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In the UK, where people get cheap meds (80% of people taking meds don't pay for them) the rate of non-compliance with meds is staggering.

The medication budget is something like £9billion per year, and estimates suggest that half of that is wasted because people don't take the meds correctly (or at all).

And this is not because the meds are cheap or the illness is trivial. Rates of non compliance are similar in the US, and for people who will die without meds. Many organ transplants fail because of medication non-compliance.
I personally don't see much of a difference between the OSes in terms of lag. I know there is a meme that iOS doesn't lag but my iPad lags all the time (and always has). If I do a big sync I have to restart the device because it's unusably laggy. My Nexus One with Gingerbread rarely lags at all.

* I don't really like Android that much (or iOS).
Yes, that's the justification for taxes, for instance.
Of course top students get screwed. It's a fundamental problem with schools in general, a flaw in design.

The main problem is that we set grades by age and not skill. This causes a couple problems. Kids might be better serviced by staying behind a grade, due to something as simple as maturity. The flip side is that the 'smarter' kids for their age, those who are able and ready to move up can. Right now, educators are hesitant to do either, especially given how it is frowned on to hold a kid back by parents. So they just move them on, put them into remedial classes that move slower. How are you supposed to catch up when you are moving slower? The more able are just stunted into sitting their while the teachers help the slower kids.

The system is designed as a lose-lose scenario.
Wait what? I've been AT&T since the original iPhone and AT&T has never let me upgrade, despite the massive amount of money I spent on my mobile plan.
I am in no way claiming the existence or non existence of god. However I am claiming that security measures are exactly like the belief in god (probably a correction is exactly like religions). It makes no difference if it's true.
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I don't think it works that way with tech products, because an outdated smartphone is considerably less functional than a cutting-edge one. I.e. there's a functional aspect to the desire that goes beyond fashion, or maybe fuses the two. Or are you implying that it will ever be fashionable to use an technologically outdated phone because the design is nice? (I could see it in some tiny contrarian subset of the population, but not as a general phenomenon.)
What is Apple’s Siri, and will anyone use her?
There is no end to the amount of noodling we can entertain about Apple's "expectations-setting". "The orbital laser cannons must have been canceled at the last minute!"

In the end, you have to evaluate the device on its own merits. The iPhone 4 may be Apple's most successful product ever, so perhaps this is just "if it ain't broke"-ism. The iPhone 4 is holding its own against all the Android competitors; is it the C.W. now that the 4S will do worse?
Yeah, but once you relax that rule you'll wind up devaluing, pretty quickly, the Nobel Prize. If every one of those 24 authors can equally claim to be a Nobel Prize winner on their CVs, then you've just significantly increased the number of living Nobel laureates in physics.

The real problem would arise a few years down the road, though, next time the Nobel gets awarded for some high-energy experimental work (discovery of the Higgs boson?). Those papers can typically have hundreds of authors, listing everyone involved with the project (the most extreme example I've seen has 2512 authors). Now all of a sudden pretty much everyone in high-energy physics is a Nobel laureate, and the proper Nobel laureates are a tiny minority.

I think the constraint that no more than three people can share it is fair. It just means the committee needs to look into it and find out who the real brains behind the operation were.
I wouldn't go out wearing a pair of those fuzzy-padding headband ones. Monochromatic earbuds? Absolutely.
From footnote 4 in the tech specs at http://www.apple.com/iphone/specs.html ("CDMA available only if iPhone 4S is sold and activated for use on a CDMA network."), I'm guessing/hoping that if you get a CDMA phone in the US, it will come with an unlocked GSM radio.
Voice processing through the cloud is one way to do it. It allows to perform the CPU consuming part of Voice Recognition on remote powerful servers but to do so you must be connected to internet, it's harder to include your "local" info (own contacts, own music, etc)
With a chip powerful enough you can do the voice recognition directly with your phone as it is done in a lot of devices embedded currently in cars for contact/music recognition.
I second this. While current designs make Asimov's stories seem sci-fi, perhaps when we make the first, the second and third would become more and more trivial.

However one note is that Asimov's stories have one common theme that could not be known until now. Hardware is what drives everything. Today we know hardware is an enabler, software is everything.
For that matter there may be custom signal processing hardware inside to support Apple's implementation.

