" Voice recognition works well only for words that are commonly used."
Not necessarily true. The newer voice compression schemes used in mobile phones work by recognizing phoenemes. Speaker independent name dialling (ie you don't need to record a voice tag for each name in your phone book) is already under development by all the major manufacturers and is already in some phones, if I am not mistaken. Using the same algorithm for other things isn't terribly complicated.
Several people, who presumably didn't RTFA, have been making comments with AOLer speak. This brings up something that has been worrying me for quite some time; what laws apply to instant messages sent over the internet ie AIM, MSN messenger, Yahoo messenger, etc. Do the hosting companies keep records of these? Do ISP's? Are government agencies allowed to intercept them?
My great-grandmother was recently interviewed for her hundredth birthday. In the course of the interview she was asked this question. Her answer was: "Indoor plumbing". I'm not saying the answer of one woman invalidates your claim, but it does make you think; What is more important to you having non-gas lighting, a PC, microwave oven, mobile phone, etc.
or not having to walk outside when you need to take a sh!t?
Slow down there bucko. I happen to agree that we are going to need to use nuclear power in a few years, regardless of kyoto. There just aren't enough fossil fuels left. I think it is ridiculous that environmentalists block them. They could be much safer and cleaner if research into the construction and theory was allowed and better funded.
As far as the ad hominem attack on my computer usage, I do what I can. My profession requires a computer. I tried to choose one that would be energy efficient. I use power conserving settings when possible. Computers use a pittance of energy compared to things like driving a large automobile or using the air conditioner, the former of which I avoid when possible and the latter I exclude entirely.
a) don't sign the kyoto protocol and keep on pumping out greenhouse gases and other assorted nasty stuff b) sign the kyoto protocol and start using nuclear power c) sign the kyoto protocol and stop living in a materialistic energy centered world
Man, its really hilarious sometimes how badly humanity in general, and the united states in particular, has fscked ourselves.
Check to see if your service provider has some way of sending emails to your phone that arrive at SMS. It will probably be something along the lines of sending an email to @.com. Attach the ringtone to the email
"Yes, and our cinematic treatment of them often glosses this over in a big way. Witness the new movie "Troy", which totally fails to mention the love affair of Achilles and Patroclus. Instead, Achilles is a totally straight sex god, which is pretty funny."
What do you want, for them to start giving fashion advice and home decorating tips in the middle of the battle?
And what if Starbucks printed a price of $3.50 for a grande mocha espresso, but asked for $5.37 when you ordered one and then explained that it was "coffee ground disposal fee" that increased the price?
I can tell you that I certainly wouldn't buy coffee there. Actually I don't now, but I would be even more disinclined to buy coffee there.
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there are cell phone's with camears with flash in development right now.
the biggest hindrance as i've heard it is lens quality and its relation to size. since everything is small on phones you have to use a plastic lens.
"Sorry but beyond letting you avoid buying entire albums Apple isn't doing anyone any favors with the Itunes store and they certainly aren't contributing to World Peace."
Last week I heard a Johnny Cash song on the radio that I liked. I walked in to a music store to try to get it. The clerk tried to find it using a terminal in the store hooked up to amazon. After about 20 minutes and not being able to figure out what CD it was on, let alone if it was in stock, he gave up. I went home. I was able to get it in about 15 minutes off of iTunes. This included time spent downloading the program and signing up for the service.
I would say iTunes has helped me out a great deal.
Its a problem with the way science is presented. Almost all theories are approached from a very narrow angle, that of the particular researcher's emphasis. This is a fine method for a proof, but ignores that most topics should be approached from a variety of directions. This method of proof gets people used to thinking in a very linear, exclusive sort of way about science. Pseudo-scientists and snake oil salesmen pray upon this by showing a small amount of data that correlates with what they are trying to prove.
Something along the lines of the robots from Futurama trying to hold legal proceedings. Imagine a tense courtroom full of judgebots, jury bots, shady criminal defense bots, idealistic district attroney bots, a comical oafish bailiff bot.
