That's a great question - I don't know of any linguistic studies on that.
The "degree of belief" particle is actually common to many Indian languages that I've studied - from Haida (the people who carve totem poles in the Queen Charlotte Islands near Alaska) to Quechua the language of the Incans. Both languages are still living. If you find a Haida, or Quechhua or any Native Indian in between... ask them. Most Native Indian lanugages of the mid west and west coast have a common "mother"(s) - and I increasingly suspect, a degree of belief particle.
Old joke in the localization/internationalization industry:
* What do you call someone who speaks 3 languages?
- A trilingual
* What do you call someone who speaks 2 languages?
- A bilingual
* What do you call someone who speaks only 1 language?
- An American
There's a requirement if hiring an H1-B (ie. a foreign worker) that you post a job for the position. So you find Asok (our Dilbert friend) or whomever, and Asok turns out to be fluent in Sanskrit (of course) and has a PhD in French Poetry, and just to make it impossible to fill you say that candidate must have 21 years of experience in Java. Of course no one is qualified, so that gives you legal recourse to hire Asok.
I'd say 30% of most job listings are bogus...But then again, I'd say that 60% of most resumes submitted are bogus too...
I got a combination Nokia 3650 and Sony Ericsson bluetooth headset. Through T-Mobile after rebate, the Nokia phone is almost free - add a $100 bluetooth headset and you're ready. The Sony Ericsson phone is a good match too, if you don't need a speakerphone (I design/demo speech systems so I occasionally use a speakerphone).
Having a bluetooth headset is fabulous. The Sony headset is incredibly comfortable, and you can wear it all day (I've even accidentally fallen asleep and forgotten to take it off). If you pair it with a voice activated service such as Sprint, or a voice-activated phone such as the Nokia, you can simply push the button, say "E T phone home" and presto you're talking. Push the button once again and you're off. To mute you press both volume controls simultaneously. I'm surprised Howard says he has trouble finding the button...
On the road, a voice-activated bluetooth phone is the safest thing I've seen. It's also a pretty cool toy.:)
See the expansys web site for more information about user reviews of bluetooth headsets
I worked at one of the leading anti-spam companies in the dot-com boom. A leading telephony software provider tried to purchase our company for big dot-com bucks just so they could use our software to stop SMS/telephone spam.
They believed it was going to become a big problem. I believe they will be right!
If the MS patent/approach is so good, why did they give up on it and adopt Brightmail for MSN and Hotmail?
Apple also has a similar, albeit more "theoretically correct" probabilistic anti-spam filter using latent-semantic indexing. Mossberg claims he's getting a 95% catch rate in the WSJ.
:-) The inventor of most modern speech reco techniques (ie. using Hidden Markov Models) is Kai-Fu Lee
Kai-Fu did his first HMM for commercial use at Apple. It was for the Chinese government. It worked quite well. So I'm not sure where you get this belief...
Larry Lessig mentions "civil disobedience" as an alternative.
Does anyone there have any ideas on how we can engage in legal civil disobedience on this issue?
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That's a great question - I don't know of any linguistic studies on that. The "degree of belief" particle is actually common to many Indian languages that I've studied - from Haida (the people who carve totem poles in the Queen Charlotte Islands near Alaska) to Quechua the language of the Incans. Both languages are still living. If you find a Haida, or Quechhua or any Native Indian in between ... ask them. Most Native Indian lanugages of the mid west and west coast have a common "mother"(s) - and I increasingly suspect, a degree of belief particle.
Old joke in the localization/internationalization industry:
* What do you call someone who speaks 3 languages?
- A trilingual
* What do you call someone who speaks 2 languages?
- A bilingual
* What do you call someone who speaks only 1 language?
- An American
There's a requirement if hiring an H1-B (ie. a foreign worker) that you post a job for the position. So you find Asok (our Dilbert friend) or whomever, and Asok turns out to be fluent in Sanskrit (of course) and has a PhD in French Poetry, and just to make it impossible to fill you say that candidate must have 21 years of experience in Java. Of course no one is qualified, so that gives you legal recourse to hire Asok.
I'd say 30% of most job listings are bogus...But then again, I'd say that 60% of most resumes submitted are bogus too...
I got a combination Nokia 3650 and Sony Ericsson bluetooth headset. Through T-Mobile after rebate, the Nokia phone is almost free - add a $100 bluetooth headset and you're ready. The Sony Ericsson phone is a good match too, if you don't need a speakerphone (I design/demo speech systems so I occasionally use a speakerphone).
:)
Having a bluetooth headset is fabulous. The Sony headset is incredibly comfortable, and you can wear it all day (I've even accidentally fallen asleep and forgotten to take it off). If you pair it with a voice activated service such as Sprint, or a voice-activated phone such as the Nokia, you can simply push the button, say "E T phone home" and presto you're talking. Push the button once again and you're off. To mute you press both volume controls simultaneously. I'm surprised Howard says he has trouble finding the button...
On the road, a voice-activated bluetooth phone is the safest thing I've seen. It's also a pretty cool toy.
See the expansys web site for more information about user reviews of bluetooth headsets
Safe Driving!!!
I worked at one of the leading anti-spam companies in the dot-com boom. A leading telephony software provider tried to purchase our company for big dot-com bucks just so they could use our software to stop SMS/telephone spam. They believed it was going to become a big problem. I believe they will be right!
If the MS patent/approach is so good, why did they give up on it and adopt Brightmail for MSN and Hotmail?
Apple also has a similar, albeit more "theoretically correct" probabilistic anti-spam filter using latent-semantic indexing. Mossberg claims he's getting a 95% catch rate in the WSJ.
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:-) The inventor of most modern speech reco techniques (ie. using Hidden Markov Models) is Kai-Fu Lee
Kai-Fu did his first HMM for commercial use at Apple. It was for the Chinese government. It worked quite well. So I'm not sure where you get this belief...
First Disney sponsors Hollings bill. Then Disney does this to SonicBlue users.
BOYCOTT DISNEY.
Don't buy Disney products. Don't go to DisneyWorld, Don't go to Disney flicks.
Larry Lessig mentions "civil disobedience" as an alternative. Does anyone there have any ideas on how we can engage in legal civil disobedience on this issue?