Chris Ross wrote:

On Tue, 8 Jan 2008, Aaron Kulkis wrote:

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Fred A. Miller wrote:

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Gates Predicts End of the Keyboard in Final CES Keynote Like most of his predictions, this too will be wrong. [...] When technologie improves, voicerecognition will be improved, so we just talk to get things done... But i love my keyboard, and i do not think it will be gone totaly.. Maybe for the consumers, but the ones writing the code, a keyboard is most convenient i think...(used to it anyway..:)

Aaron Kulkis schreef: there's the whole "natural language" problem..and natural language is ALWAYS evolving. I don't think too many consumers are going to be happy with voice-recognition which doesn't keep up with the latest slang and other verbal atrocities.

Does anyone know of a natural language shell?

The leprechauns keep the source code hidden underneath the coins in their pot of gold.

Whether one types or speaks to the computer it's still a command interface after all. Next he'll be predicting that tomorrow's games will all be Interactive Fiction.

Gates has always been rather obtuse when it comes to the future. The only reason anyone listens to the idiot (how much of an idiot is he??? in his 1995 book, there is NOT A SINGLE MENTION OF THE INTERNET) is because he got lucky on a business deal with IBM, and his father is a corporate lawyer.

It seems odd for Gates to suggest people would abandon GUIs for a command line, as though what most (non-geek) people hated about it was all that typing - I thought what they dislike is remembering the exact commands.

Nobody ever accused Gates of being consistent. Just like Ballmer, he says whatever he thinks is most advantagious for himself this week.

Does saying or typing "Computer: copy all the MP3 files into the media folder" really make it more palatable than "cp -a *.mp3 /mnt/media"?

Only if you devoted your entire adult life to telling everyone how SCARRRRRRY it is to use commands like "cp" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org