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Watch the video again. That's not Samsung's S-Voice. It's Google's new Voice Search. And he's saying it's a lot better than Siri (as other sites and tests have shown, too).

He only mentioned S-Voice because he tested S-voice and Siri in another video (not this one), and in that one Siri beats Samsung's S-voice (powered by Vlingo).
We've had smartphones as we know them for longer than people seem to acknowledge. Apple just made a slick UI and went with a capacitive touch-screen.
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"Dudes, you are running like crazy and pushing empty wheelbarrows around. Why do you do that?"

"Man, we are so busy there is no time to load the damn things!"
i am really sorry but the fact that i need to register even only to look at the entries is no go for me.
He wasn't attacking computer systems in general, he was attacking the fact that the bankers rolled out their computer systems to the public when the systems were nowhere near ready for primetime.
Nice to see a speed improvment, but I could live with a slow Siri if the AI was actually usable. It is broken all the time. If I say

"Play music by Milk Inc."

It might ask me if I want to buy milk. Or if I say

"Play Acappella by Kelis."

It will respond

"Sorry, I can't find a capella in your music."

Stuff like that. And it is borderline unusable at all if I'm out of breath, like when I'm running and handsfree controlls makes sense.

Siri doesn't need a speed improvment. It needs orders of magnitude better AI.
Google's Voice Search seems faster, it's significantly more accurate (86% vs 68% for Siri), and it also comes with that smart Google Now thing, which learns things about you and recommends stuff for you to do based on your location, or behavior or whatever.

Oh, and Google's "voice" sounds a lot more natural than Siri, too, which sounds more robotic.
The brilliance of Siri isn't the voice interface or the replies using text-to-speech -- it's just the name. People feel they are talking to another person, not a phone or a computer or a google. People understand Siri approximates a person, so they can interact with it informally and somewhat personally.

You see it in all the news coverage. People refer to Siri as a person. It gets into your brain. Have you seen normal people showing off Siri to their friends? They are giddy with excitement over having a personal robot voice in their pocket that knows them by name.

I feel google doesn't employ anybody who has an average family or knows average people. Normal people don't know how things work. What's a "Google Now?" You'd have to look up a definition. It's about ten different things jumbled together under an Enterprise-Grade Naming Convention product umbrella.

Look at the Google Now product intro -- "Google Now has prepared an alternate route for your commute." People have to learn "Google Now" is a product and/or service that does specific things. People simply understand what Siri is after seeing someone else use it for a few seconds.

Even the Google Now tagline requires a level of mental disambiguation: "...with the predictive power of Now..."
It's interesting that the John Warnock interview, on Postscript, has not dated in the least.

John Page's article, has dated somewhat with its mention of candidate programming languages, but it's the one I searched out, as his discussion of the philosophy behind pfs: File is one that has always profoundly influenced me.

Link and quote:
http://programmersatwork.wordpress.com/john-page-1986/

>But here is the real “grabber.” The programs that are more difficult to use make a selling point out of that difficulty. They turn it into a feature: The user of a complex system can specify exactly where the columns go, whereas PFS puts them where it wants. The truth of the matter is that almost anybody who uses the more complex program changes the report five times before it looks just right. Or else they put up with a rotten-looking report. I question if that’s productive.
I was curious as to which distros default to ffmpeg and which default to libav, looking at my distro of choice (Arch Linux) it's ffmpeg, there's no libav in the official repos as far as I can tell and programs like VLC, Blender, MPlayer2 all link to ffmpeg, Mplayer on the other hand links directly against the core codec libraries unless I'm mistaken.

The article states that Debian (and Ubuntu?) uses libav (and yes, the bs about ffmpeg being deprecated is obviously a douchebag move), so does anyone know what other distros are defaulting to, Gentoo, Fedora, OpenSUSE etc?
That is over-simplification of facts. If that were true, why doesn't Samsung leverage the device shown in the comparison to counter-sue Apple?

Edit: Trying to understand the down votes. Would like to hear counter-arguments.
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This is less related to the current thread but along the book you have not mentioned any deep social relations created during those years. Was that intentionally dropped or there were none because of the load? do you have any recommendations on the subject?
It "hops" every couple of seconds in a jarring fashion. It's really rather annoying.

The button is black text on light grey background, yes. I think the parent poster is more pointing out that the light-grey-on-white-background, which isn't very noticeable.

(I didn't know there was a pause button until read this thread.)
> But now we're getting to fundamental limits. Even if we had the ability to place the atoms however we wanted them, there's an intrinsic limit. You can't make a transistor out of half an atom.

