Commercial companies wanting to protect their trade secrets would also have the same requirements e.g. no camera-phones and possibly strict no-nos for voice recording during certain meetings.
How about a slashpoll on what kind of intellectual games slashdot readers play? I mean we claim to be smart people, games such as contract bridge require a certain degree of "smartness"!
They made me go through a lot of unnecessary administrative tasks (i.e. I needed to go down to their office and show up in person) to get my seats upgraded (from Asia to the US) instead of being able to do it through phone calls or through their frequent flier website.
They refused to upgrade my seats (from US to Asia) claiming that the business class seats were fully booked but when I boarded the plane, nearly the entire business class seats was empty (there were a few chaps). The lady sitting next to me was fuming as well as she had requested for the same upgrade and was given the same excuse. She had experienced DVT in the past and had told them of her medical condition. The flight stewardesses/stewards told her it wasn't possible to move her up despite her problems during the course of the flight.
They cancelled a flight which I had booked ahead of time without informing me or my travel agent of the changes (USA to Asia) and I only found out about it when I tried to arrange for a change:
Operator - "Sir, I'm afraid there's no such flight"
Me - "But I printed the confirmation from your website!"
Operator - "Sir, there is no such flight... but I could put you on Flight XXX at no extra charge"
Jeepers! Needless to say, they've lost ME as their customer.
Maybe you should put yourself in their shoes before calling them stupid. Do you expect your teachers and principals to know everything there is to know on every technical subject? Sure, their punishment may not seem fair, but that doesn't mean they're stupid. Ignorant maybe and needing some re-training and education in the technical aspects or getting the right people to assist them in such instances.
Yes, sure there are lots of intelligent kids in schools. But those who get into this kind of trouble are smart but not THAT smart! Try to figure this out.
I don't think the parent was trying to be funny. I can empathise with DJStealth. If there's such thing as a positive karma troll, the parent deserves it!
"Microsoft has the resources to fix the problems. Microsoft is sitting on $50 billion in corporate cash reserves and could hire 100,000 American programmers with that money."
For the sake of argument, if Microsoft did that, it'd remove the X number of Americans (or Indians) doing helpdesk support for their problems (not to mention all the technical support required in maintaining their knowledge base that provides support).
That being the case, there would probably be employment parity or actually a higher rate of unemployment if that's his argument!
Just a personal assessment here. My feel is that while text translation has moved forward some, the use of voice translators is a totally different story.
Look at it this way, the text translators have a hard time coping with the non-perfect manner that language is written, what more for voice translators where you have to cope with the nuances and tonal differences in even a single language e.g. different ways in which English is spoken in America and the rest of the world?
The other thing which is tricky about language translation is coping with the idiosyncracies of a given profession e.g. medical field by the CM chaps. Certain terms or phrases just don't have an equivalent in the general language.
On a side note, I hope it comes with a translation manual. I can imagine the late nights spent arguing over whether that die roll was a 20 or a 1 on the saving throw... heh:-)
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Commercial companies wanting to protect their trade secrets would also have the same requirements e.g. no camera-phones and possibly strict no-nos for voice recording during certain meetings.
US $22,300.00 and counting!!! Is this a bidding war between Larry and Scott? :-)
You have it all wrong... it's Earth, Water, Fire, Wood, Metal... :-)
How about a slashpoll on what kind of intellectual games slashdot readers play? I mean we claim to be smart people, games such as contract bridge require a certain degree of "smartness"!
Think of the medical cost arising from the treatment of withdrawal symptoms from not being able to read slashdot... and unemployment! :-)
Is this what one would call the /. effect on E-bay? :->
Or you could do it with one link
My ignorance here... but how does Firebird fire up the EXE files? Thanks!
Just to share some of my bad experiences on NW.
They made me go through a lot of unnecessary administrative tasks (i.e. I needed to go down to their office and show up in person) to get my seats upgraded (from Asia to the US) instead of being able to do it through phone calls or through their frequent flier website.
They refused to upgrade my seats (from US to Asia) claiming that the business class seats were fully booked but when I boarded the plane, nearly the entire business class seats was empty (there were a few chaps). The lady sitting next to me was fuming as well as she had requested for the same upgrade and was given the same excuse. She had experienced DVT in the past and had told them of her medical condition. The flight stewardesses/stewards told her it wasn't possible to move her up despite her problems during the course of the flight.
They cancelled a flight which I had booked ahead of time without informing me or my travel agent of the changes (USA to Asia) and I only found out about it when I tried to arrange for a change:
Operator - "Sir, I'm afraid there's no such flight"
Me - "But I printed the confirmation from your website!"
Operator - "Sir, there is no such flight... but I could put you on Flight XXX at no extra charge"
Jeepers! Needless to say, they've lost ME as their customer.
I think (1) you are in serious need of a spell-checker or (2) your attempt at humor fell flat!
Well, I'm ok if they send only 2 viruses. But if you're talking about virmlcmcmx, that's another story... :-)
I agree with Alsee. If I were your teacher, your l33t status would've dropped to script kiddie! =)
Maybe you should put yourself in their shoes before calling them stupid. Do you expect your teachers and principals to know everything there is to know on every technical subject? Sure, their punishment may not seem fair, but that doesn't mean they're stupid. Ignorant maybe and needing some re-training and education in the technical aspects or getting the right people to assist them in such instances.
Yes, sure there are lots of intelligent kids in schools. But those who get into this kind of trouble are smart but not THAT smart! Try to figure this out.
It'd be interesting to find out how that turned out. It would give IBM a good indicator of the kind of resistance that their employees would put up.
I don't think the parent was trying to be funny. I can empathise with DJStealth. If there's such thing as a positive karma troll, the parent deserves it!
To quote his blog:
"Microsoft has the resources to fix the problems. Microsoft is sitting on $50 billion in corporate cash reserves and could hire 100,000 American programmers with that money."
For the sake of argument, if Microsoft did that, it'd remove the X number of Americans (or Indians) doing helpdesk support for their problems (not to mention all the technical support required in maintaining their knowledge base that provides support).
That being the case, there would probably be employment parity or actually a higher rate of unemployment if that's his argument!
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(tongue-in-cheek) I'm Harm, so don't you get in my way! 'Nuff said.
Just a personal assessment here. My feel is that while text translation has moved forward some, the use of voice translators is a totally different story. Look at it this way, the text translators have a hard time coping with the non-perfect manner that language is written, what more for voice translators where you have to cope with the nuances and tonal differences in even a single language e.g. different ways in which English is spoken in America and the rest of the world? The other thing which is tricky about language translation is coping with the idiosyncracies of a given profession e.g. medical field by the CM chaps. Certain terms or phrases just don't have an equivalent in the general language.
The gradual creeping up of the body mass index for the general populace!
it comes out at the other end of your digestive tract ... Ewww :-)
I sure hope you meant "in other news". I don't think the news casters would enjoy having Darl's ass on their heads. :-)
Yes, I mean even a hobbit has enough sense to consult mapquest!
... they found "made in China" in fine print...
:-)
On a side note, I hope it comes with a translation manual. I can imagine the late nights spent arguing over whether that die roll was a 20 or a 1 on the saving throw... heh
I mean... C'mon! That's such a no-brainer!