Robot Judge: Before us stands the accused Bender. You stand on trial for five counts of stealing gin from orphans, 3 counts of vehicular petty larceny involving heavy construction equipment and 1 count of jay walking. How do you plea?
Bender: Bite my shiny metal a$$
Robot Judge: I sentence you to 100 years gas mining on the sun.
Bender: aww crap
A friend of mine works for a webhosting company. His services get billed to clients for anywhere from $50 to $250 an hour. He tells me that regularly people on $70 / year hosting plans will have him perform several hours of labor.
One of his copyrighted works got posted on USENET. He told one of the larger providers of USENET access to take it off. Seems a pretty reasonable thing to do.
The court case only arose because AOL utterly fucked up in the procedure they used for reporting copyright violation.
The few meth addicts I have known use prepaid GSM cards for everything. I would say they are one rung below terrorists on the paranoia ladder and you cannot get them to talk on a landline or registered modile line.
The philosophy of the FSF is that Free Speech is endangered when people keep recipes secret. Any time something is created value is added in the world. Keeping the creation in the hands of a select few lessens this value.
I don't agree that what the FSF proproses can be executed in the real world all the time, but it is a useful ideal.
At my place of employment, build process and version management is done with Sun software, but just about every other program necessary for employees to do their job is Windows based.
I would say about 90% of the people I work with always have a X server window open on their PC's.
Before the panel could act, Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy Thompson rejected the recommendation and replaced two members of the panel with individuals tied to the lead industry, Knobloch said. There's a lead industry? And it has influence in washington?
[I]maxim: cycles are cheap, people are expensive.[/I]
Two words: embedded applications
In the field I work on we need software that will run well on a low power processor now, not 18 months from now. In fact, architectural decisions are made before I even get my requirements. If I went to my boss and said "I have a code design, but it won't run well unless you give me better hardware" he would tell me to clear out my desk.
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It would make more sense to subtract the value of the options from retained earnings when they are exercised.
" Voice recognition works well only for words that are commonly used." Not necessarily true. The newer voice compression schemes used in mobile phones work by recognizing phoenemes. Speaker independent name dialling (ie you don't need to record a voice tag for each name in your phone book) is already under development by all the major manufacturers and is already in some phones, if I am not mistaken. Using the same algorithm for other things isn't terribly complicated.
As both a surfer and embedded systems engineer, I have to say this ranks as one of the most worthless products I have ever seen.
So its a record company buying fake airtime to promote fake popularity so the look better on their own fake ratings system.
Several people, who presumably didn't RTFA, have been making comments with AOLer speak. This brings up something that has been worrying me for quite some time; what laws apply to instant messages sent over the internet ie AIM, MSN messenger, Yahoo messenger, etc. Do the hosting companies keep records of these? Do ISP's? Are government agencies allowed to intercept them?
" Valerie Slow Horse prefers a floppy disk for data transfer..."
more like a station wagon full of backup tapes.
Attack by two or more individuals is far more common than being attacked by a lone mugger.
My great-grandmother was recently interviewed for her hundredth birthday. In the course of the interview she was asked this question. Her answer was: "Indoor plumbing". I'm not saying the answer of one woman invalidates your claim, but it does make you think; What is more important to you having non-gas lighting, a PC, microwave oven, mobile phone, etc.
or not having to walk outside when you need to take a sh!t?
Slow down there bucko. I happen to agree that we are going to need to use nuclear power in a few years, regardless of kyoto. There just aren't enough fossil fuels left. I think it is ridiculous that environmentalists block them. They could be much safer and cleaner if research into the construction and theory was allowed and better funded.
As far as the ad hominem attack on my computer usage, I do what I can. My profession requires a computer. I tried to choose one that would be energy efficient. I use power conserving settings when possible. Computers use a pittance of energy compared to things like driving a large automobile or using the air conditioner, the former of which I avoid when possible and the latter I exclude entirely.
So what you are saying is that our choices are:
a) don't sign the kyoto protocol and keep on pumping out greenhouse gases and other assorted nasty stuff
b) sign the kyoto protocol and start using nuclear power
c) sign the kyoto protocol and stop living in a materialistic energy centered world
Man, its really hilarious sometimes how badly humanity in general, and the united states in particular, has fscked ourselves.
