Not really. Siri is different from Google search because it combines natural language with speech recognition. Try asking a Google phone, "Do I need an umbrella today" or "wake me up at 7", "set timer for 30 minutes". If it works as well as it has demoed and as well as the reviewers say it does the it is a big step forward. Vlingo is kind of close but not it doesn't seem to be as flexible and powerful as Siri. Oh and I am an EVO 4g user so I am not a member of the Apple faithful. Really if it works as advertised it is a sweet piece of work.
Yea really. Sorry but no. I would have no problem with this on MSNBC, BBC, or even NPR. I didn't say this wasn't news I said it wasn't news for nerds. This is an example of mainstreaming, manipulation, and and frankly the politics of Slashdot.
I would complain if it was on Scientific American, MotorTrend, Sports Aviation, or Sky and Telescope. And exactly how is who runs News Corp in anyway technology? I would even give it to you if was about their pay walls.
"Try not to trip too badly over your own smug anti-intellectualism as you exit." Really? What a freaking ego. Let me explain it to you in really simple terms. This story has nothing to do with technology, science, or even science fiction. This is what is commonly called click bait. The people that run Slashdot know that Fox new is hated. I frankly am not sure why it is worthy of such venom but to be honest I don't watch it. That hate will cause people to come and click and see their ads and make them money. In other words it is a fine example of emotional manipulation for profit, just like Fox news does. Much like a lot of the summaries that are boarding on Midnight Sun level of journalism. I am so not anti-intelectual that it isn't funny. I am anti-manipulation even if I agree with the way that they are trying to force people! I am pro-thought. Just because you like this story doesn't mean that it should be on Slashdot. I love westerns but I do not think that that a story about Gene Autry's autobiography should be on Slashdot! The complaint is this is not the right venue for it and at best it should have been shoved in the dustbin that is politics on Slashdot.
Malaria doesn't just kill you right there and then. It can produce a life time of sickness. Victims of Malaria can now work as hard as healthy people. Cutting the number of not just deaths but infections will free up resources that got to treatment now plus create new resources of healthy people to feed, educate, and clothe those nations. Hopefully. The problem will still be those "groups" of armed idiots and corrupt governments.
The governments of the nations that need it the most didn't do or pay for the research and tend to not have the money for it. Funny but odds are that Bill Gates will pay a large amount of the cost. Makes me want to forgive him for AmigaBasic being full of bugs, all those years of DOS and Windows, and even Windows ME. I will bet you the license will cost next to nothing for any company in those nations. Oh and here is a concept that is catching on for a few millennia, Charity "http://path.org/donate/index.php" Instead of complaining that the government should take your money from you to do good works you can just do it yourself. The government will even cut your taxes to encourage you to choose this.
I am so sick of the answer "THEY" should do this or that. If you think that this should be done here is a way to do it. "http://path.org/donate/index.php" so pony up.
Okay let me add in my two cents. No it is not likely to have been and extinction event. The Tunguska event only had a yield of 5 to 30 MT and was an air burst. That is roughly the same as or smaller than many H-Bomb tests. Now since the earth is mostly water most of them would take place over the water. Being an airburst they would produce little in the way of uplift so they would not cause large waves or much of an impact winter style event. Those that did impact over land would cause lots of devastation but again if they where air bursts not much in the way of cratering events. Now if some of the bigger fragments hit then thing could have been different. But most likely there would have been just large loss of life and we would have been bombed back about 50 years.
Well it doesn't really matter except in the abstract. The collection of short stories all takes place in the Pacific islands and seems to set in modern times. So unless the fictional universe covers the entire earth from the civil war up till now it just doesn't matter.
Since the universe is the civil war isn't the idea of exclusiveness a bit silly I mean since the author is working in historical time and not a fictional creation of her own?
