One thing mentioned in Marc Rogers article that I am also surpassed at is how do you miss that much data flying out of your network?
A couple of years ago I was a customer site and had to download and install some updates onto an HMI system. Less than 5 minutes after starting this, my client's IT people had connected to the system in question and were poking around trying see why that device had suddenly started consuming network resources. Their attempts to shut it down were annoying to me, but at least they were on the ball when it came to knowing what was normal and what was not normal on their network.
I know enough Spanish and French to get by. If I need to learn another language, I will. No need for Skype to do the translations for me.
You are comparing Apples to Oranges, by saying you are fluent in english, but just get by in other languages. This Skype system has the potential to enable you to communicate fluently in other languages.
And yes I know what it is like to get by in other languages vs fluency having previously gotten by in Russian, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish and suffered various misadventures because of it.
Besides, wouldn't it be easire to just learn Spanish - or English as the case may be - than have to put up with W8?
How many years did it take you to learn to speak english? Because that is at least what you will require to learn another language to the same fluency. And that's not accounting for not being embedded in the language or that children are wired to learn language more easily than an adult can.
So it's about $120 for and 8.1 license from Amazon vs a significant amount of time to learn that second language. Your choice.
I, and my customer, thought it was cool as heck when the open source video conferencing system Big Blue Button added auto-translate back in 2010. It's good to see Microsoft catching on too.
Except that this is not translation of chat messages, but live translation of spoken word coupled with voice synthesis in the translated language.
You can't tell from the video how "real-time" it is, but it seems fast enough for a basic conversation. Also there is nothing I saw that indicates how much training the speech recognition needs.
Unless Microsoft can prove some sort of breakthrough in machine translation then the conversation must have been very basic, with very little use of idioms, technical terms, etc., for it to have worked very well.
An old joke about a talking pig (which I can't remember - may not have even been a pig) had a punch line along the lines of "ignore the fact that the pig speaks badly, what's amazing is that the pig speaks in the first place"
I laughed when the interviewer asked what happens if someone tries to steal a robot. The guy answering started off by saying it would be really hard as they weigh 92 pounds. Oh that's sooooo heavy.
But my first impression was that the robots were too short for the sales experience. The customers in the store would have had to stoop or bend over to be "face to face" with the telepresence operators. I'm guessing that the height was a compromise between a robot "sitting at a desk" and "walking around".
One thing I did think of was that for a series of retail stores you only need to "staff" all the stores for the average number of customers across the total number of stores.
Really? I've never seen a car that didn't have the turn-signal lever on the left. Is that because I'm an ignorant American?
Ignorant? yes. American? Well that I don't know.
My understanding is that it is related to where the car was manufactured. I found this thread that talks about it Why are New Zealand turn signal controls backwards?. (And from my point of view, "backwards" is a contextual adjective;-) )
If you watch the video in TFA, when the driver turns right at an intersection, the windscreen wipers come on (even though it is not raining). This is a major indication that the driver did not know on what side of the steering column the control for the indicator lights was. Given that he is turning right I bet that for that car the indicator light controls are on the left of the column.
I know all about this as I have done it so many times myself when changing different brands of cars.
That was my first thought when I read this in TFS:
There were plans in WW2 to drop phony counterfeit currency to disrupt markets, and I wonder why flooding underground markets with phony products isn't widespread. Why don't credit card companies manufacture fake lists of stolen credit card numbers, or phony social security numbers, for illegal trading sites? For that matter, would fake ivory, fake illegal porn, and other "false positives" discourage buyers? Or create alibis?
How about you just let these "seasoned programmers" test out of the introduction classes and jump directly into the non-intro classes?
That would certainly work if the sole goal of attending introductory classes was the material at hand.
I'd wager that a significant part of the into level courses is indoctrinating the students to the educational/class framework that they have to work in (this is how you behave in class, this is how you treat fellow students, this is how you layout your coursework etc). Thus by letting them skip class levels, you are potentially pushing non-indoctrinated students into the midst of the indoctrinated ones and hence causing a different set of issues.
Also, by letting all the smart people skip a class level, who do the non-smart people ask for help?
I don't know.. it's all too hard for me to think about this. So I'm going to wait until frequent contributor Bennett Hasselton tells me what to think [*]
* Actually, no. I have stopped reading any of Bennett's stories and refuse to reward/. with any page views.
