Currently there is software that can do parsing of speech into text not very well. Especially if you're dealing with multiple speakers, variable quality audio, etc. Currently there is also software that can do translation of text between languages not very well. There's a reason professional translators are still in high demand (even for just written text).
You're looking for open source software that can combine both those into something effective? If you don't mind the translated audio being practically useless, then you might be able to find something.
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but... good luck with that.
Good post, Red_Flayer. But I thought you guys could help me out and explain to me what's going on; I've only been working in the litigation field for 35 years, so I'm kind of new at this.
Well, Ray, I wasn't really looking for any kind of response or anything, I was just making a joke.
But since you insist on getting my advice... let me help you out.
1. Google is your friend. It probably won't help you move, definitely won't help you move bodies, but if you use an anonymizing proxy, it may be a good place to research how to get rid of bodies.
2. Never tell a judge his robe makes him look fat. Relatedly, never tell him that his gavel is compensating for something. 3. The best response to "Order in the Court!" is "Ham and cheese on rye, yer Honor!"
That's about all the free legal advice I can give at this time, if you're looking for more where that came from, my billable rate is $375.
In case you're wondering what's going on here, so am I."
Oh fuck. It was bad enough when we had rank-and-file nerds asking for legal advice on slashdot.
Now we have a 'house lawyer', so to speak, and he's asking for legal information on slashdot.
The apocalypse is upon us! Run for the hills!*
IANAL. Even if I were a lawyer, I'd not be YOUR lawyer. This is not legal advice. By reading this footnote, you are agreeing to not hold Red Flayer liable for any damages sustained while running for the hills. For that matter, please walk, don't run -- and make sure to look both ways before crossing the street.
Huh, apparently some of us learned about it differently than others. I seem to recall it having to do with water and carbon dioxide in and some extra oxygen left over?
[CO2 and H20 in, O2 and long-chain organics out] is ancillary to the photosynthesis process. Photosynthesis is sunlight in, e- out (plus some ADP-->ATP goodness).
Electrons, then, are the plant food that is used to synthesize long-chain carbons.
I think maybe you never took advanced bio or molecular bio or any other classes that would have covered this more in depth than the simplified HS bio crap?
No there isn't. It's one of those once-in-a-lifetime events. I could be worried about an elevator car falling 20 stories and killing me in the fall, or being hit by lightning. Either of those are more likely than a repeat of 9/11. Vigilance against threat is one thing. To focus on one event to the point where it affects your work is excessive. There's no reason to worry specifically that any random jet is going to crash in to your building. That's just fearmongering.
Sure, the odds are very, very low... but as a jetliner gets closer and closer to your building, the odds go up.
And here's the thing... even if the odds are still very low, the penalty for failing to act is very high.
Therefore, taking action becomes an intelligent thing to do.
This was not 'any random jet'. This was a jet that was flying under 1000' feet within easy distance of lower Manhattan.
And one final note -- as for odds: why are the odds so low that the events of 9/11 will not happen again? If I were a terrorist, and I REALLY wanted to strike fear into the hearts of Americans, I'd try to figure out a way use the same method to attack. That would really say something to Americans, I think, if they were already alerted to a threat vector but were unable to prevent it. The expected payout from a successful attack by that method increases the likelihood of it being used again (though the safety measures put in place reduce the likelihood).
We're not playing on "warlord" difficulty level, bub.
You have to build the pyramids ASAP, then set your tech to 0%, your luxuries to 40% to keep the people happy. New tech doesn't come from investing in R&D, it comes from having a Wonder that automagically transfers advances to you when two other civs have them.
I suggest we build the Pyramids in Chicago, since it's less likely to be invaded than coastal cities.
As someone who was in lower Manhattan the last time a jetliner flew very low... you can bet your bottom dollar I'd be out of my building and on my way home (to NJ) if I saw that.
I wasn't in much personal danger on 9/11 (merely took the Path under the WTC), but I'll tell you that it really *SUCKED* to wait in line for hours and hours to catch a ferry across the Hudson without any means to contact my family (cell service was impossible to get).
Next time that shit happens, I'm first in line at the ferry (excepting the elderly, the very young, and the preggers).
now you have filter through dead people wanting to be your friend too?? wtf is wrong with that?
Nothing is wrong with that.
This is how I'll get my revenge on the grandkids who were too busy playing video games and frequenting social networking sites to come visit me in the assisted living facilty.
Since I don't expect to be able to use a computer once I've passed, I can haunt them (and their thankless parents who though their only responsibility was to send a check to the old-aged home every month) where they spend all their time, which is online.
