[Njlinux-discussion] GMail Motion Beta is out - Gotcha !!!

rawarwic rawarwic at gmail.com
Sun Apr 3 08:02:39 EDT 2011


Nick,

Sent it to a couple of guys I work with also.  This is the reply from 
one of them.

    Gentlemen:

    As your business process engineering expert, here is my opinion...

    Interesting technology but In my opinion less efficient.

    1.First of all, I don't buy the premise that a computer keyboard and
    mouse is 'old and outdated', so I don't buy there is a real problem
    to 'solve'.

    2.Did you notice that all the sample motions were done standing up?
    Notice how the 'lick a stamp motion', involved the guy actually
    raising his knee while standing up so he could touch it? Are you
    going to stand up to send a message, because the camera probably
    could not see these motions if you are sitting down.

    3.Do you really think waving your hands in the air is faster than
    simply clicking a button, especially since we already have our hands
    naturally positioned on the keyboard and mouse?

    4.Do you want to work in an environment where all the people around
    you are hopping and waving just to respond to a frickin' email?

    5.Do you want a camera turned on you all day? Do you like the idea
    that if a camera is on you all day, that your bosses could also
    watch you?

    6.My guess is that the auto typing thing is pure vaporware at this
    point. After 20+ years, we still don't have perfect voice
    recognition systems; so I think we are a long way off to developing
    a motion detection (language of movements) to text system that
    really works. But do you want to learn this language? What should
    they call it 'Googlish'?

    By the way, when the guy shows you the 'language of movements', it
    looks like the preflight safety demo -- here is how to put on your
    life vest (lol). Even this Lorraine Klayman talks about how the
    'human body was not designed to sit at a desk all day...'. Yup --
    corporate America will love watching their people work like a
    Michael Jackson dance all day!

    This may seem cool and fun for a home user, but saving 12% of your
    time (which I don't buy at this point) when doing home emails adds
    up to a miniscule amount of time for the average person. It's kind
    of like the budget battle in DC. They are fighting over a few
    billion $$ in cuts, completely ignoring discussion about cuts in the
    huge non-discretionary areas.

    Thank you and regards:

    Gary

Guess he didn't get the fact that it was a joke.    I think I "got" him. 
*:-)

*Bob W*
*




On 04/03/2011 04:35 AM, Nick at NJLinux.org wrote:
>
>  Hi fellow LUGers,
>
>         OK, be honest - how many of you got caught with this year's
>    April Fool's joke with Yahoo and Google's Motion ???
>    http://mail.google.com/mail/help/motion.html  ;)
>    I know of at least three ;)
>                                                       Nick. . .
>                                                       1(973)614-8385
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