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by swamp40 13y ago
Something is going to replace the credit card. If Apple had thrown their weight behind NFC, that would have closed the deal. I give them one more year (one iWatch release, and the iPhone 6 release) and then I agree, NFC will be a dead end
872.
by swamp40 13y ago
...and Haptics! Clickable buttons, raised hyperlinks, textures - all coming soon!
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by swamp40 13y ago
Yes, either of those technologies would work as well. I'm still betting it will show up in the iWatch, though. There is just so much NFC-enabled Point-Of-Sale hardware already out there.
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by swamp40 13y ago
Well, there has to be some kind of interaction with a Point Of Sale device. Either Bluetooth 4.0 or NFC would suffice. NFC has enough Point Of Sale inroads (esp. in the rest of the world besides the US), that it is a more natural choice.
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by swamp40 13y ago
I disagree completely. Perhaps the 9th inning of a preseason game? Flexible displays are coming soon. The paths for easy integration with multiple low power wearable peripherals have just been forged, and the area is still in its infancy.
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by swamp40 13y ago
So there are two things going on here. 1)They said the detection gets better every time you use it. So my guess would be that multiple versions of the raw fingerprint data are stored inside the A7 chip. (That information never leaves the
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by swamp40 13y ago
I was really hoping for NFC support - sigh. I do love the fingerprint sensor and the intelligent auto-focusing features, though. Blurry smartphone pictures are so ubiquitous these days.
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by swamp40 13y ago
Teachers are the leaders of the classrooms. Same as with all leaders anywhere, in addition to their main goals (teaching the material, sailing a ship, etc.), they must maintain discipline and right any wrongs. If anything goes wrong, they
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by swamp40 13y ago
Sad. Her suggestions to her daughter's teacher seem reasonable and useful for other teachers. I hope sending her daughter to India (of all places!) for her final year of high school wasn't a mistake.
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by swamp40 13y ago
I was hoping to see a real remote control here, but they just use a phone as the remote, which makes no sense to me at all. If I made a sleek wristband with a couple of touch buttons and an up/down swipe interface, does that sound usef
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Sick of swiping your face? Google Glass gets a remote control.(theverge.com)
3 points by swamp40 13y ago|1 comments
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by swamp40 13y ago
Here in Chicago, SpotHero is taking off like crazy. What do you think they have done differently to be so wildly successful in the same space?
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by swamp40 13y ago
The best critique I've heard of the Leap interface is that human hands are extremely proficient at manipulating small physical objects. But without any kind of force feedback, manipulating images using the Leap is neither simple no
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by swamp40 13y ago
WHY on God's Green Earth does Paypal keep repeating this seize and release? If you're going to make the decision to SEIZE $45,000 of a vocal entrepreneur's hard earned cash - you are much better off keeping it and justifyin
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by swamp40 13y ago
Tell the truth. What would you say if the "fence" was electrified?
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by swamp40 13y ago
Of course, son. The car is in the garage and I laid out a set of wrenches on the workbench. Take the car apart and look at each piece, then put it back together. Once you’ve done that I’ll take you to the DMV for your driving test. Remind
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by swamp40 13y ago
Yes, I agree 100%. Someone is getting fired, but I seriously doubt they would let the whole team go. That's not how firing usually works. You cut the head off the snake, and put on a new head - not throw away the whole snake.
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by swamp40 13y ago
And until those new recruits enter the workforce, tech companies like Facebook, IBM, and Microsoft are lobbying to boost the number of H-1B visas—temporary immigration permits for skilled workers—from 65 000 per year to as many as 180 000.
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by swamp40 13y ago
Yes, I concur. It was a poorly constructed sentence, as well as baiting.
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by swamp40 13y ago
You are right, of course.
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by swamp40 13y ago
You've been hoisted with your own petard.
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by swamp40 13y ago
Charlie Kellner should have looked for a less visible way to get the sound out. A hole in the back? On the bottom? Seems simple enough that I bet something is missing from the story.
893.
by swamp40 13y ago
It seems to me like a lot of accelerators would be better off throwing this one to the wolves ASAP before they all get tainted by a stench of unknown origin.
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by swamp40 13y ago
I just saw a great picture of this from 1885: http://calumet412.com/post/58699298036/street-grade-elevatio...
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by swamp40 13y ago
They also dug (by hand) underneath Lake Michigan 2 miles out, to bring fresh water into the city. Amazing.
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by swamp40 13y ago
Wow.
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by swamp40 13y ago
Just as the scientists and tinkerers of yester-year once appropriated the term Engineer from the well respected steam engine operators, today's programmers have grabbed the still respectable term and ran off with it.
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by swamp40 13y ago
Mrs. Hauge is a great writer. She should write a book, but I guess she's still too busy. Thanks for sharing that link.
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by swamp40 13y ago
You seem proud of the fact that with your $20 pricing you are turning your module into a commodity. Although I'm sure consumers will cheer you on, I think the typical entrepreneurial thought is that having your product turn into a comm
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by swamp40 13y ago
I'm fairly certain that there is a lot about DNA that we do not yet fully understand. Plenty of room for spider fears and bird songs. Apparently the word "memory" is unsettling to some, but it still seems appropriate to me. I

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