Ping 36: Zune, Seth MacFarlane, voice recognition, Impatient Optimists

Posted By: Laura Foy | Nov 2nd, 2009 @ 2:11 PM | 28,775 Views | 9 Comments
Paul drank his funny juice this week and spewed it all over this weeks episode. Here's what people were chatting about:


Halloween! Bugs! Killers!
Take a blade to your Zune
Family Guy not the right fit
Voice is the new touch
Bill & Melinda Gates: Impatient optimists
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#Nov 2nd, 2009 @ 2:20 PM
SkyHoshi
SkyHoshi

Ok so this is the fourth week i've hesitated to ask but what Band are you in Laura, and no Pink or Tank Girl.... we are geeks not gullable Smiley

Ok so I'm gullable Smiley but still! I've seen your act before!

#Nov 2nd, 2009 @ 3:46 PM
jason818_253.33
jason818_253.33
Yippi skippy

Voice! woot! woot!

#Nov 2nd, 2009 @ 4:16 PM
dpratt71
dpratt71

Well, that's ironic. I'm loving my new Zune HD, but I was pretty bummed to find a scratch on it (already!) recently. Not sure how it got there, but I suspect it was one of those times I forgot and tossed it in my pocket along with my keys.

#Nov 2nd, 2009 @ 4:51 PM
rhm
rhm

I tried to use the voice recognition in Vista a while back when my wrists were hurting too much. I gained a new-found sympathy for the disabled. Science fiction might have predicted a lot of things correctly, but people wanting to talk to machines isn't one of them (neither is video phones - does anyone use that functionality ever?).

 

 

#Nov 2nd, 2009 @ 6:25 PM
ChrisStepaniuk
ChrisStepaniuk

Watching anyone intentionally scratch electronics makes my stomach turn.  If they don't want their Zune HD, I'll take it, and I'll take better care of it.


Paul, kudos on going as Facebook for Halloween, original and hard to pull off.  I wore a suit to work.

#Nov 2nd, 2009 @ 7:31 PM
dentaku
dentaku

Ha! I remember the Corelle adds from the 80's. I even tried it back then with a plate and it didn't break but since then I have broken Corelle stuff and it shatters into lots of little incredibly sharp bits.

#Nov 2nd, 2009 @ 9:07 PM
staceyw
staceyw
Before C# there was darkness...

Just curious.  Does it use a polycarbonate sheet with the 3M 906 abrasion resistant coating?

#Nov 3rd, 2009 @ 7:23 AM
Maddus Mattus
Maddus Mattus
Do, or do not. There is no try. - Yoda

Stop throwing the Nine Guy!

 

He told me, he doesnt like it!

#Nov 6th, 2009 @ 11:58 AM
Dodo
Dodo
I'm your creativity creator™ :)

Is that older lady commanding Dan around a niner? She seems unfamiliar...

 

Other than that, just to get the fun out of it, in order of appearance:


Dan Fernandez
unknown
Laura Foy
Tina Wood
The faces on the wall that aren't masks?

 

Tongue Out

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