2013年9月8日星期日

How to spot if people are lying in texts

  "Had a few drinks, went straight home."
  "Working late."
  "Let's elope."
  If you get any of these texts -- and if they're a little longer in coming than usual -- it's very possible that your Chosen One is lying.
  No, I don't want to break up your relationship. Well, not unless you need my help. But I've been poring over research from Brigham Young University that tries to discover whether lying texters have a behavior pattern.
  You might think that you can spot a liar very easily.
  Tom Meservy, a BYU professor of information systems, thinks you're quite full of it. He said in the research: "Humans are terrible at detecting deception. We're creating methods to correct that."
  Merservy's definition of "terrible" is an exacting one. He believes that we can spot a lie 54 percent of the time.
  But how do we know if he's telling the truth? He might be having us on, in order to prove just how clueless we are.
  Still, his team's research (there were people from the universities of Nebraska and Arizona involved) asked respondents (who were, sadly, students) to lie 50 percent of the time in texted answers to questions.
  What the researchers found was that the lying texts took 10 percent longer to compose.
  "Hmmm. 'I love you'? 'Or I really love you'?"
  Moreover, they seem to have been shorter, involving just a touch more editing in order to make the lie a little more foolproof.
  Moral: If it takes a little longer and it arrives a little shorter, then it's probably a lie.
  Those of you who are excited to don your Google Glass as humanity morphs into robots will be equally excited to hear a potential consequence of such research.
  "The potential is that chat-based systems could be created to track deception in real-time," mused Meservy.
  Please imagine the texts that will flow back and forth.
  "I really, really love you."
  "Liar."
  "What? No, I do."
  "Liar, Liar."
  "I am not a liar."
  "Liar."

Windows XP installation discs to prove that you simply are eligible

  Now, that doesn't imply XP will suddenly cease working. You'll be able to preserve utilizing it if you would like, but I would not propose it.
  End of life signifies Microsoft will not be releasing any more safety updates towards the typical user. Any security flaws that hackers find will not be fixed. Your laptop or computer is going to be a sitting duck, even with safety computer software installed. Click here to determine what free of charge safety computer software I advocate.
  I know lots of die-hard XP users are cynical about this news. They assume Microsoft is attempting to force people today buy new computer systems. Microsoft is in small business to make dollars, so it does want individuals to upgrade. But in Microsoft's defense, this isn't anything specific for XP.
  Microsoft has accomplished the same with Windows 95, 98 and Me. Vista's end of life is April 11, 2017 and Windows 7's is January 14, 2020. In reality, Microsoft extended XP's end-of-life date numerous instances. XP must have been gone years ago.
  Here's a entertaining fact: XP very first appeared in the finish of 2001. As late as 2010, computers have been still sold with XP installed. Windows Vista, which arrived 6 years just after XP, only lasted until 2011.
  In the event you consider it, XP will likely be nearly 13 years old. Like a teenager, it is possessing difficulty adjusting to the globe. In spite of a significant overhaul with Service Pack 3, XP just wasn't built for the modern digital age.
  It really is missing essential security features introduced in Windows Vista. It cannot support the most recent, safest and most Web-compatible versions of Web Explorer. It can't take complete benefit with the most current hardware advances.
  It really is becoming increasingly frustrating for consumers and third-party businesses. Many third-party organizations would adore to cease supporting XP. It requires many time and money to make sure applications and hardware function on each and every version of Windows.
  This even affects the online world. Web developers will likely be overjoyed to view XP-only World wide web Explorer versions six, 7 and 8 go away. Those versions are so far behind other browsers, you virtually need to create a different web-site just for them.
  It is going to become a serious adjust for a lot of men and women. In most circumstances it really is going to mean a new computer, upgraded software and possibly new accessories like printers and scanners.
  Until final year, upgrading would not have been very so bad. Windows 7 was still pretty close to Windows XP in appear and how it worked. In fact, I expect Windows 7 to become the subsequent Windows version that people stick with for quite a even though.
  Now, nevertheless, Windows 8 will be the only operating program accessible on new computer systems. When you try it, you will find that it's radically various from prior Windows versions.
  The interface was meant for touch-screen tablets and does not operate that well with keyboard and mouse. In truth, even locating the Desktop is definitely an adventure in itself.
  The Windows 8.1 update coming out next month will enable you to bring back a few of the old Windows. Microsoft will even consist of a tutorial on the way to use Windows 8 - lastly. But it is nonetheless a steep learning curve, especially coming from XP. Click here to study much more about generating one of the most from the Windows eight.1 update.
  You may discover copies of Windows 7 for sale on the net. You can install it on your current computer system - assuming it isn't too old. You may also obtain a Windows 8 laptop and downgrade.
  Just be aware that you simply can't do an in-place upgrade from XP to 7. You'll have to wipe your really hard drive and install Windows 7 from scratch. In the event you buy an upgrade version of Windows 7, you'll need Windows XP installation discs to prove that you simply are eligible. Whatever you do, begin organizing now. April will likely be coming up speedy and you don't need to be nevertheless using XP when it arrives.
  Now, you might hear there's a slim possibility Microsoft could continue releasing security updates for XP. It is under contract to some companies to supply them for the next handful of years. Nevertheless, that is a paid choice and I wouldn't hold your breath that Microsoft will make those updates public.
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2013年8月12日星期一