Check to see if your service provider has some way of sending emails to your phone that arrive at SMS. It will probably be something along the lines of sending an email to @.com. Attach the ringtone to the email
"Yes, and our cinematic treatment of them often glosses this over in a big way. Witness the new movie "Troy", which totally fails to mention the love affair of Achilles and Patroclus. Instead, Achilles is a totally straight sex god, which is pretty funny." What do you want, for them to start giving fashion advice and home decorating tips in the middle of the battle?
And what if Starbucks printed a price of $3.50 for a grande mocha espresso, but asked for $5.37 when you ordered one and then explained that it was "coffee ground disposal fee" that increased the price? I can tell you that I certainly wouldn't buy coffee there. Actually I don't now, but I would be even more disinclined to buy coffee there.
there are cell phone's with camears with flash in development right now. the biggest hindrance as i've heard it is lens quality and its relation to size. since everything is small on phones you have to use a plastic lens.
"Sorry but beyond letting you avoid buying entire albums Apple isn't doing anyone any favors with the Itunes store and they certainly aren't contributing to World Peace."
Last week I heard a Johnny Cash song on the radio that I liked. I walked in to a music store to try to get it. The clerk tried to find it using a terminal in the store hooked up to amazon. After about 20 minutes and not being able to figure out what CD it was on, let alone if it was in stock, he gave up. I went home. I was able to get it in about 15 minutes off of iTunes. This included time spent downloading the program and signing up for the service.
I would say iTunes has helped me out a great deal.
Its a problem with the way science is presented. Almost all theories are approached from a very narrow angle, that of the particular researcher's emphasis. This is a fine method for a proof, but ignores that most topics should be approached from a variety of directions. This method of proof gets people used to thinking in a very linear, exclusive sort of way about science. Pseudo-scientists and snake oil salesmen pray upon this by showing a small amount of data that correlates with what they are trying to prove.
Something along the lines of the robots from Futurama trying to hold legal proceedings. Imagine a tense courtroom full of judgebots, jury bots, shady criminal defense bots, idealistic district attroney bots, a comical oafish bailiff bot. Robot Judge: Before us stands the accused Bender. You stand on trial for five counts of stealing gin from orphans, 3 counts of vehicular petty larceny involving heavy construction equipment and 1 count of jay walking. How do you plea? Bender: Bite my shiny metal a$$ Robot Judge: I sentence you to 100 years gas mining on the sun. Bender: aww crap
A friend of mine works for a webhosting company. His services get billed to clients for anywhere from $50 to $250 an hour. He tells me that regularly people on $70 / year hosting plans will have him perform several hours of labor.
One of his copyrighted works got posted on USENET. He told one of the larger providers of USENET access to take it off. Seems a pretty reasonable thing to do.
The court case only arose because AOL utterly fucked up in the procedure they used for reporting copyright violation.
The few meth addicts I have known use prepaid GSM cards for everything. I would say they are one rung below terrorists on the paranoia ladder and you cannot get them to talk on a landline or registered modile line.
The philosophy of the FSF is that Free Speech is endangered when people keep recipes secret. Any time something is created value is added in the world. Keeping the creation in the hands of a select few lessens this value. I don't agree that what the FSF proproses can be executed in the real world all the time, but it is a useful ideal.
Because people expect lots of collateral damage with bombs, but you hit just one innocent bystander with a bullet and everyone gets huffy.
At my place of employment, build process and version management is done with Sun software, but just about every other program necessary for employees to do their job is Windows based. I would say about 90% of the people I work with always have a X server window open on their PC's.
Before the panel could act, Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy Thompson rejected the recommendation and replaced two members of the panel with individuals tied to the lead industry, Knobloch said.
There's a lead industry?
And it has influence in washington?
[I]maxim: cycles are cheap, people are expensive.[/I] Two words: embedded applications In the field I work on we need software that will run well on a low power processor now, not 18 months from now. In fact, architectural decisions are made before I even get my requirements. If I went to my boss and said "I have a code design, but it won't run well unless you give me better hardware" he would tell me to clear out my desk.