I'd like to do the same thing, but in the other direction. I've been a software developer for 30 years, and I'm pretty bored with it. I'd love a job as an EE, ME, or even working in a machine shop, but no one would ever hire me because I'm not trained in any of those fields.
Why do so many people say "lie" when they mean "incorrect". Lying is when you intentionally mislead people. Parent may (or may not be) incorrect, but I doubt they're trying to pull a one over on you.
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I don't like programmer humor. Not one bit.
If the dish is parabolic, you can put a microphone at the focus and have yourself a womdiginously-huge parabolic microphone. Good for hearing an ant sneeze over half a mile away.
I was just talking to my wife about this today. We were driving around a section of town where we know a few good restaurants. The area is packed with restaurants, and I was thinking how nice it would be to have a HUD that would display a user-feedback-style star rating above each building as we drive by. Not only would that make it easier to pick new places to try out, it would have saved us from the lousy place we had just gone to for lunch.
I've seen pretty much all of the components of such a system demonstrated at some time, somewhere (GPS, recognizing images from the eyeglass camera and relating it back to cartographic data, high-speed Internet access from a moving vehicle, etc). Once we get the basics for a mobile HUD in place, I think people will go wild coming up with new ways of tagging objects, structures, or people with metadata.
The privacy nuts are going to have to pool their money together and buy themselves an island somewhere...
I was just talking to my wife about this today. We were driving around a section of town where we know a few good restaurants. The area is packed with restaurants, and I was thinking how nice it would be to have a HUD that would display a user-feedback-style star rating above each building as we drive by.
Not only would that make it easier to pick new places to try out, it would have saved us from the lousy place we had just gone to for lunch.
I've seen pretty much all of the components of such a system demonstrated at some time, somewhere (GPS, recognizing images from the eyeglass camera and relating it back to cartographic data, high-speed Internet access from a moving vehicle, etc).
Once we get the basics for a mobile HUD in place, I think people will go wild coming up with new ways of tagging objects, structures, or people with metadata.
The privacy nuts are going to have to pool their money together and buy themselves an island somewhere...
I hear this from time to time, but I really don't think voice recognition is going to be a good way for people to interface with computers until the computers themselves have enough intelligence to understand what we mean and not just what we say.
As an example, have you ever tried to direct someone through a process while they're sitting at the computer and you're standing behind them or talking over the phone? Even if the other person is a computer-literate colleague, often times you reach a point where it's just easier for them to move over and let you do it. Imagine trying that with something that has the IQ of a cocktail peanut.
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I'd like to do the same thing, but in the other direction. I've been a software developer for 30 years, and I'm pretty bored with it. I'd love a job as an EE, ME, or even working in a machine shop, but no one would ever hire me because I'm not trained in any of those fields.
Why do so many people say "lie" when they mean "incorrect". Lying is when you intentionally mislead people. Parent may (or may not be) incorrect, but I doubt they're trying to pull a one over on you. -- I don't like programmer humor. Not one bit.
If the dish is parabolic, you can put a microphone at the focus and have yourself a womdiginously-huge parabolic microphone. Good for hearing an ant sneeze over half a mile away.
I was just talking to my wife about this today. We were driving around a section of town where we know a few good restaurants. The area is packed with restaurants, and I was thinking how nice it would be to have a HUD that would display a user-feedback-style star rating above each building as we drive by. Not only would that make it easier to pick new places to try out, it would have saved us from the lousy place we had just gone to for lunch.
I've seen pretty much all of the components of such a system demonstrated at some time, somewhere (GPS, recognizing images from the eyeglass camera and relating it back to cartographic data, high-speed Internet access from a moving vehicle, etc). Once we get the basics for a mobile HUD in place, I think people will go wild coming up with new ways of tagging objects, structures, or people with metadata.
The privacy nuts are going to have to pool their money together and buy themselves an island somewhere...
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I was just talking to my wife about this today. We were driving around a section of town where we know a few good restaurants. The area is packed with restaurants, and I was thinking how nice it would be to have a HUD that would display a user-feedback-style star rating above each building as we drive by. Not only would that make it easier to pick new places to try out, it would have saved us from the lousy place we had just gone to for lunch. I've seen pretty much all of the components of such a system demonstrated at some time, somewhere (GPS, recognizing images from the eyeglass camera and relating it back to cartographic data, high-speed Internet access from a moving vehicle, etc). Once we get the basics for a mobile HUD in place, I think people will go wild coming up with new ways of tagging objects, structures, or people with metadata. The privacy nuts are going to have to pool their money together and buy themselves an island somewhere...
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I hear this from time to time, but I really don't think voice recognition is going to be a good way for people to interface with computers until the computers themselves have enough intelligence to understand what we mean and not just what we say.
As an example, have you ever tried to direct someone through a process while they're sitting at the computer and you're standing behind them or talking over the phone? Even if the other person is a computer-literate colleague, often times you reach a point where it's just easier for them to move over and let you do it. Imagine trying that with something that has the IQ of a cocktail peanut.