Well, we all probably waste time when playing with our
computers. In my case, I alternate between two modes.

1) Staring at the sceen, thinking.

2) Using my famous one-finger typing.

When I am typing, for some unknown reason my brain
slips into neutral gear, and thinking is not possible.

Therefore my time wasted typing should be
eliminated, or at least greatly reduced.



But there is something much more serious than
merely wasting time, it has to do with flawed
human memory, which I will address now, in a
round-about fashion.


When we are _away_ from our PCs...

....which is most of the time, often we may have had
"great thoughts", any one of which could have used
to make ourselves made bundles of money, and possibly
employed lots of people.

Shamefull, shamefull, shameful, I blame all of us for
the present worldwide recession. If we only had the
presence-of-mind to take our tiny Olympus DS-5000
digital recorder along with us, those great ideas would
have enabled all of us to be rolling in clover right now.

As it stands, every one of those great ideas died,
a victim of our flawed memory.

Look how easy it would have been for us to save
the world from its current financial woes:

1) Slap our DS-5000 digital recorder into the
PCs USB connection. Upon connecting it,
the audio file gets _automatically_ changed
to text.
(three minutes at most, seriously,
"Dragon NaturallySpeaking" will automatically
convert the audio to a text file)

Driver disk to help do this comes with the DS-5000.



2) By voice, clean up, edit, format the text file.

Example of voice editing:

"Select 'smelly guy in turban and big diaper' "

"ResumeWith 'intelligent Indian intellectual' "

Voice editing goes lightening fast, our total
editing time on our world-changing document
estimated at 6-minutes instead of the usual 36
minutes for a slow typist like me, at 10wpm.


In the case of a fast typist (60wpm) there would
not be any benefit either way, it would likely
take 6-minutes to edit no matter which way the
editing was done.

3) Plop the finished document onto the Internet
by voice commands, takes a few seconds.

Total time to field the plan to change the world
from economic slump to a bustling economy,
10 minutes.


All my fault for not pushing Dragon speech
technology, as others here would have added their
own Dragon-powered schemes to mine, creating a
healthy bustling world economy.

Now don't tell me that you have never thought of
some logical scheme to do some great thing, only to
have it flushed out of your brain by mundane stuff
which needed your immediate attention.

I know for certain that the guy who invented fire
did not have a college education.

Mark-

Mark Conrad <none-of@your-business.invalid> wrote:
[color=blue]
>Well, we all probably waste time when playing with our
>computers.[/color]

[snip of a lot of OT drivel]

And some of us - you, for example - waste a lot of other people's time
as well as our own.

In article <4rei6555694m8js17518mr9b53cpf47rlh@4ax.com>, Bill Daggett
<Daggett@wmunny.invalid> wrote:
[color=blue][color=green]
> >Well, we all probably waste time when playing with our
> >computers.[/color]
>
> [snip of a lot of OT drivel]
>
> And some of us - you, for example - waste a lot of
> other people's time as well as our own.[/color]

It was _your_ decision to read my post, so you are
the guy responsible for wasting your time, not me.

BTW, my post is not OT when you consider that Microsoft
Vista OS goes out of the way to include a half-vast speech
recognition app as part of the Vista OS.

Last time I checked, this _is_ a NG about Windows and Vista.


Microsoft Vista does a pretty good job sucking in trivial users
of speech recognition. They invariably become dissatisfied
with the inaccuracy of Vista Speech, so a fair percentage of
them go for a more robust speech app like
Dragon NaturallySpeaking.

Microsoft still wins, they get added sales of their OS from
doctors and hospitals, who would not otherwise buy the OS
if it could not be used for serious speech recognition chores.

Heck, the doctors/hospitals might even buy Ubuntu <shudder>
if it were not for the fact that that steaming POS can't run Dragon.