I believe though that limit is well below 18 nm. Last I heard, they'd done a transistor with 1.5nm, and they weren't saying that was the limit. I'm not sure what the magic is with 18nm, but I'd sure like to know.
or easier still just
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IP law: undemocratic, totalitarian, and unethical
In other worss: the justice system is no longer a monopoly of the state on violence. But a for hire entity, where the highest bidder can buy their preferred form of "justice"

This is not a good development, and we can wonder how long it will take before the bric countries choose a radical new direction towards IP.
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I propose we stop calling machine transcription and fixed-field extraction "AI." Second?

We all realize Siri is just a fancy Eliza with Internet access, right?

We can resume calling something "AI" when it can order a flight for you from the Ryanair website without making any mistakes (I'm not even at that level yet).
The diagonal trick reminds me of CDROM CRC error mechanism (reversed of course)
programming your brains out in to the evening != busy.
It's not too uncommon, I think, that the first two years of a PhD program award you a masters and then another two years (on average) to get your PhD.

IIRC, there are a few types of Masters like an MPhil which are pretty much labels that you were in a PhD program but didn't finish your PhD.
Personally, I think that's a little gimmicky. I think it was very smart of Google to not differentiate this too much, but let people think that this smarter AI thing, is actually still "Google". So in the future people will just refer to "Google" when doing stuff like this.

It's also a bit silly seeing people talking to "Siri" in public.
I'm not a lawyer in the US but have worked in the legal field overseas. $5000 is a lot for legal fees to set up a company. $1000 - $3000 is reasonable (inclusive of outlays i.e. registration costs, taxes etc.).
Because they aren't copies, they simply have similar designs. By your logic, I suppose Microsoft could sue Apple since Windows Mobile had an applications list.
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Perhaps Google need to emphasise that you can "ask" Google questions, not just make "searches".
Which one can give the answer a fraction of a second faster, or who's voice sounds less robotic means little to me.

I am more interested in knowing about speech recognition capabilities, edge cases handling, frequency of getting something wrong, accented speech recognition capabilities, artificial intelligence maturity and depth and breadth of the knowledge base the systems use.

But this video has focused on the wrong things. I was expecting that the presenter would be asking both some hard but useful questions and show us which one comes out with the right answer.
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When we figure out how to do that, we won't want to call it AI anymore either. AI is human mental tasks that we haven't figured out how they work yet.
As I posted on the freshte.ch blog, the commercial drive behind Siri is that you don't use Google when on Apple's platform.

Google coming out with a competitor that stacks up feature-wise doesn't fix that for them because it will only run on Android.

Google's going to miss out on a lot of search/ad revenue due to Siri in the future.
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What's the source of this news?
Or blog about it, or write an email.

Because people want to keep in touch with their friends, "friends", followers, etc.. They need to notify them that they are using some other way to communicate.
Would it be better if you had to register only to contact landlords?
One factor assisting 'mobile' right now is that SEO is less pervasive - mobile apps are focussed on UX which desktop webapps long ago ditched to get rankings (ramming as much content on page as possible, overusing keywords, reviews, ratings, UGC etc.).

I'm finding many mobile apps simple/clean to use - although the 'responsive design' movement is diluting that.
Nilay Patel at The Verge had a good post[1] about this when it first came up in April 2011. Besides the fact that the F700 was announced at MWC in February 2007 (after the iPhone was announced in January), There are huge differences in the interfaces that matter in trade dress and trademark cases.

Basically, you wouldn't confuse an iPhone with an F700, while Samsung seemed to design Touch Wiz specifically to do that.

[1]: http://www.theverge.com/2011/04/20/talk-picture-samsung-f700...
It's a very interesting read (both part 1 and 2), but I disagree with some points. For example, the absorption of Uruguay, Paraguay and Argentina by Brazil, having a different culture and language seems very unlikely. What is much more likely is their alliance through a coalition (that is starting to take shape with Venezuela becoming full member of Mercosur this week).

Another thing that seems hardly believable is Mexico threatening Usa in 50/100 years (I think that was in part 2).

China falling apart could also mean an economic disaster to America given their mutual symbiosis nowadays.

And a Russian/Chinese alliance could also become possible eventually if China starts to have it too hard to access the natural resources they need.

Probably the saddest thing here is the fact that America seems to be condemned to fight wars all around the world, because of it's own growing interests are generating more and more dependence in foreign affairs, and thus, creating a vicious cycle.
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It is even worse if you use it in languages other than english since Siri only recognizes the language you have set before and that also applies to artist names and titles. In my case I would have to pronounce bands like "Real Estate" the german way in order to use this function.

Apple should have anticipated that and allowed music related commands to be analyzed in your native language and english.
Love this post. Monetization on mobile, as shown by Facebook's struggle to do well, is the next code to crack. I agree that as users are on mobile in a very focused state of mind, they are not open to advertisements, in particular not those that are in the way of achieving a goal. Subscription, in-app purchase might be better, also when users become more aware of the fact that if they are using a free service, they themselves are part of the offering being sold to the companies paying the bill.
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Anyone else think living without goals is the way to go?

