Re: Cooking with terabytes

2015-09-24 Thread Chris Smart
quot; <jmo...@mosen.org> To: <viphone@googlegroups.com> Sent: Monday, September 21, 2015 5:03 PM Subject: Re: Cooking with terabytes Indeed, my wife was reading a book the other day, in which one of the characters ended up dying of terabytes. To follow all the political excitement in

Re: Cooking with terabytes

2015-09-22 Thread 'RobH.' via VIPhone
...@gmail.com> To: <viphone@googlegroups.com> Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2015 1:55 AM Subject: Re: Cooking with terabytes I assume this is a joke, but being a geek myself, I feel obligated to stand up for geeks everywhere. First, I don't think it's an easy task to come up with an

Re: Cooking with terabytes

2015-09-21 Thread Christopher Chaltain
egroups.com> Sent: Monday, September 21, 2015 4:49 PM Subject: Cooking with terabytes Good old Alex has discovered a new cooking term. Did you know that when you're making short ribs in the slow cooker, you need to add one and a half terabytes of balsamic vinegar? When, when, will the folks who make

Re: Cooking with terabytes

2015-09-21 Thread Jewel
hat he has his boots under the table, he doesn't seem to be inclined to leave without a struggle. Jewel From: Jonathan Mosen Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2015 4:03 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Cooking with terabytes Indeed, my wife was reading a book the other day, in

Re: Cooking with terabytes

2015-09-21 Thread Mary Otten
l > > From: Jonathan Mosen > Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2015 4:03 AM > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: Cooking with terabytes > > Indeed, my wife was reading a book the other day, in which one of the > characters ended up dying of terabytes. > To follow a

RE: Cooking with terabytes

2015-09-21 Thread Rose Combs
iphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Jewel Sent: Monday, September 21, 2015 5:40 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Cooking with terabytes I had heard much of Alex so when I was wandering through settings/voices last night and came upon the option to invite him into my humble iPhone, I

Re: Cooking with terabytes

2015-09-21 Thread Brent Harding
abbreviations expanded got annoying after awhile, and mangled them often enough. - Original Message - From: "Mary Otten" <motte...@gmail.com> To: <viphone@googlegroups.com>; <macvisionar...@googlegroups.com> Sent: Monday, September 21, 2015 10:49 AM Subject: C

Re: Cooking with terabytes

2015-09-21 Thread Jonathan Mosen
Indeed, my wife was reading a book the other day, in which one of the characters ended up dying of terabytes. To follow all the political excitement in Australia last week, I was listening to a station in Sydney called 2 G B, which default Daniel, my voice of choice, called 2 Gigabytes. I also

Cooking with terabytes

2015-09-21 Thread Mary Otten
Good old Alex has discovered a new cooking term. Did you know that when you're making short ribs in the slow cooker, you need to add one and a half terabytes of balsamic vinegar? When, when, will the folks who make the speech synthesizers stop trying to guess what abbreviations mean and leave

Re: Cooking with terabytes

2015-09-21 Thread Mary Otten
I haven't found that Alex is any worse than any of the other voices. Perhaps your mileage varies depending on what you read. I did notice that the GM or gold master turned into grams. Which I thought was interesting. I'm sure there are many of these, and they've been happening for years. I

Re: Cooking with terabytes

2015-09-21 Thread Gmail
The one that really annoys me is pretty recent; Samantha says defeaturing anytime the word defeat is used. It doesn't seem to do this if you move word by word, but if you come across it when VoiceOver is just speaking, as when flicking right/left, Samantha says it the way I described. I'll have

Re: Cooking with terabytes

2015-09-21 Thread 'RobH.' via VIPhone
I also agree, presumption gets irritating in a hurry. - Original Message - From: "Mary Otten" <motte...@gmail.com> To: <viphone@googlegroups.com>; <macvisionar...@googlegroups.com> Sent: Monday, September 21, 2015 4:49 PM Subject: Cooking with terabytes

Re: Cooking with terabytes

2015-09-21 Thread 'RobH.' via VIPhone
eptember 21, 2015 5:03 PM Subject: Re: Cooking with terabytes Indeed, my wife was reading a book the other day, in which one of the characters ended up dying of terabytes. To follow all the political excitement in Australia last week, I was listening to a station in Sydney called 2 G B, which def

Re: Cooking with terabytes

2015-09-21 Thread 'RobH.' via VIPhone
This is done by geeks that think they're gods, and so know it all. I guess this proves they're neither. - Original Message - From: "Mary Otten" <motte...@gmail.com> To: <viphone@googlegroups.com>; <macvisionar...@googlegroups.com> Sent: Monday, September 21, 2