Yeah, things were going great with my girlfriend, but in the end, I realized that she doesn't fundamentally respect the way I want to live life. That's right: we couldn't agree on which TV package to get.
Rifftrax & The Film Crew (Score:5, Interesting) by eldavojohn (898314) What do you think about the other efforts led by Mike Nelson like Rifftrax & The Film Crew? Is there a reason that you, Pearl, TV's Frank & Dr. Forester have split from Mike, Brain Guy & Tom Servo? I'm overjoyed that there are multiple efforts but why?
Question Unsurprisingly Left Unanswered.
Dang it... I know Mike would have answered that question!!
I agree with you about the idea of augmenting speech recognition with this, but as for the universal translator, there is the tiny detail that Babelfish works with less than 1/5% of the world's languages, and not even all of those that exist can be translated among each other yet. Not to mention that we need something a *lot* better than Babelfish, and the visual cues had better give a TON of assistance to the speech recognition because it has enough trouble working effectively with a single speaker (with training) who is using a headset. We also need to build text-to-speech frameworks for all the languages as well, something which has to be redone from scratch in many respects with each language.
Still, universal translator is always a great goal... maybe just not around the corner...
There once was a poet named Banner Who composed in a god-awful manner With hardly a rhyme Or awareness of time He'd do well with some Lear and a scanner!
I think the US government has just plain been around for too long. It's generally the same government for the past 200 years, and over time, people have naturally figured out how to exploit all the cracks and loopholes of our system. It's not really some source of evil causing all of this corruption, it is just something that happens. We elect the most "electable" people, who find their various niches in the electoral ecosystem. I think that is why our voting system, among other things, is so screwed up. People have just had too much time to figure out how to push it in a certain direction to make it work in their favor.
Nobody should want to be "that guy" in a group of friends who always takes a joke too far or at the totally wrong time. That guy really sucks, and it's a matter of not knowing when and where to bring out the humor. I have friends with a totally inappropriate sense of humor and they have me doubling over with laughter all the time, but they know not to walk up and start with the dead baby jokes while I'm talking to my boss, for example, or talk about a dirty sanchez while I'm on the phone with my mom. You may think those things are funny (I don't know), but if you don't get why some people don't want certain humor at certain times, then you're going to be turning a lot of people away from you over time. The Gizmodo guys may have been funny to me for a while if I knew them, but once they did something like what they did at CES, yeah, I'd say, you guys are being kind of sucky and I probably would be pretty annoyed with them. Just like most of the people at the CES.
Humor is great when it is actually fucking funny. If you are above the age of 13 and you think this passes for humor, you're maladjusted and need to figure out how to live in the grownup world.
Just because Google uses the word beta in a strange and previously uncommon way does not mean that every company ought to now have the same expectations of their beta software.
Rumor has it there is a 2 meter wide desktop computer in the president's office, and if they can successfully sue that then the whole campus goes down.
Many paralegals died to bring us this information.
"A lie is a type of deception in the form of an untruthful statement with the intention to deceive, often with the further intention to maintain a secret or reputation, or to avoid punishment. To lie is to state something one believes is false with the intention that it be taken for the truth by someone else. A liar is a person who is lying, who has lied, or who lies repeatedly."
It's a lie even if what you make up happens to be true! Like if I said that the square root of 34785347637845 was 234234, just pulling numbers out of my ass, and it just happened to be that this was true, that doesn't mean I was speaking truthfully.
Rumsfeld lied in your example because he intentionally made something appear to be a certainty when he did not actually know it to be the case. But it's all about intent; even if it had turned out that there were WMDs... he was still selling his case dishonestly. He just probably wouldn't have been caught. His lie was the extent of his certainty.
A religious person lies when they say "God said this" if they don't really know it to be the case, so long as they are saying it with the implication of knowing it, rather than just believing it, even if it turns out God really did exist and said that. The lie, again, is the level of certainty.
Now, none of those specifics were directed at you, I was just disagreeing with your statement that a lie requires intent. It doesn't. Knowingly making a statement *as fact* when you know that you do no know if it is a fact is just as much of a lie.
Again, I don't know what you are getting at, since what you are talking about clearly requires intent.
So, stories are lies, Einstein's imperfect theories were lies, I lied on my math homework each time I got the answer wrong, my computer lied about the time since it didn't match the Atomic Clock, my mom lied when she accidentally called my older sister by my younger sister's name the other day. The word "lie" becomes a pretty useless thing when it just means "something false".
In any useful definition of the word "lie", there is intent. Nobody cares what you extrapolated from one random dictionary entry.
Good point. Although, at least Metallica was doing something musically talented for a period of time before they decided to sell out far worse than anyone.
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Yeah, things were going great with my girlfriend, but in the end, I realized that she doesn't fundamentally respect the way I want to live life. That's right: we couldn't agree on which TV package to get.
Eh? Babelfish translates among 1340 languages??
