This device needs stereoscopic vision, which some people don't have.
It could be as simple as one eye with a cataract (cloudy vision), so you begin to rely solely on one eye.
Wake me when they start to have glasses that can fire lasers into your eye to display images. It could possibly bypass the cataract and other ocular anomalies.
Lip reading is only half the whole "info-stream" that comes out of peoples mouths. I know this. I'm deaf (severe to profound sensori-neural hearing loss, since birth) and I'll tell you one thing: lip-reading can give ambiguous results.
Someone can say "Pot" and yet with the same lip movement, can also say "My". Men with bushy mustaches are a lip-reading disaster.
For me, I've adapted in my own way: I rely heavily on my hearing aids. That combination of both lip-reading and hearing the audio stream from your mouth enables me to achieve at least a 70% success rate (under ideal conditions, if it's a party atomosphere, fudgeddaboutit). I've had hearing aids since I was 1 1/2, and only with extensive speech therapy can I speak well. I'm one of the few deaf-from-birth people that can do it this well. So, from that perspective, I can speak on a phone (as long as I can understand that mangled audio coming out the receiver, which is 0%).
Why don't they just focus on speech recognition? A great speech recognition phone would enable deaf people that speak to use phones for near real-time conversations. In addition, such technology can also be (easily?) adapted to foreign language translators for tourists.
However, until such technology is available at the consumer level, I'm stuck with two-way text messaging devices like the T-Mobile SideKick.
This place at the University of Washington is working on different model of speech recognition that could be conducive to PDA use (low-power, filter out extraneous info).
Basically, they are working to analyze speech in slices (phonemes) instead of the more computationally intensive task of the whole word. This would lead to a higher success rate and could be easily used across multiple accents of the same language (English, engrish, etc).
I'm excited about what they could accomplish there.
The astronomers found "unambiguously" that the central star is moving around Sagittarius A "like the Earth orbits the sun," the ESO consortium said in a statement.
So, does that mean that in time, the blackhole will swallow up the star?
Maxis should merge the technology of The Sims together with SimCity 4. From max zoom in, on one particular house or building, you can play a game of the sims in there. Whatever actions they take in there has some effect in the outside sim world.
Some people that work too much are called workaholics. What if those people work as game programmers, and they *like* to work? Would that make them a "Heroinware Workaholic"?
Or does that make them "drug" dealers, since people now like to label them as heroinware makers?
BTW, if you haven't noticed, this post was posted with sarcasm intended. If you didn't get it, go here.
all the languages are unified to such an extent, that they all seem the same.
But is that a good thing? What if there's a security hole/bug that was prevalent in the CLR? All the languages that use the CLR would be affected.
Besides, the concept of "one runtime to rule the all" doesn't sound appealing. Different languages for different uses. Java for cross-plaform compatibility, C/C++ for speed, Perl for quick text parsing, etc.
A surefire way to get the beer guy's attention at your next baseball game.
This might be a bad idea, since tons of other people would be pointing the same device at the poor beer man. The beer man would be overloaded with requests and ultimately crack under the sonic pressure. Insanity by sonic buffer overflow...what a way to go. =)
Many a saturday morning, his works amused me to no end. His lines and colors were the main reason I fondly remember my childhood watching those toons at 7 am in the morning.
This is for the embedded market. Sure, that's all well and good, but somebody tell me the benefits of a 64-bit chip in an embedded device vs a 32-bit chip.
If we're getting by pretty well on 32-bit chips, where's the market for 64-bit chips? High speed routers?
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Excuse me while I go and color correct my eyes.
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It could be as simple as one eye with a cataract (cloudy vision), so you begin to rely solely on one eye.
Wake me when they start to have glasses that can fire lasers into your eye to display images. It could possibly bypass the cataract and other ocular anomalies.
-Cyc
Someone can say "Pot" and yet with the same lip movement, can also say "My". Men with bushy mustaches are a lip-reading disaster.
For me, I've adapted in my own way: I rely heavily on my hearing aids. That combination of both lip-reading and hearing the audio stream from your mouth enables me to achieve at least a 70% success rate (under ideal conditions, if it's a party atomosphere, fudgeddaboutit). I've had hearing aids since I was 1 1/2, and only with extensive speech therapy can I speak well. I'm one of the few deaf-from-birth people that can do it this well. So, from that perspective, I can speak on a phone (as long as I can understand that mangled audio coming out the receiver, which is 0%).
Why don't they just focus on speech recognition? A great speech recognition phone would enable deaf people that speak to use phones for near real-time conversations. In addition, such technology can also be (easily?) adapted to foreign language translators for tourists.
However, until such technology is available at the consumer level, I'm stuck with two-way text messaging devices like the T-Mobile SideKick.
-Cyc
-Cyc
Basically, they are working to analyze speech in slices (phonemes) instead of the more computationally intensive task of the whole word. This would lead to a higher success rate and could be easily used across multiple accents of the same language (English, engrish, etc).
I'm excited about what they could accomplish there.
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For all you pathology people, is this a common method for bugs, or is it limited to a few families?
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If they didn't, I want some of what they're smoking, it distorts *THEIR* reality.
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So, does that mean that in time, the blackhole will swallow up the star?
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Then again, that gives me time to build up my small ubergeek to super "Larry Wall" uberness.
OK, you may now mod me to oblivion, I am full of love. =)
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Damn, wouldn't that be cool?
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Yeah, I imagine it must be frusterating. However, I am frustrated with YOUR constant spelling mistakes!
Please excuse me, I'm too tired from grading tons of English Composition papers at my local University.
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Or does that make them "drug" dealers, since people now like to label them as heroinware makers?
BTW, if you haven't noticed, this post was posted with sarcasm intended. If you didn't get it, go here.
Ever since I saw this.
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Of course, someone will come up and say "a slashdotting is insignificant next to the power of a Google Cache."
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Well, as long as your destination is near that route, you'll be fine. But this is more like a bus service with a small vehicle than a taxi car.
A taxi car should be able to get to any point in the city/village/town, and take orders/bribes from passengers who ask it to go faster. =)
-Cyc
But is that a good thing? What if there's a security hole/bug that was prevalent in the CLR? All the languages that use the CLR would be affected.
Besides, the concept of "one runtime to rule the all" doesn't sound appealing. Different languages for different uses. Java for cross-plaform compatibility, C/C++ for speed, Perl for quick text parsing, etc.
-Cyc
Well, $*it Sherlock, then you'll have to blame mother nature for creating the oceans, a medium upon which pirates did their thing.
Sure, all the tools are there, and the medium is there, but ultimately, it's the person who uses them that make up the term "piracy".
That, and software being priced ridicuously high.
-Cyc
Man, I tickle at the thought of starting Photoshop from the command line. =)
-Cyc
This might be a bad idea, since tons of other people would be pointing the same device at the poor beer man. The beer man would be overloaded with requests and ultimately crack under the sonic pressure. Insanity by sonic buffer overflow...what a way to go. =)
-Cyc
Rest In Peace, Chuck.
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The pyro t-shirt.
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LMAO
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If we're getting by pretty well on 32-bit chips, where's the market for 64-bit chips? High speed routers?
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