What are you going to do when you've essentially synced a corrupt file, which overwrites your working backup file without you knowing? Aaah, that's why the REALLY important stuff needs incremental backups. Retrospect does this as long as you don't do a recycle backup. Having had a file go bad and overwrite the one in the backup set recently, I know for a fact that this can happen.
If you code, do content creation stuff, etc. I highly recommend you do not recycle your storage space for these backups if at all possible. If it isn't possible, I'd either stagger two backup sets and let one be a little stale, or do what I'm going to start doing for the big stuff. Keep swapping external drives to maintain two sets and burn off semianually so that hopefully you'll wind up with a good copy of your old files in the event that part of the disk goes just bad enough to appear to function, or a file gets corrupted by a bad write.
This also goes as a warning to anyone with an Asus A8N-SLI and possibly other nForce 4 boards as well. Do NOT reinstall Windows without first making a backup, and here's the real important part, make sure that the backup media is read only or completely detached from the box in question. Asus makes good hardware and this board has been rock solid for me in every other instance, but as noted in the big red lettering on the BIOS update page, if you don't have the nForce drivers installed you face the potential of data loss. That's all well and good when you flashed your BIOS with an up to date XP install. Specifically, and this will be my universal approach now, do not let CHKDSK run from boot, in fact avoid it like the plague unless you've initiated the check.
That said, I lost a significant amount of data, including my Firewire drive on which I had copied lots of files. Fortunately, I replaced the drive that carried my backup set and the 1TB RAID 0 stripe is actually the one attached drive that remained intact because I split the partitions up. Between the two, I held on to lots of important stuff by a thread, even with the aid of OnTrack Easy Recovery which didn't buy me anything from the wiped drives.
My new backup strategy is this:
I've purchased two 300GB external Seagate drives and they will be taking turns each day with backup duty. This way, if the backup drive gets wiped by BIOSes, a nasty virus, or God knows what else, I'll have a non-wired drive to go from. I'm going to be doing more frequent burn-offs of critical data and at least one burnoff for everything I download that's worth hanging onto. I keep my downloads on my drives permanently now because drive space just isn't that expensive anymore.
300GB is more than enough space to back up everything that is critical with daily backups that aren't recycled, so I also have a level of lazy version control, which is a bonus. I've been doing this with Dantz Retrospect Express which has been more than adequate.
... because Half-Life, Baldur's Gate I & II, the Age of X series, etc. are all lowbrow games. Lest we forget Oblivion, one of the most amazingly beautiful and compelling games ever made.
Blanketing all games with a "low brow" label is pretty easy to do when you are too lazy to actually play a good cross section of games to get a fair perspective.
That's all that really needs to be said. For further reference, look up the amount of talking, egotism, and otherwise useless rhetoric he's shat out over the past 10 years. All that plus one crappy game and the demise of an otherwise good gaming studio that resulted in the Romero fallout.
I would say that Romero was all sizzle and no steak, but that implied that there was worthwhile sizzle to begin with. It's all pretty much flatuence at this point.
Stop wasting people's time John. Get a real day job. You rode your useless reputation to the ground and that's where all us day working schmoes exist. We don't have a rediculously inflated reputation to ride from publisher to publisher asking for insane advances for absolutely no substance to speak of.
My boys over at the Sinus Show have released audio recordings of their live shows to be synced with DVDs in the comfort of your home. There is also a really cool retelling of Harry Potter and the Sorcorer's Stone out of Austin that is hi-frickin'-larious called "Wizard People, Dear Readers."
I hope there isn't much of a legal effort to try to protect this ground because it's only inevitible that more people will try this on. Hell, I'd love to do it for Commando and Roadhouse.:)
Simple answer: Ruby on Rails!
Don't get me wrong. I owe my career to PHP and I'll always end up doing PHP scripts for one thing or another I'm sure. I also disagree with the Slashdot parent post because PHP isn't going anywhere for at least another 5 years or so IMHO. However, the return on time spent coding in PHP has hit a flatline level for me since I found out I could do more in far less time and with far fewer headaches in a Ruby on Rails environment. With a bytecode compiler, excellent database and database object abstraction layer that is DB server agnostic, and the ability to cluster, it's also built for scaling whereas PHP is not.
