I think even in the US it will hit a tipping point when it gets bad enough. When our consumer society can't buy anything because they are all out of work, we will need to change our way of thinking about this, or watch the economy completely collapse.
to earn so much money on a game with a community such as CS:GO, and letting the good, friendly players put up with it. There are so many things they could do to clean the community up a bit, but of course it's better to keep the bad eggs since they are also spending money. Fucking criminal.
Well considering almost all of the revenue from the game comes from what is essentially a built in slot-machine I don't think the actual FPS play is of much concern to them anymore.
The BIGGEST issue is still the loss of truck driver's jobs.... This will hut the US economy the hardest. Even then... it WILL happen... despite what "truck guys" I know say about the issue (sorry... bringing personal issues into/. comment... but 2 guys I know from high school have said Trucks will 'never' be automated, because 'I' don't know what I'm talking about...) (FYI: My degree(s) are in cyber physical system stability and security...) lol
Yea but on the upside, they will be able to pre-sell their organs to make some cash!
I came here to say exactly this. Those 5,000 Alexa "skills" are going to be ported over to Siri in 3, 2, 1...
eh, not really. At least not for home automation anytime soon. Apple HomeKit is kind of a pain in the ass. Yes, they require extra security which is always nice, but integrating stuff into it is a huge headache. Alexa is about 1000x easier to deal with.
Does the size of the outgoing traffic correlate with the amount spoken after the trigger word or does it correlate to the length of time since the last transmission?
I've actually watched this. They are generally around the same size each time, which makes sense since the commands are usually only a single sentence at most.
Clearly written by someone with a background in marketing, not programming or hardware. Amazon is NOT an operating system, despite what the salesman says. Echo uses FireOS which is a fork of Android. So the operating system that us running voice in the home is controlled by Google,not Amazon. And these folks have still not learned that, with the exception of context specific tasks (like switching room lights on and off) an interface that requires the user to self-generate commands is less useful to the general public than a point and click visual system. This is why most people use a mouse or trackpad rather than the command line.
The device OS is pretty meaningless. Except for a few phrases (such as it's "attention" phrase) all the heavy lifting is done on Amazon servers, not locally on the device. The local OS is just there to collect, package, and shuttle the voice commands to the cloud, and to accept and pass on the response. The back end is the important part here.
Small cable here. We already have cord cutters coming back for video. Seems like a netflix, amazon and hulu accounts eats up you're pocket book just as much as a cable subscription does. Not to mention any premium content you may want like HBO or showtime. I hate to say I told you so, no really don't hate that.
Yea, OK. I pay $42 a month for Hulu, Netflix, HBO Now, and Amazon Prime. Including Prime is a bit over the top since I had prime before I cut the cord, but let's put it in there for a worst-case. That covers 99% of my TV watching. My locals I can get over the air and if I need, I can always grab a OTA DVR but as of now it's not really something I've needed. When I cancelled my cable, I was paying about $75 a month for just the TV content.
Plus, unlike cable, I can easily cut and re-add services as I see fit. I can cancel HBO, then add it for a month to binge Westworld or Game of Thrones, then cancel it again. Easy-peasy. No phone calls, no bullshit contracts. Just click and done. Want it again, click. done. If I feel the need for more channels, I could always add Sling, Vue, or DirectTV Now for much less than it would cost to get it from my cable provider. And if I don't like it, click, done.
Sooner or later Amazon has to start paying dividends...
No, they don't. They just need to keep their share price afloat. Dividends are not a requirement of any company, and there are plenty out there that don't pay them.
If, on the other hand, a company makes a profit, that profit must either be reinvested in the company or returned to shareholders in the form of dividends or stock buybacks.
No, that is not a requirement at all. Just look at Apple. They could have built their new headquarters out of literal stacks of cash they were sitting on before they finally started to pay a dividend. Ditto with Microsoft. These are not non-profits, they are allowed to accumulate cash if they wish.
In fact the various interoperability would have been immediate because anything with a web browser could run it.
