Rinse and repeat. Generously, you are being offered the 'opportunity' to connect your Raspberry Pi to Google infrastructure, benefiting them and making your dwelling another listening outpost:
connect it to the Google Assistant. Along with everything the Google Assistant already does, you can add your own question and answer pairs.
I'm investigating for myself this at the moment and I believe that the most agnostic one is currently Mycroft: https://mycroft.ai/about-mycro... but this still needs to be 'paired' with: https://home.mycroft.ai/. So it's a question of degree and who do you trust/want to support.
There's a niche for a full-stack open source one, I believe built from Sphinx etc.: http://cmusphinx.sourceforge.n... OK, I'm thinking like Stallman, but it's important not to get sucked into Google, Amazon and Facebook with the false lure of 'open source' NOT, as Wayne and Garth would say.
Yes, I started with Fortran at school and then COBOL for my first few jobs. Fortran (or FORTRAN, if you insist) was generally used for science and maths (we had a big program to calculate UK tides, several expensive mainframe hours, for example) and COBOL for accounting, bill of materials etc.
COBOL was/is a lot more readable because of the pseudo-english syntax. We used to try and write 'dirty' COBOL too:
PERFORM UNNATURAL-ACTS VARYING PARTNERS FROM...
Agree mainly. I try to minimise my purchases from Amazon now and use: http://www.hive.co.uk/ as I'm in the UK. But since I'm a Londoner and a mature student, I use Foyles and Waterstones, big central London bookshops and some of the smaller independents.
What people forget is that taxes pay for roads, a legal system, education etc. all the things that make Amazon viable. Also, we'll all be very sad when the word 'store' drops from our vocabularies and is replaced with 'Amazon'. They are already gaming prices: https://www.propublica.org/art... suggesting that something called 'abuse of dominant position' is probably operating.
This was my most recent comment on Android and 'apps': https://slashdot.org/comments..... With this, I see no reason to change my mind. There's some reason we close all the ports we can and create solid firewall rules, isn't there?
I'm going to try this next: https://jolla.com/about/ but I'm not at all convinced that it's better.
I'm in the UK, semi-retired but still do some freelance, some (free and paid) support for voluntary organisations. I've been 'industry' for 40 years this year.
The first thing I see is a mad/incompetent buzzword list based recruitment process from agencies that don't understand anything about technology. I'm asked to do stuff, then eliminated because one easy-to-learn (I mean a couple of days, usually) thing is missing from the application. I don't lie either, I don't like it and don't need to. This leads to the next thing.
When I entered the industry, managers and companies expected to train and develop (permanent) staff, as part of the social contract. They understood that people don't know everything but half-way smart/motivated people can learn stuff too. Now this is treated as an economic externality in that they expect the (very expensive) universities and colleges to do everything for them. They appear to complain bitterly on television when they find that they may have to use some of their own resources.
Finally, on the same lines, they need to try and let non graduates and other fields in. There weren't any computer science degrees when I started, I studied chemistry and a lot of my co-workers studied Greek and Latin, for example. Ability to learn is (often) a horizontal thing, though I agree people have blind spots.
So this can probably be sorted out, but it requires a change of attitude in the career chain.
Treat people well, don't lie, don't be a bureaucrat. Not a single thing about beanbags, strange hairstyles and flat whites (whatever they are?) in there either.
I think what you are trying to say is that Libre Office is entirely adequate for my needs, but not for yours or the previous AC commentator. Still that's a great advance on the pile of crap 'argument'. Please use a Blackberry, if you wish, for any fiction that you plan to write, I will not be doing so.
There's an ethical dimension to my decision too, when Microsoft changes some of their business practices, I'll be glad to change my mind.
Carry on! Same AC troll as last time this came up. I've used a Linux desktop since 2007 (hence my remarks above concerning Open Office/Libre Office) and use it everyday for everything, except music. I still have Pro-Tools for the that but I hope to go to Ardour this year.
Actually I've used it for a Master's dissertation and am currently using it for long university essays. I mainly use Linux but still use Windows for a couple of things. However it's true that I dislike Microsoft's business practices and have done so, for some time. That's probably a more courteous answer than you deserve, in fact.
