Every time when you do something exciting on this scale, any pre-set plans or goals get forgotten in a matter of days as new ones naturally present themselves. So just enjoy the experience and leave stuff home for a year. At most, bring a bunch of paperbacks to read during downtime.
So what's up with arguments that you need an automatic gun with high capacity magazine to defend yourself against multiple meth junkies or whatever? Just give these guys bird rifles and they can keep intruders "reliably enough".
I think it's common sense that there will be some accidents where you hit people in the eyes, but by and large lethality is way less than military weapons if people are running away or conversly charging to disarm you,
I don't mind my car registration fees going towards funding highway patrol. Or gas taxed to mitigate climate change. I guess I am Ok with some of my ISP bill going to keep malware at bay, if government actually does so effectively. Having gun owners paying for technology to detect misuse of guns is no more or less fair than that.
As for mental health, I think going nuts is a risk of being alive, so all of us should pay taxes to keep these folks from hurting themselves or others equally.
Thin client with a keyboard is perfect for K-12 education. As students join, leave, or spill coke on their laptops, you can just redistribute $200 clients and replaces damaged ones without draining your finances. Schools can not afford highly skilled administrators that would keep data backed up and secure enough to match cloud storage run by company that specializes in this kind of thing.
Microsoft could have joined this market and been fairly successful at it. I played with POSReady 2009 in a VM recently. It's pretty much ChromeOS with Win32/.Net API and ability to run Office and DirectX software locally would be nice. Not sure if it can be configured to be as tightly integrated with Azure as Chromebook is with Google cloud services, but Microsoft certainly has smart people to make it happen.
Instead, they have for long time chosen to focus on expensive Surface hardware that doesn't quite commit to being either a great tablet OS or a great desktop OS. New CEO has done a lot of interesting moves, like making Office free for mobile devices and iOS/Android development support in Visual Studio. Perhaps they will succeed in education in time.
You guys were hunting squirrels with AR-15s? Oh boy! And I thought those were small caliber rifles that, while still dangerous, are not very likely to kill a person, let alone commit a mass massacre.
I would certainly let my daughter hunt squirrels at somewhat younger age than I would let her drive, if she ever expresses interest.
If mental health is the issue, even very basic gun regulation will be very successful at reducing violence. Most severely disturbed people are not great at patience, learning or cooperating with authorities. Make gun ownership conditional on periodically passing a class with realistic shoot/don't shoot situation training. This is anyway badly needed to increase safety of everyone, and especially gun owners themselves. But will also weed out unstable individuals.
Yes some will obtain guns illegally, but this gives authorities opportunity to bust sellers through sting operations or other means, or to arrest illegal owner during an unrelated brush with law. This is very similar to issuing and revoking driver licenses. There are many violations, but just imagine how dangerous roads would be with no licensing at all.
Have cost-benefit analysis been done to show this is the most effective way to increase kids safety? Will this save more lives than having epi pens on hand, or more modern school buses?
The only way this makes sense is if these are paid for by taxes on gun sales. It seems reasonable to require buyers to pay taxes to combat potential misuse of their purchase (and that this money should not be used for other things like epi pens).
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Voice accessibility features are for blind/reduced sight users who generally use their phones quite heavily, like they rest of us. While there are certainly bugs, they mostly suck for you because you never let go of the screen and train yourself to use them. Cooking, driving, biking lazy and especially blind/handicapped users will embrace and benefit from devices designed from ground up for voice.
Basically it's making a big deal out of the fact that today's commonly available hardware is optimized for today's commonly available software. Duh! General purpose is a term relative to purposes a particular person has in mind. Nobody is suggested that Core i7 is capable of running Lt Cmdr Data.
A genuinely interesting paper would have specific ideas for architecture capable of solving problems beyond the scope of current CPUs and GPUs.
Voice control is there on phones and some car dash controls, but always as a secondary interface. Making a product dedicated to voice is a chance for both users and developers to stop relying on screen as a crutch and make the new interface really work for them. Eventually this can bring sales to Amazon if users find it more convenient to just say "Alexa, order me some toilet paper" rather than getting a phone out of the pocket".
