Actually, that idea has been implemented. I recently saw a show on the History Channel about the German autobahn, they have a new system of traffic speed measurement sensors and a new set of dynamic speed limit signs. The computer judges how to set speed limits based on traffic flow and speed of the current traffic, then the network changes the speed limit signs for each zone accordingly. It's designed to maximize speed and minimize accidents from high speed traffic coming suddenly into congested zones. But the Germans don't like it because there used to be NO speed limits on the autobahn.
This is old old news. The Monet carnavi system has live updates of traffic jams, the feature is several years old. It even allows drivers to access live webcams at common traffic chokepoints.
It appears that the submitter did not even read the article he suggested. There is nothing new in the article, in fact, the article is about how drivers DON'T use the long-existing system.
You're so full of crap. FYI, every place in Tokyo is "right between two different subway lines" if not 3 or 4 lines. The Imperial Palace is considerably further than 11 blocks from Akihabara, I'm looking at the map right now. And I bet I know where you stayed too, the Washington Hotel, and you didn't pay less than $135 for a double. The Japanese tourist industry is made to bilk clueless tourists like you. Chiyoda-ku is a crappy place to rent a room, you could have stayed in the Ginza for the same money. Or you could have stayed a whole week in my hotel for what you paid in 1 day.
I've read about this on other websites, this project is so tiny it's practically nonexistent, there are only 50 PDAs to loan. There is considerable speculation that the project is intended primarily to gather GPS data on tourist travels rather than to provide any useful information to tourists.
You spent $70 per night for lodging in Tokyo? You got ripped off. I spent $18/night for a private room. And I felt like I got ripped off because there were other hotels down the street for only $15.
You should dump ALL bounce messages. When was the last time you got a legit bounce message from something YOU sent? Never? Years ago?
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You should read the original draft of Robocop 2, it's quite good, but most of that got axed and the film got mired in such horrible directoral arguments that it almost became an Alan Smithee production. You can't really blame Miller for that. Basically Robocop 3 is what Robocop 2 was supposed to be, except for stuff they already used in R2. Personally, I thought R3 was rather good.
No, that only applies to streaming video, not downloadable videos. All Apple's trailers are downloadable a/k/a "progressive download" and do not adapt to your QT settings for bandwidth. Note that some trailers offer different size/bandwidth versions, which would be automatically detected if they were streaming.
No, you don't get it, just tape it to a wall up high where nobody will look for it, maybe use some black gaffer's tape so nobody notices it in the dark. Use an external mic with some foam padding for isolation from vibration if you want better quality. But it doesn't matter because the iPod can only capture mono. Hmm... maybe TWO iPods..
I notice it records 44.1 kHz uncompressed RAW, doesn't say how many bits, and it's only mono. If only the iPods could record CD quality stereo, it would be the ultimate concert bootleg tool. I suspect Apple deliberately built in this limitation, they knew someone would crack this device eventually.
Yes, the simplest, cheapest solution is to buy a TiVo. The TiVo box runs Linux, you can do a lot of hacks by yourself. You can't buy any hardware capable of running Linux and doing video capture for $99, which is the starting price for a basic 40 hour TiVo. Even if you factor in a lifetime subscription for another $299, you'd have an extremely difficult time getting any hardware that comes close to the quality of a TiVo for $398.
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Oh if only this annual outpouring of scientific expertise could be channelled into something worthwhile, rather than this bilge.
You want a wireless webcam that anyone driving down the street can tap into? You do realize that a popular new wardriving activity is to hunt for homes with wireless webcams and watch people in the evenings when they're home, right? Or they can see when you're NOT home, and then find out where your cameras are, and disable them before they get caught on camera burglarizing your stuff?
Do yourself a favor and get a hardwired webcam, there are plenty of FireWire cams that you can put up to 1000 feet from your computer (the limit of FireWire cable). Hardwired cams don't broadcast everything in your home to the outside world.
