Interacting with websites or other apps which expect keyboard entry is painfully tedious. Annotation of existing digital docs require another step, another app and is of limited use to send to others unless they are so configured. (MS Journal, etc)
I have all my common URLs contextually bound to the URL box so i can access my websites pretty quickly by simply writing the URL (slashdot.org etc) and sine the dictionary of URLs is small, accuracy is almost 100%.
And as previous slashdotter noted: finding anything is problematic.
Well he was either lying or incapable of finding blindingly obvious "search" feature which searches not only text but raw handwritten notes...
It is important to separate marketeting from actual usage. The ability to search a handwritten note is great, until you have several hundred files to search.
What exactly was the problem you were having with "several hundred files to search"? Perhaps you missed the part where Journal allows you to search files/notes in any folder (recursively)? On the control to the right of the search text box field so I'm not sure how you could have missed it.
One of the great things about Windows Journal is that it can even search handwriting written on any angle and bloody fast too.
OneNote also has no problems searching multiple notes (it organises the books/files/folders inside a directory structure too).
Stop drinking the Koolaid, put down the cup and try the tablet for 6 months as your sole note taking ability. You will be back agreeing with me.
I'm sorry to dissapoint you but I've owned a tablet for over a year and used it as my sole not taking device.
After using a tablet for "years" at Microsoft you aparently were unable to grasp some of the most basic features of the platform.
Just gotta add, Windows Journal can also search and match handwriting written on any angle. It's an impressive first demonstration for people.
For those who are looking for an example of how powerful tablets are, check out Math Journal. It allows you to "write" mathematical equations and formulas and have the computer solve them for you.
You can basically write:
2 + 2
followed by a "tick" and have it insert " = 4" in the right location.
Ofcourse it supports more advanced functions (sin, sqrt, simultaneous equation solving etc) and includes graphing as well. It even lets you search your handwriting (ha).
There's also 3D Journal which allows you to basically draw a 3D model in 2D on the tablet screen and have it automatically turn the 2D sketch into a 3D model (fully rotatable etc).
I took notes on it for about 9 months, and then finally had to stop when I realized I couldn't find anything for later review. The files were all there, my notes were in them, but to open and close hundreds of files looking for the meeting where that guy said that thing about that stuff? Forget it. There was no way I could be more efficient than the notebook and pen. True, you can't search your notebook electronically, but you can't search your written notes either. Convert handwriting to text? Forget about it, the error correction you have to go through eliminates ANY potential savings.
WHAT THE HELL? What kind of crack were you smoking when you worked with the tablet?
The biggest and best feature about tablet pcs is the ability to search *HANDWRITTEN* notes. Journal supports it and so does OneNote as well as various third party applications.
"Ink" and the searching of "ink" is the best idea Microsoft came up with and is what's made using electronic notetaking actually work for me. Searching handwritten notes is actually more useful and "accurate" than converting to text and then searching because when you do a search, exact matches aren't necessary since the application can just return close matches.
Except that Java doesn't have continuations, lexical closures, first class functions, nullable types, generics with runtime type information (erasure sux0rs!!) and extensive use of user metadata (attributes).
Continuations and closures are the biggies and the reason I'm using C# over Java now.
Since Strings are immutable in Java, if you do "a" + "b" + "c", it will first create 3 Strings. Then it will add "a" and "b", creating a new String. Now *that* String will be formed into *another* new String by concatenating "c". That's quickly building up to the creation of a lot of String class instances. See "Effective Java" by Joshua Bloch.
Well actually, almost all java compilers would convert:
"a" + "b" + "c"
into "abc"
and "a" + s + "c"
into
new StringBuilder().Append("a").Append(s).Append("c"). ToString()
How can this be? It thought science in America was dead...you know, with the fascist fundamentalist tyrant we have power who is worse than Saddam and Hitler combined??
This is ridiculous. The ever increasing power of these storms is a clear example of the bushitler administration's refusal to sign the kyoto protocol. At this rate, how are we going to reach the trended goal of a 0.00108 C temperature drop by 2050?
Even if your paranoid delusional fear of the US cutting the cable actual happens, that ain' the only connection to the internet NZ has and like you say, the southern cross cable network is designed to be "self-healing" in case any part of it is disconnected.
I live in new zealand too, and your assertion that NZ is somehow free thinking because of its anti nuclear stance is umm...stupid. Most New Zealanders (like most people everywhere) are sheep and know next to nothing about nuclear energy (or genetic engineering for that matter).
