Aquarionics

So,
I decided to start playing with windows seven amnesty by speech systems, it comes to conclusion that what I should not do is to do the corrections are anything but a suppose something with a stream of consciousness and exactly as I am saying it’s exactly how is this translates into recognised speech.

This is not strictly fair, because I’ve given this next to no training and despite this it appears to be picking up what I’m saying quite well. + Finding the accessibility features of are you to be really helpful in this regard. I’m not quite sure why you picked ” are you” instead of I.e. It doesn’t appear to deal with initialization so well either.

Certainly in my be good for first after documentation but anything technical a it’s not take into account production and were expected to be.

Of course possibly am not speaking clearly enough for it if I deliberately speak slowly and clearly I suspect the results are by far better than what I’ve been getting before. Or possibly not.

Possibly I’ll get far better results of some training although it does seem to be quite good at being in control windows using voice of mass keyboard. Although I wonder if I can say switched to Cromer without it actually doing anything. Maybe I can.

Experiment ends.

Day Zero: Aquarion loses his Halifax bank card (1) whilst in Cambridge. He reports it as lost.

Aquarion is sad.

Day Five: Aquarion gets a new bank card (2). He activates and signs it.

Day Seven: Someone phones Halifax with the old bank card (1). Halifax cancel the new bank card (2).

Day Eight: Aquarion attempts to get some cash out of an ATM. This fails, and his card is retained. Aquarion learns of the events of day Seven, and is not happy. Halifax deign to give him some of the money from his account in cash form, and issue a new bank card.

Aquarion is Miffed.

Day Ten: Aquarion gets a new bank card (3). He activates and signs it.

Day Eleven: Aquarion attempts to use the bank card at a supermarket. This fails, though he gets to keep his card this time. Aquarion learns that when they cancelled card (2), they also reset his PIN.

Aquarion is Upset.

Aquarion is of the opinion that if you’re going to do this, you should FUCKING MENTION IT AT SOME FUCKING POINT. And says this, paraphrased. Aquarion asks when he will receive his new PIN.

Halifax explain that with the postal strike, they really can’t forecast that.

Aquarion is Angry.

I’m sitting outside the Eurogamer Expo 2009.

To be honest, I wasn’t particularly impressed. The whole thing is a series of large TVs with consoles attached, each group of five or six with a different game on it. In a few cases there was something to stop people sitting camped, but not very many. As a result, I didn’t see a great deal more than I would have done watching gameplay videos on the website. (I could have queued for a while and got to play a game when someone got bored, but there was more to look at).

Stuff I did see was God of War III, which looked pretty much the same as GoW I and II did, only with More Epic and More Blood (I watched someone rip out the eyeball of a cyclops, which was quite cool). I’d like to play it, but not enough to drop a few hundred quid on a PS3.

I got to play Star Trek Online too, in the form of a “Ground Mission”. Actually, I picked up the controller after someone who had completed the ground mission failed to be able to find the exit and walked away. After pacing the level for a dozen minutes (it was a small level) I did the same as him. Graphics look shiny, interface looks Star Trek, it does feel “right”. It was interesting seeing the similarities between it and Champions Online, which is on the same engine. I’d like to have been able to play it, but since I have a CO 6 month subscription, I’ll get a beta key at some point.

Finally, as I was wandering around the lower level watching people playing God of War III, I saw an entirely unattended, unlabelled XBox 360 setup with some kind of fantasy game on it. After wandering around for a bit, talking to some NPCs and getting a quest, I recognised the skills system from the PC Dragon Age Character Builder. This was Dragon Age for 360, which apparently still exists. I’d not have recognised it. I’ve been watching the DA PC development quite carefully, but for the 360 it’s almost a new game. The interface is far more console orientated (The PC version looks like BG2, the 360 more like KOTOR). There are a few issues with graphical glitches and camera views (I want to be able to see the thing that just dropped behind me and attacked), but it’s interesting how the interface has been entirely redone and yet remained the same game.

So, in conclusion, of the three games I saw in depth, one’s for a platform I’ve no intention of owning, one I have on preorder, and one I’ll see later.

I think I’m going home now.