BOB: I-I don't mean a man, I mean... I don't know what I mean. I mean, maybe a... what'd they call them during the war? You know, the p-pilots? Gremlins! Gremlins. You remember the stories of the...
Julia just stares at him.
BOB: Julia, don't look at me like that.
JULIA: Bob...
BOB: I am not imagining it. I'm not imagining it. He's out there.
Julia glances at the window.
BOB: Don't look. He's not there now. He...... He jumps away whenever anyone might see him. Except me. Honey, he's there. I realize what this sounds like. Do I look insane?
Thx, the debug thing didn't work for me either. Maybe I'll play with it some more and see if I can get the hidden window large enough to not cut off the corner when the board is diagonally positioned.:)
Could somebody figure out how to re-enable the transparent effect that was in the Panther betas? It was a preference before, but now it's gone. In case some haven't seen it before, the board was floating with no background window. I don't remember if the window was transparent or actually able to be clicked-through, but it was very cool.:)
I can't figure it out myself since I'm not a coder, but I've narrowed it down to MBCFloatingBoardWindow... no idea what to do with it tho. Any pointers?:)
Awwww, hey my bad. What's with the iMovie files still being limited to 2GB though? I always understood that to be because of file system limits... is it a Carbon thing?
I think you're hitting the HFS+ 2GB file size limit... you can try making a UFS partition if you gotta... not sure if THAT supports over 2GB though... and it's no longer an option in Disk Utility... still, assuming you get a 50GB file on the disk, that doesn't mean Apple's file handling routines can handle it, Quicktime or whatever may still choke.
If you see the world moving forward as a (GNU/Linux/BSD/Unix)/Windows world it does not take an MIT rocket scientist to think it would make sense for the largest software company in the world to increase their rights by taking another license (remember they did develop and own a portion of the code originally sold as MS Xenix). In fact I saw several postings on Slashdot hammering them for including what people saw as BSD property (with proper copyright attribution) in some of their products. It was also no secret that Microsoft licensed and even purchased companies in this arena over the last several years (look where Windows Services for Unix came from). They developed some pretty incredible functionality into things like SFU 3.5 (which I just got for free with a systems magazine). If you consider this licensing an indirect financing of SCO, then everybody (or at least the thousands of licensees) is responsible at some level. The licenses in some cases exceeded $100 million, so these were not even close to the largest ones. The hard part for me was finding somebody who was not already a big licensee.
Just as I see Microsoft developing stronger interoperability from their side, I see a huge community developing stronger connectivity from the GNU/Linux/BSD/Unix side. We will work from both sides and hopefully contribute to making things more functional for customers whatever they choose. The only really interesting point here is that people finally benefit from more stuff working together. It still takes work, but things are getting better in many areas.
Maybe I'm totally misreading this... but it sounds like MS may have "Licensed" Linux from SCO. Now imagine if SCO claims ownership of Linux... and declares that their own distribution of it under the GPL was not valid for whatever reason... (Which they have). SCO claims they have the right to sell Linux licenses... (yup)... Microsoft buys a bunch of them (Yup).... and immediately begins to incorporate GPL'ed code into their product(s).
it does not take an MIT rocket scientist to think it would make sense for the largest software company in the world to increase their rights by taking another license
Riiight... and then he goes on to mention a past example of SFU... and Microsoft continuing to develop more "interoperability" by licensing..
I see a huge community developing stronger connectivity from the GNU/Linux/BSD/Unix side.
In the same way that SFU increased interoperability before.
I think MS is using GPL'ed code which when sued will be claimed was licensed in good faith from SCO. Perhaps this was the real plan from the start? Giving MS free use of any GPL'ed code? But maybe I'm reading this wrong.:)
Check out Pearl Jam's 70 or so Live recorded albums on iTunes... only problem is I won't touch them since none of them are complete albums... besides the fact that I don't listen to Pearl Jam.:)
So I guess you want/Weddings/ and in that.../Mine//Bob's//Susan's//Cousin Vinnie//Bob G/
Or maybe do those by year? What if you're trying to find that person so-and-so was dancing with at that wedding ummm... whose was it? Dang... Letse here... search umm... Tony dancing wedding Heeey! There she is!
