Yea, we will all speak BASH.
Seriously, the real problem is not speech recognition, it is in the area of speech understanding.
A good example from an SR book from my college days..
"Please plant some more tulips."
or was it...
"Please plan sum ore two lips."
It is not a trivial computer problem to resolve this.
In fact, I would venture to say that once you have an algorythm to resolve the above then you probably also have a "sentient" computer that can pass the Turing test. That would be pretty sweet as you will have solved many of other problems in the world.
Most laptop bags are lacking with respect to a confortable, durable strap.
I recently discovered that the Sharper Image sells a nice shoulder strap. You may want to check it out.
"A Canticle for Lebowitz"
It's an interesting post-nuclear war senario. I'm pretty sure it's out of print. You can find paper back versions in the book swaps.
I work for a company that makes touchscreen based equipment that runs Linux. We used the cursor editor package xmbdfed-4.5-2 to create a new cursor that was invisible.
Just went through this. Get an IBM T30 2366M3U (to be configured model) for $1200. 2Ghz, 1400x1050 14in display. Titainium shell. Here is the IBM link:
http://www-132.ibm.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/P roductDisplay?productId=8559837&storeId=1&langId=- 1&catalogId=-840
Buy the memory, hd, CDRW/DVD seperately. I bought 512mb ram from Crucial for $150 (free 2nd day shipping). I am using my old laptop harddrive, but I would recommend a Travelstar 5400 rpm model. I also bought the CD/RW/DVD (new) off of ebay for $149. Plain CDRW's can be had for about $100 or less on ebay.
Total cost: 1200 + 149 + 150 = $1499
You don't get the built in Wireless networking, consider a linux supported pcmcia card for this purpose, It'll be cheaper.
Join the linux-thinkpad email list. Lots of support availible, both from users and IBM insiders.
I plan on running a lightweight optimized distro, Yoper or Gentoo.
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Yea, we will all speak BASH. Seriously, the real problem is not speech recognition, it is in the area of speech understanding. A good example from an SR book from my college days.. "Please plant some more tulips." or was it... "Please plan sum ore two lips." It is not a trivial computer problem to resolve this. In fact, I would venture to say that once you have an algorythm to resolve the above then you probably also have a "sentient" computer that can pass the Turing test. That would be pretty sweet as you will have solved many of other problems in the world.
In my area there were several job listings for Commanche flight systems development in the past few months. Talk about a deadend job...
Most laptop bags are lacking with respect to a confortable, durable strap. I recently discovered that the Sharper Image sells a nice shoulder strap. You may want to check it out.
"A Canticle for Lebowitz" It's an interesting post-nuclear war senario. I'm pretty sure it's out of print. You can find paper back versions in the book swaps.
I work for a company that makes touchscreen based equipment that runs Linux. We used the cursor editor package xmbdfed-4.5-2 to create a new cursor that was invisible.
Just went through this. Get an IBM T30 2366M3U (to be configured model) for $1200. 2Ghz, 1400x1050 14in display. Titainium shell. Here is the IBM link: http://www-132.ibm.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/P roductDisplay?productId=8559837&storeId=1&langId=- 1&catalogId=-840
Buy the memory, hd, CDRW/DVD seperately. I bought 512mb ram from Crucial for $150 (free 2nd day shipping). I am using my old laptop harddrive, but I would recommend a Travelstar 5400 rpm model. I also bought the CD/RW/DVD (new) off of ebay for $149. Plain CDRW's can be had for about $100 or less on ebay.
Total cost: 1200 + 149 + 150 = $1499
You don't get the built in Wireless networking, consider a linux supported pcmcia card for this purpose, It'll be cheaper.
Join the linux-thinkpad email list. Lots of support availible, both from users and IBM insiders.
I plan on running a lightweight optimized distro, Yoper or Gentoo.