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This isn't "wasting your money" at all. You're still getting the full protection that the authenticator previously offered, the only dIfference is that now, if you keep logging on from the same computer, it will no longer ask you from the code as long as you log on from that specific computer. As soon as you try to log in from a different computer, it will ask for the code again.
Missing the point entirely...
They have this in place so you don't have to enter it EVER. SINGLE. TIME> when you're at home.
If your account is logged on from let's say, your friend's house when you go over? It'll ask for it.
Or let's say for some weird reason you account is logged into from a chainese IP (why would that ever happen? /sarcasm), then the code is asked for.
It's still very secure and needed.
JattTheRogue said...
It still provides the same level of security to your account it used to, it just takes out the step of you actually having to enter the code every time. If you log on from a different computer or, more to the point, if a hacker gets your account information and tries to log in, you and the hacker will have to enter the code key, and it will stop anyone who doesn't have it.
This change isn't messing with the functionality of the authenticator, just making it a little more convenient.
I should've known better than to reply first to a post. Now there are gonna be a million emails in my folder telling me someone's replied saying the exact same thing as someone else. *sigh*
You don't need to keep saying the same thing someone above you already said. please stop.
JattTheRogue said...
If you notice, all of these comments came within a couple minutes of each other. As happens on virtually every post on this website, the replies to your comments did not show up when I first came to this page and then wrote my comment. People aren't just trying to bug you by writing the same thing, they didn't see the other comments and they're trying to actually help you and give you information you obviously didn't get from the article. Get over it.
Jonisjalopy said...
There is a pretty check box at the bottom labeled "E-Mail me when someone replies to this comment".
But, given your question, reading comprehension is not your strongest quality.
But unless you check your email every 10 seconds would you even notice a post somone made 10 seconds prior to yours ?
While this will not have any impact on the risk of your account being accessed remotely, it does in fact weaken the local aspect which while less common is still something to note.
An account being accessed by someone else in your residence, be it a family member/room-mate etc is still a risk, and if you have someone else who has a habit of looking over your shoulder then the authenticator offered you a potential way to secure your account from that.
It should be a toggle on your account management, whether to ask every time or not.
Great so not only are you bad at reading you don't know how to uncheck a box/stop email from being sent to you after replies. /giggle. If I have learned one thing from wowinsider.com is that it mirrors life. For every action there is a reaction. Good luck in your future endeavors!
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say you are of the group of misunderstanding people that thought when blizzard announced the bonus loot for heals and tanks that thought they could fill that spot with no....spec,gear,or knowledge of the task at hand. Thinking they/you could simple pound the way to the end grab the bag and there a successful run. (pst. Read into I a bit more before you thing you got what is about). While blizzard try's to make things easier for most people, please take a few moments to be sure how if even it affects you and me.
Joseph Smith said...
"Missing the point entirely...
They have this in place so you don't have to enter it EVER. SINGLE. TIME> when you're at home.
If your account is logged on from let's say, your friend's house when you go over? It'll ask for it. "
The point missing entirely is that they ALREADY HAD this service available to people that wanted it, for FREE. The Dial-In Authenticator http://us.blizzard.com/support/article.xml?locale=en_US&articleId=35806 which did exactly that.
I prefer the higher level of security of having to put my unique code in EVERY time, and not just when Blizzard is 'sure it isn't me' which is why I picked the Mobile Authenticator and not the Dial-In.
If they made it an option so that those that find the extra 3 seconds to put their code in don't have to, and those of us that want the higher security the Authenticator is supposed to provide can have it, then fine. But don't drop our security to a service we didn't sign on for without our permission
Luftwaffles said...
My knowledge of what hackers can and can't do is not so good. But I'm sure many of you *do* know the possibilities.. so answer me this:
Even if Blizz is checking things other than IP (like location, hardware etc) what are the chances that a hacker can steal that information along with your password? Is it possible to generate a program that will simulate being your computer at your location? I mean how often do people move the location of their tower or change their motherboard.. all they have to do is trick Blizz into thinking they are in Wyoming instead of China and we are back to square one.
Is there a high possibility of this? Or is duping your location/specs impossible?


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You are completely wrong here. The hunter casts misdirection in anticipation of his first attacks. As explained here the misdirection is then available for the next 30 seconds. The 4 second timer doesn't start until the first threat-generating attack by the hunter occurs.
So he has misdirection queued up, gives the tank 10 seconds to start their threat rotation (which is actually excessive) and then fires a multi-shot. Once the multi-shot is fired the threat is redirected to the tank. This hits multiple mobs and adds some low level threat to help the tank in case other DPS begin to AOE. He then fires his Explosive shot into the tank's target generating a large amount of threat for the tank.
At this point only 2 seconds has elapsed with the 1 sec GCD. He can then fire at least one more special shot (likely Arcane) into the tank's focus to increase that threat even higher. An autoshot or two will have also likely hit the tanks target and raise the threat even higher.
Now understand, at the point the 4 second misdirection threat redirection ends the tank has its own 10 seconds of threat generation, plus the 4 seconds of burst threat generated by the hunter, and the 4 seconds of threat the tank was able to generate for themselves while the hunter was misdirecting. The hunter has 0 threat at this point.
If the hunter is able to overtake the tank in threat at this point then it is clearly on the tank. From the story their gear is roughly the same level and hunters aren't crazy OP. The tank is either not doing their job correctly or there is a major issue with threat generation for druid tanks. I would point at the tank.


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Given a key to her mother's storage unit near their old neighborhood, Bartók sifts through her mother's tattered belongings, trying to make sense of the disturbing maternal figure that haunted her past. Each worn postcard, scarf, and stuffed animal flashes her back to a beginning of a life that held great promise. Norma Kurap was a pretty, smart, Jewish musical prodigy expected to land at Carnegie Hall. The author's father was a talented novelist whose 1961 debut, Journey Not to End, was compared to the work of Albert Camus. Yet by the time Bartók was 5, her father had abandoned the family (to eventually die a penniless alcoholic) and her mother had descended into madness.
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Research in Motion (NASDAQ: BBRY) is all set to release the Blackberry 10 smartphone series probably on January 30, 2013. RIM's shares were at the year's lowest on September 24 at $6.31, however since then it has increased by almost 120% and is currently trading at $13.70. Its really surprising as there was no new product launch and the sales have continued to decline for the business phone maker. It has not been confirmed officially about the launch date, however RIM is pretty confident that it will be able to make it happen on January 30, 2013.
