Ask the guy who got arrested recently because someone sat outside his house with a Pringles can-boosted wifi antenna and downloaded gigabytes of child porn through his unsecured home network. Ask him if he cares whether or not he is convicted of the crime or if his life was made miserable just by being accused and held for the crime based on circumstantial proximity based electronic evidence. Ask him how laughable that was.
Agreed.
To me, Amazon Cloud wasn't so much an iTunes or Google Music killer.
It's a Pandora killer.
I generally was buying my music through Amazon or from my own CD collection anyway. Amazon Cloud lets me listen to my own collection rather than relying on Pandora's sometimes off the mark impression of what I want to listen to.
A friend, who is on the IT side at a well known hospital, has dealt with medical doctors who seem not to understand why they shouldn't just copy all those patient records onto a USB drive and then leave that key unguarded in their ragtop Mercedes. One doctor brought a whole, unbacked up disk home and then proceeded to trash it by plugging it into some system at home that had about a thousand trojans and virii on it. It took weeks for them to paste back together what this idiot, who is a world renowned surgeon, botched up.
He refers to the idiocy of these doctors as "practicing IT without a license".
I live near New York, so I'm assuming that it wouldn't be a nuclear reactor accident (although we do have Indian Point here....) but more an intentional bombing. In that case, I would think things on the ground would be pretty well irradiated.
So I'll take my gun AND my can opener.
An lot of the deaths from Chernobyl came from people who were eating and drinking the food taken from cattle grazing in the area. They didn't take 20-40 years to die. But go ahead, chow down on that radioactive bambi. I'll stick with the canned spam until I'm out of range a bit.
Of course during a nuke event, you wouldn't want to be shooting at anything that's been eating from the surrounding areas. Those MREs and canned foods will probably do you more good then.
The way I see it, there's a whole lot of armchair quarterbacks and Internet tough guys who have never built a machine that can beat two Grand champions at Jeopardy.
Ferrucci and team did. No one else has.
Yes, it wasn't perfect. But it was the first time. Version 1.0. You're talking about taking a machine that doesn't speak English, teaching it English, and having it play a quiz show that features a lot of cultural lingo and wordplay. Try to take a non-English speaker anywhere and get them to play the game competently and you'll get a sense of the challenge.
This is one of those cases where everyone read a headline, misinterpreted this, and then went on to make false statements regarding the story.
1. The app was meant to be an AID to confession. It was never meant to replace confession itself. The app NEVER MADE THAT CLAIM. 2. The Vatican isn't Banning the app, it's saying that the app was never meant to replace confession, see #1.
So, to summarize. The premise that the app was intended to replace confession is false and the other premise that the Vatican banned the app is false.
Moreover, it can answer in real time.
Most people don't have a grasp for how big a deal this is they are asked to do the following exercise: Sit down in front of a tv with a laptop connected to Bing or Google and watch Jeopardy. See if you can find the answer on these search engine to each question in the 5 seconds required using just the browser. Remember: If you're answering on your own, or making any leaps in logic from what the Search engine returns, your giving Google or Bing the benefit of your brain's reasoning.
Oh and yes, VERY IMPORTANT: If you can't find it within 5 seconds, you lose. That's the rules of Jeopardy.
I don't the Wolfram Alpha guy added in the extremely important time factor.
Watson is not connected to the internet. Remember that Watson has to come up with its responses in 5 seconds so it cannot rely on the internet for responsiveness.
Show me how Google or Bing returns EXACTLY "What is Cooperstown?" from "It figures that the writer of 'The Last of the Mohicans' died in this town".
I get a bunch pages and text *I* have to page through that *I* have to deduce the question from. I must have missed the Bing or Google Jeopardy engines that precisely return Jeopardy formed answers as Watson can.
IBM's Watson will answer "It figures that the write of 'The Last of the Mohicans' died in this town" with "What is Cooperstown?" not a mess of unparsed pages that you the user have to sift through and use your own brain to make sense of.
