Then I guess it translates sign language. Finger-spelling is just an alphabet. I don't know about other sign languages, but ASL is a full language with its own grammar and conventions, and it would take a lot more than a glove to interpret it. Positions of hands with respect to the body are important, as are facial expressions, and ASL's pronoun system is largely spatial with the handshape only indicating the type of pronoun (e.g. personal vs. possessive). Even if a piece of technology could reliably capture and interpret all that information, you're still back at the problem of natural language translation into the destination language.
On the RTS/FPS note, did you ever see Battlezone? It was a really terrific game that incorporated both RTS and FPS play simultaneously. It was a lot of fun, and had a great retro story line, too. I will check this game out, but you imply that you either play RTS or FPS mode. I liked Battlezone because you did both at the same time.
I knew OS/2 was doomed when even IBM refused to support OS/2 with their 5250 emulation cards used to attach to System/3x and AS/400 minicomputers. I had to uninstall OS/2 and put MS Windows 3.1 on them so we could actually use our IBM PCs with with IBM minicomputers.
Energy/XT is pretty darned nice for the cheap price tag! I use it quite a bit for music projects. I like the ability to wire up synths and effects in a visual way that hearkens back to my patch panel days.
There are programs that compose classical music that the average listener could probably not discern from the real thing, and I don't see many people seriously making the argument that Bach, Mozart and Beethoven didn't write "real" music.
Actually, you don't... it's just one of the things from list C that can be used on your I-9, and the one most commonly used. My SS card disintegrated years ago and I haven't shown an employer one for several jobs. my DL and birth cert together satisfy the list B+C requirement. You have to give your employer your SSN, but you don't need to produce your card for them.
Except that how do you prove you're NOT a foreigner in the US? Not quite as homogenous here as Japan.... and if I wanted laws like Japan, I'd fucking move to Japan.
Seriously, some people should be banned for life from writing tech stories. That's somewhat akin to saying the Queen of England is tied to a kidnapping because the ransom note was written in English.
Patton? You probably shouldn't accuse others of fail when you have a general doing things in your narrative that was dead 6 years before the events in question. You're thinking MacArthur... sad thing is your narrative is actually pretty much spot on, excepting for that.:-)
I had that experience, where a house was listed at X, but was told that really it was X+delta close to X itself, because there was bidding war in progress. We walked away right then, and the realtor trying it on us then tried to backpedal, whereupon I told her "You're playing games with us, and because of that, I won't buy this house at ANY price, because I will assume any offer I make that you or your client find acceptable will screw me." It's a form of bait-and-switch and I won't play that game... but a lot of people "fall in love" with a house and have to have it. I guess I've had too many houses in my life to really get that attached to them.
Sync works wonderfully in my 2010 Fusion. Voice commanded, with real control buttons that can be distinguished by feel alone right on the steering wheel.
That seems to make more sense than the US system of licensing. The extra is way too difficult relative to the general exam for the modest increase in privilege. I don't advocate making the extra simpler, but rather making the general a little more difficult. But the cat's out of the bag, I guess.
I got my Extra by the skin of my teeth (knowing a fair amount of E-mag physics helped me fake my way through some of it), but yeah, I wouldn't sweat the extra work (no pun intended) if all you want is the privileges. The general isn't much harder than the technician, but the extra is a LOT harder than the general, especially for the mild increase in privileges. Seriously, add it up and it's only around 500 kHz more spectrum, spread across the 80, 40, 20, and 15 meter bands. Privileges are otherwise identical.
Of course, you get a 2x2 call instead of a 2x3, so for some people that's a motivation.
I have lived in Arizona for some time and I can without reservation state that that our legislature is filled to the rafters with people who are both stupid as hell and batshit insane. That sentence is like Shakespeare next to most of the things they say.
It's a shame that they repeatedly give us such a bad name and make us a laughingstock; it's actually quite a nice state if it weren't for the idiots governing it. I blame Obama for taking Napolitano as his homeland security chief. I didn't agree with her on every issue (far from it), but she was a sensible, intelligent person that kept a lid on the crazies here. When she went, we got Jan Brewer, who while not terribly crazy, is also so stupid that even comparing her intellect to a box of rocks is insulting to some fine upstanding boxes of rocks I've known.
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Then I guess it translates sign language. Finger-spelling is just an alphabet. I don't know about other sign languages, but ASL is a full language with its own grammar and conventions, and it would take a lot more than a glove to interpret it. Positions of hands with respect to the body are important, as are facial expressions, and ASL's pronoun system is largely spatial with the handshape only indicating the type of pronoun (e.g. personal vs. possessive). Even if a piece of technology could reliably capture and interpret all that information, you're still back at the problem of natural language translation into the destination language.
