Actually, games that rely heavily on spoken words, like games that use charades-style guessing or trivia cards that can't be easily shown without revealing the answers can impact people with a hearing loss significantly. Basically, if there's not an easy text equivalent for what a game requires, it's going to affect someone who can't hear.
You're assuming all schools have enough money to buy calculators for all of their classes. If the choice is between a calculator and a computer, which do they put money towards? This definitely speaks to the kind of funding we provide to our public schools, but when US schools rely heavily on local levies and inconsistent funding year-to-year (based on pupils and not proportionate to their costs) it can become a serious hardship for them to provide the necessary tools to their students.
TI does improve the hardware, it's just that it's not as obvious to people
Perhaps because you can still get a TI-83+ at Walmart a good 16 years after the last refresh of the model. Yes, the TI-84 CE with it's new squared-off shape and thinner design is available since 2015, but who is going to pay the $70 difference in price? Especially families on a budget who already struggle to feed and clothe their kids, much less drop $90 on a calculator.
If TI wants its shiny new hardware to compete, maybe it should focus less on profits and more on accessibility. Surely after 15+ years and the economies of scale at which these things are produced, the TI-83+ no longer needs to cost an exorbitant $90 (at Walmart, YMMV).
There was also the Mythbusters episode 20 years later where they made silicon thumbprints and fooled hand scanners without Hollywood magic. And this was before the "login with your face" methods came out and were easily defeated with photographs.
I was born in the late 80s, and I still have to wonder about certain things my parents don't feel comfortable sharing, even as I marvel at how willing the younger generation is at giving away information I would keep locked away. It's definitely been a gradual erosion of the notion of privacy and the things one is willing to part with in order to remain relevant in an ever-converging society.
And not only fans with a hearing loss, but multinational fans as well. Any company who cracks down on fan subs must not want viewers outside their country/language of origin.
There's that fuzzy grey area in the middle now, though, like with most video games and other software, where you can have a copy of the files and resources needed to run the software, but the company considers you a lessee and not an owner of that software copy. Their EULA lets them pull your rights any time you violate it and can cut off support at any moment when they decide to give up on it. This is despite it being a purchase, with no up-front contract unless you use stores like Steam or Origin (and even then many products have their own EULA with more draconian terms), and not a deliberate contracted rental period you've entered.
It's really a shame that open source hardware (of real components and not just SOCs) isn't more of a thing. Printers might be a little more complex, but "just build your own" has more validity when there is actually resources to draw from. Maybe some 3D printed parts could work (and work long-term) to build your own system if someone cared to design it.
This works as long as you keep meticulous track of time. Lose track, and you'll likely be penalized by a ticket at best. This method offers a way to avoid penalties even if you lose track of time.
Most meters in my downtown have a 2 hour maximum, some even as low as 30 minutes, and they always forbid parking during rush hours (your time will end at exactly 4pm on weekdays) on the main thoroughfares. They also have a parking app for phones and accept credit cards at the pay station (one per block) so it's easy to add more time if you need it, even remotely from the app, up to your 2 hour max. I'm sure they make up the "lost" revenue from extensions from people who leave their spots before the time is up. Since the meters are paid from a central location, there's no jumping on someone's extra time or feeding meters.
This can happen for a number of reasons, actually. Sometimes it's an actual mistake, but also possible is a rephrasing of the line to make it easier to caption or easier to understand. Since captioning is most often geared towards Deaf people, and many grew up with English as a second language, some idioms and turns of phrase can seem out of context and aren't as appropriate for captions. There are some who bristle at this attempt at hand-holding and think captions should be 100% accurate to dialogue, while others are fine with some revisions to make it easier, but either way this is a thing that can happen. Also possible is censorship or mismatched captions to the video.
The irony of your comment is that silent movies generally used title cards for their dialogue anyway, making it equally accessible no matter if you could hear or not.
Sort of? Consider how many times dialogue is spoken off-camera, such as a voice-over or cutaway reaction shot, or when the speaker is simply not facing the camera. Your reliability in those cases are cut in half anyway without the advantage of being able to lip read.
What are you talking about? Closed captioning for most media is manually entered and synced with the time. Speech-to-text captions (like those on YouTube) have far less accuracy, although sometimes they put real-time captioning (think televised news) to shame. But most of what you see on TV and everything on DVDs is written and checked by a human, and is not entirely reliant on STT transcription.
Exactly. The only local IMAX used to be at the science museum, which was the only place large enough to hold the 100 foot screen, where you could practically sit anywhere and get the same great experience. Now they're just oversized screens at your local theater that aren't worth the 50% upscale prices.
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Actually, games that rely heavily on spoken words, like games that use charades-style guessing or trivia cards that can't be easily shown without revealing the answers can impact people with a hearing loss significantly. Basically, if there's not an easy text equivalent for what a game requires, it's going to affect someone who can't hear.
Or maybe a hat hung over the optics.
Black spray paint, too.
Cop-tipping, the teenage/drunk wastrel pasttime of the 2020s.
