It could also be marketed as "run a voice-controlled program on your 15 year old PC" or "Like speech recognition? Don't want to send your data to Google? You're in luck! Now with Python-y goodness!" Neither of those are as heavy on buzzwords, though. At the very least, you get an idea of the minimum requirements to use the project.
If the device can't run full-blown Linux with either ALSA or OSS support, then it sounds like you're out of luck. Full language models seem to be around 50MB of data, although I assume that simpler models could be used if recognition is constrained to a certain word set.
Compiled on my system, libsphinxbase.a is 298KB after being stripped, and the shared library is 302KB. That sounds like it's pretty far out of the size range that you're looking for.
That'd be akin to calling genetic diseases that manifest later in life a "natural occurrence".
Genetic diseases later in life (i.e. after breeding age) *are* a natural occurrence. Natural isn't a synonym for either "inevitable" or "desirable". Appeal to Nature is actually considered a logical fallacy; saying "Death is natural" is true, but continuing by saying "therefore it is inherently good" is fallacious.
Some states provide 85 octane gas/petrol as their regular unleaded (apparently due to outdated studies of the effects of altitude on the combustion of fuel. US octane numbers are measured in AKI (Anti-Knock Index), though. Europe uses RON, which is a different scale. Add 4 or 5 to the US AKI numbers, and you've got an approximate value of how the gas would be rated in Europe.
The NIH's budget is more than that; I'm not sure where you got your numbers.
The NIH invests nearly $30.1* billion annually in medical research for the American people.
* This amount reflects the sum of discretionary budget authority of $29,928 million received by NIH in FY 2014 under The Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2014, Public Law (P.L.) 113-76 net of transfers as well as a mandatory $139 million for special type 1 diabetes research authorized per P.L. 111-309 and P.L. 112-40. Details regarding current appropriations are available at http://officeofbudget.od.nih.g....
Currently, the RAM is actually on top of the CPU/GPU in a Package-on-package arrangement. It's the way that the SoC is designed and provided by Broadcom. The only way to provide 1GB of RAM seems to be to redesign the whole board and separate the RAM from the CPU (trading off speed for capacity).
The Slashdot editors are likely to assume that everyone on Slashdot knows a handful of companies/products that have been talked about a lot lately (like Bitcoin, Airbnb, Uber, RaspberryPi, Tesla, and a few others). It's usually not true that everyone knows what all of them are, but complaining is only sporadically effective.
Tourists bring money from other economies into circulation in the local economy. Hotels are more expensive than residences, tourists are essentially forced into paying for restaurant food, and they pay at most attractions to see the sights. Property taxes are paid by the hotel that the tourists stay at. Presumably, the residents of the city also visit other places, where they don't pay income tax (being tourists, themselves). Things ought to balance out, in general.
First, your school doesn't need to be "part" of the program.
Thanks for the clarification. Some of the wording was vague and made it sound like the program was provided through a school, rather than being available to an individual student. The student sign up site seems to require a school e-mail address, a verification code from the school or a Microsoft representative, or with an ISIC (which I'd never heard of before, at least not specifically by that name). 2 of those 3 point to the school being involved, and getting an ISIC looks to be something the student would have to do on their own, in at least some cases.
If you're going to hook up your expensive device that's running what's essentially an embedded copy of XP to the Internet, then it's not Microsoft that made the mistake. AECL actually made numerous engineering mistakes in their product. An analogous situation to the Therac-25 problems would be if the medical device/robot/SCADA company wrote bad control software/drivers for their devices. Going the other direction, if the Therac-25's software had been perfect, but the PDP-11 caught a virus when someone connected it to a network, would that be AECL's fault? The fault of the company that wrote the PDP-11's OS?
Apples and oranges. A safety defect in a car can mean death and injury. A security issue in an old OS can mean data theft or other shenanigans, but not generally something fatal. From a more cynical perspective, settling a single wrongful death suit may cost more than doing a best-effort recall of the remaining '96 Tauruses on the road. Microsoft would be able to state that it had fulfilled its Windows XP support contracts and provided an upgrade path to still-supported products. Anyhow, Sasser never killed anyone.
That works out well for the subset of schools that MS has partnerships with, and it apparently starts at the secondary education level. I was interested in programming in primary school, but had no guidance or resources at that time. IMO, if they're providing tools starting in high school, that's a little late (and that assumes that my child will be going to a school in the DreamSpark program).
Huh, I've never seen that before (that large of a Wal-Mart, I mean, not the overzealous proselytizers). In my eyes, they did more to hurt their cause than to help it. It should've ended when you said "No thanks."
An actor named Robert Newton, from Dorset, played both Long John SIlver and Edward Teach (both from Bristol) in Disney movies in the 1950s. He used a West Country accent to be appropriate for the characters. Apparently, it stuck when other actors were designing their own performances.
Or do both. Short number code, some diagnostic data on the screen, and a QR code linking to more info. The QR doesn't have to be much more than a couple square cm in a corner of the screen.
It is, but peer-to-peer doesn't mean "magic". Lots of older games are designed so that you can just plug in someone's IP to connect to their server. For the game to get a server list though, there has to be somewhere that hosts the list and will respond to clients requesting a copy of it. Basically, even for a P2P connection, you need some form of broker that points you over to where the "swarm" is.
Hamachi is a zero-configuration VPN system that used to be free, but now needs a subscription to unlock some of its features. It's been years since I've used it personally, so I don't know exactly which features are available to free users and which are limited to subscription-paying users.
Custom-manufacturing a board isn't cheap, especially in small production runs. A high volume of sales would mean larger production runs, which would lead to lower prices.
What's the best practice to deal with rejection of your application by a platform's exclusive gatekeeper?
Depends on the rules that the gatekeeper has for acceptance. It should be noted that in Nintendo's case, the answer is "Rule 1: Be a big game developer. Rule 2: Don't be a small game developer." (as opposed to "lock yourself in a room for 100 days"). If some platform has overly-onerous requirements, find another platform; you've got plenty of choices out there, and none of them are big enough to be the only practical option.
What are you talking about? The previous comment states that no one but Apple can stream from an iTunes library, and that includes Roku, Chromecast, and Fire. I don't know the truth of the matter, but it seems like you're saying something unrelated to what the GP was saying.
Nine months and you've already covered the cost of a Bluetooth remote so that you can reuse an existing PC that has HDMI, DVI, or VGA output.
I don't know about you, but my spare computers aren't capable of running modern streaming video. The ones that can are in use in applications that aren't covered by cheap streaming boxes. Anyhow, if you're saying that 9 months at $8/month ($72) is the cost of a bluetooth remote, I'd argue that you're better off picking up a Roku at that price.
I've heard the car/truck analogy applied to "mobile" devices vs. PCs as well. But in this analogy, what corresponds to rental?
The console/PC that you borrow from a friend on a one-time basis to do the heavier lifting that the "Ford Focus" can't do well.
Consoles and PCs chew power and spit out noise. Even a Blu-ray player is 10-15x the size of a Roku, and would either require an upper-tier player for wireless connectivity or an external adapter. My Roku also supports more video sources than my Blu-ray player does. In my case, I've got 2 TVs. One has a network run, the consoles, etc. The other is in my bedroom with just a Roku and a (older, non-smart) Blu-ray. With no extra wires, I've got a setup that's silent, cheap, small, and remote-controllable. A Chromecast would work, if I liked using my phone as a remote (and cutting my wife off from streaming video in that room when I'm not home).
My company frequently encourages us to Tweet/Facebook product/PR announcements on our private feeds. We're a couple steps short of being required to do so, but if we ever hit that point, that's when I'm looking for a change of employment. I expect to be paid for the software I write, not for flogging said software. Given a sufficient raise, I'd sell out (it's not as if I have a moral objection to the product I work on). If they don't want to pay me enough, there are other development companies in the area, and I'm sure that one of them would like to pay me just for writing software.