Ruby is Java for the non-pretensious.
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If they aren't working harder than everyone else, they feel guilty, which pretty much means everyone feels guilty. That guilt is all that pushes them on in a job where what they think or do could not possibly matter less, outside of following the dotted line of process to the finish line. They hate their jobs and feel like they aren't even doing good work. This opens the door for more guilt.
If you don't believe managers take the Dogbert approach from here all the way to the bank, (when they got their unfair raises) then you are kidding yourselves.
If you show up every day, complete every task that's asked of you, screw anyone else who criticizes how you spend your time. You are an employee not a slave or a CPU which must be at 100% utilization at all times. That leads to burnout, low morale, and a very low quality of life.
Have a little self respect.
... to just register a cookie variable that's unique to that browser that doesn't have to expire for a long time and that key is checked in a database. Sure, it's not secure, but if you want to inflate the perception of unique visitors, there are always ways around that. Actually, just checking for the cookie alone lets you know if someone's been to the site before. There are lots of ways to track users coming and going even without logins, by using cookies.
... but a completely different thing than what's in place for DVDs now, as far as shady ethics. It's one thing to make you watch commercials on a network that you don't really pay for, or one that you are paying less than a dollar a month for, but it's a completely bogus deal to make people watch trailers for movies they don't care about on DVDs they purchased or rented. Ever notice that on some (if not most) DVD players, the remote won't work in these instances?
What's nice is that the Slashdot crowd doesn't live in a collective glass house and they never throw stones. Why fucking demasculate the guy for your own self gratification. I suspect you jerk off more than he does.
I suspect that a large group of Slashdotters don't get laid often. I suspect it's largely because of their endearing nature of putting others down to satisfy their deep seeded insecurities.
This is not a batch of lemons with which to make lemonade. Your unencrypted emails are NOT available to the free world, even if they are easily intercepted. The window of availablility for intercepting email is small unless you are the sysadmin in charge of the email infrastructure. If this were true, we'd see more incriminating emails against companies who say things they shouldn't in interoffice emails. If the post office can't rightfully open your mail and read it, why is it allowed then to let the government open your email. THe sad fact is that federal agents probably DO read snail mail, but the time spent doing it and covering their tracks probably keeps that to a minimum. There's nothing to stop them from parsing shitloads of your email without you ever knowing.
There is no freedom on the internet. Bush came along too early in it's toddler years of wide acceptance. There are too many precedents to be set that a Republican government has no qualms about shifting in their favor. To anyone who'd try to defend Bush or the Republican congress, answer this, what has Bush done to PROTECT privacy as president? Tally that against the things he's done to invade privacy in the name of "anti-turrrism."
You people need to make some noise. I feel a Reich coming on. Anyone who says we are paranoid now is just shoving their head in the sand. What would be more effective for world domination than a quiet coup built by the exchange of money, to take control of the United States. It's not a conspiracy if everyone knows about it. In this case, everyone knows about it, but refuses to accept it. The government may not want to distrupt our consuming lifestyle because that turns the financial machine, but the tighter the grip they get on our freedoms and the more unchecked they can shove our privacy aside, the more the notion that a quiet power shift becomes a reality. I love America for the principles on which it was founded; a place where one has the freedom of expression, religion, and the fourth ammendment which is designed to make Americans feel secure in their own homes. If I'm worried about my political dissent being deliberatly misconstrued as something else to shut me up, I am not secure. It won't be long before people who are unsatisfied with the government aren't queitly wheeled off to some undisclosed location.
This kind of dissent is not just for the wackos living in their own "sovereign country" on some farm in Montana, it's for everyone who values their rights. Stop telling yourself it's all being done in the name of your protection. Ever have a roomate forget to pay the electric bill? One day you wake up and there are no lights, and you have to ask why. Well, when we all wake up one day afraid to show disappointment for the government or anything that violates no other civil rights, maybe we'll realize that we should've been more proactive about protecting the things this country was founded on.
Shit, Congress can't even leave Wikipedia alone. They want to rewrite history too!
... that "DNF" denotes something entirely different in the racing world, but seems completely appropriate for this game. It ain't Duke Nukem Forever, that's for sure.
