... temperate weather in Canada and Russia. How could that be bad?
Because most of the tundras are perma frost... if they thaw hughe amounts of Methan (CH4) get released and the global warming process becomes self accelerating.
Self accelerating to what point? It has happened numerous times in the past and we haven't become Venus-like. What turned it around? What can we do that will actually make any difference? Sorry but I'm not willing to change until I have proof that you actually know what outcomes will be besides throwing money at it.
Wait, your parents took out PLUS loans to pay for your school (debt is on them) or did they co-sign for loans for you (debt on you)? So you only had one year to go and you raked up 100k in school debt? Something doesn't make sense in your story. If PLUS loans, those are gone when they died. If loans on you why the bit about "student loans wouldn't be a worry"?
Then again you did say this was all your fault, trial by fire not withstanding. Went to a private school as well and between my wife and me had 100k to pay off too. Took 10 hard years but we did it.
if you say "my wife is Jane Doe" and Jane Doe is in your contacts, you can say "tell my wife I'm on my way home" and Siri will build a message to Jane Doe.
does that qualify as learning?
Technically no. What it is doing is populating the Exchange or iCloud field for "spouse" in your contact file. If you are using Exchange such as through Google or such, it can only remember Spouse, Manager, and maybe one other. It also only stores Home and Work. If you need it to remember your brother or child you have to make sure you have an iCloud contact data for yourself. It has those fields and lets you edit location addresses besides home and work (Although Siri still doesn't understand that). A limitation they know of and likely are working on given all the posts I've seen about it. Potential is huge if they keep improving it.
While you're at it Apple, it would be awesome if Siri could talk to all of Apple's apps as well. "Siri turn off bluetooth." etc...
Better yet: "Siri, when I leave the house, turn off wifi and turn on Bluetooth". "When I get to Lowe's, remind me to get lightbulbs." (Without have to store the contact "Lowe's" address in my Address book - you can do this with your contacts that have addresses, but would need to do that first.)
That or Apple could include some better geo location controls for phone functions like some Androids can do.k
Actually if I was a developer, that's exactly what [more closed system] I would choose for in-house custom apps which anyone can write. More security theoretically on my custom apps being troubled with or snooped. There are plenty of businesses I've seen with their own custom rolled apps running on their iPhones/iPads.
Android popped up in a smartphone market ruled by iOS and is now a huge player.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I remember seeing bunches of reports on Android back in the late Palm T|E days competing with Dell's Windows based mobile. iOS wasn't even on the radar then.
Does Siri even do translation? Every time I've asked it to translate an English word into Spanish it says it doesn't know what I mean. This is not "battling" Siri at all. Catchy key-word title to get more clicks is what I see.
The only problem with 360 panoramas like this is that viewing it requires you to use some Quicktime-VR sort of setup that always looks bad with the corner distortion and awkward controls. It's hard to map a full spherical image onto a flat display.
I'm going to have to disagreewiththat. Plenty of great panoramas on that site and are very clean and clear. Just because the source video was crap doesn't mean they all are.
Steve Jobs was driven by perfection of design. Features would not be implemented 95%, it had to be perfect. Woz is driven by fun. He loves practical jokes, he loves being creative. I can't describe him other than he is just Woz.
To me this relationship that Woz and Jobs had was similar to what was portrayed by Flynn and Clue in the movie Tron Legacy. Esp highlighting the ending scene where Clue (Jobs) is angry/confused with Flynn (Woz) that he was just trying to create the perfect system:Tron final scene
The difference is that while Vlingo and most others support voice commands, they lack context and the ability to manage it. Sure you can tell it to do a specific task and hold it's hand through every step as computers have been able to do for ages, even on many phones. Siri goes beyond that.
There are many saying it is nothing new. That may be true if you only consider voice commands nothing new. It's clear from all the videos and evidence we've seen so far that it goes beyond that.
Siri is limited to dictation and search based commands surrounding the main core apps of iOS. Siri for instance cannot turn on Wifi or tell bluetooth to shutoff when leaving work or dim the screen or open app "x" or any number of other commands that are integral to the phone. A lot of what it does is search based using natural language as the key instead of others (and older Apple) voice commands.
Don't get me wrong, what it can do using natural language is amazing and I'm looking forward to the future of better enhancements to it but realistically it's pretty limited in it's current form. Though possibly, those types of apps that it can do are what you would normally be using it for in the first place as voice interaction really only works when occupied with something else or in private. Looking forward to the stories of what 4s owners can get it to do with some tweaks./4s owner tomorrow.
