Re: PC--What is it good for?

On Tue, 11 Dec 2007 21:58:22 -0600, "Ken from Chicago"
<kwicker1b_nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>"Jasper Janssen" <jasper@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
>news:tt0ul31je82h7uo7fdtqv181eii60a69up@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> 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.
>
>Name a command interface that is 100 percent.
>
>That said, have you ever tried 800-GOOG-411?

Not available from outside the US.

>>>>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.

>Gl***** are mono?

Some video gl***** have one screen for one eye, and the other is left
alone (cyborg mode, essentially), some have two screens showing exactly
the same thing, and some have two screens, each getting one half of a
stereoscopic 3D image. The latter and former types would presumably cause
the most headaches, but even the middle type is not, apparently, gentle.

Jasper