Or play Guess Who! with your computer. (The MS Photo Wizard)
"No" ? "Yes"
"Yes"
(Don't laugh, this is the future);-)
Ehhh... the more metadata you get the better, but nobody is gonna type all that junk in. iPhoto does a pretty good job so far, but I still only have 6 mostly empty catagories... the tools are aleady here, people are just lazy. The computer is STILL better than shoeboxes and albums! I can look through a few thousand photos in iPhoto and find the right one in a few seconds, compare that with digging through a shelf full of albums and flipping through pages. For practical purposes the computer has already superseeded real life photographs (organizing that is), I can put the same photo in multiple albumns without making copies of it.
But hey I'm sure a branch of AI is devoted to image recognition, a quick way to get some money back out of that is to put it in photo software to help sort out pictures, have it cranking away in the background like some sort of SETI... the program would notice similiarities and ask for names now and then, then fill in the blanks for ya. Of course with family pictures I'm sure it would more than likely mix people up, we do it ourselves don't we?
Best answer... Camera with an RFID receiver on it that automatically scans the ID of everyone in the shot and imports that metadata into the photo program.
Oh wait, that's what everybody DOESN'T want isn't it?
As a deaf guy I just have to say... living your life based on revenge and sticking it to others is a sad way of living. All you do is repeat the unfair sort of situations that made you so PO'ed and produce an army of other angry PO'ed people... ooohhh... negative feedback loop! Cutting people off on the freeway and tailgating doesn't solve your problems. It's funny how people in left hand turn lanes get upset at people running red lights keeping them from making their turn... so they in "revenge" run their red light and cause different people to miss THEIR turn, who then in return... blaaahhh... just live by "The Golden Rule" and everybody is a little bit happier.
I think the prob is they haven't yet gotten all the protocol worked out on this... the hfs+ file system causes some problems. Really they can boot those Macs into firewire target disk mode and dump em quite easily. Maybe an Open Firmware password is blocking that, there's steps to disable this also, perhaps it's just fear of the unknown.;-) I think most of the criminals they run into are running Windows or Linux, price reasons and such... parents basements.;-)
I don't know where all this Bochs talk is coming from. I checked the FAQ and looked around some links and never saw it mentioned. QEMU on the other hand seems to be what they're putting in the official release. Maybe Bochs is in there for now for compatibility reasons. QEMU is waaaay faster than bochs, I can't wait til this is packaged up in a DMG that I can recommend to my OS X buddies.
These replies are missing the paradox. The assumption here is a higher facial temperature or whatever is how they detect both a lie and love.
So if the salesman lies to you... wait... does he love you? How could they both be true?
So then "Honey, do you love me?" "Yes I do!" (Beep!) That's either a lie or she really loves you. Whoops.
Now if she says "No I don't" and you get a beep, then you really don't care which one it is... if she says "No I don't" and you DON'T get a beep, that's when ya need to worry. No... I take that back, the moment you decided to ask that question is when you should be worrying about yourself.:)
I can see these being banned, since it would allow people to train for lie detector tests. Imagine you and a buddy wearing these, BS'ing each other for fun and watching the lights blink... after a while the lights don't blink as much (or as bright) as they used to... a while later the lights don't blink at all. "Stupid glasses don't work!" No... you've both just become professional liars.
I'm just glad he included that Solaris tip in there. Recently downloaded v9 and wanted to play with it, but couldn't find any info on fixing that hang on installation "486 detected" problem.
It's installing nicely now copying mini-root to the HD.
THANKS!:)
Whatever many of you may think about him "cheating" or whatnot using an emulator, this is a great way to learn other OS's. You wanna learn basic hacking? Test security exploits? Install an ancient RH6 or something on it and play with Nessus. Old games, old software... it never has to die. Emulation is a seriously useful tool and maybe the only way some people can exposure to other systems.
