I got on the Sirius Satellite Radio bandwagon about two months ago, and haven't listened to an mp3, cd, or normal radio broadcast since. The stream format is great, just not the side effects of corporate radio like tons of commercials, limited playlists, and annoying disk jockeys.
Even non-technical companies (of a decent size like your example of the automotive industry) have IT departments. They are the ones supporting the applications and systems, so it's not as unlikely as hitting the lottery, IMHO.
You hit the nail on the head there. I have millions of files in my current directory structure. Even someone with just 100 or 200 personal files wont wont to go back through and classify each one. AI would have to give you a running start into a project such as this.
I've never understand the point of pharmacists. Really. To reply to dangermouse, shouldn't the doctor be an information resource? Also, the doctor should be picking the right prescriptions in the first place. I don't want to upset the pharmacists here, but it's just something I've never understood. I say, bring on the robots!!
In fact, they did post the info several days before the companies released their prices. As I understand it that was the major problem the stores had.
Truth is, this stuff has been going on for years without the internet, but now the scope has broadened it. These prices have to be determined by someone, then printed by someone, and then distributed by someone. Each of those people would tell their friends, and maybe some of those people would tell their friends, but that was it. Now with sites like fatwallet, those friends number in the hundreds of thousands.
I'm a member of fatwallet, and I'm glad Tim is taking a stand. Copyrighting prices is the dumbest thing I've ever heard. These stores should have been glad for all of the free advertising, or at least accept that good information will not stay hidden long.
I just feel bad that he is having to cough up so much dough to fight something so ridiculus.
It would be very easy to set up a pc to record every phone conversation you have at your home, but is there any type of automatic transcribing software available? I'm thinking of an OCR but for audio. Additionally, you could record to 32kbs so as to not take up much space. Emails would be very easy to add along with documents so after the transcribing system goes into place, video would be the only hurdle.
Even with fantastic OCR, there will be some small errors out there so a human double check is a great idea. If project Gutenberg isn't a great reason to buy a pda, I don't know what is. Its a huge library of great books ready to be read in the lunch line, on the bus, in the john...
Regardless of this one company's fate, PVR is a technology that is here to stay if only for the adopters so far. I have a replayTV and I am never going back to normal tv. This is now a market and the people who fill it are mostly fanatics by now.
MS used to be all about operating systems. Then, they starting with general purpose software, then hardware, and now becoming a marketing force. What's next? I can tell you...meat ratings. Instead of USDA Prime in 5 years it will be RibXP.
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I got on the Sirius Satellite Radio bandwagon about two months ago, and haven't listened to an mp3, cd, or normal radio broadcast since. The stream format is great, just not the side effects of corporate radio like tons of commercials, limited playlists, and annoying disk jockeys.
Reread Snow Crash.
How about a legal DVD player?
Even non-technical companies (of a decent size like your example of the automotive industry) have IT departments. They are the ones supporting the applications and systems, so it's not as unlikely as hitting the lottery, IMHO.
You hit the nail on the head there. I have millions of files in my current directory structure. Even someone with just 100 or 200 personal files wont wont to go back through and classify each one. AI would have to give you a running start into a project such as this.
I've never understand the point of pharmacists. Really. To reply to dangermouse, shouldn't the doctor be an information resource? Also, the doctor should be picking the right prescriptions in the first place. I don't want to upset the pharmacists here, but it's just something I've never understood. I say, bring on the robots!!
This is news? Come on, who among us didn't expect the first cloned baby to come from a Canadian religious cult? Duh People!
Truth is, this stuff has been going on for years without the internet, but now the scope has broadened it. These prices have to be determined by someone, then printed by someone, and then distributed by someone. Each of those people would tell their friends, and maybe some of those people would tell their friends, but that was it. Now with sites like fatwallet, those friends number in the hundreds of thousands.
I'm a member of fatwallet, and I'm glad Tim is taking a stand. Copyrighting prices is the dumbest thing I've ever heard. These stores should have been glad for all of the free advertising, or at least accept that good information will not stay hidden long. I just feel bad that he is having to cough up so much dough to fight something so ridiculus.
So that's the news in Finland, or as I refer to it...Nazi Germany.
It would be very easy to set up a pc to record every phone conversation you have at your home, but is there any type of automatic transcribing software available? I'm thinking of an OCR but for audio. Additionally, you could record to 32kbs so as to not take up much space. Emails would be very easy to add along with documents so after the transcribing system goes into place, video would be the only hurdle.
Does anyone use PC Anywhere to browse at work? You can simply login to your home computer where there are no logs that your boss can scour through.
Even with fantastic OCR, there will be some small errors out there so a human double check is a great idea. If project Gutenberg isn't a great reason to buy a pda, I don't know what is. Its a huge library of great books ready to be read in the lunch line, on the bus, in the john...
Regardless of this one company's fate, PVR is a technology that is here to stay if only for the adopters so far. I have a replayTV and I am never going back to normal tv. This is now a market and the people who fill it are mostly fanatics by now.
MS used to be all about operating systems. Then, they starting with general purpose software, then hardware, and now becoming a marketing force. What's next? I can tell you...meat ratings. Instead of USDA Prime in 5 years it will be RibXP.