If you are a US citizen, I don't think you could get out of producing a document the court ordered you to supply by airmailing it to a confederate in another country. Similarly, if the data in question are related to Microsoft's US operations, then MS, being a corporation incorporated in the US, should be required to produce them.
And what do you think of MS's rebuttal of that position?
"Imagine this scenario. Officers of the local Stadtpolizei investigating a suspected leak to the press descend on Deutsche Bank headquarters in Frankfurt, Germany," Microsoft said. "They serve a warrant to seize a bundle of private letters that a New York Times reporter is storing in a safe deposit box at a Deutsche Bank USA branch in Manhattan. The bank complies by ordering the New York branch manager to open the reporter's box with a master key, rummage through it, and fax the private letters to the Stadtpolizei."
Allowing things like this is going down a similar road to "well if the CIA wants to torture foreign nationals, then they can't complain about foreign s[y agencies torturing US citizens"
If people think that C is not relevant in 2014, I'd hate to think what they thought about the ladder logic type languages in PLCs that pretty well run every manufacturing plant in the world.
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One thing mentioned in Marc Rogers article that I am also surpassed at is how do you miss that much data flying out of your network?
A couple of years ago I was a customer site and had to download and install some updates onto an HMI system. Less than 5 minutes after starting this, my client's IT people had connected to the system in question and were poking around trying see why that device had suddenly started consuming network resources. Their attempts to shut it down were annoying to me, but at least they were on the ball when it came to knowing what was normal and what was not normal on their network.
One typhoon later Deepwater Horizon will look like child's play in comparison.
Well its a good thing that this floating facility is not in the pacific then.
Begun, the water wars have.
Just watch out for the mutant Kangaroos and the hot girl driving the tank.
I know enough Spanish and French to get by. If I need to learn another language, I will. No need for Skype to do the translations for me.
You are comparing Apples to Oranges, by saying you are fluent in english, but just get by in other languages. This Skype system has the potential to enable you to communicate fluently in other languages.
And yes I know what it is like to get by in other languages vs fluency having previously gotten by in Russian, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish and suffered various misadventures because of it.
What a jaded asshole.
You actually understood what he said? I thought his automatic translator had taken a wrong turn when avoiding the hovercraft full of eels.
No habla "Windows" ocho. Muy Guano de toro
And BTW that should be
No hablo "Windows" ocho. Mucho mierde de toro
Besides, wouldn't it be easire to just learn Spanish - or English as the case may be - than have to put up with W8?
How many years did it take you to learn to speak english? Because that is at least what you will require to learn another language to the same fluency. And that's not accounting for not being embedded in the language or that children are wired to learn language more easily than an adult can.
So it's about $120 for and 8.1 license from Amazon vs a significant amount of time to learn that second language. Your choice.
You're officially on the naughty list, you Danish bastards!
Yeah .. but everybody gets sump'n from Sump'n Claus
You're probably thinking of Samuel Johnson as quoted by Boswell
Yep that would be it.
pig/dog talk/walk whatever .. lol
I, and my customer, thought it was cool as heck when the open source video conferencing system Big Blue Button added auto-translate back in 2010. It's good to see Microsoft catching on too.
Except that this is not translation of chat messages, but live translation of spoken word coupled with voice synthesis in the translated language.
You can't tell from the video how "real-time" it is, but it seems fast enough for a basic conversation. Also there is nothing I saw that indicates how much training the speech recognition needs.
Unless Microsoft can prove some sort of breakthrough in machine translation then the conversation must have been very basic, with very little use of idioms, technical terms, etc., for it to have worked very well.
An old joke about a talking pig (which I can't remember - may not have even been a pig) had a punch line along the lines of "ignore the fact that the pig speaks badly, what's amazing is that the pig speaks in the first place"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5J8rbD7KihQ
I laughed when the interviewer asked what happens if someone tries to steal a robot. The guy answering started off by saying it would be really hard as they weigh 92 pounds. Oh that's sooooo heavy.
But my first impression was that the robots were too short for the sales experience. The customers in the store would have had to stoop or bend over to be "face to face" with the telepresence operators. I'm guessing that the height was a compromise between a robot "sitting at a desk" and "walking around".
