"This is unprecedented in history." Only if you disregard all of history. Every invention that increased productivity got rid of jobs, but it hasn't ended humanity. The industrial revolution especially was supposed to have a massive unemployment problem as machines did all the work. Yet unemployment actually went DOWN. Difference is that the average standard of living went up.
Today, we all have many gadgets that nobody had a decade or two ago. we're incredibly more productive by letting machines do some of the work.
To have 90% of the population unemployed, you have to accept that our productivity as a society will severely decrease, our advancement as a society will slow dramatically.
Does your screwdriver jump up off your workbench and randomly start unscrewing things without asking first?
The problem isn't that you can run harmful code off a storage device, that's a know problem with an easy solution (don't be a moron). The problem is that the computer will AUTOMATICALLY run harmful code off a storage device by default unless you've done something to prevent it.
As long as a computer does what I ask it to, I can know what risks I'm taking, but if I can't even know if a USB stick is harmful until after it has done the harm, that's incredibly poor design.
I can't speak for the others, but you can in fact change the voice on Google Now, and it has a selection of both male and female voices. In fact depending on the language you select, sometimes the default is male, other times it is female.
But if you're trying hard to be offended, there's no "right" answer they could have chosen to avoid it.
Last building I was in that had elevators with voices had 2 elevators, the right one sounded female, the left one sounded male. If you're one of those people that are stupidly easily offended, wait for the next elevator and it will be the other gender. If you're a reasonable human being, take whichever one comes first.
I know Google Now doesn't have it's own gender. I have my choice of both male and female voices, and it doesn't have a "persona" that indicates either way. In fact when I chose UK English for Google Now a couple of days ago, it defaulted to a male voice.
Even if they had chosen a female default, that's just plain good science. In many surveys of both genders, it has been found that the majority of both males, and females, feel more comfortable talking to a female sounding computer than a male sounding one. That's not because the tech firm is "obsessed with female digital servants", it's because the population at large prefers it, and they are catering to their customers.
This is another attempt to look for, and stir up, controversy where none exists.
So all your suggestions and what shows you want to resume playing etc should be based on device you're on so that you can work around stupid programming? No thanks. And no, not all our devices have profile support anyway. Tying this to the profile was an extremely stupid way to implement this feature.
My biggest complaint right now is that these settings aren't device specific. My wife watches a ton of content on a small screen while nursing or daughter. As we were gong over our bandwidth cap monthly, I turned the quality down, on the 13" screen she can't tell the difference. Unfortunately we discovered that also turns down the quality on our WD TV box hooked up to a projector on a 96" screen, and I can tell you it's sure noticeable there!
That's nothing new, Apple has always been behind Android, maybe the difference is they now see a need to do something about it? (not that I'm seeing any evidence of them trying to actually catch up)
You realise that if you try to install something that would be blocked by not having this checked, the dialog box that pops up actually links to the place in the settings to change it, right?
If you can't find it then, you have no placed operating any piece of technology built in the past 30 years
Absolutely! Why on earth would the EFF tell you that you should blindly trust sites that claim they honour DNT? We all know that basically everyone has their browser set to DNT, basically all malicious advertisers claim to honour it, and in reality nobody does. Why would I intentionally disable my tracking blocking for someone who lies and says to trust them? Shame on you EFF!
Is not about what you make, it's about what you spend. By your own admission you make more than I do, and I just bought a Tesla Model S with my savings. And that's in a country where the S costs even more due to our low currency exchange rate with the US.
The note series has zero latency on the stylus. And same deal with touch screens. The iphone was popular because it had amazing marketing. It has absolutely nothing to do with the product they offered as they have never had the best product, only the most advertised.
I know that people with the motox have been using the equivalent "OK Google" for a while now with the phone "off" and seem to love it, it's also available on other androids too now i believe
At my main job we still have tens of thousands of customers connected to GTD-5 switches that were installed in the early to mid 1980s, there is a plan to migrate away, but it sure isn't going fast.
At my side job, we just had brand new data terminals installed in our vehicles last month, they run XP, I understand wanting to keep it around, but installing it new this long after EOL?
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"This is unprecedented in history."
Only if you disregard all of history. Every invention that increased productivity got rid of jobs, but it hasn't ended humanity. The industrial revolution especially was supposed to have a massive unemployment problem as machines did all the work. Yet unemployment actually went DOWN. Difference is that the average standard of living went up.
Today, we all have many gadgets that nobody had a decade or two ago. we're incredibly more productive by letting machines do some of the work.
