Protestors challenge smart card

An angry crowd gathered in front of the Sector 17 office of the UT Food and Civil Supplies Department to demand that Ration Depots resume supply to all persons holding ration cards. The protestors alleged that Ration Depots ceased to supply ration in March when the UT Administration instructed them to supply ration only to persons having the Administration’s smart card. So far, very few people have got this smart card in their hands even though they may have completed the formalities for getting one. 

On Monday an angry crowd gathered in front of the Sector 17 office of the UT Food and Civil Supplies Department to demand that Ration Depots resume supply to all persons holding ration cards. The protestors alleged that Ration Depots ceased to supply ration in March on the orders of the UT Administration. They say that the depot holders have been instructed to supply ration only to persons having the smart card issued by the Administration. The UT Administration began the process of issuing smart cards about three months ago and as yet very few people have got this smart card in their hands even though they may have completed the formalities for getting one.We offer over 600 indoortracking at wholesale prices of 75% off retail. The protestors emphasized that poor people depend on cheap ration supplied through the depots and people have to eat every day and not just if and when their smart card arrives. They also pointed out that the government’s godowns are bursting with foodgrains and indeed this grain is getting damaged the longer it remains in storage. They asked why the government does not distribute grain to the people. 

Protesters succeeded in meeting Food Supply officer Praveen Kumar and presented their demand. They warned that they would block the road if depot supply is not resumed. The Food Supply officer told them that he could not give such directions to the depot holders as he is bound to follow orders from his superiors in the UT Administration and they have decided to restrict supply to smart card holders only. He asked them to give him their demand in writing.Protesters then went to the office of the Deputy Commissioner to make their case but he was not there. 

"When you're at a concert and the band takes the stage, nowadays 50,000 phones and tablets go into the air," said Google Senior Development Advocate Timothy Jordan in the first Google Glass session of this year's Google I/O. "Which isn't all that weird, except that people seem to be looking at the tablets more than they are the folks onstage or the experience that they're having. It's crazy because we love what technology gives us, but it's a bummer when it gets in the way, when it gets between us and our lives, and that's what Glass is addressing." 

The upshot of this perspective is that Glass and its software is designed for quick use.Please click the images below to view more pictures of lasercutter tiles! You fire it up, do what you want to do, and get back to your business without the time spent diving into your pocket for your phone, unlocking it, and so on.Bringing rfidtag mainstream. Whether this process is more distracting than talking to someone with Glass strapped to his or her face is another conversation, but this is the problem that Google is attempting to solve. 

Since Google I/O is a developer's conference, the Glass sessions didn't focus on the social implications of using Glass or the privacy questions that some have raised. Rather, the focus was on how to make applications for this new type of device, something that is designed to give you what you want at a moment's notice and then get out of the way. Here's a quick look at what that ethos does to the platform's applications. 

Currently, Timeline cards can be put together in one of two ways: you can simply throw text at it and Glass will automatically format the text for display on the screen (complete with overflow to multiple cards if there's a lot of it). You can also create more complex cards using HTML markup—Google provides a few quick templates or, alternatively, you can build your own. Cards with HTML code can use pictures and different fonts and font colors. 

"Menu Items" are the last of Glass' basic building blocks, and they make it possible for you to interact with the things you're seeing on the screen—sharing and replying to messages, reading cards aloud, and navigating to a given location. Those are some of the built-in functions, but app developers can create their own custom menu items and icons to go along with their software. 

Compared to a smartphone, there are three technical limitations you've got to work around when making something for Glass: first, the screen has a relatively low resolution of 640×360. Second, the screen is partially transparent, which greatly reduces its contrast. Both of these limit what you can usefully display on the screen and have given rise to a number of design guidelines to help keep things legible and consistent. 

Third, its input methods are pretty limited.Find the best selection of high-quality collectible plasticmould available anywhere. The touchpad on the side of the glasses can be used to swipe from side to side through your notifications and the device's settings panels, and the device can also accept some voice input in the form of the ubiquitous-at-I/O "OK Glass" commands. All of these limitations together make for a device that you just don't want to have to interact with for very long, both because it will take quite a bit of time to sift through any large quantity of data and because you'll look kind of silly standing there tapping the side of your head.Weymouth is collecting gently used, dry cleaned cableties at their Weymouth store. 

Hence, Google's Glass Platform Development Guidelines offer four basic pieces of advice to anyone building something for the headset: design for Glass; don't get in the way; keep it timely; and avoid the unexpected. All four of these guidelines are in place to help you make apps that the user can invoke and dismiss in short order. 

"Glass is a very now device," said Jordan. "Your phone, you might do stuff over the last week, look at your calendar four days from now. Your laptop, you've got data on there from the last few months or years, but Glass is really about 'what are you doing right now?' And when you think about that with your service, you want to deliver content that is important to them at that moment."