It will still give you precisely what you actually ask for, you just have to press enter. The only thing they're doing is setting it not to "SUGGEST" those terms before you even type them.
Great idea, as soon as the phone companies allow this I'll be first to implement it.
If cable TV can force me to buy their stupid package to live-stream a cable news channel from the web (and enforce it), then a phone company should be able to verify I'm paying for the specific number I'm sending as my caller ID name.
I'd be happy to, but the phone company needs to provide that (an API or something). There's nothing I could possibly do to fix it or create some new method. If the phone network supported it, I'd happily use any method they care to have.
I work in an inbound-only call center (tech support for web host). If we call a client back, we spoof our number so the number they see on their caller ID is the same toll free number they called to reach us in the first place. We used to not do this, and every outbound call looked like it came from somewhere in Colorado (we're in Oklahoma), so it helped our customers in more than one way. First, they recognize it's us calling them back about their ticket, and two, they can call the number they saw on caller ID and reach us again. Previously the Colorado local number they saw went nowhere, it was just some bulk trunk line owned by Verizon and leased by our call ACD routing cloud software company.
I'd argue it was worse for our clients when we couldn't spoof. They had no idea who was calling them, they get dead-air if they tried to call it back.
Having said that, I'm sick of death of getting these "looks local" telemarketing recorded sales pitches, so much that I essentially treat phone calls like email now: safe senders only. If you aren't in my address book head of time, my phone doesn't even ring anymore. It's insane. I must get 3 a day.
At one point Microsoft had more than 100,000 middle managers and tens of thousands of "VP" positions. It's what happens when you have a shitload of money apparently.
I've wondered if the minimum should be tied to inflation so you keep the same buying power. That is, regardless of inflation, your salary will always get you the same number of loafs of bread or such. But clearly that isn't a single shot solution, since as you said the cost of living in (say) San Francisco is wildly different than Nowhere, OK.
On Windows, if you have UAC enabled, you'll be asked if you want to let the installer elevate. But if you say "no" on that prompt, it will install without creating system services (since the installer never received the privilege escalation to do so). This is also how non-admins can install it on a per-user basis.
Agree. Most of it is the cool factor. I honestly can't off the top of my head think of anything Siri does that I can't with default voice search beyond querying/adding calendar events. Asking questions gives me results with Google, and if really wanted to have those read back to me I could use Vlingo. I can't ask "where can I get a sandwich", but I can tell Google Voice Search "nearby restaurants" and it gives me a map with pushpins marking them. That's honestly better than Siri to me.
My old Windows Mobile 5.x phone going on 8 or 9 years ago was able to use voice to "Play X artist" or "What's my next appointment" (still can't do that on Android),... and WinMo didn't even require a server connection to translate my voice into text. It could even respond to you. Say "Play music", it would ask "what do you want to play? By album, artist, genre, or shuffle?" You could even continue the conversation, just like Siri, by saying "what artists are available?" or something similar.
The only time a connection of any kind was required was if my request spawned a web search or geolocation process, which would be a normal webpage or map loading. I don't see why Apple needs "a huge data center" to handle these requests.
I'd love something as seamless as Siri. No option exists on android for querying/adding calendar appointments, and I'd find more practical use for that than most of the things Siri does. All in all though, the Google Voice Actions (is that the real name?) seem to do okay for me. Sure I can't say "where can I get some coffee?" with perfect results, but saying "Nearest coffee shop" works okay for me.
That's great thing that I like about Vlingo as well. The only reason I have my default action still on the Google Search voice thing is that it can do a select few things that Vlingo can't, which I use more often. Vlingo is far more full featured than this Evi thing.
I agree about a lot of "been done before" stuff. Heck, my old Windows Mobile 5.x phone going on 8 years ago was able to use voice to "Play X artist" or "What's my next appointment" (still can't do that on Android),... and WinMo didn't even require a server connection to understand my request.
I don't mind that it's having trouble scaling to demand, but even if it was fully functional it still wouldn't be a Siri competitor any more than my thumbs are because they can type a URL. I want to be able to add something to my calendar, or ask where the closet X is.
Not only has this been out for approaching a week, but it's also far from a competitor. It uses the standard voice services to transcribe what you say, then 'helpfully' google it for you or open a webpage. It most certainly can't do what Siri does, even when it is (rarely) working. You can ask Siri where to get a sandwich. Asking Evi just results in the homepage for UrbanSpoon.com launching. Not even a search for what you want.
When's that Majel thing coming?
Who is holding a gun to your head and telling you that you must use G+? By the way, doesn't facebook Terms also require you to use your real name as well?
In IE, I hate the lag between clicking the "e" on my taskbar and the wait until it finally lets me begin typing into the address bar. Or that, if a page is loading while I'm typing a URL, whatever I was typing gets wiped out with the current page address as soon as the page is done rendering. It's like it's fighting with me.
I haven't seen that (or, more likely, haven't noticed). I like chrome for a few other reasons (extensions that don't bog down the app, syncing my bookmarks). I'm sure I can get these features with any other browser, but I suppose I'm just not as apt to tinker around as I used to be.
Hell, I played it when I didn't even have a sound card -- and the varying frequencies of beeps and bloops out of the PC chirp speaker were still blood curdling.
"Truthfully, Jean-Luc, I've been entirely preoccupied by a most frightening experience of my own. A couple of hours ago, I realized that my body was no longer functioning properly. I felt weak. I could no longer stand. The life was oozing out of me. I lost consciousness."
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It will still give you precisely what you actually ask for, you just have to press enter. The only thing they're doing is setting it not to "SUGGEST" those terms before you even type them.
For phones, it's the same technical mechanism. The only difference is the intent of the operator doing it.
