Watch the video. If it really works like it does in the video, we're talking about a whole new speech recognition experience. Once it's out, you can bet the Apple store will be filled with people putting it to the test.
Apple has a long history of screwing up this kind of service. They've released.mac and mobile me, and that's just what they've done in the last decade. If you're an innovator, you're not going to get every product right.
They've done a bad job managing people's money, which is what they were paid to do. It was a defective product, people want their money back, and it's as simple as that.
Imagine it like this. You go to a store and you buy a blender. You get it home and you find out it doesn't work. It's defective. So you bring it back to the store, and they give you your money back. These protestors want their money back.
Tell your friend that the financial system suffers from a detestable lack of transparency about the risks to investors, and exactly how much the people in the industry take for themselves. They want to know where the money is all going, and instead of working for their whole lives so that some fat-ass businessman can buy another yacht, they'd like to keep that money for themselves. I don't know how it is that no one in the financial sector gets this. I suspect your friend was just being deliberately obtuse.
People on wallstreet and elsewhere in the financial industry have committed some appalling offenses over the last ten years or so (not to say it wasn't bad before). I'm surprised they haven't been burned at the stake for it yet. And I'm more surprised that people are continuing give their money to these people.
I'm tired of hearing about what school "can" be, as if main thing wrong with school is that 95% of the students just somehow don't try. Most people don't learn much in school. That's not because there's something wrong with them, it's because people don't learn in school.
This is something I've been thinking about lately with the iTuned movie rentals versus the "free" with advertising internet model. If people actually pay for something, the producer has an incentive to actually produce something people would want to watch. Moreover, there is still incentive to produce quality material for niche markets because you can charge more and make up for having fewer viewers. Not to mention, it's a simpler model so less of that money gets lost in the overhead.
On the other hand, having advertisers means only shows that a large number of people want to see can find the money to do a quality job. And not only that, but only shows that advertisers will want associated with their products will get produced.
I see what you're saying, I thought you were talking about the opposing piston motor mentioned in the article. Diesels inherently have more emission problems than gas engines, so using a two-stroke is asking for trouble. Two stroke engines burn a lot of oil because of how they are lubricated. Earlier diesel engines were two stroke, but they couldn't keep up with the emissions standards. Actually, it was just recently that Volkswagen came up with a system that could put their four stroke diesels (TDI) on the road in the US (trucks have lighter standards than cars, so they were on the road the whole time).
Is there some new technology in the pipeline set to radically reduce the cost of batteries? Why do people think the costs are coming down? These items are already mass produced, so whatever economies of scale you're going to get are already there. There's absolutely no reason to think the costs of batteries is coming down significantly anytime soon.
You could never sell such a thing legally in the US (or most other countries) on account of the emissions. That's why this guy is stoked on his four stroke opposed piston design.
According to the wikipedia article, you can build these engines lighter because they don't need as strong of an engine block for high compression ratios. Also, it doesn't seem to me that adding a second crank shaft really adds all that much complexity. There's still only one crank per piston. At most you're adding a couple gears. I just don't see the weight gain.
Well, with increasing competency in automation, we are seeing a lot more CNC milling going on. In fact, I'd say that story is probably a little dated. Also, don't be such a douche-bag.
Moderation is really used for two different things:
1) removing troolish comments, spam, and annoying offtopic comments 2) acknowledging comments we think are insightful, funny, or informative
these two functions wold be better separated.
You could have a button to flag a comment to be hidden, and then if 10 (or whatever) people click a button to agree with the flag, the comment is hidden.
then there would be a separate drop-down where you can say "I think this post is: insightful/funny/informative" and it would simply keep a tally of how many people rated the post a certain way.
What is there to say that hasn't already been said. Whether you liked his products or not, you have to admit that they wiere a driving force in the industry. When he resigned as CEO we knew this day couldn't be far away. Rest in peace, Steve.
I'm not a collectivist. I'm making fun of how absurd it is to claim that there is such a thing as a collective right. To me the thing I said is so absurd it's hard for me to imagine that someone could have thought I really meant it.
I mean, who thinks that way? Can speech belong to the collective rather than the individual? We aren't ants.
For years these companies have just been accumulating patents and preparing for this. Once products actually start being banned from markets, average people will see how silly and unproductive the whole patent thing is. Then maybe we can get some real reform.
Apprenticeship was the mainstay of education for centuries. Education as you see it today (sitting in classrooms until you're 22) is a fairly recent thing, and more people go to college today than ever. And in the US, apprenticeship is almost dead.
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Watch the video. If it really works like it does in the video, we're talking about a whole new speech recognition experience. Once it's out, you can bet the Apple store will be filled with people putting it to the test.
The phone does it.
Apple has a long history of screwing up this kind of service. They've released .mac and mobile me, and that's just what they've done in the last decade. If you're an innovator, you're not going to get every product right.
Just so you know, they are doing away with the syncing requirement in this version, so it's a problem that's being fixed as we speak.
Just out of curiosity, how did you think this update was going to happen?
They've done a bad job managing people's money, which is what they were paid to do. It was a defective product, people want their money back, and it's as simple as that.
Imagine it like this. You go to a store and you buy a blender. You get it home and you find out it doesn't work. It's defective. So you bring it back to the store, and they give you your money back. These protestors want their money back.
Tell your friend that the financial system suffers from a detestable lack of transparency about the risks to investors, and exactly how much the people in the industry take for themselves. They want to know where the money is all going, and instead of working for their whole lives so that some fat-ass businessman can buy another yacht, they'd like to keep that money for themselves. I don't know how it is that no one in the financial sector gets this. I suspect your friend was just being deliberately obtuse.
People on wallstreet and elsewhere in the financial industry have committed some appalling offenses over the last ten years or so (not to say it wasn't bad before). I'm surprised they haven't been burned at the stake for it yet. And I'm more surprised that people are continuing give their money to these people.
I'm tired of hearing about what school "can" be, as if main thing wrong with school is that 95% of the students just somehow don't try. Most people don't learn much in school. That's not because there's something wrong with them, it's because people don't learn in school.
I think your comment is a little dated. I didn't have any trouble the last time I tried, anyway.
This is something I've been thinking about lately with the iTuned movie rentals versus the "free" with advertising internet model. If people actually pay for something, the producer has an incentive to actually produce something people would want to watch. Moreover, there is still incentive to produce quality material for niche markets because you can charge more and make up for having fewer viewers. Not to mention, it's a simpler model so less of that money gets lost in the overhead.
On the other hand, having advertisers means only shows that a large number of people want to see can find the money to do a quality job. And not only that, but only shows that advertisers will want associated with their products will get produced.
You don't learn in school. School is about socialization and indoctrination.
I see what you're saying, I thought you were talking about the opposing piston motor mentioned in the article. Diesels inherently have more emission problems than gas engines, so using a two-stroke is asking for trouble. Two stroke engines burn a lot of oil because of how they are lubricated. Earlier diesel engines were two stroke, but they couldn't keep up with the emissions standards. Actually, it was just recently that Volkswagen came up with a system that could put their four stroke diesels (TDI) on the road in the US (trucks have lighter standards than cars, so they were on the road the whole time).
Two stroke engines purge exhaust at the same time they fill the cylinder. As a result, some of the fuel passes through without burning.
Is there some new technology in the pipeline set to radically reduce the cost of batteries? Why do people think the costs are coming down? These items are already mass produced, so whatever economies of scale you're going to get are already there. There's absolutely no reason to think the costs of batteries is coming down significantly anytime soon.
You could never sell such a thing legally in the US (or most other countries) on account of the emissions. That's why this guy is stoked on his four stroke opposed piston design.
According to the wikipedia article, you can build these engines lighter because they don't need as strong of an engine block for high compression ratios. Also, it doesn't seem to me that adding a second crank shaft really adds all that much complexity. There's still only one crank per piston. At most you're adding a couple gears. I just don't see the weight gain.
Well, with increasing competency in automation, we are seeing a lot more CNC milling going on. In fact, I'd say that story is probably a little dated. Also, don't be such a douche-bag.
Moderation is really used for two different things:
1) removing troolish comments, spam, and annoying offtopic comments
2) acknowledging comments we think are insightful, funny, or informative
these two functions wold be better separated.
You could have a button to flag a comment to be hidden, and then if 10 (or whatever) people click a button to agree with the flag, the comment is hidden.
then there would be a separate drop-down where you can say "I think this post is: insightful/funny/informative" and it would simply keep a tally of how many people rated the post a certain way.
You are free to ignore it.
What is there to say that hasn't already been said. Whether you liked his products or not, you have to admit that they wiere a driving force in the industry. When he resigned as CEO we knew this day couldn't be far away. Rest in peace, Steve.
I'm not a collectivist. I'm making fun of how absurd it is to claim that there is such a thing as a collective right. To me the thing I said is so absurd it's hard for me to imagine that someone could have thought I really meant it.
I mean, who thinks that way? Can speech belong to the collective rather than the individual? We aren't ants.
For years these companies have just been accumulating patents and preparing for this. Once products actually start being banned from markets, average people will see how silly and unproductive the whole patent thing is. Then maybe we can get some real reform.
Apprenticeship was the mainstay of education for centuries. Education as you see it today (sitting in classrooms until you're 22) is a fairly recent thing, and more people go to college today than ever. And in the US, apprenticeship is almost dead.