Interviews are not formal speech. People mumble and slur their words in interviews. They cough, rustle and make non verbal vocalisations. There is no software that can deal with this. With the best voice recognition software you would be lucky to capture 30% of what was said, and that's *after* all the fricking about with settings etc. Quicker just to type it in.
What can you expect from the "jock pilot" types they used to select for these missions. Articulacy was not generally among their strongest skills. It's a little different now, of course.
It's a very prophetic book. It also details, under the aegis of the right-wing hawk president Xavier Maclachlan, the dishonest, pre-planned dismantling of that space program, the complete abandonment of all science and rationality in favour of New Age relativism, and the withering and decay of the token tourist attractions that were all that was left of the space industry.
I read this book to my kids (8.5yrs & 10 yrs old). Out of all the very scary things in the book, the thing they found the most scary and objectionable of all were American society's abandonment of their space program and that trend toward all the New Age crap. God bless their little hearts!
The bit that sticks in my mind the most is when Marcus White meets Jake Hadamard at the tourist centre of one of these relics, and they watch these holograms of famous past astronauts retelling their experiences with a heavily PC slant, focussing entirely on the "spiritual" dimension.
Titan was great, so was Baxter's "Voyage" (which I also read to the kids). I've read an obscene amount of science fiction as well as plenty of less genre-oriented fiction, and these two novels were among the very best I've seen.
Gore's claim was that he "took the initiative" in "creating the internet". Rephrased so that even a moronic halfwit like you can understand: In the matter of the creation of the internet, Gore took the initiative.
This claim is clearly and demonstrably true, and has been endorsed by all major players involved with design and depoyment of the internet during that early phase. Who the fuck are you?
Forget subscription. If it's mass market acceptance you're after, it won't take off until you can buy it outright, with access to all necessary services included in the price (for some period close to the expected period of ownership the device , before upgrading).
This has been a pretty clear lesson of the past few years for all kinds of tech startups. Those who didn't learn it either died in the dotcom crash or soon will.
its just a passive racism that stems from living in ignorance of other nations Funnily enough we in the rest of the world often get that impression from the US. As witness their awful dummy-throwing-out-of-pram act following the French refusal to fall in line over Iraq.
"Freedom Fries", ferchrissakes!
You can say a lot of bad things about America, but its definitely about as racism free as we have in the world today.
Doesn't look like that from here. But my experience from both home (UK) and abroad has been that no matter where you are, older generations and the poorest and least well-educated tend to be racist while young people from the middle classes and those with University education tend not to be. In general, and allowing for exceptions of course.
One has to wonder, though, about the potential ramifications of having dangerous predators exposed to this brain-wasting illness, and what type of 'unusual behavior' they'll start to exhibit."
Experience suggests that they will probably do something like launch a series of groundless IP lawsuits against the open source community.
Northern Ireland was an existing situation with a long history, from which the UK government has been desperate to withdraw for a long time. More akin to the situation the US faces in Iraq now, rather than the situation it faced in September 2001.
I live in the home of the previous Empire, Britain, and we got out of it quite lightly.
Heh heh! It's hardly over yet!
The British Empire peaked during the Victorian era and ended effectively with WWII, but that was less than 60 years ago. From where we are today, it's still a long way down to the bottom. Which, I am pretty sure, is where we are headed. Same goes for the rest of the Western world.
Watch your toothbrush: Frankenstein may figure out who Daddy really is (or isn't).
LOL! Fact is, numerous genetic studies have shown that a huge proportion of families include at least one child whose father isn't actually who he is supposed to be. The mind boggles: you'd think Dad could figure out he was being taken for a ride but apparently people are capable of fantastic acts of self deception.
These "toy" kits are likely to result in a significant increase in the divorce rate. You mark my words!
Wrong. The kits don't do sequencing, but they do genetic fingerprinting. That's where you do gel-based electrophoresis, ending up with those banded strips. The position and relative separation of the bands shows the relative size of the DNA fragments following a polymerase reaction (the enzyme mentioned in the advertorial). These geometries differ between individuals because locations of the "weak points" found by the "restricted" polymerases depend on your precise base sequence.
