Indeed. For a while I did OBD2 scan tool software for a large company I'm not going to name here.
Best example of what you're talking about is what this guy is selling. Disclaimer: I'm not associated with this company, etc. One of the reasons I did a career switch is that it's a no-brainer to eventually have the onboard computers simply give you the info you're talking about, like these guys are doing with the Prius.
But doesn't this thing just rock? If they could get it to do dashboard output with the 07 Prius I'd probably buy one.
Over the next few months, we plan to offer new discussion forums
They plan. That means they do not necessarily have a replacement currently available, or they would use the more definite "we will offer new discussion forums". These might be going away for good and they simply don't want to say so at the moment. Or maybe they've got some vaporware-ish thing they're currently writing, which may or may not materialize.
There is no real indication of these forums coming back in the article, if you read it closely. This might read "We're closing these but don't want to alienate any of our current users."
Music isn't harder to make than movies, especially when you consider that almost all movies have a soundtrack. A movie is film plus music, almost always.
Why does something that's obviously smaller in every measurable way (less work to make, less data on the finished product, etc.) - cost more?
8 percent (six million households) downloaded at least one digital video file (10MB or larger) from a P2P service for free in the third quarter of 2006.
We don't care at all. My Prius gets around 52mpg, and drives like a fairly souped up 4 cylinder. It has nice space inside, and the GPS system in the dash is great. And I don't care if they make the batteries out of baby seals.
I think a voice interface would still be a problem. It's the content of the spoken message that is important.
I can type "Show me the status of the plasma conduit in section XYZ", and I can also speak it aloud. Once it gets past speech recognition, it winds up essentially a list of tokens. English language words. Unless your speech recognition is so good it can glean different information from inflection.
Really, what I think is best would be the ability for a computer to truly parse a spoken language.
The reason why I think a voice interface wouldn't be as good - imagine what an office would be like if everyone was chattering at their computer all the time. And the side effects of that.
"Computer, show me the latest articles at Slashdot."
What if the boss is walking by? And even if you're doing what you're supposed to be doing, who wants to have to listen to it all day?
I'd take an english parser and a keyboard over that, myself.
That's not imitation pompous - that's genuine wannabe New Yorker from out of town who ends up moving to Williamsburg, Brooklyn and pisses off people who grew up in NYC like me with their "New York City is the OMG greatest city in the world just because I live here and I know this sort of famous guy in like an indie band back before every other hipster had heard of them and oh did I mention that I'm in a band AND I'm a web designer?" attitude.
I assure you I'm not a wannabe New Yorker. It's a lovely town and a fantastic place to visit, but that's about it for me. I'm not a city type. I hail from a cornfield in Ohio, pretty much.
My eccentricities are completely my own.
As for New York and the look itself, from my perception it seems to have something to do with wearing black coupled with the ugliest shoes and glasses imaginable. When I was there I didn't feel like another person in the whole city even vaguely resembled me. Of course it's been a dozen years, so that may have changed by now.
And my reason for going in the first place (well, that time anyways) was that the girlfriend in question was from New York. And took me to the only country bar in Manhattan, it was called Diamonds and Denim, IIRC. I didn't want to go but she said "No, you really have to see this." As a rule I can't stand country, but she was right - this was a riot. Two out of three songs were techno. Probably one of the funniest things I've ever seen. Watching New Yorkers in 10 gallon hats two-stepping at near light speed to techno. I'll never forget it.
No, no, no. Not like that at all. I didn't explain it clearly enough - my fault.
I had a few drinks and was feeling silly. I think I probably could have passed a breathalyzer if I had been driving. Just a few drinks, enough to feel loose, and maybe a little silly.
My comments were directed at my girlfriend only. I wasn't engaging anyone in conversation but her. And not yelling either, simply talking. But - if you've ever been in an art museum simple mild conversation can seem pretty loud. But - people were coming up to me to let me know how insightful I was. So it's not the "agree with the drunk, don't make eye contact and edge away slowly" scenario I may have painted. As for my comments themselves, nothing I was saying reflected anything in my soul. I was imitating LA Story, if you've ever seen it.
I was just having a bit of fun with my girlfriend, and accidentally learned something about the nature of critics and art in general. People who push their ultra-refined opinions on other people about something as subjective as art are simply full of it. Having done it once accidentally, I now know this for a fact. Art opinions aren't about the art at all - they're about the perception of the critic.
