You aren't wrong, Siri is not a translator. However, Siri's grasp of context is, hypothetically speaking at least, and important step for translation. I'll give you an example: Before I did a sync of my phone, Siri didn't understand my cat's name. Afterwards, now when I mention my cat, it spells the name correctly and even capitalizes it as a proper noun. I was seriously shocked that it picked up on that. For that reason, I think it can tell the difference between may and May.
Anyway, I'm getting a little off-track here. Yes, you're right, it has nothing to do with translation. However, I can totally see why people are starting to dream of that possibility coming awfully quick.
You're saying he has a point in a very small portion of a very large... for lack of a better word, 'market'. In the mean time, when I go to work every day, I see a lot of 'creative professionals', many of whom are using their laptops. A good 3/4ths of the Mac users I encounter also have the anti-glare option. Modern laptop LCDs really aren't that bad when it comes to color reproduction and there's only a certain point where you really need that level of color accuracy you're describing. If you're taking a print design to your client and he says "Change this wording to that instead", you don't need to run back home and plug your machine into a particular monitor.
'Creative Professional' is a very broad term. You'd be surprised how few color calibrators I actually run across given my line of work.
You do know the CIA commits crimes daily against Europe/Asia, in helping USA corps win contracts and beat competitors right.
So?
Who cares if moto got the phone, it takes months and months to prep factories to make large quantities of orders.
All they'd have to do is announce it sooner.
Besides apple didnt invent the LCD, they just ordered it from LG.
They just ordered it from LG and took a big gamble in doing so. A competitor would pay quite a bit to.... why am I explaining that a stolen prototype of a highly anticipated product causes financial damage that exceeds $600 by a large margin? I really can't wait until this stupid flame war subsides.
If I had bought your stolen iPhone, the police wouldn't have given two shits to track me down.
No? Please paint us a picture of a plausible scenario where you would, while sober, pay several grand for somebody's stolen iPhone and not expect the police to go after you.
Well the nice thing about terms like 'addictive' or 'psychological manipulation' is that it makes people blameless 'wasting time'. TV went thru this nonsense too.
The crimes they were alleging are not different than the crimes that would be applicable if this were to happen to an ordinary person instead of a powerful corporation
Uh, yes they were. The potential damage caused by the phone getting out could have reached into the millions. That's the sort of thing where Motorola goes "Hold the launch of our next phone and put in a... uh.. whatever a Retina Display is!"
It's fun to poo poo Apple and all but before you start crying 'unfair treatment' you need to think about why anybody would pay 5k for a phone to begin with. Just the ad-views alone on a blog site were worth that.
Oh, please, you couldn't even model in Maya 1 and historically Maya always had a shitty renderer in comparison to Lightwave. That's why Mental Ray was shoe-horned into Maya.
Lightwave is practically useless in todays industry. It just hasnt kept up, it never could, it never did. Its not the old amiga days. Lightwave is pretty much dead.
Lightwave has stagnated in the last few years. Only a fool would try to argue that. However, Lightwave has always given Maya a really hard time. Maya has gone the "we make everything really difficult, but at least it's all scriptable!" route which makes it great for longer term projects like movies. Lightwave went the "Oh, you just want to put a texture on a model? Hit this button!" route which meant that it wasn't as powerful in the long haul, but it could get results quickly. This is exactly why Lightwave was able to hold its ground despite slowing development and Maya's recent improvements.
Interesting that you brought up the point about 'wasting time'. Tell us more about their time usage both before and after they set up the computer station.
I doubt it a) The 10 foot test isn't what the case hinges on, it's just a way to embarrass Sumsung. b.) It's not just the shape, it's something like 20 things they really intricately copied. The Touchpad, for example, has rounded corners but a much bigger radius. For that reason alone I doubt Apple'd ever give a shit.
The photo features them next to each other. Of course it's easy to differentiate them.
In the mean time if I carry my Tab around the office ppl assume it's an iPad. Once in a while they'll spot the word Samsung on the back, ask me about it, then they'll say 'I thought it was an iPad!' One guy asked me where I got my black iPod charger cable. Heh.
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Of course Slashdot is trolling for ad-views! The point is that at least here it's working to your benefit.
You aren't wrong, Siri is not a translator. However, Siri's grasp of context is, hypothetically speaking at least, and important step for translation. I'll give you an example: Before I did a sync of my phone, Siri didn't understand my cat's name. Afterwards, now when I mention my cat, it spells the name correctly and even capitalizes it as a proper noun. I was seriously shocked that it picked up on that. For that reason, I think it can tell the difference between may and May.
Anyway, I'm getting a little off-track here. Yes, you're right, it has nothing to do with translation. However, I can totally see why people are starting to dream of that possibility coming awfully quick.
Apple hype is lighting a fire under Google to improve their offerings ... and that's a bad thing?
