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There once was a woman who could not conceive of all the beatings of her husband.
Sober, thoughtful analysis doesn't get as many pageviews though.
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to some extent, though, this devalues lytro pictures as "photograph-as-artistic-statement" in favor of the much more contemporary "photograph-as-infallible-chronicler-of-the-coffee-you-got-this-morning."

(that said, I really want one of these.)
There's a couple reasons for the screencaps you're seeing. The first is that anything you talk to will be perceived as having a personality. It's either robotic and boring, or it does something else. The second, and more important reason, is that people don't take many screencaps of when Siri provides them relevant information for their particular situation. It's not easily captures, you miss context. With a silly thing like asking it the meaning of life, all the context is there, you can quickly see that it understood and responded accordingly.

I guess I just don't see the outrage over how people are using Siri. I couldn't care less how other people are using it, or what they're choosing to get screencaps of.
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My Nokia 2115[0](my first and only cell phone) has a decent LED flashlight. I can make and receive calls and texts on it. It keeps its charge for weeks. I can play snake on it. That's everything I want from a telephone.

[0] http://www.esato.com/gfx/news/img/2_2115i_lowres_2005_03_14....
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empowering users, providing the means to create meaningful works on these devices.

If you limit your view of meaningful works to things that require thousands of keystrokes then yes -- SmartPhones are very limiting. If you expand on that to include audio, video, photos, art and shorter form writing they are not so limiting anymore.

Apps like Brushes on iOS have produced professional quality artwork for The New Yorker.

Some musicians are starting to use SmartPhones (or tablets) as instruments in the studio and on the road. There are lots of very high quality audio apps these days. The Flaming Lips are using the iPad extensively on their upcoming project.

Expressing yourself short form through Twitter or FaceBook can be very meaningful to people. With high quality voice dictation it's quite possible we'll start seeing SmartPhones be more useful for longer form writing too.
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Siri and Google voice actions do quite a bit more than dial people in your address book. In fact, they are probably worse at that than at other tasks because name pronunciation is difficult. I'd suggest looking at some demos.

As for your latter two points, yes, people may think you are silly if you speak to your phone in company. Also, background noise such as people next to you speaking can really confuse these systems. However, I've used it many times (the google version) to write short text messages and most of all to ask for directions. Why? Because it's much faster thank keying in all that information, especially for directions to intersections or restaurants. For the latter, the system gives a huge added bonus in that it will actually look up addresses for you just based on a store name.

Siri gives one extra feature over google voice actions as well: speaking back and context. While speaking back may be somewhat of a gimmick, there are lots of ways to report information, using the previous action to fill in contextual information in the current action looks to be quite useful.
Thanks dude... everybody has their own evaluation criteria in their mind (which is not disclosed) and people start calling things good or bad. Most of the debates end up being a very unscientific way of evaluating something!
I would say both parties flip the coin. The one that throws heads wins. If they both throw the same, they need to throw again. Easy and effective :)
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> Google is the real evil corporation but these geeks are too blind to see it.

Okay, since there is a singular, "real" evil corporation, are the other non-real evil corporations in the imaginary-evil or fake-evil domain?

edit:

A bit cryptic, my point is that "evil" has been overloaded to meaninglessness. It decreases one's intelligence to use it in an assertion. In war and throughout history, party A asserts party B is evil, and party B asserts party A is evil. If party A is truly evil, then they would have no scruples over claiming party B is truly evil, and vice versa, analagous to the Liar's Paradox. Entering this frame, and debating who is "truly" the evil one, is a lens more likely to obscure than clarify.

An alternative heuristic for assessing the merits of actions: Coercion is considered polar to freedom by many social philosophers. Does party A use coercion to force party B into making a decision that leaves party B worse off?

Does google use coercion to drive user registration?

Does google use coercion to prevent deregistration?

Does google use coercion to damage competitors?

Does google use coercion to forcefully identify the anonymous?

No. No they don't.
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I wonder how much this quest for storylines has seeped into professional sports. It seems like more and more the NBA and NFL are manufacturing/assisting storylines rather than concerning themselves with the purity of competition.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/c3e49548-088e-11dc-b11e-000b5df106...

2007: Asked how Google might look in five years’ time, Mr Schmidt said: “We are very early in the total information we have within Google. The algorithms will get better and we will get better at personalisation.

