From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 9 12:33:10 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DFD737B401 for ; Fri, 9 May 2003 12:33:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtpout.mac.com (smtpout.mac.com [17.250.248.89]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E094043F75 for ; Fri, 9 May 2003 12:33:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lomion@mac.com) Received: from asmtp02.mac.com (asmtp02-qfe3 [10.13.10.66]) by smtpout.mac.com (Xserve/MantshX 2.0) with ESMTP id h49JX8Ud001722 for ; Fri, 9 May 2003 12:33:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mac.com ([67.98.154.9]) by asmtp02.mac.com (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id HEMWYV00.I8H; Fri, 9 May 2003 12:32:55 -0700 Date: Fri, 9 May 2003 15:33:15 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v552) To: Brad Knowles From: Larry Sica In-Reply-To: Message-Id: <147EFD66-8255-11D7-871E-000393A335A2@mac.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.552) cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: handwriting and tablets X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 09 May 2003 19:33:10 -0000 On Friday, May 9, 2003, at 12:18 PM, Brad Knowles wrote: > At 1:14 PM +0100 2003/05/09, Paul Robinson wrote: > >> Microsoft are less than two months from winning this one. Their >> concept of >> liquid ink and their handwriting recognition has now got so good, >> it's got >> to the point where it's almost better than paper for some tasks... I >> think >> this is one for a whole new development effort in itself, and >> unfortunately >> I suepct X will suck at it. This might be the door through which MS >> enters >> the top level corporate sector and slams it shut in everybody else's >> face. > > Speaking as someone that has used a Newton 130 and a Newton 2100, and > seen my wife struggling with Windows XP on her new tablet PC, I can > safely say that I don't think Microsoft will ever get to the point > where handwriting recognition is useable on these machines. > That is a shame. The newtons were great, very ahead of their time in many respects. I wonder if apple would ever pursue this again... an iPad? heh > They stripped out so much from the hardware and replaced them with > things like winmodems, software NICs, etc... and now they've way > underpowered the machine to make it sufficiently portable that it no > longer has the ability to do much of anything useful, even when you're > just trying to use the keyboard. > Is it really that bad? What are the specs on these machines anyway? I saw one in an airport it looked oogly --Larry