Qwerty key boards have been shown to be less effective than other layouts, but they are still used for over a century.
Qwerty may not be the best but it is "good enough" to get work and fun done (plus the common command keys just happen to all be on the left hand leaving the right hand free for the mouse/cursor).
Hypertext may be the same sort of thing. New organizational structures may appear, but in the end we still read/link pages/books/articles and audio/video and it seems he's talking about better ways of relevance links.
Lets see Ted Nelson's best shot at what should come next.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
LOTS of people don't get along well with "PCs". They have problems with them because they don't understand all the diddly geeky buttons, Alt key stuff, and 'where things are'. These people still write all appointments in paper day books & on PostIt notes. Their comfort level with a PC is below 5%.
Non-comp users take one look at the iPhone & iPad and how easy it is to use email and the web and say to themselves "I can do that.". And, indeed they find they really can and it is a niche market.
There are specialty uses for viewing images of all types and reading publications of all types, and some mobile workers from government to hospitals to corporations see such benefits, so that is another SET of niches.
When you add up all those "niche markets", it appears you get to a 50 million unit per year market or larger. Not surprising.
From what I read Tepco, their regulators and the general government in Japan has ignored all 3 items in my subject.
For doing that they will pay the huge price of a 10-20 year cleanup with enormous damage to their economy and the respect the people have for their institutions.
It is not only the Middle East that may see governmental changes in the near future.
For handwritten notes to be writeable and readable quickly for anyone even with a great mind, you have to have "a method".
You can't memorize an encryption algorithm and execute translation both ways so you can use it when writing on paper. You need to be able to "visualize" the results both ways quickly to be usable.
Hence, I would like to know what phrases the man commonly used and whether other handwritten English text documents from him are in existence to use as do comparisons with? What types of activities and people did he associate with, and their names? All it takes is a reused phrase to be recognized to often break these types of codes.
Various mechanical and electronic measuring tools abound for use with the PC and for manual use.
They need to learn how to use such tools no matter what sub-discipline they enter. Even if they never use such tools much, they must know they exist and how they work, because they will then know people can do work with those tools on such projects.
Tools to measure and compare distance, time, velocity, weight, PH, temperature, frequency, polarization of light, etc. are all absolutely needed to understand science. The kids love to get there hands on these tools because these are REAL.
I remember a solo round-the-world sailor in the sixties sailing "Galway Blazer", as I recall, didn't want to carry lots of food things so he settled on a single mixed food source.
I seem to recall it was almonds in honey providing a nearly balanced food source, though I would check that with current nutritional knowledge.
Range of a disaster is most important as a first action guide.
A "normal" earthquake in California affects a very small number of miles of territory. Hence, getting help from friends, family or red cross is not such a big deal in distance and time. Short term food & water supply is mandatory and easy & cheap to keep in a garage or apartment. This is not apocalypse.
If a break in the Newport-Inglewood offshore fault sent a 50 foot wave ashore, hundreds of thousands of people would be washed away with only minutes of warning and the streets would be plugged solid with cars as the waves came in. Nothing could be done (as in Japan) to help those killed instantly, and the survivors who managed to float in somewhere alive would have NOTHING with them, so they would accept the help they could get from others.
If you are just outside the devastation zone, then how are you going to provide for yourself and help others?
All planning becomes REAL when a disaster strikes and everyone has to improvise.
Unbreakable key encription is fine, but most "break-ins" seem to be accidental release or finding of a key or your friend or 'lady friend' who manages to get your key some clever subterfuge and access your files.
I appreciate online banking for those who NEED it, but I don't and don't want to worry about the 4 electronic devices I carry being hijacked someway to get at a bank account.
Apple was filing patents on handset software and hardware as far back as before 2004 at the latest and has first mover advantage.
The question is the significance of the patents in question. Just because you get a patent doesn't mean it is so basic, that it precludes accomplishing the task another way.
The article is not done by a rigorous patent attorney team that analyzes things in enough detail to understand significance of each patent.
This neck of the woods is populated by the 'cult crowd' mentality as far as I see and hear it.
Erhards EST & the 'exclusive gathering' with inside information about XX (be it global warming, vaccinations & autism, or TV and miscarriages) manages to put a scare in darned near everything.
It is almost impossible for me to stop laughing when the newest 'fact' of coming doom is related in Marin.
Problem is, that if I laugh, I loose some good friends.
that a lot of businesses we work with every day control their own "fortunes".
It seems like the companies that fall into this "duct tape" IT maintenance mentality are just buying time until a stroke occurs and the company essentially dies.
And companies want me to believe that I should "trust" them with my data, my orders and my trust.
There were nearly no sunspots for 2 years, 2007-9 and that easily confirms we will have real hard couple of winters a bit later down the road. And then a remission of sunspots AGAIN just recently makes it look like we are "bouncing down" the activity curve, typical of a "cycle".
