Comments on: In the future, we will shout at machines (even more than we do today) http://boingboing.net/2012/08/14/in-the-future-we-will-shout-a.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Wed, 22 May 2013 09:24:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: z7q2 http://boingboing.net/2012/08/14/in-the-future-we-will-shout-a.html#comment-1508206 z7q2 Wed, 15 Aug 2012 12:26:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=176339#comment-1508206 with a wooden spoon, you bet with a wooden spoon, you bet

]]> By: Chentzilla http://boingboing.net/2012/08/14/in-the-future-we-will-shout-a.html#comment-1508184 Chentzilla Wed, 15 Aug 2012 11:04:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=176339#comment-1508184 Pity I'm not the first to mention it here, good that someone else remembers. Pity I’m not the first to mention it here, good that someone else remembers.

]]> By: retepslluerb http://boingboing.net/2012/08/14/in-the-future-we-will-shout-a.html#comment-1508176 retepslluerb Wed, 15 Aug 2012 10:45:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=176339#comment-1508176 I love that quote. “most reasonable adults can resist the urge to fling the child across the room”. So there are cases where reasonable adults fling children across the room? As a rant the article is okay.  Otherwise, I'd advice anger management training or buying better software.  I love that quote. “most reasonable adults can resist the urge to fling the child across the room”. So there are cases where reasonable adults fling children across the room?

As a rant the article is okay.  Otherwise, I’d advice anger management training or buying better software. 

]]> By: Yacko http://boingboing.net/2012/08/14/in-the-future-we-will-shout-a.html#comment-1508140 Yacko Wed, 15 Aug 2012 09:47:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=176339#comment-1508140 Want to go a few rounds with a toaster? Want to go a few rounds with a toaster?

]]> By: niktemadur http://boingboing.net/2012/08/14/in-the-future-we-will-shout-a.html#comment-1508131 niktemadur Wed, 15 Aug 2012 09:21:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=176339#comment-1508131 You know, the film could very well be "Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea" from 1961.  Calculated guess, don't bet the farm on it. You know, the film could very well be “Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea” from 1961.  Calculated guess, don’t bet the farm on it.

]]> By: Lemoutan http://boingboing.net/2012/08/14/in-the-future-we-will-shout-a.html#comment-1508130 Lemoutan Wed, 15 Aug 2012 09:20:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=176339#comment-1508130 Too late. Too late.

]]> By: z7q2 http://boingboing.net/2012/08/14/in-the-future-we-will-shout-a.html#comment-1508128 z7q2 Wed, 15 Aug 2012 09:19:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=176339#comment-1508128 Shouting? I used to BEAT my machines. Well more like bitch-slap them. I have had more than one CRT over the years that was brought back to proper function by a well-placed smack upside the monitor frame. Don't try this on your flat-screen. CPU enclosures themselves were subject to various physical disciplines from constant poking with the boot toe due to bad desk design, to repeated fist pounding on the side to get a daughtercard to boot properly. Physical machine abuse is much more satisfying than wasting your voice on them. Shouting? I used to BEAT my machines. Well more like bitch-slap them. I have had more than one CRT over the years that was brought back to proper function by a well-placed smack upside the monitor frame. Don’t try this on your flat-screen.

CPU enclosures themselves were subject to various physical disciplines from constant poking with the boot toe due to bad desk design, to repeated fist pounding on the side to get a daughtercard to boot properly.

Physical machine abuse is much more satisfying than wasting your voice on them.

]]> By: Lemoutan http://boingboing.net/2012/08/14/in-the-future-we-will-shout-a.html#comment-1508125 Lemoutan Wed, 15 Aug 2012 09:15:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=176339#comment-1508125 Thank you for saying that. I did not see what the issue was because I assumed (I know, I know) the chunk just fell off the top of the iceberg onto the sea-surface, coincidentally occupied by a passing submarine. Never occurred to me the sub was under the berg and the berg shed off the bottom. Thank you for saying that. I did not see what the issue was because I assumed (I know, I know) the chunk just fell off the top of the iceberg onto the sea-surface, coincidentally occupied by a passing submarine. Never occurred to me the sub was under the berg and the berg shed off the bottom.

]]> By: Lemoutan http://boingboing.net/2012/08/14/in-the-future-we-will-shout-a.html#comment-1508121 Lemoutan Wed, 15 Aug 2012 09:08:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=176339#comment-1508121 But who gives a damn if they ain't got no soul? But who gives a damn if they ain’t got no soul?

