The (jailbroken) app "Backgrounder" handles it quite well. It displays a small activity-wheel icon on apps that are currently running in the background. It also does this for the native Apple apps that run in the background. What's so hard about that?
Instead they describe an anxiety-wracked marketplace full of bewildering rules, long odds, and little sense of control over one's success or failure. "It's kind of a crapshoot," says Demeter...
So basically, it's like starting up a company. Odd how that works.
You know what would make it not routine? If they were use 3 or 4 cameras pointing in different directions and "stitch" the videos together to get a panoramic view, if that capability exists.
If not, then at least they can display the separate videos on multiple screens for a similar effect.
Doesn't work for me either! My car's windshield and hood are plastered with dead insects. You would think that would warn other insects to stay away but no, after every road trip, there are just MORE bugs splattered on my car. I call BS.
It got posted to the front page of slashdot, to be discussed endlessly. Total direct cost to EA to do this - $0, assuming ScuttleMonkey wasn't a recipient of one of the $200 checks.
Son, it costs good money to come up with these fancy acronyms. After all it takes some creativity to come up with a name that shortens to something that vaguely sounds like what it's intended to do.
Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Sensor System (JLENS)
By my reckoning, that should spell JLACMDESS. Even accounting for the dropping of "and", that's still a stretch to shorten it to JLENS
Your argument is a straw man. I don't have a problem with metered parking or paying for metered parking. What I do have a problem with in this case is how the government automates the enforcement process to increase the revenues generated from fines.
I view this in the same way I view automated red-light cameras and automated speed enforcement cameras. If you're doing nothing wrong, you won't be fined. But nothing is ever as black and white as one would think. For me, it's way too much government monitoring for my comfort.
And to address your rant: without looking up the local or state ordinances, it's hard to say what "purpose" parking meters are designed to serve but I believe that it is for parking regulation ONLY, not for revenue generation. A quick google search seems to indicate that parking meters are for enforcement, and NOT revenue generation. After all, parking meters were invented to increase parking turnover, not raise revenue.
My city started installing this system and I thought it was inefficient but could be more convenient in some circumstances.
However, I talked to one of the parking enforcement people and it was eye opening. They now know exactly when a meter expires via a wireless link from the smart meter to a handheld device. No need to walk past every meter now. They can just get a reading of which spot is expired and if a car is in that spot.
It's just a giant money grab by the city under the guise of "smart" technology. It's smart alright - smart for the city.
You've posted over and over that you know the law and that bikes have no right to be on the road unless there's a bike lane.
Where I live it's completely legal for bikes to be on the road. Now tell us where you live so we can verify that indeed bikes are not allowed to be on the roads, unless you're afraid of being exposed as ignorant or a liar. And hiding behind "I fear for my privacy" is just cowardly. And no, saying you "really really know the law" is not a citation.
And you would be wrong. I've gone on organized bicycle tours and it's quite common to bike on the shoulders of interstates where no other option is available.
How ironic that TFA has a flash video that does not work on the iPhone. I'm sure there's a youtube version out there somewhere but I'm too lazy to look.
forgot to post this interesting tidbit as well- google is getting into the energy monitoring game as well. they're trying to enlist utilities and "smart" meters to report household power usage.
there are also a slew of start-ups trying the same thing with households as well as larger institutions.
I think they've learned a great deal. Look at all the positive press that Win7 has gotten. Look at the "leaks" that have made it to the torrent sites. And they seem to have addressed most of the nuisance issues with the UAC. It seems that MS has address what has annoyed users most and left in what the average user doesn't care about. In this case, it's DRM that won't affect 95% of users. It's outrageous to us, but in the end, does that doesn't necessarily translate to the public at large.
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The (jailbroken) app "Backgrounder" handles it quite well. It displays a small activity-wheel icon on apps that are currently running in the background. It also does this for the native Apple apps that run in the background. What's so hard about that?
The guy behind sysinternals tried to, and was almost a success, but nope.
Is the failure you're talking about this?
What are the shortcomings of Sysinternals' Desktops?
I haven't tried other solutions but I occasionally use this and it works fairly well.
(Steve Jobs waves his hands) Android isn't the word you're looking for.
(Developer) ... These aren't the words I'm looking for.
(Steve Jobs) You can go about your business.
(Developer) ... I'll go about my business.
(Steve Jobs) Move along.
(Developer) ... I'll move along
But the market has already decided that price wins against features
The statistics disagrees with your datum.