About a dozen years ago, I went to New York with my then-girlfriend. We decided to go to the Met.
At the time I had long fuzzy hair, was only halfway bald, and wore fairly eccentric collegey clothes. A denim jacket, ripped jeans, loud shirts, etc. In short, I looked moderately freaky.
So we go to the met. Oh yeah, did I mention we had been drinking?
I decide to have a little fun with my girlfriend. As I would approach a work of art, I would make a comment as a joke. Something an art-type would be likely to say. And I was mildly drunk, so I was probably a bit louder than I normally would have been.
"It's artistic without being artsy." "I like what he's saying with his green palette." "It says a lot by saying a little, don't you think?"
The punchline? Since I was drunkish/loud, other people could hear me. And since I looked like a freak and was making these possibly insightful comments, they were agreeing with me, sometimes furiously. "Oh yes, I see it too!" Rather than possibly snub some super-insightful art weirdo, they decided the safest course was to agree with me.
I don't know, but I suspect that if engineers had their act together and were not constrained by the ridiculous way of doing things which are currently in place, we'd have much better machines available.
What makes you think we're constrained? Believe me, if I could figure out some new way to build a better computer, I'd do it. And I'd be a billionaire, too.
You think there is some cabal of engineers or business owners keeping that from happening? Nope. Nobody has figured out a better way yet. What we've currently got is the best we can do.
Soon as someone figures out a better way, you will see it.
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Indeed. For a while I did OBD2 scan tool software for a large company I'm not going to name here.
Best example of what you're talking about is what this guy is selling. Disclaimer: I'm not associated with this company, etc. One of the reasons I did a career switch is that it's a no-brainer to eventually have the onboard computers simply give you the info you're talking about, like these guys are doing with the Prius.
But doesn't this thing just rock? If they could get it to do dashboard output with the 07 Prius I'd probably buy one.
...and they spin it like they're a generation ahead.
And even those who get it later are going to be a generation behind
News flash, guys. Toyota/Lexus has had a similar system for years.
...is a longitude.
Darn good game. I dig a good RPG and this one has been a lot of fun.
Read it a bit closer:
Over the next few months, we plan to offer new discussion forums
They plan. That means they do not necessarily have a replacement currently available, or they would use the more definite "we will offer new discussion forums". These might be going away for good and they simply don't want to say so at the moment. Or maybe they've got some vaporware-ish thing they're currently writing, which may or may not materialize.
There is no real indication of these forums coming back in the article, if you read it closely. This might read "We're closing these but don't want to alienate any of our current users."
43. There is only one cheddar cheese maker in Cheddar, even though cheddar is the most popular hard cheese in the English-speaking world.
Not 'round here, sir.
Why do music CDs cost more than movie DVDs?
Music isn't harder to make than movies, especially when you consider that almost all movies have a soundtrack. A movie is film plus music, almost always.
Why does something that's obviously smaller in every measurable way (less work to make, less data on the finished product, etc.) - cost more?
8 percent (six million households) downloaded at least one digital video file (10MB or larger) from a P2P service for free in the third quarter of 2006.
Free? Nonsense! I have to pay my ISP every month!
Nyuk nyuk nyuk!
We don't care at all. My Prius gets around 52mpg, and drives like a fairly souped up 4 cylinder. It has nice space inside, and the GPS system in the dash is great. And I don't care if they make the batteries out of baby seals.
Came with a working radiation badge.
I think a voice interface would still be a problem. It's the content of the spoken message that is important.
I can type "Show me the status of the plasma conduit in section XYZ", and I can also speak it aloud. Once it gets past speech recognition, it winds up essentially a list of tokens. English language words. Unless your speech recognition is so good it can glean different information from inflection.
Really, what I think is best would be the ability for a computer to truly parse a spoken language.
The reason why I think a voice interface wouldn't be as good - imagine what an office would be like if everyone was chattering at their computer all the time. And the side effects of that.
"Computer, show me the latest articles at Slashdot."
What if the boss is walking by? And even if you're doing what you're supposed to be doing, who wants to have to listen to it all day?
I'd take an english parser and a keyboard over that, myself.
And that's how.
Attributor plans to help automate the interaction between content owners and those using their content on the Web, though it declines to specify how.
And apparently being written by underpants gnomes.