What happend to 'competition is good' back when Slashdot's goal was to malign Microsoft in every even numbered article?
^^ A hundred and fifty years of this. *Sigh*
What do you see as being the most likely issues and what do you think you would do with all the extra years?"
Unbelievable condescension from Slashdot users with sub-billion ID's and flying chair jokes still getting modded up.
Eh, Judgement Day maybe... But that could turn out to be our Salvation.
Chair throwing distance?
Your firewall doesn't prevent your provider from knowing which tower is closest to you.
You're saying he has a point in a very small portion of a very large ... for lack of a better word, 'market'. In the mean time, when I go to work every day, I see a lot of 'creative professionals', many of whom are using their laptops. A good 3/4ths of the Mac users I encounter also have the anti-glare option. Modern laptop LCDs really aren't that bad when it comes to color reproduction and there's only a certain point where you really need that level of color accuracy you're describing. If you're taking a print design to your client and he says "Change this wording to that instead", you don't need to run back home and plug your machine into a particular monitor.
'Creative Professional' is a very broad term. You'd be surprised how few color calibrators I actually run across given my line of work.
You do know the CIA commits crimes daily against Europe/Asia, in helping USA corps win contracts and beat competitors right.
So?
Who cares if moto got the phone, it takes months and months to prep factories to make large quantities of orders.
All they'd have to do is announce it sooner.
Besides apple didnt invent the LCD, they just ordered it from LG.
They just ordered it from LG and took a big gamble in doing so. A competitor would pay quite a bit to.... why am I explaining that a stolen prototype of a highly anticipated product causes financial damage that exceeds $600 by a large margin? I really can't wait until this stupid flame war subsides.
If I had bought your stolen iPhone, the police wouldn't have given two shits to track me down.
No? Please paint us a picture of a plausible scenario where you would, while sober, pay several grand for somebody's stolen iPhone and not expect the police to go after you.
Well the nice thing about terms like 'addictive' or 'psychological manipulation' is that it makes people blameless 'wasting time'. TV went thru this nonsense too.
Meanwhile, you were passing the time doing something that interested you.
And.... then you came to Slashdot...? O_o
The crimes they were alleging are not different than the crimes that would be applicable if this were to happen to an ordinary person instead of a powerful corporation
Uh, yes they were. The potential damage caused by the phone getting out could have reached into the millions. That's the sort of thing where Motorola goes "Hold the launch of our next phone and put in a ... uh.. whatever a Retina Display is!"
It's fun to poo poo Apple and all but before you start crying 'unfair treatment' you need to think about why anybody would pay 5k for a phone to begin with. Just the ad-views alone on a blog site were worth that.
We're thinking we like to work on our artwork without staring at our reflection the entire time.
BTW, Maya eclipsed lightwave at version 1
Oh, please, you couldn't even model in Maya 1 and historically Maya always had a shitty renderer in comparison to Lightwave. That's why Mental Ray was shoe-horned into Maya.
Lightwave is practically useless in todays industry. It just hasnt kept up, it never could, it never did. Its not the old amiga days. Lightwave is pretty much dead.
Lightwave has stagnated in the last few years. Only a fool would try to argue that. However, Lightwave has always given Maya a really hard time. Maya has gone the "we make everything really difficult, but at least it's all scriptable!" route which makes it great for longer term projects like movies. Lightwave went the "Oh, you just want to put a texture on a model? Hit this button!" route which meant that it wasn't as powerful in the long haul, but it could get results quickly. This is exactly why Lightwave was able to hold its ground despite slowing development and Maya's recent improvements.
There's plenty of life left in Lightwave.
What dumb ass "creative professional" does all their work on a laptop screen?
What dumb ass 'technical know-it-all' doesn't understand the value of having a portable workstation?
For the same reason they don't wear a helmut with the blast shield down, doofus,
Interesting that you brought up the point about 'wasting time'. Tell us more about their time usage both before and after they set up the computer station.
iPhone User: "I love my phone."
Android User: "I hate your phone."
Can the protesters focus on winning instead of trying to be techie??
The media didn't even cover the protests until they put up videos of cops beating them on Youtube. Now, with this story, they have more coverage.
Diversity is helping them.
If that were true I wouldn't have made my first post.
I doubt it a) The 10 foot test isn't what the case hinges on, it's just a way to embarrass Sumsung. b.) It's not just the shape, it's something like 20 things they really intricately copied. The Touchpad, for example, has rounded corners but a much bigger radius. For that reason alone I doubt Apple'd ever give a shit.
The photo features them next to each other. Of course it's easy to differentiate them.
In the mean time if I carry my Tab around the office ppl assume it's an iPad. Once in a while they'll spot the word Samsung on the back, ask me about it, then they'll say 'I thought it was an iPad!' One guy asked me where I got my black iPod charger cable. Heh.