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sarameg - Jul 15, 2008 3:32:35 pm PDT #7074 of 25501

Thanks to assurances here, I bought a refubed macbook pro this morning. It has 12x the diskspace, not to mention umpteen times more speed and memory. I expect I'll be pleasantly surprised at the relative performance.

And then have to shell out for something more than dialup when that becomes so clearly the bottleneck....

omnis_audis - Jul 16, 2008 5:50:47 am PDT #7075 of 25501
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir

Is there a good local source for buying inexpensive HDMI cables? Or is the internet my friend in that regard?

Tom Scola - Jul 16, 2008 5:55:21 am PDT #7076 of 25501
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

The big-box retailers' prices for HDMI cables are almost criminal. I know that NoiseDesign has said he's gotten good prices through Amazon in the past.

hippocampus - Jul 16, 2008 6:38:36 am PDT #7077 of 25501
not your mom's socks.

weird mp3 voice recognition question - my craxy associates don't want to transcribe a sound file ... and are looking for voice recognition software that they can use to process/transcribe it instead. Beyond the ::lazy! lazy! bad! bad! :: wheelspin that I'm stuck in, does anyone have experience with this? Suggestions?

Jon B. - Jul 16, 2008 7:05:41 am PDT #7078 of 25501
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

Is Dragon NaturallySpeaking still the standard?

hippocampus - Jul 16, 2008 7:06:59 am PDT #7079 of 25501
not your mom's socks.

thanks Jon - that's what I suggested. They've just come back through asking if the Vista voice recognition is any good.

::headdesk::

tommyrot - Jul 16, 2008 7:14:25 am PDT #7080 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

You know, dogs can recognize about 200 different words. So if you assume that there are 10,000 commonly used words, and that most words used fall in this 10,000, you could get 50 dogs and train each to recognize 200 words. Then you'd need some sort of 200-key doggie keyboard for each dog....

hippocampus - Jul 16, 2008 7:27:20 am PDT #7081 of 25501
not your mom's socks.

::wipes coffee off of monitor::

le nubian - Jul 16, 2008 8:22:01 am PDT #7082 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

Sox,

if you wanted to go straight up time-intensive, you could take 2 minute snippets and play them for jott and jott will send you transcripts.

jott.com

Jon B. - Jul 16, 2008 10:32:01 am PDT #7083 of 25501
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

My oldest brother just told me something neat. He was 8 when I was born, and our parents told him that he could name me. He chose Jonathan because that was the name of one of his best friends at the time -- Jonathan Rubinstein.

I wonder if I can get a free iPod out of this?

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