Reasoned questioning and debate based on scientific fact should alway she welcomed. I think the point the parent was trying to make is that we see, all too often on slashdot, debate that has little basis in fact.
I'm guessing you've never used it given your response. Texting works very well, assuming you don't have some odd accent it's not programmed to handle. General queries also work well. I find the word recognition to be good enough for day to day. Comparing any voice recognition app to something from 2000 is a stretch in the extreme, and a flat out lie at best. If this was easy, it would be on every platform out there. Take a look at the recent Android attempts to duplicate it.
As to functionality, I find it works relative well for day to day tasks, general texting, and simple management. Then again, I'm not expecting Star Trek in a phone, but rather a phone that does a few things well.
I don't think you understood the content of the article. 4 and 4S can indeed run Siri, but Siri does it better in the very environments where it's important. Without the noise reduction hardware, Siri doesn't work nearly well enough on an iPhone 4. Lets face it. If you're at home and you need something you have your computer and a full keyboard in front of you. You would probably use them. Siri is typically used out and about where the background noise is the worst. The two have been compared, and in a quiet environment, they are comparable. put them in a noisy room and the iPhone 4 can't compete with the 4S.
What a fucking moronic question. Do you seriously think someone would put themselves in a position to face either incarceration, or chemical castration willingly by choice? Someone who would later take his own life by cyanide poisoning, all due to what you think may be a 'lifestyle choice'?
I certainly hope you are trolling. Otherwise you aren't qualified to be away from adult supervision. The way Alan Turing was treated was despicable, and the fact that the government won't pardon him posthumously is also despicable considering the work he did for the government, his time served, and the advances in computer science. For his service, they made him a criminal, castrated him, and then led him to suicide. They admitted they made a mistake. The proper path would be to at least attempt to make amends rather than throwing out empty words.
You would have to opt into error reporting in iOS to allow Apple to collect that info. It is not enabled by default.
This report isn't particularly useful since it only represents a small subset of those apps that leverage Crittercism. It says nothing about those that don't, or what percentage of typical apps on a phone this data represents.
I think a better way to go would be to stop inviting everyone from the top down to meetings that could be better served via email, or even IM. I find a don't pay attention to meetings that have little to no affect on my daily work yet they continue to invite me regardless, 'just in case' or because it's a major announcement for some VP who is changing departments, or some tweak to benefits, etc. I also get invited to technical meetings for various topics on projects I am only peripherally working on yet I'm on the invite list for every meeting regardless. They would be better served inviting key folks and let the disperse the info as needed rather than inviting people who's time is better spent getting work done.
As to the 'gimmick', yes it might wake people up, but it will also make them irritable, rebellious, and take them out of the proper productive frame of mind that often generates good ideas.
It would not be treason. You are being overly dramatic. There have been thousands of bills that were later overturned as unconstitutional. Can you cite a single case where the author of the bill was held for treason? Theatrics aside, the treaty would simply be held null and void if it violated the constitution, and that is a matter for the courts to decide. That was why I also stated that the Supreme Court can rule a treaty as unconstitutional and therefore null and void.
Because you would be considered an idiot for claiming this was unconstitutional. The executive branch can, and does sign international treaties. It is well within their authority to do so. There are three types of treaties in the U.S.
Congressional-Executive Agreements Solo Executive Agreements Treaties
If the president has signed one without the direct consent of congress, it is considered either a Solo Executive Agreement, or a Congressional Executive agreement. The U.S. also differs from most other nations in that they treat each of the above types of treaties as distinct classes and the treaty is incorporated into federal law, and as such, congress can go in and modify them after the fact, even though other signing nations would consider this a violation of the treaty in question. The Supreme Court can also hold a treaty as unconstitutional and null and void.
The authority of the president to do this is well known. Congress has attempted over the years to limit this authority with various versions of the Bicker Amendment (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bricker_Amendment#Legal_background) but it has never been ratified by enough states.
Why would you convert it to iBooks format and then immediately turn around and look for an export option? I would think you would create any/all formats from your source material.
