Walking is great for improving your health in general, but for the sole purpose of losing weight, it's way less effective than just putting less into that pie hole.
Maybe we like the OS, especially those of us who happen to be developers
Well, I'd want a possibility to port and test my free software on OS X, there are users who reported issues there and I hate deficiencies in my crap. Yet if Apple cared the slightest bit about developers, they'd promote porting to their platform.
Free software operating systems are free, duh. And Microsoft doesn't oppose free toolchains targetting any of their platform, and they give you gratis copies of their toolchain and even some versions of their OS (such as Windows Insider Edition (has a quirk where the slowest possible update ring is faster than any commercial version, but as someone who runs Debian unstable on a -rc kernel I'm not going to complain)).
So, am I going to buy a vastly overpriced piece of obsolete hardware just to grant unpaid help to their users? No way! I'd rather blow my toy hardware funds on a yet another ARM SoC, or, if I ever go insane, on a $6k Talos 2 (a high-end but vastly overpriced piece of Power9 goodness that, unlike anything from Intel or AMD, has no hardware backdoors).
It's always nice to see people comment on things they have no clue about. I have been living in South Korea for over a decade now, and I can tell you that your statement is absolutely untrue.
While I indeed can't read Hangul nor Hanja, I know enough to tell them apart. Or, use a script to do so.
The page you linked to indeed looks Han-free, but a random corpus of Korean text I've analyzed, both years ago when writing that transcription program and right now, show quite a lot of Han characters being used. For example, Wikipedia's article for "Korea" has 525 unique Hangul and 75 unique Hanja. How can you understand a text if you can't read a good part of it? Likewise, a transcription program is kind of worthless if it leaves random pieces unconverted.
From what I read, this varies a lot in different contexts. When you want to type a text quickly, messing with input methods is inconvenient, thus I understand why people don't want to bother. But especially in names (the only thing someone not knowing the language wants to read) Hanja seems to be still widespread.
North Korean is purely phonetic, yeah. South Korean, though, contaminates a perfectly good alphabet (it's an alphabet even though they have that weird-for-us combining of three letters into one glyph) with Chinese logographs. Thus, they degrade a script which, true to the words of its 15th century inventor, can be learned in hours, into a monstrosity that requires several years to learn.
Hell yeah this. Everyone even semi-educated can read the Latin script these days -- most languages have a sane letter-to-sound mapping (*cough* English and French), thus even if you don't know that Polish 'w' is pronounced 'v' or Spanish 'j' is 'h', you'll get it close enough to be understood in speech.
I've made program (Debian package "tran") to transcribe (ok, transliterate with a 1/4-assed attempt at transcription) between writing scripts -- it'd be great if Google could pipe the names through this.
This version lacks CJK support as those characters are logographs rather than letters, thus they convey meaning rather than a series of sounds, but if you know which language they're in, the Unihan_Readings database is good enough for a first stab.
Moore's Law is exponential, and means exactly this.
Single-thread performance has pretty much hit a wall, maintaining coherency between too many cores of a traditional processor is an extremely hard task... on the other hand, giving a GPU more cores is nice and easy.
When I returned home I sent it to a friend who was heavily into designer fashion and bags, expecting her to be impressed. I didn't tell her where it came from. She said "Why did you send me this cheap knockoff?" I thought she was bluffing, so I challenged her to explain why it was fake.
But why would an expert being able to tell it from a quality fake count?
A designer handbag has only two purposes:
* show off that you're a douche with more money than sense
* (a very minor purpose) sometimes carry stuff
As long as the cheaper bag is fully functional, who cares if it's "genuine"? Beside those in the designer handbag industry, of course.
Quality matters. Having the profits go to a particular person does if and only if that person is you.
If it's not your wifi, it's not secure. That should be a mantra for everyone.
Why would I trust "my" wifi either? There's too many devices in the house, some of which are unpatchable by everyone other than the vendor (ie, no patches, ever).
But that's not a concern: if you are already prepared for anyone outside trying to hijack your connection, the first hop is not any different.
Those which are rooted and have available drivers so you can recompile them yourself, plus a couple of randomly chosen models running the newest version of Android 9.53.
Speech to text is pretty accurate and way better than "auto correct" guessing what I meant to type.