This game was supposedly in full production almost 10 (that's one-zero) years ago. On the scale of game lifetimes, this one wouldn't even be good enough for the bargain bin if they finished with the tech they started with. In the beginning, it was using the Quake 2 engine while Quake 2 was still in production. They then switched to the Unreal (the original Unreal) engine somewhere around 99 I think. Occasionally, you'd hear something about DNF being legit and that someone playtested it. It supposedly had unparalleled levels of interactivity with the surrounding environment.
Many games have been announced, developed, and shipped since the days when 3D Realms first started "not hyping" DNF. I think 3D Realms is even worse than I am about starting a project and not completing it, except that my projects cost significantly less.
This news article is to keep 3D Realms from falling off the map. They are supposedly making Prey now, another game that got shelved in favor of Duke Nukem Forever, shortly after the release of Quake. (The brown one)
That first sentence is not intended to be a non-sequitur either. As your warped little brain probably failed to read, there is still considerable training to do, especially with regard to pacing, which translates into sporadic and unpredictable punctuation.
Given that I wrote that post very very early this morning, and hadn't yet been to bed. I gave you the benefit of the doubt. I read my second post, which doesn't have any of the bad examples of mangled dictation, which is the one you replied to. I've come to the conclusion that you are just trolling.
I would say that I get into many a heated discussion with people who exhibit their grasp of grammar, not to mention significantly more intelligence in a much more convincing way than you have. Yet you're the first person that I can think of in a long time that flat out told me that I have bad grammar, (punctuation non-withstanding) nor did you cite words that you think I've misused.
Given my fatigue at the time, it's possible I went a little overboard with the clichés, but I never overstepped my bounds with my vernacular. You can either point out the words you percieve I've misused, or may you forever get slapped in the face with a hefty self-pleasure device intended for females in the minds of anyone else who should fall victim to your misplaced aggression. I hope the sum of what gets your rocks off is: posting on Slashdot, being a completely unpleasant person, or better yet, both at the same time. If that's the case, then I have you pegged, and I didn't need to write three paragraphs of well-chosen words for you to know that, I just felt like putting you in your place by unveiling the linguistic capabilities of this fully armed and operational battle station, when I have both slightly less bloodshot eyes open, sans-toothpicks, and take the time to properly manage the dictation.
"There's nothing quite as exhilarating as pointing out the shortcomings of others, is there?"-Randal Graves, Clerks
Way to go on the Anonymous Coward post, it suits you.
A good case-in-point example of a pitfall is that I totally forgot that some of the text that I dictated from within the Slashdot window was mangled to hell and gone. That said, within Notepad, the results are very acceptable to say the least. I'm definitely getting closer to being able to write at the speed of thought. When the application is hitting on all eight cylinders.
Another thing I forgot to mention is that occasionally it will get confused. If it happens to get confused with regard to the built-in commands. You will want to straighten that out in a hurry, because it was easily the most frustrating part of the training process. In the best case scenario, you'll be using these built-in commands to make the training process go faster.
I've actually never used any speech recognition software before today. That said, today just happens to be the day. That said, I tried out Dragon NaturallySpeaking for the first time, and it is a complete coincidence that this topic should come up. I'm actually dictating this post with Dragon, as we speak. ha ha
the training process definitely has its ups and downs. The more you work with it however, the more it becomes attenuated to your own speech patterns and moreover, the quirky words we use every day. If you can get past the first two or three hours, you'll see that it is totally worth the effort, especially if this IBM tech isn't available to end-users for some time. There is also an aspect of the software training you, while you train the software. At the present time, I can dictate to slightly slower than I can probably type.
In the end, I can see where this would make a writing e-mails and other such time-consuming tasks, which involve spellchecking, grammar, and other proof reading significantly quicker. When you really hit your stride, it's easy to write at the speed of thought, which is really appealing. There are caveats, however. it's very easy to dictate several sentences worth of tax and taken for granted that it to everything down the way you attendedselect tax select select tax undo
You guys never see the light at the end of any tunnel. You only see more tunnel, which makes you think that a silent train running without a headlight is going to hit you at any moment. For the most part, you guys are right to be cautious, but something tells me that even in what appears to be a time for righteous and just pessimism, there is no consensus of faith among you, in common human decency, even when people have bought and earned your trust with free services and products so many of you guys use. I guess the point is that if it's not under the GPL, you can't trust it. That's a bad attitude, but falls in line with what I expect from the Slashdot horde.
