Re: PC--What is it good for?

"David DeLaney" <dbd@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
news:slrnflu9tq.c2m.dbd@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Jasper Janssen <jasper@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>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.
>
> It's an addition, more than anything else - the converse of the first
part
> of your point is another reason people won't want to talk to their 
> computers:
> background noise (of one form or another) will interfere. This is just
an
> example of extremely destructive background noise...

People are adept at using thumbs for text messaging on crackberries and
cell 
phones. Voice input would be an addition (say, for handsfree control when 
driving.)

> (We already have lore of this occurring with people who are using
Ventrilo
> or Teamspeak to talk to each other while playing MMORPGs or while online

> on
> their XBox/PS2/3 - some people can't do this because their environment
is
> noisy enough that they wouldn't stand out enough from the background
when
> talking.)
>
>>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.
>
> I do note also that apparently "people will overhear me talking" doesn't

> even
> count as a speed bump for many cellphone users.

If ONLY people feared being overheard ....

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