Voice recognition in a vehicle is tough because of the acoustics. Think how far your mouth is from the microphone, all the sound-reflective surfaces, and other noise sources. Directional mics may help, but then where you sit and how tall you are matters. To get it to work well you would need to wear a headset with a microphone.
The simple solution to driving in snow/ice/rain is to drive as slow as necessary for safety. Of course, that's a LOT slower than most of the humans on the road drive under those conditions, so either the human riding inside will get impatient and take over the controls, or one of the human drivers on the road will cream the slow-moving autonomous car.
The best spam filter is one you control. GMail's spam filter sucks because you can't turn it off, and if you don't get "enough" spam, it will snag newsletters or other legit mail. I've been trying to train it, but it doesn't learn. I'd rather have spam filters I can turn off, like Verizon's. I run all the spam through my email client's filters, which I train to minimize false positives. That means I see some spam, but that's my choice, not Google's.
Muni broadband does take money, but it brings benefits. Just look at South Korea. See the NY Times story on "what silicon valley can learn from seoul." http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06....
Sounds like the fundamental logic flaw is in automatically restoring what Skype was doing when it crashed. In this case, it if crashed once, it will do it again.
I've hit that in the past when a web browser hit a bad web page that crashed it, and rebooting the browser tried to open the web page that crashed it. With browsers, opening a page usually is slow enough that you can close the page before it crashes again.
Somebody thought of something very similar back in the early 1960s. Put the best lecturer in the school system in front of the television and sit the kids in the auditorium so they can watch and listen. The Miami-Dade County schools tested it for junior high school, using it for civics class in 9th grade and I forget what in the 7th and 8th. About two-thirds of the kids had the television course, and the rest of us had standard instruction.
It was a complete disaster. The kids were wild at the best of times, and they took the television course as an invitation for mischief and worse. After all these years I can't remember the gory details, but it sank without trace. Behavior management was the immediate issue, but kids also need teacher interaction to learn. Conventional schooling has plenty of problems, but the television classroom showed how much worse it could be.
The MS Natural 4000 sounds great - but do the letters wear off the keys, as they do on the Microsoft comfort curve 2000? The letters appear to be little decals, which don't hold up on the heaviest-used keys. The F, D, C, V, and L decals are completely gone on my Comfort Curve 2000, along with most of E, M, and A.
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Gigaom was a good site for tracking telecommunications news for several years, founded by Om Malik, who wrote a very good book on the 2000 Bubble called Broadbandits, which focused on telecomm giants -- including giant scams like MCI. Malik was a perceptive analyst and writer, and I read it frequently in the 2000s. Its demise reminds me that I hadn't visited it of late.
It also reminds me there are a lot of tech websites out there, and a new wave of companies turning out what apparently are tech news apps specifically for mobile apps. As the Inc. article says, "Once again there's a bit of that old aroma of burning money in the air."
Does anybody know what "digital media company" really means?
The new management and many of the established employees have gotten to know each other, and decided to part ways because they weren't going in the same direction. It happens all the time in the magazine business. The new owner wanted something new (even if he didn't know what it should be); the established employees thought they had something worth preserving (even if it wasn't making enough money to survive). This one's getting noticed because it's a well-known name.
It's a solution searching for a problem. The military has been looking at laser links through the air, but those are for non-stationary applications, such as between ships and marine forces on land. The OA talks about civilian uses on land. Claims that outages would be less than five minutes per year are highly weather dependent -- a lot easier to achieve in the Sonora desert than in a rainforest.
Construction costs are big issues in urban areas, which is one environment they suggest. Developing countries are another.
It's unclear what millimeter band they are using; some would require licensing, at least in the US, which was the rationale for the previous generation of all-optical through the air systems. But that generation has largely vanished.
The standard way to ease seasickness is to look at the horizon when you start feeling queasy. It helps reconcile the conflicting information from your senses. No windows in a plane, and more people will get sick.
Of course, the airlines will take the opportunity to start charging for barf bags.
Almost all the mails I find in Google's spam filters are false positives, including Fidelity mailings and many legitimate mailings such as e-newsletters. My gmail accounts get virtually no "real" spam, but Google seems to program its filters to catch something. Mostly it's press releases, some of which do look spammy, but as a journalist I need to receive some of them. But it could be any mailing that meets Google's spam criteria, including a series of rapid-fire emails back and forth or routine administrivia like dental appointment reminders. (Interestingly, it has never flagged LinkedIn notices as spam.)
If you're missing something important, check your Gmail spam folder. You may be surprised.
