News At Seven / Gangs of India
Tired of talking hair delivering the news? The Intelligent Information Laboratory at Northwestern University has developed an avatar news broadcast. India-based investigative journalist and BBC contributor Scott Carney tells us about a violent clash between Maoists and the government.
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Interesting story, but I have NEVER seen "an American-made AK-47" that the correspondent refers to. I've seen AKs from China, Russia, Bulgaria, Pakistan (mostly street-market cottage-industry things), and host of other countries, but not from here in the USA. We make a whole different variety of firearms, but no AK-47s. What was the correspondent talking about?
I KNEW that blood elf with the new wave hairdo looked familiar!
Wow. Those creepy news avatars look like they were salvaged from a bad strip poker game. It's a cool project and they'll probably run the world someday but right now they're teetering on the brink of the uncanny valley. Just like real news anchors.
King Corn + News at Seven = Orville Redenbacher
I cannot stand artificial speech. I mourned the day they replaced humans on Weather Radio, because it's almost impossible for me to pay attention to the actual weather report.
I will never subscribe to a machine reading a newsfeed. Yich!
@Pat Race: News at the Uncanny Vally. The tone of voice was off, but they're really teetering at the edge for me too.
But Xeni was pretty funny in this one. And pretty in all. Geek crush... One quick question, Xeni. Is it creepy to have hundreds (thousands?) of geeks and nerds fawning over you?
This kind of thing has been available for the Mac for awhile:
http://sonicamigos.com/noodlereader.php
http://sonicamigos.com/noodleflix.php
What about my beloved San Francisco Giants?
To find AK-47's made in the U.S.A. check out:
http://www.ak-47.us/AK47_Manufacturers.php
The first 1-2 seconds of the video are hard to catch, so perhaps it would be best to always start with the BBTV intro... or place a rewind button.
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Is the new Lotus Notes TCP/IP compatible yet, or are we still waiting for the next version?
Xen, that fuschia top is YOU, diva!
Great Scott Carney story, more of this please.
Xeni there is no way now or in the future you could ever be replaced....
Hello, Scott Carney, here. I was investigating whether or not the lost Iraq weapons made their way into the hands of the Naxals and wasn't able to verify anything of interest (or rule it out, incidentally). When the US lost its enormous cache of weapons it included about 150,000 AK-47s. But you are right to point out that it didn't say what country the AK's were made in. It could be that the US military buys AKs from China or Russia and gives them to Iraq's security forces and then loses them.
At the moment I'm looking into other arms connections, possible with the LTTE in Sri Lanka and an arms dealer who was recently arrested in Kuala Lampur.
scott
Like the Good Lord God in the Valley of Bones
Engrelay Satelserve made some people named Jones.
They were not living and they were not dead;
They were ee-magi-nary, but always ahead.
What made them uniquely and positively new:
A gadget on the set made them look like you!
(Quoted from memory, and therefore almost certainly inaccurate.)
She's no Edison Carter, but the application of the tech is an interesting touch. And she's back on the low side of the uncanny valley for now.
TNH (15), "Christ, what an imagination I've got." (An exclamation forced out of me time and again by BB.)
Yes!