In particular, check out their "Digital Projectors - Under $3500 USD MSRP" forum.
This site is really good. I used to have an old Microtek MVP 700s. It was not so good. The contrast was bad. The color was off, and it had loud fans.
I went to the under 3500 forum and read up on the posts. Tons of people were raving about how great the InFocus X1 was. I researched it, and ended up buying one for about $800. It's fantastic! Looks great, nice and bright, quite quiet...
Actually, 7-11 is giving away free slurpees today as a publicity stunt, since the date is 7-11, so if you're going to knock up the 7-11, you might as well wait until a day when you couldn't just walk in and get a free slurpee without the chance of getting busted.
If you're having chronic pain problems of any kind that won't go away even after physical therapy, and after doctors start saying "well... you should be better by now but you're not... so.... try more physical therapy!", then try reading this book.
when I select a url, open this little option-bar out of the way, but keep focus in the window I was working in, and if I don't use the little option-bar within a configurable number of seconds (5?) then close it. Then it would be there if you wanted it, and it wouldn't get in your way if you don't.
I'm so sick of the drug war. Mostly sick of spending money on it.
I'm mostly sick of how it keeps sending peaceful, totally non-violent people to criminal school, er... prison, where they either waste their lives away, or end up being "reformed" into real criminals.
I think this researcher is missing a pretty important point: Pretty much all people in the world learn how to speak to eachother when they are tiny, uneducated, and baby-shaped! If that's not natural, then god bless the US Army.
The problem isn't that speech is unatural. It's that the current state of speech recognition forces unnatural interactions.
I had repetitive strain injury/ tendonitis/ TMS/ MSD/ whatever for 2 years, and during that time I would have probably failed out of school if I weren't using speech dictation software.
Although I agree that the current state of speech recognition software takes lots of brain cycles away from other thoughts, I think that this can be fixed.
I think that the real problem isn't that speaking takes too much thought. The real problems with the current speech recognition tools are:
- speaking clearly, carefully and precisely enough to be understood by the computer takes consious thought. (When you speak to your friend, you think about the topic, not about actually speaking. With the computer, you have to think about physically speaking as well.)
- actively not speaking or making any noise in between bursts of speech. (This is probably the most annoying part. When your friend walks into the room, you can't just naturally say hi. First turn off the microphone, or just use hand gestures...)
- speaking using written language instead of spoken language (if we could speak with "like, um... yeah with normal spoken languge", instead of "being forced to speak the precise written language that we wish to appear on the page"... only then will speech interfaces become more natural.)
Don't blame the medium for the shortcomings of your tools....
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In particular, check out their "Digital Projectors - Under $3500 USD MSRP" forum.
This site is really good. I used to have an old Microtek MVP 700s. It was not so good. The contrast was bad. The color was off, and it had loud fans. I went to the under 3500 forum and read up on the posts. Tons of people were raving about how great the InFocus X1 was. I researched it, and ended up buying one for about $800. It's fantastic! Looks great, nice and bright, quite quiet...
Actually, 7-11 is giving away free slurpees today as a publicity stunt, since the date is 7-11, so if you're going to knock up the 7-11, you might as well wait until a day when you couldn't just walk in and get a free slurpee without the chance of getting busted.
You could literally program a virus by abusing a buffer overflow... well, a mean bacterium anyway...
The Mindbody Prescription: Healing the Body, Healing the Pain by Dr. John Sarno.
This worked wonders for me, for my friend who pointed me towards it, and for 3 or 4 other people I've sent copies to.
I think good (default or not) behavior would be:
when I select a url, open this little option-bar out of the way, but keep focus in the window I was working in, and if I don't use the little option-bar within a configurable number of seconds (5?) then close it. Then it would be there if you wanted it, and it wouldn't get in your way if you don't.
Bam.
I'm mostly sick of how it keeps sending peaceful, totally non-violent people to criminal school, er... prison, where they either waste their lives away, or end up being "reformed" into real criminals.
lame, lame, lame...
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I think this researcher is missing a pretty important point: Pretty much all people in the world learn how to speak to eachother when they are tiny, uneducated, and baby-shaped! If that's not natural, then god bless the US Army.
The problem isn't that speech is unatural. It's that the current state of speech recognition forces unnatural interactions.
I had repetitive strain injury/ tendonitis/ TMS/ MSD/ whatever for 2 years, and during that time I would have probably failed out of school if I weren't using speech dictation software.
Although I agree that the current state of speech recognition software takes lots of brain cycles away from other thoughts, I think that this can be fixed.
I think that the real problem isn't that speaking takes too much thought. The real problems with the current speech recognition tools are:
- speaking clearly, carefully and precisely enough to be understood by the computer takes consious thought. (When you speak to your friend, you think about the topic, not about actually speaking. With the computer, you have to think about physically speaking as well.)
- actively not speaking or making any noise in between bursts of speech. (This is probably the most annoying part. When your friend walks into the room, you can't just naturally say hi. First turn off the microphone, or just use hand gestures...)
- speaking using written language instead of spoken language (if we could speak with "like, um... yeah with normal spoken languge", instead of "being forced to speak the precise written language that we wish to appear on the page"... only then will speech interfaces become more natural.)
Don't blame the medium for the shortcomings of your tools....