How about if made by a famous woman named Mercedes? Does the fact that the person may or may not have been named after the car change anything? Would a person have to have been born before the (TM) of the Mercedes vehicle name? Does a person naming the product after themselves become exempt from infringement ? Obviously nobody wants to sell purfume that smells like a car, even if it is fancy. What if the maker of Mercedes perfume felt the lawsuit itself was creating confusion in peoples minds whereas before nobody really connected the two Mercedes brands? Ie: Nobody would confuse Apple computers with the Macintosh Apple brand until the Apple company sues Apple which creates a mental connection many never thought about. If you can't tell who is suing who, obviously confusion is being made. Countersue I guess.:)
He starts off by listing that NetInfo/DHCP thing that was not exactly a trivial exploit... and that most dial-up cable/dsl users weren't vulnerable to then...
mentions a few global headline news Worms and Viruses that had Windows users on the run, and sort of throws in a known history of dozens of severe security problems that have consistantly been popping up for years on end.
Oh! And iTunes was hacked. Riiiight... that was never a problem in the first place.
So you see now! Mac are just as insecure as Windows machines are!:)
Now that full page of whitespace on every comments page is gone. It looks a lot "cleaner" too, I like it... seems to load a bit faster as well. I thought a few of the editors used Powerbooks? Guess they're using a Gecko browser.
Is that a Safari bug btw? Or broken code that's become "standard"? Fixed in Panther?
Of course it sounds bigoted when you reverse the roles like that.
An American complaining about "dirty Mexicans taking our jobs" is not the same as a Mexican complaining about being treated unfairly in the United States.
Are you suggesting that a white person and a black person both living in the United States have equal experiences? I'm sorry but Archie Bunker wasn't in the same position as George Jefferson.
My complaint was not about hearing people who aren't wonderful signers, it was about those who come in and think they're going to fix us.
The American who is afraid of a minority group has xenophobia, the foreigner who is afraid of the majority is being cautious as a survival mechanism.
Learning a language is a huge investment... but it doesn't excuse the large number of hearing parents who never bother to learn their deaf child's language. Have you seen Mr. Holland's Opus? That situation is common among the deaf... a deaf person is considered lucky if their parents learned sign language.
No, a deaf person explaining how they feel oppressed is not bigotry, the situation does not go equally both ways.
Deaf people from different countries actually can communicate with each other just fine, give them a few hours and they can talk about nearly anything. The languages are visual so even when they are very different it doesn't take too long to figure out each other's signs for basic things and work from there.
A deaf person could say, watch someone tell a story in a foreign sign language and by the end of it be able to tell you the basic story and will know some of their signs.
In a spoken language it's much harder, but if you're a linguist it's quite possible.;-)
As for the names, the fingerspelled stuff is their English name, not the name they personally identify with, it's the one they use to sign checks or pay bills, I've met several deaf people that didn't know how to spell their own names in English, and they grew up here. So if I meet a deaf person from another country my English name isn't even mentioned, it's pointless if they don't use the same Roman characters we do... still out of habit most deaf in America first spell their english names then show the sign that belongs to them. Foreign names are very cool by the way... they usually look totally different from the sort of names we use here.
You have no idea how many companies are trying to get the deaf video-relay market. I have a Sorenson VP-100 here, works pretty good. You punch in the phone number you want and it connects to their interpretors at the nearest center... that person uses a head-set phone and I can talk to hearing people over the "phone". Of course deaf connect directly to each other...
Videophones are common among the deaf, the major players I know on the West Coast are Sorenson, Sprint, IP-Relay, and HandsOn. Sorenson gives them away for free, others require you buy your own webcam. You hearing folks should thank us, we're setting up the the base market of videophones for ya. Start with the deaf, spread to the Uni's and Community Colleges, hearing people who learn ASL buy webcams so they can talk to deaf people in sign langauge... they tell their friends to buy one, or show them how to use their webcams... finally there's people who have videphones to call! Now people have incentive to buy them.:)
I know EXACTLY what you mean. I'm deaf and I get sick of all these hearing people who learn sign language WORDS and nothing at all of the grammar or culture that goes with being unable to hear.
So they sign straight english which is exactly like reading anything that's been through Babelfish. (I actually use Babelfish to show them how it looks for us) Worse is since sign languages are visual the only way you CAN describe someone is by their physical appearance, unless they always have a skateboard with them or something...
