On one hand, I really hope Google want to give me ultrafast fibre access. I'm fed up with this rubbish 1.5mbit BT ASDL already. I mean, come on, it's 2010, we were supposed to have flying cars by now [and Terrafugia is only just getting somewhere]. It's not as if either BT or the current government (with their oh-so-ambitious plans of 2mbit for most people by some date in the distant future, and their other set of plans to remove anyone that large companies don't like from the net) are going to do anything vaguely intelligent.
On the other, I really hope they aren't partnered with the Tories, who annoy me. Intensely.
I think the best solution would be a tablet that's specially designed to suit notetaking. Pen and paper is great because of its flexibility (as per article, ability to draw), and digital methods are good because the text can be retrieved as actual text later, rather than an image or a poor OCR.
So it seems that the ideal solution would be a capacitative touchscreen tablet with a deformable screen like the one that was rumoured to be a possibility for the iPad. i.e. where the screen can create raised and lowered areas to simulate, say, a keyboard. This is necessary because typing on glass, like I'm doing now on my iPod touch, is really annoying—one needs some kind of physical feedback to hit the keys accurately.
The reason for capacitivity (?) is that this would allow one to draw with a specially designed stylus: when I began to draw the screen would be able to detect my hand resting on the screen and ignore it, while the small point of the stylus would be recognised. Alternatively you could combine a resistive and capacitative touchscreen in the same way— capacitative sees your hand, resistive your hand and the stylus: the screen just draws the difference between the two.
The benefit of this setup is that it allows one to switch from typing (best for recording words) to drawing (best for drawng diagrams) without having to do anything but pick up the stylus: as soon as its presence was detected on the screen the keyboard would simply melt out of the way.
p.s. Feel free to make one of these and send me the prototype for free;)
"I'd rather not have steam bloated with redundant tech right now."
"Also W3C != Web Standards, and IE aren't the only ones not complying with the "standards", Firefox didn't comply with all W3C published recommendations either.(Don't know if that's still the case) [...] Microsoft is a business, and they don't want to take the blame because of a third parties inabillity to properly design websites. That is their design goal, and as the W3C isn't enforcable, as it's not considered a standard"
"It works, it is secure and it isn't that slow"
"IE is fine, and so was Windows 98."
"there is nothing wrong with the day-to-day performance of Trident."
SuperGenPass is rather good for this: it's a bookmarklet that uses the current website address as the seed for an md5 hash of your master password. So you type your master password in, run the bookmarklet and it changes it to the actual password that it generated when you signed up.
Some people have suggested that the master password is at risk even being typed in in the first place (Javascript on a hijacked site could recover it), but Chrome has a 'SuperChromePass' extension that does the same and I assume it's more secure. I don't actually think it's a particularly big risk in the first place.
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On one hand, I really hope Google want to give me ultrafast fibre access. I'm fed up with this rubbish 1.5mbit BT ASDL already. I mean, come on, it's 2010, we were supposed to have flying cars by now [and Terrafugia is only just getting somewhere]. It's not as if either BT or the current government (with their oh-so-ambitious plans of 2mbit for most people by some date in the distant future, and their other set of plans to remove anyone that large companies don't like from the net) are going to do anything vaguely intelligent.
On the other, I really hope they aren't partnered with the Tories, who annoy me. Intensely.
But still, compromises...
:/
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I think the best solution would be a tablet that's specially designed to suit notetaking. Pen and paper is great because of its flexibility (as per article, ability to draw), and digital methods are good because the text can be retrieved as actual text later, rather than an image or a poor OCR.
So it seems that the ideal solution would be a capacitative touchscreen tablet with a deformable screen like the one that was rumoured to be a possibility for the iPad. i.e. where the screen can create raised and lowered areas to simulate, say, a keyboard. This is necessary because typing on glass, like I'm doing now on my iPod touch, is really annoying—one needs some kind of physical feedback to hit the keys accurately.
The reason for capacitivity (?) is that this would allow one to draw with a specially designed stylus: when I began to draw the screen would be able to detect my hand resting on the screen and ignore it, while the small point of the stylus would be recognised. Alternatively you could combine a resistive and capacitative touchscreen in the same way— capacitative sees your hand, resistive your hand and the stylus: the screen just draws the difference between the two.
The benefit of this setup is that it allows one to switch from typing (best for recording words) to drawing (best for drawng diagrams) without having to do anything but pick up the stylus: as soon as its presence was detected on the screen the keyboard would simply melt out of the way.
p.s. Feel free to make one of these and send me the prototype for free ;)
Unfortunately, the thread asking for Webkit in Steam at http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=861863 demonstrates how clueless the average gamer is about standards etc.
Some choice quotations:
"ie is fine"
"I'd rather not have steam bloated with redundant tech right now."
"Also W3C != Web Standards, and IE aren't the only ones not complying with the "standards", Firefox didn't comply with all W3C published recommendations either.(Don't know if that's still the case) [...] Microsoft is a business, and they don't want to take the blame because of a third parties inabillity to properly design websites. That is their design goal, and as the W3C isn't enforcable, as it's not considered a standard"
"It works, it is secure and it isn't that slow"
"IE is fine, and so was Windows 98."
"there is nothing wrong with the day-to-day performance of Trident."
Title's basically all there is to it.
However, I was rather amused to find this on Bill Gates' new site:
<!--[if lt IE 7]> <script type="text/javascript" src="/js/unitpngfix.js"> < /script>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/css/ie6.css" />
<![endif]-->
It seems rather fitting that he must now suffer the problem he created.
And whose fault is this?
Could it possibly be the Republicans?
Seeing Obama lose his majority was incredibly annoying: everyone everywhere else in the world (well, me, certainly) thinks he's doing a great job.
At least somebody's picking up Google's old motto. There's only one teeensy problem: they have no income.
SuperGenPass is rather good for this: it's a bookmarklet that uses the current website address as the seed for an md5 hash of your master password. So you type your master password in, run the bookmarklet and it changes it to the actual password that it generated when you signed up. Some people have suggested that the master password is at risk even being typed in in the first place (Javascript on a hijacked site could recover it), but Chrome has a 'SuperChromePass' extension that does the same and I assume it's more secure. I don't actually think it's a particularly big risk in the first place.