That k5 story was the anti-MT manifesto of the GNAA and linked back to their MT-spamflooding tools. It used to get repeatedly posted here on slashdot, it probably still is, but gets modded down to -1. Read the Wikipedia article, you get GNAA membership points if you can troll Slashdot successfully. That k5 link was a good example.
You're a little behind the curve. MT hired Jay Allen specifically so he could integrate his antispam tools into the standard MT distribution. He's only worked there a short time, do you seriously expect quality software to appear overnight?
well... dorama has a lot of culture-specific things that aren't necessarily comprehensible to beginners. But at least it's better than anime, with its exaggerated voices and weird vocabulary. I personally recommend news shows. The announcers are chosen for clarity of voice, the news scenarios are generally familiar to Americans (crime, economics, sports, etc.), and there are a lot of interviews with people at all levels of speech and many different dialects, oftentimes the interviews are subtitled in kanji. News is also available online via streaming, sometimes with written transcripts too, but the streaming suffers from the same lack of clarity that I complained about when dissing web conference tools. Better if you can get news live via satellite, like I do.
Anyway, I shouldn't completely dismiss technology as irrelevant to language learning. But the tools I think are most valuable are the very tools you're least likely to get official support for, since they'd violate copyrights. Mp3s, CDs, and PDFs are my favorite tools. Textbooks usually come with audio tapes for practicing dialogs, modern ones come with CDs, you could easily rip them to mp3s. This would have made my life a lot easier back when I was a student, I was always rewinding cassette tapes to re-listen to passages over and over. This would be a lot easier with mp3s, just move the playback head a few seconds to the left, and listen to it again. I also liked to scan my books into PDFs for convenient portability, but of course this is also a copyright problem. And personally I prefer paper textbooks, so I can scribble notes and put in furigana when I need it. So it's more useful for reference material. Sure you can use all these methods to distribute CONVENTIONAL learning materials, but so far I haven't seen any new ways to use these new media in any way that is significantly better than the old media (well, except for the mp3 instant access rewind thing).
Unfortunately, Japanese is about the slowest language to adopt computer based education. It is an "infrequently taught language" and thus, there's not a lot of budget behind development. Also, Japanese are notorious technophobes. Yeah, it makes no sense, but it's true in some areas, especially areas with long tradition like education, so computer J Lang training is extremely poorly developed. Believe me, I know from experience. Computer tools work better at higher levels, when students already have a fairly good level of language self-sufficiency, and just need more access to native language materials, like online texts, or streaming web newscasts, etc.
Let me just put the kibosh on one bad idea. Skip the web training via webcams. Most web conference software uses significant compression, reducing frequency response in the audio. Unfortunately, this makes it extremely difficult to discern the difference between high freq consonant sounds like chi/ji. So if you use low quality web conferencing, you'll be doing your students no favor, giving them a poor audio sample to emulate.
The most successful Japanese teaching programs focus on live interaction with native speakers. If you're spending big money on technology, you're wasting money you should have spent on native speakers as teachers. Language is a tool for communication between humans, not computers.
You're obviously been duped by ridiculous PETA propaganda like "Diet for a Small Planet."
I live in a an agricultural state, but the state government implemented serious laws that prevent big conglomerates from taking over and consolidating farms. It's all small farms around here. When I was a kid, my dad used to buy meat and produce direct from Amish farms, and a lot of people around here still do. We're way upstream from agribusiness conglomerates.
The difference being, every single human being can derive pleasure from eating delicious, healthful food, but everybody could survive just fine without driving, math, or web design. Knowing how to prepare food and eat healthily is a survival skill, bred into mankind's genes since prehistoric times. Eating what Agribusiness sells you is a modern way to develop obesity and heart disease.
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Actually, that idea has been implemented. I recently saw a show on the History Channel about the German autobahn, they have a new system of traffic speed measurement sensors and a new set of dynamic speed limit signs. The computer judges how to set speed limits based on traffic flow and speed of the current traffic, then the network changes the speed limit signs for each zone accordingly. It's designed to maximize speed and minimize accidents from high speed traffic coming suddenly into congested zones. But the Germans don't like it because there used to be NO speed limits on the autobahn.