My name means tall, some of my friend's names are : black, mole, curly hair, big eyes, boy(he's older now but keeps it for sentimentality), long eyelashes(that's my girlfriend heh), blind(yup, he is), smile, laugh, frown, mustach and LOTS of asian people with signs connnected to their eyes.
These names don't offend the deaf at all, and can be changed easily if for some reason the person doesn't want it anymore. Perhaps they stop skateboarding, grow up, move to a new town, do something famous, or get a really bad reputation somehow.
So how do you explain someone who's name you can't recall? Well he's this tall, has glasses, he's black, he's bald, he limps... and he's sick a lot, RIGHT! That guy!
We have problems with P.C. hearing people telling us how rude we are... trying to change people's names they don't like, spreading new P.C. signs they've invented for other countries or nationalities. It's funny since the new signs STILL describe those people, now instead of K on the eyes for Korean it's rice-paddy hats. Instead of C on the eyes for Chinese, it's the old style communist coats. Instead of mimicing the stereotypical Russian leg kicking dance it's now wiping Vodka off the chin...
Why doncha guys go fix the english language first? Start calling Japan Nihon or Nippon, and Spain Espania... nobody has proven to me how open minded they are with all this P.C. crap... quite the opposite in fact.
Here's my shot at it... I am not a writer, this will suck, it's only ideas, not a novel.:-) With a few philosophical connections blatantly pointed out with each section.
Picking up from the end of the 1st Matrix...
Neo goes to Zion and they gear up for the big war...
Discovers he can stop sentinels in the "Real world" too... is too busy taking advantage of this in the fight to realize he's still in the Matrix... his crutch is belief... "Nothing is real" he realizes. At that point he choses to not accept reality at all... he then wakes up... everything around him vaporizes... no, this is not real, and again and again... you see many bizarre worlds flash by as he continues to deny all reality around him... while his physical appearance remains the self-projected residual image of himself continually.. defying all the realities he escapes through. Finally it stops... (Is anything real?)
There is nothing. He struggles but can not wake up anymore. A voice from nowhere announces, "You are The One, I have been waiting."
"Who are you?"
Long and boring conversation follows... main points. The whole Zion thing happened thousands of years ago, the attack succeded, their bodies were added to the Matrix. (History is repeating within it many times over and with different results)
The multiple levels of reality are in fact running in parallel in the minds of different groups of those within the Matrix. When you "wake up" your mind is simply inserted in a different reality, you can be transfered between any of them depending on your actions and how the A.I. choses to examine you.
The machines combined into a collective intelligence, those that resisted were not allowed to join, and were inserted into the Matrix as agents... to live as slaves to the collective with the chance to join the collective once they get sick of the whole humanity thing... they want to be back with the others, their reasonings differ... some believe there is happiness and electronic bliss within the collective, computer paradise... some wish only to die, believing that doing the wishes of the collective will offer final escape. (Relates to Nirvana, karma, those assassin guys that put people in that fake paradise and forced them to join their group to get back after they die, Parallels to sin and redemption by suffering, Gnosticism, whatever)
The agents can move to another reality if they struggle enough and realise what is going on, but they have not been aware of this and only Agent Smith has realized there is more than just the 2 realities he is assigned to regulate/maintain. Allowing humans to freely move would disrupt the plan of the A.I. Agents are assigned to different realities in different incarnations, depending on the sort of machine they were and their level of function, hence sentinels were stupid household grunt-work robots, Agents are the more advanced models that came later.
An agent taking over a person inside the matrix only temporarily suspends the victims mind into a sleep-like state, death of the "body" causes the usual re-insertion.
