretty huge downsides (anemic app selection, limited multi-tasking), has turned out to be the least restrictive of the three. I just didn't see this coming, honestly. I expected to be an Android user.
The point is:
1. This is a global site, refering to an event that can be viewed (directly or indirectly through streaming) globally.
2. If an event is relevant for more than 1 timezone, UTC IS THE STANDARD. Every one of our computers uses UTC offset, this shouldn't even be a debate.
Sure, if your local paper lists a time, list local time. When you're talking about what time a flight departs, the departing airport time makes sense. Posting things on a website that is global suggests you should put it into a timezone that the globe uses to mark time, not 1/24th of it.
This whole thing if over LTE, though, which can be shared. We're no longer fighting over CDMA & GSM (or iDEN). Those standards still exist & are used, but will eventually be replaced with LTE.
Nothing prevents AT&T from investing more into its HSPDA+ that they call 4G, same as nothing prevents them from buying tower time from T-Mobile. They just don't want to spend that much money.
I tend to agree with you, although I'm a long time PC gamer that uses an Xbox 360 since I wanted to stop spending $2k on a gaming rig every few years.
I will say that Arkham City is a refreshing break from the rail-FPSes that have been so common lately.
Good for you, you know your CONUS time zones. Do you expect someone in India to remember all of the CONUS TZs, or would you like the New Zeland time for the eclipse?
The point is that UTC is global, just like this website.
With a bit of logic, hybrid drives could be faster & more durable than either SSD or HDD.
Have the drive detect what blocks are being read freqeuently & written infrequently. Move those blocks to SSD. Likely, this will be OS files that are only changed on patches & application executables.
SSDs can last a very long time if all they're doing is reads.
At the same time, the HDD is moving its head far less doing all of these lookups.
Faster performance, greater life.
All of that said, I don't know if anyone is making a drive that does this. I know that there are SANs that do this type of thing, though, such as Compellant.
There is a difference between:
-company fscked because data was lost on a single laptop hard drive
and
-pain in the ass that the latest work the employee did on the plane is now inaccessible because they can't produce their password
Key escrow is great in those situations, and I've had to use it before.
Cut the maize- grow healthier grains, healthier fruits and veggies- why are my tax dollars going towards making my neighbours into fat pigs?
It gets better. Wait until the USA has national healthcare. They they'll use tax money to make people fat (maize), then use tax money to deal with the health issues from being fat! PROFIT!