i am not suggesting/asking about this because i believe deaf or the hard of hearing have difficulty typing. it seems to me that if we have speech recognition software, why not have actual gesture/hand-shape based language recognition software. that being said, there are numerous people who are much better communicators verbally than they are as typist, hence the still popular phone call apps on phones. Perhaps, there is a similiar percentage of communicators in ASL, or any other signed language, who are much better at communicating through their first language than through the keyboard interface. Fingerspelling words would at least be something that they are familiar on an fluent level and side step the intrusive typing interface.
from what i know of the deaf community, they have embraced technology such as ipads and iphones for exactly the reason you suggest, however these devices are still prohibitively costly for most of that community. yet, despite text messaging being clear and easy communication channels, i still get more Purple phone calls from people in the deaf community than i get text messages.
Apple is not a software company that makes hardware. they are a hardware company that makes software because they can not stand the idea of an inferior OS soiling their little slice of hardware perfection.
technically there are no Ubuntu employees. Anyone who works for the commercial backers of the Ubuntu Distribution works for Canonical, thus your statement
An Ubuntu employee will have to drop by your house and click through the agreement...
now reads
A Canonical employee will have to drop by your house and click through the agreement...
The fallacy in this argument is the assumption that all the children who receive these laptops will have a low IQ. It's Not called OLPSC. This is a reduction of a greater fallacy that assumes that just because people live in a Developing Nation they are stupid. It is statistically improbable that _all_ the children in a country's population have an IQ less than 90, I'd even wager that it would be also very unlikely that _all_ the children in a developing country have an IQ less than 140. It only takes one exception for that to be broken.[This all assumes that the IQ measurement is localized in order that it need not be a in a non native tongue. You'd probably fair quite miserably on an IQ test that was in Farsi.]
your attitude is indicative of the "fixed mind" thought that intelligence is immutable and therefore you are limited by how much knowledge one is capable of learning and understanding. This attitude serves to prevent less fortunate individuals with access to knowledge and learning because they are too stupid" to learn it. However, it could quite possibly be that there is no sch thing as a limit to what a human mind can learn, and by human mind I am including those person who by luck and misfortune happen to have been born in regions of the world where knowledge resources are traditionally restricted to the ruling elite. This theory is perhaps the pedagogical underpinigs which the OLPC is attempting to address. Give people access to learning, those who supply their own initiative will be able to rise far above the predetermined sociological status which has been handed them.
You were lucky enough to e born in a relatively rich neighborhood and the sociological forces of your life have pushed you through school and resulted in your acquiring a specific amount of knowledge including the knowledge of how o acquire more knowledge. Despite this, you still demonstrate a specific arrogance which comes frm those who are completely unaware of how they have been granted a stroke of luck and believe that it is entirely under their own power that they have ended up in the position that they are currently in. Tables could very well have been turned and you could have been one of those "stupid" peasants.
yeah, you know when you use Google Apps for your Domain to access your Gmail from Firefox it automatically top posts because everything gets organized into these nice little things called conversations so its even easier to follow.:P
it's good to see that the only beef nerds have with an article such as this, is the grammatical errors that make the piece read as if the author was relating her ideas and discoveries to you personally over a cup of coffee- and not with the ideas and discoveries themself.
part of the expressed policy of ubuntu is to do regular releases, unlike the debian which it is based upon. granted this sometimes is detrimental and even causes some retrograde, it has been quite successful of keeping most aspects of the project coordinated with both kernel releases and gnome releases. plus it has allowed developers to innovate new technology such as startup, which provides great improvement in boot time over the sysvinit scripts.
if you need more stability there are long term support versions which are highly polished and receive regular security updates, but if its the nose-bleeding edge you want- you can test drive the next release before it comes out- and if you chose this route, please point out the problems you find so that the developers can fix them before the release comes out.
Tiffany, Debbie Gibson, Styper, Stykx, Scorpions, Hall & Oates, Arsenio Hall, Bobby Brown, Milli Vanilli, Young MC, Three Dog Night, Sheena Easton.... blah blah blah - oh wait their careers were already dead, nevermind.
Even before reading the article (ok, I quit when I saw that they put it on ten pages) I wanted to know who paid for the advertisement not that I expected to catch Kaiser Sozee in the act or anything.
This form of questioning is most suited for the maximum possible variance in answers. A question that queried if A and B are something, requires that Both condition be met in order for the response to be in the affirmative. The OR operator allows for one OR both conditions to be met for a response to be in the affirmative; yet within this response it is generally considered that a human will supply more information that a return value of TRUE, ie an explanation of Why or How the answer was generated.
Ultimately, a question which uses the OR Operator in order to tie together two seemingly unrelated or contradictory conditions is designed to create an environment which is conducive to discussion.
In response to the Parent - It is highly likely that there are specific instances in which Google is violating the rights of the publishers to control copies, yet it seems feasible to me that the publishers will benefit from this service as it puts the material in potential purchasers hands without any cost to the publishers (aside from the whole rights thing that is.)
there are already ad companies putting ads on youtube with the intention of going viral. wifey works in advertising and showed me some stuff that the industry has been looking at and believe you me, that they are going to go crazy soon.
