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I don't read any ADP press anymore but 1982-199? it was regularly "the keyboard is going away - voice control is the way of the future that is NOW!" and anyone who actually does ADP just shrugged because keyboards are like 40000000 times faster than speaking. (I think Americans use voice recognition nowadays to completely fail to do stuff like setting a timer or turning off lights? Dunno sounds extremely hosed up.)
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FilthyImp posted:It also means you can't zone out when someone is telling a story about their day. God this. I call my parents once a week and because they never do anything I get to listen to my dad tell me about some mundane thing for a good 20 minutes. Last week it was about all the dead animals the dog brought in.
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Jerry Cotton posted:(I think Americans use voice recognition nowadays to completely fail to do stuff like setting a timer or turning off lights? Dunno sounds extremely hosed up.)
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Shut up Meg posted:Almost certainly apocryphal, but I still love it: lmao
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Arsenic Lupin posted:It's used a lot by people with disabilities, including RSS. Doctors dictate a lot of their notes still, and there are voice-recognition systems that are then edited by humans. No idea how well they work. its p good for driving, I just hold down the handsfree button and it kicks it in to the ok google- "send text to bob" "okay" "hi bob I'm about thirty minutes out on I-70, see you soon", works well enough- been thinking about having a speech-to-text running during my D&D games, though- accidentally did a couple weeks ago, and it mangled some words but it was enough to remind me exactly what was going on in that moment
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Arsenic Lupin posted:It's used a lot by people with disabilities, including RSS. Doctors dictate a lot of their notes still, and there are voice-recognition systems that are then edited by humans. No idea how well they work. Those people probably use something that works, not Siri or whatever.
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Peanut Butler posted:its p good for driving, I just hold down the handsfree button and it kicks it in to the ok google- "send text to bob" "okay" "hi bob I'm about thirty minutes out on I-70, see you soon", works well enough- drat. I have to try that. Is this an Android Auto thing?
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I worked with someone that preferred speech dictation for texts and it was weird because you'd be there and just hear "Send to.... Tony. . . . . Hi Tony Comma Return Going to need an E T A on the delivery Period Space Call Me Back Comma Space Thanks."
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Aug 6, 2019 20:28
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Peanut Butler posted:brings me to another obsolete technology: microwave towers! Microwaves are actually coming back into demand for High Frequency Trading. Because microwaves travel in (more or less) straight lines it's slightly faster to send data using them instead of fiber optic cables.
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Mr.Radar posted:Microwaves are actually coming back into demand for High Frequency Trading. Because microwaves travel in (more or less) straight lines it's slightly faster to send data using them instead of fiber optic cables. Additionally, light travels half again as fast in air as it does in glass.
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Platystemon posted:Additionally, light travels half again as fast in air as it does in glass. I demand that we install ether tubes. Classical ether, not this bullshit anesthetic.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:I miss when My TV regularly crashes. (How you gently caress up something as simple as a screen that displays different channels is beyond me, but it does.) The power button won't kill the power to let me power-cycle it. I have to pull the goddamn plug. It's not like a switch is complicated technology - why not spend the 10c and include one. stevewm posted:Its funny how everyone thought in the future every call would be a video call. Then the future arrived. Video calls are possible from just about every cellphone. And a myriad of devices. Yet a good majority of calls are still done audio only.
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at least my computer still has a hardware switch on the psu in the back
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There's a red switch at the back that says 110 240. Pull it and the computer will turn off.
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Shut up Meg posted:I do see a lot of people Facetiming their friends. Not to my taste, but it is pretty common (often at the wheel of a car or on the pavement in front of me when I am in a hurry) I've had a change in part of my role so I've got done management responsibilities and suddenly I'm having conference calls. Video calls are actually pretty good for this and the software seems to have come along way from Skype and focuses on the speaker so you can tell if they're pissing about on their email. I did find it really weird when one guy joined from his car. At least I knew he was looking at the road!
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Jerry Cotton posted:There's a red switch at the back that says 110 240. Pull it and the computer will turn off. Note: if it's a laptop, then after this procedure the computer will eventually turn off.
