These guys have built a java based middleware portion of their application suite that handles speech regognition and t2s:
www.voiceobjects.com
Seems like the VCs have this week's "big thing" keyed up.
imagine war driving hand held game disruption via DoS, or the whole host of other problems that accompany "great ideas with no authentication principles"
there's this idea that when you're responding to an article, that the things you say should have some level of relevance. I guess you're going to have to wait for the slashdot article entitled "what everyone else was thinking, but only I actually bothered to say outloud. AKA - I am lame."
looking cooler is definately arguable.
I couldn't decide at first whether this thing
would be better used as an underwater "bury alive machine" for less-than-average looking website models, or if it was some sort of 8 day late
slashdot april fools joke.
The black community thanks you. Welcome back to the short bus. I didn't know the family from
Texas Chainsaw Massacre could afford a computer for their bucktoothed son. Somehow i'm thinking your DNA is listed in the latest virus signature database. You have been flamed and may now return to your black and white tv set (or tractor).
In contrast, raising billions of dollars typically enables one to put together new technology dev teams pretty quickly and painlessly;-). My bet would be that operational plans for some sort of "Google 2.0" are already in the works, and that project teams are revving, if not already through the start gates.
Google's market position when they IPO has
nothing to do with their technology. It has to do with their brand. "Googling" for something
is the effective equivalent of going to get
a Kleenex. Noone asked for a tissue. The market
is going to be buying faith in the Google brand, and it's loyal userbase.
* Founded in late 1999 by Jim Vaughn of FrontierVision.
* Funded in Series-A @ $1.2B (yes that is a B)
* Acquired franchise rights for the cities of:
Sacramento
Dallas
Austin
Houston
San Antonio
Portland
Seattle
San Diego
All of Los Angeles County
Relationships with:
Bechtel (construction)
Lucent (network infrastructure and custom NIUs for single mode fiber-to-the-home)
HP (data center and IT)
Sold to: Surewest Communications of Sacramento in 2002 for the whopping total of $12M.
I have the operational plan of this company memorized, since I built a large part of it, so if anyone wants to go do it again when the telecom market isn't about to bottom out, feel free to let me know.
If you're starting ANY company in ANY space right now, and can raise Series-A, I applaud you.
The days of throwing together a group of smart people to "start an company" are way long gone unless all of the people in it are.com retirees or otherwise well-to-do.
The NSA does however fund some commercial operations;-).
the web doesnt change anything. Especially if you're talking about "hackers." SSNs, Credit Card numbers, and many other implements of destruction have been made available to those who would crack systems or sift through garbage cans since I can remember. There's really two points that matter:
There are people who participate in identity theft via any means possible, because that's the life they lead.
Social security numbers in and of themselves ARE the vulnerable entry point because the information flow to and from them is bidirectional.
The only possible suggestion here is the same one that's been played over and over on the record entitled "keeping your information safe for dummies," which is "use caution and reason in any transaction you make.
I've always found that the weird "niche" wholesale-resale places end up with alot of outdated rackmount stuff that you can buy extremely cheaply, gut, and remount your own hardware. You know.. the type of places that still sell pallettes of sparc ipx's for about $100.00. In SF, there's that one place on 3rd street by the water. Anyhow, I guess a good analogy would be that they're "one step above industrial liquidators." Just go searching through your local warehouse district and walk into places with weird sounding names. Rack mount 386/486/P1 machines should be going for about $25-$30 a piece.
The general notion out there by the "wow AOL sure is the niftiest thing since they started putting color on my 'picturebox' " crowd is that the Internet is a utility like any other utility such as electricity, gas, or water. The expectation by people like this is that it must be just as safe. I'm sure that it never occurred to the people who got scammed that their data could be insecure, and if it did, they probably didn't weigh it too heavily because they were 'just sending email.' The difference in expectations of the technical crowd, and the convenient appliance consumer crowd is immense. The assumption that large numbers of people doing things in groups will use the organ upstairs is way out there.
According to multiple news sources, the real reason that traffic has significantly decreased is that there is a hidden clause in the new RIAA policy which states that Hillary Rosen will personally come to your house and sit on your face if you caught infringing copyright.
I mean, really... isn't this the effective equivalent of what they're saying anyway? Suing individuals for tens of millions of dollars (well, at least that's what my bill would come out to be) seems kind of pointless seeing as how if even 1/100th of the people they go after make it to court, and then 10% of those are found guilty, the odds that these individuals are going to have anywhere near the cash to "pay their dues" are certainly low.
I give the RIAA another 4 years of dwidling around like the morons they are, and on the 5th year we can all refer to them in the same joking manner with which we currently refer to captain kangaroo, yet without the empathy.
The only reason that linux / other *nix are generally unaffected by spyware and adware and other such bs is that there aren't enough linux desktop users for the mass marketing whores to even spit at. You'll notice that along with the lack of spyware comes the lack of compatibility with many sites which are geared toward winblowz.
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These guys have built a java based middleware portion of their application suite that handles speech regognition and t2s: www.voiceobjects.com Seems like the VCs have this week's "big thing" keyed up.
imagine war driving hand held game disruption via DoS, or the whole host of other problems that accompany "great ideas with no authentication principles"
there's this idea that when you're responding to an article, that the things you say should have some level of relevance. I guess you're going to have to wait for the slashdot article entitled "what everyone else was thinking, but only I actually bothered to say outloud. AKA - I am lame."
if (menstrual_cycle_day=28) { $answer=rand(pissed_off_response); $temper++; }
looking cooler is definately arguable. I couldn't decide at first whether this thing would be better used as an underwater "bury alive machine" for less-than-average looking website models, or if it was some sort of 8 day late slashdot april fools joke.
