But not to worry. It's all okay. Google says it's not evil.
That's a pretty serious amount of wild speculation from someone that didn't watch the launch or read any of the followup press articles. The camera does the AI on-board. In fact that was a theme of the presentation - music detection also being performed on board the new pixel.
I'm not sure if Google has rediscovered privacy, if this is a reflection of more powerful mobile processors now being capable of this type of workload, or a bit of both.
Well, I make an n of 2. Kids, pets, family. Tons of Ikea furniture that's moved house twice and state once. Spent six weeks in storage. All back together, all still perfectly functional. In fact, I've always thought that ease of disassembly meant Ikea furniture was easier to handle in a move since everything can be broken down to flat pieces.
I think you misunderstand my point. The article is about apple using Google for Siri results. That is obviously vastly different from searching for detailed information about a topic - Siri is really only useful if she has answers, not links to more information.
My Altavista comment wasn't about how good one search engine is over another. I was referring to what was once the pinnacle of search to point out that the way the majority of users are using search has changed. Those links were great 20 years ago, and if you're using search for detailed information, they're still what you're looking for. Hence the value in DuckDuckGo. But if you want to do more - and I'd argue most anyone using voice search is looking for more - then the paradigm has to change.
Fortunately you can still change the default search engine - I'm using DuckDuckGo on both my phone and my computer. It seems to work about as well as Google.
Really? I do a search for Target Pharmacy hours tomorrow. Duckduckgo gives me a page full of links - Google and Bing both give me an answer.
Search has moved on from Altavista, and when we're talking about search in response to voice commands it becomes double important to be able to answer natural language queries with natural language results.
Not that I'm dismissing the privacy concern. I think it's a valid one, just that the example of duckduckgo as a fully fledged alternative doesn't really work.
From the summary: "No matter how organized you are, you're bound to run out of milk... Bodega sets up five-foot-wide pantry boxes filled with non-perishable items"
These tech geniuses haven't even mastered refrigeration so they can stock the very stuff folk need. If it's non perishable, I'm less likely to run out of it (because I can keep more of it in the pantry) and there's a good chance I can wait two days for Amazon to deliver.
This reminds me of the US supermarkets that have tried to allow online shopping but don't allow you to buy anything that needs to be refrigerated or frozen and still want you to drive to their location to pick up your order. It's more expensive and less convenient that just buying the stuff yourself.
No, this is Google copying the photos. If you click on the photos in question, Google says the image came from Yelp and if you click the image for more information, it takes you off the Google domain and back to yelp.com
Here's an example. Click the image showing the interior with purple mats.
The actual complaint seems to be that Google are using images from Yelp in search results and from there as links back to Yelp.com
For example, A search for "brooklyn zoo williamsburg" shows the interior of the building as one of the photos. If you click that image, Google says it came from Yelp and if you click the image it takes you to the Yelp page for Brooklyn Zoo.
It seems Yelp is concerned that it's not adding value beyond what the Google search already delivered and so folk won't click the image.
That just shows your lack of understanding as to how the US works.
Taxes in New York are considerably higher than taxes in say, Texas.
When it comes to taxes, the US is more like a group of countries than it is a single country. So while the total tax rate in someplace like California will be much higher other locations like Oklahoma will have a total tax rate much lower..
That just shows your lack of understanding as to how Europe works.
Taxes in Belgium are considerably higher than taxes in say, Latvia.
When it comes to taxes, Europe actually is a group of countries. So, while the total tax rate in someplace like Denmark or France will be higher, other locations like Ireland or Poland will have a tax rate much lower.
The property-owners could go together and dig down their own fibers and connect the households there, and then offer their own internet-service or even lease the last mile to the ISP for a % of the monthly fee..
Perhaps you're new here. Otherwise, I can't think how you'd have missed countless articles about telecoms providers lobbying heavily to prevent and prohibit municipalities - i.e. groups of local property owners - from competing by offering internet services to their community.
Personally, I love my Chromecasts and can't think why I'd want a Roku instead? Is it just for Amazon Prime, because they refuse to cooperate with (or even sell) Chromecasts?
Others point out the commercial concerns here, but as a personal strategy it could be a useful solution. Use your parents, siblings, inlaws etc. and share backup bandwidth. Set it up to replicate in the middle of the night when it's unlikely to affect folk.
Alternatively, keep local backups and dump a hard drive in a lockbox at your bank once a month. Cheap and comes with almost unlimited capacity. I guess you could even send incremental backups to the cloud, minimizing your storage requirement there.
Isn't this backwards? Surely from a user experience point of view, we'd want the minimum possible engagement with the device?
I should say "Alexa, I'm too hot" and have her turn down the thermostat. It shouldn't be, "Alexa turn down the thermostat" followed by her asking "which device" and then my having to remember what the Ecobee is called (and also to make sure I don't name a smart plug or light anything too similar so that I don't get told off for trying to change the temperature on the wrong sort of device, rather than her figuring that I want to use the only device on the network with a thermostat).
