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Just make sure nobody steals your red stapler.
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Wow, that sounds different to the Cortana vs Siri advertisement 
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Cortan is Bing's girlfriend, and a lot of people at MS (the company, not the magazine) are really angry about her using a personal relationship to go through the glass-ceiling without getting cut to shreds by the glass. Particularly disturbing is the innuendo that Bing named the next Windows "Ten" after his rating of Cortan on certain criteria it is best not to mention.
Do I really need to say that a lot of these people on the rumor treadmill think Cortan is not one of the brightest bulbs in the hallways of Redmond ?
Rumors are running-around that Bing's wife, Bob (yes: it is what you think), is consulting a famous Seattle divorce-attorney, and may have hired the notorious private-eye who goes by the on-line handle "Clippy" to surveil Cortan.
But, hey, what is a Palace without drama ?
«I'm asked why doesn't C# implement feature X all the time. The answer's always the same: because no one ever designed, specified, implemented, tested, documented, shipped that feature. All six of those things are necessary to make a feature happen. They all cost huge amounts of time, effort and money.» Eric Lippert, Microsoft, 2009
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I heard even Ballmer had his doubts about Cortana after a heated argument 
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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So then it's the blind leading the blind?
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0
My goal in life is to have a psychiatric disorder named after me.
I'm currently unsupervised, I know it freaks me out too but the possibilities are endless.
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Cortana is the AI of the MasterChief
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I suspect this is going to be the next big thing. After a TV advert, I asked Cortana to remind me to buy bog roll in Sainsburys, which she did albeit by the time I was at the tills.
At the moment I get the impression that if you ask it for something which isn't on its rather short list of things it can do you just get sent through to Bing. I hate that. But supposedly there's big money being spent in improving the AI.
I like the idea a lot of an easy to use thing that helps organize my life.
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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Rob Philpott wrote: But supposedly there's big money being spent in improving the AI.
Better to spend the money improving on Real Intelligence first, then move onto the artificial one later
Rob Philpott wrote: I like the idea a lot of an easy to use thing that helps organize my life.
Something between neck and sky perhaps
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
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Rob Philpott wrote: I like the idea a lot of an easy to use thing that helps organize my life.
I do as well, but am having a difficult time thinking of something useful for it to help me with! I just got my upgrade to WP8.1 a little over a month ago and so far, the only thing I've done with Cortana is to setup the way 'she' addresses me...I prefer to be called Master!
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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As far as I've been able to determine with Windows 10 9926, Cortana is cloud-backed, big-data software designed to take any user input, and then hardcoded to tell you that something went wrong and you should try again later.
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Extremely easy WSO CCC of the day:
I am dancing with a part of mine. (5)
Good luck!
-- EDIT: Proper nouns are allowed in CCCs, aren't they? 
Your time will come, if you let it be right.
modified 4-Feb-15 3:29am.
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Maine
I am dancing becomes mai
and part of mine is ne
thus Maine
Cheers!
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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Manfred R. Bihy wrote: Maine
Oops! I actually went for "Miami", but I will give you the benefit of the doubt.
You are up for tomorrow. 
Your time will come, if you let it be right.
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You are the setter and if Miami were the solution then my guess would be wrong.
All of this is fruitless as you have now given away the solution.
Sigh!
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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But you are still up for tomorrow as yours was still a valid solution given the clue.
Your time will come, if you let it be right.
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I will set the clue for tomorrow if you insist, but the solution is what you say the solution is. Just because I got any solution that fits the clue doesn't make me win.
I'm not sure about the rules for setting a CCC though.
Are clues with multiple solutions allowed?
Cheers!
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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No!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Well, the legal principle is "Ambiguity in contract benefits the party that did not draft it." and by that logic your solution, although isn't what I originally intended, does satisfy the clue. So clearly it was the clue which had the ambiguity. 
Manfred R. Bihy wrote: I will set the clue for tomorrow if you insist
I would vote for that because I see you as the winner.
Manfred R. Bihy wrote: Are clues with multiple solutions allowed?
Sorry but even I have no idea. 
Your time will come, if you let it be right.
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Hmmm, let me guess...
Miami!!
Life is too shor
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I was thinking MORIA
MIA = I am, dancing
OR = gold, ie part of mine
MORIA being a mine in LOTR.
Regards, Stewart
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I like your solution, but it doesn't quite fit the clue.
For your solution the clue would need to be more like:
"I am dancing around part of mine"
Cheers!
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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Generally speaking proper nouns are not acceptable. However, more importantly, your clue does not contain a definition part. So the answer is anybody's guess.
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I have to agree with Pete Richard - it does need a definition of the answer.
Perhaps
I am dancing with a part of mine in Vice City? (5)
would do it?
I am dancing IAM (anag) MIA
with a part of mine MI in Vice City
MIAMI
(From Miami Vice, but inferring incorrectly that it's Grand Theft Auto related)
But you shouldn't use proper names anyway.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
modified 4-Feb-15 5:38am.
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OriginalGriff wrote: I have to agree with Pete
Did you mean Richard MacCutchan?
And I agree, I should have used some definition..
Your time will come, if you let it be right.
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Picky, picky, picky...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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