They're always going to have way too many incorrect matches to be effective, and miss way too many things as well.
A bunch of years ago the filter at my company (Blue Goat, Goat Mountain, Blue Mountain, something like that) flagged a frigging Yoga site as pornography/inappropriate.
My impression of these is the people who maintain these are incompetent, clueless, and occasionally injecting some of their own biases into it.
In other words, they're terrible, useless, and ineffective... pretty much like we've been saying for years.
How can you copyright the word 'Candy' for trademark?
Microsoft can only trademark "Windows" in their specific context, and clothing targeted towards 'Candy ravers' has been around a long time. Are you really claiming nobody can make a candy themed game??
This is completely ridiculous, and whoever granted this must have been drunk, stupid, or paid off.
Ok, fair point. That's where you step in and make sure she buys superior products instead.
LOL... I've also learned to stay the hell out of purchasing decisions for the wife when it comes to technology.
If I try to tell her what she needs, I get grumpy scowls. And, unfortunately, the BlackBerry Playbook I bought her also gets me grumpy scowls (because it's a useless piece of crap).
So, she is free to buy what she wants, I will do minimal tech support only if really needed, but for the most part I leave her alone to choose it (and be stuck with it).
Sometimes, the only way to win is to not even play.;-)
Okay, just a question about your wife having to cope with crapware and you posting on slashdot: Is there any reason why you didn't say "Honey, gimme a day, I'll fix that for you" and install from scratch without all the crapware?
Because I have about as much interest in doing that for my wife as I do my mother, and I'm well passed the point of considering installing an OS to be an enjoyable thing to be doing. So I mostly refuse to be tech support for people.
It was just as easy to go through and delete/disable the crapware as it was to re-install from scratch.
Because I could periodically shut down the computer and walk away from it.
Well, you're also not forced to use voice recognition.
And, as to why, I assume they spent a lot of time making sure the voice engine could be certain to know when you are talking to it and tested the recognition under lots of situations for those specific phrases. That, and marketing wants to be sure the brand is out there in the wild.
Presumably if you wanted to train it to respond to "Hey Asshole", it might take a little longer to be sure it's actually going to know you meant it, and the company might not be overly fond of your choice.
Actually, if the sales numbers are to be believed, people just aren't buying new PCs at all.
Pretty much exactly this.
Except for RAM, the vast majority of PC users will never fully max out their machine. They won't even get close to what the CPU can do. Even 10 years ago when someone asked me what kind of PC they should buy, I would tell them to buy the oldest machine they can find with twice as much memory as they think they need -- because in my experience, lots of RAM contributes more to the longevity of a machine than loads of CPU.
Nowadays, I think gamers and people doing heavy-duty work are the only people who need to be upgrading regularly.
The latest and greatest is often not all that great, and the differences between the old and the new are incremental.
For many many people, the PC they've had for several years now works just fine and doesn't need to be upgraded. For many more, a tablet will cover 90% of their needs 90% of the time (and, yes, that's a completely contrived statistic).
Microsoft made crap tons of money over the years by people being on the upgrade treadmill and getting the latest version of Office. And that is no longer a compelling reason for most people -- I know I use more.doc files than I do.docx files, and I'm not sure I could name a single feature in the latest Office which is any different than the previous version.
And, quite randomly since they mention Vista -- my main PC is a machine I bought in '09 with 8GB of RAM and 4 CPU cores running Vista, and with many TB of disk space. Having thrown a lot of resources at it, I've actually enjoyed Vista. On small machines it was a resource hog, but if you gave it lots of resources, it was actually pretty good in my experience.
1) Why would you buy a PC from HP? The amount of crapware on the laptop we got for my wife several years ago was downright pathetic -- what should have been a fast machine was dog slow because HP has embedded dozens of things little more useful than Clippy ("I see you are near a wireless network, the HP Network assistant is here to help"). The sheer amount of garbage rendered the machine unusable without hours of disabling stuff. (In fairness, the mother in law's Toshiba had the same problems, because vendor builds suck.)
2) Will Microsoft even allow this? I should think they'd be saying "nope, you can't sell those any more".
3) Wow, Windows 8 much be a turd if people are going back to a four-year old OS. Someone missed the mark by a long shot.
4) "adding that that the next generation of computers could very well not be dominated by Microsoft." From the numbers, it would appear that Android is well on its way to dominating the next generation of computers, even if people here don't think tablets are actually computers. Microsoft is no longer competing with Apple and Linux, they're competing with Google.
Why would police ever arrive? That's the part that really doesn't make sense. Just why are police wasting their time with copyright nonsense?
Because they've bribed the lawmakers. Because Copyright is now policed under ICE, which is owned by DHS, which means the feds are the ones who investigate this.
Essentially, the copyright lobby has bought and paid for the laws which then cause federal law enforcement to be responsible to investigate copyright violations.
