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by fuzzix 15y ago
"I'd be very concerned if the US army decided to use Siri to control its nuclear missiles. Less so if someone uses Siri to change their thermostat or query their fridge contents" Indeed... A command line for non-critical parts of the world.
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by fuzzix 15y ago
"In terms of the voice recognition, that has been progressing steadily for 30 years too, and I imagine Siri will benefit from improvements to the technology base, as others will" Will it progress to a point where ambiguity is reduced to nil
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by fuzzix 15y ago
I like the fact that the visual and musical aesthetic forced on early game designers by hardware limitations is now a desirable attribute in a new game. From the video the game looks and sounds great... In fact, I just bought it! Will repor
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by fuzzix 15y ago
Interesting that it still ship/s|ped/. I am wondering why drive letters still exist. Was there a need for continuity across Windows platforms with different bases (3.1/NT/9x) or was the mania for backwards compatibility such that the model
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by fuzzix 15y ago
Indeed. I first encountered DOS in the 3.2-ish days. I'm pretty sure the manual did not include 'net' or 'ipconfig'... But the current Windows command line that has taken on the guise of DOS is useful to me.
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by fuzzix 15y ago
I could be pithy and answer "No", but in my maintenance of Windows in various contexts I rely on that shim of DOS emulation, Start -> Run -> cmd. I feel like I get much of the quick info (e.g. ipconfig, net) I need here faster than
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by fuzzix 15y ago
They appear to have nothing on me... Only feature on the page is the Opt Out button. Have I missed something? No idea why they'd have nothing, I am signed in on Google services all the time.
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by fuzzix 15y ago
Operations to return string length or return characters from the end of the string become far less expensive. You also have a fair idea of a reasonable sized buffer to move in duplication operations, avoiding single character move loops.
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by fuzzix 15y ago
The magic character is in a known location, there's no need to iteratively scan for it. The use of "magic" characters is not the problem, as I see it.
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by fuzzix 15y ago
Also, how does a watermark act in a PDF? Is it like those cases where documents requested under FOIA had black bars hiding sensitive text which could simply be moved/removed with the right tool set?
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by fuzzix 15y ago
This website has been knocking around for some time (my human memory tells me at least a year) but I do not believe whoever owns the Commodore brand now has actually shipped any of these products. http://www.commodoreusa.net/CUSA_C64.aspx