Mark-

Mark Conrad <none-of@your-business.invalid> wrote:

[more crap snipped]

<plonk>

"Mark Conrad" <none-of@your-business.invalid> wrote in message
news:230720092123415455%none-of@your-business.invalid...[color=blue]
>
> Well, we all probably waste time when playing with our
> computers. In my case, I alternate between two modes.
>[/color]
<snip OT product plugging>

Oh look another advert for a third party speech recognition product.
Mark, you tried the same stunt on May 20th
Technically, advertising is a breach of the rules of conduct of these
Microsoft newsgroups.
see
[url]http://www.microsoft.com/communities/conduct/default.mspx#EMC[/url]

--

Mike Brannigan

Bill Yanaire, ESQ wrote:

SNIP[color=blue]
>
>
> Computers are a waste of time if you install Ubuntu on them.[/color]

Or, if you were a software consultant.

Telling people software is next to the toy aisle isn't a "consultant" , you
putz.

Mark Conrad <none-of@your-business.invalid> wrote in
news:240720090248465115%none-of@your-business.invalid:
[color=blue]
>
> BTW, my post is not OT when you consider that Microsoft
> Vista OS goes out of the way to include a half-vast speech
> recognition app as part of the Vista OS.
>
> Last time I checked, this _is_ a NG about Windows and Vista.[/color]

Nice try, but you never even mentioned Vista speech recognition at all in
the post....only Dragon Naturally Speaking.

On Jul 24, 12:44*pm, "Mike Brannigan" <Mike.Brannigan@localhost>
wrote:[color=blue]
> "Mark Conrad" <none...@your-business.invalid> wrote in message
>
> news:230720092123415455%none-of@your-business.invalid...
>[color=green]
> > Well, we all probably waste time when playing with our
> > computers. * In my case, I alternate between two modes.[/color]
>
> <snip OT product plugging>
>
> Oh look another advert for a third party speech recognition product.
> Mark, you tried the same stunt on May 20th
> Technically, advertising is a breach of the rules of conduct of these
> Microsoft newsgroups.
> see [url]http://www.microsoft.com/communities/conduct/default.mspx#EMC[/url]
>
> --
>
> Mike Brannigan[/color]

Doesn't apply unless you use Microsoft's servers. How come you failed
to mention that, Mr MS Shill? How come you haven't called the
Nymshifter and Frank to the table for their violations of the rules of
conduct?

Alias

Alias

I am on a roll, as long as I am exercising my
free speech, antagonizing all the pompous
self-styed censors here in the process...

....I have decided to share my opinions about another
3rd-party app I like.

I like "MacDrive 8" for my Vista computer.

I work as a medical consultant, lately more Macs
are appearing in hospitals and individual doctors
offices, which presents a problem for me whenever
I have to exchange files with those Mac-using doctors.

"MacDrive 8" allows me to read/write to any Mac
hard drive or CD/DVD drive. I can even access
the files on a Mac "Time Machine" drive.

[url]http://www.mediafour.com/products/macdrive/[/url]


Mac friend of mine loaned me this 10-year old Mac
"Lombard" model laptop to play with.

My normal laptop, a custom ASUS, is out for some
hardware upgrades.

Mark-

"Mark Conrad" <none-of@your-business.invalid> wrote in message
news:240720090617067547%none-of@your-business.invalid...[color=blue]
>
> I am on a roll, as long as I am exercising my
> free speech, antagonizing all the pompous
> self-styed censors here in the process...
>
> ...I have decided to share my opinions about another
> 3rd-party app I like.
>
> I like "MacDrive 8" for my Vista computer.
>
> I work as a medical consultant, lately more Macs
> are appearing in hospitals and individual doctors
> offices, which presents a problem for me whenever
> I have to exchange files with those Mac-using doctors.
>
> "MacDrive 8" allows me to read/write to any Mac
> hard drive or CD/DVD drive. I can even access
> the files on a Mac "Time Machine" drive.
>
> [url]http://www.mediafour.com/products/macdrive/[/url]
>
>
> Mac friend of mine loaned me this 10-year old Mac
> "Lombard" model laptop to play with.
>
> My normal laptop, a custom ASUS, is out for some
> hardware upgrades.
>
> Mark-[/color]

Are you dysfunctional because your father didn't swallow when he abused you?
--

Don't pick a fight with an old man.
If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.

