He's already banned AFAIK. Quoting him/her now just makes more clean-up work for mods, or worse lets those offensive posts live on if your quote goes unnoticed.
One more thing for Ballmer's replacement to deal with. It's like Ballmer is making it harder and harder for the new CEO to have any latitude to improve things, thereby making it harder to find anyone who will take the job.
The way things are going MS will hire from within and announce that Steve Ballmer will take the open CEO position, and break dancing will ensure everywhere.
I really liked Cortana's voice and personality in the Halo games. I don't find Siri very likeable. But it comes down to the comprehension and info retrieval capabilities more than the personality I guess.
Someone put this up the other day. It bears repeating:
To be fair, men just act stupid to attract women and the craziest ones fall for it. Whether it's Siri, Cortana, whatever, we guys will always be the same:
The last place I worked was a full Microsoft shop. Two or three years ago they installed Microsoft's communication system linking the phones with Outlook. One of the "features": when a phone message was left an email was sent to you with a translation of the message into text. Even though I would know who the message was from and thus have a fair idea of what the topic would be, it was completely impossible to understand -- it was hilarious and made absolutely no sense at all. I have no idea how many speech to text tools that MS may have, but if this was their core engine for translating, then Cortana could well be enormously entertaining.
It makes a certain amount of sense to use the name and image of Cortana. They already own the rights. It's a fairly unique name, avoiding most issues with real people's names. And the character from Halo already has a lot of positive emotion associated with it.
But they also only have one shot to get this right. If they pull a Zune, Vista, or Windows 8 with this one they will destroy a lot more than the ability to use the name without triggering negative emotions, I suspect they'll also damage the Halo franchise, and possibly everything associated with it, like Xbox—the one real bright spot at Microsoft right now.
This all makes me wonder if anyone is taking advantage of IBM's developments in Watson.
IBM just announce they are going to put Watson in the cloud ($2 billion data center investment to start) and you can rent it. I am quite eager to see the API (Apple is slow with Siri for third party)
1. Try and discredit any new Apple product as "gimmicks", "fads" and "useless" products that no one needs. 2. Work like crazy copying that new Apple product. 3. Release substandard copied product, claiming it as an innovative Microsoft product that everyone needs.
One more thing for Ballmer's replacement to deal with. It's like Ballmer is making it harder and harder for the new CEO to have any latitude to improve things, thereby making it harder to find anyone who will take the job.
The way things are going MS will hire from within and announce that Steve Ballmer will take the open CEO position, and break dancing will ensure everywhere.
Hmm Siri is also still in beta... I really hope that Apple finalize this, still some work todo, but yeah there are for the moment no better alternatives, let's hope that Microsoft is not better in this area, come on Siri ;-)
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The poor mods. I weep for them.
The way things are going MS will hire from within and announce that Steve Ballmer will take the open CEO position, and break dancing will ensure everywhere.
http://mechanicalarcade.com/morgana.htm
Microsoft can’t make anything popular on their own. They have to piggyback the success of others.
Knowing Microsoft, they’ll call it Penitent Tangient.
In this case, Bungie.
Mental illness.
Voice of Uma Thurman, too?
btw: "almost magical" doesn't cut it
This is Microsoft, that should be "almost works"!
Hear that? That's the sound of answers being added to Siri's humor repertoire when asked about Cortana. Can't wait!
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Who names stuff at Microsoft? Their names are always terrible.
Steve Ballmer's final act of defiance?
I really liked Cortana's voice and personality in the Halo games. I don't find Siri very likeable. But it comes down to the comprehension and info retrieval capabilities more than the personality I guess.
Microsoft just doesn't have any original ideas do they?
Always copying Apple, from the day they left the C-Prompt they haven't had a single original idea !
I liked that guy. Seemed to balance the site out. The account banned already?
To be fair, men just act stupid to attract women and the craziest ones fall for it. Whether it's Siri, Cortana, whatever, we guys will always be the same:
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The last place I worked was a full Microsoft shop. Two or three years ago they installed Microsoft's communication system linking the phones with Outlook. One of the "features": when a phone message was left an email was sent to you with a translation of the message into text. Even though I would know who the message was from and thus have a fair idea of what the topic would be, it was completely impossible to understand -- it was hilarious and made absolutely no sense at all. I have no idea how many speech to text tools that MS may have, but if this was their core engine for translating, then Cortana could well be enormously entertaining.
Spoiler alert! I haven’t played through 3 yet!
Wait, we’re on 5 now, right?
IBM just announce they are going to put Watson in the cloud ($2 billion data center investment to start) and you can rent it. I am quite eager to see the API (Apple is slow with Siri for third party)
It is!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cordura
Titan10
1. Try and discredit any new Apple product as "gimmicks", "fads" and "useless" products that no one needs.
2. Work like crazy copying that new Apple product.
3. Release substandard copied product, claiming it as an innovative Microsoft product that everyone needs.
I think you meant to say 'ensue everywhere.'
Funny post!