Siri's really just a slick interface to Google's "I'm feeling lucky" button, with pre-processing done prior to performing an actual search. Google pops up a map if it looks like you're talking about a location; it provides a definition if you ask for one, etc etc. Google already contains a lot of the AI-like characteristics shown by Siri.
To get that kind of functionality, you could always get a netbook and a power inverter. It has a similar size of display to most of the portable DVD players, and functions on hard drive storage. Another option would be a tablet with a large SD card. In that case, you could even pay for a data plan and have streaming media onto the device.
Of course fear of CJD infection can be considered irrational, until there's proof that it's a larger problem. If BSE has a sufficiently low incidence in cows and/or a sufficiently low transmission rate to humans, then your fear could easily be out of proportion to reality. The direction I think you were going (and with which I agree ) is that we need stronger testing requirements to actually determine the percentage of incidence of the disease in our food herds' populations. Rather than being afraid of the disease itself, I'm more worried that the government is taking the position that further testing isn't necessary when we can't be sure of any such thing.
Travelling and traveling are both valid spellings of the word, the former being more common in British English and the latter more common in American English.
That would be "System on a Chip", a term which describes a complete system included on a single chip. An example I've seen used more often would be a phone's central chip; they tend to integrate the CPU, GPU, wireless chipsets, and part or all of the RAM on one chip. In this case, it looks like they're advertising the ability to quickly create a hardware chip that functions the same as an arbitrary chunk of C code; essentially, you can make a hardware chip that implements a specific algorithm.
That's a goofy thing to claim. My desktop workstation is powering a display area 2400x1920 in size while running three virtualized OSes on top of a fourth. I'll agree that the Atari ST did more with the hardware that it had than this machine does now, but to claim that they can do just as much is laughable. I've never understood people that could make that sort of claim with a straight face.
I had to search around for a decent resolution. I ended up with a 15" Sager with a 1920x1080 screen. 1366x768 is endemic though. You've gotta be picky about the resolution if you want something else.
If I'm remembering right, you can make a Reddit username by supplying the desired name and a password. Good luck attaching that to an individual person.
Steam is similar to Origin, in that it's a game management system. In general, I use it for cheap games (I'm willing to put up with DRM if I'm getting 80-90% off of a game). The original draw of the system is that you can load Steam on a new computer, install whatever games from your account, and start playing from your cloud-saved game. It's DRM, but it's some of the least-onerous DRM I've ever used (provided you don't want to play 2 different games off the same account simultaneously...)
There might be an avenue for continuing income in the future for providers that offer ala carte programming in the future. I've avoided getting cable or satellite, specifically because my needs are handled by OTA programming (news and sports) and Netflix (most of the rest of the shows I watch). I'd love it if I had the option to pay for just a few channels without duplicating the access I already have available to me, and the cable company would get subscription money out of me that they aren't currently pulling in. I don't think I'm even that unusual, among the younger end of the demographic.
We had a 15" CRT when I was a kid. It whined when it wasn't getting input. Dad used to use the computer late into the night and neglect to turn off the monitor when he went to bed. It used to wake me up, and I'd get up several hours after falling asleep to turn the darned thing off. I never got Dad to understand that I could hear the whine...I'm nearing 30. I wonder if I could still hear the sound from that monitor, or if I'm as deaf as my father was at my age, haha.
One of my coworkers hired about 2 years ago lives in a senior community. I've seen several hit their 50th and 55th birthdays. They're all full-time (and non-contract) employees. See? I can throw around anecdotes too!
To most users, a PC without an OS is just as dead as a PC without a CPU. Of course, it wouldn't violate advertising law to sell it as a "PC", but I think you'd get almost the same amount of returns as the computer missing hardware.
I usually use yyyy-mm-dd, but when speaking of an annual event (like a holiday), I'd likely say "It's on March 14th", ommitting the year. "March 14th"->"3-14"->"3.14"->"pi". It makes sense to me *shrug*
Just bring your own laptop along. Modifying an employer's machine isn't smart. Let me reiterate something: It's a computer that's not yours. You don't have permission from the owner to modify it. Period.
Transferring is so bad that states have laws forcing them to take community college credits. But over all, that is a sign that the college system needs change / reworking. I say break it up into smaller chunk / badges.
Right, then we can have a system of unrelated "certifications" in different aspects of various degrees and we could make it even harder to figure out what parts are equivalent! No, I think the answer is to standardize curriculums between different schools and require that they each accepts credit for the standardized courses.
We call them "Quality Assurance Engineers" (QA). Ours talk to the software engineers to build applicable test cases, and then continually run the tests on the platforms they've been assigned to work on.
Most of the job is fairly mindless, just reporting errors to the main developers as bugs so the devs can work on fixing them.
If something major was going to happen, it would've already, and at a venue with a large number of people and relatively little security. A concert. A sports game. In the unsecured portion of an airport. It doesn't make sense to me to spend this kind of money and instill this level of fear in America for an unproven threat. I'm more worried about unproven scanning technologies and abusive TSA agents than I am about a FUD-ridden possible attack that hasn't materialized in 10 years of this country cowering in fear.
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Well, that sucks. Meebo has been my go-to site to sign in to IM on when I'm not at my own computer. Time to strike it from my list, I guess.
Siri's really just a slick interface to Google's "I'm feeling lucky" button, with pre-processing done prior to performing an actual search. Google pops up a map if it looks like you're talking about a location; it provides a definition if you ask for one, etc etc. Google already contains a lot of the AI-like characteristics shown by Siri.