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i am not suggesting/asking about this because i believe deaf or the hard of hearing have difficulty typing. it seems to me that if we have speech recognition software, why not have actual gesture/hand-shape based language recognition software. that being said, there are numerous people who are much better communicators verbally than they are as typist, hence the still popular phone call apps on phones. Perhaps, there is a similiar percentage of communicators in ASL, or any other signed language, who are much better at communicating through their first language than through the keyboard interface. Fingerspelling words would at least be something that they are familiar on an fluent level and side step the intrusive typing interface. from what i know of the deaf community, they have embraced technology such as ipads and iphones for exactly the reason you suggest, however these devices are still prohibitively costly for most of that community. yet, despite text messaging being clear and easy communication channels, i still get more Purple phone calls from people in the deaf community than i get text messages.
This would be really interesting interface if it had a library of American Sign Language gestures and fingerspelling capabilities.
holy shit!
are they announcing the release of their latest Zune-phone clone?
oh, it's only because i live in Times Square that my inbox is overflowing!! Damn.
Yes singing is required, special bonus points for songs that can be used to calculate astrological data.
Apple is not a software company that makes hardware. they are a hardware company that makes software because they can not stand the idea of an inferior OS soiling their little slice of hardware perfection.
now reads
The fallacy in this argument is the assumption that all the children who receive these laptops will have a low IQ. It's Not called OLPSC. This is a reduction of a greater fallacy that assumes that just because people live in a Developing Nation they are stupid. It is statistically improbable that _all_ the children in a country's population have an IQ less than 90, I'd even wager that it would be also very unlikely that _all_ the children in a developing country have an IQ less than 140. It only takes one exception for that to be broken.[This all assumes that the IQ measurement is localized in order that it need not be a in a non native tongue. You'd probably fair quite miserably on an IQ test that was in Farsi.]
your attitude is indicative of the "fixed mind" thought that intelligence is immutable and therefore you are limited by how much knowledge one is capable of learning and understanding. This attitude serves to prevent less fortunate individuals with access to knowledge and learning because they are too stupid" to learn it. However, it could quite possibly be that there is no sch thing as a limit to what a human mind can learn, and by human mind I am including those person who by luck and misfortune happen to have been born in regions of the world where knowledge resources are traditionally restricted to the ruling elite. This theory is perhaps the pedagogical underpinigs which the OLPC is attempting to address. Give people access to learning, those who supply their own initiative will be able to rise far above the predetermined sociological status which has been handed them. You were lucky enough to e born in a relatively rich neighborhood and the sociological forces of your life have pushed you through school and resulted in your acquiring a specific amount of knowledge including the knowledge of how o acquire more knowledge. Despite this, you still demonstrate a specific arrogance which comes frm those who are completely unaware of how they have been granted a stroke of luck and believe that it is entirely under their own power that they have ended up in the position that they are currently in. Tables could very well have been turned and you could have been one of those "stupid" peasants.
Actually, he's only slightly less new than you, and I'm still pretty new with my six digit UID.
yeah, you know when you use Google Apps for your Domain to access your Gmail from Firefox it automatically top posts because everything gets organized into these nice little things called conversations so its even easier to follow. :P
great, you post his on slashdot, now nobody can get to the server because it's all 503'd!!!
it's good to see that the only beef nerds have with an article such as this, is the grammatical errors that make the piece read as if the author was relating her ideas and discoveries to you personally over a cup of coffee- and not with the ideas and discoveries themself.
Except if you're looking for FOSS OS laptop, where do you take it?
http://system76.com/
part of the expressed policy of ubuntu is to do regular releases, unlike the debian which it is based upon. granted this sometimes is detrimental and even causes some retrograde, it has been quite successful of keeping most aspects of the project coordinated with both kernel releases and gnome releases. plus it has allowed developers to innovate new technology such as startup, which provides great improvement in boot time over the sysvinit scripts. if you need more stability there are long term support versions which are highly polished and receive regular security updates, but if its the nose-bleeding edge you want- you can test drive the next release before it comes out- and if you chose this route, please point out the problems you find so that the developers can fix them before the release comes out.
(I know they are really a group of companies controlling everything, but you understand what I'm saying)
that's called an oligopoly.
ever hear of John Howard?
where are my mod points?
does it run linux?
Tiffany, Debbie Gibson, Styper, Stykx, Scorpions, Hall & Oates, Arsenio Hall, Bobby Brown, Milli Vanilli, Young MC, Three Dog Night, Sheena Easton.... blah blah blah - oh wait their careers were already dead, nevermind.
Even before reading the article (ok, I quit when I saw that they put it on ten pages) I wanted to know who paid for the advertisement not that I expected to catch Kaiser Sozee in the act or anything.
This form of questioning is most suited for the maximum possible variance in answers. A question that queried if A and B are something, requires that Both condition be met in order for the response to be in the affirmative. The OR operator allows for one OR both conditions to be met for a response to be in the affirmative; yet within this response it is generally considered that a human will supply more information that a return value of TRUE, ie an explanation of Why or How the answer was generated.
Ultimately, a question which uses the OR Operator in order to tie together two seemingly unrelated or contradictory conditions is designed to create an environment which is conducive to discussion.
In response to the Parent - It is highly likely that there are specific instances in which Google is violating the rights of the publishers to control copies, yet it seems feasible to me that the publishers will benefit from this service as it puts the material in potential purchasers hands without any cost to the publishers (aside from the whole rights thing that is.)
I remember that commercial and it wasn't "Sir you dropped something." The Security Guard's line was, "Sir, you forgot your receipt."
there are already ad companies putting ads on youtube with the intention of going viral. wifey works in advertising and showed me some stuff that the industry has been looking at and believe you me, that they are going to go crazy soon.