Re: [MBZ] Facts now Fonts now Telling your Benz what to do
What's an A500? On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 11:28 PM, Curly McLain via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: Bow down and welcome our child overlords --R My son was in 6th grade when I stopped helping him, and he began the help desk It was also when he got an old A500 of his own and he began to unleash his genius. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
Re: [MBZ] Facts now Fonts now Telling your Benz what to do
Could it understand Okie? --R On 3/5/15 11:02 AM, Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes wrote: My GL had that sort of deal Sent from my iPhone On Mar 5, 2015, at 9:04 AM, Rich Thomas via Mercedesmercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: So the new MamaML has a deal where you can talk to it and tell it what to do. You push a button on the steering wheel then you tell it to navigate to some address or place you have saved, or change the radio or music on your pod or call someone or do various other things. She has tried it but apparently they don't understand each other too well yet. She finds the soul in the machine to be pleasant enough, however, when it tells her what to do, unlike her views toward me while doing the same. It has also assimilated her phone into it so it can call people or send texts or do other things phone-wise, and apparently can also suck in 10GB or 80GB of music to its memory banks. I find this whole thing somewhat disturbing yet intriguing. It has a rotating pushbutton mouse joystick sort of thing too to whiz around the screen if you don't want to talk to it. The instruction book is about 400 pages long. --R ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
Re: [MBZ] Facts now Fonts now Telling your Benz what to do
Still a fine little lady growing up fast. Wilton Meade Dillon via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: Yesterday my wife called me at work with a question about MS Word and adding/importing clipart. I didn't know enough to talk her through it over the phone, best I could offer was press F1 to bring up the Help dialogue, use the search function there and follow the directions. Right after I said that, our 8-year old (who was home sick with a fever) happened upon the scene, and I hear I can show you Mommy, press this... and help was rendered (and I was off the hook, both figuratively and literally). I'm thinking we should get the 8-year old a cell phone so Momma can call her with her help desk questions. -Max On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 10:04 AM, Rich Thomas via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: So the new MamaML has a deal where you can talk to it and tell it what to do. You push a button on the steering wheel then you tell it to navigate to some address or place you have saved, or change the radio or music on your pod or call someone or do various other things. She has tried it but apparently they don't understand each other too well yet. She finds the soul in the machine to be pleasant enough, however, when it tells her what to do, unlike her views toward me while doing the same. It has also assimilated her phone into it so it can call people or send texts or do other things phone-wise, and apparently can also suck in 10GB or 80GB of music to its memory banks. I find this whole thing somewhat disturbing yet intriguing. It has a rotating pushbutton mouse joystick sort of thing too to whiz around the screen if you don't want to talk to it. The instruction book is about 400 pages long. --R - Max Charleston SC ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
Re: [MBZ] Facts now Fonts now Telling your Benz what to do
I think if M could pay in candy or stuffed animals, 8-yr-old would be willing to train her on the ML? On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 10:48 AM, Rich Thomas via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: Bow down and welcome our child overlords --R -- - Max Charleston SC ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
Re: [MBZ] Facts now Fonts now Telling your Benz what to do
My GL had that sort of deal Sent from my iPhone On Mar 5, 2015, at 9:04 AM, Rich Thomas via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: So the new MamaML has a deal where you can talk to it and tell it what to do. You push a button on the steering wheel then you tell it to navigate to some address or place you have saved, or change the radio or music on your pod or call someone or do various other things. She has tried it but apparently they don't understand each other too well yet. She finds the soul in the machine to be pleasant enough, however, when it tells her what to do, unlike her views toward me while doing the same. It has also assimilated her phone into it so it can call people or send texts or do other things phone-wise, and apparently can also suck in 10GB or 80GB of music to its memory banks. I find this whole thing somewhat disturbing yet intriguing. It has a rotating pushbutton mouse joystick sort of thing too to whiz around the screen if you don't want to talk to it. The instruction book is about 400 pages long. --R On 3/4/15 7:41 PM, wiltonw--- via Mercedes wrote: I used Dragon Speaking with good results 6 or 8 years ago. Problem for last couple months is tremor of right hand so bad my handwriting is unreadable, even by me. Wilton OK Don via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: It is, if you take the time to learn it and to train it to your voice. However, writing with your fingers and dictating text are not usually the same thing. You don't talk like you write. It takes getting used to planning what your are about to say with your mouth the way you do when you write/type. On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 5:23 PM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: DragonSpeak is supposed to be really good. I don't have any direct experience with it, however. Dan ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
Re: [MBZ] Facts now Fonts now Telling your Benz what to do
Yesterday my wife called me at work with a question about MS Word and adding/importing clipart. I didn't know enough to talk her through it over the phone, best I could offer was press F1 to bring up the Help dialogue, use the search function there and follow the directions. Right after I said that, our 8-year old (who was home sick with a fever) happened upon the scene, and I hear I can show you Mommy, press this... and help was rendered (and I was off the hook, both figuratively and literally). I'm thinking we should get the 8-year old a cell phone so Momma can call her with her help desk questions. -Max On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 10:04 AM, Rich Thomas via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: So the new MamaML has a deal where you can talk to it and tell it what to do. You push a button on the steering wheel then you tell it to navigate to some address or place you have saved, or change the radio or music on your pod or call someone or do various other things. She has tried it but apparently they don't understand each other too well yet. She finds the soul in the machine to be pleasant enough, however, when it tells her what to do, unlike her views toward me while doing the same. It has also assimilated her phone into it so it can call people or send texts or do other things phone-wise, and apparently can also suck in 10GB or 80GB of music to its memory banks. I find this whole thing somewhat disturbing yet intriguing. It has a rotating pushbutton mouse joystick sort of thing too to whiz around the screen if you don't want to talk to it. The instruction book is about 400 pages long. --R - Max Charleston SC ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
