You siad it your self...."requires usually lots of 'training' sessions with the software just to have it recognize your voice...". Now i'm sure you have met people with akk kinds of acceents, some are easily understood others should not even bother making the (noble) attempt at english (or any language). Is it really possible to pull this off. I love to read about breakthroughs like this. But for once I want to go to a trade show or something like that & see it.
You're kidding right? Let me guess, he is evil for "Stealing" money from AOL. I'm not condoning stealing money from HUGE conglomerates. BUT... I won't be shedding a tear for AOL, or shaking my fist at "evil" programmers. Everything won't be free on net. I can accept that. But slapping an AD on everything that is free & having some bean counter justify it by saying there is a huge overhead for running his service is bogus. You can't possibly think a corporation of their size doesn't consider the cost of running a service before making it free. What changed in the last few years that would make the price of maintain the AIM service rise to the point where you now need to charge or run an AD. Did we loose a shipment of code; is OPEC also holding back bandwidth? What is it? Just my opinion.
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You siad it your self. ..."requires usually lots of 'training' sessions with the software just to have it recognize your voice...". Now i'm sure you have met people with akk kinds of acceents, some are easily understood others should not even bother making the (noble) attempt at english (or any language). Is it really possible to pull this off. I love to read about breakthroughs like this. But for once I want to go to a trade show or something like that & see it.
You're kidding right? Let me guess, he is evil for "Stealing" money from AOL. I'm not condoning stealing money from HUGE conglomerates. BUT... I won't be shedding a tear for AOL, or shaking my fist at "evil" programmers. Everything won't be free on net. I can accept that. But slapping an AD on everything that is free & having some bean counter justify it by saying there is a huge overhead for running his service is bogus. You can't possibly think a corporation of their size doesn't consider the cost of running a service before making it free. What changed in the last few years that would make the price of maintain the AIM service rise to the point where you now need to charge or run an AD. Did we loose a shipment of code; is OPEC also holding back bandwidth? What is it? Just my opinion.