Hehe, but didn't "Deep thought" say that 42 was the real answer to everything?
But I still can't find the "any" key on my computer, although I keep getting told to press it. I went back to the shop and asked them to give me a proper keyboard but they were not very helpful ....
Waiting for Godot & salvation :-)
Why do doctors have to practice?
You'd think they'd have got it right by now
Before we found the deeply embedded menu to disable spell checking, my mobile phone persisted in using 'Tingwold' ( who can say ? ) instead of 'Ringwood' ( a suburb of Melbourne ).
So now, and in perpetuity I expect, the running joke ( when texting to and fro with my kids ) is/will be to put 'Ringworld', 'Woodstock' and even 'Hobbiton' etc in deliberately.
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
I assume that you mean the predictive texting feature? I turned mine off years ago because it got it wrong so often it took three times as long to send any message!
Waiting for Godot & salvation :-)
Why do doctors have to practice?
You'd think they'd have got it right by now
I assume that you mean the predictive texting feature? I turned mine off years ago because it got it wrong so often it took three times as long to send any message!
I guess that's the name of the feature, but it was post-dicting too. It would change the word after you typed it in ie. when the subsequent punctuation/spacing was entered it would go back and edit. There is so much idiom in language - that's why they evolve - and everyday usage is the tip of the spear for that.
In any case it has added some amusement to our lives. I find it funny when misplaced technology slips on it's butt, rather like the accuracy of cruise missiles during a solar flare. I'll point this out to my kids, next time I visit Wooden Ring. :-)
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
Well, I can't discuss Carl Sagan's TV series Cosmos without waxing lyrical about bosoms, and I have to be very careful when texting my daughter and using her name. It used to come up as Teutonic - until someone sent me a text once containing the acronym wtf and now that's all that EVER appears unless I turn predictive text off.
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I assume that you mean the predictive texting feature? I turned mine off years ago because it got it wrong so often it took three times as long to send any message!
I guess that's the name of the feature, but it was post-dicting too. It would change the word after you typed it in ie. when the subsequent punctuation/spacing was entered it would go back and edit. There is so much idiom in language - that's why they evolve - and everyday usage is the tip of the spear for that.
In any case it has added some amusement to our lives. I find it funny when misplaced technology slips on it's butt, rather like the accuracy of cruise missiles during a solar flare. I'll point this out to my kids, next time I visit Wooden Ring. :-)
Cheers, Mike.
My phone gives me a checkmark so I can add new words to its dictionary. And if there's a word I don't want in, I can touch and hold for a second or two and it will offer to remove the word from its dictionary.
What really drives me nuts is when I start with th. If I intend to say that, it offers me words starting with the and thi. If I mean them or they or even just the, it offers that, thanks, etc. If I mean this, it offers tha and the words. EVERY TIME!
And as many times as I use the word train, it almost never offers it to me. If I mean trains, I get all the way to trai and then it offers train and training.
David
Miserable old git
Patiently waiting for the asteroid with my name on it.
My old work ordered a bunch of "any" key stickers off the internet but the boss refused to left them install them on the pc's. The boss said it was 'demeaning' to the people whose pc's they were going to put them on. Although to be honest some REALLY could have used them!!
To be fair, all they had to say was "now press a key on the keyboard, it doesn't matter which one, any of them will do".
End of story.
:-)
Or even "press the spacebar" or "G Key" or anything, and to be fair MOST people were able to figure it out pretty quickly, those who couldn't just weren't computer people to begin with. That's NOT to say they weren't very good at other things, most of the non computer folks I dealt with WERE very good at most other aspects of their jobs, and the pc's were just a small part anyway.
Hehe, but didn't "Deep
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Hehe, but didn't "Deep thought" say that 42 was the real answer to everything?
But I still can't find the "any" key on my computer, although I keep getting told to press it. I went back to the shop and asked them to give me a proper keyboard but they were not very helpful ....
Waiting for Godot & salvation :-)
Why do doctors have to practice?
You'd think they'd have got it right by now
Before we found the deeply
)
Before we found the deeply embedded menu to disable spell checking, my mobile phone persisted in using 'Tingwold' ( who can say ? ) instead of 'Ringwood' ( a suburb of Melbourne ).
So now, and in perpetuity I expect, the running joke ( when texting to and fro with my kids ) is/will be to put 'Ringworld', 'Woodstock' and even 'Hobbiton' etc in deliberately.
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
I assume that you mean the
)
I assume that you mean the predictive texting feature? I turned mine off years ago because it got it wrong so often it took three times as long to send any message!
Waiting for Godot & salvation :-)
Why do doctors have to practice?
You'd think they'd have got it right by now
RE: I assume that you mean
)
I guess that's the name of the feature, but it was post-dicting too. It would change the word after you typed it in ie. when the subsequent punctuation/spacing was entered it would go back and edit. There is so much idiom in language - that's why they evolve - and everyday usage is the tip of the spear for that.
In any case it has added some amusement to our lives. I find it funny when misplaced technology slips on it's butt, rather like the accuracy of cruise missiles during a solar flare. I'll point this out to my kids, next time I visit Wooden Ring. :-)
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
Well, I can't discuss Carl
)
Well, I can't discuss Carl Sagan's TV series Cosmos without waxing lyrical about bosoms, and I have to be very careful when texting my daughter and using her name. It used to come up as Teutonic - until someone sent me a text once containing the acronym wtf and now that's all that EVER appears unless I turn predictive text off.
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RE: RE: I assume that you
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My phone gives me a checkmark so I can add new words to its dictionary. And if there's a word I don't want in, I can touch and hold for a second or two and it will offer to remove the word from its dictionary.
What really drives me nuts is when I start with th. If I intend to say that, it offers me words starting with the and thi. If I mean them or they or even just the, it offers that, thanks, etc. If I mean this, it offers tha and the words. EVERY TIME!
And as many times as I use the word train, it almost never offers it to me. If I mean trains, I get all the way to trai and then it offers train and training.
David
Miserable old git
Patiently waiting for the asteroid with my name on it.
RE: But I still can't find
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All this computer stuff is hard work, I think I'll order a Tab.
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RE: RE: But I still can't
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My old work ordered a bunch of "any" key stickers off the internet but the boss refused to left them install them on the pc's. The boss said it was 'demeaning' to the people whose pc's they were going to put them on. Although to be honest some REALLY could have used them!!
To be fair, all they had to
)
To be fair, all they had to say was "now press a key on the keyboard, it doesn't matter which one, any of them will do".
End of story.
:-)
Waiting for Godot & salvation :-)
Why do doctors have to practice?
You'd think they'd have got it right by now
RE: To be fair, all they
)
Or even "press the spacebar" or "G Key" or anything, and to be fair MOST people were able to figure it out pretty quickly, those who couldn't just weren't computer people to begin with. That's NOT to say they weren't very good at other things, most of the non computer folks I dealt with WERE very good at most other aspects of their jobs, and the pc's were just a small part anyway.