This just signifies the evolution of haunting from astral projection to cyberspace projection. Sweet.
Everyone knows that vampires are anti-social creatures, as evidenced by them normally only being encountered in groups of 1 (as per the original Monster Manual).
If you really want to take up the cause of the undead being social creatures, perhaps you should stick to skeletons (2d6, IIRC) or ghouls (2d4, again IIRC).
Now excuse me while I seek shelter from the hordes of slashdotters who have their 1st edition AD&D books handy and can correct my foggy memories.
Ever since Microsoft got away with a slap on the wrist, Oracle has been buying their way to a monopoly. They give excuses for purchasing competitors (some of which might even be true), but their core aim is to be the big fish in the pond.
Buying their way to a monopoly is very different from buying their way to being a big fish in a little pond.
Note that buying BEA still makes then only the second-biggest middleware firm (SAP still being larger in that market).
I agree that Oracle wants to be the dominant competitor in each of the markets it competes in, BUT that is not the same as having monopoly position.
Truth be told, aside from the Sun acquisition, most of Oracle's acquisitions in the past few years have been about horizontal growth -- getting Oracle middleware products into markets where they had little presence (finance & banking, insurance, etc). There has not been so much of them buying competitors in markets they already have a big presence in, which is where the monopoly fears should come.
The leap forward is not in being able to look up facts in a database, it is in being able to interpret written questions properly.
There's a lot involved in interpreting natural language, and so far computers have been a far cry from being able to do it well. It says something that these algorithms are being tested against Jeopardy answers, since those are not completely natural language either -- they've been screened and edited to remove ambiguity.
The red pill or the blue pill - hell take them all. anti depressants, stabilizers, drugs that make you shake, drugs that make you put on weight (or not care about anything - which amounts to the same thing), drugs that make you shake, drugs for stopping you shaking.
Peoplesoft was the most similar thing to Microsoft available for takeover for less money than the contents of Fort Knox, and Sun did to them what so many of us would love to do to Microsoft.
Just so you know... Sun did nothing to PS. It was Oracle who bought PS and canned the staff (just as they've done for many acquisitions).
FWIW, it's now several years later, and the "PeopleCode" (seriously, that's what they called it at Peoplesoft) is just as borked as ever... the JDEdwards/PS integration is no closer... I think Oracle's strategy is to move PS clients over to Oracle Apps and drop PS.
I suspect it is because I monitor for great deals on video equipment (especially cameras) that I can resell at a profit.
The few times I've bought regular goods from them at decent prices, no problem -- but when I try to buy something that they've priced below wholesale is when they mysteriously have none in stock and have to cancel my order.
As soon as the original OEM sold the boxes to a clearinghouse, the warranty was activated. Tiger then buys the computers from the clearinghouse. When the end-customer buys the computer, more than a year has passed since original sale to the clearinghouse.
That's my guess, anyway -- that the transfer of the goods to Tiger was not via the wholesaler.
Tiger may have bought directly from the retailer, or they may have bought from a clearinghouse; but according to Dell Service, the warranty would have been activated when the retailer sold the boxes.
Do like the first person said, use Newegg, the customer service is 5 star and the prices are not bad either.
I think the bar must be set awfully low for them to be assigned a 5-star rating by so many people.
In my experience, customer service with Newegg has been average, no better.
Fulfillment, on the other hand, has been awful. More than half of the times I've ordered from Newegg (7 orders so far), I've had my order confirmed, my credit card charged, and then a couple days later notified that they were out of stock... at which point my credit card was refunded. Twice I received the notification the day the goods were to be delivered -- I paid for two-day delivery.
That is AWFUL. Note that this has all been for A/V equipment, not for computer equipment.
How fitting, then, that the Wikipedia article of the day is the biographical article on Judge Learned Hand, who said:
[M]y friends, will you not agree that any society which begins to be doubtful of itself; in which one man looks at another and says: "He may be a traitor," in which that spirit has disappeared which says: "I will not accept that, I will not believe that--I will demand proof. I will not say of my brother that he may be a traitor," but I will say, "Produce what you have. I will judge it fairly, and if he is, he shall pay the penalties; but I will not take it on rumor. I will not take it on hearsay. I will remember that what has brought us up from savagery is a loyalty to truth, and truth cannot emerge unless it is subjected to the utmost scrutiny"--will you not agree that a society which has lost sight of that, cannot survive?
What's not to laugh about that? You can't spell slaughter without laughter.
Reminds me of a story...
