For Hawking's voice simulator, he can compose sentances and paragraphs and keep them in "ram" to say later. To compose sentances, words are broken up into catagories (and I assume, subcatagories) and he searches through them, then selects the word. If the word isn't listed, he can select letters to form it. I believe his composition speed was comparable to a slow typiest, which while much slower than speech, is pretty good.
i don't think it's right to try to censor everyone based on one instance by one person. if this ever became a reoccuring problem, however, i could understand the reasoning behind pushing for censorship, even though i know i would not support it. i have yet to come across a sinario in which i would support any form of censorship. and if they don't like that people could see what he was viewing, why don't they just buy those funny privacy shields or whatever they are that go on the front of the monitors so you can't read the monitor at any angle but just about straight on? they have those at the public library here in phoenix. just my thoughts. EOF
i'm sorry, but i can't quite understand how a company can be a monopoly, but not be illegal. i thought all monopolys were illegal, at least here in the US. and in my view, M$ certainly qualifies as a monopoly. -dmitri
okay, normally i just lurk around here and don't say anything, but i just have to reply to this/coward/s post. i am not going to say that you are wrong, because i believe everyone has a right to their own opinions. i would just like to offer some of my own comments and observations.
first of all, i am a girl, and a hacker. that alone sets me apart. i know what it's like to be a loner, to not have a date, to have everyone hassle you because you're a nerd. i don't think i would be able to live without the/very/ small circle of friends i have who respent me for myself and my ability. the stuff that happened at columbine, which you all probably remember (if not go to tales from the hellmouth), affected me a lot because i am still in high school. you cannot pin down something a person does to just one cause. there are always countless factors that make a person decide to do something. music alone, does not cause somebody to go out and kill people. if it did, i would have done that a long time ago. i listen to a wide range of music, depending on my mood, ranging from save ferris to NIN to tool to the chemical brothers to enya. i use the music to express myself and how i'm feeling. the music does not cause me to feel a certain way, it just reflects my current state of mind. don't blame music, or anything else, for causing someone to become something you don't like.
btw, what music do you listen to?
-dmitri
ps. moderator: i know that this post is sort of off the topic of the article, but i felt that this was something that needed to be said. -dmitri
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For Hawking's voice simulator, he can compose sentances and paragraphs and keep them in "ram" to say later. To compose sentances, words are broken up into catagories (and I assume, subcatagories) and he searches through them, then selects the word. If the word isn't listed, he can select letters to form it. I believe his composition speed was comparable to a slow typiest, which while much slower than speech, is pretty good.
www.temple.math.edu/~cow is pretty good.
i don't think it's right to try to censor everyone based on one instance by one person. if this ever became a reoccuring problem, however, i could understand the reasoning behind pushing for censorship, even though i know i would not support it. i have yet to come across a sinario in which i would support any form of censorship. and if they don't like that people could see what he was viewing, why don't they just buy those funny privacy shields or whatever they are that go on the front of the monitors so you can't read the monitor at any angle but just about straight on? they have those at the public library here in phoenix.
just my thoughts.
EOF
i'm sorry, but i can't quite understand how a company can be a monopoly, but not be illegal. i thought all monopolys were illegal, at least here in the US. and in my view, M$ certainly qualifies as a monopoly. -dmitri
first of all, i am a girl, and a hacker. that alone sets me apart. i know what it's like to be a loner, to not have a date, to have everyone hassle you because you're a nerd. i don't think i would be able to live without the /very/ small circle of friends i have who respent me for myself and my ability. the stuff that happened at columbine, which you all probably remember (if not go to tales from the hellmouth), affected me a lot because i am still in high school. you cannot pin down something a person does to just one cause. there are always countless factors that make a person decide to do something. music alone, does not cause somebody to go out and kill people. if it did, i would have done that a long time ago. i listen to a wide range of music, depending on my mood, ranging from save ferris to NIN to tool to the chemical brothers to enya. i use the music to express myself and how i'm feeling. the music does not cause me to feel a certain way, it just reflects my current state of mind. don't blame music, or anything else, for causing someone to become something you don't like.
btw, what music do you listen to?
-dmitri
ps. moderator: i know that this post is sort of off the topic of the article, but i felt that this was something that needed to be said. -dmitri