This is quite amazing in the idea not just of speech2text, but of a different mode. The Universal Translator. It would be very nice to have the dictiation of the accuracy of a good secratary or an army of them at the board meeting, but what if those at the board meeting are from different countries? Set up the computer, have it fed through a blah to blah dictionary and print it out the other side on a completely different language! This has more uses than just dictation. Off hand this is invaluable to things like the UN, Nato, the EU, International Deplomacy, and we can even understand what the hell those operators in India are actually saying!
The other thing that this spells to me (haha I made a funny) is the specialization of computer components. Rather than having 1 main processor and a sorta second and third in the North Bridge and GPU we have dedicated processors for the different functions! One for the Graphics, Sound, Integer math, Floating point math, the possibilities are endless. This may be a futuristic idea, but the pracitcal uses will be more general advancements in how computers are used and thought of.
3Com is claiming exactly what everyone wishes to claim, their product is better, their service is better and more in tune with what the customer wants, and above all its cheaper. What they are claiming is not even possible by NASA. You can't have everything as it goes. Every company has found this out and concentrated on 2 of the above. Cisco has decided to provide the best but for a premium, 3com wants it all for less.
How do they see themselves as competing against the industy measuring stick in product AND provide it cheaper? Last time I saw one of these claims wasn't from a Fortune 500 company, it was an infomercial declaring its blender could take the place of 50+ kitchen appliences. In this world of computers you get what you pay for and only stiff compitition can drive down a price, not a loose claim from an outdated company. 3com may have balls to make such a large claim, but obviously not the brains to make it happen.
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The other thing that this spells to me (haha I made a funny) is the specialization of computer components. Rather than having 1 main processor and a sorta second and third in the North Bridge and GPU we have dedicated processors for the different functions! One for the Graphics, Sound, Integer math, Floating point math, the possibilities are endless. This may be a futuristic idea, but the pracitcal uses will be more general advancements in how computers are used and thought of.
3Com is claiming exactly what everyone wishes to claim, their product is better, their service is better and more in tune with what the customer wants, and above all its cheaper. What they are claiming is not even possible by NASA. You can't have everything as it goes. Every company has found this out and concentrated on 2 of the above. Cisco has decided to provide the best but for a premium, 3com wants it all for less. How do they see themselves as competing against the industy measuring stick in product AND provide it cheaper? Last time I saw one of these claims wasn't from a Fortune 500 company, it was an infomercial declaring its blender could take the place of 50+ kitchen appliences. In this world of computers you get what you pay for and only stiff compitition can drive down a price, not a loose claim from an outdated company. 3com may have balls to make such a large claim, but obviously not the brains to make it happen.