This is old old news. The Monet carnavi system has live updates of traffic jams, the feature is several years old. It even allows drivers to access live webcams at common traffic chokepoints.
It appears that the submitter did not even read the article he suggested. There is nothing new in the article, in fact, the article is about how drivers DON'T use the long-existing system.
You're so full of crap. FYI, every place in Tokyo is "right between two different subway lines" if not 3 or 4 lines. The Imperial Palace is considerably further than 11 blocks from Akihabara, I'm looking at the map right now. And I bet I know where you stayed too, the Washington Hotel, and you didn't pay less than $135 for a double.
The Japanese tourist industry is made to bilk clueless tourists like you. Chiyoda-ku is a crappy place to rent a room, you could have stayed in the Ginza for the same money. Or you could have stayed a whole week in my hotel for what you paid in 1 day.
I've read about this on other websites, this project is so tiny it's practically nonexistent, there are only 50 PDAs to loan. There is considerable speculation that the project is intended primarily to gather GPS data on tourist travels rather than to provide any useful information to tourists.
You spent $70 per night for lodging in Tokyo? You got ripped off. I spent $18/night for a private room. And I felt like I got ripped off because there were other hotels down the street for only $15.
You should dump ALL bounce messages. When was the last time you got a legit bounce message from something YOU sent? Never? Years ago?
You should read the original draft of Robocop 2, it's quite good, but most of that got axed and the film got mired in such horrible directoral arguments that it almost became an Alan Smithee production. You can't really blame Miller for that.
Basically Robocop 3 is what Robocop 2 was supposed to be, except for stuff they already used in R2. Personally, I thought R3 was rather good.
No, that only applies to streaming video, not downloadable videos. All Apple's trailers are downloadable a/k/a "progressive download" and do not adapt to your QT settings for bandwidth. Note that some trailers offer different size/bandwidth versions, which would be automatically detected if they were streaming.
No, you don't get it, just tape it to a wall up high where nobody will look for it, maybe use some black gaffer's tape so nobody notices it in the dark. Use an external mic with some foam padding for isolation from vibration if you want better quality.
But it doesn't matter because the iPod can only capture mono. Hmm... maybe TWO iPods..
I notice it records 44.1 kHz uncompressed RAW, doesn't say how many bits, and it's only mono. If only the iPods could record CD quality stereo, it would be the ultimate concert bootleg tool. I suspect Apple deliberately built in this limitation, they knew someone would crack this device eventually.
Yes, the simplest, cheapest solution is to buy a TiVo. The TiVo box runs Linux, you can do a lot of hacks by yourself. You can't buy any hardware capable of running Linux and doing video capture for $99, which is the starting price for a basic 40 hour TiVo. Even if you factor in a lifetime subscription for another $299, you'd have an extremely difficult time getting any hardware that comes close to the quality of a TiVo for $398.
Oh if only this annual outpouring of scientific expertise could be channelled into something worthwhile, rather than this bilge.
You want a wireless webcam that anyone driving down the street can tap into? You do realize that a popular new wardriving activity is to hunt for homes with wireless webcams and watch people in the evenings when they're home, right? Or they can see when you're NOT home, and then find out where your cameras are, and disable them before they get caught on camera burglarizing your stuff?
Do yourself a favor and get a hardwired webcam, there are plenty of FireWire cams that you can put up to 1000 feet from your computer (the limit of FireWire cable). Hardwired cams don't broadcast everything in your home to the outside world.
Fire one technician. Allocate the money formerly used for his salary to buy new diagnostic tools.
Manuals? What manuals? I use a Mac, our software is always so well designed that it doesn't need manuals.
You can understand the enemy without spreading his propaganda and his weapons.
