This last christmas I was buying legos for a young cousin of mine. I wanted to just get common or plain pieces so that he, my cousin, could design his own things. I remember dumping out a large container of legos, mostly 8, 4, and 2 connector pieces. I would be able to create just about anything I could imagine. Now Lego seems to sell more specialized kits. In that I mean they have a lot more preformed large plastic pieces that are only good for that specific set. They also have been pushing a lot more advertising type sets based on movies, tv shows and what not. What ever happened to Race day set or giant pirate ship made out of 8,4,2's and a flat base?/rant off
The news conference said that it was most likly a salt composite that makes it clump together like that. Moisture coming up from underground could have caused the salts to interact with the soil. The believe this because the viking lander found high concentrations of chlorine in the soil.
I have been trying my luck with posting to slashdot and trying to make interesting coversation in the forums. At times I am have been very successful and other times I have been not as much. My question is this: I first submitted this story within 2 minutes of when this story was first announced through the JPL new conference at 11am CST. I included background on the story and links that showed the JPL website and also the new conference video stream. How can I better formulate my posts so that they will get posted? My story was rejected within 15 minutes of submission. This is not a complaint this is feedback on how to improve myself and possibly others with the same concern.
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In many states cameras are used in intersections to catch people running red lights and also speeders. Cameras are used at gas stations to catch "gas and go's", I don't see how this situation should be any different. Law enforcement officials are simply doing thier job.
I like the idea of using sugar as a propellant. Sugar is a very easily renewable resource and regular table sugar breaks down into carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen. c12 h22 o11 which of course are all relatively friendly to our environment. I would like to see more cars run off of sugar based fuels IE ethanol.
Also mind you that for a truly violent "seeping of flame" to occur the Li-ion battery must be charging. I am not an expert but I would guess that if the unit is just sitting that it could still short circuit and heat up but the energy released could not exceed that of which is stored in the battery. If your charging a battery and it short circuits then the energy released could not exceed that of the current in your circuit breaker which is usually about 15-20amp's. If you figure that a typical charger is 9 volts thats 20*9 so 1800 watts max of released energy + E stored in battery, which of course is a hell of a lot of energy but then your circuit breaker goes and... I am rambling...
Of course Batteries have not doubled in capacity every year, but that doesn't mean that thier growth and development is coming to an end. At the end of this article the author claims that in 5 years we will not longer be able to improve on batteries. Though we may not be able to improve capacity or discharge, which I still feel is underestimating our ingeniouity, we will be able to further improve on batteries by finding new sources, find new ways of recycling batteries, or making batteries last longer(in lifetime).
Right and I thought of that as I was posting. My point is that it starts with the same sounds and that the inside doesn't matter. Remember this peticular algorithm only has to identify a possible dial out of da and el so if I grunt da and then wait a second and grunt el the algorithm may just see that as dial. Something to experiment on I suppose.
I guess my point and hope would be that someone speaks into a device in one language and in thier own voice comes out the of the device in another language. What I am trying to convey is that this is possible. Its just that right now it would take about 10 hours for your average PDA to accoumplish this. I suppose it would still take a regular computer 5 hours or so. Also I wrote the interface of the program with a Dr. (which I am not) in com sci writing the engine. Also I am pretty sure all that work is well and copy righted. Heck maybe even the my idea is already patented by someone. if not Patent Pending... as soon as I find 100k to throw at the US patent office.
Re:Yeah, thanks, but I'll wait for a bit...
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If your willing to not have your speech translated in realtime. Say your willing to wait 5 minutes or so a 95% or better return can be expected. The main reason why these translators aren't accurate a lot of the time is because the algorithm used can only make a limited ammount of passes on each word so that each word is translated in near realtime.
There are 3 main reason why this happens. Processing power and enunciation and possibly the quality of the microphone. The algorithm used to determin what numbers are being said is most likely based on common pronunciations of numbers. Dial is a pretty easy word to figure out because it starts with a 'da' sound and ends in a 'll' or 'el' sound. What happens in the middle doesn't matter too much. some numbers may be harder to figure out such as five which could be pronounced as fif fiva fiev ect. Also once a word has been recorded the algorithm uses statistical analysis to further figure out what was most likely said. So that if the word fiff was recorded the computer knows that its most likely not six because the Sss sound is not very close the recorded word. The processor has to do this statistical analysis in realtime which means the algorithm can only be run a few times on each word and a hit of only 70-80% may be ok. combine that by 7 to 10 words and you have yourself possible poor performance. Of course the microphone could have a lot of noise in it which just futher throws off calculations.
