Re: Daily brief, 9/13/96.

I Find Karma (adam@cs.caltech.edu)
Fri, 13 Sep 96 11:18:48 PDT


> Actually, given the candidate palette, broccoli is sounding
> really good at this point.
> Hmmmm... I suppose it can't hurt to learn a little about the
> alternatives to the lesser of two evils.

Or why vote for the lesser evil, since we're writing in?
Cthulu in 96!

> Is broccoli running on some minor party ticket, or is it a write-in
> candidate?

The majors conspired to prevent broccoli from launching an independent
campaign (with wonderful slogans like "Dole in 96?? Dole *IS* 96..." :),
so I guess broccoli is considering mounting a massive write-in.

Wait, you were trolling me, weren't you?

In other news...
> >IBM VOICE-RECOGNITION SOFTWARE
> >IBM has developed voice-recognition software that can be used by
> >radiologists to prepare their reports. Running on a Microsoft Windows
> >NT operating system and a PC with a 200-megahertz Intel Pentium
> >processor, the software will recognize about 25,000 English words spoken
> >in a conversational tone, and system accuracy can be improved by
> >training it to recognize an individual's speech pattern. The system
> >costs $12,000-15,000 and will be useful in other specific disciplines
> >where many of the same technical phrases are repeated frequently. (New
> >York Times 12 Sep 96 C)
> It's interesting that they don't do there development on OS/2 anymore.

We are Microsoft. OS/2 is irrelevant. UNIX is irrelevant. Openness is
futile. Prepare to be assimilated.

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