It is a question of where one puts their energy. I have thousand-foot ideas. Even (or especialy) big ideas can get bogged down by endless details. This is why i work in xtalk... it provides (better) high level protection from low levals morass. The result... sometimes I, as a single human being, can breath existance into some bold new branches to this computational tree. We know the tree is alive... but is it evolving?
Randall Don't confuse virtuoso violin playing with composing new music. This industry has got itself into a bit of trouble attrcting more engineers than scientist/artists. I worry about this alot. You are right, the details are nessisary, but when they get in the way of trying or doing, that promotes complacency. The "rest of us" is a big category. Big enough to include big thinkers who will never want to learn seven languages and as many protocols and a factoral number of api's to get them to dance together. I fear most of these people wont even bother. Welcome to a future built by this strange and freakish sub-fraction of the population (who had more solderig irons than highschool friends). Scarry. -----Original Message----- From: "Mark Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "How to use Revolution" <[email protected]> Sent: 1/10/2008 2:23 AM Subject: Re: tapping into finder events On 10 Jan 2008, at 04:10, Randall Lee Reetz wrote: > What i am asking is no closer to the os than most anything xtalk > does... Its just that it apparently hasnt be asked of xtalk before. > > I can't think of anything more useful than being able to use > automate file system objects as they are created by the user (in > any program). Am i really the only one who is wishing in this > direction? Imagine something as simple as having every image file > tht ends up on the desktop being emeditely moved to the user's > image folder. Imagine the spotlight comments fork of that file > being auto annotated with relavent ontological trees. Imagine > alias files being auto generated and stored in appropriate project > folder trees. And that is just the beginning. One could script > super complex semantic pattern engines that could extract user > interest vectors, auto track resources, and potentially "do some of > our work for us". If apple and microsoft are to scared to build > inteligence into their os's... The maybe we could. > > randall > Randall, 'super complex semantic pattern engines that could extract user interest vectors' doesn't sound much like 'computing for the rest of us' to me. I'd have thought that someone who could build such things might also be able to figure out the other things you're talking about! Best, Mark _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
