Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2002 19:52:55 -0700 From: "Renita Herrmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Libretto Mentions
This guy Dvorak used to have a column here in the SF Bay Area, and was complaining about not being able to use cell phones and mini TVs. He claimed it was because the airlines wanted us to pay for their inflated services. Actually having had cell phone chatter interrupting communication at an airport (a big one) a few years back, and having cockpit interference from a mini TV (an approach navigation system) about 15 years ago, I wrote him about it. Nothing, no thanks, no request for more info, nothing. He must have gotten more than one call. I wrote to him about my libby and told him he'd probably hear from more of us. It's rare for me to find time to read electronics stuff, but he's not on my short list. Give 'em hell! Renita > [Original Message] > From: Tom Stangl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Libretto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 8/30/2002 11:59:45 AM > Subject: Re: [LIB] Libretto Mentions > > 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 > ************************************************************** ************************************************************** 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 **************************************************************
