Comment Re: Where are the managers? (Score 3, Funny) 46
They are in the dashboard as snakes.
Comment It's 1997, Microsoft Bob is the platform for AI (Score 1, Flamebait) 57
It's 2003, Clippy is the platform for AI
It's 2014, Cortana is the platform for AI
It's 2026, and I don't know what Microsoft is calling the blob of cum that's supposed to be it's AI thing but we're going to be talking about the same thing in a few years if we're not all dead
Comment Sausage? (Score 1) 42
Sausage?! Oh, blast your eyes!
Comment Xbox has no games (Score 2) 26
No longer has any exclusives, price of XBoxLive is eye-watering now and Sony & Valve seem to have beaten them to the punch in the living room and portably.
Also, they're a BDS Target.
https://bdsmovement.net/news/s...â(TM)s-xbox
Comment Re: How about no punctuation? (Score 1) 57
would be better without capitalisation or quotation marks and maybe add some phonetic spellings into the mix and then get jamming on the auto suggestion and the word is this was a good day and a good night of fun with my family i hope everyone had fun today too i hope everyone had an this was a good day and a good night of fun with my family i hope everyone has an this was a good idea and a good thing i will try this next year as i am very excited about this new product i have made in my life i am excited about the new products and the future i will make soon and the new products will come out very interesting to see what the new products i am looking to develop in my future and what the new product is this was a good idea and a good thing i will try this next year as i am very excited about this
Comment Hitler was Time Magazine's Man of the Year in 1938 (Score 5, Insightful) 54
So, uh, it's not really something to aspire to I guess.
Comment crumbles into dust (Score 2) 62
his gran's dvd collection? my gran collected tins of soup. she had three.
Comment Eleven (Score 5, Funny) 138
As with most technolgies, the further away you get from Seattle the less likely it is to work.
I'm Glaswegian, other people can barely understand me. Windaes isnae gonnae work.
Submission + - Mycroft (the Open Source Voice Assistant) is dead 1
stx23 writes: Mycroft, the open source voice assisstant will fold at the end of month, no longer fulfilling backer rewards and selling off the last devices. Michael Lewis, the investor turned CEO, posted the following to the Kickstarter this morning:
"So what went wrong? The single most expensive item that I could not predict was our ongoing litigation against the non-practicing patent entity that has never stopped trying to destroy us. If we had that million dollars we would be in a very different state right now.
With so much of our focus on hardware, and less funding to devote to improving our software — the quality and features available on the Mark II at launch were clearly underwhelming. It is more robust and stable than it has ever been, but this came at the cost of fewer new features. That in turn I believe has resulted in less than flattering reviews, and little mainstream coverage. The hardware itself has proven itself to be a solid base to work from, but without good reviews you get less sales, and without strong sales, the plan doesn’t work.
Which brings us to the present day. We will still be shipping all orders that are made through the Mycroft website, because these sales directly cover the costs of producing and shipping the products. However we do not have the funds to continue fulfilling rewards from this crowdfunding campaign, or to even continue meaningful operations."
https://www.kickstarter.com/pr...
"So what went wrong? The single most expensive item that I could not predict was our ongoing litigation against the non-practicing patent entity that has never stopped trying to destroy us. If we had that million dollars we would be in a very different state right now.
With so much of our focus on hardware, and less funding to devote to improving our software — the quality and features available on the Mark II at launch were clearly underwhelming. It is more robust and stable than it has ever been, but this came at the cost of fewer new features. That in turn I believe has resulted in less than flattering reviews, and little mainstream coverage. The hardware itself has proven itself to be a solid base to work from, but without good reviews you get less sales, and without strong sales, the plan doesn’t work.
Which brings us to the present day. We will still be shipping all orders that are made through the Mycroft website, because these sales directly cover the costs of producing and shipping the products. However we do not have the funds to continue fulfilling rewards from this crowdfunding campaign, or to even continue meaningful operations."
https://www.kickstarter.com/pr...
Comment Re:Use it for a complaint channel. (Score 1) 77
4291
Comment A lot of programming was done without a keyboard (Score 4, Insightful) 111
I've programmed with switches, with punchcards. This doesn't seem that outlandish.
Comment Ursine Defecation Rife in Woods, Research Finds (Score 0) 67
Downton Abbey is shit anyway. It's not even worth it free.
Comment Don't Stand So Close To Siri (Score 1) 61
So there's a chance of Tantric SMSs from Sting?
Comment Re:Mycroft, obviously. (Score 1) 186
Yeah, that's what came to mind. It's maybe more of a Echo/Alexa competitor but in the same space.
Comment C programmers clearly some kind of deviants (Score 1) 391
And go programmers appear not to have space bars.
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