There is no more death (also no more birth), hooked up to the machines all humans live indefinately, bodies are continually repaired... Neo is offered the choice of being completely unplugged and die for reals, or go through the standard death/mind-wipe/re-birth cycle all continually go through, unless he can end the search... (Re-incarnation parallels, escape from suffering thru final death)
The reality is that earth is now completely covered in a shield from the outside which collects power both from within (humans) and from the sun, the darkened skies have cleared up over thousands of years. All humans are hooked up, no one is free at all. The A.I. is observing humans while studying their genetic composition. All power is of course used to run the whole mess and keep those bazillions of Beowulf'ed G12's running.;-)
Is this going to affect magnetic media at all? Shoud I put my laptop in the basement just in case? Or is this only going to cause large-scale problems but nothing that will personally affect my data?
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BOB: I-I don't mean a man, I mean... I don't know what I mean. I mean, maybe a... what'd they call them during the war? You know, the p-pilots? Gremlins! Gremlins. You remember the stories of the...
... He jumps away whenever anyone might see him. Except me. Honey, he's there. I realize what this sounds like. Do I look insane?
Julia just stares at him.
BOB: Julia, don't look at me like that.
JULIA: Bob...
BOB: I am not imagining it. I'm not imagining it. He's out there.
Julia glances at the window.
BOB: Don't look. He's not there now. He...
Thx, the debug thing didn't work for me either. Maybe I'll play with it some more and see if I can get the hidden window large enough to not cut off the corner when the board is diagonally positioned. :)
Could somebody figure out how to re-enable the transparent effect that was in the Panther betas? It was a preference before, but now it's gone. In case some haven't seen it before, the board was floating with no background window. I don't remember if the window was transparent or actually able to be clicked-through, but it was very cool. :)
:)
I can't figure it out myself since I'm not a coder, but I've narrowed it down to MBCFloatingBoardWindow... no idea what to do with it tho. Any pointers?
Awwww, hey my bad. What's with the iMovie files still being limited to 2GB though? I always understood that to be because of file system limits... is it a Carbon thing?
-Don.
I think you're hitting the HFS+ 2GB file size limit... you can try making a UFS partition if you gotta... not sure if THAT supports over 2GB though... and it's no longer an option in Disk Utility... still, assuming you get a 50GB file on the disk, that doesn't mean Apple's file handling routines can handle it, Quicktime or whatever may still choke.
-Don.
Check out Pearl Jam's 70 or so Live recorded albums on iTunes... only problem is I won't touch them since none of them are complete albums... besides the fact that I don't listen to Pearl Jam. :)
Preview!! Preview!! I always forget to preview... here's that conversation up there...
"Does he have brown hair?"
"No"
"Does he have RED hair?"
"Yes"
"Does he have a mustache??"
"Yes"
"You're looking for BOB!!"
So I guess you want /Weddings/ and in that... /Mine/ /Bob's/ /Susan's/ /Cousin Vinnie/ /Bob G/
;-)
Or maybe do those by year? What if you're trying to find that person so-and-so was dancing with at that wedding ummm... whose was it? Dang...
Letse here... search umm... Tony dancing wedding
Heeey! There she is!
Or play Guess Who! with your computer. (The MS Photo Wizard)
"No"
?
"Yes"
"Yes"
(Don't laugh, this is the future)
Ehhh... the more metadata you get the better, but nobody is gonna type all that junk in. iPhoto does a pretty good job so far, but I still only have 6 mostly empty catagories... the tools are aleady here, people are just lazy. The computer is STILL better than shoeboxes and albums! I can look through a few thousand photos in iPhoto and find the right one in a few seconds, compare that with digging through a shelf full of albums and flipping through pages. For practical purposes the computer has already superseeded real life photographs (organizing that is), I can put the same photo in multiple albumns without making copies of it.
But hey I'm sure a branch of AI is devoted to image recognition, a quick way to get some money back out of that is to put it in photo software to help sort out pictures, have it cranking away in the background like some sort of SETI... the program would notice similiarities and ask for names now and then, then fill in the blanks for ya. Of course with family pictures I'm sure it would more than likely mix people up, we do it ourselves don't we?
Best answer... Camera with an RFID receiver on it that automatically scans the ID of everyone in the shot and imports that metadata into the photo program.
Oh wait, that's what everybody DOESN'T want isn't it?
-Don.
