May I be the first to offer them a personal bailout in the amount of 100 Trillion Quatloos, secured by Credit Default Swaps in the amount of 500 Octillion Virtual Euros.
Great points here. The Kindle does not seem likely to succeed for Amazon - I think the cost alone challenges Kindle market viability - but it offers some great ideas for future devices, many of which will be based on Android.
Darn China - they should take our lead here in the USA, save money, and do their censorship the old fashioned way - by only funding and supporting news sources that cater to sensationalistic garbage and prurient nonsense. This approach also keeps the important news out of the public light, but we all get to pretend that we are actually paying attention.
Despite the criticism the iPhone is *very, very good* technology - I'd say it's the breakthrough in terms of bringing "decent computing" to a handheld device.
Google's entry should create some powerful competition for similar devices. The big loser here will be Treo. As a user I'm uninspired by the Treo with a too-small screen and poor rural connectivity. They'll have to change their game to adapt to iPhone, and it does not appear that's happening.
Powerset, even by the name, is going to offer a lot more than natural language capability. The holy grail is to harness AI in ways Google, Yahoo, and MSN (with their amazing neural net approach) have yet to do. Also significant is that most people on earth don't use online searches yet. This will change and online search will be the overwhelming choice of an info hungry world. When it does, natural language is the obvious approach to queries.
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Betcha
I'll betcha $20 he'll be back....
Bailing out SL
May I be the first to offer them a personal bailout in the amount of 100 Trillion Quatloos, secured by Credit Default Swaps in the amount of 500 Octillion Virtual Euros.
Turky Ban Blogger Blogs
Is it just a coincidence that they named the country "Turkey"?
I think NOT!
Nicely written!
shadenfreude at the expense of this particular blogospheric bête noir.
Good points, and quite a turn of phrase there!
Kindle
Great points here. The Kindle does not seem likely to succeed for Amazon - I think the cost alone challenges Kindle market viability - but it offers some great ideas for future devices, many of which will be based on Android.
Censorship, American Style
Darn China - they should take our lead here in the USA, save money, and do their censorship the old fashioned way - by only funding and supporting news sources that cater to sensationalistic garbage and prurient nonsense. This approach also keeps the important news out of the public light, but we all get to pretend that we are actually paying attention.
iPhoneology
Despite the criticism the iPhone is *very, very good* technology - I'd say it's the breakthrough in terms of bringing "decent computing" to a handheld device.
Google's entry should create some powerful competition for similar devices. The big loser here will be Treo. As a user I'm uninspired by the Treo with a too-small screen and poor rural connectivity. They'll have to change their game to adapt to iPhone, and it does not appear that's happening.
Natural Language? Naturally!
Powerset, even by the name, is going to offer a lot more than natural language capability. The holy grail is to harness AI in ways Google, Yahoo, and MSN (with their amazing neural net approach) have yet to do. Also significant is that most people on earth don't use online searches yet. This will change and online search will be the overwhelming choice of an info hungry world. When it does, natural language is the obvious approach to queries.