The black community thanks you. Welcome back to the short bus. I didn't know the family from Texas Chainsaw Massacre could afford a computer for their bucktoothed son. Somehow i'm thinking your DNA is listed in the latest virus signature database. You have been flamed and may now return to your black and white tv set (or tractor).
Amidst all this, anyone know how clam AV (open source virus scanning engine, and 3rd fastest updater) is holding up?
If the machines controlled the monkeys?
REUTERS - Computer controlled million monkey army bombards Iraqi forces with distrubted feces catapult.
In contrast, raising billions of dollars typically enables one to put together new technology dev teams pretty quickly and painlessly ;-). My bet would be that operational plans for some sort of "Google 2.0" are already in the works, and that project teams are revving, if not already through the start gates.
Google's market position when they IPO has nothing to do with their technology. It has to do with their brand. "Googling" for something is the effective equivalent of going to get a Kleenex. Noone asked for a tissue. The market is going to be buying faith in the Google brand, and it's loyal userbase.
Winfirst facts -
* Founded in late 1999 by Jim Vaughn of FrontierVision.
* Funded in Series-A @ $1.2B (yes that is a B)
* Acquired franchise rights for the cities of:
Sacramento
Dallas
Austin
Houston
San Antonio
Portland
Seattle
San Diego
All of Los Angeles County
Relationships with:
Bechtel (construction)
Lucent (network infrastructure and custom NIUs for single mode fiber-to-the-home)
HP (data center and IT)
Sold to: Surewest Communications of Sacramento in 2002 for the whopping total of $12M.
I have the operational plan of this company memorized, since I built a large part of it, so if anyone wants to go do it again when the telecom market isn't about to bottom out, feel free to let me know.
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No mandatory goofy screensavers. Thank you god.
If you're starting ANY company in ANY space right now, and can raise Series-A, I applaud you. The days of throwing together a group of smart people to "start an company" are way long gone unless all of the people in it are .com retirees or otherwise well-to-do.
The NSA does however fund some commercial operations ;-).
If someone else throws it at Bill (I'm a wuss).
Um... so use dynamic MX record based filtering.
- There are people who participate in identity theft via any means possible, because that's the life they lead.
- Social security numbers in and of themselves ARE the vulnerable entry point because the information flow to and from them is bidirectional.
The only possible suggestion here is the same one that's been played over and over on the record entitled "keeping your information safe for dummies," which is "use caution and reason in any transaction you make.I'll take an extra track meal, two biggy small's extra rare and an extra large ICE T to go. Screw my Grandkids. I'm dieing fat and happy, hippy.
I've always found that the weird "niche" wholesale-resale places end up with alot of outdated rackmount stuff that you can buy extremely cheaply, gut, and remount your own hardware. You know.. the type of places that still sell pallettes of sparc ipx's for about $100.00. In SF, there's that one place on 3rd street by the water. Anyhow, I guess a good analogy would be that they're "one step above industrial liquidators." Just go searching through your local warehouse district and walk into places with weird sounding names. Rack mount 386/486/P1 machines should be going for about $25-$30 a piece.
I know this sounds like the start of a bad joke, but regarding the royalty payments...
What if the artist is a band comprised of 1 canadian, 1 african, 1 norweigan mountain village blue person and 1 Native American?
Does socan still kick in? Most bands in the States that are signed become either LLCs or C Corps.
Rent Bowling for Columbine please.
Completely agreed. Smith & Wesson doesn't get sued or brought up on criminal charges everytime someone gets shot.
The general notion out there by the "wow AOL sure is the niftiest thing since they started putting color on my 'picturebox' " crowd is that the Internet is a utility like any other utility such as electricity, gas, or water. The expectation by people like this is that it must be just as safe. I'm sure that it never occurred to the people who got scammed that their data could be insecure, and if it did, they probably didn't weigh it too heavily because they were 'just sending email.' The difference in expectations of the technical crowd, and the convenient appliance consumer crowd is immense. The assumption that large numbers of people doing things in groups will use the organ upstairs is way out there.
According to multiple news sources, the real reason that traffic has significantly decreased is that there is a hidden clause in the new RIAA policy which states that Hillary Rosen will personally come to your house and sit on your face if you caught infringing copyright.
I mean, really... isn't this the effective equivalent of what they're saying anyway? Suing individuals for tens of millions of dollars (well, at least that's what my bill would come out to be) seems kind of pointless seeing as how if even 1/100th of the people they go after make it to court, and then 10% of those are found guilty, the odds that these individuals are going to have anywhere near the cash to "pay their dues" are certainly low.
I give the RIAA another 4 years of dwidling around like the morons they are, and on the 5th year we can all refer to them in the same joking manner with which we currently refer to captain kangaroo, yet without the empathy.
Thanks for reminding me that the world sucks now.
The only reason that linux / other *nix are generally unaffected by spyware and adware and other such bs is that there aren't enough linux desktop users for the mass marketing whores to even spit at. You'll notice that along with the lack of spyware comes the lack of compatibility with many sites which are geared toward winblowz.