Blackberry is testing the BB10 with corporate organizations to ensure it keeps up to the standards. RIM is yet to announce its third quarter results, however it is focusing more on the upcoming product launch. Blackberry sales have dipped drastically this year. The sales of its devices was on a rise until this year it dropped for the first time. Last year it shipped around 52.8 million units worldwide, however this year it has sold approx 41.4 million units. The decline in Blackberry sales is a result of the tough competition its facing from Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), Nokia (NYSE: NOK) and Google's (NASDAQ: GOOG) Android based devices.
Nokia's sales have also been on a decline this year and it reported a loss of $1.27 billion in the third quarter as the sales dipped by almost 38%. Nokia is trying to keep up its pace by launching new Lumia devices like the Lumia 920. The only ray of hope for them is how Lumia 920/820 with Windows 8 performs in the market.
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While Samsung has become the world's leading smartphone maker leaving behind Nokia. Nokia has also launched a number of Lumia phones based on Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) Windows Phone 8 operating system. Microsoft is trying to capture the software market for smartphones. Windows 8, with its touchscreen ability, is expected to overtake Android as per Microsoft's management. But this might not really happen as Google's Android has far wider application support as compared to Windows.
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I'm OK With A Mark DeRosa Trade
There are so many reasons why trading Mark DeRosa, if it were to happen this offseason, would be a fine idea.
Mark DeRosa is known to many Cub fans as the super sub - he's seen time in the outfield, and at three of four infield positions. However, one has to assume there's a reason he's known for his versatility, rather than his play at one specific position.
Mark DeRosa is not the best defensive 2nd baseman. And really, aside from his 20HR season in 2008, he's not quite first-rate from an offensive perspective, either. Perhaps an accurate description would be to refer to him as a solid player with decent upside - upside that was fully realized last year.
If DeRosa is in fact a 20HR player, rather than a 10-12HR guy (like every other year in his career aside from 2008), then he's a steal at $5.5 million, and an outstanding asset at 2nd base. If not, then the Cubs would be wise to sell high on him, and move him this offseason.
The Cubs have another 10HR, .280 hitter that can play 2nd base on their roster. That man is Mike Fontenot. Furthermore, Fontenot brings something to the Cubs offense that they desperately need - left-handedness.
Trading Mark DeRosa accomplishes three things: 1) it creates payroll flexibility; 2) it gives more at-bats to a left-handed hitter with arguably just as much power potential; 3) it presumably helps the Cubs obtain an outstandingly talented starting pitcher.
Many Cub fans will likely be sad to see Mark go. Admittedly, to an extent, so will I. But as was the case with Kerry Wood, you can't fall in love with one year from one player, no matter how charming or determined or committed he seems. You've got to do things like sell high, balance your lineup, and obtain quality starting pitching, to win in this league.
That's why I'm OK with any deal that lands us Jake Peavy in exchange for Mark DeRosa.
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Here's my grand plan.
I tend to break it down by must have/needs/wants.
My must haves this season is: left handed hitting. stay under $130m.
My needs this season is: a leadoff hitter. more speed.
My wants this season is: prospects!, get younger. upgrade defensively. left handed pitching.
How do we go about doing this? I agree with kurt on one part. The need to trade with the Royals. I prefer just acquiring DeJesus over Teahan (see player notes below). And this could be done without as many strings pulled as a Teahan + DeJesus trade. DeJesus would probably be had for Fontenot and some extra (mind you my ability to determine what values are relatively bad with potential vs current productivity). And this would begin the free-ing up the middle infield.
Getting DeJesus will give them two things: the start to the must have list in some lefty batting, and a leadoff hitter who hits for a high average. Agreeably he doesn't have tons of speed, but he is definitely an upgrade at the top of the order able to not only throw down some RBI's with his avg, and with about 55 xbh's, and the strength of batting at the bottom of our to be proposed order (seeing as DeRosa, Fontentot, Fukudome, all decent hitters bat 8th sometimes, along with King Carlos, holes or no holes in his swing), an unconventional proposition indeed. I think the thing everyone fails to remember is that with RISP his BA was in the top 5% in the AL last year (.421avg RISP, .380avg RISP/2 outs). (I'll get more to this later)
So, bring it back up a notch. Left field will be Soriano everyday (until he gets injured. but the Cubs have Micah, DeRosa, Johnson), center has three starting options, the starter would be a Fukudome on RHP days, with DeJesus playing right. Two Lefties in the lineup then. Hot Dog. Fontenot hits a respectable .247 against lefties, and as pretty much the go to backup player for the middle infield on RHP days, but keeping Cedeno as the defensive option. I'm still not ready to give Font-a-tot the nod at starting full time, it'd keep his trade value higher and allow us to keep the best 8 in the field at all times.
So. Lets take a look at the probable lineup, moving soriano down to the 4 hole, ARam up to the 3 hole. Keep Soto at 5, DeJesus leading off, Theriot actually putting the ball in play with runners on base 37% of the time between the first and second baseman batting second, Lee batting 6th, Fukudome 7th, Derosa 8th. Major problems to resolve is that their heart of the order guys are still predominantly righty. Bummer.
Unfortunately they're not going to be able to get that middle of the order bat yet. And you know what? The Cubs'll still kill teams with their superior pitching. They need a left handed bat in the post season. Not in the regular season. Ergo the Cubs'd move to pass Pie + Marshall off to Baltimore for Roberts, seeing as Roberts IS in the last year of his contract, McFail probably will still not be able to sell anyone if his demands are too high. The O's don't want him. They need youth. They need pitching. Give them Pie, whoever else we can scavage up at the bottom of the minors (Donnie Veal and Marshall, for Roberts. Two decent prospects for arguably the best 2B in the AL.
What does this do?! Oh my, it makes the Cubs lineup scary good. Roberts at the top, Theriot batting 2nd, DeJesus (which he has previously) batting third playing right, ARam, Soriano, Soto rounding out the 4-5-6, Lee batting 7th, Fukudome in center batting 8th.
DeJesus isn't the BEST choice to hit third. But he's certainly not a bad choice to hit third as a replacement to DLee. He makes contact often (i.e. good for hit and runs between theriot and Roberts), and they have similar not GB%'s (about 55%) for sac hits. The minor difference is DLee has a .335 career average of BABIP in the 3 slot, where DeJesus has a .322. With a more powerful lineup behind DeJesus as opposed to with the royals, I don't see why he wouldn't ALSO be able to perform in the 3 hole. I'll also bring up the one power point for DeJesus. BA w/RISP. Close to .360. What do you ask of your #3 hitter? Bat runs in. With a BA w/RISP around there, with Roberts and Theriot above him, I wouldn't be surprised if his RBI numbers grow a bunch. Considering he's bat leadoff for the better part of two years in the AL, with the NL on his side on this one, He may not be the 'best' hitter on our team, but he is with RISP. Production matters. And he produces at the top, I'd like to see how he produces with Ramierez behind him.
