Probably only limited voice recognition with the hardware available.
IIRC the iPod has an ARM processor in the 60-90 MIPS range. This could get you continuous speech recognition with a vocabulary of a few thousand words, but you'd probably need more RAM. Even if I'm wrong about the processor speed you'd probably still need more RAM.
It wouldn't be hard to get a hundred word vocabulary discrete word recognition, to do perhaps:
"iPod" pause "play" pause "metal" (or whatever)
Disclaimer: I have programmed a limited vocabulary discrete word system and used a large vocabulary continuous speech recognition system.
How does it compare to the AMD/Intel/Via processor families?
Well, if you'd looked at the bar charts in the artcle, you'd have seen that the 1.4 GHz
benchmarks at about the same or a little faster than a 3 GHz P4.
From the review: Prensky believes that the instructor-led classroom and the teach-test method are actually
historical artifacts no more than 200 or 300 years old.
Sorry, wrong.
In Europe the tradition goes back to the eleventh century. This author hasn't read his history.
A quick google on "Medieval Universities" yielded
this essay as first of over 2500 hits.
--
Fascinating is a word I use for the unexpected.
-- Spock
Let's not forget the OS was introduced in 96. I'm not sure about the rest of you but I'm not running a linux-distro that's 7 years old.
Well, not a linux, but when I ssh into my web hosting company's server it's SunOS 4.1.4,
which has got to be old, since Sun renamed it Solaris years ago.
Imagine, he says, walking by a soda machine (say, one of the five million in Japan that will soon employ HSS),
triggering a proximity detector, then hearing what you alone hear -- the plink of ice cubes and the invocation,
''Wouldn't a Coke taste great right about now?''.
If you recognize the face of a person within the "target" area you could target a personal message.
From a Coke machine to a known customer: "Hi Bob, It's Tuesday! You always buy a Coke on Tuesday!"
From a hacked Coke machine at a sleazy motel: "Hi Bob! It's a Tuesday! You always bring your secretary here on Tuesday!"
In a nutshell, not everyone in the "government" is a complete idiot... *gasp*... and sometimes... just sometimes these "agencies"
come up with supporting something that is actually useful to them and what they're trying to do.
A buddy of mine who's an electrical engineer buys 'em all the time. He strips out the power supply
and tosses the rest. Says the old Macs have great 5 volt power supplies, unlike the crappy supplies
in PCs. He must be using a couple dozen in projects at his company.
It is not the computer's fault that Maxwell's equations are not adequate to design the electric motor. - A. Perlis
I learned about not saying too much in an email in 1989.
Back then part of my job was overseeing a subcontractor writing some software for us.
One day I learned that they had modified some code without sending us (me mostly) the
analysis they'd promised on how the changes would solve the problems we'd identified.
I sent a flaming email back to my contact at the subcontractor about how many times
they'd violated their contract and that I felt they'd lied to us and I didn't feel like
dealing with them anymore yada yada yada and cc'd a couple of coworkers.
The next morning I hear that my boss's boss's boss's boss had gone to my boss with
a printout of my email, asking my boss whether I'd written a letter of resignation.
I don't think this big boss actually had email, but it shows how far the email had gone.
Actually I was already looking for a new job. I left a month later.:)
From the article: Torvalds wrote that Intel had made the same mistakes "that everybody else did 15 years ago"
when RISC architecture was first appearing.
RISC first showed up on the commercial radar screen almost twenty years when
MIPS Computer Systems
was formed. But people at Stanford (and Berkeley, IIRC) had been publishing papers about
RISC for four or five years before that, and people at IBM were working on it even before that.
And the CDC 6600 was a RISC machine in the 1960s. If you don't believe me,
ask Cray's Chief Scientist Burton Smith.
In seeking the unattainable, simplicity only gets in the way. -- Alan Perlis
Moore's Law is a special case of a concept known in manufacturing as the experience curve. To quote an article from the Harvard Business Review
"Building stategy on the experience curve" (HBR March-April 1985, pg 143):
Literally thousands of studies have shown that production costs usually decline
10% to 30%
with each doubling of cunulated output.
The author then presents a graph showing that Dynamic RAM costs fell at 30%
per every doubling of cumulated output from 1976 to 1984. Besides semiconductors,
the author gives examples from the chemical industry and also the Model T Ford.
For those of you in the Seattle area Ken Schwaber will be presenting
a talk entitled "Agile Processes and the Scrum Methodology" at the
meeting of the Seattle Java Users Group
at 7 PM tonight.
Re:DNA Aging, DNA Rejuvenating?
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Your wife's old DNA does not produce a baby.
DNA from her eggs makes a baby.
All of the cells that develop into eggs are created in the
fetus, and then wait until puberty to develop into eggs.
More on what Google's CEO said
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According to this article
the issue had to do with both price and power consumption.
From the article:
Eric Schmidt, the computer scientist who is chief executive of Google,
told a gathering of chip designers at Stanford last month that the computer
world might now be headed in a new direction. In his vision of the future,
small and inexpensive processors will act as Lego-style building blocks
for a new class of vast data centers, which will increasingly displace the
old-style mainframe and server computing of the 1980's and 90's.
It turns out, Dr. Schmidt told the audience, that what matters most to the
computer designers at Google is not speed but power -- low power, because data
centers can consume as much electricity as a city.
