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# haven't phones had voice stuff for ages?
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.
(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Wed 5 Oct 2011, 14:47, archived)
# NO - APPLE HAVE INVENTED IT
JUST LIKE THEY INVENTED THE WHEEL
(I helped save b3ta! taters Bah weep grahnah weep ninibong, Wed 5 Oct 2011, 14:49, archived)
# Yeah, and like they invented mp3 players by calling them 'ipods' and making them expensive.
(I helped save b3ta! 2 Can Chunder Word to your mums, I came to prod bums, Wed 5 Oct 2011, 14:52, archived)
# I thought you were switching off your imterwebs to do some work?
GET BACK TO YOUR DARK PLACE!
(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Wed 5 Oct 2011, 14:52, archived)
# GAH - busted!
*closes firefox*

Im modeling a hand. I hate modeling hands.
(I helped save b3ta! taters Bah weep grahnah weep ninibong, Wed 5 Oct 2011, 14:58, archived)
# how the fuck do thumbs do that?
where do they start?
that can't be right?
etc
(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Wed 5 Oct 2011, 15:00, archived)
# Thumbs are difficult
they're at an angle from the rest of the fingers I suppose that's why they are called Opposing Thumbs.
(I helped save b3ta! maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Wed 5 Oct 2011, 15:07, archived)
# I actually wrote a tutorial on hand modelling many years ago for 3d world magazine


great story :D
(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Wed 5 Oct 2011, 15:49, archived)
# I've seen some online tutorials
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.
(I helped save b3ta! maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Wed 5 Oct 2011, 16:13, archived)
# I used to have a nice hand rigging script.
Which I obviously lost, because it was fucking useful and I'm not allowed to keep nice things.
(I helped save b3ta! gone, Wed 5 Oct 2011, 16:18, archived)
# hahaha that sounds just like me
(I helped save b3ta! maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Wed 5 Oct 2011, 16:24, archived)
# :(
(I helped save b3ta! gone, Wed 5 Oct 2011, 16:34, archived)
# The big thing is it's supposed to understand plain spoken commands..
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.
(I helped save b3ta! tim1701 I have no board signature!!!!!, Wed 5 Oct 2011, 15:00, archived)
# I bet it only understands merkin.
(I helped save b3ta! Smallbrainfield, Wed 5 Oct 2011, 15:02, archived)
# I'd like to see a Geordie use one...
"wye aye man, wheres the chippie like?"

*warning, may lead in smoke escaping from iphone and phoning the local knocking shop
(I helped save b3ta! tim1701 I have no board signature!!!!!, Wed 5 Oct 2011, 15:05, archived)
# Isn't a chippie a carpenter?
*shows age*
(I helped save b3ta! JebediahSpringfield, Wed 5 Oct 2011, 15:20, archived)
# JESUS!!!!
is it really you?
(I helped save b3ta! tim1701 I have no board signature!!!!!, Wed 5 Oct 2011, 15:22, archived)
# Android phones have voice recognition/dictation thingy
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.
(I helped save b3ta! Wasp Box like a nervous random stranger at a glory hole, Wed 5 Oct 2011, 15:13, archived)
# /makes a rather fetching hat
/besports
(I helped save b3ta! Smallbrainfield, Wed 5 Oct 2011, 15:17, archived)
# Yeah, but now APPLE have done it so everyone suddenly cares.
They'll probably start retrospectively suing anyone who has made phones with voice dial now.
(I helped save b3ta! 2 Can Chunder Word to your mums, I came to prod bums, Wed 5 Oct 2011, 14:51, archived)
# mine has 2-way speech
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!
(I helped save b3ta! Griffin Saver Something, something, 2006, something., Wed 5 Oct 2011, 14:57, archived)
# I think it would be cooler if it stayed digitised so everyone would think you were a robot.
(I helped save b3ta! 2 Can Chunder Word to your mums, I came to prod bums, Wed 5 Oct 2011, 14:59, archived)
# I understand your binary egg message
(I helped save b3ta! Griffin Saver Something, something, 2006, something., Wed 5 Oct 2011, 15:03, archived)
# So far Apple have invented:
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
(I helped save b3ta! Smallbrainfield, Wed 5 Oct 2011, 14:59, archived)
# From a nerdy standpoint..
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)
(I helped save b3ta! tim1701 I have no board signature!!!!!, Wed 5 Oct 2011, 15:04, archived)
# Apple iLeap?
(I helped save b3ta! maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Wed 5 Oct 2011, 15:09, archived)
# OOOOOOoooooooooooooo
Your gonna get sued! they own the lower case "i" followed by any capital letter!
(I helped save b3ta! tim1701 I have no board signature!!!!!, Wed 5 Oct 2011, 15:11, archived)
# iSee, iBetter not do that agaiN
(I helped save b3ta! maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Wed 5 Oct 2011, 15:20, archived)
# (mugs)
(I helped save b3ta! artifus is doing it all wrong, Wed 5 Oct 2011, 15:11, archived)
# I don't find anything friendly about a computer that costs up to a months salary, demands your bank details when you first log on and refuses to let you do anything it doesn't want you to.
Made by a company who want to sue anyone that might sell you a cheaper computer that actually does what you want.
(I helped save b3ta! 2 Can Chunder Word to your mums, I came to prod bums, Wed 5 Oct 2011, 15:12, archived)
# haha, this!
I have an iPod, but that's it. I have an Android tablet instead. I give my money to GOOGLE!
(I helped save b3ta! Griffin Saver Something, something, 2006, something., Wed 5 Oct 2011, 15:16, archived)
# I like the idea of google, but the cloud thing puts me off....
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.
(I helped save b3ta! tim1701 I have no board signature!!!!!, Wed 5 Oct 2011, 15:20, archived)
# But they LOOK like clouds
Can't you upload files to your sheep?