Now. My other primary roster move is to sign a lefty relief pitcher who doesn't fair too badly against righties. Dennys Reyes comes to mind as not only LOOGY quality, but another meat in the BP. Shark-Gregg-Marmol doesn't sound too bad in my opinion, but beyond that the cubs have mostly young talent (except Cotts/Wuertz) who's rather inexperienced. Adding Reyes or even Will Ohman (again) would both be benificial steps for the Cubs BP.
So. Finacially, we've added part of Brian Robert's contract (3.5 mil, w/o extention), Will Ohman or Denny Reyes (~1.2mil), David DeJesus (2 mil). Oh. Resign Hank White too while we're at it... I'm sure he's cool with that. He's cool with me throw down an extra mil, Koyie 'three fingers' Hill and Josh Donaldson can wait!
Now, here comes the part where I'd like to bring up Teahan. Why not? Sure he'd be grateful to get out of KC, but, he's been statistically regressing over the past two years. Then you say, if he bats .250 with 15 hr, and can play right field... we should totally get him as another lefty bat... and then i think to myself, wait. Don't we have that in Fukudome? He theoretically should be the .250-.260, 10-15 hr player in right field. But Fukudome can take walks, and he's better defensively... wait a second. Why are we trading to get the same player we have? Sure, i'd think Teahan has the greater eventual upside, but right now he hasn't proved that he can reach that yet. And in the meantime, we can't wait for that. Defensively Fukudome will be better anywhere in the outfield than Teahan. DeJesus may be a worse fielder, but he is certainly a much more consistant hitter than Teahan has been.
Now, back to the middle of the lineup brings to mind only one name. Micah Hoffpauir. The problem is, again, there's no place to play him. Spelling DLee on occasion or maybe Soriano if he's feeling like he has a head cold or brain fart will allow us to be flexible with the order again with say on a Soriano DL trip (again), you'd have Roberts, Theriot, DeJesus, Ramierez, Soto, Hoffpaiur, Lee, Fukudome, P (during the second half of the season), or DLee would flop the 4-5-6-7 hitters around like, Ramierez, Soriano Hoffpaiur, Soto... if you look at it. Everyone's very well protected, everyone has a place, we just would have to get Soriano on board and make him think, I like RBIs. I like RBIs a lot, I like lookin like a superstar! I'm not gonna steal bases because my hamhocks are too fragile and I carry too heavy of a bat. In other possibilities, with an offensive left handed PH situation,
Lastly, I would love it if we could get Kerry Wood back. Have him pitch the 8th, to make it Gregg-Wood-Marmol, and further more, allow Samardjiza to go back to AAA and work on becoming our 5th starter to allow Marquis/Marshall to play LRP/SP. Of which, I'm not on the Marquis hate-wagon. Sorry fellahs. But he gives you solid innings for a #5 guy, and keeps you rather competitive in most of his games. Yes he's being paid WAY more than he's worth, but he is worth keeping.
I'm very long winded, so I'm sorry for all the tl;dr crap but, the second half roster (i.e. the more important part), would be vs righties:
2B Brian Roberts (god, makes your heart flutter a little!) S
SS Ryan Theriot R
RF David DeJesus L
3B Aramis Ramierez R
LF Alfonsie Sorianoe R
C Geovany Soto R
1B Derrek Lee R
CF Koskuke Fukudome L
vs LHP:
2B Brian Roberts S
SS Ryan Theriot R
CF David DeJesus L
3B Aramis Ramierez R
LF Alphonzie Sorianoe R
C Geovany Soto R
1B Derrek Lee R
RF Mark Derosa R
Bench: Micah Hoffpaiur, Mark DeRosa (will keep everyone fresh, since we'll have the divsion wrapped up in July), Fukudome, Ronny Cedeno, Reed Johnson, Hank White.
SP1: Carlos Zambrano
SP2: Ryan Dempster
SP3: Ted Lilly
SP4: Rich Harden
SP5: Jason Marquis/Sean Marshall
LRP: Jason Marquis/Sean Marshall
MRP: Jose Ascaino
MRP: Will Ohman/Dennys Reyes
MRP: Neil Cotts
MRP: Jeff Samardjiza
MRP: Angel Guzman
SU: Kevin Gregg
CL: Carlos Marmol
Increase in payroll: about 8 million this year (bumping us right to that 130 mark-ish)
Outlook: the Payroll will be pretty neutral in 2010 as well seeing as we're getting Marquis off the books with that awful contract, Soriano expects to make more but more importantly, it'll give us the opportunity to sign Brian Roberts for some longer length of time. Rich Harden will probably get a new deal done if he stays relatively healthy, Samardjiza will probably move to the Fifth Starter position. Trade Mark DeRosa and Cedeno/Fontentot for some pieces in the Minors (which we can use something... please). We'd be able to hopefully bring up Hoffpauir in some capability to provide that heart of the order lefty we've been coviting for years when convenient. We need to find a sucker who needs a left fielder in Soriano for some change in a dumping maneuver. I guess my outlook is to say, not that we won't make a playoff run in 2009, but that we can ALSO make it to the playoffs in 2010 (as every NLC team is rebuilding... still...).
So to go back to my original part.
My must haves this season is: left handed hitting. stay under $130m.
Check. Check-ish. Two-Three left handed hitters. I guess if you're hopeful like I am (you know, the always next year syndrome), Fukudome can bounce back, develop his power stroke and patience from the bottom of the order. Again, to DeJesus vs LHP (which, LHP vs LHB is normally the case), his splits have been about 5 points to his BA vs LHP verse RHP. I think this addition would put us about about 130, maybe a little higher. We'd lose a lot to our 'tradable prospects', but we'd become a more 'complete' team. Sure, a LH POWER bat would be great, but picking that up at the Trade Deadline is probably more our cup of tea, especially if we are completely unable to break Andy McFail.
My needs this season is: a leadoff hitter. more speed.
Check. Check.
I'm thinking the differences in a legit leadoff hitters here between Furcal and Roberts. Both are, from an offensive standpoint, very good. Things you'd like in a leadoff hitter, who's a lefty. Both are 30. The difference between the two is: their position, their salary, and their injury history. Furcal would be the best, because it fixes our leadoff issue, our defensive issue, and a speed issue. What it doesn't fix is anything. He's the best candidate for fixing our problems in the perfect world. Unfortunately, it won't ever be the solution.
