But voice recognition is only the less important part of Siri. You're forgetting the natural language processing (which goes beyond traditional command processing for limited domains like phone calls, audio player control, etc.).

The expression, "Dragon voice recognition > anything apple has" - is not meaningful.

And after all that, they'll still need to operate their system long enough to harvest consumer usage data that allows them to augment/fine-tune the system. By that time, Apple will be, potentially, years ahead.

I knew that if I read down the page far enough, I'd find an intelligent comment.

I didn't say that Apple was first- just pointed out that the "grid icons are actually from palm pilots" claim was pretty weak.

And I was pointing out earlier icon grid examples, not what was stolen.

Umm, did you ever see Apple's Newton? Its icon grid preceded Palm by years.

When I need to refer to the Urban Dictionary to interpret the fevered imagination of an Apple anti-fanboi, I know that the argument is getting heated up...

It's fun to indulge one's imagination, isn't it?

Another cat here. Wow- that was quite a ride.

I'm running OS X 10.5.7 on Intel w/latest Safari 4. This thing also fired up iChat, created many blank emails, and- most worrisome- launched Terminal. Yikes- time to pay attention to that "don't run as admin" advice.

There were over a hundred open Terminal windows by the time I regained control. Four different types of Terminal screens:

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login: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable

[Process completed]

==== 2 ====

login: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable

[Process exited - exit code 1]

==== 3 ====

Could not open a new pseudo-tty.

==== 4 ====

Trying 1.1.1.1...

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Any opinions on how bad this was?