From owner-freebsd-chat Thu May 16 11:30:14 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from falcon.prod.itd.earthlink.net (falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36AB737B40A for ; Thu, 16 May 2002 11:30:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pool0236.cvx22-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.198.236] helo=mindspring.com) by falcon.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #2) id 178Q0a-0004rw-00; Thu, 16 May 2002 11:29:49 -0700 Message-ID: <3CE3FA7D.9743E0E@mindspring.com> Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 11:29:17 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Miguel Mendez Cc: Nils Holland , freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Grafitti (was Re: The road ahead?) References: <20020516004909.A9808@daemon.tisys.org> <20020516151801.A47974@energyhq.homeip.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Miguel Mendez wrote: > Someone else has mentioned the palm devices. As a Palm owner I have to > say I'm very happy with it. I'm used to grafitti and like it. I will become worried about Grafitti when people start to write on paper that way. Until then, it's really a one-way encoding mechanism. I think any time you have to change humans to benefit the machines, it's a mistake. It means someone was lazy. In fact, there are third party hand writing recognition systems for Palm's these days, which permit you to just write, rather than making you write Grafitti. One of the things that got Palm into the hearts of the early adopters (read: "geeks") was the "leetness factor" that came with you having to know something that no one else knew, which was the magic incantations necessary to talk to the things. Until real handwriting recognition makes it into these devices, I think they will achieve about the same penetration into the general population as "The Klingon Dictionary". -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message