My wants this season is: prospects!, get younger. upgrade defensively. left handed pitching.
Fails across the board. For now....
End of Story.
An Easy Fix?
So its finals time for me so I've been very busy lately doing nothing more than looking over the world of baseball gossip. what I've seen has somewhat sparked my interest, all this crap about the Giants close to signing FA shortstop Edgaar Renteria. what confusifies me is that they already have first round draft pick Emmanuel Burris waiting in the wings at half the cost, twice the skill and four times the upside. So to me this makes no sense. but then I look at the rest of their teem and see that they have no secod basemen who are ready. What a coincidence! We have like 9. so then the gears in my head start to turn and after hours of hard though i think (lightbulb appears) why not trade one of our many secondbasmen to the giants for Burriss. This can easily benefit both teams.
Cubs: Burris- a low cost switch hitting leadoff man with doubles power and a high OBP to fill our biggest hole (in my opinion) at SS. Lose one of our 312 secondbasemen.
Giants: Theriot- a proven major league hitter entering his prime for a cheap price that is more suited to play 2B than SS anyway with a high OBP and good speed
Fontenot- a reliable lefty bat off the bench or a starting 2B with some pop and a high AVG. and OBP.
DeRosa- proven veteran talent with a power for his position and an ability to get on base. (won't happen)
I would gladly make this trade, preferably for Theriot as his stock will never be higher, even if i had to throw in a low end prospect to go with it. This deal would help both teams at a position that they are lacking. But most importantly this would solve our shortstop/lead off problem without having to spend $12 million on Furcal giving us the ability to spend on right or center field or Peavy. And if Marquis somehow is gunned down behind an adult book store or even simply traded we could do both.
But for right now, lets just pretend that we traded Theriot for Burriss and called it and offseason. Useing only what we have now...
Against Righties...
S SS Burriss
L CF Fukudome
R 3B Ramirez
R LF Soriano
R C Soto
R 1B Lee
R RF DeRosa
L 2B Fontenot
Against Lefties...
S SS Burris
L RF Fukudome
R 3B Ramirez
R LF Soriano
R C Soto
R 1B Lee
R 2B DeRosa
R CF Johnson
*Fukudome actually hit lefties better than righties last year and even with his suck-ass second half he still kept his OBP above .350 the entire year.
From Robothal
From Ken Rosenthal's latest column*:
"Abreu is no slouch, mind you — he batted .296 with 20 homers and 100 RBIs last season. But he turns 35 on March 11, and the Yankees feared that his best offer might be something like two years, $16 million."
16MM/2 years? Tell me, Riders, which of you would not sign Bobby Abreu to that contract???
My note to KP
Dear KP,
Goat Riders comes with a fully equipped typing program that already takes html for granted. You don't need your br's, your p's, or your a href's to post.
However if you want to play with html, just click on the option below which says "disable rich-text" and you can go buck wild. But really, you don't need to.
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Things I am thankful for ... of the Apocalypse
I'm probably not going to make "of the Apocalypse" a part of every post, but I'm amused to do so at this moment.
South of where I live right now, millions of families are digging into large turkeys covered in gravy, with gratuitous quantities of stuffing piled nearby, buried under heaping spoon fulls of mashed potatoes and corn, while a shelf full of pies await to be eaten. Unfortunately, I won't get to join in the festivities until Saturday.
But while I sit here, I thought I'd share with you some of the many things that I am thankful for.
- I'm thankful that the Cubs are headed in the right direction for once and aren't painful to follow
- I am thankful that our readers are intelligent, mostly cordial people happy to get involved in a debate regardless of how illogical I make the premise
- I am thankful for the GROTA staff. If the internets was a real place, the act of them "coming to work" would be seen as five beaten, broken men shuffling into a dank, dark room, where they then hunch over to slave on stories while I crack the whip and promise to pay them with pain. Well, maybe it's not that bad
- I'm thankful for the opportunities we've had in the past year. As I've already mentioned, we've grown massively in readership, we've been covered repeatedly by the national media, I got inducted into a society of 700 Cub fans including Dick Cheney, John McCain, Barack Obama, and Hillary Clinton, and our website got a kick-ass design that has apparently inspired many other Cubs blogs to follow suite. Yep, that's us, leading the way ... ya followers! Hah!
- On a personal level, I'm thankful for my fiancee, known in some circles by the name She's Canadian I Met Her At Niagara Falls You Wouldn't Know Her, or C. for short. Hey, anybody worth immigrating to a new country for is special, right?
- Most importantly of all, I am thankful of my immense talent to write. Someday I'm gonna be famous and you'll all be choking on my dust trails, motherf***ers! That's right! I said it! Because although the turkey's not here in Canada, the Wild Turkey is and I'm right where I wanna be ... at the top of the heap! What'reya gonna do about it? Huh? Huh? You wanna fight me? You wanna fight me?! Bring it on!
...ahem. Sorry about that. Got a little out of control with that last one. But in all seriousness, we've all stumbled across those blogs precociously written by people with 5 readers in total, and there's nothing quite as depressing as those... which isn't to say that I don't have other blogs with 5 readers in total. A blog is no better than the company it keeps, and you guys are awesome. I give thanks for that. So ... who wants to trade DeRosa and Lilly? C'mon, don't be shy, step up!
The lineup as it stands today
Just thought I'd throw this up on the site ... as this will be a short article, I'm writing it as a "blog post" and since I own the keys to the kingdom, I'm promoting it to the front page, as well.
If I'm building the Cubs lineup, this is what I'd do with the players the Cubs have at this moment:
1. Kosuke Fukudome RF
2. Mark DeRosa 2B
3. Aramis Ramirez 3B
4. Alfonso Soriano LF
5. Geovany Soto C
6. Derrek Lee 1B
7. Ryan Theriot SS
8. Felix Pie CF
If Reed Johnson starts over Pie, I place him 7th and bat Theriot 8th.
While I think we'd all agree that the Cubs should pursue another bat, all things being equal this is by no means a bad lineup. The only problem is the fact that it goes L-R-R-R-R-R-R-L or, if Reed starts, L-R-R-R-R-R-L-R, which just won't cut it.
Who goes where
Ok, here's what I say we do for right now.
Given that Lou Piniella has just announced we're "set" for starting pitching, I'm taking that into account and not adding any starters.