This should be a breeze. I remember reading about a series of experiments where the subjects were denied any clues as to what the time was and they were found (in general) to fall fairly quickly into a 25-hour diurnal cycle. For some reason it appears our bodies are already attuned to a longer day than the Earth naturally provides.
Or maybe it's just that people love getting an extra hour in bed;o)
and certianly never respected it as being the "moral leader of the free world.
We did, to a point. Most of the time we were at least prepared to look the other way.
Anti-American resentment is no higher today than it was ten years ago
You could hardly be more wrong. To be honest the US had already lost a lot of respect when Bush stole the presidency, but that would have been recoverable had he proved in the end to be a good man. Instead, though, his hawkish response to the 9/11 terrorist attack, attempting to blow up a single incident into a world war, didn't go down well in Europe.
You may not realize that in the UK we have already lived with terrorism for thirty years and suffered numerous horrifying atacks without either attempting to drag the rest of the world into it, or attempting to invade any other sovereign country. We believe in proportionate response. Clearly, the US government doesn't though. It has behaved in this matter more like a psychopathic criminal who breaks people's legs for failing to show sufficient respect.
It should be obvious to you that this makes the US appear rather dangerous and irresponsible to the rest of the world. Governments who contine to ally themselves with the US now do so only out of fear and self interest rather than through any sense of moral alignment. For the peoples of these countries however the situation is much less ambiguous, and hence the numerous public demonstrations, for example the very large crowd who assembled to protest when Bush came to visit the UK recently. The US will not be able to regain the respect of the world until after Bush, and his corrupt establishment, have gone.
Some anonymous cowards will no doubt want to respond along the lines of "well we can kick your ass". But fear is not the same as respect. And most people don't believe "might is right" to be a moral standpoint. If the US does, then the US only shares the morality of gangsters and bullies.
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Yes.
Interviews are not formal speech. People mumble and slur their words in interviews. They cough, rustle and make non verbal vocalisations. There is no software that can deal with this. With the best voice recognition software you would be lucky to capture 30% of what was said, and that's *after* all the fricking about with settings etc. Quicker just to type it in.
What can you expect from the "jock pilot" types they used to select for these missions. Articulacy was not generally among their strongest skills. It's a little different now, of course.
It's a very prophetic book. It also details, under the aegis of the right-wing hawk president Xavier Maclachlan, the dishonest, pre-planned dismantling of that space program, the complete abandonment of all science and rationality in favour of New Age relativism, and the withering and decay of the token tourist attractions that were all that was left of the space industry.
I read this book to my kids (8.5yrs & 10 yrs old). Out of all the very scary things in the book, the thing they found the most scary and objectionable of all were American society's abandonment of their space program and that trend toward all the New Age crap. God bless their little hearts!
The bit that sticks in my mind the most is when Marcus White meets Jake Hadamard at the tourist centre of one of these relics, and they watch these holograms of famous past astronauts retelling their experiences with a heavily PC slant, focussing entirely on the "spiritual" dimension.
Titan was great, so was Baxter's "Voyage" (which I also read to the kids). I've read an obscene amount of science fiction as well as plenty of less genre-oriented fiction, and these two novels were among the very best I've seen.
Not a fucking chance.
"French" is a culture, not a race. That's just hair splitting. Many people would disagree with you.
Lynch the fucker.
This claim is clearly and demonstrably true, and has been endorsed by all major players involved with design and depoyment of the internet during that early phase. Who the fuck are you?
Forget subscription. If it's mass market acceptance you're after, it won't take off until you can buy it outright, with access to all necessary services included in the price (for some period close to the expected period of ownership the device , before upgrading).
This has been a pretty clear lesson of the past few years for all kinds of tech startups. Those who didn't learn it either died in the dotcom crash or soon will.
Funnily enough we in the rest of the world often get that impression from the US. As witness their awful dummy-throwing-out-of-pram act following the French refusal to fall in line over Iraq.
"Freedom Fries", ferchrissakes!