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PhotoKirk posted:Young people will never know the satisfaction of slamming down a phone receiver so hard that the bells in the base jingle. The person you hung up on didn't know it, but it felt good. My grandfather had not only a loud phone but a deafeningly loud repeater bell mounted elsewhere in the house. Every time a phone call came in it felt like house was being shaken off its foundations. After he died I was painting the hallway and while painting around the repeater bell with my head inches from it I was praying no-one called. I'm sure I'd have fallen off the ladder! It wasn't until about five years later, completely out of the blue, my brain said "you should have just taken the phone off the hook". It had never even occurred to me at the time, possibly because I was already used to cordless landline phones.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:drat. I have to try that. Is this an Android Auto thing? nah I don't think so, my car's from the Bush years, too old to have its own bluetooth anything- I just use a handsfree bluetooth speaker attached to my sun visor. It has a big button for answering calls, and holding the button down registers to my phone as holding the circle down, activating ok google the texts do come out a lil garbled but the recipient can piece it together and usually can tell it's because I'm driving Shut up Meg posted:My TV regularly crashes. lol yeah I held out on this for a while, I just would get 'dumb' TVs and hook it up to a lil Minix box that's essentially an android tablet with an HDMI-out instead of a screen, and a row of USB ports. The cat destroyed my last TV, so I went shopping for a new one and they were all either smart TVs, or huge expensive videophile equipment pieces. It's been okay except sometimes it loses connectivity to my WiFi, and the fix for that is to reboot the whole dang thing because TCL/Roku has seen it fit to not let me ssh into my own dang tv e: opposite of a gripe for smart TVs: one thing that rules is that USB ports on TVs can just play most .avis right offa stick, and aren't "FOR SERVICE ONLY" anymore Peanut Butler has a new favorite as of 21:20 on Aug 6, 2019 |
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Peanut Butler posted:so I went shopping for a new one and they were all either smart TVs, or huge expensive videophile equipment pieces.
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Powered Descent posted:Note: if it's a laptop, then after this procedure the computer will eventually turn off.  at the idea of anyone using a lap-top computer in 2019 
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Shut up Meg posted:If I may be so bold to amend your comment. My ancient old Vizio 32" LCD TV (Circa 2006?) crashes if you push Right arrow button on the remote OR front panel buttons more than 2 times consecutively. You have to push another key between any 2 consecutive right arrow button presses. If not it will completely turn off and you have to unplug it to make it come back on. Makes getting around the menus/adjustments quite a challenge. Some parts of the menu are completely inaccessible because of this.
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stevewm posted:My ancient old Vizio 32" LCD TV (Circa 2006?) crashes if you push Right arrow button on the remote OR front panel buttons more than 2 times consecutively. You have to push another key between any 2 consecutive right arrow button presses. If not it will completely turn off and you have to unplug it to make it come back on. This is mind-blowing. Have you ever checked if there was a firmware upgrade that fixed it?
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If my just-before-Internet-connected-TVs Bravia ever breaks down, I'll just see about getting a big-rear end CRT for 25€.
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Jerry Cotton posted:If my just-before-Internet-connected-TVs Bravia ever breaks down, I'll just see about getting a big-rear end CRT for 25€. Better hurry
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Jerry Cotton posted:If my just-before-Internet-connected-TVs Bravia ever breaks down, I'll just see about getting a big-rear end CRT for 25€. Or just don't ever connect your TV to your network?
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Giant Metal Robot posted:Or just don't ever connect your TV to your network? At least some models will connect to any open network in range even if you don't ask them to.
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Giant Metal Robot posted:Or just don't ever connect your TV to your network? Haha! Fooled you! You literally cannot pair the remote without hooking the TV up to wifi.
