Keyboards require sophisticated language plus motor skills to operate, voice recognition still requires language skills, gesture recognition still requires motor skills.
So obviously, none of those are candidates for the upcoming brave new world in which humankind will be either pampered or enslaved by machine overlords.
The only logical successor to current input technology is whatever humans can use without requiring any training/education: Primitive vocal utterances of current emotional state (like crying or giggling), inapt touching of anything colorful, blinking, or sweet tasting.
You know, maybe, just maybe, we could convince municipalities that it's THEIR job to keep a city clean, by, you know, HIRING people to sweep streets?
Since it would actually be the smokers duty to not litter the city, municipalities should rather hire people to fine those who throw their butts everywhere.
... but rather walking around on a sight-seeing tour through the "tree house".
Once they actually work, they will need to look at a screen, where they would see the same awful MicroSoft crap-ware as in so many conventional offices.
I'd prefer working in a soul-less cube of concrete, if in return on my screen there was a decent operating system.
Translation does not happen on the phone. All what you hear will be sent to Google
Precisely. Unless you simply download the small language pack in Google translate enabling it to work on video, audio and text completely offline. You know, like when you're in another country without mobile coverage.
Great. Then tell me please the link where to download the the "small language pack" for Greece, where I intended to spend my next holiday. Or is there none to fit your narrative?
This sounds like you need the GOOGLE earbuds to allow translation services, which happens on the phone.
Translation does not happen on the phone. All what you hear will be sent to Google, probably primarly for "optimizing advertisements presented to you" and other eavesdropping purposes, and secondarily, Google will attempt some translation sent back to your phone. Unless, of course, you have no Internet connection or service from Google, in which case there is no translation at all.
Sounds weird to me. Where I live, people enjoy warm sunny days, so more pedestrians are on the streets when the weather is like that than when it is cold and rainy.
Chinas censors aims at making it (technically) impossible for people to read stuff, I wouldn't say that is any better.
Their propanda is much different to that from the US or Russia, too: Instead of constantly talking about how rotten and evil the respective others are, they just flood all channels with a never-ending stream of "good news about China", as if by pouring tons of "positive stories" they can keep people from perceiving any "negative stories" being reported on China.
Remember the movie "Brazil"? I think its depiction of a government that puts in a lot of effort to divert attention from acts of terror is not too far-fetched.
How can you dare to propose such? Where should this end? Buiding houses from stone and concrete instead of wooden slats?!? That is so un-american!! You will be ridiculed as "Captain Hindsight" if you continue to make such statements!
The only true patriotic way to handle this kind of catastrophy is to briefly mourn about the dead, have some inspiring pep-talk, then re-build everything the same cheap, brittle way it was build before, and then pray harder than before catastrophy won't strike again.
... this is about a whole RAID implementation, which is redundant to what any decent operating system contains anyway, in a probably much more mature state. And yes, of course you can boot from a RAID configured via "mdadm", if that is what you really need.
Legal considerations aside: When I read "... over a residential neighborhood...", I would certainly not expect army choppers to fly there (at low altitude) - especially since they are probably producing much more noise than civilian drones.
I hope Europe is ready to receive another wave of refugies.
Well, due to their cultural background and education, refugees from Catalonia would certainly be way more welcome in other European countries than the economic migrants from Africa, who happen to arrive in great numbers under the disguise of claiming to be refugees from persecution.
You are right that the situation in Turkey at this time is a lot worse than the situation in Spain, but look how quickly it escalates: Sending thousands of para-military "Guardia Civil" personell into Catalonia to enforce the will of the central government is the most sure way to alienate the locals - I would not be suprised to see the first shots fired soon.
Driven by local nationlists, the north American territories of the British Empire did absolutely illegal things when they seceded. How could those people dare to question the legal rule of their central government?
And by the way, lot's of European countries would still be under the despotic rule of some emporer far away in Rome, had they not been "disobedient" to Roman law.
If Catalonia wants independency, there is a legal way. But it needs the approval of Spanish Parliament, and the independentists know it most likely won't succeed...
They kind of did succeed, when in 2006 a majority of the Spanish Parliament voted in favor of a treaty that basically gave Catalonia all the aspects of independence they asked for - see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
But that treaty was never enacted due to the very questionable verdict from the a Spanish high court - and that is basically why the people in Catalonia do not believe in there being a "legal way to independence" anymore.
Not too long ago, in 2006, a majority in the Spanish parliament voted in favor of a treaty that intended to give Catalonia some more autonomy - only to be subsequently stopped by jurisdiction - see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... for more on this.
And now Spain has a government that seems inclined to follow in the foot steps of Erdogan and alike, who think that violence and oppression is the way to go if you don't like what some regional government has decided upon.
It's really a shame how this conflict is being escalated for no good reason.
But my palm would be only on one side of the display. On the other side, it would be fingers that touch the surface. And even "only one opposing finger holding the device" is not quite an unusual scenario for me.
I wonder how some can consider it a feature to have a touch-display that reaches from edge-to-edge, with no more non-touch-sensitive space to handle the device without causing unintentional clicks/action.
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Keyboards require sophisticated language plus motor skills to operate, voice recognition still requires language skills, gesture recognition still requires motor skills.
So obviously, none of those are candidates for the upcoming brave new world in which humankind will be either pampered or enslaved by machine overlords.
The only logical successor to current input technology is whatever humans can use without requiring any training/education: Primitive vocal utterances of current emotional state (like crying or giggling), inapt touching of anything colorful, blinking, or sweet tasting.
