I just got a Samsung model 660 with the best voice recognition that I've seen in a handheld device. Mine is activated through Sprint in the US, but I imagine that it's available worldwide. This phone can dial names and numbers without any special training or setup, and can browse the web using voice commands. It can also "read" your email and instant messages back to you as synth. speech. The speech recognition is a feature of the phone hardware - not the sprint network, and it's really fast and reasonably accurate.
What part of "a well-regulated militia" is so hard to understand?
Actually in 18th century english, "well-regulated" meant something very different than today.
Regulated often meant adjusted, trained, or tuned.
A well-regulated watch kept good time.
A well-regulated harpsicord was in tune.
A well-regulated rifleman could hit the target.
(sorry 'bout the off-topic rant)
I recently replaced my 14 year old Honda Civic with a new Mazda 3, and now I find that the manufacturer WILL NOT give me enough information to do my own oil changes! The owners manual doesn't list the filter part number, doesn't show it's location, and states that "Since a special tool is required to remove the oif filter, this service should only be done at a Mazda certified service center"
The dealer wants $42 to change the oil, but will sell me the filter and required O-ring kit(still won't give me the part numbers) for low low price of... $22!!!
I've got to dind a trustworthy shop... I'll be dammed if I'm giving the dealer another cent!
>Filing Date March 11, 1999 >Current Filing Basis 1A >Original Filing Basis 1A >Published for Opposition November 30, 1999 >Registration Number 2370508 >Registration Date July 25, 2000
It's interesting that the two episodes from Firefly to be nominated are "The Message" and "Heart of Gold", both unbroadcast, and only seen in the DVD box set. IMHO, the strongest episode was the las one broadcast, "Objects in Space". I wonder if the nominating comittee disagreed, or if the broadcast eps. were otherwise ineligable for this years awards.
The man made a decision to cave in wrong-headed, over-reaching legal threats, and then found out how unpopular that decision made him.
The situation reminds me of the agreement made between Smith & Wesson and the Clinton HUD. See: http://www.thegunzone.com/rkba/jeff_snyder_on_sw.h tml
The S&W deal resulted in a boycott that nearly bankrupted the company, and did force a change of ownership and public "regret" of the decision. Many doubt the sincerity of anything the S&W management has to say, and will to this day work to force either a complete repudiation of the 2000 consent agreement or the destruction of the company.
There is no forgiveness when something dear to you is threatened, at least until the threat is eliminated.
Yeah, the distro came in a cardboard box with a handle on it. It looked like a suitcase and weighed at least 25lbs... And this was just for the diskettes!!!
Alot of the early usage cited in the article from Heinlein stories of the 1940s-50s, were actually first written about in the 1938-39 novel, "For Us, the Living". This book, published posthumously(sp?) just this year, contains references to slide-walks, space-ports, air-cars and several other technologies that showed up in his later writing.
You're correct in that walking away with a printed record of your vote is an invitation to abuse (vote selling, intimidation, etc...) What most people are suggesting is a printed record of your vote, that you can see - and then is kept by the election authorities as a record in case a re-count is needed.
I know it's not gonna happen, but it could be done easily with one channel... Put the original dialog on the SAP (second audio program) signal, and the subtitles into CC (closed captioning).
Been there, done that... Back in the mid '80s, I had to transport a software upgrade to a customer site on dec rl-02 disks. For you youngsters who've never seen one, these are 2 platter disk cartriges in a white plastic case, each about 16" in diameter x 4" tall. (carried in a padded equipment case). Because of the fragility of these disks, I of course had to carry them on the plane. At the security counter, I explained that it was magnetic media, so I'd prefer not X-raying it. The security guard asked me to open them up for a look... I obliged, until the uniformed clown started to stick his fingers into the platters. When I yelled "don't touch that!", they dropped back a step, and started pointing guns at me. Somehow the situation got defused without missing the flight, but in the current environment, I shudder to think of what would have happened.
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This is exactly what they do in the hospitals I've worked in. See also,
http://www.viziflex.com/
They make standard and custom keyboard skins that are quite cheap when bought in hospital quantities.
The "bug" was that they didn't turn off anonymous FTP, and the "hack" was:
Userid: anonymous
Password: Nazgul@ibm.com
When this thing appeared on the cover of the April 2003 issue of some car magazine... I was convinced that it was an April Fools stunt!
I just got a Samsung model 660 with the best voice recognition that I've seen in a handheld device. Mine is activated through Sprint in the US, but I imagine that it's available worldwide. This phone can dial names and numbers without any special training or setup, and can browse the web using voice commands. It can also "read" your email and instant messages back to you as synth. speech.
