People who think the monetary system is "messed up" simply because debt creates inflation and "this is bad", simply do not understand economics.
Let me break it down simple. You work 9-5 lugging rock. At the end of the day, I should pay you for lugging that rock. Where does that money come from? Me. But where did I get it? Someone who paid me for my company's work today. etc etc. But, keep going, trace it back. At some point the money came from work done YESTERDAY. And the day before. Etc.
But here is the problem - THERE IS NOT AN INFINITE SUPPLY OF YESTERDAYS. It runs out.
At some point, somehow, there has to be a reconciliation whereby the work done by the global economy TODAY gets paid for my money that doesn't yet exist. This is why inflation happens.
In a nutshell - inflation has to happen because time == money, and the amount of time moves in one direction, therefore the money supply has to do the same thing.
You are not grockin what I am saying. Siri understands the language fine, but it's supposedly "advanced AI" is worse than a two year old.
Combine this with the fact that it repeats EVERY SINGLE THING, and doesn't read back results, makes it very useless.
IE - I am driving down the road, hit my bluetooth.
This is what Apple makes you expect from the ads:
"Siri, around how many centimeters are in inch? "2.54"
This is what actually happens
"Siri, around how many centimeters are in an inch?" "You asked how many centimeters are in an inch?" "yes...." "Here is some information I found for you"
"Siri can you read that to me?" "You asked can I read that to you?" "YES!!!!!" "Here is some information I found for you"
I think anyone in the media talking up Siri has never actually tried to use the thing. It hardly every understands what you want the first time without clarification, it doesn't work without a constant network location, it can't read back any answers to queries (just pops stuff up on the screen)... its pretty much useless as a real voice control solution. And yes, I *DO HAVE IT* unlike some reviewers.
This article links to another article whose authour is just SPECULATING that IBM may be dropping Lotus Symphony. I can find no evidence that IBM has said any such thing, nor can I even find any leaked information to support this.
Conclusion? Yet another unsubstantiated blog post promoted to the front page of Slashdot with no fact checking. And people wonder why the readership of/. is in decline....
I am getting really sick of all the Siri hyperbole. Here are a few facts for people:
- Siri itself has been around for nearly two years. It was a standalone app available for a long time until Apple purchased the company and pulled it from the app store.
- Android has had voice recognition built into it that knows 99% of the commands Siri does since at least 2010 (Froyo), and I believe even before that.
- There is at least one third party company / app (Vlingo) which supports all the commands Siri does *AND MANY MORE*, and is available for ALL PLATFORMS, inclufing Android, Blackberry, iPhones.
Basically - Siri is neat, but it is NOT new, and it is NOT revolutionary. Calling Siri revolutionary is like calling a touchscreen revolutionary at this point in the game.
The biggest problem Google+ has right now is how they have been dragging the ball on commercial accounts, meanwhile enforcing the real-name policy. It is an incredibly braindead move because you are effectively locking all companies out of participating on Google+, and thus they are unable to bring any users over with them.
A follow a lot of brands on twitter and simply can not do the same on G+. If everyone I followed on Twitter existed on G+ I probably would not use Twitter anymore, but sadly Google is ACTIVELY PREVENTING that from being the case due to this braindead policy enforcement.
And do you think your dad would have gone into his phone, added untrusted applications, downloaded an APK from a Chinese website, used ADB to serial copy it to his phone, and install it?
NO????
Then shut up.
These capabilities in Android are great for power users. And non-power users don't even know they exist. The hyperbole about Android malware on these Chinese app markets is astounding.
This is why all Android users who install apps from "untrusted sources" should install permission dog. What permission dog does is twofold
a) It does a full audit of all the apps on your phone, so you can easily see a simple breakdown of all of the permissions apps you CURRENTLY HAVE are using. Ones using too many permissions are flagged with warning icons.
b) If you have root, then It allows you to deny individual permissions to apps. So if an app is asking for permission A B and C, you can allow A and C but deny B. Depending on the app, this can either simply not a certain function work, cause the app to crash totally, or allow it to work 100%. But the important thing is it gives the control to you as a user as to what you want every app to be allowed to do.
This was my thought exactly. But the article REPEATEDLY mentions WiFi, which leads me to believe this research, while maybe novel, is not going to help most smartphone users.
Even if you leave your WiFi on 24x7, it uses a FRACTION of the power of your HSPA/4G coverage. Power use of the 3G radio is the issue, not the wifi radio.
I can leave my phone on wifi all day and if left to idle I will still easily have > 75% battery after 8 hours. With 3G, this would be well below 50%, maybe below 40% if a lot of data was coming in.
If I could use NFC at every store that takes Paypass, and Google Wallet was available here, then I would be the first to sign up. One less piece of crap in my wallet.