I don't work for Google, but I do see a chance for these two guys who do want to leave a positive impact, and unlike Microsoft, without evil dirty business ethics. You can say they refused any request for search data because of financial reasons related to giving up hard earned consumer data, but I think Google has managed to make money in a way that actually positions us to dole out more favor for them, over any other company of it's size. Think about the fact that while they are an ad distribution channel, their ads are subdued and don't play any part in perpetuating the annoying variety of web ads. I've yet to see a Google based popup or annoying flash ad in the middle of the screen. What I've seen are quiet text based ads that are in line with the context to the site they are on.
Because "don't be evil" is more or less telling you guys what you want to hear, you reject it on principle that Google is paying you lip service, so you quietly scoff at their financial success, all the while using GMail accounts, Google's web presence for video, image searching, or really, any other kind of searching. Oh yeah, and I _love_ Picasa. I'll sing its praises on another day.
Google has shaped the face of the internet company to be more substantial than flashy. Also, unlike Yahoo, you don't find out every week that you've been opted into some sneaky spying software like web beacons. Yahoo, since the days of the.com bust, has scrambled to dig the change out of the couch, and they haven't really even looked to see if it's even their couch, or if they are pissing off the owners of said couch.
Until Google installs a rootkit, an expose is written defining how they use GMail to leverage their business in a sneaky way, or if somehow, like Yahoo, they are attempting to keep track of every website you visit, even the ones at 3AM with a disproportionate number of JPEGs, with twice as many boobies. (Unless you are into cyclops boobs, which I wouldn't put past some the guys who beat off to the female elves in MMOs.)
The Slashdot post says composite and S-Video. I suspect the S-Video connnection is just a convenience because composite is actually becoming less and less accessable (though still not hard to find a composite hookup.)
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What are you going to do when you've essentially synced a corrupt file, which overwrites your working backup file without you knowing? Aaah, that's why the REALLY important stuff needs incremental backups. Retrospect does this as long as you don't do a recycle backup. Having had a file go bad and overwrite the one in the backup set recently, I know for a fact that this can happen.
If you code, do content creation stuff, etc. I highly recommend you do not recycle your storage space for these backups if at all possible. If it isn't possible, I'd either stagger two backup sets and let one be a little stale, or do what I'm going to start doing for the big stuff. Keep swapping external drives to maintain two sets and burn off semianually so that hopefully you'll wind up with a good copy of your old files in the event that part of the disk goes just bad enough to appear to function, or a file gets corrupted by a bad write.
This also goes as a warning to anyone with an Asus A8N-SLI and possibly other nForce 4 boards as well. Do NOT reinstall Windows without first making a backup, and here's the real important part, make sure that the backup media is read only or completely detached from the box in question. Asus makes good hardware and this board has been rock solid for me in every other instance, but as noted in the big red lettering on the BIOS update page, if you don't have the nForce drivers installed you face the potential of data loss. That's all well and good when you flashed your BIOS with an up to date XP install. Specifically, and this will be my universal approach now, do not let CHKDSK run from boot, in fact avoid it like the plague unless you've initiated the check.
That said, I lost a significant amount of data, including my Firewire drive on which I had copied lots of files. Fortunately, I replaced the drive that carried my backup set and the 1TB RAID 0 stripe is actually the one attached drive that remained intact because I split the partitions up. Between the two, I held on to lots of important stuff by a thread, even with the aid of OnTrack Easy Recovery which didn't buy me anything from the wiped drives.
My new backup strategy is this:
I've purchased two 300GB external Seagate drives and they will be taking turns each day with backup duty. This way, if the backup drive gets wiped by BIOSes, a nasty virus, or God knows what else, I'll have a non-wired drive to go from. I'm going to be doing more frequent burn-offs of critical data and at least one burnoff for everything I download that's worth hanging onto. I keep my downloads on my drives permanently now because drive space just isn't that expensive anymore.
300GB is more than enough space to back up everything that is critical with daily backups that aren't recycled, so I also have a level of lazy version control, which is a bonus. I've been doing this with Dantz Retrospect Express which has been more than adequate.
