If your mp3 player has 3000 songs, and you're looking for one... you're gonna be doing quite a few clicks on that radio to get to it.
And you're going to have to say a lot of words to get there. And say them clearly. And then say "error", when you don't say one clearly enough. I just find it laughable when people assume it will automatically be faster and better (anyone see the thread about juggling as an input method for mobile phones?) - it simply doesn't follow.
Never mind that though, voice recognition is cool, even if it is largely a solution looking for a problem.
[1] Now where was I? Ah yes, about you making things up:
The voice navigation will work a bit faster. Make that a lot faster.
Do you have a source for that? Even a logical argument from verifiable first principles, or a back-of-an-envelope calculation starting with sensible figures? No? Thought not.
** Pulling 'facts' out of the air is not insightful; metamods please take note. **
The terrorists DID attack people like this, who the fuck else do you think worked in those two towers??
Secretaries, mailboys, janitors... but of course they deserved it for selling out to the man. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem. Right, commie-boy?
The employees still eat. PeopleSoft did not pay the restaurants; their employees did.
Yes, they eat at home. This generally costs less than at a restaurant. It is left as an exercise for the reader to work out 1) why it costs less and 2) why the employees might be choosing to spend less.
Two words: handicapped people. Some people can't type on those classic keypads.
I suspect that if they lacked the motor control to make movements with their fingers,they'd be even worse with their arms as generally, bigger movements are less precise. Indeed the keypad has the advantage that you can brace your arm/hand while using it to reduce the shakes - I saw a woman on a train doing exactly that.
Insightful? I don't think so.
And no, I didn't use a gesture-based input method the first time;-)
classic keypads. Now they can make simple hand gestures to call somebody.I suspect that if they lacked the motor control to make movements with their fingers,they'd be even worse with their arms as generally, bigger movements are less precise. Indeed the keypad has the advantage that you can brace your arm/hand while using it to reduce the shakes - I saw a woman on a train doing exactly that.
I believe that anybody who hardcodes the width of a text column in HTML using absolute units is a cretinous retard, particularly if they also do it in the print friendly version and thus the last word or so of each line is lost.
Actually, Firefox seems to print it OK so I now believe IE sucks cocks for tuppence.
Cell phones, circuit breakers, useful computer security, and convinient flashlights are all impossible on Star Trek.
Not to mention a hidden panic button to beam an away team up immediately, before the guards who've just spotted them have time to react & capture them.
Gene Roddenberry predicted a war between enhanced humans and regular humans.
It's a common theme. There are the Sauron supermen in the most excellent "Motie" bilogy by Niven & Pournelle and the Titans early in the Dune universe. They seem to always get too big for their boots, enslave the ordinary people and there's a revolt.
There are probably examples in classical mythology too - I suppose indeed you could interpret the division between gods and mortals in such a way.
You're either way, way, way beyond me or you don't know what the hell you're talking about.
No offense intended, but I do suspect the former.
-1 Arrogant. Oh, and you are totally, totally, incapable of communication. To choose just the worst case- 'dimensions' - that was about the worst possible term (bearing in mind its common meaning, and the MLT meaning in physics) for what, to all intents and purposes, seems to amount to 'colours' or 'colour channels'.
What should I say? Maybe I should tell how I feel for those who are suffering right now?
Not that I don't care, but nothing will bring the victims back, least of all us moping about it.
It's simply not enough to care, you have to be seen to be caring. One way to do this is to go on and on and on about it ad freakin' nauseam; another is to criticise anybody who doesn't go on and on and on about it ad freakin' nauseam. So, if you aren't wailing and bawling and playing at "sadder than thou" you're a heatless bastard, and that's official. Did you not get the memo? It was headed "Queen of Hearts" or "People's Princess", I think.
Probably the best defence is to prefix your posts with some bullshit platitude like "Not that I don't care, but nothing will bring the victims back, least of all us moping about it" - even if your post is about ethernet drivers or ancient Sumerian pottery. At least for two weeks until it's old news.
A dark spot that blanks out FOG LIGHTS would be an incredible boon to UK drivers.
Very rarely do we get conditions bad enough on the roads to necessitate the use of these high-intensity red lights on the back of our cars, but every time there is even a light mist the useless !"£"%$£$ers just flip the switch and blind those of us who have to sit behind them.
Or those in front of them. Go out when it's raining and half the cars will have them on. If it's just cold about 10% feel the need. I mean, there's a clue in the name but it seems to escape most of the chavs. Might as well rename them "Cold and/or wet lights".
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Never mind that though, voice recognition is cool, even if it is largely a solution looking for a problem.
[1] Now where was I? Ah yes, about you making things up:
Do you have a source for that? Even a logical argument from verifiable first principles, or a back-of-an-envelope calculation starting with sensible figures? No? Thought not.** Pulling 'facts' out of the air is not insightful; metamods please take note. **
Huh? The exporting app is surely writing, not reading.
Oracle Dumps on PeopleSoft employees, shurely?
Insightful? I don't think so.
And no, I didn't use a gesture-based input method the first time ;-)
Insightful? I don't think so.
Which album? I've got all the ones up to Signals and they don't say annything like that.
Actually, Firefox seems to print it OK so I now believe IE sucks cocks for tuppence.
Oh, and seatbelts.
There are probably examples in classical mythology too - I suppose indeed you could interpret the division between gods and mortals in such a way.
-1 Arrogant. Oh, and you are totally, totally, incapable of communication. To choose just the worst case- 'dimensions' - that was about the worst possible term (bearing in mind its common meaning, and the MLT meaning in physics) for what, to all intents and purposes, seems to amount to 'colours' or 'colour channels'.
Vulgar? Certainly.
Funny? Not hilarious, but whatever.
Obvious? Possibly.
Troll? No fucking way Jose.
I suppose modding like a twat will show how sincere your pain is. Bleeding heart? Bleeding arse more like.
It's simply not enough to care, you have to be seen to be caring. One way to do this is to go on and on and on about it ad freakin' nauseam; another is to criticise anybody who doesn't go on and on and on about it ad freakin' nauseam. So, if you aren't wailing and bawling and playing at "sadder than thou" you're a heatless bastard, and that's official. Did you not get the memo? It was headed "Queen of Hearts" or "People's Princess", I think.
Probably the best defence is to prefix your posts with some bullshit platitude like "Not that I don't care, but nothing will bring the victims back, least of all us moping about it" - even if your post is about ethernet drivers or ancient Sumerian pottery. At least for two weeks until it's old news.
It's like CNN: even if you miss something, it will be on again.
Cretins. How is this redundant? Metamods please note.
Jokes are always offtopic, especially if you're too stupid to get them. There was a memo or something.
Are you new here, by any chance?
Actually, it's not a bad twist on two slashdot joke memes.
Metamods please take note.