SP1: Zambrano
SP2: Dempster
SP3: Harden
SP4: Lilly
SP5: Note 1
SP6/Swing man: Note 1
Closer 1: Note 1
Closer 2: Note 2 and Note 4
Set-up 8th inning: Carlos Marmol
Set-up 6-7th inning: Kevin Hart *OR* Michael Wuertz
Long Reliever/Mop-up guy: Rich Hill
Lefty One-Out GuY: Neal Cotts
Catcher 1: Soto
Catcher 2: Blanco (Having this good a backup catcher is worth 3 million)
1B: Lee
2B/Util: DeRosa
3B: Ramirez
SS: Cedeno
Backup 2B/SS: Theriot
LF: Soriano
CF1: Edmonds
CF2: Reed Johnson
RF: Fukudome, presuming he can re-learn to hit
Util/PH 1: Hoffpauir, or if he suddenly starts sucking, sign Doug Mientkiewicz while his price is low (We need a backup first baseman other than Daryle Ward)
Util/PH 2: Note 3
Util/PH 3: Note 4
Note 1: As of now, Marquis is the fifth starter, and Samardzija is the closer. If we can sign/develop someone else to be closer, than Samardzija is the 5th starter, and Marquis is the Swing Man.
Note 2: I believe in having two closers: that way you can bring in one in a critical situation (i.e. bases loaded, none out, small lead) early in the game, and bring in the other in the 9th inning. However, the 9th-inning closer should be gotten as cheaply as possible, as he's not as important (in my opinion) as the guy who can get you out of bases-loaded no-out jams with minimal damage.
Note 3: I don't know who's available to fill this slot. I advocate Nick Punto, who can play 2B, 3B, and SS, and well (although he might need some practice at wrigley, being used to the Metrodome) and who earned $2.4M last year while putting up decent numbers. He can probably be had for a discount.
Note 4: Realistically, we aren't going to get the two closers I advise, so drop one of them for another backup bat, preferably an outfielder who can play all outfield positions. Maybe Scott Podsednik, who earned $750,000 last year, doesn't hit too well, but can play both LF and CF fairly well, and has just over 100 career innings in RF (and did well in those games.)
In short, the three guys not on the Cubs last year I advocate signing are 1. a closer, any closer; 2. Nick Punto, 3. Scott Podsednik. For the closer role, one possibility that can be had cheap is Juan Rincon; yes, he's sucked the last two years, but was dominant for 3 years before that; if we can make Lilly not suck, and Marquis suck less, we can probably fix up Juan Rincon. He made $2.5M last year but
can probably be had for less given the ERA the last two years; maybe even sign him to a minor league contract and see if he can put it together in spring training.
I think these three guys can be had for a total well under $10M, as we'd be "buying low" on all three. This wouldn't put much of a dent in the budget while retaining the other 22 guys I mentioned.
Hey - I Have An Opinion!
Admittedly, blasting away at others' ideas is much easier than creating your own. I've been all over the Shout Box and Comments these days saying how craaazy Rob and Kurt and Colin's ideas are, hiding in the shadows and failing to take an official stance.
Well, ladies and gentlemen, the wait is over! Random Goat Rider You've Never Heard Of, and likely don't care about, is ready to make your Monday shine! Because what's more fun than ripping on a guy who has even less of an idea of what he's talking about than any of the regulars on this blog? (Other than most things.)
I give you Cubs Offseason '08/'09: The AJ Plan.
The AJ Plan is based on a few key assumptions that people may or may not generally agree with.
1. In professional sports, inertia rules.
While the sports media love to generate tons of buzz about potentially crazy mega-deals, it seems to me that, more often than not, these things just don't happen every day.
2. For a 97-win team, inertia rules even harder.
Jim Hendry himself has said this. For the most part, the guys that won in 2008 will be back for 2009. That includes Theriot's weak throwing arm, and DeRosa's... solid bat?
3. The Cubs are one, or maybe two, major moves away from being done.
1 + 2 = 3.
4. The team appears to have one, or maybe two, major needs: an upgrade in right field, and perhaps another starting pitcher.
3 + common sense = 4.
5. This team is built to win now.
A lot of people didn't like the Ceda/Gregg trade because we gave up several years of a guy, who might be able to overpower some major league hitters with a high-90s fastball, for one year of a player with major league closing experience (who blew a few saves--albeit with a crap defense behind him) and gave up three home runs in 2008 (one of which was huge for the Cubs). A lot of people didn't like the Dempster signing because it locked in a pitcher with little starting success for too many years. To me, both moves accomplish the same goal: make some balanced sacrifices (a little from the farm, and a little future payroll) in the future, to win in 2009. In that sense, while Mark Teahen may end up with the Cubs, which would be cool because he's young, I don't think he's the final answer to start in right field, because he's young--and unproven.
Speaking of assumptions, I'm going to reject one that Kurt threw out recently--that $130MM is it for the budget. To me, not signing Wood doesn't mean the Cubs are stuck with this level of payroll; it means they can't go too far over it, which is what happens when you give an injury-prone, high-priced reliever the money he's due to receive based on his absurd 2008 (that is, unfortunately, unlikely to be repeated).
Having said all that, let's talk moves.
AJ Plan Move #1:
Sign the cheaper of Bobby Abreu or Raul Ibanez.
This will take a while, because I don't think we can really say, in this market, what these guys' true value is. There was a great article about Abreu at FanGraphs that said Abreu's value was much lower than he perhaps thinks. There was a rush to sign Dempster because everyone wants starting pitching. I may be missing something here, but what other teams are really in the market for an older, left-handed corner outfielder with mediocre defense? I claim none. In the end, I'll bet it's Abreu, 3 year deal in the $8-10MM range. Because I know a lot about contract values and stuff.
AJ Plan (Non-)Move #2:
Either keep Jason Marquis on as the fifth starter, OR, move him for whatever crap you can, and sign Randy Johnson to a one-year deal.
If Jon Garland gets $30MM and three years, who wouldn't want (to use an NBA term) Jason Marquis' expiring contract? As for the Unit, yes he's old, yes he's been hurt - which is exactly why he's obtainable for a short-term deal and not a lot of money. You get what you pay for, and I think the Unit is worth the cost.
And that's it.
The AJ Plan has a remarkably low impact on the Cubs' 2009 budget. If we're at $130MM now, and spend, say, $10MM on Abreu, we're still under the $150MM that has recently been offered as a target (I know Kurt doesn't like this number, but I still think $140-150MM is reasonable). If we move Marquis' whole contract, and grab Johnson for, what, $5-8MM? We're even under $140MM.
