Once a week BBC4 panel discussion with multiple academics on ludicrously wide-ranging topics, aimed at a literate lay audience. One week you're learning about gravity, the next week the Han Dynasty, and the next week a classic 17th century painting. Smart and fast.
It sure sounds like it to me. Fantastic game, although after playing "The Yellow Clearance Black Box Blues", all other adventures seemed bland and lifeless by comparison.
It is called the iDrive: i for
"intuitive") (Don't get me started on intuitive. You know what's intuitive? Fear of heights. Everything else we call intuitive, such as walking or using a pencil took years of practice. Is that what we want? A control that takes years of practice?)
> Fifty game stations. Zero quarters required. I'm there.
So basically, you get to jockey for position in order to catch a sideways glimpse over the shoulder of the guy who's been playing the game for the past two hours?
Screw it- just download MAME and enjoy in the comfort of your own home.
Provigal is a random set of syllables implying nothing, while Provigil is a random set of syllables implying that it promotes vigilance, wakefulness, etc.
Drug companies don't like spending millions on coming up with new names, only to have them mangled by typos.
Of course, we could just use the generic name (modafinil) and completely tick them off...
Although not many. Looking Glass Studios, for one, has attracted a pretty rabid following. I know that I, for one, put myself through all kinds of hell getting my system to run the original System Shock, and it was worth every second.
So- why do you think that this one group of developers has been so successful in creating a public image, while others remain obscure?
The impression I get from reading the product pages is that the text-to-voice feature consists of a software synthesizer, which produces audio files that are then sent to the MD, which seems a poor use of storage space. Has anyone found anything to the contrary?
What I'd like to see is a reader that I can dump nice, low-bandwidth raw text files into, so I can listen to articles, Gutenberg etexts, or whatever, while driving, washing dishes, etc. It doesn't seem like it would be too difficult at first glance, but I may be overestimating the state of the art in speech synthesis. How well do the reading machines for the blind do it?
No, but that's assuming I was approached by a camera crew and had a microphone stuck in my face. To look at it from another angle: if you were talking to some friends on the street and an eavesdropping reporter put something you said on the 4 o'clock news, would you feel offended?
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Once a week BBC4 panel discussion with multiple academics on ludicrously wide-ranging topics, aimed at a literate lay audience. One week you're learning about gravity, the next week the Han Dynasty, and the next week a classic 17th century painting. Smart and fast.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programme...
It sure sounds like it to me. Fantastic game, although after playing "The Yellow Clearance Black Box Blues", all other adventures seemed bland and lifeless by comparison.
The Computer Is Your Friend!
http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/22.02.html#subj2
My favorite side comment in the discussion:
From the article:
> Fifty game stations. Zero quarters required. I'm there.
So basically, you get to jockey for position in order to catch a sideways glimpse over the shoulder of the guy who's been playing the game for the past two hours?
Screw it- just download MAME and enjoy in the comfort of your own home.
Provigal is a random set of syllables implying nothing, while Provigil is a random set of syllables implying that it promotes vigilance, wakefulness, etc.
Drug companies don't like spending millions on coming up with new names, only to have them mangled by typos.
Of course, we could just use the generic name (modafinil) and completely tick them off...
Although not many. Looking Glass Studios, for one, has attracted a pretty rabid following. I know that I, for one, put myself through all kinds of hell getting my system to run the original System Shock, and it was worth every second.
So- why do you think that this one group of developers has been so successful in creating a public image, while others remain obscure?
The impression I get from reading the product pages is that the text-to-voice feature consists of a software synthesizer, which produces audio files that are then sent to the MD, which seems a poor use of storage space. Has anyone found anything to the contrary?
What I'd like to see is a reader that I can dump nice, low-bandwidth raw text files into, so I can listen to articles, Gutenberg etexts, or whatever, while driving, washing dishes, etc. It doesn't seem like it would be too difficult at first glance, but I may be overestimating the state of the art in speech synthesis. How well do the reading machines for the blind do it?
Q: What's the government's theory in the Microsoft case? A: California has a lot more electoral votes than Washington state.
No, but that's assuming I was approached by a camera crew and had a microphone stuck in my face. To look at it from another angle: if you were talking to some friends on the street and an eavesdropping reporter put something you said on the 4 o'clock news, would you feel offended?