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! Lee ************************************************************** 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 **************************************************************
