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Speech recognition is not a dead concept. You can read all about the C-Print system that is being developed at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID) (And RIT. Shameless plug, since I'm working there temporarily). The C-Print system uses both a typing and voice recognition system to create the captioning. The captioning is then displayed in realtime on a notebook computer screen or VGA monitor just below the line of view of a student. (There's also a webcam feed so the students can use that to watch both the captioning and the lecturer.)
Advantages of the system: Creates a transcript of the class. This is automatically saved and is avaliable for the student to review later. (Remember, deaf students can't exactly take notes while they're watching continuous action). Don't nessecairly have to pay for a notetaker and interpreter for those classes.
Disadvantages: Cam is pretty stationary, and is only really useful for lecture classes. Cost is a bit higher, in equipment and captionist fees.
Aside from Grubb, Coble remains unopposed for re-election this fall. A spokesman for the North Carolina Democratic Party said the party doesn't recruit candidates. Aspiring contenders have reason to balk: Redistricting in the area has removed many traditionally Democratic neighborhoods from Coble's 6th Congressional District.
Translation: The democrats ahve been gerrymandered out of the district.
Unfortunatley, according to the linked website, the book only covers up to version 5.7. That means you miss out on some useful features like code folding, some screen splitting, etc.
Nope. Not really. Think about it... a cell phone ringing... that disturbs most everyone who is in the theatre. An usher walking down the aisle to a person, who would then be almost expecting a phone call,is told "your phone is ringing sir", gets up and both walk out. It's hardly any more disruptive than a person getting up to go to the bathroom. Ushers will re-arrange seating in an aisle before the show so that these people are at the ends of the row.
Why don't we just start a new class in school, Living within the law.
Because, in general, the current law doesn't allow Americans to exercise their second amendment rights when dealing with stupid people. Remove this restriction, and quite possibly the number of people acting stupidly will decrease.
As I've said, most professional theaters (especially in NYC) will allow (and encourage) patrons to leave cell phones/pagers with the house manager during the performance, along with their seat location. If the phone rings or the pager goes off, the person is retrieved.
Sometimes, ushers will have people trade seats in a row so the person is along the aisle.
"What about vibrate mode?", it doesn't work very well well you're female and the phone is in your purse. Put it in your hand. Stuff it in your bra, or stick it in your pants. Tape it to your arm. You'll feel it. If it's important enough that you have to know it's there, then you have to live with that. I shouldn't have to.
A handy reminder was in one of my cell phone bills earlier this year:
"Use of a hand-held cellular telephone to engage in a call while driving is prohibited in New York State, pursuant to Vehicle and Traffic Law Section 1225c"
Of course, this doesn't ban hands-free kits, which took me forever and a day to get one of in New York thanks to my phone manufacturer not being fully ready for it.
My best memory came last summer when me and my (former) cow orkers were on our way to lunch. As we were driving down I-590 near Rochester, I saw a blue mini-van coming up on our right side with a crumpled up front right corner. I looked up to the driver, seeing her forearm in a cast, with her hand jamming a cell phone up to her ear.
Most professional theatres will allow (and encourage) audience members to leave their cell phone/pager at the box office with their seat number. In case it goes off, the house manager (and staff) can fetch you if it goes off.
When I've shelled out $150 for a weekend in Toronto to see The Phantom of the Opera, I shouldn't have to (along with 3 other audience members) turn around and give a woman the "stare of death" to shut up and hang up her phone during the start of the second act.
Perhaps if we were allowed to exercise out second amendment rights for stupid people like this, we could socially (or in a Darwin-esque form) get rid of this form of stupidity. Until then, we're stuck with laws that prevent us from beating the crap out of people who are just plain fscking rude.
Not that simple. On the 12 digit barcode, as far as UPC's are concerned, you only have 10 usable digits, and even then, for reatil applications, there are strict allocation guidlines.
Digit 1: Code, UCC Prefix. Digits 2-6: Company Number Digits 7-11: Item Reference Digit 12: Check
Thus, you only have 10 useable digits for identifying products, and only 100,000 different companies to dole out 100,000 UPC's, (multiply by 3 because the first digit is 0, 6, or 7 for standard products.) That's 3.0 * 10^10 combinations. However, like IP addresses, these are handed out in inefficient methods, because they go in blocks of 100,000. Which means you need to pay somebody some money to get ahold of one.
