In the car, wanting to navigate? Pretty good, usually. Trying to dictate the body of an email? Not so much, though when I'm driving, my recipients forgive the weirdness that emerges.
"Alexia, AC up 2degrees"... how hard can the be? And how long does it take you to find the AC function on your PC, or do you have the AC control panel always open floating on top of the other apps?
There's this slider control on the wall, at perfect ergonomic height... probably copied from a PC, I guess, lol
It was fine, mostly... except for all that getting lost, and getting stuck in traffic jams that I could have avoided had I only known. And never having a camera handy when I needed one. And not being able to instantly compare prices while in a store. And... and... and...
So you convinced yourself that you 'need' those things -- and traded your privacy for convenience, like so many.
No, I've made a rational risk/benefit calculation, for me.
To me, the benefits of a smartphone are huge.
The benefits of a home listening device? Not seeing them. Not for me, anyway (my relative missing most of their limbs, maybe a different calculation there).
My life is just fine without one, too. Doesn't anyone else remember life before there were smartphones? We all lived just fine.;-)
Yeah, I do. I used to brag about not having one.
It was fine, mostly... except for all that getting lost, and getting stuck in traffic jams that I could have avoided had I only known. And never having a camera handy when I needed one. And not being able to instantly compare prices while in a store. And... and... and...
Now, a home device, on the other hand, designed for solely voice interface, I'm not seeing the benefit. I'm home, after all. I have a PC and can do precisely what I want, without an insanely clunky interface. And more importantly not do what I don't want.
when the progress of science wasn't hindered by a few statistical accidents. The age of discoveries. The space race, when you could at least pretend mankind had its aim at the stars, even if it was mostly about political bickering between superpowers.
Now it's all about safety and well-being for everyone, no child left behind. If there's any of that sci-fi tech around we used to dream of, we might as well put ourselves in the stasis chamber and be comfortably numb for the rest of eternity.
Well, the usual ratio to consider is "risk"/"reward".
I can see how self driving taxis benefit a taxi company. I am not seeing how they benefit me, or civilization generally.
WTF? Any body old enough to remember the USSR will see "Pravda" and immediately associate it with the USSR's mouthpiece. It's Russian for "truth", and was the butt of many jokes in the USA during the Soviet era. What's Elon thinking here?
Yep. And he's going to get mountains of free press for it. It's "edgy".
The other issue in the judgement is that the downstream responses to Trump's comments are protected political discussion, and denying someone the ability to participate in that is harmful.
Twitter, Facebook, et al regularly block users, label outgoing links "dangerous", etc. for their own political purposes.
Apparently only anti-Trump discussion is "protected"...
According to all the people named Ivan that post on Slashdot; Russia is a model democracy, a shining beacon of friendship in the world, and would never consider violating another country's rights on stability. Russia certainly are not cyber attacking any country.
Wait for the correct timezone to hit rushhour Slashdot traffic.
I wish I had known years ago that all I had to do to become Russian was to disagree with someone on the internet.
So in other words, Europe as a whole sat on its ass (except for Germany, Austria, and their allies) for TEN FREAKING MONTHS! It's one thing for a country separated by an entire ocean, but good fuckin lord, practically the only reason a European country would take action during this period was after they were already invaded.
I'm sorry, you must turn in your hipster card immediately.
The US cannot be allowed to be heroic, now or ever, not even in WWII. And Europe, all of it, must always be superior.
Well... if Amazon is selling this to whoever, then I'm sure some "protesters" will also use this to face ID people at the "wrong" political rallies, etc.
Since "protesters" love to get people fired, blacklisted, harassed at home, etc. that should be fun.
It's the tech genie. You can force yourself to put it back in the bottle, maybe, but you can't really force everyone to do so.
Coincidentally, I had just re-read Caves of Steel after twenty years or more.
Asimov's robots aren't even powered by computers.
The description of a "positronic brain" and how it is developed bears no resemblance to a computer (e.g. the robot expert telling Elijah that it would basically be a Manhattan Project or worse to try to build a robot without the three laws - if it were a computer you could just comment them out).
Daneel, the first realistic humanoid robot, is impressed at how Earth's computers can process millions of records quickly (the low population Spacer worlds don't need such impressive machines). Yes, this is an artifact of how poorly science fiction ages, but clearly, whatever is powering Daneel's brain, it ain't a computer.
It doesn't matter who is offered up if republicans spend 8 years knowing who it's going to be, then abuse their offices to run an 8 year long smear campaign against them. Add that to the fact that the republican base is essentially a bunch of complete fucking morons who can't take responsibility for anything in their life, having the driving need to blame anyone and everyone else for them being limp dicked little bitches, and you have 1/3 of the voting electorate being too fucking stupid not to do what the fascist lying sacks of shit in the GOP "grab-them-by-the-pussy" party tell them to.
