If you can think back to your last conversation with a waiter in a country whose language you did not speak then you know that Translation requires fairly high accuracy to be perceived as being good. Commands don't. Siri is trying to get the jist of what you mean and act on it.
How do they know the control group wasn't psychopaths? Maybe what they are measuring is the speech pattern differences in relaxed "out of the closet" pyscopaths versus psychopaths in hiding.
I think that there are probably two really good reasons Netflix saw the breakup as a good idea and neither of those has changed.
1) Ending studio blackmail. Right now studios have to sell netflix DVDs at a reasonable price since they are available over the counter. But the studios don't have to sell them streaming at a reasonable price. They can tell Netflix, give us a slice of your DVD income or we wont sell you the streams you need. If you physically split the bussinesses then the blackmail goes away since they can't clawback any of that DVD income.
2) Redbox is a better model. No postal fees. Just a driver who shuttles a stationwagon load of the disks up once a day or week. No people to tear open envelopes and sort the DVDs. Not even electricity bills. Bussinesses will even pay you to put your machines in their stores. No lost DVDs-- the consumer pays.
the set up for this is that it they just emit 9 character random strings and cross off anything that matches. Emit 8 character ones and it's 26 times easier. So why not just emit 1 character strings. perl -e 'print "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz" '
sounds to me like the megahertz game and the feature game all over again. On something with a small screen I don't really want tinier writing because it's a 1080p device and I want it useful. having a zillion gestures that different applications subset is not useful. Having a few gestures that all apps use in common ways it useful. I'll take complex on my desktop, but Simple and useful is what I want in a phone. Now one might say, well to each his own. But that's the point. If all phones work pretty much the same I don't have to learn how to use a different phone. It's not how most people want to expend brain cycles.
I wonder how many towers $20 billion would buy, so that Sprint might actually be a choice around here, instead of the joke option you pick when you don't want to own a cell phone that can actually receive calls?
I think you are thinking about this wrong. Sprint is not losing 20B. theey are hoping for a 20B influx from either new subscribers or old ones churing to iphones. for new subscribers the payback time would be within a year since the marginal cost of new subscribers is small.
thus within 2 years that 20B should be all paid back.
the way apple books the payments usually they don't want it all upfront either. so chances are this isn't a 20B pre-pay but a 20B contract ammortized over 5 years.
thus the net effect is that sprint should have a positive cash flow to build new towers if their subscribers increase.
a sprint exclusive would be a surprise to most people. It would fit with the conflicting stories we've heard. And it would make sense for apple too as a way to turn a negative-- limited supply-- in to a positive value--exclusivity premium paid by the carrier-- without raising the price.
this will make me sad. I can totally understand the logic if it's true. But I was so hoping that t-mobile or Verizon would get the iphone 5. We don't get sprint or aT&T where I live.
IS there any way it might be feasible to set up some sort of cookie exchanger service. The idea would be like randomly exchanging supermarket loyalty cards with strangers so the data they collect becomes useless to identify with an individual.
What would be needed would be some way to keep a set of real facebook cookies" tucked away for when you are on facebook and then have another completely valid set of cookies used for general web browsing. But you keep swapping these complete and self-consistent sets with random individuals.
You might even been trucking it across major grid boundaries.
Considering that the US only has 3 "grid boundaries" or more precisely 3 control areas... that is a rare event;D
Hardly. there are lots of independent power districts that have their own power and own co-ops. While smaller ones are isolated, The larger ones connect to grids but even there you are still moving power across ownership domains.
The return pipe to the central steam plant that heated my building broke and due to the terrain it could not be fixed in winter time. So instead the plant engineers had a tanker truck collect the condescend steam outflow from the building and they trucked it back everyday to the steam plant. I was never sure if was genius or absurd but I lean towards absurd. Trucking steam is just one step short of trying to land on the sun at night.