This is a common problem for aspiring independent artists who want to get their music out. They get to make a choice... do I pay someone for a UPC, or do I go without? Stores generally won't accept a CD for sale w/o a UPC code on it. (Barring local merchants who may be willing to stock the item and either just put a price tag on it, or use one of their own UPC's. (UPC's beginning with 4 are reserved for such "internal applications". If your grocery store has a bulk foods department, and prints out UPC codes from a scale, the code will probably begin with 4.)
And the UCC is the body responsible for handing out the company codes.
I've just graduated from college and have moved out into an apartment. I really want to take the time to cook good food, but I don't have all the equipment. I'm also nearly broke paying back my college loans. I've put away $300 to start building my dream kitchen. What do you recommend I purchase so that I can make some good eats? I already have the stove and microwave. What else?
My dad: "When I married your mom, there were only two things I didn't like about her. One, she couldn't dress. Two, she couldn't cook. She took a few classes and now dresses to kill, and cooks the same way."
And even then, the decision not to release on vinyl came from the record companies terminating their buyback policy on unsold records. Businesses wouldn't take a chance that a record would go unsold, so they just stopped carrying records.
Yeah... if you go to a Buffalo Sabres hockey game and they're playing the New York Islanders, it's practically an away game for the Sabres. Of course, the same thing can be said for a game against Toronto, but at least Toronto riles the Buffalonians up enough to cheer extra loud for their team.
ABCNews.com carried a story on so called "Green roof" buildings. Putting plants, soil, and other natural things on top of buildings made the buildings cooler, and consequently, the area around the buildings cooler as well. Sounds like a pretty neat solution to me.
Of course, dropping things off the roof can be fun too, but won't cool the building off. Who knew that a frozen banana hitting pavement would splatter into tiny bits. *sigh* if only we had access to liquid nitrogen.
ctually, I would even:%s/Williamsville/East Amherst/... Williamsvilel is where all the middle class retirees are. The "nouveau riche" are in East Amherst, and now moving out to Clarence, and Lancaster to go create more suburban sprawl.
"How many UB students does it take to change a light bulb? 25,000. 20 to write a grant to get money to study the effects of earthquakes on light bulbs, 1 to change the light bulb, and 24,979 more to complain about how much the light bulbs suck compared to those back home on Long Island"
Amherst is where the rich people live You're thinking East Amherst (West Egg, Nouveau Riche). West Amherst isn't all that rich.
The nice thing about Buffalo is that the temperature has never been recorded at 100 degrees or higher.
On the other hand, it's not the heat, it's the humidity that will kill you.
All things considered in Buffalo, you don't get hurricanes, you don't get mudslides, you don't get forest fires, you don't have all these things to worry about. You just have to worry about snowfall and the impossible Canadian invasion force;-)
It would have been nice to note that the song internet porn that Roblimo mentioned was by a group called Da Vinci's Notebook, a really cool male "a cappella" quartet out of Virginia/Washington DC. (Not truly a cappella, as they occasionally use insturments.) Very cool, and I was lucky enough to be told by a bunch of my music pals that they were a kickass group and that I needed to see them in concert.
which version of W3C are you using? Unfortunatley, by default, Dreamweaver doesn't add the DOCTYPE header to your HTML by default, so that's a strike against WC3 complinace... but other than that, the only things I did w/ dreamweaver taht didn't meet the HTML 4.01 spec was 1. Not defining alt tags for my images (I should do this, even if it's just a blank for spacers, and it used "absmiddle" for an image alignment instead of "middle" (absmiddle is not HTML 4.01-Transitional compliant.)
Other than that though, I haven't had any problem with Dreamweaver code.
Well, you know the HTML specs, when a browser sees a tag it doesn't recognize, it *should* just ignore them. Obviously, your browser doesn't recognize the tag yet;-)
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Speech recognition is not a dead concept. You can read all about the C-Print system that is being developed at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID) (And RIT. Shameless plug, since I'm working there temporarily). The C-Print system uses both a typing and voice recognition system to create the captioning. The captioning is then displayed in realtime on a notebook computer screen or VGA monitor just below the line of view of a student. (There's also a webcam feed so the students can use that to watch both the captioning and the lecturer.)
