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From: Calum on 24 Apr 2008 15:46
Howard Brazee wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:12:19 -0700 (PDT), "Jared \"J.P.\" Perdue"
> <jaredperdue(a)trashmail.net> wrote:
>
>> X-No-Archive: Yes
>>
>> Here are mine:
>>
>> 1. voice recognition
>> 2. face recognition
>
> These two might be useful for security - but I'd rather have a
> fingerprint detector on the keyboards - standard. Integrated with
> keychain. Our current password system needs to be replaced by
> something better, and this could be a first step.

Although Mythbusters managed to beat a current-gen fingerprint reader
pretty easily :)
From: Tom Stiller on 24 Apr 2008 16:01
In article <siegman-4CA034.11015324042008(a)nntp.stanford.edu>,
AES <siegman(a)stanford.edu> wrote:

> In article <1ifws1r.1ha5fkt1rhpjmaN%mbnilspam(a)zetnet.co.uk>,
> mbnilspam(a)zetnet.co.uk (Maire Black) wrote:
>
> >
> > I would like to see a laptop type (light and portable) but without a
> > battery, making it even lighter and cheaper. Like a very portable
> > desktop you could take around with you but would need to plug in.
> >
>
> Pretty sure I've seen these advertised --- drawing power from USB port

The OP wasn't talking about a light for your laptop, but rather a light
weight laptop.

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From: HK on 24 Apr 2008 16:05
Tom Stiller wrote:
> In article <siegman-4CA034.11015324042008(a)nntp.stanford.edu>,
> AES <siegman(a)stanford.edu> wrote:
>
>> In article <1ifws1r.1ha5fkt1rhpjmaN%mbnilspam(a)zetnet.co.uk>,
>> mbnilspam(a)zetnet.co.uk (Maire Black) wrote:
>>
>>> I would like to see a laptop type (light and portable) but without a
>>> battery, making it even lighter and cheaper. Like a very portable
>>> desktop you could take around with you but would need to plug in.
>>>
>> Pretty sure I've seen these advertised --- drawing power from USB port
>
> The OP wasn't talking about a light for your laptop, but rather a light
> weight laptop.
>


I've got a MacBook Pro with two USB2 ports. I'd like to see two more
USB2 ports built in, for a total of four.
From: Anic297 on 24 Apr 2008 16:34
Kir�ly a �crit:
> My #1 wish is for better user control with audio input/output and
> multiple user accounts.
>
> Example 1: Log into user account A. Record some live audio (through
> built-in input, USB, etc). Switch to account B for a half hour. Switch
> back to account A. Stop recording. Play back recording. Notice that
> there is a half hour if silence in the recording, that corresponds to
> the time that user account B was in the foreround. I lost a 2-hour
> radio program recording that way.

On the other hand, I expect a "suspended" account to stop recordings and
"live from the outside" operations.

> Example 2: In Panther, audio playing in one user account would still
> play when switching to another. This was useful to hear incoming Skype
> calls in one account while being logged in to another. Since Tiger,
> Apple mutes all audio coming from accounts not in the foreground,
> meaning missed Skype calls.

When you receive a call in Skype, have you enough time to go to the
other session before it ends?

> I can understand how audio playing through would irritate many users,
> but I see no reason why this cannot be a user settable preference.

Agreed. There are many preferences not settable and that's a shame.
From: Erik Richard Sørensen on 24 Apr 2008 18:10


Shawn Hirn wrote:
> In article
> <764bbdad-75fd-471b-b876-c98f7c6c11fa(a)l28g2000prd.googlegroups.com>,
> "Jared \"J.P.\" Perdue" <jaredperdue(a)trashmail.net> wrote:
>
>> X-No-Archive: Yes
>>
>> Here are mine:
>>
>> 1. voice recognition
>> 2. face recognition
>> 3. talking computer
>> 4. thin screens
>> 5. flexible screens
>> 6. (much) longer battery life
>> 7. (much) more hard drive capacity
>> 8. shock-proof
>> 9. nintendo wii-remote
>> 10. ubiquitous wireless access
>>
>> what are yours?
>
> I cannot imagine why I personally would need voice recognition, but I
> can see a big benefit for that feature for the handicapped. As far as I
> know though, there are ways to get voice recognition on the Mac right
> now though.

