When you say that something should be done, the implication is that it has not been.
Not really, the implication is that it should. Maybe you don't know whether it does already, maybe you know for sure it doesn't, but both possibilities are covered by "it should".
Yes, it is, but it is a nuisance that COULD be done and would help limit butt-dialing as a problem. You said it would be difficult for the phone to ask for confirmation, and no, it is trivial for the phone to do that.
That's why I said it would deal with a lot of the butt-dialing. It wouldn't prevent it 100%, but it would stop a lot of it. Most people would agree that limiting the number of times a mistake happens is helping, but maybe you don't.
It would also stop more butt-dialing if it asked for confirmation 2 times, and even more if it asked three times. Or it could stop ALL butt-dialing if it had a PIN or gesture unlock activated, which is already implemented. Butt-dialing only occurs if people actively reduce their phones' security.
We don't know that Alexa did not do that.
Oh, come on, you're just trying to save face now. If Alexa asked for, and received confirmation, it would have been a non-story. It would have meant its owners are complete retards. The world is full of them. Truth is Alexa's behavior was completely not expected and the occurrence is not even listed as one of its capabilities.
And we don't know that it didn't. There's so little detail in the fine article, we don't know what happened. It's fun to make stuff up, less fun to admit we have no idea what actually happened.
Now, where did I say it didn't? Hmm, let me check. Nowhere. Who makes wrong assumptions now?
And about the phone asking for a confirmation, first off it's a nuisance to ask "are you sure" for every call, second it won't help because your butt could press "yes" just as well.
It's much easier for a voice-activated device to ask for confirmation and receive it without any confusion.
Given the fact it was sent to someone from their network,. I suspect it's a not-yet-officially-implemented function which somehow got triggered. Admittedly it could be something neutral such as the ability to send a message to a contact through Alexa.
We investigated what happened and determined this was an extremely rare occurrence.” Wow, that settles it, don't ya worry, it's like being hit by a meteorite. A far, far away danger. Until it hits YOU.
I've been a smoker for 16 years, then a vaper for 6 more. I quit a few months ago, effortlessly, it just happened. Sold all my vaping tools and never looked back. However, my appetite increased and I gained weight. I'll have to go see a nutritionist, because my current overall weight is well within the limits but it gathered on my belly and sides, which is not good.
People have been asking me how did I fight addictiveness. I haven't. I just reduced the amount of nicotine in the liquid until at some point I stopped adding it altogether, but continued vaping non-nicotine liquids. Then at some point I realized I was only vaping 20-30 puffs a day, down from over 120. So I shelved the device I was using and that was it, really.
Now, if someone offered me 600 dollars over 3 months to quit, I wouldn't have felt incentivized, and I'm Romanian, 600 bucks is a lot of money here.
It doesn't matter. If I, the buyer, was unable to assess the item personally, and agree with its features (or lack of), then I am covered under the same return law as everyone else. This law has turned sellers into very honest companies, especially for refurbished items.
More than once I have bought second-hand IT items advertised as having "light scratches", only to find out I could not see any scratches whatsoever. And monitors with "2 dead pixels" never had more than 2 dead pixels.
BUT if a retailer wants to advertise that they take no returns
Illegal in the EU for remote-ordered items (everything you buy online and never see in person until you open the package containing it). Legal for items you buy or pick-up in person.
Of course there is. I ordered a blanket online, for my wife, the pictures and description both stated that it's brown with white spots. Beagle-style colors, to be more precise. What we received though was a purplish+off-white blanket, similar in design but with different colors.
Now, does this qualify as defective? It worked perfectly, did what a blanket should do, but the colors were wrong.
If you include things such as lower quality materials, improper size (for clothes), wrong colors, then I apologize. However I don't consider these as "defects", but still worthy of returns.
With that being said, yes I agree there are abusers and they need to be swiftly banned.
Really? Higher priced vehicles with more engineering behind them are recommended more often? Whodathunkit?
