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Comment Re:Android? (Score 1) 93

On a tablet the google assistant is hobbled from running all times when the screen is on, most likely so they can shift a bunch of crap £35-50 mini speakers that do bizarre things like saying the free version of spotify cant play song requests on them (but can on when sent to my chrome cast). Additionally the eco system (shudders) can't play a movie I have bought on google play movies on my chromecast, but can play things from netflix, utter joke in my opinion. As I said above a single dev for an add on to plex media server (phlex) has done a better job than the multi billion corporate 'competing' with Amazon. Home automation currently reminds me of early networking, full of proprietary islands of poop that needs to be standardised or die.

Comment Google assistant user here (Score 1) 93

I have to say if google mini is anything to go by, we are at the stage where if you accept account linkage and storing your requests by an ad company, we can reach parity with a bad 80s style text adventure, think "use lock" "turn key" "open the damn door you useless pos"! I use plex with phlex tv written by a single dev afaik which does a better job of finding correct songs from my library than google in google music with the same songs, also google hobble using assistant on tablets and have no viable pc version, also cortana looks as though it wants to key log before operating! I seriously hope mozilla and baidus open source speech recognitions pulls us away from the crap Ive seen so far!

Comment Re:"fair and balanced"? (Score 1) 344

I have zero beef in this.

However, what makes you believe the original source (that the bitcoin developer contradicts) is impartial?

Old media versus slashdot, hmmm interesting area of debate, who knows which are less biased on average, I certainly don't but then neither do you. What I do know is that slashdot offers something I don't find elsewhere.

I have no reason to believe a specific source in this article is free from bias or that the opinions represent balance, bitcoin lost value after a technical attack (as would any currency if on the same scale). What that says about the viability of bitcoin is pretty unclear at this point.

Comment Re:Has he done anything after that? (Score 1) 249

I don't believe the only man who has given anything approaching true innovation to apple has successfully marketed a product based on other obvious technology recently no.

Heaven forbid tech companies employ engineers when business and experts at the "lock in" are clearly more valuable, heavens next we'll suggest that doodie head schmidt moves aside for someone who at least once had a productive idea!

Or that people who become massively wealthy off or heavily utilise the web in their business actually listen to or take the advice of Tim Berners Lee

Comment Re:Expired and stagnant. (Score 1) 176

IE6 good at web standards for the time? That depends if you think a deliberately crippled implementation of the CSS box model (embrace and extend) is better than no support. - As a web developer I'd say that "support" has proven to be more harmful to the web than none at all, which may have been exactly the point.

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