I remember messing around with voice recognition in the 90s
The article is about speech recognition as is your post. Speech recognition is about recognizing what was said. Voice recognition is about recognizing who said it. The distinction is important since the coding and the problems associated with them are very different.
In the little farm town of 1000 people where I grew up in Wisconsin, the village clerk who was responsible for sending out the water bills. About seven or eight years ago, the clerk retired and a new one came in. The new clerk discovered that the old clerk hadn't been billing half the town for water for almost ten years. So she sent out bills to half the town for about $10,000. Of course they refused to pay. Meanwhile the other half was pissed because their bills had been artificially high for 9 years or whatever and now half the town still refused to pay. They ended up putting them on a 5 year payment plan but it caused a nice feud in town. What I could never believe is that the half that didn't get bills never questioned that.
For some things like grammer and spelling that often lack any true logic you have to just buckle down and memorize them. But for Math there is a fundamental reason why something is correct. I never bothered to memorize formulas and so for my classes. Instead I worked to understand and derive the formula. Once you understand what the formula means and the steps that lead up to it, math is easy.
Check out the Highly Skilled Migrant Permit that the UK offers. It is one of the few ways in any country to get a work permit before having a job offer. I believe New Zealand has something similar as well. You'll find it difficult to find a job in Europe at least without moving over first. I ended up getting the HSMP and moved to London were I immediately found well paying contract work. After awhile I was able to find a job in Dublin which was were I ultimately wanted to be right now. Although I wouldn't mind finding a post in Munich or Switzerland.
An extra credit question on one of my high school physics test was like that, Lois falls of a building x meters tall, Superman arrives at the top of the building y seconds later, with what velocity does he need to start in order to catch her 2 meters above the ground. I had the numbers right but he marked it wrong because I said a number but didn't say negative. Velocity has a direction as opposed to speed which doesn't. I'm still annoyed, but of course I still know the difference between the two.
Do you think this will actually prevent people getting fat and reduce the occurance of diabetes? Or, when they leave home and are suddenly able to eat all the things their parents prevented them from ever having, will they go nuts and show no restraint, because the only restraint they had previously was externally enforced and they never developed the ability to restrain themselves?
Interesting, I think you could draw some parallels here with alcohol. Binge drinking seems to be a big problem on campus, although I don't think this is the end of the world like the news seems to imply. This is yet another item that in my opinion a parent ought to be teaching their kids how to handle responsibly as opposed to being taught how to drink by a bunch of drunk upper classman.
We already have the freashman 15, perhaps after controlling what kids eat their whole life we'll have the freshman 50.
Votes where the level of agreement between the voter and the candidate dropped below 75% would be dropped.
Wow, I can't remember the last time I agreed with 75% of what a candidate said. I'd be happy if I agreed with 50%. I think you'd have to say they need to vote for the candidate that is closest.
There is also an issue that if a person wants to be a one issue voter, then they should in theory be allowed to.
Add to that fact that at least around harvest and planting time when I was a kid farmers were running their equipment 24/7. We used to run in shifts and the tractor only stopped a few mintues to refuel or breakdown. Maybe the rest of the year you would have time to charge. But when it really matters, you need a diesel engine and nobody has multiple tractors/combines unless they are a corporation farm.
Another big differenc is sugar. In the US, the main form of sugar is usually high fructose corn syrup. In most of Europe it seems to me they use plain old sugar. This makes the European versions taste better to me. Same with Snickers bars, they taste much better with real sugar.
I agree with you except for one exception. Goldeneye on the N64 controller. For some reason I found that controller perfect for the game. Easy sidestep actions, movement, aiming, firing and weapon changing. I found the controls for that game so easy to use that I managed to make my friends motion sick. Granted we'd all been drinking a lot at the time but still.
I think this is a lot more complicated than an Intro to Microeconomics course. There are more factors here than the simple price of the console. There are future sales to consider, customer and brand loyalty, marketing and hype and a whole lot of game theory. M$ is playing chess here and you're talking about them making the wrong play in checkers.