You have the source for GTK/Qt and the vast majority of programs that use them, you don't have the source for either Win32 or most Win32 programs.
Um hello? Are't we talking about WINE here? You know, the source rewrite of Win32 wrapped over POSIX apis? The source code is there.
There's absolutely no reason why WIN32 applications run under WINE can't be made to look like GTK apps (as long as the apps use COMCTL rather than their own custom controls like quicktime win32 or opera win32 does
That's true for core system drivers (like io) but there are many devices where a crash should not take down the system nor would it be a critical problem. USB devices, network adapters, sound cards (and other multimedia devices), input devices (mice/keyboards) could easily run in user mode and crash without really damaging the system.
Besides being more reliable, user mode drivers would be a lot easier to write.
IIRC, Microsoft has a user mode driver model in Vista for things like USB.
If you had read the article you would have discovered that MSH includes a managed virtualfilesystem-like provider for the registry that allows you to navigate the registry and read/write settings.
Yeah, I can't wait for certain countries to band together and demand that all sites that use unsavoury words like "sex" or "democracy" be boxed into the.xxx TLD.
The least you could do is spell his damned name right. It's GALLOWAY.
LOL. Every commie knows it's spelt AMERIKKKA.
A formed my opinion on galloway based on his writings and his performance on a TV TALK SHOW where he's supposed to convey his ideas and point of view. It's not like RTWBH is a fucking sitcom. Short of stalking the man, what do you think the right way to form an opinion?
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Interacting with websites or other apps which expect keyboard entry is painfully tedious. Annotation of existing digital docs require another step, another app and is of limited use to send to others unless they are so configured. (MS Journal, etc)
I have all my common URLs contextually bound to the URL box so i can access my websites pretty quickly by simply writing the URL (slashdot.org etc) and sine the dictionary of URLs is small, accuracy is almost 100%.
And as previous slashdotter noted: finding anything is problematic.
Well he was either lying or incapable of finding blindingly obvious "search" feature which searches not only text but raw handwritten notes...
NEC Litepads are only 15mm thick (about the same thickness as a notepad). The second generation one is only 11mm thick.
It is important to separate marketeting from actual usage. The ability to search a handwritten note is great, until you have several hundred files to search.
What exactly was the problem you were having with "several hundred files to search"? Perhaps you missed the part where Journal allows you to search files/notes in any folder (recursively)? On the control to the right of the search text box field so I'm not sure how you could have missed it.
One of the great things about Windows Journal is that it can even search handwriting written on any angle and bloody fast too.
OneNote also has no problems searching multiple notes (it organises the books/files/folders inside a directory structure too).
Stop drinking the Koolaid, put down the cup and try the tablet for 6 months as your sole note taking ability. You will be back agreeing with me.
I'm sorry to dissapoint you but I've owned a tablet for over a year and used it as my sole not taking device.
After using a tablet for "years" at Microsoft you aparently were unable to grasp some of the most basic features of the platform.
Just gotta add, Windows Journal can also search and match handwriting written on any angle. It's an impressive first demonstration for people.
For those who are looking for an example of how powerful tablets are, check out Math Journal. It allows you to "write" mathematical equations and formulas and have the computer solve them for you.
You can basically write:
2 + 2
followed by a "tick" and have it insert " = 4" in the right location.
Ofcourse it supports more advanced functions (sin, sqrt, simultaneous equation solving etc) and includes graphing as well. It even lets you search your handwriting (ha).
There's also 3D Journal which allows you to basically draw a 3D model in 2D on the tablet screen and have it automatically turn the 2D sketch into a 3D model (fully rotatable etc).
I took notes on it for about 9 months, and then finally had to stop when I realized I couldn't find anything for later review. The files were all there, my notes were in them, but to open and close hundreds of files looking for the meeting where that guy said that thing about that stuff? Forget it. There was no way I could be more efficient than the notebook and pen. True, you can't search your notebook electronically, but you can't search your written notes either. Convert handwriting to text? Forget about it, the error correction you have to go through eliminates ANY potential savings.
WHAT THE HELL? What kind of crack were you smoking when you worked with the tablet?
The biggest and best feature about tablet pcs is the ability to search *HANDWRITTEN* notes. Journal supports it and so does OneNote as well as various third party applications.
"Ink" and the searching of "ink" is the best idea Microsoft came up with and is what's made using electronic notetaking actually work for me. Searching handwritten notes is actually more useful and "accurate" than converting to text and then searching because when you do a search, exact matches aren't necessary since the application can just return close matches.
