Siri reads back the text by default if you're in the eyes-free mode. But her text-to-speech isn't always easy to understand, so it's hard to tell sometimes if she got it right.
This is why I change Siri from a woman speaking to a man speaking in a deep Scottish accent. Makes it much clearer.
The comparison should really be based on how drivers actually behave while texting or using hands-free Siri.
My sister thinks she's safe when she drives hands-free with Bluetooth enabled voice cell in her Prius.
But she weaves and drifts while driving.
If she were texting, it would be bad.
It's the difference between being Wasted (hands-free Siri, due to mental distraction, and occassional looking at display), Totally wasted (normal cell phone while driving), and Blotto (texting while driving).
You're still a menace to society, and we'd be better off if you had only downed two shots of vodka instead.
I started working as a power engineer, and then worked smelting alloys. A lot of what we did has been enhanced by robots and better computer systems, quite frankly.
But your premise is that jobs in manufacturing are not growing. This is not correct.
Jobs are growing in manufacturing, but only in forward-thinking cities with low energy costs that invest in large quantities of cheap alternative energy (e.g. Seattle, parts of Texas) that costs less than oil (e.g. solar, wind, hydro).
Most of the jobs that "disappeared" were pretty dangerous, actually.
At best we can only detect vector and derived energy, but we don't know where they came from or if they actually came from dark matter space in an area we don't traditionally think of as an origin point.
One of the research scientists here at the UW actually found it works with the ID cards everyone gets, and you can download all your bus trips from the added bus pass we have.
There is little reason for current incumbents to stop sequestration, as most incumbents live in safe, gerrymandered districts and work for the ultra-rich, not the citizens.
The correct response would be to do away with the TSA, which has never been effective (speaking from my days in counter-terrorism ops and as a combat field engineer) and to allow the rural and small airports to go to more automated flight operations. But this would affect the tax-subsidized Takers in rural and suburban America who depend on the taxes from the job-creating efficient Blue cities that subsidize the Red sloth.
Another correct solution would be to replace increases in jet travel with high-speed trains on the growing West Coast that creates more than 40 percent of the US GDP.
But since the West Coast only gets 6 senate seats out of 50, even with so much population, don't count on that.
But if said private Internet is all of China and they control all the routers and gateways, how could you stop it? They could then filter out all outbound traffic so that we could only block outbound packets, which would leave them up and running.
China has more devices on the Internet than existing in North America in the last century. That's pretty darned big.
In print, I still read The New Yorker, Money, ComputerWorld, and NetworkWorld.
I also read the print edition of the weekly free newspaper The Stranger, and occasionally buy the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal (the editorial page I use for rose beds), and the suburban paper The Seattle Times.
Because I had a 5 year subscription to US News & World Report, which I got when I moved back to the US and missed getting foreign news, I get Money, since they cancelled their print edition.
Online, I used to read the right-wing Seattle Times, but no longer do, and much more of the Washington Post and The Stranger (still read those two online).
If tech companies were actually serious about wanting grads who knew things, they'd be pushing for green cards for foreign students who get PhD or MSc degrees from US credentialed universities.
But they're not.
That would solve a lot of the problem. H1-B was originally designed to allow for something far different than what it currently is.
Always-on is absolutely necessary for them. They make WAY more money by forcing everyone to trade privacy for functionality. Everything else is completely secondary.
But it isn't necessary. The Sims 3 runs perfectly well - with premium content you pay extra for, that customers buy - with it only being Online if you want to get the extra content.
Their problem is they didn't realize you catch more flies with honey - or a SimCity that has Online when you do MULTI-PLAYER or DOWNLOAD premium content - than you do with large quantities of highly acidic fluid drained from an atomic reactor, which is what DRM is.
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Siri reads back the text by default if you're in the eyes-free mode. But her text-to-speech isn't always easy to understand, so it's hard to tell sometimes if she got it right.
This is why I change Siri from a woman speaking to a man speaking in a deep Scottish accent. Makes it much clearer.
Um, what's a freeway?
I live in Seattle and I rarely drive on I-5, and even then just for one stop or two.
Where we're going we don't need freeways.
It's illegal to drive without being conscious of road conditions.
As in pull over, turn off ignition, stop driving illegal.
The comparison should really be based on how drivers actually behave while texting or using hands-free Siri.
My sister thinks she's safe when she drives hands-free with Bluetooth enabled voice cell in her Prius.
But she weaves and drifts while driving.
If she were texting, it would be bad.
It's the difference between being Wasted (hands-free Siri, due to mental distraction, and occassional looking at display), Totally wasted (normal cell phone while driving), and Blotto (texting while driving).
You're still a menace to society, and we'd be better off if you had only downed two shots of vodka instead.
I started working as a power engineer, and then worked smelting alloys. A lot of what we did has been enhanced by robots and better computer systems, quite frankly.
But your premise is that jobs in manufacturing are not growing. This is not correct.
