Exactly! This is not a newsworthy item. At best it's a blip saying it's happened as expected. Poor headline, poor choice to run this as front page news.
I wish you luck in your quest as I'm also working on genealogy and would like to be able to do this as well. I'd be interested in hearing if you find something that works acceptably well for this purpose. In my experience (IBM Via Voice from OS/2 v.3 days to Dragon Naturally Speaking 10) the state of the art just isn't ready for general use. Even after training, I always got enough errors to discourage use. And I type relatively quickly, so it was just more effective for me to do it manually.
I've always wondered why the market suddenly switched to glossy screens. I know the argument about more vibrant images, but the glare factor more than nullifies this for me.
I find it hard to believe that a computer with these specs is impossible to hack and install Linux to, but Google searches have been largely unsuccessful in finding proper information.
See, he said he searched Google. So instead of falsely accusing him of not looking, why not ridicule his total lack of Google-fu instead?
Nice, if you do have such a friend. And I do similar with my friends when they ask about computer issues. I'm always willing to answer a few questions for a friend. If they want me to repair it, well then we can talk compensation if desired.
My VW was fuel injected and had hydraulic valve lifters. It wasn't sophisticated compared to a modern vehicle, but it was still a computer in the sense that you couldn't just go in and bypass it or alter the settings in it.
Why don't you get rid of your current car and buy a vehicle which is old enough to be (mostly) free of microelectronics?
Easier said than done, sir. Even my '79 aircooled VW bus had a computer in it. Cars that old were much more prone to rust than current ones. The government was recently paying cash for those clunkers. They're getting rare. Not impossible, but not as easy as you make it sound to buy an old car in any kind of good shape. And not cheap if you find one in seriously good condition.
If you go somewhere in which the guy up front tells you that, you demand that they put your car back together, take it off the rack, and go somewhere else. You didn't take your car to a shop, you took it to a lie.
You're right on this. However, it's near impossible to tell up front whether the place you've taken your car is a shop or a lie, since most of them look basically the same, and you only find out after your car is in pieces up on the rack which one this particular establishment is. Which is where the cynicism of the poster comes in - so many 'shops' are 'lies' that the average consumer is just assuming until proved otherwise that ALL shops are lies.
Yeah, it still is. People have been working on, and repairing, their own safety critical equipment as long as there have been cars. Brakes are definitely safety-critical. I have done mine more than once over the years as a simple example. Just because it's safety-critical doesn't mean people can't learn how to DIY repairs, as long as the information is available. All this ODBII secrecy is just for the auto industry to extort money from the auto owners.
Translation of GP: You're not smart enough to bother looking at this, it's way too complicated. And besides, I make my living working on this stuff, I wouldn't want to lose any income because you learned how to fix your own stuff!
it seems like a giant ego bonfire, it seems like a massive waste of time to tweak minor pointless trivia about your social life. just the very thought of it fills me with tedium and exhaustion. it seems to reinforce the worst aspects of people's personalities: their vanity, their shallowness, and their mediocrity. i mean who really fucking cares, including yourself, about this running narrative about the pointless banalities of your life?
yada yada yada...
If you're so bothered by it, why are you wasting so much time ranting about it here? Simply ignore and move on... Oh, I see, it is we, the ones with the giant egos that need to listen to YOUR viewpoint. Hypocrite.
I'll grant you a lot of the crap on social networking sites is indeed ego fanning, but I'll also counter with the fact that it makes keeping in touch with distant family and friends almost trivially easy, which can strengthen relationship bonds, and that's generally a good thing.
This might work pretty well for a small, relatively tight group like students at a particular university. I bet it gets worse as we get out into the real world and develop friends with wider interests from different backgrounds.
I used the Minnesota Education Computing Consortium timeshare system you speak of (the fax-like terminals). It had a 300-baud acoustic coupled modem and a large typewriter interfaced as a printer/input device. I remember accessing chat rooms even back then (I graduated in 1984, so this would have been 1982-4). That system was kinda clunky, even then. The computers we used in class were all Apple II+ at that point. (Yes, the MECC is the same one that produced Oregon Trail...)
I did not say anything about the Red Spot. Galileo did discover the large jovian moons with just his small scope, as well as Saturn's rings, even though he couldn't see what they were clearly.
Yeah, I knew. I wasn't using a scope, though, just Mark I Eyeball. To be fair, I was only about 10 years old, but mitigating that, I was a young astronomy buff and knew full well I shouldn't be looking without a filter.
Wait a minute. Why would you recommend against Jupiter and Saturn? Didn't Galileo start with less than a 4" scope? Look where that lead us! Sure, we're spoiled by the Hubble images we see all the time, but it's good to know where it all started.
You may laugh, but as a youth, I ignored the warnings and watched a solar eclipse without protection. To this day I have a small area in my visual field that is permanently damaged. That was about 32 years ago.
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Exactly! This is not a newsworthy item. At best it's a blip saying it's happened as expected. Poor headline, poor choice to run this as front page news.
I think you're right. Which also explains why new TV's are cranked on the colors and brightness.
I'm sure the resulting high-quality audio signal will help Google Voice do an even better job than usual...
