Audio Considerations

If you go to the Kal’s Korner Online Web site’s Home Page and click the Audio Recordings and Speeches button, you will be taken to a screen which shows you famous historic figures such as Sir Winston Churchill, U.S. Presidents John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, etc.

Depending on your PC, audio recordings don’t always work | foto: Profimedia.cz

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When you click on each of the icons which represent these historic figures, you will be shown a list of various choices which will play the actual recordings.

For some of them, not all of them because these are hosted on different Web sites, you will actually see the words highlighted in yellow as they are spoken. This of course makes them much easier to “follow” or understand.

While the behavior of this Web site will be a bit different depending on the various configurations which exist out there for personal computers that people are using, you must make sure that you have a sound card and that your sound is turned on. You can check its status through your control panel on your Windows PC or Macintosh.

Thin Clients
If you are at a company and are using what is called a “thin client” such as Citrix in order to access the Internet, there is no guarantee that any audio will work.

On some of these configurations, all browsing on the Internet is first filtered through various proxies which can even exist in different countries. The word proxies, in this case, means other computers that act on behalf of the user and/or filter or route processes through one another.

By using proxies, the IT departments of companies help avoid situations where employees might be abusing the Internet and using their work time to surf pornographic Web sites, or waste company time by chatting away on ICQ.

Because proxies filter things, if you cannot hear the audio it is best to contact your IT department and see if they can fix the problem.

Jokes and Riddles of the Day

Q: What do you call a blonde woman who dyes her hair brown to be a brunette?
A: Artificial intelligence

Q: What’s another name for a phony blonde?
A: Peroxide

Q: How many blondes does it take to change a light bulb?
A: What is a light bulb?

Q: If there are three women standing around in a circle talking, one is brunette and the other two are blonde, what is the job of the brunette?
A: To be the interpreter.

More Blonde Inventions

1. Left handed pencils
2. Air conditioning for motorcycles
3. Air conditioning for skateboarding

Key Article Words in English

speeches - projevy
historic figures - historické osobnosti
various - různý
highlighted in yellow - žlutě zvýrazněné
sound card - zvuková karta
control panel - ovládací panel
thin clients - tenký/hubený zákazník
artificial intelligence - umělá inteligence
peroxide - kysličník/odbarvený
light bulb - žárovka
interpreter - tlumočník/vykladač

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