Then his #@$hole will suffer in PMITA federal penitentiary and I can get lifelock and refunds for any charges. It's when law enforcement itself is corrupt all the way to the highest levels in the country that there is a big problem.
It could be that losing screen is as essential for voice interface as losing keyboard and stylus was for multitouch tablets. Not in a technical sense, but to get both users and developers to embrace new way of interacting and discover what works. I see this working very well with kids, especially if wrapped in a cute toy and an age-appropriate content selection. If nothing else, this device will have terrific accessibility for blind users.
If only NSA didn't spoil the fun by displaying complete disregard for law and common sense! Now people will never trust the hotword detection and assume it can be overridden from remote to listen all the time.
The company is trying something new. It may or may not work out for them, but if they keep exploring, they are bound to find something that succeeds. That, and the effort to really understand user needs through Windows 10 preview, tells me that there may be some how for MS to capture back some of their former success.
So long as Citizen United stands, progressive companies and activist billionaires should take full advantage of it. Currently we allow voters to only hear from fossil fuel companies and military-industrial complex. Imagine their sites and ads suddenly disappearing from search results and news feeds, replaced by other candidates and educational messages about global warming. Let them find out how many people are still watching Comcast TV and highway billboards. Better, put a prominent link to explanation of Citizens United and videos of republicans defending it next to each ad. Let conservative voters get outraged for a right reason for a change.
Do you think Silicon Valley is not an important market? English is a second language for half the folks here, and frankly many movies are noisy enough that native speakers with perfect hearing can't follow the dialog.
Actually with right apps it can be a great experience enhanced by delivering personalized content during the movie. Like multi-language subtitles, or facts on actors / previous plot reminders.
They could have embraced new technology by releasing a multi-language subtitles glass app. Instead, they further alienate people to combat an unrealistic threat. Early gadget adopters may not be numerous, but they have outsized influence in creating trends. In this case, trends towards not going to movie theaters.
Well, if this enables supersonic travel for current tickets prices, I don't mind. But otherwise, looking out of the windows is one of few things pleasant about flying. Why mess with it?
The real problem here is that we view having to work as a good thing. Instead of saying "10% unemployment", we can just say that our civilization is wealthy enough that people can take a break and spend more time on family, arts and crafts or learning new skills while still being provided with contemporary comforts. As robots become common, countries that culturally embrace technological changes will become new world superpowers.
A big system like Google Search, as a whole and with inclusion if all the users, can be considered a separate sentient being with very powerful intelligence. Although individual users link to sites and click on search results, the resulting conclusions are not what any single human knew or even looked for. Users are essentially acting as individual neurons, collecting multiple inputs from others and publishing their own processed signals. You might look for local restaurants in Yelp, eat in there and then publish your own ratings. In the meantime Yelp is probably returning different results to different users to get them to collect more data. When people are glued to smartphones 24/7, they are not even doing much else than working for the system. Movements like Arab Spring are fueled in large part by social networks build on western values. We would have a hard time acting on causes for which we don't get any likes or search results.
Declare lack of academic and physical fitness of young people a national security problem on par with terrorism. Allocate trillions of budget accordingly to sponsor high quality educational and athletic programs to anyone willing to participate, including free healthy meals. A cost of enrolling all children in a state would be like half of a modern stealth plane.
Next, reach out to women, LGBT and other unrepresented demographics to consider enlisting. Experience instant boost in highly qualified recruits due to pent up demand just waiting for the right signal.
As a bonus, this approach will enormously boost the image and respect for US military both at home and abroad. Outcome of a war depends not only on strength of weapons, but also on how scared and traumatized majority of population in war zone perceives american soldiers. If you get outstanding people to enlist, the war will be won without firing many shots.
Sounds good! Newton was commercially available, has a loyal fan base and inspired successive generations of more polished and popular products, including Palm and Apple's own iPhone. True, there is no guarantee that just because you release an early adopter product, you will reap most of the benefits when technology matures. But not being on a lookout for new things guarantees slide into irrelevance, like Kodak or Borders. Besides someone got to do it.
