The speaker can simply block their ears. The gun works by sending the speaker's audio back to them with a delay.
True but for silencing people who love the sound of their own voice this may be a godsend. Imagine staggering home at 4am to find the angry wife waiting up to give you hell and you pull this beast out and silence her.
So far I have not found one on ebay yet..... I'll check again tomorrow.
I want one just to silence the sales drone 3 cubes over.
The people taking the medications might be dying sooner because they have insomnia which is not fixed by sleeping pills easily. The study should not compare with the general populace since they are, by definition, better sleepers than the group that isn't able to get good sleep.
Plus if I'm taking a lot of sleeping pills, chances are I want to die.
For context to the non-Australians, he's talking about speeding fines for <15km/h (<10mph) over - more than that and it's pretty easy to rack up enough points to lose your license fairly quickly
Disclosure, I live in WA.
You get 12 demerit points before you lose your license.
0-9 KM over = 0 points
9-19 KM over = 2 points
19-29 KM over = 3 points
29-39 KM over = 5 points
40 KM over = 7 points.
So a single speeding fine will not result in a loss of license. You can get 6 x18 KM speeding fines and still not lose your license and N-1 8 KM speeding fines.
Even once you lose your 12 points, you can apply for "double or nothing" which means you keep your license but agree if you are caught speeding in the next 12 months you lose it for twice as long. Even when this fails, as long as your employer is willing to say you need you license for work, you can get an exemption license (E-plates).
This is to say nothing of swapping points, basically you just say your friend was driving the car, not you. Your friend does the same (says you were driving the car, not him). This can tie up punishment for months until the courts look at the actual photo, you lose some demerits (after 3 years IIRC) or you find someone willing to take the points for you.
DUI is pretty much the only way to lose your license once you're over 25, no double or nothing for DUI's. Pretty much the only traffic infraction that has an instant suspension.
(not to mention the 'hooning' laws)
Police dont apply them to anyone over 25. It'll be political suicide for the pollys who bought them in.
Then what is this/. section called politics for then?
It should be renamed "US Politics Only".
Nothing of the Labor leadership stouch last weekend (Ranga retained leadership if you're interested, won $50 in the process), there are coups in Thailand or violence in the Philippine elections (both important US allies in Asia), the violence in the mid east only got peripheral coverage. Never seen a thread on the German parliamentary elections, the UK _might_ get a mention but apart from that, crickets.
"That's a death rate of 1.1% of accidents. That's a pretty good survival rate for car accident."
so? lets make it better.
So you'd focus on 200 deaths instead of the thousands of deaths caused by drunk driving, speeding and driver error?
Are you a member of government or just trolling? This seems to be the height of inefficiency as I can assure you, drink driving will kill more then 200 kids per year.
Many accident are because you CAN"T see the person you are about to hit. There are big ass blind spots in almost every car.
If you dont know how to compensate for this, you shouldn't be driving.
The only blind spot is directly below the rear window and if you haven't noticed anything behind there before getting in the car, again, you shouldn't be driving.
"Wouldn't this time/money be better spent on better driver education?"
nope.
Explain?
if you want drivers to stop running over things, they need to start looking where they are going. There isn't a technological solution for this, it needs to be taught. Most of these incidents will be solved if people reversed in rather then out of a park (which is how proper instructors teach you). If you drive out forward, you can see everything in front of you.
I cant wait for your explanation that better trained drivers aren't better drivers, it should be hilarious because I've got a continent of proof sitting in Europe (why do you think a lot of the F1 drivers are Finns, where you start learning to drive at 12).
Now now, it's really only season 1 that's pretty irredeemable.
Irredeemable? No. Season 1 has Datalore, and despite introducing the ridiculous "Data can't^W cannot use contractions" thing, it also has both Picard and Beverly telling Wesley to shut up.
Redemption.
Also, Conspiracy and Skin of Evil.
Conspiracy has to be amongst the top 5 of TNG eps.
looking around and behind them altogether if they think they can get away with only glancing at that little in-dash monitor. The result will be that they may think it is clear directly behind while failing to account for things coming up from the sides, or farther out from the camera's view.
