I remember that IBM shipped a voice recognition system built into OS/2 v3, which worked with the Workplace Shell and with most applications. You had to speak to it in a slightly clipped way (words just separated), but it worked quite well. It did not need training (at least for my lousy accent) unless I used specialized vocabulary, but with training it could even cope with really horrible enunciation (my drunken buddies). That was in the days of the i386 and primitive SoundBlaster digitization, so I would hope that techniques have improved since, such as being able to parse words which are run together.
Actually, there are lots of good references and tutorials on the web. The trick is separating the really good ones from mere fluff.
One starting point is The Linux Documentation Project site at http://www.tldp.org/ The guides http://www.tldp.org/guides.html contain fairly decent references and examples on bash scripting, CLI utilities, etc. The howto section has more narrowly task-oriented stuff http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto Note that many of the items have not been updated recently, but they remain valid.
A less comprehensive but more frequently updated collection can be found at http://www.linux.org/docs This has many task-oriented howto guides but lacks extended reference guides. However, it does link to numerous free online books http://www.linux.org/docs/online_books.html
Not that I disagree with your overall point, but how does using your neighbors wireless cost them extra money? They pay a monthly fee for these broadband services, not per KB...
Well, what you're saying is true, if the neighbour has an essentially uncapped service, like services across much of the Developed World (Finland, Sweden, Korea, Japan, etc.). However, caps on monthly throughput seem to be widespread in parts of the Third World (USA & Australia, anyway), with surcharges for anything over the cap. In some service plans which afflicted slashdotters have bewailed, the caps are quite stingy and the surcharges are astonishingly high.
Hmm, I'll refrain from saying "whoosh", as it was rather indirect.
However, I was under the impression that the name "Looney" was pronounced "loony". At least, I knew a fellow (a PhD) with that name and pronunciation. Perhaps it was different in Tudor times.
Anyway, the loony theories abound, however they are pronounced.
Comsidering that an F-15 successfully shot down (destroyed) a satellite which was orbiting 555km above the Earth, the assertion that a blimp would be safe from aircraft attack is demonstrable bunk. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-15_Eagle#Operational_history
Moreover, a preproduction F-15 (the "Streak Eagle") in breaking its eighth time to altitude record, went from standstill on the ground to 98,425 feet (30 km) in 208 seconds, and coasted to 103,000 feet. Modern interceptors can reach such altitudes with little if any modification. 65,000 feet is within their normal operating capability. http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=621
Can you explain why that page indicates all green for CSS 2.1 on WebKit based browsers, except for the "static" classifications, yet WebKit claims that their CSS 2.1 support is not yet complete?
Maybe you just looked at the CSS 2.1 Selectors section, which is mostly green for Webkit browsers (but with a few marked "static").
However, if you also look at the Webkit browsers in the CSS 2.1 Declarations section, you'll notice that one item (content) is marked as "almost", while another (table columns) is marked as "incomplete". Perhaps this is why Webkit does not claim complete support.
Perhaps using the W3C standard test suites would be a better measure than some guy putting green boxes next to features?
That really made my day! I almost ruined a keyboard with my G&T (I managed to keep it in, gin in Finland is too expensive to spew on a keyboard).
But seriously, a collaborative wrapper on LaTeX woud be really neat. Nothing handles citations & equations as well as LaTeX.
Perhaps the GP was getting the ERA and CEA mixed up, and maybe getting NOW mixed up with Phyllis Schlafly as well (impossible though it may seem). I remember that stuff - must be getting old.
The National Organization of Women supports both of these putative constitutional amendments. The ERA originated in the early 1920s, long before NOW existed, and came fairly close to adoption in the late 1970s. The CEA was crafted by NOW in the late 1980s, to reflect their arguably partisan ambitions. Although titled "Constitutional Equality Amendment", it contains some non-gender-neutral language which would make its consequences different from those of ERA. It has never been introduced in congress.
Q1: How many of them believe in astrology, Feng Shui, crystal power, and other crap?
Q2: How many of them know that the Earth is not flat, and is about 4.5 billion years old?
I would not be surprised if the answer to Q1 is larger than the answer to Q2. Unfortunately. And that's just a sample of delusions compared to a couple of simple and well-known facts.
There is a crying need for teaching the scientific method in schools. Ideally, it would be accompanied by numerous exercises in critical thought, including the examination of "common knowledge" and topical news stories.