To have 90% of the population unemployed, you have to accept that our productivity as a society will severely decrease, our advancement as a society will slow dramatically.
Google Translate on the other hand is a translator app, and has also done this for quite some time already.
While not perfect, this is exactly what google translate's app does.
"No ma'am, we at the FBI do not have a sense of humor we're aware of."
Does your screwdriver jump up off your workbench and randomly start unscrewing things without asking first?
The problem isn't that you can run harmful code off a storage device, that's a know problem with an easy solution (don't be a moron). The problem is that the computer will AUTOMATICALLY run harmful code off a storage device by default unless you've done something to prevent it.
As long as a computer does what I ask it to, I can know what risks I'm taking, but if I can't even know if a USB stick is harmful until after it has done the harm, that's incredibly poor design.
I can't speak for the others, but you can in fact change the voice on Google Now, and it has a selection of both male and female voices. In fact depending on the language you select, sometimes the default is male, other times it is female.
But if you're trying hard to be offended, there's no "right" answer they could have chosen to avoid it.
Last building I was in that had elevators with voices had 2 elevators, the right one sounded female, the left one sounded male. If you're one of those people that are stupidly easily offended, wait for the next elevator and it will be the other gender. If you're a reasonable human being, take whichever one comes first.
I know Google Now doesn't have it's own gender. I have my choice of both male and female voices, and it doesn't have a "persona" that indicates either way. In fact when I chose UK English for Google Now a couple of days ago, it defaulted to a male voice.
Even if they had chosen a female default, that's just plain good science. In many surveys of both genders, it has been found that the majority of both males, and females, feel more comfortable talking to a female sounding computer than a male sounding one. That's not because the tech firm is "obsessed with female digital servants", it's because the population at large prefers it, and they are catering to their customers.
This is another attempt to look for, and stir up, controversy where none exists.
So more like the existing Onstart one from GM then?
Sounds exactly like what Tesla has had for several years now.
So all your suggestions and what shows you want to resume playing etc should be based on device you're on so that you can work around stupid programming? No thanks.
And no, not all our devices have profile support anyway. Tying this to the profile was an extremely stupid way to implement this feature.
That's far from a user friendly solution for what should be a very basic feature.
My biggest complaint right now is that these settings aren't device specific. My wife watches a ton of content on a small screen while nursing or daughter. As we were gong over our bandwidth cap monthly, I turned the quality down, on the 13" screen she can't tell the difference. Unfortunately we discovered that also turns down the quality on our WD TV box hooked up to a projector on a 96" screen, and I can tell you it's sure noticeable there!
Settings like this have no business being global.
That's nothing new, Apple has always been behind Android, maybe the difference is they now see a need to do something about it? (not that I'm seeing any evidence of them trying to actually catch up)
The original title scroll didn't call it a new hope... that was added later...
You realise that if you try to install something that would be blocked by not having this checked, the dialog box that pops up actually links to the place in the settings to change it, right?
If you can't find it then, you have no placed operating any piece of technology built in the past 30 years
exactly, why not mount them read-only by default, with the ability to re-mount as read-write as needed?
How hard would it be to simply mount it as read-only by default, but with the option to re-mount read-write when needed?
This doesn't have to be so black and white.
Absolutely! Why on earth would the EFF tell you that you should blindly trust sites that claim they honour DNT? We all know that basically everyone has their browser set to DNT, basically all malicious advertisers claim to honour it, and in reality nobody does. Why would I intentionally disable my tracking blocking for someone who lies and says to trust them? Shame on you EFF!
The wright brothers didn't make their first test flight after 747s were already flying over head.
Is not about what you make, it's about what you spend. By your own admission you make more than I do, and I just bought a Tesla Model S with my savings. And that's in a country where the S costs even more due to our low currency exchange rate with the US.
The note series has zero latency on the stylus. And same deal with touch screens. The iphone was popular because it had amazing marketing. It has absolutely nothing to do with the product they offered as they have never had the best product, only the most advertised.
I know that people with the motox have been using the equivalent "OK Google" for a while now with the phone "off" and seem to love it, it's also available on other androids too now i believe
"First time?" Samsung would like a word with you. ..
At my main job we still have tens of thousands of customers connected to GTD-5 switches that were installed in the early to mid 1980s, there is a plan to migrate away, but it sure isn't going fast.
At my side job, we just had brand new data terminals installed in our vehicles last month, they run XP, I understand wanting to keep it around, but installing it new this long after EOL?