jamesbrownuhh

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by jamesbrownuhh 12y ago
Putting the article URL in robots.txt stops the Wayback machine from displaying it - that's why they do it, just in case the Internet Archive happened to have a cached copy of the article.
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by jamesbrownuhh 12y ago
Absolutely, but a credible security researcher, on a plane, talking about its configuration and asking "shall we start playing with EICAS messages?" is not a joke that can be disambiguated in real time. That is achieved through me
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by jamesbrownuhh 12y ago
This isn't exactly a new phenomenon - even before 9/11, a careless joke at baggage check-in ("Did you pack your own luggage today, Sir?" - "No, my wife probably put a bomb in there.") would often result in the
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by jamesbrownuhh 12y ago
The first nine lines of the first page. Legal documents are good like that. :-)
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by jamesbrownuhh 12y ago
Some years ago (before I gave up gambling entirely) I noted that there was one UK online casino which not only offered a reasonable game of blackjack, but would also let you "auto play" as many hands as you wanted, using basic str
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by jamesbrownuhh 12y ago
I wonder if the writer is being too quick to dismiss satellite - it certainly has its limitations but it could be a useful addition to the mix of limited connectivity that DOES serve the house. The Verizon hotspots may have a 30gb/mont
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by jamesbrownuhh 12y ago
True, this is just a Bluetooth keyboard, designed to be used with an emulator app, to download (paid) game packs, on a phone/tablet device. It's not a standalone computer in itself, although there has been a lot of publicity for t
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by jamesbrownuhh 12y ago
You can upgrade from XP to Vista, and then from Vista to 7. (Although there are some restrictions of which versions of Vista/7 you have to come from and go to, but not insurmountable.) That said, the VM in which I'm currently test
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by jamesbrownuhh 12y ago
This was true until the recent update - now there are massive great images and you have to scroll around an infinite canvas-style arrangement before you can even find the article you're looking for. Fails the grandma test immediately.
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by jamesbrownuhh 12y ago
I may be a sentimental old fool, but 8088 Domination genuinely brings a tear to my eye. The perfect timing of the "I WAS WRONG" reveal (i.e. "Oh look, this IS graphics mode") and the familiar breakdancer appearing - grea
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by jamesbrownuhh 12y ago
True, but nevertheless, I assure you that almost nobody pays $40 per minute for captioning, no matter what it says on Wikipedia.
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by jamesbrownuhh 12y ago
Decent speech-to-text is a long way from being a solved problem, so automation isn't a complete solution, but it's certainly a huge assist over doing it completely manually. A good place to start looking if you're after an OS
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by jamesbrownuhh 12y ago
Speech to text is simply not a solved problem. The technology gets better all the time, enormous strides have been made, but voice recognition is something that the human brain does well and computers generally do not, at this time. In term
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by jamesbrownuhh 12y ago
The message I commented to was about the idea that suddenly "people" would be forced to caption videos that they had made in their spare time.
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by jamesbrownuhh 12y ago
I don't disagree with that in the slightest. Even a video that is not captioned today, could be captioned tomorrow.
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by jamesbrownuhh 12y ago
Captioning celluloid film is a wholly different thing to transcribing an online video - the prices are in no way comparable. I create captions for hundreds of hours of video every year - I know exactly how much work it can be, and, at the s
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by jamesbrownuhh 12y ago
Accepted. Far better than nothing at all (in most cases) though, I'd suggest.
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by jamesbrownuhh 12y ago
My single and only point is that access is good. I'm not talking about costs, because it doesn't NEED to cost ANY money - and even when it does, the below-sweatshop rate card of $1/minute is hardly going to break the bank. I&
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by jamesbrownuhh 12y ago
Fine - your choice. No-one is suggesting otherwise.
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by jamesbrownuhh 12y ago
Just a single native-language caption track is all that's necessary. Computers can already do a pretty good job of translating that into the hundreds of other possible languages.
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by jamesbrownuhh 12y ago
No-one is saying that anyone should be forced to do anything. Personally, I caption the hobby videos that I put on YouTube, because doing so brings in far more views, both domestically and from around the world.
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Adding Captions to YouTube Videos Increases Views Significantly(3playmedia.com)
3 points by jamesbrownuhh 12y ago|0 comments
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by jamesbrownuhh 12y ago
> The effort of putting closed captions on your informal video would be much too great. $1 per minute (if you farm it out) or even less if you do it yourself. In exchange you get 7-15% more views - is that really an unbearable deal?
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by jamesbrownuhh 12y ago
A recent study of videos captioned by Discovery Digital Networks showed a 7-15% increase in views to captioned videos, compared to non-captioned equivalents. Genuinely properly studied and controlled to remove any other factors. Subtitling
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by jamesbrownuhh 12y ago
If you've got a script then software like CMU Sphinx (open source) can use voice recognition to align the words of the script with the time of the soundtrack. Services like YouTube will even do that for you, if you can provide the bare
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by jamesbrownuhh 12y ago
It really shouldn't be beyond anyone's capabilities, though. In its simplest form all you need is a plain .txt file with the spoken words. Major services like YouTube can take that file and align it to the timing of the video, aut
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by jamesbrownuhh 12y ago
But as someone who makes free content, you'll know how nice it is when you get lots more views/downloads/clicks (etc) of your content. Captioning enables that because not only do you reach visitors who are unable to hear, but
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by jamesbrownuhh 12y ago
You can do something like that with YouTube right now - any captioned video will have a rolling transcript window available to open, which you can scroll through and click on to jump around the video in a non-linear fashion.
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Receiving RDS with the RTL-SDR(windytan.com)
8 points by jamesbrownuhh 12y ago|0 comments
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by jamesbrownuhh 12y ago
As I understand it, it's moving the active display area of the analogue output to a position 16 lines earlier than it would normally be. In effect that moves the top of the display area into the Vertical Blanking Interval. From there t

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