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It could also be marketed as "run a voice-controlled program on your 15 year old PC" or "Like speech recognition? Don't want to send your data to Google? You're in luck! Now with Python-y goodness!" Neither of those are as heavy on buzzwords, though. At the very least, you get an idea of the minimum requirements to use the project.
If the device can't run full-blown Linux with either ALSA or OSS support, then it sounds like you're out of luck. Full language models seem to be around 50MB of data, although I assume that simpler models could be used if recognition is constrained to a certain word set.
Compiled on my system, libsphinxbase.a is 298KB after being stripped, and the shared library is 302KB. That sounds like it's pretty far out of the size range that you're looking for.
That'd be akin to calling genetic diseases that manifest later in life a "natural occurrence".
Genetic diseases later in life (i.e. after breeding age) *are* a natural occurrence. Natural isn't a synonym for either "inevitable" or "desirable". Appeal to Nature is actually considered a logical fallacy; saying "Death is natural" is true, but continuing by saying "therefore it is inherently good" is fallacious.
Some states provide 85 octane gas/petrol as their regular unleaded (apparently due to outdated studies of the effects of altitude on the combustion of fuel. US octane numbers are measured in AKI (Anti-Knock Index), though. Europe uses RON, which is a different scale. Add 4 or 5 to the US AKI numbers, and you've got an approximate value of how the gas would be rated in Europe.
The NIH invests nearly $30.1* billion annually in medical research for the American people.
* This amount reflects the sum of discretionary budget authority of $29,928 million received by NIH in FY 2014 under The Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2014, Public Law (P.L.) 113-76 net of transfers as well as a mandatory $139 million for special type 1 diabetes research authorized per P.L. 111-309 and P.L. 112-40. Details regarding current appropriations are available at http://officeofbudget.od.nih.g....
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Currently, the RAM is actually on top of the CPU/GPU in a Package-on-package arrangement. It's the way that the SoC is designed and provided by Broadcom. The only way to provide 1GB of RAM seems to be to redesign the whole board and separate the RAM from the CPU (trading off speed for capacity).
The Slashdot editors are likely to assume that everyone on Slashdot knows a handful of companies/products that have been talked about a lot lately (like Bitcoin, Airbnb, Uber, RaspberryPi, Tesla, and a few others). It's usually not true that everyone knows what all of them are, but complaining is only sporadically effective.
Tourists bring money from other economies into circulation in the local economy. Hotels are more expensive than residences, tourists are essentially forced into paying for restaurant food, and they pay at most attractions to see the sights. Property taxes are paid by the hotel that the tourists stay at. Presumably, the residents of the city also visit other places, where they don't pay income tax (being tourists, themselves). Things ought to balance out, in general.
First, your school doesn't need to be "part" of the program.
Thanks for the clarification. Some of the wording was vague and made it sound like the program was provided through a school, rather than being available to an individual student. The student sign up site seems to require a school e-mail address, a verification code from the school or a Microsoft representative, or with an ISIC (which I'd never heard of before, at least not specifically by that name). 2 of those 3 point to the school being involved, and getting an ISIC looks to be something the student would have to do on their own, in at least some cases.
If you're going to hook up your expensive device that's running what's essentially an embedded copy of XP to the Internet, then it's not Microsoft that made the mistake. AECL actually made numerous engineering mistakes in their product. An analogous situation to the Therac-25 problems would be if the medical device/robot/SCADA company wrote bad control software/drivers for their devices. Going the other direction, if the Therac-25's software had been perfect, but the PDP-11 caught a virus when someone connected it to a network, would that be AECL's fault? The fault of the company that wrote the PDP-11's OS?
Apples and oranges. A safety defect in a car can mean death and injury. A security issue in an old OS can mean data theft or other shenanigans, but not generally something fatal. From a more cynical perspective, settling a single wrongful death suit may cost more than doing a best-effort recall of the remaining '96 Tauruses on the road. Microsoft would be able to state that it had fulfilled its Windows XP support contracts and provided an upgrade path to still-supported products. Anyhow, Sasser never killed anyone.