That k5 story was the anti-MT manifesto of the GNAA and linked back to their MT-spamflooding tools. It used to get repeatedly posted here on slashdot, it probably still is, but gets modded down to -1. Read the Wikipedia article, you get GNAA membership points if you can troll Slashdot successfully. That k5 link was a good example.
You're a little behind the curve. MT hired Jay Allen specifically so he could integrate his antispam tools into the standard MT distribution. He's only worked there a short time, do you seriously expect quality software to appear overnight?
Goddam it, stop linking to the GNAA manifesto that distributes MT-killing tools.
well... dorama has a lot of culture-specific things that aren't necessarily comprehensible to beginners. But at least it's better than anime, with its exaggerated voices and weird vocabulary.
I personally recommend news shows. The announcers are chosen for clarity of voice, the news scenarios are generally familiar to Americans (crime, economics, sports, etc.), and there are a lot of interviews with people at all levels of speech and many different dialects, oftentimes the interviews are subtitled in kanji. News is also available online via streaming, sometimes with written transcripts too, but the streaming suffers from the same lack of clarity that I complained about when dissing web conference tools. Better if you can get news live via satellite, like I do.
Anyway, I shouldn't completely dismiss technology as irrelevant to language learning. But the tools I think are most valuable are the very tools you're least likely to get official support for, since they'd violate copyrights. Mp3s, CDs, and PDFs are my favorite tools. Textbooks usually come with audio tapes for practicing dialogs, modern ones come with CDs, you could easily rip them to mp3s. This would have made my life a lot easier back when I was a student, I was always rewinding cassette tapes to re-listen to passages over and over. This would be a lot easier with mp3s, just move the playback head a few seconds to the left, and listen to it again. I also liked to scan my books into PDFs for convenient portability, but of course this is also a copyright problem. And personally I prefer paper textbooks, so I can scribble notes and put in furigana when I need it. So it's more useful for reference material. Sure you can use all these methods to distribute CONVENTIONAL learning materials, but so far I haven't seen any new ways to use these new media in any way that is significantly better than the old media (well, except for the mp3 instant access rewind thing).
Unfortunately, Japanese is about the slowest language to adopt computer based education. It is an "infrequently taught language" and thus, there's not a lot of budget behind development. Also, Japanese are notorious technophobes. Yeah, it makes no sense, but it's true in some areas, especially areas with long tradition like education, so computer J Lang training is extremely poorly developed. Believe me, I know from experience. Computer tools work better at higher levels, when students already have a fairly good level of language self-sufficiency, and just need more access to native language materials, like online texts, or streaming web newscasts, etc.
Let me just put the kibosh on one bad idea. Skip the web training via webcams. Most web conference software uses significant compression, reducing frequency response in the audio. Unfortunately, this makes it extremely difficult to discern the difference between high freq consonant sounds like chi/ji. So if you use low quality web conferencing, you'll be doing your students no favor, giving them a poor audio sample to emulate.
The most successful Japanese teaching programs focus on live interaction with native speakers. If you're spending big money on technology, you're wasting money you should have spent on native speakers as teachers. Language is a tool for communication between humans, not computers.
I can't quite tell what this app is all about, this is surely a record, ZERO comments and the site's already slashdotted.
./ summary are already available in QuickTime Streaming Server.
But all those features mentioned in the
Yeah, and L Ron Hubbard said vegetables feel pain when you chew or cook them. And your point was...?
You're obviously been duped by ridiculous PETA propaganda like "Diet for a Small Planet."
I live in a an agricultural state, but the state government implemented serious laws that prevent big conglomerates from taking over and consolidating farms. It's all small farms around here. When I was a kid, my dad used to buy meat and produce direct from Amish farms, and a lot of people around here still do. We're way upstream from agribusiness conglomerates.
The difference being, every single human being can derive pleasure from eating delicious, healthful food, but everybody could survive just fine without driving, math, or web design. Knowing how to prepare food and eat healthily is a survival skill, bred into mankind's genes since prehistoric times. Eating what Agribusiness sells you is a modern way to develop obesity and heart disease.