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The only thing I see that it can't is the desktop notification, which you still have some ability, in fact 'pinned' sites in IE let you have a number badge on the taskbar, which is quite good for a chat app, see Skype.
Does anyone still believe that? I remember when they still had separation between GMail and Searches / Analytics.
However, this is better than many of the smart watches to me, why have a large circular face?
Plus the price point of $199 isn't bad at all.
I was in a collision a two months ago. The driver hit me on purpose, because I had call him a wanker, he became self defining in this, by swiping me with the rear of his car, thankfully the relative speed difference would have been at most 10mph, so I only had minor injury (three fractures).
The police, who have a job to collect evidence, were not remotely accepting that I was not doing anything wrong. My arm was injured, my head obviously not, so before the ambulance arrived someone had helped me remove it, and clip it to the holder on my bag. Immediately the police were questioning me, asking why I wasn't wearing my helmet when the accident happened.
My head never came close to hitting the ground during the impact.
The fact is that people are very judgemental. Cyclists who wear helmets tend not to be the ones who cycle straight through junctions at red lights whilst smoking a spliff such as the space cadet I saw this Monday the 6th, 9:30am, Highgate.
It was interesting, that despite the obvious location of the collision, A lane that the car should not have been in, the Police were been told off by the paramedics for been hard on me, taking me off gas+air (mild anesthetic) so I could be breathalised for signs of alcohol consumption would be one good example of how I feal they acted poorly. Only after they found my pilots license did the police start to treat me with any dignity or respect, it was frankly shameful, as the other party had already admitted he used his car to injure me to a witness. Best of all, the driver isn't even been charged with assault.
Last month, I was there, I made the mistake of being there with a man of colour, he was thrust violently against the wall and frisked until a Blonde lady asked what they thought they were doing. They quickly said OK and left, no apology, no explanation.
Sure in my home town of London stop and search happens all the time, but the problem is with Paris it is romantacised to something far more than it is. This makes people all the more disappointed. In London that kind of behavior by police would be considered unacceptable. I would have demanded badge numbers and made a formal complaint.
Now this is just one anecdote, and in my many trips to Paris, that's not happened before, but Paris is marketed, idealised so heavily, you don't expect it.
To me that is the problem. Expectation management.
Some friends of mine in Vietnam run a shop, in Hoi An. They make a comfortable for local standards income, but after tax rates and costs they will have about $10k a year, not to be sniffed at, but still, not amazing income. A younger sister wanted an iPhone, it was a running joke that if she bought one, she would be sleeping out in the pig sty, the 'adults' (those over 20) consider such things excessive waste of money, but she being 17 decided to spend her 3 months wage on a second hand iPhone 4. This isn't un-common, her peer group all feel the need of it. She could have had something like a Nokia 620 which has all the apps she uses anyway, for a fraction of the price and it would have the benefit of new battery life performance.
Hell I've seen shoes with the Apple logo put on them[0] there is most definitely a lot of brand power and loyalty in Vietnam and China. If they can ensure that people end up with the 'correct' Apple and not a nock off, they could do quite well. The fact that kids know how to tell the real iPhone from the fact clones is enough, as they create peer pressure for the real thing.
So yes, I can see Apple benefiting from a bunch of people in the emerging markets feeling they've 'made it' when they can afford an iPad, they still are a long way of affording a car.
Except for the transponder...
>How is that rape?
It is molestation because a safety protocol has not been used.
This is nothing like your example of sending an email. This is about ensuring personal health and safety. The charges are he deliberately deceived her over this.
http://www.archos.com/us/products/objects/chome/ash/specs.ht...
It's very, very competitively priced! Nest, in the UK at least appears quite expensive. I also dislike how currently the intra-operability is provided via cloud services, from both a privacy and reliability of my internet perspective.
I'm looking to equip everyone in our startup with a 'company' phone, that is to say one that I can wipe remotely without anyone being upset.
Once 8.1 is out, the 521 will allow me to put a secure VPN connection, easily toggleable, has a good enough for hell RDP client running some powershell.