For the majority of my life I was very goal oriented and would make sure every hour of the day was filled. Everyday was a todo list. I scheduled the occasional leisure activity but even these were part of some goal such as 'travel to 5 countries in 1 year"

Recently I just decided to give up any goals and any expectations. What I found out was that goals were stressing me out. It made me unhappy. I seeked my identity on some future achievement. It's something I think a lot of entepreneurs experience too... Now I just live life and experience whatever comes my way. I still work towards things but if a friend asks me to skip a workday to catch a movie, I no longer give them the "I'm busy" excuse.
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Not really. AT&T uses different bands than T-Mobile, which both uses different bands than European carriers, which differ from Korean carriers.

It is only recently that you can find penta-band UMTS phones that gives you 3G on GSM providers in all the continents.
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If some files are archives (or any encapsulation format/mechanism), then the count is false.

Files and folders are too generic and not generic enough.
Some files aren't files, some files are ~folders. Actually most of those files are ~folders, they are containers for other kind of data and relationships. List of samples, Tree of names, Graph of points.

IIRC Plan9 tried to be a little more generic (in a good way), you could read/write/list anything even visual objects with one single mechanism.

We need maps to see/categorize/find data. Graphs of atoms that you can close (as in closure, any datum involved in the meaning of an operation has to be included) to transmit them in a consistent state. Moving files is wrong and everybody have seen it, it's full of hardcoded context.
Comparing efficiency of pre-release software is kind of pointless. Either one might be missing some optimizations that are put in on the final release.
Looks sweet.

I currently have to use Windows at the customer I'm working for. I've installed Console which gives tabs and better copy-n-paste on Windows. See http://sourceforge.net/projects/console/

I'm not sure if clink and Console will work together, but I'll have to try it.
I highly recommend you to sign up for eCompuCloud: http://www.ecompucloud.com/

It relies on several cloud computing providers, to prevent such drops to happen.

The pricing is even lower Amazon or any other computing provider! (we buy larger clusters which costs us less)
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"The general consensus was that I was an alarmist doomsayer extremist exaggerating over nothing."

And they'll still call you that. Facebook's hold is too great.
If you watch normal people using Google, you'll notice that they do this already.
Future wars (all out wars, like WW I and WW II) won't be fought conventionally. US is still the only superpower, but, the listed advantages are not all that beneficial currently. US will win because it leads in the non conventional weapons tech but not due to the geography. But I agree it was geography which brought it so far.
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Well, there is something such as digital hoarding:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405270230340470457730...

First link for "digital hoarding", but there is more to read about it.
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>It's also a bit silly seeing people talking to "Siri" in public.

I wouldn't be surprised if this is exactly what the future will bring us as SIRI improves. People talking to it more or less the same you see them talking to their pets now.
Responsive design doesn't mean mobile apps should be any less simple or clean. Only if it's done badly.
Heck, I suppose I do, too.
It is generally acknowledged that Apple is at the offense. Google hasnt used IP laws in any way other than defensive.

Microsoft strategy is more interesting: they dont block products but rather use liscense fees that are slightly less than the costs of going to court against Microsoft. Eventhough, their patents are hard to enforce, and likely wouldnt win, its irrelevant.

So, to compare the behavior to other industries: Microsofts strategy is racketeering Italian mob style "we own this town", while Apple is raging a full on war, with any competitor, much like how a mexican drug cartel operates.

Google on the other hand, behaves more like a community bank. The members get free tech, but also take most of the risk, yet if they succeed, end up making Google more profitable.

The notion that all three companies are equally abusive, is ridiculus. They are definately operating with different policies. Whether that is due to convience or moral convinctions, is up for debate, but when looking purely at behavior in this space, Google is the good guy...
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But MUCH less than a year ago, many more people were still writing 32-bit-dirty time_t based code.

It's gonna be a fun one.
Well, to be fair, one of the main reasons for Asia's growth the last decades is exactly the blatant disregard for patents and copyright.

Sure, it may feel unfair to the original creators of the products, but it sure has forced them to continually innovate. I'd actually argue that cloning is a positive (as long as you differentiate it sufficiently, don't clone a BMW and call it a BWV) thing for the world. In my opinion, if you can create a better/cheaper version of something, you should be allowed to.

And if it's possible to easily duplicate your product and make it cheaper/better somehow (if it isn't better somehow nobody'll buy the clone), it's a strong sign that the original product/business isn't good enough and doesn't deserve to be the leader.
I've been waiting for people to stop watching reality TV too.

