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  1. Universal Opcodes... by seven+of+five · · Score: 1 · on Researcher Writes A Machine Language For The Universe (typepad.com)

    Universal opcodes

  2. Re:The Shark... by Dekortage · · Score: 1 · on Google Launches Lively, an Avatar Based 3D World

    I am sooo reminded of The Talking Moose. Want him to be friendly? Sure. Sarcastic? Yep. Religious, even, if you like.

  3. Like in the talking moose? by SpaghettiPattern · · Score: 1 · on Talking iPods

    Like in the talking moose?

  4. Re:The Issue is "Screen Readers" by Seraphim_72 · · Score: 2, Insightful · on Open Source Accessibility
    But none of them are as full-featured as JAWS
    As the go to person for JAWS at my workplace I really have to say that JAWS blows. Because of the GUIed nature of windows it constantly reads garbage that even a blid person doesn't need to know. The voices are no better than the good old Talking Moose that used to run on my Mac 512. The licencing is horrible and until about a year ago *required* a floppy to install correctly, and if that floppy failed you had to wait while they sent you a new one. No, in all honesty if JAWS is state of the art for screen readers, the blind need a new advocate.

    Sera

  5. HOW many interpreters??? by dekashizl · · Score: 1 · on 2004 IF Competition Games Available
    Let me preface this with the admission that the only thing I know about IF comes from playing Zork I when I was a kid (I remember moving a rug and killing a troll with a sword), and some semi-pornographic "seduce councellor Troi" (from Star Trek TNG) interactive text game as a teenager (I remember getting anal-lube from the bathroom cabinet).

    So my question is: Why are there so many interpreters? The contest requires at least SIX different ones (from the competition site):

    Most of the interpreters you will need are available from the IF Archive. You will need interpreters for TADS 2 and 3, Z-code, Hugo, ALAN, and ADRIFT (for Windows or Mac).

    You'd think that after so many years, there would be some standardization. Are these all viable platforms, and why?
  6. First artificial voice? by MooseByte · · Score: 1 · on First All-Artificial Feature Film Released

    "... but that even the actor's voices are computer-generated using programs like Festival"

    Keanu Reeves was years ahead of them. Totally Talking Moose technology...

  7. Re:As much as I hate MS this is very smart. by mcc · · Score: 1 · on Microsoft Makes Push for COBOL Migration

    It's been done.

    And before you say "oh, but that isn't an assistant": I clearly remember multiple mac programs that behaved as the paperclip did before MSWord had it, only in a useful manner. I can't remember either of the names. One was a kind of helper / personal assistant / reminder app halfway between the paper clip and talking moose; the default avatar was named "Phil" but I can't remember the product's name. There was also a product shortly after that that was supposed to be some kind of "productivity" product that watched your actions over time, and "learned" certain things. If it noticed that every single time you dragged a file from your "documents" folder to the trash and the trash was empty, it would eventually point this out to you and ask if in future it could do the trash-emptying step for you automatically. That's a bad example, but it was that sort of thing.

    The paperclip was nothing interesting or new. I doubt anyone would have even talked about it if it hadn't been installed by default and set to come up much more often than anyone could concievably need or want it to.

  8. Re:If you have a Mac check out... by fermion · · Score: 1 · on gDesklets - Gnome2's Karamba
    The only eye candy I have ever needed for my mac is a talking moose

    When konfabultor pops up a moose that asks for pizza, then I will be impressed