If you abandon Google search because of how they handle their browser (or Youtube?), then why aren't you abandoning Bing because of Microsoft Windows, IE, or the doc format?
When I want to find a Wikipedia article, I just type some part of the subject in Google. If it doesn't show on first page (this usually happens only if it is commercial-related, because then the first page is a bunch of SEO-optimized sites), I add 'wiki' at the end and voilà!
Those people probably have private doctors - i.e. doctors who are looking after them and them only. I mean they're billionaires, they can buy themselves a hospital if they want to.
If he gets sick he'll just pay out of pocket. So if he's taxed for it, it's not like insurance - it's just paying other people's Medicare or Social Security.
Microsoft has a patent on a phone crashing. If any Android app ever crashes, they'll have to pay royalties to Microsoft, remove the bugs (the offending functionality), or pull that app from market.
The problem is they're suing the manufacturers as well, so they might decide it's more profitable to sell WP7 phones. Microsoft has already said that the greatest feature of their phones is that they fully stand behind their OS and will protect manufacturers in case of lawsuits. So WP7 carries with itself the promise for patent protection.
Agree. I would have loved to see him do a show about that now, with his cool accent and all. I could imagine him jumping on a shark and riding it, saying "ain't they goorgeous?"
I don't understand why people talk about China as if it's an enemy and as if it's planning to go to war with the US next year. It isn't. First of all, America has nuclear weapons. Does anyone seriously believe China will ever want to go to war with a nuclear power? Why would they want to do that? The motives of the Communist Party are easy to figure out - they want to keep the status quo, so officials can stay in power and have their jobs. If democracy ever came, all the Communist Party officials would be unemployed. They don't stay communists because they believe in Marxism and hope to spread it to the entire globe through war, or they wouldn't be pusing in the direction of a market economy.
Remember, even if China's GDP becomes twice as big as America, this won't make the american nuclear stockpiles magically disappear. So what are people harping about?
In the test. Normally I assume that cars with this technology will just have a "follow the car in front" feautre whenever both cars are compliant. So the driver in front doesn't need to be a professional.
There is one con though - I assume the car just blindly follows the car in front, which itself follows the car in front of it, all the way to the lead car. Thus the driver in front can become the proverbial old goat that lead the herd off a cliff. I mean what happens if the car in front really runs of a cliff. Nowadays he risks just the life of his family. Tomorrow we might have news such as "A driver fell off a cliff. The train of 200 drivers who had been following him fell as well".
Cool, I didn't know Google did that, too. I like how they've put a calculator, conversions, weather at a city, and probably more things I don't know about. They seem to be integrating a lot of corner cases in their search engine lately. I like that. But those are just corner cases. Google can't answer all questions that way. Btw I use currency conversions quite a lot.
But why do you need NLP at all? If you ask a question to the search engine, it will match it to a page (on a forum probably) where somebody asked the same question with similar phrasing - and someone probably answered it! I already posted a similar answer to another who thought asking natural questions is bad practise in a search engine.
Why not? Google is matches text searches, if you type a full text question, it will match it to a page where someone asked the same question (probably in a forum), and likely someone would have answered it.
I don't see the Chinese people going to Linux en-masse and not being able to play games, and no Windows software, or the Russians for that matter. How is open-source going to become mainstream? Are they going to send people to every house to reformat every computer to Linux? And what about the accounting software, probably even most of the government institutions would continue to run Windows just to have Excel.
So this raises another interesting question - do laptops with less RAM have better battery life and if so, should people refrain from getting laptops with more than 2 GB? That is more than enough for normal usage. Maybe bleeding edge games would require more.
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Probably not enough people who understand it. I for one had to look up Wikipedia on this :)
Mubarak: "Fellow Egyptians, I just donated all our IP addresses."
If you abandon Google search because of how they handle their browser (or Youtube?), then why aren't you abandoning Bing because of Microsoft Windows, IE, or the doc format?