Exactly. This entire post is based on a false premise that you are giving away your rights to your content by using their authoring tool when in fact the only limitation is that you cannot take content created in iBooks Author and sell it elsewhere using the iBooks format. If you want to sell it outside of the app store, create it in a different format.
Do you realize you just trashed the old adage "Learn by example"?. If person A eats a poison berry, and person B doesn't, that makes person B smarter for allowing person A to die while learning from his example.
GoDaddy is another good example of the same thing. They took the leap, and were burned from it. Other companies learned from that example, stated the opposite, and were praised for it.
In this case, Apple lead on a lot of these initiatives, supporting the "It Gets Better" initiative, as well as opposing Prop 8. They donated 100,000 in an effort to prevent Prop 8. They have obviously suffered no backlash from the consumer for this. Apparently they've also donated millions of dollars to AIDS charities over the years, although that only came to light recently (it wasn't publicly disclosed until after Job's death).
My take on it was that either some employee did this, or that someone simply hacked the router. Not hard to believe as most come without any password protection, and generally use something asinine like 'Admin' for the login name, or even worse, a blank value.
In any case, it would be an internal matter for the community center that may or may not justify police involvement at some point. It should not involve calling the police and having a car sent out to calm some hysteric woman who was offended by something she read. It does not justify the waste taxpayer money sending a policeman out. What exactly was he going to do? Unplug it? I think pretty much any employee of the community center could do that and effectively solve the situation short term.
The problem is that they called the police out twice, and wasted taxpayer money on someone exercising their freedom of speech. That lady was not harmed in any way. Offended maybe, but I doubt she is worried they will be placing buying artifacts on her lawn while she sleeps.
The asshat who put that as their SSID is just that: An asshat. That doesn't make it illegal. It just makes him or her a douche.
Lotus Notes is a good example of just that sort of stupidity. Replicating files from server to server pushes all of the data through the client on a workstation. Using the NLNOTES client on a server removes the local client connection from the picture and just leverages the servers bandwidth to move the data. The folks on here who are lucky enough to have only CLI interfaces available have no clue as to how stupid some vendors are and what you have to do to work around them. Using VNC/RDP into a server and running the GUI from there is a life saver when using a slower DSL or Dial-Up connection. Even a broadband cable connection is useless when moving gigabytes of data via a GUI client that cycles all of the data through the client itself.
No, for those apps that require a GUI interface, rather than running that GUI locally through your constrained low bandwidth connection, you launch the GUI on the server side, and make use of the server's broadband connection and remove your local client's low bandwidth connection from the equation. Read the last line of my post. I'm not suggesting it increases the bandwidth (although the parent did via a poorly worded response), but rather increases the bandwidth available to you for those apps that require a GUI, while removing your local client connection from the picture.
You are missing the point. When forced to use your local connection to work, you are limited by the slowest link (your computer). When you VNC into a host server and us the GUI there, you are limited by the servers connections, which typically tend to be in gigabytes, not kbits. It was simply poorly worded, but anyone who's worked remotely via VNC understands the principle. You use the hosting VNC target to do your heavy network lifting and your local laptop/desktop as a dumb terminal to get you into the host server. It doesn't increase your bandwidth per-se but instead increases the bandwidth available to you while removing your slower local link from the equation.
