Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 11:56:17 -0700 From: Tom Stangl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Libretto Mentions
Dvorak is a major whiner, if things aren't EXACTLY the way he likes them, they are "unusable". [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 14:19:01 EDT > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Libretto Mentions > > Reading the past 2 issues of PC Magazine, I came across these 2 Libretto > mentions, seemingly somewhat at odds: > > http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,367807,00.asp > http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,415355,00.asp > > The first, in a column by the estimable John C. Dvorak, calls the Libretto > (no model specified, nor apparently relevant) "unusable". > > The second, from a news-ish section of the mag, discusses a new translation > program called Tongues, written at Carnegie Mellon's Language Technologies > Institute, and described thusly, in part, by researcher Alan Black: > > "Beli'eve [sic] it or not, the entire Tongues system runs on a Toshiba > Libretto, a pint-size Windows notebook. Despite its complexity, the system > has little trouble running on a three-year-old Pentium processor. "Two people > can exchange a 10-second sentence in about a minute and a half," says Black." > > Looks like those idiots at Carnegie Mellon ought to check with Dvorak before > selecting their equipment - all that intellectual investment wasted on an > unusable PC! -- | Tom Stangl, Sun ONE Internet Technical Support, Sun Microsystems | Sun ONE Support - http://www.sun.com/service/sunone/software/index.html | Please do not associate my personal views with my employer ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
