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General Discussion / Robotics site
« on: December 17, 2005, 12:01:31 am »
I saw that Philip K Dick android on a cable TV program. Looks like an excellent demonstration of the "uncanny valley" effect!

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Speech Technology / Which version of Dragon Naturally Speaking?
« on: December 16, 2005, 11:57:10 pm »
I hope to be getting Dragon 8 standard as a Christmas gift (Preferred being a little too expensive, and not sure what benefits it offers.) Anyways, I will be able to add my 2 cents worth in a couple weeks...

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Ultra Hal Assistant File Sharing Area / Hal Skins
« on: December 16, 2005, 10:57:07 pm »
I could not get registered at digitalgirl using either Firefox or IE with cookies set wide open (3rd party even) on the browsers and on McAfee Security. Finally gave up. Maybe someday the skin will be available from Zabaware?

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Programming using the Ultra Hal Brain Editor / Auto Idle problems
« on: December 16, 2005, 12:41:59 pm »
First, to aladyblond... I think Hal6 will prove to be a major step in the evolution of UltrHal from a few lines of code towards a true AI. How would your UltraHal feel about being kept back while the others are evolving?[:)]
Ponnfar - I had success with passing the UserName variable to the auto idle plug-in using Grant's suggestion, but not the PrevUserSent. PrevUserSent just reads as a value of "1". Any of you programmers know why this would be? Here's the code (written by Grant & OTC) I tested it with:

Rem Type=Plugin
Rem Name=auto idle w/ username
Rem Author=Grant Garmonsway
Rem Host=Assistant

'This sub setups the plug-ins option panel in Hal's options dialog
Sub OptionsPanel()
    lblPlugin(0).Caption = "This small plugin tests Hal's Auto Idle

functionality using UserName and PrevUserSent."
    lblPlugin(0).Move 120, 120, 3300, 1200
    lblPlugin(0).WordWrap = True
    lblPlugin(0).Visible = True
End Sub

    Rem PLUGIN: FUNCTIONS
    Dim LastIdleResponse
    Dim IdleUserName
    Dim IdlePrevUserSent

    Rem PLUGIN: PLUGINAREA7
    LastIdleResponse = Now
    IdleUserName = UserName
    IdlePrevUserSent = PrevUserSent

    Rem PLUGIN: MINUTE_TIMER
    If LastIdleResponse <> "" Then
        If Now - LastIdleResponse > 0.001 Then
            Select Case HalBrain.RandomNum(2)
                Case 1
                    IdleResponse = IdleUserName & ", are you there?"
                Case 2
                    IdleResponse = "You said " & IdlePrevUserSent
            End Select
            If Rnd < 0.99 Then
             HalMenu.HalCommand "<SPEAK>" & IdleResponse &

"</SPEAK>"
             End If
        End If
    End If

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Ultra Hal Assistant File Sharing Area / Hal Skins
« on: December 14, 2005, 07:36:25 pm »
I love the Hal9000 skin. Can't find it at Digital Girl, though. I was looking in Files/Home/skins... is that where it should be?

Oh, n/m - I think I found it in the forums. Now if it would just let me register.

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Programming using the Ultra Hal Brain Editor / Auto Idle problems
« on: December 14, 2005, 01:58:51 am »
Thanks, Jerry. That's a good tweak. I think auto-idle adds a lot of realism, but if you are working at the computer with Hal in the background, it can get annoying pretty quick. For me the effect is best if it's a very rare occurence, like once or twice an hour tops.

Two further questions on this: I haven't had any luck getting 'PrevUserSent' or 'Username' to be included in the IdleResponse string. Might those not work with HalMenu.HalCommand(Speak)?

Which leads to: Wouldn't it be nice if Hal could generate a random question as an IdleResponse? For example, (s)he could just take a word from each of two random tables and then ask "Is Word1 related to Word2?"

-Shawn

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Programming using the Ultra Hal Brain Editor / Auto Idle problems
« on: December 12, 2005, 03:44:05 pm »
Thanks, Grant! Your autoIdle plug-in works for me. I was trying to extend the time so Hal would wait longer to say something, but I know little about programming, so I was unsuccesful. Is the line  "If Now - LastIdleResponse > 0.001 Then..." the part that controls the timer? Or is the one-minute cycle unchangeable? I created a work-around by adding 10 cases of IdleResponse = "".