a complete translator could be possible
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Technology is at a point where all the software has been written to create a translator where a person speaks into a microphone which then is translated into text which is then translated into a different language which is then played back verbally in the same persons voice in a different language. The problem is that this cannot be done in realtime. 4 years ago I worked on a project for At&t to create an application that would train a users voice, break down thier voice patterns and be able to rearange those patterns to create other sounds which sound like they are coming from that real person. The problem is that with current processors the time to train and process is about 10 hours. So we can do voice recognition in realtime, we can translate text words in realtime, and in 10 hours we can reproduce a persons voice nearly flawlessly. Think of the possiblities!
Its only fair to look at what a person can do for your company. If a person directly affected thier previous employee negatively then they will have a rough time getting a job. If a previous employer has a bad reputation, then it is both the employee's job to defend thier position as different then thier employer as well as it is the prospective employer's job to find out if a new employee will bring a bad reputation to the their company.
Ya you can talk about inputs to programs and how misc. and unwanted data get in there but watch for buffer overruns because thats what can really kill your program.
I am really confused! I saw this same article on slashdot at 8am CST mon. 29th with the link being to Space.com and not CNN or BBC. Naturally I read the article at 8am. Well nothing has changed in 8 hours and now the work day is done. Can anyone confirm the dupe and deletion of the other article?
I think the most frustrating problem of all these Lindows name court battles, is the single letter difference between Lindows and Windows. Now most of us here realize that Lindows is Linux and Windows put together. Though I would imagine trying to convince a nontechnical or techy judge to see this is quite a struggle. I am not a lawyer but it would make sense of many court battles won over single letter name differences. This is probably why Microsoft won in these two courts. Though some kind of law should be set determining or setting regulations on how a business combining two other business may name themselves.
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This last christmas I was buying legos for a young cousin of mine. I wanted to just get common or plain pieces so that he, my cousin, could design his own things. I remember dumping out a large container of legos, mostly 8, 4, and 2 connector pieces. I would be able to create just about anything I could imagine. Now Lego seems to sell more specialized kits. In that I mean they have a lot more preformed large plastic pieces that are only good for that specific set. They also have been pushing a lot more advertising type sets based on movies, tv shows and what not. What ever happened to Race day set or giant pirate ship made out of 8,4,2's and a flat base? /rant off
The news conference said that it was most likly a salt composite that makes it clump together like that. Moisture coming up from underground could have caused the salts to interact with the soil. The believe this because the viking lander found high concentrations of chlorine in the soil.
I have been trying my luck with posting to slashdot and trying to make interesting coversation in the forums. At times I am have been very successful and other times I have been not as much. My question is this: I first submitted this story within 2 minutes of when this story was first announced through the JPL new conference at 11am CST. I included background on the story and links that showed the JPL website and also the new conference video stream. How can I better formulate my posts so that they will get posted? My story was rejected within 15 minutes of submission. This is not a complaint this is feedback on how to improve myself and possibly others with the same concern.
No, really, unbelievable. Infact I'd say this website could rival theonion.com
Watching Nasa TV is obvious that the JPL runs gnome with sawfish. Images are here!
Rover information coming down in this order. Engineering, thumbprint images, full frame images. At 1:25AM CST 24Mbits downloaded and 8 minutes before the engineering data is complete and thumbnail pictures starting. Anticipated 12 minutes to transfer 24Mbits total.
In many states cameras are used in intersections to catch people running red lights and also speeders. Cameras are used at gas stations to catch "gas and go's", I don't see how this situation should be any different. Law enforcement officials are simply doing thier job.
Nice, didn't even notice that the first read through. Nice to meet a fellow EE.
Default shell for AIX systems is CSH.
I like the idea of using sugar as a propellant. Sugar is a very easily renewable resource and regular table sugar breaks down into carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen. c12 h22 o11 which of course are all relatively friendly to our environment. I would like to see more cars run off of sugar based fuels IE ethanol.
Also mind you that for a truly violent "seeping of flame" to occur the Li-ion battery must be charging. I am not an expert but I would guess that if the unit is just sitting that it could still short circuit and heat up but the energy released could not exceed that of which is stored in the battery. If your charging a battery and it short circuits then the energy released could not exceed that of the current in your circuit breaker which is usually about 15-20amp's. If you figure that a typical charger is 9 volts thats 20*9 so 1800 watts max of released energy + E stored in battery, which of course is a hell of a lot of energy but then your circuit breaker goes and... I am rambling...
