OK, you have a point.

Being understood definitely beats not being, even if you have to slow down to achieve that. And the translation was happening reasonably quickly if you were slow enough.

I was just a bit disappointed since from the "real time" I was expecting the translation to keep up with someone speaking at normal conversational speed. (Like the asker at the information kiosk, for example.)

Linus's native language is Swedish.

Looking at the video in the article, it seems that "in real time" means "at about 1/4 of the speed of regular signing".

Imagine. Having. To. Speak. Like. Kirk.

I would have thought it would be more convenient for someone to speak/be spoken to in their native language - sign - rather than send/receive a text in a foreign language - English or whatever.

Word.

I don't spend most of my computer time watching videos (wide-screen or no). I spend much of my time reading web pages or writing code, both of which profit from vertical resolution.

What good is 1920x1080 if I can have 1600x1200? Those extra 120px vertical are of more use to me than the 320px horizontal.

The first one should have been "parroty bits", right? :)

Do you have a picture of one?

The ones I've heard of say that the product contains chemicals which the State of California knows cause cancer.

So the stickers don't say the chemicals don't cause cancer elsewhere, just that other states have not recognised their carcinogenous properties (or have recognised them but chose not to require a warning to that effect).

I like to say two-and-a-half; kuru and suru are the really irregular ones and iku is regular except for the fact that its -te form is itte instead of *iite.

Once you're at the airport, you already have the ticket, though - isn't that a bit too late?

(Unless you're one of those people who buys tickets last-minute, one-way, and pays for them in cash?)

This article has a concept drawing of the seats involved

Adding an affiliate ID to the link. Classy.

Ah, thanks. I must not have been looking properly.

XKCD tells you about what happens when you promote a new standard to supersede previous ones.

Word used to have a mode for that, where it displayed things without most formatting.

I believe it was a successor of the times when machines weren't quite fast enough for real-time WYSIWYG, so you would only turn on WYSIWYG mode when you wanted to check the pages... but you could work without.

Sadly, they removed that mode several versions back.

...SMART for the heart!

At any rate, I was reminded of SMART for hard drives, which also work by monitoring lots of individual data points over time and trying to detect things which point to a future problem before it occurs.