Re: What the hell is C++, Java, C# and the other drivel?
Rich BBC owner? 6510 ftw
Posts by OnlyMortal
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Dropbox would rather write code twice than try to make C++ work on both iOS and Android
Uncle Sam charges Julian Assange with conspiracy to commit computer intrusion
How's this for sci-fi: A cosmic river of 4,000 stars dazzles lifeforms as it flows through a galaxy. And that galaxy is the Milky Way
The Apple Mac is 35 years old. Behold the beige box of the future
Apple hardware priced so high that no one wants to buy it? It's 1983 all over again
Begone, Demon Internet: Vodafone to shutter old-school pioneer ISP
Brit boffins build 'quantum compass'... say goodbye to those old GPS gizmos, possibly
Mac users burned after Nuance drops Dragon speech to text software
Tuesday 30th October 2018 17:06 GMT
Mac Developer here
As someone who worked on ViaVoice OSX back early 2001 I just wanted to add that we talked about doing either a poseAs on NSObject or building our own input method. Unless something has changed since then, a poseAs could have been done system wide for AppKit (Cocoa) applications and we could have bootstrapped the reco code. We didn't pursue it as most applications were still ported Carbon legacy code.
Also voice command control is a completely different thing to free voice recognition. I knew one of the chaps who worked at Apple doing their voice control stuff. If I recall, you could get their engine to work in your application with some coding (probably a mix of Interface Builder too).
BTW, my Yorkshire accent was the reason that ViaVoice OSX supported a UK model - I even changed "color" to "colour" in the UI when UK English was activated.
NASA demos little nuclear power plant to help find little green men
More Brits have access to 1Gbps speeds than those failing to muster 10Mbps – Ofcom report
Monday 30th April 2018 15:06 GMT
Re: Lies, damn lies and statistics!
AFAIK there's only one other flat on hyperoptic, based on wifi access points I can see. Might be more on lower floors (thick concrete between floors).
On my iPhone 6S over wifi (not using their router btw) and speedtest I've had 489/395. Distance would be about 4-5 metres from couch to the Lynksys WRT 1900ACS with stock firmware (2.01?). The DD-WRT beta was terrible for wifi when I tried it.
Wired with a MacBook Pro (2011) I think I've had ~700.
Edit: There's no VM in the building so flats likely have Sky, since we have two LNB feeds per flat, and Sky Fibre.
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