do you get intellisense? (or whatever it should be called?) - I use aquamacs on OsX for non-c# projects and monodevelop for c#, but would be happy to abandon monodevelop, but it's just so much faster for me to code and explore classes and things with intellisense.
When you create the walled garden you allow developers to focus on apps, but exclude them from the areas that may have a large impact. Apple needs to do it themselves for the newest innovations. That fancy new, revolutionary FS or networking will need to be ported. Or they'll need to come up with it themselves. Either way, they'll start to lag behind and be restricted in what they can do.
You may be right, but it's pretty likely that the fancy new FS or networking won't be very hard to port, since it's going to come from Linux... I think the real downfall of the walled garden approach is more likely to come through division of the content - right now, everybody knows that they can get the good movies from Itunes, and that Netflix is filled with B-movies (Chop-Kick Panda? really??) . Someday though, there will be some licensing battle that leaves a major chunk of content not available inside the walled garden, and people won't be thrilled that their home ecosystem of iOS devices can't watch their favorite show or movie, but some other OS can...
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Intel is the master of segmenting markets. Different chips at different price points have different features enabled. Cheaper chips are as crippled as possible, to encourage you to buy a more expensive chip.
This is enough for them to fail. It is a gross waste of resources to make crippled hardware. I think they have enjoyed a monopoly position and they are finally facing a disruptive technology.
I agree - it seems like a very noble goal. I wouldn't mind reading useful results on a topic I was studying, whether computer generated or not. It would save a lot of time if an AI bot had crawled around doing basic research.
You know, you'd probably get used to it... and it will probably get smaller over time.
I'm sure you are right, but it seems like the distance of the camera off of the wrist is essential to get a good view of the fingers, which would limit the ability to make it flush like a watch band. I think a camera embedded where your eyes are will be the most intuitive to the user - it sees what you see, more or less, so it's easy to aim and understand why it is or isn't working well.
I started to read tfa, and from what I can tell, there is a paid consultant coming to speak with a group of 25 Doctors. There he makes snap pre-judgments and starts name calling, then publishes a blog about how right he is... What a waste of time and effort...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Space_Merchants
I can't read about synthetic animal parts without thinking about the enormous mass of chicken, referred to as "Chicken Little" that is used in the book as a source of protein by continually slicing off hunks from the always growing mass of chicken heart cells.:)
Given a few such warp ships, you could even arrange it so that that person would receive a message they had written and sent with you before they had actually written it. And then causality is broken for everyone.
Not that I think this is a reasonable warp drive, but I don't think you are right about the arrangement leading to the message coming back before it left - there would be plenty of light cones being crossed, but the message would always come back after it was sent, I think.
replying to myself to continue my rant - can't we all agree that it is obvious (in every sense, patent law and otherwise) to connect new peripherals to existing systems... if I invent a new mouse, sure, let me patent the mouse, but don't let me patent every single application where the new mouse is plugged into a computer... it makes me sick.
I used to think that software and computers in general would be moving away from typical human interfaces, but I now think that having software/robots perform tasks that humans are also capable of is the future. As a concrete example, I used to think that it would be a bad design to have an application that screen grabs to parse text when it could have the text in a computer readable form, but I see now that a computer that operates a human interface is an advantage. I think that this robot is a step in the direction that we are already heading - our software will augment all of our existing skills - driving, writing, reading, playing games, etc., with a better interface - since it behaves like another human.
I read TFA, its still a clunky, hackerish and unrealistic approach. There is far better technology out there, and I;m no longer impressed just because someone managed to use Android.
I concur - especially when they really should simply be using the phone itself - I don't see how adding an accessory (camera + bluetooth) is any better than holding the phone.
also - I thought it was pretty funny that the only information the guy used to buy a shirt was that it was gray and $27.
Later, when exposed to triggering pulses of light in a completely different environment, the neurons involved in the fear memory switched on — and the mice quickly entered a defensive, immobile crouch.