The difference between the IBM system and Google or Bing is that Watson can return the answer in question form in part because it can parse out the question in the first place, including puns and other wordplay. Google and Bing both suck at that.
Try using Bing with this actual Jeopardy question on for size:
"It figures that the writer of 'The Last of the Mohicans' died in this town"
You have to at least drill into one of the answers returned to get to the actual answer (one of the results returned includes the Jeopardy Archive, but then the questions asked of Watson were not from already aired shows, so this is not a completely unflawed test, I was just too lazy to make up my own question). Once you get the answer, you have to form it into a question yourself because Bing and Google don't do that for you.
Oh yes, and Jeopardy is time based. If you take more than 5 seconds to find the answer, you lose.
Watson is a pretty damned cool thing.
This is the beginning of the end of her presidential aspirations for sure.
A good portion of the GOP considered her toxic before this happened. She'll be even more so now, even if it does prove to be "just a crazy person". Politicians are skittish. Presidential campaigns have been scuttled by less shocking events than this (Gary Hart's bimbo, Edwin Muskie's tears).
A 9 month old baby was killed today, with 9 others injured. Serious stuff.
Yeah, I'm was a bit off with my dates. GE owned RCA, but RCA split off from GE ahead of the tv era. So, RCA was the company that was both the TV maker and content provider, not GE. GE scooped 'em both back up in 1986.
My bad.
Idea is though that Google is not measuring success by phone profits (though Android is quite profitable for Google). Their profits are coming from advertisers, not end users.
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Of the ROM-installing community, what percentage is NOT using CM 7.0.3?
Ask the guy who got arrested recently because someone sat outside his house with a Pringles can-boosted wifi antenna and downloaded gigabytes of child porn through his unsecured home network. Ask him if he cares whether or not he is convicted of the crime or if his life was made miserable just by being accused and held for the crime based on circumstantial proximity based electronic evidence. Ask him how laughable that was.
Agreed. To me, Amazon Cloud wasn't so much an iTunes or Google Music killer. It's a Pandora killer. I generally was buying my music through Amazon or from my own CD collection anyway. Amazon Cloud lets me listen to my own collection rather than relying on Pandora's sometimes off the mark impression of what I want to listen to.
Amazon MP3 never went down.
I'm not going to pay for a second 3G. I tether wifi from my Android phone when needed.
A friend, who is on the IT side at a well known hospital, has dealt with medical doctors who seem not to understand why they shouldn't just copy all those patient records onto a USB drive and then leave that key unguarded in their ragtop Mercedes. One doctor brought a whole, unbacked up disk home and then proceeded to trash it by plugging it into some system at home that had about a thousand trojans and virii on it. It took weeks for them to paste back together what this idiot, who is a world renowned surgeon, botched up. He refers to the idiocy of these doctors as "practicing IT without a license".
I live near New York, so I'm assuming that it wouldn't be a nuclear reactor accident (although we do have Indian Point here....) but more an intentional bombing. In that case, I would think things on the ground would be pretty well irradiated. So I'll take my gun AND my can opener.
An lot of the deaths from Chernobyl came from people who were eating and drinking the food taken from cattle grazing in the area. They didn't take 20-40 years to die. But go ahead, chow down on that radioactive bambi. I'll stick with the canned spam until I'm out of range a bit.
I live in Westchester. So we're going to be the ones who envy the dead.
Of course during a nuke event, you wouldn't want to be shooting at anything that's been eating from the surrounding areas. Those MREs and canned foods will probably do you more good then.
....and handle seasonal time changes?
The way I see it, there's a whole lot of armchair quarterbacks and Internet tough guys who have never built a machine that can beat two Grand champions at Jeopardy.
Ferrucci and team did. No one else has.
Yes, it wasn't perfect. But it was the first time. Version 1.0. You're talking about taking a machine that doesn't speak English, teaching it English, and having it play a quiz show that features a lot of cultural lingo and wordplay. Try to take a non-English speaker anywhere and get them to play the game competently and you'll get a sense of the challenge.
