If they can sign, can't they type? I guess I don't understand why that or pen and paper are not realistic. I mean I think the idea for automatic translation of sign language is a really great (and frankly cool) idea, I just don't see how it'd be worth the increased cost over a pen and paper or typing in almost all situations. Suuuuuuuuure.... Somehow, being able to sign gives you YEARS of keyboarding experience to quickly [in poor health/ill/rabid/blurred vision] type out your problem. Usin' that logic, since you're able to peck out a message on/., you've got the piano keyboard skills to play Für Elise with no training, right?
This is why my family and I haven't bothered to learn ASL or other variants. VERY few people sign, but darn near EVERYONE talks. We've invested our time more in learning to lip-read. It's not perfect, but does MUCH more to enhance communication than the blank looks you get when trying to sign to all but a few.
HERE is something we could use: A system to read lips FOR us, to a text screen. Before I'm inundated with the "utterly lazy" tag, let me explain. I'm around 70% deaf, and my main problem with reading lips, other than everyone's slightly different accent/pronunciation, is that you've generally got to be in pretty good mental shape to DO so. It's like translating; you have to take the "lipshapes" and make 'em into "words" in your head. If I'm sick, inebriated, delirious, or my vision's blurring in and out, it's almost impossible. Give me some screen text to focus on for a few secs and I'll be able to make out what's being said... Some here might suggest just handing a laptop/PDA/keyboard back and forth, but trust a guy that's worked with a LOT of doctors: most would be lucky to break 5 words a minute.
...but in the article, did you notice their example, "Swoogle"?
Being just curious enough to add a.com after that, I then wondered if they chose that site on purpose. Doubtful, but positive reinforcement DOES work at times...
Require wireless carriers, within six months of a valid request by a PSAP, to begin providing more precise location information to PSAPs, specifically, the latitude and longitude of the caller.
This information must meet FCC accuracy standards - generally, it must be accurate to within 50-300 meters (depending on the type of technology used)."
IANAC/B, so bein' curious I have to ask the crowd:
Would any dangerous amount of sodium methoxide stick around in the cow's system after eating those hoses? Enough to pose a problem to those eatin' it? Is it toxic to begin with?
A problem I'd like to point out with this next line:
The whole point of feeding in all these variables into a statistical model is that a computer can do this better than a human.
If computer pattern-recognition is THAT advanced, then why do all the "image pattern recognition" verification routines work as well as they do? I've YET to see a decent PRS that works.
But hasn't the idea behind Singularity been in academic labs years before?
Hmmm... At the bottom of that wikipedia article, it DOES mention "Inferno, an operating system from Bell Labs of which Singularity uses some concepts."
While I'm one to live and let live, I couldn't pass this flamebait up....
{Gothic white girls are the most beautiful women on earth.}
Ew. Every "Goth" I've met was some self-centered whiner who hated their life bad enough to want to be someone else, ie, their "goth persona". Take away the whiteface makeup and crappy "everything sucks" attitude, and you've got an everyday average person who can't handle being an everyday average person.
...and who takes racists that seriously on ANY topic, anyway?
Like many others here, I see no harm in a bared breast, but there are a LOT of groups/religions that INSIST on various moral standards for their followers. Just because *I* don't: wear a burqa/handle snakes/speak in tongues/want porn banned/avoid animal products doesn't mean that somehow I've the right to pass judgement on those who do. I'm firmly convinced this is one of humankind's biggest follies: Paying FAR too much attention to a few minor differences, while ignoring our myriad similarities.
But "Travelin' Soldier" didn't deserve to get thrown off the charts in 2003 just because Bush and his buddies needed a straw man (woman?) to distract voters.
I didn't stop listening to the DCs because of ANYTHING the Bush administration had to say; those ninnies will be lucky just to hold the White House. I just didn't care for the way it went down. They're free to say whatever they'd like; my dad fought for that freedom. IMHO, the DCs were playing to the crowd. This happened in London, during a time when the war was really unpopular there. They wanted to score brownie points with the crowd, and by all accounts did so. Yay for them.
HOWEVER:
If their fans here in the US have a problem with that statement {or the retraction....or the reinstatement...}, and vote with their pocketbooks, that's our right. I'm not trying to censor speech, just the opposite. However, just as I disagree with Louis Farrakhan, David Duke, and refuse to buy their material, I reserve the same right with the DCs.
It's old news that Microslop doesn't get it right until AT LEAST the SECOND revision of any MS-OS. This dates from DOS, and is old news. DOS 6? Nope. DOS 6.22. Win95? Nope. Win95C. Win98? Nope. 98SE. I refuse to mention WinMe. Win2k? SP4 if you want updates. XP? SP2, of course.
{I was tempted by wireless, but given I don't have a laptop, I grabbed a couple of these twenty quid each Homeplug devices which plug into a mains socket and send data around the house's main circuit. It not be as 'go anywhere' as Wireless, but in the light of this I guess it's more secure.}
Even better... *3* 7950 GX2s...OoooOOOOOOoooooo...
That even possible? I've seen quad-SLI boxes in the mod magazines, but I'm not sure what limits the hardware and various OSes have on the number of displays they can support...
As an AF military brat, I had these memorized by the time I was 10...;)
Believe it or not, that cost me a job at a local telemarketing firm. In their training clsas, they started to teach another variant of the phonetic alphabet, and I told them I'd just use the one I knew. No dice. It turns out that someone who called to order something heard them using the NATO phonetic alphabet and "had a flashback"... They sued for a lot of money, so we had to use a "friendly" variant. I didn't bother going back the next day, and got rehired at my old company in less than a week.