Uhm, no. Neither me nor any of my friends managed to, ever, get a single sentence through correctly, with any of text-to-speech programs I tried.
This is not just "some errors", it's a 100% error rate (at sentence granulation, some words get through here and there). And it's not like there are serious issues with human-to-human speech communication (even if accuracy is still below that of typing).
So sorry but I claim bullshit: even with "the right cadence and enunciation", I don't believe speakwrites are anywhere close to be something you can rely on.
[Firefox] The current beta has the new user interface, which is very sleek.
WTF? The only way to say anything good about the new interface is to compare it with Australis, which is a disaster of Gnome3 or Metro proportions. Anyone who cares the slightest bit about usability uses appropriate extensions and/or Pale Moon (although the latter has other downsides).
Keyboards will be replaced, but whatever they'll be replaced with hasn't been invented yet.
No touchscreen nor speakwrite has either the accuracy nor bandwidth of an actual keyboard. Likewise on phones: popular input methods are fit at most for a status update on this week's MySpace replacement (I lost track of what's in fashion today), while N900 or hopefully Gemini are fit for a multi-hour hacking session. Try writing C or Perl code on a modern "smart"phone, go ahead.
Can you train birds NOT to shit on my car? 'Kay, thanks...
The solution is similar: find an animal that can get rid of the problem.
Some kittehs are afraid of anything bigger than a fly or spider. My current one has dragged in a couple of jackdaws hardly smaller than himself. No poop bombs from these two anymore!
Sounds pretty smart to me. Being in the wild means no food other than what you catch yourself, cold and so on. Faking an injury means having food delivered right under your beak, and a warm house. I guess you didn't do anything stressful like keeping the bird confined in a tiny cage, so the new environment wasn't bad.
The crow wasn't a professional at mind-controlling humans like the Master Species so no meows at frequencies that simulate a human baby, no mind-altering parasites, and it doesn't look cute either, thus you managed to get rid of that crow... but the principle is the same.
How could a website dedicated to helping facilitate the widespread distribution of pirated materials engage in anything unethical?
For a good part of us here, piracy is not only nothing morally wrong, but even a much-needed preservation and dissemination of culture. I'd go as far as calling copyright a crime against humanity: culture is what makes us different from non-human animals. Like animals, we need to eat, breathe and reproduce. Unlike them, we convey ideas from each other. Thus, culture pretty much is humanity, thus copyright, greatly hindering creation and dissemination of culture, is directly a crime against humanity.
For some, the likes of Snowden or Elbakyan are criminals, for me they're biggest heroes of present day. So is Anakata. That some of Anakata's replacements use a dodgy method to defray some of costs leaves a bad taste, but that's not an argument against piracy.
So if Ireland doesn't get tax money, and benefits from having some folks employeed are way below whatever they'd get from this tax, why would they even consider such a weird move?
Other than someone in the government getting something from Apple...
What is with the huge banner that Slashdot lately has? Worse yet, it's floating and moves with scrolling, making it impossible to read anything on a short window.
Uhm, looks like any other site whatsoever if your browser lacks the basic configuration+extensions?
Seriously, these days it's humanly impossible[1] to browse without blocking ads.
[1]. As in, "impossible without losing your sanity[2]", not "strictly impossible", obviously. [2]. Ok, Slashdot readers and sanity, uh uh sure sure. But same applies to other websites.
You really never heard the words "fashion sense" that apparently everyone but the speaker in question lacks?
Results returned by that "sense" are totally random, but you can greatly reduce the number of almost-new items of clothing you're forced to throw out by having your S.O. pick them for you. This means you sacrifice comfort, money and quality -- but she'd have to admit error. That's not entirely foolprof but reduces the failure rate from nearly-100% you'd have if you picked unaided.
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Walking is great for improving your health in general, but for the sole purpose of losing weight, it's way less effective than just putting less into that pie hole.
Just because you clicked the buttons doesn't mean you weren't cheating. Counting cards is disallowed in Vegas for a reason.
Ie, playing with a strategy rather than being an idiot is cheating now?