That's actually a problem. it means there's no budged weighting factor behind the decision. Hell, let's all just buy the most expensive variant of the car type we want and be done with it, no need for Consumer Reviews or anything. Right?
"Accelerating over a large distance and suddenly stopping is how hammers break stuff."
Actually, it's just a practical way to exert a lot of force. A hydraulic press exerting the same force that builds up over weeks will break stuff just the same. The suddenly stopping has nothing to do with it. A common misconception.
Only if you completely ignore inertia and material elasticity.
I guess the root cause is still about the "why" not happening. Charlie has full access to all data, including competition's. However, in order for that data to be included in the algorithm, Charlie needs to actively add it, which doesn't happen because Charlie doesn't understand its importance.
The problem is Charlie not considering competition's sale data in its algorithm despite the fact that the data is available.
True. I had a colleague, very smart, literate and articulate. He couldn't write well for the life of him (he much later confessed he was mildly dyslexic), so I was proofreading his e-mails.
I'm not the best at English, with it not being my native language, but I make efforts to not mess up (and still do, sometimes, especially when tired).
Thank you for correcting me. Now please try writing a phrase in Romanian, which is my native language:) I assume the "that" instead of "than", and I blame the 3AM local time my clock was showing.
I had no idea about spelling out numbers lower than 13, it doesn't look like a hard rule or something that needs to be enforced. But I'm willing to learn, so please help me by providing some data to support it.
About the comma: again I haven't encountered a hard rule around this. With so many variants of English existing throughout the world, maybe I haven't looked in the right place. In my native language you never put a comma before the "and" - maybe I mixed it up. Therefore: source, please?
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When you say that something should be done, the implication is that it has not been.
Not really, the implication is that it should. Maybe you don't know whether it does already, maybe you know for sure it doesn't, but both possibilities are covered by "it should".
Yes, it is, but it is a nuisance that COULD be done and would help limit butt-dialing as a problem. You said it would be difficult for the phone to ask for confirmation, and no, it is trivial for the phone to do that.
That's why I said it would deal with a lot of the butt-dialing. It wouldn't prevent it 100%, but it would stop a lot of it. Most people would agree that limiting the number of times a mistake happens is helping, but maybe you don't.
It would also stop more butt-dialing if it asked for confirmation 2 times, and even more if it asked three times.
Or it could stop ALL butt-dialing if it had a PIN or gesture unlock activated, which is already implemented.
Butt-dialing only occurs if people actively reduce their phones' security.
We don't know that Alexa did not do that.
Oh, come on, you're just trying to save face now.
If Alexa asked for, and received confirmation, it would have been a non-story. It would have meant its owners are complete retards. The world is full of them.
Truth is Alexa's behavior was completely not expected and the occurrence is not even listed as one of its capabilities.
So yeah, we DO know it didn't do that.
And we don't know that it didn't. There's so little detail in the fine article, we don't know what happened. It's fun to make stuff up, less fun to admit we have no idea what actually happened.
Now, where did I say it didn't? Hmm, let me check. Nowhere.
Who makes wrong assumptions now?
And about the phone asking for a confirmation, first off it's a nuisance to ask "are you sure" for every call, second it won't help because your butt could press "yes" just as well.
It's much easier for a voice-activated device to ask for confirmation and receive it without any confusion.
On the other hand, it's difficult for phone in pocket to ask for confirmation, whereas Alexa can do it, and should do it.
Given the fact it was sent to someone from their network,. I suspect it's a not-yet-officially-implemented function which somehow got triggered. Admittedly it could be something neutral such as the ability to send a message to a contact through Alexa.
We investigated what happened and determined this was an extremely rare occurrence.”
Wow, that settles it, don't ya worry, it's like being hit by a meteorite. A far, far away danger. Until it hits YOU.
I've been a smoker for 16 years, then a vaper for 6 more. I quit a few months ago, effortlessly, it just happened. Sold all my vaping tools and never looked back.
However, my appetite increased and I gained weight. I'll have to go see a nutritionist, because my current overall weight is well within the limits but it gathered on my belly and sides, which is not good.