Re: [MBZ] Facts now Fonts now Telling your Benz what to do
Bow down and welcome our child overlords --R On 3/5/15 10:40 AM, Meade Dillon wrote: Yesterday my wife called me at work with a question about MS Word and adding/importing clipart. I didn't know enough to talk her through it over the phone, best I could offer was press F1 to bring up the Help dialogue, use the search function there and follow the directions. Right after I said that, our 8-year old (who was home sick with a fever) happened upon the scene, and I hear I can show you Mommy, press this... and help was rendered (and I was off the hook, both figuratively and literally). I'm thinking we should get the 8-year old a cell phone so Momma can call her with her help desk questions. -Max On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 10:04 AM, Rich Thomas via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: So the new MamaML has a deal where you can talk to it and tell it what to do. You push a button on the steering wheel then you tell it to navigate to some address or place you have saved, or change the radio or music on your pod or call someone or do various other things. She has tried it but apparently they don't understand each other too well yet. She finds the soul in the machine to be pleasant enough, however, when it tells her what to do, unlike her views toward me while doing the same. It has also assimilated her phone into it so it can call people or send texts or do other things phone-wise, and apparently can also suck in 10GB or 80GB of music to its memory banks. I find this whole thing somewhat disturbing yet intriguing. It has a rotating pushbutton mouse joystick sort of thing too to whiz around the screen if you don't want to talk to it. The instruction book is about 400 pages long. --R - Max Charleston SC ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
Re: [MBZ] Facts now Fonts now Telling your Benz what to do
So the new MamaML has a deal where you can talk to it and tell it what to do. You push a button on the steering wheel then you tell it to navigate to some address or place you have saved, or change the radio or music on your pod or call someone or do various other things. She has tried it but apparently they don't understand each other too well yet. She finds the soul in the machine to be pleasant enough, however, when it tells her what to do, unlike her views toward me while doing the same. It has also assimilated her phone into it so it can call people or send texts or do other things phone-wise, and apparently can also suck in 10GB or 80GB of music to its memory banks. I find this whole thing somewhat disturbing yet intriguing. It has a rotating pushbutton mouse joystick sort of thing too to whiz around the screen if you don't want to talk to it. The instruction book is about 400 pages long. --R On 3/4/15 7:41 PM, wiltonw--- via Mercedes wrote: I used Dragon Speaking with good results 6 or 8 years ago. Problem for last couple months is tremor of right hand so bad my handwriting is unreadable, even by me. Wilton OK Don via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: It is, if you take the time to learn it and to train it to your voice. However, writing with your fingers and dictating text are not usually the same thing. You don't talk like you write. It takes getting used to planning what your are about to say with your mouth the way you do when you write/type. On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 5:23 PM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: DragonSpeak is supposed to be really good. I don't have any direct experience with it, however. Dan ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
Re: [MBZ] Facts now Fonts now Telling your Benz what to do
Well.. thank heaven there is an instruction manual so you won't have distracted driving operating all those nifty little geegawws that do things other than let you pay attention to driving the car and other drivers who wish to drive through you. Multi Tasking: That principle of time and action management that allows you to do many simultaneous actions poorly while believing you are over achieving. On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 8:04 AM, Rich Thomas via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: So the new MamaML has a deal where you can talk to it and tell it what to do. You push a button on the steering wheel then you tell it to navigate to some address or place you have saved, or change the radio or music on your pod or call someone or do various other things. She has tried it but apparently they don't understand each other too well yet. She finds the soul in the machine to be pleasant enough, however, when it tells her what to do, unlike her views toward me while doing the same. It has also assimilated her phone into it so it can call people or send texts or do other things phone-wise, and apparently can also suck in 10GB or 80GB of music to its memory banks. I find this whole thing somewhat disturbing yet intriguing. It has a rotating pushbutton mouse joystick sort of thing too to whiz around the screen if you don't want to talk to it. The instruction book is about 400 pages long. --R On 3/4/15 7:41 PM, wiltonw--- via Mercedes wrote: I used Dragon Speaking with good results 6 or 8 years ago. Problem for last couple months is tremor of right hand so bad my handwriting is unreadable, even by me. Wilton OK Don via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: It is, if you take the time to learn it and to train it to your voice. However, writing with your fingers and dictating text are not usually the same thing. You don't talk like you write. It takes getting used to planning what your are about to say with your mouth the way you do when you write/type. On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 5:23 PM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: DragonSpeak is supposed to be really good. I don't have any direct experience with it, however. Dan ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
Re: [MBZ] Facts now Fonts now Telling your Benz what to do
So the new MamaML has a deal where you can talk to it and tell it what to do. You push a button on the steering wheel then you tell it to navigate to some address or place you have saved, or change the radio or music on your pod or call someone or do various other things. She has tried it but apparently they don't understand each other too well yet. She finds the soul in the machine to be pleasant enough, however, when it tells her what to do, unlike her views toward me while doing the same. It has also assimilated her phone into it so it can call people or send texts or do other things phone-wise, and apparently can also suck in 10GB or 80GB of music to its memory banks. I find this whole thing somewhat disturbing yet intriguing. It has a rotating pushbutton mouse joystick sort of thing too to whiz around the screen if you don't want to talk to it. The instruction book is about 400 pages long. --R Jaime's baby, I think. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
Re: [MBZ] Facts now Fonts now Telling your Benz what to do
Bow down and welcome our child overlords --R My son was in 6th grade when I stopped helping him, and he began the help desk It was also when he got an old A500 of his own and he began to unleash his genius. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
