if this is for real, it would certainly be annoying and cumbersome to change but i don't really think it's much different from a dvd not letting you skip the opening trailers or a pc game making you watch the intro movie every time you launch it. sure these things can be circumvented--burning your own copy of the dvd without trailers or menus, zeroing out the video files in a game or deleting them, but most of the time these things take a lot of extra work on the user's part.
If your son is two already, he should be showing signs of autism if they exist. Dyslexia I'm not so sure about. My son is 2 years and 3 months old and has been going to occupational therapy for about 2 months now. He is getting better, but some things are still very difficult for my wife and me. He refuses to eat any solid foods (no cheerios, no crackers/biter biscuits). Instead of pulling us toward something he wants, he will just scream his head off. He can only speak a few words still (though this has improved greatly with the therapy), but he still cannot put two words together (such as "want food", "go bye-bye", etc). We practically have to pin him down to brush his teeth.
I think if your son had any of these symptoms, you would have already been worried and asked the pediatrician about it, no? That's what we did at my son's 2 year checkup. The pediatrician then gave us a referral to a neurologist who "diagnosed" him with a form of autism so we could get him into therapy.
If I could just say "shift" or "alt" or "cap" instead of having to convolute my fingers to hit those keys on the keyboard, that might be a start.
think of those of us that share offices with others or sit in a cube farm... i don't think i could possibly listen to my colleague randomly saying "shift" or "alt" to himself (or the computer, whatever) for more than about a half hour. that would just drive me nuts.
i only see voice recognition being of use for blind people to navigate their computer or maybe some functions for your radio or gps while driving a car.
a friend of mine at work rigged up one of those transmitters that businesses have that "beep" when someone passes between them. he hooked it up to his laptop and did some programming magic to have the thing randomly play sound files that fit the halloween mood (howling, witch laugh, wind, lightning, etc.). it was pretty sweet and totally caught me off guard the first time i walked through it.
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if this is for real, it would certainly be annoying and cumbersome to change but i don't really think it's much different from a dvd not letting you skip the opening trailers or a pc game making you watch the intro movie every time you launch it. sure these things can be circumvented--burning your own copy of the dvd without trailers or menus, zeroing out the video files in a game or deleting them, but most of the time these things take a lot of extra work on the user's part.
i'm 27 years old and i love vim. it's not just for old hippies.
Or you could just get one of these.
If your son is two already, he should be showing signs of autism if they exist. Dyslexia I'm not so sure about. My son is 2 years and 3 months old and has been going to occupational therapy for about 2 months now. He is getting better, but some things are still very difficult for my wife and me. He refuses to eat any solid foods (no cheerios, no crackers/biter biscuits). Instead of pulling us toward something he wants, he will just scream his head off. He can only speak a few words still (though this has improved greatly with the therapy), but he still cannot put two words together (such as "want food", "go bye-bye", etc). We practically have to pin him down to brush his teeth.
I think if your son had any of these symptoms, you would have already been worried and asked the pediatrician about it, no? That's what we did at my son's 2 year checkup. The pediatrician then gave us a referral to a neurologist who "diagnosed" him with a form of autism so we could get him into therapy.
If I could just say "shift" or "alt" or "cap" instead of having to convolute my fingers to hit those keys on the keyboard, that might be a start.
think of those of us that share offices with others or sit in a cube farm... i don't think i could possibly listen to my colleague randomly saying "shift" or "alt" to himself (or the computer, whatever) for more than about a half hour. that would just drive me nuts.
i only see voice recognition being of use for blind people to navigate their computer or maybe some functions for your radio or gps while driving a car.
Yeah, lets go old school. Next I'm gonna put a steam engine in my car...
Hahaha, it is so funny that you mention that! Today on slashdot: Steam Hybrid Car
that was quite disturbing... funny, but disturbing...
a friend of mine at work rigged up one of those transmitters that businesses have that "beep" when someone passes between them. he hooked it up to his laptop and did some programming magic to have the thing randomly play sound files that fit the halloween mood (howling, witch laugh, wind, lightning, etc.). it was pretty sweet and totally caught me off guard the first time i walked through it.