Scammers don't actually infect you, other than possibly with panic. Having an ad play that says your system is compromised, so you need to call this number, does not actually compromise your system.
Mine didn't require any training, and can understand me, even when I'm sick and can just croak at it.
It's a lot more than a speaker and a microphone. It's a cluster of microphones, with the processing power to reject noise, and pick up on your voice, along with the computing power to connect to the Alexa voice service.
You'll find that a lot of people here are driven by their emotions. People get their hate on for something, and will insist it's a failure, even when an item is so popular that there's a wait to get one. Echo, Dot, and Tap are all useful products, but some people would rather shout at clouds, and pretend they're a failure for personal emotional reasons, rather than even trying to come to a rational conclusion.
Voice recognition on the Echo is excellent as long as you don't have more than one person talking at a time, and most of us do not regret getting one.
It can even understand me when I have a bad cold and my voice is just a croak.
It seems like you just resent being advertised to on Slashdot, so you're pushing back with misinformation.
I use mine as an alarm clock, to control my lights, for hands-free music playback while taking a shower, and to check the news and weather while getting ready for work. I also use a Tap to bring my music out to my patio. These things are very useful.
Alexa has the same problem, since voice recognition happens on the Internet. Is it possible to do full untrained voice recognition on a platform as limited as a smartphone? Google supports offline voice recognition, but only for a very limited set of commands.
http://www.zdnet.com/article/g...
Blocking news on CPAC is in the best interest of the foolish Conservatives. Centrist and left-wing Americans benefit when more people outside the Conservative propaganda bubble can see how extreme and delusional Conservatives have become.
Of course people aren't going to use VR in public, that would be suicidal. It is going to be huge, but it'll be something you use at home, or at VR gaming centers that will have props so you experience touch in VR.
You're right about the potential of Wii VR, but the Vive and Rift aren't "stupendously expensive" for what they are. They're in the TV price-range, and while I can't comment on the Rift, I can tell you the Vive is worth the money.
It still has some limitations, like visible sub-pixels, visible Fresnel rings outside the center of vision, and a wire tethering you to a PC, but it transports you to a different place, and room-scale VR is excellent exercise. Games are running fine on a single Geforce 970, so the PC isn't that expensive either.
Right now I feel like I spent several hours at the gym last night, but I got all that exercise while having a lot of fun playing games.
Looked at as both an entertainment and exercise device, $880 shipped was a great deal.
Another nice thing about the Vive is that there's no VR sickness with room-scale software, because VR movement is 1:1 with actual movement. The only time I started to feel very slightly sick was playing a seated VR racing game.
Not slowed down, which would cause stuttering. It's streamed at a lower bitrate to reduce the user's cost from non-free streaming data. This is under the user's control, not T-Mobile's. You can choose to potentially burn up your data allowance by streaming at 1080p if you want.
I do think they failed to do enough to inform the users of their new service. I only learned of this when I logged into t-Mobile to pay my bill, and a note on the new opt-out data-saving feature popped up.
The free from some sources issue does indeed seem to violate the principles of net-neutrality.
Agreed, since this Apple story is consumer news at best, propaganda at worst, and definitely not news for nerds. I had not heard about the VMWare layoffs, so thanks for your post!
Not just that, a cheap Chrome laptop is also likely to have a chicklet keyboard, and low-res screen. These are devices for consuming media, and light typing, not for software development.
If you haven't seen, or don't remember the pilot movie to this series, check it out for the hilariously bad theme song. They removed the lyrics after the pilot, which was a really good move.
If his neighbors have stupid beliefs, what you call "views," it's in all of our best interest that their children become smarter than they are. Generation after generation of superstitious derp is why people in our more backward states keep voting for destructive politicians. It's really easy to trick religious rubes, so it's in our best interest to have more educated people, and less rubes.
I think that's a feature to people like Kohath, rather than a bug. People who grew up in cults want their children to do so as well. It's upsetting to them when their kids move beyond their childhood superstitions, and join the modern world.
This has nothing to do with science standing scrutiny. You're reading too much from the name of the legislation, which is just propaganda. This is about reality-denying religious extremists bringing their archaic beliefs into the classroom to try to pass them to a new generation, despite their beliefs being centuries beyond their sell-by date. Smart people knew religion was an absurd scam way back when our country was being founded, but our more backward subcultures still cling to their primitive beliefs.
If this actually led to science teachers teaching that religious "explanations" are fantasy, the right-wing Christianists behind this would lose their minds.
What do you mean by "evolutionists?" Evolutionary biologists, or just anyone who isn't a delusional creationist? If the latter, isn't that like saying water-wetists, or blue-skyists? Grass-greenists? We don't generally label the reality-based people like that. These labels are for people who's incredibly stupid beliefs set them apart from the rest of us. People like creationists, and flat-earthers.
There's a difference between skeptics and deniers. The climate change deniers fall into the same category as evolution deniers. They're both delusions, rather than skepticism.
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You seem very uninformed. http://www.satsentinel.org/
Scammers don't actually infect you, other than possibly with panic. Having an ad play that says your system is compromised, so you need to call this number, does not actually compromise your system.
Mine didn't require any training, and can understand me, even when I'm sick and can just croak at it. It's a lot more than a speaker and a microphone. It's a cluster of microphones, with the processing power to reject noise, and pick up on your voice, along with the computing power to connect to the Alexa voice service.
