I often thought they should invent a Wii Fit for the mind. It would be like a helmet that you wear and it would scan your brainwave looking for thoughts that society disapproves of. When you go way off the reservation it would say "that's obtuse!".
So I guess all those folks living in apartment or condos right next to McDonalds will get free Internet access (albeit, minimal speeds). Or even better, a competitive fast food chain next door can set up an cantenna to leech bandwidth and then stick a 'Free WiFi!' in their window too!
Originally the iPhone was not even considered. It was just an touchscreen iPod that could make calls. The other devices were solid phones already that had added PC-like features. Once the definition was broadened to include the iPhone it was, of course, very high in the ranking.
It would be like if the definition of 'theater' to included, not only the stage, but also the screen. Suddenly all the Tony awards would go to movies and not plays.
From what I have found, the definition of 'smartphone' in the report was so broad so as to include nearly anything more advance than a digital watch. In past research reports on the same subject, the definition was narrow:
"...smartphone refers to a device that is equipped with Symbian UIQ, Nokia S60/S80, Windows Mobile, Palm, Linux OS and BlackBerry."
Now the definition has apparently widened to include so much junk, that the iPhone seem nearly divine by comparision.
This is "News for Nerds", remember? If anyone thinks they will get a fair look when the message suggests men dominate the IT industry need only do a Google image search on the word 'nerd'. I think I found one or two females on the second page of results.
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The issues comes in a few decades from now. When YOUR problem destroys your hearing and you go on the government dole. Then it becomes MY problem. Why should I have to pay for your disability welfare?
From what i understand the patterns the AI will be seeing are localized to the person. The only posteriori knowledge the AI will have is what it was given during programming; which will be likely only be from the home country of the programmer(s).
Would not the AI need to be hard-coded with said 'nuances'? Body language is not exactly universal. For example, in the USA, looking in the eyes of the person your are speaking with carries a message of honesty and sincerity. But in the some countries, that same body language carries a message of defiance and disrespect. Most humans can pick up on the difference right away based on autonomic sampling of their surroundings. But I doubt the AI will be able to do that.
I have seen a few gaffs, but 'lost'? Never saw that. Never saw him totally lock up on a question and start in with the ums and ahhs. Or saw him turn and attack the impromptu questioner because the answer was 'hard'.
The Amazon app for Android offers the ability to search for an item by either barcode or photo. According to the Amazon blurb, there are real people behind the requests that actually look for the items pictured and send results. I have used it twice and both times they found what I needed, but the results took about 10-15 minutes to get to me. I wonder if Google will just have 10,000 wage slaves working the results queue?
Meh. I am a native English speaker but am also learning Arabic. All they have for Arabic is an English/Arabic translator. Maybe one day they will have an actual Arabic dictionary.
If they appear one at a time in random order, and assuming the browser names' first letter is the first thing in each line, we could occasionally get COIFS!
Sounds like your state needs to look into something that Washington and Oregon (and perhaps other states) use. We call them Educational Service Districts (ESD's) and they operate in a highly entrepreneurial fashion. If a district does not like the service and/or price they are getting from one ESD, they are free "join" another ESD even if it is hundreds of miles away. They would still be in their original ESD's legislative area (determined by geography), but are not bound by their prices or policies.
Well, they do have the added benefit of offering imagery that caters to one of the most basic biological drives of at least half of all humankind. I think there is very little science involved. Just a simple idea: men will pay almost any amount to get off.
An added benefit of viewing the cached info in Google is it auto-highlights all the queried words. The EE forums are usually 3rd gen info, but often at the top of the results. Thanks Google cache!
Are you sure that's right? I think a private property owner could do either of those things if they chose. Granted the former would be corporate suicide (for a shopping mall at least) and the latter would be practically unenforceable, but I think they could still do it. The mall in my area has all kinds of crazy rules (including a rule aimed the up-skirt crowd that prevent people taking pictures 'secretly') and regularly kick people out if they break them.
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Google should fight. Or, better yet, just threaten to fight. If the past is any indication, the French will surrender.
