Re:Wired's iPad edition arrives, converted from Flash by Adobe
by endtime on Wednesday May 26, 2010 @12:52PM
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I don't see how "Machine translation" is any different than "Translated from Flash to Objective-C by computer program".
Re:Wired's iPad edition arrives, converted from Flash by Adobe
by jodrellblank on Wednesday May 26, 2010 @01:37PM
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It isn't, the change I made was from translated by human to rewritten by human, and the distinguishing bit of that change is human versus machine.
The parent was implying some kind of double standard where the "computing device" doing the change made a difference but shouldn't, and I was pointing out that the human isn't "mechanically translating", but "reinterpreting / rewriting". I just didn't write it out very clearly that the second one is the same. Will edit.
Rewritten in Objective-C: OK
Translated from Flash to Objective-C by computer program: Not OK
It's like the difference between hiring a translator and using Google translate or hiring a typist versus using speech recognition.
[Edited for clarity: meant to change translated by hand to rewritten by intelligent human, and keep the second one the same].