To get that kind of functionality, you could always get a netbook and a power inverter. It has a similar size of display to most of the portable DVD players, and functions on hard drive storage. Another option would be a tablet with a large SD card. In that case, you could even pay for a data plan and have streaming media onto the device.
Of course fear of CJD infection can be considered irrational, until there's proof that it's a larger problem. If BSE has a sufficiently low incidence in cows and/or a sufficiently low transmission rate to humans, then your fear could easily be out of proportion to reality.
The direction I think you were going (and with which I agree ) is that we need stronger testing requirements to actually determine the percentage of incidence of the disease in our food herds' populations. Rather than being afraid of the disease itself, I'm more worried that the government is taking the position that further testing isn't necessary when we can't be sure of any such thing.
Travelling and traveling are both valid spellings of the word, the former being more common in British English and the latter more common in American English.
My guess is that their tool provides some language extensions, or some method of specifying the inputs and outputs of the chip's pins.
That would be "System on a Chip", a term which describes a complete system included on a single chip. An example I've seen used more often would be a phone's central chip; they tend to integrate the CPU, GPU, wireless chipsets, and part or all of the RAM on one chip. In this case, it looks like they're advertising the ability to quickly create a hardware chip that functions the same as an arbitrary chunk of C code; essentially, you can make a hardware chip that implements a specific algorithm.
and does just as much
That's a goofy thing to claim. My desktop workstation is powering a display area 2400x1920 in size while running three virtualized OSes on top of a fourth.
I'll agree that the Atari ST did more with the hardware that it had than this machine does now, but to claim that they can do just as much is laughable. I've never understood people that could make that sort of claim with a straight face.
Agreed. I bought my current desktop monitor several years ago when 1920x1200 was more common, and I LOVE it. 1920x1080 feels too cramped.
I had to search around for a decent resolution. I ended up with a 15" Sager with a 1920x1080 screen. 1366x768 is endemic though. You've gotta be picky about the resolution if you want something else.
If I'm remembering right, you can make a Reddit username by supplying the desired name and a password. Good luck attaching that to an individual person.
Steam is similar to Origin, in that it's a game management system. In general, I use it for cheap games (I'm willing to put up with DRM if I'm getting 80-90% off of a game). The original draw of the system is that you can load Steam on a new computer, install whatever games from your account, and start playing from your cloud-saved game. It's DRM, but it's some of the least-onerous DRM I've ever used (provided you don't want to play 2 different games off the same account simultaneously...)
You're still paying for them anyhow. Deleting the listings is just hiding the problem.
Some models of Roku accept a wired ethernet connection, although yes, most only support wireless.
There might be an avenue for continuing income in the future for providers that offer ala carte programming in the future. I've avoided getting cable or satellite, specifically because my needs are handled by OTA programming (news and sports) and Netflix (most of the rest of the shows I watch). I'd love it if I had the option to pay for just a few channels without duplicating the access I already have available to me, and the cable company would get subscription money out of me that they aren't currently pulling in. I don't think I'm even that unusual, among the younger end of the demographic.
We had a 15" CRT when I was a kid. It whined when it wasn't getting input. Dad used to use the computer late into the night and neglect to turn off the monitor when he went to bed. It used to wake me up, and I'd get up several hours after falling asleep to turn the darned thing off. I never got Dad to understand that I could hear the whine...I'm nearing 30. I wonder if I could still hear the sound from that monitor, or if I'm as deaf as my father was at my age, haha.
I still use a VCR and an Atari 2600...then again, I'm kind of weird. The 2600 had been around for about 7 years when I was born.
For bonus points, synchronize the actions in the video with the music.
One of my coworkers hired about 2 years ago lives in a senior community. I've seen several hit their 50th and 55th birthdays. They're all full-time (and non-contract) employees. See? I can throw around anecdotes too!
To most users, a PC without an OS is just as dead as a PC without a CPU. Of course, it wouldn't violate advertising law to sell it as a "PC", but I think you'd get almost the same amount of returns as the computer missing hardware.
I usually use yyyy-mm-dd, but when speaking of an annual event (like a holiday), I'd likely say "It's on March 14th", ommitting the year. "March 14th"->"3-14"->"3.14"->"pi". It makes sense to me *shrug*
Just bring your own laptop along. Modifying an employer's machine isn't smart. Let me reiterate something: It's a computer that's not yours. You don't have permission from the owner to modify it. Period.
Transferring is so bad that states have laws forcing them to take community college credits.
But over all, that is a sign that the college system needs change / reworking.
I say break it up into smaller chunk / badges.
Right, then we can have a system of unrelated "certifications" in different aspects of various degrees and we could make it even harder to figure out what parts are equivalent! No, I think the answer is to standardize curriculums between different schools and require that they each accepts credit for the standardized courses.
We call them "Quality Assurance Engineers" (QA). Ours talk to the software engineers to build applicable test cases, and then continually run the tests on the platforms they've been assigned to work on.
Most of the job is fairly mindless, just reporting errors to the main developers as bugs so the devs can work on fixing them.
If something major was going to happen, it would've already, and at a venue with a large number of people and relatively little security. A concert. A sports game. In the unsecured portion of an airport. It doesn't make sense to me to spend this kind of money and instill this level of fear in America for an unproven threat. I'm more worried about unproven scanning technologies and abusive TSA agents than I am about a FUD-ridden possible attack that hasn't materialized in 10 years of this country cowering in fear.