I do and have done since about 2007 (Open Office at that stage). However, this is probably just a Microsoft shill, so I shouldn't really bother, should I?
on this, start of a programming career. We didn't bother with World, we're not really hard-core traditionalists. Sometime later, we modified it to print Hello! in a diagonal pattern, those long winter evenings just flew by (know the quote anyone?).
Thanks, so do I. Some of our current troubles are a) expecting too much, too soon, a traditional industry vice b) not dealing/reflecting on ethical issues c) lay folk and politicians taking current AI, literally as 'intelligence', we've explained it badly too. There are probably more, but those are the first to come to (my) mind.
We've been going through this since the 1980's when we started to make ruled-based expert systems and put them into production. We called that AI too. Now we're doing the same with statistical machine 'intelligence' (optimisation, often), various configurations of trainable neural networks and some hybrids.
These are trainable appliances, not intelligences. They don't have the adaptability and recovery from mistakes of human or (in the case of statistical, sub-symbolic etc.) any explanatory power. To some extent, that's why I liked the ancient expert systems with a why? function, but they were also very brittle. So I think the current hype curve has inflected and this is a good thing, since, apart from this, there are some quite weighty ethical problems as well.
This is not the view of a neo-Luddite, but there's stuff to think about here.
First thing, we don't have 'tax dollars', we have another currency called 'pounds'.
Second thing, the 'internal market' (introduced by Thatcher) within the NHS (our healthcare system) is an anathema to most Brits. We do not wish to die, just because we have no cash, as in the US. That doesn't answer the 'rigged' question, but see below.
This: https://www.theguardian.com/so... is one of several 'incidents' involving Virgin Healthcare looking to the bottom line rather than to patients. As such, (my opinion) it shouldn't be allowed to bid at all.
If that is you beardy (qv), or one of your shills, my apologies.
Apologies to US readers, but Virgin are busy suing our health service: http://healthcaretimes.co.uk/v... so I'm boycotting anything that has the Virgin label, airlines, sport, fibre etc. etc.
This particular thing is ridiculous, invasive and potentially full of infosec/legal problems too. Just don't.
As someone else has already pointed out below, only if it affects performance. I'm from the 1960s, so quite sympathetic to recreational drugs. As for the 'obedient statist motherfucker', please look up ad hominem argument on Google, it should be fairly easy, even for you.
If it doesn't affect their work, counter examples being excessive drinking or drug taking. I dislike cats (they shit in my garden and eat garden birds) but will work with people that own them.
The key words here are mutual consent and boundaries. He was not asking or coercing any of his coworkers to join him. So, I'm with the letter writers.
Some people already talk informally about Googlezon, this is just more of the same. I understand that not many people actually use this, but the gesture is very worrying. Please go to your local baker (no, not the one inside the supermarket, inside the mall) before the only bread available is via an Amazon drone.
I worked with ICL (now Fujitsu) printers of the same type and generation. One great console command we had was TE peripheral-number. If you used that on a printer, it would print a couple of pages of solid lines of characters, thus making a horrendous noise. So you waited until someone was beside the printer collecting printouts or starting to change the box of paper then let it rip.
Computers provide less physical fun now that these printers, the tape drives and the blinking lights are gone. Happy days!
Solid reasons (apart from 'I use it at home', I'm a computer person, so it's not a useful observation) is that my ex (bit geeky but non-technical career) and a bunch of old (55+) people in various community projects use it. They are often the easiest, because they don't arrive with a ton of half-formed preconceptions, prejudices about open source and uselessness of non-Windows, non-Mac. We install for them, but it's an 'easy' install and we re-use 'older' hardware that would struggle with Windows 23 (or whereever we are now, yes, I am joking before people jump on me).
I'm 66 and my ex is late 50s.
Incidentally, I'm not a complete fanatic and have a Windows laptop at home for Logic Pro, but I'm looking to transfer to Ardour perhaps this year.
To get them to pay some UK taxes, by just using DuckDuckGo or even Google via the DuckDuckGo !g option. It's amazing how quickly they folded when cash was at stake. As Bobbie Dylan said 'Money doesn't talk, it swears'.
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I'm investigating for myself this at the moment and I believe that the most agnostic one is currently Mycroft: https://mycroft.ai/about-mycro... but this still needs to be 'paired' with: https://home.mycroft.ai/. So it's a question of degree and who do you trust/want to support.