Jobs are growing in manufacturing, but only in forward-thinking cities with low energy costs that invest in large quantities of cheap alternative energy (e.g. Seattle, parts of Texas) that costs less than oil (e.g. solar, wind, hydro).
Most of the jobs that "disappeared" were pretty dangerous, actually.
At best we can only detect vector and derived energy, but we don't know where they came from or if they actually came from dark matter space in an area we don't traditionally think of as an origin point.
Well, I've seen at least one of their online games announce a shut down, so it does mean what we think it means.
One of the research scientists here at the UW actually found it works with the ID cards everyone gets, and you can download all your bus trips from the added bus pass we have.
Don't you love not having privacy?
There is little reason for current incumbents to stop sequestration, as most incumbents live in safe, gerrymandered districts and work for the ultra-rich, not the citizens.
The correct response would be to do away with the TSA, which has never been effective (speaking from my days in counter-terrorism ops and as a combat field engineer) and to allow the rural and small airports to go to more automated flight operations. But this would affect the tax-subsidized Takers in rural and suburban America who depend on the taxes from the job-creating efficient Blue cities that subsidize the Red sloth.
Another correct solution would be to replace increases in jet travel with high-speed trains on the growing West Coast that creates more than 40 percent of the US GDP.
But since the West Coast only gets 6 senate seats out of 50, even with so much population, don't count on that.
Just because they are siphoning up and stealing our tech secrets doesn't mean they don't love us.
Or at least our money.
Not sure. Don't think anyone in my family cares about the shrapnel, other than as used for evidence.
Just wondering if all you MSM types can get off your 24/7 cycle and stop going over and over and over this.
My cousin is home from the hospital and her two knee surgeries, and the FBI has the shrapnel from her leg.
K, thanks.
P.S.: Most of my family is NOT WATCHING your coverage. At all.
Here in Seattle, at Christmas, the Seattle International Film Festival's Uptown Cinema showed Willy Wonka in Smell-o-Vision.
Do you want fries with that? There's a hamburger place across the street.
I'm not sure how keen I am on 4D, though, sometimes it gets in the way of the movie.
But if said private Internet is all of China and they control all the routers and gateways, how could you stop it? They could then filter out all outbound traffic so that we could only block outbound packets, which would leave them up and running.
China has more devices on the Internet than existing in North America in the last century. That's pretty darned big.
However, local files determine where it finds those. Simple matter to rewrite the local tables and use those.
Who do you think manufactures most of our devices?
Which means if China decides it wants to create it's own Internet, there's nothing we can do about it.
All of these authentication measures seem to want my cell phone.
I don't have onr, and you can phone me when Hades freezes over.
I did the same thing. People keep trying to push me to download their digital magazines, but I never do.
In print, I still read The New Yorker, Money, ComputerWorld, and NetworkWorld.
I also read the print edition of the weekly free newspaper The Stranger, and occasionally buy the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal (the editorial page I use for rose beds), and the suburban paper The Seattle Times.
Because I had a 5 year subscription to US News & World Report, which I got when I moved back to the US and missed getting foreign news, I get Money, since they cancelled their print edition.
Online, I used to read the right-wing Seattle Times, but no longer do, and much more of the Washington Post and The Stranger (still read those two online).
Dude, I downmod all your posts and I get 5 mod points every week.
Because they suck. Period.
Did tech websites glom onto the tragedy too much?
Yes.
Now stop talking about it, my cousin Allison is in surgery for her knee for the second day, and I want you to talk about something else.
Like dinosaur quizzes, or how you may be able to treat atherosclerosis with a common drug.
In the source article, I notice it's only about a 4 percent total effect on total charge.
So, while not "no memory effect" it's not as bad as the impacts on the other types of battery storage.
Even storage devices like compressed air (PHES) for wind and solar PV systems have only a 70 percent efficiency, so it's still way better than that.
If tech companies were actually serious about wanting grads who knew things, they'd be pushing for green cards for foreign students who get PhD or MSc degrees from US credentialed universities.
But they're not.
That would solve a lot of the problem. H1-B was originally designed to allow for something far different than what it currently is.
Same goes for L-1 and L-2.
Always-on is absolutely necessary for them. They make WAY more money by forcing everyone to trade privacy for functionality. Everything else is completely secondary.
But it isn't necessary. The Sims 3 runs perfectly well - with premium content you pay extra for, that customers buy - with it only being Online if you want to get the extra content.
Their problem is they didn't realize you catch more flies with honey - or a SimCity that has Online when you do MULTI-PLAYER or DOWNLOAD premium content - than you do with large quantities of highly acidic fluid drained from an atomic reactor, which is what DRM is.
Look, nobody's saying anything about the employees, who are all fine people that I've met.
It's the management.
Specifically the Board and the Senior Management and CEO/COO/CFO.
There's your problem.
They think we're cattle. Or sheep.
Well, for all we know, the astronaut had an XXY or XYY change in chromosomes 25 and 26.
Sorry, autocorrect on the subject line.