The speech recognition is a feature of the phone hardware - not the sprint network, and it's really fast and reasonably accurate.
Hope this helps,
ESR seems to have the best reference to it: Intercal, a language not for the squeemish.
Just one example to bring the point home...
Caldera was once "not evil"
Actually in 18th century english, "well-regulated" meant something very different than today.
Regulated often meant adjusted, trained, or tuned.
A well-regulated watch kept good time.
A well-regulated harpsicord was in tune.
A well-regulated rifleman could hit the target.
(sorry 'bout the off-topic rant)
Postel did more to create the underpinnings of the internet than Cerf, let alone the wankers who started "the WELL" and AOL(gack!)
oops...
s/dind/find
I recently replaced my 14 year old Honda Civic with a new Mazda 3, and now I find that the manufacturer WILL NOT give me enough information to do my own oil changes! The owners manual doesn't list the filter part number, doesn't show it's location, and states that "Since a special tool is required to remove the oif filter, this service should only be done at a Mazda certified service center"
The dealer wants $42 to change the oil, but will sell me the filter and required O-ring kit(still won't give me the part numbers) for low low price of... $22!!!
I've got to dind a trustworthy shop... I'll be dammed if I'm giving the dealer another cent!
>Filing Date March 11, 1999
>Current Filing Basis 1A
>Original Filing Basis 1A
>Published for Opposition November 30, 1999
>Registration Number 2370508
>Registration Date July 25, 2000
The original joke appeared in R.H.F on 04/27/99!
mumble mumble, DAMN FOX!, mumble mumble
It's interesting that the two episodes from Firefly to be nominated are "The Message" and "Heart of Gold", both unbroadcast, and only seen in the DVD box set. IMHO, the strongest episode was the las one broadcast, "Objects in Space". I wonder if the nominating comittee disagreed, or if the broadcast eps. were otherwise ineligable for this years awards.
-Matt
I'm surprised that the author used the term "paddywagon", which I understood to be an american term particularly offensive to an irishman.
The man made a decision to cave in wrong-headed, over-reaching legal threats, and then found out how unpopular that decision made him.
h tml
The situation reminds me of the agreement made between Smith & Wesson and the Clinton HUD.
See: http://www.thegunzone.com/rkba/jeff_snyder_on_sw.
The S&W deal resulted in a boycott that nearly bankrupted the company, and did force a change of ownership and public "regret" of the decision. Many doubt the sincerity of anything the S&W management has to say, and will to this day work to force either a complete repudiation of the 2000 consent agreement or the destruction of the company.
There is no forgiveness when something dear to you is threatened, at least until the threat is eliminated.
Yeah, the distro came in a cardboard box with a handle on it. It looked like a suitcase and weighed at least 25lbs... And this was just for the diskettes!!!
Alot of the early usage cited in the article from Heinlein stories of the 1940s-50s, were actually first written about in the 1938-39 novel, "For Us, the Living". This book, published posthumously(sp?) just this year, contains references to slide-walks, space-ports, air-cars and several other technologies that showed up in his later writing.
Didn't always work... F*x still cancelled "Space - Above and Beyond" after one season!
I wish I had mod points... and a towel to clean the diet coke off my keyboard!
You're correct in that walking away with a printed record of your vote is an invitation to abuse (vote selling, intimidation, etc...)
What most people are suggesting is a printed record of your vote, that you can see - and then is kept by the election authorities as a record in case a re-count is needed.
What I want is to be able to disable the damm tags on anything I've already purchased and taken home!
See story at: link
I know it's not gonna happen, but it could be done easily with one channel... Put the original dialog on the SAP (second audio program) signal, and the subtitles into CC (closed captioning).
Been there, done that... Back in the mid '80s, I had to transport a software upgrade to a customer site on dec rl-02 disks. For you youngsters who've never seen one, these are 2 platter disk cartriges in a white plastic case, each about 16" in diameter x 4" tall. (carried in a padded equipment case). Because of the fragility of these disks, I of course had to carry them on the plane. At the security counter, I explained that it was magnetic media, so I'd prefer not X-raying it. The security guard asked me to open them up for a look... I obliged, until the uniformed clown started to stick his fingers into the platters. When I yelled "don't touch that!", they dropped back a step, and started pointing guns at me. Somehow the situation got defused without missing the flight, but in the current environment, I shudder to think of what would have happened.
Try centrix international (http://www.centrix-intl.com)