I guess it could be argued that there might in future be applications where you would want to converse with Alexa. But if her understanding of English is so limited that changing the temperature is a battle, those applications are still a long way off.
The European arrest warrant scheme allows European nations to request deportation of non-citizens from another EU nation for 32 different offenses with no dual-criminality requirement. That is, without even subjecting themselves to the law of the requesting nation by entering its borders.
That goes far beyond what appears to be happening here where jurisdiction could probably be established by the objective territoriality principle. In other words, even without subjecting himself to US law by visiting, the alleged author of the code could potentially be deported because of the impact in the US. Visiting the US just made it a whole lot easier.
With this kind of theory, an American girl visiting Saudi Arabia can be detained because she was not wearing a head scarf while walking in the middle of LA....
If Saudi law prohibited the non-wearing of headscarves in LA, and the American woman were then to visit Saudi Arabia, that's exactly what could happen. When you visit another country, you are subjecting yourself to their laws and judicial system.
Similarly, many countries will prosecute over sexual abuse of minors, even if the abuse occurred in an overseas jurisdiction where it was not prohibited.
I doubt your average shopper knows who they are buying from. Unless you pay attention to the "ships from and sold by" text, it can often look like just another purchase - you don't need to be clicking on the "other sellers" text to be buying from the marketplace.
Indeed Amazon will even target customers with email ads for products that are exclusively sold by third party merchants. So you get an email from Amazon advertising a product, you click the link in the email and make a purchase on Amazon.com - it's easy to see why that would look to many like you're buying from Amazon and why a bad experience would reflect poorly on Amazon.
I'm glad someone is finally asking this question. It's a debate that's long overdue in the *nix community and I can't wait to hear a decisive answer to a question that's bothered me for years.
I didn't see any suggestion from Musk that this would be publicly financed. Given the massive number of jobs that such a project would create, I'd doubt government would stand in the way on principal alone. That doesn't mean there won't be more government interest in the route or the regulation of the service if/when it was ever to come into existence.
To be honest, there's probably more chance of your kid neighbor figuring out how to take a credit card than one of the landscape firms around here taking anything other than a check.
While I see a role for cash, why are some many Americans still using checks? And why are your consumer rights groups unable to force the banks there to offer an equivalent of the Direct Debit Guarantee?
Why do interbank transfers in the US still take days? Why is exchanging your account number and routing code enough for a stranger to empty your bank account yet it's printed on every check you write? This stuff makes little sense.
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I think we're already there:
Netflix $10.99
Hulu $7.99 ($11.99 without commercials)
Amazon Prime $5.99
HBO Now $14.99
Starz $8.99
BritBox $6.99
Showtime $8.99
You're now at $65/month before paying for cable internet and you don't have any sports, news or local channels.
That's a pretty serious amount of wild speculation from someone that didn't watch the launch or read any of the followup press articles. The camera does the AI on-board. In fact that was a theme of the presentation - music detection also being performed on board the new pixel.
I'm not sure if Google has rediscovered privacy, if this is a reflection of more powerful mobile processors now being capable of this type of workload, or a bit of both.
Well, I make an n of 2. Kids, pets, family. Tons of Ikea furniture that's moved house twice and state once. Spent six weeks in storage. All back together, all still perfectly functional. In fact, I've always thought that ease of disassembly meant Ikea furniture was easier to handle in a move since everything can be broken down to flat pieces.
I think you misunderstand my point. The article is about apple using Google for Siri results. That is obviously vastly different from searching for detailed information about a topic - Siri is really only useful if she has answers, not links to more information.
My Altavista comment wasn't about how good one search engine is over another. I was referring to what was once the pinnacle of search to point out that the way the majority of users are using search has changed. Those links were great 20 years ago, and if you're using search for detailed information, they're still what you're looking for. Hence the value in DuckDuckGo. But if you want to do more - and I'd argue most anyone using voice search is looking for more - then the paradigm has to change.
Really? I do a search for Target Pharmacy hours tomorrow. Duckduckgo gives me a page full of links - Google and Bing both give me an answer.
Search has moved on from Altavista, and when we're talking about search in response to voice commands it becomes double important to be able to answer natural language queries with natural language results.
Not that I'm dismissing the privacy concern. I think it's a valid one, just that the example of duckduckgo as a fully fledged alternative doesn't really work.
And not even a very good one:
From the summary: "No matter how organized you are, you're bound to run out of milk... Bodega sets up five-foot-wide pantry boxes filled with non-perishable items"
These tech geniuses haven't even mastered refrigeration so they can stock the very stuff folk need. If it's non perishable, I'm less likely to run out of it (because I can keep more of it in the pantry) and there's a good chance I can wait two days for Amazon to deliver.
This reminds me of the US supermarkets that have tried to allow online shopping but don't allow you to buy anything that needs to be refrigerated or frozen and still want you to drive to their location to pick up your order. It's more expensive and less convenient that just buying the stuff yourself.