This does not sound convincing to me at all - there could be many reasons for the mouse to become defensive, one of the least likely of which is that a specific memory was triggered...
Might there be an efficient way to confine a target group of nuclei for a short interval during which the fusion occurs?
It could potentially require much less energy to reach ignition. It seems to me to be a combination of both inertial confinement and light ignition - for example, a cool jet of expanding gas is exposed to an ultra-short laser pulse, stripping the electrons from the atoms and leaving behind a dense collection of nuclei, ready for fusion.
Are there experiments like this?
It hardly constitutes evil to allow you to opt out of something.
While I agree with the majority of your post, I think it is evil to require users to opt out. To me that is the same as saying that microsoft wasn't evil to bundle the browser, you could 'opt-out' by deleting it and installing your own browser, after all.
Your post makes sense, but I lose you at John Q public getting shafted. Is he buying stock directly? Or is it perhaps the banks buying it for him in his 401k or something... Sounds like a giant ponzi scheme.
My favorite view of the universe is that the "laws of physics" including the speed of light, the conservation laws, and basically the "standard model of particle physics" can all be derived from the spontaneously broken symmetries present in the local area. Analogous to the behavior of phonons in an ice crystal that could be determined from the structure of the crystal lattice.
There isn't sufficient evidence to indicate that our universe is homogenous - like a single block of ice, using the same analogy - it could have regions where there are entirely different symmetries present, and therefore entirely different "physics". These domains of structure could be quite large, and therefore might be very hard to observe (i.e. beyond the background radiation), but they might not be, as well - it could be that the background would be better described as a phase transition instead of a big bang.
Although I agree with the inconvenience factors that you describe (multiple steps to get to the Android "microphone button") making it not really hands-free, you would probably agree that having a dedicated button is not a two-year advantage.
I've been using my android speech recognition since it came out, I like it - it doesn't replace anything, it augments typing for me, I mostly use it for unimportant google searches, or email/text in the car. About the whole natural language thing, I prefer knowing the capabilities of a system and using commands as opposed to guessing an appropriate level of intelligence from a far from perfect AI. The one thing I tried with Siri was to send a picture via email. I had just taken the picture, and was looking at it in the camera roll, and said "email this picture to SoAndSo" and Siri answered back "ok, what would you like the email to say?" and I was impressed, told it the text, sent the message, then realized that it had decided to compose an email, yes, but not attach the picture. It's like talking to a really incompetent person.:)
I've been using Android with voice commands, and have been surprised with how well it works, I much prefer it to the virtual keys. It has issues when there is bad internet connectivity, and as you would expect in very noisy environments, although, to be fair, it does better than I had expected in most noise.
I noticed someone else say that it doesn't interpret what you want it to do, and that is only partially true, there are several commands, like "text john I'll be five minutes late" and it completely fills out the fields. But the most common is the "navigate to pizza", which launches the navigation app and starts providing turn by turn navigation without any more presses. I refuse to ever navigate a touchscreen for getting somewhere in the car again.
Equally useful is the fact that no matter what it interprets, it automatically searches google, which is quite often the first thing I do with text now anyway.
If the students need monitors, mice & keyboards at each location, they may as well just carry around a USB thumb stick with a custom LiveOS and put the Pi or other processing core at the work station. That sounds a LOT like my son's middle school.
I think the vision is for the kid to be coding at home. The people running the project will remember Western kids learning to code in front of the family TV, hunched over a home computer on the floor. Having to go to a lab to do this is not as good.
I remember coding in front of the family TV. Still love programming to this day. Your reminder made my morning.
You could definitely amplify head rotation to give a wider range of motion. There was a desktop head tracker that let you look around the cockpit in flight simulator that seemed to work pretty well.
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do you get intellisense? (or whatever it should be called?) - I use aquamacs on OsX for non-c# projects and monodevelop for c#, but would be happy to abandon monodevelop, but it's just so much faster for me to code and explore classes and things with intellisense.