Yes, because in real life it totally works like that.
In my (and many others') experience, yes -- it totally does work like that IRL.
Web applications (as they're called) have been an extremely viable way to deliver software for many, many years now. And if JavaScript doesn't appeal to you because of its scary (/sarcasm) loose-typing and unfamiliar object system, then choose one of the many other languages that transpile into JS.
Must be why so many businesses have Citrix/Terminal Servers setup running outdated browsers to support their old ass web apps.
Um, is this something released by authorities or is everyone just assuming? The 4s has the ability to have a longer passcode, as well as an alpha-numeric password if one chooses. If you only use numbers the lock screen is presented with the numberpad like default but the code can be of any length greater than 3 digits.
Sooner or later Amazon has to start paying dividends...
No, they don't. They just need to keep their share price afloat. Dividends are not a requirement of any company, and there are plenty out there that don't pay them. They are a nice perk, for sure, but not some sort of "you must do this or go out of business".
In the USA, diesel is unpopular for passenger cars because we had some crappy diesels in the 80s and then we got crappy emissions laws that unfairly penalized diesels even though gasoline vehicles pollute more, and their pollution is more hazardous.
While I'm ranting about behavior at the filling station, my #1 peeve is people who drive gas vehicles who pull up to the pumps with diesel on them when they have a choice of another pump. Then they want to get angry when you ask them to move to another pump (before they start filling) when they shouldn't have used that one to begin with. Leave it for people who need it, asshole.
Huh. Never thought about that before. I think I'll start doing this since it seems to really enrage you and others like you.
This trend has less to do with the increasing vinyl sales and more to do with the fact that more and more people are getting their digital music from a subscription service vs buying it outright. Spotify, Pandora, Amazon, Google, and Apple music services are gobbling up digital sales.
I used to use it quite a bit while driving but it seems to have gotten worse in the last year or so at picking the correct contact or response. I use Alexa all the time though. Control lights, TV, thermostat, play music (the original one is a decent bluetooth speaker), audiobooks, check news and weather while I'm getting ready in the morning. When I travel I use the app to remotely start audiobooks playing full blast so it sounds like someone is home.
Instead of adding a single extra second to the end of the day, we'll run the clocks 0.0014% slower across the ten hours before and ten hours after the leap second, and "smear" the extra second across these twenty hours.
I wonder why they're "smearing" the time over 20 hours rather than 24, which would seem the more obvious solution.
It's not even an issue of cost. A lot of content owners don't want Netflix to have a complete catalog. NBC/Universal/Comcast, for example, controls a lot of content and *also* services for distributing content. If you can get all of the Comcast content without paying for Comcast services, then Comcast loses a bunch of money. Comcast will, therefore, go out of its way to hobble Netflix and prevent it from having access to all of it's content.
This is true too. Just look at DirecTV Now that launched today. Has some locals (owned and operated only) but NBC, where available, is only available to stream live on mobile devices, not on TVs. Ridiculous restriction, and probably only exists because they are now owned by Comcast. Hell it's insane that DirecTV, which already has contracts with all these different content providers, has to renegotiate for rights to send the same content over the internet instead of satellite.
Are we going to go through this every time the party in the White House changes? When this was first put in place conservatives were bitching that Obama was going to use it as a political platform. Now liberals are taking their turn. This isn't twitter, it's part of a larger national alert system that has, in long history never, once, been activated at the national level by a president. Activating this would also activate all of the other components of the alert system as well. No one is going to use it for BS political messaging.
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I think even in the US it will hit a tipping point when it gets bad enough. When our consumer society can't buy anything because they are all out of work, we will need to change our way of thinking about this, or watch the economy completely collapse.
to earn so much money on a game with a community such as CS:GO, and letting the good, friendly players put up with it. There are so many things they could do to clean the community up a bit, but of course it's better to keep the bad eggs since they are also spending money. Fucking criminal.
