Nokia 770 allows for wireless keyboards via Bluetooth, and hence real typing.
Mylo is destine to be doomed for lack of ergonomics: bad viewing and bad typing.
The best musicians may not build their own instruments, and the best film makers and photographers may not build their own cameras. Currently social network sites are created only by those with significant technical ability. Now with Ning, the tools are built and ready for social-artists to use: people with great social-IQ can develop some amazing social webtools that we may not yet imagined.
The majority of potential users are slashdotters, most likely wearing glasses to begin with. How will they address the problem without demanding everyone to switch to contacts?
While I respect all the hardwork at detecting various scientific evidences and dreaming up models to fit the data, there is always the reality that, upon finding a tooth, people will glamorize the whole enterprise by drawing up a whole mammoth, and tell you the entire history of that mammoth and what color its eyes are,... Then the public will be so enamor with the whole story that they forgot what part is fact, what part is fiction, and what part is marketing techniques.
I am sure "collaborative software" as a topic has been discussed much on/. but is there a good way to get to these related forums for people who just visited this one?
This would be an enhancement along the spirit of the article being discussed.
Although multimedia has enhanced the way we experience various contents, words by themselves (at least in good writing) are really the highest level of abstraction of human thought, the result of intense focus and mental effort. It allows speed reading, skimming, or slow reflection. These are the things that I can only do with text and not with other multimedia.
So whether people come up with audio/video or whatever new multimedia libraries, the e-text libraries like Guttenburg would always have a special and irreplaceable place.
Very true. But only a few wise individuals who have the foresight to start in the right career path can do this. Most people will learn this too late, and by then find it too late to change professions easily. If only there is a way for people to change jobs more easily, while having the security of paying their monthly mortgages and basic needs.
Good point. In fact, if we look at our own surfing habits, what Web tools we use, where we shop, what we bookmark, it is usually sites that have a high quality in their aggregation of resources, whether it be tools, products,...
They provide guidance or tutorial with high clarity and quality (high precision) for all the items/products/links in their site.
In the language of Information Retrieval measurements, with precision and recall, we see that single sources have high precision (high quality), but low recall (talking only about themselves.) A site that points to everyone else has low precision but high recall. So the best sites would be those with a good balance of precision and recall (an f-measure).
This is simply a technical way of saying your point again: good sites are high-quality aggregators.
This particular design will no doubt win a major market share if it ever gets produced, because it is addressing a crucial issue that most techie missed - less hassle on irrelevant things (like car maintainance) so that one can focus on more important things, like time with children. That is what women care about.
The techies should let this be a signal in the OS realm as well: 50% of the population may not be interested in optimizing the performance of an OS, but simply having something useful. So unless Linux offers better user interface, as Eric Raymond's article last week suggests, then Windows will continue to have the user base of a majority of the population out there.
I tried the web page analysis: they include html words as normal words. Pretty lame website. But they know how to make useless data look good, with lots of entries and percentages in a table.
aside from the debate on the content, the site itself is well-made. I hope other books in the public domain gets treated this way, and allow public forum over the chapters and pages.
What you shared is true wisdom. Most innovations are obvious improvements that most techies are capable of imagining and implementing, so it is only a matter of time that others will take ideas to products if you dont quickly corner the market yourself.
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Nokia 770 allows for wireless keyboards via Bluetooth, and hence real typing. Mylo is destine to be doomed for lack of ergonomics: bad viewing and bad typing.
The best musicians may not build their own instruments, and the best film makers and photographers may not build their own cameras. Currently social network sites are created only by those with significant technical ability. Now with Ning, the tools are built and ready for social-artists to use: people with great social-IQ can develop some amazing social webtools that we may not yet imagined.
The majority of potential users are slashdotters, most likely wearing glasses to begin with. How will they address the problem without demanding everyone to switch to contacts?
While I respect all the hardwork at detecting various scientific evidences and dreaming up models to fit the data, there is always the reality that, upon finding a tooth, people will glamorize the whole enterprise by drawing up a whole mammoth, and tell you the entire history of that mammoth and what color its eyes are, ... Then the public will be so enamor with the whole story that they forgot what part is fact, what part is fiction, and what part is marketing techniques.
I am sure "collaborative software" as a topic has been discussed much on /. but is there a good way to get to these related forums for people who just visited this one?
This would be an enhancement along the spirit of the article being discussed.
Although multimedia has enhanced the way we experience various contents, words by themselves (at least in good writing) are really the highest level of abstraction of human thought, the result of intense focus and mental effort. It allows speed reading, skimming, or slow reflection. These are the things that I can only do with text and not with other multimedia. So whether people come up with audio/video or whatever new multimedia libraries, the e-text libraries like Guttenburg would always have a special and irreplaceable place.
Very true. But only a few wise individuals who have the foresight to start in the right career path can do this. Most people will learn this too late, and by then find it too late to change professions easily. If only there is a way for people to change jobs more easily, while having the security of paying their monthly mortgages and basic needs.
In the language of Information Retrieval measurements, with precision and recall, we see that single sources have high precision (high quality), but low recall (talking only about themselves.) A site that points to everyone else has low precision but high recall. So the best sites would be those with a good balance of precision and recall (an f-measure). This is simply a technical way of saying your point again: good sites are high-quality aggregators.
This particular design will no doubt win a major market share if it ever gets produced, because it is addressing a crucial issue that most techie missed - less hassle on irrelevant things (like car maintainance) so that one can focus on more important things, like time with children. That is what women care about.
The techies should let this be a signal in the OS realm as well: 50% of the population may not be interested in optimizing the performance of an OS, but simply having something useful. So unless Linux offers better user interface, as Eric Raymond's article last week suggests, then Windows will continue to have the user base of a majority of the population out there.
Thanks for the info. This will be a fun weekend project for my kids.
This is one of the funniest jokes I have heard.
thanks for posting the link.
I tried the web page analysis: they include html words as normal words. Pretty lame website. But they know how to make useless data look good, with lots of entries and percentages in a table.
aside from the debate on the content, the site itself is well-made. I hope other books in the public domain gets treated this way, and allow public forum over the chapters and pages.
What you shared is true wisdom. Most innovations are obvious improvements that most techies are capable of imagining and implementing, so it is only a matter of time that others will take ideas to products if you dont quickly corner the market yourself.