It has been 4 years now and the few times a month I have to use an Office product, I still can't find common things in the damn "ribbons" that I used to be able to find in the plain-jane menu.
From the sounds of this article, Facebook and Google go about this VERY differently.
The Facebook way, it seems, is that every node in the infrastructure is possibly important. So they write and maintain all these healing scripts to deal with problems like broken processes or failed hard drives.
Google goes about the same problem in a very different way. Google's system is architected such that no node is important. Everything is massively parallel and redundant - such that you could take and destroy any server, any set of servers, even an entire data centre and blow it up with a bomb, and side from performance issues, no one would notice.
From an admin's point of view - I would much prefer Google's system. Something doesn't look right on a box? Yank it out TOTALLY, put in a new one, investigate some other time.
It is going to be part of your Prime membership, as yet another value add. And $79 / year is in fact "pennies a day".
Originally, Amazon prime only gave you free unlimited 2 day shipping. Now it gives you that, plus free unlimited streaming of TV and movies. Now, they are going to add unlimited book rentals as well.
If you are an existing Prime customer, this is nothing but a good thing. If you are not, this is yet another way for Amazon to get you into Prime.
It's actually a very smart move, vs. making a stand-alone service.
"Results showed that the eight volunteers who had their left DPC stimulated lied more often, while the ones with the right DPC stimulated were more likely to tell the truth, researchers said."
There is a hell of a big difference between "forces you to tell the truth" and "statistically more likely, within this experiment's margin of error to tell the truth".
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..when Chrome did this :P
People who think the monetary system is "messed up" simply because debt creates inflation and "this is bad", simply do not understand economics.
Let me break it down simple. You work 9-5 lugging rock. At the end of the day, I should pay you for lugging that rock. Where does that money come from? Me. But where did I get it? Someone who paid me for my company's work today. etc etc. But, keep going, trace it back. At some point the money came from work done YESTERDAY. And the day before. Etc.
But here is the problem - THERE IS NOT AN INFINITE SUPPLY OF YESTERDAYS. It runs out.
At some point, somehow, there has to be a reconciliation whereby the work done by the global economy TODAY gets paid for my money that doesn't yet exist. This is why inflation happens.
In a nutshell - inflation has to happen because time == money, and the amount of time moves in one direction, therefore the money supply has to do the same thing.
Yes I am a native English speaker.
You are not grockin what I am saying. Siri understands the language fine, but it's supposedly "advanced AI" is worse than a two year old.
Combine this with the fact that it repeats EVERY SINGLE THING, and doesn't read back results, makes it very useless.
IE - I am driving down the road, hit my bluetooth.
This is what Apple makes you expect from the ads:
"Siri, around how many centimeters are in inch?
"2.54"
This is what actually happens
"Siri, around how many centimeters are in an inch?" ...."
"You asked how many centimeters are in an inch?"
"yes
"Here is some information I found for you"
"Siri can you read that to me?"
"You asked can I read that to you?"
"YES!!!!!"
"Here is some information I found for you"
Also they way it is implemented
If it responds more than 25% of the time with a useful response, then yes indeed it is nothing like Siri.
If it responds with a useful response less than 25% of the time, then yeah it is pretty much the same.
I think anyone in the media talking up Siri has never actually tried to use the thing. It hardly every understands what you want the first time without clarification, it doesn't work without a constant network location, it can't read back any answers to queries (just pops stuff up on the screen)... its pretty much useless as a real voice control solution. And yes, I *DO HAVE IT* unlike some reviewers.
How is this any different at all from Javassist?
This article links to another article whose authour is just SPECULATING that IBM may be dropping Lotus Symphony. I can find no evidence that IBM has said any such thing, nor can I even find any leaked information to support this.
Conclusion? Yet another unsubstantiated blog post promoted to the front page of Slashdot with no fact checking. And people wonder why the readership of /. is in decline....
I am getting really sick of all the Siri hyperbole. Here are a few facts for people:
- Siri itself has been around for nearly two years. It was a standalone app available for a long time until Apple purchased the company and pulled it from the app store.
- Android has had voice recognition built into it that knows 99% of the commands Siri does since at least 2010 (Froyo), and I believe even before that.
- There is at least one third party company / app (Vlingo) which supports all the commands Siri does *AND MANY MORE*, and is available for ALL PLATFORMS, inclufing Android, Blackberry, iPhones.
Basically - Siri is neat, but it is NOT new, and it is NOT revolutionary. Calling Siri revolutionary is like calling a touchscreen revolutionary at this point in the game.
The biggest problem Google+ has right now is how they have been dragging the ball on commercial accounts, meanwhile enforcing the real-name policy. It is an incredibly braindead move because you are effectively locking all companies out of participating on Google+, and thus they are unable to bring any users over with them.
