Subj : Re: Microsoft emulates Star Trek... To : All From : Daniel Date : Sat Jun 07 2014 19:45:26 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos From Address: dxmm@albury.nospam.net.au Subject: Re: Microsoft emulates Star Trek... On 06/06/14 19:20, Wiseguy wrote: > Daniel wrote in news:60%jv.416148$1w1.206748 > @fx03.iad: > >> On 5/06/2014 11:11 AM, Your Name wrote: >> >> >>> There will always be errors in any automated translation, especially >>> spoken translation. Computers simply are intelligent enough to >>> understand context, etc. >> >> Back in 1985-88, I was doing my Associate Diploma for Technical > Teaching >> and had to write a paper. I did mine on Computer vs Human interfaces >> and, apart from pointing out the confusion with there/their/they're, I >> gave another, sailing, example, " *Wind* in the sails as the *wind* is >> getting up" and asked how a computer might distinguish between a > written >> *wind* and *wind* ?? >> >> Daniel >> > > Never mind computers, I'm waiting for PEOPLE to understand the > difference between there, their and they're. What?? You mean their's a difference?? ;-) Daniel --- Synchronet 3.15a-Linux NewsLink 1.92-mlp * Origin: TeraNews.com (1:2320/105.97) --- SBBSecho 2.12-Linux * Origin: telnet & http://cco.ath.cx - Dial-Up: 502-875-8938 (1:2320/105.1) .