Saying "OK Google!" in public.

[jhawk]

Hers.

Ah! Thank you for taking my side! (Apologies for the rush to judgement.)

 

[ColinJ]

I would be less worried about saying "Ok, Google!" in public than the subsequent "Please find me pictures of cute kittens wearing pink bows"!

 

[mybike]

I would be less worried about saying "Ok, Google!" in public than the subsequent "Please find me pictures of cute kittens wearing pink bows"!

Like this?

 

[ColinJ]

Like this?

I'm going to try it, and see if that picture actually shows up!

 

[cyberknight]

just the right index finger when i text, makes me look a bit silly being 16 and swearing at a nokia brick whilst poking it!
Cheers Ed

Theres a joke in there somewhere involving poking , farmers and sheep but im too polite although i bet he swears at them anyway

 

[shouldbeinbed]

Many years ago there were adventure games on the Spectrum and some were more fun than others

It was mainly text .. when you got bored you would play with the responses... most simply came back with the command line, or " I did not understand", but a couple were deeper
I remember a Robin Hood one where if you typed in "Have Sex with Marian" in various forms it would come back with a romantic seduction culminating with "you then incur a painful injury as you sprain yourself against her chastity belt"

... and of course there was also the classic "Leather Goddesses of Phobos" where you could select three levels of naughtiness

The sense of humour was brilliant... and for the youngsters, this was the epitome of adventure games at the time

Is that one of the lost treasures of infocom series?



The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy one was inventive, even for a fan of the books, for how it killed you.

 

[young Ed]

Theres a joke in there somewhere involving poking , farmers and sheep but im too polite although i bet he swears at them anyway

yes it's true, we do! was talking to my boss yesterday about it actually, he had had a go that morning
Cheers Ed

 

[shouldbeinbed]

Just as daft as saying 'thanks Cortana' with a cheery smile In the advert. What DO they take us for ?...feck off cortana is the best id do.

I am the one with a windows phone, even by the standards of giving your life and rights up to the Internet, Cortana's T&C's are a sight to behold. I've not signed in to her on my smartphone

 

[shouldbeinbed]

Anyone talking to a machine in public needs a dry slap. I've 'deliberately ditched carrying a smartphone (I've an old fashioned dumb phone for when I'm on the Search and Rescue callout Rota) and it's incredibly liberating, like giving up smoking.

& @young Ed the phone I carry about most often is a Samsung B2700. Bombproof candy bar dumb phone. It just works.

 

[ColinJ]

I'm going to try it, and see if that picture actually shows up!

Ha ha ha ... I said "Ok, Google! Please find me pictures of cute kittens wearing pink bows" and at that instant my sister rang me. I started talking to her and eventually she asked me to look something up online so I turned back to my computer screen and saw a load of pictures of cute kittens wearing pink bows - you have to be impressed by useful technology like that!

 

[tyred]

Why won't voice recognition work on my phone?

 

[Fnaar]

I want regional versions... eg a Geordie one that 'wakes up' wth 'alreet marra?'

 

[hopless500]

I'll have to try it then. [

 

[Dan B]

This whole "dumbphones are more liberating" thing ... I don't get it. I don't carry a phone because I want to make/receive phone calls, I carry a phone because internet/gps/maps. Voice calls are a once-a-fortnight thing

 

[marknotgeorge]

A smartphone will only rule your life if you're dumb enough to let it.