When you create the walled garden you allow developers to focus on apps, but exclude them from the areas that may have a large impact. Apple needs to do it themselves for the newest innovations. That fancy new, revolutionary FS or networking will need to be ported. Or they'll need to come up with it themselves. Either way, they'll start to lag behind and be restricted in what they can do.
You may be right, but it's pretty likely that the fancy new FS or networking won't be very hard to port, since it's going to come from Linux... I think the real downfall of the walled garden approach is more likely to come through division of the content - right now, everybody knows that they can get the good movies from Itunes, and that Netflix is filled with B-movies (Chop-Kick Panda? really??) . Someday though, there will be some licensing battle that leaves a major chunk of content not available inside the walled garden, and people won't be thrilled that their home ecosystem of iOS devices can't watch their favorite show or movie, but some other OS can...
Intel is the master of segmenting markets. Different chips at different price points have different features enabled. Cheaper chips are as crippled as possible, to encourage you to buy a more expensive chip.
This is enough for them to fail. It is a gross waste of resources to make crippled hardware. I think they have enjoyed a monopoly position and they are finally facing a disruptive technology.
I agree - it seems like a very noble goal. I wouldn't mind reading useful results on a topic I was studying, whether computer generated or not. It would save a lot of time if an AI bot had crawled around doing basic research.
You know, you'd probably get used to it ... and it will probably get smaller over time.
I'm sure you are right, but it seems like the distance of the camera off of the wrist is essential to get a good view of the fingers, which would limit the ability to make it flush like a watch band. I think a camera embedded where your eyes are will be the most intuitive to the user - it sees what you see, more or less, so it's easy to aim and understand why it is or isn't working well.
I started to read tfa, and from what I can tell, there is a paid consultant coming to speak with a group of 25 Doctors. There he makes snap pre-judgments and starts name calling, then publishes a blog about how right he is... What a waste of time and effort...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Space_Merchants :)
I can't read about synthetic animal parts without thinking about the enormous mass of chicken, referred to as "Chicken Little" that is used in the book as a source of protein by continually slicing off hunks from the always growing mass of chicken heart cells.
Given a few such warp ships, you could even arrange it so that that person would receive a message they had written and sent with you before they had actually written it. And then causality is broken for everyone.
Not that I think this is a reasonable warp drive, but I don't think you are right about the arrangement leading to the message coming back before it left - there would be plenty of light cones being crossed, but the message would always come back after it was sent, I think.
replying to myself to continue my rant - can't we all agree that it is obvious (in every sense, patent law and otherwise) to connect new peripherals to existing systems... if I invent a new mouse, sure, let me patent the mouse, but don't let me patent every single application where the new mouse is plugged into a computer... it makes me sick.
apparently the "novel" aspect is using a depth sensor (Kinect, for example)... This is just another sign of the increasing worthlessness of patents.
I used to think that software and computers in general would be moving away from typical human interfaces, but I now think that having software/robots perform tasks that humans are also capable of is the future. As a concrete example, I used to think that it would be a bad design to have an application that screen grabs to parse text when it could have the text in a computer readable form, but I see now that a computer that operates a human interface is an advantage. I think that this robot is a step in the direction that we are already heading - our software will augment all of our existing skills - driving, writing, reading, playing games, etc., with a better interface - since it behaves like another human.
I read TFA, its still a clunky, hackerish and unrealistic approach. There is far better technology out there, and I;m no longer impressed just because someone managed to use Android.
I concur - especially when they really should simply be using the phone itself - I don't see how adding an accessory (camera + bluetooth) is any better than holding the phone.
also - I thought it was pretty funny that the only information the guy used to buy a shirt was that it was gray and $27.
Later, when exposed to triggering pulses of light in a completely different environment, the neurons involved in the fear memory switched on — and the mice quickly entered a defensive, immobile crouch.
