I type medical transcription for a living. I've not seen any truly emergent cases come up in my queue so far, so there's nothing important enough for me to stay online. Fuck it, it's one of the last few nice days left of this season. I think I'll bugger off for the rest of the day and go fishing. I wonder if I'll have a job when I come back? Hurrr and Durrrr...
You, sir, are a mental case! I suspect you have OCD with some component of Aspbergers that is making you have this fixation on doing all this work to save ancient bits of information.
As to "I wonder if...," no, we really shouldn't give those attention whores any further reward. The best thing to do from here is to ignore the bastards.
Didn't I read someplace that MPAA, in collusion with camera equipment manufacturers and the camera operators' unions, is looking to place patents on these devices so as to preclude competition?
It's funny that ISPs can whine and cry over the biggest users of bandwidth but can't be arsed to shut down let alone locate and notify their customers about their malware-infected PCs that are blasting spam all over the net. Start working on that and we might not have to worry about bandwidth caps.
Microsoft managed to mimic Google's Street View!!! How wonderful!! Way to go at innovation, copying another company's product. It guess that's the good old, tried and true methods of embrace and extend. What's next? Extinguish? Of course!
What irks the hell out of me is someone who grabs the hand too fast without getting skin-to-skin contact between each others' thumb-and-index webspace. I end up with some idiot who's got hold of my fingers only. Those are the clowns that get the do over and instructions on proper handshaking, usually punctuated with something like, "Slow down, idiot!"
I transcribe for a living and have used all the products referenced in this discussion to some capacity, whether it be through work or through my own independent exploration and study. I find that Naturally Speaking is difficult to train. I find that the Scribe transcription player is an excellent tool on both Linux and Windows to control audio playback with a footpedal. I can transcribe effectively well on pretty much any word processor. I'm stuck in proprietary hell, though, when it comes to what I do for my employer. I work on a Windows-based proprietary platform based on a very well developed speech recognition engine. What's holding back development in this area in the free software world is patents. Most of the big outfits doing work in the voice recognition and transcription areas are patenting everything they can a'la our friends at Microsoft & IBM, if the methods haven't already been patented by someone else. I'd love to see an open source solution that could do what the software at work does, but that's going to be a long time coming.
I'm very happy that they've helped make something like a better image of the sky available. What I don't like is Microsoft's habit of taking something like that and packaging it up in bullshit proprietary formats that you can only access if you abuse their shit software. Yeah, I think I got that right. I don't like Microsoft's software, I don't like their business tactics, and I don't like their insistence that everyone use their software. I'll use their software when I think it's right for the job. Right now, I'm running XP in a VMWare Player session hosted on my Ubuntu-loaded laptop to perform my medical transcription job since I can't trust Windows to be secure. So, no, I don't care that Microsoft took this project, one that would obviously benefit the public good, and tied it up in proprietary bullshit. Everyone can view TIFF images, and GTK is portable across platforms. Is there a problem with this open arrangement? I can only imagine the pricetag that will end up associated with it.
They've been doing this since 1999 from my personal memory aiding the antispam fight. What suddenly brings this back to the fore as if it were some stunning revelation? It's an old trick that Alan Ralsky used when he was scamming and spamming.
I just can't help but laugh at the complete lack of understanding of what Copyleft really is. Here's my stuff, you may quote it, keep a copy for yourself, pass copies along to your friends, but include attribution to the source. What the heck is so damned difficult to understand?
In that book, everyone has a crystal in the palm of their hands that seems to perform similar functions to an RFID chip, but the primary function seems to be an easy way to spot out how old people are. At each person's 21st birthday, they're forced to march off to the death chambers. Reading that book is what makes me creeped out about being chipped. Thanks, I'll keep that kind of personal data to myself.
The Microsoft brand name attached to that instantly remove it from my personal list of considerations. They have enough money already; they don't need more from me.
Does it provide video of enough quality that it would stand up in court as reliable evidence of the creeps who might break into my house again this summer? I'm shopping for a reliable camera rig & recorder for just that reason and I can't believe how timely this article is to me.
Don't you mean to say "57 channels and there's nothing on..."? We suffer from that here, although it's more like 200 channels, with maybe 13 channels showing content worth watching. The rest is filled with absolute drek. This summer comes time to make fixes to change that.
Someone thought of a way to drive our economy, create new jobs, set up new business opportunities, and create a whole sector of global wealth, all without raiding some shithole country in Farthest Outer Asia. I'm floored.
This is so much win, I can hardly stand it. And I never thought I'd see the day when they'd be able to find something to kill this cancer trash. We all live in very interesting times.
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I type medical transcription for a living. I've not seen any truly emergent cases come up in my queue so far, so there's nothing important enough for me to stay online. Fuck it, it's one of the last few nice days left of this season. I think I'll bugger off for the rest of the day and go fishing. I wonder if I'll have a job when I come back? Hurrr and Durrrr...
Damn, I'm going for +5 Funny and you guys mod me down to -1 Troll? Tough crowd. Get a sense of humor, will ya?