You'll find that a lot of people here are driven by their emotions. People get their hate on for something, and will insist it's a failure, even when an item is so popular that there's a wait to get one. Echo, Dot, and Tap are all useful products, but some people would rather shout at clouds, and pretend they're a failure for personal emotional reasons, rather than even trying to come to a rational conclusion.
Voice recognition on the Echo is excellent as long as you don't have more than one person talking at a time, and most of us do not regret getting one. It can even understand me when I have a bad cold and my voice is just a croak.
It seems like you just resent being advertised to on Slashdot, so you're pushing back with misinformation.
I use mine as an alarm clock, to control my lights, for hands-free music playback while taking a shower, and to check the news and weather while getting ready for work. I also use a Tap to bring my music out to my patio. These things are very useful.
Alexa has the same problem, since voice recognition happens on the Internet.
Is it possible to do full untrained voice recognition on a platform as limited as a smartphone?
Google supports offline voice recognition, but only for a very limited set of commands. http://www.zdnet.com/article/g...
Alexa has some limits when it comes to multiple alarms too, but "Alexa delete all alarms" does work to delete your alarms.
It has some aspects of a computer club, but it's more like a shared workshop. A hackerspace has the tools you need to build physical objects.
Blocking news on CPAC is in the best interest of the foolish Conservatives. Centrist and left-wing Americans benefit when more people outside the Conservative propaganda bubble can see how extreme and delusional Conservatives have become.
That's already been tried on a Dalek, and it didn't work, but it'll probably work on this Gen 1 machine.
Of course people aren't going to use VR in public, that would be suicidal. It is going to be huge, but it'll be something you use at home, or at VR gaming centers that will have props so you experience touch in VR.
You're right about the potential of Wii VR, but the Vive and Rift aren't "stupendously expensive" for what they are. They're in the TV price-range, and while I can't comment on the Rift, I can tell you the Vive is worth the money.
It still has some limitations, like visible sub-pixels, visible Fresnel rings outside the center of vision, and a wire tethering you to a PC, but it transports you to a different place, and room-scale VR is excellent exercise. Games are running fine on a single Geforce 970, so the PC isn't that expensive either.
Right now I feel like I spent several hours at the gym last night, but I got all that exercise while having a lot of fun playing games.
Looked at as both an entertainment and exercise device, $880 shipped was a great deal. Another nice thing about the Vive is that there's no VR sickness with room-scale software, because VR movement is 1:1 with actual movement. The only time I started to feel very slightly sick was playing a seated VR racing game.
> but deep packet inspection in order to throttle the streams of non-participating content providers is still a violation of net neutrality.
Even when it's the user who decides whether lower bitrate streams are selected, as is the case here? I wouldn't think that would be a violation.
Not slowed down, which would cause stuttering. It's streamed at a lower bitrate to reduce the user's cost from non-free streaming data. This is under the user's control, not T-Mobile's. You can choose to potentially burn up your data allowance by streaming at 1080p if you want.
I do think they failed to do enough to inform the users of their new service. I only learned of this when I logged into t-Mobile to pay my bill, and a note on the new opt-out data-saving feature popped up.
The free from some sources issue does indeed seem to violate the principles of net-neutrality.
That's because iTunes is a consumer product. Should /. prefer pop "news" over technical news?
Agreed, since this Apple story is consumer news at best, propaganda at worst, and definitely not news for nerds.
I had not heard about the VMWare layoffs, so thanks for your post!
http://arstechnica.com/informa...
Not just that, a cheap Chrome laptop is also likely to have a chicklet keyboard, and low-res screen. These are devices for consuming media, and light typing, not for software development.
If you haven't seen, or don't remember the pilot movie to this series, check it out for the hilariously bad theme song. They removed the lyrics after the pilot, which was a really good move.
It's OK to suppress discredited beliefs, not minority views. In superstitious areas, the majority will have the stupid, discredited beliefs.
If his neighbors have stupid beliefs, what you call "views," it's in all of our best interest that their children become smarter than they are. Generation after generation of superstitious derp is why people in our more backward states keep voting for destructive politicians. It's really easy to trick religious rubes, so it's in our best interest to have more educated people, and less rubes.
I think that's a feature to people like Kohath, rather than a bug. People who grew up in cults want their children to do so as well. It's upsetting to them when their kids move beyond their childhood superstitions, and join the modern world.
This has nothing to do with science standing scrutiny. You're reading too much from the name of the legislation, which is just propaganda. This is about reality-denying religious extremists bringing their archaic beliefs into the classroom to try to pass them to a new generation, despite their beliefs being centuries beyond their sell-by date. Smart people knew religion was an absurd scam way back when our country was being founded, but our more backward subcultures still cling to their primitive beliefs.
If this actually led to science teachers teaching that religious "explanations" are fantasy, the right-wing Christianists behind this would lose their minds.
What do you mean by "evolutionists?" Evolutionary biologists, or just anyone who isn't a delusional creationist? If the latter, isn't that like saying water-wetists, or blue-skyists? Grass-greenists? We don't generally label the reality-based people like that. These labels are for people who's incredibly stupid beliefs set them apart from the rest of us. People like creationists, and flat-earthers.
There's a difference between skeptics and deniers. The climate change deniers fall into the same category as evolution deniers. They're both delusions, rather than skepticism.