I stumbled into this page :

[CypherOne]

really? oh dear I best update my sig...

[Crackbaby]

Read Read Read


Thats all i do (except for fighting in battlefield vietnam.. )


Surely there must be some software that reads the text for you? Where!? What!? How!?

(And NO, xp's builtin helptool is NOT usefull )

[CypherOne]

Read Read Read


Thats all i do (except for fighting in battlefield vietnam.. )


Surely there must be some software that reads the text for you? Where!? What!? How!?

there is, but how will it tell you what it just read?? give you a print out?

[Crackbaby]

With a voice of couse!

Kinda like a maincomputer in alien or startrek.

Perhaps Lola

[CypherOne]

Listen listen listen, that's all I do.

Why isn't there a program that can listen for me then print out what it's heard?

[Meffy]

Listen listen listen, that's all I do.

Why isn't there a program that can listen for me then print out what it's heard?

:-D

Here's what we'll do. We get you a speech recognition program. We get Crackbaby a text-to-speech engine. We set the two machines up mic-to-speaker and speaker-to-mic. Then let 'em rip, close the door, and tell the fire department to bring hoses and foam.

(Anyone who's watched Star Trek knows computers detonate when frustrated. They have to; it's the Secondary Directive.)

Meffy

[CypherOne]

that'd be a really weird feedback loop...


anyway, how does one stumble into a page?

[Meffy]

that'd be a really weird feedback loop...

Indeed it would!

Ever used the Emacs text editor? It actually contains a function to feed the output of a random Zippy the Pinhead quote generator into an Eliza-type Rogerian therapy simulator. Not 100% feedback, more indirect than that, and pretty amazing to watch. Once you halt it so you can read (too fast).

anyway, how does one stumble into a page?

This knight probably stumbles into lots of pages, ladies-at-waiting, scullery workers, and the occasional serving wench:



It's the helmet visor. Can't see with it down.

Meffy

Bonus sample of output from "psychoanalyze-pinhead" function in Xemacs follows. Don't say I never did anything nice for you.

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I am the psychotherapist.  Please, describe your problems.  Each time
you are finished talking, type RET twice.

Kids, don't gross me off..  ``Adventures with MENTAL HYGIENE''
 can be carried too FAR!

Why do you say that?

..  Now KEN and BARBIE are PERMANENTLY ADDICTED to MIND-ALTERING DRUGS..

I don't understand.

Where's th' DAFFY DUCK EXHIBIT??

Maybe your plans have something to do with this.

Just imagine you're entering a state-of-the-art CAR WASH!!

Is it because of your life that you are going through all this?

..  My pants just went on a wild rampage through
 a Long Island Bowling Alley!!

Are you afraid of that?

I'm gliding over a NUCLEAR WASTE DUMP near ATLANTA, Georgia!!

[CypherOne]

I'm scared now

[Meffy]

I'm scared now

If you think you're scared now, just wait until you learn emacs. (= (reversal (normal (patterns thinking))) (emacs-lisp)) ... or something like that; I'm not going to count parentheses this morning. :-)

Meffy

[Mirabebe]

H.I.D. Hilarity Induced Distortion (the sound of electrons pissing themselves).

Really good.

[Crackbaby]

If i remember this.. uh..
During WWII, didnt hitler try to produce a weapon based on a speaker that had a 7hz sound? I heard that this frequency at a huge amplitude will nock us off our socks. Dead

Can someone build a vsti for this and verify?

[VicDiesel]

Read read read.

Man, what claptrap.

The difference between an "A" from a guitar and one from a horn is merely the amplitude levels of the harmonics, since only seven of them can be discerned by our ears.

Quick, someone tell Ben Camel and Harry Cube that 7 partials is enough! That should lighten the CPU load a bit.

The atmosphere in between creates a cavity.

Hm. For one the atmosphere is open-ended. I have no idea what the physics of such a resonator would be. But this is a really large cavite, so any fundamental frequency is in tiny fractions of one Hertz. You might say that a storm front is a wave in the atmosphere, and fast does that move?

This cavity between the earth and ionosphere have electromagnetic resonance frequencies.

No proof given of course, as of the assertion that the main frequency is 8Hz.

As one can see, there seems to be a coincidence in the pattern of the resonances and the tone of a musical instrument.

No really! Those frequencies are completely inharmonious. Ok, they are all multiples 2, but then they start at the 3rd harmonic.

Et cetera.

Complete nonsense. The conclusion about tube amplifiers actually had me laughing out loud because it had totally zero to do with the rest of the story.

V.

[Meffy]

Man, what claptrap.

Yup, I'm afraid it reminded me of people who suddenly get this great revelation of the true nature of the universe -- it's so cool, man, get this -- like, we're all in this big ATOM, see, and our planets are like electrons, see, and we're like made of electrons and we're living on this big electron, see, and inside those are whole solar systems and galaxies and inside each of those and on to infinity and blither blither bloviate... :-D

A common factor is that they know just enough science to pick out a few vague ideas and words, but not to understand how those ideas apply to the world... or what science already knows with a high degree of certainty. Ah well, such is life, hm?

We tend to like sounds that are like those made by natural [edit] ACOUSTICAL [!!] resonances. No mystery here. Some ears also like snazzy electronic sounds for novelty's sake, because they don't appear in nature. Cool. No mystery there either. It is, however, very gratifying.

Now, about the Global Widening crisis...!

Meffy

[edit] I'm not making fun of people who don't know science. Just people who don't know science, then proclaim that they understand the universe better than scientists do. :-)

[pough]

With a voice of couse!

Kinda like a maincomputer in alien or startrek.

...or a Mac