The bitart consulting page says "It is unclear where the notion of gestures first appeared. Most sources mention them in combination with experimental pie menu implementation in the 1970s."
My first introduction to a technology like this was in the commercial Applicon CAD system used by some people I used to work with in the mid 70's. The system was introduced by Applicon in the early 70's.
If you do a google search for "applicon command pattern recognition" the first couple of articles are interesting. "The operator would sketch a symbol on a tablet, such as a square, and the system would interpret this to mean that it should zoom into the selected area on the CRT screen." It used a graphics pad instead of a mouse and ran on a PDP-11/45!
I downloaded the Mouse Gestures software. Let's see if it is the equal of that 30-year old stuff!:-)
Fred
Use a pullwire for future enhancement
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Ten years from now will I need/want fiber?
If you string another wire along with the CAT5 cable, you can use it to pull something else through in the future. Just make sure it doesn't bind anywhere. When you pull the new fiber/firewire/whatever through, pull another pullwire along with it.
During the summers between college semesters I helped wire a factory. It involved pulling a lot of wires through pipes. We always pulled a few extra wires for spares and to act as pullwires.
Siemens RTL Tiled Window Manager. It was distinguished by tiling windows, rather than allowing them to overlap. Appeared in X11R3/contrib.
I started to work at Siemens RTL (Research and Technology Laboratories) in Princeton just after the rtl manager was produced. You know, not even the developers used it! Tiled windows are not really that compelling. I don't know why you think so.
Slow night, but DON'T SURRENDER
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Here in Lawrenceville, NJ, in between Trenton (where anthrax was found in the post office) and Princeton (where anthrax was found in the post office) and Ewing (where anthrax was found in the post office) the number of small kids coming around is down significantly from recent years. My kids (a step up from the small variety) are going out right now. I say DON'T SURRENDER TO THE DAMN TERRORISTS.
Yes, censorship is bad for places like a public library. You know the arguments.
But, you are not a public library. You want to give the people of the community something useful. You don't have to give them everything, though. You can still give them something useful.
Maybe something like Apple's KidSafe http://itools.mac.com/KidSafe_marketing.html would be a good approach. Maybe just get an iMac and set up KidSafe on it. Then you're done!
Fred
Those are not PC's, those are industrial SBC's
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Those things don't look like motherboards because they aren't. The VME and CompactPCI bus are industrial grade busses. The Synergy Micro boards are "Single Board Computers" that plug into a bus and control the boards that plug into other slots of the bus. These other boards can be anything from digital I/O for controlling machines, to video interfaces for machine vision applications. These systems go into applications for which your desktop PC (or Mac) would quickly fail. For example, my company is bidding on a project with a requirement that the boards in a CompactPCI (or is it VME, I forgot) withstand accelerations of 20G AND be able to survive being cleaned with a fire hose!
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.google.com/search?q=09+F9+11+02+9D+74+E 3+5B+D8+41+56+C5+63+56+88+C0
Results 1 - 10 of about 279,000 for 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Olsen
He worked at RCA Laboratories the same time I did. I can testify that he is, indeed, a nerd.
Fred
...or at least just a troll. Google for Professor Samuel D. Forrester and Konigsberg University. They exist only in the mind of the article's author.
If you want to know more about who supplies this technology, go to http://www.iridiantech.com/
The site has some brief background on the technology and how it works.
If you want more technical information, go to http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/jgd1000/
My first introduction to a technology like this was in the commercial Applicon CAD system used by some people I used to work with in the mid 70's. The system was introduced by Applicon in the early 70's.
If you do a google search for "applicon command pattern recognition" the first couple of articles are interesting. "The operator would sketch a symbol on a tablet, such as a square, and the system would interpret this to mean that it should zoom into the selected area on the CRT screen." It used a graphics pad instead of a mouse and ran on a PDP-11/45!
I downloaded the Mouse Gestures software. Let's see if it is the equal of that 30-year old stuff!
Fred
During the summers between college semesters I helped wire a factory. It involved pulling a lot of wires through pipes. We always pulled a few extra wires for spares and to act as pullwires.
Siemens RTL Tiled Window Manager. It was distinguished by tiling windows, rather than allowing them to overlap. Appeared in X11R3/contrib.
I started to work at Siemens RTL (Research and Technology Laboratories) in Princeton just after the rtl manager was produced. You know, not even the developers used it! Tiled windows are not really that compelling. I don't know why you think so.
Here in Lawrenceville, NJ, in between Trenton (where anthrax was found in the post office) and Princeton (where anthrax was found in the post office) and Ewing (where anthrax was found in the post office) the number of small kids coming around is down significantly from recent years. My kids (a step up from the small variety) are going out right now. I say DON'T SURRENDER TO THE DAMN TERRORISTS.
Try this out...
n .c om/&charset=(detect+automatically)&doctype=Inline
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://www.ms
Who knows how to send MSN a bug report?
http://164.195.100.11/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO 1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm& r=1&f=G&l=50&s1='5,126,932'.WKU.&OS=PN/5,126,932&R S=PN/5,126,932
Disclaimer...I am one of the inventors.
Back in 1990, we didn't have the term P2P, but that's what it is.
Yes, censorship is bad for places like a public library. You know the arguments. But, you are not a public library. You want to give the people of the community something useful. You don't have to give them everything, though. You can still give them something useful. Maybe something like Apple's KidSafe http://itools.mac.com/KidSafe_marketing.html would be a good approach. Maybe just get an iMac and set up KidSafe on it. Then you're done! Fred
Those things don't look like motherboards because they aren't. The VME and CompactPCI bus are industrial grade busses. The Synergy Micro boards are "Single Board Computers" that plug into a bus and control the boards that plug into other slots of the bus. These other boards can be anything from digital I/O for controlling machines, to video interfaces for machine vision applications. These systems go into applications for which your desktop PC (or Mac) would quickly fail. For example, my company is bidding on a project with a requirement that the boards in a CompactPCI (or is it VME, I forgot) withstand accelerations of 20G AND be able to survive being cleaned with a fire hose!