Would a device like this work on someone who doesn't know how to speak english or better yet a baby that speaks no language at all, if so then we just invented the universal translator, live long and prosper trekkies
Yes it certainly would. The device works by directly picking up the intent of the subject in a global individual-neutral format. That intent is then translated into English by dictionary lookup and standard text-to-speech software. It would be a trivial matter to subsitiute any other language besides English.
As an interesting side-note, since the device directly reads a persons thoughts and intent it can also function as a lie-detector, dream interpreter, and as a therapist.
You sir, have a gift.
Universal translation is close, but using google translator from english to chinese to chinese standard and then back to english, I got this:
Devices like this will be the work of the people do not know how to speak English or better yet speak of a baby that no linguistic and if so, what we have just invented the world of translators, long-term living and prosperity trekkies
Yes, it will, of course. The device works directly accelerate the intent of the theme, in the global personal-neutral format. Of that intent, and then translated into English dictionary search and standard text-to-speech conversion software. This will be a no trivial matter to subsitiute any other language, in addition to English.
As an interesting side effect that, because the device directly read into a person's thoughts and intentions, it also can be used as a lie detector, the dream interpreter, and as a therapist.
How much time and energy does it take to "save" 90 dollars? Maybe being cognizant of power consumption on new purchases is handy, but spending a weekend dicking around with stuff is a waste of money.
I agree, too much time for so little a month in savings. Without checking squat, I bought a heavey duty appliance timer ($5 US on sale, not the kind for lamps, but large loads) and plugged in all my stuff into it. I now turn my computers off before I go to bed as opposed to standby, and the timer kills power about 30 minutes later and clicks on as I wake up. By killing power to my 3 computers, modem, router, printer, etc. I noticed an immediate $10 drop in my bill a month.
My next $5 will be spent on a timer for my overly large tv, satellite box, surround sound system, (leaving the TiVo intact for late night recording)etc. to kill standby mode on that stuff as well.
I am saving more passively than the guy is actively managing his power.
"Is it really that safe? What do we really know about generating nuclear power?
A helluva lot, actually. It's not as if the technology was invented yesterday. The first man-made nuclear reactor, Chicago Pile-1 was built in 1942."
Not to mention the US Navy operates about a bazillion reactors in subs and aircraft carriers with a pretty safe track record.
FYI, like many posts on slashdot I am not checking my facts, just making a statement that might be true to make a point, also "bazillion" is just a rough estimate. Unfortunately I am too opinionated to change my mind if someone uses facts to prove me wrong - which is also typical of slashdot posts.
Good for you! I seriously applaud anyone that takes the time to teach their children. Although not open source, we had a similar situation with our then 3 year old with hooked on phonics. It worked for her. She is in the first grade and reading at a 4th grade level.
Parental involvement is the key and I hope that you continue with your efforts.
They were even more clueless about the processor they were running
Tell me about it, I worked at this gas station when I was a teenager and people would come in and fill up the tank without the least bit of knowledge how gasoline was refined, or if their OBDC used SAE J1850 VPW or SAE J1850 PWM communication patterns.
You'd think that if someone is going to buy a car, that they would know everything a certified mechanic knew.
Or, maybe the people that you talked to when you were tech support were just using their computers for entertainment and have neither the need nor the desire to "get under the hood" of the computer.
Typically people in tech support forget that they are paid to support the person calling them, not the other way around. I understand dealing with the public can be a pain in the ass, but if you don't like it, do your profession and the public a favor and quit.
if AT&T is having to hand over $18 a month to Apple, they're going to make damn sure they're going to separate every iPhone user of at least $18 a month extra.
You mean AT&T is not in business to lose $18 per month for every iphone in sells?
I wonder if other companies know that they can pass costs on to their consumers in the price of the product?
I wonder if AT&T also passes on corporate income taxes, manufacturing costs, labor costs, technical support costs, warranty costs, etc. on to the consumer also.
I believe in God, but if I didn't, I would change my mind and believe God exists for a simple reason (I know, it doesn't make sense). If you believe in God, and he doesn't exist, you've pretty much lost nothing, because in the end you are dead.
On the other hand, you believe in God, he exists, you die and spend eternity in heaven. Not a bad return on your investment of a couple hours a week in church and living basically the same moral code that athiests are required to live by because of laws that have been passed and social custom (murder, theft, lying, etc.).
Where the odds get you is picking the right religion.
Because H1-Bs are paid PREVAILAING WAGES and are only necessary because there is INSUFFICIENT LOCAL TALENT!