What ever came of those oil cleaners that Kevin Costner's company supposedly had. I saw articles and remember about BP buying a few and using them but nothing after that. Were they effective? Better than the article winner? Just a PR move for BP?
It says BP wanted about 32 and even had some set sail in July 2010 but after that all I see is a Slashdot article discussing it http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/07/18/2035238/ieee-looks-at-kevin-costners-oil-cleanup-machines
Yeah, Apple is really great. Ask my blind nephew how he's going to operate his phone or mp3 player in the post-jobs era. It just works, huh?
There are numerous accessibility features in iPods and iPhones, even for the blind. The latest being Siri and a blind person was even featured in the intro video about it. The fact that you don't know about them just makes you ignorant, but that's ok b/c ignorant people can usually still learn.
Most of my initial FB use was to catch up on old friends I hadn't seen since high school or since graduating college. Now that the "reunion" is over with and I have a means of contacting them if I ever wanted to again, I don't use it as much and rarely post unless its something significant. By the looks of it a few hundred of my "friends" treat it the same way and rarely, if ever, post.
Google+ issue was that people already had done that or had the vehicle in place where everyone already was. Those using it for vanity purposes or marketing were better served by FB. The minor improvements Google+ tried to make were easily implemented by the king of the hill. So just like Wave, Buzz, and the rest, Google+ efforts in social media will likely end the same.
I have to use Outlook for work on my Thinkpad. I use Gmail for all personal use (web or phone interface). Why can you have thousands of emails in Gmail with near instant search and no bogging down, but if you tried to do that with Outlook it would take forever. Plus it constantly wants to "archive" your email in a way that means you'll likely never see it again and can't handle thousands of emails in the inbox like Gmail can. Search takes forever and is not intuitive, autofilters are not very good. Outlook is way behind Gmail.
I liked the guy and I love his gadgets but one thing always bothered me about him. Perhaps it's bad to speak ill of the dead so soon but face it, his work to charity is not highlighted at all. To my understanding Apple stopped charitable giving many years ago and never restarted unlike their rivals. Hoarding over 8 Billion in personal fortune alone does not sound like something someone caring for their fellow man would do.
I really do like the tech he introduced to the world, but at least to me, his image is tarnished by the lack of his philanthropic activities.
Mr. Jobs also established a personal philanthropic foundation after leaving Apple but soon had a change of heart, deciding instead to spend much of his fortune — $10 million — on acquiring Pixar, a struggling graphics supercomputing company owned by the filmmaker George Lucas.
One would say there are easier methods, that are more objective. Like: take the statistics provided by the app store on number of downloads, the price of the app (if not free), and from that you have the revenue.
It's normal that the top 20% takes 80% of sales. Like 20% of the products in a typical supermarket create 80% of turnover. Though in the app market it may be even more skewed.
But that is where the stats would fail. Many of the free based games are ad-supported and make money off of that. You would not be capturing that large demographic.
The 5000 is usually interpreted to mean just the men as being counted. If women and children were also present, not unreasonable, it was actually many more than that.
All power comes from the barrel of a gun. Aimed at you - to make you comply. Willingly, or otherwise.
All power comes from being able to make someone happy.
Slight clarification, All power comes from being able to offer the potential or promise of future happiness. Your example of Obama proved this. He offered "hope and change", potential happiness in the future if elected. Same for the gun example, potential happiness of the victim if I don't kill you.
250MB =~ 2000Mb, : : 2000Mb / 24Mb/s = 83s or about 1.5 minutes.
I'm currently on the "unlimited" plan but for demo lets say I'm bumped down to 2GB plan, that ends up being a little over 11 minutes if at constant use.
I was looking forward to the new iPhone to have a 4G connection as ATT is ramping that up in my area this fall. Now I'm not so sure since I could easily be over a cap in less than a day into the month. Granted usage won't be all at once and I doubt the speeds will hold with actual customers using it, but the faster the pipe, the more usage it will get. AT&T needs to up their data plans or prepare to t-off a lot of customers b/c of continual overages.
Although one bright spot to 4G, if the speeds hold, is steadily increasing competition to cable/dsl internet. If I can tether my phone and get those speeds, or use a hotspot for cheaper, cable is going to have to up the game for my home network.
I shouldn't have to add the detail of "war" to waste and needless spending should I? I thought that was a given. Overall though, they are not producing much but are keeping numerous people and related industries employed around the world.
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Because most of the tundras are perma frost ... if they thaw hughe amounts of Methan (CH4) get released and the global warming process becomes self accelerating.
