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Technolust? by the_kanzure · 2007-06-21 11:13 · Score: 1 · on When Does Technolust Become An Addiction?

Just before Google's index is poisoned with this article's mention of 'technolust' (you know, in case anybody cares) I thought it might be nice to pull up at least one (odd) result which seems to be about new paperless writing options. This is related to freenode.net's #electronic's elite01's paperless typewriter as well as my own project notes on my website.

Re:no surprise... by nacturation · 2005-06-02 19:37 · Score: 4, Informative · on Morse Coders Beat SMSers

Granted, but let's see them repeat the experiment with a device that has a full keyboard on it. I've known people who can type on QWERTY at 120 WPM sustained, let's see any morse guy keep up. Or get one of those closed caption keyers to compete as well -- they apparently go up to 250 WPM.

Could be great for TV news (free and otherwise) by frostman · 2005-02-15 01:13 · Score: 3, Interesting · on Firefox Plugin Annodex For Searching Audio, Video

This could be really useful for TV broadcasts, particularly news.

I think anybody doing closed captioning already has the descriptive content they need. (Others could use a similar process to create it.)

That info, combined with relatively easily-detectable scene transitions, would make it possible to automate the searchable video file creation to a large extent.

So the CC or equivalent would still have to be done manually but you'd have this extremely useful, huge searchable archive of video.

Not so easy for things that depend on the visual content as opposed to the spoken content, but for news it could be amazing.

Then watch as politicians and captains of industry squirm at the thought that their every word and twitch is available for searching...

Still no closed captioning by awtbfb · 2004-07-02 05:38 · Score: 4, Insightful · on HDTV Comes to the Mac

Come on people. This isn't fancy technology or a proprietary format. Do your homework and implement it already. Closed captioning has been vaporware for too long on EyeTV.

Re:Don't you get protections with a licensed produ by ilsa · 2003-10-24 06:05 · Score: 1 · on Fight Woodworking Piracy: Add EULA Restrictions

[norm_abram]

Be sure to read, understand, and follow all the instructions, safety rules, and EULAs that come with your power tools. Using power tools properly greatly reduces the risk of personal injury. And remember, there is no more important safety rule than to wear these, safety glasses.

[/norm_abram]

Norm, BTW, uses a Macintosh and makes a lot of his own jigs. He'll even sell you plans of how to make your own.

I have no idea whether there is a EULA on his measured drawings.

as usual, no captioning/subtitling support! by loo_hoo_ser · 2002-09-10 02:24 · Score: 2 · on 'Harry Potter' Offered (Legitimately) on the Net

As usual, the hearing impaired users get the shaft.

There is no support for subtitling or closed captioning. This is a very scary trend as more movies are available using the internet. Even though MS's Media player and Real's RealPlayer support captioning, I have seen very little use of this feature. Now that these movies are available for download, how are the hearing impaired users going to be able to enjoy the movies? What about foreign language support? With DVD's, you were able to turn on/off subtitling at will.

Sidebar: It took an act of government (as I understand it) and the FCC mandated closed captioning on 13" and larger TV's. Eventually, the FCC mandated that new programming (with exceptions) be closed captioned on the airwaves, phasing in to 100% by 2007 (barring extensions). More info is here.

Will the same happen for the internet content? I believe that subtitling/captioning support should have been done from the beginning because it's cheaper to add in features from the beginning than it is to go back later and add the features that should have been included in the first place.

Alright, enough ranting. Blockbuster still gets my money because I can still can access captioning and subtitles from their DVD's and VHS's. God forbid should they try to copy Cinemanow's approach and do the same thing, discard subtitling/captioning support....

Re:Sometimes helpful by CaseyB · 2001-11-05 09:08 · Score: 2 · on U.S. Logo-Free TV Broadcast Organizations?

This is what XDS is for. It's a standard way to embed extra information in a regular TV signal, like station, time, and current show. This way, you have access to that information, without obscuring the show itself.

Very few channels that I recieve actually use XDS though. TBS is one.

Dynamic sites by CyberDawg · 2001-03-27 05:38 · Score: 2 · on Is The Web Becoming Unsearchable?

Much fuss is made about the search engines needing to "fix the problem" of not being able to index sites like microsoft.com because the pages are dynamically generated. Is this really a problem?

Microsoft (or whatever over dynamic site you wish to pick) chose to make their content unindexable. Don't try to make it someone else's problem. Let people who use the search engines find third-party information instead. If the site designers wanted their site in the search engines, it would be there. Many of the sites built with ColdFusion or ASP contain basically static information anyway, and making them dynamic just reduces your traffic.

Sites like Slashdot are dynamic. A search engine can't be expected to keep up with something that changes every 30 seconds. However, making all of the archives static HTML allows them to be searchable by the engines and takes some load off the server, to boot.

I went for a "best of both worlds" approach on my personal site by writing a perl site generator. Each time I update the site, I re-run the site generator, which takes about a minute. My server carries a lighter load, but I still have "dynamic" links to related articles and such that the site generator builds.

Re:Understandable by CyberDawg · 2001-03-26 02:10 · Score: 2 · on Unwanted Linking

Greenpeace should be very weary about corporations that are in reality environmental pigs, but try to obsfucate this by displaying the Greenpeace logo and link to their site.

I presume you mean they should be "wary," although maybe they're just tired of it <grin>. Anyway, I disagree with what you're saying. Using Greenpeace's logo without their permission is a trademark violation, and it's against the law. That's very different than a link. If I disagree with an article on the Web, why shouldn't I be able to say, "I think this article is a pile of hooey" (including a link to the article I don't like)?

I strongly feel that if information is placed on the web for public consumption (no login required), then anyone should be able to link to it from anywhere, as long as they're not claiming ownership of it. Heck, I encourage it! That's what the Web is all about! People keep asking you how to become a hacker? Link 'em here! You want people visiting your Web site to be able to learn about closed captioning? Link 'em here! Visitors looking for information about Scratch 'n Sniff Macintoshes? Link 'em here!