“The goal is to enable Google users to be able to ask the question such as ‘What shall I do tomorrow?’ and ‘What job shall I take?’ ”

Now, nearly 5 years later, Apple's Siri begins to deliver on that, so Google says "Oh, but not on your phone! Your phone is for talking to people."

https://market.android.com/ <- fuck this then, eh Andy?
Not to be too much of a downer, but your entire company revolves around the licensing decisions of a single 3rd party provider? Not sure what you are trying to accomplish by a lawsuit, but your business is over, and here is why: Option A) You give up on the lawsuit and get bullied out of the market by the sole provider. Option B) You win the lawsuit, but piss off the sole provider in the process. It's not going to be long before they make things tough on you in other ways.

Bottom line is, you put all your eggs in one basket, and someone took your basket. The lesson to be learned here isn't how to get your basket back, it's to not put your self in that situation again
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This is par for the course when dealing with PayPal, unfortunately. Many, many people have had the same problem -- some famously, like Notch with Minecraft. Even when you aren't dealing with significant sums (Minecraft had $750,000 tied up by PayPal), this still happens. Talk to enough Demand Media writers, for example, and you're guaranteed to run into one who's had to deal with PayPal's nonsense.
Oddly, with the conceit of an offline GPS app (map data in the phone) every item you listed would work without a mobile data connection.

The killer network-enabled app is still on the drawing-board. (I don't feel like being able to instagram a photo and have your friends "like" a black-n-white photo of your dinner WHILE YOU ARE STILL EATING IT! is it).
I have tried a few other mail services, but finding one I am as happy with as gmail has proven difficult. Not even considering how difficult it can be to communicate your email address verbally to someone. Most people you can just say "at gmail dot com" and they get the rest of it. I haven't had to spell out my email address one letter at a time in quite a while. Not so with some of the other hosts I have tried.

The other gotcha for me is google reader. I use it constantly.
inclusive of that, the best term is probably "machine state" or similar.
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Does anyone else find it silly that Jamie Zawinski uses his real name on Facebook?
It just doesn't seem like there's any room in the market for Groupon and all of the me-too startups. The business model for most of these companies don't seem to add up in the long run either.
What I got out of the article is "Google isn't offering a product I want." Yeah, there's an element of "this is the product I do want" involved in that. I think Google's criticized because people who are dissatisfied with Facebook hoped Google would challenge Facebooks flaws, not duplicate them.

Google may well have put all sorts of deep thought into it--but if they're just going to duplicate unliked features of a product that users merely tollerate without offering any real incremental value, why should they deserve to succeed?
Note: the parking lot was probably deserted because there is currently an industry-wide labour union dispute that prohibits working overtime.
And I think I'm starting to get your point as well ;) Perhaps I would have been more explicit. The key point here is the difference between qualitative and quantitative data. "intelligence" as we know it is a qualitative property. So it is perfectly okay to say "He solved that math problem... he is smart", I'm honestly not being a pedant here. There is a language and method for discussing qualitative properties of things: most of philosophy deals with these issues, the arts deals with these, and the majority of everyday language also deals with the qualitative. So depending on the degree of formalism, expressiveness and seriousness you want to discuss something qualitative we have a framework for that.

What you cannot do, despite any amount of manipulation and/or trickery, is talk about qualitative data as though it were quantitative. One very important aspect of quantitative data is that there is an ordered relation on a given set of quantitative data, so you can make absolute and accurate claims about how that data is ordered. One person's height can be quantitatively shown to be higher than anothers, their weight larger, there top speed faster. And all of these properties can be shown to be undisputedly so, that's the nature of quantitative data.

And here's they key point: you can absolutely show that someone's IQ score is higher than anothers, but you cannot absolutely show that someone is more intelligent than another. There is not an ordered relation on the set of human intelligence.

Now I know what you might say "But surely someone with an IQ of 70 and and IQ of 170 can be shown to be different levels of intelligence". But these are extremes and I would argue you're still ultimately making an assessment based on obvious, qualitative properties of intelligence.

Take for example the property of "friendliness", which is qualitative. Now you and I can could probably come up with some ordering among people in a room as to who was the least and most friendly. But if we moved to different cities or countries that ordering might change. I would bet our extreme case would still hold, that is the person we decided was the least friendly, would probably (but not absolutely) be seen as unfriendly in many environments. We can compare to a degree qualitative data, but it is always fuzzy, and never absolute.

