If a 10-second message is sliced into 10 overlapping 2-second pieces, then 10 different humans across the globe have to parse the few words out of each piece and send it back. The software (running on an in-house computer) can then process the overlapping transcriptions and put together the full text, even applying automatic spell- and grammar-checkers to smooth out the result.
What a terrible solution. Don't you see the problems with that? If you split a sentence into shorter parts then you lose both the context and the meaning of bigger entities (idioms, compound words/adjectives, phrasal/prepositional verbs). You will have trouble with homophones too (the input is audio, after all). Taking as an example part of your first sentence, imagine that you have to transcribe "...the globe have..." into text. Without the "across" you wouldn't know whether to transcribe as "glove" or "globe".
Ok, let's say that you have one of those ID chips inserted in your fingers, and that I'm mugging you. You don't have any cash on you, but you have your ATM card in your wallet.
If the ATM is using biometrics as you propose then it would make sense for me to take your ATM card, then just cut your finger and use it to authenticate.
Having read the first 2 pages of TFA, I still don't see how fast of a connection you need for these to become playable. I mean, where I live, the best connection you can get is a ~1 Megabit DSL connection.
Not everybody lives where you live. Here in Japan the standard is now fiber optics at 100Mbps. I could see it working.
While I admittedly have never applied for a job in Japan, I find it very hard to believe that employers would base their hiring decisions on the attendance policy of the school, rather than technical drilling of the applicant. I realize that it's a very difficult thing to cite, but do you have any sort of evidence to back that up?
If you're really interested in the subject, I recommend this book:
I've been living in Japan for over 7 years now, and this book has been really useful in helping me understand some of the weird behaviour that I have to deal with on a daily basis. It's a collection of articles written by Japanese students on several topics related to Japanese culture.
The article says that it's a Chinese phone. And the smaller print in the box is indeed Chinese, not Japanese.
The title of the CNET Japan's article clearly states that the phone comes from China. The whole review is written in a "WTF?" undertone. You would think that the CNET UK writer would have gotten in touch with his Japanese colleague in order to confirm the source of the device.
And yes, I live in Japan and can read the original article.
Before you say "well drive a car", well if I could find a car for someone my size I would easily drive a car. I cannot find a car that fits someone of my height and girth, thus I HAVE to drive an SUV.
Or you could also, like, exercise a bit from time to time and eat healthier.
Not, like the article implied (it's a general public article, after all) WoW with a single shard, but something different. EvE shows it's possible[...]
It's possible on EvE because the place is basically empty. A space station here, an asteroid belt or two there, a couple planets... In the end, it's just a bunch of generic models thrown around in what otherwise is a lot of empty space.
Now imagine doing the same on a WoW-style game. You would have to do a huge work of world design. Surely there are algorithms that can generate assloads of terrain, cities, etc, but your designers still have to tweak things in the gameworld to make it interesting.
Not to mention the amount of disk space that would be required for the data files making up this non-empty gameworld.
They we're doing it for a gradiate thesis. At least Neuroph was built for a thesis. What conventional method for image recognition do you think would be faster?
I think you meant "they were" instead of "they we are".
The milestone has also prompted speculation about when, if ever, Gmail will lose its beta status, and Ars Technica recently sat down with Todd Jackson, Gmail's Project Manager, to discuss the reasoning behind that nagging beta label.
Whatever the reason, it certainly is making people talk about it.
It doesn't matter how good the alternatives are if it will cost them more money to switch than to keep it as-is. [...] The only thing that matters is "We've used this for X years, and dammit, we're not changing."
But then you have no point. You're talking about not upgrading a system because an application might break. There goes your argument about backwards compatibility.
Not you and I, we're geeks, but we're not making decisions
What are you? Another Microsoft marketing/misinformation drone? Or have you just been brainwashed?
You're an IT administrator for a bank. You support about 35 mission-critical applications that go to a mainframe. [...] All those applications were written for Windows 95.
And the mainframe is running what? Windows For Mainframes Edition? I don't think so.
Now, Microsoft is a safe bet because you know those applications were written decades ago and will still work.
I disagree. I only use Windows at work, but it is my understanding that it is very difficult to make older Windows applications run in newer versions of Windows, especially applications that were written for Windows 95/98.
But you go with Apple, or Linux and what do you get? Every five years, maybe ten if you're lucky, you have to rebuild and redesign everything to make it work with the latest and greatest.
That's assuming that you keep updating Linux or Mac OS to the latest and greatest. But you don't have to. In your mainframe "example" it is assumed that the system images running the applications are not being updated. And then you complain that Linux/Apple apps may break if you update the OS? Come on.
You might want to change your desktop background to this one.
I can't agree more. Cars will never catch on because they'll be running around so much faster than our trusty horse carriages. You know, cars are filled with fuel, and they'll be crashing against each other and there will be explosions everywhere.
No, I don't think cars will ever become popular.
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If a 10-second message is sliced into 10 overlapping 2-second pieces, then 10 different humans across the globe have to parse the few words out of each piece and send it back. The software (running on an in-house computer) can then process the overlapping transcriptions and put together the full text, even applying automatic spell- and grammar-checkers to smooth out the result.
What a terrible solution. Don't you see the problems with that? If you split a sentence into shorter parts then you lose both the context and the meaning of bigger entities (idioms, compound words/adjectives, phrasal/prepositional verbs). You will have trouble with homophones too (the input is audio, after all). Taking as an example part of your first sentence, imagine that you have to transcribe "...the globe have..." into text. Without the "across" you wouldn't know whether to transcribe as "glove" or "globe".