I wish you luck in your quest as I'm also working on genealogy and would like to be able to do this as well. I'd be interested in hearing if you find something that works acceptably well for this purpose. In my experience (IBM Via Voice from OS/2 v.3 days to Dragon Naturally Speaking 10) the state of the art just isn't ready for general use. Even after training, I always got enough errors to discourage use. And I type relatively quickly, so it was just more effective for me to do it manually.
I've always wondered why the market suddenly switched to glossy screens. I know the argument about more vibrant images, but the glare factor more than nullifies this for me.
I remember one that went by that name, yes. And yes, I'm old.
I find it hard to believe that a computer with these specs is impossible to hack and install Linux to, but Google searches have been largely unsuccessful in finding proper information.
See, he said he searched Google. So instead of falsely accusing him of not looking, why not ridicule his total lack of Google-fu instead?
Nice, if you do have such a friend. And I do similar with my friends when they ask about computer issues. I'm always willing to answer a few questions for a friend. If they want me to repair it, well then we can talk compensation if desired.
My VW was fuel injected and had hydraulic valve lifters. It wasn't sophisticated compared to a modern vehicle, but it was still a computer in the sense that you couldn't just go in and bypass it or alter the settings in it.
Why don't you get rid of your current car and buy a vehicle which is old enough to be (mostly) free of microelectronics?
Easier said than done, sir. Even my '79 aircooled VW bus had a computer in it. Cars that old were much more prone to rust than current ones. The government was recently paying cash for those clunkers. They're getting rare. Not impossible, but not as easy as you make it sound to buy an old car in any kind of good shape. And not cheap if you find one in seriously good condition.
If you go somewhere in which the guy up front tells you that, you demand that they put your car back together, take it off the rack, and go somewhere else. You didn't take your car to a shop, you took it to a lie.
You're right on this. However, it's near impossible to tell up front whether the place you've taken your car is a shop or a lie, since most of them look basically the same, and you only find out after your car is in pieces up on the rack which one this particular establishment is. Which is where the cynicism of the poster comes in - so many 'shops' are 'lies' that the average consumer is just assuming until proved otherwise that ALL shops are lies.
Yeah, it still is. People have been working on, and repairing, their own safety critical equipment as long as there have been cars. Brakes are definitely safety-critical. I have done mine more than once over the years as a simple example. Just because it's safety-critical doesn't mean people can't learn how to DIY repairs, as long as the information is available. All this ODBII secrecy is just for the auto industry to extort money from the auto owners.
Translation of GP: You're not smart enough to bother looking at this, it's way too complicated. And besides, I make my living working on this stuff, I wouldn't want to lose any income because you learned how to fix your own stuff!
When you say "Just click here" it's customary to include a link to click on.
it seems like a giant ego bonfire, it seems like a massive waste of time to tweak minor pointless trivia about your social life. just the very thought of it fills me with tedium and exhaustion. it seems to reinforce the worst aspects of people's personalities: their vanity, their shallowness, and their mediocrity. i mean who really fucking cares, including yourself, about this running narrative about the pointless banalities of your life?
yada yada yada...
If you're so bothered by it, why are you wasting so much time ranting about it here? Simply ignore and move on... Oh, I see, it is we, the ones with the giant egos that need to listen to YOUR viewpoint. Hypocrite.
I'll grant you a lot of the crap on social networking sites is indeed ego fanning, but I'll also counter with the fact that it makes keeping in touch with distant family and friends almost trivially easy, which can strengthen relationship bonds, and that's generally a good thing.
This might work pretty well for a small, relatively tight group like students at a particular university. I bet it gets worse as we get out into the real world and develop friends with wider interests from different backgrounds.
My experience was similar. I was initially shown how to use it by a counselor, then turned loose.
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You, sir, are a crashing bore. Keep your lack of amusement to yourself, please, others may be enjoying the thread.
I used the Minnesota Education Computing Consortium timeshare system you speak of (the fax-like terminals). It had a 300-baud acoustic coupled modem and a large typewriter interfaced as a printer/input device. I remember accessing chat rooms even back then (I graduated in 1984, so this would have been 1982-4). That system was kinda clunky, even then. The computers we used in class were all Apple II+ at that point. (Yes, the MECC is the same one that produced Oregon Trail...)
What kind of useful detail can you see with a Mark I eyeball in .25 second? Your comment is silly and useless, even if technically correct.
I did not say anything about the Red Spot. Galileo did discover the large jovian moons with just his small scope, as well as Saturn's rings, even though he couldn't see what they were clearly.
Yeah, I knew. I wasn't using a scope, though, just Mark I Eyeball. To be fair, I was only about 10 years old, but mitigating that, I was a young astronomy buff and knew full well I shouldn't be looking without a filter.
Wait a minute. Why would you recommend against Jupiter and Saturn? Didn't Galileo start with less than a 4" scope? Look where that lead us! Sure, we're spoiled by the Hubble images we see all the time, but it's good to know where it all started.
You may laugh, but as a youth, I ignored the warnings and watched a solar eclipse without protection. To this day I have a small area in my visual field that is permanently damaged. That was about 32 years ago.