You may be waiting a while as these sorts of things tend to take on a life of their own regardless of the facts presented. The meat of the linked article basically says the docs are questionable but well done. They also throw in a possible link to Anonymous which is a curious twist:
Technology blog Infosec Island said on Wednesday it had seen more data obtained by the Lords of Dharmaraja, including dozens of usernames and passwords for compromised U.S. government network accounts. Infosec Island blogger Anthony Freed said the hacker group claimed to have taken the data from servers belonging to India's Ministry of External Affairs and the Indian government's IT organization, among others. Officials in India declined to comment on the document's content or authenticity. The alleged memo (http://bit.ly/zYze7w), which had a number of inconsistencies, including the letterhead of a military intelligence unit not involved in surveillance, claimed India had been spying on the USCC using know-how provided by Western mobile phone manufacturers. While the memo looks dubious, the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission has not denied the veracity of the email cache, and U.S. authorities are investigating the matter. The emails include conversations between U.S. embassy officials in Tripoli, DHL and General Electric about delivering medical equipment to Libya, as well as concerns that GE was helping China improve its jet engine industry. "ANONYMOUS" It is unclear whether Lords of Dharmaraja got the emails from Indian military intelligence servers, as they claim, but they first mentioned the documents in November, at the same time as they announced they hacked India's embassy server in Paris. That breach was confirmed at the time by India's foreign ministry, and some experts believe the cache of U.S. emails was taken from the same source, raising the question of how they ended up there in the first place. "An individual could have hacked someone's personal computer and handed it over to the embassy. There are so many means and measures," said Saini, who himself was charged with leaking secrets to Washington in 2006. He proclaims his innocence. "There may be cooperation between India and the United States, the United States may have shared them, or India could have done the hack... or a third country may have handed it to India," said Saini. It is also unclear how Symantec's source code ended up with the Lords of Dharmaraja, whose public face goes by the name Yamatough on a Twitter feed. Yamatough, whose profile picture shows a Tibetan painting of Dharmaraja, the Hindu god of death and justice, follows many members of the "Anonymous" hacking collective, and Symantec attributes the hack to that group.
Interesting. I live in Texas where the winters are very mild. I wonder if the EPA should also consider temperature as a factor when publishing MPG on EV or Hybrid vehicles?
I'm curious if any studies have been done on the effects?
I disagree. Although the younger crowd might stomp on the gas at every light, the adult crowd tends to outgrow such things. I have two hybrids and one common gasoline engine and the hybrids normally average the expected gas mileage that was on the sticker. No idea where TFA gets the idea that the claims are vaporware when my household seems to have no problem attaining such figures. I live in a large metroplex so the bulk of my driving is city driving which also happens to be the ideal condition for a hybrid.
Perhaps the author didn't understand the environments where hybrids shine and the difference between that and simple highway driving?
Such efforts would do better to require that the EPA redefine the monroney sticker/MPG standards to be a bit more realistic. If the auto manufacturer's comply with the requirements for the posted ratings, I don't think this will go anywhere. They recently revamped them to better reflect the (then) today's driver. I want to say it was about 10 years ago, prior to the influx of hybrid and electric vehicles. Sounds like it's time for another review.
Why bother with this at all? You can already enable your Mac accounts to use your Apple ID to log into your Mac. This is in addition to your regular login by the way. If you forget your password you can reset it in the cloud and then use that to re-log in to any device you've setup to allow that type of authentication.
From the Apple Help:
Allow user to reset password using Apple ID An administrator can select this checkbox to let a user who has forgotten the login password to reset the password after entering an Apple ID.
I think in general the bigger software companies always offer the 'lite' versions so there's no worry in checking it out first, but smaller developers you are pretty much taking your chances. Granted, it's typically only a buck.
Agreed. I don't think this has anything to do with the cost directly, but rather buyers remorse. There is nothing more irritating than buying something only to find that it sucks not to put too fine a point on it. This does not apply to a cup of coffee, or a coke because you know and expect them to be the same every time you buy them, and they generally are.
Software is a different animal, and no different than anything else you buy and retain. It is not a common consumable that you know what it will taste like, or feel like. The other issue I believe has to do with choice. People agonize (if that's the proper word or not, as it seems a bit strong to me) over multiple choices where a simple coffee is nearly always the same brand, the same flavor, ect. If people choose the 'wrong' app, and that could have been used to buy the 'right' one, people get irritated.
I think they over thought this one by a long shot.
Yet another geek, who has little to no understanding about consumer demand. If the tablet trend was purely due to 'Apple Fanatics', then those fanatics would have bought their tablets and that would have been the end of it, yet almost every PC manufacturer on the planet is struggling to produce their own tablet. There is obviously a huge market and demand for devices like these. Simply claiming there is no logical reason for demand for these tablets because YOU don't see a need doesn't mean these don't meet a need in those consumers that buy them. Even sadder that you trolled out the treasured 'Apple Fanatics' and 'status symbol' buzzwords and of course were rewarded with an Insightful for it.