Overthinking the Mac-Human relationship

  An excerpt of Appletopia: Media Technology and the Religious Imagination of Steve Jobs by Brett Robinson appears in a recent post on Wired. Robinson is a U.S. marketing professor. According to the publisher, the book will reconstruct "Steve Jobs’ imagination for digital innovation in transcendent terms."
  Robinson's brief analysis in the Wired post looks at several Apple advertisements. He then riffs on what he considers to be their deep meta messages of narcissism with the computer user as well as the bonds between humans and their computing tools. He places particular emphasis on the famous Get a Mac campaign with Justin Long and John Hodgman, saying that Apple products may "possess personality traits or to reflect a particular way of thinking and processing information grants it a human likeness."
  These ads rely on a metaphor that equates the human actors with the hardware and software of their respective computer systems. This biological analogy between computer parts and the human body reminds us that the metaphors that guide computer development come from our own human faculties, particularly cognition and memory.
  But the reverse is also true. Our sense of self is now shaped by the technologies that are used to diagnose and repair the body. It’s easy to assume that the two actors in the “Get a Mac” campaign represent PC and Mac users, but the intent is clearly to grant the operating systems a human personality.
  In the Mac narrative, differences in operating systems represent differences in cognition styles. Associating with a particular brand, then, is more than an affiliation to a name or corporate philosophy; it’s an affiliation to a way of thinking. The operating system is a metaphor for the mind.
  Oy. What a bunch of hooey. Perhaps it's just as likely that Apple's marketing department at one time had a sense of humor (I'm unsure about that nowadays) and found that this funny "illness metaphor" could represent in less than 30 seconds the rather complicated subject of Windows upgrades and the hardware upgrade that almost always were necessary to run them back in the day?
  However, I agree with Robinson on at least one point: the Get a Mac campaign never had users saying that they were a PC or a Mac. Hodgman and Long were actors representing the computing platforms and their differences. That was the point.
  Rather, it was Microsoft that offered in 2008 an ad campaign that presented persons saying that they were PCs. The intent was to show that PC users were just folks, ordinary users, using the ordinary OS of the Wintel platform. I admit that I always found this campaign odd. After all, there are "cat people" and "dog people" but they don't say that they are cats and dogs, respectively.
  These marketing campaigns certainly said something about Apple's solution approach to computing. But they also said much more about how the Windows and PC market has spent years working to become a cheap commodity, and easily interchangeable platform, one that users don't perceive any exceptional value. That isn't true with Apple customers.