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Every time when you do something exciting on this scale, any pre-set plans or goals get forgotten in a matter of days as new ones naturally present themselves. So just enjoy the experience and leave stuff home for a year. At most, bring a bunch of paperbacks to read during downtime.
You missed the new. It's now really free.
So what's up with arguments that you need an automatic gun with high capacity magazine to defend yourself against multiple meth junkies or whatever? Just give these guys bird rifles and they can keep intruders "reliably enough".
I think it's common sense that there will be some accidents where you hit people in the eyes, but by and large lethality is way less than military weapons if people are running away or conversly charging to disarm you,
I don't mind my car registration fees going towards funding highway patrol. Or gas taxed to mitigate climate change. I guess I am Ok with some of my ISP bill going to keep malware at bay, if government actually does so effectively. Having gun owners paying for technology to detect misuse of guns is no more or less fair than that.
As for mental health, I think going nuts is a risk of being alive, so all of us should pay taxes to keep these folks from hurting themselves or others equally.
Thin client with a keyboard is perfect for K-12 education. As students join, leave, or spill coke on their laptops, you can just redistribute $200 clients and replaces damaged ones without draining your finances. Schools can not afford highly skilled administrators that would keep data backed up and secure enough to match cloud storage run by company that specializes in this kind of thing.
Microsoft could have joined this market and been fairly successful at it. I played with POSReady 2009 in a VM recently. It's pretty much ChromeOS with Win32/.Net API and ability to run Office and DirectX software locally would be nice. Not sure if it can be configured to be as tightly integrated with Azure as Chromebook is with Google cloud services, but Microsoft certainly has smart people to make it happen.
Instead, they have for long time chosen to focus on expensive Surface hardware that doesn't quite commit to being either a great tablet OS or a great desktop OS. New CEO has done a lot of interesting moves, like making Office free for mobile devices and iOS/Android development support in Visual Studio. Perhaps they will succeed in education in time.
You guys were hunting squirrels with AR-15s? Oh boy! And I thought those were small caliber rifles that, while still dangerous, are not very likely to kill a person, let alone commit a mass massacre.
I would certainly let my daughter hunt squirrels at somewhat younger age than I would let her drive, if she ever expresses interest.
If mental health is the issue, even very basic gun regulation will be very successful at reducing violence. Most severely disturbed people are not great at patience, learning or cooperating with authorities. Make gun ownership conditional on periodically passing a class with realistic shoot/don't shoot situation training. This is anyway badly needed to increase safety of everyone, and especially gun owners themselves. But will also weed out unstable individuals.
Yes some will obtain guns illegally, but this gives authorities opportunity to bust sellers through sting operations or other means, or to arrest illegal owner during an unrelated brush with law. This is very similar to issuing and revoking driver licenses. There are many violations, but just imagine how dangerous roads would be with no licensing at all.
Have cost-benefit analysis been done to show this is the most effective way to increase kids safety? Will this save more lives than having epi pens on hand, or more modern school buses?
The only way this makes sense is if these are paid for by taxes on gun sales. It seems reasonable to require buyers to pay taxes to combat potential misuse of their purchase (and that this money should not be used for other things like epi pens).
Voice accessibility features are for blind/reduced sight users who generally use their phones quite heavily, like they rest of us. While there are certainly bugs, they mostly suck for you because you never let go of the screen and train yourself to use them. Cooking, driving, biking lazy and especially blind/handicapped users will embrace and benefit from devices designed from ground up for voice.
Basically it's making a big deal out of the fact that today's commonly available hardware is optimized for today's commonly available software. Duh! General purpose is a term relative to purposes a particular person has in mind. Nobody is suggested that Core i7 is capable of running Lt Cmdr Data.
A genuinely interesting paper would have specific ideas for architecture capable of solving problems beyond the scope of current CPUs and GPUs.
Voice control is there on phones and some car dash controls, but always as a secondary interface. Making a product dedicated to voice is a chance for both users and developers to stop relying on screen as a crutch and make the new interface really work for them. Eventually this can bring sales to Amazon if users find it more convenient to just say "Alexa, order me some toilet paper" rather than getting a phone out of the pocket".
Then his #@$hole will suffer in PMITA federal penitentiary and I can get lifelock and refunds for any charges. It's when law enforcement itself is corrupt all the way to the highest levels in the country that there is a big problem.