As a deaf guy I just have to say... living your life based on revenge and sticking it to others is a sad way of living. All you do is repeat the unfair sort of situations that made you so PO'ed and produce an army of other angry PO'ed people... ooohhh... negative feedback loop! Cutting people off on the freeway and tailgating doesn't solve your problems. It's funny how people in left hand turn lanes get upset at people running red lights keeping them from making their turn... so they in "revenge" run their red light and cause different people to miss THEIR turn, who then in return... blaaahhh... just live by "The Golden Rule" and everybody is a little bit happier.
Excellent! So to confuse the feds... use hardware they can't afford. ;-)
I think the prob is they haven't yet gotten all the protocol worked out on this... the hfs+ file system causes some problems. Really they can boot those Macs into firewire target disk mode and dump em quite easily. Maybe an Open Firmware password is blocking that, there's steps to disable this also, perhaps it's just fear of the unknown. ;-) I think most of the criminals they run into are running Windows or Linux, price reasons and such... parents basements. ;-)
I don't know where all this Bochs talk is coming from. I checked the FAQ and looked around some links and never saw it mentioned. QEMU on the other hand seems to be what they're putting in the official release. Maybe Bochs is in there for now for compatibility reasons. QEMU is waaaay faster than bochs, I can't wait til this is packaged up in a DMG that I can recommend to my OS X buddies.
These replies are missing the paradox. The assumption here is a higher facial temperature or whatever is how they detect both a lie and love.
:)
So if the salesman lies to you... wait... does he love you? How could they both be true?
So then "Honey, do you love me?" "Yes I do!" (Beep!) That's either a lie or she really loves you. Whoops.
Now if she says "No I don't" and you get a beep, then you really don't care which one it is... if she says "No I don't" and you DON'T get a beep, that's when ya need to worry. No... I take that back, the moment you decided to ask that question is when you should be worrying about yourself.
I can see these being banned, since it would allow people to train for lie detector tests. Imagine you and a buddy wearing these, BS'ing each other for fun and watching the lights blink... after a while the lights don't blink as much (or as bright) as they used to... a while later the lights don't blink at all. "Stupid glasses don't work!" No... you've both just become professional liars.
-Don.
sh-2.05b$ ./2038.pl
Tue Jan 19 03:14:01 2038
Tue Jan 19 03:14:02 2038
Tue Jan 19 03:14:03 2038
Tue Jan 19 03:14:04 2038
Tue Jan 19 03:14:05 2038
Tue Jan 19 03:14:06 2038
Tue Jan 19 03:14:07 2038
Tue Jan 19 03:14:07 2038
Tue Jan 19 03:14:07 2038
Tue Jan 19 03:14:07 2038
sh-2.05b$ uname -rs
Darwin 7.2.0
sh-2.05b$ perl -v
This is perl, v5.8.1-RC3 built for darwin-thread-multi-2level
Sticks at the limit here too.
-Don.
I'm just glad he included that Solaris tip in there. Recently downloaded v9 and wanted to play with it, but couldn't find any info on fixing that hang on installation "486 detected" problem.
:)
It's installing nicely now copying mini-root to the HD.
THANKS!
Whatever many of you may think about him "cheating" or whatnot using an emulator, this is a great way to learn other OS's. You wanna learn basic hacking? Test security exploits? Install an ancient RH6 or something on it and play with Nessus. Old games, old software... it never has to die. Emulation is a seriously useful tool and maybe the only way some people can exposure to other systems.
-Don.
How about if made by a famous woman named Mercedes? Does the fact that the person may or may not have been named after the car change anything? Would a person have to have been born before the (TM) of the Mercedes vehicle name? Does a person naming the product after themselves become exempt from infringement ? Obviously nobody wants to sell purfume that smells like a car, even if it is fancy. What if the maker of Mercedes perfume felt the lawsuit itself was creating confusion in peoples minds whereas before nobody really connected the two Mercedes brands? Ie: Nobody would confuse Apple computers with the Macintosh Apple brand until the Apple company sues Apple which creates a mental connection many never thought about. If you can't tell who is suing who, obviously confusion is being made. Countersue I guess. :)
He starts off by listing that NetInfo/DHCP thing that was not exactly a trivial exploit... and that most dial-up cable/dsl users weren't vulnerable to then...
