The instrument (the telescreen, it was called) could be dimmed, but there was no way of shutting it off completely.
The
telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound that Winston
made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it,
moreover, so long as he remained within the field of vision which the metal
plaque commanded, he could be seen as well as heard. There was of course
no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How
often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. You had to live--did live, from habit that became instinct--in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in
darkness, every movement scrutinized.
Winston kept his back turned to the telescreen. It was safer; though, as he
well knew, even a back can be revealing. A kilometre away the Ministry of
Truth, his place of work, towered vast and white above the grimy landscape.
"There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.
There is another theory which states that this has already happened."
We do not know how to do it with current technology is not proof it cannot be done.
At least it puts to rest the argument that "We know how to build a simulation, therefore we are being simulated by someone with exactly the same methods" (the one advanced by Musk, IIRC)
you don't see a REFRESH button on any major IRC client, and in fact, the operation would be a major waste of resources.
A well-implemented refresh in that context shouldn't re-request the whole view if no new content has been published. It shouldn't be heavier than a Ping which returned the last time the content was updated, confirming that the client is up-to-date.
Automatic updates don't remove the need to inform the user of the current application state.
The user needs to know when was the last time that the content was updated; if the page becomes stalled (i.e. the time since last update is longer than expected), this might be because no new content has been created, but also because somewhere in the system there has been a hiccup that prevented an automatic refresh. No matter how reliable you make the system, there will always be delays, and some users will get the rare connection breakdown.
Providing a Refresh button allows the user to test that the system is still working, requesting the program to update the time-since-last-update and confirm that the current content is up to date.
So... THAT'S why Mozilla decided to ditch XUL (and a lot of legacy add-ons that relied on it)
Yes, jsut like they've been saying for the last three or four years.
Without its previous top-notch configurability, I'm afraid it can't really compete with Google developers working on Chrome.
Why not? They have Rust on their side, which reportedly allows them to make highly parallel data structures with a complexity nearly impossible to make safely in C++ or Go. This gives them an edge.
That doesn't matter if the simulated world matches your real world movement. I got sick as hell after five minutes in the fake walking of the Resident Evil game, but can easily stay for an hour of uninterrupted stand-up movement with the Vive really walking around the room.
Portal and Portal 2 are certainly famous games, but not for the music.
If you utter the words "This was a triumph!", anyone who has finished the game will remember the song about making science, even if they don't remember their writer's name.
If you don't ask about "the music" in abstract but about "the songs", it's likely that anyone (who finished the game) will remember it, because it makes a very strong emotional impact.
Read about the Context Graph, where they explain all that:
For instance, if youâ(TM)re learning about how to do something new, like bike repair, our forward button should help you learn bike repair based on others who have taken the same journey. This should work regardless of whom youâ(TM)re connected to, because your social network shouldnâ(TM)t be a prerequisite for getting the most from the web.
Apparently it will work as a recommender system (like those in Amazon, YouTube or any other site with a See also... section), creating connections from the current site to places that others people have used together. IIRC their recent Activity Stream experiment in Test Pilot had a Terms of Service and Privacy policy explaining their data collection practices.
So what? The suggestion in the article is that the era of dslr is on its way out to be replaced by (i)phones, this guy says the camera software is getting really good. I say that's great for snapping your kids or your dinner but it's not a replacement (not that op is suggesting it is). People aren't doing it the professional way though are they? They're just getting professionalish results in certain settings. Which again is great but limited.
Article says "the end of the DSLR for most people" (emphasis mine), and I'd say they're exactly right.
If this technique arrives to lower-end phones, the people who buys a DSLR for family photos and lacks the skills to use it properly will now be better served by a camera phone that provides results equivalent to a DSLR on automatic.
You say you are a photographer though, would you consider replacing your camera with an iphone for any kind of significant work? Thought not.
So what? The point in GP's post is that this technique has been made point-and-click, and therefore now available to people without the knowledge or equipment to do it the professional way.
if I want a rudimentary paint program such as KolourPaint which is really on par with "Paint"
That would be nice to try, but apparently they don't host binaries in their website, for windows or otherwise. I'm unable to find a legit official download link after some minutes looking for it, as I don't trust "random download site" as a source.
Please, please don't reject samples merely because the speaker doesn't speak with "native English" accent, if the words spoken are accurate.
A lot of the appeal with a project like this is in making voice recognition available to people around the world. Typically voice recognition works like shit for us who were born outside English-speaking countries, because they're only trained with native people.