You're assuming all schools have enough money to buy calculators for all of their classes. If the choice is between a calculator and a computer, which do they put money towards? This definitely speaks to the kind of funding we provide to our public schools, but when US schools rely heavily on local levies and inconsistent funding year-to-year (based on pupils and not proportionate to their costs) it can become a serious hardship for them to provide the necessary tools to their students.
TI does improve the hardware, it's just that it's not as obvious to people
Perhaps because you can still get a TI-83+ at Walmart a good 16 years after the last refresh of the model. Yes, the TI-84 CE with it's new squared-off shape and thinner design is available since 2015, but who is going to pay the $70 difference in price? Especially families on a budget who already struggle to feed and clothe their kids, much less drop $90 on a calculator.
If TI wants its shiny new hardware to compete, maybe it should focus less on profits and more on accessibility. Surely after 15+ years and the economies of scale at which these things are produced, the TI-83+ no longer needs to cost an exorbitant $90 (at Walmart, YMMV).
Even better yet, what if you're deceased and you can't just fly in to help them out?
Come here, me and my pair of secateurs will show you why it's a bad idea.
There was also the Mythbusters episode 20 years later where they made silicon thumbprints and fooled hand scanners without Hollywood magic. And this was before the "login with your face" methods came out and were easily defeated with photographs.
I was born in the late 80s, and I still have to wonder about certain things my parents don't feel comfortable sharing, even as I marvel at how willing the younger generation is at giving away information I would keep locked away. It's definitely been a gradual erosion of the notion of privacy and the things one is willing to part with in order to remain relevant in an ever-converging society.
I think you got that backwards. I can turn water into wine, I just need some grapes and yeast.
And not only fans with a hearing loss, but multinational fans as well. Any company who cracks down on fan subs must not want viewers outside their country/language of origin.
So instead we get election-by-gerrymandering bureaucrats deciding what we can and cannot do?
If there's a conch shell included, Lord of the Flies has you covered already.
And courts that have upheld it.
There's that fuzzy grey area in the middle now, though, like with most video games and other software, where you can have a copy of the files and resources needed to run the software, but the company considers you a lessee and not an owner of that software copy. Their EULA lets them pull your rights any time you violate it and can cut off support at any moment when they decide to give up on it. This is despite it being a purchase, with no up-front contract unless you use stores like Steam or Origin (and even then many products have their own EULA with more draconian terms), and not a deliberate contracted rental period you've entered.
It's really a shame that open source hardware (of real components and not just SOCs) isn't more of a thing. Printers might be a little more complex, but "just build your own" has more validity when there is actually resources to draw from. Maybe some 3D printed parts could work (and work long-term) to build your own system if someone cared to design it.
This works as long as you keep meticulous track of time. Lose track, and you'll likely be penalized by a ticket at best. This method offers a way to avoid penalties even if you lose track of time.
Most meters in my downtown have a 2 hour maximum, some even as low as 30 minutes, and they always forbid parking during rush hours (your time will end at exactly 4pm on weekdays) on the main thoroughfares. They also have a parking app for phones and accept credit cards at the pay station (one per block) so it's easy to add more time if you need it, even remotely from the app, up to your 2 hour max. I'm sure they make up the "lost" revenue from extensions from people who leave their spots before the time is up. Since the meters are paid from a central location, there's no jumping on someone's extra time or feeding meters.
That accounts for the 50% rate, that's about how many commercials are captioned.
This can happen for a number of reasons, actually. Sometimes it's an actual mistake, but also possible is a rephrasing of the line to make it easier to caption or easier to understand. Since captioning is most often geared towards Deaf people, and many grew up with English as a second language, some idioms and turns of phrase can seem out of context and aren't as appropriate for captions. There are some who bristle at this attempt at hand-holding and think captions should be 100% accurate to dialogue, while others are fine with some revisions to make it easier, but either way this is a thing that can happen. Also possible is censorship or mismatched captions to the video.
The irony of your comment is that silent movies generally used title cards for their dialogue anyway, making it equally accessible no matter if you could hear or not.
Sort of? Consider how many times dialogue is spoken off-camera, such as a voice-over or cutaway reaction shot, or when the speaker is simply not facing the camera. Your reliability in those cases are cut in half anyway without the advantage of being able to lip read.
What are you talking about? Closed captioning for most media is manually entered and synced with the time. Speech-to-text captions (like those on YouTube) have far less accuracy, although sometimes they put real-time captioning (think televised news) to shame. But most of what you see on TV and everything on DVDs is written and checked by a human, and is not entirely reliant on STT transcription.
I'm definitely not an unusual case for the readership here at /. I'm wondering if you're in the right place?
If I ever get to see a silent movie with a live piano player, I will absolutely applaud for them after the show.
Exactly. The only local IMAX used to be at the science museum, which was the only place large enough to hold the 100 foot screen, where you could practically sit anywhere and get the same great experience. Now they're just oversized screens at your local theater that aren't worth the 50% upscale prices.