Every time (since Galileo's time 1600) when we have had a minimal or near zero sunspot activity, there have been colder winters, freezing and storms. Hence we have about 400 years of well documented sunspot activity with weather records to verify what happened.
It is amazing to me that out "news anchors", meaning writers in the "mainstream media" are so ill-educated that they can not do simple reading up on what the effects are of minimal sunspot activity.
Instead "news anchors" and writers in the media spout political lines (Al Gore and global warming crowd), instead of pointing out specific facts and what those measureable facts mean short term (cold weather a year or so later) and what it could mean longer term.
The last time I spoke with a person who ran the solar observations from the radio telescopes in the Mojave Desert, he noted they still were not able to predict longer term events as mentioned (Maunder or Dalton type events).
Why are these events hugely important? I don't hear the news researcher/writers mentioning this. Sweden, Denmark and France lost 10% of their population to starvation/freezing in the Maunder minimum and Finland lost about 30%. That is the equivalent of losses in a major world war or WORSE.
I have tapes I cut on a TTY machine for dozens of small engineering programs waaay back in 1979 in Basic & Fortran. I was cleaning up and found some of those rolls of paper tape that still look as good as new. I still have the Basic & Fortran printouts on paper for most of them, so my recovery process is "visual".
I recall that if you were used to reading those tapes you could do it visually, but I've obviously lost the memory of how to do it, but bet that in a pinch it could be done again.
Slashdot Mirror
Still cool clever programming.
Wait until they make an iPhone laser scanning accessory so you can do it better.
Qwerty key boards have been shown to be less effective than other layouts, but they are still used for over a century.
Qwerty may not be the best but it is "good enough" to get work and fun done (plus the common command keys just happen to all be on the left hand leaving the right hand free for the mouse/cursor).
Hypertext may be the same sort of thing. New organizational structures may appear, but in the end we still read/link pages/books/articles and audio/video and it seems he's talking about better ways of relevance links.
Lets see Ted Nelson's best shot at what should come next.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
LOTS of people don't get along well with "PCs". They have problems with them because they don't understand all the diddly geeky buttons, Alt key stuff, and 'where things are'. These people still write all appointments in paper day books & on PostIt notes. Their comfort level with a PC is below 5%.
Non-comp users take one look at the iPhone & iPad and how easy it is to use email and the web and say to themselves "I can do that.". And, indeed they find they really can and it is a niche market.
There are specialty uses for viewing images of all types and reading publications of all types, and some mobile workers from government to hospitals to corporations see such benefits, so that is another SET of niches.
When you add up all those "niche markets", it appears you get to a 50 million unit per year market or larger. Not surprising.
You can bet the USN & CIA detection equipment from sea floor mounted sensors will be able to pick up the known propulsion signatures.
Sounds transmit underwater for very long distances which will limit the number of sensors particularly if "well placed" at known transit spots.
It won't be long before they can pretty much find, follow and intercept as they wish.
From what I read Tepco, their regulators and the general government in Japan has ignored all 3 items in my subject.
For doing that they will pay the huge price of a 10-20 year cleanup with enormous damage to their economy and the respect the people have for their institutions.
It is not only the Middle East that may see governmental changes in the near future.
For handwritten notes to be writeable and readable quickly for anyone even with a great mind, you have to have "a method".
You can't memorize an encryption algorithm and execute translation both ways so you can use it when writing on paper. You need to be able to "visualize" the results both ways quickly to be usable.
Hence, I would like to know what phrases the man commonly used and whether other handwritten English text documents from him are in existence to use as do comparisons with? What types of activities and people did he associate with, and their names? All it takes is a reused phrase to be recognized to often break these types of codes.
This is why we need to get bureaucrats out of every possible office as they obviously do not think.
Those that can, do. Those that can not, suck off the Federal pig .
Do Not Let Them Manage my Healthcare.
Various mechanical and electronic measuring tools abound for use with the PC and for manual use.
They need to learn how to use such tools no matter what sub-discipline they enter. Even if they never use such tools much, they must know they exist and how they work, because they will then know people can do work with those tools on such projects.
Tools to measure and compare distance, time, velocity, weight, PH, temperature, frequency, polarization of light, etc. are all absolutely needed to understand science. The kids love to get there hands on these tools because these are REAL.
I remember a solo round-the-world sailor in the sixties sailing "Galway Blazer", as I recall, didn't want to carry lots of food things so he settled on a single mixed food source.
I seem to recall it was almonds in honey providing a nearly balanced food source, though I would check that with current nutritional knowledge.
Range of a disaster is most important as a first action guide.
A "normal" earthquake in California affects a very small number of miles of territory. Hence, getting help from friends, family or red cross is not such a big deal in distance and time. Short term food & water supply is mandatory and easy & cheap to keep in a garage or apartment. This is not apocalypse.
