IIRC there used to be a foreign language TTS on the ATandT web site. But all they have there now are pre-recorded examples.
Me: Computer -- please access google to search for websites with the following keywords: bell, labs, text, to, speech, synthesis. User authorization Picard alpha tango charlie zero. Computer: Authorization code valid. Recognizing Picard. Accessing google. Search complete. Me: All right!
How about taking this issue to the public? After all, it's some of their tax money that is funding academic research.
How are they benifitting from it? Oh I know...the research is held in confidence by private enterprise. Couldn't the populace be at all persuaded those monies go to work FOR THEM directly? Or would this be just an exercise in futile public relations?
It seemed to me that the reason
police cars are equipped with cameras is to protect them against charges of police brutality.
Couldn't the public's recording of police actions be taken as additional critcism and distrust, i.e., the police already know there's a cloud of suspicion hanging over them.
The characters in Shrek moved just a tad too fluidly for humans. (Or maybe it was the BBQ rat I had earlier?) I'll be really excited about Final Fantasy if they have incorporated that. Less fluidity, not rat.
Yeah, there is probably some alien planet that crosses L.A. county airspace that is not paying L.A. county taxes. Those alien bastards!
I was thinking, rather, are Earth-based governments going to levy taxes on the space colonies
we will presumably eventually have? I wouldn't doubt it. And without sufficient representation in
Earth government, the colonies could declare independence in what will be a great space war.
And I need to view this Microsoft PowerPoint presentation...
There's probably a powerpoint viewer downloadable from microsoft's web site. I got the 98 version a couple of months ago. Maybe that'll work for you and other out there.
And so is rpm -ivh package.rpm. From the main FreeBSD ports pages, all I gleaned was that in principle I would have to compile all the source code for the applications I want to run. I can understand how doing this would give a "custom" compilation, but I haven't had problems with RPM.
Therefore it is not brownian motion directly, but osmosis that powers all life.
I think you are envisioning a concentration gradient.
Although osmosis, being the dilution of a solution by a pure solvent, is its own way a concentration gradient.
And what's the driving force for concentration gradients to flatten out? ENTROPY. Therefore, entropy powers all life. (Entropy will also kill the universe, which is what drove Boltzmann to suidice after realizing the eventual "heat death" of the universe.)
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Hm. log(170000)/log(2) = 17.4, so at least 18 bits is needed, as I cursorily understand this, to encode present human languages. Clearly a 3-byte unicode standard is needed. Maybe use only 20 bits and leave 4 bits for something else (font style, inverse, etc.).
it is probably just a matter of time before this idea is applied to different niches of the internet--or to the 'net at large. Those high school alumni sites have merely begun to tap into social networks.
Not that I am endorsing berlitz, but I just wanted to point out that this method of positive reinforcement is the way we learn languages as children. If fluency is the goal, then immerision is the only way.
I was casually surfing the web a few days ago when suddenly an amazon ad came up WITH MY NAME ON IT. It shocked the shit out of me. I promptly quit my browser and deleted my amazon cookies.
we're more likely to see TV shows tailored to the extent that you'll see a show where characters use products that are chosen
to fit your demographic. So, if you're a rich guy you'll see a Rolex on the character's wrist, whereas I'll see some crappy
armitron watch that fits my budget.
We're essentially there already, except no one has put it all together. Broadcast sports use computer generated advertisements displayed on the walls of the playing field. Add CGI algorithms and you have your human (or computer!) actors wearing watches, glasses, Speedos, etc. Now inundate with tracked personal preferences a la Amazon.com cookies or such. Voila! You are now living The Truman Show.
It feels as if IE and Opera use memory caching pretty effectively. Let's eventually put whatever mechanism that is into the other web browsers (read: mozilla), if it is not there already. It would be interesting to quantify this apparent speed.
Yup. Of the parents I've seen it's the baby-boomers that are too self-absorbed to pay attention to children. And the older generation(s) wonder why the younger generation(s) have little respect for them.
I thought the Constitution applies to citizen and government, not citizen and private industry.
How effective are privacy advocates in reaching the masses? While privacy advocates view privacy as a fundamental principle, the (sheepish) masses just want to have and play their music, videos, whatever. As long as it "just works" for them, they don't give a damn about so-called privacy issues.
While we could launch a massive educational campaign on the web on how privacy issues affect people, explaining that citizens won't even be allowed to own what they have purchased---this is apparently what the music and software industry want---I would be concerned how effective this would really be, given that the likes of AOL/Time Warner has a stake in the recording industry and can cordon off a majority of the US internet users from any pro-privacy propaganda.
IANAB (I am not a businessman), so how does one promote privacy issues among the masses?
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date = Sun Aug 5 11:42:52 CDT 2001
/default.ida?XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX snip /default.ida?XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX snip
Linux running apache. The first sign of the XXXX version showed up yesterday:
61.77.78.28 - - [04/Aug/2001:14:01:22 -0500] "GET
211.36.128.3 - - [04/Aug/2001:23:44:01 -0500] "GET
Wouldn't you know it? nslookup returns non-existant host/domain. Otherwise, we are still getting probed by the NNNN variety about once an hour.
Being at UC-Berzerkley :), does he have to relinquish his thesis to UMI for publishing?
