Re: Sheparding vs Crowd Rolling

2000-09-20 Thread Eric S. Emerson
Thanks Roger, I was trying to figure out what "Crowd Rolling" and "AI." mean. Now that you've elucidated I can see I don't want to get involved. Eric Roger Turk wrote: > >Clarence Verge wrote: > >>>On Wed, 20 Sep 2000 03:44:25 -0400 (EDT), Thomas Mueller wrote: > >> I don't

Re: Sheparding vs Crowd Rolling

2000-09-20 Thread Roger Turk
Clarence Verge wrote: >>On Wed, 20 Sep 2000 03:44:25 -0400 (EDT), Thomas Mueller wrote: > I don't think voice is anywhere near ready to replace keyboard. User would have > to do a lot of editing. How could a voice input device tell principle from > principal, or rose from rows, roes or rhos (p

Re: Sheparding vs Crowd Rolling

2000-09-20 Thread Or Botton
Clarence Verge wrote: >> How could a voice input device tell principle from > > principal, or rose from rows, roes or rhos (plural of the Greek letter)? Speech > > and pronunciation are too variable. > > AI. So then.. it would be the word processors who will try to take over the world.. :)

Re: Sheparding vs Crowd Rolling

2000-09-20 Thread Clarence Verge
On Wed, 20 Sep 2000 03:44:25 -0400 (EDT), Thomas Mueller wrote: > I don't think voice is anywhere near ready to replace keyboard. User would have > to do a lot of editing. How could a voice input device tell principle from > principal, or rose from rows, roes or rhos (plural of the Greek letter

Re: Sheparding vs Crowd Rolling

2000-09-20 Thread Thomas Mueller
>>I read on the windows.about.com site that MSIE 5.5 requires at least 64 MB RAM >to run at respectable speed. >32bit version, yes. and DX2-66 >What will be used in the future for text input in place of keyboards? >Voice + touch You mean MSIE 5.5 will run on a 486? Crawl, maybe? MSIE 5.5 wants

Re: Sheparding vs Crowd Rolling

2000-09-19 Thread cpc.off
Thomas Mueller wrote: > What will be used in the future for text input in place of keyboards? Keyboard in connection with type writer skills (!) will be probably the most effective way to deliver text from person to the machine. But what about processing already written text? If the author can

Re: Sheparding vs Crowd Rolling

2000-09-17 Thread Or Botton
Thomas Mueller wrote: > What will be used in the future for text input in place of keyboards? So far, I can only think of the following examples: Hand writing recognition, voice recognition, Palm pilot writting style, harmonic keyboards (which are actually a type of a keyboard, but never mind tha

Re: Sheparding vs Crowd Rolling

2000-09-17 Thread Pete
-Original Message- From: Thomas Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sunday, September 17, 2000 11:49 PM Subject: Re: Sheparding vs Crowd Rolling >Snippets from Pete Randolph: >What is RD? RAMDRIVE or RAMDISK? I think those a

Re: Sheparding vs Crowd Rolling

2000-09-17 Thread Thomas Mueller
Snippets from Pete Randolph: With 5MB free RD space and 16MB free RAM IE is *very* slow. With FM IR fiber-optic connections, the available bandwidth will be nearly unimaginable- Tens of TerraHertz per beam. So much that these programs will be transparent and behind the scenes. Most computers for

OT Long BS (was: Sheparding vs Crowd Rolling)

2000-09-17 Thread Clarence Verge
Pete wrote: > > The internet is changing. Hi Pete; I'll agree with that. > We are seeing the end of "file grabbing". > These JSed/SWed pages are examples of the new "active web". Websites are > becoming *programs* which exist in the time domain, as well as the spatial > domain (screen area). I

Sheparding vs Crowd Rolling

2000-09-16 Thread Pete
Thanks for taking the time:-) I think I understand a little better now. Below are a few points that I'd like to kick around a little more. On Sat, 16 Sep 2000 14:51:02 -0500, Clarence Verge wrote: > Hi Pete; > I can't say anything about IE4 but Arachne runs _about_ the same speed as > NS2 on