]]> By: Antinous / Moderator http://boingboing.net/2012/08/14/in-the-future-we-will-shout-a.html#comment-1508097 Antinous / Moderator Wed, 15 Aug 2012 08:33:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=176339#comment-1508097 <blockquote>I realized it was remotely triggered, someone opening the trunk or starting their vehicle or whatever, but my initial thought was to say, "You don't honk at me, motherfucker!" to the car, as I've said before.</blockquote>I remember my drafting teacher apologizing to a drafting table after he bumped into it. We all laughed, but half the class thought that it was good manners anyway.

I realized it was remotely triggered, someone opening the trunk or starting their vehicle or whatever, but my initial thought was to say, “You don’t honk at me, motherfucker!” to the car, as I’ve said before.

I remember my drafting teacher apologizing to a drafting table after he bumped into it. We all laughed, but half the class thought that it was good manners anyway.

]]> By: Beanolini http://boingboing.net/2012/08/14/in-the-future-we-will-shout-a.html#comment-1508093 Beanolini Wed, 15 Aug 2012 08:30:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=176339#comment-1508093 <blockquote>Didn't car alarms kind of warn people to keep away from vehicles about 10-15 years ago, with a recorded voice,</blockquote>I've not heard this on an alarm, but buses and trucks sometimes have a recorded voice saying 'this vehicle is reversing'. (And the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austin_Montego" rel="nofollow">Montego</a> had a 'talking dashboard' in the mid 80s).

Didn’t car alarms kind of warn people to keep away from vehicles about 10-15 years ago, with a recorded voice,

I’ve not heard this on an alarm, but buses and trucks sometimes have a recorded voice saying ‘this vehicle is reversing’. (And the Montego had a ‘talking dashboard’ in the mid 80s).

]]> By: Deidzoeb http://boingboing.net/2012/08/14/in-the-future-we-will-shout-a.html#comment-1508052 Deidzoeb Wed, 15 Aug 2012 07:19:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=176339#comment-1508052 Didn't car alarms kind of warn people to keep away from vehicles about 10-15 years ago, with a recorded voice, or was that some kind of remote-controlled thing that I didn't recognize? (Or my faulty memory embroidering the past?) An empty car seemed to honk at me as I walked past in a parking lot a few days ago. I realized it was remotely triggered, someone opening the trunk or starting their vehicle or whatever, but my initial thought was to say, "You don't honk at me, motherfucker!" to the car, as I've said before. Right then I had an epiphany about Star Wars. This is why Luke and all the other heroes treat droids like crap (and like slaves). These humans  live in a drastically unequal society with people giving them orders or treating them like crap daily. When machines try to give them orders or advice, that shit rolls down hill. Living under the boot of the Stormtroopers or the Empire, they can't take it out on the people who deserve their animosity, so they take it out on droids, especially whining pedants like C3PO. Didn’t car alarms kind of warn people to keep away from vehicles about 10-15 years ago, with a recorded voice, or was that some kind of remote-controlled thing that I didn’t recognize? (Or my faulty memory embroidering the past?)

An empty car seemed to honk at me as I walked past in a parking lot a few days ago. I realized it was remotely triggered, someone opening the trunk or starting their vehicle or whatever, but my initial thought was to say, “You don’t honk at me, motherfucker!” to the car, as I’ve said before.

Right then I had an epiphany about Star Wars. This is why Luke and all the other heroes treat droids like crap (and like slaves). These humans  live in a drastically unequal society with people giving them orders or treating them like crap daily. When machines try to give them orders or advice, that shit rolls down hill. Living under the boot of the Stormtroopers or the Empire, they can’t take it out on the people who deserve their animosity, so they take it out on droids, especially whining pedants like C3PO.

