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Navy Unveils Polyglot Chat For Iraq

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the asl? dept.

An anonymous reader writes "According to ScienceBlog, the U.S. Office of Naval Research, trying to keep friendly armies in Iraq from accidentally blowing each other to smithereens, is helping create software that connects instant messaging (IM) with machine translation (MT). The result: Chat software to be used in Iraq that automatically translates your messages into the correct language of the reader, called the the Coalition Chat Line - it's 'getting rave reviews from U.S. and allied-coalition personnel.'"

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  1. Let the rants begin by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    in 3....2....1...GO!

  2. th1s is goatsex by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    declineD in m4rket

  3. Chat Session.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Ok. You can have my sister but, stay the fuck away from my camel!

  4. New requirements for DooM III ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Q&A with John Carmack
    "
    The german magazine PCGames Hardware has a quick Q&A with John Carmack in their latest issue. It's very short, but there are a lot of new and unbelievable information.

    A video card with at least 128MB RAM and Pixel Shader 1.1 support is required for DOOM 3.

    A 2.5GHz CPU should be enough for the stencil shadows and physics calculations.

    The testing phase might last till summer or even later this year.
    DOOM 3 will be released on 4 CDs.

    Last time we heard about the target system for DOOM 3 it was just a PC with a GeForce 3 class video card, but according to that Q&A it will be the minimum. Maybe we will find out more during the upcoming GDC.
    "
    Looks like *I* won't buy buying/playing this game.

    Fuck Id if they think I'm going to toss my Athon XP 2100+ and my Verto GF4 (64MB) just for their sorry asses

  5. "Fatal error" by Kent+Simon · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    /.ing wasn't so nice for this site i guess? "Fatal error: Call to undefined function: message_die() in /home/scienceb/public_html/community/db/db.php on line 88" Now some Iraqi will be reading Fatal Error!! Fatal, they sent us a message to die!.. We must fight, Praise Allah!!

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    Kent Simon Multitheft Auto