It could be that losing screen is as essential for voice interface as losing keyboard and stylus was for multitouch tablets. Not in a technical sense, but to get both users and developers to embrace new way of interacting and discover what works. I see this working very well with kids, especially if wrapped in a cute toy and an age-appropriate content selection. If nothing else, this device will have terrific accessibility for blind users.
If only NSA didn't spoil the fun by displaying complete disregard for law and common sense! Now people will never trust the hotword detection and assume it can be overridden from remote to listen all the time.
The company is trying something new. It may or may not work out for them, but if they keep exploring, they are bound to find something that succeeds. That, and the effort to really understand user needs through Windows 10 preview, tells me that there may be some how for MS to capture back some of their former success.
We are running out of a number of things which are more immediately critical. Let's chill out a bit here.
So long as Citizen United stands, progressive companies and activist billionaires should take full advantage of it. Currently we allow voters to only hear from fossil fuel companies and military-industrial complex. Imagine their sites and ads suddenly disappearing from search results and news feeds, replaced by other candidates and educational messages about global warming. Let them find out how many people are still watching Comcast TV and highway billboards. Better, put a prominent link to explanation of Citizens United and videos of republicans defending it next to each ad. Let conservative voters get outraged for a right reason for a change.
They are taking the flak so you don't have to when gadgets come down in price and social etiquette is established.
Do you think Silicon Valley is not an important market? English is a second language for half the folks here, and frankly many movies are noisy enough that native speakers with perfect hearing can't follow the dialog.
Actually with right apps it can be a great experience enhanced by delivering personalized content during the movie. Like multi-language subtitles, or facts on actors / previous plot reminders.
They could have embraced new technology by releasing a multi-language subtitles glass app. Instead, they further alienate people to combat an unrealistic threat. Early gadget adopters may not be numerous, but they have outsized influence in creating trends. In this case, trends towards not going to movie theaters.
Well, if this enables supersonic travel for current tickets prices, I don't mind. But otherwise, looking out of the windows is one of few things pleasant about flying. Why mess with it?
The real problem here is that we view having to work as a good thing. Instead of saying "10% unemployment", we can just say that our civilization is wealthy enough that people can take a break and spend more time on family, arts and crafts or learning new skills while still being provided with contemporary comforts. As robots become common, countries that culturally embrace technological changes will become new world superpowers.
A big system like Google Search, as a whole and with inclusion if all the users, can be considered a separate sentient being with very powerful intelligence. Although individual users link to sites and click on search results, the resulting conclusions are not what any single human knew or even looked for. Users are essentially acting as individual neurons, collecting multiple inputs from others and publishing their own processed signals. You might look for local restaurants in Yelp, eat in there and then publish your own ratings. In the meantime Yelp is probably returning different results to different users to get them to collect more data. When people are glued to smartphones 24/7, they are not even doing much else than working for the system. Movements like Arab Spring are fueled in large part by social networks build on western values. We would have a hard time acting on causes for which we don't get any likes or search results.
I for one welcome our new Big Data overlords.
Declare lack of academic and physical fitness of young people a national security problem on par with terrorism. Allocate trillions of budget accordingly to sponsor high quality educational and athletic programs to anyone willing to participate, including free healthy meals. A cost of enrolling all children in a state would be like half of a modern stealth plane.
Next, reach out to women, LGBT and other unrepresented demographics to consider enlisting. Experience instant boost in highly qualified recruits due to pent up demand just waiting for the right signal.
As a bonus, this approach will enormously boost the image and respect for US military both at home and abroad. Outcome of a war depends not only on strength of weapons, but also on how scared and traumatized majority of population in war zone perceives american soldiers. If you get outstanding people to enlist, the war will be won without firing many shots.
Sounds good! Newton was commercially available, has a loyal fan base and inspired successive generations of more polished and popular products, including Palm and Apple's own iPhone. True, there is no guarantee that just because you release an early adopter product, you will reap most of the benefits when technology matures. But not being on a lookout for new things guarantees slide into irrelevance, like Kodak or Borders. Besides someone got to do it.