You, sir, are a mental case! I suspect you have OCD with some component of Aspbergers that is making you have this fixation on doing all this work to save ancient bits of information.
What's this "'could react in a protectionist manner and start giving Microsoft the stink-eye'" shit? Isn't that the normal reaction?
As to "I wonder if...," no, we really shouldn't give those attention whores any further reward. The best thing to do from here is to ignore the bastards.
Didn't I read someplace that MPAA, in collusion with camera equipment manufacturers and the camera operators' unions, is looking to place patents on these devices so as to preclude competition?
It's funny that ISPs can whine and cry over the biggest users of bandwidth but can't be arsed to shut down let alone locate and notify their customers about their malware-infected PCs that are blasting spam all over the net. Start working on that and we might not have to worry about bandwidth caps.
Microsoft managed to mimic Google's Street View!!! How wonderful!! Way to go at innovation, copying another company's product. It guess that's the good old, tried and true methods of embrace and extend. What's next? Extinguish? Of course!
What irks the hell out of me is someone who grabs the hand too fast without getting skin-to-skin contact between each others' thumb-and-index webspace. I end up with some idiot who's got hold of my fingers only. Those are the clowns that get the do over and instructions on proper handshaking, usually punctuated with something like, "Slow down, idiot!"
I transcribe for a living and have used all the products referenced in this discussion to some capacity, whether it be through work or through my own independent exploration and study. I find that Naturally Speaking is difficult to train. I find that the Scribe transcription player is an excellent tool on both Linux and Windows to control audio playback with a footpedal. I can transcribe effectively well on pretty much any word processor.
I'm stuck in proprietary hell, though, when it comes to what I do for my employer. I work on a Windows-based proprietary platform based on a very well developed speech recognition engine. What's holding back development in this area in the free software world is patents. Most of the big outfits doing work in the voice recognition and transcription areas are patenting everything they can a'la our friends at Microsoft & IBM, if the methods haven't already been patented by someone else. I'd love to see an open source solution that could do what the software at work does, but that's going to be a long time coming.
I'm very happy that they've helped make something like a better image of the sky available. What I don't like is Microsoft's habit of taking something like that and packaging it up in bullshit proprietary formats that you can only access if you abuse their shit software. Yeah, I think I got that right. I don't like Microsoft's software, I don't like their business tactics, and I don't like their insistence that everyone use their software. I'll use their software when I think it's right for the job. Right now, I'm running XP in a VMWare Player session hosted on my Ubuntu-loaded laptop to perform my medical transcription job since I can't trust Windows to be secure. So, no, I don't care that Microsoft took this project, one that would obviously benefit the public good, and tied it up in proprietary bullshit. Everyone can view TIFF images, and GTK is portable across platforms. Is there a problem with this open arrangement? I can only imagine the pricetag that will end up associated with it.
They've been doing this since 1999 from my personal memory aiding the antispam fight. What suddenly brings this back to the fore as if it were some stunning revelation? It's an old trick that Alan Ralsky used when he was scamming and spamming.
Apparently none of them recognize what right to fair use is, eh? How typical.
I just can't help but laugh at the complete lack of understanding of what Copyleft really is. Here's my stuff, you may quote it, keep a copy for yourself, pass copies along to your friends, but include attribution to the source. What the heck is so damned difficult to understand?
In that book, everyone has a crystal in the palm of their hands that seems to perform similar functions to an RFID chip, but the primary function seems to be an easy way to spot out how old people are. At each person's 21st birthday, they're forced to march off to the death chambers. Reading that book is what makes me creeped out about being chipped. Thanks, I'll keep that kind of personal data to myself.
...and someone's finally taken notice of Apple's anticompetitive actions? Will wonders ever cease?
This has to be the most idiotic story I've read in years. Someone clearly isn't in touch with reality here.
The Microsoft brand name attached to that instantly remove it from my personal list of considerations. They have enough money already; they don't need more from me.
Does it provide video of enough quality that it would stand up in court as reliable evidence of the creeps who might break into my house again this summer? I'm shopping for a reliable camera rig & recorder for just that reason and I can't believe how timely this article is to me.
Don't you mean to say "57 channels and there's nothing on..."? We suffer from that here, although it's more like 200 channels, with maybe 13 channels showing content worth watching. The rest is filled with absolute drek. This summer comes time to make fixes to change that.
... explains our future even better than the best scientists. Mike Judge is a prophet!
Someone thought of a way to drive our economy, create new jobs, set up new business opportunities, and create a whole sector of global wealth, all without raiding some shithole country in Farthest Outer Asia. I'm floored.
Smell that? That's sarcasm.
this *IS* one of those problems that requires a rocket scientist to figure out. I never thought I'd see the day. My life is now complete.
This is so much win, I can hardly stand it. And I never thought I'd see the day when they'd be able to find something to kill this cancer trash. We all live in very interesting times.
Fuck Scientology. I've never seen a larger collection of assholes ever.