Hi folks, A good place to take this conversation is SNOW-93, where improvements to this feature are being discussed: https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/SNOW-93
Thanks Rob On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 10:01 AM, Jo Grant<[email protected]> wrote: > Jim Oser writes: >>I want to type in English and have my friends, see the German. > It's very tempting, but it breaks one of the "golden rules" of Machine > Translation: you *never* translate outgoing text, only incoming text. > MT is "pull" technology, not "push" technology. It should always be invoke > by the reader, not the writer. Quite simply: if you do not speak the target > language, you do not know what you are saying. There are many humorous > stories of MT driven misunderstandings. Quite often, as well, the listener > will speak the source language better than MT speaks the target language. > > Lawson English wrote: >>Gack my suggestion for "any" url merely compounds the issue you bring >>up. > I normally deal in a business context with business sensitive information. > Obviously that's not 100% applicable to Second Life. I mainly wanted to > raise people's awareness. It's an easy thing to forget. > I think there are ways this could be done. At a base level, the users > themselves are responsible for ensuring that they adhere to the ToS. If the > default service provided was secure, than it's a fair feature to add. > (Google probably have a clause somewhere that specifies they record only the > linguistic pattern of what is submitted, and not the actual identifiable > data, or something like that.) And an extension to add in your own > translation service is also OK when coupled with static text or a prompt > warning them to make sure the service they use doesn't do anything with the > data. Basically you shift the responsibility from the software provider to > the user. > I think it would get past most reasonable legal departments. > > Cheers, > > Jo > > > *************************************** > Jo Grant, [email protected] > http://www-03.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/roivw > ISV Developer Enablement Architect, > Notes 8 Composite Applications and XPages, > One Roger's Street, Cambridge MA 02144 > tel: 617-693-6089 > SL: Jaymin Carthage > > _______________________________________________ > Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: > http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/SLDev > Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting > privileges > _______________________________________________ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/SLDev Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges
