I'm also suspicious. The distinction between many sounds is the placement or movement of the tongue. For instance, I can whisper and be understandable without moving my vocal cords.
Yea, this is pretty funky. Tongue placement is really important, but there is more going on. Take a sentence like "I went to the zoo and saw a zebra". You can whisper that and devoice the/th/ and/z/ and vowels and it is understandable. But another sentence, say "I may buy a boat", can this system detect voiced bilabials against nasals or does it read some combination of (bay/may), (buy/my), (boat/moat)? Or, does/p/ get in there to add (pay) or (pie)? In the military context of the article, a user could be trained to use a lexicon that would be recognized by the parser, this is quite plausible. But in an outsourcing environment, for example, how would the parser pick up a Hindi unaspirated [p] or [k] versus aspirated ones? Would you train workers in a speech program? Even dialect would bring issues of muscle timing into the equation. It really sounds like a Newton text recognition system at best, the user learning to conform to the parser and using it's limitations to be efficient.
As for the near future, i'll be doing background work on One life to live (soaps are NOT my favorite medium at ALL)
Thanks for the disclaimer, I LIKE, almost thought you WEREN'T cool. BTW, in response to the past, I think the word you were looking for in describing books was literary not linguistic. Writing does not equal speech, and I would also include an actor's recitations. Which are for philologists, not linguists.
Yes, indeed! Let's make something that looks like a heavy rifle with a scope on it.
Or at least a homemade suppressor, pretty dumb. The whole folding stock option adds to the 'shoot me I'm idiot' sign on his back. He should be really k00l and whip it out at Starbucks.
"And friends, somewhere in Washington enshrined in some little folder, is a study in black and white of my fingerprints. And the only reason I'm singing you this song now is cause you may know somebody in a similar situation, or you may be in a similar situation, and if your in a situation like that there's only one thing you can do and that's walk into the shrink where ever you are, just walk in say 'Shrink, You can get anything you want, at Alice's restaurant.' And walk out."
No. Middle-earth is just a translation of the old Northern Eurpoean name for the part of the world inhabited by men as opposed to the gods, giants or other fantastic creatures: Midgard.
From OE middengeard. It's filled with all kinds of creatures, the untydras of "eotenas ond ylfe ond orcneas... gigantas" and wyrmas.
An evilbrood of giants (ala Grendel), elves, monsters/evil spirits, other giants and dragons...for people who picked a more useful minor in college. I don't know what's sadder, posting Old English to slashdot or knowing what line of Beowulf to reference.
Apple overlooked one thing however, and that's the SmallTalk language - if they had brought object-oriented programming to the Mac along with the GUI concepts right from the start then perhaps Apple's place in history might have been even greater....
SmallTalk wouldn't mature for quite some time. See http://users.ipa.net/~dwighth/squeak/oopsla_squeak.html. The early Squeak VM ran painfully slow on my old mac, let alone trying to cram it in an early 68000 mac with small roms, little memory, and floppies. To be honest, back then I wouldn't want it taking up space on a 20 meg HD.
Object-Orientated Programming was not pragmatic at the time, early development was assembler, then MPW pascal. Hypercard really brought SmallTalk's goal of programming to everyone (especially education). And it had a huge impact for Apple.
BTW, squeak was started by some of the above noted Xerox employees who migrated into Apple's ATG.
The May 1977 issue of Interface Age featured an article on Robert Uiterwyk's 4k Basic. The record included two test patterns; a "5" and "U*" stream, a loader, and basic dump.
The player was interfaced to a "Kansas City" 300 baud tape interface at 33 1/3 rpm. It is easy to understand the lack of any standard here with the warning "Don't rely on it for more than ten or twenty loads because it will wear out."
Despite what it said at http://people.smu.edu/rmonagha/computers.html it can be patched to any 6800 system with a minumum of 6k.
As far as being lopsided, that is a result of thousands of years of humans developing killer tools.
So why not use your hands? Well we haven't really done that, on this continent at least, since the middle archaic. We have globally progressed from darts, arrows, to powder charges. Is a mouse-click absured? Isn't it a logical development for efficient kills?
Effortlessness is ultimately human. Which is why we are having a discourse on this topic in a linguistically effortless environment.
I recently read an article in the American Journal of Primatology with the following keywords. infant-licking, attractiveness of mothers with newborns, female relationships, and ring-tailed lemurs. The keywords would direct you to the paper; Intra-troop affiliative relationships of females with newborn infants in wild ring-tailed lemurs. Can you imagine the flags this would raise with monitoring software or your success with blocking? Out of context the keywords would paint you as an extreme pedophile or someone with obscure sexual attractions.
A question to ask is whether this practice is merely censorship or another way to functionally define what is normal or deviant behavior within society?
Homosexuality is taboo, so the word gay is taboo. Our historical relationship with the female body to sin is represented as well as other 'deviant' sexual behavior.
On a lighter side, at least microsoft, georgebush, and arnold-schwarzenegger.com were blocked!