You can say a lot of bad things about America, but its definitely about as racism free as we have in the world today.
Doesn't look like that from here. But my experience from both home (UK) and abroad has been that no matter where you are, older generations and the poorest and least well-educated tend to be racist while young people from the middle classes and those with University education tend not to be. In general, and allowing for exceptions of course.
Tut, tut, SOMEBODY drank too much coffee today...
...because the gatos project's goods just don't cut it. It's in permanent pre-alpha. You'll be lucky if you can get any of it working at all.
Experience suggests that they will probably do something like launch a series of groundless IP lawsuits against the open source community.
Well, that's chocolate hard disks for you.
Northern Ireland was an existing situation with a long history, from which the UK government has been desperate to withdraw for a long time. More akin to the situation the US faces in Iraq now, rather than the situation it faced in September 2001.
Heh heh! It's hardly over yet!
The British Empire peaked during the Victorian era and ended effectively with WWII, but that was less than 60 years ago. From where we are today, it's still a long way down to the bottom. Which, I am pretty sure, is where we are headed. Same goes for the rest of the Western world.
You insensitive clod, I'm a member of a nonexistent spe... oops! (*pop*)
And,
He who denied it, supplied it.
A fox always smells his own hole
Watch your toothbrush: Frankenstein may figure out who Daddy really is (or isn't).
LOL! Fact is, numerous genetic studies have shown that a huge proportion of families include at least one child whose father isn't actually who he is supposed to be. The mind boggles: you'd think Dad could figure out he was being taken for a ride but apparently people are capable of fantastic acts of self deception.
These "toy" kits are likely to result in a significant increase in the divorce rate. You mark my words!
Wrong. The kits don't do sequencing, but they do genetic fingerprinting. That's where you do gel-based electrophoresis, ending up with those banded strips. The position and relative separation of the bands shows the relative size of the DNA fragments following a polymerase reaction (the enzyme mentioned in the advertorial). These geometries differ between individuals because locations of the "weak points" found by the "restricted" polymerases depend on your precise base sequence.
This should be a breeze. I remember reading about a series of experiments where the subjects were denied any clues as to what the time was and they were found (in general) to fall fairly quickly into a 25-hour diurnal cycle. For some reason it appears our bodies are already attuned to a longer day than the Earth naturally provides.
;o)
Or maybe it's just that people love getting an extra hour in bed
(My apologies and support, of course, go to those free thinking Americans who don't support the policies of their current government).
Yes we did.
and certianly never respected it as being the "moral leader of the free world.
We did, to a point. Most of the time we were at least prepared to look the other way.
Anti-American resentment is no higher today than it was ten years ago
You could hardly be more wrong. To be honest the US had already lost a lot of respect when Bush stole the presidency, but that would have been recoverable had he proved in the end to be a good man. Instead, though, his hawkish response to the 9/11 terrorist attack, attempting to blow up a single incident into a world war, didn't go down well in Europe.
You may not realize that in the UK we have already lived with terrorism for thirty years and suffered numerous horrifying atacks without either attempting to drag the rest of the world into it, or attempting to invade any other sovereign country. We believe in proportionate response. Clearly, the US government doesn't though. It has behaved in this matter more like a psychopathic criminal who breaks people's legs for failing to show sufficient respect.
It should be obvious to you that this makes the US appear rather dangerous and irresponsible to the rest of the world. Governments who contine to ally themselves with the US now do so only out of fear and self interest rather than through any sense of moral alignment. For the peoples of these countries however the situation is much less ambiguous, and hence the numerous public demonstrations, for example the very large crowd who assembled to protest when Bush came to visit the UK recently. The US will not be able to regain the respect of the world until after Bush, and his corrupt establishment, have gone.
Some anonymous cowards will no doubt want to respond along the lines of "well we can kick your ass". But fear is not the same as respect. And most people don't believe "might is right" to be a moral standpoint. If the US does, then the US only shares the morality of gangsters and bullies.
But not the Vaio with the built-in webcam, or (assuming you live in the US) you may find yourself returning home only twenty years later.