I disagree, moving the bits from your digitized voice to the cloud takes little time. Moving the voice processing locally means you have to have a more powerful computer locally that is only used 1% of the time. That is not an efficient solution. Moving the smarts off the local device means a less complex, more energy efficient device that is going to be less expensive and more reliable. The same device will work 10 years from now while the processing needs might grow by orders of magnitude as more complex algorithms are used.
The device is like a keyboard, we don't make the keyboard smart enough to understand what you are typing
No remote server is listening to anything you say until the local device hears the key word.
Glad to hear you spent an hour training your 75Mhz Pentium to recognize your voice, but that's why voice recognition never took off. Alexa requires zero training and that's why millions of people use it.
If Amazon forked Android then Google doesn't control FireOS.
Point and click requires picking up a device, unlocking it, pulling up an app and then pointing and clicking. Is that easier than asking Alexa something like "Alexa, when is the next full moon?". Alexa doesn't require the rigorous syntax required to use a command line either. Want to know if it will rain then ask in any number of ways and it is likely Alexa will understand what you are asking and give you an appropriate response.
I've given Amazon Dot's to several non-computer savvy people and they not only love them, they use them frequently.
Very true, still have my 2012 Mac Mini's, since I was able to upgrade their memory and the disk drive over the years they've remained useful.
No doubt that the 2017 Mac Mini will be non-expandable just like the 2014 version, Apple counts on that revenue from people over-paying for memory and disk space today just because they won't be able to upgrade in the future.
Or maybe every Tesla car can already communicate with your smart phone using a cellular network and maybe there is already an app from Tesla that does exactly that:
If you don't have a phone or a watch with you and an unable to mentally estimate how long 10 minutes is then simply get your latte and return to your car.
Or skip the money from the latte purchase and buy a watch at the nearest Dollar Store.
Your $100k Tesla will tell you when it will be fully charged.
If you still can't figure it out, you probably should be using Uber/Lyft instead of driving.
Your Tesla tells you when you car will finish charging, if you think you need 20 minutes grace period I'd suggest you are a perfect candidate for Tesla's fee so you can have the pain modify your insensitivity towards your fellow Tesla owners.
Only if the sale wasn't an arms length transaction for fair value.
You are confusing the sale of assets with a company paying SOME of its debts prior to filing for bankruptcy. The bankruptcy court could claw back some of the debt payments.
So in your opinion we should all still be using USB 1.0?
Do you understand that this is nothing more than an extension of an existing standard for charging that currently tops out at 50kW? My connector works fine at 1kW and at 50kW.
My 50kW capable connector uses 2-pins for DC and the pins are already capable of 200A so you appear to want to replace those 2 pins with 8 pins to get 50kW and for 350kW we need 56 pins? Is that sensible? Nope. And that's why real automotive engineers have designed the CCS instead of you.
LA County didn't dictate the popular vote results.
Enabling gerrymandering of districts determine a presidential election sounds like a terrible idea.
I have a better idea, elect presidents just like we elect everyone else. Vote, Most votes win. The vote of a rural Wyoming farmer should have exactly the same weight of a rural California farmer. And the vote of someone who lives in a city with a population of 192 should have exactly the same weight as someone who lives in New York CIty.
Most people live in cities, why do you think someone who lives on 100 acres of land deserves a greater vote than someone who lives in an apartment in a city?
Slashdot Mirror
Or even worse, in every television.
We must resist this.
It's not "certainly flying" and there is zero evidence it is even an object.
I've seen better fakes of Nessie
It's more likely not a craft and not flying
Entirely possible it is an unidentified photoshop image
Are you sure it is flying?
Nobody is being punished for not signing up for autopay.
People who do sign up for autopay are being rewarded
Unlimited data, not unlimited speed
Few cars have a positive return on investment but that's OK because most people buy a car for transportation not as an investment.
Every generation complains that music has gone to shit, it really just means that music has changed and you haven't
Sit in your chair in the living room and say Hey Siri and let us know how well your phone in the other room responds ...