Manfred Nathanal Hollingsworth wrote:
[color=blue]
> Duck,Duck,Goose wrote:[color=green]
>> Bill Yanaire, ESQ wrote:
>>
>> SNIP[color=darkred]
>>>
>>> Computers are a waste of time if you install Ubuntu on them.[/color]
>>
>> Or, if you were a software consultant.
>>
>> Telling people software is next to the toy aisle isn't a "consultant" ,
>> you putz.
>>[/color]
>
> For your information, there are many times of consultants out there.
> Just like there are many visitors to the vista forums that tell people
> they are very wealthy and are due a big inheritance.
>
> HA HA HA HA[/color]

So, what "time" consultant are you, besides imaginary?

I never said very wealthy, I said compared to your poor ass.
I will take over my fathers business and all the assets associated with
that.
Not sure what is hard to understand...just because you wish I worked at
McD's doesn't make it so.

The way you fascinate yourself with such things makes me KNOW you are poor.

Manfred Nathanal Hollingsworth wrote:
[color=blue]
> Duck,Duck,Goose wrote:[color=green]
>> Manfred Nathanal Hollingsworth wrote:
>>[color=darkred]
>>> Duck,Duck,Goose wrote:
>>>> Bill Yanaire, ESQ wrote:
>>>>
>>>> SNIP
>>>>> Computers are a waste of time if you install Ubuntu on them.
>>>> Or, if you were a software consultant.
>>>>
>>>> Telling people software is next to the toy aisle isn't a "consultant" ,
>>>> you putz.
>>>>
>>> For your information, there are many times of consultants out there.
>>> Just like there are many visitors to the vista forums that tell people
>>> they are very wealthy and are due a big inheritance.
>>>
>>> HA HA HA HA[/color]
>>
>> So, what "time" consultant are you, besides imaginary?
>>
>> I never said very wealthy, I said compared to your poor ass.[/color]
>
> You have no clue how much I make.
>[color=green]
>> I will take over my fathers business and all the assets associated with
>> that.[/color]
>
> What type of business is that?
>[/color]

One that earns money.
No business sense, eh?

[color=blue][color=green]
>> Not sure what is hard to understand...just because you wish I worked at
>> McD's doesn't make it so.[/color]
>
> I don't wish you worked at McD's. I know that if you did work there, it
> would be a struggle for you to keep up.
>[/color]

Not sure what that means.
Keep up with my mortgage payments?
With the Jones' ?
[color=blue]
>[color=green]
>>
>> The way you fascinate yourself with such things makes me KNOW you are
>> poor.
>>[/color]
>
> Wrong. You must be an arm-chair psychiatrist with no degree. Oops.[/color]

No, I am close to the mark.

Since you used psychiatrist, then you suffer from a mental illness ?
What is it?

PLONK

"Mark Conrad" <none-of@your-business.invalid> wrote in message
news:240720090617067547%none-of@your-business.invalid...[color=blue]
>
> I am on a roll, as long as I am exercising my
> free speech, antagonizing all the pompous
> self-styed censors here in the process...
>
> <bla bla bla>[/color]

On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:16:51 -0400, "Duck,Duck,Goose"
<ddg@romperroom.icu> wrote:
[color=blue][color=green][color=darkred]
>>> I will take over my fathers business and all the assets associated with
>>> that.[/color]
>>
>> What type of business is that?
>>[/color]
>
>One that earns money.
>No business sense, eh?[/color]

So you get the checkerboard and the checkers?

"+Bob+" <nomailplease@example.com> wrote in message
news:e31k65htuk1bc4fcqiu2d7ietjppq2jae1@4ax.com...[color=blue]
> On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:16:51 -0400, "Duck,Duck,Goose"
> <ddg@romperroom.icu> wrote:
>[color=green][color=darkred]
>>>> I will take over my fathers business and all the assets associated with
>>>> that.
>>>
>>> What type of business is that?
>>>[/color]
>>
>>One that earns money.
>>No business sense, eh?[/color]
>
> So you get the checkerboard and the checkers?
>[/color]


That's makes no sense at all.
Is it an American expression?