Re: heretical thoughts was Re: Speakup dropped from Ubuntu the solution to that is usb->serial converters.  I'm going to school 
for IT, and hope to get a job in networking at some point soon, so 
made sure the laptop I got had a serial port.  While this wasn't the 
only deciding factor, it was pretty high on the list.  I was willing 
to sacrafice some of the 8 or 16 serial ports on certain laptops (why 
would someone want that many USB on a laptop anyway)? for a serial 
port.
On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 03:39:24PM -0500, Brent Harding wrote:
> Well, what about that gear that is probably in service all around that uses 
> serial ports for administration? I was thinking of going back to school for 
> a networking-related career, and from what I gather, RS232 could be the most 
> important thing I could theoretically want on a laptop.
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "C.M. Brannon" 
> To: 
> Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2007 1:24 PM
> Subject: heretical thoughts was Re: Speakup dropped from Ubuntu
> 
> 
> > Hi folks,
> > I had a couple of observations that may not sit well with most of you ...
> >
> > Hardware synthesis is becoming obsolete.  Why?  More and more systems,
> > especially laptops, are being manufactured without RS232 ports.  When
> > I buy my next laptop, I won't let the presence of RS232 be a
> > determining factor.  The vendors of USB synths won't release their
> > product information, so these are unsupported.  Thus, I'm not buying
> > one.  Who wants to do business with people like that anyhow?  So it
> > looks like software speech is the way of the future, at least for me.
> > Next, software speech is more convenient, especially when using a
> > laptop.  You have to carry one less peripheral with you.
> >
> > The question to ask is this.  Given the decline of hardware synthesis,
> > is it really necessary to have speech support within the kernel
> > itself?  Software synthesizers run in user mode, so the benefits of a
> > speech-enabled kernel -- notably a talking boot process -- are lost.
> >
> > Comments are welcome.
> >
> > PS. I'm not a GUI user, so I'm arguing from a console / command-line
> > perspective.
> >
> > -- Chris
> >
> >
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