Depending on what the budget actually calls for, there may be one more free agent reliever signing in the mix. But barring that, I think this is the most realistic approach to the offseason a Cub fan could expect.
I guess, let the roasting begin?


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BofA Reels In Some Small Business Loans
January 4, 2012 by UPI - United Press International, Inc.
CHARLOTTE, N.C., Jan. 3 (UPI) — Bank of America confirmed it was calling in loans from an undisclosed number of small U.S. businesses.
Analysts said BofA was attempting to raise capital and impress regulators.
BofA spokesman Jefferson George said the number of loans affected would be a "very small percentage" of the 3.5 million small business lines of credit it has on its books, The Los Angeles Times reported Tuesday.
George did not give a precise number of loans the bank was calling in. The bank also said small businesses were given a year's notice, although some business owners said they did not receive the initial warnings, the newspaper said.
Barak Zahabizadeh, who owns a messenger service in Burbank, Calif., said he did not receive the early warning and has now been told he has to repay $96,000 by Jan. 25.
He was offered new terms on the loan, one of which was a two-year contract at 12 percent interest. That would increase his payments to $4,500 per month, tenfold his current payments, he said.
"I told them if they apply too much pressure they're going to push me into bankruptcy," Zahabizadeh said.
"If small businesses are going to lead the way out of the economic doldrums we now face in this country, they must have access to capital, not only to hire more people but to protect the jobs they are currently providing," said Scott Hauge, president of Small Business California.
Industry analyst Paul Miller at FBR Capital Markets said BofA was attempting to raise capital and prove to bank regulators that it was willing to reign in risks.
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The 10 worst states for taxes
A state's tax climate can affect not only how far dollars stretch but also whether businesses want to locate there.
Vermont wants to raise the gas tax again and several other tax increases to pay for universal health care. Shumlin is a blue tax monger that believes no one should have to work. No jobs in Vermont because of the cooperate tax. Vermont is a state of the elderly, drug dealers, disability suckers (so easy to get here), welfare suckers, and drug dealers.
Taxes are one thing, but fees are another. I don't mind paying taxes as much when I'm not getting socked every other month with ursury level charges for my car registration, my driver's license, trash pick-up, tollways, etc.
For example, Illinois did not make the top 10 but it certainly can be one expensive place to live when you factor in auto registration three to four times that of many of its neighbors, crappy tollroads, and so many different fees you can't keep track of them all
hell the cost of living is so high in illinois and the wages are so low the business make all the money and you kill your self for peanut shells gas goes up every day almost 4.00 gal cigs 6.00 pack how can people rent or buy a place on a little above min wage taxes are unreal to my seeing young adults are still living at home this is a spoon fed state
$4.35 For just the tax,... on a measly pack of smokes....
I don't smoke, but,...that's so not right.
They tax everything imaginable, over, and over again.
Then wildly spend all that, and print more, so what you now have is worth less...
And around and around we go. You cannot simply keep sucking everything dry,
and pay debt, with more credit, without it all blowing up in your face eventually...
Okay now, has anyone had enough of constantly increasing government dictated tax increases in our state, city and towns? when do the populous of our states get to vote on whether or not we want these tax increases. we put people in office to save us money! because they say they will before they are elected! but what do they do? They chock us to death with more damn dictated taxes and new laws that are taking our freedoms away. look carefully America, we're slowly loosing our freedoms according to our constitution!
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Fantastic Map! Really well done!
I think it looks good too. I wouldn't change it. Good job on the logo as well. Have some rep. (Oops, I can't give you rep right now. But you deserve some more.)
Last edited by hohum; 07-21-2010 at 09:23 AM. Reason: Can't give rep right now.
I'd play this game, based on the map alone! Really, this is a great looking map. All the more so as we can see how much it has improved from the first version.


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Dear International Living Reader,
"We'll need to live on a budget," the man said as his wife hovered nearby with a look of concern on her face. "Where is the best place in Mexico to do that?"
It was the first day of our Live and Invest in Mexico seminar (for more IL events, see here), and I urged the couple to keep listening…and to keep the faith. There were many presentations yet to come about the many places in Mexico where the living is wonderfully affordable. I was certain they would find their perfect place.
I started to think about this more, though. If I were in their boat, where would I steer it?
First, unless I had my heart set on beach living, I'd go inland…to Mexico's mountain areas where the climate is temperate and no air-conditioning or heating is required. I'd also seek a smaller town where I wouldn't need a car. But I'd also want to be near quality Mexican medical care. I'd choose a town without a large foreign population where rentals wouldn't be "gringo priced." This means, of course, a commitment to learning Spanish and to doing without north-of-the-border products and customs.
There are many places in Mexico that fit this description. Tequisquiapan, near Queretaro, springs to mind. As do towns like Zacatecas, Aquascalientes, San Luis Potosi, Patzcuaro, and San Cristobal de las Casas. Personal favorites are Tapalpa in Jalisco and Pozos de Mineral in Guanajuato. Some may argue that with the exception of Tapalpa, these aren't particularly small towns, and that's true, but they fit the criteria in every other regard. Closer to the beach, but still with somewhat temperate climes, I'd opt for Colima, Comala, or Tepic near the Pacific coast, or Jalapa near the Gulf Coast.
And if I must live at the beach, but on limited funds? I'd head for the Yucatan coast, or west to San Blas or Rincon de Guayabitos in the state of Nayarit, or to one of the many small villages that dot the coast of Colima…like Cuyutlan.
These places are just the tip of the iceberg. There are many more affordable places to live in Mexico. Keep in mind that living on a "gringo budget" in any of them would be akin to living very well when compared with most of the local population. If you can survive without luxuries such as cable TV and eat like a local, you can live very well on very little in Mexico.
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Real Simple DECEMBER 2008
Heat oven to 375° F. Place the salmon on a parchment-lined baking sheet, drizzle with the oil, and season with 3/4 teaspoon salt and 1/2 teaspoon pepper. Scatter the orange, lemon, and thyme around the salmon.
Roast until the salmon is opaque throughout, 20 to 25 minutes. Using 2 large spatulas, carefully transfer the salmon to a platter and scatter the orange, lemon, and thyme on top of it.
Make-Ahead Tip: Slice the oranges and lemons. Refrigerate in a resealable container or bag for up to 1 day.
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How to Make a Dalek Cake
by Kay Dee
We celebrated the the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who by sort of making a Dalek cake. Extermi-cake. Extermi-cake.
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who, Lakeland are selling silicone (who knew it could be used for something other than bubbies, eh?) Dalek cake tins. Exciting news, as I'm sure you'll agree.