I believe there is "insufficient local talent" because most of the applicants that I see look good on paper, but lack at least one critical skill for the job (programming and engineering positions). FYI, I get about 25 - 50 applicants per job opening, and after a preliminary technical interview, feel lucky if I can call back 1 person. In my experience the American education system is failing the students and business.
Making people safe from a type of thinking? Fuck you, Mr. mind-cop, I don't need you or anyone else to 'protect' me from thoughts.
I agree with you in that I don't need anyone to protect me from thoughts, but millions of people would disagree with you (me).
I offer as evidence hate crime laws. It is not bad enough to kill someone, but the hate crime laws punish the reason (thoughts of the killer) behind the murder. My guess is that if you are murdered, that would be a bad day no matter what the motivation.
Another example is the issue of school prayer. I believe in God and pray, also I am a parent and can make my child pray (as can other parents with their own children) and therefore influence the thoughts of my child. Why then would someone want to have laws enforcing school prayer? The answer is to control or at least influence the thoughts of your child - apparently it is not enough for some to control their children, they must also control the thoughts of your child.
There are more examples, but what's the point, I will not change the mind of a single member of the thought police.
They probably did, as it would be a public relations coup if the US revealed that China DIDN'T reach the moon.
Not only that, China and Russia both had the technology to verify that the USA went to the moon in the late 60's. If you believe the fake moon landing conspiracy wackos, China and Russia knew we faked a moon landing, yet didn't use that for propaganda during the cold war.
Unless that was the plan, they didn't tell on us in exchange for us not telling on them almost 40 years later. It all makes sense now.
I was literally less than 24 hours old when Apollo 11 launched. I'd like to think that we'd have people living and working full-time on the Moon sometime before I die of old age...
I'd like to think that when people wish for something, that they were actually working on a solution, but I guess we'll both be dead by the time our thoughts come true.
Wishing and hoping is for marketing, engineers solve problems - except for the ones we create by "fixing" a working design.
But carry on exclusively blaming the 'software' for all the updates and bugfixes. ..
I never said there are no hardware problems that require work-arounds, I said that in my case, if I delivered something that was not correct (required a software work-around), I'd be fired (maybe not the first time, but after two or three times for sure).
This is because my customers expect the hardware to work. For some reason my customers do not expect the software to work (maybe their experience with every software product that they use), so when we deliver a product, the hardware is set, but we are required by the customer to provide a plan for updates and bugfixes in the software.
Whether the GPs post was sarcastic or not, why was this modded offtopic? Perhaps the problem is that Carmael's answer was polite and rational - two traits that many on slashdot lack?
Amazing that IT has managed to train us so well to the existence of bugs in final products that we laugh at a company that seems to think bugs are unacceptable.
Truly amazing how we come to accept that the software we use is not functioning correctly
Which is why, in my next life, I will write code instead of designing hardware. I'd be fired if I delivered a product that required regular updates, yet the software that goes on my hardware has an update plan at delivery.
There is no argument why a mobile phone operator cannot generate this anonymised data and sell it to GPS companies. They know how many cells are in the area and how they move already, so it's more a matter of how to package that data and sell it - this would also be more cost effective than cells having to phone out to report where they are under a separate system - this works anywhere.
Can the system predict governmental trends? I'm thinking of something like when a somewhat peaceful, balanced budget democratic republic passes some multidimensional cusp and becomes enamored of gross deficit spending, preemptive military strikes, illegal detainment, torture, and fascism in general? It sure would be nice to see this coming a few years in advance.
Why, 1945 is long gone (Korean war in 1950)and we've (USA) only had about 5 or 6 years of surplus since then - and the surplus only occured because both parties of congress were controlled by one party and the presidency by the other - cancelling out each other's overspending ways.
I feel sorry for the canned individuals But, I don't feel sorry for AOL.
Huh? AOL is a corporation, not a person, it exists on paper. The actions of the corporation are controlled by the individuals (people). So, no you should not feel sorry for the piece of paper that says AOL is a legal entity, nor should you feel sorry for the individuals that caused the behavior that makes you not like AOL.
Whenever someone loses their job, for cause or not, I feel sad because that person's life is now a mess and there are probably several innocent beings that rely on the now unemployed person's income (spouse/kids/dog).
"Who needs trust" as long as you've got powerpoint and can read the Word documents you're sent in the mail?
I suspect this is a joke, but it (or something similar) is what I live by with my computer. I have no pirated software on my computer, I don't watch videos or listen to songs on my computer, I use my computer for work, email, and killing time by surfing the web.
If my computer allows me to work, check my email, and read slashdot, I am not concerned about the rest.