I can also fairly easily make something to use WMI to query a bunch of important details for our prod environments.
That's really not a bad price point for such a device.
But as you are on the TFS team I feel you are a good person to ask, are there many improvements from a TFS source control perspective? It still feels 'clunky' if I want to commit and run a specific build it's laborious. Oh and lets not even ask why my visual studio online builds, with their paid azure account haven't built anything in the last 5 hours :(
I do like the ecosystem, I like an IDE that lets me do everything in one place, that is extensible enough to ensure I can od everything I need there. But the current interactions, maybe tonights downtime has made me angry, are rather disappointing.
From the FT article on the matter
>Nobel Prize-winning economists have heaped praised on Mr Piketty’s work. Professor Paul Krugman of Princeton University said it was safe to say the book “will be the most important economics book of the year – and maybe of the decade”.
It is something that clearly had been billed as an influential book, even the leader of the opposition in my country commented on it.
Clearly someone felt it was worthy of review. Meanwhile, I'm not aware of any of my nations political leaders basing policy on the Tol 2009 paper. Generally such academic papers don't reach as many readers as this book has/will/wouldhave.
I think the question of one investigation being a sign of a systemic bias is a bit of a moot point.
Is it really that much better dictation? Or is it one of those I'm lucky I speak the 'way' that windows is expecting.
I feel sorry for the London Cabbie, he has passed The Knowledge, which I believe takes more than 2 years to study for, he pays a high fee for his license.
But ultimately, driving around waiting to find someone needing your service is not efficient, environmentally friendly or the most convenient solution. Their days are numbered, it's just a matter of when.
I don't think that's a big problem.
> The dock has 10/100 Ethernet. In 2013-2014? Why?
Dog slow as well, I suspect it's USB!
> Updates for firmware and drivers assume enterprise infrastructure.
Not my experience at all, windows update did all my driver updates and at least one firmware update too.
> The track pad on the type/touch cover is flaky
They claim to have addressed this (which you know, because you read the article right?)
As a Pentax (K-5, K-5II, K-3) and Nokia (Lumia 1020) user, I use nothing but DNG. Sure I could squeeze a few more bytes from a memory card with PEF, but I prefer my records to be in a standardised format.
I'm not sure I understand, what is wrong with dynamic in C#? You've got the anonymous types for quick data structures.
If someone only gives 10s or 1s to everything, their vote of 10, should probably have less weight, than someone who distributes their votes more evenly.
https://xamarin.com/ imho a much better alternative to C++. I really like C# as a language, it's got that general purpose excellence, but when you get on with things like LINQ,Rx,TPL it's very hard to go back to a language without such first class citizen frameworks.
My understanding of 'type erasure' is that it is a compiler step, that un-does all the generic information.
This means that you could just ignore CLR generics, interop not withstanding, to get it to run.
Why would this prevent anything been ported?
Given that I currently use as my main mobile a Windows Phone and the announcements that they are doing something around this area come (should be detailed at Build), I'd like this.
I live alone, I have a gas and electric bill of £800 pa, often I'm not home, I'll work late, end up in another country that night etc. Having something that lets me switch off remotely the heating would be useful to a point. But I only have the heating on for maybe 5 months a year.
What would be useful, is some software that realised I was heading home, automatically turning it on. That realised there is no way I'd be home within 30 min, so delayed heating going on. Without me interacting with it.
As for control of the temp, well, as mentioned thermostatic valves do a great job of that.
I just want remote On / Off timer functionality. £250 is far beyond what I'd consider reasonable for that.
I'd sooner have an array of Zigbee sensors for the temp, a controller for the solenoid and something to bridge it to TCP/IP land.
This strikes me as not only ugly (you wouldn't notice the current thermostat) but pointlessly over engineered in one aspect, whilst ignoring the most important one. If you have to remember to interact with the app, it won't work. I could save the odd £2 or £3 if I remembered to flick a switch before leaving home on a morning.
If you've got an MSDN ultimate it's very easy to get going. If you don't, then it's quite hard, compared to say using the TinyCLR on the .Net Fez things [1] which are easy and by comparison designed to be fun.