Um I don't think so. You can only make directory junctions (not file ones).
Except that Java doesn't have continuations, lexical closures, first class functions, nullable types, generics with runtime type information (erasure sux0rs!!) and extensive use of user metadata (attributes).
Continuations and closures are the biggies and the reason I'm using C# over Java now.
Since Strings are immutable in Java, if you do "a" + "b" + "c", it will first create 3 Strings. Then it will add "a" and "b", creating a new String. Now *that* String will be formed into *another* new String by concatenating "c". That's quickly building up to the creation of a lot of String class instances. See "Effective Java" by Joshua Bloch.
Well actually, almost all java compilers would convert:
"a" + "b" + "c"
into "abc"
and "a" + s + "c"
into
new StringBuilder().Append("a").Append(s).Append("c")
System.out.println("equal" == "equal");
System.out.println("eq" + "ual" == "equal");
That's pretty much one of the first things you learn about java. The == operator isn't overloaded for strings and const strings are interned.
How can this be? It thought science in America was dead ...you know, with the fascist fundamentalist tyrant we have power who is worse than Saddam and Hitler combined??
Tell me how to think slashdot!!!!
This is ridiculous. The ever increasing power of these storms is a clear example of the bushitler administration's refusal to sign the kyoto protocol. At this rate, how are we going to reach the trended goal of a 0.00108 C temperature drop by 2050?
stop it or you'll make the poor little socialist-i'm-only-asking-for-equality-wanna-be's brain explode
it's good for our tourist industry
Because the only reason I decided not to visit any place in france is because of all those nuclear reactors.
Yeah, whatever..
Hello??? The *average american citizen*.
Can anyone honestly say that there are benefits to the average American citizen from the passage of the Patriot Act
Can anyone honestly say that there are downsides to the average American citizen from the passage of the Patriot Act?
Even if your paranoid delusional fear of the US cutting the cable actual happens, that ain' the only connection to the internet NZ has and like you say, the southern cross cable network is designed to be "self-healing" in case any part of it is disconnected.
I live in new zealand too, and your assertion that NZ is somehow free thinking because of its anti nuclear stance is umm...stupid. Most New Zealanders (like most people everywhere) are sheep and know next to nothing about nuclear energy (or genetic engineering for that matter).
or Gay-Bay
You have the source for GTK/Qt and the vast majority of programs that use them, you don't have the source for either Win32 or most Win32 programs.
Um hello? Are't we talking about WINE here? You know, the source rewrite of Win32 wrapped over POSIX apis? The source code is there.
There's absolutely no reason why WIN32 applications run under WINE can't be made to look like GTK apps (as long as the apps use COMCTL rather than their own custom controls like quicktime win32 or opera win32 does
That's true for core system drivers (like io) but there are many devices where a crash should not take down the system nor would it be a critical problem. USB devices, network adapters, sound cards (and other multimedia devices), input devices (mice/keyboards) could easily run in user mode and crash without really damaging the system.
Besides being more reliable, user mode drivers would be a lot easier to write.
IIRC, Microsoft has a user mode driver model in Vista for things like USB.
It keeps from trying to ban DHMO.
If you had read the article you would have discovered that MSH includes a managed virtualfilesystem-like provider for the registry that allows you to navigate the registry and read/write settings.
Yeah, I can't wait for certain countries to band together and demand that all sites that use unsavoury words like "sex" or "democracy" be boxed into the .xxx TLD.
Fuck you're retarded.
Imagine if someone came to your door, kicked you in the nuts, and then said "I'm here to help you!". Would that person instantly become your friend?
If someone came to my door and kicked the guy who's been abusing me and says "I'm here to help you" I'd probably instantly become his friend.
If I'm not mistaken, Japan is a *very* good friend of the US.
But dude, Bush is like going to rescind the constitution and become emperor like hitler and stuff!
This is the typical American response. Apparently Americans believe everybody in africa is starving, has no water and is living outside.
That might have something to do with the millions in USAID that Americans deliver to Africa.
Yeah, because IN AMERIKA
The least you could do is spell his damned name right. It's GALLOWAY.
LOL. Every commie knows it's spelt AMERIKKKA.
A formed my opinion on galloway based on his writings and his performance on a TV TALK SHOW where he's supposed to convey his ideas and point of view. It's not like RTWBH is a fucking sitcom. Short of stalking the man, what do you think the right way to form an opinion?