Put up or shut up if you think you can do better.
Your friends are morons.
The app never made that claim.
This is one of those cases where everyone read a headline, misinterpreted this, and then went on to make false statements regarding the story.
1. The app was meant to be an AID to confession. It was never meant to replace confession itself. The app NEVER MADE THAT CLAIM.
2. The Vatican isn't Banning the app, it's saying that the app was never meant to replace confession, see #1.
So, to summarize. The premise that the app was intended to replace confession is false and the other premise that the Vatican banned the app is false.
This Slashdot story, therefore, is a noop.
Sorry about the missing words and typing gaffes......not enough coffee today.
Moreover, it can answer in real time. Most people don't have a grasp for how big a deal this is they are asked to do the following exercise: Sit down in front of a tv with a laptop connected to Bing or Google and watch Jeopardy. See if you can find the answer on these search engine to each question in the 5 seconds required using just the browser. Remember: If you're answering on your own, or making any leaps in logic from what the Search engine returns, your giving Google or Bing the benefit of your brain's reasoning. Oh and yes, VERY IMPORTANT: If you can't find it within 5 seconds, you lose. That's the rules of Jeopardy. I don't the Wolfram Alpha guy added in the extremely important time factor.
Watson is not connected to the internet. Remember that Watson has to come up with its responses in 5 seconds so it cannot rely on the internet for responsiveness.
Really?
Show me how Google or Bing returns EXACTLY "What is Cooperstown?" from "It figures that the writer of 'The Last of the Mohicans' died in this town".
I get a bunch pages and text *I* have to page through that *I* have to deduce the question from. I must have missed the Bing or Google Jeopardy engines that precisely return Jeopardy formed answers as Watson can.
IBM's Watson will answer "It figures that the write of 'The Last of the Mohicans' died in this town" with "What is Cooperstown?" not a mess of unparsed pages that you the user have to sift through and use your own brain to make sense of.
Moreover, Watson will know how to pronounce these questions correctly and can deduce the sex of "James Fenimore Cooper" along the way.
Watson kicks Google and Bing ass.
Not returned in the form of a question. Watson 1, Google 0, Bing 0.
The difference between the IBM system and Google or Bing is that Watson can return the answer in question form in part because it can parse out the question in the first place, including puns and other wordplay. Google and Bing both suck at that. Try using Bing with this actual Jeopardy question on for size: "It figures that the writer of 'The Last of the Mohicans' died in this town" You have to at least drill into one of the answers returned to get to the actual answer (one of the results returned includes the Jeopardy Archive, but then the questions asked of Watson were not from already aired shows, so this is not a completely unflawed test, I was just too lazy to make up my own question). Once you get the answer, you have to form it into a question yourself because Bing and Google don't do that for you. Oh yes, and Jeopardy is time based. If you take more than 5 seconds to find the answer, you lose. Watson is a pretty damned cool thing.
Yes, I'd like to know if they were putting both DSL and Fios numbers together for this.
Correction, that was a 9 year old. Point still remains.
This is the beginning of the end of her presidential aspirations for sure. A good portion of the GOP considered her toxic before this happened. She'll be even more so now, even if it does prove to be "just a crazy person". Politicians are skittish. Presidential campaigns have been scuttled by less shocking events than this (Gary Hart's bimbo, Edwin Muskie's tears). A 9 month old baby was killed today, with 9 others injured. Serious stuff.
That would be this one, complete with the gunsights. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/24/sarah-palins-pac-puts-gun_n_511433.html But true, no evidence yet that she or any of her followers were involved.
Yeah, I'm was a bit off with my dates. GE owned RCA, but RCA split off from GE ahead of the tv era. So, RCA was the company that was both the TV maker and content provider, not GE. GE scooped 'em both back up in 1986. My bad. Idea is though that Google is not measuring success by phone profits (though Android is quite profitable for Google). Their profits are coming from advertisers, not end users.