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Taylor514ce · 05-20-2008, 08:45 AM

By "don't work", I assume they mean "don't work well". I've owned a couple of Tablet PCs. Handwriting recognition is something that has to work perfectly, or it isn't worth it. At first you think it does, you start to use it, and then things start to go "Point Blimfark", to borrow a phrase recently exposed here.

A few words are misinterpreted. Ah, no problem, I'll just "train" it a bit more. Then a bit more, then a bit more, before you realize you're in a Cassini fractal of irreducible error, and that you've spent so much time on this that you are thoroughly behind the curve on all those supposed productivity gains, and that you can type faster, anyway.

Then there is the "lag" factor, which you can only accommodate by retraining your brain to accept a temporal delay in the action/reaction feedback loop.

They "don't work".

05-20-2008, 08:45 AM	#4
Taylor514ce Actively passive. Posts: 2,042 Karma: 478376 Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: US Device: Sony PRS-505/LC	By "don't work", I assume they mean "don't work well". I've owned a couple of Tablet PCs. Handwriting recognition is something that has to work perfectly, or it isn't worth it. At first you think it does, you start to use it, and then things start to go "Point Blimfark", to borrow a phrase recently exposed here. A few words are misinterpreted. Ah, no problem, I'll just "train" it a bit more. Then a bit more, then a bit more, before you realize you're in a Cassini fractal of irreducible error, and that you've spent so much time on this that you are thoroughly behind the curve on all those supposed productivity gains, and that you can type faster, anyway. Then there is the "lag" factor, which you can only accommodate by retraining your brain to accept a temporal delay in the action/reaction feedback loop. They "don't work". Last edited by Taylor514ce; 05-20-2008 at 10:33 AM.