Maybe we like the OS, especially those of us who happen to be developers
Well, I'd want a possibility to port and test my free software on OS X, there are users who reported issues there and I hate deficiencies in my crap. Yet if Apple cared the slightest bit about developers, they'd promote porting to their platform.
Free software operating systems are free, duh. And Microsoft doesn't oppose free toolchains targetting any of their platform, and they give you gratis copies of their toolchain and even some versions of their OS (such as Windows Insider Edition (has a quirk where the slowest possible update ring is faster than any commercial version, but as someone who runs Debian unstable on a -rc kernel I'm not going to complain)).
So, am I going to buy a vastly overpriced piece of obsolete hardware just to grant unpaid help to their users? No way! I'd rather blow my toy hardware funds on a yet another ARM SoC, or, if I ever go insane, on a $6k Talos 2 (a high-end but vastly overpriced piece of Power9 goodness that, unlike anything from Intel or AMD, has no hardware backdoors).
It's always nice to see people comment on things they have no clue about. I have been living in South Korea for over a decade now, and I can tell you that your statement is absolutely untrue.
While I indeed can't read Hangul nor Hanja, I know enough to tell them apart. Or, use a script to do so.
The page you linked to indeed looks Han-free, but a random corpus of Korean text I've analyzed, both years ago when writing that transcription program and right now, show quite a lot of Han characters being used. For example, Wikipedia's article for "Korea" has 525 unique Hangul and 75 unique Hanja. How can you understand a text if you can't read a good part of it? Likewise, a transcription program is kind of worthless if it leaves random pieces unconverted.
From what I read, this varies a lot in different contexts. When you want to type a text quickly, messing with input methods is inconvenient, thus I understand why people don't want to bother. But especially in names (the only thing someone not knowing the language wants to read) Hanja seems to be still widespread.
North Korean is purely phonetic, yeah. South Korean, though, contaminates a perfectly good alphabet (it's an alphabet even though they have that weird-for-us combining of three letters into one glyph) with Chinese logographs. Thus, they degrade a script which, true to the words of its 15th century inventor, can be learned in hours, into a monstrosity that requires several years to learn.
Hell yeah this. Everyone even semi-educated can read the Latin script these days -- most languages have a sane letter-to-sound mapping (*cough* English and French), thus even if you don't know that Polish 'w' is pronounced 'v' or Spanish 'j' is 'h', you'll get it close enough to be understood in speech.
I've made program (Debian package "tran") to transcribe (ok, transliterate with a 1/4-assed attempt at transcription) between writing scripts -- it'd be great if Google could pipe the names through this.
This version lacks CJK support as those characters are logographs rather than letters, thus they convey meaning rather than a series of sounds, but if you know which language they're in, the Unihan_Readings database is good enough for a first stab.
Moore's Law is exponential, and means exactly this.
Single-thread performance has pretty much hit a wall, maintaining coherency between too many cores of a traditional processor is an extremely hard task... on the other hand, giving a GPU more cores is nice and easy.
When I returned home I sent it to a friend who was heavily into designer fashion and bags, expecting her to be impressed. I didn't tell her where it came from. She said "Why did you send me this cheap knockoff?" I thought she was bluffing, so I challenged her to explain why it was fake.
But why would an expert being able to tell it from a quality fake count?
A designer handbag has only two purposes:
As long as the cheaper bag is fully functional, who cares if it's "genuine"? Beside those in the designer handbag industry, of course.
Quality matters. Having the profits go to a particular person does if and only if that person is you.
FYI the reason you can tell they are fakes is they were selling at 25% of actual retail price
And that's the only difference.
If it's not your wifi, it's not secure. That should be a mantra for everyone.
Why would I trust "my" wifi either? There's too many devices in the house, some of which are unpatchable by everyone other than the vendor (ie, no patches, ever).
But that's not a concern: if you are already prepared for anyone outside trying to hijack your connection, the first hop is not any different.
What percentage of Android will be patched?
Those which are rooted and have available drivers so you can recompile them yourself, plus a couple of randomly chosen models running the newest version of Android 9.53.
Speech to text is pretty accurate and way better than "auto correct" guessing what I meant to type.
Uhm, no. Neither me nor any of my friends managed to, ever, get a single sentence through correctly, with any of text-to-speech programs I tried.