I doubt the Ruth-Anne type would go for having a big corporation like Amazon working their tentacles into their business. Bonus points if you know who I'm talking about.
2025: "It's a Metatizer, it's like an X on a Y, where YOU define what an X and Y is. Good luck figuring it out; we can't. Oh, and thanks for the check!"
You're aware you've just created a category of products called Metatizer, right? The name is incredibly catchy.
Slashdot Mirror
In before the battle of the ultra-low UIDs.
Let's start gently...
The instrument (the telescreen, it was called) could be dimmed, but there was no way of shutting it off completely.
The telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound that Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it, moreover, so long as he remained within the field of vision which the metal plaque commanded, he could be seen as well as heard. There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. You had to live--did live, from habit that became instinct--in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized.
Winston kept his back turned to the telescreen. It was safer; though, as he well knew, even a back can be revealing. A kilometre away the Ministry of Truth, his place of work, towered vast and white above the grimy landscape.
"There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.
There is another theory which states that this has already happened."
At least it puts to rest the argument that "We know how to build a simulation, therefore we are being simulated by someone with exactly the same methods" (the one advanced by Musk, IIRC)
A well-implemented refresh in that context shouldn't re-request the whole view if no new content has been published. It shouldn't be heavier than a Ping which returned the last time the content was updated, confirming that the client is up-to-date.
Automatic updates don't remove the need to inform the user of the current application state.
The user needs to know when was the last time that the content was updated; if the page becomes stalled (i.e. the time since last update is longer than expected), this might be because no new content has been created, but also because somewhere in the system there has been a hiccup that prevented an automatic refresh. No matter how reliable you make the system, there will always be delays, and some users will get the rare connection breakdown.
Providing a Refresh button allows the user to test that the system is still working, requesting the program to update the time-since-last-update and confirm that the current content is up to date.
Yes, jsut like they've been saying for the last three or four years.
Why not? They have Rust on their side, which reportedly allows them to make highly parallel data structures with a complexity nearly impossible to make safely in C++ or Go. This gives them an edge.
That doesn't matter if the simulated world matches your real world movement. I got sick as hell after five minutes in the fake walking of the Resident Evil game, but can easily stay for an hour of uninterrupted stand-up movement with the Vive really walking around the room.
In case of nuclear war, there's no "rest of the world" where to hide in.
If you utter the words "This was a triumph!", anyone who has finished the game will remember the song about making science, even if they don't remember their writer's name.
If you don't ask about "the music" in abstract but about "the songs", it's likely that anyone (who finished the game) will remember it, because it makes a very strong emotional impact.
Link to the Context Graph
Read about the Context Graph, where they explain all that:
Apparently it will work as a recommender system (like those in Amazon, YouTube or any other site with a See also... section), creating connections from the current site to places that others people have used together. IIRC their recent Activity Stream experiment in Test Pilot had a Terms of Service and Privacy policy explaining their data collection practices.
Artificial Savants has a good ring to it.
No, but rampant sexism in technology makes lack of equality of outcome.
Article says "the end of the DSLR for most people" (emphasis mine), and I'd say they're exactly right.
If this technique arrives to lower-end phones, the people who buys a DSLR for family photos and lacks the skills to use it properly will now be better served by a camera phone that provides results equivalent to a DSLR on automatic.
So what? The point in GP's post is that this technique has been made point-and-click, and therefore now available to people without the knowledge or equipment to do it the professional way.
Because it's being discontinued, so you have to install something anyway?
Besides, KolourPaint is (L)GPL and MS Paint is not.
That would be nice to try, but apparently they don't host binaries in their website, for windows or otherwise. I'm unable to find a legit official download link after some minutes looking for it, as I don't trust "random download site" as a source.
Obligatory: Construction Shack by Clifford D. Simak.
(Read the ending for the most relevant part, or enjoy it from the beginning).
Please, please don't reject samples merely because the speaker doesn't speak with "native English" accent, if the words spoken are accurate.
A lot of the appeal with a project like this is in making voice recognition available to people around the world. Typically voice recognition works like shit for us who were born outside English-speaking countries, because they're only trained with native people.
Why wouldn't it? Spreadsheets are functional business-oriented IDEs. Wouldn't you like that your IDE is scriptable?
Hey, maybe the GP has slipped through a crack in spacetime from a universe better than ours.
Does that involve a doctor, and Alaska? :-)
You're aware you've just created a category of products called Metatizer, right? The name is incredibly catchy.
That depends on the flow chart language you use. The DRAKON language was designed to create extremely easy-to-read and highly modular flow charts.