If one uses "religion" as you define it, the word becomes watered-down and is essentially just a synonym for belief. So after we convince everyone of your definition, someone else will have to come along and create a word which means "a set of beliefs which are accepted on faith and usually involve some sort of deity." What word do you suggest we use?
I think what is more relevant right now than a "human markup language" is a "speech markup language." Just recently we read about at&t's supposed breakthrough (hype) that will lead to artificially generated speech.
Think about that though. How are we going to effectively communicate to the program exactly how we want the voice to sound? What needs to be developed is a speech markup language which takes any and every aspect of speech into account, like tone, volume, inflection. Even if a computer voice sounds perfectly pleasant, it won't sound natural if it doesn't stress the proper words. And sometimes stressing another word isn't necessarily wrong, it just means something else.
First of all, how does will this offer a different/better alternative to Windows than a regular linux box. Linux is providing the alternative, not PS2. Otherwise this would be a story on convergence (uch, I hate that word too) of PCs and living room type electronics. The article also didn't seem to acknowledge one important thing (because he clearly had not taken it into account). That is, the article kept going on and on about how cheap PS2's are not realizing that Sony takes a loss on each unit, and they only take that loss under the presumption that it will bring them income from licensing. Having PS2 as an all arond computer might increase overall videogame sales, but sony will lose a ton of cash on users who don't buy games. Of course, sony doesn't have to lose the cash, if they'd charge more for it......but then the only appealing aspect of using it as a computer is gone. pretty naive
If you have complaints about yahoo, that's fine, but saying their pages take too long to load is just stupid. Their pages load nearly as fast as google, and much faster than most other sites.
Yeah, limit prices and competition, that's a great way to improve broadband service. Funny, where'd you get the "great service" part from? Does Canada have regulations about service too?
Is that supposed to be some ironic comment on the state of the linux community?? The whole reason Dvorak was saying why dial up is a standard is because of the average user, who doesn't even care all that much. you expect them to start writing scripts and running wget? Do you think the average user knows what wget is?
The whole reason why dvorak commentary was flawed is that since dsl and dialups appear so similar, when dsl gets more ubiquitous some users might have it and not even really give it a second though. They're emachine might come with a DSL/Ethernet card rather than a modem.
This was an email I wrote my father (who sent me the article) before I realized it was written by john dvorak. I'm glad I didn't know and have that cloud my judgement.
"Thanks for the article, I just have one question. What the fuck was he talking about?? "windows is a standard, not a product, sure it gets debugged, improved, new versions come out and it gets faster and better, but it's a standard." How about we apply the same logic to bandwidth: "bandwidth is a standard not a product. Sure it gets faster and better, but it's a standard." Why don't you ask this fucko who's still using windows 3.0? or 2.0? or 1.0? Oh but people still use a version of windows so it's a standard. So, same thing with bandwidth, sure, it's a standard, but in ten years from now we'll all be laughing at how slow cable speeds were (Let alone what we'll thing about dial up). This guy is such a fool, the last thing he said was "broadband may be decades away." so what does that mean, 20 years, at least? is this guy on crack! Of course people don't want broadband now because of the price. Does anyone really believe that bandwidth isn't getting cheaper and cheaper, daily? Does he really believe that we'll be going at a poky 34kbps in twenty years? or even in five???? The thing is, besides the price and the fact that it's more difficult to install since it's a new, niche product, DSL is basically the same thing as dial-up. Agreed, it's very different on a technical level, but to the user its essentially the same thing: stick a card in your computer and jack it into a phone line. As DSL becomes more ubiquitous, users might not necessarily even realize that they're using another product. In other words, if DSL is available to every phone jack, then there really isn't a difference from the users point of view. He says that most users are ambivalent about broadband, and I agree. But when their phone jack has access to DSL, and when Dell tells them to get a DSL/Ethernet card instead of modem, for say, 10 dollars extra, they *will* listen. What's this guy smokin?
that wasn't the n64, that was nes. nintendo wouldn't survive a month coming into a market against playstation with that exclusivity contract. the exclusivity contract is what almost killed sega, mentioned above.
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The website that the article in wired was talking about is called islamway.com. It seems to use Slashcode.