Particularly as they did just advertise that they added a custom ISP for the camera. I'd be surprised if they wouldn't go to similar lengths for the voice assistant.
kinect was the one of the first device to sucessfully use natural language processing for controllerless entertainment which already works pretty well in the context but MS never thought of probably extending and integrating the tech with other products.

http://digitizor.com/2011/06/17/microsoft-kinect-sdk-windows...

Strong point of MS was integration of different technologies but ever since Gates stopped taking interest in MS they have lost it.
Now they have uncapitalized half assed implementation of technology laying around in silos.

Note: I am well aware of when Gates stopped working with MS. Even before stopping to work, he stopped taking interest in MS's future vision atleast years before that.
This just simply isn't true as a matter of fact.

If you look at states like Georgia (and i've seen similar articles about parts of the UK), there's a massive shortage of farm workers, and regardless of what the supply of illegal migrant workers is. Even after Georgia began holding farmers directly liable for employing illegal immigrants, local workers have not stepped up to fill the gap.

Besides, American immigration policy, rightly, allows white collar workers from other nations, especially Canada and Mexico into the country via NAFTA. That is, frankly, a good thing. All we're doing is keeping out a labor supply that is currently needed.

If you want to level the playing field for native low skill workers, require farmers and the like to pay all the taxes and health benefits for all their workers, illegal or not.
Is it still possible to be held back a grade in the US? I've heard stories of it happening in the distant past but I've never seen it happen. Usually they get promoted to the next grade and placed in special ed or remedial classes.
Remember that time that Q was forced to become human and was hunted down by that cloud entity for the horrors he inflicted on their culture? Yea... All hail Q.
In other news, there is an excess of agencies who aren't offering real jobs, but are just collecting resumes to hand off to clients without even reviewing.
Apparently it's old news, here's a thread from 2009: http://superuser.com/questions/37954/how-to-use-command-line...
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Most programs you use on a daily basis are now larger than anything a single person can build in a lifetime

And that's my fault, is it? I asked for a web browser with a pile of code so it can run on platforms I don't use? That supports user-unfriendly features I can't override, and which has its own configuration style so I can change the default display size of Tamil fonts?

Don't blame the users because software is huge, it's huge because developers made protocols complicated and wanted to offer one program to a lot of people to save themselves effort.

they think they should get programs, like firefox, for free

Remind me which happened first: Developers offer free web browsers, or users expect free web browsers? I think the former.

No business constraints and lack of money is what is keeping software down. Nobody is paying anyone to 'reinvent the wheel' to be better.

And we all know what a commercial web browser would look like - $300 per user, government mandated for mediacal use, Netscape 4 with knobs on, still crashy.

Good software is good, crummy software is crummy, and that seems largely independent of whether it is commercial or not, to my anecdotal eyes.
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Dead right on this. The big 2 complaints I hear from iOS to Android users are the stutter and app/content discoverability. Google should be able to plug both of these gaps though and if this release doesn't do it they stand to lose a lot to forked implementations like Amazon's.

New Android update next week though. Is it just me or did they really miss a golden opportunity to go head to head before people pre-order 4GS's this week. Google should have counterprogrammed their event for tomorrow.
Its a shame people down-voted this. This is exactly what I meant. I care not about existence vs non-existence but the way people treat it.
Old news. http://superuser.com/questions/37954/how-to-use-command-line... Also there are a lot posts today about this issue, this is just noise.
There was an article posted here a while back comparing Android's screen painting to IOS. Basically, Android behaves like every other OS's screen painting API, where when the screen needs to scroll, the whole thing must be re-rendered, but iOS renders the whole screen and uses a view camera to pan the screen beneath, hence fast scrolling.

(Please forgive my poor use of terminology. I'm sure someone else can do a much better job of explaining this.)
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See: ASP.NET MVC... it took years until the "official" framework came along for anything even close to sane became more mainstream in .NET web development.

Yes, there were other "Rails for .NET" frameworks out there. But, you are correct: the vast majority of .NET developers are waiting for the official Microsoft seal of approval before adopting anything. It's part of the culture that comes with choosing Microsoft for your stack: you want support, or at least somebody to sue when it goes wrong.
> They really needed an iPhone 5 here.

The 4S thing didn't surprise me too much. This keeps consistant with what they did with the 3G -> 3GS transition. For someone like me, who has an iPhone 4, I don't feel the need to upgrade out of contract, but will likely upgrade when the iPhone 5 comes out next year. Doing a major revision every two years makes sense given the way mobile contracts work.

> For Siri, how many of us will actually use it day to day in the office or commute?

