It's.....so......pretty......

[jefmcg]

I did live in Essex (about 2miles from here). It was orange. Didn't like it. Luckily it wasn't anything horrific like south of the river.

(I'm only on page 10 of this thread, so apologies if this has caught up)

I saw your avatar this afternoon - truly - and he seems quite happy south of the river.

(he was also my first UK celebrity sighting at a Chiswick cinema, waiting to buy a ticket to A Simple Plan, and a few months ago on the chair next to me getting his hair cut. I thanked him for his work on Girls. Charmer.)

 

[jefmcg]

No....... It's........ Not.........

It's a fricking mobile computer.



HTH, folks.

That's a TMN to me.

4.

Yup. That's where "you" live and where "you" get your hair cut. (zone 4, south of the river)

 

[jefmcg]

So this facial recognition thing - does it work if you're wearing a mask, a motorbike helmet, a burqua ...?

The android (Moto G, 1st gen is the one I used, can't remember which version of android it was) version allowed you to take as many images as you liked to compare with. Glasses, no glasses, different lighting, hat, scarves etc. More images meant more likelihood of a match ,but presumably more likelihood of a false positive. Holding your phone up to your face with good light was more of a pain than the other unlocking methods, so soon went back to passcode.

Eventually facial recognition unlocking will be so seamless that you won't even be aware it's doing it. We'll see if apple have reached that point yet.

 

[Wobblers]

[QUOTE 4956933, member: 43827"]He's possibly slim, but that doesn't mean he's diety.[/QUOTE]

Well, I didn't want to risk offending a real deity....

 

[Tim Hall]

Yes. I did think that and it is correct but I thought the use of 'Technologies' was intentional - maybe it wasn't?

But if it was...

"But if it were" I think.

 

[jefmcg]

"But if it were" I think.

Are you sure you want to get into that?

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NYpz_j3e38

 

[Bollo]

Are you sure you want to get into that?

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NYpz_j3e38

It's complicated.

 

[srw]

Eventually facial recognition unlocking will be so seamless that you won't even be aware it's doing it. We'll see if apple have reached that point yet.

Microsoft (surface laptop) already is in most light conditions.

 

[Inertia]

Microsoft (surface laptop) already is in most light conditions.

I'd be amazed if it wasn't almost perfect since its going to be used for Apple Pay. For years fingerprint technology had been dodgy and they made it work for that.

 

[Tim Hall]

But my final thought - I am indeed retired, and managed to do so at 47 because I didn't go around spending £1300+ on phone handsets. If people want to work into their sixties or later to fund such a lifestyle then thats their call.

I'm older than you, but not retired. I've never spent money, let alone £1300, on phone hand sets. Where did I go wrong?

<goes off to count number of bikes in Seecrit Bunker>

 

[dodgy]

lol, the only people I know that retired in their late 40s had gold lined police pensions. Let's not pretend you're some kind of expert thrift :P

 

[Kestevan]

Zone 4! That's practically Yorkshire!

Here I was, thinking you were a sophisticated Londoner. How disappointed am I, finding that you're not a diety after all. Next you'll be talking about your flat cap and whippet...

fark off. We don't want the nobber.

 

[srw]

I'd be amazed if it wasn't almost perfect since its going to be used for Apple Pay. For years fingerprint technology had been dodgy and they made it work for that.

As long as it (almost) never gives false postive matches users will put up with false negatives.

 

[cyberknight]

lol, the only people I know that retired in their late 40s had gold lined police pensions. Let's not pretend you're some kind of expert thrift :P

Bank crash farked me good and proper my mortgage doesn't even finish now till I 65

 

[AndyRM]