Worse yet, some wont be just glancing at that little monitor, they'll be focused on it, completely oblivious to anything else.
As a parent of 3 I would like a backseat camera with DVR. When the yelling starts I can rewind it and see who started it.
You're doing it wrong.
Punish all three.
The more you try to determine what actually went on, the more their illusion of your parental omniscience decreases and the more they'll try to kid-lawyer out of it.
What make the lawmakers think that people will use RV camera's instead. It's not very useful as most RV cameras only show what is directly behind you, not what is going to T-bone you as you jet out without looking.
Most RV cameras are wide angle lenses, and being mounted at the very rear of the car, they are in a position where they have a much better view of what is about to T-bone you than the driver seat with its view obscured by the truck, wall, etc you are parked next to.
You assume I forward parked,
In reality I reverse park whenever possible because that gives me a full view of what is in front of me when I pull out.
BTW, most RV cameras cover about 60-110 deg directly behind the car. 3-7" screens cant display more then that without a fisheye effect which would obscure more then it reveals. In reality, you need at least a 180 deg angle of view to ensure you know anything that could potentially cross your path. Not to mention the fidelity lost in trying to compress the image down to 3".
Reversing cameras wont decrease deaths because deaths are due to carelessness and laziness (I.E. unable or unwilling to reverse park). All RV cameras will do is make lazy drivers even more lazy (and dangerous) by giving them a false sense of security preventing them from actually looking in the mirror or over their shoulder.
Add to this that it's near impossible to lose your license in Australia if you're over 22, six speeding fines, no problems. Never indicate, never fined. Lane discipline, schlane discipline.
And the idiots illegally talking on their hand-held mobile phones while driving. Including the police.
I agree, but...
It's pretty much the only thing you'd actually get fined for if the cops catch you doing it (different rules for you and the cops).
But it's only two points, you can get six of these fines and still be able to drive (thanks to the Double or Nothing system).
You could also use Google's walled garden, or Microsoft's walled garden, or RIMs walled garden.
Google doesn't have a walled garden. it's an open park you can walk into and out of all of your own accord.
I think you need to look up the definition of "walled garden" or actually use Android for yourself. It's nothing like Apple's system of lockdown.
The definition seems to be "A term used derisively by Apple haters."
The word hater is "a term used derisively by people who cant form a rational argument".
Seeing as you didn't look up the definition of Walled Garden, here's it is definition for you,
A walled garden is an analogy used in various senses in information technology. In the telecommunications and media industries, a "walled garden" refers to a carrier or service provider's control over applications, content, and media on platforms and restriction of convenient access to non-approved applications or content
Android does not restrict conveineint access to non-walled sources, Apple on the other hand does
More generally, a "walled garden" refers to a closed or exclusive set of information services provided for users. This is in contrast to giving consumers unrestricted access to applications and content.
So in fact, Android is in contrast to a walled garden, which means it's in contrast to what apple does (closed or exclusive set of information services provided).
So with a very derisive snort, it was used correctly.
Here in the UK, drivers are taught to reverse from the road into a driveway (or from a major road into a minor one when manoeuvring) and then drive out forwards. This means you're going the more dangerous way around (backwards) into the quieter area rather than the busier one, you have a better view of the busier area to choose when to complete your move, and usually you can concentrate on looking one way into a driveway/road you're reversing into instead of both.
A fair proportion of drivers actually do this, but you see a disturbing number of people who will just drive straight forward into a space in a car park by the shops, only to reverse back out later into a "road" where there are often other vehicles manoeuvring, pedestrians walking past close to vehicles where they can be hard to see, people wheeling stuff around on their way to their car, kids running off, and so on. Then they act all surprised when they back out and miss something. So, score one for better driver education.
This, here in Australia drivers have a mortal fear of reverse parking despite the fact that it's safer. It's just that drivers are bloody lazy. I always reverse part, it's faster overall and safer. Plus what inevitably happens is my low profile Honda Civic gets boxed in by two massive Mum-Tank SUV's which I cans see past due to the high windows and illegal tint.
