by Alec Muffett
When writing a blog, reading a web page, or otherwise skimming some content that you actually need to comprehend properly, highlight the text and pull down the:
[ApplicationName] > Services > Speech > Start Speaking Text
…function, and have your Mac read it to you.
Maybe I am getting old, but it’s amazingly easier to follow the text with someone – even a synthesised voice – reading the text to you, and tends to show up the grammatical errors.
I blame it on project management.
For instance: http rio.jini.org/ – I’m not going to provide a critique, not least because I am unfit to fill the yawning gulf between recognising bad grammar, and annotating the errors with correct terminology.
Have your Mac read it to you.
<<< As the demand and availability for distributed systems increase, the infrastructure technology required to support them has become more complex. As complexity increases, the amount of human intervention required to maintain systems force additional errors, resulting in escalating costs and potential (inevitable) downtime. As systems fail, costs go up. We increasingly see that systems fail largely because mechanisms needed to dynamically provision, scale, react to failure and meet service level objectives are not designed into the fabric upon which distributed systems are built. A fundamental tenet of distributed systems is they must be crafted with the reality that changes occur on the network. Compute resources have assets diminished or fail and new ones are introduced into the network. >>>
Even better–why not try that Google translator you mentioned in a previous post . . . . see what happens when you ask for it to be turned into English?
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