Already available, and essentially a good usage of the reviewed software. Carry the Pocket PC with the recognition software on it and it will record your speach and recognize it. Later, insert that recognized speach into another document. In some cases (Dictaphone?), they have a docking station to recieve a digital voice recorder that retrieves the recorded speach and recognizes it.
It strikes me that address books in phones are nothing more than a version of a Hosts file; a way of linking a difficult to recall numeric code with a sensible name.
With cellphones increasingly being assigned IP addresses (and in China, these are already IPv6), what we need is a way of applying DNS to phones and getting a way to have a search find who we are looking for.
Looking at the referenced pics, it appears Toshiba let their industrial designers show their fantasy creations as though they were actual upcoming products. Short of the released.85 hard drive, nothing looks like it is more than a mockup (and let's not talk about the "specs").
What really pushed it to that level were the headphones with integrated display which used what you were looking at to control the cursor. This is such an old staple of science fiction, that every tech company has some design for it sitting on a shelf.
There's something about print books that I just love. They are simple to read (dont have to stare at a computer screen, or sit with 200 printed pages). Books are also great to collect, my bookcase is like my trophy case of all my literary accomplishments
They actually sell these things in, of all places, a bookstore. Publishers love letting you pay them to print the things.
On a related but separate note, what every happened to the ultrahigh resolution (200-250 dpi) displays which were being talked about a couple of years ago?
I often read a great deal of my news and general research on the screen. I do this at a variety of screen resolutions, but often at 1024 x 768 up to 1600 x 1200 always at a refresh of 75 Hertz or higher.
I've made no special adaptations for purity of screen color or gamma.
I have excellent low light vision and wear sunglasses only on the brightest of days or in special circumstances like spending time in high glare situations (on the water, bright sand, snow, etc.).
I've even read entire novels on the comparatively low resolution of an early Palm III. In that instance, the greater annoyance was more the small amount of text per "page" than the quality of the image.
Just with a quick browsing through the list of responses, I think that this suggestion stands out as both well thought-out and has a reasonable hope of being accurate.
Napster's explosive growth was the first sign that P2P apps had the potential to be a killer app. The wide perception is that the P2P music swapping apps are driving the uptake of broadband usage in the US and elsewhere. Even with their somewhat difficult interfaces and limited success of searches, the current P2P apps are wildly popular.
Right now, BitTorrent is the domain of geeks (and thus fits neatly among Tim O'Reilly's criteria), but the benefits can be quickly explained to the layman.
Like your speculated Torrent browser plugin, the Freenet project distributes content based on demand and matches the distribution to the bandwidth. Another step along the way.
1. The speed of sound in water is actually faster than in the air (it is related to density).
2. Pay attention to the anticipated speed that they feel can be accomplished with the engine. 90 knots is faster than most torpedoes (ignoring the rocket propelled supercavitating ones). The users of this engine may not care too greatly about being noticed since they can outrun just about anything which could attack them.
I highly doubt that "Return of the King" can be downloaded since it isn't finished as of yet.
Just as with the upcoming "The Two Towers", there is more work (largely effects and editing) to be completed on "Return of the King" before its late 2003 release.
Check out this Ottawa Citizen article. Both Adobe and Corel say that the takeover rumour is just that -- a rumour. Says Adobe, "there is no absolutely no truth to this whatsoever."
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I've already posted about this on a posting at my site.
Essentially, this is nothing more than publicly stating what is already the law in most states
Already available, and essentially a good usage of the reviewed software. Carry the Pocket PC with the recognition software on it and it will record your speach and recognize it. Later, insert that recognized speach into another document. In some cases (Dictaphone?), they have a docking station to recieve a digital voice recorder that retrieves the recorded speach and recognizes it.
It strikes me that address books in phones are nothing more than a version of a Hosts file; a way of linking a difficult to recall numeric code with a sensible name.
With cellphones increasingly being assigned IP addresses (and in China, these are already IPv6), what we need is a way of applying DNS to phones and getting a way to have a search find who we are looking for.
Excellent reference and this should be modded up.
.85 hard drive, nothing looks like it is more than a mockup (and let's not talk about the "specs").
Looking at the referenced pics, it appears Toshiba let their industrial designers show their fantasy creations as though they were actual upcoming products. Short of the released
What really pushed it to that level were the headphones with integrated display which used what you were looking at to control the cursor. This is such an old staple of science fiction, that every tech company has some design for it sitting on a shelf.
They actually sell these things in, of all places, a bookstore. Publishers love letting you pay them to print the things.
Imagine some sort of transceiver device in your automobile which automaticaly changes micropayment tolls just for going down certain roads.
I take it you mean something like this proposal or this item that were recently put forth in the UK?
True, but PV-tile roofing doesn't deliver anywhere near 50% conversion efficiency (I think it is somewhere below 10%, IIRC).
On a related but separate note, what every happened to the ultrahigh resolution (200-250 dpi) displays which were being talked about a couple of years ago?
For that matter, what about electronic paper?
I often read a great deal of my news and general research on the screen. I do this at a variety of screen resolutions, but often at 1024 x 768 up to 1600 x 1200 always at a refresh of 75 Hertz or higher.
I've made no special adaptations for purity of screen color or gamma.
I have excellent low light vision and wear sunglasses only on the brightest of days or in special circumstances like spending time in high glare situations (on the water, bright sand, snow, etc.).
I've even read entire novels on the comparatively low resolution of an early Palm III. In that instance, the greater annoyance was more the small amount of text per "page" than the quality of the image.
Just with a quick browsing through the list of responses, I think that this suggestion stands out as both well thought-out and has a reasonable hope of being accurate.
Napster's explosive growth was the first sign that P2P apps had the potential to be a killer app. The wide perception is that the P2P music swapping apps are driving the uptake of broadband usage in the US and elsewhere. Even with their somewhat difficult interfaces and limited success of searches, the current P2P apps are wildly popular.
Right now, BitTorrent is the domain of geeks (and thus fits neatly among Tim O'Reilly's criteria), but the benefits can be quickly explained to the layman.
Like your speculated Torrent browser plugin, the Freenet project distributes content based on demand and matches the distribution to the bandwidth. Another step along the way.
Two points.
1. The speed of sound in water is actually faster than in the air (it is related to density).
2. Pay attention to the anticipated speed that they feel can be accomplished with the engine. 90 knots is faster than most torpedoes (ignoring the rocket propelled supercavitating ones). The users of this engine may not care too greatly about being noticed since they can outrun just about anything which could attack them.
I highly doubt that "Return of the King" can be downloaded since it isn't finished as of yet.
Just as with the upcoming "The Two Towers", there is more work (largely effects and editing) to be completed on "Return of the King" before its late 2003 release.
Check out this Ottawa Citizen article. Both Adobe and Corel say that the takeover rumour is just that -- a rumour. Says Adobe, "there is no absolutely no truth to this whatsoever."