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I'm also suspicious. The distinction between many sounds is the placement or movement of the tongue. For instance, I can whisper and be understandable without moving my vocal cords. /th/ and /z/ and vowels and it is understandable. But another sentence, say "I may buy a boat", can this system detect voiced bilabials against nasals or does it read some combination of (bay/may), (buy/my), (boat/moat)? Or, does /p/ get in there to add (pay) or (pie)? In the military context of the article, a user could be trained to use a lexicon that would be recognized by the parser, this is quite plausible. But in an outsourcing environment, for example, how would the parser pick up a Hindi unaspirated [p] or [k] versus aspirated ones? Would you train workers in a speech program? Even dialect would bring issues of muscle timing into the equation. It really sounds like a Newton text recognition system at best, the user learning to conform to the parser and using it's limitations to be efficient.
Yea, this is pretty funky. Tongue placement is really important, but there is more going on. Take a sentence like "I went to the zoo and saw a zebra". You can whisper that and devoice the
But at least we would be able to notice the crazy guy talking to himself again.
As for the near future, i'll be doing background work on One life to live (soaps are NOT my favorite medium at ALL)
Thanks for the disclaimer, I LIKE, almost thought you WEREN'T cool. BTW, in response to the past, I think the word you were looking for in describing books was literary not linguistic. Writing does not equal speech, and I would also include an actor's recitations. Which are for philologists, not linguists.
Anyway, I've forgotten my original point here, so I'll just say this:
Dude, your syntax gave me a headache. Break off that comma key!
--
"Vat? You think I'm a Nazi?"
Yes, indeed! Let's make something that looks like a heavy rifle with a scope on it.
Or at least a homemade suppressor, pretty dumb. The whole folding stock option adds to the 'shoot me I'm idiot' sign on his back. He should be really k00l and whip it out at Starbucks.
and to top it off, they neglected to include Vulcan, Klingon, Romulan, or even Elvish in their multi-lingual Page Not Found notices...
Ungrateful lingua-fascists! How easy they forget a former employee.
Deja Vu! No wait... This isn't a Steve Jobs uses an IBM Thinkpad thread is it?
"And friends, somewhere in Washington enshrined in some little folder, is a study in black and white of my fingerprints. And the only reason I'm singing you this song now is cause you may know somebody in a similar situation, or you may be in a similar situation, and if your in a situation like that there's only one thing you can do and that's walk into the shrink where ever you are, just walk in say 'Shrink, You can get anything you want, at Alice's restaurant.' And walk out."
Couldn't resist following that up!
No. Middle-earth is just a translation of the old Northern Eurpoean name for the part of the world inhabited by men as opposed to the gods, giants or other fantastic creatures: Midgard.
... gigantas" and wyrmas.
From OE middengeard. It's filled with all kinds of creatures, the untydras of "eotenas ond ylfe ond orcneas
An evilbrood of giants (ala Grendel), elves, monsters/evil spirits, other giants and dragons...for people who picked a more useful minor in college. I don't know what's sadder, posting Old English to slashdot or knowing what line of Beowulf to reference.
Apple overlooked one thing however, and that's the SmallTalk language - if they had brought object-oriented programming to the Mac along with the GUI concepts right from the start then perhaps Apple's place in history might have been even greater....
k .html. The early Squeak VM ran painfully slow on my old mac, let alone trying to cram it in an early 68000 mac with small roms, little memory, and floppies. To be honest, back then I wouldn't want it taking up space on a 20 meg HD.
Object-Orientated Programming was not pragmatic at the time, early development was assembler, then MPW pascal. Hypercard really brought SmallTalk's goal of programming to everyone (especially education). And it had a huge impact for Apple.
SmallTalk wouldn't mature for quite some time. See http://users.ipa.net/~dwighth/squeak/oopsla_squea
BTW, squeak was started by some of the above noted Xerox employees who migrated into Apple's ATG.
The May 1977 issue of Interface Age featured an article on Robert Uiterwyk's 4k Basic. The record included two test patterns; a "5" and "U*" stream, a loader, and basic dump. The player was interfaced to a "Kansas City" 300 baud tape interface at 33 1/3 rpm. It is easy to understand the lack of any standard here with the warning "Don't rely on it for more than ten or twenty loads because it will wear out."
Despite what it said at http://people.smu.edu/rmonagha/computers.html it can be patched to any 6800 system with a minumum of 6k.
As far as being lopsided, that is a result of thousands of years of humans developing killer tools. So why not use your hands? Well we haven't really done that, on this continent at least, since the middle archaic. We have globally progressed from darts, arrows, to powder charges. Is a mouse-click absured? Isn't it a logical development for efficient kills? Effortlessness is ultimately human. Which is why we are having a discourse on this topic in a linguistically effortless environment.
I recently read an article in the American Journal of Primatology with the following keywords. infant-licking, attractiveness of mothers with newborns, female relationships, and ring-tailed lemurs. The keywords would direct you to the paper; Intra-troop affiliative relationships of females with newborn infants in wild ring-tailed lemurs. Can you imagine the flags this would raise with monitoring software or your success with blocking? Out of context the keywords would paint you as an extreme pedophile or someone with obscure sexual attractions. A question to ask is whether this practice is merely censorship or another way to functionally define what is normal or deviant behavior within society? Homosexuality is taboo, so the word gay is taboo. Our historical relationship with the female body to sin is represented as well as other 'deviant' sexual behavior. On a lighter side, at least microsoft, georgebush, and arnold-schwarzenegger.com were blocked!