hah, I just watched "Expendables 3" again, and came across this bit:
Christmas: "Status of enemy?" Drummer (over satphone): "What fuckin' language is that??" Ross (slurred): "What's the status of the enemy?" Drummer: "Local mostly..."
Very have a Luxor 65" LED HDTV for less than US$1000 (equiv.), it's got Freeview and Smart voice features built in.
Same as I've said elsewhere, you start unbundling and these people have less incentive to sell you the hardware, hence the price goes up to try and put you off. If you're really determined to have the panel without the shit attached to it, they will make you pay through the nose for it, because that extra shit is VERY difficult to remove (it's fabricated onto the mainboard).
damn, forgot to drop the tilde in. Good catch, there. That's where they suck you in - you start unbundling "features", they have less incentive to part with that expensive hardware. This is the same reason why an unbundled phone costs £600, whereas you can get the same phone on contract for the cost of the contract. Only thing you have to give up for the next two years is your choice of carrier. Or why a laptop with Windows might cost £750 but the same laptop without Windows costs £175 more (Dell, I'm looking at you!)
Windows 365 is a follow-on to Office 365, it seems. Will Windows 10 be hosted on a cloud? Is the new subscription model to be based on local licensing, everything else key-dependent and run from and on the cloud? I'm not saying annual subscription, but that does open the door to, for example, the same or similar model to the Office 365 of $8/user/month.
Is this the marker for the end of capable, standalone consumer devices, I wonder? If all this rings true, what does it mean for alternative platforms such as GNU/Linux? I doubt it'll be able to run on something that'll basically be back to the realms of a Nokia Communicator, with just barely enough power to relay a desktop UI that's generated on a server farm in the middle of Greenbow, Alabama.
It seems a logical progression to me: timeshared processor time on a farm using transient VMs configured on the fly depending on your key, to ridiculously cheap user hardware. It's a win all around: hardware costs are minimised, clients get to run their entire experience for the power equivalent of an AA battery a month.
If nobody's thought of this and suddenly reading this thinking it's a cool idea: you're welcome to use it, but credit where it's due, or I'm coming looking for you - and it won't be to send flowers.
my V3 doesn't do that, everything's done locally. I've never even had a data package on there. Hell, I've not even had calling credit on it for the last four years.
How much of what you're saying in the same room as your LAPTOP is being picked up by the Google voice process, encoded ot converted to text (why else would it be sucking up CPU cycles like Billy-O?) and transmitted to who-knows-where?
Chrome is getting the fuckoff biscuit from me and I'm looking into alternative browsers. Preferably one which is not compatible with Google Voice service. I don't need the "functionality" and I do not welcome the intrusion.
depends on how you define "shitty". Russia invaded Poland three months before Germany did, and Churchill didn't even blink. Before Germany even moved against Poland they'd abducted thousands of babies and children from Norway and surrounding areas, and tens of thousands of orphans left from the Spanish civil war in what Himmler called "Lebensborn". That was equally as shitty, to my mind, as murdering entire families when the supply of babies started to dry up. The Final Solution was merely a progression of Lebensborn, in the greater analysis.
fuck off #49004625, when you've got one of these things in your arm you'll not be an AC any more - all your personal data will be displayed in plain text for all who are willing to pay for the directory CD. From insurance underwriters to cialis merchants to internal revenue service to security services to the health service, they will each own a piece of you.
uh... nope. EvoFIT can literally see through makeup. One of its sorting algorithms is based on a genetic evolutionary algorithm, which means it's fucking clever.
EvoFIT, pretty much the best photofit software there is, has a 70% naming rate (automatic and correct naming of individuals based on a reference set of file photos such as passport database), it's one of the systems the Metropolitan Police use purely for the fact that it can run a photofit against a reference set.
An implant is as permanent and as symbolic as a fucking TATTOO. Remember the last people to use tattoos to identify individuals? Read some books and see how that shit turned out for six million people.
I've got facial recognition software running on my netbook. It really is not that difficult to get hold of some very sophisticated shit. It even has the capability of reducing any face to a photofit string.
If you're thinking "Bullshit!", let me throw some titles past you that a: I use for facial recognition features and b: I consider worth mentioning because they actually work (for some metric of "work" which for me is "enough to differentiate between 60 million individuals").
Windows Live Photo Gallery Google Picasa DigiKam Adobe Photoshop Elements Sony Picture Motion Browser AmCap IrfanView OpenCV EvoFIT E-FIT Faces LE (Law Enforcement edition)
(those last three are compositors, I do use them to reduce found faces to photofit strings - they're much easier to index that way).
but Google have also recently taken to autotagging faces in photos you upload to G+.
Incidentally, a 2013 report from the ITC says that you are 6 times more likely to have your bank account emptied by an identity thief via data taken from Facebook than you are to be the victim of a house burglary. http://blog.identitytheftcounc...
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not sure but the bigger question would be how stoned would I have to be to even consider the ramifications of what you're suggesting?
and that involves a certain plant, a yard of gummed-edge pressed wood pulp and a bucket of munchies.
which is bullshit because there is no "COPY" command in CP/M. It's "pip[]".
hah, I just watched "Expendables 3" again, and came across this bit:
Christmas: "Status of enemy?"
Drummer (over satphone): "What fuckin' language is that??"
Ross (slurred): "What's the status of the enemy?"
Drummer: "Local mostly..."
made I chuckle.