I love the sound a new hardcover makes when you open it for the first time; I love being able to take a book camping without worrying that it will be crushed. I love being able to physically browse through everything on my bookshelf and pick something that interests me. Oh, and I love being able to make margin notes and dog-ear pages. I love that I can feel a book's right side become smaller and smaller as I read, and how I can become excited (or nervous) about feeling the ending being near.
A kindred spirit. My 12 year old daughter recently delighted me by expressing much the same feelings towards books. She added the heft of the book and the feel of the paper while holding the book as other valuable attributes. We have between 5000 and 6000 real books in the house, and a few hundred ebooks (non-DRM). The kids always request real books in preference to ebooks, for convenience as much as aesthetics.
Thanks. I don't have a Kindle, don't expect to get one, and don't really want one. But I downloaded the scripts, just in case.
Actually I avoid ebooks after being stabbed by their DRM a few years back, so I only buy real books (same price, usually).
If they want odour, let them have it, full throttle. Eat chilli beans with garlic and cream cheese (or whatever supercharges your afterburner) a few hours before boarding a flight.
"I fart in your general direction! In fact, I fart uncontrollably in all directions!"
is such an important number that it's worth a news story by its own
But of course! It's a happy octagonal Harshad integer, and a Blum semiprime. We should read news stories about it every day! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/133_(number)
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I remember that IBM shipped a voice recognition system built into OS/2 v3, which worked with the Workplace Shell and with most applications. You had to speak to it in a slightly clipped way (words just separated), but it worked quite well. It did not need training (at least for my lousy accent) unless I used specialized vocabulary, but with training it could even cope with really horrible enunciation (my drunken buddies). That was in the days of the i386 and primitive SoundBlaster digitization, so I would hope that techniques have improved since, such as being able to parse words which are run together.
But if you have an accent
As if English-speaking people from the midwestern United States don't.
As if English-speaking people from England don't.
Lawton, OK? You lucky jammy bastard! I spent months in Skowhegan ME, and mostly miserable winter months...
Actually, there are lots of good references and tutorials on the web. The trick is separating the really good ones from mere fluff.
One starting point is The Linux Documentation Project site at http://www.tldp.org/ The guides http://www.tldp.org/guides.html contain fairly decent references and examples on bash scripting, CLI utilities, etc. The howto section has more narrowly task-oriented stuff http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto Note that many of the items have not been updated recently, but they remain valid.
A less comprehensive but more frequently updated collection can be found at http://www.linux.org/docs This has many task-oriented howto guides but lacks extended reference guides. However, it does link to numerous free online books http://www.linux.org/docs/online_books.html
A neat trim is probably best. Not all ladies have shapely enough pussies to go bald, as you'll soon realize on nudist beaches.
The government is poking its nose into your what?
I have been sent exciting places like Indianapolis.
Oh, I used to lie awake at nights, dreaming of being sent to Indianapolis. Or was it nightmares.
Not that I disagree with your overall point, but how does using your neighbors wireless cost them extra money? They pay a monthly fee for these broadband services, not per KB...
Well, what you're saying is true, if the neighbour has an essentially uncapped service, like services across much of the Developed World (Finland, Sweden, Korea, Japan, etc.). However, caps on monthly throughput seem to be widespread in parts of the Third World (USA & Australia, anyway), with surcharges for anything over the cap. In some service plans which afflicted slashdotters have bewailed, the caps are quite stingy and the surcharges are astonishingly high.
Hmm, I'll refrain from saying "whoosh", as it was rather indirect.
However, I was under the impression that the name "Looney" was pronounced "loony". At least, I knew a fellow (a PhD) with that name and pronunciation. Perhaps it was different in Tudor times.
Anyway, the loony theories abound, however they are pronounced.
That's not Shakespeare, it's clearly Sir Francis Bacon.
No it's not. It's... it's... it's... Christopher Marlowe!
Even 400 year later, the loony theories abound.
Or, doth mine eyes deceive me?
Horatio:
O day and night, but this is wondrous strange!
Hamlet:
And therefore as a stranger give it welcome.