... because Half-Life, Baldur's Gate I & II, the Age of X series, etc. are all lowbrow games. Lest we forget Oblivion, one of the most amazingly beautiful and compelling games ever made.
Blanketing all games with a "low brow" label is pretty easy to do when you are too lazy to actually play a good cross section of games to get a fair perspective.
... ooooh, 2.5Gb/s for freedom homes!
That's all that really needs to be said. For further reference, look up the amount of talking, egotism, and otherwise useless rhetoric he's shat out over the past 10 years. All that plus one crappy game and the demise of an otherwise good gaming studio that resulted in the Romero fallout. I would say that Romero was all sizzle and no steak, but that implied that there was worthwhile sizzle to begin with. It's all pretty much flatuence at this point. Stop wasting people's time John. Get a real day job. You rode your useless reputation to the ground and that's where all us day working schmoes exist. We don't have a rediculously inflated reputation to ride from publisher to publisher asking for insane advances for absolutely no substance to speak of.
My boys over at the Sinus Show have released audio recordings of their live shows to be synced with DVDs in the comfort of your home. There is also a really cool retelling of Harry Potter and the Sorcorer's Stone out of Austin that is hi-frickin'-larious called "Wizard People, Dear Readers." I hope there isn't much of a legal effort to try to protect this ground because it's only inevitible that more people will try this on. Hell, I'd love to do it for Commando and Roadhouse. :)
... the Zapp Branigan of game development.
If this article doesn't get metatagged with "bullshit"
Simple answer: Ruby on Rails! Don't get me wrong. I owe my career to PHP and I'll always end up doing PHP scripts for one thing or another I'm sure. I also disagree with the Slashdot parent post because PHP isn't going anywhere for at least another 5 years or so IMHO. However, the return on time spent coding in PHP has hit a flatline level for me since I found out I could do more in far less time and with far fewer headaches in a Ruby on Rails environment. With a bytecode compiler, excellent database and database object abstraction layer that is DB server agnostic, and the ability to cluster, it's also built for scaling whereas PHP is not. Ruby is Java for the non-pretensious.
If they aren't working harder than everyone else, they feel guilty, which pretty much means everyone feels guilty. That guilt is all that pushes them on in a job where what they think or do could not possibly matter less, outside of following the dotted line of process to the finish line. They hate their jobs and feel like they aren't even doing good work. This opens the door for more guilt. If you don't believe managers take the Dogbert approach from here all the way to the bank, (when they got their unfair raises) then you are kidding yourselves. If you show up every day, complete every task that's asked of you, screw anyone else who criticizes how you spend your time. You are an employee not a slave or a CPU which must be at 100% utilization at all times. That leads to burnout, low morale, and a very low quality of life. Have a little self respect.
... to just register a cookie variable that's unique to that browser that doesn't have to expire for a long time and that key is checked in a database. Sure, it's not secure, but if you want to inflate the perception of unique visitors, there are always ways around that. Actually, just checking for the cookie alone lets you know if someone's been to the site before. There are lots of ways to track users coming and going even without logins, by using cookies.
... but a completely different thing than what's in place for DVDs now, as far as shady ethics. It's one thing to make you watch commercials on a network that you don't really pay for, or one that you are paying less than a dollar a month for, but it's a completely bogus deal to make people watch trailers for movies they don't care about on DVDs they purchased or rented. Ever notice that on some (if not most) DVD players, the remote won't work in these instances?
You can't skip ahead on most new DVDs.
What's nice is that the Slashdot crowd doesn't live in a collective glass house and they never throw stones. Why fucking demasculate the guy for your own self gratification. I suspect you jerk off more than he does.
I suspect that a large group of Slashdotters don't get laid often. I suspect it's largely because of their endearing nature of putting others down to satisfy their deep seeded insecurities.
Go buy a dog.
This is not a batch of lemons with which to make lemonade. Your unencrypted emails are NOT available to the free world, even if they are easily intercepted. The window of availablility for intercepting email is small unless you are the sysadmin in charge of the email infrastructure. If this were true, we'd see more incriminating emails against companies who say things they shouldn't in interoffice emails. If the post office can't rightfully open your mail and read it, why is it allowed then to let the government open your email. THe sad fact is that federal agents probably DO read snail mail, but the time spent doing it and covering their tracks probably keeps that to a minimum. There's nothing to stop them from parsing shitloads of your email without you ever knowing.
