Posts by SMFSubtlety

Are you not entertained?

" reducing their capacity to deliver the public good of strong news services that entertain and inform the nation."

Inform the nation - Yes.

Entertain the nation - No. I do not wish for my news to be entertaining thank you. Precisely because we end up with the ratings chasing sh*t show that is our current "24 hour" news.

"That article / report is not entertaining enough, spice it up a bit.... change that language, make it more suspenseful. I want fear as a response from the reader / viewer...."

"But this is a story about the USDA's monthly orange crop report"

Why would you want to teach a computer / AI / automaton-inator to negotiate like a human? Is human really the gold standard of negotiating? Are you not just handicapping it from the start?

Try also building AI that learns to negotiate without copying human behaviour and then compare the results sets. Yes it will take longer, but do you end up with a better negotiated results for both parties?

total inability to support usual payments

Bravo! just perfect for a Friday!

(This is both to RBS, and to Author 2936!)

diNgo

Surely they missed a trick here:

Defence Imagery and Geospatial Organisation (DIGO)

should have been

Defence Imagery aNd Geospatial Organisation (DINGO)

but with the US government in shutdown due to toys out of pram, isn't now a good time for IT to leave the embassy, get sent to Sweden, sort that out?

Meh

see title

When are Nokia putting this on a phone?

The latest PureView?

@Velv

should they ask you for your name and credit card number on this site too?

single point of failure

i remember the "single point of failure" complaints made when Vodafone had a similar outage last year.

I will repeat what one person said....

if you are that concerned about single point of failure, why aren't you carrying around an O2 and an Orange phone then?

network down for a day = a day of getting work done.

ice faries

Is anyone else reading ice faires as ice fairies?

I see what you did there!

Game of phones.... very good (for the day after a 4 day weekend).

but who does that make the stunted dwarf in your mind then?

old response

I seem to recall that when siri first made it onto the scene a lot of people asked a lot of dumb questions to the phone. What is the best phone being one of them.

The response is what you are seeing in these articles.

This was months before this "scandal" arose

I am guessing that they finally flipped a switch from "joke response" to "actual search", then this news item hit, so they flicked the switch back.

(honestly not an apple fan, have to use the products and they suck)

One speaker/lecturer handled it brilliantly....

This was at university, but similar situation.

Guest lecturer at front giving interesting talk. Guy(male) at back (long black hair, slightly high pitched voice) asking annoying questions.

After question 5 he actually raises an interesting point, but lecturer is frustrated, so says

"The girl at the back has made a good point...."

no more questions, lecture continues uninterrupted.

Space Penguin anyone

I recall an old online game called space penguin. this just feels like a bit of a rip off.

Snowy!!!!!!

Snooooowwwyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!

A few jokes I heard recently

What do Nokia and Apple now have in common?

No more jobs

Steve Jobs' text was meant to say: "I reign as CEO of Apple". Damn you auto-correct!

When I saw my girlfriend playing football for the first time I knew she was a keeper

Tablet OS comparisons from one manufacturer

Are Acer trying to provide reference hardware that runs all of the different flavours of Tablet OS so you can see which one you prefer?

Nokia Tyres

I look forward to putting Nokia Tyres on my car in 5 years time

app fail

Just tested the route from my work to home.

Application ignores the mostly flat national cycle route path (on footpath next to a main road) 40 minutes, in favour of the quiet roads that take you up 3 extreemly steep hills (and back down the other side), 240 minutes

App fail.

tackle!

can't wait to see one of the meat-bag players try to tackle something with solid metal legs and no pain receptors!!!

devilish pay

£26.65 per day

4 hrs (as some have mentioned this is how long the place is open for per day)

26.65 / 4 = £6.66 ph

I think we have stumbled onto something here!!!

new keyboard please

"Maybe you touched the USB cable in the lower left corner. ‘Don't hold it that way’, okay?

brilliant!!!

Made me choke on my cuppa!

12 people ejected eh...?

they weren't all selected as jurors in a case against some high powered senator were they?

porcine portfolios

porcine portfolios.... is that a Porkfolio?

I'll get my coat!

US PTO won't go away

Blanket approve all patents = lots of lawsuits = judges, courts and lawyers busy and employed and paid large sums of money, which gets taxed....

3D footballers... ew

Oh god no..... you know that the players will work out where the camera's are and then spit or clear their noses in the direction of said cameras.... put you off your pints!!?!?

Competition Commission anyone?

"Deutsche Telekom is talking to Vodafone, France Telecom and Telefonica. An anonymous source told the FT:“If we’re lucky, we could end up with a three-horse race.” "

Vodafone.... France Telecom (owns Orange), Telefonica (owns O2)....

would have thought none of these guys will be allowed to buy it due to competition/monopoly problems