Well, yeah, of course it's happening on the other end. As others have noted, the big advantage Siri has is state awareness (get a text, check your schedule, reply without specifying to whom you are replying because it knows) and some natural-language processing. Given my experience with Google in less-than-pristine environments (e.g., the car, where I actually want to use voice commands), it's going to be interesting when this hits the real world. (And one major problem with the Google system is that "Call XYZ..." occasionally goes very, very wrong and ends up thinking I want to call some place halfway around the world. I've always caught it before it actually dialed, but IMHO it should restrict "call..." to either your address book or the country you're in.)
Are you always this insane? I've got a BS in chemistry, GPA 3.7 from 20 years ago, and I went to an absolutely batshit crazy Christian school through sixth grade. (I went there because they had a really excellent primary education in every subject other than the sciences and cost less than half of what the other private schools in the area did, in a city whose public schools suck.) You can totally learn science after the age of 12 (I did). You can totally learn new things after 24 - I certainly did. I hope you did.
What you can't replace is the free time that teenagers and college students who are supported by their parents have. I'm interested in all sorts of subjects that I'll never master because I don't have the time anymore. I can't dedicate five hours a day, six days a week, to hobbies.
Being religious is not proof of a theocratic bent. Prayers are pretty standard issue stuff in a lot of the country. They say them before high school football games. Don't get your panties in a wad just because somebody believes in God (or, more likely, realizes they can't get elected without acting like they do).
At some point, producing a phone for large-handed guys who love technology is going to result in your latest and greatest phone being aimed at a small part of the population (although they are probably a much larger part of the smartphone market). Has to happen some time.
I don't think most people who aren't gadget nuts are really all that interested - my father-in-law, for example, had an original iPhone and was about to replace it a month before the iPhone 4 was announced. He was totally unaware of their usual release schedule. They go to the store, they buy something that looks nice and fits in their pocket/purse/cupholder, they use it for a while, they get another.
Because guys who have large hands buy phones too? It's not as though it's the only device Samsung makes. It's not even the only LTE device on Verizon that they make.
Submarines have a slightly better maintenance team than the average car. Not only that, their TCO is much less important - the military needs availability.
A nephew of mine visited from Denver one August. After one (brief) attempt to go for a bike ride, he came in and said "Now I know why everyone's fat here."
What you said was "GSM is superior to CDMA and GSM...", which turns into "GSM is superior to CDMA" when read by people who can't, well, read. Should have said "GSM is superior to GSM and CDMA"... at least that way they are forced to read your whole sentence.
Re-read his post. As someone pointed out above, he's saying [GSM] is superior to [CDMA and GSM with handsets incompatible between the two] in terms of consumer outcomes.
You know, if the managers like you, they might even ask you to recommend someone to replace you. Happened at my last job, and I was able to get a friend a nice pay increase.
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Well, you'll soon get in the habit of turning the iPhone off before you put it in your pocket.
Well, yeah, of course it's happening on the other end. As others have noted, the big advantage Siri has is state awareness (get a text, check your schedule, reply without specifying to whom you are replying because it knows) and some natural-language processing. Given my experience with Google in less-than-pristine environments (e.g., the car, where I actually want to use voice commands), it's going to be interesting when this hits the real world. (And one major problem with the Google system is that "Call XYZ..." occasionally goes very, very wrong and ends up thinking I want to call some place halfway around the world. I've always caught it before it actually dialed, but IMHO it should restrict "call..." to either your address book or the country you're in.)
Are you always this insane? I've got a BS in chemistry, GPA 3.7 from 20 years ago, and I went to an absolutely batshit crazy Christian school through sixth grade. (I went there because they had a really excellent primary education in every subject other than the sciences and cost less than half of what the other private schools in the area did, in a city whose public schools suck.) You can totally learn science after the age of 12 (I did). You can totally learn new things after 24 - I certainly did. I hope you did.
What you can't replace is the free time that teenagers and college students who are supported by their parents have. I'm interested in all sorts of subjects that I'll never master because I don't have the time anymore. I can't dedicate five hours a day, six days a week, to hobbies.
Occupy Wall Street.
You can buy weed. I'm guessing that would be enough to get the OWS crowd interested.
"A sole" est un poisson.
intentionally weakening our recovery from the recession
That's a mighty broad brush you've got there. I'll go make some popcorn while you tell this story.
Being religious is not proof of a theocratic bent. Prayers are pretty standard issue stuff in a lot of the country. They say them before high school football games. Don't get your panties in a wad just because somebody believes in God (or, more likely, realizes they can't get elected without acting like they do).
At some point, producing a phone for large-handed guys who love technology is going to result in your latest and greatest phone being aimed at a small part of the population (although they are probably a much larger part of the smartphone market). Has to happen some time.
I don't think most people who aren't gadget nuts are really all that interested - my father-in-law, for example, had an original iPhone and was about to replace it a month before the iPhone 4 was announced. He was totally unaware of their usual release schedule. They go to the store, they buy something that looks nice and fits in their pocket/purse/cupholder, they use it for a while, they get another.
Because guys who have large hands buy phones too? It's not as though it's the only device Samsung makes. It's not even the only LTE device on Verizon that they make.
I'd say their revealed preferences indicate that while they may wander around saying they care about global warming, they don't really give a damn.
That assumes the US is the only market in the world.
Solar power plants would not.
You have a pollution-free way to produce solar panels?
China and India think it is a problem.
Would we be talking about this China?
Submarines have a slightly better maintenance team than the average car. Not only that, their TCO is much less important - the military needs availability.
A nephew of mine visited from Denver one August. After one (brief) attempt to go for a bike ride, he came in and said "Now I know why everyone's fat here."
What you said was "GSM is superior to CDMA and GSM...", which turns into "GSM is superior to CDMA" when read by people who can't, well, read. Should have said "GSM is superior to GSM and CDMA"... at least that way they are forced to read your whole sentence.
Re-read his post. As someone pointed out above, he's saying [GSM] is superior to [CDMA and GSM with handsets incompatible between the two] in terms of consumer outcomes.
Try commuting 2.5 mi each way by bike in New Orleans. Unless you have showers at work, it's a non-starter.
You know, if the managers like you, they might even ask you to recommend someone to replace you. Happened at my last job, and I was able to get a friend a nice pay increase.
Not just IT. Everyone moves up the pay scale by taking new jobs for more money.
It isn't "because the courts say so."
Who do you think issues the warrants? (Ultimately, this is moot, because cops do what judges order them to do.)
Neat. Thanks.
More or less.
We're talking Fifth Amendment, not Fourth. Still, a search incident to arrest has been determined to be reasonable by the courts.