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pkchan wrote:

... 雖然，在網上看新聞已經是潮流趨勢，但是，一邊喝咖啡，一手翻閱報紙的習慣依然未改，每月訂閱費用是$49.00，剛掉進廢紙回收桶的美國新聞週刊，只有50頁，54期優惠價只收$25.00。2月7日的封面是突尼斯，2月27日的封面是埃及，3月還沒有出版，但是可想而知。4月呢，真是天曉得！

wherestip wrote:

Now they tell me! It completely wiped out my Thinkpad. Yesterday I tried numerous times running the recovery program my machine had, but was unsuccessful recovering the IBM factory preinstalled programs. By evening, I got so fed up with the long wait for the failing reinstalls, I decided to go get a new machine.

Opted for an iMac ... lost my Microsoft Office capability(the salesperson told me there is a Mac version that sells for $149), but other than that, I'm happy with the Apple machine so far. It has an impressive LED-backlit screen, and for what I want to do, the machine is perfectly fine. Hopefully Mac OS X is less vulnerable to viruses and malware.

pkchan wrote:

中文閱讀及輸入有無問題？

wherestip wrote:

Jeopardy! The IBM Challenge ...

http://www.jeopardy.com/minisites/watson/

"Watson,” the IBM computer that handily defeated two human trivia champions on the television game show Jeopardy!, has dazzled journalists and the general public with its language skills and revived the longstanding man-versus-machine debate.
...

Translators routinely use computer-assisted translation tools to work more efficiently — but reliable, high-quality automated translation is impossible without skilled humans to create and maintain the translation software and edit its input and output. Like IBM’s Jeopardy! whiz, these applications can help humans recall and manipulate data with breathtaking speed and efficiency, but they are still unable to match the sensitivity that humans bring to language.

ysun wrote:

Steve,

Can “Watson” defeat human linguists?

http://asmarterplanet.com/blog/2011/02/watson-on-jeopardy-day-two-the-confusion-over-an-airport-clue.html

But Watson’s developers were puzzled by his flub in the Final Jeopardy! segment. The category was US Cities, and the answer was:  “Its largest airport was named for a World War II hero; its second largest, for a World War II battle.”  The two human contestants wrote “What is Chicago?” for its O’Hare and Midway, but Watson’s response was a lame “What is Toronto?"

Today’s events remind us of just how fragile life can be. Our hearts go out to our friends in Japan and across the region, and we’re going to stand with them as they recover and rebuild from this tragedy.

-- Barack Obama