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This is why my family and I haven't bothered to learn ASL or other variants. VERY few people sign, but darn near EVERYONE talks. We've invested our time more in learning to lip-read. It's not perfect, but does MUCH more to enhance communication than the blank looks you get when trying to sign to all but a few.
HERE is something we could use: A system to read lips FOR us, to a text screen. Before I'm inundated with the "utterly lazy" tag, let me explain. I'm around 70% deaf, and my main problem with reading lips, other than everyone's slightly different accent/pronunciation, is that you've generally got to be in pretty good mental shape to DO so. It's like translating; you have to take the "lipshapes" and make 'em into "words" in your head. If I'm sick, inebriated, delirious, or my vision's blurring in and out, it's almost impossible. Give me some screen text to focus on for a few secs and I'll be able to make out what's being said... Some here might suggest just handing a laptop/PDA/keyboard back and forth, but trust a guy that's worked with a LOT of doctors: most would be lucky to break 5 words a minute.
Just the deaf hippie's two cents.
Doo Dooooooo Di doo doo.
http://www.devilducky.com/media/7452/
My girlfriend and a tin of cinnamon-flavored Altoids bets otherwise...
Sure. Yahooligans and their trojan-ridden "booting l33t w4rez".
Nimrods.
Being just curious enough to add a .com after that, I then wondered if they chose that site on purpose. Doubtful, but positive reinforcement DOES work at times...
What about the WinPE/BartPE Live CDs? They might be able to be tweaked to fit in a 512MB space... Anyone?
Another great example... Just give this phone to the person you want to track and off you go:
http://www.popsci.com/popsci/how20/f88b973910a9a01 0vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd.html
Phase II E911 Rules
The FCC's Phase II E911 rules:
Require wireless carriers, within six months of a valid request by a PSAP, to begin providing more precise location information to PSAPs, specifically, the latitude and longitude of the caller.
This information must meet FCC accuracy standards - generally, it must be accurate to within 50-300 meters (depending on the type of technology used)."
Link to the full text at http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/consumerfacts/wireless911sr vc.html
Would any dangerous amount of sodium methoxide stick around in the cow's system after eating those hoses? Enough to pose a problem to those eatin' it? Is it toxic to begin with?
The whole point of feeding in all these variables into a statistical model is that a computer can do this better than a human.
If computer pattern-recognition is THAT advanced, then why do all the "image pattern recognition" verification routines work as well as they do? I've YET to see a decent PRS that works.
If you know of one, please fill us in!
Hmmm... At the bottom of that wikipedia article, it DOES mention "Inferno, an operating system from Bell Labs of which Singularity uses some concepts."
Does that count?
Knoppix CD & DVD
the Insert distro
BartPE {tweaked to include Symantec Ghost and XP keygrabbers}
MemTest x86
the Win95C, 98, 98SE, 2000, XP Home/Pro/OEM/SP2 Cds, with DOS on floppy...
{yes, we STILL get the occasional 286....}
{Gothic white girls are the most beautiful women on earth.}
Ew. Every "Goth" I've met was some self-centered whiner who hated their life bad enough to want to be someone else, ie, their "goth persona". Take away the whiteface makeup and crappy "everything sucks" attitude, and you've got an everyday average person who can't handle being an everyday average person.
Like many others here, I see no harm in a bared breast, but there are a LOT of groups/religions that INSIST on various moral standards for their followers. Just because *I* don't: wear a burqa/handle snakes/speak in tongues/want porn banned/avoid animal products doesn't mean that somehow I've the right to pass judgement on those who do. I'm firmly convinced this is one of humankind's biggest follies: Paying FAR too much attention to a few minor differences, while ignoring our myriad similarities.
So just what WOULD you use a superconducting biscuit for, anyway?
{Sorry, couldn't resist....}
I've not seen you since Seinfield... Looks like you're just as useless now as then!
I didn't stop listening to the DCs because of ANYTHING the Bush administration had to say; those ninnies will be lucky just to hold the White House. I just didn't care for the way it went down. They're free to say whatever they'd like; my dad fought for that freedom. IMHO, the DCs were playing to the crowd. This happened in London, during a time when the war was really unpopular there. They wanted to score brownie points with the crowd, and by all accounts did so. Yay for them.
HOWEVER:
If their fans here in the US have a problem with that statement {or the retraction....or the reinstatement...}, and vote with their pocketbooks, that's our right. I'm not trying to censor speech, just the opposite. However, just as I disagree with Louis Farrakhan, David Duke, and refuse to buy their material, I reserve the same right with the DCs.
It's old news that Microslop doesn't get it right until AT LEAST the SECOND revision of any MS-OS. This dates from DOS, and is old news. DOS 6? Nope. DOS 6.22. Win95? Nope. Win95C. Win98? Nope. 98SE. I refuse to mention WinMe. Win2k? SP4 if you want updates. XP? SP2, of course.
Does your house have any external outlets?
...It ran over his dogma....
Even better... *3* 7950 GX2s...OoooOOOOOOoooooo...
That even possible? I've seen quad-SLI boxes in the mod magazines, but I'm not sure what limits the hardware and various OSes have on the number of displays they can support...
Anyone?
As an AF military brat, I had these memorized by the time I was 10... ;)
Believe it or not, that cost me a job at a local telemarketing firm. In their training clsas, they started to teach another variant of the phonetic alphabet, and I told them I'd just use the one I knew. No dice. It turns out that someone who called to order something heard them using the NATO phonetic alphabet and "had a flashback"... They sued for a lot of money, so we had to use a "friendly" variant. I didn't bother going back the next day, and got rehired at my old company in less than a week.
...
Behold, the power of cheese....
I'm betting a bunch of Sheeple use it for swapping music, porn, and movies until RIAA sues it into oblivion....
...and thus begins Alienware's "Dell Era"....