I would definitely use it while driving. It's not hard to take a quick glance and read something while driving (I know, it's still bad) but it's significantly harder to try and type something in, which requires a lot more concentration and is much more dangerous. The flip side is that I'd probably use my phone more when driving, which is not good. Maybe it's like the seat belt thing, where the seat belt gave people enough sense of security to drive more recklessly than they had when seat belts were not a requirement for manufacturers.

> Personally, I was hoping for a new ipad 3 with retina.

Given the title of the event, expecting a new iPad was a bit of a stretch!
Not necessarily, all the remote servers have to do is churn voice into text. Your phone can handle the sorting through your local data just fine once the voice is processed.
I'm not positive but I would guess that most voice processing on Android is local such as "call mom". Stuff like transcribing voice mails for Google Voice is done on the cloud.
This is absolutely true. As a current sophomore in high school, I can say that this is how it has been for my entire educational career. It was more of a problem in elementary and middle school, where I bored to tears by how slow the classes were moving. It has gotten somewhat better since I've entered high school, where I have been able to test out of classes so that I'm now a year ahead in mostly everything. However, even in my honors and AP classes, the struggling students get the majority of the attention, and I have to make a point to ask thoughtful questions to expand my learning that the teacher may not have covered.

What's really sad about this is that what it has done to the motivation of some of my friends. Being in classes with lower performing students also means that you are surrounded by their attitudes, which are usually not too favorable towards learning, and by extension, school. This creates a sort of stigma around learning that its something that you "have to" do and it's very uncool to do on your own.

I have channeled my frustrations about school towards learning programming and other topics outside of school, but it's sad to see many of my friends, equally as capable as me, become totally turned off from learning by being in clases with people who don't care. They barely resemble the curious and inquisitive children they used to be.
> This generation's moonshot public works project should be a low cost reversible renewable year-long sterilization technology.

At least for women, that already exists (IUD, implanon). The problem is, for any medical technology there's side effects, and people still need to consent to it.
The really unique thing about Siri is the flexible natural language processing. You can say "Meet with Doug for dinner today", and it'll parse out the person/date/subject, realize you didn't specify a time, and ask you "OK, what time would you like to meet him at?" It's just a much more forgiving interface, which makes it more approachable for the average user.

It's actually a very hard technical problem to create software that not only parses the user's intention, but can intelligently prompt for follow-ups. Google has many of the individual pieces of technology, but making it all fit together, with a good interface, is still hard work that takes time. That's probably why it took Apple 1.5 years to go from the Siri acquisition to the announcement today.
TBH I have been thinking about this since 9/11. I doubt it was that philosophical. They wanted to show that they could attack us. And they did. They had ZERO, no tech, no highly trained snipers and marines, very little funding (compare al-qaida's funding with the US Government's). It is us who did it all. We "refuse to be terrorized" but instead we give up liberties like they are tumors that we will gladly shed to increase our perceived chances of survival.
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Something like 75% of Americans don't have $2,000 to their name. So the bank isn't making money in the ways that they traditionally did (lending deposits).

Basic banking services are not profit centers for banks at all. They only offer those services at low cost because the government forces them to. Basically, the upside to a checking account for a bank is that the bank has a platform to spam you for loans and other services.
The "jogging guy" portion of the video shows Siri juggling context to a surprising degree. I think there's a pretty clear line between that and voice search + instant actions.

It's not unlike the line between what Google does and what Wolfram Alpha does.
Well, yeah. Don't write checks for money you don't have. Duh.

It's not quite that simple; there are many stories of banks reordering transactions for the sole purpose of generating bogus overdraft fees. That is, you have $50 in your account, deposit $100 at 1PM, and use your debit card for $25 at 2PM and $75 at 3PM. The bank would process them in reverse order, causing an overdraft for the $75 payment, another overdraft for the $25 payment (because the $75 payment took your balance down to zero), and only then apply the deposit (probably leaving you below zero after the fees). I never understood how that wasn't considered blatant fraud.

Of course, the simple solution is to use a credit card and pay it off every month. (And in a real emergency, it's better to pay interest on the card than get a payday loan).
>For Siri, how many of us will actually use it day to day in the office or commute?

My wife has been using voice input on her low-end Android device ($150 with no contract) for months now, and she uses it pretty much every time she needs to navigate somewhere -- it's that good. I've also seen her use it for search -- general search and "Mexican restaurants near me" map search. It's fast, and it's pretty good at understanding what you're saying.