Advantages of the system: Creates a transcript of the class. This is automatically saved and is avaliable for the student to review later. (Remember, deaf students can't exactly take notes while they're watching continuous action). Don't nessecairly have to pay for a notetaker and interpreter for those classes.
Disadvantages: Cam is pretty stationary, and is only really useful for lecture classes. Cost is a bit higher, in equipment and captionist fees.
RTFA. There is none.
Aside from Grubb, Coble remains unopposed for re-election this fall. A spokesman for the North Carolina Democratic Party said the party doesn't recruit candidates. Aspiring contenders have reason to balk: Redistricting in the area has removed many traditionally Democratic neighborhoods from Coble's 6th Congressional District.
Translation: The democrats ahve been gerrymandered out of the district.
Unfortunatley, according to the linked website, the book only covers up to version 5.7. That means you miss out on some useful features like code folding, some screen splitting, etc.
Nope. Not really. Think about it... a cell phone ringing... that disturbs most everyone who is in the theatre. An usher walking down the aisle to a person, who would then be almost expecting a phone call,is told "your phone is ringing sir", gets up and both walk out. It's hardly any more disruptive than a person getting up to go to the bathroom. Ushers will re-arrange seating in an aisle before the show so that these people are at the ends of the row.
Why don't we just start a new class in school, Living within the law.
Because, in general, the current law doesn't allow Americans to exercise their second amendment rights when dealing with stupid people. Remove this restriction, and quite possibly the number of people acting stupidly will decrease.
As I've said, most professional theaters (especially in NYC) will allow (and encourage) patrons to leave cell phones/pagers with the house manager during the performance, along with their seat location. If the phone rings or the pager goes off, the person is retrieved.
Sometimes, ushers will have people trade seats in a row so the person is along the aisle.
"What about vibrate mode?", it doesn't work very well well you're female and the phone is in your purse. Put it in your hand. Stuff it in your bra, or stick it in your pants. Tape it to your arm. You'll feel it. If it's important enough that you have to know it's there, then you have to live with that. I shouldn't have to.
A handy reminder was in one of my cell phone bills earlier this year:
"Use of a hand-held cellular telephone to engage in a call while driving is prohibited in New York State, pursuant to Vehicle and Traffic Law Section 1225c"
Of course, this doesn't ban hands-free kits, which took me forever and a day to get one of in New York thanks to my phone manufacturer not being fully ready for it.
My best memory came last summer when me and my (former) cow orkers were on our way to lunch. As we were driving down I-590 near Rochester, I saw a blue mini-van coming up on our right side with a crumpled up front right corner. I looked up to the driver, seeing her forearm in a cast, with her hand jamming a cell phone up to her ear.
I wondered how many of those were related.
what about people who are oncall?
That's what VIBRATE is for.
Most professional theatres will allow (and encourage) audience members to leave their cell phone/pager at the box office with their seat number. In case it goes off, the house manager (and staff) can fetch you if it goes off.
When I've shelled out $150 for a weekend in Toronto to see The Phantom of the Opera, I shouldn't have to (along with 3 other audience members) turn around and give a woman the "stare of death" to shut up and hang up her phone during the start of the second act.
Perhaps if we were allowed to exercise out second amendment rights for stupid people like this, we could socially (or in a Darwin-esque form) get rid of this form of stupidity. Until then, we're stuck with laws that prevent us from beating the crap out of people who are just plain fscking rude.
Not that simple. On the 12 digit barcode, as far as UPC's are concerned, you only have 10 usable digits, and even then, for reatil applications, there are strict allocation guidlines.
UCC Reference
Digit 1: Code, UCC Prefix.
Digits 2-6: Company Number
Digits 7-11: Item Reference
Digit 12: Check
Thus, you only have 10 useable digits for identifying products, and only 100,000 different companies to dole out 100,000 UPC's, (multiply by 3 because the first digit is 0, 6, or 7 for standard products.) That's 3.0 * 10^10 combinations. However, like IP addresses, these are handed out in inefficient methods, because they go in blocks of 100,000. Which means you need to pay somebody some money to get ahold of one.
This is a common problem for aspiring independent artists who want to get their music out. They get to make a choice... do I pay someone for a UPC, or do I go without? Stores generally won't accept a CD for sale w/o a UPC code on it. (Barring local merchants who may be willing to stock the item and either just put a price tag on it, or use one of their own UPC's. (UPC's beginning with 4 are reserved for such "internal applications". If your grocery store has a bulk foods department, and prints out UPC codes from a scale, the code will probably begin with 4.)