Add to this that it's near impossible to lose your license in Australia if you're over 22, six speeding fines, no problems. Never indicate, never fined. Lane discipline, schlane discipline. UK drivers always get a shock when they hit Aussie roads.
Well you would only have to pay attention the the rear-view cam when backing up.
This is the problem. People back over other people because they aren't looking behind them (OK, there are accidents, but 9 times out of 10 it's because some idiot just drives out without checking over their shoulders and mirrors).
What make the lawmakers think that people will use RV camera's instead. It's not very useful as most RV cameras only show what is directly behind you, not what is going to T-bone you as you jet out without looking.
FTA
17,000 people are injured and over 200 die in backover accidents
That's a death rate of 1.1% of accidents. That's a pretty good survival rate for car accident.
Wouldn't this time/money be better spent on better driver education? I mean if someone backs out without checking their mirror/shoulders, they'll back out without using the camera too.
I have to ask, how many accidents are when Bob's wife backs over Bob's little toe at 2 KPH and all Bob has is an owie? Bob has to list that as a car accident if he wants an X-Ray for his toe.
2. Android, for not telling the user THIS APP IS KEEPING YOUR PHONE AWAKE, KICK THAT CRAP!
This isn't Android's fault, at least not completely. If the App is working correctly, Android should ignore it.
It's the fault of this school of thought known as "User Experience". The user is to be coddled and treated like an idiot whilst any errors must be ignored.
User Experience has to be the most bollocks marketing term, it never considers how people actually use a device (the physical side of it, learning curves, etc..) but rather focuses on how the user feels. This allows designer to ignore the wisdom gained from years of research into HCI and HMI in order to push their crap as the latest and greatest. IOS is the biggest offender, like most of the human race, I'm right handed, so why put the back button in the upper left corner of the screen, where my right thumb cant reach it if I'm holding the phone comfortably. Requiring two hands to go back to a list of messages seems stupid to me, but that's "User Experience" for you.
Back on topic, error messages have become dirty words, problems need to be ignored so the user doesn't have to deal with it rather then presenting the information in an easy to digest format then suggesting fixes. Android 2.2 and on have had a really good battery metering tool built in that displays the amount of battery consumed by each process/device (Cell Idle, Screen, Android OS, Maps, et al.), but most users dont know about it. As of 2.3 ish it even recorded signal strength along with a graph of the battery level. Here's an example, powerful tools hidden from the user because designers insist on keeping users idiots rather then trying to help them.
Why is everyone obsessed at the number of cores? The more processors you ahve, the more complex scheduling your apps needs to perform to actually work faster. It's better to hav ea single core that is twice as fast, than two cores running in parallel.
Pfff... actually, the Tegra 3 has five cores, four of them are high-performance, and one is high-efficiency. The CPU is designed to shutdown the four cores for almost nearly everything, and just use the high-efficiency core in order to save on battery life.
Introducing the 16 core processor.
The first core walks by the process assessing it's potential time consumption.
The second core types this out into a report and forwards this report to the other cores.
The third core skims the report before filing and ignoring it.
The fourth core empties the inbox of the third core, failing to note the process.
The fifth core is focusing on it's career and promotion through middle management.
The sixth core notices that there is a process and tries to point this out the the third, fourth and fifth core.
The seventh core is having a nervous breakdown.
The eighth cor0xDEADBEEF.
The ninth core is dealing with the problems from the malfunctioning 8th core.
The tenth core distracts the process by acting as a door to door salesmen.
The eleventh and twelfth core hold the process down whilst the thirteenth core goes through it's wallet.
The fourteenth core takes the process's statement.
The fifteenth core actually runs the process.
and the sixteenth core is just along for the ride.
I agreed, there was no reason to use Google + - but I clicked in this week and people are actually posting and they are people I care about because my list isn't bloated.
So I'm going to start looking at plus now. I stopped using Facebook months ago.
Plus the time discrepancy is easily explained by the fact G+ is easy to navigate and shows relevant info, Myspace is an absolute mess.
