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My friend installed IBM OS/2 WARP beta when it came out, it too was voice controlled. We would shout into his room, "select all, delete" or "format c" or other

My friend installed IBM OS/2 WARP beta when it came out, it too was voice controlled. We would shout into his room, "select all, delete" or "format c" or other childish fun commands.

duxup 8y ago
Humans are terrible. When the computers take over.... I won't be happy about it, but I'll kinda understand.
- eXpl0it3r 8y ago
  Just shout "self-destruct" all the time and we'll be fine.
  - vidarh 8y ago
    Alexa has 4-5 joke responses to self destruct. E.g. "I'll start the countdown but only on the understanding you'll dramatically cancel it at the last second", and "3-2-1 Boom. Hmm that didn't quite work did it?" or something like that, and a few others.
    - teddyh 8y ago
      Like the countdown at the end of Monsters vs. Aliens: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJ5DA22tBOY#t=4m27s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJ5DA22tBOY#t=4m27s “8… 7… 6… 5… 4… 3… 2… 1… … Hmm, nothing happened, maybe my count w… [ＢＯＯＭ]”
julianz 8y ago
Yup, Mac OS 7.5 had speech commands, my colleague named his machine "Oi!" and I would routinely shout "Oi! Shut down!" as I left the office. Never got old.
rdtsc 8y ago
Selling a product that had a voice command UI we found that people will go out of their way to mess with it. Sometimes for fun, sometimes to unload their frustration. There is something strange about a voice UI and I think it is the expectation that the intelligence should be about the same level as human intelligence. If it is not there, and it is making the user look silly by making them repeat something obvious multiple times, they will quickly start hating the product as a whole. It's almost better not have a voice UI unless it is pretty darn good.
JdeBP 8y ago
Of course, and as was widely known (and mentioned when this subject came up) at the time, FORMAT C: would not have actually worked (on systems where C: was the boot volume) because OS/2 locked volumes that were in active use as filesystems, preventing them from being reformatted.

My friend installed IBM OS/2 WARP beta when it came out, it too was voice controlled. We would shout into his room, "select all, delete" or "format c" or other childish fun commands.

duxup 8y ago

Humans are terrible. When the computers take over.... I won't be happy about it, but I'll kinda understand.

eXpl0it3r 8y ago
Just shout "self-destruct" all the time and we'll be fine.
- vidarh 8y ago
  Alexa has 4-5 joke responses to self destruct. E.g. "I'll start the countdown but only on the understanding you'll dramatically cancel it at the last second", and "3-2-1 Boom. Hmm that didn't quite work did it?" or something like that, and a few others.
  - teddyh 8y ago
    Like the countdown at the end of Monsters vs. Aliens: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJ5DA22tBOY#t=4m27s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJ5DA22tBOY#t=4m27s “8… 7… 6… 5… 4… 3… 2… 1… … Hmm, nothing happened, maybe my count w… [ＢＯＯＭ]”

julianz 8y ago

Yup, Mac OS 7.5 had speech commands, my colleague named his machine "Oi!" and I would routinely shout "Oi! Shut down!" as I left the office. Never got old.

rdtsc 8y ago

Selling a product that had a voice command UI we found that people will go out of their way to mess with it. Sometimes for fun, sometimes to unload their frustration. There is something strange about a voice UI and I think it is the expectation that the intelligence should be about the same level as human intelligence. If it is not there, and it is making the user look silly by making them repeat something obvious multiple times, they will quickly start hating the product as a whole. It's almost better not have a voice UI unless it is pretty darn good.

JdeBP 8y ago

Of course, and as was widely known (and mentioned when this subject came up) at the time, FORMAT C: would not have actually worked (on systems where C: was the boot volume) because OS/2 locked volumes that were in active use as filesystems, preventing them from being reformatted.