My money's against it, however it could happen

  It is no secret that Surface RT and Windows RT, together with Windows RT on other platforms, did not do too as Microsoft hoped. The most recent collateral harm in that failure was Nvidia's Tegra processors, which run inside the Surface RT.
  Surface/Windows RT had no shortage of skeptics even when it launched, but it's attainable items could change over time. I am not saying that this *will* take place, but that there is a affordable situation for it. Here's how it functions.
  Initially, some Microsoft organization strategy forensics: Microsoft desires developers to write apps for the new, Contemporary UI (a.k.a. Metro). Releasing Windows eight only for Intel architecture, they should have believed, would have produced it also uncomplicated for developers to bypass Metro due to the fact standard Windows applications would currently run on it (and on Windows 7 along with other versions). But if Surface RT had been a accomplishment, developers would need to be on it, and would select to create Metro apps so as to be on both platforms.
  Effectively, that didn't function. In fact, color me shocked at the degree of reticence of developers to create Metro apps, because the sheer quantity of customers who can run them will undoubtedly be quite substantial, even though it's small adequate to become regarded a failure for Microsoft. Don't forget, any other organization in the world would love to have a disaster like Windows Vista, numerous millions of copies of which had been sold. Such is the worst you'll be able to anticipate from Windows eight.
  This holiday season you'll be able to count on to see touch-enabled Windows systems heavily promoted and Microsoft will attempt other promotions to get people today obtaining apps in the store. Actually, the failure to acquire developers writing apps for the store is the single biggest issue they have. With great apps users will undoubtedly come, and with users excellent apps will come.
  And in the event the apps do come, then the decision to buy an RT device could turn out to be substantially additional affordable. There needs to be a cost advantage in comparison to x86 because the RT will still be much less capable, or it'll need to demonstrate far far better battery life or something to give persons a purpose to get it, as opposed to an Intel-based method.
  Based on the performance and energy consumption from the most up-to-date chips from NVidia and Intel, all of this is attainable. It really is also achievable that Intel will narrow the cost and overall performance consumption gaps, and RT will drop all its raison d'etre.

  But if, come vacation time or later, the Windows app choice is respectable and RT systems are less expensive than Intel-based ones, it may possibly be completely affordable to buy one. If they get inexpensive sufficient, people might get casual about obtaining them.
  My money's against it, however it could happen. There happen to be attempts in the past to put Windows on other architectures, however they have all failed because the Intel has often enhanced their chip functionality enough to produce the price of incompatibility too higher relative to the advantages.
  You may make a case that Microsoft should really have pursued it this technique to begin with: x86 initially, other architectures once the app marketplace was solidly established. It appears like that could be the Plan B for Microsoft and NVidia, and possibly it was built-in from the beginning.

2013年7月18日星期四

Apple to Investigate Report of China IPhone Electric Shock Death

  Apple Inc. (AAPL) said it will “fully investigate and cooperate with authorities” after media reports that a woman in China died after using an iPhone that was being recharged.
  A 23-year-old flight attendant died on July 12 after picking up her iPhone 5 to answer a call, China’s Xinhua News Agency reported, citing Internet reports. Xinhua cited a post by a user of Weibo microblogging service saying that the family “didn’t ask for compensation from Apple, and that it only hopes people will pay attention, nothing more.”
  A press official at the Xinjiang provincial government, who only gave his surname as Gao, referred questions from Bloomberg News about the incident to local media reports. The phone was bought in December with items already handed over to police, Xinhua reported.
  “We are deeply saddened to learn of this tragic incident and offer our condolences to the Ma family,” Apple said in the e-mailed statement to Bloomberg News today.
  The company didn’t comment on the details of the media report.

