Re: [fonc] History of computing talks at SJSU

2011-12-17 Thread Casey Ransberger
Below. On Dec 16, 2011, at 9:03 PM, Wesley Smith wesley.h...@gmail.com wrote: Some things are just expensive. No one has found an acceptable solution. These are things we should avoid in the infrastructure underneath a personal computing experience:) Or figure out how to amortize them

Re: [fonc] History of computing talks at SJSU

2011-12-17 Thread Casey Ransberger
That's really funny:) On Dec 16, 2011, at 7:13 PM, John Zabroski johnzabro...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 10:10 PM, John Zabroski johnzabro...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 10:04 PM, Jecel Assumpcao Jr. je...@merlintec.com wrote: Steve Dekorte wrote: [NeXTStation

Re: [fonc] History of computing talks at SJSU

2011-12-17 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 02:16:41PM -0800, Steve Dekorte wrote: Is speed really the bottleneck for making computers more useful? Many major scientific problems or even gaming are resource-constrained. I personally would have no difficulties keeping astronomical numbers of nodes at 100% CPU for

Re: [fonc] History of computing talks at SJSU

2011-12-17 Thread Alan Kay
This idea was tried by the Engelbartians with chord keyboards integrated with the mouse mechanism. In their design, there wasn't enough stability to do positioning well (although one could imagine other technologies that would do both good pointing with both hands and allow all fingers to be