Launch p0rn stars up for free and take 90% of the proceeds for the space program... a little astrofornication would do wonders to the future of spaced. NASA seems to forget:
ALL viable technology is pioneered and financed by p0rn.
I don't know about TiVo profiling beyond this very amusing article but I am very familiar with Amazon's mildly--bordering on severe--retarded profiling service.
It's not that I can't defeat the system and completely stump the recommendations, it is the fact that the recommendation system will repost everything that you have rejected if your recommendations stay empty for too long.
Beyond that, it simply needs a clue. There is absolutely no reason why the system should continue to recommend Flash 4 books from years ago. They shouldn't even carry that crap in stock. Also, if a user merely looks at a book, the profile flooding and SPAM THAT CONTINUES DESPITE ALLEGEDLY COMPLETELY REFUSING IT begins in earnest.
I'm restrained from telling Amazon that I think James Bond is a consumeristic, toad licking faggot that panders to loser wealthy white kids because I am absolutely petrified by what that would do to my already disastrous book recommendations.
I feel the same way. I'm quite happy with my system running Windows 98. XP killed DragonDictate so I killed XP.
The processor is beyond irrelevant to me. I have an 800 MHz chip but the hardware that creates the real speed on my system is the Rambus RAM and the 32MB RAM on my GeForce256.
I use my system for very utilitarian purposes these days and the games that I like are not resource intensive.
It's simple economics after that... as long as my system provides an ideal environment for coding, my system will continue to be a tool for generating income. As long as my system keeps generating income, buying a new system is foolish.
The Transmeta hardware is outstanding. I owned a Picturebook from Sony for awhile. All day, the laptop can be on and actually in your lap without lighting your clothes on fire (it's never happened but it's a deep fear.)
I agree with your point and used a Sony Picturebook for awhile with that in mind. However, wires were the main culprit that forced me to sell it--not background noise. As I mentioned in the post, discrete dictation has a higher tolerance for background noise than natural speech recognition so I know that my concept can work, it's just a matter of finding the right software/hardware setup. OQO seems to be moving in the direction of desktop power with handheld weight but until it's on a shelf for sale, it's vapor.
As an aside that has nothing to do with your comments, I have to categorically generalize everyone who made comments about desiring "Star Trek" quality recognition as idiots of the highest order. This isn't flamebait. Before commenting on this question, try to understand the reality of dictation. If you don't, just hop to another discussion.
I use a fairly high-end USB microphone and DragonDictate 3.1 for my desktop. I played around with the modern ViaVoice 9 and NatSpeak 6 but natural speech just doesn't cut it for general use. The microphone is absolutely critical and the fact that this point was never pushed as hard as it should have been is a major reason that ASR is gasping for air.
It looks like the HPC from OQO would make this a moot point. Their unit is quite sufficient if it's anything resembling the Sony Picturebook which served me well for awhile.
The point here is that there should be something available for lower priced handheld units. The capability is there. As you and other respondents pointed out, the market might not be. Someone made a very good point about getting old code to open stores and another mentioned readily available code in journals and such.
You have a point. The training for even basic discrete dictation is intensive--despite what the marketing departments say--and is not exactly ready for your average clone. As I mentioned in the post, the University offices serving disabled students would be an ideal source of regular income for a developer that ports or writes voice recognition software for a PDA. It's a slow nickel but it would probably be easier to sell to (Rational) investors than a fast dime. Discipline and patience are required for speech recognition. Neither traits occur in any significant frequency among the general consumer population. To get money, one would need a tech-savvy yet captive audience.
Morgan Freeman will decide. There will be a lottery. Nobody over 40 will be allowed except in certain instances. 12-years-olds "going steady" will be forced to marry.
Or are you giving a personal example of someone who gave the finger as he passed? Are you making amends?
Absolutely not.
Would not a good person thank those around him for being there for him? Would not a good person prefer to be remembered as he was, rather than as an ass?
Why would anyone on their deathbed give a damn about what anybody else think of them? They'll be f---ing dead before it becomes socially problematic.
In a world where everything is ready to explode, kindness is not a smart way of living. If a comet comes barreling towards this outer third spiral intragalactic cesspool, commonly called "earth", you'd better believe that people will become feral in less than a week.
I have no problems with civilization or being "good". I have a problem with the parent poster's vision of impending apocalyptic human behavior.
Your logic is faulty. If virtually anything can put an end to all existence then kindness is not the proper response. If nuclear bombs, comets, asteroids et al. can occur at any moment then "screw your neighbor" is the most ethical living available.
Perhaps you've never seen anyone close to death or been close to death yourself. If your typical deathbed occupant is essentially a bad person, they will try to make amends. If this same person is essentially good, they will give everyone the finger before leaving the building.
You have a point about TiVo but remember that Allen isn't just anybody and Gates talks a lot about "embedded" XP... if anybody *should* have given embedded Windows technology a chance, it should have been Allen.
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It's refreshing to see such intellectual insight. I agree with you completely. All of human knowledge was possessed by civilization before Plato. Even if some of Aristotle's ideas on physics border on mad cow psychosis, all ideas evolve(as far as anyone can tell) from the ancient Greeks.
A potent example is Democritus... he wrote about the "a-tom"--tiny objects that cannot be seen unless held together in infinite numbers.
2500 years later... KABOOM over Japan.
The power of ideas.
Anyway, I'm not sure on the specifics but the burning of the library of Alexandria destroyed 270 out of 360 fundamental sciences. Those remaining 90 are still with us today... we're still missing a massive chunk of our accumulated knowledge from the past.
This may start a big offtopic thread but it's a damn interesting one.
