This is somewhat in line with one of my thoughts. Closed captioning is managed by the FCC. I'm a bit concerned that the language of this bill may much things up on this front.
Screw the tuner card. I can get an EyeTV box for the main computer. What I want is support for closed captioning in AppleTV and stuff I download from the iTunes store.
In my house, this product might as well be a paperweight without CC support.
I have a similar issue in that a piece of gear in our house is not guaranteed by the manufacturer to work over FIOS. Verizon is doing a full court press in my neighborhood and even came to my door to sell it in person. I explained the issue and was told this is a common issue with a lot of businesses that want to keep their phone system on POTS. The solution, according to the rep, was to call support and explain that you want to keep your phone line on POTS and get FIOS for internet (and TV) only. If they resist, explain that you have equipment that must stay on POTS.
I wonder if you could get both FIOS and third party DSL.
Note: I've seen other people in this thread talk about Verizon techs cutting the POTS wires. I asked about this too and was told that standard practice is to leave it in case someone needs POTS. I guess it comes down to the individual tech and how Machiavellian the local management is.
The most interesting comment in the story comes near the end, in which the author cites a study that said paper trails from electronic voting machines aren't all they're cracked up to be.
Ted Selker mentioned something similar at a seminar this past week. He described a study where subjects voted and the audit trail was sprinkled with a few errors. There were two conditions: (a) paper trails and (b) audio playback of the vote that is recorded to an external device. Subjects did terrible for detection of errors under (a) but well for (b). He explicitly mentioned that subjects were primed for detecting errors so this models a good scenario where subjects are sensitive to this issue. In other words, paper trails were substandard to audio trails as a tool for voter verification.
Some of the differences may be related to memory decay, serial perception, and legibility of the printout. Regardless, it was an interesting point in the presentation.
This is still somewhat problematic for blind users. If decoy field names are picked up when CSS is turned off, then there will be a lot of users exposed to the bogus fields.
NAB complained about the repeaters (power levels, licensed, etc). NPR is complaining about the power levels in FM modulators used to play through car stereos.
The Gigapan material says it can reach 30 gigapixels with the right camera. The preview images don't say what their resolutions are, but they are clearly pretty big.
It's probably expecting too much to get video _and_ captioning data on a 320x240 screen that's only what, 2.5" diagonal? But certainly on the PC.
I downloaded a show I knew had english subtitles for a foreign language part of the show. It was easy to read on my computer. I don't have a video iPod so I cannot test on the iPod screen. My gut says it would be OK for people with reasonably good eyesight since iPod calendar and notes are legible for me.
My key question: will the movies and updated TV shows have closed captioning? Under iTMS6 they do not. Likewise, the current iPod doesn't support closed captioning either.
On a related note, will iTunes allow importing of content from EyeTV, VIDEO_TS folders (guessing no due to Front Row), or ripping of DVDs? EyeTV integrates with FrontRow, but will it work with this new iTV box? I can rip my CDs already, can I now rip my DVDs?
Actually, your idea is on the right track. One of the company founders (with a PhD in Robotics, no less) went to work in a McDonalds in order to determine where robotics could be applied to the industry. The key is that a lot of fast food is cooked and queued in advance of customers actually arriving. This technology minimizes this, which in turn leads to less waste and, dare I say, better food for the customer.
Based on a quick skim, I'd say about a quarter of the board is comprised of disability centric organizations. Of these, all have heavy participation of actual disabled end users. Also, many of the larger mainline members may be there due to the activities of a specific invested employee who will also be the representative.
As an aside, your assumption of aimless and ill-informed behavior by the academic/political members is generally off the mark. Many non-disabled people end up in the field due to close personal ties and/or years in the trenches of their particular line of work. Such people have a deep understanding of the problems and are not just making it up as they go along.
Likewise, Apple has no intention of letting new product details leak due to long QA periods or large QA teams. It is common knowledge that only a small group of employees see the full product.
Am I the only one who thinks the color should be something easy to pick out from the Martian landscape? Brown is not exactly high contrast for the red planet...
Actually, if you talk to some of the older deaf adults who have worn hearing aids for the bulk of their lives, you will run into a few who used to wear a glasses-mounted model. These were used so there would be more room to pack in batteries. They had the distinct problem, like the ones in this article, where it was a pain to deal with the acoustic rubber tube which runs from the glasses to the earmold.
Traditional hearing aids are very good nowadays and have a directional quality to them already. The in the ear style uses the natural shape of the ear so they don't need directional mics. Behind the ear (BTE) units can have directional mics and the plastic channels around the mics are usually aimed forward. If you wear a BTE and want a super directional microphone, you can use an external mic with a narrow focus. This is kind of a pain, but there are people who have worn mics fastened to a T-coil necklace (wireless transmission to the BTE).
Spinner surely refers to the fact that it moves around wildly because they can't get the controls corrected, and Crusher refers to what inevitably happens when they try to move it around objects
Wrong. Spinner is named after the ability of the center core to spin around the longitudinal axis in order to right the comm and sensor masts after the vehicle is inverted.
I don't know why they picked the name Crusher, but I'm guessing it has to do with a demo of Spinner where they ran over a car to show the terrainability of the design.
Of course, your explanation for the names is still funny...
Disclaimer: I know some of the people on the team.
He is currently a Board Member of the Northern Ontario School of Medicine (Vice-Chair) and the Northwestern Ontario Technology Centre. He also is a member of the Advisory Council to the Nuclear Waste Management Organization... Gilbert's academic interests include wildlife management, environmental studies and natural resources science. He holds a B.Sc (Hons) degree from Acadia University and MSc and PhD degrees in Zoology from the University of Guelph.