In many cities there is a commute from the suburbs bedroom communities and back everyday, So the place where you charge your car and the place where you sell the electricity back may be geographically different. You are in effect trucking electricity. You might even been trucking it across major grid boundaries. If you live near a border you might even be exporting it. Genius or silly?
The upshot for google is that this is fantastic news. Let this other company sue them and deliberately loose to establish the validity of the patent. then buy the patent. Of course you do the negotiations for an Option to Buy and Lose in that order or you are screwed.
Cool, now I don't even have to go to face book or read face book to have my digital avatar chat with my freinds digital avatars.
It's a social network. The huge virtue of it is human communication at human speeds. not a data firehose to douse my freinds. The less often I have to visit face book to update it the less social it becomes.
The slashdot audience has named all the reasons why this is a stupid move in terms of customer service. SO why are they really doing it. I think the logical explanation is likely it positions them better with their suppliers.
I would bet that under the Unified Netflix model that Disney was saying "give us a cut of your Disk service or no more streaming movies for you". When they didn't pony up, Disney forced STARZ to pull the plug.
Basically, Disney or Sony or whomever could blackmail netflix. They can't control the DVDs since netflix buys those open market. But they can control who gets to stream. And thus they can blackmail netflix on one part of their bussiness
Now if they split it in two. No more black mail. yep they could decide to hurt the streaming company. But what could they gain from that. The streaming company won't have revenue from disks to pay the black mail.
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If you can think back to your last conversation with a waiter in a country whose language you did not speak then you know that Translation requires fairly high accuracy to be perceived as being good. Commands don't. Siri is trying to get the jist of what you mean and act on it.
Use a tired gimmick like Yoda and then add evil. A joke by a genetic dead-end.
Your speech pattern is all phrases without complete sentences. This suggests to me that, like Yoda, you are a psychopath.
As Yoda's evil twin would say.
How do they know the control group wasn't psychopaths? Maybe what they are measuring is the speech pattern differences in relaxed "out of the closet" pyscopaths versus psychopaths in hiding.
I really liked google wave. it made a good lab notebook. But wi
Poor poor micheal Behe. Irrefutably refuted by construction of a mouse trap from itself.
I think that there are probably two really good reasons Netflix saw the breakup as a good idea and neither of those has changed.
1) Ending studio blackmail.
Right now studios have to sell netflix DVDs at a reasonable price since they are available over the counter. But the studios don't have to sell them streaming at a reasonable price. They can tell Netflix, give us a slice of your DVD income or we wont sell you the streams you need. If you physically split the bussinesses then the blackmail goes away since they can't clawback any of that DVD income.
2) Redbox is a better model. No postal fees. Just a driver who shuttles a stationwagon load of the disks up once a day or week. No people to tear open envelopes and sort the DVDs. Not even electricity bills. Bussinesses will even pay you to put your machines in their stores. No lost DVDs-- the consumer pays.
the set up for this is that it they just emit 9 character random strings and cross off anything that matches. Emit 8 character ones and it's 26 times easier. So why not just emit 1 character strings.
perl -e 'print "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz" '
there done.
sounds to me like the megahertz game and the feature game all over again. On something with a small screen I don't really want tinier writing because it's a 1080p device and I want it useful. having a zillion gestures that different applications subset is not useful. Having a few gestures that all apps use in common ways it useful. I'll take complex on my desktop, but Simple and useful is what I want in a phone. Now one might say, well to each his own. But that's the point. If all phones work pretty much the same I don't have to learn how to use a different phone. It's not how most people want to expend brain cycles.
why?
Isn't it obvious? He wants to have the linux in order to run a browser with javascript.
then they'd be wasting their money.
I wonder how many towers $20 billion would buy, so that Sprint might actually be a choice around here, instead of the joke option you pick when you don't want to own a cell phone that can actually receive calls?
I think you are thinking about this wrong. Sprint is not losing 20B. theey are hoping for a 20B influx from either new subscribers or old ones churing to iphones. for new subscribers the payback time would be within a year since the marginal cost of new subscribers is small.
thus within 2 years that 20B should be all paid back.
the way apple books the payments usually they don't want it all upfront either. so chances are this isn't a 20B pre-pay but a 20B contract ammortized over 5 years.
thus the net effect is that sprint should have a positive cash flow to build new towers if their subscribers increase.