Hell, you waste more time waiting for MySapce to load then you do reading G+
But Apple has been pulling competing applications from the app store since it's inception, no alterate email clients, SMS clients, diallers, MP3 players, browsers (proper browsers, not viewers for server generated images or window dressing for the existing rendering engine) and others.
The question is, why is Apple even threatening? Their normal procedure is to pull the app, remove it from everyone's phone, revoke the developers key and send an iAssassination squad to eliminate the one who dared defy them.
Has this guy got compromising photos of Tim Cook and Steve Jobs?
It's Telstra, what do you expect. This is the company that has kept regional centres on dialup and whilst giving a RIM-job to major urban centres.
They have repeatedly been busted for telling other telco's "there are no ports available at X exchange" but then selling Telstra ADSL services from the same supposedly full exchange.
Do you honestly expect Telstra not to try and screw up the NBN.
The big point about having the Nuclear Bomb is to NOT use it...
Steve Jobs broke the truce and went nuclear against Android... Except that most of his nuclear missiles are rotten (patents on obvious things... didn't we have "swipe" in "Minority Report" for example... and rounded rectangle... no comment)
Now, it's beginning to backfire... Samsung, Motorola and other would probably not have sued Apple out of existence... But now, Apple has put them in a situation where it's probably the best move...
Indeed, just look at what Microsoft did.
"Dear Android makers,
We have some non-specific and probably unenforceable patents that would cost you money to defend, we wont sue you if you agree to pay us money."
And it worked, Microsoft got people paying them for nothing. Apple could have done the same except that Jobs didn't want money, he wanted to stop people competing against him. Now the people Apple has sued have responded in kind and Apple realises that suing one competitor is foolish, only the heir to the throne of the kingdom of idiots sues all of them.
In 5 years, we'll look back on this and laugh, the "Look and Feel MK II" suit, it'll end as badly as the first one.
The other companies that made cellphones had occasional hissing matches with each other, as companies seem to like to do, but it would get resolved since they realized it was in their best interests. While they'd all like to be the one and only phone provider in the world, they know that isn't going to happen so they'll settle for cross licensing and so on.
I really hate those infographics because they dumb down the scenarios so badly.
Plus that one is wrong, it doesn't even include Apple v Samsung or Apple v Motorola, both Motorola and Samsung's suits against Apple are counter suits.
The graphic lower down on that page explains that the majority of Nokia's suits are over LCD price fixing (so no shit they are suing multiple companies, it's part of the same fucking suit). But as I said, it does not even include the Apple v Samsung case that has garnered a lot of attention.
And, for the record, it seems that Nokia is the most aggressive company out there, not Apple.
For the record, that is bullshit.
If you bothered tor read the incorrect article you linked to, three out of the five Nokia suits are in relation to LCD price fixing, the same suit for three different companies. One of the remaining two is a counter suit against Apple. So that leaves the suit between Nokia and Qualcomm. The original Nokia V Apple was resolved with Apple paying Nokia license fees mid last year, license fees which Nokia had been chasing Apple for since it released the Iphone and Apple had been refusing to pay.
The big difference between Apple and other companies is that Apple is suing it's competitors to prevent them from competing. They aren't asking for reasonable license fees, chances are HTC, Samsung et al. would have paid the danegled to make Apple go away (it worked for Microsoft didn't it), but Apple didn't want this, Apple asked the courts for injunctions, not license fees, so dont act all butt hurt that now everyone else is doing that to Apple.
Yet another way the consumer is being raped by this senseless patent war. Call a truce you loopy money hungry bastards..
Tell that to Apple.
None of this happened until they decided to start suing anyone with rounded corners, demanding injunctions rather then asking for reasonable licensing fees. Before then everyone negotiated with each other for use of their patents.
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The speaker can simply block their ears. The gun works by sending the speaker's audio back to them with a delay.
True but for silencing people who love the sound of their own voice this may be a godsend. Imagine staggering home at 4am to find the angry wife waiting up to give you hell and you pull this beast out and silence her.
So far I have not found one on ebay yet..... I'll check again tomorrow.