PC's have been trending towards simple email/web/media devices for years. The 'need' consumers see in a simple device that meets all of those wants, and is portable, has a small footprint, and easy to use, and you seriously don't see why people want tablets? I have to assume the disconnect between geeks and the regular 'joe user' is the fact that geeks are typically always power users and tablets simply don't fit the bill for that type of user, but for the vast majority of today's computing users, a tablet fits their needs perfectly for casual browsing, email, listening to music, and playing the occasional game.
Claiming the only reason for Apple's success is due to it's 'gullible' users may also get you an insightful mod, but it falls far from the truth. Apple and Linux users are shown to be far less gullible than Windows users, better educated, and tech savvy. There's a reason Apple has been number one in consumer satisfaction for something like the last decade. Their shit works, it's good quality, and people don't have to fuck with it all the time. Those are powerful draws to a casual user who browses the web, checks email, listens to music, and plays the occasional time-waster game while waiting for a doctors appointment or whatnot.
And even worse, there was a phone Zimlet available prior to the release of the iPhone that did exactly the same thing, minus the touchscreen equivalent of a click. This is a poor decision at best.
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Reasoned questioning and debate based on scientific fact should alway she welcomed. I think the point the parent was trying to make is that we see, all too often on slashdot, debate that has little basis in fact.
I'm guessing you've never used it given your response. Texting works very well, assuming you don't have some odd accent it's not programmed to handle. General queries also work well. I find the word recognition to be good enough for day to day. Comparing any voice recognition app to something from 2000 is a stretch in the extreme, and a flat out lie at best. If this was easy, it would be on every platform out there. Take a look at the recent Android attempts to duplicate it.
As to functionality, I find it works relative well for day to day tasks, general texting, and simple management. Then again, I'm not expecting Star Trek in a phone, but rather a phone that does a few things well.
I don't think you understood the content of the article. 4 and 4S can indeed run Siri, but Siri does it better in the very environments where it's important. Without the noise reduction hardware, Siri doesn't work nearly well enough on an iPhone 4. Lets face it. If you're at home and you need something you have your computer and a full keyboard in front of you. You would probably use them. Siri is typically used out and about where the background noise is the worst. The two have been compared, and in a quiet environment, they are comparable. put them in a noisy room and the iPhone 4 can't compete with the 4S.
What a fucking moronic question. Do you seriously think someone would put themselves in a position to face either incarceration, or chemical castration willingly by choice? Someone who would later take his own life by cyanide poisoning, all due to what you think may be a 'lifestyle choice'?
I certainly hope you are trolling. Otherwise you aren't qualified to be away from adult supervision. The way Alan Turing was treated was despicable, and the fact that the government won't pardon him posthumously is also despicable considering the work he did for the government, his time served, and the advances in computer science. For his service, they made him a criminal, castrated him, and then led him to suicide. They admitted they made a mistake. The proper path would be to at least attempt to make amends rather than throwing out empty words.
You would have to opt into error reporting in iOS to allow Apple to collect that info. It is not enabled by default.
This report isn't particularly useful since it only represents a small subset of those apps that leverage Crittercism. It says nothing about those that don't, or what percentage of typical apps on a phone this data represents.
I think a better way to go would be to stop inviting everyone from the top down to meetings that could be better served via email, or even IM. I find a don't pay attention to meetings that have little to no affect on my daily work yet they continue to invite me regardless, 'just in case' or because it's a major announcement for some VP who is changing departments, or some tweak to benefits, etc. I also get invited to technical meetings for various topics on projects I am only peripherally working on yet I'm on the invite list for every meeting regardless. They would be better served inviting key folks and let the disperse the info as needed rather than inviting people who's time is better spent getting work done.
As to the 'gimmick', yes it might wake people up, but it will also make them irritable, rebellious, and take them out of the proper productive frame of mind that often generates good ideas.
It would not be treason. You are being overly dramatic. There have been thousands of bills that were later overturned as unconstitutional. Can you cite a single case where the author of the bill was held for treason? Theatrics aside, the treaty would simply be held null and void if it violated the constitution, and that is a matter for the courts to decide. That was why I also stated that the Supreme Court can rule a treaty as unconstitutional and therefore null and void.