OEM partners will should place quite a bit of effort

  Tablets depending on Microsoft’s Windows eight and Windows RT operating systems have struggled to gain traction so far and Paul Thurrott in the Supersite for Windows says there’s a really basic explanation for this: The very first generation of Windows tablets just is not really good. To be clear, Thurrott says that there are lots of touch screen Windows 8 PCs and ultrabooks which are extremely worthy of users’ time and that shouldn’t be overlooked. But when it comes to pure tablets, he deems that each single one is “simply to flawed to recommend” to everyone serious about purchasing 1.
  “Looking around my own workplace, this can be what I see,” Thurrott explains. “A Surface RT that is gorgeous and light and gets wonderful battery life but is worthless and frustrating in use because of its horrible performance. A Surface Pro that is thick and heavy and gets only 4.five hours of battery life when providing the weird mixture of a smaller screen using a pretty high resolution. A Samsung ATIV Wise Pc 500T (Clover Trail primarily based) that will be laughable from a overall performance perspective if it weren’t for that Surface RT. (Actually, it is nonetheless terrible.) That 700T that will not charge anymore unless I plug the energy cord in to the tablet itself … which, wait for it, you cannot do although the keyboard is connected.”

  Of course, the initial round of Android-based tablets had been similarly lackluster when compared with Apple’s iPad, so it is not as although Windows eight is doomed as a tablet operating system. It does suggest, even so, that Microsoft and its OEM partners will should place quite a bit of effort into adding greater efficiency and worth to their tablets, similar to how Nokia has attempted to make Windows Telephone eight seem extra cutting-edge with all the inclusion of its industry-best 41-megapixel smartphone camera in the Lumia 1020.
  Thurrott is optimistic that the subsequent generation of Windows tablets will likely be a significant improvement over the current generation because improvements to each hardware and software program will make the devices a lot more palatable for consumers.
  “Things are going to get improved,” he concludes. “Intel’s new generation Core processors, codenamed Haswell, appear to possess solved the battery life situation. And Windows eight.1 seems to solve numerous on the issues users have highlighted in Windows 8, like desktop show scaling. Both of those improvements suggest to me that waiting is in order, as Haswell- and Windows eight.1-based tablets might be plentiful in just a few months.”

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2013年7月7日星期日

iPhone 6 release date: Apple says between Sept 22nd and Dec 20th 2013

  Apple says that iOS 7, and therefore the iPhone 6 which will arrive with it, are set for a release date in the fall of 2013. That’s set off some debate as to just what the word “fall” means and what Apple is trying to tell us. Technically, according to the calendar, the season of fall begins on September 22nd and ends on December 20th. But Apple isn’t saying there’s a chance that the iPhone 6 arrives five days before Christmas. Nor is it threatening to hold the iPhone 6 back until late September if it and iOS 7 happen to be ready sooner.
  Narrowing down that date range is trivial. Let’s give it a triOS 7 and the iPhone 6 will be released before Thanksgiving weekend, even if it means Apple has to pare down its iOS 7 ambitions to make it happen in time. The new iPhone must be fully ingratiated into retail for the holiday shopping season, and Apple knows that, and has abided by it with every fall consumer product it’s launched. So based on logistics, throw out anything later than mid November. Most people don’t think of that period of time as being the fall anyway. The more populist, calendar-violating definition of fall is vaguely one of September, October, early November. The iPhone 5 saw its release date in late September. The iPhone 4S saw its in mid October. That gives us a sense of when on the calendar the iPhone 6 release date will land. But the truth is that even Apple doesn’t know yet for sure.y:
  The iPhone 6 will run iOS 7, which just saw its first beta-test release this week. Some new iOS versions go seven rounds of testing before being complete. So the iPhone 6 release date will happen when iOS 7 is ready. And while Apple can control that to an extent, bugs are bugs and testing is testing. The iPhone 6 release date is most likely for September or the first half of October, the heart of fall for most people if not for the calendar. Even though Apple is technically saying the iPhone 6 will land between Sept 22nd and Dec 20th, think different.