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This is somewhat in line with one of my thoughts. Closed captioning is managed by the FCC. I'm a bit concerned that the language of this bill may much things up on this front.
Screw the tuner card. I can get an EyeTV box for the main computer. What I want is support for closed captioning in AppleTV and stuff I download from the iTunes store.
In my house, this product might as well be a paperweight without CC support.
I have a similar issue in that a piece of gear in our house is not guaranteed by the manufacturer to work over FIOS. Verizon is doing a full court press in my neighborhood and even came to my door to sell it in person. I explained the issue and was told this is a common issue with a lot of businesses that want to keep their phone system on POTS. The solution, according to the rep, was to call support and explain that you want to keep your phone line on POTS and get FIOS for internet (and TV) only. If they resist, explain that you have equipment that must stay on POTS.
I wonder if you could get both FIOS and third party DSL.
Note: I've seen other people in this thread talk about Verizon techs cutting the POTS wires. I asked about this too and was told that standard practice is to leave it in case someone needs POTS. I guess it comes down to the individual tech and how Machiavellian the local management is.
Some of the differences may be related to memory decay, serial perception, and legibility of the printout. Regardless, it was an interesting point in the presentation.
This is still somewhat problematic for blind users. If decoy field names are picked up when CSS is turned off, then there will be a lot of users exposed to the bogus fields.
NAB complained about the repeaters (power levels, licensed, etc). NPR is complaining about the power levels in FM modulators used to play through car stereos.
The Gigapan material says it can reach 30 gigapixels with the right camera. The preview images don't say what their resolutions are, but they are clearly pretty big.
My first thought was that you wanted to measure how much energy your body used. Ooops.
It's probably expecting too much to get video _and_ captioning data on a 320x240 screen that's only what, 2.5" diagonal? But certainly on the PC.
I downloaded a show I knew had english subtitles for a foreign language part of the show. It was easy to read on my computer. I don't have a video iPod so I cannot test on the iPod screen. My gut says it would be OK for people with reasonably good eyesight since iPod calendar and notes are legible for me.
My key question: will the movies and updated TV shows have closed captioning? Under iTMS6 they do not. Likewise, the current iPod doesn't support closed captioning either.
On a related note, will iTunes allow importing of content from EyeTV, VIDEO_TS folders (guessing no due to Front Row), or ripping of DVDs? EyeTV integrates with FrontRow, but will it work with this new iTV box? I can rip my CDs already, can I now rip my DVDs?
Actually, your idea is on the right track. One of the company founders (with a PhD in Robotics, no less) went to work in a McDonalds in order to determine where robotics could be applied to the industry. The key is that a lot of fast food is cooked and queued in advance of customers actually arriving. This technology minimizes this, which in turn leads to less waste and, dare I say, better food for the customer.
Oh yeah, the company pre-dates Manna. It was started in 2001.
Based on a quick skim, I'd say about a quarter of the board is comprised of disability centric organizations. Of these, all have heavy participation of actual disabled end users. Also, many of the larger mainline members may be there due to the activities of a specific invested employee who will also be the representative.
As an aside, your assumption of aimless and ill-informed behavior by the academic/political members is generally off the mark. Many non-disabled people end up in the field due to close personal ties and/or years in the trenches of their particular line of work. Such people have a deep understanding of the problems and are not just making it up as they go along.
"You're fired. Your soooo fired!"
Likewise, Apple has no intention of letting new product details leak due to long QA periods or large QA teams. It is common knowledge that only a small group of employees see the full product.
I humbly submit:
Hell, you could probably take half a dozen other quotes from The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension.
Of course, Real Genius had some great lines too.
The fact that the robot resembles Björk just makes it creepier. Maybe they should have dressed it up in a swan dress...
Am I the only one who thinks the color should be something easy to pick out from the Martian landscape? Brown is not exactly high contrast for the red planet...
Actually, if you talk to some of the older deaf adults who have worn hearing aids for the bulk of their lives, you will run into a few who used to wear a glasses-mounted model. These were used so there would be more room to pack in batteries. They had the distinct problem, like the ones in this article, where it was a pain to deal with the acoustic rubber tube which runs from the glasses to the earmold.
Traditional hearing aids are very good nowadays and have a directional quality to them already. The in the ear style uses the natural shape of the ear so they don't need directional mics. Behind the ear (BTE) units can have directional mics and the plastic channels around the mics are usually aimed forward. If you wear a BTE and want a super directional microphone, you can use an external mic with a narrow focus. This is kind of a pain, but there are people who have worn mics fastened to a T-coil necklace (wireless transmission to the BTE).
Spinner surely refers to the fact that it moves around wildly because they can't get the controls corrected, and Crusher refers to what inevitably happens when they try to move it around objects
Wrong. Spinner is named after the ability of the center core to spin around the longitudinal axis in order to right the comm and sensor masts after the vehicle is inverted.
I don't know why they picked the name Crusher, but I'm guessing it has to do with a demo of Spinner where they ran over a car to show the terrainability of the design.
Of course, your explanation for the names is still funny...
Disclaimer: I know some of the people on the team.
Blasphemy!
The link between TFA and Asimov's novel is faint, if not null.
I think a closer analogy is the HeartLander. Not exactly a submarine, but still a small mobile "vehicle" to deliver treatment.
They have a home based business and my mother-in-law is also notorious for attracting viruses, adware and other nasty stuff on her PC
Is there a WiFi equipped coffee shop nearby? "Hi mom, let me show you to your office..."