One thing I did think of was that for a series of retail stores you only need to "staff" all the stores for the average number of customers across the total number of stores.
Really? I've never seen a car that didn't have the turn-signal lever on the left. Is that because I'm an ignorant American?
Ignorant? yes. American? Well that I don't know.
My understanding is that it is related to where the car was manufactured. I found this thread that talks about it Why are New Zealand turn signal controls backwards?. (And from my point of view, "backwards" is a contextual adjective ;-) )
If you watch the video in TFA, when the driver turns right at an intersection, the windscreen wipers come on (even though it is not raining). This is a major indication that the driver did not know on what side of the steering column the control for the indicator lights was. Given that he is turning right I bet that for that car the indicator light controls are on the left of the column.
I know all about this as I have done it so many times myself when changing different brands of cars.
That was my first thought when I read this in TFS:
There were plans in WW2 to drop phony counterfeit currency to disrupt markets, and I wonder why flooding underground markets with phony products isn't widespread. Why don't credit card companies manufacture fake lists of stolen credit card numbers, or phony social security numbers, for illegal trading sites? For that matter, would fake ivory, fake illegal porn, and other "false positives" discourage buyers? Or create alibis?
Oh shit, did I just give him an idea? !?!?!
That person's beliefs, religious or otherwise are in and of itself not criminal.
I don't know, but there may be a few convicted pedophiles who disagree with you as to beliefs not being criminal.
How about you just let these "seasoned programmers" test out of the introduction classes and jump directly into the non-intro classes?
That would certainly work if the sole goal of attending introductory classes was the material at hand.
I'd wager that a significant part of the into level courses is indoctrinating the students to the educational/class framework that they have to work in (this is how you behave in class, this is how you treat fellow students, this is how you layout your coursework etc). Thus by letting them skip class levels, you are potentially pushing non-indoctrinated students into the midst of the indoctrinated ones and hence causing a different set of issues.
Also, by letting all the smart people skip a class level, who do the non-smart people ask for help?
And if you want some real news Former iTunes Engineer Tells Court He Worked to Block Competitors
In the last /. story about this case, Apple DRM Lawsuit Loses Last Plaintiff, but Judge Rules Against Dismissal /. story hit the front page then.
, there was a comment that pointed out Bennett as the new plaintiff. And that Bennett had become the plaintiff well and truly before that
What is all this Hasselton crap? Is it supposed to be harassment? Funny?
Bennet is the new Beta
If the police aren't going to bother either learning, or following the law ... they have no business being police officers.
On the other hand, given the previously publicized actions of police departments not hiring people with high IQ scores ( EG Missouri Police Department Drastically Reduces IQ Requirements For New Officers ) is this really the fault of an individual policeman, or really the fault of management?
I don't know .. it's all too hard for me to think about this. So I'm going to wait until frequent contributor Bennett Hasselton tells me what to think [*]
* Actually, no. I have stopped reading any of Bennett's stories and refuse to reward /. with any page views.
If you are a US citizen, I don't think you could get out of producing a document the court ordered you to supply by airmailing it to a confederate in another country. Similarly, if the data in question are related to Microsoft's US operations, then MS, being a corporation incorporated in the US, should be required to produce them.
And what do you think of MS's rebuttal of that position?
"Imagine this scenario. Officers of the local Stadtpolizei investigating a suspected leak to the press descend on Deutsche Bank headquarters in Frankfurt, Germany," Microsoft said. "They serve a warrant to seize a bundle of private letters that a New York Times reporter is storing in a safe deposit box at a Deutsche Bank USA branch in Manhattan. The bank complies by ordering the New York branch manager to open the reporter's box with a master key, rummage through it, and fax the private letters to the Stadtpolizei."
Allowing things like this is going down a similar road to "well if the CIA wants to torture foreign nationals, then they can't complain about foreign s[y agencies torturing US citizens"
To be blunt, that's exactly why this was found. If it were closed source, the bugs would still be in there.
I disagree with this type of statement that paints all closed source code as bug ridden by default.
If the code is closed source then the amount/type of bugs in it is unknowable by the public.
If people think that C is not relevant in 2014, I'd hate to think what they thought about the ladder logic type languages in PLCs that pretty well run every manufacturing plant in the world.