Did you hear the one about the guy to messaged home to tell the oven to start cooking the turkey, and the oven routed the fetch turkey command not to the handybot, but to the baby-care bot instead due to a firmware error? Oh, and it evenually turned out the guy was on crackberry.
I know it's true because I read it on a blog of a blog somewhere.
I really wonder if M$ made some pact to give out crappy TTS so as not to stifle sales of some business partner's application.
That's never stopped Microsoft before. Look at the graveyard of all the companies who made some niche product that was smashed when MS included it as a feature in Windows. (It didn't always work as well, but it was there and killed the niche.) The real money in TTS isn't for individual computers, but for large services and such. (Which is a shame because there's a lot of emergent SOHO apps that could use cheap but good TTS and VR.)
MS has actually gone backwards on TTS, because the L&H TruVoice American English engine that comes SAPI4 and MS Agent sounds much better than Mike, Mary and Sam. Of course, Lernout & Hauspie managed to graveyard themselves. MS has been stagnant on TTS since 1998, but hopefully they're doing more than just shipping a newly tweaked voice for Vista.
One annoyance with Google News is that they include vanity "press release" sites as news sources. And since most of those sites do absolutely no filtering on submitted PR, that means any nut or hoax can get their.. release.. to the top slot in a news search category.
Well, if you want talking popups, try this. Of course, you need Windows, IE, permissions to run ActiveX, scripts, make sure you have enough MS Agent installed, have the Peedy character available... *phew*!
It's abcdefg+randomwebsitename@gmail.com where your mailbox is abcdefg@gmail.com. I've used that when signing up to some things, although it breaks some site's software.
Beef is off the list thanks to Mad Cow. No chicken because of the bird flu. No pork because it'll be green and glowing soon. What fish? No genetically modified veggies or grain...
Grim Reaper: Shut up! Shut up you American. You always talk, you
Americans, you talk and you talk and say 'Let me tell you
something' and 'I just wanna say this', Well you're dead now,
so shut up!
Some things don't have be explained, especially if they're just slipped in. If someone gets it, great, but no huge loss if they miss it. Besides, it's great to re-read something much later and then trip over the unexploded joke!
Lois McMaster Bujold dropped a great sleeper into Diplomatic Immunity, p.229 "But I got better!" cried the amphibian. You can't tell me that's not a Python reference.
It's not deadly until it hits five. Besides, he was quoting a Nac Mac Feegle, and the only way anyone would say that they're mentally balanced is if they were facing a face full of head otherwise!
So, what rating are they going to put on the movie, PG-13?
Well yes, that is obviously a fine example of a European Yellow of the Jacob's Backhoe variety. However, academic experts in backhoe taxonomy prefer not to argue about which is the true backhoe-loader line. (They prefer to bicker about backhoe classification by the placement of the hoe on the back vs the backwards hoeing motion used. e.g. Should this be included as a member of the backhoes?)
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I know it's true because I read it on a blog of a blog somewhere.
It acted like it didn't know what it was doing, weaving around. It wasn't wearing a helmet, jacket, gloves or boots. Sounds like a squid to me!
Yeah, I hate when that happens.
Am Spacesuit, Will Travel
I was just about to ship an online version of Magic: The Blackberry. Two great addictions in one, how could it lose?
Does it count if all the bills have the same serial number?
That's never stopped Microsoft before. Look at the graveyard of all the companies who made some niche product that was smashed when MS included it as a feature in Windows. (It didn't always work as well, but it was there and killed the niche.) The real money in TTS isn't for individual computers, but for large services and such. (Which is a shame because there's a lot of emergent SOHO apps that could use cheap but good TTS and VR.)
MS has actually gone backwards on TTS, because the L&H TruVoice American English engine that comes SAPI4 and MS Agent sounds much better than Mike, Mary and Sam. Of course, Lernout & Hauspie managed to graveyard themselves. MS has been stagnant on TTS since 1998, but hopefully they're doing more than just shipping a newly tweaked voice for Vista.
Any bets that they're just putting a wrapper around the ActiveX object? (It does mean that all other ActiveX objects can be shut off.)
One annoyance with Google News is that they include vanity "press release" sites as news sources. And since most of those sites do absolutely no filtering on submitted PR, that means any nut or hoax can get their .. release .. to the top slot in a news search category.
Are you sure?
Sure, like the soap operas haven't already overused that one.
Well, if you want talking popups, try this. Of course, you need Windows, IE, permissions to run ActiveX, scripts, make sure you have enough MS Agent installed, have the Peedy character available... *phew*!
It's abcdefg+randomwebsitename@gmail.com where your mailbox is abcdefg@gmail.com. I've used that when signing up to some things, although it breaks some site's software.
Hogfather by Terry Pratchet. Old boots and mud, but once you dress them up a little...
Mmmmm, this tastes like Soylent Green!
And now I have to give up eating dirt!
I guess I'll become a Breatharian...
(Okay, so it was Python's anthropomorphic death.)
Heh, check the comic Nonsequitur on Sunday for some good advice that Obviousman gives to the studios.
Lois McMaster Bujold dropped a great sleeper into Diplomatic Immunity, p.229 "But I got better!" cried the amphibian. You can't tell me that's not a Python reference.
So, what rating are they going to put on the movie, PG-13?
Indeed. How can you screw up a date format? (Not that I haven't seen endless examples of it.)
But will he be washed clean of being Oro on Starlost?
I hear that he's a thespian.
They caught him down at the beach giving his kid a spade, a bucket and a foot of cable.
Well yes, that is obviously a fine example of a European Yellow of the Jacob's Backhoe variety. However, academic experts in backhoe taxonomy prefer not to argue about which is the true backhoe-loader line. (They prefer to bicker about backhoe classification by the placement of the hoe on the back vs the backwards hoeing motion used. e.g. Should this be included as a member of the backhoes?)