Still, a cool hack.
GIS humor!
On the RTS/FPS note, did you ever see Battlezone? It was a really terrific game that incorporated both RTS and FPS play simultaneously. It was a lot of fun, and had a great retro story line, too. I will check this game out, but you imply that you either play RTS or FPS mode. I liked Battlezone because you did both at the same time.
I knew OS/2 was doomed when even IBM refused to support OS/2 with their 5250 emulation cards used to attach to System/3x and AS/400 minicomputers. I had to uninstall OS/2 and put MS Windows 3.1 on them so we could actually use our IBM PCs with with IBM minicomputers.
ITYM Tina Turner.
Energy/XT is pretty darned nice for the cheap price tag! I use it quite a bit for music projects. I like the ability to wire up synths and effects in a visual way that hearkens back to my patch panel days.
There are programs that compose classical music that the average listener could probably not discern from the real thing, and I don't see many people seriously making the argument that Bach, Mozart and Beethoven didn't write "real" music.
Pfft. Getting a robot to throw up is easy. Getting it to choke to death on vomit? That's where it gets hard.
Ha! Just show them the form. In my experience, HR people *love* forms.
Actually, you don't... it's just one of the things from list C that can be used on your I-9, and the one most commonly used. My SS card disintegrated years ago and I haven't shown an employer one for several jobs. my DL and birth cert together satisfy the list B+C requirement. You have to give your employer your SSN, but you don't need to produce your card for them.
I hear there's pills for that these days.
Except that how do you prove you're NOT a foreigner in the US? Not quite as homogenous here as Japan.... and if I wanted laws like Japan, I'd fucking move to Japan.
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Well, you *can* certainly keep it when you're done with it if you really want to... but why would you?
Seriously, some people should be banned for life from writing tech stories. That's somewhat akin to saying the Queen of England is tied to a kidnapping because the ransom note was written in English.
To do what? Download the pirated copies so they don't have to watch the unskippable content?
"the people there are massively brainwashed and would fight any occupation"
You mean if your country was invaded and occupied by another, you'd just sit there and say "Whatever. It's cool, bro"?
Patton? You probably shouldn't accuse others of fail when you have a general doing things in your narrative that was dead 6 years before the events in question. You're thinking MacArthur... sad thing is your narrative is actually pretty much spot on, excepting for that. :-)
I had that experience, where a house was listed at X, but was told that really it was X+delta close to X itself, because there was bidding war in progress. We walked away right then, and the realtor trying it on us then tried to backpedal, whereupon I told her "You're playing games with us, and because of that, I won't buy this house at ANY price, because I will assume any offer I make that you or your client find acceptable will screw me." It's a form of bait-and-switch and I won't play that game... but a lot of people "fall in love" with a house and have to have it. I guess I've had too many houses in my life to really get that attached to them.
Sync works wonderfully in my 2010 Fusion. Voice commanded, with real control buttons that can be distinguished by feel alone right on the steering wheel.
That seems to make more sense than the US system of licensing. The extra is way too difficult relative to the general exam for the modest increase in privilege. I don't advocate making the extra simpler, but rather making the general a little more difficult. But the cat's out of the bag, I guess.
I got my Extra by the skin of my teeth (knowing a fair amount of E-mag physics helped me fake my way through some of it), but yeah, I wouldn't sweat the extra work (no pun intended) if all you want is the privileges. The general isn't much harder than the technician, but the extra is a LOT harder than the general, especially for the mild increase in privileges. Seriously, add it up and it's only around 500 kHz more spectrum, spread across the 80, 40, 20, and 15 meter bands. Privileges are otherwise identical.
Of course, you get a 2x2 call instead of a 2x3, so for some people that's a motivation.
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I have lived in Arizona for some time and I can without reservation state that that our legislature is filled to the rafters with people who are both stupid as hell and batshit insane. That sentence is like Shakespeare next to most of the things they say.
It's a shame that they repeatedly give us such a bad name and make us a laughingstock; it's actually quite a nice state if it weren't for the idiots governing it. I blame Obama for taking Napolitano as his homeland security chief. I didn't agree with her on every issue (far from it), but she was a sensible, intelligent person that kept a lid on the crazies here. When she went, we got Jan Brewer, who while not terribly crazy, is also so stupid that even comparing her intellect to a box of rocks is insulting to some fine upstanding boxes of rocks I've known.
Being a US citizen from birth is a constitutional requirement for the job, so no.
Either way, you're a real charmer.