A method and apparatus are provided for identifying a caller of a call from the caller to a recipient. A voice input is received from the caller, and characteristics of the voice input are applied to a plurality of acoustic models, which include a generic acoustic model and acoustic models of any previously identified callers, to obtain a plurality of respective acoustic scores. The caller is identified as one of the previously identified callers or as a new caller based on the plurality of acoustic scores. If the caller is identified as a new caller, a new acoustic model is generated for the new caller, which is specific to the new caller.
Hrm, sounds familiar for some reason. Oh, wait... there's a phone call. I'll just go and pick it up.
me: hello? caller: Hello, I'm Suzi Cheatem from Dewey, Cheatem, and Howe. I was wondering if you'd like to answer a few questions about your behaviour while using the Internet. I think hrm, this sounds like one of those annoying telemarketers me: Sorry, I'm not interested in speaking to telemarketers caller: It seems like you have identified me from a previously identified acoustic model. I'm afraid I'm going to have to tell Microsoft that you have stolen their idea. You can expect a bill from them within two weeks. <hangs up>
Gosh, those telemarketers get stranger every time they call me.
Given that they're suggesting that there's a high proportion of functional elements in this non-genic DNA, I'd be more willing to call it the Code Segment, and call the genes the Data Segment.
Seems to work on my computer under linux using the MPlayer plugin for Mozilla/Firefox. I guess there's other codecs behind that, but I do know that I'm don't have realplayer installed on this thing.
Your description reminds me of the greylisting and "could you please try sending that again in an hour or so" approach of Jef Poskanzer. Read more about his troubles here.
Oh, and remember: address@example.com is a better choice for email addresses used in examples, as it uses one of the reserved domains from RFC2606.
Good old movie... let's have a read through the script:
You need to know if a prospective husband can qualify for a mortgage or life insurance or can hold down a decent job. ...
Why should anybody invest all that money to train me, when there are a thousand other applicants with a far cleaner profile? Of course, it's illegal to discriminate - "genoism" it's called - but no one takes the laws seriously. ...
If you refuse to disclose, they can always take a sample from a doorhandle... or a handshake... even the saliva off your application form.
DCT is wavelike within blocks. That's a side effect of the 'cosine' bit of the transform. The artifacts I was referring to are a result of the fourier transform around large discontinuous jumps (as might be seen between high contrast areas) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibbs_effect). JPEG does have block-like artifacts (http://ai.fri.uni-lj.si/~aleks/jpeg/artifacts.htm ), but I usually only notice those in low-quality JPEGs (which this screenshot did not appear to be).
It's probably a good idea to use something other than GIF and JPEG for screenshots, particularly for comparison purposes. In the Ubuntu situation, the GIF picture is limited to 256 colours, which means that you end up getting dithering effects in the image. I'm somewhat surprised at Apple's use of JPEG there — JPEG typically uses lossy compression, which ends up with lots of really noticeable wave-type artifacts in screen shots, particularly around areas of high contrast. This might not be all that obvious at 100% for most eyes, but blow that image up 400%, and it's hard to miss.
Ubuntu has a root account (otherwise you wouldn't be able to change to it to run install and other commands via sudo), but the password is changed to something that can never be typed in, as per 'passwd -l' [lock].
-l, --lock
Lock the named account. This option disables an account by changing the password to a value which matches
no possible encrypted value.
The abstract for the first link (Acta Neurol Belg. 2006 Dec;106(4):191-207) suggests a heritability for IQ of between 30% and 80% -- heritability being the contribution that genetic factors have in the variation of a trait. If something has a high heritability (as in this case for the older twins), it supports a hypothesis that advantageous variations will be passed down to the next generation.
by teaching kids to exercise and be fit, you will potentially increase adult fitness.
Except the article mentioned that increasing the frequency of opportunity at school for activity had no significant effect on the total activity level of the child. What you'd probably need to do is look at the ones who were more active in school, and encourage their family to get more active outside the classroom — which is much harder to do at a social engineering level.
Vienna, in the local language, is spelt 'Wein'. If you pronounce that as an English speaker, you might say it in the same way you say 'Wine'. Wine, as a few people know, is an Open Source implementation of the Windows API on top of X and Unix. Perhaps Microsoft don't like the idea of such software, and want to produce a product that confuses users of Wine. Or maybe they'll do away with their development line completely, and Wine will become the next version of Windows.
Then Microsoft will be able to expand out the acronym to something like:
"Windows Emulator, it's not!" or "Windows Is Not an Emulator"!