There is no freedom on the internet. Bush came along too early in it's toddler years of wide acceptance. There are too many precedents to be set that a Republican government has no qualms about shifting in their favor. To anyone who'd try to defend Bush or the Republican congress, answer this, what has Bush done to PROTECT privacy as president? Tally that against the things he's done to invade privacy in the name of "anti-turrrism."
You people need to make some noise. I feel a Reich coming on. Anyone who says we are paranoid now is just shoving their head in the sand. What would be more effective for world domination than a quiet coup built by the exchange of money, to take control of the United States. It's not a conspiracy if everyone knows about it. In this case, everyone knows about it, but refuses to accept it. The government may not want to distrupt our consuming lifestyle because that turns the financial machine, but the tighter the grip they get on our freedoms and the more unchecked they can shove our privacy aside, the more the notion that a quiet power shift becomes a reality. I love America for the principles on which it was founded; a place where one has the freedom of expression, religion, and the fourth ammendment which is designed to make Americans feel secure in their own homes. If I'm worried about my political dissent being deliberatly misconstrued as something else to shut me up, I am not secure. It won't be long before people who are unsatisfied with the government aren't queitly wheeled off to some undisclosed location.
This kind of dissent is not just for the wackos living in their own "sovereign country" on some farm in Montana, it's for everyone who values their rights. Stop telling yourself it's all being done in the name of your protection. Ever have a roomate forget to pay the electric bill? One day you wake up and there are no lights, and you have to ask why. Well, when we all wake up one day afraid to show disappointment for the government or anything that violates no other civil rights, maybe we'll realize that we should've been more proactive about protecting the things this country was founded on.
Shit, Congress can't even leave Wikipedia alone. They want to rewrite history too!
Sorry, it had to be said.
... that "DNF" denotes something entirely different in the racing world, but seems completely appropriate for this game. It ain't Duke Nukem Forever, that's for sure.
This game was supposedly in full production almost 10 (that's one-zero) years ago. On the scale of game lifetimes, this one wouldn't even be good enough for the bargain bin if they finished with the tech they started with. In the beginning, it was using the Quake 2 engine while Quake 2 was still in production. They then switched to the Unreal (the original Unreal) engine somewhere around 99 I think. Occasionally, you'd hear something about DNF being legit and that someone playtested it. It supposedly had unparalleled levels of interactivity with the surrounding environment.
Many games have been announced, developed, and shipped since the days when 3D Realms first started "not hyping" DNF. I think 3D Realms is even worse than I am about starting a project and not completing it, except that my projects cost significantly less.
This news article is to keep 3D Realms from falling off the map. They are supposedly making Prey now, another game that got shelved in favor of Duke Nukem Forever, shortly after the release of Quake. (The brown one)
That first sentence is not intended to be a non-sequitur either. As your warped little brain probably failed to read, there is still considerable training to do, especially with regard to pacing, which translates into sporadic and unpredictable punctuation.
Given that I wrote that post very very early this morning, and hadn't yet been to bed. I gave you the benefit of the doubt. I read my second post, which doesn't have any of the bad examples of mangled dictation, which is the one you replied to. I've come to the conclusion that you are just trolling.
I would say that I get into many a heated discussion with people who exhibit their grasp of grammar, not to mention significantly more intelligence in a much more convincing way than you have. Yet you're the first person that I can think of in a long time that flat out told me that I have bad grammar, (punctuation non-withstanding) nor did you cite words that you think I've misused.
Given my fatigue at the time, it's possible I went a little overboard with the clichés, but I never overstepped my bounds with my vernacular. You can either point out the words you percieve I've misused, or may you forever get slapped in the face with a hefty self-pleasure device intended for females in the minds of anyone else who should fall victim to your misplaced aggression. I hope the sum of what gets your rocks off is: posting on Slashdot, being a completely unpleasant person, or better yet, both at the same time. If that's the case, then I have you pegged, and I didn't need to write three paragraphs of well-chosen words for you to know that, I just felt like putting you in your place by unveiling the linguistic capabilities of this fully armed and operational battle station, when I have both slightly less bloodshot eyes open, sans-toothpicks, and take the time to properly manage the dictation.