I want one just to silence the sales drone 3 cubes over.
use of the word "hater" immediately loses the argument.
it shall be known as Mug's law, if that isn't already taken.
My lawyers will be in contact shortly.
The people taking the medications might be dying sooner because they have insomnia which is not fixed by sleeping pills easily. The study should not compare with the general populace since they are, by definition, better sleepers than the group that isn't able to get good sleep.
Plus if I'm taking a lot of sleeping pills, chances are I want to die.
For context to the non-Australians, he's talking about speeding fines for <15km/h (<10mph) over - more than that and it's pretty easy to rack up enough points to lose your license fairly quickly
Disclosure, I live in WA.
You get 12 demerit points before you lose your license.
0-9 KM over = 0 points
9-19 KM over = 2 points
19-29 KM over = 3 points
29-39 KM over = 5 points
40 KM over = 7 points.
So a single speeding fine will not result in a loss of license. You can get 6 x18 KM speeding fines and still not lose your license and N-1 8 KM speeding fines.
Even once you lose your 12 points, you can apply for "double or nothing" which means you keep your license but agree if you are caught speeding in the next 12 months you lose it for twice as long. Even when this fails, as long as your employer is willing to say you need you license for work, you can get an exemption license (E-plates).
This is to say nothing of swapping points, basically you just say your friend was driving the car, not you. Your friend does the same (says you were driving the car, not him). This can tie up punishment for months until the courts look at the actual photo, you lose some demerits (after 3 years IIRC) or you find someone willing to take the points for you.
DUI is pretty much the only way to lose your license once you're over 25, no double or nothing for DUI's. Pretty much the only traffic infraction that has an instant suspension.
Police dont apply them to anyone over 25. It'll be political suicide for the pollys who bought them in.
This has no place on /.
Then what is this /. section called politics for then?
It should be renamed "US Politics Only".
Nothing of the Labor leadership stouch last weekend (Ranga retained leadership if you're interested, won $50 in the process), there are coups in Thailand or violence in the Philippine elections (both important US allies in Asia), the violence in the mid east only got peripheral coverage. Never seen a thread on the German parliamentary elections, the UK _might_ get a mention but apart from that, crickets.
"That's a death rate of 1.1% of accidents. That's a pretty good survival rate for car accident."
so? lets make it better.
So you'd focus on 200 deaths instead of the thousands of deaths caused by drunk driving, speeding and driver error?
Are you a member of government or just trolling? This seems to be the height of inefficiency as I can assure you, drink driving will kill more then 200 kids per year.
Many accident are because you CAN"T see the person you are about to hit. There are big ass blind spots in almost every car.
If you dont know how to compensate for this, you shouldn't be driving. The only blind spot is directly below the rear window and if you haven't noticed anything behind there before getting in the car, again, you shouldn't be driving.
"Wouldn't this time/money be better spent on better driver education?"
nope.
Explain? if you want drivers to stop running over things, they need to start looking where they are going. There isn't a technological solution for this, it needs to be taught. Most of these incidents will be solved if people reversed in rather then out of a park (which is how proper instructors teach you). If you drive out forward, you can see everything in front of you.
I cant wait for your explanation that better trained drivers aren't better drivers, it should be hilarious because I've got a continent of proof sitting in Europe (why do you think a lot of the F1 drivers are Finns, where you start learning to drive at 12).
Now now, it's really only season 1 that's pretty irredeemable.
Irredeemable? No. Season 1 has Datalore, and despite introducing the ridiculous "Data can't^W cannot use contractions" thing, it also has both Picard and Beverly telling Wesley to shut up.
Redemption.
Also, Conspiracy and Skin of Evil.
Conspiracy has to be amongst the top 5 of TNG eps.
might have to get a blu ray player for this
Going where no DVD has gone before?
Blu-Ray Boldly going...
Nowhere.
I had one bluray device, a laptop that got stolen. Didn't care that my new one doesn't have BR, DVD's are still cheaper.
looking around and behind them altogether if they think they can get away with only glancing at that little in-dash monitor. The result will be that they may think it is clear directly behind while failing to account for things coming up from the sides, or farther out from the camera's view.