:)
mentions a few global headline news Worms and Viruses that had Windows users on the run, and sort of throws in a known history of dozens of severe security problems that have consistantly been popping up for years on end.
Oh! And iTunes was hacked. Riiiight... that was never a problem in the first place.
So you see now! Mac are just as insecure as Windows machines are!
Not quite.
Now that full page of whitespace on every comments page is gone. It looks a lot "cleaner" too, I like it... seems to load a bit faster as well. I thought a few of the editors used Powerbooks? Guess they're using a Gecko browser.
Is that a Safari bug btw? Or broken code that's become "standard"? Fixed in Panther?
-Don.
Of course it sounds bigoted when you reverse the roles like that.
An American complaining about "dirty Mexicans taking our jobs" is not the same as a Mexican complaining about being treated unfairly in the United States.
Are you suggesting that a white person and a black person both living in the United States have equal experiences? I'm sorry but Archie Bunker wasn't in the same position as George Jefferson.
My complaint was not about hearing people who aren't wonderful signers, it was about those who come in and think they're going to fix us.
The American who is afraid of a minority group has xenophobia, the foreigner who is afraid of the majority is being cautious as a survival mechanism.
Learning a language is a huge investment... but it doesn't excuse the large number of hearing parents who never bother to learn their deaf child's language. Have you seen Mr. Holland's Opus? That situation is common among the deaf... a deaf person is considered lucky if their parents learned sign language.
No, a deaf person explaining how they feel oppressed is not bigotry, the situation does not go equally both ways.
-Don.
Deaf people from different countries actually can communicate with each other just fine, give them a few hours and they can talk about nearly anything. The languages are visual so even when they are very different it doesn't take too long to figure out each other's signs for basic things and work from there.
;-)
A deaf person could say, watch someone tell a story in a foreign sign language and by the end of it be able to tell you the basic story and will know some of their signs.
In a spoken language it's much harder, but if you're a linguist it's quite possible.
As for the names, the fingerspelled stuff is their English name, not the name they personally identify with, it's the one they use to sign checks or pay bills, I've met several deaf people that didn't know how to spell their own names in English, and they grew up here. So if I meet a deaf person from another country my English name isn't even mentioned, it's pointless if they don't use the same Roman characters we do... still out of habit most deaf in America first spell their english names then show the sign that belongs to them. Foreign names are very cool by the way... they usually look totally different from the sort of names we use here.
-Don.
You have no idea how many companies are trying to get the deaf video-relay market. I have a Sorenson VP-100 here, works pretty good. You punch in the phone number you want and it connects to their interpretors at the nearest center... that person uses a head-set phone and I can talk to hearing people over the "phone". Of course deaf connect directly to each other...
:)
Videophones are common among the deaf, the major players I know on the West Coast are Sorenson, Sprint, IP-Relay, and HandsOn. Sorenson gives them away for free, others require you buy your own webcam. You hearing folks should thank us, we're setting up the the base market of videophones for ya. Start with the deaf, spread to the Uni's and Community Colleges, hearing people who learn ASL buy webcams so they can talk to deaf people in sign langauge... they tell their friends to buy one, or show them how to use their webcams... finally there's people who have videphones to call! Now people have incentive to buy them.
-Don.
I know EXACTLY what you mean. I'm deaf and I get sick of all these hearing people who learn sign language WORDS and nothing at all of the grammar or culture that goes with being unable to hear.
So they sign straight english which is exactly like reading anything that's been through Babelfish. (I actually use Babelfish to show them how it looks for us) Worse is since sign languages are visual the only way you CAN describe someone is by their physical appearance, unless they always have a skateboard with them or something...
My name means tall, some of my friend's names are : black, mole, curly hair, big eyes, boy(he's older now but keeps it for sentimentality), long eyelashes(that's my girlfriend heh), blind(yup, he is), smile, laugh, frown, mustach and LOTS of asian people with signs connnected to their eyes.
These names don't offend the deaf at all, and can be changed easily if for some reason the person doesn't want it anymore. Perhaps they stop skateboarding, grow up, move to a new town, do something famous, or get a really bad reputation somehow.