This is so important, and more than just pedantry, because it is a logical error to try to compare qualitative things with quantitative means. It leads to a variety of poor/wrong conclusions about data and situations. This is why it is essential to realize that the number of correct answers on an IQ test can be correlated to a variety of other quantitative data. We may associate much of this quantitative data with qualities of intelligence, but this is by no means the same as making the claim that we are measuring something which is, by our current definition, immeasurable.
If that were true I think we'd all be happily using BlackBerries. They are fine communication tools. If he's correct then everyone using todo applications or calendars (which Google builds into Android) or listening to music (which google builds into Android) are using their devices incorrectly? Even Android's rudimentary voice control system is outside the scope of his definition of a SmartPhone. Obviously he was just put on the spot and had to do some spinning. He cannot possibly believe that. He just can't admit that Google got caught a bit flat footed by Siri.
That doesn't seem crazy to me as an expectation for the distant future. Right now, I'd estimate that 95% of Facebook users would be at least irritated if they knew the full extent of the data that Facebook collects. I wouldn't be surprised if that dropped down to 25% 50 years in the future (assuming some new Facebook-like entity that pulls similar bullshit then).

The good news for me is that I'll probably be dead by then, or at least most of my friends will be, so Facebook will be of no interest to me.

I'm curious about why you describe your belief as idealistic. Specifically, what is ideal, or even good, about Facebook logging a subset of my browsing history? I understand it's potentially profitable for them and their partners, but that's not a benefit to me.

My idealistic view, which is substantially in conflict with yours, I think, would be that Facebook just serve me targeted ads and forget about the rest of it. Why would your ideal future be better? (I'm assuming you don't work for Facebook or one of their partners.)
We've been working hard on our application to TS Cloud and this story gave me reason to pause. When the series started I was super excited - I hoped it would be a real look into the program we hope to go through. After the second episode it became obvious it was all about the drama. I watched the rest of the series, but by the end I was pretty confused by the whole thing.

Shame on Bloomberg.
It appears that Wildfire is currently owned/sold by Virtuosity. The original wildfire.com domain is currently owned by Orange, though.
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The rhetoric of sour grapes.
This wouldn't work in the YC environment since people don't actually work at YC's offices. The startups just meet every Tuesday for a group dinner then outside of that will only appear at the YC office if they have office hours booked with one of the partners.
They can't communicate because they shoot from the hip. They shoot from the hip because they're running behind but are trying to convince everyone they've already lapped their competitors.

They wouldn't want Android to do what the iPhone 4s does, even if they thought about it first!
Honestly I don't really give a shit about how the weather is outside or what my co-workers are doing over the weekend either but small talk is pretty important to communication with other human beings. The artificial personality responses of Siri serve the same purpose. It's a brilliant way to lure people into using Siri and break the ice of talking to your device. Also by giving it a proper name and natural language recognition it totally breaks the barriers down. You can have a one sided conversation with Siri and the people eavesdropping on you would not think twice about it.
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Writing off iOS because you used a 3G during the iOS 3 era is like writing off Android because you didn't like your G1 with 1.5. When using my old iPhone 3G or the Android tablets I tested, I would frequently drop them and grab my laptop instead. That happens much less often with my 4 simply because of how responsive it is all the time.

I find the author's perspective is shared more often than not by those who drive. I think people who take public transit or walk frequently would be hard pressed to say that they hate their smartphone. People who are always at a destination use their phones as portable computers less, because they typically have a full power machine at their destination.

The main point I take issue with though is the assertion that you can't work on a smartphone. I just don't buy that. I've handled tech support calls while accessing a server via remote desktop to solve the problem that the call was about, all from one device. On a crowded TTC bus.

A good rule of thumb is that if you've never sent a call to the background on your phone while you did something else, then you're still a little intimidated by it. You need to consciously plug it into your workflow at first, but once you truly grasp that much of what you jump on a laptop or desktop to do can be done from the device in your pocket, you'll start to like it more.
I liked the part where he called Naomi Wolf Naomi Watts. Because, you know, it's just a blog, so why proofread?
> The reckoning is clearly coming on this industry (daily deals / group buying).

With more folks predicting recession (eg http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2011/10/18/gartner_recessio...), I doubt it will be just this industry.
Reality TV is actually a dream business product for entertainment networks. This works on two levels - people are far more inclined to follow stories if they believe the characters are real. Great authors and storytellers have the skill to create 'real' sounding characters. Reality TV works on the assumption that the characters are real - skipping over the part where the writers have to skilfully create the characters. Thus you don't need many writers to come up with reality TV, just general plot points.

