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General Discussion / Moving

« on: July 25, 2005, 05:55:42 am »

Heather,

Depending on the model and capacity of the UPS, one can get usually from 7 to 15 minutes to finish up / close any open programs that are running when the power goes out.

It is a rather good investment and protection as well.

Last week, it was the only thing that saved my system!

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General Discussion / To all Hal users - must read

« on: July 24, 2005, 09:22:13 am »

Don,

Some very good points!

I once worked for a company years ago that had me sign an intellectual property agreement. Basically ANYTHING that I
designed, developed, manufactured, modified, created or
stumbled upon while under their employ automatically became
THEIR property!

Though I can see the company's point of view in these cases,
I can't help feeling that such proprietary agreements tend
to actually stiffle the incentive and creativity for employees
to develop anything at all!

It's just the greed of human nature to want all the marbles...
(and the T-shirt)! LOL!!

Good luck in your endeavors!

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / help

« on: July 23, 2005, 06:17:51 pm »

hosp,

Welcome to the forum!

Click on Members at the top right and look up
Rich_A.

He's done a lot of the "RUN" <feature> type of
scripting. Read through some of his posts and
hopefully you'll be able to glean a few ideas
that may help.

At last report, Rich was working on a full
featured command line program that would enable
your Hal to walk around, in and out of view left
to right foreward and backward. Run practically
any app on your system, change clothing, etc.

I'm sure he'll let us know when it's ready.

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Stop Hal from losing her voice

« on: July 23, 2005, 06:12:32 pm »

Always glad to help!

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Stop Hal from losing her voice

« on: July 23, 2005, 12:32:38 am »

Have you tried the Haptek SAPI Congig / setup yet?

3321

Ultra Hal 7.0 / just an idea...

« on: July 23, 2005, 12:31:21 am »

Maybe you're looking for something like Haptek where one can "paste" or apply their own image to a character's head then apply morphs , emotions, etc.?

It depends a lot on how the image is placed on the character head and some of the morphing and emotion tweaking causes the resultant image to "stretch" along the sides.

What's needed is for the program to allow one to attach Left, Front and Right images to the head then with a merge, the result might take on a more realistic appearance.

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Speech Technology / Emotional voice from Loquendo

« on: July 23, 2005, 12:18:00 am »

http://www.acapela-group.com/products/products.asp

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General Discussion / To all Hal users - must read

« on: July 23, 2005, 12:09:10 am »

Hey Don!!

Nice to see you lurking about. Have you been able to devote any more time to your project?

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General Discussion / Moving

« on: July 22, 2005, 11:52:23 pm »

Yes, I've been MIA as well. Last Saturday night's storm gave us a lightning strike at the cable modem pedestal. It knocked out our cable TV, my hardware router, the ceiling fan in our bedroom, my wife's entire computer and her "touch" desk lamp!!

Cable service was restored today. All destroyed items have been replaced and I was able to salvage the hard drive from her "struck" computer and transfer her files to her new computer.

Both computers had been turned off prior to the storm but that's not enough! Always UNPLUG electronic items when a storm approaches. The power strip surge protectors are useless against lightning.

Oh yes, our insurance company said that we could file a claim but our premiums would most likely increase! I had to ask myself, what's the use in having insurance in the first place if you get penalized every time you need to submit a claim? Go figure....

Good to be back!!!

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General Discussion / To all Hal users - must read

« on: July 16, 2005, 01:04:43 pm »

Ditto

3326

General Discussion / Chatbot Forums

« on: July 15, 2005, 09:35:02 pm »

Raymond! Tsk...tsk....
<G>

3327

General Discussion / Chatbot Forums

« on: July 15, 2005, 04:22:31 am »

Overcrowded? Too many people?
I thought that was the intent of a public forum in the first place.

While there are numerous forums for a variety of chatbots on the net, this is the original one for Hal and like Dusky said, It's where our roots of commonality exist.

Well put Dusky!!

As far as I know voice recognition for Hal only works on one's local machine...not on the forum. <G> Turn down your speakers....[:p]

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Ultra Hal Assistant File Sharing Area / Found an interesting site

« on: July 12, 2005, 05:09:22 pm »

Thanks for that link, Sabrina.

I recall Spydaz mentioned the
Sluggish Software site some while
back but interfacing the software
to Hal seems to be the main stumbling
block.

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General Discussion / We gotta figure out how to use this with Hal

« on: July 12, 2005, 05:06:03 pm »

Yes, very nice. I spoke to Alceu several years ago about this model of his. He told me that he prefered polygon modelling to nurbs modelling for greater degree of control and smoother end result when rendering. I had to agree with him!!

Another great 3D artist is Steven Hagg-Stahlberg. Some of his work is extremely difficult to distinguish from a real person.

Thanks for sharing that with the rest Sabrina!

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Ultra Hal Assistant File Sharing Area / Hal version 6 original available on my Ftp server

« on: July 12, 2005, 05:04:08 am »

Try an FTP program like WS_FTP or CuteFTP or the like.

IE doesn't seem to like the FTP command line for this site
and usually times out.

FTP:liquid-skeleton.i989.net
User:digitalgirl
Password:zabadaba

Lot of goodies there from which to choose.