Instead they describe an anxiety-wracked marketplace full of bewildering rules, long odds, and little sense of control over one's success or failure. "It's kind of a crapshoot," says Demeter ...
So basically, it's like starting up a company. Odd how that works.
You know what would make it not routine? If they were use 3 or 4 cameras pointing in different directions and "stitch" the videos together to get a panoramic view, if that capability exists.
If not, then at least they can display the separate videos on multiple screens for a similar effect.
Doesn't work for me either! My car's windshield and hood are plastered with dead insects. You would think that would warn other insects to stay away but no, after every road trip, there are just MORE bugs splattered on my car. I call BS.
It got posted to the front page of slashdot, to be discussed endlessly. Total direct cost to EA to do this - $0, assuming ScuttleMonkey wasn't a recipient of one of the $200 checks.
Me neither! 1 gigawatt? Pfft! That's not even enough to power a flux capacitor for even ONE time-traveling delorean!
Son, it costs good money to come up with these fancy acronyms. After all it takes some creativity to come up with a name that shortens to something that vaguely sounds like what it's intended to do.
Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Sensor System (JLENS)
By my reckoning, that should spell JLACMDESS. Even accounting for the dropping of "and", that's still a stretch to shorten it to JLENS
Your argument is a straw man. I don't have a problem with metered parking or paying for metered parking. What I do have a problem with in this case is how the government automates the enforcement process to increase the revenues generated from fines.
I view this in the same way I view automated red-light cameras and automated speed enforcement cameras. If you're doing nothing wrong, you won't be fined. But nothing is ever as black and white as one would think. For me, it's way too much government monitoring for my comfort.
And to address your rant: without looking up the local or state ordinances, it's hard to say what "purpose" parking meters are designed to serve but I believe that it is for parking regulation ONLY, not for revenue generation. A quick google search seems to indicate that parking meters are for enforcement, and NOT revenue generation. After all, parking meters were invented to increase parking turnover, not raise revenue.
My city started installing this system and I thought it was inefficient but could be more convenient in some circumstances.
However, I talked to one of the parking enforcement people and it was eye opening. They now know exactly when a meter expires via a wireless link from the smart meter to a handheld device. No need to walk past every meter now. They can just get a reading of which spot is expired and if a car is in that spot.
It's just a giant money grab by the city under the guise of "smart" technology. It's smart alright - smart for the city.
We go the (c) soylent green path, and reach our own equilibrium.
Why would they need to buy the rights? Why wouldn't they be able to just make a movie about a ship shooting up asteroids?
Hell, it's been done in Star Wars already, and the Star Destroyers already vaguely look like the "Asteroids" ship.
You've posted over and over that you know the law and that bikes have no right to be on the road unless there's a bike lane.
Where I live it's completely legal for bikes to be on the road. Now tell us where you live so we can verify that indeed bikes are not allowed to be on the roads, unless you're afraid of being exposed as ignorant or a liar. And hiding behind "I fear for my privacy" is just cowardly. And no, saying you "really really know the law" is not a citation.
And you would be wrong. I've gone on organized bicycle tours and it's quite common to bike on the shoulders of interstates where no other option is available.
Zattoo?
They've found the Jumbonium that I've misplaced!
So what's the difference between the crowd making a mistale and the police making a mistake?
A Trial and some accountability
How ironic that TFA has a flash video that does not work on the iPhone. I'm sure there's a youtube version out there somewhere but I'm too lazy to look.
forgive me for replying to myself but...
forgot to post this interesting tidbit as well- google is getting into the energy monitoring game as well. they're trying to enlist utilities and "smart" meters to report household power usage.
there are also a slew of start-ups trying the same thing with households as well as larger institutions.
the kill-a-watt only measures what's plugged into it. no, more like this
T.E.D will measure the whole-house usage at the mains.
A true hero or An Hero?
Hell, if this is Idle, I guess I can waste some karma.
you're so right on. it's a good thing those kindle things just appear magically, right?
I think they've learned a great deal. Look at all the positive press that Win7 has gotten. Look at the "leaks" that have made it to the torrent sites. And they seem to have addressed most of the nuisance issues with the UAC. It seems that MS has address what has annoyed users most and left in what the average user doesn't care about. In this case, it's DRM that won't affect 95% of users. It's outrageous to us, but in the end, does that doesn't necessarily translate to the public at large.