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
-- Hamlet, Act I, Scene V
Comsidering that an F-15 successfully shot down (destroyed) a satellite which was orbiting 555km above the Earth, the assertion that a blimp would be safe from aircraft attack is demonstrable bunk.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-15_Eagle#Operational_history
Moreover, a preproduction F-15 (the "Streak Eagle") in breaking its eighth time to altitude record, went from standstill on the ground to 98,425 feet (30 km) in 208 seconds, and coasted to 103,000 feet. Modern interceptors can reach such altitudes with little if any modification. 65,000 feet is within their normal operating capability.
http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=621
Can you explain why that page indicates all green for CSS 2.1 on WebKit based browsers, except for the "static" classifications, yet WebKit claims that their CSS 2.1 support is not yet complete?
Maybe you just looked at the CSS 2.1 Selectors section, which is mostly green for Webkit browsers (but with a few marked "static").
However, if you also look at the Webkit browsers in the CSS 2.1 Declarations section, you'll notice that one item (content) is marked as "almost", while another (table columns) is marked as "incomplete". Perhaps this is why Webkit does not claim complete support.
Perhaps using the W3C standard test suites would be a better measure than some guy putting green boxes next to features?
Obviously.
Like Padmasree Warrior her name kick's Wolf Blitzer's name any day of the week and she's better looking too.
Hah, those names are nothing compared to a Dikshit. Nobody will face up to one of them...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheila_Dikshit
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandeep_Dikshit
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anurag_Dikshit
Word has version control
That really made my day! I almost ruined a keyboard with my G&T (I managed to keep it in, gin in Finland is too expensive to spew on a keyboard).
But seriously, a collaborative wrapper on LaTeX woud be really neat. Nothing handles citations & equations as well as LaTeX.
The only relevant bag in this article is "douchebag."
That'll be in next week's bag review.
Perhaps the GP was getting the ERA and CEA mixed up, and maybe getting NOW mixed up with Phyllis Schlafly as well (impossible though it may seem). I remember that stuff - must be getting old.
The National Organization of Women supports both of these putative constitutional amendments. The ERA originated in the early 1920s, long before NOW existed, and came fairly close to adoption in the late 1970s. The CEA was crafted by NOW in the late 1980s, to reflect their arguably partisan ambitions. Although titled "Constitutional Equality Amendment", it contains some non-gender-neutral language which would make its consequences different from those of ERA. It has never been introduced in congress.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Organization_for_Women#ERA_and_CEA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_Rights_Amendment
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllis_Schlafly
Q1: How many of them believe in astrology, Feng Shui, crystal power, and other crap?
Q2: How many of them know that the Earth is not flat, and is about 4.5 billion years old?
I would not be surprised if the answer to Q1 is larger than the answer to Q2. Unfortunately. And that's just a sample of delusions compared to a couple of simple and well-known facts.
There is a crying need for teaching the scientific method in schools. Ideally, it would be accompanied by numerous exercises in critical thought, including the examination of "common knowledge" and topical news stories.
I love the sound a new hardcover makes when you open it for the first time; I love being able to take a book camping without worrying that it will be crushed. I love being able to physically browse through everything on my bookshelf and pick something that interests me. Oh, and I love being able to make margin notes and dog-ear pages. I love that I can feel a book's right side become smaller and smaller as I read, and how I can become excited (or nervous) about feeling the ending being near.
A kindred spirit. My 12 year old daughter recently delighted me by expressing much the same feelings towards books. She added the heft of the book and the feel of the paper while holding the book as other valuable attributes. We have between 5000 and 6000 real books in the house, and a few hundred ebooks (non-DRM). The kids always request real books in preference to ebooks, for convenience as much as aesthetics.
Thanks. I don't have a Kindle, don't expect to get one, and don't really want one. But I downloaded the scripts, just in case.
Actually I avoid ebooks after being stabbed by their DRM a few years back, so I only buy real books (same price, usually).
Amalgamated Regional Militia, with jurisdiction over the Earth-Moon system. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amalgamated_Regional_Militia
Time to wash, boys!
I don't care if they stink or not, but rubbing soap on the DHS folks is unlikely to speed your passage through security...
If they want odour, let them have it, full throttle. Eat chilli beans with garlic and cream cheese (or whatever supercharges your afterburner) a few hours before boarding a flight.
"I fart in your general direction! In fact, I fart uncontrollably in all directions!"
Indeed - apparently no one died that year - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/133
A very good year indeed. Also, 133BC was not too bad: apparently only two people died that year - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/133_BC
is such an important number that it's worth a news story by its own
But of course! It's a happy octagonal Harshad integer, and a Blum semiprime. We should read news stories about it every day!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/133_(number)