Physics had a similar problem in the 1960s. The Department of Defense pumped a lot of money into universities to train more PhDs, starting after World War II and continuing, with a few interruptions, until the mid-60s. The number of physics PhDs soared from around 100 in 1946 to over 1600 in 1970. By then all the jobs were filled, the space race was starting to wind down, and 1010 job-hunters chased 63 jobs offered at the American Physical Society's big meeting. It was brutal.
Amazon needs to churn headlines that sound like bold new products to distract Wall Street from the ugly reality that its basic online retail business can't make a healthy profit.
The best feature of a landline is being able to understand the people you're speaking to. At least here in the US, mobile voice quality tends to be poor, thanks largely to speech compression, background noise, and the lousy acoustics of many models (smartphones have to do a lot of processing to make up for their tiny mikes and speakers).
In the US, the basic landline rate usually covers unlimited calls within the US may be lower than the basic individual mobile rate (without a maximum number of minutes a month). If you talk a lot, landline to landline calls are a clear win in both call quality and price.
Short glances are one thing, but the new displays require focusing and reading, which takes more time. An old-fashioned dial-meter takes only a glance to roughly estimate speed, fuel, and engine temperature. A large two-digit speed display works because it takes only an instant to read. But that was the only legible display on the 2014 Prius C I test-drove. The second digital display on the top displayed small characters that were hard to focus on, and switched through a series of four displays to boot. If you were looking for something beyond speed, you had to look away from the road for much too long, and I couldn't even focus on the thing. We bought a 2013 Honda Fit instead -- the displays are readable on a quick glance. That's what it's going to take for the auto makers to learn.
The serif font used in the body of comments is eyestrain city. At least in Firefox 27, it renders so small I can't read it without increasing the size 2 or 3 increments. The gray font also should be made darker; again, too hard to read.
FiOS may be a mistake from Verizon's short-term bottom line, but that big pipe is a boon to those of us who have it.
And that's the big problem with the FCC, AT&T et al who want to pull the plug on POTS. All they are thinking about is short-term bottom line. The real solution is to tell Big Telecom that after they run fiber to the home, and keep it running for 5 years, then they can apply to pull the plug on POTS.
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How do we know it WAS limited to people who applied for T-Mobile service? It took Experian two years to find the breach in the first place.
Voice recognition in a vehicle is tough because of the acoustics. Think how far your mouth is from the microphone, all the sound-reflective surfaces, and other noise sources. Directional mics may help, but then where you sit and how tall you are matters. To get it to work well you would need to wear a headset with a microphone.
The simple solution to driving in snow/ice/rain is to drive as slow as necessary for safety. Of course, that's a LOT slower than most of the humans on the road drive under those conditions, so either the human riding inside will get impatient and take over the controls, or one of the human drivers on the road will cream the slow-moving autonomous car.
Happy Birthday to you You belong in the Zoo You look like a monkey And you smell like one too.
The best spam filter is one you control. GMail's spam filter sucks because you can't turn it off, and if you don't get "enough" spam, it will snag newsletters or other legit mail. I've been trying to train it, but it doesn't learn. I'd rather have spam filters I can turn off, like Verizon's. I run all the spam through my email client's filters, which I train to minimize false positives. That means I see some spam, but that's my choice, not Google's.
We've hung up or ignored robocalls that turned out to be telling us a credit card had been compromised. You do it automatically after a while.
Muni broadband does take money, but it brings benefits. Just look at South Korea. See the NY Times story on "what silicon valley can learn from seoul." http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06....
Sounds like the fundamental logic flaw is in automatically restoring what Skype was doing when it crashed. In this case, it if crashed once, it will do it again. I've hit that in the past when a web browser hit a bad web page that crashed it, and rebooting the browser tried to open the web page that crashed it. With browsers, opening a page usually is slow enough that you can close the page before it crashes again.
TULIPS!!!
Ever been faked out by someone doing something unexpected? The problem could be that self-driving cars don't act like we expect drivers to act.
Somebody thought of something very similar back in the early 1960s. Put the best lecturer in the school system in front of the television and sit the kids in the auditorium so they can watch and listen. The Miami-Dade County schools tested it for junior high school, using it for civics class in 9th grade and I forget what in the 7th and 8th. About two-thirds of the kids had the television course, and the rest of us had standard instruction. It was a complete disaster. The kids were wild at the best of times, and they took the television course as an invitation for mischief and worse. After all these years I can't remember the gory details, but it sank without trace. Behavior management was the immediate issue, but kids also need teacher interaction to learn. Conventional schooling has plenty of problems, but the television classroom showed how much worse it could be.
The MS Natural 4000 sounds great - but do the letters wear off the keys, as they do on the Microsoft comfort curve 2000? The letters appear to be little decals, which don't hold up on the heaviest-used keys. The F, D, C, V, and L decals are completely gone on my Comfort Curve 2000, along with most of E, M, and A.