You fucking conservative idiots elected a whiny little bitch to be president.... and i agree, he's a perfect representative of you. Fucking little neo-nazi, piece of shit, enemies of this country.... every fucking one of you.
Well, there you go. Insanity like that on your side is why he has until 2024.
I was wondering when this was going to happen. They've got a Republican in the Whitehouse who'll sign anything so now's a good time. Not that I think Obama wouldn't have signed this crap, but it still pisses me off. The only politician who _might_ have told them to take a leap is Bernie, and even he might not have bothered. Christ, what a country, what a world.
Both parties have been doing this all along, obviously.
I'm with the founding fathers on this one (7 years, with one extension to 14), but who cares about old dead white guys, amirite?
This deeply corrupt administration isn't going to be in charge forever (hell, I'd be surprised if the make it March) and there is going to be a backlash for all of this. Don't be surprised if the new regulation is ever stricter and then subsequently codified into law.
He's got until 2024, as long as the left stays bat crazy.
Yeah, law might be nice. Lovely that you are starting to realize that... now.
This story about the U.S. Postal Service, Amazon/Jeff Bezos, and Donald Trump, is case-in-point as to why he never was Presidential material, why he is not a good President now, and why he never will be a good President, ever: Donald Trump is incapable of de-coupling his ego from his personality when it comes to his duty as President of the United States.
Then I guess the major parties should have run someone who was on the winning side of (and cared enough about) the issues that won the election for Trump.
If you can't beat a clown, the problem does not reside within the clown.
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Voice interfaces are not clunky.
Depends on what you are trying to do.
In the car, wanting to navigate? Pretty good, usually. Trying to dictate the body of an email? Not so much, though when I'm driving, my recipients forgive the weirdness that emerges.
"Alexia, AC up 2degrees" ... how hard can the be? And how long does it take you to find the AC function on your PC, or do you have the AC control panel always open floating on top of the other apps?
There's this slider control on the wall, at perfect ergonomic height ... probably copied from a PC, I guess, lol
It was fine, mostly ... except for all that getting lost, and getting stuck in traffic jams that I could have avoided had I only known. And never having a camera handy when I needed one. And not being able to instantly compare prices while in a store. And ... and ... and ...
So you convinced yourself that you 'need' those things -- and traded your privacy for convenience, like so many.
No, I've made a rational risk/benefit calculation, for me.
To me, the benefits of a smartphone are huge.
The benefits of a home listening device? Not seeing them. Not for me, anyway (my relative missing most of their limbs, maybe a different calculation there).
My life is just fine without one, too. Doesn't anyone else remember life before there were smartphones? We all lived just fine. ;-)
Yeah, I do. I used to brag about not having one.
It was fine, mostly ... except for all that getting lost, and getting stuck in traffic jams that I could have avoided had I only known. And never having a camera handy when I needed one. And not being able to instantly compare prices while in a store. And ... and ... and ...
Now, a home device, on the other hand, designed for solely voice interface, I'm not seeing the benefit. I'm home, after all. I have a PC and can do precisely what I want, without an insanely clunky interface. And more importantly not do what I don't want.
If you can't trust the promises of pornographers, what can you trust?
My husband and I would joke and say I'd bet these devices are listening to what we're saying,"
Um, yeah ... that's how they know you said commands and stuff. They listen to what you are saying.
when the progress of science wasn't hindered by a few statistical accidents. The age of discoveries. The space race, when you could at least pretend mankind had its aim at the stars, even if it was mostly about political bickering between superpowers.
Now it's all about safety and well-being for everyone, no child left behind. If there's any of that sci-fi tech around we used to dream of, we might as well put ourselves in the stasis chamber and be comfortably numb for the rest of eternity.
Well, the usual ratio to consider is "risk"/"reward".
I can see how self driving taxis benefit a taxi company. I am not seeing how they benefit me, or civilization generally.
WTF? Any body old enough to remember the USSR will see "Pravda" and immediately associate it with the USSR's mouthpiece. It's Russian for "truth", and was the butt of many jokes in the USA during the Soviet era. What's Elon thinking here?
Yep. And he's going to get mountains of free press for it. It's "edgy".
The other issue in the judgement is that the downstream responses to Trump's comments are protected political discussion, and denying someone the ability to participate in that is harmful.
Twitter, Facebook, et al regularly block users, label outgoing links "dangerous", etc. for their own political purposes.
Apparently only anti-Trump discussion is "protected" ...
