"The cone of silence, called Babble, is actually a device composed of a sound processor and several speakers that multiply and scramble voices that come within its range."
Dude... people where I work already babble. Will this turn it into normal speak?
That's a lot better company support than Fight Club math:
If a new car built by my company leaves Chicago traveling west at 60 miles per hour, and the rear differential locks up, and the car crashes and burns with everyone trapped inside, does my company initiate a recall?
You take the population of vehicles in the field (A) and multiply it by the probable rate of failure (B), then multiply the result by the average cost of an out-of-court settlement (C).
A times B times C equals X. This is what it will cost if we don't initiate a recall.
If X is greater than the cost of a recall, we recall the cars and no one gets hurt.
If X is less than the cost of a recall, then we don't recall.
Also, like Catch-22, I think it get's funnier the more times you read it. You laugh your ass off the first time at the shock value alone. Then a second and third reading you start picking up the subtle things going on.
Either that or I don't catch on too quick like all you book lern'n folks.
I see your point. Though most of my backups are fire and forget... if I lose it, it's no great loss. Only stuff I really care about, tax info, source code, etc, do I doubly backup.
Only reason I can see for having voice command anything is if you want hands free operation and, as you say, for the blind. A friend uses her voice dialing all the time in the car with a hands free thingy. It saves the distraction of paging through the directory. I guess that also assumes you're one of those folks that needs/wants to be on the phone all the time.
No kidding. Since Atom Films is crawling, I can't tell... did someone make a rendition of "Revenge of the Slashdot Effect?" It's unfortunate that ROTSE is too close to gaotse for my liking.
...student loans. You can thank the GOP for the latter in 1995.
I agree there should be more things that people shouldn't weasle out of. But defaulting on student loans was a huge problem for a long while. It was an exagerated joke that hardly anyone paid them off a decade or two ago.
What if this thing, like karaoke, lets people do something slightly more daring than than they normally would? It's been said (and was in a Seinfeld bit) that peeps fear public speaking more than death and therefore would prefer being in the casket than giving the eulogy. I think anything that could get someone to step a little past their comfort level is a good thing. It gives confidence and brings them closer to the real world.
Also, we can ridicule them to the end of their days when they crash and burn!
Well... shortness is one thing but boredom is another. I've only played H1. What I saw was something like four identical library levels, ten nearly identical circular rooms, and playing many, many levels twice because "you have to go back to the beginning but with different monsters." If they're going to cut and paste levels just to pad the game, then I'll take a pass on bigger games.
American nationalsts are jackasses and insain because France didn't want their back door deals into Iraq's Oil for Palaces program? Insain because of all this freedom and democracy breaking out all over the place? What exactly are you defending?
I must be out the demographic but... what? "...popular because it is a practical fashion statement?" How is a computer a practical fashion statement? Best power per dollar is the way I pick my 'chine and I'll turn in my geek card when I start looking at how pretty it is.
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The Cylons were created by the Japanese.
There were created to make life easier for the twelve NASA nations.
And then the day came when the Cylons decided to kill their masters.
Dude... people where I work already babble. Will this turn it into normal speak?
That's a lot better company support than Fight Club math:
If a new car built by my company leaves Chicago traveling west at 60 miles per hour, and the rear differential locks up, and the car crashes and burns with everyone trapped inside, does my company initiate a recall?
You take the population of vehicles in the field (A) and multiply it by the probable rate of failure (B), then multiply the result by the average cost of an out-of-court settlement (C).
A times B times C equals X. This is what it will cost if we don't initiate a recall.
If X is greater than the cost of a recall, we recall the cars and no one gets hurt.
If X is less than the cost of a recall, then we don't recall.
Hey... since the revolution will not be televised, maybe it won't show up on web pages, too?
Oh no! what if Google, like TiVo, thinks I'm gay. http://www.dfw.com/mld/startelegram/living/4662397 .htm
Either that or I don't catch on too quick like all you book lern'n folks.
What does that mean, exactly?
So who in the passport department came out with this one? Is this just a money making/job retaining bid?
I see your point. Though most of my backups are fire and forget... if I lose it, it's no great loss. Only stuff I really care about, tax info, source code, etc, do I doubly backup.
Jeesh... only on /. does an obvious joke, complete with :P, get's modded as flamebait. Trust me, modder, I didn't pee in your cornflakes this morning.
Dude... it's called a DVD burner... b-u-r-n-e-r. Look into it! :P
Only reason I can see for having voice command anything is if you want hands free operation and, as you say, for the blind. A friend uses her voice dialing all the time in the car with a hands free thingy. It saves the distraction of paging through the directory. I guess that also assumes you're one of those folks that needs/wants to be on the phone all the time.
My mod points are useless today. When will /. let us mod the article???
Ah... but we got a real storry if we merge this with http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/03/3 1/170240&tid=191, "Brain-Implanted Chips Allow Control of Technology"
Homer, "The Two Mrs. Nahasapeemapetilons"
No kidding. Since Atom Films is crawling, I can't tell... did someone make a rendition of "Revenge of the Slashdot Effect?" It's unfortunate that ROTSE is too close to gaotse for my liking.
I can't stress this enough... whatever they do, for the love of God, DON'T USE .LIT!
What if this thing, like karaoke, lets people do something slightly more daring than than they normally would? It's been said (and was in a Seinfeld bit) that peeps fear public speaking more than death and therefore would prefer being in the casket than giving the eulogy. I think anything that could get someone to step a little past their comfort level is a good thing. It gives confidence and brings them closer to the real world.
Also, we can ridicule them to the end of their days when they crash and burn!
PS. props on the C22 sig!
Fabienne: Whose motorcycle is this?
Butch: It's a chopper, baby.
Fabienne: Whose chopper is this?
Butch: It's Zed's.
Fabienne: Who's Zed?
Butch: Zed's dead, baby. Zed's dead.
Well... shortness is one thing but boredom is another. I've only played H1. What I saw was something like four identical library levels, ten nearly identical circular rooms, and playing many, many levels twice because "you have to go back to the beginning but with different monsters." If they're going to cut and paste levels just to pad the game, then I'll take a pass on bigger games.
American nationalsts are jackasses and insain because France didn't want their back door deals into Iraq's Oil for Palaces program? Insain because of all this freedom and democracy breaking out all over the place? What exactly are you defending?
Well... sha... the Stonecutters got to 'em.
I must be out the demographic but... what? "...popular because it is a practical fashion statement?" How is a computer a practical fashion statement? Best power per dollar is the way I pick my 'chine and I'll turn in my geek card when I start looking at how pretty it is.
brrr... Now someone's gonna have to rock me to sleep tonight!