I hate siri 1.0...so voice dialing or voice control of the music fails when out of service range.
How often do you find yourself needing to dial a number when you have no service? I can't see voice dialing helping much in this situation:-)
Of course, you can get the normal voice control back by turning off Siri in your iPhone's settings, but I admit that toggling this when you're in and out of service should probably be automatic.
Computer Engineering is more of a hardware level approach, where the goal is is optimize basic elements but not complex systems.
I'm sorry for my Computer Engineering bias showing so obviously here, but..."basic elements"? If you, as a Computer Scientist, see devices such as microprocessors as "basic elements," I think you need to branch out a bit. Sure, there's much more to a computer system than the processor, and you need plenty of software to get all the hardware components working together, but I still would classify an ARM or Intel or GPU (or countless other types of) processor as a "complex system."
Nothing against Computer Scientists or software engineering or anything...lets just give credit everywhere its due.
> Are legitimate backup copies of a piece of software you own illegal under the DMCA?"
The question doesn't make any sense. If they're legitimate, then they're legal by their very nature. If they're illegal, then they're not legitimate. It's like asking `what happens if an irresistible force meets an unmovable object`.
That's not quite a fair comparison, but the question is still interesting. I say the the "unmovable object" is destroyed in its place by the "irresistible force."
I don't have a land line. Why? The cell phone is _cheaper_. If you're going to be pragmatic, ditch the land line.
I'd much rather stick with my landline, thank you very much. My calls never drop and they don't sound like I'm talking through a tin can. You can actually understand me the whole time in contrast with a crackly cell phone.
I wish cell phone companies would use the advances in wireless technology (e.g. http://www.et.byu.edu/news_jensen.htm) to improve the quality of the connection rather than squeeze more subscribers into each cell tower, but I doubt that will happen any time soon.
Call me crazy...but when I read the subject line, I imagined a team of executives, military men and helicopters keeping a leopard at bay in the wild, while they looked for one of their prototype iPhones in the grass.
"FOUNT IT!"
"Ok, you may now pass Mr. Kitty"
~A Umm... You're crazy.
I for one will not be getting one asmy Motorola Q has 70% of the functionaity and I can't justify dropping $600+ to bridge the gap.
Yeah, that's why nobody buys that iPod thing, either. I mean, how many other mp3 players out there can you get that have 70% of the functionality (or even 99%) at half the price!?
In the end I don't think it is possible to create a fingerprinting system that will be able to deal with people who are actively evading the system. In the end, the evaders will win.
Yeah, all ten of them.
Seriously, do you think the average MySpace user will want to go through all that? The big boys know that this kind of detection software can't do everything, just as the DRM folks know that their DRM *will* be defeated--by a tiny minority of "hackers."
They don't have to cover everybody, just 99% of them. And let's face it--that's just not that hard.
couldn't you just take the thing out or un-plug it? then it'd look like you never drove over the speed limit : )
Actually, if you would read the kid's website, he actually thought of that:
Alerts for: Highway speeding, secondary road speeding, antenna block and power disconnect
So if your teenager unplugs it (or blocks the antenna on the wireless model), it will be logged and you know they were doing something they didn't want you to know about. So you don't give them the car keys if they don't play by the rules.
I've worked a national laboratory and even the janitorial staff had to have secret or top-secret clearance to be allowed access to the respective secure areas. In fact, now that I think about it, most of the janitorial staff had higher clearance than I did...
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I hate siri 1.0...so voice dialing or voice control of the music fails when out of service range.
How often do you find yourself needing to dial a number when you have no service? I can't see voice dialing helping much in this situation :-)
Of course, you can get the normal voice control back by turning off Siri in your iPhone's settings, but I admit that toggling this when you're in and out of service should probably be automatic.
Computer Engineering is more of a hardware level approach, where the goal is is optimize basic elements but not complex systems.
I'm sorry for my Computer Engineering bias showing so obviously here, but..."basic elements"? If you, as a Computer Scientist, see devices such as microprocessors as "basic elements," I think you need to branch out a bit. Sure, there's much more to a computer system than the processor, and you need plenty of software to get all the hardware components working together, but I still would classify an ARM or Intel or GPU (or countless other types of) processor as a "complex system."
Nothing against Computer Scientists or software engineering or anything...lets just give credit everywhere its due.
There, I feel better now :-)
I didn't have any problem getting my Roomba remote control app approved this past week. Check it out: http://www.brianhpratt.net/roomote/
It's available for free on the app store. Just search for "roomba" or "roomote"
> Are legitimate backup copies of a piece of software you own illegal under the DMCA?"
The question doesn't make any sense. If they're legitimate, then they're legal by their very nature. If they're illegal, then they're not legitimate. It's like asking `what happens if an irresistible force meets an unmovable object`.
That's not quite a fair comparison, but the question is still interesting. I say the the "unmovable object" is destroyed in its place by the "irresistible force."I'd much rather stick with my landline, thank you very much. My calls never drop and they don't sound like I'm talking through a tin can. You can actually understand me the whole time in contrast with a crackly cell phone.
I wish cell phone companies would use the advances in wireless technology (e.g. http://www.et.byu.edu/news_jensen.htm) to improve the quality of the connection rather than squeeze more subscribers into each cell tower, but I doubt that will happen any time soon.
Yeah, that's why nobody buys that iPod thing, either. I mean, how many other mp3 players out there can you get that have 70% of the functionality (or even 99%) at half the price!?
What idiot would ever buy the iPhone?
Yeah, all ten of them.
Seriously, do you think the average MySpace user will want to go through all that? The big boys know that this kind of detection software can't do everything, just as the DRM folks know that their DRM *will* be defeated--by a tiny minority of "hackers."
They don't have to cover everybody, just 99% of them. And let's face it--that's just not that hard.
I've worked a national laboratory and even the janitorial staff had to have secret or top-secret clearance to be allowed access to the respective secure areas. In fact, now that I think about it, most of the janitorial staff had higher clearance than I did...