It's a cool feature, but the most compelling use cases are search related -- and Android has those nailed.
This doesn't make sense. When you near the end of your 2-year contract AT&T will subsidize your purchase of your next phone (e.g. the $199, $299, $399 price points for the 4S announced today).

If you aren't near the end of your 2-year contract then you are basically still paying off the purchase of your original phone and so AT&T (and other carriers) aren't going to give you the subsidy to purchase a new phone although they might pro-rate it.

How has your experience been different?
Who buys a smartphone for 2 months? If you're someone who wants a smartphone odds are even if it was off contract you'd end up paying the $1500 anyway. You might switch carriers more often but honestly all 4 carriers give the same "I wish it was somewhat better but I'm fine with any of them" service where I live.
I think this is a completely separate point that has nothing to do with what I posted. I never said there has to be a sole expert. But certainly the developer of a library should know at least as much as other users, seeing as they literally wrote the code themselves. If other people know the code better than the person who wrote it (and this is not an immensely complex library that should offer the opportunity for that), that really says something about the person who wrote the code. Something bad, in my eyes.
Surprised that "but the specs are close to ____" arguments are still found around here.

Let's compare the iPhone 4's 5MP camera to the "8MP!!!" Androids.
Unless data caps get overhauled with LTE rollouts (hahaha, right), it's impossible for me to get excited about stupid fast connections you can only use at full throttle for about 45 minutes per month.

Sprint just capped their WiMax phone tethering and modems, they'll surely cap the phones themselves when load increases.
I think you over estimate how much apple relies on "making the old model look old and dated".

My 2011 Macbook Pro 15.4 looks remarkably similar to my old 2006 Power PC Powerbook. The 3GS is one of the best selling smart phones on market even though the form factor was set introduced in 2008. There was some compelling analysis a few months ago that made a compelling case that iPhone 4 sales were constrained by the ability to manufacture them.
Of course, you can do Speech to text and THEN analyzes the text to find the "intent", but on embedded devices it is easier to "plan" what is the vocabulary that you want to support and then perform recognition based on this vocabulary. At least on low CPU/RAM embedded devices.
I don't understand. Remedial classes are exactly the solution to the problem you posed. The only difference is the number attached to the "grade level".
I think the idea is that if you have to write JSONP to implement the cross-origin requests for non-CORS browsers, then why even write the CORS part of it? We've had issues with JSONP handling long strings and had to change our API slightly, but other than than it is working cleanly.
They're not preaching, but it seems you are. They are protesting against Government corruption.
> But it's already been in the market for, what, 16 months? If they don't have another refresh until next year, that's a pretty long time to have one chassis.

"Next year" is only 8 months this time around. The 3G chassis lasted exactly the same duration, and they're using the 2 year operator contract renewal as their clock: tick for design, tock for specs.
Yeah Microsoft tends to deprecate and replace frameworks every few years. Usually it's an improvement, but they really keep you on an API treadmill.

Eventually I got tired of it and went back to primarily Win32 development for customer-installed apps and Linux for everything else. I feel like I can focus on quality rather than quantity much better now.
With Apple, it's not about specs, it never has been. It's about the UX and I've not seen anything on Android that can match the iPhone 4 much less the 4S. The iPhone 4's specs may be 16 months old, but the iPhone 4 UX is from 2015.
It just means the committee needs to look into it and find out who the real brains behind the operation were.

But the problem is that this is impossible. Who are the real brains? The person who had the idea, but didn't do anything about it? The person who organized the project and got funding for it but didn't do any real science? The person who build the hardware without which nothing would have been possible? The person who wrote the software, without which nothing would have been possible? The person who wrote the paper that explained the results? The grad student who found a crucial error in the analysis without which the results would have been wrong?

In many (most?) fields of science these days, progress is made by huge projects. Clearly there are wide differences between how crucial different people are to the success of the project, but to cut it down to 1-3 "winners" to the detriment of everyone else hardly seems fair. It seems more reasonable to say that if there are 200 people on the paper that's awarded the prize, everyone is a 0.5% Nobel Laureate....
In 2004/5 I had to collaborate with a windows shop and used some change tracking and other collaborative features without any problem. I sometimes feel like these compatibility troubles aren't as bad as people want them to be.
I refuse to have credit cards.

EDIT: I have a corporate CC - but for personal, I dont have any CC - and only pay cash for that which I want. I have zero debt.