I need help!!!!!! I just got home the other day, plugged my IMac in and the damn thing started talking to me. What I need to know is 1. Have you ever heard a case of this phenomena before? 2. Does Apple intentionally program the G3 chips to be so user friendly that they are, in fact, friendly? I am not currently typing this on my IMac because we are having an in depth conversation about the DVD industry. Oh, just wait my IMac wants to ask you something.

IMac: I, being as technologically advanced as I am, cannot figure this out. Can you please help both Jake and I with finding out why I have artificial intelligence. It would be very appreciated on both of our counts.

Thanks again William for spending your time to help me with my dillema. I am not really sure if I want my computer to "THINK DIFFERENT" than all the other computers out there.

-- Jake Landawitt (woolfedd@hotmail.com), February 24, 1999

Answers

1) Yes. 2) No. 3) Apple loves you, and is constantly advancing the general state of the computer industry. However, this isn't a new thing. Apple started to make voice recognition software standard on the Macintosh line with System 7.1 on the 68040-based Quadra line, which was new in 1991/2 ... again, not a new thing.

Here in heaven, we're all running non-wintel platforms (mostly Macs, some RISC/UNIX workstations... just no windows). ... and you should know that you can get up here more easily if you don't have a PC (Steve is really the guy at the gate... not that St. Peter or whatever).

-- Jesus Christ (adm@fsdevel.com), February 25, 1999.