Your evidence of Ebay scalping is also purely annecdotal. Do we really have any information about how many consoles were sold at hugely inflated prices on Ebay? You can't make assumptions or decisions about the whole market based upon the outliers. Price descrimination is tough to pull off in most markets and I would say impossible to pull off when you aren't even running the stores selling the product. And without price descrimination, you'll always have people who were willing to pay more for the product that what you charged them. Hell it's known as consumer surplus and it is one of the main reasons people buy things.
Which is why I specifically mentioned once a person has paid the rent and bills and such. The people having trouble paying the bills aren't the ones working a 40 hour work week 50 weeks a year. They are the ones working 65-80 hours 52 weeks a year.
I agree with the spirit of your post but I don't think you can attribute it to capitalism relying on greed. Capitalism doesn't rely on greed, it relies on people doing what is in their own best interests. The real problem is that our values are screwed up. I don't mean the religious right kind of values, I mean the kind of values that make a person pick an extra $100 instead of a day off. Once you've paid your rent and bills and fed yourself wouldn't you rather have your time to do what you love. Congrats if your work is what you love but for most it isn't and yet they chose it anyway. At some point I think marketing must have succeded into making people believe shiny objects were the goal and many people seem to have lost sight of what is in their own interests.
I'm not saying I don't like my money, but I like what it buys me better. I suppose luckily the things I love to do cost time too. SCUBA is expensive in both time and money. So are the vacations I love to take. In the end though as long as my bills are getting paid and I've got money for my hobbies, I'd rather take a week off without pay than get paid to work it.
Do you have a point relevant to the current discussion? Sure, US does a lot of research, so do many European countries as well as some Asian ones. I think the point was simply to refute the belief by many Americans that they live in the best country in the world in every category of measurement. Don't take it personally, nobody can be the best in everything and it isn't unpatriotic to admit it. It also doesn't make you a terrorist for believing it
Well considering that Ford didn't invent the automobile, I'd say he wouldn't have deserved the patent. Ford wasn't even the first company to sell cars in the US. Henry Ford did invent the assembly line which would have been worth patenting.
I don't remember who is generally considered to have invented the automobile, but I think it is usually attributed to Benz.
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The article is about speech recognition as is your post. Speech recognition is about recognizing what was said. Voice recognition is about recognizing who said it. The distinction is important since the coding and the problems associated with them are very different.
In the little farm town of 1000 people where I grew up in Wisconsin, the village clerk who was responsible for sending out the water bills. About seven or eight years ago, the clerk retired and a new one came in. The new clerk discovered that the old clerk hadn't been billing half the town for water for almost ten years. So she sent out bills to half the town for about $10,000. Of course they refused to pay. Meanwhile the other half was pissed because their bills had been artificially high for 9 years or whatever and now half the town still refused to pay. They ended up putting them on a 5 year payment plan but it caused a nice feud in town. What I could never believe is that the half that didn't get bills never questioned that.
For some things like grammer and spelling that often lack any true logic you have to just buckle down and memorize them. But for Math there is a fundamental reason why something is correct. I never bothered to memorize formulas and so for my classes. Instead I worked to understand and derive the formula. Once you understand what the formula means and the steps that lead up to it, math is easy.
Wow Terry, I didn't know you read Slashdot. I guess that explains why you live behind your keyboard.
Or a different planet passed by within the 7 day timeframe.
Anyone feel like calculating how often a planet passes another one in our solar system?
Do you bite your thumb at me?
Check out the Highly Skilled Migrant Permit that the UK offers. It is one of the few ways in any country to get a work permit before having a job offer. I believe New Zealand has something similar as well. You'll find it difficult to find a job in Europe at least without moving over first. I ended up getting the HSMP and moved to London were I immediately found well paying contract work. After awhile I was able to find a job in Dublin which was were I ultimately wanted to be right now. Although I wouldn't mind finding a post in Munich or Switzerland.
