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Comment I use Siri all the time (Score 2) 85

Are they talking about separating the concepts of Siri and Voice control of my phone, with Siri being something that Google was trying to do, calling places to make appointments? Because I use Siri for voice control several times per day.
For example:
  • Hey Siri, remind me to take my medications when I get home
  • Hey Siri, remind me to buy milk when I go to the store
  • Hey Siri, create an Appointment to see my doctor next Thursday at 9:00 AM
  • Hey Siri, how many tablespoons are in a cup?
  • Hey Siri, play playlist cooking on shuffle on speaker Kitchen

Not to mention using voice control during exercise or driving to control music, podcasts, audiobooks, etc.
Now I don't personally use voice controls on my PC, but I'm sure that others do as much as I use them on my phone.

I just think that getting rid of Siri is a silly concept.

Comment Re:What's with you propaganda, EditorDavid? (Score 1) 281

Pennsylvania broke the US constitution by changing their state election laws? Written by yet another person who has never read the constitution:

Article 2 Section 1: "Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Representative, or Person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States, shall be appointed an Elector."

That is fucking it - shocking as it may seem. I know that some partisans in the supreme court might chose to interpret things different, but there have been supreme court cases dating back a hundred years that basically affirm - states pick the electors, and electors pick the presidents - nothing in the constitution regulates how states go about doing this.

Comment Re:Last time they just made a mess (Score 1) 88

Its not even that - if the software vendor was using the microsoft api - GetVersion - it returns a regular version number.

It was a work-around for vendors who were using hacks to read the product display names - and oddly enough MS has a compatibility layer to "fix" applications that do it wrong, but I suspect that was more work.

Comment Re:Last time they just made a mess (Score 1) 88

I guess that is one problem with year of the Linux desktop - running into a printer that doesn't work on windows isn't a thing. Granted running into printers that don't work well in general (including on Windows) is a thing.

I'm not sure how you hire support that doesn't know about printers though...

Anyhow thats the point of client management - you shouldn't hire people to do software installs - you have some orchestration software that does it for your customers and you hire people who know how to package software and how to do client policies - like printers.

Comment Re:Regardless of if he is guilty or not... (Score 1) 93

Twin Galaxies rules say the record has to be set on the original hardware.

They do have a separate category for emulators.

The big difference I think is the physical controls and operating position are different, and emulators aren't perfect replications - even today - the timing is different etc - and for a pre-recorded world record its way easier to cheat on an emulator. Note - of Billy's world records were not witnessed by a referee.

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