Man! That's a lot of blimps!
...of 'bad taste in movies' comments.
That's not imitation pompous - that's genuine wannabe New Yorker from out of town who ends up moving to Williamsburg, Brooklyn and pisses off people who grew up in NYC like me with their "New York City is the OMG greatest city in the world just because I live here and I know this sort of famous guy in like an indie band back before every other hipster had heard of them and oh did I mention that I'm in a band AND I'm a web designer?" attitude.
I assure you I'm not a wannabe New Yorker. It's a lovely town and a fantastic place to visit, but that's about it for me. I'm not a city type. I hail from a cornfield in Ohio, pretty much.
My eccentricities are completely my own.
As for New York and the look itself, from my perception it seems to have something to do with wearing black coupled with the ugliest shoes and glasses imaginable. When I was there I didn't feel like another person in the whole city even vaguely resembled me. Of course it's been a dozen years, so that may have changed by now.
And my reason for going in the first place (well, that time anyways) was that the girlfriend in question was from New York. And took me to the only country bar in Manhattan, it was called Diamonds and Denim, IIRC. I didn't want to go but she said "No, you really have to see this." As a rule I can't stand country, but she was right - this was a riot. Two out of three songs were techno. Probably one of the funniest things I've ever seen. Watching New Yorkers in 10 gallon hats two-stepping at near light speed to techno. I'll never forget it.
No, no, no. Not like that at all. I didn't explain it clearly enough - my fault.
I had a few drinks and was feeling silly. I think I probably could have passed a breathalyzer if I had been driving. Just a few drinks, enough to feel loose, and maybe a little silly.
My comments were directed at my girlfriend only. I wasn't engaging anyone in conversation but her. And not yelling either, simply talking. But - if you've ever been in an art museum simple mild conversation can seem pretty loud. But - people were coming up to me to let me know how insightful I was. So it's not the "agree with the drunk, don't make eye contact and edge away slowly" scenario I may have painted. As for my comments themselves, nothing I was saying reflected anything in my soul. I was imitating LA Story, if you've ever seen it.
I was just having a bit of fun with my girlfriend, and accidentally learned something about the nature of critics and art in general. People who push their ultra-refined opinions on other people about something as subjective as art are simply full of it. Having done it once accidentally, I now know this for a fact. Art opinions aren't about the art at all - they're about the perception of the critic.
I'm sure Mozart is finally wealthy enough to where having his music in the public domain won't hurt him.
Wait? He's been dead for 215 years? Oh. Nevermind.
You've reminded me of a story.
About a dozen years ago, I went to New York with my then-girlfriend. We decided to go to the Met.
At the time I had long fuzzy hair, was only halfway bald, and wore fairly eccentric collegey clothes. A denim jacket, ripped jeans, loud shirts, etc. In short, I looked moderately freaky.
So we go to the met. Oh yeah, did I mention we had been drinking?
I decide to have a little fun with my girlfriend. As I would approach a work of art, I would make a comment as a joke. Something an art-type would be likely to say. And I was mildly drunk, so I was probably a bit louder than I normally would have been.
"It's artistic without being artsy."
"I like what he's saying with his green palette."
"It says a lot by saying a little, don't you think?"
The punchline? Since I was drunkish/loud, other people could hear me. And since I looked like a freak and was making these possibly insightful comments, they were agreeing with me, sometimes furiously. "Oh yes, I see it too!" Rather than possibly snub some super-insightful art weirdo, they decided the safest course was to agree with me.
A drunken electrical engineer on holiday.
College teaches you how to learn. Once you realize that, your education truly begins.
I don't know, but I suspect that if engineers had their act together and were not constrained by the ridiculous way of doing things which are currently in place, we'd have much better machines available.
What makes you think we're constrained? Believe me, if I could figure out some new way to build a better computer, I'd do it. And I'd be a billionaire, too.
You think there is some cabal of engineers or business owners keeping that from happening? Nope. Nobody has figured out a better way yet. What we've currently got is the best we can do.
Soon as someone figures out a better way, you will see it.
And they'll use them in the Playstation 4. After all, Blu-ray is so....2006.
I've been experimenting with DRM free MP3 files for years.
...with this pocket calculator stuff.
At least Microsoft can't claim they're not involved in this anymore, like back when they were piping money through Baystar to fund this fiasco.