I don't own any modern macs. Has anyone tried replacing Siri's voice with HAL's?

ETA:

So I managed to stealborrow an iPad. Here's fun: try asking "Open the pod bay doors please Siri".

Try it several times.

The next dimension. -- Infocom

AlaricD wrote:

"Developers, developers, developers, developers!" -- Steve Ballmer

The Serpent Rider wrote:

Dell: "Dude, you're getting a Dell."

oeuvre wrote:

Intel Inside

Where's the like button on this forum?

Anyways, here are two other slogans that I thought of:
"Yours Is Here." -Dell
"In Touch With Tomorrow" -Toshiba

Packard Bell's BIOS screen quote before the company got bought out by NEC, now Acer: "America grew up listening to us. It still does."

Apple: "Does more, cost less." --> for me and about everyone else: "Does less, cost more."

Sun Microsystems:
"The DOT in .com"

Apple - "Think Different"

Ded we already have 'Think Different!' from Apple?

"You Can't Buy A Better Computer At Twice The Price" -- Commodore

Number nine video : she loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah.

BSA Starfire wrote:

Number nine video : she loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah.

The Beatles version of the song, yes?

root42 wrote:

The next dimension. -- Infocom

Their best was "we put our graphics where the sun don't shine." 😀

"You can't teach an elephant to tap-dance" - some anonymous business insider dismissing the idea that bloated, bureaucratic IBM could ever make a successful break into the fast-moving new market of personal computers. Of course, PC Magazine promptly proceeded to milk that meme with illustrations of tap-dancing elephants for the first full year of its existence.

AlaricD wrote:

"You Can't Buy A Better Computer At Twice The Price" -- Commodore

Are you keeping up with the Commodore?
‘Cause the Commodore’s keeping up with you.

-- Commodore

Intel486dx33 wrote:

This subject is an entire thread on it own. In all these space / human origin movies someone is always trying to sabotage the mi […]
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Jo22 wrote:

^IMHO that scene *perhaps* was about (self-)perception, time, space and beyond. In one moment, he sees himself old, in another […]
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Intel486dx33 wrote:

That was a strange movie. I really did not understand it. They are looking for the origins of life only to find themselves in a room with a bed and dinner on the table.
Kind of like a prison or mental hospital.

^IMHO that scene *perhaps* was about (self-)perception, time, space and beyond.
In one moment, he sees himself old, in another one young again.
Or someone (something) else that speaks to him, while mimicing his form (human) to make contact.
Then it appears as he sees the whole universe/meaning of life/future and past as one/ etc.
That being said, I haven't read the book yet (shame on me!). So the meaning is up to the viewer's phantasy, I guess. 😅
In a scene before, the flight through the colours may visualize the borders between dimensions.

Edit: The second movie is also very good, I think.
It's more focused to humanity and more optimistic regarding our future.
The effects and props are also interesting. The tech shown moves from the cold, but elegant 60s
IBM look of mainframes to that colourful, vibrant look of the 80s. Anyway, I'm going slightly off-topic, so I better stop. 😅

This subject is an entire thread on it own. In all these space / human origin movies someone is always trying to sabotage the mission.
There are People that don't want humans going into space. You should ask NASA about this if it is really true.
In the movie space odyssey 2000 someone or something sabotage the HAL 9000 computer by reprogramming it.
Maybe it was that black stone ?

Hope this is not too off topic, but if you watch 2010, Dr. Chandra, who created HAL, says that HAL was asked to lie to the Discovery crew about the mission, and became paranoid. And that was why he killed them.

Plus fun fact A C Clarke has a cameo in he movie, he is sitting on a park bench near the white house feeding birds.

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How you gonna do it? You're gonna PS/2 it!
-IBM

Yo. Check this out guys! This is insanely great, it's got a 28.8 bps modem!
-Hackers

"Because... if you don't have Sound Blaster, you're really blowing it!"

"Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM"

http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/ibm100/us/e … computer/words/

"MORE CORE AVAILABLE, BUT NONE FOR YOU." - error message from TOPS-10 OS.

gdjacobs wrote:

"MORE CORE AVAILABLE, BUT NONE FOR YOU." - error message from TOPS-10 OS.

🤣 TOPS-10, AKA the core nazi

"this computer is NEVER OBSOLETE" - eMachines

badmojo wrote:

gdjacobs wrote:

"MORE CORE AVAILABLE, BUT NONE FOR YOU." - error message from TOPS-10 OS.

🤣 TOPS-10, AKA the core nazi

Presumably you're not Core Worthy?