Re: Networked refrigerators (was Re: [Nolug] Vint Cerf talk (my notes from his talk at LSU))

On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 10:30, Joey Kelly wrote:
> Thou spake:
> >On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 09:43, Joey Kelly wrote:
> >> Thou spake:
> >> <snip>
> >>
> >> >How would it look inside the egg carton to count the eggs?
> >>
> >> You'd scan each egg (or tell the fridge "I'm taking out two eggs, HAL"),
> >> and it would keep track.
> >
> >But that's not how people usually work. The normal way of doing
> >things is to take a bunch of pots, jugs, trays, etc out of the
> >fridge and to the counter, do the cooking, and bring any partly
> >empty containers + any new ones of leftovers back to the fridge.
> >
> >Remember, the goal is to make life easier, not more Windows-like.
> >
> >In other words: K.I.S,E.
>
> HAL: "What are you taking out of the fridge? I need to keep track, you know"
> YOU: "Take a flying leap, HAL"
> HAL: "Hmm... I don't think I have any of that in stock. How about an orange
> instead?"

Speech recognition isn't all it's cracked up to be... (So far.)

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