That depends. They got a deal for the novel "The Chinese Soldier's Daughter". She repackaged a collection short stories and sold them on Amazon. Did the publisher have any rights to those short stories? She did sign a non-compete but does a collection of short stories compete with a novel? At this point we are into lawyer land where logic and reason do not apply. Kind of like the Twilight Zone except without the almost universal just outcome.
Not at all. You see you have changed your story now. You are saying that some good cops may exist the rest of your assumptions are at best unsubstantiated and the logic is shaky at best. But the key here is that you have started to change your statement. You went from saying that a good police officer is a fictional character and that IS exactly what you said to saying that they are extremely rare. You have also changed in that you are referring to them as a group and not as an all inclusive group. If you keep working on it you may actually come to a more balanced view point. Once you get to the point that they are individuals and some are good, some are bad, some have issues, and some are jerks you will be finally face that fact that your earlier statements where biased and that you where acting like a bigot. Not an easy step to make but you are at least on your way. Maybe you are not hopeless after all.
As far as products goes Microsoft has one cool product and that is the XBox line. it really comes down to why would you go to a Microsoft store? To look at windows? Everybody has a Windows machine. To get help? Well maybe but it will be limited because you didn't by a Microsoft computer. To see Windows Phone 7? That is probably the best idea but it has no real buzz and very little marketshare. And it really isn't cool.
Funny but I figure you are also a lost cause. You can not know every police officer yet you judge them all by a limited sample. That is bigotry. If you say that you do not like x police officer or even X police force that you have had experience with then it is fine. You see it is simple logic bigotry is the dislike of all members of a group. You do not like all police officers because of some reasons justified and some reasons that are fuzzy thinking at best. It is the dislike of all police officers that makes you a bigot. Let me guess you have never taken any formal logic or critical thinking courses at the university level? If so I suggest you just from it as a logical syllogism and you will see that yes you are a bigot.
That is the difference between Apple and Microsoft. Mac users go to the Apple store because they wanted to use a Mac over Windows. Windows users use windows because they have too, it is the cheapest, that is what everyone else uses, they want to build their own machines, they hate Apple, or it has the best games. Of that group only the gamers and the people that like to build their own machines really have much passion. The thing is they have passion for games and building not for Microsoft as a whole. You have the haters but they are a not as much a market segment. A Microsoft store can also include XBox which is a good segment but Apple can pull in the iPod crowd, the iPhone crowd, and the iPad crowd. I left out WP7 for now since that is a tiny segment as well as the AppleTV for the same reason both may grow over time. Finally you have the none Apple users that go to the store. These people may have never used a Mac, iPad, or iPhone so they want to see what the big deal is about. Everybody knows what Windows is so their is no reason to go look at it again. Ad in Apple makes it's own hardware and provides tech support for it through the stores and you have a large number of people going to Apple stores. Microsoft can do some support but they do not sell their own computers.
1. Not broadcasting SSID is a false sense of security. Anyone sniffing will see your SSID since it's not encrypted. Or you do not need to do that.
2. WP7.5 allows you to specify a SSID A company that has been making smartphones with wifi longer than Apple, RIM, and Google put that feature in their latest update!
Mango doesn't seem bad but really Microsoft you have no excuse for not being the best out of the gate as this time. You are the worlds largest software company and have been in this market for a long time. To be playing catch up is just inexcusable.
Do you have a general dislike of the police based on your limited dealings with them or not.
First tell me, have you stopped beating your wife yet?
That is not a loaded question. Not really the equivalent. The equivalent would be "Do you beat your wife?" And answer could have been no.
"I believe that a good cop is like spider-man: 1) They are both aware that with great power there must also come great responsibility [comicvine.com] 2) They are both fictional characters."
So why all the yapping a whining? The answer was yes you are a bigot. All the rest is justification. Really why did you waste all of our time?
Simple, to make money. That isn't a dirty word folks. They can make money hosting services for companies that don't want run their own infrastructure. No different than all the ISPs around the planet that sell web hosting and entire websites that run on Apache, Linux, PHP, Perl and so on. That can support paying programers to make the software better. If they make the software available to under GPL as well so people can host it locally then no one has any room to complain about the concept.