]]> By: Dlo Burns http://boingboing.net/2012/08/14/in-the-future-we-will-shout-a.html#comment-1508035 Dlo Burns Wed, 15 Aug 2012 06:47:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=176339#comment-1508035 [insert continuous sound of motherboard speaker error] [insert continuous sound of motherboard speaker error]

]]> By: Malcolm Farmer http://boingboing.net/2012/08/14/in-the-future-we-will-shout-a.html#comment-1508020 Malcolm Farmer Wed, 15 Aug 2012 06:21:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=176339#comment-1508020 Too late to patent it! Robert Sheckley, A Ticket to Tranai  (1955): The robots are designed to  squeak, lurch and be generally annoying, encouraging people to smash them.  This has considerable benefits in stress relief and stimulating the market for replacement robots. The hero of the story works on designing a brittle plastic casing that will shatter with the first kick... Too late to patent it! Robert Sheckley, A Ticket to Tranai  (1955):

The robots are designed to  squeak, lurch and be generally annoying, encouraging people to smash them.  This has considerable benefits in stress relief and stimulating the market for replacement robots. The hero of the story works on designing a brittle plastic casing that will shatter with the first kick…

]]> By: Mitch_M http://boingboing.net/2012/08/14/in-the-future-we-will-shout-a.html#comment-1508017 Mitch_M Wed, 15 Aug 2012 06:13:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=176339#comment-1508017 To hell with shouting. I'd like a divorce from machines. The more electronical gadgets I f_k around with the more I like my banjo, my garden hoe, my bicycle, my cat. But I'm still going to get in an episode of Burn Notice on my bedroom computer before I go to sleep. To hell with shouting. I’d like a divorce from machines. The more electronical gadgets I f_k around with the more I like my banjo, my garden hoe, my bicycle, my cat. But I’m still going to get in an episode of Burn Notice on my bedroom computer before I go to sleep.

]]> By: Dlo Burns http://boingboing.net/2012/08/14/in-the-future-we-will-shout-a.html#comment-1508007 Dlo Burns Wed, 15 Aug 2012 06:02:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=176339#comment-1508007 Is it appropriate to scream at the sight of Tommy Wiseau's ass? Is it appropriate to scream at the sight of Tommy Wiseau’s ass?

]]> By: Dlo Burns http://boingboing.net/2012/08/14/in-the-future-we-will-shout-a.html#comment-1508004 Dlo Burns Wed, 15 Aug 2012 06:00:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=176339#comment-1508004 Was this old? Because the GI Joe film had sinking glaciers. Was this old? Because the GI Joe film had sinking glaciers.

]]> By: Wreckrob8 http://boingboing.net/2012/08/14/in-the-future-we-will-shout-a.html#comment-1508005 Wreckrob8 Wed, 15 Aug 2012 06:00:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=176339#comment-1508005 You wouldn't enjoy a good pantomime, then? You wouldn’t enjoy a good pantomime, then?

]]> By: penguinchris http://boingboing.net/2012/08/14/in-the-future-we-will-shout-a.html#comment-1507991 penguinchris Wed, 15 Aug 2012 05:42:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=176339#comment-1507991 I enjoy things like that! What I don't enjoy is people yelling at the screen, to the characters, "THE KILLER IS BEHIND THE DOOR! DON'T GO IN THE ROOM! AHHHH!" I enjoy things like that! What I don’t enjoy is people yelling at the screen, to the characters, “THE KILLER IS BEHIND THE DOOR! DON’T GO IN THE ROOM! AHHHH!”

]]> By: Jemmy http://boingboing.net/2012/08/14/in-the-future-we-will-shout-a.html#comment-1507989 Jemmy Wed, 15 Aug 2012 05:35:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=176339#comment-1507989 My brother worked on machines that tried to understand why you're shouting at them when he was at MIT's <a href="http://affect.media.mit.edu/" rel="nofollow">Affective Computing</a> group. They're still doing a lot of work on trying to get computers to sense emotional cues.  My brother worked on machines that tried to understand why you’re shouting at them when he was at MIT’s Affective Computing group. They’re still doing a lot of work on trying to get computers to sense emotional cues. 

]]> By: niktemadur http://boingboing.net/2012/08/14/in-the-future-we-will-shout-a.html#comment-1507986 niktemadur Wed, 15 Aug 2012 05:32:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=176339#comment-1507986 Some guy, can't remember his name, was watching some submarine adventure film, when a chunk of iceberg broke off and fell on top of the sub.  As a reflex, the guy stood up and yelled something along the lines of "Oh come ON! Ice floats! Ice floats!" The theater audience cracked up in laughter and applause, and the guy was bitten by the bug.  Soon after, he published a book about science errors in films. Anyone remember his name, the title of his book? Some guy, can’t remember his name, was watching some submarine adventure film, when a chunk of iceberg broke off and fell on top of the sub.  As a reflex, the guy stood up and yelled something along the lines of “Oh come ON! Ice floats! Ice floats!”