Worse yet, some wont be just glancing at that little monitor, they'll be focused on it, completely oblivious to anything else.
As a parent of 3 I would like a backseat camera with DVR. When the yelling starts I can rewind it and see who started it.
You're doing it wrong.
Punish all three.
The more you try to determine what actually went on, the more their illusion of your parental omniscience decreases and the more they'll try to kid-lawyer out of it.
Most RV cameras are wide angle lenses, and being mounted at the very rear of the car, they are in a position where they have a much better view of what is about to T-bone you than the driver seat with its view obscured by the truck, wall, etc you are parked next to.
You assume I forward parked,
In reality I reverse park whenever possible because that gives me a full view of what is in front of me when I pull out.
BTW, most RV cameras cover about 60-110 deg directly behind the car. 3-7" screens cant display more then that without a fisheye effect which would obscure more then it reveals. In reality, you need at least a 180 deg angle of view to ensure you know anything that could potentially cross your path. Not to mention the fidelity lost in trying to compress the image down to 3".
Reversing cameras wont decrease deaths because deaths are due to carelessness and laziness (I.E. unable or unwilling to reverse park). All RV cameras will do is make lazy drivers even more lazy (and dangerous) by giving them a false sense of security preventing them from actually looking in the mirror or over their shoulder.
Add to this that it's near impossible to lose your license in Australia if you're over 22, six speeding fines, no problems. Never indicate, never fined. Lane discipline, schlane discipline.
And the idiots illegally talking on their hand-held mobile phones while driving. Including the police.
I agree, but... It's pretty much the only thing you'd actually get fined for if the cops catch you doing it (different rules for you and the cops). But it's only two points, you can get six of these fines and still be able to drive (thanks to the Double or Nothing system).
You could also use Google's walled garden, or Microsoft's walled garden, or RIMs walled garden.
Google doesn't have a walled garden. it's an open park you can walk into and out of all of your own accord. I think you need to look up the definition of "walled garden" or actually use Android for yourself. It's nothing like Apple's system of lockdown.
The definition seems to be "A term used derisively by Apple haters."
The word hater is "a term used derisively by people who cant form a rational argument".
Seeing as you didn't look up the definition of Walled Garden, here's it is definition for you,
A walled garden is an analogy used in various senses in information technology. In the telecommunications and media industries, a "walled garden" refers to a carrier or service provider's control over applications, content, and media on platforms and restriction of convenient access to non-approved applications or content
Android does not restrict conveineint access to non-walled sources, Apple on the other hand does
More generally, a "walled garden" refers to a closed or exclusive set of information services provided for users. This is in contrast to giving consumers unrestricted access to applications and content.
So in fact, Android is in contrast to a walled garden, which means it's in contrast to what apple does (closed or exclusive set of information services provided).
So with a very derisive snort, it was used correctly.
Here in the UK, drivers are taught to reverse from the road into a driveway (or from a major road into a minor one when manoeuvring) and then drive out forwards. This means you're going the more dangerous way around (backwards) into the quieter area rather than the busier one, you have a better view of the busier area to choose when to complete your move, and usually you can concentrate on looking one way into a driveway/road you're reversing into instead of both.
A fair proportion of drivers actually do this, but you see a disturbing number of people who will just drive straight forward into a space in a car park by the shops, only to reverse back out later into a "road" where there are often other vehicles manoeuvring, pedestrians walking past close to vehicles where they can be hard to see, people wheeling stuff around on their way to their car, kids running off, and so on. Then they act all surprised when they back out and miss something. So, score one for better driver education.
This, here in Australia drivers have a mortal fear of reverse parking despite the fact that it's safer. It's just that drivers are bloody lazy. I always reverse part, it's faster overall and safer. Plus what inevitably happens is my low profile Honda Civic gets boxed in by two massive Mum-Tank SUV's which I cans see past due to the high windows and illegal tint.
Add to this that it's near impossible to lose your license in Australia if you're over 22, six speeding fines, no problems. Never indicate, never fined. Lane discipline, schlane discipline. UK drivers always get a shock when they hit Aussie roads.
