My grandfather knew Alice and Ray. Before they moved into the church, they lived in New York, where Ray was working as a draftsman for my grandfather in his architectural firm.
Unfortunately, still no NTLM over imap or nntp (aka SPA or "Secure Password Authentication).
Certain services require it (MSN, of course, and Univ. of Phoenix online courses), and the only clients that work are Outlook and OE. It'd be nice if mozilla mail and news could handle this.
I, personally, have a hard time not considering anything that uses either System V or BSD to be Unix. These have been the pillars of this OS, and when not used have been the models for other operating systems. I would not consider POSIX to be a good way to judge a system as being Unix because Windows NT 4.0 was POSIX compliant and it is not Unix.
I'm pretty sure Windows uses a good chunk of BSD code as well. UNIX, it ain't, though.
I've been using MD for several years now. Fantastic program. If you're still reading posts here, Sean, could you tell us if there's a new url for the moneydance-info archives and subscription page?
There's lots of companies out there not interested in making art. They just want to be able to get their customers through their phone call centers without falling back on "press one for... press two for..."
There's actually a section of the article discussing this. The IBM engineer was talking about what he considers the "holy grail" of TTS, and his opinion was that it is _not_ perfect reproduction of human inflections.
I think Sun might want to take a look at incorporating aspects into java 3. AspectJ does okay as a preprocessor, but if it were a feature of the language, you could write aspects that affect library code as well.
I've read the arguments against checked exceptions, but I must say that I find them very useful at development time. I like the fact that the compiler makes sure I'm not leaving any edge conditions unhandled.
Now, if it were just a flag passed to the compiler to enable this checking, I could live with that.
The calls come in the gateway, and get handled by the interpreter, which runs on standard PC hardware. You can configure the interpreter to run different VoiceXML apps based on the caller ID info. You can specify any kind of voicemail app you want in VoiceXML, complete with touch tone and speech recognition.
While you're at it, you can write other vxml apps accessible only to certain people, verified with biometric voiceprint authentication. Here's a scenario: You forgot your housekey. Your electronic garage door opener, however, is hooked up to an X-10 device.
Computer: Hello, would you like to leave a message? You: This is Joe Shmoe. Computer: Voiceprint identified. How can I help you? You: Open the garage.
BTW, the Nuance interpreter comes free with a 2 port license (handles 2 calls simultaneously). Any more than that, and they start charging. The software includes the speech recognition, voiceprint authentication, and voicexml interpreter.
Is that to say if an ISP wanted to subscribe to, say, 10 newsgroups (comp.os.linux.* for example), and some nutter from a different ISP posted child porn in comp.os.linux.misc, the ISP could be held responsible?
It always surprised me that usenet hasn't really been hit by the censorship folks yet. I mean, there's some pretty illegal stuff going on there, and it's a lot easier at the ISP level to filter than individual websites.
The trap of the ISP being considered a publisher (and therefore resonsible for all online content) doesn't apply, because the ISP must specifically choose to carry every newsgroup in their feed. The groups in their feed are an arbitrary selection on their part no matter which way you slice it. I'm pretty surprised that more ISPs don't at least do occasional checks to see which high-traffic newsgroups in their feed are obvious child porn groups, and stop carrying them.
You'd think they'd do it just to cover their own ass, and to try to avoid legislation on the more gray-area newsgroups (mp3s, etc)
Wow. Um, no. The deveopers I've worked with coming out of the Indian technical schools by and large have a good, broad-based education in software development.
I guess it's just like any other school. You've got good students, and you've got mediocre students. Looks like the company you work for hires the mediocre ones.
3.5 was the first fully-java implementation. I used it, but some of my co-workers stuck with 3.0, because 3.5 was extremely slow, introduced some bugs, and prone to crash.
Wow, that timeline gives some nice perspective. I had a false preconception that the announcement of the gopher system should predate the announcement of the WWW system by several years.
I missed all that history playing with QWK mail packets on FidoNet:-)
I've been playing with the telephony hardware out there. Dialogic and NMS are pretty cool, but make no mistake. The future for hardware in this business is SIP. Internet telephony, either routed through the net, or even over POTS.
The likes of Cisco are making SIP gateways with huge port counts, allowing companies large and small to cut the cost of their telephony solutions by orders of magnitude.
And, even cooler for the Slashdot crowd, there are companies ramping up production on little analog SIP gateways. Get this: you plug your home phone line into the box, you plug an ethernet line in the other end. Now you can use this box to route incoming calls to VoiceXML apps hosted anywhere on the net, or just forward the calls to any SIP phone (say, the softphone application on your desktop at work) or route it through yet another analog line plugged into your little box. A fun toy, if you're into playing around with telephony in the home. And I think some of these will come in well under $1000, even in the initial pricing.
You're missing the point of VoiceXML. It's not about making talking web pages that you surf on your computer. It's about human-computer interaction over voice networks (like, say, a telephone). It's a step up from "Press one for foo; press two for bar".
And the w3c didn't *create* this standard. The working group started off as the VoiceXML Forum, including Lucent, Motorola, IBM and AT&T, who were interested in standardizing the API used to create voice site deployments (which was already at that time big business).
Not only will XML provide for smaller file sizes, it also opens the door to interactivity
I don't get it. How exactly does XML provide for smaller file sizes? I would think that a verbosely specified tag system is less space-efficient than a binary format.
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My grandfather knew Alice and Ray. Before they moved into the church, they lived in New York, where Ray was working as a draftsman for my grandfather in his architectural firm.
He _almost_ bought Alice, BTW.
For a really close-up view of what effect that has on actual prisoners, check out this article.
Pretty scary stuff...
Unfortunately, still no NTLM over imap or nntp (aka SPA or "Secure Password Authentication).
