MSN and AOL chatrooms are jammed to the brim with angst ridden teens whose grasp of basic language structure appears to be comparable to that of an ironing board.
I used to use IRC on a regular basis, and although I occasionally met people of a similar ilk, the ratio was a tad lower. Because of the relative obscurity of IRC compared to Yahoo, MSN and AOL, the users tend to have an active interest in using the servers, rather than MSN and AOL users who are simply hammering the free coaster they got in the mail...
For the record, I only pop onto the Undernet now and again to talk to an old friend I met when I first started out on this Internet Rollercoaster, Chat rooms bore me now. Besides, I have Slashdot.
The researchers behind the project hope that a similar system in the cockpit of fighter planes could allow pilots to track some controls using their hearing, freeing up their eyes for other tasks.
Modern Science, innovating new ways of killing our fellow man more effectively!
I also saw something on using echolocation with blind people a while back, according to the story, it doesn't take long for users to adapt. Saying that, Blind people have very sensitive hearing anyway.
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MSN and AOL chatrooms are jammed to the brim with angst ridden teens whose grasp of basic language structure appears to be comparable to that of an ironing board.
I used to use IRC on a regular basis, and although I occasionally met people of a similar ilk, the ratio was a tad lower. Because of the relative obscurity of IRC compared to Yahoo, MSN and AOL, the users tend to have an active interest in using the servers, rather than MSN and AOL users who are simply hammering the free coaster they got in the mail...
For the record, I only pop onto the Undernet now and again to talk to an old friend I met when I first started out on this Internet Rollercoaster, Chat rooms bore me now. Besides, I have Slashdot.
The researchers behind the project hope that a similar system in the cockpit of fighter planes could allow pilots to track some controls using their hearing, freeing up their eyes for other tasks.
Modern Science, innovating new ways of killing our fellow man more effectively!
I also saw something on using echolocation with blind people a while back, according to the story, it doesn't take long for users to adapt. Saying that, Blind people have very sensitive hearing anyway.