And the UCC is the body responsible for handing out the company codes.
Does this mean that I'm going to have to get the barcode that's tatooed onto the back of my neck redone?
Hey, if she comes with pots, pans, and a full kitchens worth of utensils, for $300, sounds like a bargain to me.
This question is probably better worded as:
I've just graduated from college and have moved out into an apartment. I really want to take the time to cook good food, but I don't have all the equipment. I'm also nearly broke paying back my college loans. I've put away $300 to start building my dream kitchen. What do you recommend I purchase so that I can make some good eats? I already have the stove and microwave. What else?
My dad: "When I married your mom, there were only two things I didn't like about her. One, she couldn't dress. Two, she couldn't cook. She took a few classes and now dresses to kill, and cooks the same way."
Jeb Bush as president in 2012...
"Read my lips... no new tuners! Not gunna do it..."
</sarcasm>
And even then, the decision not to release on vinyl came from the record companies terminating their buyback policy on unsold records. Businesses wouldn't take a chance that a record would go unsold, so they just stopped carrying records.
Hi, my name is Paul, and I can cook. At least I think I can cook.
;-)
Never heard any complaints.
Maybe that's because the only people who didn't like my cooking are now dead.
Yeah... if you go to a Buffalo Sabres hockey game and they're playing the New York Islanders, it's practically an away game for the Sabres. Of course, the same thing can be said for a game against Toronto, but at least Toronto riles the Buffalonians up enough to cheer extra loud for their team.
ABCNews.com carried a story on so called "Green roof" buildings. Putting plants, soil, and other natural things on top of buildings made the buildings cooler, and consequently, the area around the buildings cooler as well. Sounds like a pretty neat solution to me.
Of course, dropping things off the roof can be fun too, but won't cool the building off. Who knew that a frozen banana hitting pavement would splatter into tiny bits. *sigh* if only we had access to liquid nitrogen.
ctually, I would even :%s/Williamsville/East Amherst/... Williamsvilel is where all the middle class retirees are. The "nouveau riche" are in East Amherst, and now moving out to Clarence, and Lancaster to go create more suburban sprawl.
"How many UB students does it take to change a light bulb? 25,000. 20 to write a grant to get money to study the effects of earthquakes on light bulbs, 1 to change the light bulb, and 24,979 more to complain about how much the light bulbs suck compared to those back home on Long Island"
Amherst is where the rich people live
;-)
You're thinking East Amherst (West Egg, Nouveau Riche). West Amherst isn't all that rich.
The nice thing about Buffalo is that the temperature has never been recorded at 100 degrees or higher.
On the other hand, it's not the heat, it's the humidity that will kill you.
All things considered in Buffalo, you don't get hurricanes, you don't get mudslides, you don't get forest fires, you don't have all these things to worry about. You just have to worry about snowfall and the impossible Canadian invasion force
OTOH, wasn't JPEG a format spawned by the Joint Pictures Expert Group, and supposed to be an open format?
So was SDRAM. We all see where that got us.
Never mind. I stand corrected. Next time, I RT-whole-FA.
It would have been nice to note that the song internet porn that Roblimo mentioned was by a group called Da Vinci's Notebook, a really cool male "a cappella" quartet out of Virginia/Washington DC. (Not truly a cappella, as they occasionally use insturments.) Very cool, and I was lucky enough to be told by a bunch of my music pals that they were a kickass group and that I needed to see them in concert.
which version of W3C are you using? Unfortunatley, by default, Dreamweaver doesn't add the DOCTYPE header to your HTML by default, so that's a strike against WC3 complinace... but other than that, the only things I did w/ dreamweaver taht didn't meet the HTML 4.01 spec was 1. Not defining alt tags for my images (I should do this, even if it's just a blank for spacers, and it used "absmiddle" for an image alignment instead of "middle" (absmiddle is not HTML 4.01-Transitional compliant.)
Other than that though, I haven't had any problem with Dreamweaver code.
Well, you know the HTML specs, when a browser sees a tag it doesn't recognize, it *should* just ignore them. Obviously, your browser doesn't recognize the tag yet ;-)