According to all the people named Ivan that post on Slashdot; Russia is a model democracy, a shining beacon of friendship in the world, and would never consider violating another country's rights on stability. Russia certainly are not cyber attacking any country.
Wait for the correct timezone to hit rushhour Slashdot traffic.
I wish I had known years ago that all I had to do to become Russian was to disagree with someone on the internet.
So in other words, Europe as a whole sat on its ass (except for Germany, Austria, and their allies) for TEN FREAKING MONTHS! It's one thing for a country separated by an entire ocean, but good fuckin lord, practically the only reason a European country would take action during this period was after they were already invaded.
I'm sorry, you must turn in your hipster card immediately.
The US cannot be allowed to be heroic, now or ever, not even in WWII. And Europe, all of it, must always be superior.
Kids these days ...
Well ... if Amazon is selling this to whoever, then I'm sure some "protesters" will also use this to face ID people at the "wrong" political rallies, etc.
Since "protesters" love to get people fired, blacklisted, harassed at home, etc. that should be fun.
It's the tech genie. You can force yourself to put it back in the bottle, maybe, but you can't really force everyone to do so.
They were able to play in *Office* before? Seriously? Why?
This Cheapens some of my finest memories.
Those aren't your memories; they're the snail's niece's!
I also demand that toasters stop discriminating against people who want cold food.
You people are obsessed. Nuts.
For one thing, this is third party hearsay.
For another ... if you lose to a clown, the fault is not within the clown. If even a clown sounds better than you, it might be you with the problem.
Coincidentally, I had just re-read Caves of Steel after twenty years or more.
Asimov's robots aren't even powered by computers.
The description of a "positronic brain" and how it is developed bears no resemblance to a computer (e.g. the robot expert telling Elijah that it would basically be a Manhattan Project or worse to try to build a robot without the three laws - if it were a computer you could just comment them out).
Daneel, the first realistic humanoid robot, is impressed at how Earth's computers can process millions of records quickly (the low population Spacer worlds don't need such impressive machines). Yes, this is an artifact of how poorly science fiction ages, but clearly, whatever is powering Daneel's brain, it ain't a computer.
"They're implants. Those aren't your memories, they're somebody else's. They're Tyrell's niece's."
China thanks you in advance for preparing some new artificial islands for them.
It doesn't matter who is offered up if republicans spend 8 years knowing who it's going to be, then abuse their offices to run an 8 year long smear campaign against them. Add that to the fact that the republican base is essentially a bunch of complete fucking morons who can't take responsibility for anything in their life, having the driving need to blame anyone and everyone else for them being limp dicked little bitches, and you have 1/3 of the voting electorate being too fucking stupid not to do what the fascist lying sacks of shit in the GOP "grab-them-by-the-pussy" party tell them to. You fucking conservative idiots elected a whiny little bitch to be president.... and i agree, he's a perfect representative of you. Fucking little neo-nazi, piece of shit, enemies of this country.... every fucking one of you.
Well, there you go. Insanity like that on your side is why he has until 2024.
Sure it does. It just means that everything thing that is currently in the public domain is all that will ever be in the public domain.
Might have a perversely positive effect. I already am reading lots of great old stuff since I won't pay for modern dreck.
I was wondering when this was going to happen. They've got a Republican in the Whitehouse who'll sign anything so now's a good time. Not that I think Obama wouldn't have signed this crap, but it still pisses me off. The only politician who _might_ have told them to take a leap is Bernie, and even he might not have bothered. Christ, what a country, what a world.
Both parties have been doing this all along, obviously.
I'm with the founding fathers on this one (7 years, with one extension to 14), but who cares about old dead white guys, amirite?
This deeply corrupt administration isn't going to be in charge forever (hell, I'd be surprised if the make it March) and there is going to be a backlash for all of this. Don't be surprised if the new regulation is ever stricter and then subsequently codified into law.
He's got until 2024, as long as the left stays bat crazy.
Yeah, law might be nice. Lovely that you are starting to realize that ... now.
Nobody has tried the experiment of silencing all roosters to check. Let's hope they never do.
You sir, are brilliant.
Howling also causes the moon to become full.
Donald is going to prison, the question is how deep is Pence's dick in the dirty business of Trump's backside deals?
Keep dreaming.
This story about the U.S. Postal Service, Amazon/Jeff Bezos, and Donald Trump, is case-in-point as to why he never was Presidential material, why he is not a good President now, and why he never will be a good President, ever: Donald Trump is incapable of de-coupling his ego from his personality when it comes to his duty as President of the United States.
Then I guess the major parties should have run someone who was on the winning side of (and cared enough about) the issues that won the election for Trump.
If you can't beat a clown, the problem does not reside within the clown.