(insert 'plenty of RAM' joke here)
(I helped save b3ta! Snappyuk gets BIGGER with free sample., Wed 5 Oct 2011, 16:21, archived)
# just think of the sheep as little clouds with legs
just think of shagging each sheep as peer to peer network "transfer"
(I helped save b3ta! discomeats This canoe, Wed 5 Oct 2011, 17:37, archived)
# Google seem to be heading the same way as Apple.
I like my android tablet but the web browser crashes every 5 seconds.
May have to switch back to windows once 8 comes out.
(I helped save b3ta! 2 Can Chunder Word to your mums, I came to prod bums, Wed 5 Oct 2011, 15:21, archived)
# They don't let you do anything you want to do because you know about "computers"
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.
(I helped save b3ta! tim1701 I have no board signature!!!!!, Wed 5 Oct 2011, 15:17, archived)
# They're only more stable cos you can't install anything interesting on them.
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.
(I helped save b3ta! 2 Can Chunder Word to your mums, I came to prod bums, Wed 5 Oct 2011, 15:29, archived)
# I must say though, I've got W7 on two machines and it's yet to have a massive hissy.
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).
(I helped save b3ta! Smallbrainfield, Wed 5 Oct 2011, 15:32, archived)
# so dumbing down the masses further is the way to go?
(I helped save b3ta! artifus is doing it all wrong, Wed 5 Oct 2011, 15:34, archived)
# I don't think that's the point though.
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).
(I helped save b3ta! Smallbrainfield, Wed 5 Oct 2011, 15:38, archived)
# only thing that ever made my xp machine crash was apple software
HAHAHA

HAHAHA


HAHAHAHA
(I helped save b3ta! discomeats This canoe, Wed 5 Oct 2011, 17:38, archived)
# Also, shortly after, (but not related to) a visit to Xerox
They invented the mouse and the GUI
(I helped save b3ta! fuscous, Wed 5 Oct 2011, 15:11, archived)
# I GOT THE LOOT STEVE!!!!!
and your whining? I wanted to steal it first? that's not fair?
(I helped save b3ta! tim1701 I have no board signature!!!!!, Wed 5 Oct 2011, 15:13, archived)
# I thought it was MS who nicked windows of Xerox?
(I helped save b3ta! Wasp Box like a nervous random stranger at a glory hole, Wed 5 Oct 2011, 15:34, archived)
# No, they nicked/bought DOS
off someone else, renamed it MS Dos and sold it to IBM as the operating system for the PC.
(I helped save b3ta! Smallbrainfield, Wed 5 Oct 2011, 15:42, archived)
# It was originally QDOS (Quick and Dirty Operating System)
(I helped save b3ta! maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Wed 5 Oct 2011, 15:50, archived)
# Next Steve Jobs will be claiming he invented pancreatic cancer.
Only it's now called 'iCancer' and costs £2000.
(I helped save b3ta! 2 Can Chunder Word to your mums, I came to prod bums, Wed 5 Oct 2011, 15:13, archived)
# I thought he was re-naming it to aIds!
(I helped save b3ta! tim1701 I have no board signature!!!!!, Wed 5 Oct 2011, 15:17, archived)
# My Philips Savvy from 1997 did that too
(I helped save b3ta! h3donist tryin' to play me out as if my name is Sega.., Wed 5 Oct 2011, 15:04, archived)
# Ha. I loved my philips savvy when I first got it on pay as you go, then after a few years I began to hate it but it refused to die.
Had to finish it off with a vice eventually and pretend it had broken by itself so I could finally get a new one.
(I helped save b3ta! 2 Can Chunder Word to your mums, I came to prod bums, Wed 5 Oct 2011, 15:16, archived)