Well considering almost all of the revenue from the game comes from what is essentially a built in slot-machine I don't think the actual FPS play is of much concern to them anymore.
The BIGGEST issue is still the loss of truck driver's jobs.... This will hut the US economy the hardest. Even then... it WILL happen... despite what "truck guys" I know say about the issue (sorry... bringing personal issues into /. comment... but 2 guys I know from high school have said Trucks will 'never' be automated, because 'I' don't know what I'm talking about...) (FYI: My degree(s) are in cyber physical system stability and security...) lol
Yea but on the upside, they will be able to pre-sell their organs to make some cash!
What the hell are you talking about?!? And what the heck is a "LEA"?
From the context I'm not sure, but I imagine it involves thick tinfoil hats and prescriptions for strong anti-psychotic medications.
Amazon doesn't sell your personal data. They keep it all to themselves! Why share that with their competitors?
I came here to say exactly this. Those 5,000 Alexa "skills" are going to be ported over to Siri in 3, 2, 1...
eh, not really. At least not for home automation anytime soon. Apple HomeKit is kind of a pain in the ass. Yes, they require extra security which is always nice, but integrating stuff into it is a huge headache. Alexa is about 1000x easier to deal with.
Does the size of the outgoing traffic correlate with the amount spoken after the trigger word or does it correlate to the length of time since the last transmission?
I've actually watched this. They are generally around the same size each time, which makes sense since the commands are usually only a single sentence at most.
Clearly written by someone with a background in marketing, not programming or hardware. Amazon is NOT an operating system, despite what the salesman says. Echo uses FireOS which is a fork of Android. So the operating system that us running voice in the home is controlled by Google,not Amazon. And these folks have still not learned that, with the exception of context specific tasks (like switching room lights on and off) an interface that requires the user to self-generate commands is less useful to the general public than a point and click visual system. This is why most people use a mouse or trackpad rather than the command line.
The device OS is pretty meaningless. Except for a few phrases (such as it's "attention" phrase) all the heavy lifting is done on Amazon servers, not locally on the device. The local OS is just there to collect, package, and shuttle the voice commands to the cloud, and to accept and pass on the response. The back end is the important part here.
Small cable here. We already have cord cutters coming back for video. Seems like a netflix, amazon and hulu accounts eats up you're pocket book just as much as a cable subscription does. Not to mention any premium content you may want like HBO or showtime. I hate to say I told you so, no really don't hate that.
Yea, OK. I pay $42 a month for Hulu, Netflix, HBO Now, and Amazon Prime. Including Prime is a bit over the top since I had prime before I cut the cord, but let's put it in there for a worst-case. That covers 99% of my TV watching. My locals I can get over the air and if I need, I can always grab a OTA DVR but as of now it's not really something I've needed. When I cancelled my cable, I was paying about $75 a month for just the TV content.
Plus, unlike cable, I can easily cut and re-add services as I see fit. I can cancel HBO, then add it for a month to binge Westworld or Game of Thrones, then cancel it again. Easy-peasy. No phone calls, no bullshit contracts. Just click and done. Want it again, click. done. If I feel the need for more channels, I could always add Sling, Vue, or DirectTV Now for much less than it would cost to get it from my cable provider. And if I don't like it, click, done.
Sooner or later Amazon has to start paying dividends...
No, they don't. They just need to keep their share price afloat. Dividends are not a requirement of any company, and there are plenty out there that don't pay them.
If, on the other hand, a company makes a profit, that profit must either be reinvested in the company or returned to shareholders in the form of dividends or stock buybacks.
No, that is not a requirement at all. Just look at Apple. They could have built their new headquarters out of literal stacks of cash they were sitting on before they finally started to pay a dividend. Ditto with Microsoft. These are not non-profits, they are allowed to accumulate cash if they wish.
In fact the various interoperability would have been immediate because anything with a web browser could run it.
Yes, because in real life it totally works like that.
In my (and many others') experience, yes -- it totally does work like that IRL.