Because you would be considered an idiot for claiming this was unconstitutional. The executive branch can, and does sign international treaties. It is well within their authority to do so. There are three types of treaties in the U.S.
Congressional-Executive Agreements
Solo Executive Agreements
Treaties
If the president has signed one without the direct consent of congress, it is considered either a Solo Executive Agreement, or a Congressional Executive agreement. The U.S. also differs from most other nations in that they treat each of the above types of treaties as distinct classes and the treaty is incorporated into federal law, and as such, congress can go in and modify them after the fact, even though other signing nations would consider this a violation of the treaty in question. The Supreme Court can also hold a treaty as unconstitutional and null and void.
The authority of the president to do this is well known. Congress has attempted over the years to limit this authority with various versions of the Bicker Amendment (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bricker_Amendment#Legal_background) but it has never been ratified by enough states.
Why would you convert it to iBooks format and then immediately turn around and look for an export option? I would think you would create any/all formats from your source material.
Exactly. This entire post is based on a false premise that you are giving away your rights to your content by using their authoring tool when in fact the only limitation is that you cannot take content created in iBooks Author and sell it elsewhere using the iBooks format. If you want to sell it outside of the app store, create it in a different format.
This article is a lot of nothing..
Are you seriously equating plotting to kill someone and carrying out those plans as 'Free Speech'?
Do you realize you just trashed the old adage "Learn by example"?. If person A eats a poison berry, and person B doesn't, that makes person B smarter for allowing person A to die while learning from his example.
GoDaddy is another good example of the same thing. They took the leap, and were burned from it. Other companies learned from that example, stated the opposite, and were praised for it.
In this case, Apple lead on a lot of these initiatives, supporting the "It Gets Better" initiative, as well as opposing Prop 8. They donated 100,000 in an effort to prevent Prop 8. They have obviously suffered no backlash from the consumer for this. Apparently they've also donated millions of dollars to AIDS charities over the years, although that only came to light recently (it wasn't publicly disclosed until after Job's death).
My take on it was that either some employee did this, or that someone simply hacked the router. Not hard to believe as most come without any password protection, and generally use something asinine like 'Admin' for the login name, or even worse, a blank value.
In any case, it would be an internal matter for the community center that may or may not justify police involvement at some point. It should not involve calling the police and having a car sent out to calm some hysteric woman who was offended by something she read. It does not justify the waste taxpayer money sending a policeman out. What exactly was he going to do? Unplug it? I think pretty much any employee of the community center could do that and effectively solve the situation short term.
The problem is that they called the police out twice, and wasted taxpayer money on someone exercising their freedom of speech. That lady was not harmed in any way. Offended maybe, but I doubt she is worried they will be placing buying artifacts on her lawn while she sleeps.
The asshat who put that as their SSID is just that: An asshat. That doesn't make it illegal. It just makes him or her a douche.
Lotus Notes is a good example of just that sort of stupidity. Replicating files from server to server pushes all of the data through the client on a workstation. Using the NLNOTES client on a server removes the local client connection from the picture and just leverages the servers bandwidth to move the data. The folks on here who are lucky enough to have only CLI interfaces available have no clue as to how stupid some vendors are and what you have to do to work around them. Using VNC/RDP into a server and running the GUI from there is a life saver when using a slower DSL or Dial-Up connection. Even a broadband cable connection is useless when moving gigabytes of data via a GUI client that cycles all of the data through the client itself.
No, for those apps that require a GUI interface, rather than running that GUI locally through your constrained low bandwidth connection, you launch the GUI on the server side, and make use of the server's broadband connection and remove your local client's low bandwidth connection from the equation. Read the last line of my post. I'm not suggesting it increases the bandwidth (although the parent did via a poorly worded response), but rather increases the bandwidth available to you for those apps that require a GUI, while removing your local client connection from the picture.
You are missing the point. When forced to use your local connection to work, you are limited by the slowest link (your computer). When you VNC into a host server and us the GUI there, you are limited by the servers connections, which typically tend to be in gigabytes, not kbits. It was simply poorly worded, but anyone who's worked remotely via VNC understands the principle. You use the hosting VNC target to do your heavy network lifting and your local laptop/desktop as a dumb terminal to get you into the host server. It doesn't increase your bandwidth per-se but instead increases the bandwidth available to you while removing your slower local link from the equation.