That would be a shame.
IIRC there used to be a foreign language TTS on the ATandT web site. But all they have there now are pre-recorded examples.
Me: Computer -- please access google to search for websites with the following keywords: bell, labs, text, to, speech, synthesis. User authorization Picard alpha tango charlie zero.
Computer: Authorization code valid. Recognizing Picard. Accessing google. Search complete.
Me: All right!
http://www.bell-labs.com/project/tts/
Dark Angel is pretty much T&A and SF in one.
the irony? You can sign up for CNET newsletters in the right hand column by just giving your e-mail address. Sign *ME* up!
How about taking this issue to the public? After all, it's some of their tax money that is funding academic research. How are they benifitting from it? Oh I know...the research is held in confidence by private enterprise. Couldn't the populace be at all persuaded those monies go to work FOR THEM directly? Or would this be just an exercise in futile public relations?
It seemed to me that the reason police cars are equipped with cameras
is to protect them against charges of police brutality. Couldn't the
public's recording of police actions be taken as additional critcism and
distrust, i.e., the police already know there's a cloud of suspicion hanging over them.
The characters in Shrek moved just a tad too fluidly for humans. (Or maybe it was the BBQ rat I had earlier?) I'll be really excited about Final Fantasy if they have incorporated that. Less fluidity, not rat.
Yeah, there is probably some alien planet that crosses L.A. county airspace that is not paying L.A. county taxes. Those alien bastards!
I was thinking, rather, are Earth-based governments going to levy taxes on the space colonies we will presumably eventually have? I wouldn't doubt it. And without sufficient representation in Earth government, the colonies could declare independence in what will be a great space war.
How about the English that's adopted into German?
And I need to view this Microsoft PowerPoint presentation...
There's probably a powerpoint viewer downloadable from microsoft's web site. I got the 98 version a couple of months ago. Maybe that'll work for you and other out there.
And so is rpm -ivh package.rpm. From the main FreeBSD ports pages, all I gleaned was that in principle I would have to compile all the source code for the applications I want to run. I can understand how doing this would give a "custom" compilation, but I haven't had problems with RPM.
Until the government no longer has a vested interest in maintaining the appearance that it is fighting a "war" on drugs, hemp will remain illegal.
Therefore it is not brownian motion directly, but osmosis that powers all life.
I think you are envisioning a concentration gradient. Although osmosis, being the dilution of a solution by a pure solvent, is its own way a concentration gradient. And what's the driving force for concentration gradients to flatten out? ENTROPY. Therefore, entropy powers all life. (Entropy will also kill the universe, which is what drove Boltzmann to suidice after realizing the eventual "heat death" of the universe.)
GraphicConverter is meant to be shareware, IRC.
Hm. log(170000)/log(2) = 17.4, so at least 18 bits is needed, as I cursorily understand this, to encode present human languages. Clearly a 3-byte unicode standard is needed. Maybe use only 20 bits and leave 4 bits for something else (font style, inverse, etc.).
it is probably just a matter of time before this idea is applied to different niches of the internet--or to the 'net at large. Those high school alumni sites have merely begun to tap into social networks.
Not that I am endorsing berlitz, but I just wanted to point out that this method of positive reinforcement is the way we learn languages as children. If fluency is the goal, then immerision is the only way.
I was casually surfing the web a few days ago when suddenly an amazon ad came up WITH MY NAME ON IT. It shocked the shit out of me. I promptly quit my browser and deleted my amazon cookies.
we're more likely to see TV shows tailored to the extent that you'll see a show where characters use products that are chosen to fit your demographic. So, if you're a rich guy you'll see a Rolex on the character's wrist, whereas I'll see some crappy armitron watch that fits my budget.
We're essentially there already, except no one has put it all together. Broadcast sports use computer generated advertisements displayed on the walls of the playing field. Add CGI algorithms and you have your human (or computer!) actors wearing watches, glasses, Speedos, etc. Now inundate with tracked personal preferences a la Amazon.com cookies or such. Voila! You are now living The Truman Show.
Plus you have to count the energy cost of refrigerating the nitrogen. You can't fool thermodynamics.
It feels as if IE and Opera use memory caching pretty effectively. Let's eventually put whatever mechanism that is into the other web browsers (read: mozilla), if it is not there already. It would be interesting to quantify this apparent speed.
Yup. Of the parents I've seen it's the baby-boomers that are too self-absorbed to pay attention to children. And the older generation(s) wonder why the younger generation(s) have little respect for them.
If Jesus saves, does he make any backups?
I thought the Constitution applies to citizen and government, not citizen and private industry.
How effective are privacy advocates in reaching the masses? While privacy advocates view privacy as a fundamental principle, the (sheepish) masses just want to have and play their music, videos, whatever. As long as it "just works" for them, they don't give a damn about so-called privacy issues.
While we could launch a massive educational campaign on the web on how privacy issues affect people, explaining that citizens won't even be allowed to own what they have purchased---this is apparently what the music and software industry want---I would be concerned how effective this would really be, given that the likes of AOL/Time Warner has a stake in the recording industry and can cordon off a majority of the US internet users from any pro-privacy propaganda.
IANAB (I am not a businessman), so how does one promote privacy issues among the masses?
This is an important point. It really makes grub and google complementary.