UNlikely.

Much subtler changes for facial work.

And these people are NOT doing real time translation. They're having people sign each sign stilted isolation.

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In ASL the bird is directional. Not sure about CSL. But you don't point it upward in ASL, you point it as the moron you're insulting.

After it shrinks, is a $5 Candian bill worth only 490 Canadian cents?

It's not priced like a modern board. It's WAY MORE.

This is hogwash. Elop killed the company's feature phone business which was doing fine for the time being. Yes, Nokia needed help. Yes, it was on a slope downward and needed to figure out how to compete. But Elop didn't do that. Elop jumped forward without covering the company's behind.

That he made a wrong choice of where to jump to, that it suspicious in hindsight, those are irrelevant. He didn't work to preserve the part of the business which worked and would have kept working for several more years if he hadn't driven a stake into it -- that is his massive sin of incompetance, or perhaps worse.

Why would a 'for profit' corporation go out of its way to not do something the goverment which it can charge for?

I suspect if the goverment didn't pay for this data, we'd see a bunch of lawsuits to "protect the rights of consumers."

Nicely put.

I like this idea a LOT. Security would go WAY down, lines would speed up, the searches would be polite. If a plane blew up, the airline would get sued for about a figure that an actuary could neatly estimate. They'd only inconvenience their customers up to a point where the chance that they'd lose repeat business was cost-effective. Perfect.

But the TSA grabs everyone at the start of the terminal. The terminals are used by multiple airlines. How do you see that getting broken up by airline? Pooling? That spoils the effect. Mutliple lines?

The airlines would be forced to get some real security on the tickets, to avoid them being forged. Heck we might see some real security instead of security theatre if someone's money was on the line, as opposed to a politician's job.

But some airlines would muff it badly. You'd need to issue some proof of going through security and verify it when you boarded, so that folks didn't go through some lax airline's security and then board their real flight.

What must be avoid at all costs is the airport providing the security as a service to the airline. Then there's no global standard, no one with a lot to lose, disregard for the customer, etc.

They don't charge for thier app. They charge for the ads on the videos inside their app. So all of the above is just noise.

They make more money by hitting more people, so they should have an adroid app.

(Their list of advertisers is small, but they show over and over. I have "Viking River Cruises" DRILLED into my head by so many repititions of their ad while watching videos on the iPad PBS app.)

The videos play and people watch them. The start with an ad and are interrupted by advertising. The advertizers pay PBS.

It's actually BETTER for PBS if people watch the shows on the app, rather than on TV.

Since the PBS app is made to look like the website or vice versa, this intelligent point unfortunately has no relation to the current dicussion. PBS is not thinking about human factors at all. They're thinking about keeping exactly the same over-wigeted look on all platforms.

I used to work with one of these people. I liked him a lot. But he came from the advertising world and from printed media. He was used (years of experience) to being able to start a project with a SIZE.

So the first thing he did on any web project was define a box of a fixed size, and float it in the middle of the page. Change the page size all you liked, the content stayed the same size.

Then he nailed down all the fonts so you couldn't adjust them. He used pictures for text all over the place, because they looked exactly like the fonts he was using, so there was no difference. You wouldn't change the font yourself, right? You'd never know.

And you see this all the time, on the web. Not sure if all the culprits come from print media, but they seem to have that same urge: Control the experience. Completely. Utterly ignore the fact that people have bigger and smaller screens, disabilities which cause them to prefer different font sizes or colors, etc.

The iPad app is crap.

It's missing the obvious, trivial user interface items like last broadcast date on shows that make finding new content other than the featured content REALLY painful. It's eye-candy heavy and usability light. The video player (the absolute core of the thing, really) has always crashed on my iPad, even though they've clearly changed their core player software (from one crashing system to another).

They should be making a much simpler, rock solid app. It's their fear of their eye-candy not looking the same which is driving this, or their fear of not being able to be sure that their ads will show.

NPR's iPhone app suffers from the same usability issues, though thanksfully isn't laden with eye-candy.

Science/math folks easily understand when non-science folk get things wrong. It's obvious. And so we know they need better science ed.

What's harder to see and not as clear cut is when science/engineering people (usually the low to mid-level people) are boring people who cannot think. Dull, spudly people you don't want to work with.

They don't need to take the humanities for the reasons from the article, they need to take the humaninties because they want to. When you find you don't want to, change colleges, change courses. You're getting a crap education when history isn't fun.

Yes, skip Plato. Skip the oldest deadest white guys. You can read the cliff notes there. But when you go to IIT you know to do your damnedest to avoid the required COBOL class they taught until something like 10 years ago. You know to skip the into to programming class they still try to make you take. Colleges make money on the stock crap. Skip that when you can. Skip the intros. You can get that from a book.

Whereas small group seminars in the humanities are chances to try to think. They teach you how to talk and integrate information from the news and from different countries/cultures. Take a class on Melville. Take a class on the history of detective fiction. And take linguistics, polysci and art. Otherwise why the hell are you wasteing your money going to a University? Go to a trade school. Be a drone. Reach the mid-level and stagnate. Because that's who you want to be.

Don't bitch about the humanities versions of the COBOL class without bitching about the CS department's COBOL class in the same breath. It's the same thing. Don't bitch about well-educated humanities people being morons without looking in the mirror and seeing the disfunctional troll you personally sculpted by avoiding investigating culture all your life.