I remember reading in Byte ages ago about the future "network appliances" at the time. It was when win 95 had the shell extensions to have your background a web page and web channels and so on...Netscape had something simmilar called constellation, but I've never saw it, does anyone remember it/saw it working??
Cheers!/v
When I was at the uni (in Spain) many of my classmates would try to get a job in the regional goverment as IT "civil servants". To get the job you had to pass a pretty difficult selection process (not an interview, but you will have to do lots of different exams) that you have to prepare for months or years before hand...with the reward of having a job for life. Basically once you are in, they can't get rid of you.....
Anyway, I saw (don't remember the link) in the regional paper last month an article about how crap the IT deparment of the regional goverment was and how the software that they produced sucked so much that they could not even use it.
One of the "features" of the software was to count the number all civil servants in the regional goverment so they could get paid at the end of the month. That "feature" did not work and they had to do lots of manual intervention for such task
The bottom line is that in the case it was not the goverment outsourcing the production of software, but the in-house dept making it. As the main motivations in the spanish civil servant service is to do "as little as you can because you get paid anyway", their motivation says it all...
I think it was back in 1995 when I saw a acorn PC. It was pretty amazing of the machine capabilities compared to what a intel PC had to offer. I think that the machine was targeted to multimedia developpers, but their sales never took off
I have used it in my uni dept for years, and the users don't know that is not a win2k server (or winnt....at the time..)
and you can't say two things at the same time...
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You can't say two things at the same time. I can press shift and drag and click the mouse at the same time to indicate an action,but I can't have such flexibility with a speech interface...and as a "bonus", it takes loger to "say" it that to do it...
They need to make the games cheaper. What games are cheaper the ps2 or the xbox, or the nintendo one when it comes out in europe?
disclaimer: I don't have a console
HCI is dominated by psychologist and etnography type of people, go to any CHI conference (http://www.chi2002.org/) and you will find out why. No wonder there is no real progress for the last 20 years, as their interests are not to develop new interfaces, but theories and "methods" that do not drive real world applications forward, just very theoretical principles. Perhaps that is the purpose of fundamental research, but somewhere down the line the real world has to benefit of all the money spent on "fundamental" research
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I remember reading in Byte ages ago about the future "network appliances" at the time. It was when win 95 had the shell extensions to have your background a web page and web channels and so on...Netscape had something simmilar called constellation, but I've never saw it, does anyone remember it/saw it working?? Cheers! /v
Will it support vr easily?? I mean, integration with big 3d stereo projection screens and interaction with 3d input devices ? vic
When I was at the uni (in Spain) many of my classmates would try to get a job in the regional goverment as IT "civil servants". To get the job you had to pass a pretty difficult selection process (not an interview, but you will have to do lots of different exams) that you have to prepare for months or years before hand...with the reward of having a job for life. Basically once you are in, they can't get rid of you..... Anyway, I saw (don't remember the link) in the regional paper last month an article about how crap the IT deparment of the regional goverment was and how the software that they produced sucked so much that they could not even use it. One of the "features" of the software was to count the number all civil servants in the regional goverment so they could get paid at the end of the month. That "feature" did not work and they had to do lots of manual intervention for such task The bottom line is that in the case it was not the goverment outsourcing the production of software, but the in-house dept making it. As the main motivations in the spanish civil servant service is to do "as little as you can because you get paid anyway", their motivation says it all...
I think it was back in 1995 when I saw a acorn PC. It was pretty amazing of the machine capabilities compared to what a intel PC had to offer. I think that the machine was targeted to multimedia developpers, but their sales never took off
I have used it in my uni dept for years, and the users don't know that is not a win2k server (or winnt....at the time..)
You can't say two things at the same time. I can press shift and drag and click the mouse at the same time to indicate an action ,but I can't have such flexibility with a speech interface...and as a "bonus", it takes loger to "say" it that to do it...
That's the problem with most scientific discoveries. For the general public to benefit from it, someone has to be making money from it...
They need to make the games cheaper. What games are cheaper the ps2 or the xbox, or the nintendo one when it comes out in europe? disclaimer: I don't have a console
HCI is dominated by psychologist and etnography type of people, go to any CHI conference (http://www.chi2002.org/) and you will find out why. No wonder there is no real progress for the last 20 years, as their interests are not to develop new interfaces, but theories and "methods" that do not drive real world applications forward, just very theoretical principles. Perhaps that is the purpose of fundamental research, but somewhere down the line the real world has to benefit of all the money spent on "fundamental" research