Very have a Luxor 65" LED HDTV for less than US$1000 (equiv.), it's got Freeview and Smart voice features built in.
Same as I've said elsewhere, you start unbundling and these people have less incentive to sell you the hardware, hence the price goes up to try and put you off. If you're really determined to have the panel without the shit attached to it, they will make you pay through the nose for it, because that extra shit is VERY difficult to remove (it's fabricated onto the mainboard).
damn, forgot to drop the tilde in. Good catch, there. That's where they suck you in - you start unbundling "features", they have less incentive to part with that expensive hardware. This is the same reason why an unbundled phone costs £600, whereas you can get the same phone on contract for the cost of the contract. Only thing you have to give up for the next two years is your choice of carrier. Or why a laptop with Windows might cost £750 but the same laptop without Windows costs £175 more (Dell, I'm looking at you!)
Windows 365 is a follow-on to Office 365, it seems. Will Windows 10 be hosted on a cloud? Is the new subscription model to be based on local licensing, everything else key-dependent and run from and on the cloud? I'm not saying annual subscription, but that does open the door to, for example, the same or similar model to the Office 365 of $8/user/month.
Is this the marker for the end of capable, standalone consumer devices, I wonder? If all this rings true, what does it mean for alternative platforms such as GNU/Linux? I doubt it'll be able to run on something that'll basically be back to the realms of a Nokia Communicator, with just barely enough power to relay a desktop UI that's generated on a server farm in the middle of Greenbow, Alabama.
It seems a logical progression to me: timeshared processor time on a farm using transient VMs configured on the fly depending on your key, to ridiculously cheap user hardware. It's a win all around: hardware costs are minimised, clients get to run their entire experience for the power equivalent of an AA battery a month.
If nobody's thought of this and suddenly reading this thinking it's a cool idea: you're welcome to use it, but credit where it's due, or I'm coming looking for you - and it won't be to send flowers.
my V3 doesn't do that, everything's done locally. I've never even had a data package on there. Hell, I've not even had calling credit on it for the last four years.
Good news: Panasonic do a 65" 1080P LED panel with none of the spy stuff in it. It's just a panel with a few inputs like an RS232C, HDMI, VGA...
The bad news: it's over three thousand Dollars.
in fact, my flip phone from 2003 can process voice commands.
if my 4 year old dual core netbook can do it, I'm pretty fucking sure a spanking new quad core phone or TV can.
fuck. right. off.
Siri and Cortana require button presses to activate. Google Voice (OK Google) sits there and monitors your microphone which to me is DODGY.
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/...
Looks good.
How much of what you're saying in the same room as your LAPTOP is being picked up by the Google voice process, encoded ot converted to text (why else would it be sucking up CPU cycles like Billy-O?) and transmitted to who-knows-where?
Chrome is getting the fuckoff biscuit from me and I'm looking into alternative browsers. Preferably one which is not compatible with Google Voice service. I don't need the "functionality" and I do not welcome the intrusion.
see topic.
depends on how you define "shitty". Russia invaded Poland three months before Germany did, and Churchill didn't even blink. Before Germany even moved against Poland they'd abducted thousands of babies and children from Norway and surrounding areas, and tens of thousands of orphans left from the Spanish civil war in what Himmler called "Lebensborn". That was equally as shitty, to my mind, as murdering entire families when the supply of babies started to dry up. The Final Solution was merely a progression of Lebensborn, in the greater analysis.
fuck off #49004625, when you've got one of these things in your arm you'll not be an AC any more - all your personal data will be displayed in plain text for all who are willing to pay for the directory CD. From insurance underwriters to cialis merchants to internal revenue service to security services to the health service, they will each own a piece of you.
Mark my words, and mark these words as well:
"Arbeit Macht Frei".
uh... nope. EvoFIT can literally see through makeup. One of its sorting algorithms is based on a genetic evolutionary algorithm, which means it's fucking clever.
EvoFIT, pretty much the best photofit software there is, has a 70% naming rate (automatic and correct naming of individuals based on a reference set of file photos such as passport database), it's one of the systems the Metropolitan Police use purely for the fact that it can run a photofit against a reference set.
passport/DVLA database is replete with reference photographs.
So many things wrong with the very IDEA of this.
An implant is as permanent and as symbolic as a fucking TATTOO. Remember the last people to use tattoos to identify individuals? Read some books and see how that shit turned out for six million people.
I've got facial recognition software running on my netbook. It really is not that difficult to get hold of some very sophisticated shit. It even has the capability of reducing any face to a photofit string.
If you're thinking "Bullshit!", let me throw some titles past you that a: I use for facial recognition features and b: I consider worth mentioning because they actually work (for some metric of "work" which for me is "enough to differentiate between 60 million individuals").
Windows Live Photo Gallery
Google Picasa
DigiKam
Adobe Photoshop Elements
Sony Picture Motion Browser
AmCap
IrfanView
OpenCV
EvoFIT
E-FIT
Faces LE (Law Enforcement edition)
(those last three are compositors, I do use them to reduce found faces to photofit strings - they're much easier to index that way).
but Google have also recently taken to autotagging faces in photos you upload to G+.
Incidentally, a 2013 report from the ITC says that you are 6 times more likely to have your bank account emptied by an identity thief via data taken from Facebook than you are to be the victim of a house burglary. http://blog.identitytheftcounc...
I hate it when I'm right. AGAIN.
and a Fiesta is clearly not an F150. One is a fucking hatchback, the other is a fucking muscle car.