Mosen"
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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 Australia last week, I was
listening to a station in Sy
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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 algorithm that's going to know how to
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 did so!
t;
> 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 all the p
erpretation as possible.
On 09/21/2015 01:49 PM, 'RobH.' via VIPhone wrote:
This is done by geeks that think they're gods, and so know it all.
I guess this proves they're neither.
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From: "Mary Otten"
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Sent: Monday, Septembe
now that 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 oth
I think one of the old bloopers goes back to DOS and early Dolphin screen
reader, used a lot by physiotherapists.
Which got pronounced physio-the-rapist.
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From: "Jonathan Mosen"
To:
Sent: Monday, September 21, 2015 5:03 PM
Subject: Re: Cooking with
I also agree, presumption gets irritating in a hurry.
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From: "Mary Otten"
To: ;
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 r
This is done by geeks that think they're gods, and so know it all.
I guess this proves they're neither.
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From: "Mary Otten"
To: ;
Sent: Monday, September 21, 2015 4:49 PM
Subject: Cooking with terabytes
Good old Alex has discovered a new cookin
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
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 still
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 f
d with all
abbreviations expanded got annoying after awhile, and mangled them often
enough.
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From: "Mary Otten"
To: ;
Sent: Monday, September 21, 2015 10:49 AM
Subject: Cooking with terabytes
Good old Alex has discovered a new cooking term. Did you kn
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 it
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