Before you critizise, please learn to spell. It hurts reading your post.
there ---> they're
standerd ---> standard
dollers ---> dollars
kilomoters ---> kilometers
Ok, let's say that you have one of those ID chips inserted in your fingers, and that I'm mugging you. You don't have any cash on you, but you have your ATM card in your wallet. If the ATM is using biometrics as you propose then it would make sense for me to take your ATM card, then just cut your finger and use it to authenticate.
Having read the first 2 pages of TFA, I still don't see how fast of a connection you need for these to become playable. I mean, where I live, the best connection you can get is a ~1 Megabit DSL connection.
Not everybody lives where you live. Here in Japan the standard is now fiber optics at 100Mbps. I could see it working.
While I admittedly have never applied for a job in Japan, I find it very hard to believe that employers would base their hiring decisions on the attendance policy of the school, rather than technical drilling of the applicant. I realize that it's a very difficult thing to cite, but do you have any sort of evidence to back that up?
If you're really interested in the subject, I recommend this book:
The Japanese Mind
I've been living in Japan for over 7 years now, and this book has been really useful in helping me understand some of the weird behaviour that I have to deal with on a daily basis. It's a collection of articles written by Japanese students on several topics related to Japanese culture.
i before e, except after c.
WTF are you talking about? There's nothing wrong on his post.
What else?
The article says that it's a Chinese phone. And the smaller print in the box is indeed Chinese, not Japanese.
The title of the CNET Japan's article clearly states that the phone comes from China. The whole review is written in a "WTF?" undertone. You would think that the CNET UK writer would have gotten in touch with his Japanese colleague in order to confirm the source of the device.
And yes, I live in Japan and can read the original article.
So while the leadership of North Korea is at it's weakest, it beats it's chest with it's weapons
FFS, its!
How do you dare to quote Sun Tzu after that?
Before you say "well drive a car", well if I could find a car for someone my size I would easily drive a car. I cannot find a car that fits someone of my height and girth, thus I HAVE to drive an SUV.
Or you could also, like, exercise a bit from time to time and eat healthier.
Not, like the article implied (it's a general public article, after all) WoW with a single shard, but something different. EvE shows it's possible[...]
It's possible on EvE because the place is basically empty. A space station here, an asteroid belt or two there, a couple planets... In the end, it's just a bunch of generic models thrown around in what otherwise is a lot of empty space.
Now imagine doing the same on a WoW-style game. You would have to do a huge work of world design. Surely there are algorithms that can generate assloads of terrain, cities, etc, but your designers still have to tweak things in the gameworld to make it interesting.
Not to mention the amount of disk space that would be required for the data files making up this non-empty gameworld.
They we're doing it for a gradiate thesis. At least Neuroph was built for a thesis. What conventional method for image recognition do you think would be faster?
I think you meant "they were" instead of "they we are".
I recommend providing links to sources and avoiding grammer nazisms.
Grammar
The milestone has also prompted speculation about when, if ever, Gmail will lose its beta status, and Ars Technica recently sat down with Todd Jackson, Gmail's Project Manager, to discuss the reasoning behind that nagging beta label.
Whatever the reason, it certainly is making people talk about it.
"The romans they go to the house"?
Maybe you meant "its data".
Oil is there bread and butter.
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It doesn't matter how good the alternatives are if it will cost them more money to switch than to keep it as-is. [...] The only thing that matters is "We've used this for X years, and dammit, we're not changing."
But then you have no point. You're talking about not upgrading a system because an application might break. There goes your argument about backwards compatibility.
Not you and I, we're geeks, but we're not making decisions
Talk for yourself.
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What are you? Another Microsoft marketing/misinformation drone? Or have you just been brainwashed?
You're an IT administrator for a bank. You support about 35 mission-critical applications that go to a mainframe. [...] All those applications were written for Windows 95.
And the mainframe is running what? Windows For Mainframes Edition? I don't think so.
Now, Microsoft is a safe bet because you know those applications were written decades ago and will still work.
I disagree. I only use Windows at work, but it is my understanding that it is very difficult to make older Windows applications run in newer versions of Windows, especially applications that were written for Windows 95/98.
But you go with Apple, or Linux and what do you get? Every five years, maybe ten if you're lucky, you have to rebuild and redesign everything to make it work with the latest and greatest.
That's assuming that you keep updating Linux or Mac OS to the latest and greatest. But you don't have to. In your mainframe "example" it is assumed that the system images running the applications are not being updated. And then you complain that Linux/Apple apps may break if you update the OS? Come on.
You might want to change your desktop background to this one.
2) Loose your wallet, loose your cash. Loose your wallet, deactivate your credit card.
loose (verb)
1 loosen, relax, loose
become loose or looser or less tight; "The noose loosened"; "the rope relaxed"
lose (verb)
4 misplace, mislay, lose
place (something) where one cannot find it again; "I misplaced my eyeglasses"
"sees"
"its"
I can't agree more. Cars will never catch on because they'll be running around so much faster than our trusty horse carriages. You know, cars are filled with fuel, and they'll be crashing against each other and there will be explosions everywhere. No, I don't think cars will ever become popular.
What does that have to do with your signature? Shouldn't you be telling yet another different story about it?
All spelling and grammar errors are intentional. Grammar Nazis' need entertainment.
It's "nazis". And thanks.