What this means is that to use voice as a computer interface, one needs some kind of accessory, maybe bluetooth headsets or necklaces with wireless microphones. I would think a necklace would be ideal as it does not interfere with hearing. Then, each computer must have a visible ID number or name.
Then you simply say something like
Control Frankenputer
Frankenputer launch Word. Text size 9. Font Arial. Style Bold. Format Double Spaced. Begin.
Then you say a bunch of crap
And then you say something like Frankenputer File save. End Control.
The wireless mics would help increase signal to noise AND could contain flash memory containing speech profiles, preferences and files to transfer.
Or just sentence fragments. Sometimes it can be so difficult. To tell if the author is simply illiterate. That he can't tell where commas go. Or sometimes just spaces. That makes it confusing. As well as looking dumb.
So is forcing the blind to adhere to some higher code of ethics than sighted people.
Look, a blind person doesn't have to adhere to your idea of how the blind SHOULD be any more than a sighted person has to give a rats ass about what you think of hunting.
You see, patronization and nanny-state thinking is more wrong to me than shooting a deer. A deer is a deer. There are millions, and we've displaced their natural predators. I don't hunt but jeez, your attitude on this is ridiculously patronizing. Who says blind people would not want to experience the "joy of killing an animal" if sighted people sometimes do just that? Or do the blind live in some fantastic world where they go where you tell them to and do what you say is morally ok?
If so, can we have your email so we can "check" before we run all willy nilly without benefit of your guidance?
Oh, man, I popped into here to post that exact thing, less the tissues. I was having a hard time finding things around the office that are not 3D objects.
I'm getting the 360 to play Gears of War, Dead Rising, and a bunch of others, and getting a Wii for the kids, and to play with guests. The Wii's so inexpensive I don't have to choose one or the other, I can get a 360 and a Wii for about what a PS3 would've cost.
A buddy showed me a bit of Serenity because I'm a sci fi fan. I hadn't seen Firefly because I worked nights during its run. I had heard of it but didn't see it. I went and bought Serenity, watched it, loved it and bought the entire DVD set of Firefly. Showed them to the Mrs., and she loves it too. Too bad it was underwritten by douchebags.
Missing are any credentials, mathematical proofs, or experiments. It appears all of his "theories" are mind exercises not coupled with observations of the universe, and are merely thought exercises made by a person who passed physics 120. I couldn't even find a byline.
Symantec and Norton antivirus and security packages (on machines I have experience with) use an absurd amount of memory and processor resources. Any hope that this will change someday?
Men's evolutionary role has, for millions of years, been different from women. This led, quite naturally, to biological specialization of tasks. Women's biological burden is their uterus. During pregnancy, the uterine tissue is processing a HUGE caloric burden in the developing child.
During this time, women may experience what my wife calls "pregnancy retardation" where the burden is so great their brains shrink and they become rather, um, stupider.
Men don't have to deal with this, but there are other hazards of maleness. Early death comes to mind... This is especially apparent in hunter gatherer societies where the hunter is generally male and the gatherer is generally female. Predatory behavior requires intelligence. Most predatory animals have higher intellect than their same-sized equivalent herbavore.
It's not fair, it's not equality. Nature doesn't care. Nature does what makes the best offspring.
Science is the study of what IS, not how we wish it were.
Modern society could learn a little from science.
There are other search engines (Yahoo, MSN, AltaVista, etc...) and I don't choose to support any entity who from a position of safety, allows a repressive regime to gain a propaganda victory by limiting content available to their subjects.
What Google is doing is assisting the state media control in China in exchange for money.
I can't support that.
The main problem with that, of course, is that it's illegal to sue somebody to shut them up. It's called a SLAPP lawsuit. A Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation. Basically, using the courts to shut people up, intimidate them or harass them, without needing to win, or suing somebody for revenge after they divulged something you didn't want divulged, is a SLAPP. There are penalties for SLAPP lawsuits. This is almost certainly one. What they would be suing for if they were serious, is the use of the URL and trade name for FEDEXFURNITURE dot com. Especially since the guy colored FedEx the red and blue colors like the FedEx logo. Basically he could have said Shipping Container furniture all he wanted, but by naming his site fedexfurniture.com he is using their name. However, if FedEx hasn't trademarked that name for use in the furniture industry, I'd say they're SOL. Well, except that he is stealing his materials from their company.