Just realized this might be the better link to non-Dutch-speakers: http://www.comedycentral.co.uk...
You know, maybe, just maybe, we could convince municipalities that it's THEIR job to keep a city clean, by, you know, HIRING people to sweep streets?
Since it would actually be the smokers duty to not litter the city, municipalities should rather hire people to fine those who throw their butts everywhere.
... why should you bother to keep anything less vital to you clean?
... the authentic documentary about Dutch police work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
... but rather walking around on a sight-seeing tour through the "tree house".
Once they actually work, they will need to look at a screen, where they would see the same awful MicroSoft crap-ware as in so many conventional offices.
I'd prefer working in a soul-less cube of concrete, if in return on my screen there was a decent operating system.
Translation does not happen on the phone. All what you hear will be sent to Google
Precisely. Unless you simply download the small language pack in Google translate enabling it to work on video, audio and text completely offline. You know, like when you're in another country without mobile coverage.
Great. Then tell me please the link where to download the the "small language pack" for Greece, where I intended to spend my next holiday. Or is there none to fit your narrative?
This sounds like you need the GOOGLE earbuds to allow translation services, which happens on the phone.
Translation does not happen on the phone. All what you hear will be sent to Google, probably primarly for "optimizing advertisements presented to you" and other eavesdropping purposes, and secondarily, Google will attempt some translation sent back to your phone.
Unless, of course, you have no Internet connection or service from Google, in which case there is no translation at all.
Sounds weird to me. Where I live, people enjoy warm sunny days, so more pedestrians are on the streets when the weather is like that than when it is cold and rainy.
Chinas censors aims at making it (technically) impossible for people to read stuff, I wouldn't say that is any better.
Their propanda is much different to that from the US or Russia, too: Instead of constantly talking about how rotten and evil the respective others are, they just flood all channels with a never-ending stream of "good news about China", as if by pouring tons of "positive stories" they can keep people from perceiving any "negative stories" being reported on China.
Remember the movie "Brazil"? I think its depiction of a government that puts in a lot of effort to divert attention from acts of terror is not too far-fetched.
How can you dare to propose such? Where should this end? Buiding houses from stone and concrete instead of wooden slats?!? That is so un-american!! You will be ridiculed as "Captain Hindsight" if you continue to make such statements!
The only true patriotic way to handle this kind of catastrophy is to briefly mourn about the dead, have some inspiring pep-talk, then re-build everything the same cheap, brittle way it was build before, and then pray harder than before catastrophy won't strike again.
Air conducts heat pretty badly (also in comparison to "ground"). And no, I never heard of any power line in the ground to overheat.
... this is about a whole RAID implementation, which is redundant to what any decent operating system contains anyway, in a probably much more mature state.
And yes, of course you can boot from a RAID configured via "mdadm", if that is what you really need.
... to a very extreme extent.
Just to mention one recent example: There's an online translator that dwarfs the likes of Google's or Microsoft's translators made by a relatively small German company - and even though EU press covered this comprehensively, a site like Slashdot did not even mention this.
My understanding is that the helicopters were patrolling for the safety of the United Nations general assembly.
Wouldn't that be a job for a police chopper rather than an army chopper?
Legal considerations aside: When I read "... over a residential neighborhood...", I would certainly not expect army choppers to fly there (at low altitude) - especially since they are probably producing much more noise than civilian drones.
I hope Europe is ready to receive another wave of refugies.
Well, due to their cultural background and education, refugees from Catalonia would certainly be way more welcome in other European countries than the economic migrants from Africa, who happen to arrive in great numbers under the disguise of claiming to be refugees from persecution.
You are right that the situation in Turkey at this time is a lot worse than the situation in Spain, but look how quickly it escalates: Sending thousands of para-military "Guardia Civil" personell into Catalonia to enforce the will of the central government is the most sure way to alienate the locals - I would not be suprised to see the first shots fired soon.
Driven by local nationlists, the north American territories of the British Empire did absolutely illegal things when they seceded. How could those people dare to question the legal rule of their central government?
And by the way, lot's of European countries would still be under the despotic rule of some emporer far away in Rome, had they not been "disobedient" to Roman law.
If Catalonia wants independency, there is a legal way. But it needs the approval of Spanish Parliament, and the independentists know it most likely won't succeed...
They kind of did succeed, when in 2006 a majority of the Spanish Parliament voted in favor of a treaty that basically gave Catalonia all the aspects of independence they asked for - see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
But that treaty was never enacted due to the very questionable verdict from the a Spanish high court - and that is basically why the people in Catalonia do not believe in there being a "legal way to independence" anymore.
Not too long ago, in 2006, a majority in the Spanish parliament voted in favor of a treaty that intended to give Catalonia some more autonomy - only to be subsequently stopped by jurisdiction - see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... for more on this.
And now Spain has a government that seems inclined to follow in the foot steps of Erdogan and alike, who think that violence and oppression is the way to go if you don't like what some regional government has decided upon.
It's really a shame how this conflict is being escalated for no good reason.
... by testifying to the court that looking at the sun without protective eye-wear is just fine. Everything else is just fake news.
But my palm would be only on one side of the display. On the other side, it would be fingers that touch the surface. And even "only one opposing finger holding the device" is not quite an unusual scenario for me.
I wonder how some can consider it a feature to have a touch-display that reaches from edge-to-edge, with no more non-touch-sensitive space to handle the device without causing unintentional clicks/action.