I'm not quite sure, what he means here by 'voice recognition', but. - if
he means 'voice recognition' to turn ON/OFF or put to sleep or wake from
sleep, Apple had this with Os 9.x and it did not work too good, so they
dropped it again.

But if he means 'voice recognition' - e.g. that the computer can/will
react on any voice command - 'Speech Recognition' (SR) this has been
standard with any Mac system since System 7.5.0 and as a commercial
add-on from system 6.0.1 through 7.1.3. - it's called 'Speech Recognition'.

And if he means that a Mac can be used for vocal inputs like just
talking to a textprocessor to 'convert' speech to text, - this has also
been available right since system 6.0.1 through 'Text-To-Speech' (TTS)

And by the use of fx. the IBM ViaVoice, it is even possible to use both
TTS and SR for fully operating the computer, - making docs, wondering
through folders and documents, printing - anything.

Here in Denmark we had a woman in one of the gouvernment offices, who
has no arms, but she was one of the top leaders at that office. She used
a Mac - a Pismo 500mhz with Os 9.2.2 + viaVoice for everyting and after
the Pismo an iBook 800, 'cause ViaVoice requires Os 9.x. She has now
retired due to reaching the age of 70!

> I don't see what face recognition would do for anyone. Please explain.

The only thing I could be thinking of is 'security', but here either
fingerprint or iris scanner recognition will be quite a lot safer.

> The Mac already talks. Its a feature you can enable if you want.

Yes - SR+TTS...

> Thin screens are no doubt on the way, but the cost is too high at this
> point, same with flexible screens.

I don't think the cost is the problem here. Look instead of the
stability in the screen frame. - the thinner, the weaker it'll be...

> I for one would love to see increased battery life. This would be my top
> feature for Mac portables.

Are you differing between 'battery time' and 'battery life'? - if so I'd
say a loud and clear 'AGRREED!' to the last. - Duration of 4-5 hours of
constant working is very very high, most portable Windows only based
machines are as low as 3-4 hours on the same type of battery and by near
the same type of hardware.

LiION batteries aren't as strong as NiMH in lifetime and duration of
working hours, but they are quite a lot cheaper to produce, and they are
more enviremental friendly. - So you have to make some compromises
somewhere...

> Apple already offers as high a drive capacity as the industry allows.

Yes, but we could here think of fx. a 500gb static mass-storage to the
price near a normal 500gb harddrive.:-)

> As far as I know, portable Macs are already shock proof.
>
> Why in the world would anyone need a Nintendo style wii remote on a Mac?
> I don't even use the remote that came with my Mac, but that's just me.

I hate remotes..-) - you wanna turn down the speakers on the TV and
instead you start the CD player.:-))

> I don't understand your last item.

I too am not sure, what he means, but if he fx. means that a (portable)
Mac should be able to connect to _any_ kind of wireless system
_anywhere_, I can follow him...

> I would add one item to your list, the ability to bind specific printers
> to specific document types. For example, I would love to have all my
> Photoshop documents bound to my Epson R1800 printer and all my Word
> documents automatically bound to my HP all-in-one printer.

- Or like me - using the Brother laser for normal document prining and
the Brother all-in-one for picts and scanning? - Hm, right now this sort
of works in Leopard 10.5.2... When I use MarinerWrite or NisusWriter and
select 'print', it always shows the laser as the printer, - and when I
select 'Print' in Photoshop, the 3-in-1 is shown as default. - And in
fx. the new Aua version of OpenOffice, you can define which printer to
use for which job - directly in the prefs settings for each type of
document - textprocessor, drawing, table, spreadsheet etc.... - I've set
Openoffice always to use the Brother HL-2070N laser for any printing
job... - But whether this is because both are network models, I'm not
sure...

cheers, Erik Richard

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