500 Gbyte holographic DVD's coming soon!:

Originally posted by Crowley
True. Chrome OS maybe?
Maybe we'll all just have iPad 6's embedded everywhere...
Maybe MS Surface will actually become economically viable...

Probably we'll just be using super-super-smartphones though.

yeah, those three crossed my mind too. something like that, or even something completely new we've yet to see. making predictions for paradigm shifts is pretty futile, you'll probably just end up with "in the year 2000 there will be 5 computers in the whole world, one for each superpower" or something.

Originally posted by Woodgie
Very good points.

I am probably on the flip side of the coin to you, not being able to use the MS product suite and from an open source perspective.

To accomplish what you are trying to do I would go down the route of:

http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/ooo2gd

and

http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Python
http://wiki.ser ...[text shortened]... t to the stage it is now.
And, the above works just as well on an MS OS as it does Linux based.

I did some Pyhon at varsity, but never bothered with it again. Maybe it's time to look a it again...

Also, I love regex.


BTW: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/cloudconnect

Originally posted by wormwood
yeah, those three crossed my mind too. something like that, or even something completely new we've yet to see. making predictions for paradigm shifts is pretty futile, you'll probably just end up with "in the year 2000 there will be 5 computers in the whole world, one for each superpower" or something.

Maybe we can have voice recognition software that actually WORKS. That would be nice and would probably be tied tightly to the 'Next New Thing'.

Originally posted by Crowley
Maybe we can have voice recognition software that actually WORKS. That would be nice and would probably be tied tightly to the 'Next New Thing'.

I don't think you can control any system verbally quickly enough for serious use, manual input is lightning fast compared to real speech. especially if you input anything else than prose. like programming or anything more symbolic like math.

but for dictation and controlling simple systems like a media player? sure, that sounds feasible. I'd love a tv with no need to handle remotes.

but I'm thinking the next phase will be something like the windows 8 GUI. some kind of symbolic context thingy. maybe it's not gonna be win 8, but something more like that than the current windows/icons/menu/pointing type of GUIs. but who knows.

Originally posted by wormwood
I don't think you can control any system verbally quickly enough for serious use, manual input is lightning fast compared to real speech. especially if you input anything else than prose. like programming or anything more symbolic like math.

but for dictation and controlling simple systems like a media player? sure, that sounds feasible. I'd love a tv wi ...[text shortened]... ing more like that than the current windows/icons/menu/pointing type of GUIs. but who knows.

Ja, I was referring mostly to 'consumer' products, controlling your home automation, media etc., which will probably complement touch interfaces all over the place.

Have you seen the new connected Samsung TVs with the remote app?
http://www.samsung.com/us/article/turn-your-tv-on-to-a-galaxy-of-remote-possibilities

Originally posted by Crowley
Have you seen the new connected Samsung TVs with the remote app?

yeah I've been thinking about getting one. I'm just waiting for the bigger models...

Originally posted by wormwood
I'm just waiting for the bigger models...

Word brother. I like big butts and I cannot lie...

Originally posted by Crowley
Word brother. I like big butts and I cannot lie...

If you can't lie, do you have to do it standing up?