People have been asking me how did I fight addictiveness. I haven't. I just reduced the amount of nicotine in the liquid until at some point I stopped adding it altogether, but continued vaping non-nicotine liquids. Then at some point I realized I was only vaping 20-30 puffs a day, down from over 120. So I shelved the device I was using and that was it, really.
Now, if someone offered me 600 dollars over 3 months to quit, I wouldn't have felt incentivized, and I'm Romanian, 600 bucks is a lot of money here.
It doesn't matter.
If I, the buyer, was unable to assess the item personally, and agree with its features (or lack of), then I am covered under the same return law as everyone else.
This law has turned sellers into very honest companies, especially for refurbished items.
More than once I have bought second-hand IT items advertised as having "light scratches", only to find out I could not see any scratches whatsoever. And monitors with "2 dead pixels" never had more than 2 dead pixels.
BUT if a retailer wants to advertise that they take no returns
Illegal in the EU for remote-ordered items (everything you buy online and never see in person until you open the package containing it).
Legal for items you buy or pick-up in person.
Of course there is.
I ordered a blanket online, for my wife, the pictures and description both stated that it's brown with white spots. Beagle-style colors, to be more precise.
What we received though was a purplish+off-white blanket, similar in design but with different colors.
Now, does this qualify as defective? It worked perfectly, did what a blanket should do, but the colors were wrong.
If you include things such as lower quality materials, improper size (for clothes), wrong colors, then I apologize. However I don't consider these as "defects", but still worthy of returns.
With that being said, yes I agree there are abusers and they need to be swiftly banned.
Really? Higher priced vehicles with more engineering behind them are recommended more often? Whodathunkit?
That's actually a problem. it means there's no budged weighting factor behind the decision.
Hell, let's all just buy the most expensive variant of the car type we want and be done with it, no need for Consumer Reviews or anything. Right?
*facepalm*
"Accelerating over a large distance and suddenly stopping is how hammers break stuff."
Actually, it's just a practical way to exert a lot of force. A hydraulic press exerting the same force that builds up over weeks will break stuff just the same. The suddenly stopping has nothing to do with it. A common misconception.
Only if you completely ignore inertia and material elasticity.
I started out washing dishes in restaurants, bus boy, waiting tables, bartending....later retail sales (mostly clothes and shoes, etc).
Well, when did that happen is of utmost importance. Was this 3, 10 or 20 years ago?
Agreed.
So Charlie isn't AI.
Then the whole topic, article, etc. is shit.
(it's what I wanted to point out but in retrospect I was way too subtle)
So then don't call it "AI", 'cause it ain't.
AI should be able to program itself (within imposed limits) - that's the issue here: it doesn't.
I guess the root cause is still about the "why" not happening.
Charlie has full access to all data, including competition's. However, in order for that data to be included in the algorithm, Charlie needs to actively add it, which doesn't happen because Charlie doesn't understand its importance.
The problem is Charlie not considering competition's sale data in its algorithm despite the fact that the data is available.
Thank you for these, duly noted.
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You must be one of them colleagues, how are you man? :)
True. I had a colleague, very smart, literate and articulate. He couldn't write well for the life of him (he much later confessed he was mildly dyslexic), so I was proofreading his e-mails.
I'm not the best at English, with it not being my native language, but I make efforts to not mess up (and still do, sometimes, especially when tired).
They might have, I was paraphrasing them :)
Thank you for correcting me. Now please try writing a phrase in Romanian, which is my native language :)
I assume the "that" instead of "than", and I blame the 3AM local time my clock was showing.
I had no idea about spelling out numbers lower than 13, it doesn't look like a hard rule or something that needs to be enforced. But I'm willing to learn, so please help me by providing some data to support it.
About the comma: again I haven't encountered a hard rule around this. With so many variants of English existing throughout the world, maybe I haven't looked in the right place. In my native language you never put a comma before the "and" - maybe I mixed it up. Therefore: source, please?