In the end, all Chinese tech companies are going to have a fully Chinese-sourced technology "stack" for all of their products, so that they can sell to whomever they please without worrying about the US government.
Maybe. People always talk like this stuff is cost free. It's not an inevitable conclusion.
What if your name IS Alexa? Will people hang up on you unless you can quickly demonstrate that you can pass a Voight-Kampff test, or something similar?
{proudly} It took over a hundred questions for Alexa, didn't it??
And I don't. Seeing as we're both not Google, our opinions on this topic are pretty much moot.
Not so. You have wallets, that Google truly needs you to open for its customers, so they in turn will shower Google with green.
That's a power right there.
Alienating a large portion of your potential customer base is generally not good business.
Our wallets aren't nearly as big as those wallets which will be paying only a few customer service managers, not a building full of front line reps.
I predict most people will want to deal with the bot anyway, soon enough. They'll "warn" that you that they use them, as a sales enticement.
I've never seen a coal powered drone with liberal seeking missiles piloted by SpaceForce cadets. It's the only drone project I can see Cheeto Mussolini supporting.
Um, the actual story is that he is supporting the cool stuff.
Don't worry, the cognitive dissonance only burns for awhile...
Feels like when Trump instructed his Trump U teachers to say "congratulations" whenever some one signed up for a class, instead of "thanks for your business" or similar.
Lots of businesses do that, "congratulations on choosing the best car and service!" or whatever.
Certainly Apple does it implicitly. "You are privileged to be holding this 'beautiful' slippery phone which you must immediately put into an ugly case forever."
Not even close... how about?
(1) Train toilet cleaner
(2) Parking enforcer, where people curse you in person, not online
(3) Tech support rep
(4) Hoarder house cleaner
but the obsession with night prowlers, evil lurking in the shadows, drug addicts, and the paranoid gun culture was pretty shocking. This was a city thats biggest crime was a McDonalds truck that had lost its brakes and slid backwards into an adjacent sandwich shop, yet everyone on the block was geared up like a K-Town shop owner in the LA riots. It made zero sense...however if you're selling a doorbell that profiles people, ive got just the customer.
So, just to play devil's advocate, people who keep a sharp eye out for anything weird bafflingly (to you) have extremely low crime.
Businesses will use their own digital assistants to answer calls, so we'll end up living in a bizarre alternate universe where computers phone each other and have conversations to schedule our lives. Abbreviated botspeak will eventually supplant standard English, as humans mimic the mannerisms and verbal shortcuts used by impatient digital assistant apps.
Fine with me. My bot assistant can call and badger the monopoly internet provider trying to get a lower rate from their bot.
I still won't get a lower rate, but it will be better for my blood pressure...
He's a toddler in a nursery who wants a toy merely because another toddler played with it first. I don't know what Trump's motive is for hating Obama so much but his obvious intention to undo anything and everything Obama did, regardless of whether it's good or bad, is just childish and stupid. Or racist.
Or maybe, just maybe, there was a significant constituency that didn't like stupid edicts like this (even TFS notes it doesn't change behavior).
Finding and at least reviewing every stupid edict of Obama's is a great idea.
The interesting thing about calorie counts is that, while they undoubtedly offer more transparency around the foods we choose to eat, there's not a lot of evidence to show they affect people's purchasing decisions
So, it won't help anything anyway, but we need to make everybody do this, because.
Their test subjects were 60 college students. It's reasonable to assume that most of them have never seen a typewriter in the flesh, much less used one.
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In the end, all Chinese tech companies are going to have a fully Chinese-sourced technology "stack" for all of their products, so that they can sell to whomever they please without worrying about the US government.
Maybe. People always talk like this stuff is cost free. It's not an inevitable conclusion.
I believe that......
And I don't. Seeing as we're both not Google, our opinions on this topic are pretty much moot.
Yeah, I guess we should just take this off to some blog/discussion site then ...
What if your name IS Alexa? Will people hang up on you unless you can quickly demonstrate that you can pass a Voight-Kampff test, or something similar?
{proudly} It took over a hundred questions for Alexa, didn't it??
You do realize that all of the companies do this... right? Right?
Expect anything involving Mr. West to get some strange new scrutiny ...
And I don't. Seeing as we're both not Google, our opinions on this topic are pretty much moot.
Not so. You have wallets, that Google truly needs you to open for its customers, so they in turn will shower Google with green. That's a power right there. Alienating a large portion of your potential customer base is generally not good business.