I agree with you about the idea of augmenting speech recognition with this, but as for the universal translator, there is the tiny detail that Babelfish works with less than 1/5% of the world's languages, and not even all of those that exist can be translated among each other yet. Not to mention that we need something a *lot* better than Babelfish, and the visual cues had better give a TON of assistance to the speech recognition because it has enough trouble working effectively with a single speaker (with training) who is using a headset. We also need to build text-to-speech frameworks for all the languages as well, something which has to be redone from scratch in many respects with each language.
Still, universal translator is always a great goal... maybe just not around the corner...
There once was a poet named Banner
Who composed in a god-awful manner
With hardly a rhyme
Or awareness of time
He'd do well with some Lear and a scanner!
I think the US government has just plain been around for too long. It's generally the same government for the past 200 years, and over time, people have naturally figured out how to exploit all the cracks and loopholes of our system. It's not really some source of evil causing all of this corruption, it is just something that happens. We elect the most "electable" people, who find their various niches in the electoral ecosystem. I think that is why our voting system, among other things, is so screwed up. People have just had too much time to figure out how to push it in a certain direction to make it work in their favor.
Yeah, but everybody would notice. At least with what may have happened in 2000, there was enough confusion among people that a revolt didn't happen.
Nobody should want to be "that guy" in a group of friends who always takes a joke too far or at the totally wrong time. That guy really sucks, and it's a matter of not knowing when and where to bring out the humor. I have friends with a totally inappropriate sense of humor and they have me doubling over with laughter all the time, but they know not to walk up and start with the dead baby jokes while I'm talking to my boss, for example, or talk about a dirty sanchez while I'm on the phone with my mom. You may think those things are funny (I don't know), but if you don't get why some people don't want certain humor at certain times, then you're going to be turning a lot of people away from you over time. The Gizmodo guys may have been funny to me for a while if I knew them, but once they did something like what they did at CES, yeah, I'd say, you guys are being kind of sucky and I probably would be pretty annoyed with them. Just like most of the people at the CES.
Humor is great when it is actually fucking funny. If you are above the age of 13 and you think this passes for humor, you're maladjusted and need to figure out how to live in the grownup world.
Yeah, if someone has been hassled by a cop, it's not like you ever hear them mutter "fucking pigs" when a cop car goes by, oh wait......
I don't usually put things so bluntly but... BULLSHIT.
What, no security code on the credit card??
I prefer to at least wear a belt.
I'm interested, and I'd like to buy three dozen of your plugghs.
That doesn't make any sense... isn't the reason that you maintain the above-average driving distance so that you don't have to break as often???
Maybe when he said "film the book", he really meant it. Just put a camera on the book itself and turn a page every five minutes until it's over.
Mmm! This is a tasty mushroom!
Do I ask myself questions and then immediately answer them? Yes.
Just because Google uses the word beta in a strange and previously uncommon way does not mean that every company ought to now have the same expectations of their beta software.
Rumor has it there is a 2 meter wide desktop computer in the president's office, and if they can successfully sue that then the whole campus goes down.
Many paralegals died to bring us this information.
Legally speaking, you should not have been issued a geek card in the first place.
The first paragraph from Wikipedia in its entirety:
"A lie is a type of deception in the form of an untruthful statement with the intention to deceive, often with the further intention to maintain a secret or reputation, or to avoid punishment. To lie is to state something one believes is false with the intention that it be taken for the truth by someone else. A liar is a person who is lying, who has lied, or who lies repeatedly."
It's a lie even if what you make up happens to be true! Like if I said that the square root of 34785347637845 was 234234, just pulling numbers out of my ass, and it just happened to be that this was true, that doesn't mean I was speaking truthfully.
Rumsfeld lied in your example because he intentionally made something appear to be a certainty when he did not actually know it to be the case. But it's all about intent; even if it had turned out that there were WMDs... he was still selling his case dishonestly. He just probably wouldn't have been caught. His lie was the extent of his certainty.
A religious person lies when they say "God said this" if they don't really know it to be the case, so long as they are saying it with the implication of knowing it, rather than just believing it, even if it turns out God really did exist and said that. The lie, again, is the level of certainty.
Again, I don't know what you are getting at, since what you are talking about clearly requires intent.
You must be joking.
So, stories are lies, Einstein's imperfect theories were lies, I lied on my math homework each time I got the answer wrong, my computer lied about the time since it didn't match the Atomic Clock, my mom lied when she accidentally called my older sister by my younger sister's name the other day. The word "lie" becomes a pretty useless thing when it just means "something false".
In any useful definition of the word "lie", there is intent. Nobody cares what you extrapolated from one random dictionary entry.
It is an annoying mistake, but can you really not understand why this mistake is made so often?
How many words that end in -ose have the same vowel sound as "lose"? Nose, rose, hose, pose, prose, etc.
On the other hand, words written with "oo" in them usually have the same vowel sound as "lose". Boos, noon, saloon, kangaroo, etc.
Good point. Although, at least Metallica was doing something musically talented for a period of time before they decided to sell out far worse than anyone.