America is now almost an oligarchy, and the interests of those companies are now the interests of the state.
The alternate response is that if RSA did knowingly weaken commercial security, then you more or less have to stop trusting them.
Acting like they've had a change of heart, and promise to never do it again is meaningless.
In other words, the rest of the security community is turning their back on RSA for not being trustworthy -- and when you're a security company, that's a big deal.
If I'm going to choose between who is more credible, the people providing examples and evidence of what they're doing... or the lawmakers who keep braying that it's all legal... then I'm afraid I'm more inclined to trust the news reports based on the leaks from Snowden.
By rather a considerable margin.
We already know the people defending this have lied about what they really do, which means they're not really deserving of any of our trust.
The performance doesn't line up with the claims, so the testing methodology is flawed.
Yeah, kinda what I was thinking.
Either tell us some of the things this can do faster, or we're going to have to assume this is smoke and mirrors.
If it is a real thing, there must be specific types of problems which can be identified where it is faster, and where that can be demonstrated as being significantly faster.
But if there aren't any of those, one does need to question if their claims are true.
Allow cell phone calls on airplanes, but only from inside a soundproof booth in the back of the plane.
Preferably one which is neither pressurized nor filled with air, and equipped with an ejection mechanism.
Nobody wants to be stuck on a long flight with some wanker who insists on being on a conference call the whole time. Or some idiot having a fight with his wife. Or someone making kissy-face noises to his girlfriend.
Things will eventually get ugly, and people will get hurt if this happens. I figure under one month before someone completely loses it.
As evidence for this, I remind you someone got shot for texting in a movie theater during the trailers this week. Now, imagine people in a cramped space who have been in airports and airplanes for 8 hours.
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They're always going to have way too many incorrect matches to be effective, and miss way too many things as well.
A bunch of years ago the filter at my company (Blue Goat, Goat Mountain, Blue Mountain, something like that) flagged a frigging Yoga site as pornography/inappropriate.
My impression of these is the people who maintain these are incompetent, clueless, and occasionally injecting some of their own biases into it.
In other words, they're terrible, useless, and ineffective ... pretty much like we've been saying for years.
Is it reasonable to say nobody can have a computer game with the word 'candy' in its title?
Me, I think not.
Err, register that is.
Way too much prior art, and I'm pretty sure George Carlin has already exhaustively enumerated most of the possible uses of it.
LOL, I have no interest in 'fixing' her, and she has no interest in hearing me prattle on about internet security and the like.
So we've reached a truce, I STFU about some stuff, and she does the same about other stuff.
Knowing the fights not worth picking goes a long way to happiness. :-P
How can you copyright the word 'Candy' for trademark?
Microsoft can only trademark "Windows" in their specific context, and clothing targeted towards 'Candy ravers' has been around a long time. Are you really claiming nobody can make a candy themed game??
This is completely ridiculous, and whoever granted this must have been drunk, stupid, or paid off.
LOL ... I've also learned to stay the hell out of purchasing decisions for the wife when it comes to technology.
If I try to tell her what she needs, I get grumpy scowls. And, unfortunately, the BlackBerry Playbook I bought her also gets me grumpy scowls (because it's a useless piece of crap).
So, she is free to buy what she wants, I will do minimal tech support only if really needed, but for the most part I leave her alone to choose it (and be stuck with it).
Sometimes, the only way to win is to not even play. ;-)
Because I have about as much interest in doing that for my wife as I do my mother, and I'm well passed the point of considering installing an OS to be an enjoyable thing to be doing. So I mostly refuse to be tech support for people.
It was just as easy to go through and delete/disable the crapware as it was to re-install from scratch.
Because I could periodically shut down the computer and walk away from it.
Well, you're also not forced to use voice recognition.
And, as to why, I assume they spent a lot of time making sure the voice engine could be certain to know when you are talking to it and tested the recognition under lots of situations for those specific phrases. That, and marketing wants to be sure the brand is out there in the wild.
Presumably if you wanted to train it to respond to "Hey Asshole", it might take a little longer to be sure it's actually going to know you meant it, and the company might not be overly fond of your choice.
Pretty much exactly this.
Except for RAM, the vast majority of PC users will never fully max out their machine. They won't even get close to what the CPU can do. Even 10 years ago when someone asked me what kind of PC they should buy, I would tell them to buy the oldest machine they can find with twice as much memory as they think they need -- because in my experience, lots of RAM contributes more to the longevity of a machine than loads of CPU.
Nowadays, I think gamers and people doing heavy-duty work are the only people who need to be upgrading regularly.
The latest and greatest is often not all that great, and the differences between the old and the new are incremental.
For many many people, the PC they've had for several years now works just fine and doesn't need to be upgraded. For many more, a tablet will cover 90% of their needs 90% of the time (and, yes, that's a completely contrived statistic).