When I was a kid, my oldest sister was a park ranger at a nearby state park with a lake. One day they get radioed by an old guy on a canoe, who said he caught a body. Sure enough, he had... and in trying to retrieve his lure, he dislodged the body from whatever was holding it under, and it floated to the surface.
Apparently, he wasn't the first one to hook into it... just the first to retrieve it. When the puddlepolice boat motored out to him, he was furtively cutting lures our of the body and putting them in his tackle box.
Slashdot Mirror
You've got to be kidding.
Currently there is software that can do parsing of speech into text not very well. Especially if you're dealing with multiple speakers, variable quality audio, etc.
Currently there is also software that can do translation of text between languages not very well. There's a reason professional translators are still in high demand (even for just written text).
You're looking for open source software that can combine both those into something effective? If you don't mind the translated audio being practically useless, then you might be able to find something.
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but... good luck with that.
I'm rolling a d4, you insensitive clod!
Well, Ray, I wasn't really looking for any kind of response or anything, I was just making a joke.
But since you insist on getting my advice... let me help you out.
1. Google is your friend. It probably won't help you move, definitely won't help you move bodies, but if you use an anonymizing proxy, it may be a good place to research how to get rid of bodies.
2. Never tell a judge his robe makes him look fat. Relatedly, never tell him that his gavel is compensating for something.
3. The best response to "Order in the Court!" is "Ham and cheese on rye, yer Honor!"
That's about all the free legal advice I can give at this time, if you're looking for more where that came from, my billable rate is $375.
A ferry is a boat, it's used to cross water.
:)
Last time I checked, I wasn't Jesus, so I don't think I could have walked home.
FYI, the tunnels were closed too, and I'd have needed to walk about 20 miles out of my way to cross using a bridge.
Oh fuck. It was bad enough when we had rank-and-file nerds asking for legal advice on slashdot.
Now we have a 'house lawyer', so to speak, and he's asking for legal information on slashdot.
The apocalypse is upon us! Run for the hills!*
IANAL. Even if I were a lawyer, I'd not be YOUR lawyer. This is not legal advice. By reading this footnote, you are agreeing to not hold Red Flayer liable for any damages sustained while running for the hills. For that matter, please walk, don't run -- and make sure to look both ways before crossing the street.
[CO2 and H20 in, O2 and long-chain organics out] is ancillary to the photosynthesis process. Photosynthesis is sunlight in, e- out (plus some ADP-->ATP goodness).
Electrons, then, are the plant food that is used to synthesize long-chain carbons.
I think maybe you never took advanced bio or molecular bio or any other classes that would have covered this more in depth than the simplified HS bio crap?
Don't worry, if the shit really hits the fan we'll be able to separate the Internet Tough Guys from the real tough guys.
:)
I fed the AC trolls in this thread too
Sure, the odds are very, very low... but as a jetliner gets closer and closer to your building, the odds go up.
And here's the thing... even if the odds are still very low, the penalty for failing to act is very high.
Therefore, taking action becomes an intelligent thing to do.
This was not 'any random jet'. This was a jet that was flying under 1000' feet within easy distance of lower Manhattan.
And one final note -- as for odds: why are the odds so low that the events of 9/11 will not happen again? If I were a terrorist, and I REALLY wanted to strike fear into the hearts of Americans, I'd try to figure out a way use the same method to attack. That would really say something to Americans, I think, if they were already alerted to a threat vector but were unable to prevent it. The expected payout from a successful attack by that method increases the likelihood of it being used again (though the safety measures put in place reduce the likelihood).
Aw crap. Forgot about that one.
s/last time/second-to-last time
We're not playing on "warlord" difficulty level, bub.
You have to build the pyramids ASAP, then set your tech to 0%, your luxuries to 40% to keep the people happy. New tech doesn't come from investing in R&D, it comes from having a Wonder that automagically transfers advances to you when two other civs have them.
I suggest we build the Pyramids in Chicago, since it's less likely to be invaded than coastal cities.
As someone who was in lower Manhattan the last time a jetliner flew very low... you can bet your bottom dollar I'd be out of my building and on my way home (to NJ) if I saw that.
I wasn't in much personal danger on 9/11 (merely took the Path under the WTC), but I'll tell you that it really *SUCKED* to wait in line for hours and hours to catch a ferry across the Hudson without any means to contact my family (cell service was impossible to get).
Next time that shit happens, I'm first in line at the ferry (excepting the elderly, the very young, and the preggers).
That's faith
That'd be heresy.
Nothing is wrong with that.
This is how I'll get my revenge on the grandkids who were too busy playing video games and frequenting social networking sites to come visit me in the assisted living facilty.