You statement that a video showing police possibly committing criminal acts was more realistic and representative of the actions of police officers as a whole than cops. Thus making an attack on on police officers. I was using the show Cops not to showcase the officers but the types of people and problems they have to deal with. If I was wrong and you where not trying to cast police officers in general in a negative light then I drew the incorrect conclusion from your statements. However since in the post that this is in reply too you state you have a distaste for the police and it is highly improbable that you have had experience with the majority, or even a significant percentage of the individual police organizations in your nation much less officers your statement on examination still seems to be bigotry. Now if am interpreting that incorrectly I am mistaken. So do just to clear it up. Do you have a general dislike of the police based on your limited dealings with them or not.
I would say that your sample is very small a preselected to support your conclusion. In other words, your bigotry is showing. In no way different than when you see a person of a certain race acting in a criminal way saying that all people with that same skin color are criminals.
No he didn't. The calculations are not that touchy. Apollo has this thing called a computer. It used things called sensors that would lock on stars to update its position. They could carry x amount of samples back but the had a safety factor along with extra fuel for maneuvering the CSM. It wasn't down to the gram folks or even the KG.
The question is it theft? After all it was going to crash back to the moon and be destroyed so it could be considered abandoned. Frankly I can see this two ways. You do not want people to bring back stuff all the time to make some extra cash on the side so you forbid it. At the same time you really might look like jerks going after a old man that walked on the moon.
It really does. Day after day they have to deal with the scum of society. Just watch Cops and imagine doing that day after day. It is probably one of the few just that can give you a worse opinion of the human race than tech support.
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Amen brother.
Not really. Siri is different from Google search because it combines natural language with speech recognition. Try asking a Google phone, "Do I need an umbrella today" or "wake me up at 7", "set timer for 30 minutes". If it works as well as it has demoed and as well as the reviewers say it does the it is a big step forward. Vlingo is kind of close but not it doesn't seem to be as flexible and powerful as Siri.
Oh and I am an EVO 4g user so I am not a member of the Apple faithful. Really if it works as advertised it is a sweet piece of work.
Yea really. Sorry but no. I would have no problem with this on MSNBC, BBC, or even NPR. I didn't say this wasn't news I said it wasn't news for nerds.
This is an example of mainstreaming, manipulation, and and frankly the politics of Slashdot.
I would complain if it was on Scientific American, MotorTrend, Sports Aviation, or Sky and Telescope.
And exactly how is who runs News Corp in anyway technology? I would even give it to you if was about their pay walls.
"Try not to trip too badly over your own smug anti-intellectualism as you exit."
Really? What a freaking ego.
Let me explain it to you in really simple terms. This story has nothing to do with technology, science, or even science fiction.
This is what is commonly called click bait. The people that run Slashdot know that Fox new is hated. I frankly am not sure why it is worthy of such venom but to be honest I don't watch it. That hate will cause people to come and click and see their ads and make them money. In other words it is a fine example of emotional manipulation for profit, just like Fox news does.
Much like a lot of the summaries that are boarding on Midnight Sun level of journalism.
I am so not anti-intelectual that it isn't funny. I am anti-manipulation even if I agree with the way that they are trying to force people! I am pro-thought. Just because you like this story doesn't mean that it should be on Slashdot. I love westerns but I do not think that that a story about Gene Autry's autobiography should be on Slashdot! The complaint is this is not the right venue for it and at best it should have been shoved in the dustbin that is politics on Slashdot.
You do know that is an equally good argument to ban abortion and birth control. Just saying that it isn't a great argument in the form you presented.
We could just nuke them from orbit.
Malaria doesn't just kill you right there and then. It can produce a life time of sickness. Victims of Malaria can now work as hard as healthy people. Cutting the number of not just deaths but infections will free up resources that got to treatment now plus create new resources of healthy people to feed, educate, and clothe those nations. Hopefully. The problem will still be those "groups" of armed idiots and corrupt governments.
