Posted on 12/17/2010 5:37:02 PM PST by SonOfDarkSkies
This is amazing. An app for phones that automatically translates foreign language images in real time...Watch the vid here.
Wake me when they prefect The Manslator
>>1) When God says “Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.” who is the ‘us’ plural;
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>The “royal We” was the norm for a sovereign in King James’ time.
That does not discount that He may have been using the as-a-group form here, it only acknowledges that this singular form is more likely.
Remember I said a “straightforward reading” meaning making as few assumptions as possible.
>>I’ll be much more impressed when it does Arabic, Chinese [traditional], Japanese, and Korean as well.
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>pretty amazing... hope it doesn’t do Latin...
What if it did PEOPLE?
Point it at a “guest worker” and it ‘translates’ him into a middle-aged blue-collar white-guy... ;)
People seem concerned that He will be angry over translation software. Why would He be?
There are several questions/observations which arise from a straightforward reading:1) When God says "Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech." who is the 'us' plural; is it literary, is it "God and His angles", is it God-as-the-Christian-trinity?
2) God says "and this they begin to do; and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do." which is, when you think about it, a VERY intriguing and VERY powerful statement ESPECIALLY coming from an omnipotent and omniscient being.
3) This language-scattering is, to some degree, commanded to Christians to be overcome: Matthew 28:16-20 (NIV)
The Great Commission
Then the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had told them to go. When they saw him, they worshiped him; but some doubted. Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”
I’m sorry, I read that three times, and I guess I need an app for that. I don’t understand.
As a language nut my engrish much goodly now.
Are you referring to things like the claim that the old head of the patent office saying that everything that can be invented, has been invented?
I remember, back in the mid-1970’s when I sold stereos that my buddies and I were all over all the articles about flat screen TV and it would be out some day, but all the predictions were baloney. The technologies never panned out.
Yet here we are, now...
There was a show on the history channel back in the mid’1990s about technology. Their prediction at the time was that if you took a “modern” man and projected him 25 years into the future, he would think the world worked on magic. I think they were right. Many of the things we take for granted now were unthinkable then. Literally.
One case in point: http://www.questvisual.com/
Remember, in 1995, a small flat screen tv was $25,000, few people had cell phones, and they were AMAZING in that you could actually save phone numbers on them. ;)
And few people used the internet or were even aware of it. And then there is medical technology...
The 20th century and quantum physics soon arrived and they all learned how little they knew. I don't think we're in a different situation today, or in the foreseeable future.
Wake up America and Defend Yourself!!
http://noiri.blogspot.com/2010/12/islamist-battle-plan-we-deny-exists.html
An exception to the rule? With editorial tid-bits
http://noiri.blogspot.com/2010/12/this-particular-ayatollah-is-son-of-one.html
Wake up America and Defend Yourself!!
http://noiri.blogspot.com/2010/12/islamist-battle-plan-we-deny-exists.html
An exception to the rule? With editorial tid-bits
http://noiri.blogspot.com/2010/12/this-particular-ayatollah-is-son-of-one.html
Hey thank you.
I just downloaded it...had to see it myself. It only works with printed stuff, which is still amazing. I’m sure it will get better. I downloaded English to Spanish, which was dumb. Should have been Spanish to English I would use it more. Technology is truly amazing.
The price of gasoline just went up FOUR times in Iran as Ahmadi-Nejad cancels government subsidies of fuel - and Food.
“The price of gasoline just went up FOUR times in Iran as Ahmadi-Nejad cancels government subsidies of fuel - and Food.”
His nuke program is expensive and the scientists keep getting whacked.
All in good time...
Thanks for the ping!
not good news for the people of iran.
Wake me when they make an ansible.
I have to say I’m impressed. All that science fiction I read in my youth leads me to be underwhelmed by technology most of the time. This is revolutionary though.
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