"There's nothing quite as exhilarating as pointing out the shortcomings of others, is there?"-Randal Graves, Clerks
Way to go on the Anonymous Coward post, it suits you.
A good case-in-point example of a pitfall is that I totally forgot that some of the text that I dictated from within the Slashdot window was mangled to hell and gone. That said, within Notepad, the results are very acceptable to say the least. I'm definitely getting closer to being able to write at the speed of thought. When the application is hitting on all eight cylinders. Another thing I forgot to mention is that occasionally it will get confused. If it happens to get confused with regard to the built-in commands. You will want to straighten that out in a hurry, because it was easily the most frustrating part of the training process. In the best case scenario, you'll be using these built-in commands to make the training process go faster.
I've actually never used any speech recognition software before today. That said, today just happens to be the day. That said, I tried out Dragon NaturallySpeaking for the first time, and it is a complete coincidence that this topic should come up. I'm actually dictating this post with Dragon, as we speak. ha ha
the training process definitely has its ups and downs. The more you work with it however, the more it becomes attenuated to your own speech patterns and moreover, the quirky words we use every day. If you can get past the first two or three hours, you'll see that it is totally worth the effort, especially if this IBM tech isn't available to end-users for some time. There is also an aspect of the software training you, while you train the software. At the present time, I can dictate to slightly slower than I can probably type.
In the end, I can see where this would make a writing e-mails and other such time-consuming tasks, which involve spellchecking, grammar, and other proof reading significantly quicker. When you really hit your stride, it's easy to write at the speed of thought, which is really appealing. There are caveats, however. it's very easy to dictate several sentences worth of tax and taken for granted that it to everything down the way you attendedselect tax select select tax undo
... there is no cause for concern. (Got so wrapped up into not being a total pill, that I forgot to end the sentence.) :)
You guys never see the light at the end of any tunnel. You only see more tunnel, which makes you think that a silent train running without a headlight is going to hit you at any moment. For the most part, you guys are right to be cautious, but something tells me that even in what appears to be a time for righteous and just pessimism, there is no consensus of faith among you, in common human decency, even when people have bought and earned your trust with free services and products so many of you guys use. I guess the point is that if it's not under the GPL, you can't trust it. That's a bad attitude, but falls in line with what I expect from the Slashdot horde.
.com bust, has scrambled to dig the change out of the couch, and they haven't really even looked to see if it's even their couch, or if they are pissing off the owners of said couch.
I don't work for Google, but I do see a chance for these two guys who do want to leave a positive impact, and unlike Microsoft, without evil dirty business ethics. You can say they refused any request for search data because of financial reasons related to giving up hard earned consumer data, but I think Google has managed to make money in a way that actually positions us to dole out more favor for them, over any other company of it's size. Think about the fact that while they are an ad distribution channel, their ads are subdued and don't play any part in perpetuating the annoying variety of web ads. I've yet to see a Google based popup or annoying flash ad in the middle of the screen. What I've seen are quiet text based ads that are in line with the context to the site they are on.
Because "don't be evil" is more or less telling you guys what you want to hear, you reject it on principle that Google is paying you lip service, so you quietly scoff at their financial success, all the while using GMail accounts, Google's web presence for video, image searching, or really, any other kind of searching. Oh yeah, and I _love_ Picasa. I'll sing its praises on another day.
Google has shaped the face of the internet company to be more substantial than flashy. Also, unlike Yahoo, you don't find out every week that you've been opted into some sneaky spying software like web beacons. Yahoo, since the days of the
Until Google installs a rootkit, an expose is written defining how they use GMail to leverage their business in a sneaky way, or if somehow, like Yahoo, they are attempting to keep track of every website you visit, even the ones at 3AM with a disproportionate number of JPEGs, with twice as many boobies. (Unless you are into cyclops boobs, which I wouldn't put past some the guys who beat off to the female elves in MMOs.)
An acquaintance's seven year old daughter got a substancial number of kills in on him at QuakeCon.
You mean we don't get French benefits?
The Slashdot post says composite and S-Video. I suspect the S-Video connnection is just a convenience because composite is actually becoming less and less accessable (though still not hard to find a composite hookup.)