Web applications (as they're called) have been an extremely viable way to deliver software for many, many years now. And if JavaScript doesn't appeal to you because of its scary (/sarcasm) loose-typing and unfamiliar object system, then choose one of the many other languages that transpile into JS.
Must be why so many businesses have Citrix/Terminal Servers setup running outdated browsers to support their old ass web apps.
Um, is this something released by authorities or is everyone just assuming? The 4s has the ability to have a longer passcode, as well as an alpha-numeric password if one chooses. If you only use numbers the lock screen is presented with the numberpad like default but the code can be of any length greater than 3 digits.
Sooner or later Amazon has to start paying dividends...
No, they don't. They just need to keep their share price afloat. Dividends are not a requirement of any company, and there are plenty out there that don't pay them. They are a nice perk, for sure, but not some sort of "you must do this or go out of business".
In fact the various interoperability would have been immediate because anything with a web browser could run it.
Yes, because in real life it totally works like that.
In the USA, diesel is unpopular for passenger cars because we had some crappy diesels in the 80s and then we got crappy emissions laws that unfairly penalized diesels even though gasoline vehicles pollute more, and their pollution is more hazardous.
Found the VW emissions engineer!
While I'm ranting about behavior at the filling station, my #1 peeve is people who drive gas vehicles who pull up to the pumps with diesel on them when they have a choice of another pump. Then they want to get angry when you ask them to move to another pump (before they start filling) when they shouldn't have used that one to begin with. Leave it for people who need it, asshole.
Huh. Never thought about that before. I think I'll start doing this since it seems to really enrage you and others like you.
If I can't write a donation off on my taxes, then I didn't donate it. Fuck you Google.
It would a pass-through tax wise (if they really did it in the employee's names). It wouldn't be deductible but wouldn't count as income either.
This trend has less to do with the increasing vinyl sales and more to do with the fact that more and more people are getting their digital music from a subscription service vs buying it outright. Spotify, Pandora, Amazon, Google, and Apple music services are gobbling up digital sales.
I used to use it quite a bit while driving but it seems to have gotten worse in the last year or so at picking the correct contact or response. I use Alexa all the time though. Control lights, TV, thermostat, play music (the original one is a decent bluetooth speaker), audiobooks, check news and weather while I'm getting ready in the morning. When I travel I use the app to remotely start audiobooks playing full blast so it sounds like someone is home.
Congress looking out for people rather than companies???
Fetch the smelling sauce!
Most of the companies doing this were small companies, so they amounted to little in the way of campaign donations.
Instead of adding a single extra second to the end of the day, we'll run the clocks 0.0014% slower across the ten hours before and ten hours after the leap second, and "smear" the extra second across these twenty hours.
I wonder why they're "smearing" the time over 20 hours rather than 24, which would seem the more obvious solution.
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It's not even an issue of cost. A lot of content owners don't want Netflix to have a complete catalog. NBC/Universal/Comcast, for example, controls a lot of content and *also* services for distributing content. If you can get all of the Comcast content without paying for Comcast services, then Comcast loses a bunch of money. Comcast will, therefore, go out of its way to hobble Netflix and prevent it from having access to all of it's content.
This is true too. Just look at DirecTV Now that launched today. Has some locals (owned and operated only) but NBC, where available, is only available to stream live on mobile devices, not on TVs. Ridiculous restriction, and probably only exists because they are now owned by Comcast. Hell it's insane that DirecTV, which already has contracts with all these different content providers, has to renegotiate for rights to send the same content over the internet instead of satellite.
And how did that turn out for them?
Are we going to go through this every time the party in the White House changes? When this was first put in place conservatives were bitching that Obama was going to use it as a political platform. Now liberals are taking their turn. This isn't twitter, it's part of a larger national alert system that has, in long history never, once, been activated at the national level by a president. Activating this would also activate all of the other components of the alert system as well. No one is going to use it for BS political messaging.
Why not? Look how well Google Books worked out.
Because those are totally the same. Want something more relevant, look what happened to Aereo.