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me: hello?
caller: Hello, I'm Suzi Cheatem from Dewey, Cheatem, and Howe. I was wondering if you'd like to answer a few questions about your behaviour while using the Internet.
I think hrm, this sounds like one of those annoying telemarketers
me: Sorry, I'm not interested in speaking to telemarketers
caller: It seems like you have identified me from a previously identified acoustic model. I'm afraid I'm going to have to tell Microsoft that you have stolen their idea. You can expect a bill from them within two weeks.
<hangs up>
Gosh, those telemarketers get stranger every time they call me.
Given that they're suggesting that there's a high proportion of functional elements in this non-genic DNA, I'd be more willing to call it the Code Segment, and call the genes the Data Segment.
Seems to work on my computer under linux using the MPlayer plugin for Mozilla/Firefox. I guess there's other codecs behind that, but I do know that I'm don't have realplayer installed on this thing.
For more Microsoft-owned software patents, try here:
m puter-implemented+method%22&btnG=Search+Patents
http://www.google.com/patents?q=microsoft+%22A+co
Except here at
Your description reminds me of the greylisting and "could you please try sending that again in an hour or so" approach of Jef Poskanzer. Read more about his troubles here.
Oh, and remember: address@example.com is a better choice for email addresses used in examples, as it uses one of the reserved domains from RFC2606.
The slashdot culture ;)
No, according to the title of the /. summary, we're dealing with reassembly of the *files* on those Shredded Secret Police.
Look out, the Shredded Secret Police were out to get you!
Or if you really wanted to stuff things up, take a small crowbar in with you, and casually remove the activation mechanism from the store.
you misspelt "pond"
DCT is wavelike within blocks. That's a side effect of the 'cosine' bit of the transform. The artifacts I was referring to are a result of the fourier transform around large discontinuous jumps (as might be seen between high contrast areas) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibbs_effect). JPEG does have block-like artifacts (http://ai.fri.uni-lj.si/~aleks/jpeg/artifacts.htm ), but I usually only notice those in low-quality JPEGs (which this screenshot did not appear to be).
It's probably a good idea to use something other than GIF and JPEG for screenshots, particularly for comparison purposes. In the Ubuntu situation, the GIF picture is limited to 256 colours, which means that you end up getting dithering effects in the image. I'm somewhat surprised at Apple's use of JPEG there — JPEG typically uses lossy compression, which ends up with lots of really noticeable wave-type artifacts in screen shots, particularly around areas of high contrast. This might not be all that obvious at 100% for most eyes, but blow that image up 400%, and it's hard to miss.
That link again:
= search&DB=pubmed&term=heritability%20intelligence
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?CMD
[I only now realised that pubmed doesn't seem to save search terms in the location bar]
Here's a few:
= search&DB=pubmed
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?CMD
The abstract for the first link (Acta Neurol Belg. 2006 Dec;106(4):191-207) suggests a heritability for IQ of between 30% and 80% -- heritability being the contribution that genetic factors have in the variation of a trait. If something has a high heritability (as in this case for the older twins), it supports a hypothesis that advantageous variations will be passed down to the next generation.
How can I not read the article if there's no article avaliable to not read?
Except the article mentioned that increasing the frequency of opportunity at school for activity had no significant effect on the total activity level of the child. What you'd probably need to do is look at the ones who were more active in school, and encourage their family to get more active outside the classroom — which is much harder to do at a social engineering level.
Ah, good to see someone else considers Populous to be an RTS. I've seen that game as being an early version of Dune II.
But if you're considering real time strategy as in a wargame requiring resources, played in real-time, what about Carrier Command?
My... I feel rather old now.
erm, sorry about that. 'ie' is what I meant. /me adds himself again to the list of /.ers who can't speel
Sure, I'm grasping at straws here, but...
Vienna, in the local language, is spelt 'Wein'. If you pronounce that as an English speaker, you might say it in the same way you say 'Wine'. Wine, as a few people know, is an Open Source implementation of the Windows API on top of X and Unix. Perhaps Microsoft don't like the idea of such software, and want to produce a product that confuses users of Wine. Or maybe they'll do away with their development line completely, and Wine will become the next version of Windows.
Then Microsoft will be able to expand out the acronym to something like:
"Windows Emulator, it's not!" or "Windows Is Not an Emulator"!
http://user.interface.org.nz.nyud.net:8080/~gring
I wasn't aware that gocr by default translated musical scores into text. I'd expect lots of random letters if it attempted to parse those scores.