Our wallets aren't nearly as big as those wallets which will be paying only a few customer service managers, not a building full of front line reps.
I predict most people will want to deal with the bot anyway, soon enough. They'll "warn" that you that they use them, as a sales enticement.
The machine is NOT passing a Turing Test if no one is actually ADMINISTERING one.
That's the key phrase right there.
I've never seen a coal powered drone with liberal seeking missiles piloted by SpaceForce cadets. It's the only drone project I can see Cheeto Mussolini supporting.
Um, the actual story is that he is supporting the cool stuff.
Don't worry, the cognitive dissonance only burns for awhile ...
Feels like when Trump instructed his Trump U teachers to say "congratulations" whenever some one signed up for a class, instead of "thanks for your business" or similar.
Lots of businesses do that, "congratulations on choosing the best car and service!" or whatever.
Certainly Apple does it implicitly. "You are privileged to be holding this 'beautiful' slippery phone which you must immediately put into an ugly case forever."
msmash's comment and the summary are 180 degrees apart.
Electronic Arts will "push forward" with loot boxes in its future video games, despite admitting that all loot boxes are gambling.
Wilson explained Tuesday why EA believes they're not.
Other research has shown that giving old mice blood transfusions from young ones can restore some biomarkers to youthful levels.
What could possibly go wrong?
Not even close... how about? (1) Train toilet cleaner (2) Parking enforcer, where people curse you in person, not online (3) Tech support rep (4) Hoarder house cleaner
(5) Soldier
(6) Hazmat cleanup
about 1000 more ...
In this context, "popularity" is often won by doing useful things that make people remember you later, so is that a problem?
Now you're just being reasonable. Cut that out.
The social media lynch mob will be along for you shortly ...
I love the scare quotes around "suspicious", like that's just some crazy impossible concept.
If people want the "experience" of rewinding tapes, taking five minutes to change to a different album, etc. then nobody here should try to stop them.
All we need is a law to prevent them bragging about the "experience" in public places.
Sounds like the holodeck, we are the bored people of the future, simulating that we need to do things like in the past ...
but the obsession with night prowlers, evil lurking in the shadows, drug addicts, and the paranoid gun culture was pretty shocking. This was a city thats biggest crime was a McDonalds truck that had lost its brakes and slid backwards into an adjacent sandwich shop, yet everyone on the block was geared up like a K-Town shop owner in the LA riots. It made zero sense...however if you're selling a doorbell that profiles people, ive got just the customer.
So, just to play devil's advocate, people who keep a sharp eye out for anything weird bafflingly (to you) have extremely low crime.
Chrome OS is an operating system designed by Google that is based on the Linux kernel
So they're finally letting Linux programs run on Linux?
Businesses will use their own digital assistants to answer calls, so we'll end up living in a bizarre alternate universe where computers phone each other and have conversations to schedule our lives. Abbreviated botspeak will eventually supplant standard English, as humans mimic the mannerisms and verbal shortcuts used by impatient digital assistant apps.
Fine with me. My bot assistant can call and badger the monopoly internet provider trying to get a lower rate from their bot.
I still won't get a lower rate, but it will be better for my blood pressure ...
He's a toddler in a nursery who wants a toy merely because another toddler played with it first. I don't know what Trump's motive is for hating Obama so much but his obvious intention to undo anything and everything Obama did, regardless of whether it's good or bad, is just childish and stupid. Or racist.
Or maybe, just maybe, there was a significant constituency that didn't like stupid edicts like this (even TFS notes it doesn't change behavior).
Finding and at least reviewing every stupid edict of Obama's is a great idea.
The interesting thing about calorie counts is that, while they undoubtedly offer more transparency around the foods we choose to eat, there's not a lot of evidence to show they affect people's purchasing decisions
So, it won't help anything anyway, but we need to make everybody do this, because.
The only thing better than VB in a spreadsheet is JavaScript. This is awesome.
Money? Entice developers? That's crazy talk!!
We prefer sensitivity training and 30 page codes of conduct, my fried :)
Myopia != tunnel vision. different things bro.
Spoken like a true developer!
So...does it stop a lot to ask for directions?
Maybe it keeps one hand on the left wall at all times ...
Google cares so much for the little guy that they'd rather let him sit in jail than have such déclassé advertisements on their network.
Their test subjects were 60 college students. It's reasonable to assume that most of them have never seen a typewriter in the flesh, much less used one.
Shh, you're spoiling a cool narrative!