The second part is that the actors generally work for free, or close to free. This gets around pesky actors problems, such as unions, conditions and all the other things.

So you have people with a lower internal bar to 'believing' the stories and getting involved, and a cast that generally is working for free under conditions that would get regular actors up in arms.

The result is big profits for a successful reality TV show. The problem is that reality is rarely interesting outside a game show or contrived setup (ie survivor, biggest loser). So you get quasi-reality shows like Operation Repo which is completely acted following scripts but posing as reality, through the 'reality like' shows where real events are distorted to highlight the differences, right down to proper documentaries which try and follow the facts as blandly as possible. And the ratings will, other things being equal, be inversely proportionate to the amount of 'reality' in the show.

Bottom line : people who are to go on reality TV shows would do well to avail themselves of the facts before going in. Whether this means getting an agent or something like that, I don't know. But wishing and hoping for fair treatment is an unwise strategy.
(note: I'm addressing reality shows in general, not this specific example).
A few nights ago I was walking around Manhattan and decided to find a nearby restaurant, so I pulled out my MacBook Air and it was amazing. Right out of my pocket. When I finally found the restaurant, I used Google Maps in my Chrome browser for walking directions. I held my laptop in one hand, and my date in the other hand. Afterwards, we headed to a bar and I used a payphone to see if any of my friends were nearby and wanted to join us. One person answered! Except he couldn't make it. On the way home, I saw some really cool street performers playing with fire, so I opened up my MacBook Air, fired up Photo Booth, and used the built-in iSight camera to snap a few candid photos.

In the end, everything else was far more useful than a smartphone.
Maybe not everything has to be a purely "for-profit" endeavor. There are alternatives and there are plenty of people willing to support change.

http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2011/10/to_reform_capitalism_ceos_sh...
We knew how to handle certain questions. There was a lot of liberty with editing. In real life, I'm an aggressive, confident, and quirky person. I'm also quite nice :).
Does that bluetooth cordless phone handle multiple phones? So that my wife and I can both use it?

Also, got a link or brand?
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You may (or may not) be surprised but when I was there a lot of energy was spent by the rank and file on not being evil.

The challenge is of course in 'winning' and decades of research on this shows that people who really want to win will be a bit evil if they can get away with it and win at the same time.

So what Google has is a competitive culture (for a long time you couldn't get a raise without getting a promotion) which is peer balanced. They have a huge toolbox of technologies that can generate cash when tweaked. And they have certain groups who's success criteria is 'can you make more cash this quarter than last quarter.'

Unless actively worked against, like mold in a bathroom, evil sort of emerges out of that environment. Kind of scary to watch actually.
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It's probably bottom-up driven rather than top-down. The sports players see the trappings of notoriety (endorsements, media profiles, etc) which can mean, in some cases, bigger earnings than actually winning in the sport. Being merely good enough and having a big public persona can bring very good rewards.

It's all part of the current celebrity mania that has engulfed society. All you need is a hook to get into gossip magazines - once there, you can leverage yourself as much as you like, whether that is photo opportunities with orphans or passing out in front of nightclubs. I think the second-tier sports players would find that mightily attractive, because it's certainly harder to keep winning at the sport you're playing.
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I think the problem is sometimes people try to find a way to comment. Generally unless someone is outright wrong or lying I tend to just not upvote something that wasn't very interesting. Starting an argument in a comment thread can be a great place for Karmawhores to get some action.
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Wow. Talk about being put out to pasture. The Virtuosity website looks like it hasn't been updated since 1995, and a peak at the source code confirms it... MM_preloadImages()!
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That's some really innovative technology. Wondering what happens if those images were focused in real-time with eye-tracking system.
I am, but I reasoned that since I spend nearly all my day within 20 feet of a computer, I can live with no e-mail for short stints during the day.

Calendar info can be synced with nearly all phones in other ways.

If you don't recieve important calls all that often, test yourself. Leave your smartphone at home for a week.
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Please note that I did not say it was a graduate degree, I said it was a graduate program, which is what it is.

It is not a single class, it is a set of classes, with a core class, and a set of electives. A graduate program and a graduate degree are not the same thing. This is a graduate program.
That would mean a transition to Android, because WP7 has proven not very competitive. In fact, Microsoft is giving them away for free at their stores.
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