There's a niche for a full-stack open source one, I believe built from Sphinx etc.: http://cmusphinx.sourceforge.n... OK, I'm thinking like Stallman, but it's important not to get sucked into Google, Amazon and Facebook with the false lure of 'open source' NOT, as Wayne and Garth would say.
Yes, I started with Fortran at school and then COBOL for my first few jobs. Fortran (or FORTRAN, if you insist) was generally used for science and maths (we had a big program to calculate UK tides, several expensive mainframe hours, for example) and COBOL for accounting, bill of materials etc.
...
COBOL was/is a lot more readable because of the pseudo-english syntax. We used to try and write 'dirty' COBOL too: PERFORM UNNATURAL-ACTS VARYING PARTNERS FROM
Those long winter evenings just flew by.
Agree mainly. I try to minimise my purchases from Amazon now and use: http://www.hive.co.uk/ as I'm in the UK. But since I'm a Londoner and a mature student, I use Foyles and Waterstones, big central London bookshops and some of the smaller independents.
What people forget is that taxes pay for roads, a legal system, education etc. all the things that make Amazon viable. Also, we'll all be very sad when the word 'store' drops from our vocabularies and is replaced with 'Amazon'. They are already gaming prices: https://www.propublica.org/art... suggesting that something called 'abuse of dominant position' is probably operating.
As Nancy Reagan said 'Just say no'.
This was my most recent comment on Android and 'apps': https://slashdot.org/comments..... With this, I see no reason to change my mind. There's some reason we close all the ports we can and create solid firewall rules, isn't there?
I'm going to try this next: https://jolla.com/about/ but I'm not at all convinced that it's better.
I'm in the UK, semi-retired but still do some freelance, some (free and paid) support for voluntary organisations. I've been 'industry' for 40 years this year.
The first thing I see is a mad/incompetent buzzword list based recruitment process from agencies that don't understand anything about technology. I'm asked to do stuff, then eliminated because one easy-to-learn (I mean a couple of days, usually) thing is missing from the application. I don't lie either, I don't like it and don't need to. This leads to the next thing.
When I entered the industry, managers and companies expected to train and develop (permanent) staff, as part of the social contract. They understood that people don't know everything but half-way smart/motivated people can learn stuff too. Now this is treated as an economic externality in that they expect the (very expensive) universities and colleges to do everything for them. They appear to complain bitterly on television when they find that they may have to use some of their own resources.
Finally, on the same lines, they need to try and let non graduates and other fields in. There weren't any computer science degrees when I started, I studied chemistry and a lot of my co-workers studied Greek and Latin, for example. Ability to learn is (often) a horizontal thing, though I agree people have blind spots.
So this can probably be sorted out, but it requires a change of attitude in the career chain.
It's 40 odd years old, but still one of the most 'humane' books about business: https://www.amazon.com/Up-Orga...
Treat people well, don't lie, don't be a bureaucrat. Not a single thing about beanbags, strange hairstyles and flat whites (whatever they are?) in there either.
I think what you are trying to say is that Libre Office is entirely adequate for my needs, but not for yours or the previous AC commentator. Still that's a great advance on the pile of crap 'argument'. Please use a Blackberry, if you wish, for any fiction that you plan to write, I will not be doing so.
There's an ethical dimension to my decision too, when Microsoft changes some of their business practices, I'll be glad to change my mind.
Carry on! Same AC troll as last time this came up. I've used a Linux desktop since 2007 (hence my remarks above concerning Open Office/Libre Office) and use it everyday for everything, except music. I still have Pro-Tools for the that but I hope to go to Ardour this year.
Actually I've used it for a Master's dissertation and am currently using it for long university essays. I mainly use Linux but still use Windows for a couple of things. However it's true that I dislike Microsoft's business practices and have done so, for some time. That's probably a more courteous answer than you deserve, in fact.
I do and have done since about 2007 (Open Office at that stage). However, this is probably just a Microsoft shill, so I shouldn't really bother, should I?
Yes agree, cynical and satirical too, not entirely a 'comedy'...
