I got a TPLink smart plug and it works really well with the Echo but I so want an SDK for it. I wish the smart device people would understand that an API would make their products more popular. That being said I hope that Google adds some features that are missing from the Echo like the ability to use it as a multi room speaker system and as an intercom.
The police do not judge you guilty or innocent. If an officer breaks a law that he did not know he was breaking then is as guilty as anyone. In this case he made an error in writing the ticket but the person that got the ticket made an error in paying it. If you bothered to take it to court you should win. Of course now that they found the error the correct thing would be to refund all tickets that were paid in error.
So you think that censorship is okay as long as you agree with it? Frankly I do agree with Google doing this but the militant anti censorship folks are always so ready to attack any perceived censorship I decided to play devil's advocate. I have no problem with Walmart only selling clean versions of albums because frankly only Walmart has the power to force the record companies to produce a clean version. AKA it means more options for the consumer since you can buy albums in more that one store. Frankly I do not even think this is a freedom of speech issue or censorship since it is company and not a government providing the service.
I have had it since launch. I got it for $99 and I do find it useful. What I find interesting is the active hostility to a person that actually find use out of the product. From your attitude I take it that you do not have one.
A motion sensor will turn it on day or night and I may not want to have the lamp turn on when I get up to go to the bathroom. The clapper could work but it is not a bluetooth speaker, it does not play music or audio books, and I can not have more than one in a room and have individual control over both.
I find it very handy and have been using it for a few months. You may not but I find that it works well and it is a good bt speaker and audio player.
If Bruce Springsteen and Michael Moore can refuse to do business in North Carolina then why should a bakery have to do business with someone they disagree with?
Okay then you can not complain when WalMart only sells clean versions of albums or if google does not want to run ads for a political candidate you like.
Probably not. I worked a company that produced a program called Eclipse for Court reporters to translate and edit their transcripts. The Eclipse IDE came out many years latter. You can have more than one produce with the same name and as long as they do not compete or confuse the market it is not an issue. For example Eclipse the mini computer from DG, Eclipse the car, Eclipse the IDE. So a smart speaker named chirp and a program to work with HAM radios called chirp should not be a problem.
Actually I have one and I am getting a dot for my workshop. I have a smart plug on my bedroom lamp and it is really handy to open the door and tell the lamp to turn on when I get home at night. It is also handy to turn off the lamp by telling it to turn on. I also find it nice to check the weather and news as well as use it to play music and as a BT speaker.
"No, there is real political effort to stop this kind of business... But it's hard... And oh, they are most likely are illegal it's just hard to prove that their intentions are bad (Note: having bad intentions is rarely legal)."
You mean like selling pot? Or selling tobacco? Or selling porn?
What is a good or bad intention? Is making money a bad intention? Is stopping people from getting high a bad intention?
I do agree that they are scum and do prey on desperate people but they are legal. Do you want Google to censor ads based on ethics? If so who's ethics. That is why we have laws as a way to codify the ethics of the society as a whole. The second that we as a society decide those firms are illegal then they should be shut down. That is an action I am all in support of btw.
"they are as close to illegal fraud as anything in the banking industry" But they are legal. Do you really want Google to censor legal ads that it feels are immoral or unethical? If so then everyone should have the right to censor.
So? This is slashdot. So what if my karma drops? It does not effect my job or my life in any real way. Frankly I have gotten all kinds of nastyballs on Slashdot as it is including someone that had some some strange desire to tie me up in his basement and rape me. Frankly I think it would reduce the number of crack pots on Slashdot.
" Git which is essentially perfect nowadays." Yea it is a good tool but it is complex and not as user friendly as it could be. AKA it is good but far from perfect.
Yet another example of why AC posts are more trouble than they are worth. Honestly I would like to see a change to the AC post. You have to log in and you have to take the karma hit but you can hide your name. Yes it would not protect anyone from a government court order but how often does that happen on slashdot. Of course others will disagree but they can if they wish.
Not really. We have reached the point of good enough. 1. You only need so much power to run Office and accounting software. Your average PC today is probably 100 times the power of a VAX-11/780 which is more than enough to run excel for most people. 2. Cloud apps Facebook, google docs and so on run in the data center and your PC is little more than a smart terminal for them.
Gamers, CAD/CAM, programmers, and so need PCs and will keep updating but even then not all that often. My work PC is a Xeon E5-1620 with 32 GB of ram, two SSDs, and a spinning platter for large data sets. It is more than fast enough for me. If I upgraded to two 4k monitors to replace may 2 1080 monitors I might need to upgrade the video card.
My home PC is an Ivy Bridge Macbook pro i5 which is good enough as well. I may build a new desktop for home for FSX but that is because I want to vs I need too. People just do not need as much computing power as they can get today. When they get a new machine it will last upto 5 years or more.