The theater audience cracked up in laughter and applause, and the guy was bitten by the bug.  Soon after, he published a book about science errors in films.

Anyone remember his name, the title of his book?

]]> By: penguinchris http://boingboing.net/2012/08/14/in-the-future-we-will-shout-a.html#comment-1507985 penguinchris Wed, 15 Aug 2012 05:29:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=176339#comment-1507985 On second thought, I think I would probably enjoy it if it was you yelling at the screen. On second thought, I think I would probably enjoy it if it was you yelling at the screen.

]]> By: Antinous / Moderator http://boingboing.net/2012/08/14/in-the-future-we-will-shout-a.html#comment-1507984 Antinous / Moderator Wed, 15 Aug 2012 05:28:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=176339#comment-1507984 I hiss at the ads before the movie. I don't scream at the screen during the film unless it's an appropriate venue/occasion. I hiss at the ads before the movie. I don’t scream at the screen during the film unless it’s an appropriate venue/occasion.

]]> By: ldobe http://boingboing.net/2012/08/14/in-the-future-we-will-shout-a.html#comment-1507983 ldobe Wed, 15 Aug 2012 05:27:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=176339#comment-1507983 Ah, I found it. It was presented by Peter Molyneux, on TED (<a href="https://www.ted.com/talks/peter_molyneux_demos_milo_the_virtual_boy.html" rel="nofollow">right here</a>) Also Youtube: Milo, the virtual 11 year old boy: http://youtu.be/Uieh3RfkCng Ah, I found it.
It was presented by Peter Molyneux, on TED (right here)

Also Youtube: Milo, the virtual 11 year old boy:
http://youtu.be/Uieh3RfkCng

]]> By: niktemadur http://boingboing.net/2012/08/14/in-the-future-we-will-shout-a.html#comment-1507982 niktemadur Wed, 15 Aug 2012 05:26:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=176339#comment-1507982 Using the damned contraption as proxy, I scream at the engineers who designed it.  So if I did what you do, I'd be yelling at the author. Using the damned contraption as proxy, I scream at the engineers who designed it.  So if I did what you do, I’d be yelling at the author.

]]> By: ldobe http://boingboing.net/2012/08/14/in-the-future-we-will-shout-a.html#comment-1507979 ldobe Wed, 15 Aug 2012 05:19:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=176339#comment-1507979 I'm not absolutely sure, but I think the whole project was a Microsoft partnership, not an indie dev I’m not absolutely sure, but I think the whole project was a Microsoft partnership, not an indie dev

]]> By: penguinchris http://boingboing.net/2012/08/14/in-the-future-we-will-shout-a.html#comment-1507976 penguinchris Wed, 15 Aug 2012 05:15:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=176339#comment-1507976 That seems like something SkyNet created to trick humans into training machines how to pass the Voight-Kampff test. That seems like something SkyNet created to trick humans into training machines how to pass the Voight-Kampff test.

]]> By: penguinchris http://boingboing.net/2012/08/14/in-the-future-we-will-shout-a.html#comment-1507974 penguinchris Wed, 15 Aug 2012 05:13:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=176339#comment-1507974 I <i>know</i> you're not the guy who does that at the movie theater though, right? I know you’re not the guy who does that at the movie theater though, right?

]]> By: giantasterisk http://boingboing.net/2012/08/14/in-the-future-we-will-shout-a.html#comment-1507964 giantasterisk Wed, 15 Aug 2012 04:59:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=176339#comment-1507964 Oh, goody. More new parents compulsively mentioning their babies while prefacing with "I promised I would not mention my new babies but it's been X days since said unmentionable new babies were born and though I had fully intended not to mention said babies, circumstances are such that I must -- I must!" Because really, we are talking about shouting at machines. Who in good conscience could omit the babies? Oh, goody. More new parents compulsively mentioning their babies while prefacing with “I promised I would not mention my new babies but it’s been X days since said unmentionable new babies were born and though I had fully intended not to mention said babies, circumstances are such that I must — I must!” Because really, we are talking about shouting at machines. Who in good conscience could omit the babies?

]]> By: retepslluerb http://boingboing.net/2012/08/14/in-the-future-we-will-shout-a.html#comment-1507947 retepslluerb Wed, 15 Aug 2012 04:29:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=176339#comment-1507947 Oh, goody. More suppressed rage from people. Oh, goody. More suppressed rage from people.

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