I am a fan of privacy rights, but realize that I pretty much signed my online rights away by connecting my computer to the internet - my ISP can get all the data they want and (il)legally share the date with anyone they want, logging in at a website gives away the rest.
You can almost hear the sound of the vacuum created by bloggers thinking that their words matter when the people with control don't even know how to read the tubes. Lick a stamp or march- that's harder to ignore.
I couldn't agree more. I wouldn't even know how and where to find all these important bloggers in the tubes...
Why would you lick a stamp? They are all self stick now.
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Devices like this will be the work of the people do not know how to speak English or better yet speak of a baby that no linguistic and if so, what we have just invented the world of translators, long-term living and prosperity trekkies
Yes, it will, of course. The device works directly accelerate the intent of the theme, in the global personal-neutral format. Of that intent, and then translated into English dictionary search and standard text-to-speech conversion software. This will be a no trivial matter to subsitiute any other language, in addition to English.
As an interesting side effect that, because the device directly read into a person's thoughts and intentions, it also can be used as a lie detector, the dream interpreter, and as a therapist.
Ladies, there is a gift.
My next $5 will be spent on a timer for my overly large tv, satellite box, surround sound system, (leaving the TiVo intact for late night recording)etc. to kill standby mode on that stuff as well. I am saving more passively than the guy is actively managing his power.
A helluva lot, actually. It's not as if the technology was invented yesterday. The first man-made nuclear reactor, Chicago Pile-1 was built in 1942."
Not to mention the US Navy operates about a bazillion reactors in subs and aircraft carriers with a pretty safe track record.
FYI, like many posts on slashdot I am not checking my facts, just making a statement that might be true to make a point, also "bazillion" is just a rough estimate. Unfortunately I am too opinionated to change my mind if someone uses facts to prove me wrong - which is also typical of slashdot posts.
if we've learned anything from "To Catch a Predator," HotChk101 is a 63 year old man.
Parental involvement is the key and I hope that you continue with your efforts.
You'd think that if someone is going to buy a car, that they would know everything a certified mechanic knew.
Or, maybe the people that you talked to when you were tech support were just using their computers for entertainment and have neither the need nor the desire to "get under the hood" of the computer.
Typically people in tech support forget that they are paid to support the person calling them, not the other way around. I understand dealing with the public can be a pain in the ass, but if you don't like it, do your profession and the public a favor and quit.
I wonder if other companies know that they can pass costs on to their consumers in the price of the product?
I wonder if AT&T also passes on corporate income taxes, manufacturing costs, labor costs, technical support costs, warranty costs, etc. on to the consumer also.
Thanks, never heard of Pascal's Wager, but I was joking (not about believing in God) about the ROI.
On the other hand, you believe in God, he exists, you die and spend eternity in heaven. Not a bad return on your investment of a couple hours a week in church and living basically the same moral code that athiests are required to live by because of laws that have been passed and social custom (murder, theft, lying, etc.).
Where the odds get you is picking the right religion.
I offer as evidence hate crime laws. It is not bad enough to kill someone, but the hate crime laws punish the reason (thoughts of the killer) behind the murder. My guess is that if you are murdered, that would be a bad day no matter what the motivation.
Another example is the issue of school prayer. I believe in God and pray, also I am a parent and can make my child pray (as can other parents with their own children) and therefore influence the thoughts of my child. Why then would someone want to have laws enforcing school prayer? The answer is to control or at least influence the thoughts of your child - apparently it is not enough for some to control their children, they must also control the thoughts of your child.
There are more examples, but what's the point, I will not change the mind of a single member of the thought police.
Unless that was the plan, they didn't tell on us in exchange for us not telling on them almost 40 years later. It all makes sense now.
Wishing and hoping is for marketing, engineers solve problems - except for the ones we create by "fixing" a working design.
This is because my customers expect the hardware to work. For some reason my customers do not expect the software to work (maybe their experience with every software product that they use), so when we deliver a product, the hardware is set, but we are required by the customer to provide a plan for updates and bugfixes in the software.
Whether the GPs post was sarcastic or not, why was this modded offtopic? Perhaps the problem is that Carmael's answer was polite and rational - two traits that many on slashdot lack?
WTF, a government finding yet another way to take money and use it to buy votes!? I've never heard of such a thing.
Not particularly witty, but the best I could do after a few beers and not much sleep.
Whenever someone loses their job, for cause or not, I feel sad because that person's life is now a mess and there are probably several innocent beings that rely on the now unemployed person's income (spouse/kids/dog).