Date: 2008-03-31 09:59 Subject: Laughing/Crying on your Monday with Vista Speech recognition Security: Public

Nothing to do with MySQL, but I just love observing how technology can make us waste more time. Speech recognition is a wonderful idea, but .... oh just watch this:

Of course, watching this video to the end will cost you about 10 minutes, but it could be worthwhile education. Technology can be very useful. But that doesn't mean that all new stuff is useful, or even suitable for your purpose. I don't think that guy was doing anything particularly complicated or wrong though, and I also commend him for his patience - although you can clearly note his frustration as the experiment progresses ;-)