That works out well for the subset of schools that MS has partnerships with, and it apparently starts at the secondary education level. I was interested in programming in primary school, but had no guidance or resources at that time. IMO, if they're providing tools starting in high school, that's a little late (and that assumes that my child will be going to a school in the DreamSpark program).
Huh, I've never seen that before (that large of a Wal-Mart, I mean, not the overzealous proselytizers). In my eyes, they did more to hurt their cause than to help it. It should've ended when you said "No thanks."
Thank you for providing citations. I'm sure that those pages are where I originally got my information.
I did have someone try to convert me and my family in a Walmart elevator once, though.
Wait, there are elevators in Wal Mart?
An actor named Robert Newton, from Dorset, played both Long John SIlver and Edward Teach (both from Bristol) in Disney movies in the 1950s. He used a West Country accent to be appropriate for the characters. Apparently, it stuck when other actors were designing their own performances.
Or do both. Short number code, some diagnostic data on the screen, and a QR code linking to more info. The QR doesn't have to be much more than a couple square cm in a corner of the screen.
It is, but peer-to-peer doesn't mean "magic". Lots of older games are designed so that you can just plug in someone's IP to connect to their server. For the game to get a server list though, there has to be somewhere that hosts the list and will respond to clients requesting a copy of it. Basically, even for a P2P connection, you need some form of broker that points you over to where the "swarm" is.
Hamachi is a zero-configuration VPN system that used to be free, but now needs a subscription to unlock some of its features. It's been years since I've used it personally, so I don't know exactly which features are available to free users and which are limited to subscription-paying users.
Custom-manufacturing a board isn't cheap, especially in small production runs. A high volume of sales would mean larger production runs, which would lead to lower prices.
What's the best practice to deal with rejection of your application by a platform's exclusive gatekeeper?
Depends on the rules that the gatekeeper has for acceptance. It should be noted that in Nintendo's case, the answer is "Rule 1: Be a big game developer. Rule 2: Don't be a small game developer." (as opposed to "lock yourself in a room for 100 days"). If some platform has overly-onerous requirements, find another platform; you've got plenty of choices out there, and none of them are big enough to be the only practical option.
What are you talking about? The previous comment states that no one but Apple can stream from an iTunes library, and that includes Roku, Chromecast, and Fire. I don't know the truth of the matter, but it seems like you're saying something unrelated to what the GP was saying.
Nine months and you've already covered the cost of a Bluetooth remote so that you can reuse an existing PC that has HDMI, DVI, or VGA output.
I don't know about you, but my spare computers aren't capable of running modern streaming video. The ones that can are in use in applications that aren't covered by cheap streaming boxes. Anyhow, if you're saying that 9 months at $8/month ($72) is the cost of a bluetooth remote, I'd argue that you're better off picking up a Roku at that price.
I've heard the car/truck analogy applied to "mobile" devices vs. PCs as well. But in this analogy, what corresponds to rental?
The console/PC that you borrow from a friend on a one-time basis to do the heavier lifting that the "Ford Focus" can't do well.
Consoles and PCs chew power and spit out noise. Even a Blu-ray player is 10-15x the size of a Roku, and would either require an upper-tier player for wireless connectivity or an external adapter. My Roku also supports more video sources than my Blu-ray player does. In my case, I've got 2 TVs. One has a network run, the consoles, etc. The other is in my bedroom with just a Roku and a (older, non-smart) Blu-ray. With no extra wires, I've got a setup that's silent, cheap, small, and remote-controllable. A Chromecast would work, if I liked using my phone as a remote (and cutting my wife off from streaming video in that room when I'm not home).
My company frequently encourages us to Tweet/Facebook product/PR announcements on our private feeds. We're a couple steps short of being required to do so, but if we ever hit that point, that's when I'm looking for a change of employment. I expect to be paid for the software I write, not for flogging said software. Given a sufficient raise, I'd sell out (it's not as if I have a moral objection to the product I work on). If they don't want to pay me enough, there are other development companies in the area, and I'm sure that one of them would like to pay me just for writing software.