Certain services require it (MSN, of course, and Univ. of Phoenix online courses), and the only clients that work are Outlook and OE. It'd be nice if mozilla mail and news could handle this.
I, personally, have a hard time not considering anything that uses either System V or BSD to be Unix. These have been the pillars of this OS, and when not used have been the models for other operating systems. I would not consider POSIX to be a good way to judge a system as being Unix because Windows NT 4.0 was POSIX compliant and it is not Unix.
I'm pretty sure Windows uses a good chunk of BSD code as well. UNIX, it ain't, though.
Does this mean it has SPA in the email client as well?
I've been using MD for several years now. Fantastic program. If you're still reading posts here, Sean, could you tell us if there's a new url for the moneydance-info archives and subscription page?
Thanks,
Rich
There's lots of companies out there not interested in making art. They just want to be able to get their customers through their phone call centers without falling back on "press one for... press two for..."
There's actually a section of the article discussing this. The IBM engineer was talking about what he considers the "holy grail" of TTS, and his opinion was that it is _not_ perfect reproduction of human inflections.
Ooh, a SpeechWorks plug! Okay, let's give equal time to Nuance :)
Nuance Vocalizer Demo
I think Sun might want to take a look at incorporating aspects into java 3. AspectJ does okay as a preprocessor, but if it were a feature of the language, you could write aspects that affect library code as well.
I've read the arguments against checked exceptions, but I must say that I find them very useful at development time. I like the fact that the compiler makes sure I'm not leaving any edge conditions unhandled.
Now, if it were just a flag passed to the compiler to enable this checking, I could live with that.
Get an analog SIP gateway, like the one sold by mediatrix.
Then, a VoiceXML Interpreter.
The calls come in the gateway, and get handled by the interpreter, which runs on standard PC hardware. You can configure the interpreter to run different VoiceXML apps based on the caller ID info. You can specify any kind of voicemail app you want in VoiceXML, complete with touch tone and speech recognition.
While you're at it, you can write other vxml apps accessible only to certain people, verified with biometric voiceprint authentication. Here's a scenario: You forgot your housekey. Your electronic garage door opener, however, is hooked up to an X-10 device.
Computer: Hello, would you like to leave a message?
You: This is Joe Shmoe.
Computer: Voiceprint identified. How can I help you?
You: Open the garage.
BTW, the Nuance interpreter comes free with a 2 port license (handles 2 calls simultaneously). Any more than that, and they start charging. The software includes the speech recognition, voiceprint authentication, and voicexml interpreter.
Neat, eh?
Is that to say if an ISP wanted to subscribe to, say, 10 newsgroups (comp.os.linux.* for example), and some nutter from a different ISP posted child porn in comp.os.linux.misc, the ISP could be held responsible?
...and you know you're getting somewhere when it says, "Please insert disk #28"!
It always surprised me that usenet hasn't really been hit by the censorship folks yet. I mean, there's some pretty illegal stuff going on there, and it's a lot easier at the ISP level to filter than individual websites.
The trap of the ISP being considered a publisher (and therefore resonsible for all online content) doesn't apply, because the ISP must specifically choose to carry every newsgroup in their feed. The groups in their feed are an arbitrary selection on their part no matter which way you slice it. I'm pretty surprised that more ISPs don't at least do occasional checks to see which high-traffic newsgroups in their feed are obvious child porn groups, and stop carrying them.
You'd think they'd do it just to cover their own ass, and to try to avoid legislation on the more gray-area newsgroups (mp3s, etc)
Hey, man. Taking the last donut is no laughing matter.
Totally not cool at all.
Wow. Um, no. The deveopers I've worked with coming out of the Indian technical schools by and large have a good, broad-based education in software development.
I guess it's just like any other school. You've got good students, and you've got mediocre students. Looks like the company you work for hires the mediocre ones.
Mark Twain made most of his money on the lecture circuit.
3.5 was the first fully-java implementation. I used it, but some of my co-workers stuck with 3.0, because 3.5 was extremely slow, introduced some bugs, and prone to crash.
By 4.0, though, we'd all upgraded.
Wow, that timeline gives some nice perspective. I had a false preconception that the announcement of the gopher system should predate the announcement of the WWW system by several years.
I missed all that history playing with QWK mail packets on FidoNet :-)
I've been playing with the telephony hardware out there. Dialogic and NMS are pretty cool, but make no mistake. The future for hardware in this business is SIP. Internet telephony, either routed through the net, or even over POTS.
The likes of Cisco are making SIP gateways with huge port counts, allowing companies large and small to cut the cost of their telephony solutions by orders of magnitude.
And, even cooler for the Slashdot crowd, there are companies ramping up production on little analog SIP gateways. Get this: you plug your home phone line into the box, you plug an ethernet line in the other end. Now you can use this box to route incoming calls to VoiceXML apps hosted anywhere on the net, or just forward the calls to any SIP phone (say, the softphone application on your desktop at work) or route it through yet another analog line plugged into your little box. A fun toy, if you're into playing around with telephony in the home. And I think some of these will come in well under $1000, even in the initial pricing.
I'm just curious: has anyone actually deployed a production system using OpenVXI? The web site doesn't mention any...
And the w3c didn't *create* this standard. The working group started off as the VoiceXML Forum, including Lucent, Motorola, IBM and AT&T, who were interested in standardizing the API used to create voice site deployments (which was already at that time big business).
Yeah, but c'mon. Converting from one XML format to another is a much simpler job than trying to write a .doc filter.
What about thin clients? PDAs? Tablets?
From the StarOffice review:
Not only will XML provide for smaller file sizes, it also opens the door to interactivity
I don't get it. How exactly does XML provide for smaller file sizes? I would think that a verbosely specified tag system is less space-efficient than a binary format.