When I want to find a Wikipedia article, I just type some part of the subject in Google. If it doesn't show on first page (this usually happens only if it is commercial-related, because then the first page is a bunch of SEO-optimized sites), I add 'wiki' at the end and voilà!
Can't they hire someone to do it for them? But may be the cost would exceed using Microsoft Exchange.
This makes me glad I use Google Chrome. As well as the speed, of course.
Yes, I am on Chrome, and it feels faster, too. I don't know if this is subjective, though. Also, now copy/paste works on Chrome. Hooray!
Is that really true? Right now, I mean. If so, can you point to some links?
Those people probably have private doctors - i.e. doctors who are looking after them and them only. I mean they're billionaires, they can buy themselves a hospital if they want to.
If he gets sick he'll just pay out of pocket. So if he's taxed for it, it's not like insurance - it's just paying other people's Medicare or Social Security.
Microsoft has a patent on a phone crashing. If any Android app ever crashes, they'll have to pay royalties to Microsoft, remove the bugs (the offending functionality), or pull that app from market.
The problem is they're suing the manufacturers as well, so they might decide it's more profitable to sell WP7 phones. Microsoft has already said that the greatest feature of their phones is that they fully stand behind their OS and will protect manufacturers in case of lawsuits. So WP7 carries with itself the promise for patent protection.
I knew I should have written RIAA, why doesn't slashdot have edit button :(
...Are the MPAA going to jail now?
Then it would mean this was a commercial operation!
Agree. I would have loved to see him do a show about that now, with his cool accent and all. I could imagine him jumping on a shark and riding it, saying "ain't they goorgeous?"
I don't understand why people talk about China as if it's an enemy and as if it's planning to go to war with the US next year. It isn't. First of all, America has nuclear weapons. Does anyone seriously believe China will ever want to go to war with a nuclear power? Why would they want to do that? The motives of the Communist Party are easy to figure out - they want to keep the status quo, so officials can stay in power and have their jobs. If democracy ever came, all the Communist Party officials would be unemployed. They don't stay communists because they believe in Marxism and hope to spread it to the entire globe through war, or they wouldn't be pusing in the direction of a market economy.
Remember, even if China's GDP becomes twice as big as America, this won't make the american nuclear stockpiles magically disappear. So what are people harping about?
How can we know? They don't have any technology America doesn't have yet. May be they will share, if they have such tech in the future.
In the test. Normally I assume that cars with this technology will just have a "follow the car in front" feautre whenever both cars are compliant. So the driver in front doesn't need to be a professional.
There is one con though - I assume the car just blindly follows the car in front, which itself follows the car in front of it, all the way to the lead car. Thus the driver in front can become the proverbial old goat that lead the herd off a cliff. I mean what happens if the car in front really runs of a cliff. Nowadays he risks just the life of his family. Tomorrow we might have news such as "A driver fell off a cliff. The train of 200 drivers who had been following him fell as well".
Cool, I didn't know Google did that, too. I like how they've put a calculator, conversions, weather at a city, and probably more things I don't know about. They seem to be integrating a lot of corner cases in their search engine lately. I like that. But those are just corner cases. Google can't answer all questions that way. Btw I use currency conversions quite a lot.
But why do you need NLP at all? If you ask a question to the search engine, it will match it to a page (on a forum probably) where somebody asked the same question with similar phrasing - and someone probably answered it! I already posted a similar answer to another who thought asking natural questions is bad practise in a search engine.
Why not? Google is matches text searches, if you type a full text question, it will match it to a page where someone asked the same question (probably in a forum), and likely someone would have answered it.
I don't see the Chinese people going to Linux en-masse and not being able to play games, and no Windows software, or the Russians for that matter. How is open-source going to become mainstream? Are they going to send people to every house to reformat every computer to Linux? And what about the accounting software, probably even most of the government institutions would continue to run Windows just to have Excel.
So this raises another interesting question - do laptops with less RAM have better battery life and if so, should people refrain from getting laptops with more than 2 GB? That is more than enough for normal usage. Maybe bleeding edge games would require more.