it exposes the raw functionality of Android's speech recognition better than anything else I have seen. "I just want something that will put on screen what is said aloud" is a feature set that is surprisingly hard to find.

The main gap I see is that this is really only practical for 1v1 conversations and group settings will require exponentially more sophistication, to identify and differentiate between different speakers.

I would love to say that loved ones should fucking learn their child/parent/friend's first language so they can converse in ASL, but that is a surprisingly hard sell for some people. ASL is my son's first language, and there are plenty of people in his life who refuse to learn to speak with him.

but in the Zemeckis causality, a genius inventor with no regard for preserving the natural timeline traveled back to 1885, and then abandoned a highly sophisticated laboratory capable of refrigeration and probably other disruptive technologies. In other words, the 2015 we saw in Back to the Future, was heavily augmented by timeline disrupting technology injections in both 1885 and 1955... and 1985 for that matter. Chances are, most of that stuff could not be invented as early in our timeline, because in the BTTF timeline, doc brown and others saw the various technologies in action, years before they were duplicated/invented.

In my opinion this same phenomenon explains perfectly why the JJAbrams Star Trek is perfectly justified in having more advanced ships and transporters than the Roddenberry continuity. 8 minutes of sensor scans of a ship 129 more years advanced than anything ever witnessed would change the course of technology forever.

My collection starts at NES/Master system and includes "everything but xbox" (not really, but close). My kids are ages 4,4,7, and 8.
There is always an assortment of consoles attached to the TV so they have the opportunity to experience whatever they want, they will pick up just about anything, though they usually stick with PS3 disney Infinity or Skylanders or the Tell-tale Lego games
Mostly the 8 year old prefers PC games (including emulators), because you don't have to share them. Consoles are a community event, which is frustrating with 4-year-old brothers.


Recently the 8 year old was staring at my video game cabinet and asked "which one of these can play Donkey Kong?" so I know I am doing something right.

As you get comfortable being an adult, inevitably all change makes the world seem like it is ending. But it keeps marching on.
Facebook ruined the world, and so did video games, and fast food, and television, and rock and roll, and radio, and comic books, and dime-store novels, and cars, and bicycles, and Vaudeville, and Shakespeare, and classical Roman convenience foods like bread and soup, and probably every other invention adopted by the young or profane.

I guess... it was 7.5 million dollars per kilo 2 years ago. As more and more research is done on it, we are figuring out pretty quickly that HE3 is going to be the subject of exponential demand. It will take a good solid 20-100 years of work to set up a mining operation on the moon... Will it take less or more than that to complete and prove HE3 as the ultimate nuclear energy fuel? Who can afford to risk energy independence? China? India? USA?

Helium 3 is 15 million dollars per kilogram, which makes transport less of a concern and we haven't really even figured out how to use it yet., hypothetically, it is the only known element that can be used in a fusion reactor with little or NO radioactive waste.

the only place we can get it is natural gas wells (it is extremely scarce, but sometimes found in very small quantities in wells), it happens to be relatively abundant on the moon.

The race for the moon is really a race for clean nuclear energy, which is quite a prize.

It is impossible to get sh!t done in the pacific northwest, which is fine if you are in to that sort of thing. In addition, people in the Pacific Northwest have this idea that unless they band together and only "buy local", that the transformative power of poorly understood economic fallacy will magically create a closed loop utopia.

I saw upthread people were suggesting Portland and Tacoma, which have the same problem turned up to ELEVEN.

A much simpler approach would be to sniff their smartphones, so you could send the driver a text that says "STOP UR CAR, LOL"
In my experience, the average driver will obey their smartphone screen more readily than local traffic laws.

The supported list of devices for legit android "play" is a small fraction of the android devices out there. I have 5 android devices... (I know I have a problem)... NONE of them can use the play store. All of them can use Amazon app store though, you know because amazon supports android and google doesn't.

So basically if your app is not in the amazon store, I can't pay you for it. Also applies to free apps like facebook, I have to "pirate" it. I can't even sideload stuff from "Play" because it won't let me buy an app because I don't have any android devices associated with my account (because it won't let me).

Like Blu-ray and even 3D, the framerate "War" is a solution waiting for a problem. Show me ANYONE in mainstream society who gives a shit about 720p vs 1080p or even Blu-ray vs DVD... Now have them do a comparison that is NOT side by side, they won't be able to tell. Now find me a single monster cable buying Blu-ray consuming joe-sixpack who will say "the problem with movies today is the framerate is too low". You will never ever be able to find someone who is not an obsessed spreadsheet spec consumer who cares.

ALL my non-tech friends thanked me when I turned off motion prediction on their expensive HD TVs (which is that feature that makes HD movies look like shit by predicting motion and simulating greater framerate to make it smoother aka more "soap-opera looking" in layman's terms.)

People care about story, spectacle, popcorn in that order. Nowhere on the ticket buying masses' list is framerate, though I look forward to the "General Hobbital" "One Ring to Live" and "Days of our Shire" jokes.

it was YT's dog. But yeah, same general rules apply, and I would love to get misty for a dog robot thing who sacrifices his life because once a girl fed him when he was abused and starving.

Please don't use that word. It doesn't mean what you think it means.
nonplussed - Surprised and confused so much that they are unsure how to react. it can also mean "not troubled."

If you mean unimpressed, just say unimpressed. If you mean underwhelmed, say underwhelmed.

Pretty much I assume that is why they revived the project, there is finally someone who can play that role.

You just have to establish it way earlier... Show YT loves fido and feeds him and then when she is leaving the trashed out apartment building someone jumps her and she screams or makes some noise. He jumps through the window and bites the attacker, getting fatally injured and is picked up by an automated greater hong kong garbage drone.

When she jumps from the chopper she makes the same noise, 2 second onscreen flashback as he crashes through the glass/jumps the brick wall and races to the finish.

Basically the exact thing that really happened in the book but with a tiny foreshadow added to dumb it down for the audience, and remove the need for us to live inside the dog's head, which doesn't work in movies (or books usually hah).

Hah, there is no accounting for personal taste. That tagline would sell me any book that bore it.