Boy are you right about Hillary being part of that "The Government knows better than you" crowd on the very left. Since there's one on the right too, who do we vote for in '08 faced with a choice between a religious nanny state and a socialist one?
Yeah, because Linux isn't about making a superior product with excellent hardware support, it's about making a social statement and adhering it to it completely.
It's about revolution, man, not software. Screw those capitalist pigs! If someone writes something completely on their own and isn't willing to share it for free with everyone, there's something WRONG with them. Filthy dogs who want to get PAID for the thing they do AT THEIR JOB.
DEBIAN 4EVAR!!!11 LOLZ0rz!
1. Microsoft is looking at implementing a subscription model instead of standard box sales in the near future.
2. Microsoft takes, on average, 5 years plus between major revisions of their operating system.
3. Microsoft's next operating system will not have the cool whiz-bang features they promised us, in spite of its six year lead time.
4. Microsoft's Windows operating system does not come bundled with any useful applications. Their video editing application has a featureset close to zero, and MSPaint is simply unchanged since 1990, having not so much as a smudge tool. WordPad is a completely inferior word processor compared to ANY other currently available.
5. Microsoft's operating systems cost a minimum of 99 US dollars, double that for anything useful in a business or network.
In conclusion, Microsoft's "option" will cost you a yearly cost for a product that is improved minimally every five years, with a smaller feature set than you were promised, and you have to buy any applications separately if you'd like to do anything WITH your computer.
These people are geeks, okay? They have a digital camera on their phone, a USB storage pen on their keychain, and a PDA somewhere on their wrist or something. They do NOT use POLAROID cameras and pay a buck for every grainy, poorly flash-illuminated picture they take. Give them some credit, they may be sweaty and overweight, but they're not troglodytes and they don't use POLAROID cameras anymore.
I agree completely. If this comes to the States for less than 400 bucks with GPS or less than 300 without it, I'll buy 2.
One for each car. A 7 inch touchscreen and Linux? DONE DEAL.
2 USB 2.0 ports? Where do I sign?
I don't CARE how much processor power it has. I just want a GPS mapping unit with some basic wi-fi capability in my little car.
I can add to this system on USB and use a small form factor computer in the trunk (also linux) over ethernet- this thing is more of a terminal and user interface device for me. I can't wait.
Way to deliberately seek out and highlight the dark cloud behind every silver lining. Well stated.
After all, we don't need solutions, we need people to point out problems.
We don't want saleable products for overseas companies to build, what we REALLY need is someone to stand in one spot and yell loudly how all of our ideas will fail, and that nothing good can happen.
I'm gonna fire that asshole who keeps coming up with ideas. That way we can give you a raise and make you full-time.
Okay, let's assume that we're actually interested in science instead of shilling our own particular disdain for those positions we do not hold.
Then let's objectively ask "does the theory of evolution explain the origin of life?"
Nah, it doesn't. Evolution is a theory which explains how living things change over time, and why doing so is beneficial to the living things.
It's not intended to explain how vastly complex molecules somehow formed without oxidizing and just so happened to be able to feed itself and reproduce.
What evolution explains is how we got from that first living thing to now. Science describes the what and how. We let theologists come up with the why.
If we are going to act superior in our logic and lack of primitive superstition, let's at least be logical and not do the same thing that our opponents do. Mischaracterizing exactly how much of the origin is scientifically understood would be the same as creationists saying that NASA found the missing day in the book of Joshua. An intentional falsehood created to bolster an argument where facts are scarce.
