Most voice command systems I've ever seen (with the exception of Kinect and "OK Google") use some sort of button trigger before it will accept a command. Also, in cars, voice command systems will mute the radio when in "voice command mode".
Actually, when owners of Xbox 360s with Kinects were watching the live stream of the announcement, the presenters' commands on stage were controlling the viewers' Xboxes.
Not even DRM- Stallman would get mad because the artists were releasing their music under the heretically un-Freeâ Creative Commons license, instead of GPL, the One True License Forever And Ever Amen.
Anybody who's in private sector IT who thinks public school district IT is an endless field of dollar bills needs to come and work it for a month or two.
We're non-union, so the administration likes to treat us differently for raises each year- one year we're considered with this union group that gets screwed, next year we're considered like administrators so we get screwed, and so on.
We've had a number of people in important jobs leave for greener pastures recently (email guy/programmer, DBA, jr. server admin) who we haven't replaced. We look better on budget but it also looks easier to outsource us.
Removal of scroll bars on OSX is not a big deal, Apple hardware had scrolling devices (magic mouse and multitouch pad) for a long time. so scrolling is not affected on that platform. Removal of scroll bars on Ubuntu was the stupidest move ever. I dont have a multitouch device to scroll with, so now I have to hit a 2 pixel bar on a window. WTF is that??!?!?! ROWARRGH!
So you don't have a mouse with a wheel?
Dumbification of the UI needs to be optional. Let me have a "professional mode" to switch to a power users multiple window setup.
Full screen is most definitely off by default- you need to explicitly click the widget in the upper right corner of the window to make it full screen.
Ever since I was assigned a HTC Touch Pro on Verizon for work (awful, awful, *AWFUL* phone, it is.) I've looked around at the state of Windows Mobile devices. One thing in particular struck me: a large part of the competition between devices is in different ways to cover up or hide WindowsMobile underneath the manufacturer's own interface. HTC has TouchFlo 3D, Samsung has TouchWiz, and there are others.
But isn't Android doing the same thing with HTC's Sense, Motorola's MOTOBLUR? No. Those are relatively slight augmentations to the base Android interface. When you use a smartphone with Sense or BLUR, it's still obvious you're using an Android device. TouchFlo 3D and TouchWiz are all about insulating the user from the nasty, stylus-required interface of Windows Mobile.
Microsoft, listen closely: When companies are competing to see how much of your interface they can hide/replace/cover up, You're Doing Something Wrong.
OK, so I admit that the situation you're referring to is, to some degree, a problem. However, you lost me about here:
Of course, what they should get on that question is zero, if not an outright loss of marks.
As far as I can tell, you propose that should a student get a question wrong, they should not only not get points for that question, but they should lose points from questions they got right?
If this is what you're saying, then how on earth does it make any sense? You penalize wrong answers by not giving points for that answer, not by taking away points the student has already earned for other, correct answers.
Students most certainly must earn their grades, but on the other hand teachers must give students the grades they deserve.
If you're with someone who has just lost an arm or leg, and you are too freaked out to communicate clearly to the 911 operator, what's the likelihood that you'll be able to take pictures or video that are any use to emergency services personnel? I would think that shaky hands alone would make any videos or pictures you did take pretty useless.
The product in question was the Clarion AutoPC, a joint venture where Clarion made the hardware, MS made the software (WinCE 1.0) and nobody bought it.
I never said that they'd put up a new tower to please just one person. That would be unreasonable. What I said was that they take bad coverage reports much more seriously than other carriers. When they get a bad coverage report, they actually do something about it- I got a call from one of the tower engineers from my area to get more details about where and when I'm having the problem. If they get a number of bad coverage reports for a certain specific area, they'll take appropriate action, including negotiating with another GSM carrier to allow roaming on one of their towers, relocating the site of a planned new tower construction, and yes, if there are enough complaints about a specific area, they'll put up a new tower there. (I asked the engineer who called me about this specifically. He confirmed that they will do it if they get enough complaints.)
Here's what you do- call 611 on your T-Mobile phone, get to customer care rep., and ask to open a trouble ticket for bad coverage. They'll ask for the address where the trouble spot is and a brief description of the situation (inside vs outside, number of bars, etc.). They'll send out a crew to the towers around that address and you'll get text message and call updates about the progress, including when they intend to put new towers in, etc. Best policy of any cell provider I've seen.
(Standard disclaimer applies- don't work for them, just a happy customer)
There is a difference. Moore admits that his films are based almost completely upon his opinion. These "news" agencies, however, present their wares as 100% Pure Fact(TM)
Apple may change, suspend or discontinue any (or all) aspects of iTools at any time, including the availability of any iTools feature or content. Apple may also impose limits on the use of or access to certain features or portions of iTools, including a charge for or imposition of a subscription or other fee for use of iTools or any part or feature of iTools, or restrict your access to any part or all of iTools, in all cases without notice or liability.
(Emphasis mine) Which is exactly what they did- they discontinued iTools (free) and created.Mac (pay) in its' place. In fact, according to the policy, they were fully within their rights to simply make iTools a pay service.
Nothing lasts forever, particularly when it's free.
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Well, it is digital communication.
Most voice command systems I've ever seen (with the exception of Kinect and "OK Google") use some sort of button trigger before it will accept a command. Also, in cars, voice command systems will mute the radio when in "voice command mode".
