Comments on: UPDATED-When good demos go (very, very) bad

By: Doug

Doug — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 01:28:39 +0000

I was at this meeting and wrote up an account of what happened that counters the newscast here.

By: Roman

Roman — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 15:13:37 +0000

“Wait a second. Someone in the computer industry just took personal responsibility for messing up?”

No, noone took personal responsibility, this developer was setup. The responsibility lies with the presenter, who did not prepare for his presentation.

Most often speech recognition software requires the user to train it for a few minutes, before it can be used successfully. Obviously this sales/marketting moron did not do anything like that before the demo, otherwise if the problem was actually in software he would’ve known it.

As usual noone who matter is taking personal responsibility.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 14:39:04 +0000

here’s my problems with Mac. they control all the hardware. I have a dell laptop, my newborn son threw up into it as I was having a video call with my mom.(Yes it was stupid of me to lean my son over my computer). I have goldcare on my laptop. Dell fixed and replaced everything. I talked to an apple sales rep a few days later about corporate purchases. He said, that if that had happened to an apple I was would SOL. I don’t doubt Mac is a more stable OS, they don’t have to account for a million varieties of hardware that the OS will run on. have you ever had service on your iPod? It’s dealing with Apple’s service that makes me not a fan of apple.

By: faroth

faroth — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 21:29:19 +0000

I wonder if you tell it Lets set so double the killer delete select all. if it will type “Dear Mom,”

As Joe (comment #30) said, i thought of the All your base similarities right away. I can’t wait for the Youtube video and T-shirt.

By: russs

russs — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 04:43:23 +0000

dragon dictate gave me this gem:
pushy pop-up people pops

By: achan

achan — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 03:22:34 +0000

I still can’t stop laughing…

By: sonicbhoc

sonicbhoc — Sun, 30 Jul 2006 22:34:11 +0000

This is why i use PCLinuxOS. Or Gentoo, depending on my mood.

Windows is only useful for gaming, but it doesn’t even do that right half of the time. When WINE is perfect, Windows will be useless.

By: PreZ

PreZ — Sun, 30 Jul 2006 20:03:29 +0000

Wow just release it in 2020 when its ready

By: Joe

Joe — Sun, 30 Jul 2006 06:36:50 +0000

Lets set so double the killer delete select all.

FINALLY a phase that can replace “All your base are belong to us!”

By: mike

mike — Sun, 30 Jul 2006 06:04:24 +0000

you would think windows would have thought of some sort of failsafe to make sure that their demo wouldnt screw up like it did. maybe as simple as restricting its dictionary to the words that would ultimately be used or something like that. it is just odd that vista would fail to recognize spoken words as it did when there are already programs that can do the same thing only much better.