@bertpalmer Well, the 4 would give you an extra 100 hours standby battery life over the 4S (!)
dwiskus As someone named Dave, I’m hesitant of any technology that talks to me.
@jbirdiebird No. I’m watching Blake’s 7. #contrarian
@andybeebristol “Luckily”, when I do that it’s normally quickly apparent, when the cookbook catches fire.
@guriben I will postpone that for a little while, though, as I’m desperately trying not to get distracted by new shiny things at the moment!
@guriben Thank you.
@guriben Oooh, that looks pretty!
@guriben @MediaBen If I had the money, I’d try both. For the moment, think I’m going to have to stick with the iPhone.
@chrisphin I’d estimate another ten hours or so.
@lizpscully Also, if it needs an internet connection to to do the dictation, I’m pretty sure I’ll be able to beat it even if it’s okayish.
@lizpscully No, I’m an average-to-good typist, I’ve just had many, many dismal experiences with voice recognition.
@isaiah *beep* “Deleting all greyhounds.”
@bertpalmer Won’t bother me much, anyway. The camera’s already enough reason to upgrade from the 3GS for me.
@MediaBen Wouldn’t you prefer a nice game of chess?
@bertpalmer It’s even possible that it works brilliantly. If you have an American accent and are in a quiet room.
@bertpalmer Everything always looks great at the keynote… Before Apple bought Siri, it wasn’t available in the UK, so never tried it. Hm.
My normal speech recognition experience: “What’s the weather like at Heathrow?” “*beep*. Now playing audiobook ‘Wuthering Heights’.”
It seems unlikely that someone’s come up with a voice interface that’s better than my typing, even on a phone.
@willsmith (Especially for non-American accents.)
@willsmith I have been greatly disappointed by any voice thing I’ve ever tried. Can’t quite imagine someone’s got it right at last.
@MediaBen Yeah. They are the antidote to the standard “let’s just shovel in MOAR MEGAPIXELZ!!11!!1”
@MediaBen Indeedy. The camera would be my main reason for finally upgrading this 3GS, I think.
@g_e_r_b I think I’m in for a long wait for iCloud music sync and for Match. Sulk. Hoping for something to upgrade to from my 3GS, at least.
@g_e_r_b None of this stuff hits other countries very fast, does it? I’m still waiting to rent TV shows on my Apple TV.
@r0bb1eh @stillawake @Jorence A few of the CS ones are definitely fully available for free; doubt that’s true of the majority, though.
@stillawake @Jorence I’m sure it depends on a lot of things; luckily I found the Harvard courses and lecturers both very good indeed.
@matt_fwyalchen What, no pocket protector? Living dangerously! amazon.co.uk/Oxford®-Pocket-Protectors-Grained-White/dp/B002XJTTYY/
@Jorence @stillawake Yeah. I got most of my web programming skills from Harvard, too, which is why I’m starting there for phone programming.
@stillawake I’ve also heard good things about Stanford’s stuff. “iTunes U” is a good place to browse.
@hayles I was up, showered, dressed and working by 9:30. Scary, but true. We’ll see how long I keep that up. And no cake (yet!)
@stillawake At the moment, I’m ploughing through course E-76: cs76.tv/2011/spring/
@stillawake Harvard have released a bunch of their classes (for external learners) as video. Really good stuff.
@Jorence Today has been my first trial day of self-discipline. It’s gone suspiciously well.
Today I have mostly been watching Harvard Extension Schools classes and getting a development environment together. #sabbatical
@Swishrelic Experiment! I finally found that mine will go away if I down a pint of lukewarm water. Works every time.
There really should be a first-year introductory course to NOT STANDING IN THE DAMN WAY. #Bristol #grumpyoldman #sorry
@archidave Ah. Yes. Just looked back through your. Er. Stream. As it were. *sympathy*
@archidave Not too badly, ta. Today scheduled as my first proper work/study day of my “sabbatical”; we’ll see how *that* goes… You?
@rbrwr Ta. Bloody Twitter. It’s bad enough that they shorten everything whether it needs it or not, but to do it with a broken shortener…
rbrwr @gothick Twitter is cutting that link up at the @ sign… the short link flic.kr/ps/Bw8dU might work better.
Guten morgen! Is all good in the world of Cookwi(t)ch this morning?
I hope all you Star Wars fans are watching Avanaut’s photostream. flickr.com/photos/40195501@N06/
Good morning, Twitter.