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"rectification for the sake of the restoration of a state of rectitude."
We in the 21st century live in the digital age, thanks to the emergence and rapiddevelopment of personal computers and other digital technology in the latter halfof the 20th century. The old sound spectrograph of the 1940’s1 has given way todigital signal processing, just as phonograph records and other analog productsgave way to the digital revolution. Today, besides computers and software/hardwarefor computer installation, other digital offerings include digital cameras andcamcorders; digital cell(ular) phones; DAT recorders (DAT = digital audio tape);digital voice recorders (replacing micro-cassette recorders); checkbook-sizede-dictionaries; PDA’s (personal digital assistant) and other handheld devices (or“handhelds”) for retrieving email, reading an e-book, surfing the web, etc.; musicstore-and-play formats such as “mp3”; full-size and portable CD- and DVD-disk players; digital television, including HDTV, and the digital cable, satellites andsatellite dish-antennas that deliver it to our homes, offices, and vehicles; digitalhome cinema; and of course, the digital projectors of business and academia, toname just a few. And for research, teaching and learning, to facilitate search andretrieval, a number of digital library projects2—some already accessible online—have been working at digitizing and archiving textual- and sound-materials(including music and spoken language data), as well as video and film media foreasy search and retrieval. The World Wide Web alone (WWW, or ‘The Web’)offers an incredible array of resources and information (some of which mayrequire subscription or password registration), including online newspapers andmagazines, online dictionaries and encyclopedias, academic e-journal articles,archived e-texts and sound-files, and more. Whereas in the mid-1990s there wasonly a handful of Chinese-language programs available online, it is unusual today,in 2003, to find any major Chinese program or association which is not representedon the Web.
We in the 21st century live in the digital age, thanks to the emergence and rapiddevelopment of personal computers and other digital technology in the latter halfof the 20th century. The old sound spectrograph of the 1940’s has given way todigital signal processing, just as phonograph records and other analog productsgave way to the digital revolution. This new technology has had a profound impacton the way we are able to analyze and study tone production of speakers of Mandarin Chinese.
For instance, my own Morrow Micro Decision computer—purchased in Seattle for one thousand, five hundred 1982 U.S. dollars—was an8-bit, Z-80, 4 Mhz desktop computer with 64K memory and a CP/ M 2.2 operatingsystem, strictly text-based, with no “Graphic User Interface” or GUI, meaning nolittle icons to drag about; its pre-LED (light-emitting-diode) phosphor screen wasmonochrome green, and each of the two built-in 5-1/4” floppy-disc drives held atotal of only 200 KB, or about 1/6 of what the formatted and now obsolescentfloppy-disk would later on come to hold.9 No hard drive, no external storage. It didhave a full-stroke keyboard, but could only “beep”: there was no “sound card.”10Furthermore, there were no ports for headphone jack, line-in, or microphone. Andas you might imagine, that little computer had no graphics or video support, nordid it have an internal or external fax-modem.11 The early CP/M and DOS-baseddesktop computers without a sound card could not be used for speech analysis and,from there, harness speech technology for language teaching.
Due to limitations of space,only a few aspects of Mandarin Chinese structure will be highlighted, but thatshould suffice to demonstrate the usefulness of the software under discussion.
The Tower of Babel destroyed almost all hope of coming to a consensus of what love really means.
The opening line from one of the articles from our Student Symposium a few years back:QuoteThe Tower of Babel destroyed almost all hope of coming to a consensus of what love really means.
Choices are made every day by people. A young child decides whether to eat a cookie after being told not to touch the cookie jar. A teenager decides whether to join a gang, smoke, or drink alcohol. A young man or woman tries to determine what the meaning of life is. This story is about the choice that I made to attend Brigham Young University and how my choice to come to Provo was instrumental in my quest to discover a whole new life.
No, but that might have been interesting. Instead it was just a bad lead-in. Here's another awful one from a book called Finding God at BYU:QuoteChoices are made every day by people. A young child decides whether to eat a cookie after being told not to touch the cookie jar. A teenager decides whether to join a gang, smoke, or drink alcohol. A young man or woman tries to determine what the meaning of life is. This story is about the choice that I made to attend Brigham Young University and how my choice to come to Provo was instrumental in my quest to discover a whole new life.
In these verses, Christ is warning his disciples not only of the deceptive nature of others but also of the self-deceptive nature of beams.
Alluding to Matthew 7:3–5, about failing to notice the beam in one's own eye:QuoteIn these verses, Christ is warning his disciples not only of the deceptive nature of others but also of the self-deceptive nature of beams.
What would you do if you were king of the world?Kill the person who don't like me.Help poor people.Build things for people.Travel the world.Sleep every day.To make every one be a rich.Don't care to eat, and happy forever.If I was king I would like to eat people.I will make everybody relax all the time.I want to help many no house's people find a home.Travel around the world.Help all old man.Eat all delicious.I will make the world happily and safely, and everyone shares the stuff to each other.