Well you would only have to pay attention the the rear-view cam when backing up.
This is the problem. People back over other people because they aren't looking behind them (OK, there are accidents, but 9 times out of 10 it's because some idiot just drives out without checking over their shoulders and mirrors).
What make the lawmakers think that people will use RV camera's instead. It's not very useful as most RV cameras only show what is directly behind you, not what is going to T-bone you as you jet out without looking.
FTA
17,000 people are injured and over 200 die in backover accidents
That's a death rate of 1.1% of accidents. That's a pretty good survival rate for car accident.
Wouldn't this time/money be better spent on better driver education? I mean if someone backs out without checking their mirror/shoulders, they'll back out without using the camera too.
I have to ask, how many accidents are when Bob's wife backs over Bob's little toe at 2 KPH and all Bob has is an owie? Bob has to list that as a car accident if he wants an X-Ray for his toe.
2. Android, for not telling the user THIS APP IS KEEPING YOUR PHONE AWAKE, KICK THAT CRAP!
This isn't Android's fault, at least not completely. If the App is working correctly, Android should ignore it.
It's the fault of this school of thought known as "User Experience". The user is to be coddled and treated like an idiot whilst any errors must be ignored. User Experience has to be the most bollocks marketing term, it never considers how people actually use a device (the physical side of it, learning curves, etc..) but rather focuses on how the user feels. This allows designer to ignore the wisdom gained from years of research into HCI and HMI in order to push their crap as the latest and greatest. IOS is the biggest offender, like most of the human race, I'm right handed, so why put the back button in the upper left corner of the screen, where my right thumb cant reach it if I'm holding the phone comfortably. Requiring two hands to go back to a list of messages seems stupid to me, but that's "User Experience" for you.
Back on topic, error messages have become dirty words, problems need to be ignored so the user doesn't have to deal with it rather then presenting the information in an easy to digest format then suggesting fixes. Android 2.2 and on have had a really good battery metering tool built in that displays the amount of battery consumed by each process/device (Cell Idle, Screen, Android OS, Maps, et al.), but most users dont know about it. As of 2.3 ish it even recorded signal strength along with a graph of the battery level. Here's an example, powerful tools hidden from the user because designers insist on keeping users idiots rather then trying to help them.
Why is everyone obsessed at the number of cores? The more processors you ahve, the more complex scheduling your apps needs to perform to actually work faster. It's better to hav ea single core that is twice as fast, than two cores running in parallel.
Pfff... actually, the Tegra 3 has five cores, four of them are high-performance, and one is high-efficiency. The CPU is designed to shutdown the four cores for almost nearly everything, and just use the high-efficiency core in order to save on battery life.
Introducing the 16 core processor.
The first core walks by the process assessing it's potential time consumption.
The second core types this out into a report and forwards this report to the other cores.
The third core skims the report before filing and ignoring it.
The fourth core empties the inbox of the third core, failing to note the process.
The fifth core is focusing on it's career and promotion through middle management.
The sixth core notices that there is a process and tries to point this out the the third, fourth and fifth core.
The seventh core is having a nervous breakdown.
The eighth cor0xDEADBEEF.
The ninth core is dealing with the problems from the malfunctioning 8th core.
The tenth core distracts the process by acting as a door to door salesmen.
The eleventh and twelfth core hold the process down whilst the thirteenth core goes through it's wallet.
The fourteenth core takes the process's statement.
The fifteenth core actually runs the process.
and the sixteenth core is just along for the ride.
I agreed, there was no reason to use Google + - but I clicked in this week and people are actually posting and they are people I care about because my list isn't bloated.
So I'm going to start looking at plus now. I stopped using Facebook months ago.
Plus the time discrepancy is easily explained by the fact G+ is easy to navigate and shows relevant info, Myspace is an absolute mess.
Hell, you waste more time waiting for MySapce to load then you do reading G+
You could also use Google's walled garden, or Microsoft's walled garden, or RIMs walled garden.
Google doesn't have a walled garden. it's an open park you can walk into and out of all of your own accord.