Still waiting.
Where were you 11 hours ago when we rebooted all of our cassandra and mysql machines? :-)
> Anyone else think living without goals is the way to go?

Yes, being eternally 'busy' and obsessed with goals is probably the quickest way to turn your life into a vortex of depressing bullshit, well, aside from prison or hard manual labor.

Take it easy, enjoy life and get a few hours of good quality work done most days of the week.
FYI: Our Debian servers did not kernel panic but system CPU load went through the roof; A quick restart brought levels back to normal.
I think this narrative of food-bowl control is so enticing to people who think about power that it becomes a self-fulfilling prophesy. "Everything is linked to control of food bowls!" People believe in it and then act on it, and only then does it become kind of accurate (apart from South America, and all those successful countries who don't have a food bowl). Russia, America, China could all decide at any time to sell things and just focus internally and they'd break the narrative further.
Where was it published?

Almost all of my machines run the Debian stable kernel and were still affected.
I saw something recently, a skeleton laptop that would act as a terminal for your android phone. My money is on the mobile phone being a mobile personal cpu/storage that can be tethered to skeleton interfaces like tablets and laptops.

But the PC as we know it will be kept around for a long long time by gamers alone.
This conflates technological and process improvements (e.g. a CPU with 100 times an CPU 's PC power can now be made with 1/1000 of the money) with increases in actual purchasing power.

The study you cite says income went up, it's just distributed more evenly between men and women (i.e., it went up for women by more than it went down for men).

Again, conflating technological and manufacturing progress (and cheaper prices for certain products) with wealth.

What do you think wealth is, if not technology, goods and servies?

How about raising Chinese wages WITHOUT fucking the american middle class over (and eventually the Chinese too, as it both caps their salaries and kills their market)?

The American middle class has more goods and services than ever before. So does the Chinese middle class. What else do you want - ponies for all?

Your biggest complaints seem to be that women and the Chinese are now allowed to compete with you. I.e., your complaint isn't really with inequality at all, it's more with the elimination of inequality.
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Since you are taking Mobster analogy, I'd like to propose one for Google/Motorola: Loan Shark (not a community bank).

They pledged to license certain patents in Fair, Reasonable And Non-Discriminatory terms, when they contributed them to Telecom & H.264 patent pools; but now they are not very keen on keeping their commitment.
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In almost all of the things you mentioned, google has the advantage to make a better product. They have an enormous power to train their creation, to achieve a higher level in terms of speech recognition and understanding. I'm not saying that they are already there, only that they have what is needed.

But	i really don't know how far are they willing too go, as taking it too far away could end up being counterproductive to them, as they earn money showing ads in their results, so they need people using their website. That's why they released chrome now in iOS.
>"[it] seems hardly believable is Mexico threatening Usa in 50/100 years"

Mexico isn't likely to be a threat to the United States in our lifetimes per se. But it's not inconceivable to see a future Mexico infuriated over some political stance in the United States allying with another power. Deutschland's plans in the World Wars for the United States alternated between allying with Mexico against the US to inciting war between the two to bog down the US [1].

>"China falling apart could also mean an economic disaster to America"

Given that geopolitical power is relative and China is the most likely regional power with the potential to become a great power one cannot discard the position that America would be strengthened with a tamer China (similar to the situation in the 1990s). That said, the world would be worse off (barring the possibility of a Chinese-American conflict in Asia-Pacific).

>"a Russian/Chinese alliance could also become possible"

A Sino-Russian alliance would be unstable, similar to the Hitler-Stalin alliance in World War II. They both compete for resources in Russian-influenced Central Asia and in Northeast Asia. Given Russia's history of using its energy dominance with Europe as leverage it seems unwise for China to accede too much control with regards to critical resources to it. Further, Russia's demographic situation doesn't portend well for it as a great power in the coming decades.

>"America seems to be condemned to fight wars all around the world"

The United States isn't condemned to fighting wars around the world. Similar to the UK in times past and Turkey as its emerging today, the US is, as a geopolitical "island" (a great power amongst no other current or potential great powers in its region) free to pursue its interests overseas. Take for example Iraq: the biggest downside to the US is economic and diplomatic. The Middle East, on the other hand, was set to experience significant geopolitical volatility regardless of the endeavour's outcome.

I'm not agreeing with the Monograph (nor disagreeing with you) wholeheartedly, but there is a valid debate to be had on each of these points.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimmermann_Telegram
I was actually thinking of buying a Mac for the first time just last week, even after being outraged by the Galaxy Tab 10.1 thing. They have good hardware and it's Linuxy, but thank you Apple for acting sooner with this Nexus rubbish rather than later..

So there you go, an actual sale lost and I'll remember this for a long, long time