Re: PC--What is it good for?

On Tue, 11 Dec 2007 13:54:03 -0500, dbd@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (David DeLaney)
wrote:
>Jasper Janssen <jasper@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>Voice input: nobody wants to talk to their computers because other
people
>>are gonna overhear and besides, typing's quicker.
>
>"FORMAT! CEE! COLON! RETURN! YES!"

I don't think that's really all that responsive to my point, actually. I'm
not saying at all that interfaces are set in stone and input devices
therefore need to be, too. The "people are going to overhear me talking to
my computer" thing is certainly not solved by that sort of thing, and
applies even to 100% perfect speech recognition -- which is a Very Hard
Problem, and not something that can be solved simply by throwing money at
it.

>>Video gl***** mainly have practicability issues, with a healthy dollop
of
>>"people feel like crap after using them briefly" thrown in.
>
>Dave "of course, sometimes real gl***** have that too" DeLaney

Not usually quite the "I get a headache after using them for an hour"
thing, though. That applies both to stereoscopic *and* mono use.


Jasper