Great idea, as soon as the phone companies allow this I'll be first to implement it. If cable TV can force me to buy their stupid package to live-stream a cable news channel from the web (and enforce it), then a phone company should be able to verify I'm paying for the specific number I'm sending as my caller ID name.
I'd be happy to, but the phone company needs to provide that (an API or something). There's nothing I could possibly do to fix it or create some new method. If the phone network supported it, I'd happily use any method they care to have.
Not even a little bit.
I work in an inbound-only call center (tech support for web host). If we call a client back, we spoof our number so the number they see on their caller ID is the same toll free number they called to reach us in the first place. We used to not do this, and every outbound call looked like it came from somewhere in Colorado (we're in Oklahoma), so it helped our customers in more than one way. First, they recognize it's us calling them back about their ticket, and two, they can call the number they saw on caller ID and reach us again. Previously the Colorado local number they saw went nowhere, it was just some bulk trunk line owned by Verizon and leased by our call ACD routing cloud software company. I'd argue it was worse for our clients when we couldn't spoof. They had no idea who was calling them, they get dead-air if they tried to call it back. Having said that, I'm sick of death of getting these "looks local" telemarketing recorded sales pitches, so much that I essentially treat phone calls like email now: safe senders only. If you aren't in my address book head of time, my phone doesn't even ring anymore. It's insane. I must get 3 a day.
At one point Microsoft had more than 100,000 middle managers and tens of thousands of "VP" positions. It's what happens when you have a shitload of money apparently.
I've wondered if the minimum should be tied to inflation so you keep the same buying power. That is, regardless of inflation, your salary will always get you the same number of loafs of bread or such. But clearly that isn't a single shot solution, since as you said the cost of living in (say) San Francisco is wildly different than Nowhere, OK.
Yes Amazon has 350k US workers, but how many were below this threshold (how many are being impact by the change?)
On Windows, if you have UAC enabled, you'll be asked if you want to let the installer elevate. But if you say "no" on that prompt, it will install without creating system services (since the installer never received the privilege escalation to do so). This is also how non-admins can install it on a per-user basis.
Agree. Most of it is the cool factor. I honestly can't off the top of my head think of anything Siri does that I can't with default voice search beyond querying/adding calendar events. Asking questions gives me results with Google, and if really wanted to have those read back to me I could use Vlingo. I can't ask "where can I get a sandwich", but I can tell Google Voice Search "nearby restaurants" and it gives me a map with pushpins marking them. That's honestly better than Siri to me.
My old Windows Mobile 5.x phone going on 8 or 9 years ago was able to use voice to "Play X artist" or "What's my next appointment" (still can't do that on Android),... and WinMo didn't even require a server connection to translate my voice into text. It could even respond to you. Say "Play music", it would ask "what do you want to play? By album, artist, genre, or shuffle?" You could even continue the conversation, just like Siri, by saying "what artists are available?" or something similar.
The only time a connection of any kind was required was if my request spawned a web search or geolocation process, which would be a normal webpage or map loading. I don't see why Apple needs "a huge data center" to handle these requests.
I'd love something as seamless as Siri. No option exists on android for querying/adding calendar appointments, and I'd find more practical use for that than most of the things Siri does. All in all though, the Google Voice Actions (is that the real name?) seem to do okay for me. Sure I can't say "where can I get some coffee?" with perfect results, but saying "Nearest coffee shop" works okay for me.
That's great thing that I like about Vlingo as well. The only reason I have my default action still on the Google Search voice thing is that it can do a select few things that Vlingo can't, which I use more often. Vlingo is far more full featured than this Evi thing.
I agree about a lot of "been done before" stuff. Heck, my old Windows Mobile 5.x phone going on 8 years ago was able to use voice to "Play X artist" or "What's my next appointment" (still can't do that on Android),... and WinMo didn't even require a server connection to understand my request.
I don't mind that it's having trouble scaling to demand, but even if it was fully functional it still wouldn't be a Siri competitor any more than my thumbs are because they can type a URL. I want to be able to add something to my calendar, or ask where the closet X is.
Not only has this been out for approaching a week, but it's also far from a competitor. It uses the standard voice services to transcribe what you say, then 'helpfully' google it for you or open a webpage. It most certainly can't do what Siri does, even when it is (rarely) working. You can ask Siri where to get a sandwich. Asking Evi just results in the homepage for UrbanSpoon.com launching. Not even a search for what you want. When's that Majel thing coming?
Who is holding a gun to your head and telling you that you must use G+? By the way, doesn't facebook Terms also require you to use your real name as well?
Don't use a SOCIAL NETWORKING WEBSITE. Or don't use the goddamn internet in general, for that matter.
In IE, I hate the lag between clicking the "e" on my taskbar and the wait until it finally lets me begin typing into the address bar. Or that, if a page is loading while I'm typing a URL, whatever I was typing gets wiped out with the current page address as soon as the page is done rendering. It's like it's fighting with me.
I haven't seen that (or, more likely, haven't noticed). I like chrome for a few other reasons (extensions that don't bog down the app, syncing my bookmarks). I'm sure I can get these features with any other browser, but I suppose I'm just not as apt to tinker around as I used to be.
I'm impressed with the work, but it's still a little glitchy, slower to load and just not as blazing fast as Chrome.
Of course, it's just like (incredibly simplistic 21st century metaphor). It was right in front of our eyes!
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Hell, I played it when I didn't even have a sound card -- and the varying frequencies of beeps and bloops out of the PC chirp speaker were still blood curdling.
"Truthfully, Jean-Luc, I've been entirely preoccupied by a most frightening experience of my own. A couple of hours ago, I realized that my body was no longer functioning properly. I felt weak. I could no longer stand. The life was oozing out of me. I lost consciousness."
- "You fell asleep."