Now if I could just figure out what to do with my stepfathers old P4 machine. It is so old that the drives are IDE. It works just fine and has a gig of ram on it. The thing is that he just passed away and he used it to write his books. I have copies of all his work already off the machine and installed Lunbuntu on it. It works but it is too slow for youtube videos and the P4 is a heat and power pig. Any suggestions?
"How does this impact me or most other people in any significant way? I don't think it does.
I'll get modded down because this is an unpopular question to ask. But it needs to be asked. Shouldn't we put our resources to better use, like stopping global warming? Can anyone give me a good answer? I'm doubting it."
1. More so than any tv show or movie would. 2. Well since we use satellites to monitor weather and climate change and this means that launching them will cost less it actually is helping at least monitor climate change. 3. You posting on slashdot uses electrical power which generates C02 so STOP IT!
Actually armed robbery is pretty rare and can lead to someone dieing. But if you feel that this was not a correct use of the tech then your issue is with the courts and not the police.
It is but is more and more likely to happen. As people use cash less and less using a gun to rob people becomes a lot less profitable. When I was a kid people often robbed Supermarkets, Gas Stations, and Liquor stores. Those stores could have lots of cash on hand but even by the early 70s Supermarkets started to take checks which really cut down on robberies. If someone mugged me on most days they would get under $5.
No that is not the definition of racism. http://www.merriam-webster.com... . and here http://www.oxforddictionaries.... Really aiming at is not the same as excluding? So a college aiming at recruiting white people is not racist? If you exchange the word non-white for non-black, non-hispanic, and or non-asian it is without a doubt that it would be seen as a racist statement so it is racist. You're are making up your own definition that fits your worldview, show me a definition from a reputable source aka a dictionary that is used in universities that support your statement. Even with your definition Prince by way of his fame and money is part of a power structure so it would still apply. Targeting a specific race and or races is racism and it does not matter if that targeting is to do something good or bad for them. Supplying money to help low-income inner city schools is a great idea and yes it would tend to help minorities the most and that is fine. I will say that I live in South Florida and while there are some inner city areas that need help the rural areas often have large populations of low income people of all races and they are often overlooked. And for all I know Prince was told it was to help low-income kids and the head of the program is the only one to blame for the racist statement about the project.
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I got a TPLink smart plug and it works really well with the Echo but I so want an SDK for it. I wish the smart device people would understand that an API would make their products more popular.
That being said I hope that Google adds some features that are missing from the Echo like the ability to use it as a multi room speaker system and as an intercom.
The police do not judge you guilty or innocent. If an officer breaks a law that he did not know he was breaking then is as guilty as anyone.
In this case he made an error in writing the ticket but the person that got the ticket made an error in paying it.
If you bothered to take it to court you should win.
Of course now that they found the error the correct thing would be to refund all tickets that were paid in error.
So you think that censorship is okay as long as you agree with it?
Frankly I do agree with Google doing this but the militant anti censorship folks are always so ready to attack any perceived censorship I decided to play devil's advocate.
I have no problem with Walmart only selling clean versions of albums because frankly only Walmart has the power to force the record companies to produce a clean version. AKA it means more options for the consumer since you can buy albums in more that one store.
Frankly I do not even think this is a freedom of speech issue or censorship since it is company and not a government providing the service.
I have had it since launch. I got it for $99 and I do find it useful. What I find interesting is the active hostility to a person that actually find use out of the product. From your attitude I take it that you do not have one.
A motion sensor will turn it on day or night and I may not want to have the lamp turn on when I get up to go to the bathroom.
The clapper could work but it is not a bluetooth speaker, it does not play music or audio books, and I can not have more than one in a room and have individual control over both.
I find it very handy and have been using it for a few months. You may not but I find that it works well and it is a good bt speaker and audio player.
So you want to restrict their rights?
If Bruce Springsteen and Michael Moore can refuse to do business in North Carolina then why should a bakery have to do business with someone they disagree with?
Okay then you can not complain when WalMart only sells clean versions of albums or if google does not want to run ads for a political candidate you like.
Probably not.
I worked a company that produced a program called Eclipse for Court reporters to translate and edit their transcripts. The Eclipse IDE came out many years latter. You can have more than one produce with the same name and as long as they do not compete or confuse the market it is not an issue.
For example Eclipse the mini computer from DG, Eclipse the car, Eclipse the IDE.
So a smart speaker named chirp and a program to work with HAM radios called chirp should not be a problem.
Actually I have one and I am getting a dot for my workshop.
I have a smart plug on my bedroom lamp and it is really handy to open the door and tell the lamp to turn on when I get home at night. It is also handy to turn off the lamp by telling it to turn on.
I also find it nice to check the weather and news as well as use it to play music and as a BT speaker.
"No, there is real political effort to stop this kind of business... But it's hard...
And oh, they are most likely are illegal it's just hard to prove that their intentions are bad (Note: having bad intentions is rarely legal)."
You mean like selling pot?
Or selling tobacco?
Or selling porn?
