so it has been announced....April 29th @ 6pm it's tiger time, but im sure you all already know this if you a mac geek like me :)
i cant wait to get my copy
haha, read it today (im a mac geek too)
however I have using panther right now, id rather put the money towards something else, ill wait till i buy a new computer that comes with tiger
yah i hear yah....i guess im not really worried cause im gettin it for free
oh nice!
let us know when you get it, and if it rates as well as apple says it is
shall do ...i should have my copy by the 26th
The convenience of Spotlight alone will justify the upgrade for me, not to mention CoreData and other underlying technologies. Dashboard ought to be useful for a few things as well.
Hello guys, geeks and ladies (if any).......
Check this out....... http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/28/129203&tid=179
I didn't read the whole thread attached to the above link, but of what I did read, I thought that this was pretty funny...:
Re:Voice recognition (Score:5, Interesting)
by As Seen On TV (857673) on Thursday April 28, @12:39PM (#12373332)
Mac OS X includes speech commands, not speech-to-text. You can't dictate to your Mac using the built-in software. So don't compare it to anything you talked about here; it's a different kind of solution.
That said, speech commands work amazingly well. You can click a file in the Finder and say "Mail this to (name from your address book)," and it opens up a Mail window with that address, the file attached, ready for you to type or just click "Send."
That's cool. That's really cool. No question. But you know what really blows me away? About two weeks ago, without really thinking about it, I did it while brushing my teeth. Seriously. I was sitting at my computer at home early in the morning, still half asleep, with my toothbrush in my mouth. I mumbled "Send the latest blah-blah file to person-so-n-so," which I have set up to trigger a Spotlight search to find the most recent copy of a specific file and e-mail it to the named contact. (I have to do this often enough it was worth automating.) I said this with my toothbrush in my mouth, with a mouth full of Crest. And it understood me.
Honestly, it kinda freaked me out a little. It was a very "Open the pod bay doors, Hal" moment.
(Just for fun, I tried it again, and it didn't work. I guess I was able to mumble it just right the first time, totally by random chance. Got lucky. Still a pretty funny moment.)
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Re:Voice recognition (Score:4, Funny)
by timeOday (582209) on Thursday April 28, @01:23PM (#12373874)
I mumbled "Send the latest blah-blah file to person-so-n-so,"... And it understood me.
Honestly, it kinda freaked me out a little. It was a very "Open the pod bay doors, Hal" moment.
So you're saying OS-X recognizes the commands, but refuses to carry them out?
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* Making it Cuss by Anonymous Coward (Score:3) Thursday April 28, @02:07PM
Re:Voice recognition (Score:5, Funny)
by Skibbering (787368) on Thursday April 28, @02:35PM (#12374820)
I turned off Speech Recognition on my Mac - it was freaking me out when it started responding to voices on the TV. No lie! A typical conversation:
TV: "...we don't have the time..."
Mac: "It's seven thirty two".
Ok, it's not exactly riveting dialogue, but still.. You KNOW you're getting neurotic when your household appliances are having conversations and you start feeling left out.
LOL -Mike
thats pretty funny, lol