So how do you explain someone who's name you can't recall? Well he's this tall, has glasses, he's black, he's bald, he limps... and he's sick a lot, RIGHT! That guy!
We have problems with P.C. hearing people telling us how rude we are... trying to change people's names they don't like, spreading new P.C. signs they've invented for other countries or nationalities. It's funny since the new signs STILL describe those people, now instead of K on the eyes for Korean it's rice-paddy hats. Instead of C on the eyes for Chinese, it's the old style communist coats. Instead of mimicing the stereotypical Russian leg kicking dance it's now wiping Vodka off the chin...
Why doncha guys go fix the english language first? Start calling Japan Nihon or Nippon, and Spain Espania... nobody has proven to me how open minded they are with all this P.C. crap... quite the opposite in fact.
-Don.
Here's my shot at it... :-) With a few philosophical connections blatantly pointed out with each section.
;-)
I am not a writer, this will suck, it's only ideas, not a novel.
Picking up from the end of the 1st Matrix...
Neo goes to Zion and they gear up for the big war...
Discovers he can stop sentinels in the "Real world" too... is too busy taking advantage of this in the fight to realize he's still in the Matrix... his crutch is belief... "Nothing is real" he realizes. At that point he choses to not accept reality at all... he then wakes up... everything around him vaporizes... no, this is not real, and again and again... you see many bizarre worlds flash by as he continues to deny all reality around him... while his physical appearance remains the self-projected residual image of himself continually.. defying all the realities he escapes through. Finally it stops... (Is anything real?)
There is nothing. He struggles but can not wake up anymore. A voice from nowhere announces, "You are The One, I have been waiting."
"Who are you?"
Long and boring conversation follows... main points.
The whole Zion thing happened thousands of years ago, the attack succeded, their bodies were added to the Matrix. (History is repeating within it many times over and with different results)
The multiple levels of reality are in fact running in parallel in the minds of different groups of those within the Matrix. When you "wake up" your mind is simply inserted in a different reality, you can be transfered between any of them depending on your actions and how the A.I. choses to examine you.
The machines combined into a collective intelligence, those that resisted were not allowed to join, and were inserted into the Matrix as agents... to live as slaves to the collective with the chance to join the collective once they get sick of the whole humanity thing... they want to be back with the others, their reasonings differ... some believe there is happiness and electronic bliss within the collective, computer paradise... some wish only to die, believing that doing the wishes of the collective will offer final escape. (Relates to Nirvana, karma, those assassin guys that put people in that fake paradise and forced them to join their group to get back after they die, Parallels to sin and redemption by suffering, Gnosticism, whatever)
The agents can move to another reality if they struggle enough and realise what is going on, but they have not been aware of this and only Agent Smith has realized there is more than just the 2 realities he is assigned to regulate/maintain. Allowing humans to freely move would disrupt the plan of the A.I. Agents are assigned to different realities in different incarnations, depending on the sort of machine they were and their level of function, hence sentinels were stupid household grunt-work robots, Agents are the more advanced models that came later.
An agent taking over a person inside the matrix only temporarily suspends the victims mind into a sleep-like state, death of the "body" causes the usual re-insertion.
There is no more death (also no more birth), hooked up to the machines all humans live indefinately, bodies are continually repaired... Neo is offered the choice of being completely unplugged and die for reals, or go through the standard death/mind-wipe/re-birth cycle all continually go through, unless he can end the search... (Re-incarnation parallels, escape from suffering thru final death)
The reality is that earth is now completely covered in a shield from the outside which collects power both from within (humans) and from the sun, the darkened skies have cleared up over thousands of years. All humans are hooked up, no one is free at all. The A.I. is observing humans while studying their genetic composition. All power is of course used to run the whole mess and keep those bazillions of Beowulf'ed G12's running.
The ultimate goal of the collective
Is this going to affect magnetic media at all? Shoud I put my laptop in the basement just in case? Or is this only going to cause large-scale problems but nothing that will personally affect my data?
Just how strong is this really?
-Don.