If they talk to me, and I need to listen, they need to be able to understand me speaking.
And the thing is, I like my evil like I like my men: evil. You know, straight up, black hat, tied to the train tracks, soon my electro-ray will destroy metropolis BAD.
Buffy ,'Sleeper'
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§ ita § - Jun 15, 2005 8:45:24 am PDT #3386 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
tommyrot - Jun 15, 2005 9:14:03 am PDT #3387 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Macs come with a rudimentary voice-recognition thingie. (It only recongnized commands, so you still need to buy software if you want to convert speech to text.)
I really have no use for it, but it's fun to say, "Computer, tell me a joke." And then it does.
le nubian - Jun 15, 2005 9:18:35 am PDT #3388 of 10003
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Beau has printing software that says: "printing started" and "Printing completed"
I HATE IT. I always look up and think "who is that strange man in my house commenting on printing?"
Gris - Jun 15, 2005 10:53:38 am PDT #3389 of 10003
Hey. New board.
I turned on spoken alerts once. I turned them off five minutes later.
ION, b.org looks cool in Pocket IE. For some reason the user titles are bigger than the notmal text. It's fun.
Eddie - Jun 15, 2005 11:13:27 am PDT #3390 of 10003
Your tag here.
ita wrote:
Next question -- I want to use htaccess to redirect calls
This will do the trick (in subdir/.htaccess):
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} /rss.xml
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.rss [L,R,NC]
§ ita § - Jun 15, 2005 11:16:56 am PDT #3391 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Actually, I just went with
redirect /rss/rss.xml >[link]And it looks okay. Is there a client usability difference between the two?
And it looks like I spoke too soon for Bloglines -- is anyone familiar enough with the RSS standard that they can tell me if the file itself is being checked for a last changed time? Or is it bloglines that's working it's own way?
meara - Jun 15, 2005 11:21:17 am PDT #3392 of 10003
Skipping a hundred or more posts to ask: Is there a reason I'd come home and find my TiVo cycling between a grey screen that says "Welcome. Powering up...." and a screen with the TiVo cartoon that says "Almost there! Just a few minutes more..."? Is there something I should do about that? It's been maybe 15 minutes since I got home, and it's entirely possible there was some sort of power failure while I was gone...but I doubt it was coincidentally just a few minutes before I got home! Which means this may have been going on for some time...
Eddie - Jun 15, 2005 11:32:38 am PDT #3393 of 10003
Your tag here.
Actually, I just went with
redirect /rss/rss.xml >[link]And it looks okay. Is there a cleint usability difference between the two?Oh sure, take the easy way. The only thing I'd suggest with that is make it a permanent redirect:
redirect permanent /rss/rss.xml >[link]
§ ita § - Jun 15, 2005 2:47:22 pm PDT #3394 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Thanks, Eddie. It's all academic until I resolve the client updating issue -- I'm tinkering with guids now.
Digital SLRs get cheaper and cheaper.
DCJensen - Jun 15, 2005 2:50:16 pm PDT #3395 of 10003
All is well that ends in pizza.
Yup. Yesterday, our marketing assistant walked away from her Mac after setting up a print job. There was a printer error, and the frelling thing started announcing the error to the entire office, scaring our receptionist.
I really hate Steve Jobs.
Pfft. you can turn it off.
XP has talking printer dialogs, too.