
I don't keep up with these things, but could have sworn the phone I had 5 years ago would let me ring numbers by saying names and stuff.
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GET BACK TO YOUR DARK PLACE!
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*closes firefox*
Im modeling a hand. I hate modeling hands.
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Im modeling a hand. I hate modeling hands.

where do they start?
that can't be right?
etc
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that can't be right?
etc

they're at an angle from the rest of the fingers I suppose that's why they are called Opposing Thumbs.
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great story :D

I know I'm no great shakes as a modeller but the idea of doing fiddly details like fingers and such is off-putting rigging hands is also a pains from what I've read.
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Which I obviously lost, because it was fucking useful and I'm not allowed to keep nice things.
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e.g. "where is the local train station?"
"what is the weather like?"
"where is the nearest library?"
"what's that smell from my underpants?"
That sort of thing.
But more than likely it will just phone someone you don't want to speak to like most voice command phones do.
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"what is the weather like?"
"where is the nearest library?"
"what's that smell from my underpants?"
That sort of thing.
But more than likely it will just phone someone you don't want to speak to like most voice command phones do.

"wye aye man, wheres the chippie like?"
*warning, may lead in smoke escaping from iphone and phoning the local knocking shop
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*warning, may lead in smoke escaping from iphone and phoning the local knocking shop

I tried mine out recently by trying to make a note through voice recognition. The note says,
"The link cable is the links TV or resource you understand the links"
You may make of that what you will.
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"The link cable is the links TV or resource you understand the links"
You may make of that what you will.

They'll probably start retrospectively suing anyone who has made phones with voice dial now.
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all I have to do is call someone, speak into the phone and it digitises my voice. Now, the clever bit is, once the digitised voice reaches the other person, their phone de-digitises it and the phone speaks to them as if it was me!
Clever huh!
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Clever huh!

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1: Phones
2: The letter 'i' didn't exist until Apple said it was ok
3: MP3 players
4: Computers
5: Colours, especially black and white, although they invented the other colours as well.
6:...
7: PROFIT
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2: The letter 'i' didn't exist until Apple said it was ok
3: MP3 players
4: Computers
5: Colours, especially black and white, although they invented the other colours as well.
6:...
7: PROFIT

Apple didn't "invent" the computers, but they certainly made them more friendly (smug)
But as much as I do tend to hate them, they do tend to change the game whenever they "make a leap"
(warning leap making may be stolen from other companys and portrayed like a new wheel)
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But as much as I do tend to hate them, they do tend to change the game whenever they "make a leap"
(warning leap making may be stolen from other companys and portrayed like a new wheel)

Your gonna get sued! they own the lower case "i" followed by any capital letter!
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Made by a company who want to sue anyone that might sell you a cheaper computer that actually does what you want.
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I have an iPod, but that's it. I have an Android tablet instead. I give my money to GOOGLE!
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If i'm not near wifi or 3G i'd be stuffed...
I spend a lot of time in north wales,
those sheep won't shag themselves.
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I spend a lot of time in north wales,
those sheep won't shag themselves.

Can't you upload files to your sheep?
(insert 'plenty of RAM' joke here)
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(insert 'plenty of RAM' joke here)

just think of shagging each sheep as peer to peer network "transfer"
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I like my android tablet but the web browser crashes every 5 seconds.
May have to switch back to windows once 8 comes out.
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May have to switch back to windows once 8 comes out.

But for your thick internet fwapper/twitterer/git/DTPer they are a godsend!
And even though I hate to admit it, they are infinitely more stable than windows.
please don't lecture me on linux, I don't like it, it smells funny on my hard drive.
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And even though I hate to admit it, they are infinitely more stable than windows.
please don't lecture me on linux, I don't like it, it smells funny on my hard drive.

And I hate the way you can't just use an iphone / ipod like an external disk and copy onto and off it, you have to 'sync' through fucking itunes. My gfs iphone broke and it took me hours trying to work out how to save the messages off it for her.
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Trouble with Windows is it has to try and be all things to all people, whereas OSX says you will do it our way or not at all. Quite a lot of Windows instability comes from the programs people try to run on it (speaking as someone who was trying to run a piece of software written for Windows 3.1 on W7. It didn't work).
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The point is that in general people shouldn't have to be part time IT Support personnel in order to browse the internet. Which is what it can be like running some operating systems. Besides, most people seem to be happier with Windows or Android anyway, preferring to sacrifice simplicity of use for a cheaper way of computing, so despite all the noise and attention they get, they're nowhere near market leader (apart from in tablets, but probably not for long there either).
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HAHAHA
HAHAHA
HAHAHAHA
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HAHAHA
HAHAHAHA

They invented the mouse and the GUI
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and your whining? I wanted to steal it first? that's not fair?
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off someone else, renamed it MS Dos and sold it to IBM as the operating system for the PC.
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Only it's now called 'iCancer' and costs £2000.
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