This does not sound convincing to me at all - there could be many reasons for the mouse to become defensive, one of the least likely of which is that a specific memory was triggered...
Might there be an efficient way to confine a target group of nuclei for a short interval during which the fusion occurs?
It could potentially require much less energy to reach ignition. It seems to me to be a combination of both inertial confinement and light ignition - for example, a cool jet of expanding gas is exposed to an ultra-short laser pulse, stripping the electrons from the atoms and leaving behind a dense collection of nuclei, ready for fusion. Are there experiments like this?
That doesn't sound like the right way to select art...
I don't think you need to give up yet. I think his title line is more to the point and he has a better summary.
I don't think ChromeOS would work in China - I couldn't access google docs using Chrome.
It hardly constitutes evil to allow you to opt out of something.
While I agree with the majority of your post, I think it is evil to require users to opt out. To me that is the same as saying that microsoft wasn't evil to bundle the browser, you could 'opt-out' by deleting it and installing your own browser, after all.
Your post makes sense, but I lose you at John Q public getting shafted. Is he buying stock directly? Or is it perhaps the banks buying it for him in his 401k or something... Sounds like a giant ponzi scheme.
It helps marketing identify 'buzzwords'
My favorite view of the universe is that the "laws of physics" including the speed of light, the conservation laws, and basically the "standard model of particle physics" can all be derived from the spontaneously broken symmetries present in the local area. Analogous to the behavior of phonons in an ice crystal that could be determined from the structure of the crystal lattice.
There isn't sufficient evidence to indicate that our universe is homogenous - like a single block of ice, using the same analogy - it could have regions where there are entirely different symmetries present, and therefore entirely different "physics". These domains of structure could be quite large, and therefore might be very hard to observe (i.e. beyond the background radiation), but they might not be, as well - it could be that the background would be better described as a phase transition instead of a big bang.
Although I agree with the inconvenience factors that you describe (multiple steps to get to the Android "microphone button") making it not really hands-free, you would probably agree that having a dedicated button is not a two-year advantage.
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I've been using my android speech recognition since it came out, I like it - it doesn't replace anything, it augments typing for me, I mostly use it for unimportant google searches, or email/text in the car. About the whole natural language thing, I prefer knowing the capabilities of a system and using commands as opposed to guessing an appropriate level of intelligence from a far from perfect AI. The one thing I tried with Siri was to send a picture via email. I had just taken the picture, and was looking at it in the camera roll, and said "email this picture to SoAndSo" and Siri answered back "ok, what would you like the email to say?" and I was impressed, told it the text, sent the message, then realized that it had decided to compose an email, yes, but not attach the picture. It's like talking to a really incompetent person.
I've been using Android with voice commands, and have been surprised with how well it works, I much prefer it to the virtual keys. It has issues when there is bad internet connectivity, and as you would expect in very noisy environments, although, to be fair, it does better than I had expected in most noise.
I noticed someone else say that it doesn't interpret what you want it to do, and that is only partially true, there are several commands, like "text john I'll be five minutes late" and it completely fills out the fields. But the most common is the "navigate to pizza", which launches the navigation app and starts providing turn by turn navigation without any more presses. I refuse to ever navigate a touchscreen for getting somewhere in the car again.
Equally useful is the fact that no matter what it interprets, it automatically searches google, which is quite often the first thing I do with text now anyway.
If the students need monitors, mice & keyboards at each location, they may as well just carry around a USB thumb stick with a custom LiveOS and put the Pi or other processing core at the work station. That sounds a LOT like my son's middle school.
I think the vision is for the kid to be coding at home. The people running the project will remember Western kids learning to code in front of the family TV, hunched over a home computer on the floor. Having to go to a lab to do this is not as good.
I remember coding in front of the family TV. Still love programming to this day. Your reminder made my morning.
You could definitely amplify head rotation to give a wider range of motion. There was a desktop head tracker that let you look around the cockpit in flight simulator that seemed to work pretty well.