Vista has built-in voice recognition capabilities. One of the things that really jumped out in the Tablet PC was that the correction interface makes all the difference when it comes to using alternative input techniques: a service pack released for the Tablet a year or so after the initial launch …
more ..."[Wayne Kelly is] pleased to announce the preliminary Beta release of the Gardens Point Ruby.NET compiler. Note: this is not just a Ruby/.NET bridge, nor a Ruby Interpreter implemented on .NET, but a true .NET compiler. The compiler can be used to statically compile a Ruby source file …
more ...I take it as a given that every stock touted via spam is, in fact, the subject of some sort of pump-and-dump scheme. That is, someone currently owning significant amounts of the stock (or options) is praising it, with the intent of causing upward motion, at which time they will …
more ...The blog is too cluttered with marketing-speak, but the accompanying 22-minute video is very good in conveying what "Project Glidepath" is about: guidance (including, but not just code templates) for "MicroISVs" (1-10 person SD teams), integrated into the IDE. Too much "software factory" talk has been very rarified; it's nice …
more ...Apropos of yesterday's blog entries (XML: Unix Pipe or ASM? and WS-* vs. REST/POX: Revenge of Worse is Better): the always interesting Peter Coffee paints a picture of how WS-* approaches to SOA lead to success. Contrast with Brian Marick's \<a href="http://www.knowing.net/ct.ashx?id …
more ...If we're to have any defense against the zombie hordes, it will be by the innovative work of a generation of master roboticists. This vanguard of humanity will, perhaps, learn their skills using the new Microsoft Robotics Studio, available for free download . The only excuse to not check this out …
more ...I recently talked to a former client for whom I'd architected a system 4-5 years ago. When I left, they had a technical staff of about 10 and 2 clients using the back-end system we developed. Today, they have the same size technical staff and 900 clients using the system …
more ...I screwed up an online order entry and wrote to customer service, saying that I wanted to affirm that I ordered two instead of one. This was how "Josh" began addressing the issue: "I recognize your concern that you want to affirm that you ordered...." Seems rather Eliza-esque to me …
more ...Fluffernutters banned from schools. Mmmm.... Fluffernutter. Between Fluff, Necco Wafers, Hoodsies, and Drake's Cakes, my Boston childhood was apparently in line with the "eat locally" value. I wonder where Spaghettios were invented...
more ...Richard Gabriel's famous essay "The Rise of Worse is Better" (which, incidentally, I still think was originally published by me when I was editing AI Expert) details the "survival characteristics" of two approaches to software design: the "MIT approach" and the "New Jersey approach" (Bell Labs). He proposes these characteristics …
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