(ObGetOffMyLawn moment: trn / Usenet a hell of a lot more efficient and consistent than reading fifty different websites with fifty different ideas on what makes a good interface.)
to a web service that does speech-to-text and returns the text
It doesn't need to return the recognition, it can return the what the user actually wants. In the music-buying example, the network can just pass the text to the music service, which would then reply to the phone with, for example, the tracks for the requested artist.
The recognition that you describe is poor because the speech recognizer is running on the phone in a tiny memory/cpu footprint.
Most of the cell phone systems described in the article are likely uploading the audio to a server farm, running recognition there, and then sending back the response.
Yes, this is exactly the problem I ran into. "Download our Windows software and use it to make purchases for DRM-free MP3s!" What a great idea, Yahoo! How could that possibly not work?
Actually, it's pretty straightforward to edit the xml files that describe the menu interface. I removed several menus and submenus and put Watch Recordings and Manage Recordings as the first two top-level entries. Very nice.
I actually ran into the opposite problem. I told it to get a bunch of shows, and specially marked several as Do Not Auto-Expire. (For nonMythers, that mean "don't delete these to make space for new content".)
Since I made the MythTV box, I don't really watch TV anymore and the damn thing filled up. I've got 30 episodes of House, 40+ episodes of Monk, ~25 episodes of MythBusters, etc. The only thing I'm good about watching is The Daily Show.
Maybe I'll get to watching some of it eventually...
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What the hell did you learn from this? This is the most retarded technical exam I've ever heard of.
Are any of these skills useful? How about in ten years?
boxee watched the Google TV demo. more complementary than competitive. we should start working on Boxee Android App for TV... :)
Where's my NNTP interface to web forums, people?
I don't really want the whole damn game embedded. I just want MapTool with multitouch.
Give me any large prime, and I will factor it for you instantly!
See also the SRD.
In fact, is there anything to suggest that Psystar isn't just making a quick buck from someone else's hacked Mac OS X installer?
Most of the cell phone systems described in the article are likely uploading the audio to a server farm, running recognition there, and then sending back the response.
I don't see this as a problem, yet.
Time Machine does not yet use ZFS.
Microwaving the pool water is another way to die.
cd emacs/mac
./make-package --self-contained
Makes a .dmg which includes an installer. Self-contained means all the support files end up in the Emacs.app directory, so nothing is installed in /usr.
Reminded me of Joel on Software's first BillG review and how he handled it.
Exactly like SecurID, but without a separate token to lose and juggle for each account. It's right on the card.
Consumers reject Sony.
Yes, this is exactly the problem I ran into. "Download our Windows software and use it to make purchases for DRM-free MP3s!" What a great idea, Yahoo! How could that possibly not work?
Actually, it's pretty straightforward to edit the xml files that describe the menu interface. I removed several menus and submenus and put Watch Recordings and Manage Recordings as the first two top-level entries. Very nice.
shouldn't this be
(welcome '(I ((for one))) '(overlords (our new Scheme)))
?
Oh right, the music player with the farting bird logo.
Stick To Coffee and Alcohol
With such cutting-edge graphics, it's difficult to tell what is reality and what is VRML.
Since I made the MythTV box, I don't really watch TV anymore and the damn thing filled up. I've got 30 episodes of House, 40+ episodes of Monk, ~25 episodes of MythBusters, etc. The only thing I'm good about watching is The Daily Show.
Maybe I'll get to watching some of it eventually...
Depending on what the game is capable of, you wouldn't necessary need to be online all the time to play. For example, crafting or questing solo.