Oh and apparently start an actual fire, which is just the plastic casing burning.
Of course Batteries have not doubled in capacity every year, but that doesn't mean that thier growth and development is coming to an end. At the end of this article the author claims that in 5 years we will not longer be able to improve on batteries. Though we may not be able to improve capacity or discharge, which I still feel is underestimating our ingeniouity, we will be able to further improve on batteries by finding new sources, find new ways of recycling batteries, or making batteries last longer(in lifetime).
Of course they don't really explode into a fire ball but rather short circuit, heat up, melt, and leak acid everywhere.
Right and I thought of that as I was posting. My point is that it starts with the same sounds and that the inside doesn't matter. Remember this peticular algorithm only has to identify a possible dial out of da and el so if I grunt da and then wait a second and grunt el the algorithm may just see that as dial. Something to experiment on I suppose.
I guess my point and hope would be that someone speaks into a device in one language and in thier own voice comes out the of the device in another language. What I am trying to convey is that this is possible. Its just that right now it would take about 10 hours for your average PDA to accoumplish this. I suppose it would still take a regular computer 5 hours or so. Also I wrote the interface of the program with a Dr. (which I am not) in com sci writing the engine. Also I am pretty sure all that work is well and copy righted. Heck maybe even the my idea is already patented by someone. if not Patent Pending... as soon as I find 100k to throw at the US patent office.
If your willing to not have your speech translated in realtime. Say your willing to wait 5 minutes or so a 95% or better return can be expected. The main reason why these translators aren't accurate a lot of the time is because the algorithm used can only make a limited ammount of passes on each word so that each word is translated in near realtime.
There are 3 main reason why this happens. Processing power and enunciation and possibly the quality of the microphone. The algorithm used to determin what numbers are being said is most likely based on common pronunciations of numbers. Dial is a pretty easy word to figure out because it starts with a 'da' sound and ends in a 'll' or 'el' sound. What happens in the middle doesn't matter too much. some numbers may be harder to figure out such as five which could be pronounced as fif fiva fiev ect. Also once a word has been recorded the algorithm uses statistical analysis to further figure out what was most likely said. So that if the word fiff was recorded the computer knows that its most likely not six because the Sss sound is not very close the recorded word. The processor has to do this statistical analysis in realtime which means the algorithm can only be run a few times on each word and a hit of only 70-80% may be ok. combine that by 7 to 10 words and you have yourself possible poor performance. Of course the microphone could have a lot of noise in it which just futher throws off calculations.
Technology is at a point where all the software has been written to create a translator where a person speaks into a microphone which then is translated into text which is then translated into a different language which is then played back verbally in the same persons voice in a different language. The problem is that this cannot be done in realtime. 4 years ago I worked on a project for At&t to create an application that would train a users voice, break down thier voice patterns and be able to rearange those patterns to create other sounds which sound like they are coming from that real person. The problem is that with current processors the time to train and process is about 10 hours. So we can do voice recognition in realtime, we can translate text words in realtime, and in 10 hours we can reproduce a persons voice nearly flawlessly. Think of the possiblities!
Correct, hense my point to avoiding situations that allow for malicious input.
Its only fair to look at what a person can do for your company. If a person directly affected thier previous employee negatively then they will have a rough time getting a job. If a previous employer has a bad reputation, then it is both the employee's job to defend thier position as different then thier employer as well as it is the prospective employer's job to find out if a new employee will bring a bad reputation to the their company.
That and dynamic global variables...
Ya you can talk about inputs to programs and how misc. and unwanted data get in there but watch for buffer overruns because thats what can really kill your program.
I am really confused! I saw this same article on slashdot at 8am CST mon. 29th with the link being to Space.com and not CNN or BBC. Naturally I read the article at 8am. Well nothing has changed in 8 hours and now the work day is done. Can anyone confirm the dupe and deletion of the other article?
I think the most frustrating problem of all these Lindows name court battles, is the single letter difference between Lindows and Windows. Now most of us here realize that Lindows is Linux and Windows put together. Though I would imagine trying to convince a nontechnical or techy judge to see this is quite a struggle. I am not a lawyer but it would make sense of many court battles won over single letter name differences. This is probably why Microsoft won in these two courts. Though some kind of law should be set determining or setting regulations on how a business combining two other business may name themselves.