Self accelerating to what point? It has happened numerous times in the past and we haven't become Venus-like. What turned it around? What can we do that will actually make any difference? Sorry but I'm not willing to change until I have proof that you actually know what outcomes will be besides throwing money at it.
Wait, your parents took out PLUS loans to pay for your school (debt is on them) or did they co-sign for loans for you (debt on you)? So you only had one year to go and you raked up 100k in school debt? Something doesn't make sense in your story. If PLUS loans, those are gone when they died. If loans on you why the bit about "student loans wouldn't be a worry"?
Then again you did say this was all your fault, trial by fire not withstanding. Went to a private school as well and between my wife and me had 100k to pay off too. Took 10 hard years but we did it.
if you say "my wife is Jane Doe" and Jane Doe is in your contacts, you can say "tell my wife I'm on my way home" and Siri will build a message to Jane Doe.
does that qualify as learning?
Technically no. What it is doing is populating the Exchange or iCloud field for "spouse" in your contact file. If you are using Exchange such as through Google or such, it can only remember Spouse, Manager, and maybe one other. It also only stores Home and Work. If you need it to remember your brother or child you have to make sure you have an iCloud contact data for yourself. It has those fields and lets you edit location addresses besides home and work (Although Siri still doesn't understand that). A limitation they know of and likely are working on given all the posts I've seen about it. Potential is huge if they keep improving it.
While you're at it Apple, it would be awesome if Siri could talk to all of Apple's apps as well. "Siri turn off bluetooth." etc...
Better yet: "Siri, when I leave the house, turn off wifi and turn on Bluetooth" .
"When I get to Lowe's, remind me to get lightbulbs." (Without have to store the contact "Lowe's" address in my Address book - you can do this with your contacts that have addresses, but would need to do that first.)
That or Apple could include some better geo location controls for phone functions like some Androids can do.k
Actually if I was a developer, that's exactly what [more closed system] I would choose for in-house custom apps which anyone can write. More security theoretically on my custom apps being troubled with or snooped. There are plenty of businesses I've seen with their own custom rolled apps running on their iPhones/iPads.
Android popped up in a smartphone market ruled by iOS and is now a huge player.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I remember seeing bunches of reports on Android back in the late Palm T|E days competing with Dell's Windows based mobile. iOS wasn't even on the radar then.
Does Siri even do translation? Every time I've asked it to translate an English word into Spanish it says it doesn't know what I mean. This is not "battling" Siri at all. Catchy key-word title to get more clicks is what I see.
The only problem with 360 panoramas like this is that viewing it requires you to use some Quicktime-VR sort of setup that always looks bad with the corner distortion and awkward controls. It's hard to map a full spherical image onto a flat display.
I'm going to have to disagree with that. Plenty of great panoramas on that site and are very clean and clear. Just because the source video was crap doesn't mean they all are.
Steve Jobs was driven by perfection of design. Features would not be implemented 95%, it had to be perfect. Woz is driven by fun. He loves practical jokes, he loves being creative. I can't describe him other than he is just Woz.
To me this relationship that Woz and Jobs had was similar to what was portrayed by Flynn and Clue in the movie Tron Legacy. Esp highlighting the ending scene where Clue (Jobs) is angry/confused with Flynn (Woz) that he was just trying to create the perfect system :Tron final scene
The difference is that while Vlingo and most others support voice commands, they lack context and the ability to manage it. Sure you can tell it to do a specific task and hold it's hand through every step as computers have been able to do for ages, even on many phones. Siri goes beyond that.
There are many saying it is nothing new. That may be true if you only consider voice commands nothing new. It's clear from all the videos and evidence we've seen so far that it goes beyond that.
Siri is limited to dictation and search based commands surrounding the main core apps of iOS. Siri for instance cannot turn on Wifi or tell bluetooth to shutoff when leaving work or dim the screen or open app "x" or any number of other commands that are integral to the phone. A lot of what it does is search based using natural language as the key instead of others (and older Apple) voice commands.
/4s owner tomorrow.
Don't get me wrong, what it can do using natural language is amazing and I'm looking forward to the future of better enhancements to it but realistically it's pretty limited in it's current form. Though possibly, those types of apps that it can do are what you would normally be using it for in the first place as voice interaction really only works when occupied with something else or in private. Looking forward to the stories of what 4s owners can get it to do with some tweaks.
