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Thread ID: 115741	2011-02-01 17:05:00	Early Morning Rant	Cato (6936)	PC World Chat

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1174326	2011-02-02 03:10:00	I think a server would find it difficult to call and relay the error message that just caused it to crash. Technology has not gone as far as conversational english :) On the contrary I would say that is entirely possible to implement. It's really just the same as what the libraries use to tell you you have books overdue (at least in Wellington). "Attention Mr George Maxwell Sides Dewar. Your book, [book name] is now overdue and is collecting fines. Blah blah blah" They call with that message. The name and book name are generated by text-to-speech. It is, after all, not conversational english that is required but simple text-to-speech which is fairly mature technology. They could even very easily implement a 'press 1 to acknowledge'. It would, however, probably be quite expensive on a small scale.	george12 (7)
1174327	2011-02-02 03:15:00	I think a server would find it difficult to call and relay the error message that just caused it to crash. Technology has not gone as far as conversational english :) Fair point, but my point is that if something is that important that it had to contact somebody in the middle of the night, I wouldn't be relying on a txt message.	plod (107)
1174328	2011-02-02 05:33:00	Thats why it also emails me ;) Still, I've never missed an SMS at night due to congestion.	Chilling_Silence (9)
1174329	2011-02-02 11:20:00	...It would, however, probably be quite expensive on a small scale. Not quite - all you need to do is run an SQL query, generate a list of overdue books, along with phone numbers, names, etc etc, parse that into a full sentence, make a modem call the number, wait for pickup, then send the data to a TTS engine, with the audio output routed to the modem. Then repeat. Could be done in half a day at most by any guru.	ubergeek85 (131)
1174330	2011-02-02 12:42:00	It's not difficult to make work with asterisk + cepstral, though half a day may be cutting it a little fine ... ;)	Chilling_Silence (9)
1174331	2011-02-02 21:05:00	The old fashioned method of hurling the thing at a wall is still a most effective mute feature. (Best of all is when it is applied to yodelling early AM cats.)	R2x1 (4628)
1174332	2011-02-03 04:47:00	What sort of person sleeps with their phone so they'd even hear a txt at 4am or 5am? Some people are contractually obliged to keep their phone on 24x7 for Sev 1 callouts. I'd suspect some people in the medical profession would have similar requirements.	somebody (208)
1174333	2011-02-03 17:21:00	I would never rely on sms for any important messages. You just never know if someone receives it, especially between the different networks. And yes I use my phone for an alarm, in fact its on me or next tom me 24/7 A lot of people, younger people especially, usually have no credit on the phone but have TXT2k and Telecom's 12TXT. So you never know, it could be important.	Cato (6936)
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