He gave the Monday keynote at the "Hot Chips"
conference at Stanford last August. There is
an abstract of his keynote.
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I've had six Macs over 17 years and never had to pay a dime for repacement parts.
If more people did that it would raise their cost of spamming significantly due to the time wasted.
The copyright is 2000. The 0252 suggests that the chip was made late in 2002 and the 0309 may mean it was packaged this year.
"Made in Taiwan"
It actually says "Assembled in Taiwan", so the chip itself was likely fabbed elsewhere.
Will you Mr. Gates?
I suppose the real question is: What is Microsoft's strategy to avoid responsibility?
So in order to use this people will need to buy new computers, applications, and possibly new displays.
Wintel branded, of course.
IIRC the iPod has an ARM processor in the 60-90 MIPS range. This could get you continuous speech recognition with a vocabulary of a few thousand words, but you'd probably need more RAM. Even if I'm wrong about the processor speed you'd probably still need more RAM.
It wouldn't be hard to get a hundred word vocabulary discrete word recognition, to do perhaps:
Disclaimer: I have programmed a limited vocabulary discrete word system and used a large vocabulary continuous speech recognition system.
Well, if you'd looked at the bar charts in the artcle, you'd have seen that the 1.4 GHz
benchmarks at about the same or a little faster than a 3 GHz P4.
Certainly does look like OS X. The login screen looks almost identical to the OS X login screen.
Part of what makes this one so cool is that the sculptures race on both land and water. This requires some creative engineering.
But the race is mostly an excuse for a two day party.
He also has the same review on amazon.com. I thought the other review at Amazon was better.
Come on, people, we can do better than this! iTunes 4 is downloading as fast as my DSL pipe can take it!
Prensky believes that the instructor-led classroom and the teach-test method are actually historical artifacts
no more than 200 or 300 years old.
Sorry, wrong.
In Europe the tradition goes back to the eleventh century. This author hasn't read his history.
A quick google on "Medieval Universities" yielded this essay as first of over 2500 hits.
--
Fascinating is a word I use for the unexpected. -- Spock
Well, not a linux, but when I ssh into my web hosting company's server it's SunOS 4.1.4,
which has got to be old, since Sun renamed it Solaris years ago.
triggering a proximity detector, then hearing what you alone hear -- the plink of ice cubes and the invocation,
''Wouldn't a Coke taste great right about now?''.
If you recognize the face of a person within the "target" area you could target a personal message.
From a Coke machine to a known customer: "Hi Bob, It's Tuesday! You always buy a Coke on Tuesday!"
From a hacked Coke machine at a sleazy motel: "Hi Bob! It's a Tuesday! You always bring your secretary here on Tuesday!"
CSS - it's not just for decoration any more.
I found out tht my usercontent.css with Mozilla could knock out most of the ads on nytimes.com.
It works. Cool.
come up with supporting something that is actually useful to them and what they're trying to do.
Like the Internet.
So you aren't willing to pay anything to secure your site? I guess you'll get what you pay for.
You could make a pretty good start on getting this info by writing spiders to grab books and author info off amazon.com and bn.com
and tosses the rest. Says the old Macs have great 5 volt power supplies, unlike the crappy supplies
in PCs. He must be using a couple dozen in projects at his company.
It is not the computer's fault that Maxwell's equations are not adequate to design the electric motor. - A. Perlis
Back then part of my job was overseeing a subcontractor writing some software for us.
One day I learned that they had modified some code without sending us (me mostly) the
analysis they'd promised on how the changes would solve the problems we'd identified.
I sent a flaming email back to my contact at the subcontractor about how many times
they'd violated their contract and that I felt they'd lied to us and I didn't feel like
dealing with them anymore yada yada yada and cc'd a couple of coworkers.
The next morning I hear that my boss's boss's boss's boss had gone to my boss with
a printout of my email, asking my boss whether I'd written a letter of resignation.
I don't think this big boss actually had email, but it shows how far the email had gone.
Actually I was already looking for a new job. I left a month later. :)
Torvalds wrote that Intel had made the same mistakes "that everybody else did 15 years ago"
when RISC architecture was first appearing.
RISC first showed up on the commercial radar screen almost twenty years when MIPS Computer Systems
was formed. But people at Stanford (and Berkeley, IIRC) had been publishing papers about
RISC for four or five years before that, and people at IBM were working on it even before that.
And the CDC 6600 was a RISC machine in the 1960s. If you don't believe me, ask Cray's Chief Scientist Burton Smith.
In seeking the unattainable, simplicity only gets in the way. -- Alan Perlis
experience curve. To quote an article from the Harvard Business Review
"Building stategy on the experience curve" (HBR March-April 1985, pg 143):
The author then presents a graph showing that Dynamic RAM costs fell at 30%
per every doubling of cumulated output from 1976 to 1984. Besides semiconductors,
the author gives examples from the chemical industry and also the Model T Ford.
For those of you in the Seattle area Ken Schwaber will be presenting a talk entitled
"Agile Processes and the Scrum Methodology" at the meeting of the Seattle Java Users Group at 7 PM tonight.
DNA from her eggs makes a baby.
All of the cells that develop into eggs are created in the
fetus, and then wait until puberty to develop into eggs.
From the article:
He gave the Monday keynote at the "Hot Chips" conference at Stanford last August.
There is an abstract of his keynote.