In other completely unpredicted news...
a sprint exclusive would be a surprise to most people. It would fit with the conflicting stories we've heard. And it would make sense for apple too as a way to turn a negative-- limited supply-- in to a positive value--exclusivity premium paid by the carrier-- without raising the price.
this will make me sad. I can totally understand the logic if it's true. But I was so hoping that t-mobile or Verizon would get the iphone 5. We don't get sprint or aT&T where I live.
IS there any way it might be feasible to set up some sort of cookie exchanger service. The idea would be like randomly exchanging supermarket loyalty cards with strangers so the data they collect becomes useless to identify with an individual.
What would be needed would be some way to keep a set of real facebook cookies" tucked away for when you are on facebook and then have another completely valid set of cookies used for general web browsing. But you keep swapping these complete and self-consistent sets with random individuals.
is that possible?
How did this article make it to the front page? Better bring back Rob Malda or it's curtains for slashdot.
Sorry, but that I can't believe. Which country do you live?
the US. for starters 90% of alaska is off the grid. Each of 300 villages have their own isolated power grid.
http://www.eoearth.org/article/Energy_profile_of_Alaska,_United_States
There are lots of small communities in the US with a local hydro dam that powers them.
Considering that the US only has 3 "grid boundaries" or more precisely 3 control areas ... that is a rare event ;D
Hardly. there are lots of independent power districts that have their own power and own co-ops. While smaller ones are isolated, The larger ones connect to grids but even there you are still moving power across ownership domains.
The return pipe to the central steam plant that heated my building broke and due to the terrain it could not be fixed in winter time. So instead the plant engineers had a tanker truck collect the condescend steam outflow from the building and they trucked it back everyday to the steam plant. I was never sure if was genius or absurd but I lean towards absurd. Trucking steam is just one step short of trying to land on the sun at night.
In many cities there is a commute from the suburbs bedroom communities and back everyday, So the place where you charge your car and the place where you sell the electricity back may be geographically different. You are in effect trucking electricity. You might even been trucking it across major grid boundaries. If you live near a border you might even be exporting it. Genius or silly?
can I add on "in bed" and patent that?
The upshot for google is that this is fantastic news. Let this other company sue them and deliberately loose to establish the validity of the patent. then buy the patent. Of course you do the negotiations for an Option to Buy and Lose in that order or you are screwed.
Hey thanks! that was interesting.
first a question. what is a Bloom Field membership test? can't google that.
Second, I think this test is cooked. One virtual monkey did not write this uncoached. No way. it's mathematically impossible.
I think what he did was just take 9 character pieces from different monkeys.
He was speaking of the future tunnel that the faster than light neutrino's already know about so they can follow it.
Cool, now I don't even have to go to face book or read face book to have my digital avatar chat with my freinds digital avatars.
It's a social network. The huge virtue of it is human communication at human speeds. not a data firehose to douse my freinds. The less often I have to visit face book to update it the less social it becomes.
brilliant!
UFIA and UEFI. The latter means Un-Expected Finger Insertion
The slashdot audience has named all the reasons why this is a stupid move in terms of customer service. SO why are they really doing it. I think the logical explanation is likely it positions them better with their suppliers.
I would bet that under the Unified Netflix model that Disney was saying "give us a cut of your Disk service or no more streaming movies for you". When they didn't pony up, Disney forced STARZ to pull the plug.
Basically, Disney or Sony or whomever could blackmail netflix. They can't control the DVDs since netflix buys those open market. But they can control who gets to stream. And thus they can blackmail netflix on one part of their bussiness
Now if they split it in two. No more black mail. yep they could decide to hurt the streaming company. But what could they gain from that. The streaming company won't have revenue from disks to pay the black mail.
Thus the split is a poison pill.