Gigaom was a good site for tracking telecommunications news for several years, founded by Om Malik, who wrote a very good book on the 2000 Bubble called Broadbandits, which focused on telecomm giants -- including giant scams like MCI. Malik was a perceptive analyst and writer, and I read it frequently in the 2000s. Its demise reminds me that I hadn't visited it of late. It also reminds me there are a lot of tech websites out there, and a new wave of companies turning out what apparently are tech news apps specifically for mobile apps. As the Inc. article says, "Once again there's a bit of that old aroma of burning money in the air."
Does anybody know what "digital media company" really means? The new management and many of the established employees have gotten to know each other, and decided to part ways because they weren't going in the same direction. It happens all the time in the magazine business. The new owner wanted something new (even if he didn't know what it should be); the established employees thought they had something worth preserving (even if it wasn't making enough money to survive). This one's getting noticed because it's a well-known name.
It's a solution searching for a problem. The military has been looking at laser links through the air, but those are for non-stationary applications, such as between ships and marine forces on land. The OA talks about civilian uses on land. Claims that outages would be less than five minutes per year are highly weather dependent -- a lot easier to achieve in the Sonora desert than in a rainforest. Construction costs are big issues in urban areas, which is one environment they suggest. Developing countries are another. It's unclear what millimeter band they are using; some would require licensing, at least in the US, which was the rationale for the previous generation of all-optical through the air systems. But that generation has largely vanished.
The standard way to ease seasickness is to look at the horizon when you start feeling queasy. It helps reconcile the conflicting information from your senses. No windows in a plane, and more people will get sick. Of course, the airlines will take the opportunity to start charging for barf bags.
Almost all the mails I find in Google's spam filters are false positives, including Fidelity mailings and many legitimate mailings such as e-newsletters. My gmail accounts get virtually no "real" spam, but Google seems to program its filters to catch something. Mostly it's press releases, some of which do look spammy, but as a journalist I need to receive some of them. But it could be any mailing that meets Google's spam criteria, including a series of rapid-fire emails back and forth or routine administrivia like dental appointment reminders. (Interestingly, it has never flagged LinkedIn notices as spam.) If you're missing something important, check your Gmail spam folder. You may be surprised.
Physics had a similar problem in the 1960s. The Department of Defense pumped a lot of money into universities to train more PhDs, starting after World War II and continuing, with a few interruptions, until the mid-60s. The number of physics PhDs soared from around 100 in 1946 to over 1600 in 1970. By then all the jobs were filled, the space race was starting to wind down, and 1010 job-hunters chased 63 jobs offered at the American Physical Society's big meeting. It was brutal.
Amazon needs to churn headlines that sound like bold new products to distract Wall Street from the ugly reality that its basic online retail business can't make a healthy profit.
The best feature of a landline is being able to understand the people you're speaking to. At least here in the US, mobile voice quality tends to be poor, thanks largely to speech compression, background noise, and the lousy acoustics of many models (smartphones have to do a lot of processing to make up for their tiny mikes and speakers). In the US, the basic landline rate usually covers unlimited calls within the US may be lower than the basic individual mobile rate (without a maximum number of minutes a month). If you talk a lot, landline to landline calls are a clear win in both call quality and price.
The Internet of **** Things, that is. Just a few days ago, it was science fiction. http://www.nature.com/nphys/jo...
Because they are on one wing of the Supreme Court and they think they have to dissent with almost anything the other wing prevails on.
Short glances are one thing, but the new displays require focusing and reading, which takes more time. An old-fashioned dial-meter takes only a glance to roughly estimate speed, fuel, and engine temperature. A large two-digit speed display works because it takes only an instant to read. But that was the only legible display on the 2014 Prius C I test-drove. The second digital display on the top displayed small characters that were hard to focus on, and switched through a series of four displays to boot. If you were looking for something beyond speed, you had to look away from the road for much too long, and I couldn't even focus on the thing. We bought a 2013 Honda Fit instead -- the displays are readable on a quick glance. That's what it's going to take for the auto makers to learn.
The serif font used in the body of comments is eyestrain city. At least in Firefox 27, it renders so small I can't read it without increasing the size 2 or 3 increments. The gray font also should be made darker; again, too hard to read.
FiOS may be a mistake from Verizon's short-term bottom line, but that big pipe is a boon to those of us who have it. And that's the big problem with the FCC, AT&T et al who want to pull the plug on POTS. All they are thinking about is short-term bottom line. The real solution is to tell Big Telecom that after they run fiber to the home, and keep it running for 5 years, then they can apply to pull the plug on POTS.