Networks in developing countries often refuse to peer with each other, because they are competing. This ends up making their internet connections more expensive and more brittle. Not connecting to your competitor only makes sense if there is only ONE other competitor. Otherwise, the right thing to do is to partner up with everyone, and [...]
Archives for April 2006
dictation
Voice recognition for computers is a nice goal, but I think we might be mistaking the forest for the trees. What we really want is for the computer to take dictation. Transcripts of speech are rough, mean things, with lots of umms and ahhs. They make the speaker sound dumb. Dictation, on the other hand, [...]