What the Dalek cake should have looked like, thanks to the £16.99 Dalek cake mould from Lakeland. No spoilers - but it didn't look like this.I figured, looking at it in the shop, that this would be a worthwhile investment. And, with my other half's birthday in less than two days, I could use it to make him the most awesome cake ever.
"It's... it's easy to do, right?" I asked the cashier hopefully.
"Oh yes, dead easy. I'd say a monkey could do it. And the best thing is, it's silicone, so nothing gets stuck to the pan!" she told me enthusiastically, handing me my change.
Excellent news. I would soon become the Davros of my humble kitchen. Or so I thought.
Reading the back of my brand-spanking-new £16.99 baking tin, I discovered that an 8 egg mixture was required to make a Dalek cake. A lot of bloody eggs, if you ask me, but there we have it. However, as I get home at 8pm and start work around 6am, I don't have a lotta time on my hands, so I decided to cheat. Think instant cake mix. No, Devil's Food Cake mix. And, to make it up to the necessary 8 egg mixture, I bought three boxes.
Can I get a high-pitched violin noise, to signal impending doom please?
I mixed my cake mix up with olive oil, water and the required eggs, poured it carefully into my tin and watched gleefully as the thick, brown mixture filled it almost to the top. Sure, it was heavy (and wobbly - bloody flexible silicone!) to lift, but I managed to haul it into the oven, ease it onto the middle shelf and leave it for the required 25 minutes. Just enough time to pop to the shop and buy some icing.
Except, while I was out, I got a very strange text message from my mother.
"When you back? Cake giving me concern. Don't know whether to kill it or turn it off."
I made my way home to absolute devastation.
The cake mix had risen (I hadn't factored in the rising bit) and poured out of the baking dish, seeping into the oven below and out through the cracks in the doors. It wasn't cooked - the mixture inside was still raw - and it showed no signs of stopping. Worse still, I was out of cake mix. This was my one-shot cake - and, like a true Dalek, it seemed intent on murdering us all.
I moved to turn off the oven but my dad grabbed my hand: "No. You must leave it. You tripled the mixture, so you must triple the cook time."
Leave it? It had gone INSANE - but, at his bequest, I decided to let the Dalek live - for now. It was 10pm. I was due to be up a lot longer than I had intended. Worse still, when I contacted best gal pal (and amateur Delia Smith) Flik, she had very little advice for me.
"Only you," she said, "could make a cake that wants to eat you. You're literally insane."
I pleaded with her, explaining my predicament: "It's huge, Flik. It's as tall as... well, it goes from my fingertips to my elbow - and it's still rising."
"I'm crying with laughter. Tears. Abort. Abort mission. Remove it now. RETREAT."
Little did she know, eh? I couldn't abort now - not with my father watching me like a hawk, worrying about the wasted eggs. I was the hapless scientist who created a monster. It WAS Frankencake - and I felt a weird, morbid fascination to see what would happen next. It had to stay in there. Come hell or high cake mix, it had to stay in there.
Time passed. What felt like hours later, I crept to the oven and peered in. The mixture had finally settled, but the cake was twice the height of the original tin. And, of course, there was plenty of excess cake all over the sides and floor. Damn it all to hell.
Yet, after I carefully trimmed away the bottom and flipped it over, a miracle had taken place.
Oh yes. It was alive. It. Was. ALIVE! I really WAS the Davros of the baking world - and all that remained to do was decorate it.
Art has always been my thaaang. Using a mix of blue and grey icing, white milk chocolate buttons and silver birthday candles, I had soon sculpted a pretty awesome looking Dalek. And, when we finally presented it to Tom and were allowed to eat it, it actually tasted... absolutely amazing. Like a big chocolate muffin, hellbent on universal domination and mass destruction.
Extermi-cake. Extermi-cake.
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Suspect in shooting arrested
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. - Michigan officers arrested a Champaign man in connection with a murder that has been characterized as a possible revenge shooting after a 90-minute negotiation in Grand Rapids.
Grand Rapids police surrounded a home in the 1800 block of Horton Avenue SE around 4 p.m. Tuesday. They had a Champaign County arrest warrant for 26-year-old Ronald W. Young. Young refused to leave the home, and police shut down surrounding streets, according to the Grand Rapids Press.
Young, who police believe murdered 23-year-old LaTroy Creighton in Urbana on Saturday, was in Grand Rapids visiting family, according to Grand Rapids police Sgt. Terry McGee.
Young, whose last known address was in the 300 block of East Park Street, C, was arrested by Grand Rapids police and the Grand Rapids Area Fugitive Task Force, according to Urbana police Lt. Michael Metzler.
Young is being held in the Kent County Jail pending extradition proceedings, Metzler said. Urbana investigators are in Grand Rapids this morning, hoping to question Young later today, he said.
Officers went to the home acting on a tip that Young might be staying in the Grand Rapids area, Metzler said. Through cooperative investigations by Urbana and Grand Rapids police, it was determined that he was staying with a relative there.
According to investigators, Creighton was shot more than once around 2 a.m. Saturday, just north of Provena Covenant Medical Center, and died less than an hour later in the emergency room at Carle Foundation Hospital, Urbana. The preliminary autopsy results showed he died from multiple gunshot wounds, according to Champaign County Coroner Roger Swaney.
Mr. Creighton was the brother of LaTerance Creighton, who is in prison for shooting a man named Ronald Young in Champaign six years ago. Metzler said police have confirmed that Young is the same man shot by LaTerance Creighton.
A jury convicted La Terance Creighton of aggravated battery with a firearm and home invasion. He was sentenced to a 20-year prison term, and remains in prison.
Revenge is a possible motive for the latest shooting, but police don't really know why the shooting occurred, Metzler said.
The investigation is continuing, Metzler said. Police have talked to witnesses who were in the area of Saturday's shooting and saw what happened, he said.
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Change Gender Of Voice Using Text-to-speech
Hi buddies,
I want to change gender of voice when i am using Microsoft Direcrt Text-To-Speech control.
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Hi All,
I have a project to build, but have no idea how i am going to go about it.
I would like to collect a string from a COMM port and and filter out certain strings and on an error. to trigger a routine that will alert me on my cell and play back the error using the modem and phone line.
