Several million Vietnamese might ask, "How close is close enough?", if they weren't dead.
How many Iraqis? We don't know.
Another poster has mentioned Indian removal. How about Japanese civilians? Sure, war, but proportionate?
Your current president is not Hitler but he is a bloody murderer, like most who went before. And you may well replace him with much worse.
Thanks for the time, the clarification. Well said.
The forces are not evenly distributed, globally, of course. US hegemony, the police state mentality, is not yet as severe in Canada as in the UK. Tomorrow? We get to see.
Point taken, though. We need all to work toward something closer to real democracy. I fear we may not have much time. But I'm old -- my concern is for my grandchildren, everyone of their generation.
Criticizing. Well, no, I don't blame the citizens of the US but if there is to be change they and those of your country will have to demand it. They may not. My country may well slide down that same slope.
Constitution? Have you not been paying attention?
I mean, really, you Americans have already lost your republic. It's been awhile!
And the rest of us would be really happy if you would do something about that.
War = Peace and all that.
The F-117 is not and was not a "fighter". The designation was intentionally misleading. It is an attack aircraft and a weapon of war but it is not a fighter.
I saw it some years ago in Trenton, Ontario, Canada. An American military sort stood outside the single strand of rope protecting this marvelous killing machine, M-16 at the ready should some devious three-year old attempt to... something.
Those of us who must rely on speech recognition software to use
our computers not only have no choice but commercial
software, we are also relegated to Windows or, with arguably
rather less function and accuracy, Mac. There is one open source
project of which I'm aware, CMU
Sphinx, but its progress is slow and it is not usable as a
complete, continuous-speech, large vocabulary speech recognition
solution. NaturallySpeaking
for Windows is an excellent product and allows those of us with
disabilities who cannot use keyboards to do what you see here and
many of us who have paid for the software over the years don't
begrudge supporting the company but, given its product is not
available for any platform but Windows I think this is an excellent
opportunity for OSS.
There are others who feel
the same. In fact, for a time, IBM had a version of its speech
recognition engine available for Linux users but it has since
abandoned the project. So, OSS would seem to be the way to go,
perhaps building on the very promising CMU
Sphinx.
[Dictated using speech recognition technology. There may be air oars]
Hybrid cars, whether the combination is gasoline internal combustion & electric or, more efficient but more expensive, two-stroke diesel & electric, are expensive and complex solutions. Simpler is almost always better.
From a purely cost standpoint, factoring in initial cost, fuel over the lifetime of the vehicle, more repairs with more complexity, eventual replacement of batteries and their recycling etc., it seems to me that existing diesel technology is the much simpler short-term solution. One need only look at the offerings from Volkswagen, in North America, and other manufacturers in Europe.
In fact, quite a few of us have been doing this for some time.
What you are reading was dictated using NaturallySpeaking,
the speech recognition software the majority use who must (or prefer
to) do some or all functions on the computer by voice. Well, "Put
in the CD!", doesn't quite work but I can dictate very quickly and I
can control everything within Mozilla (and Windows) by voice commands.
I applaud the folks at Opera for
their efforts. While a truly user-friendly speaker-independent
voice interface for all computers is still a while off, it is the
future and in the meantime providing the basic functionality of being
able to control things like your Web browser by voice commands benefits
many. Some will just find it fun to play with, of course, but
others will find it truly useful and for some, like me, it is
indispensable; I'm a
quadriplegic and have used voice/speech recognition since the 486 days.
Opera and Mozilla are excellent choices and both provide different
approaches to accessibility, making one the better choice for some than
the other (having choice is great!) but here's a bit of irony --
Internet Explorer is the one directly supported by NaturallySpeaking
but while I would prefer Mozilla in any case, Mozilla actually works
better for me using speech recognition.
Now, if only we could get speech recognition working well natively in
Linux...
[Dictated using speech recognition technology. There may be air
oars]
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Several million Vietnamese might ask, "How close is close enough?", if they weren't dead. How many Iraqis? We don't know. Another poster has mentioned Indian removal. How about Japanese civilians? Sure, war, but proportionate? Your current president is not Hitler but he is a bloody murderer, like most who went before. And you may well replace him with much worse.
Thanks for the time, the clarification. Well said. The forces are not evenly distributed, globally, of course. US hegemony, the police state mentality, is not yet as severe in Canada as in the UK. Tomorrow? We get to see. Point taken, though. We need all to work toward something closer to real democracy. I fear we may not have much time. But I'm old -- my concern is for my grandchildren, everyone of their generation. Criticizing. Well, no, I don't blame the citizens of the US but if there is to be change they and those of your country will have to demand it. They may not. My country may well slide down that same slope.
Constitution? Have you not been paying attention? I mean, really, you Americans have already lost your republic. It's been awhile! And the rest of us would be really happy if you would do something about that.
War = Peace and all that. The F-117 is not and was not a "fighter". The designation was intentionally misleading. It is an attack aircraft and a weapon of war but it is not a fighter. I saw it some years ago in Trenton, Ontario, Canada. An American military sort stood outside the single strand of rope protecting this marvelous killing machine, M-16 at the ready should some devious three-year old attempt to... something.
Those of us who must rely on speech recognition software to use our computers not only have no choice but commercial software, we are also relegated to Windows or, with arguably rather less function and accuracy, Mac. There is one open source project of which I'm aware, CMU Sphinx, but its progress is slow and it is not usable as a complete, continuous-speech, large vocabulary speech recognition solution. NaturallySpeaking for Windows is an excellent product and allows those of us with disabilities who cannot use keyboards to do what you see here and many of us who have paid for the software over the years don't begrudge supporting the company but, given its product is not available for any platform but Windows I think this is an excellent opportunity for OSS.
There are others who feel the same. In fact, for a time, IBM had a version of its speech recognition engine available for Linux users but it has since abandoned the project. So, OSS would seem to be the way to go, perhaps building on the very promising CMU Sphinx.
[Dictated using speech recognition technology. There may be air oars]... would have been mostly of the male bovine variety. All very amusing unless you happen to be a bass. Or drink water.
Hybrid cars, whether the combination is gasoline internal combustion & electric or, more efficient but more expensive, two-stroke diesel & electric, are expensive and complex solutions. Simpler is almost always better. From a purely cost standpoint, factoring in initial cost, fuel over the lifetime of the vehicle, more repairs with more complexity, eventual replacement of batteries and their recycling etc., it seems to me that existing diesel technology is the much simpler short-term solution. One need only look at the offerings from Volkswagen, in North America, and other manufacturers in Europe.
In fact, quite a few of us have been doing this for some time. What you are reading was dictated using NaturallySpeaking, the speech recognition software the majority use who must (or prefer to) do some or all functions on the computer by voice. Well, "Put in the CD!", doesn't quite work but I can dictate very quickly and I can control everything within Mozilla (and Windows) by voice commands.
I applaud the folks at Opera for their efforts. While a truly user-friendly speaker-independent voice interface for all computers is still a while off, it is the future and in the meantime providing the basic functionality of being able to control things like your Web browser by voice commands benefits many. Some will just find it fun to play with, of course, but others will find it truly useful and for some, like me, it is indispensable; I'm a quadriplegic and have used voice/speech recognition since the 486 days.
Opera and Mozilla are excellent choices and both provide different approaches to accessibility, making one the better choice for some than the other (having choice is great!) but here's a bit of irony -- Internet Explorer is the one directly supported by NaturallySpeaking but while I would prefer Mozilla in any case, Mozilla actually works better for me using speech recognition.
Now, if only we could get speech recognition working well natively in Linux...
[Dictated using speech recognition technology. There may be air oars]