What does it have to do with Comdex? Basically that the loss of it is completely irrelevant compared to the useful stuff humanity is struggling to recover.
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This would be a mess at the least and a serious biohazard at worst. The sinister among us would surely use it as a cheap prank to make others unhappy.
"Take this...[presses happy button] BIAAATCH!" Didn't the Romans have this? Where did it get them.
Yes it was.
Brevity is the soul of wit.
Instead, do this:
I'm going to assume that you are in control of your domain and you know how to work with your email system. Create an alias that says:
any-email-sent-to-this-address-becomes-property-of -the-recipient@yourdomain.com
Your face transplants YOU!
In addition to NASA needing to grow up, the dude that moderated the parent down needs to grow up.
This is a perfectly valid and on topic thread.
ALL viable technology is pioneered and financed by p0rn.
I don't know about TiVo profiling beyond this very amusing article but I am very familiar with Amazon's mildly--bordering on severe--retarded profiling service.
It's not that I can't defeat the system and completely stump the recommendations, it is the fact that the recommendation system will repost everything that you have rejected if your recommendations stay empty for too long.
Beyond that, it simply needs a clue. There is absolutely no reason why the system should continue to recommend Flash 4 books from years ago. They shouldn't even carry that crap in stock. Also, if a user merely looks at a book, the profile flooding and SPAM THAT CONTINUES DESPITE ALLEGEDLY COMPLETELY REFUSING IT begins in earnest.
I'm restrained from telling Amazon that I think James Bond is a consumeristic, toad licking faggot that panders to loser wealthy white kids because I am absolutely petrified by what that would do to my already disastrous book recommendations.
The processor is beyond irrelevant to me. I have an 800 MHz chip but the hardware that creates the real speed on my system is the Rambus RAM and the 32MB RAM on my GeForce256.
I use my system for very utilitarian purposes these days and the games that I like are not resource intensive.
It's simple economics after that... as long as my system provides an ideal environment for coding, my system will continue to be a tool for generating income. As long as my system keeps generating income, buying a new system is foolish.
The Transmeta hardware is outstanding. I owned a Picturebook from Sony for awhile. All day, the laptop can be on and actually in your lap without lighting your clothes on fire (it's never happened but it's a deep fear.)
yes...I should've ignored the troll.
uh...This is an example of 'flamebait.'
Who, exactly, is the "morom"?
As an aside that has nothing to do with your comments, I have to categorically generalize everyone who made comments about desiring "Star Trek" quality recognition as idiots of the highest order. This isn't flamebait. Before commenting on this question, try to understand the reality of dictation. If you don't, just hop to another discussion.
Yes, I have. I've never been stricken with laryngitis.
It's a nice, even essential, mode of operation for those apps when a keyboard just won't do; the disabled, firemen, surgeons and so on...
WTF are you talking about?
It looks like the HPC from OQO would make this a moot point. Their unit is quite sufficient if it's anything resembling the Sony Picturebook which served me well for awhile.
The point here is that there should be something available for lower priced handheld units. The capability is there. As you and other respondents pointed out, the market might not be. Someone made a very good point about getting old code to open stores and another mentioned readily available code in journals and such.
You have a point. The training for even basic discrete dictation is intensive--despite what the marketing departments say--and is not exactly ready for your average clone. As I mentioned in the post, the University offices serving disabled students would be an ideal source of regular income for a developer that ports or writes voice recognition software for a PDA. It's a slow nickel but it would probably be easier to sell to (Rational) investors than a fast dime. Discipline and patience are required for speech recognition. Neither traits occur in any significant frequency among the general consumer population. To get money, one would need a tech-savvy yet captive audience.
Morgan Freeman will decide. There will be a lottery. Nobody over 40 will be allowed except in certain instances. 12-years-olds "going steady" will be forced to marry.
Wait! That's not it!
like Austrailia???
Get a clue, Adolf.
I'd hate to take the cynical route but I'd name the critter "event horizon."
:)
No turning back, dude.
Breaking up AOSmell's exclusive content deals is a much better idea.
Absolutely not.
Would not a good person thank those around him for being there for him? Would not a good person prefer to be remembered as he was, rather than as an ass?
Why would anyone on their deathbed give a damn about what anybody else think of them? They'll be f---ing dead before it becomes socially problematic.
In a world where everything is ready to explode, kindness is not a smart way of living. If a comet comes barreling towards this outer third spiral intragalactic cesspool, commonly called "earth", you'd better believe that people will become feral in less than a week.
I have no problems with civilization or being "good". I have a problem with the parent poster's vision of impending apocalyptic human behavior.
Perhaps you've never seen anyone close to death or been close to death yourself. If your typical deathbed occupant is essentially a bad person, they will try to make amends. If this same person is essentially good, they will give everyone the finger before leaving the building.
You have a point about TiVo but remember that Allen isn't just anybody and Gates talks a lot about "embedded" XP... if anybody *should* have given embedded Windows technology a chance, it should have been Allen.
A potent example is Democritus... he wrote about the "a-tom"--tiny objects that cannot be seen unless held together in infinite numbers.
2500 years later... KABOOM over Japan.
The power of ideas.
Anyway, I'm not sure on the specifics but the burning of the library of Alexandria destroyed 270 out of 360 fundamental sciences. Those remaining 90 are still with us today... we're still missing a massive chunk of our accumulated knowledge from the past.
This may start a big offtopic thread but it's a damn interesting one.
What does it have to do with Comdex? Basically that the loss of it is completely irrelevant compared to the useful stuff humanity is struggling to recover.
This particular glorified smurf stovetop is the fastest chip that can run *consumer* Windows.