Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 03:23:38 -0500 From: John Musielewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Libretto Mentions
On Fri, 30 Aug 2002 11:24:20 -0700, you 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". I looked for a link to tell him he was wrong and full of it but none was there > >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 >************************************************************** > ************************************************************** 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 **************************************************************