If a break in the Newport-Inglewood offshore fault sent a 50 foot wave ashore, hundreds of thousands of people would be washed away with only minutes of warning and the streets would be plugged solid with cars as the waves came in. Nothing could be done (as in Japan) to help those killed instantly, and the survivors who managed to float in somewhere alive would have NOTHING with them, so they would accept the help they could get from others.
If you are just outside the devastation zone, then how are you going to provide for yourself and help others?
All planning becomes REAL when a disaster strikes and everyone has to improvise.
Unbreakable key encription is fine, but most "break-ins" seem to be accidental release or finding of a key or your friend or 'lady friend' who manages to get your key some clever subterfuge and access your files.
Microsoft won't really change until the BOD inserts a new CEO.
Reputation and memory of the current occupant is distinctly distasteful.
ought to be severely reduced if you can pass the info off at those data rates to a similarly fast external drive.
Then if you want to archive to a "slow" spinning hard drive, the external SSD could supply the data at the slower rate of the HD
Steve Jobs was right and Schmidt wrong.
When Androoid gets known for constant hacks to get your data of all types, eventually the techies and then average people will start to bail.
You can't spend all your time trying to ferret out bad apps from your phone.
Too many other things to do.
...@ the teller window.
I appreciate online banking for those who NEED it, but I don't and don't want to worry about the 4 electronic devices I carry being hijacked someway to get at a bank account.
The "old guard" has no clue. Stiffling communication today will not work much longer.
The free information exchange makes people want to be free.
Apple was filing patents on handset software and hardware as far back as before 2004 at the latest and has first mover advantage.
The question is the significance of the patents in question. Just because you get a patent doesn't mean it is so basic, that it precludes accomplishing the task another way.
The article is not done by a rigorous patent attorney team that analyzes things in enough detail to understand significance of each patent.
You forgot the Last Adopters!
Last Adopters = shareholders.
These are not necessarily dupes, dopes or the deranged.
They will be looking to "get out" before the bubble burst, however.
A book will be written about the "Faceplant of Facebook"
This neck of the woods is populated by the 'cult crowd' mentality as far as I see and hear it.
Erhards EST & the 'exclusive gathering' with inside information about XX (be it global warming, vaccinations & autism, or TV and miscarriages) manages to put a scare in darned near everything.
It is almost impossible for me to stop laughing when the newest 'fact' of coming doom is related in Marin.
Problem is, that if I laugh, I loose some good friends.
that a lot of businesses we work with every day control their own "fortunes".
It seems like the companies that fall into this "duct tape" IT maintenance mentality are just buying time until a stroke occurs and the company essentially dies.
And companies want me to believe that I should "trust" them with my data, my orders and my trust.
Sheesh.
They get the largest amount of personal data to use for the advertisers that they could ever get, and never get any other way.
Once it gets too hot...no more clouds.
Works every time.
Trusting clouds is well...trusting in vaporware.
Why is ANYONE with half a brain still using Microsoft browsers?
It has only been about a decade now of bad bugs being dribbled out and gradually fixed.
Why do companies still use MS Explorer?
There were nearly no sunspots for 2 years, 2007-9 and that easily confirms we will have real hard couple of winters a bit later down the road. And then a remission of sunspots AGAIN just recently makes it look like we are "bouncing down" the activity curve, typical of a "cycle".
Every time (since Galileo's time 1600) when we have had a minimal or near zero sunspot activity, there have been colder winters, freezing and storms. Hence we have about 400 years of well documented sunspot activity with weather records to verify what happened.
It is amazing to me that out "news anchors", meaning writers in the "mainstream media" are so ill-educated that they can not do simple reading up on what the effects are of minimal sunspot activity.
Instead "news anchors" and writers in the media spout political lines (Al Gore and global warming crowd), instead of pointing out specific facts and what those measureable facts mean short term (cold weather a year or so later) and what it could mean longer term.
The last time I spoke with a person who ran the solar observations from the radio telescopes in the Mojave Desert, he noted they still were not able to predict longer term events as mentioned (Maunder or Dalton type events).
Why are these events hugely important? I don't hear the news researcher/writers mentioning this. Sweden, Denmark and France lost 10% of their population to starvation/freezing in the Maunder minimum and Finland lost about 30%. That is the equivalent of losses in a major world war or WORSE.
I have tapes I cut on a TTY machine for dozens of small engineering programs waaay back in 1979 in Basic & Fortran. I was cleaning up and found some of those rolls of paper tape that still look as good as new. I still have the Basic & Fortran printouts on paper for most of them, so my recovery process is "visual".
I recall that if you were used to reading those tapes you could do it visually, but I've obviously lost the memory of how to do it, but bet that in a pinch it could be done again.