A follow a lot of brands on twitter and simply can not do the same on G+. If everyone I followed on Twitter existed on G+ I probably would not use Twitter anymore, but sadly Google is ACTIVELY PREVENTING that from being the case due to this braindead policy enforcement.
And do you think your dad would have gone into his phone, added untrusted applications, downloaded an APK from a Chinese website, used ADB to serial copy it to his phone, and install it?
NO????
Then shut up.
These capabilities in Android are great for power users. And non-power users don't even know they exist. The hyperbole about Android malware on these Chinese app markets is astounding.
This is why all Android users who install apps from "untrusted sources" should install permission dog. What permission dog does is twofold
a) It does a full audit of all the apps on your phone, so you can easily see a simple breakdown of all of the permissions apps you CURRENTLY HAVE are using. Ones using too many permissions are flagged with warning icons.
b) If you have root, then It allows you to deny individual permissions to apps. So if an app is asking for permission A B and C, you can allow A and C but deny B. Depending on the app, this can either simply not a certain function work, cause the app to crash totally, or allow it to work 100%. But the important thing is it gives the control to you as a user as to what you want every app to be allowed to do.
This depends on if the app will ru, but simply not use the listed capabilities vs. if any app using these capabilities will not run.
If it is the former, no big deal. If it is the latter, this would make a huge number of apps on the market unrunnable.
You have a huge flaw in your math here:
"This is 1800 steps per day at 1.05J per step giving a total of 1890 J captured per day."
Wrong. Depending on what your point of measure is (you don't say really), it is either 1800 steps per day PER FILE, or 1800 steps per day PER PATRON.
Either of these would multiple the daily output by at least thousands of times.
Contrary to popular American belief, respect and right to privacy and the private bearing of arms have little to nothing to do with each other.
RTFA.
Bill C-32 goes far beyond what is needed by the WIPO treaty. In fact, C-32 does not even have some exemptions that the DMCA has in it.
And Buzz posts still don't show in the plus stream
And companies are still not able to create Plus profiles
And there is no way to integrate Plus and Twitter without hacky browser extensions.
This was my thought exactly. But the article REPEATEDLY mentions WiFi, which leads me to believe this research, while maybe novel, is not going to help most smartphone users.
Even if you leave your WiFi on 24x7, it uses a FRACTION of the power of your HSPA/4G coverage. Power use of the 3G radio is the issue, not the wifi radio.
I can leave my phone on wifi all day and if left to idle I will still easily have > 75% battery after 8 hours. With 3G, this would be well below 50%, maybe below 40% if a lot of data was coming in.
Er, a lot of people desire this, myself included.
If I could use NFC at every store that takes Paypass, and Google Wallet was available here, then I would be the first to sign up. One less piece of crap in my wallet.
It has been 4 years now and the few times a month I have to use an Office product, I still can't find common things in the damn "ribbons" that I used to be able to find in the plain-jane menu.
From the sounds of this article, Facebook and Google go about this VERY differently.
The Facebook way, it seems, is that every node in the infrastructure is possibly important. So they write and maintain all these healing scripts to deal with problems like broken processes or failed hard drives.
Google goes about the same problem in a very different way. Google's system is architected such that no node is important. Everything is massively parallel and redundant - such that you could take and destroy any server, any set of servers, even an entire data centre and blow it up with a bomb, and side from performance issues, no one would notice.
From an admin's point of view - I would much prefer Google's system. Something doesn't look right on a box? Yank it out TOTALLY, put in a new one, investigate some other time.
Google already has an authentication scheme across all their products.
They implement OpenID and OAuth for all google accounts.
You are following the wrong people. I follow people on G+ that post like 10+ times daily. If anything they post TOO much.
So if the trade took 1 second instead of 0.01 seconds, it would have been easily noticed???
This is total nonsense. This has nothing at all to do with high-speed trading, if anything it has to do with policy enforcement, plain and simple.
It is going to be part of your Prime membership, as yet another value add. And $79 / year is in fact "pennies a day".
Originally, Amazon prime only gave you free unlimited 2 day shipping. Now it gives you that, plus free unlimited streaming of TV and movies. Now, they are going to add unlimited book rentals as well.
If you are an existing Prime customer, this is nothing but a good thing. If you are not, this is yet another way for Amazon to get you into Prime.
It's actually a very smart move, vs. making a stand-alone service.
Did anyone RTFA? This is /. so I guess not.
"Results showed that the eight volunteers who had their left DPC stimulated lied more often, while the ones with the right DPC stimulated were more likely to tell the truth, researchers said."
There is a hell of a big difference between "forces you to tell the truth" and "statistically more likely, within this experiment's margin of error to tell the truth".