The governments of the nations that need it the most didn't do or pay for the research and tend to not have the money for it.
Funny but odds are that Bill Gates will pay a large amount of the cost. Makes me want to forgive him for AmigaBasic being full of bugs, all those years of DOS and Windows, and even Windows ME. I will bet you the license will cost next to nothing for any company in those nations.
Oh and here is a concept that is catching on for a few millennia, Charity "http://path.org/donate/index.php" Instead of complaining that the government should take your money from you to do good works you can just do it yourself. The government will even cut your taxes to encourage you to choose this.
I am so sick of the answer "THEY" should do this or that. If you think that this should be done here is a way to do it. "http://path.org/donate/index.php" so pony up.
And this matters? No it is News for Nerds this is News for bankers and stock brokers.
Heck it is even tagged Business!
Slashdot is dead.
Okay let me add in my two cents.
No it is not likely to have been and extinction event.
The Tunguska event only had a yield of 5 to 30 MT and was an air burst. That is roughly the same as or smaller than many H-Bomb tests.
Now since the earth is mostly water most of them would take place over the water. Being an airburst they would produce little in the way of uplift so they would not cause large waves or much of an impact winter style event.
Those that did impact over land would cause lots of devastation but again if they where air bursts not much in the way of cratering events.
Now if some of the bigger fragments hit then thing could have been different. But most likely there would have been just large loss of life and we would have been bombed back about 50 years.
Not really she is working on royalties and not salary. She is not an employee. The thing is that we do not know what the contract says so who knows.
Well it doesn't really matter except in the abstract. The collection of short stories all takes place in the Pacific islands and seems to set in modern times. So unless the fictional universe covers the entire earth from the civil war up till now it just doesn't matter.
Since the universe is the civil war isn't the idea of exclusiveness a bit silly I mean since the author is working in historical time and not a fictional creation of her own?
That depends. They got a deal for the novel "The Chinese Soldier's Daughter". She repackaged a collection short stories and sold them on Amazon.
Did the publisher have any rights to those short stories? She did sign a non-compete but does a collection of short stories compete with a novel?
At this point we are into lawyer land where logic and reason do not apply.
Kind of like the Twilight Zone except without the almost universal just outcome.
Not at all. You see you have changed your story now. You are saying that some good cops may exist the rest of your assumptions are at best unsubstantiated and the logic is shaky at best.
But the key here is that you have started to change your statement.
You went from saying that a good police officer is a fictional character and that IS exactly what you said to saying that they are extremely rare. You have also changed in that you are referring to them as a group and not as an all inclusive group. If you keep working on it you may actually come to a more balanced view point. Once you get to the point that they are individuals and some are good, some are bad, some have issues, and some are jerks you will be finally face that fact that your earlier statements where biased and that you where acting like a bigot. Not an easy step to make but you are at least on your way.
Maybe you are not hopeless after all.
As far as products goes Microsoft has one cool product and that is the XBox line.
it really comes down to why would you go to a Microsoft store?
To look at windows? Everybody has a Windows machine.
To get help? Well maybe but it will be limited because you didn't by a Microsoft computer.
To see Windows Phone 7? That is probably the best idea but it has no real buzz and very little marketshare. And it really isn't cool.
Funny but I figure you are also a lost cause.
You can not know every police officer yet you judge them all by a limited sample. That is bigotry.
If you say that you do not like x police officer or even X police force that you have had experience with then it is fine.
You see it is simple logic bigotry is the dislike of all members of a group. You do not like all police officers because of some reasons justified and some reasons that are fuzzy thinking at best. It is the dislike of all police officers that makes you a bigot.
Let me guess you have never taken any formal logic or critical thinking courses at the university level?
If so I suggest you just from it as a logical syllogism and you will see that yes you are a bigot.
That is the difference between Apple and Microsoft.
Mac users go to the Apple store because they wanted to use a Mac over Windows.