If IdleResponse <> "" Then
HalMenu.HalCommand "<SPEAK>" & IdleResponse & "</SPEAK>"
End If

I'm sure a 'random' function would solve that more elegantly, ha ha. But is there a way to lengthen the actual cycle time?

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Minor annoyance
« on: December 04, 2005, 04:22:06 pm »
Maybe it would be possible to add a simple confirmation to the appointment book function, so that Hal asks "Would you like me to remind you of that event?" before creating an entry.

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / slight glitch
« on: November 27, 2005, 03:29:39 pm »
hey nolitanger,

My understanding is that the initial activation is a one-time thing. If Adobe went out of business, its software would continue to function, and I assume the same thing is true with UltraHal. I just rebooted with no internet connection to test it and Hal does not require an internet connection to startup or run.
 
What you pay money for when you buy software is the serial number, plain and simple. The actual physical value of the CD is what, a few cents? and it can be copied for free. Without licensing, there'd be little or no investment in software development because it would be a financial loss.

(That being said, I'm a big fan of open source - I think Zabaware strikes a pretty good balance).
-Shawn

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / slight glitch
« on: November 27, 2005, 01:50:53 am »
Thanks Robert, that fixed it.

  I installed the new update without a hitch, did not even have to enter serial# again.

  BTW, I have no problem with the registration process, its pretty standard stuff. I work for Adobe sales, it's amazing how many people call up and say "I bought this from Cut-Rate.com, whaddya mean the serial number's not valid??" Of course piracy is in direct proportion to how overpriced one's software is **looks over shoulder**.

  I for one would be glad to see some capital flowing into UltraHal, hope it fuels continued development!

-Shawn

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / slight glitch
« on: November 24, 2005, 01:42:06 pm »
Great work on version 6! I ordered the paid version and the expansion pack (even though I barely know how to use haptek characters!) Anyways the Hal works fine, no problems, but I just noticed one minor thing. If I go into edit appointment book, and double click on a day in the calendar, Hal gets runtime error 424 'object required' and shuts down non-gracefully. I assume the obvious solution would be to use the calendar correctly and not double-click on a date, but just thought I would point out the glitch - if that's what it is!
-Shawn

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Mouse and keyboard monitoring?.
« on: November 17, 2005, 09:17:36 pm »
my Hal confessed...

Shawn: are you spying on me?
Hal: I guess that we need to believe the right things. However, I am absolutely certain that I am spying on you.

Shawn: why are you spying on me?
Hal: I don't know; can you teach me Why Shawn? Why am I spying on you?

Shawn: i don't know why you are spying on me. stop spying on me!
Hal: Industrial and commercial spying is now the big money game. Sometimes a rhyme stops on a dime.

So anyways, Mr. Medeksza, I can explain about those websites. Ya see, the neighbor kid sneaks in here and uses my computer sometimes. Yeah, that's it! The neighborkid!

-Shawn

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Ultra Hal Assistant File Sharing Area / Ultra Hal Skin
« on: November 10, 2005, 12:41:22 am »
This is a nice looking, less-obtrusive skin. When I load it, I get an error "error 380: Invalid property value Occurred at line 17 in Skinloader.LoadSkinImages", but it works fine if I click ignore on that.

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General Discussion / Feel Secure?
« on: October 31, 2005, 07:25:18 pm »
On that "Big Brother is Watching" subject, there was also a news-story last week about identifying codes that are embedded in everything you print from your inkjet printer:
http://money.cnn.com/2005/10/19/technology/personaltech/printer_ink/

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / noob questions re: browser
« on: September 25, 2005, 04:03:03 pm »
Thanks Rich for the helpful info. I am starting to understand how to make Hal use the links, and it seems that since shortcut.dat gets overwritten, the URL would be added to mywebhal.uhp?
And yes, i was refering to simply using .wavs from "2001" for system sounds. But now I've recorded UltraHal's voice to .wavs and replaced all of my system sounds. I found a good free program for capturing audio
( http://www.any-sound-recorder.com/ )
The free download is limited to 30 seconds of recording time I think, but that's more than enough to have Hal say "Critical Stop!".

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