new computer program idea of mine

[Shai Gar]

if your computer is connected to the phone line you should be able to use this, if not, connect it to the phone line.

this program would record all phone calls made and received on the line, both sides of the conversation as an .mp3 and it would also have aditional functions such as being able to press a button on the program and listen to the conversation, or at least find out if someone is talking on the line, or if the phone is off the hook.

i am sure you can all figure out what uses it could have.

the technologies that could help to implement it are those digital phone conversation recorders that we see in movies where the *** agencies are listening to, and recording the conversation.

[nihilist]

If the communication is corresponded through phones, then the digital phone conversation recorders would record and save the conversation. So we write a program that saves the conversations and compresses it to mp3 format.

The process is considerably easier if newer protocols like voip is implemented eliminating the obstructions between phone and computer, 2 separate machines.

[Shai Gar]

indeed, i heard of VoIP earlier, it had a slightly decent concept but it needs more work done to it. basically all i know about what is needed is this;

the person who works on it needs good programming skills
the person who works on it needs good knowledge of telephones and how they work
the person who works on it needs good knowledge of VoIP
the person who works on it needs good knowledegde of modems

i have none of these skills, i just came up with the idea, does anyone wanna work on it and take all the credit and cash for it?

[CoHo]

This has existed for years, if your phone is hooked into your computer you should be able to use Windows Sound Recorder to record the conversation.

[Star]

Honestly, I challenge you to come up with -any- program idea that hasn't existed for years.

The ego!

[CoHo]

Honestly, I challenge you to come up with -any- program idea that hasn't existed for years.

AI!

Mainly I was throwing it out there because it sounded like Shai Gar actually wanted to use such a program. I would assume to record conversations with Jemma and listen to them at a midnight while staring at a home-made effigy of her.

It's all good fun until you start carving names in your forearm.

[Shai Gar]

oh for fucks sake corporate. not everything has to do with jemma, very little her to do with her.

and now please tell me more about windows sound and how i can use it to listen to current telephone conversations as well as to record all other conversations, and to check if the phone is off the hook. can windows sound do all that?

jesus i ask for paintshop pro and you refer me to windows paint

[Sir Isaac Lime]

Hint: Volume Control and Windows Sound Recorder

[Shai Gar]

I know literature, philosophy, humour, mythology and history and some politics. My knowledge of computers allows me to use Unix timorously, i know a bit of XP... a bit more of a hint is required than those six words.

[CoHo]

oh for fucks sake corporate. not everything has to do with jemma, very little her to do with her.

HAhaha, ok what about these:

http://www.download.com/Smart-Phone-Recorder/3000-2064_4-10162248.html?tag=lst-0-3

http://www.download.com/AmTapi-Telephony-Control-Professional-Edition-/3000-2401_4-10107745.html?tag=lst-3-4

I don't have a home phone anymore so I can't test this stuff

[Shai Gar]

okay so noone wants to do the work, obviously i should have posted this in an INTJ forum.

and those two are downloaded thanks CW, i'll play with them a bit after i get back from my bike ride.

[garak]

Um, why would anyone want to do it? Writing software isn't like baking a cake -- it takes a lot of time.

[Sir Isaac Lime]

We don't want to do the work because it's a worthless idea and a waste of time.


I know literature, philosophy, humour, mythology and history and some politics. My knowledge of computers allows me to use Unix timorously.

WOW!

[Shai Gar]

yeah, i suck in computers, bite me

[Star]

You need to do your own research. If this is a thing worth having, it already exists. Guaranteed. Wheel-reinvention is for egomaniacs.

On AI:

"Seminal papers advancing the concept of machine intelligence include A Logical Calculus of the Ideas Immanent in Nervous Activity (1943), by Warren McCulloch and Walter Pitts, and On Computing Machinery and Intelligence (1950), by Alan Turing, and Man-Computer Symbiosis by J.C.R. Licklider."

[CoHo]

On AI:

LIES LIES LIES

[garak]

Wheel-reinvention is for egomaniacs.
Hey I take offense to that. Sometimes the existing wheels suck.

And wheel reinventors can also just be dumbasses.

[Sir Isaac Lime]

Hey I take offense to that. Sometimes the existing wheels suck.

And wheel reinventors can also just be dumbasses.

What about dumbass egomaniacs?

[Star]

Hey I take offense to that. Sometimes the existing wheels suck.

Sure. But you know the kind of people that want to completely redo a good thing just for the sake of putting their name on it, though. They suck.

[Claverhouse]

Honestly, I challenge you to come up with -any- program idea that hasn't existed for years.

The ego!
Actually... although more technically challenged than Shai, I have thought of something I'd like that I've never seen mentioned anywhere. And it's probably impossible.

[ This is for windows, no idea how the unfortunate Apple people save, but it's probably the same* ] When you save a page, or an image etc., the box opens at the last directory opened --- which is nice --- but frequently you want to save in multiple places, or save once in c:/osten/horse/spurs, same in c:/west/donkey/data; then the next two in the former; another in c:/pussybilder; next in /spurs again etc.

The trouble is the linear directioning to get to each directory; not only boring, but time-wasting: instead I should prefer a squashed rotating globe ( much like the world ) with the linked directories displayed thereon --- openable/closable or you would zoom in --- so that when you saved, the globe would appear and you would select each successive save on the fly. The default shown would still be the last but then you could quickly choose any other with one click, instead of tracing the path back through each directory back to c:/ and then opening sub-directories to get to the next place.

Still, it's not going to happen.



Claverhouse :ph34r:


* If you meet an Apple-user, always look thoughtfully concerned, and after a sympathetic pause say: 'But do you find you can do quite as much as with a PC ? It must be a bit limiting.'

[Shai Gar]

not a bad idea claver, a mod for windows that gives you the option to save in multiple places at once. now all we need is for windows to offer up the source code

[garak]

* If you meet an Apple-user, always look thoughtfully concerned, and after a sympathetic pause say: 'But do you find you can do quite as much as with a PC ? It must be a bit limiting.'
You sound like you're stuck in 1998. Windows can't even do ssh out of the box, WTF?

[Shai Gar]

oh gods, windows 5 years ago, oh gods, windows 8 years ago... oh gods, windows 11 years ago...

FUCK YOU MACK I AM GOING TO HAVE NIGHTMARES ALL DAY

[Claverhouse]

* If you meet an Apple-user, always look thoughtfully concerned, and after a sympathetic pause say: 'But do you find you can do quite as much as with a PC ? It must be a bit limiting.' You sound like you're stuck in 1998. Windows can't even do ssh out of the box, WTF?
Ah, but you should see their little faces. Sometimes I think they are going to cry.


Claverhouse :ph34r:


[ And I don't think I was using computers in '98. May have been: started on windows 3.1; although I generally reverted to DOS, because 3.1 wasn't perfect. I'm using 98SE now though, because XP's only a bit better and has issues, like security... Forward to SUSE 9 ! ]