I disagree, moving the bits from your digitized voice to the cloud takes little time. Moving the voice processing locally means you have to have a more powerful computer locally that is only used 1% of the time. That is not an efficient solution. Moving the smarts off the local device means a less complex, more energy efficient device that is going to be less expensive and more reliable. The same device will work 10 years from now while the processing needs might grow by orders of magnitude as more complex algorithms are used.
The device is like a keyboard, we don't make the keyboard smart enough to understand what you are typing
No remote server is listening to anything you say until the local device hears the key word.
Glad to hear you spent an hour training your 75Mhz Pentium to recognize your voice, but that's why voice recognition never took off. Alexa requires zero training and that's why millions of people use it.
If Amazon forked Android then Google doesn't control FireOS.
Point and click requires picking up a device, unlocking it, pulling up an app and then pointing and clicking. Is that easier than asking Alexa something like "Alexa, when is the next full moon?". Alexa doesn't require the rigorous syntax required to use a command line either. Want to know if it will rain then ask in any number of ways and it is likely Alexa will understand what you are asking and give you an appropriate response.
I've given Amazon Dot's to several non-computer savvy people and they not only love them, they use them frequently.
How do I secure my one-time pads? WIth more one-time pads? Is it one-time pads all the way down?
Very true, still have my 2012 Mac Mini's, since I was able to upgrade their memory and the disk drive over the years they've remained useful.
No doubt that the 2017 Mac Mini will be non-expandable just like the 2014 version, Apple counts on that revenue from people over-paying for memory and disk space today just because they won't be able to upgrade in the future.
Complications confuse people. Tesla simply, reasonably, wants people to train themselves to not use Supercharger spots as parking spots.
Or maybe every Tesla car can already communicate with your smart phone using a cellular network and maybe there is already an app from Tesla that does exactly that:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/ap...
Phones work while they are charging.
Go to your nearest Apple Genius Bar for further help using your iPhone.
If you don't have a phone or a watch with you and an unable to mentally estimate how long 10 minutes is then simply get your latte and return to your car.
Or skip the money from the latte purchase and buy a watch at the nearest Dollar Store.
Your $100k Tesla will tell you when it will be fully charged.
If you still can't figure it out, you probably should be using Uber/Lyft instead of driving.
Your Tesla tells you when you car will finish charging, if you think you need 20 minutes grace period I'd suggest you are a perfect candidate for Tesla's fee so you can have the pain modify your insensitivity towards your fellow Tesla owners.
Only if the sale wasn't an arms length transaction for fair value.
You are confusing the sale of assets with a company paying SOME of its debts prior to filing for bankruptcy. The bankruptcy court could claw back some of the debt payments.
They didn't give away any assets. They sold them.
The money they received is an asset equal in value to what they disposed of (the IP)
That isn't anything like "giving away everything you own and then declaring bankruptcy"
So in your opinion we should all still be using USB 1.0?
Do you understand that this is nothing more than an extension of an existing standard for charging that currently tops out at 50kW? My connector works fine at 1kW and at 50kW.
My 50kW capable connector uses 2-pins for DC and the pins are already capable of 200A so you appear to want to replace those 2 pins with 8 pins to get 50kW and for 350kW we need 56 pins? Is that sensible? Nope. And that's why real automotive engineers have designed the CCS instead of you.
Tyranny of the minority is better?
LA County didn't dictate the popular vote results.
Enabling gerrymandering of districts determine a presidential election sounds like a terrible idea.
I have a better idea, elect presidents just like we elect everyone else. Vote, Most votes win. The vote of a rural Wyoming farmer should have exactly the same weight of a rural California farmer. And the vote of someone who lives in a city with a population of 192 should have exactly the same weight as someone who lives in New York CIty.
Your state with a tiny population should get little say. Nothing to do with it being rural.
little population = little say
No city voted for Clinton, people did.
Acres of land don't vote, people do.
Most people live in cities, why do you think someone who lives on 100 acres of land deserves a greater vote than someone who lives in an apartment in a city?