Dee:

Developing a sense of humor and being able to have "fun" poked at
oneself is viewed as desirable by some, indeed, those who take
themselves far too seriously are an offence to me--whether they
realize it or not, sometimes I am polite and don't point that out
(rarely though. grin)

As a side note, I am running MS Agent (Microsoft Agent--all components
of this are either already in windows xp or downloadable for windows
95 and up, a friend in france supplied me with the french engine)
text-to-speech and speech-to-text engines.

I find with the french library of phonics I am able to chat with
french speakers to a remarkably good degree of success, and I am the
only one which needs to run the software, doing ALL translation on my
end solely! (but makes "me" sound rather "robotic" when I "speak"
french. grin

A transceiver, computer/"sound card" and the free software is all
which is necessary to begin using/experimenting (the speech phonic
library(s) may have to be purchased for some languages--I am unclear
on this, and an ability to a software programmer or access to a
programmer is highly suggested.)

I am beginning to look upon this as Capt. Kirk's "universal
translator", when the aliens finally show up (and can supply me with a
proper speech engine) I plan on being among the first to verbally
greet them! grin

Anyway, this is an area where experimenters should come. As, I know
of only a handful of techies experimenting here and of no "successful"
commercial products on the market.

If there exists any of a competitive nature, here are the waters to
weigh anchor and hold battle!

John

Video, at this point, is pretty much "ho-hum stuff."

John

"Dee Flint" wrote in message
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"John Smith" wrote in message
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Dee:

Frankly I am surprised you are so offended over his "derogatory
remarks", you all seem so asleep to the real world that short of
striking you over the head with a two-by-four you will remain in
this dream-like state. Positive is not always good, except to "new
agers" studying mysticism and crystals, and I have no time for
silliness...

If offended by reality one can always change reality or change
themselves--I have always found the latter more productive.

He (Len) battles a whole klick of you which are functioning like a
damn support group--and you don't let little things like reality,
"real world", sanity and facts get in your way. You all begin your
chants of known mantras and chase the light-weights away!

You all exist in an echo chamber using the echo of your own words
as "valid arguments", or to site "majority agreements."

Get real, to any cutting edge people, they feel like they have
entered the twilight zone when here!

You realize, I was quite offended as a young man when my parents
would ask me to empty the garbage--then I grew up and realized in
the real world someone has to do it...

John


To be effective in the real world, one does not insult people with
derogatory remarks. In my profession, I frequently have to convince
people that the new is better than the old. Insults and put downs
would get me thrown out the door and cost me a job. It doesn't get
a whole lot more real than that.

It takes tact along with accurate and verifiable data to implement
new proposals. The cutting edge people in the real world know this
although it may come as a shock to those in academia.

Len does not use tact and does not present accurate and verifiable
data.

Dee d. Flint, N8UZE