Microsoft made crap tons of money over the years by people being on the upgrade treadmill and getting the latest version of Office. And that is no longer a compelling reason for most people -- I know I use more .doc files than I do .docx files, and I'm not sure I could name a single feature in the latest Office which is any different than the previous version.
And, quite randomly since they mention Vista -- my main PC is a machine I bought in '09 with 8GB of RAM and 4 CPU cores running Vista, and with many TB of disk space. Having thrown a lot of resources at it, I've actually enjoyed Vista. On small machines it was a resource hog, but if you gave it lots of resources, it was actually pretty good in my experience.
1) Why would you buy a PC from HP? The amount of crapware on the laptop we got for my wife several years ago was downright pathetic -- what should have been a fast machine was dog slow because HP has embedded dozens of things little more useful than Clippy ("I see you are near a wireless network, the HP Network assistant is here to help"). The sheer amount of garbage rendered the machine unusable without hours of disabling stuff. (In fairness, the mother in law's Toshiba had the same problems, because vendor builds suck.)
2) Will Microsoft even allow this? I should think they'd be saying "nope, you can't sell those any more".
3) Wow, Windows 8 much be a turd if people are going back to a four-year old OS. Someone missed the mark by a long shot.
4) "adding that that the next generation of computers could very well not be dominated by Microsoft." From the numbers, it would appear that Android is well on its way to dominating the next generation of computers, even if people here don't think tablets are actually computers. Microsoft is no longer competing with Apple and Linux, they're competing with Google.
Because they've bribed the lawmakers. Because Copyright is now policed under ICE, which is owned by DHS, which means the feds are the ones who investigate this.
Essentially, the copyright lobby has bought and paid for the laws which then cause federal law enforcement to be responsible to investigate copyright violations.
America is now almost an oligarchy, and the interests of those companies are now the interests of the state.
Fun, isn't it?
What's it like to go through life that stupid?
A government who refuses to make evidence-based decisions, and instead likes to believe their ideology defines reality.
Let it loose at the Adult Entertainment Expo.
If it can figure out what half of that stuff is, it's a brilliant algorithm.
If not, it will probably be hilarious to see the results.
Marketing superpositions of true and false have the possibility of collapsing to the "true" state when closely observed as well.
Mostly that's by accident, or through the subtle inclusion of a single objective fact.
The alternate response is that if RSA did knowingly weaken commercial security, then you more or less have to stop trusting them.
Acting like they've had a change of heart, and promise to never do it again is meaningless.
In other words, the rest of the security community is turning their back on RSA for not being trustworthy -- and when you're a security company, that's a big deal.
If I'm going to choose between who is more credible, the people providing examples and evidence of what they're doing ... or the lawmakers who keep braying that it's all legal ... then I'm afraid I'm more inclined to trust the news reports based on the leaks from Snowden.
By rather a considerable margin.
We already know the people defending this have lied about what they really do, which means they're not really deserving of any of our trust.
Convinced people things were secure when in fact it's significantly weakened to allow the NSA to spy on people.
If we're to believe news reports, we all suffer from much worse internet security because the NSA et al wanted to be able to monitor stuff.
So, internet banking, internet shopping, and pretty much everything is suspected to now have flaws in the cryptography.
They've done this to all of us, regardless of if we've been to the conference.
Maybe it's quantum marketing, and is therefore both true and false at the same time.
Which would make it indistinguishable from all other marketing.
Yeah, kinda what I was thinking.
Either tell us some of the things this can do faster, or we're going to have to assume this is smoke and mirrors.
If it is a real thing, there must be specific types of problems which can be identified where it is faster, and where that can be demonstrated as being significantly faster.
But if there aren't any of those, one does need to question if their claims are true.
Really guys? People get crappy performance for years, and it's due to trying to update IE?
That's pretty lame, even for Microsoft.
Assuming, of course, that the FISA court isn't just rubber-stamping everything instead of actually trying to be sure they're following the law.
And I'm not convinced they've been doing anything other than saying "sure, go ahead".
Well, I've been on city buses and seen all of the annoying behavior happen lots of times.
I was in a store today, and someone was talking loudly on their bluetooth headset quite loudly the whole time I was in the line at the cash.
Locked in an airplane with some inconsiderate idiot who insists on yammering away on his phone the entire time ... no bloody way.
Preferably one which is neither pressurized nor filled with air, and equipped with an ejection mechanism.
Nobody wants to be stuck on a long flight with some wanker who insists on being on a conference call the whole time. Or some idiot having a fight with his wife. Or someone making kissy-face noises to his girlfriend.
Things will eventually get ugly, and people will get hurt if this happens. I figure under one month before someone completely loses it.
As evidence for this, I remind you someone got shot for texting in a movie theater during the trailers this week. Now, imagine people in a cramped space who have been in airports and airplanes for 8 hours.