What is Berners-Lee going to do? Incorporate these changes into his next release of the interwebs?https://tech.slashdot.org/story/17/04/28/1533207/an-open-letter-on-drm-to-the-inventor-of-the-web-from-the-inventor-of-net-neutrality#
They seem to be getting quite small. Adobe (ugh) recently demonstrated a "Photoshop for voice" which appeared to take a modest voice recording, transcribe it, and allow you to edit the text to get a new recording of the speaker saying what you'd typed.
Most such things these days use text-to-speech exclusively, or in concert with concatenative speech prompts.
When using speech prompts, the numbers get large, fast, and your conversational design acquires a strong tie to recordings which are hard to obtain in uniform quality in a reliable manner. What happens when a bus runs over your voice talent?
The Wildfire Assistant circa 1997 used 1200 voice prompts just to say North American phone numbers (1000 three digit sequences with an uplilt melody at the end (AAA), 100 two digit pairs with an uplilt (BB) and 100 two digit pairs with a downlilt (CC)). The output was perfection, as this is exactly how people say these: AAA AAA BB CC
I'm about 10 years past using email clients. I would have to guess most of this audience is, too.
Compared to gmail accessed via web, email clients offer slower startup, higher bug count, inferior search tools, a crazily confusing configuration burden, create a deep disincentive to access email from any machine but your own, a centrifugal bumble-puppy model for where your emails reside that can be relied upon to place the emails "on the wrong machine" (or none at all, or N-fold on each of M machines) when you need it most, and they bifurcate your message store when you change jobs or ISPs, etc. Moreover, I am spared the horrors of the aged hacks and platform-bound kludgery intended to address the above faults (e.g., IMAP or whatever Office thinks it provides).
My worst Uber ride was about as good as my best taxi ride, all things considered.
The taxi/medallion system should wrinkle up and die, plain and simple. There are a few factors yet to consider, but the bottom line cannot be far from that if the interests of the passengers and the largest population of would-be drivers are fairly valued.
Is they sent for extra sandwiches, an all-nighter could suffice to handle any rational appeal process in this case. Why must it take years in a case where the facts of guilt are uncontested and the arguments for whether extenuating circumstances are based solely on rulings made in the past few weeks?
I think the counterargument to be made is that the Koch brothers are denying us our free speech rights. If THEIR argument is that money IS speech, our argument should be that we be given the same money so that we can all actually converse. If their argument is then that this is not so, we have to say that they've effectively muted us.
There are ways of encrypting data so that the ciphertext contains more than one message. One password might reveal a given plaintext, while a second one produces another, entirely more innocent and unrelated.
Obviously, such a ciphertext is larger than one would expect for any resultant plain text, but you could popularize use of encryption that mandates such a larger footprint so that any given user could shrug and say (after giving the password that produces nothing but cookie recipes), "sorry it isn't what you expected, officer!"
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What is Berners-Lee going to do? Incorporate these changes into his next release of the interwebs?https://tech.slashdot.org/story/17/04/28/1533207/an-open-letter-on-drm-to-the-inventor-of-the-web-from-the-inventor-of-net-neutrality#
UPS drivers absolutely do make left turns. Who wrote this crap? Is it just the headline or does the story actually follow through on this falsehood?
Was CtrlAltDel.com taken?
They seem to be getting quite small. Adobe (ugh) recently demonstrated a "Photoshop for voice" which appeared to take a modest voice recording, transcribe it, and allow you to edit the text to get a new recording of the speaker saying what you'd typed.
Most such things these days use text-to-speech exclusively, or in concert with concatenative speech prompts.
When using speech prompts, the numbers get large, fast, and your conversational design acquires a strong tie to recordings which are hard to obtain in uniform quality in a reliable manner. What happens when a bus runs over your voice talent?
The Wildfire Assistant circa 1997 used 1200 voice prompts just to say North American phone numbers (1000 three digit sequences with an uplilt melody at the end (AAA), 100 two digit pairs with an uplilt (BB) and 100 two digit pairs with a downlilt (CC)). The output was perfection, as this is exactly how people say these: AAA AAA BB CC
Is the OP really asking us to weigh in on a subject that can only be answered with data none of us possess?
But if paper manufacturers COULD do such a thing, it's fair to legally REQUIRE them to do so? #listentoyourself
what sort of bitt rate are we talking here?
it is worth nothing at all.
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I'm about 10 years past using email clients. I would have to guess most of this audience is, too.
Compared to gmail accessed via web, email clients offer slower startup, higher bug count, inferior search tools, a crazily confusing configuration burden, create a deep disincentive to access email from any machine but your own, a centrifugal bumble-puppy model for where your emails reside that can be relied upon to place the emails "on the wrong machine" (or none at all, or N-fold on each of M machines) when you need it most, and they bifurcate your message store when you change jobs or ISPs, etc. Moreover, I am spared the horrors of the aged hacks and platform-bound kludgery intended to address the above faults (e.g., IMAP or whatever Office thinks it provides).
Email clients are the landlines of the 2010s.
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don't take the job.
It's a new service. It's a new opportunity. It is hardly as if the terms of employment have altered.
Battery life and good design are more valuable to the majority of users.
No article has told me what would have happened to performance/fuel economy/WHATEVER if VW had simply let the clean emissions mode always run?
This seems like a fundamental aspect of the story to me.
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My worst Uber ride was about as good as my best taxi ride, all things considered.
The taxi/medallion system should wrinkle up and die, plain and simple. There are a few factors yet to consider, but the bottom line cannot be far from that if the interests of the passengers and the largest population of would-be drivers are fairly valued.
Time to ask why this is so?
Is they sent for extra sandwiches, an all-nighter could suffice to handle any rational appeal process in this case. Why must it take years in a case where the facts of guilt are uncontested and the arguments for whether extenuating circumstances are based solely on rulings made in the past few weeks?
"It's complicated"
it's all about the leg room
I think the counterargument to be made is that the Koch brothers are denying us our free speech rights. If THEIR argument is that money IS speech, our argument should be that we be given the same money so that we can all actually converse. If their argument is then that this is not so, we have to say that they've effectively muted us.
And... the terrible format of slashdot means that I can't tell who you are replying to
Some of these are actually good names, e.g. Swift
is that this is true:
"This is the most significant partnership for Yahoo in five years."
I need some adornment for my ant's forehead. Is there anything larger than this available?
re: The girlfriend's kid came home from school and found her body.
well, the joke's on him, then!
How long before before we field a serviceable apology?
There are ways of encrypting data so that the ciphertext contains more than one message. One password might reveal a given plaintext, while a second one produces another, entirely more innocent and unrelated.
Obviously, such a ciphertext is larger than one would expect for any resultant plain text, but you could popularize use of encryption that mandates such a larger footprint so that any given user could shrug and say (after giving the password that produces nothing but cookie recipes), "sorry it isn't what you expected, officer!"