> * My Pilot has a meg of memory and a bitmapped display and a multi-MIP
> * CPU, all running on a couple of AAA batteries. Compare that to a
VAX/780
> * circa 1979, or a Mac circa 1984...
> Um... well ok, but do you have MacPaint?
I have something even better... "DinkyPad"!
(http://www.1stresource.com/~mistered/dinkypad.htm)
> * Can you expand on this? What is Microsoft doing to impede
connectivity
> * of everything to everything? It sounds like you're saying that
you're
> * concerned that Microsoft will set de facto standards that everyone
else
> * will have to follow. One could argue that this will actually
accelerate
> * universal connectivity, not impede it.
> huh? [examples of MS setting defacto standards] Want me to go on?
No. My POINT was, can you explain to me how Microsoft will IMPEDE the
imminent universal connectivity of everything.
> * But oral commands (input) and visual representations (output) are
not
> * mutually exclusive.
> * [...]
> * Voice recognition won't catch on until it's easy to use. At some
point,
> * we *will* have systems that can understand "when's the next F1 race"
> * without getting all confused.
>
> Well I don't know about you, but I can look at something once and
remember
> it far better than listening to it once. I guess it has to do with
those 3
> million visual inputs to the brain vrs the 300,000 audio.
Yes, granted, I agree. Visual output is not going away. But voice
recognition (input) will arrive. And again, they are not mutually
exclusive.
- Joe
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