This is not just "some errors", it's a 100% error rate (at sentence granulation, some words get through here and there). And it's not like there are serious issues with human-to-human speech communication (even if accuracy is still below that of typing).
So sorry but I claim bullshit: even with "the right cadence and enunciation", I don't believe speakwrites are anywhere close to be something you can rely on.
[Firefox] The current beta has the new user interface, which is very sleek.
WTF? The only way to say anything good about the new interface is to compare it with Australis, which is a disaster of Gnome3 or Metro proportions. Anyone who cares the slightest bit about usability uses appropriate extensions and/or Pale Moon (although the latter has other downsides).
Keyboards will be replaced, but whatever they'll be replaced with hasn't been invented yet.
No touchscreen nor speakwrite has either the accuracy nor bandwidth of an actual keyboard. Likewise on phones: popular input methods are fit at most for a status update on this week's MySpace replacement (I lost track of what's in fashion today), while N900 or hopefully Gemini are fit for a multi-hour hacking session. Try writing C or Perl code on a modern "smart"phone, go ahead.
Real men use IBM Model M...
And those who wish they had a keyboard for grown-ups use a prosthetic.
Can you train birds NOT to shit on my car? 'Kay, thanks...
The solution is similar: find an animal that can get rid of the problem.
Some kittehs are afraid of anything bigger than a fly or spider. My current one has dragged in a couple of jackdaws hardly smaller than himself. No poop bombs from these two anymore!
Sounds pretty smart to me. Being in the wild means no food other than what you catch yourself, cold and so on. Faking an injury means having food delivered right under your beak, and a warm house. I guess you didn't do anything stressful like keeping the bird confined in a tiny cage, so the new environment wasn't bad.
The crow wasn't a professional at mind-controlling humans like the Master Species so no meows at frequencies that simulate a human baby, no mind-altering parasites, and it doesn't look cute either, thus you managed to get rid of that crow... but the principle is the same.
... into installing crapware Symantec calls Adware.Eorezo
This sentence doesn't parse. Why "calls ..." after the crapware's name?
I expect we'll have miner-blocker add-ons by the end of the year.
You mean...?
How could a website dedicated to helping facilitate the widespread distribution of pirated materials engage in anything unethical?
For a good part of us here, piracy is not only nothing morally wrong, but even a much-needed preservation and dissemination of culture. I'd go as far as calling copyright a crime against humanity: culture is what makes us different from non-human animals. Like animals, we need to eat, breathe and reproduce. Unlike them, we convey ideas from each other. Thus, culture pretty much is humanity, thus copyright, greatly hindering creation and dissemination of culture, is directly a crime against humanity.
For some, the likes of Snowden or Elbakyan are criminals, for me they're biggest heroes of present day. So is Anakata. That some of Anakata's replacements use a dodgy method to defray some of costs leaves a bad taste, but that's not an argument against piracy.
If I have to choose between Windows 10 "spyware edition" or Linux with systemd, I still go for Linux.
That's a false dilemma. You don't need either piece of malware, just pick a distribution without systemd.
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I see you don't know that Slashdot still doesn't support Unicode, but apparently you're new here.
So if Ireland doesn't get tax money, and benefits from having some folks employeed are way below whatever they'd get from this tax, why would they even consider such a weird move?
Other than someone in the government getting something from Apple...
What is with the huge banner that Slashdot lately has? Worse yet, it's floating and moves with scrolling, making it impossible to read anything on a short window.
Uhm, looks like any other site whatsoever if your browser lacks the basic configuration+extensions?
Seriously, these days it's humanly impossible[1] to browse without blocking ads.
[1]. As in, "impossible without losing your sanity[2]", not "strictly impossible", obviously.
[2]. Ok, Slashdot readers and sanity, uh uh sure sure. But same applies to other websites.
You really never heard the words "fashion sense" that apparently everyone but the speaker in question lacks?
Results returned by that "sense" are totally random, but you can greatly reduce the number of almost-new items of clothing you're forced to throw out by having your S.O. pick them for you. This means you sacrifice comfort, money and quality -- but she'd have to admit error. That's not entirely foolprof but reduces the failure rate from nearly-100% you'd have if you picked unaided.
(If I sound jaded... gee, guess why?)