In response to the interface consistency issued discussed above, it would seem fairly easy to create a user replacable dictionary of interface hints. This could not only help standardize things like keyboard shortcuts and menu item placement, but could also help make applications easier to internationalize (swap the english vocabulary for the swahili, sanskrit, or tagalog).
See the June '99 issue of Dr. Dobb's Journal article on concept oriented programming. I don't thing the guy's ideas are as general as he claims, but a dictionary of simple data items would be a really useful thing.
Anyone want to start a standard with me? Email if you!
Last summer we experimented with a couple of the voice recognition and speech synthesis engines available for Win32. In the end, we choose M$'s speak engine. It had a voice quality ten times better than ViaVoice. Dictation was comparable, but ViaVoice required more training. And the price was right.
Something the Linux platform is missing is a standard API to access this stuff. The ability to switch engines to a huge time-saver to our project.
First you say they don't innovate, then you give an example that no one else produces. And for other examples, look at their new Trackman Marble FX, which is not a thumb oriented trackball.
Personally, I don't can how egronomically bad other claim their trackman trackballs are, I would swear by them.
Probably for a while. Since the primary reason to go public is to raise capital, and as the article says, they have already pulled in 20 million. Not a huge amount, but a lot more than most privately held companies.
Reaction vs. Emotion. Who cares?
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Exactly what is the difference between an emotion and it equivalent reaction? If a programmed entity perfectly simulated every emotion all the time, on what basis could you claim the emotions aren't "real". For any argument you give against emotions in preprogrammed entities, I could give you an equivalent argument claiming your emotions aren't real on the basis that you only carry the algorthims of emotional reaction in your genes/neural net.
I'm definately buying the Linux box set just so my vote counted in marketing demographics of the world. However, do you really believe they will allow the Win32 exe's to be available for download??
A couple of months ago, Matt Drudge was the cover story of Brill's Content (magazine about journalism standards) and they named several stories that Drudge either got wrong or could never prove.
If you really care anout the quality of the hype you read, I strongly recommend Brill's Contnet:
Why doesn't anyone add a CD-ROM drive to any of these systems??? It could be used several ways:
* The obvious - play exisitng CDs. * Update the MP3 database with a CDR disc. (I like this option better than dragging the box to my computer to transfer via IR or serial. That has got to be really slow.) * And better yet, record normals CDs directly into the MP3 database.
Sure I want one, but it should be easy to use.
Has anyone actually had overheating problems on these?? The LA summers are brutal.
If you follow Gasse's comments on the weekly Be Developer letter, you'll find that Gasse isn't completely turned away from the open source market. He just wants the first version to be solid and have some momentum toward his visions of an OS.
I wouldn't be surprised if BeOS went the way of Mozilla (open source, but still own sourced) shortly after the first public release.
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In response to the interface consistency issued discussed above, it would seem fairly easy to create a user replacable dictionary of interface hints. This could not only help standardize things like keyboard shortcuts and menu item placement, but could also help make applications easier to internationalize (swap the english vocabulary for the swahili, sanskrit, or tagalog).
See the June '99 issue of Dr. Dobb's Journal article on concept oriented programming. I don't thing the guy's ideas are as general as he claims, but a dictionary of simple data items would be a really useful thing.
Anyone want to start a standard with me? Email if you!
Can we say "P-A-T-H-E-T-I-C"?
Last summer we experimented with a couple of the voice recognition and speech synthesis engines available for Win32. In the end, we choose M$'s speak engine. It had a voice quality ten times better than ViaVoice. Dictation was comparable, but ViaVoice required more training. And the price was right.
Something the Linux platform is missing is a standard API to access this stuff. The ability to switch engines to a huge time-saver to our project.
First you say they don't innovate, then you give an example that no one else produces. And for other examples, look at their new Trackman Marble FX, which is not a thumb oriented trackball.
Personally, I don't can how egronomically bad other claim their trackman trackballs are, I would swear by them.
Probably for a while. Since the primary reason to go public is to raise capital, and as the article says, they have already pulled in 20 million. Not a huge amount, but a lot more than most privately held companies.
Exactly what is the difference between an emotion and it equivalent reaction? If a programmed entity perfectly simulated every emotion all the time, on what basis could you claim the emotions aren't "real". For any argument you give against emotions in preprogrammed entities, I could give you an equivalent argument claiming your emotions aren't real on the basis that you only carry the algorthims of emotional reaction in your genes/neural net.
And without index spill I can't get the cool higlight mode.
PLEASE FIX THIS.
I'm definately buying the Linux box set just so my vote counted in marketing demographics of the world. However, do you really believe they will allow the Win32 exe's to be available for download??
And how does being a portal make slashdot commercial? It's not like CNNfn or JenniCam are paying Rob to have their box on his site.
A couple of months ago, Matt Drudge was the cover story of Brill's Content (magazine about journalism standards) and they named several stories that Drudge either got wrong or could never prove.
If you really care anout the quality of the hype you read, I strongly recommend Brill's Contnet:
http://www.brillscontent.com/
Can someone give me a "gzip -l" of the EVERYTHING file??
They should also put up an EVERYTHING_E_RPM version.
I'm thinkin' there has to be a way to add the cache to the converter card. It doesn't look like the card itself has much on it as is.
I know that would hike up the cost, but even a small amount it would be worth it for some applications.
Any thoughts/links?
Still, none of these put the MP3/CD player in a car stereo format.
Why the link to XXIMP?? Isn't that just a touch screen interface. I couldn't find anything about CDs on it.
Why doesn't anyone add a CD-ROM drive to any of these systems??? It could be used several ways:
* The obvious - play exisitng CDs.
* Update the MP3 database with a CDR disc. (I like this option better than dragging the box to my computer to transfer via IR or serial. That has got to be really slow.)
* And better yet, record normals CDs directly into the MP3 database.
Sure I want one, but it should be easy to use.
Has anyone actually had overheating problems on these?? The LA summers are brutal.
If you follow Gasse's comments on the weekly Be Developer letter, you'll find that Gasse isn't completely turned away from the open source market. He just wants the first version to be solid and have some momentum toward his visions of an OS.
I wouldn't be surprised if BeOS went the way of Mozilla (open source, but still own sourced) shortly after the first public release.