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Giant Metal Robot posted:Or just don't ever connect your TV to your network? The "smart" ones are still reeeeaaaal slow compared to what I've got. Nothing to do with Internet, they're just poo poo in general 
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Mr.Radar posted:At least some models will connect to any open network in range even if you don't ask them to. I was gonna say 'how is that a problem' but then I remembered that there are places where lots of people live near businesses lol remember when wifi security wasn't on by default? I got lost in St Louis in the early 00s, no GPS, would have cost $$$ to use internet on my phone, so I just pulled up to a multi-story apartment block and hopped onto mapquest via one of the twenty or so unsecured wifi networks internet went down and you can't pay it off for a week? no problem, the neighbor's SSID is just LINKSYS
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Unperson_47 posted:This is mind-blowing. Have you ever checked if there was a firmware upgrade that fixed it? Software upgrade? Mine came with 3 apps for viewing local TV channels. One was outdated when I unboxed the TV. One ran for 6 months before being depreciated. One last an entire 18 months before it stopped working. Also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_5thEfEPHA
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Arsenic Lupin posted:It's used a lot by people with disabilities, including RSS. Doctors dictate a lot of their notes still, and there are voice-recognition systems that are then edited by humans. No idea how well they work. I know someone who is in charge of customer feedback and customer service for an organization with a call center. They have all their calls recorded digitally and stuck into the database along with whatever notes the operator takes. The system does speech recognition over the call and includes a chat log in the database, and the chat log can be edited to correct errors. Later they run analytics which involve the chat logs, like today we want to figure out how many people called because they had trouble with <thing> and how well the problems were resolved, so search the chat logs for words like "trouble" near the word <thing>, look at the status of the case, then do some spot checks on the speech recognition (i.e. listen back to the recording of the call) to make sure that the search was picking up calls that really were about the thing you cared about. I suppose we can look forward to hackers releasing these databases and people trawling through them for the funny bits. quote:Operator: Hi, Bad Dragon support, how can I help you? Shut up Meg posted:My TV regularly crashes. Last time we bought a Sony TV, these were the extra features available in the deluxe model:
My wife insisted we buy the deluxe model because she didn't like how the stand looked on the base model  The physical power switch was really handy though given how lovely smart devices are.
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Iron Crowned posted:What always blows my mind is just how long it's taken for 9-1-1 to propagate. IIRC, we got it in 2006. That was the year we got broadband, which tied into phone line upgrades. I want to think 911 went with that, too. Obviously, since there are still places without 911, we weren't bottom of the barrel, but it did take so long to happen that it had consequences. I lived in the sticks, where addresses were things like Route 3, Box 42 and such. The US Postal Service came through fine. UPS came through fine. FedEx did not. FedEx insisted that rural route mailboxes were post office boxes in a post office. If you were lucky, customer service actually believed you and wrote down directions for the driver. 911 resulted in address changes for everybody on the rural routes, switching to road names instead of route numbers.
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Jerry Cotton posted:Sure sure but what we want to see is him eating a durian on YouTube. I'll see what I can do. Dude looks like White Jesus, this'll be fun.
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RC and Moon Pie posted:911 resulted in address changes for everybody on the rural routes, switching to road names instead of route numbers. Back when I was a 911 dispatcher one of my tasks was to drive out to trailer parks and knock on doors so I could do test 911 calls to verify if their info was coming up correctly. Each trailer has a lot number and emergency services had a map they could refer to. Whole lot of folks live in trailer parks who do not want someone from the authorities knocking on their door and asking to come inside.
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Dick Trauma posted:Whole lot of folks live in trailer parks who do not want someone from the authorities knocking on their door and asking to come inside. I've been to a couple of trailer parks in my day and they're like a strange bubble with individual cultures of their own.
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A friend is buying a laptop for her son going off to college and just texted me that the guy at Staples said she doesn't need a SSD drive. I'm not sure what's more wrong with that sentence. The fact she's buying a laptop at Staples or that they're trying to sell her a 1TB platter drive. Her next question was 'Norton or McAfee?' I feel like she's trolling me.
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Krispy Wafer posted:I feel like she's trolling me. shopping at retail is trolling herself, frankly
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Krispy Wafer posted:A friend is buying a laptop for her son going off to college and just texted me that the guy at Staples said she doesn't need a SSD drive. If he's never used an SSD before he'll never notice.
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Gasoline posted:If he's never used an SSD before he'll never notice. Yes, but an SSD allows him to throw it around and not care about the drive head crashing and him losing all his stuff.
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It also means less power draw and a lighter device, which might be handy if you're lugging it everywhere.
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