What is a good or bad intention? Is making money a bad intention? Is stopping people from getting high a bad intention?
I do agree that they are scum and do prey on desperate people but they are legal. Do you want Google to censor ads based on ethics? If so who's ethics. That is why we have laws as a way to codify the ethics of the society as a whole. The second that we as a society decide those firms are illegal then they should be shut down. That is an action I am all in support of btw.
"they are as close to illegal fraud as anything in the banking industry"
But they are legal. Do you really want Google to censor legal ads that it feels are immoral or unethical?
If so then everyone should have the right to censor.
So? This is slashdot. So what if my karma drops? It does not effect my job or my life in any real way. Frankly I have gotten all kinds of nastyballs on Slashdot as it is including someone that had some some strange desire to tie me up in his basement and rape me.
Frankly I think it would reduce the number of crack pots on Slashdot.
" Git which is essentially perfect nowadays."
Yea it is a good tool but it is complex and not as user friendly as it could be. AKA it is good but far from perfect.
Yet another example of why AC posts are more trouble than they are worth.
Honestly I would like to see a change to the AC post. You have to log in and you have to take the karma hit but you can hide your name.
Yes it would not protect anyone from a government court order but how often does that happen on slashdot.
Of course others will disagree but they can if they wish.
It is but you can still get errors that the best solution is to rename the old repo and pull down a fresh copy.
"The world has already moved on to Git which is essentially perfect nowadays."
What????
https://xkcd.com/1597/
The problem is that it works just fine. I hate to trash something that still works. I might just replace the motherboard and keep the case.
Not really.
We have reached the point of good enough.
1. You only need so much power to run Office and accounting software. Your average PC today is probably 100 times the power of a VAX-11/780 which is more than enough to run excel for most people.
2. Cloud apps Facebook, google docs and so on run in the data center and your PC is little more than a smart terminal for them.
Gamers, CAD/CAM, programmers, and so need PCs and will keep updating but even then not all that often. My work PC is a Xeon E5-1620 with 32 GB of ram, two SSDs, and a spinning platter for large data sets.
It is more than fast enough for me. If I upgraded to two 4k monitors to replace may 2 1080 monitors I might need to upgrade the video card.
My home PC is an Ivy Bridge Macbook pro i5 which is good enough as well. I may build a new desktop for home for FSX but that is because I want to vs I need too. People just do not need as much computing power as they can get today. When they get a new machine it will last upto 5 years or more.
Now if I could just figure out what to do with my stepfathers old P4 machine. It is so old that the drives are IDE. It works just fine and has a gig of ram on it. The thing is that he just passed away and he used it to write his books. I have copies of all his work already off the machine and installed Lunbuntu on it. It works but it is too slow for youtube videos and the P4 is a heat and power pig. Any suggestions?
"How does this impact me or most other people in any significant way? I don't think it does.
I'll get modded down because this is an unpopular question to ask. But it needs to be asked. Shouldn't we put our resources to better use, like stopping global warming? Can anyone give me a good answer? I'm doubting it."
1. More so than any tv show or movie would.
2. Well since we use satellites to monitor weather and climate change and this means that launching them will cost less it actually is helping at least monitor climate change.
3. You posting on slashdot uses electrical power which generates C02 so STOP IT!
Actually I would say that the odds of me getting robbed are no greater than yours. I am 51 years old and have never been mugged in my life.
Actually armed robbery is pretty rare and can lead to someone dieing. But if you feel that this was not a correct use of the tech then your issue is with the courts and not the police.
It is but is more and more likely to happen. As people use cash less and less using a gun to rob people becomes a lot less profitable. When I was a kid people often robbed Supermarkets, Gas Stations, and Liquor stores. Those stores could have lots of cash on hand but even by the early 70s Supermarkets started to take checks which really cut down on robberies.
If someone mugged me on most days they would get under $5.
Actually you might want to read the story.
1. They actually got a court order.
2. It was an armed robbery. AKA at gunpoint.
Does not seem so crazy evil anymore.
No that is not the definition of racism.
http://www.merriam-webster.com... .
and here
http://www.oxforddictionaries....
Really aiming at is not the same as excluding? So a college aiming at recruiting white people is not racist?
If you exchange the word non-white for non-black, non-hispanic, and or non-asian it is without a doubt that it would be seen as a racist statement so it is racist.
You're are making up your own definition that fits your worldview, show me a definition from a reputable source aka a dictionary that is used in universities that support your statement. Even with your definition Prince by way of his fame and money is part of a power structure so it would still apply. Targeting a specific race and or races is racism and it does not matter if that targeting is to do something good or bad for them. Supplying money to help low-income inner city schools is a great idea and yes it would tend to help minorities the most and that is fine. I will say that I live in South Florida and while there are some inner city areas that need help the rural areas often have large populations of low income people of all races and they are often overlooked.
And for all I know Prince was told it was to help low-income kids and the head of the program is the only one to blame for the racist statement about the project.