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What this means is that to use voice as a computer interface, one needs some kind of accessory, maybe bluetooth headsets or necklaces with wireless microphones. I would think a necklace would be ideal as it does not interfere with hearing. Then, each computer must have a visible ID number or name. Then you simply say something like Control Frankenputer Frankenputer launch Word. Text size 9. Font Arial. Style Bold. Format Double Spaced. Begin. Then you say a bunch of crap And then you say something like Frankenputer File save. End Control. The wireless mics would help increase signal to noise AND could contain flash memory containing speech profiles, preferences and files to transfer.
Or just sentence fragments. Sometimes it can be so difficult. To tell if the author is simply illiterate. That he can't tell where commas go. Or sometimes just spaces. That makes it confusing. As well as looking dumb.
Because they're SAND BARS.
So is forcing the blind to adhere to some higher code of ethics than sighted people. Look, a blind person doesn't have to adhere to your idea of how the blind SHOULD be any more than a sighted person has to give a rats ass about what you think of hunting. You see, patronization and nanny-state thinking is more wrong to me than shooting a deer. A deer is a deer. There are millions, and we've displaced their natural predators. I don't hunt but jeez, your attitude on this is ridiculously patronizing. Who says blind people would not want to experience the "joy of killing an animal" if sighted people sometimes do just that? Or do the blind live in some fantastic world where they go where you tell them to and do what you say is morally ok? If so, can we have your email so we can "check" before we run all willy nilly without benefit of your guidance?
He says the difference is 1:100 Bravo!
In chemistry, "organic matter" refers to hydrocarbons.
Oh, man, I popped into here to post that exact thing, less the tissues. I was having a hard time finding things around the office that are not 3D objects.
I'm getting the 360 to play Gears of War, Dead Rising, and a bunch of others, and getting a Wii for the kids, and to play with guests. The Wii's so inexpensive I don't have to choose one or the other, I can get a 360 and a Wii for about what a PS3 would've cost.
A buddy showed me a bit of Serenity because I'm a sci fi fan. I hadn't seen Firefly because I worked nights during its run. I had heard of it but didn't see it.
I went and bought Serenity, watched it, loved it and bought the entire DVD set of Firefly. Showed them to the Mrs., and she loves it too. Too bad it was underwritten by douchebags.
Missing are any credentials, mathematical proofs, or experiments. It appears all of his "theories" are mind exercises not coupled with observations of the universe, and are merely thought exercises made by a person who passed physics 120.
I couldn't even find a byline.
Symantec and Norton antivirus and security packages (on machines I have experience with) use an absurd amount of memory and processor resources. Any hope that this will change someday?
Men's evolutionary role has, for millions of years, been different from women. This led, quite naturally, to biological specialization of tasks. Women's biological burden is their uterus. During pregnancy, the uterine tissue is processing a HUGE caloric burden in the developing child. During this time, women may experience what my wife calls "pregnancy retardation" where the burden is so great their brains shrink and they become rather, um, stupider. Men don't have to deal with this, but there are other hazards of maleness. Early death comes to mind... This is especially apparent in hunter gatherer societies where the hunter is generally male and the gatherer is generally female. Predatory behavior requires intelligence. Most predatory animals have higher intellect than their same-sized equivalent herbavore. It's not fair, it's not equality. Nature doesn't care. Nature does what makes the best offspring. Science is the study of what IS, not how we wish it were. Modern society could learn a little from science.
There are other search engines (Yahoo, MSN, AltaVista, etc...) and I don't choose to support any entity who from a position of safety, allows a repressive regime to gain a propaganda victory by limiting content available to their subjects. What Google is doing is assisting the state media control in China in exchange for money. I can't support that.
The main problem with that, of course, is that it's illegal to sue somebody to shut them up.
It's called a SLAPP lawsuit. A Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation.
Basically, using the courts to shut people up, intimidate them or harass them, without needing to win, or suing somebody for revenge after they divulged something you didn't want divulged, is a SLAPP.
There are penalties for SLAPP lawsuits.
This is almost certainly one. What they would be suing for if they were serious, is the use of the URL and trade name for FEDEXFURNITURE dot com.