An extra credit question on one of my high school physics test was like that, Lois falls of a building x meters tall, Superman arrives at the top of the building y seconds later, with what velocity does he need to start in order to catch her 2 meters above the ground. I had the numbers right but he marked it wrong because I said a number but didn't say negative. Velocity has a direction as opposed to speed which doesn't. I'm still annoyed, but of course I still know the difference between the two.
Interesting, I think you could draw some parallels here with alcohol. Binge drinking seems to be a big problem on campus, although I don't think this is the end of the world like the news seems to imply. This is yet another item that in my opinion a parent ought to be teaching their kids how to handle responsibly as opposed to being taught how to drink by a bunch of drunk upper classman.
We already have the freashman 15, perhaps after controlling what kids eat their whole life we'll have the freshman 50.
Erh, hello, they invented these things called fractions.
Wow, I can't remember the last time I agreed with 75% of what a candidate said. I'd be happy if I agreed with 50%. I think you'd have to say they need to vote for the candidate that is closest.
There is also an issue that if a person wants to be a one issue voter, then they should in theory be allowed to.
Where does this leave reading about a topic?
Maybe the molasses got him.
Give me a break, we all already know how many steps it is from the couch to the fridge and back.
I've had sliced bread, Vonage is better. Granted that doesn't say alot but still.
Add to that fact that at least around harvest and planting time when I was a kid farmers were running their equipment 24/7. We used to run in shifts and the tractor only stopped a few mintues to refuel or breakdown. Maybe the rest of the year you would have time to charge. But when it really matters, you need a diesel engine and nobody has multiple tractors/combines unless they are a corporation farm.
Another big differenc is sugar. In the US, the main form of sugar is usually high fructose corn syrup. In most of Europe it seems to me they use plain old sugar. This makes the European versions taste better to me. Same with Snickers bars, they taste much better with real sugar.
I agree with you except for one exception. Goldeneye on the N64 controller. For some reason I found that controller perfect for the game. Easy sidestep actions, movement, aiming, firing and weapon changing. I found the controls for that game so easy to use that I managed to make my friends motion sick. Granted we'd all been drinking a lot at the time but still.
Yes, at least according to sales. Out of my close group of friends I know of nine PS2 and only two XBox.
I think this is a lot more complicated than an Intro to Microeconomics course. There are more factors here than the simple price of the console. There are future sales to consider, customer and brand loyalty, marketing and hype and a whole lot of game theory. M$ is playing chess here and you're talking about them making the wrong play in checkers.
Your evidence of Ebay scalping is also purely annecdotal. Do we really have any information about how many consoles were sold at hugely inflated prices on Ebay? You can't make assumptions or decisions about the whole market based upon the outliers. Price descrimination is tough to pull off in most markets and I would say impossible to pull off when you aren't even running the stores selling the product. And without price descrimination, you'll always have people who were willing to pay more for the product that what you charged them. Hell it's known as consumer surplus and it is one of the main reasons people buy things.
Which is why I specifically mentioned once a person has paid the rent and bills and such. The people having trouble paying the bills aren't the ones working a 40 hour work week 50 weeks a year. They are the ones working 65-80 hours 52 weeks a year.
I'm not saying I don't like my money, but I like what it buys me better. I suppose luckily the things I love to do cost time too. SCUBA is expensive in both time and money. So are the vacations I love to take. In the end though as long as my bills are getting paid and I've got money for my hobbies, I'd rather take a week off without pay than get paid to work it.
Do you have a point relevant to the current discussion? Sure, US does a lot of research, so do many European countries as well as some Asian ones. I think the point was simply to refute the belief by many Americans that they live in the best country in the world in every category of measurement. Don't take it personally, nobody can be the best in everything and it isn't unpatriotic to admit it. It also doesn't make you a terrorist for believing it
Well considering that Ford didn't invent the automobile, I'd say he wouldn't have deserved the patent. Ford wasn't even the first company to sell cars in the US. Henry Ford did invent the assembly line which would have been worth patenting.
I don't remember who is generally considered to have invented the automobile, but I think it is usually attributed to Benz.