I think you need to look up the definition of "walled garden" or actually use Android for yourself. It's nothing like Apple's system of lockdown.
Sounds like its time for an antitrust case to me.
Yes,
But Apple has been pulling competing applications from the app store since it's inception, no alterate email clients, SMS clients, diallers, MP3 players, browsers (proper browsers, not viewers for server generated images or window dressing for the existing rendering engine) and others.
The question is, why is Apple even threatening? Their normal procedure is to pull the app, remove it from everyone's phone, revoke the developers key and send an iAssassination squad to eliminate the one who dared defy them.
Has this guy got compromising photos of Tim Cook and Steve Jobs?
Dick Smith, who is one of our most forward thinking businessmen said we needed to start installing fibre in 1999.
It's Telstra, what do you expect. This is the company that has kept regional centres on dialup and whilst giving a RIM-job to major urban centres.
They have repeatedly been busted for telling other telco's "there are no ports available at X exchange" but then selling Telstra ADSL services from the same supposedly full exchange.
Do you honestly expect Telstra not to try and screw up the NBN.
The big point about having the Nuclear Bomb is to NOT use it...
Steve Jobs broke the truce and went nuclear against Android... Except that most of his nuclear missiles are rotten (patents on obvious things... didn't we have "swipe" in "Minority Report" for example... and rounded rectangle... no comment)
Now, it's beginning to backfire... Samsung, Motorola and other would probably not have sued Apple out of existence... But now, Apple has put them in a situation where it's probably the best move...
Indeed, just look at what Microsoft did.
"Dear Android makers,
We have some non-specific and probably unenforceable patents that would cost you money to defend, we wont sue you if you agree to pay us money."
And it worked, Microsoft got people paying them for nothing. Apple could have done the same except that Jobs didn't want money, he wanted to stop people competing against him. Now the people Apple has sued have responded in kind and Apple realises that suing one competitor is foolish, only the heir to the throne of the kingdom of idiots sues all of them.
In 5 years, we'll look back on this and laugh, the "Look and Feel MK II" suit, it'll end as badly as the first one.
The other companies that made cellphones had occasional hissing matches with each other, as companies seem to like to do, but it would get resolved since they realized it was in their best interests. While they'd all like to be the one and only phone provider in the world, they know that isn't going to happen so they'll settle for cross licensing and so on.
Um. No.
http://flowingdata.com/2010/10/11/mobile-patent-lawsuits/
I really hate those infographics because they dumb down the scenarios so badly.
Plus that one is wrong, it doesn't even include Apple v Samsung or Apple v Motorola, both Motorola and Samsung's suits against Apple are counter suits.
The graphic lower down on that page explains that the majority of Nokia's suits are over LCD price fixing (so no shit they are suing multiple companies, it's part of the same fucking suit). But as I said, it does not even include the Apple v Samsung case that has garnered a lot of attention.
And, for the record, it seems that Nokia is the most aggressive company out there, not Apple.
For the record, that is bullshit.
If you bothered tor read the incorrect article you linked to, three out of the five Nokia suits are in relation to LCD price fixing, the same suit for three different companies. One of the remaining two is a counter suit against Apple. So that leaves the suit between Nokia and Qualcomm. The original Nokia V Apple was resolved with Apple paying Nokia license fees mid last year, license fees which Nokia had been chasing Apple for since it released the Iphone and Apple had been refusing to pay.
The big difference between Apple and other companies is that Apple is suing it's competitors to prevent them from competing. They aren't asking for reasonable license fees, chances are HTC, Samsung et al. would have paid the danegled to make Apple go away (it worked for Microsoft didn't it), but Apple didn't want this, Apple asked the courts for injunctions, not license fees, so dont act all butt hurt that now everyone else is doing that to Apple.
Yet another way the consumer is being raped by this senseless patent war. Call a truce you loopy money hungry bastards..
Tell that to Apple.
None of this happened until they decided to start suing anyone with rounded corners, demanding injunctions rather then asking for reasonable licensing fees. Before then everyone negotiated with each other for use of their patents.