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Programming using the Ultra Hal Brain Editor / Brain and brain! What is brain?

« on: February 09, 2005, 02:43:37 pm »

A little Star Trek humor. [:p]

anyway, I examined a couple files in the default brain folder and noticed that some of the brn files only held a couple sentences.  can these be merged together in one file, or will that confuse HAL? I wasn't sure if this fell under the "Merging Brains" category of which I saw a couple posts.

Thanks.
Ron

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Reminders

« on: February 02, 2005, 01:42:56 pm »

HAL is ok with appointments, but I need a little more out of him to help me out.

I am basically looking for a bill reminder, and I know that there are a lot of products that can do this, but I wanted to see if HAL could do it.

I currently pay bills about 2 to 3 times a month, and for the reoccuring bills (i.e. Office Lease, phone) I would like HAL to remind me to pay them.

From what I can see, his appointment book is limited to its uses.

Simple example.

Ron: Hal, remind me to pay the rent every 15th of the month.
HAL: Ok, I will remind you.

Ron: HAL, the phone bill is due every 1st of the month, remind me.
HAL: OK, I will remind you.

I don't have a secretary, so I thought HAL would help out here.  Just make sure he doesn't touch the checkbook. []

Ron

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Creating Skins

« on: January 28, 2005, 03:57:17 pm »

This has nothing to do with HAL so it probalby should be on the SKINS board, if one exists [8]

Can you fill me in on the basics of skin creation.  I assume its just taking basic JPG's and layering or animating them.  Is there any software that can help out a non-programmer?

Thank you.
Ron

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Programming using the Ultra Hal Brain Editor / Having HAL do all the work.

« on: January 28, 2005, 10:27:07 am »

I'm still learning what HAL can do, and am just running the basics with the xtf brain.  My question may not be possible at this time, but everyday I see something new on this board, that I didn't think was possible.

Here is a sample of what I'm looking for:

Me: Hal, where's the closest auto shop in Dayton?
HAL: Let me check the internet Yellow pages.
[10 seconds later]
HAL: The closest auto shop is Joe's Garage on 222 Main Street.

Me: Hal, how is NASDAQ doing today.
HAL: NASDAQ is down 10 points today.

These sound like simple questions, but would involve HAL going out to the web doing the research himself, and then coming back with a response.

Am I asking this question too early, or is this something feasible with HAL today [?]  

We always say that HAL is like a child developing.  I guess I’m one of those bad parents who keep asking for more. [)]

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / garbage characters

« on: July 08, 2004, 04:05:15 pm »

I seem to get nonsense characters after I talk to hal.  I would stop talking, then I would see words like home or long, come accross on the display.  I am using XP, and have went through the training of my voice.  The HAL Pad works fine.

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Dictionary Updates & HAL's Surroundings

« on: July 07, 2004, 01:22:34 pm »

Hi Everyone.  First time user and First time poster.  I have been reading your posts for some time now, which made me decide on purchasing HAL.

My first question is regarding the dictionary.  Can this be upgraded, or a new file be put in place?  I just wanted to expand the dictionary to include buzzwords, etc..

Second Question - is there a way for HAL to understand his surroundings, such as he telling me that my CPU is running hot, or running low on disk space -- this is kinda silly I know, I'm just learning.

Thanks.