Windows users use windows because they have too, it is the cheapest, that is what everyone else uses, they want to build their own machines, they hate Apple, or it has the best games.
Of that group only the gamers and the people that like to build their own machines really have much passion. The thing is they have passion for games and building not for Microsoft as a whole. You have the haters but they are a not as much a market segment.
A Microsoft store can also include XBox which is a good segment but Apple can pull in the iPod crowd, the iPhone crowd, and the iPad crowd.
I left out WP7 for now since that is a tiny segment as well as the AppleTV for the same reason both may grow over time.
Finally you have the none Apple users that go to the store. These people may have never used a Mac, iPad, or iPhone so they want to see what the big deal is about.
Everybody knows what Windows is so their is no reason to go look at it again.
Ad in Apple makes it's own hardware and provides tech support for it through the stores and you have a large number of people going to Apple stores.
Microsoft can do some support but they do not sell their own computers.
1. Not broadcasting SSID is a false sense of security. Anyone sniffing will see your SSID since it's not encrypted.
Or you do not need to do that.
2. WP7.5 allows you to specify a SSID
A company that has been making smartphones with wifi longer than Apple, RIM, and Google put that feature in their latest update!
Mango doesn't seem bad but really Microsoft you have no excuse for not being the best out of the gate as this time. You are the worlds largest software company and have been in this market for a long time. To be playing catch up is just inexcusable.
Do you have a general dislike of the police based on your limited dealings with them or not.
First tell me, have you stopped beating your wife yet?
That is not a loaded question. Not really the equivalent. The equivalent would be "Do you beat your wife?" And answer could have been no.
"I believe that a good cop is like spider-man:
1) They are both aware that with great power there must also come great responsibility [comicvine.com]
2) They are both fictional characters."
So why all the yapping a whining? The answer was yes you are a bigot. All the rest is justification. Really why did you waste all of our time?
actually no white light is not a continuous spectrum of wavelengths. That and film uses three pigments. In other words ahhh... Never mind.
Simple, to make money. That isn't a dirty word folks. They can make money hosting services for companies that don't want run their own infrastructure. No different than all the ISPs around the planet that sell web hosting and entire websites that run on Apache, Linux, PHP, Perl and so on.
That can support paying programers to make the software better. If they make the software available to under GPL as well so people can host it locally then no one has any room to complain about the concept.
You statement that a video showing police possibly committing criminal acts was more realistic and representative of the actions of police officers as a whole than cops. Thus making an attack on on police officers.
I was using the show Cops not to showcase the officers but the types of people and problems they have to deal with.
If I was wrong and you where not trying to cast police officers in general in a negative light then I drew the incorrect conclusion from your statements. However since in the post that this is in reply too you state you have a distaste for the police and it is highly improbable that you have had experience with the majority, or even a significant percentage of the individual police organizations in your nation much less officers your statement on examination still seems to be bigotry. Now if am interpreting that incorrectly I am mistaken. So do just to clear it up.
Do you have a general dislike of the police based on your limited dealings with them or not.
I would say that your sample is very small a preselected to support your conclusion.
In other words, your bigotry is showing.
In no way different than when you see a person of a certain race acting in a criminal way saying that all people with that same skin color are criminals.
No he didn't.
The calculations are not that touchy. Apollo has this thing called a computer. It used things called sensors that would lock on stars to update its position. They could carry x amount of samples back but the had a safety factor along with extra fuel for maneuvering the CSM. It wasn't down to the gram folks or even the KG.
The question is it theft? After all it was going to crash back to the moon and be destroyed so it could be considered abandoned. Frankly I can see this two ways. You do not want people to bring back stuff all the time to make some extra cash on the side so you forbid it.
At the same time you really might look like jerks going after a old man that walked on the moon.
It really does. Day after day they have to deal with the scum of society. Just watch Cops and imagine doing that day after day. It is probably one of the few just that can give you a worse opinion of the human race than tech support.