Since I don't expect to be able to use a computer once I've passed, I can haunt them (and their thankless parents who though their only responsibility was to send a check to the old-aged home every month) where they spend all their time, which is online.
This just signifies the evolution of haunting from astral projection to cyberspace projection. Sweet.
Yeah, but in meatspace we can rely on decomposition, cannibalism, or fire to take care of the body clutter.
Bits don't decompose, you can't eat them, and they don't burn. In cyberspace, bodies last forever.
FOREVER
Bruce, that's hogwash.
Everyone knows that vampires are anti-social creatures, as evidenced by them normally only being encountered in groups of 1 (as per the original Monster Manual).
If you really want to take up the cause of the undead being social creatures, perhaps you should stick to skeletons (2d6, IIRC) or ghouls (2d4, again IIRC).
Now excuse me while I seek shelter from the hordes of slashdotters who have their 1st edition AD&D books handy and can correct my foggy memories.
Buying their way to a monopoly is very different from buying their way to being a big fish in a little pond.
Note that buying BEA still makes then only the second-biggest middleware firm (SAP still being larger in that market).
I agree that Oracle wants to be the dominant competitor in each of the markets it competes in, BUT that is not the same as having monopoly position.
Truth be told, aside from the Sun acquisition, most of Oracle's acquisitions in the past few years have been about horizontal growth -- getting Oracle middleware products into markets where they had little presence (finance & banking, insurance, etc). There has not been so much of them buying competitors in markets they already have a big presence in, which is where the monopoly fears should come.
Did you even read the summary?
The leap forward is not in being able to look up facts in a database, it is in being able to interpret written questions properly.
There's a lot involved in interpreting natural language, and so far computers have been a far cry from being able to do it well. It says something that these algorithms are being tested against Jeopardy answers, since those are not completely natural language either -- they've been screened and edited to remove ambiguity.
Drugs that make you repeat yourself...
Just so you know... Sun did nothing to PS. It was Oracle who bought PS and canned the staff (just as they've done for many acquisitions).
FWIW, it's now several years later, and the "PeopleCode" (seriously, that's what they called it at Peoplesoft) is just as borked as ever... the JDEdwards/PS integration is no closer... I think Oracle's strategy is to move PS clients over to Oracle Apps and drop PS.
Now if only they can unbork Oracle Apps...
I suspect it is because I monitor for great deals on video equipment (especially cameras) that I can resell at a profit.
The few times I've bought regular goods from them at decent prices, no problem -- but when I try to buy something that they've priced below wholesale is when they mysteriously have none in stock and have to cancel my order.
Why? So everything you watch looks like it was rendered by an 8-bit video game system?
As soon as the original OEM sold the boxes to a clearinghouse, the warranty was activated. Tiger then buys the computers from the clearinghouse. When the end-customer buys the computer, more than a year has passed since original sale to the clearinghouse.
That's my guess, anyway -- that the transfer of the goods to Tiger was not via the wholesaler.
Dell --> wholesaler --> retailer --> end-customer (warranty activation).
Dell --> wholesaler --> retailer --> clearinghouse (warranty activation) --> Tiger Direct --> End-customer.
Should have been:
Dell --> wholesaler --> retailer -(RTV)-> wholesaler --> Tiger Direct --> end-customer (warranty activation).
Tiger may have bought directly from the retailer, or they may have bought from a clearinghouse; but according to Dell Service, the warranty would have been activated when the retailer sold the boxes.
I think the bar must be set awfully low for them to be assigned a 5-star rating by so many people.
In my experience, customer service with Newegg has been average, no better.
Fulfillment, on the other hand, has been awful. More than half of the times I've ordered from Newegg (7 orders so far), I've had my order confirmed, my credit card charged, and then a couple days later notified that they were out of stock... at which point my credit card was refunded. Twice I received the notification the day the goods were to be delivered -- I paid for two-day delivery.
That is AWFUL. Note that this has all been for A/V equipment, not for computer equipment.
Just my two cents.
What's not to laugh about that? You can't spell slaughter without laughter.
Reminds me of a story...
When I was a kid, my oldest sister was a park ranger at a nearby state park with a lake. One day they get radioed by an old guy on a canoe, who said he caught a body. Sure enough, he had... and in trying to retrieve his lure, he dislodged the body from whatever was holding it under, and it floated to the surface.
Apparently, he wasn't the first one to hook into it... just the first to retrieve it. When the puddlepolice boat motored out to him, he was furtively cutting lures our of the body and putting them in his tackle box.
Totally irrelevant, I know.