Re: [NTLK] Test message. Are we still here?

On Fri, 2008-03-14 at 10:32 +0100, Marcus Hammerschmitt wrote:
> Am 13.03.2008 um 20:45 schrieb Abraham Limpo Martínez:
>
> > Yup, still here... trying to figure out how to make Einstein run on my
> > Tablet PC to finally get my newton an upgrade ;)
> >
> > BTW and completely offtopic (read: Poutine): Have anyone tried the XP
> > Tablet HWR! It works great! And it DOES recognize Spanish!
>
> Just what Larry Yaeger said some years ago:
>
> "Which is too bad, and completely unnecessary, because the handwriting
> recognition on Tablet PCs these days is quite decent. It's a
> combination of the much-improved ParaGraph recognizer and some
> homebrew recognition software from within Microsoft. It has its flaws,
> but in the limited experimenting I've done, it seemed genuinely useful
> to me. Basically, I think their recognition is about on a par with
> ours, plus they do cursive, and we don't."

It is a real shame that no one built a tablet pc the size of a Newton.
A full size laptop with the screen swivelled is just too big.

Seeya

Rod

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Received on Fri Mar 14 05:58:12 2008