What ever came of those oil cleaners that Kevin Costner's company supposedly had. I saw articles and remember about BP buying a few and using them but nothing after that. Were they effective? Better than the article winner? Just a PR move for BP? It says BP wanted about 32 and even had some set sail in July 2010 but after that all I see is a Slashdot article discussing it http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/07/18/2035238/ieee-looks-at-kevin-costners-oil-cleanup-machines
The only thing I could find close to a follow up in the popular press was from this July reviewing how well it worked and some of the failures (clogging with "peanut butter type" oil and such) http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/jul/12/bp-kevin-costner-deepwater-horizon-spill
Yeah, Apple is really great. Ask my blind nephew how he's going to operate his phone or mp3 player in the post-jobs era. It just works, huh?
There are numerous accessibility features in iPods and iPhones, even for the blind. The latest being Siri and a blind person was even featured in the intro video about it. The fact that you don't know about them just makes you ignorant, but that's ok b/c ignorant people can usually still learn.
Most of my initial FB use was to catch up on old friends I hadn't seen since high school or since graduating college. Now that the "reunion" is over with and I have a means of contacting them if I ever wanted to again, I don't use it as much and rarely post unless its something significant. By the looks of it a few hundred of my "friends" treat it the same way and rarely, if ever, post.
Google+ issue was that people already had done that or had the vehicle in place where everyone already was. Those using it for vanity purposes or marketing were better served by FB. The minor improvements Google+ tried to make were easily implemented by the king of the hill. So just like Wave, Buzz, and the rest, Google+ efforts in social media will likely end the same.
Their selection, as of now, sucks. No classics, barely any foreign movies
To you maybe, not to most, because the majority of people want to see new movies, not classics and most foreign movies are a niche market.
I have to use Outlook for work on my Thinkpad. I use Gmail for all personal use (web or phone interface). Why can you have thousands of emails in Gmail with near instant search and no bogging down, but if you tried to do that with Outlook it would take forever. Plus it constantly wants to "archive" your email in a way that means you'll likely never see it again and can't handle thousands of emails in the inbox like Gmail can. Search takes forever and is not intuitive, autofilters are not very good. Outlook is way behind Gmail.
I really do like the tech he introduced to the world, but at least to me, his image is tarnished by the lack of his philanthropic activities.
Mr. Jobs also established a personal philanthropic foundation after leaving Apple but soon had a change of heart, deciding instead to spend much of his fortune — $10 million — on acquiring Pixar, a struggling graphics supercomputing company owned by the filmmaker George Lucas.
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I do not care, its another iphone...
The fact that you're posting indicates otherwise.
One would say there are easier methods, that are more objective. Like: take the statistics provided by the app store on number of downloads, the price of the app (if not free), and from that you have the revenue.
It's normal that the top 20% takes 80% of sales. Like 20% of the products in a typical supermarket create 80% of turnover. Though in the app market it may be even more skewed.
But that is where the stats would fail. Many of the free based games are ad-supported and make money off of that. You would not be capturing that large demographic.
...razing the dead...
Now there's an interesting mental image of the savior.
No because you should probably more careful than trying to fulfill what you think of as an immediate sexual desire.
The 5000 is usually interpreted to mean just the men as being counted. If women and children were also present, not unreasonable, it was actually many more than that.
All power comes from the barrel of a gun. Aimed at you - to make you comply. Willingly, or otherwise.
All power comes from being able to make someone happy.
Slight clarification, All power comes from being able to offer the potential or promise of future happiness. Your example of Obama proved this. He offered "hope and change", potential happiness in the future if elected. Same for the gun example, potential happiness of the victim if I don't kill you.
250MB =~ 2000Mb, : : 2000Mb / 24Mb/s = 83s or about 1.5 minutes.
I'm currently on the "unlimited" plan but for demo lets say I'm bumped down to 2GB plan, that ends up being a little over 11 minutes if at constant use.
I was looking forward to the new iPhone to have a 4G connection as ATT is ramping that up in my area this fall. Now I'm not so sure since I could easily be over a cap in less than a day into the month. Granted usage won't be all at once and I doubt the speeds will hold with actual customers using it, but the faster the pipe, the more usage it will get. AT&T needs to up their data plans or prepare to t-off a lot of customers b/c of continual overages.
Although one bright spot to 4G, if the speeds hold, is steadily increasing competition to cable/dsl internet. If I can tether my phone and get those speeds, or use a hotspot for cheaper, cable is going to have to up the game for my home network.
I shouldn't have to add the detail of "war" to waste and needless spending should I? I thought that was a given. Overall though, they are not producing much but are keeping numerous people and related industries employed around the world.