Especially since the guy colored FedEx the red and blue colors like the FedEx logo.
Basically he could have said Shipping Container furniture all he wanted, but by naming his site fedexfurniture.com he is using their name.
However, if FedEx hasn't trademarked that name for use in the furniture industry, I'd say they're SOL.
Well, except that he is stealing his materials from their company.
Boy are you right about Hillary being part of that "The Government knows better than you" crowd on the very left.
Since there's one on the right too, who do we vote for in '08 faced with a choice between a religious nanny state and a socialist one?
The Romani have already made a name for themselves.
Yeah, because Linux isn't about making a superior product with excellent hardware support, it's about making a social statement and adhering it to it completely. It's about revolution, man, not software. Screw those capitalist pigs! If someone writes something completely on their own and isn't willing to share it for free with everyone, there's something WRONG with them. Filthy dogs who want to get PAID for the thing they do AT THEIR JOB. DEBIAN 4EVAR!!!11 LOLZ0rz!
More like wrong action when action should have been taken.
1. Microsoft is looking at implementing a subscription model instead of standard box sales in the near future.
2. Microsoft takes, on average, 5 years plus between major revisions of their operating system.
3. Microsoft's next operating system will not have the cool whiz-bang features they promised us, in spite of its six year lead time.
4. Microsoft's Windows operating system does not come bundled with any useful applications. Their video editing application has a featureset close to zero, and MSPaint is simply unchanged since 1990, having not so much as a smudge tool. WordPad is a completely inferior word processor compared to ANY other currently available.
5. Microsoft's operating systems cost a minimum of 99 US dollars, double that for anything useful in a business or network.
In conclusion, Microsoft's "option" will cost you a yearly cost for a product that is improved minimally every five years, with a smaller feature set than you were promised, and you have to buy any applications separately if you'd like to do anything WITH your computer.
Oh, Microsoft stock? SIGN ME UP!
These people are geeks, okay? They have a digital camera on their phone, a USB storage pen on their keychain, and a PDA somewhere on their wrist or something.
They do NOT use POLAROID cameras and pay a buck for every grainy, poorly flash-illuminated picture they take.
Give them some credit, they may be sweaty and overweight, but they're not troglodytes and they don't use POLAROID cameras anymore.
I agree completely. If this comes to the States for less than 400 bucks with GPS or less than 300 without it, I'll buy 2. One for each car. A 7 inch touchscreen and Linux? DONE DEAL. 2 USB 2.0 ports? Where do I sign? I don't CARE how much processor power it has. I just want a GPS mapping unit with some basic wi-fi capability in my little car. I can add to this system on USB and use a small form factor computer in the trunk (also linux) over ethernet- this thing is more of a terminal and user interface device for me. I can't wait.
Way to deliberately seek out and highlight the dark cloud behind every silver lining. Well stated. After all, we don't need solutions, we need people to point out problems. We don't want saleable products for overseas companies to build, what we REALLY need is someone to stand in one spot and yell loudly how all of our ideas will fail, and that nothing good can happen. I'm gonna fire that asshole who keeps coming up with ideas. That way we can give you a raise and make you full-time.
Consider it done.
Okay, let's assume that we're actually interested in science instead of shilling our own particular disdain for those positions we do not hold. Then let's objectively ask "does the theory of evolution explain the origin of life?" Nah, it doesn't. Evolution is a theory which explains how living things change over time, and why doing so is beneficial to the living things. It's not intended to explain how vastly complex molecules somehow formed without oxidizing and just so happened to be able to feed itself and reproduce. What evolution explains is how we got from that first living thing to now. Science describes the what and how. We let theologists come up with the why. If we are going to act superior in our logic and lack of primitive superstition, let's at least be logical and not do the same thing that our opponents do. Mischaracterizing exactly how much of the origin is scientifically understood would be the same as creationists saying that NASA found the missing day in the book of Joshua. An intentional falsehood created to bolster an argument where facts are scarce.