my big question is (judging only from previous/. story/comments), is has the handwriting recognition been improved? is it grafitti or some other construct?
I haven't used Graffiti for any length of time, but I believe the strokes are very similar. The big difference is obviously the lack of a dedicated space to write on. The screen is separated into four virtual quadrants, and the quadrant your stroke starts in dictates what type of character you're writing (capital letter, lower-case letter, number, or symbol). I personally like the scheme.
The big problem is that the unit currently attempts to auto-detect whether you are writing a character or making a mouse stroke, and all sorts of misinterpretations and delays have made the HWR very tedious to use. Fortunately, lots of alternative ideas have been suggested and will hopefully soon be tested (go open source!).
i love my visor but since i bought it (about a year ago), i still haven't found a good checkbook application
Someone's bound to make a checkbook app. Heck, it may be me if no one else does. It should be easy enough to modify it to do just what you want, and nothing more.
Not to general consumers... just as an in-progress developer effort. It's still too buggy to ship to your average consumer. It's quite a fun toy to hack at, though...
Still, I'd expect the consumer release to be well before the Christmas estimate of Sharp's.
I agree fully. My use is often very similar.
Other times, though, I do download newer songs. My intention is not to rip anyone off or get a free ride, but to make sure that when I purchase a CD, I'm getting something I'm going to enjoy.
To put this in the proper context, my CD purchasing pattern may be a bit strange. I don't hear a song (or a few songs), decide I love it (them), and go out and buy it. My purchases are made when I happen to be at a music store with a little extra cash. It has been that way since long before I had even heard of MP3s. As such, Napster has had no affect on the amount of money I've thrown at the record companies; only on which title it goes to. I use Napster largely as a "try before you buy" service. I hear one song by a new band that I like... I download a couple more to see if there's more that I like... and I file the information away in my head for the next time I happen to be standing around the music store looking to purchase something.
To summarize, Napster has not altered my status as a customer of the music industry; it has simply made me a much happier customer.
As has been said, though, I may very well be a minority in this matter.
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my big question is (judging only from previous /. story/comments), is has the handwriting recognition been improved? is it grafitti or some other construct?
I haven't used Graffiti for any length of time, but I believe the strokes are very similar. The big difference is obviously the lack of a dedicated space to write on. The screen is separated into four virtual quadrants, and the quadrant your stroke starts in dictates what type of character you're writing (capital letter, lower-case letter, number, or symbol). I personally like the scheme.
The big problem is that the unit currently attempts to auto-detect whether you are writing a character or making a mouse stroke, and all sorts of misinterpretations and delays have made the HWR very tedious to use. Fortunately, lots of alternative ideas have been suggested and will hopefully soon be tested (go open source!).
i love my visor but since i bought it (about a year ago), i still haven't found a good checkbook application
Someone's bound to make a checkbook app. Heck, it may be me if no one else does. It should be easy enough to modify it to do just what you want, and nothing more.
-Dave
Not to general consumers... just as an in-progress developer effort. It's still too buggy to ship to your average consumer. It's quite a fun toy to hack at, though...
Still, I'd expect the consumer release to be well before the Christmas estimate of Sharp's.
I agree fully. My use is often very similar. Other times, though, I do download newer songs. My intention is not to rip anyone off or get a free ride, but to make sure that when I purchase a CD, I'm getting something I'm going to enjoy. To put this in the proper context, my CD purchasing pattern may be a bit strange. I don't hear a song (or a few songs), decide I love it (them), and go out and buy it. My purchases are made when I happen to be at a music store with a little extra cash. It has been that way since long before I had even heard of MP3s. As such, Napster has had no affect on the amount of money I've thrown at the record companies; only on which title it goes to. I use Napster largely as a "try before you buy" service. I hear one song by a new band that I like... I download a couple more to see if there's more that I like... and I file the information away in my head for the next time I happen to be standing around the music store looking to purchase something. To summarize, Napster has not altered my status as a customer of the music industry; it has simply made me a much happier customer. As has been said, though, I may very well be a minority in this matter.