That controller is... freakin' brilliant!

Hmm, I might have said something open to multiple interpretations initially, but there was a reason I mentioned traders cants and such, because such a language would necessarily HAVE to be a second language and not a replacement for a primary spoken language.

Or we would have a halfway house - humans speaking in a non-natural way with computers having to interpret meaning and sometimes getting it wrong - the worst of both worlds

I think you'd really want something from scratch that works well with how our mouths form letters and is tested on a wide variety of people, right?

Besides, we don't have a Sanskrit programming language. :) I think this is better as a 'think forward' idea than a 'think back' one. The fact that computer languages are…

That doesn't make it impossible, far from it, just a little different. Otherwise programmers wouldn't be able to learn to program. And they do! I've totally seen it!

There just hasn't been an effort to combine the two in a useful way AFAIK

You know what I want?

A language that works well with voice recognition by design, and one that we can also use as a programming language that's easily utilized by computers while still being useful in conversation.

"I'm sounding bitter, and I am," Ellsworth said. "I'm really, really bitter, because they promised me the world and then backstabbed me."

The problem here is the research method.

Okay, cool. Then feel free to help offset my own weaknesses with your strengths over at the boingboing thread, we've also got a partial run from Valve as a starting point over there. I don't have words to express how frustrating the fact that getting this across to people generally seems to require a completely…

That was epic! I like you.

Yeah, but we were just getting started, and it seemed a serendiptious moment.

Still, since you ask, we're also putting in details and sources and links and things here, it's just super-early in that part of the process.

You were looking for the catch, weren't you?

Beat me to it! And you replied to you ;)

Really, once we hack DNA properly, then biological machinery has the potential to rip way past what we're likely to be able to produce mechanically.

Well, they DID ask!

It's actually an attempt to explain several hundred pages of nuts and bolts in a condensed and entertaining way. It's kind of hard to point out plausible paths without covering a whole bunch of bases. ;)

But yeah, long posts get kinda smooshed in here, but condensing it more might make it less fun!

A few of us have been working on just that! But it's more fun to hear it from somebody else ;)

Once I realized that Cinemax sex was really, really stupid and often kind of insane, I kind of just gave up on paying attention to what other people said and just made it a mission to 'explore whatever makes happy noises' (orgasms are a great fetish!)

Way to spin the abortion debate! ;)

They're not even trying.

Seriously, you've got a military unit that's supposed to be disciplined, and they can't understand 'don't rape me' without extensive training?

My thought is if you've got 40 million dollars to spend, and you choose to spend it on a car instead of helping people. . . then you never deserved that money anyway.

And nobody EARNS 40 million dollars, that's just luck and happenstance at the best, selfishness and graft at the worst.

And they have tiny little ecosystems inside them. That's just delightful!