No you're right, thanks, it needs the semi-colons.
on this, start of a programming career. We didn't bother with World, we're not really hard-core traditionalists. Sometime later, we modified it to print Hello! in a diagonal pattern, those long winter evenings just flew by (know the quote anyone?).
Thanks, so do I. Some of our current troubles are a) expecting too much, too soon, a traditional industry vice b) not dealing/reflecting on ethical issues c) lay folk and politicians taking current AI, literally as 'intelligence', we've explained it badly too. There are probably more, but those are the first to come to (my) mind.
We've been going through this since the 1980's when we started to make ruled-based expert systems and put them into production. We called that AI too. Now we're doing the same with statistical machine 'intelligence' (optimisation, often), various configurations of trainable neural networks and some hybrids.
These are trainable appliances, not intelligences. They don't have the adaptability and recovery from mistakes of human or (in the case of statistical, sub-symbolic etc.) any explanatory power. To some extent, that's why I liked the ancient expert systems with a why? function, but they were also very brittle. So I think the current hype curve has inflected and this is a good thing, since, apart from this, there are some quite weighty ethical problems as well.
This is not the view of a neo-Luddite, but there's stuff to think about here.
First thing, we don't have 'tax dollars', we have another currency called 'pounds'.
Second thing, the 'internal market' (introduced by Thatcher) within the NHS (our healthcare system) is an anathema to most Brits. We do not wish to die, just because we have no cash, as in the US. That doesn't answer the 'rigged' question, but see below.
This: https://www.theguardian.com/so... is one of several 'incidents' involving Virgin Healthcare looking to the bottom line rather than to patients. As such, (my opinion) it shouldn't be allowed to bid at all.
If that is you beardy (qv), or one of your shills, my apologies.
Yes, I actually used a Pi3 as a desktop for a few weeks when I managed to hose my main desktop. It was a little like the early 1990s but OK.
Apologies to US readers, but Virgin are busy suing our health service: http://healthcaretimes.co.uk/v... so I'm boycotting anything that has the Virgin label, airlines, sport, fibre etc. etc.
This particular thing is ridiculous, invasive and potentially full of infosec/legal problems too. Just don't.
To quote but Roku is being careful about ensuring consumer privacy. I love it when those little pigs fly with such elegance.
As someone else has already pointed out below, only if it affects performance. I'm from the 1960s, so quite sympathetic to recreational drugs. As for the 'obedient statist motherfucker', please look up ad hominem argument on Google, it should be fairly easy, even for you.
If it doesn't affect their work, counter examples being excessive drinking or drug taking. I dislike cats (they shit in my garden and eat garden birds) but will work with people that own them.
The key words here are mutual consent and boundaries. He was not asking or coercing any of his coworkers to join him. So, I'm with the letter writers.
Some people already talk informally about Googlezon, this is just more of the same. I understand that not many people actually use this, but the gesture is very worrying. Please go to your local baker (no, not the one inside the supermarket, inside the mall) before the only bread available is via an Amazon drone.
I worked with ICL (now Fujitsu) printers of the same type and generation. One great console command we had was TE peripheral-number. If you used that on a printer, it would print a couple of pages of solid lines of characters, thus making a horrendous noise. So you waited until someone was beside the printer collecting printouts or starting to change the box of paper then let it rip.
Computers provide less physical fun now that these printers, the tape drives and the blinking lights are gone. Happy days!
Yes. Thirded, if that's a word.
Solid reasons (apart from 'I use it at home', I'm a computer person, so it's not a useful observation) is that my ex (bit geeky but non-technical career) and a bunch of old (55+) people in various community projects use it. They are often the easiest, because they don't arrive with a ton of half-formed preconceptions, prejudices about open source and uselessness of non-Windows, non-Mac. We install for them, but it's an 'easy' install and we re-use 'older' hardware that would struggle with Windows 23 (or whereever we are now, yes, I am joking before people jump on me).
I'm 66 and my ex is late 50s.
Incidentally, I'm not a complete fanatic and have a Windows laptop at home for Logic Pro, but I'm looking to transfer to Ardour perhaps this year.
To get them to pay some UK taxes, by just using DuckDuckGo or even Google via the DuckDuckGo !g option. It's amazing how quickly they folded when cash was at stake. As Bobbie Dylan said 'Money doesn't talk, it swears'.