February 2008 Entries
Today I shook hands with the (possibly) next President of the United States. John McCain came and visited my place of employment to share his message with us. Not only did I get to shake his hand, but I got his autograph and he fielded a question of mine.
I went and got a seat an hour early which was positioned towards the front and in the aisle. I figured that if he came off the stage to shake hands, I could definitely get the chance. He gave his spiel, which wasn't all that different from the sound-bytes that you can...
Today's post is coming straight road some voice recognition software, and any mistakes you see are a direct result of the software is an ability to interpret what I'm trying to say. We'll see how it goes.
One of the biggest issues with voice recognition software is its ability to interpret the way people talk there are certain nuances with how individuals pronounce words down wages on individual regional level that makes it difficult for software to interpret what a certain person is trying to say. The software that I'm using is a copy of Dragon NaturallySpeaking version 9. It seems...
CNet News has an interesting article titled Digital Downloads Will be Blu-Ray's Downfall. Erica Ogg outlines a few reasons why Blu-Ray won't enjoy the long tenure that the standard DVD has enjoyed since movies went digital. She mentions that with the increase of the ubiquity of high sped broadband, people won't want to shell out $20-$30 for a Blu-Ray disc. Plus, as speeds increase, one won't need to inconvenience themselves with going out to purchase them. Somehow she thinks that digital downloads will only cost in the realm of $5.
I don't think so.
If we take the past to be an...
One tidbit you all should be aware about when you deploy a Visual Studio 2008 Project to your IIS webserver: by default your project will be generated in .NET 3.5, so you'll need to make sure that you download and install it on your server. Otherwise you'll get one of those pretty red, yellow, and black pages saying that something puked with your application.
I've been able to get my hands (through legitimate means) on a copy of Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition. I installed it this evening and wanted to take it for a spin.
Initial reaction: just the same as VS2005. One of my biggest gripes about the VS environment is its complete, utter lack of getters/setters generation. Sure, you can right click on each of your private fields and generate them, but that takes a long time, not to mention that it places the property at the top of your code and clutters it up. This should have been fixed in Visual...
We're building a house, so naturally I'm quite interested in having my house wired with Cat5e/6. Unfortunately, my builder won't install it because they're anal that way, so I've had to go on my own to figure out how to get it put in there. I came up with the idea that I could find an electrician to pull the wire through and I would terminate it and put the plates on. So, I've been scouring Craigslist to find such a person so I'll know how much its going to cost me.
I've called a few fellows on the listings and...
I came home to my computer today, turned it on, started doing some work, when all of a sudden the disk started thrashing for no reason and my computer locked up. Hmm. Strange, but ok. I press the reset switch, wait for it to boot up. And it sits at the startup screen endlessly thrashing the hard drive. Bad. I tried to go into safe mode, still endless thrashing. Then after a couple of reboots, Windows says that it needs to do a CHKDSK. Turns out its finding all these unreadable segments.
Long story short, his is a very bad sign...