Actually, when owners of Xbox 360s with Kinects were watching the live stream of the announcement, the presenters' commands on stage were controlling the viewers' Xboxes.
http://www.polygon.com/2013/5/21/4353010/kinect-trouble-xbox-one-reveal
Not even DRM- Stallman would get mad because the artists were releasing their music under the heretically un-Freeâ Creative Commons license, instead of GPL, the One True License Forever And Ever Amen.
http://news.slashdot.org/story/06/02/07/1733220/rms-says-creative-commons-unacceptable
And by the way, the Fishman Affidavit was the cause of the first time Slashdot ever had to delete comments:
http://slashdot.org/story/01/03/16/1256226/scientologists-force-comment-off-slashdot
Pakistan: "This content not available in your religion."
Anybody who's in private sector IT who thinks public school district IT is an endless field of dollar bills needs to come and work it for a month or two.
We're non-union, so the administration likes to treat us differently for raises each year- one year we're considered with this union group that gets screwed, next year we're considered like administrators so we get screwed, and so on.
We've had a number of people in important jobs leave for greener pastures recently (email guy/programmer, DBA, jr. server admin) who we haven't replaced. We look better on budget but it also looks easier to outsource us.
Anybody else find it ironic that this comment stops at a letter 'o'?
So you don't have a mouse with a wheel?
Full screen is most definitely off by default- you need to explicitly click the widget in the upper right corner of the window to make it full screen.
Ever since I was assigned a HTC Touch Pro on Verizon for work (awful, awful, *AWFUL* phone, it is.) I've looked around at the state of Windows Mobile devices. One thing in particular struck me: a large part of the competition between devices is in different ways to cover up or hide WindowsMobile underneath the manufacturer's own interface. HTC has TouchFlo 3D, Samsung has TouchWiz, and there are others.
But isn't Android doing the same thing with HTC's Sense, Motorola's MOTOBLUR? No. Those are relatively slight augmentations to the base Android interface. When you use a smartphone with Sense or BLUR, it's still obvious you're using an Android device. TouchFlo 3D and TouchWiz are all about insulating the user from the nasty, stylus-required interface of Windows Mobile.
Microsoft, listen closely:
When companies are competing to see how much of your interface they can hide/replace/cover up, You're Doing Something Wrong.
On what handheld platform does Flash just "work"? Even Android 2.2 doesn't have Flash out of the box.
Fair point.
Apple wants you to have tethering- the software has supported it since 3.0. Carriers around the world do it- AT&T won't.
As far as I can tell, you propose that should a student get a question wrong, they should not only not get points for that question, but they should lose points from questions they got right?
If this is what you're saying, then how on earth does it make any sense? You penalize wrong answers by not giving points for that answer, not by taking away points the student has already earned for other, correct answers.
Students most certainly must earn their grades, but on the other hand teachers must give students the grades they deserve.
Good thing I'm not the only one who thought of that immediately upon seeing the headline.
If you're with someone who has just lost an arm or leg, and you are too freaked out to communicate clearly to the 911 operator, what's the likelihood that you'll be able to take pictures or video that are any use to emergency services personnel? I would think that shaky hands alone would make any videos or pictures you did take pretty useless.
"This Internet will never work. I'm going to start my own."-- Bill Gates, 1995.
There, fixed.
The issue is that Apple will not license their DRM to play on anything other than apple computers and apple ipods.
Ummmm...you do know that iTunes runs on Windows too, right? Which means that their DRM will play on non-Apple computers?
Duh, hello! Wrong company. Let me try that again:
"NicStic- a division of Frobozz Electric?"
Ananova- a division of Frobozz Electric?
The product in question was the Clarion AutoPC, a joint venture where Clarion made the hardware, MS made the software (WinCE 1.0) and nobody bought it.
Here's an article on Wired about it.
Apple would disagree.
I never said that they'd put up a new tower to please just one person. That would be unreasonable. What I said was that they take bad coverage reports much more seriously than other carriers. When they get a bad coverage report, they actually do something about it- I got a call from one of the tower engineers from my area to get more details about where and when I'm having the problem. If they get a number of bad coverage reports for a certain specific area, they'll take appropriate action, including negotiating with another GSM carrier to allow roaming on one of their towers, relocating the site of a planned new tower construction, and yes, if there are enough complaints about a specific area, they'll put up a new tower there. (I asked the engineer who called me about this specifically. He confirmed that they will do it if they get enough complaints.)
Here's what you do- call 611 on your T-Mobile phone, get to customer care rep., and ask to open a trouble ticket for bad coverage. They'll ask for the address where the trouble spot is and a brief description of the situation (inside vs outside, number of bars, etc.). They'll send out a crew to the towers around that address and you'll get text message and call updates about the progress, including when they intend to put new towers in, etc. Best policy of any cell provider I've seen.
(Standard disclaimer applies- don't work for them, just a happy customer)
There is a difference.
Moore admits that his films are based almost completely upon his opinion.
These "news" agencies, however, present their wares as 100% Pure Fact(TM)
Just check your email. If it's not there now, it will be soon enough.
Where and when, precisely, did anyone at Apple say that mac.com email would be "free forever"?
(Emphasis mine) Which is exactly what they did- they discontinued iTools (free) and createdThe iTools Membership Agreement and Acceptable Use Policy certainly doesn't. In fact it says very clearly:
Nothing lasts forever, particularly when it's free.