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Nick,<br>
<br>
<big>Sent it to a couple of guys I work with also. This is the
reply from one of them.</big><br>
<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Verdana","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73,
125);">Gentlemen:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Verdana","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73,
125);">As your business process engineering expert, here is my
opinion… <br>
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Verdana","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73,
125);">Interesting technology but In my opinion less
efficient. </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Verdana","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73,
125);"><span style="">1.<span style=""> </span></span></span><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Verdana","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73,
125);">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keyboard and mouse is ‘old and outdated’, so I don’t buy there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’.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Verdana","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73,
125);"><span style="">2.<span style=""> </span></span></span><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Verdana","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73,
125);">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.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Verdana","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73,
125);"><span style="">3.<span style=""> </span></span></span><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Verdana","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73,
125);">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?</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Verdana","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73,
125);"><span style="">4.<span style=""> </span></span></span><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Verdana","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73,
125);">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?</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Verdana","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73,
125);"><span style="">5.<span style=""> </span></span></span><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Verdana","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73,
125);">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?</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Verdana","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73,
125);"><span style="">6.<span style=""> </span></span></span><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Verdana","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73,
125);">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’?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Verdana","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73,
125);">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! <br>
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Verdana","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73,
125);">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.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Verdana","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73,
125);">Thank you and regards:</span></p>
<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Verdana","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73,
125);">Gary</span><font color="#330033"><big><br>
</big></font></blockquote>
<font color="#330033"><big>Guess he didn't get the fact that it was
a joke. I think I "got" him. <b>:-)<br>
<br>
</b>Bob W<b><br>
</b></big></font><br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
On 04/03/2011 04:35 AM, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Nick@NJLinux.org">Nick@NJLinux.org</a> wrote:
<blockquote cite="mid:4D98315F.6050102@NJLinux.org" type="cite">
<br>
Hi fellow LUGers,
<br>
<br>
OK, be honest - how many of you got caught with this
year's
<br>
April Fool's joke with Yahoo and Google's Motion ???
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://mail.google.com/mail/help/motion.html">http://mail.google.com/mail/help/motion.html</a> ;)
<br>
I know of at least three ;)
<br>
Nick. . .
<br>
1(973)614-8385
<br>
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