No, this is Google copying the photos. If you click on the photos in question, Google says the image came from Yelp and if you click the image for more information, it takes you off the Google domain and back to yelp.com
Here's an example. Click the image showing the interior with purple mats.
The actual complaint seems to be that Google are using images from Yelp in search results and from there as links back to Yelp.com
For example, A search for "brooklyn zoo williamsburg" shows the interior of the building as one of the photos. If you click that image, Google says it came from Yelp and if you click the image it takes you to the Yelp page for Brooklyn Zoo.
It seems Yelp is concerned that it's not adding value beyond what the Google search already delivered and so folk won't click the image.
Same topic from a non-paywalled site. For the four /. readers that read the summary and the article.
That just shows your lack of understanding as to how Europe works.
Taxes in Belgium are considerably higher than taxes in say, Latvia.
When it comes to taxes, Europe actually is a group of countries. So, while the total tax rate in someplace like Denmark or France will be higher, other locations like Ireland or Poland will have a tax rate much lower.
Perhaps you're new here. Otherwise, I can't think how you'd have missed countless articles about telecoms providers lobbying heavily to prevent and prohibit municipalities - i.e. groups of local property owners - from competing by offering internet services to their community.
Ebay them. They sell for almost retail.
Personally, I love my Chromecasts and can't think why I'd want a Roku instead? Is it just for Amazon Prime, because they refuse to cooperate with (or even sell) Chromecasts?
Others point out the commercial concerns here, but as a personal strategy it could be a useful solution. Use your parents, siblings, inlaws etc. and share backup bandwidth. Set it up to replicate in the middle of the night when it's unlikely to affect folk.
Alternatively, keep local backups and dump a hard drive in a lockbox at your bank once a month. Cheap and comes with almost unlimited capacity. I guess you could even send incremental backups to the cloud, minimizing your storage requirement there.
Isn't this backwards? Surely from a user experience point of view, we'd want the minimum possible engagement with the device?
I should say "Alexa, I'm too hot" and have her turn down the thermostat. It shouldn't be, "Alexa turn down the thermostat" followed by her asking "which device" and then my having to remember what the Ecobee is called (and also to make sure I don't name a smart plug or light anything too similar so that I don't get told off for trying to change the temperature on the wrong sort of device, rather than her figuring that I want to use the only device on the network with a thermostat).
I guess it could be argued that there might in future be applications where you would want to converse with Alexa. But if her understanding of English is so limited that changing the temperature is a battle, those applications are still a long way off.
Is your claim that once someone has academic credentials, they become unimpeachable?
This is the point. Why should it mean increased profit for airlines rather than lower prices for passengers?
I'd have thought the first step would be to relieve the need for a copilot?
No you don't. If the new update requires additional permissions, you'll be prompted for them.
The European arrest warrant scheme allows European nations to request deportation of non-citizens from another EU nation for 32 different offenses with no dual-criminality requirement. That is, without even subjecting themselves to the law of the requesting nation by entering its borders.
That goes far beyond what appears to be happening here where jurisdiction could probably be established by the objective territoriality principle. In other words, even without subjecting himself to US law by visiting, the alleged author of the code could potentially be deported because of the impact in the US. Visiting the US just made it a whole lot easier.
If Saudi law prohibited the non-wearing of headscarves in LA, and the American woman were then to visit Saudi Arabia, that's exactly what could happen. When you visit another country, you are subjecting yourself to their laws and judicial system.
Similarly, many countries will prosecute over sexual abuse of minors, even if the abuse occurred in an overseas jurisdiction where it was not prohibited.
If I was a creator of Adobe Flash, I'd be worried right now.
Nothing that couldn't be done with twenty fewer keystrokes using vim.
I doubt your average shopper knows who they are buying from. Unless you pay attention to the "ships from and sold by" text, it can often look like just another purchase - you don't need to be clicking on the "other sellers" text to be buying from the marketplace.
Indeed Amazon will even target customers with email ads for products that are exclusively sold by third party merchants. So you get an email from Amazon advertising a product, you click the link in the email and make a purchase on Amazon.com - it's easy to see why that would look to many like you're buying from Amazon and why a bad experience would reflect poorly on Amazon.
I'm glad someone is finally asking this question. It's a debate that's long overdue in the *nix community and I can't wait to hear a decisive answer to a question that's bothered me for years.
I didn't see any suggestion from Musk that this would be publicly financed. Given the massive number of jobs that such a project would create, I'd doubt government would stand in the way on principal alone. That doesn't mean there won't be more government interest in the route or the regulation of the service if/when it was ever to come into existence.
To be honest, there's probably more chance of your kid neighbor figuring out how to take a credit card than one of the landscape firms around here taking anything other than a check.
While I see a role for cash, why are some many Americans still using checks? And why are your consumer rights groups unable to force the banks there to offer an equivalent of the Direct Debit Guarantee?
Why do interbank transfers in the US still take days? Why is exchanging your account number and routing code enough for a stranger to empty your bank account yet it's printed on every check you write? This stuff makes little sense.