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My respect for the excellent work of Rod Serling is second to none, but do you really think that anyone would appreciate "To Serve Man" without the dialogue, or "They're Tearing Down Tim Riley's Bar"?

I'll agree with that. If you're talking about the original Twilight Zone, that was made around forty years ago, well before FCC rulings started to require captioning. TV stations/networks can take longer to caption old programs than new programs. Check out the Captioning Standards and Laws page...

For a long time, people tried to force English into grammatical notions derived from Latin. Once they stopped doing that, they could figure out how English really works. ASL has grammatical structures--they're just not the same as those of English. Japanese leaves out words a lot--overusing...

You probably use a keyboard like the rest of us, where it's one character per keystroke. Captioners are like court reporters; they use a special chording keyboard with many possible "chords" struck in the time it takes to type one character on a regular typewriter-style keyboard.

Where can I get a 10,000 GHz CPU? :giggle: With that clock rate, no wonder they were expensive... Seriously, way back when, people found out that stray alpha particles could induce memory errors... and spaceships and satellites are subject to considerably more radiation than stuff on...

Itanium is dead in the water; the IT press calls it "Itanic." There are vastly better 64-bit architectures out there (one of which, Alpha, got killed off), and then there's also AMD's 64-bit extension of the x86 instruction set. The problem is that Intel has painted itself into a corner. It...

I'm configuring a system that I bought a couple of years ago, so that I can give it to my former ASL teacher, who is Deaf. I have a WinTV card in it, and so I want a program for TV viewing that will display captioning well. Alas, that's turning out to be difficult. xawtv won't show...

Definitely AMD. Intel made an engineering decision for marketing reasons when it designed the Pentium 4--they made the instruction pipeline insanely long so they could run the clock rate up. They're counting on the average person being stupid and thinking that a higher clock rate necessarily...

Translation is never done word for word (there are lots of examples--in English you take a test, but in Spanish you suffer it; in English, risque prose is called "blue," but in Spanish one talks about chistes verdes, "dirty (literally green) jokes"). There isn't a one-to-one correspondence...

Then the thing to do is let the web site owner know that they should make their web site conform to w3c standards. I can only speak for myself, but I don't think that a web site is sufficiently wonderful to be worth opening my computer to the security holes in IE. (OTOH, I don't use Windows, so...

There's a company that makes wind-up radios, but of course that's of minimal help if you're deaf...and actually of not a whole lot of help if you're hearing, either, because the wind-up generator doesn't have all that long a life. I know, having bought a couple of them. :( I looked to see...

I'm a big fan of Lilo and Stitch--enough that I even watch the half-hour cartoon, wretched as it is compared with the original movie. I saw it on ABC, and then on the Disney Channel...and noticed that the captioning is different! On ABC, they don't do a very good job, but on Disney, even the...

Try Firefox or Mozilla Not only do they block popups without having to install additional software, there's a very good extension called "AdBlock" that lets you specify URLs or sets of URLs that you don't want the browser to fetch, so you can also turn off banner ads, gratuitous Flash or...

Now I'm curious.... Interesting. I studied Spanish for two and a half years, and have studied ASL for a while. (The ASL is much harder for me, as a hearing person, to get my head around... not to mention that I can listen to Spanish-language radio or watch Univision all day long whenever I...

I'm confused. Captioning Key says that idioms and dialect should be preserved, but when I watch BBC America with captioning turned on, the captions seem to violate that. A person says "innit?" but it's captioned "isn't it?", or says "aluminium" but it's captioned "aluminum." Are they catering to...

Uh, might be easier to do the chemical formula...and I would hope there are conventions for communicating the "handedness" of molecules in ASL.

Agreed, but none of that is inconsistent with astrology being utter BS.

Social Security is a joke, a pyramid scam that is about to come crashing down. I am certain that I will not receive a dime from it, after all the money that's been seized from me and thrown down that rathole. One estimate is that young people will have to be taxed at a rate of 82% to keep...

My opinion is that the question is like the question "Have you stopped beating your wife?" I disagree with the assumption built into it.

Religion. There are many religions, and essentially any two of them are mutually inconsistent. None of them has been show to be correct. How can a country that is supposed to be based on liberty use any religion to justify law or government action?