Oh, I am pretty sure those two things are universally exclusive.
I often thought they should invent a Wii Fit for the mind. It would be like a helmet that you wear and it would scan your brainwave looking for thoughts that society disapproves of. When you go way off the reservation it would say "that's obtuse!".
whoosh!
So I guess all those folks living in apartment or condos right next to McDonalds will get free Internet access (albeit, minimal speeds). Or even better, a competitive fast food chain next door can set up an cantenna to leech bandwidth and then stick a 'Free WiFi!' in their window too!
Originally the iPhone was not even considered. It was just an touchscreen iPod that could make calls. The other devices were solid phones already that had added PC-like features. Once the definition was broadened to include the iPhone it was, of course, very high in the ranking.
It would be like if the definition of 'theater' to included, not only the stage, but also the screen. Suddenly all the Tony awards would go to movies and not plays.
Now the definition has apparently widened to include so much junk, that the iPhone seem nearly divine by comparision.
The ignorance! It burns!
This is "News for Nerds", remember? If anyone thinks they will get a fair look when the message suggests men dominate the IT industry need only do a Google image search on the word 'nerd'. I think I found one or two females on the second page of results.
I think that's been done...about 20,000 times.
This joke has been told to death. By the time any level of humor gets to the webcomic level, it's no longer funny: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/12/14/
The issues comes in a few decades from now. When YOUR problem destroys your hearing and you go on the government dole. Then it becomes MY problem. Why should I have to pay for your disability welfare?
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
I would seem that the word "anything" to you means "any monochromatic, low-resolution image".
From what i understand the patterns the AI will be seeing are localized to the person. The only posteriori knowledge the AI will have is what it was given during programming; which will be likely only be from the home country of the programmer(s).
Would not the AI need to be hard-coded with said 'nuances'? Body language is not exactly universal. For example, in the USA, looking in the eyes of the person your are speaking with carries a message of honesty and sincerity. But in the some countries, that same body language carries a message of defiance and disrespect. Most humans can pick up on the difference right away based on autonomic sampling of their surroundings. But I doubt the AI will be able to do that.
And I believe it was the great Dr. Hansford Solo that said "What a incredible smell you've discovered!"
I have seen a few gaffs, but 'lost'? Never saw that. Never saw him totally lock up on a question and start in with the ums and ahhs. Or saw him turn and attack the impromptu questioner because the answer was 'hard'.
Gee, thanks Dad.
The Amazon app for Android offers the ability to search for an item by either barcode or photo. According to the Amazon blurb, there are real people behind the requests that actually look for the items pictured and send results. I have used it twice and both times they found what I needed, but the results took about 10-15 minutes to get to me. I wonder if Google will just have 10,000 wage slaves working the results queue?
Meh. I am a native English speaker but am also learning Arabic. All they have for Arabic is an English/Arabic translator. Maybe one day they will have an actual Arabic dictionary.
If they appear one at a time in random order, and assuming the browser names' first letter is the first thing in each line, we could occasionally get COIFS!
Sounds like your state needs to look into something that Washington and Oregon (and perhaps other states) use. We call them Educational Service Districts (ESD's) and they operate in a highly entrepreneurial fashion. If a district does not like the service and/or price they are getting from one ESD, they are free "join" another ESD even if it is hundreds of miles away. They would still be in their original ESD's legislative area (determined by geography), but are not bound by their prices or policies.
Well, they do have the added benefit of offering imagery that caters to one of the most basic biological drives of at least half of all humankind. I think there is very little science involved. Just a simple idea: men will pay almost any amount to get off.
An added benefit of viewing the cached info in Google is it auto-highlights all the queried words. The EE forums are usually 3rd gen info, but often at the top of the results. Thanks Google cache!
Are you sure that's right? I think a private property owner could do either of those things if they chose. Granted the former would be corporate suicide (for a shopping mall at least) and the latter would be practically unenforceable, but I think they could still do it. The mall in my area has all kinds of crazy rules (including a rule aimed the up-skirt crowd that prevent people taking pictures 'secretly') and regularly kick people out if they break them.