wkearney99
Senior Member
Yeah, well, in reading your responses you're often treading a fine line between advocating your product and being a jerk. Read into that what you will, but perhaps sit back and think about it first.
wkearney99 said:Yeah, well, in reading your responses you're often treading a fine line between advocating your product and being a jerk. Read into that what you will, but perhaps sit back and think about it first.
If you'd had stopped after "please show me" that would have been fine. But now you're questioning the advice, as if to attack the messenger.ChrisCicc said:I'm also curious why you're bringing this up now when I haven't commented on this thread in a week other than to report a dead bulb? Seriously, I went back to May 31 and I can't even so much as a find a single post I made that has an opinion, never mind an opinion about another's product?
Alternating between alienating people and playing the martyr? I suggested that CQC folks use castle as a front door for VR on the public forums. Don't make me regret and retract that.ChrisCicc said:IVB, replied in PM...
Edit: I took the convo with IVB offline, but for others, there's been FAR too many personal attacks on this forum lately. As many of you know, I'm not the only one who complained about this. My responses above are in response to Bill's seemingly unprompted, and unnecessarily public, personal attack. I don't think it's asking too much for him to clarify what his complaint is, and what his motivations are...
IVB said:Alternating between alienating people and playing the martyr? I suggested that CQC folks use castle as a front door for VR on the public forums. Don't make me regret and retract that.
ChrisCicc said:For that, Bill publicly posted 14 days later that I was a) wrong (I wasn't), b ) a very close to being a jerk (funny how I haven't call anyone a jerk here, but am getting called one?), and c) bashing other's products (assuming he's talking about the Echo, that would be pretty stupid of me, since we're integrating with the echo). So no, I'm not playing the martyr. I'm not just not playing his game either. I don't want some future customer coming along via search and taking my lack of response as implicit recognition of guilt, so I am firm and clear in my response to challenges like this.
wkearney99 said:No, you don't have to put an Echo in each room. Not unless the doors are closed. We have one in a 5ksqft house and it's sensitive enough to pickup commands from most of the house. Granted, when they're available I do plan on getting two more, one for the master suite and another for the workshop. Those being the two other areas where the centrally located one is inconvenient.
ChrisCicc said:As best as I can tell, this just flared up because Bill didn't like the fact that 14 days ago I said the Amazon Echo needs a) one per room, and b ) records what you say. He says it can hear past one room, but then concedes not if the door is closed. He also apparently hasn't read the terms and conditions he's agreed to, where it states, "Amazon Echo processes and retains your voice input and other information, such as your music playlists and your to-do and shopping lists, in the cloud to respond to your requests and improve our services." In other words, every command you give or question you ask Echo, is stored in the cloud until Amazon decides to delete it (which considering big data benefits is probably never). That's not even necessarily a bad thing, many of us agree to that willingly, including myself. But some won't, and so I said one difference is that we don't record data or use the cloud.
For that, Bill publicly posted 14 days later that I was a) wrong (I wasn't), b ) a very close to being a jerk (funny how I haven't call anyone a jerk here, but am getting called one?), and c) bashing other's products (assuming he's talking about the Echo, that would be pretty stupid of me, since we're integrating with the echo). So no, I'm not playing the martyr. I'm not just not playing his game either. I don't want some future customer coming along via search and taking my lack of response as implicit recognition of guilt, so I am firm and clear in my response to challenges like this.
IVB said:Just realized you actually have one. How long have you had your echo? What made you get one? Whats the biggest thing you like? hate?
I'm down with the "get multiple". I have 9 rooms in my house, if it can be location sensitive i'd go buy 8 more. Well, after the one I ordered shows up on July 8th and assuming it works.
Frunple said:I'm guessing there will be an app soon that will let you use a phone as a mic for it.