You may be waiting a while as these sorts of things tend to take on a life of their own regardless of the facts presented. The meat of the linked article basically says the docs are questionable but well done. They also throw in a possible link to Anonymous which is a curious twist:
Interesting. I live in Texas where the winters are very mild. I wonder if the EPA should also consider temperature as a factor when publishing MPG on EV or Hybrid vehicles?
I'm curious if any studies have been done on the effects?
I disagree. Although the younger crowd might stomp on the gas at every light, the adult crowd tends to outgrow such things. I have two hybrids and one common gasoline engine and the hybrids normally average the expected gas mileage that was on the sticker. No idea where TFA gets the idea that the claims are vaporware when my household seems to have no problem attaining such figures. I live in a large metroplex so the bulk of my driving is city driving which also happens to be the ideal condition for a hybrid.
Perhaps the author didn't understand the environments where hybrids shine and the difference between that and simple highway driving?
Such efforts would do better to require that the EPA redefine the monroney sticker/MPG standards to be a bit more realistic. If the auto manufacturer's comply with the requirements for the posted ratings, I don't think this will go anywhere. They recently revamped them to better reflect the (then) today's driver. I want to say it was about 10 years ago, prior to the influx of hybrid and electric vehicles. Sounds like it's time for another review.
Why bother with this at all? You can already enable your Mac accounts to use your Apple ID to log into your Mac. This is in addition to your regular login by the way. If you forget your password you can reset it in the cloud and then use that to re-log in to any device you've setup to allow that type of authentication.
From the Apple Help:
I think in general the bigger software companies always offer the 'lite' versions so there's no worry in checking it out first, but smaller developers you are pretty much taking your chances. Granted, it's typically only a buck.
Agreed. I don't think this has anything to do with the cost directly, but rather buyers remorse. There is nothing more irritating than buying something only to find that it sucks not to put too fine a point on it. This does not apply to a cup of coffee, or a coke because you know and expect them to be the same every time you buy them, and they generally are.
Software is a different animal, and no different than anything else you buy and retain. It is not a common consumable that you know what it will taste like, or feel like. The other issue I believe has to do with choice. People agonize (if that's the proper word or not, as it seems a bit strong to me) over multiple choices where a simple coffee is nearly always the same brand, the same flavor, ect. If people choose the 'wrong' app, and that could have been used to buy the 'right' one, people get irritated.
I think they over thought this one by a long shot.
Yet another geek, who has little to no understanding about consumer demand. If the tablet trend was purely due to 'Apple Fanatics', then those fanatics would have bought their tablets and that would have been the end of it, yet almost every PC manufacturer on the planet is struggling to produce their own tablet. There is obviously a huge market and demand for devices like these. Simply claiming there is no logical reason for demand for these tablets because YOU don't see a need doesn't mean these don't meet a need in those consumers that buy them. Even sadder that you trolled out the treasured 'Apple Fanatics' and 'status symbol' buzzwords and of course were rewarded with an Insightful for it.
PC's have been trending towards simple email/web/media devices for years. The 'need' consumers see in a simple device that meets all of those wants, and is portable, has a small footprint, and easy to use, and you seriously don't see why people want tablets? I have to assume the disconnect between geeks and the regular 'joe user' is the fact that geeks are typically always power users and tablets simply don't fit the bill for that type of user, but for the vast majority of today's computing users, a tablet fits their needs perfectly for casual browsing, email, listening to music, and playing the occasional game.
Claiming the only reason for Apple's success is due to it's 'gullible' users may also get you an insightful mod, but it falls far from the truth. Apple and Linux users are shown to be far less gullible than Windows users, better educated, and tech savvy. There's a reason Apple has been number one in consumer satisfaction for something like the last decade. Their shit works, it's good quality, and people don't have to fuck with it all the time. Those are powerful draws to a casual user who browses the web, checks email, listens to music, and plays the occasional time-waster game while waiting for a doctors appointment or whatnot.
Actually Apple patented this in the mid 1990's.