Touch screens will not overtake keyboards, ever. They may compliment them, but not replace. You need a physical keyboard if you are going to be typing more than a few lines of text each day.
I do type a lot of information. I chose my phone because it had on of the largest keyboards available.
Possibly, only time will tell. Win Phone 7 looks like it will provide some competition. I am looking forwards to seeing what it can do, but I am happy enough with my Android Samsung Epic that I won't be switching even if it is good.
It makes people bad drivers because they have greatly delayed and slowed reactions and makes them more easily distracted by making it harder to process multiple sources of information.
When I say most of the time, I mean when I am not near Eglin AFB, Tyndal AFB or the Navy seal training facility where every civilian gps stops working.
My tom tom gps looses signal in other locations at least 5 times more often than the gps in my Epic.
My Epics GPS seems to work fine most of the time, but with all the military bases around here any GPS/cellular device will go out of service in some parts of town.
My friends EVO can do video calls over 3g if you have a relatively strong signal with a little frame dropping. Where I live, the signal is pretty low (max out around 300kbps) so I have not had a chance to test my new Epic that well, and we both don't live in 4g areas. You will notice an improvement in video quality and stability if you use wifi though.
You assume a strait path and that the speed of electricity is the speed of light. Neither are true. Unless we start layering CPU's deeply in 3d, speed of light really is a road block for the largest possible area of a cpu. But we have reached the point where heat dissipation by inefficient transistors is already the limiting factor for relatively 2d chips, that is a problem we will have to solve before moving to 3d with current technology.
The thing is, it also isn't really possible to do that with the current state if things.
If you want more than the limited options that I stated above?
The mechanical turk process (where you have thousands of Chinese or Indian kids making 5 cents an hour to look at your files and tag them) can help, but they still won't know your personal context.
My other choice at the moment is tethering my phone at around 300 Kbps due to low signal quality. If I had 4g in my area, you bet I would drop cable in a heartbeat.
I definately prefer they keyboard. I even use my keyboard 99% of the time on my Galaxy S smart phone. I basically only use the touch screen for keyboard incompatible features.
A meta data tagging system combined with search should work wonders for organization, if only people would actually tag their files so they can find them later.
Auto categorization has sever limits, it can distinguish between file type, do keyword search on known text files and possibly use face recognition to distinguish between scenes and portraits or gps meta data to filter photos by location, but anything more than that is going to be impossible. It is impossible because it not only requires strong AI, but because it requires strong AI that knows how you would categorize things.
Jesus!? Did I just hear you complain about ONLY having 3 Gbit internet? 90% of the US maxes out at 1/1000 of that speed. Nowhere can you get consumer internet at even 1/100th that speed.
I only started using facebook when I got rid of my ex and realized I had been dragged down for so long that I didn't have a reliable way of getting in contact with of all my friends.
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Touch screens will not overtake keyboards, ever. They may compliment them, but not replace. You need a physical keyboard if you are going to be typing more than a few lines of text each day.
I do type a lot of information. I chose my phone because it had on of the largest keyboards available.
In my cube farm there are 3~5? blackberries, 1 iphone, at least 7+ android phones plus a handful of older feature phones or simple phones.
Possibly, only time will tell. Win Phone 7 looks like it will provide some competition. I am looking forwards to seeing what it can do, but I am happy enough with my Android Samsung Epic that I won't be switching even if it is good.
Nothing you say is even remotely true about pot.
It makes people bad drivers because they have greatly delayed and slowed reactions and makes them more easily distracted by making it harder to process multiple sources of information.
Homicidal? that is hilarious.
It can not be intentional, everyone knows that Diebold promised to deliver republican victories.
Its a fundamental paradigm shift in the basic efficiencies of solving linear equations. A reduction from quadratic omega to less than square.
That is 2 weeks later than my graduation date with my first computer science degree... DOH!
After a few years of manual labor, I went back and got another one... Just in time for the recession... DOH!
Note: I did manage to ride this one out though, even if 2 out of 3 employers of mine have gone bankrupt in the last 3 years.
pretty close. I should have made the joke anyway. This whole thread probably set off flags.
Really? I had to use vi through a remote terminal. But I think my professor may have been a sadist.
You know, it could be a hardware problem and I just happened to get lucky.
...Try reintroducing some protein into your diet...
DOH! Unable to complete joke... My employer monitors my activity...
When I say most of the time, I mean when I am not near Eglin AFB, Tyndal AFB or the Navy seal training facility where every civilian gps stops working.
My tom tom gps looses signal in other locations at least 5 times more often than the gps in my Epic.
Whats broken about your GPS?
My Epics GPS seems to work fine most of the time, but with all the military bases around here any GPS/cellular device will go out of service in some parts of town.
My friends EVO can do video calls over 3g if you have a relatively strong signal with a little frame dropping. Where I live, the signal is pretty low (max out around 300kbps) so I have not had a chance to test my new Epic that well, and we both don't live in 4g areas. You will notice an improvement in video quality and stability if you use wifi though.
But what about traditional waterfall design methodologies?
Another victim of getting used to automatic spell checking.
Nobody communicates via my computer when the house is empty or we're all in bed.
Where does a job come into it?
If you are all in bed together, you had better be communicating. Especially when a "job" "comes" into "it".
You assume a strait path and that the speed of electricity is the speed of light. Neither are true. Unless we start layering CPU's deeply in 3d, speed of light really is a road block for the largest possible area of a cpu. But we have reached the point where heat dissipation by inefficient transistors is already the limiting factor for relatively 2d chips, that is a problem we will have to solve before moving to 3d with current technology.
The thing is, it also isn't really possible to do that with the current state if things.
If you want more than the limited options that I stated above?
The mechanical turk process (where you have thousands of Chinese or Indian kids making 5 cents an hour to look at your files and tag them) can help, but they still won't know your personal context.
My other choice at the moment is tethering my phone at around 300 Kbps due to low signal quality. If I had 4g in my area, you bet I would drop cable in a heartbeat.
I definately prefer they keyboard. I even use my keyboard 99% of the time on my Galaxy S smart phone. I basically only use the touch screen for keyboard incompatible features.
A meta data tagging system combined with search should work wonders for organization, if only people would actually tag their files so they can find them later.
Auto categorization has sever limits, it can distinguish between file type, do keyword search on known text files and possibly use face recognition to distinguish between scenes and portraits or gps meta data to filter photos by location, but anything more than that is going to be impossible. It is impossible because it not only requires strong AI, but because it requires strong AI that knows how you would categorize things.
Jesus!? Did I just hear you complain about ONLY having 3 Gbit internet? 90% of the US maxes out at 1/1000 of that speed. Nowhere can you get consumer internet at even 1/100th that speed.
I only started using facebook when I got rid of my ex and realized I had been dragged down for so long that I didn't have a reliable way of getting in contact with of all my friends.
It does, but he wont make a decision based on what other people think is cute.
They have been doing that on the PS3 for years.