If one uses "religion" as you define it, the word becomes watered-down and is essentially just a synonym for belief. So after we convince everyone of your definition, someone else will have to come along and create a word which means "a set of beliefs which are accepted on faith and usually involve some sort of deity." What word do you suggest we use?
I think what is more relevant right now than a "human markup language" is a "speech markup language." Just recently we read about at&t's supposed breakthrough (hype) that will lead to artificially generated speech.
Think about that though. How are we going to effectively communicate to the program exactly how we want the voice to sound? What needs to be developed is a speech markup language which takes any and every aspect of speech into account, like tone, volume, inflection. Even if a computer voice sounds perfectly pleasant, it won't sound natural if it doesn't stress the proper words. And sometimes stressing another word isn't necessarily wrong, it just means something else.
It's at high speed. Watch the one at regular speed.
First of all, how does will this offer a different/better alternative to Windows than a regular linux box. Linux is providing the alternative, not PS2. Otherwise this would be a story on convergence (uch, I hate that word too) of PCs and living room type electronics. The article also didn't seem to acknowledge one important thing (because he clearly had not taken it into account). That is, the article kept going on and on about how cheap PS2's are not realizing that Sony takes a loss on each unit, and they only take that loss under the presumption that it will bring them income from licensing. Having PS2 as an all arond computer might increase overall videogame sales, but sony will lose a ton of cash on users who don't buy games. Of course, sony doesn't have to lose the cash, if they'd charge more for it......but then the only appealing aspect of using it as a computer is gone. pretty naive
Yeah,in fact yahoo have just hired some former executive from dreamworks and he's supposedly going to "streamline" it and start charging sponduli.
If you have complaints about yahoo, that's fine, but saying their pages take too long to load is just stupid. Their pages load nearly as fast as google, and much faster than most other sites.
Yeah, limit prices and competition, that's a great way to improve broadband service. Funny, where'd you get the "great service" part from? Does Canada have regulations about service too?
Is that supposed to be some ironic comment on the state of the linux community?? The whole reason Dvorak was saying why dial up is a standard is because of the average user, who doesn't even care all that much. you expect them to start writing scripts and running wget? Do you think the average user knows what wget is? The whole reason why dvorak commentary was flawed is that since dsl and dialups appear so similar, when dsl gets more ubiquitous some users might have it and not even really give it a second though. They're emachine might come with a DSL/Ethernet card rather than a modem.
"Thanks for the article, I just have one question. What the fuck was he talking about?? "windows is a standard, not a product, sure it gets debugged, improved, new versions come out and it gets faster and better, but it's a standard." How about we apply the same logic to bandwidth: "bandwidth is a standard not a product. Sure it gets faster and better, but it's a standard." Why don't you ask this fucko who's still using windows 3.0? or 2.0? or 1.0? Oh but people still use a version of windows so it's a standard. So, same thing with bandwidth, sure, it's a standard, but in ten years from now we'll all be laughing at how slow cable speeds were (Let alone what we'll thing about dial up). This guy is such a fool, the last thing he said was "broadband may be decades away." so what does that mean, 20 years, at least? is this guy on crack! Of course people don't want broadband now because of the price. Does anyone really believe that bandwidth isn't getting cheaper and cheaper, daily? Does he really believe that we'll be going at a poky 34kbps in twenty years? or even in five???? The thing is, besides the price and the fact that it's more difficult to install since it's a new, niche product, DSL is basically the same thing as dial-up. Agreed, it's very different on a technical level, but to the user its essentially the same thing: stick a card in your computer and jack it into a phone line. As DSL becomes more ubiquitous, users might not necessarily even realize that they're using another product. In other words, if DSL is available to every phone jack, then there really isn't a difference from the users point of view. He says that most users are ambivalent about broadband, and I agree. But when their phone jack has access to DSL, and when Dell tells them to get a DSL/Ethernet card instead of modem, for say, 10 dollars extra, they *will* listen. What's this guy smokin?
Ok, maybe that was more than one question."
try 10^100 retard.
that wasn't the n64, that was nes. nintendo wouldn't survive a month coming into a market against playstation with that exclusivity contract. the exclusivity contract is what almost killed sega, mentioned above.
You're just making up random facts; that is completely untrue. Where are you getting your info from?