I got the String filtering and commport info collection working.
just to use text-to-speech and to open the modem and dial my number then to play the message over till i enter or key in a value on the phone ex: dtmf tone #1
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I am using the following code:
Option Explicit
Private Sub DirectSR1_PhraseFinish(ByVal flags As Long, ByVal beginhi As Long, ByVal beginlo As Long, ByVal endhi As Long, ByVal endlo As Long, ByVal Phrase As String, ByVal parsed As String, ByVal results As Long)
'this event fires when directSR comes up with a result
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'in the Phrase argument
Select Case Phrase
Case Is = "red"
MsgBox "you said red"
Case "green"
MsgBox "you said green"
Case Is = "blue"
MsgBox "you said blue"
Case Else
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End Sub
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Dim GrammarStr As String
'this is the list of words that directSR will
GrammarStr = "[Grammer]" + vbNewLine + _
"type=cfg" + vbNewLine + _
"[<start>]" + vbNewLine + _
"<start>=red" + vbNewLine + _
"<start>=green" + vbNewLine + _
"<start>=blue" + vbNewLine
'load the words to recognise
DirectSR1.GrammarFromString GrammarStr
'start listening
End Sub
when I run my app, it doesn't even recognise me saying anything!!
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what is going wrong??
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I don't have to include the entire 40MB dl that I did for my machine with my app do I????
Someone else wrote...
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Hello Gurus.
I use DirectSS to produce voice from text.
It is working perfectly.
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Can somebody teach me, how to change the voice to FEMALE VOICE?
Please download the attachment.
You maybe need to install file system. Those are
1) msttss22L.exe (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...ng=en#filelist)
2) spchapi.exe (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...ng=en#filelist)
3) xvoice.oca (in attachment)
4) xvoice.xls (in attachment)
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thanks very much.
my code
Dim objSpeak As TextToSpeech
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Set objSpeak = New TextToSpeech
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objSpeak.Speed = 150
'heres where i want to control gender
'lngvar1 = objspeak.gender(long) what value give it makes no diff End Sub
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MsgBox "Please specify the gender", vbCritical, "Input Error"
IsValidData = False
End If
ok im missing something simple ... i need to have the user choose one gender [male or female] from two option buttons, if one is not choosen i need to have the above msgbox appear however as it is now, no matter what i choose the message comes up and i do understand why, im just drawing a blank on how to fix the coding to reflect if both options are not choosen then the msgbox comes up but NOT if one of the two are choose....
any suggestions?
I know its really simple im just not thinking of something
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Originally Posted by nullvalue
There's a much easier way.. If you have DirectX installed, then under controls, add the component "Microsoft Direct Text-To-Speach" to your project. Then it's as easy as:
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I have been trying to change the age, gneder and pitch and things like that and i cannot get to work. can you please give me a few examples...
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this is my first thread, so please help me.....
im working on my senior project(text to speech)..
i record all the words by real player and save each audio file by the name of the word,
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how can help me or gime me any site that could help?
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Any kind of help or code will be very useful.
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Nor does it work when I use any other ways of coding it...
Can somebody please help me ???
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I'm developing a Text-to-Speech software. Currently it's almost done. I need your help for following problem.
I want my software to read the text from files which are opened in other applications. For example , if there is a file Open in MS Word , then I want my software to read that file text as well. How can I do this ??
Can I get the text from any Window which is open and running ?? Is there any API call for that ?
Currently I have implemented it with Copy to Clipboard and read it from there. But for that , user needs to select the text and Copy it from that application. So , if I want to read a .doc file open in MS Word , I need to select it and then Copy its text from within MS Word. Then come back to my software and execute command "Read from Clipboard". It's a compromise !
Please suggest me a way so that user will just open a file in any application and I'll make my software to read it. I think hWnd will be the key parameter. What you think ?
Waiting for your valuable reply ...
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error number 430
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how can i solve this problem
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Via Control Panel / Speech / Text to Speech I can get a sentence spoken to me. Therefore I am sure I call use this facility in a VB6 app without having to download some other DLL. Can I ? What do I need to do ?
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I have used before Text-To-Speech, it was Win98, now I am using XP Pro SP1 and in the control panel it does have that "Speech" wherein you could type your message and it will speak it but in VB I cannot find the control of that Text-To-Speech, how can I find it? What is its filename?
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i have made a text to speech project using the ms text to speech engine
i want that whatever text is read should be saved in an audio file .someone told me that there is one such project available in
the sapi5 sdk but as it is too big in size and i have a slow dial up connection i cant download it. can anyone give me the code for doing that??????
Text 2 Speech
i have made a text to speech project using the ms text to speech engine
i want that whatever text is read should be saved in an audio file .someone told me that there is one such project available in
the sapi5 sdk but as it is too big in size and i have a slow dial up connection i cant download it. can anyone give me the code for doing that??????
Text 2 Speech
i have made a text to speech project using the ms text to speech engine
i want that whatever text is read should be saved in an audio file .someone told me that there is one such project available in
the sapi5 sdk but as it is too big in size and i have a slow dial up connection i cant download it. can anyone give me the code for doing that??????
Text To Speech
Hello, I have done a search on this forum but havent found an answer that works. I am using vtext text to speech in my program. I also use the British English TruVoice. When I use my program the voice is female. I want it to be male. I have tried doing
VB Code:
dss1.gender 1'ordss1.gender 2
Yet these do not work. When I used the American english TruVoice, the 'default' would be a male voice. Is there any way to change the gender? Again, I have ran a search on here and none of the answeres helped me.
Text To Speech
Who know how to convert a text to speech like 'Text to speech' of Microsoft.
Hi im using the text to speech control. I can get it to speak but i can't change the pitch. Is there any tutorial about it?
Text To Speech
i have been working with the text to speech control and can figure out most of the basics like speak pitch speed so on.... i was wondering if anyone new and good tutorial sites for tts control on how to use the gender, dialect, and so on controls
thx in advance
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I have a little program that I have designed for my 5 year old cousin that helps him with his math. It uses the MS Text to Speech engine to read message boxes and such to him. The only problem is when it is not speaking, it's mouth is wide open. Does anyone know a way to keep it's mouth shut??
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keep with me....its been a whle
I have a text to speech control on my form, but it gives me an error when I say
TextToSpeech1.Speak ("Hello World!")
it says
Method 'Speak' of object 'ITextToSpeech' failed
Text To Speech
I have a created a simple text to speech program. the problem I'm running into is tring to create a setup and run it on another computer the dll don't get reg right. Is there an ocx out there somewhere I can use instead of the xvoice.dll or vtext.dll.
Speech To Text
How do you convert speech to text??
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Wednesday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi asked the Legionnaires to help the nation work together to make sure veterans have jobs when they come home from Iraq and Afghanistan.
She said, "We promise them a future worthy of their sacrifice." Pelosi said the current Congress approved a number of measures important to veterans.
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