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@cstross @j2bryson @newtontalk
I respectfully disagree. I could write up to 20-30 words per minute on my #Palm. I even started writing that way on paper.
I'm a total klutz with on screen keyboards. Barely get ten words a minute and usually have to go back to correct something--errors often caused by auto-correct.
Aside: I have a perennial problem with auto-correct word confusion. Big ones are "think" vs "thing" and "text" vs "test". The #Graffiti strokes are designed to disambiguate input so I had no mistakes of that kind back in the day. Much better to write what I mean rather than allow the device to guess.
#StrokeInput for #iOS is a nice attempt to bring #Graffiti into our tiny keyboard worlds. It doesn't feel as "natural" as it did on the Palm (or my hands and eyes got older 😉 ). Unfortunately I don't have a functioning Palm device for comparison... but a stylus-based short hand makes much more sense than an on-screen keyboard to me.
PS: "...only instead of a limited alphabet they recognize an entire dictionary full of words" StrokeInput appears to be hooked up to the iOS word-completion engine. So in that sense it has been modernized.
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@cstross @j2bryson @newtontalk
I respectfully disagree. I could write up to 20-30 words per minute on my #Palm. I even started writing that way on paper.
I'm a total klutz with on screen keyboards. Barely get ten words a minute and usually have to go back to correct something--errors often caused by auto-correct.
Aside: I have a perennial problem with auto-correct word confusion. Big ones are "think" vs "thing" and "text" vs "test". The #Graffiti strokes are designed to disambiguate input so I had no mistakes of that kind back in the day. Much better to write what I mean rather than allow the device to guess.
#StrokeInput for #iOS is a nice attempt to bring #Graffiti into our tiny keyboard worlds. It doesn't feel as "natural" as it did on the Palm (or my hands and eyes got older 😉 ). Unfortunately I don't have a functioning Palm device for comparison... but a stylus-based short hand makes much more sense than an on-screen keyboard to me.
PS: "...only instead of a limited alphabet they recognize an entire dictionary full of words" StrokeInput appears to be hooked up to the iOS word-completion engine. So in that sense it has been modernized.
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@cstross @j2bryson @newtontalk
I respectfully disagree. I could write up to 20-30 words per minute on my #Palm. I even started writing that way on paper.
I'm a total klutz with on screen keyboards. Barely get ten words a minute and usually have to go back to correct something--errors often caused by auto-correct.
Aside: I have a perennial problem with auto-correct word confusion. Big ones are "think" vs "thing" and "text" vs "test". The #Graffiti strokes are designed to disambiguate input so I had no mistakes of that kind back in the day. Much better to write what I mean rather than allow the device to guess.
#StrokeInput for #iOS is a nice attempt to bring #Graffiti into our tiny keyboard worlds. It doesn't feel as "natural" as it did on the Palm (or my hands and eyes got older 😉 ). Unfortunately I don't have a functioning Palm device for comparison... but a stylus-based short hand makes much more sense than an on-screen keyboard to me.
PS: "...only instead of a limited alphabet they recognize an entire dictionary full of words" StrokeInput appears to be hooked up to the iOS word-completion engine. So in that sense it has been modernized.
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@cstross @j2bryson @newtontalk
I respectfully disagree. I could write up to 20-30 words per minute on my #Palm. I even started writing that way on paper.
I'm a total klutz with on screen keyboards. Barely get ten words a minute and usually have to go back to correct something--errors often caused by auto-correct.
Aside: I have a perennial problem with auto-correct word confusion. Big ones are "think" vs "thing" and "text" vs "test". The #Graffiti strokes are designed to disambiguate input so I had no mistakes of that kind back in the day. Much better to write what I mean rather than allow the device to guess.
#StrokeInput for #iOS is a nice attempt to bring #Graffiti into our tiny keyboard worlds. It doesn't feel as "natural" as it did on the Palm (or my hands and eyes got older 😉 ). Unfortunately I don't have a functioning Palm device for comparison... but a stylus-based short hand makes much more sense than an on-screen keyboard to me.
PS: "...only instead of a limited alphabet they recognize an entire dictionary full of words" StrokeInput appears to be hooked up to the iOS word-completion engine. So in that sense it has been modernized.
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@cstross @j2bryson @newtontalk
I respectfully disagree. I could write up to 20-30 words per minute on my #Palm. I even started writing that way on paper.
I'm a total klutz with on screen keyboards. Barely get ten words a minute and usually have to go back to correct something--errors often caused by auto-correct.
Aside: I have a perennial problem with auto-correct word confusion. Big ones are "think" vs "thing" and "text" vs "test". The #Graffiti strokes are designed to disambiguate input so I had no mistakes of that kind back in the day. Much better to write what I mean rather than allow the device to guess.
#StrokeInput for #iOS is a nice attempt to bring #Graffiti into our tiny keyboard worlds. It doesn't feel as "natural" as it did on the Palm (or my hands and eyes got older 😉 ). Unfortunately I don't have a functioning Palm device for comparison... but a stylus-based short hand makes much more sense than an on-screen keyboard to me.
PS: "...only instead of a limited alphabet they recognize an entire dictionary full of words" StrokeInput appears to be hooked up to the iOS word-completion engine. So in that sense it has been modernized.
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Just learned about this from a podcast interview...
Phoebus (Lightbulb) Cartel
"The Phoebus cartel was an international #cartel that controlled the manufacture and sale of incandescent #lightbulbs in much of Europe and North America between 1925 and 1939. The cartel took over market territories and 👉 lowered the useful life of such bulbs👈 , which is commonly cited as an example of #plannedObsolescence."
Good to know corporate greed hasn't changed in 100 years! #SSDD
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Just learned about this from a podcast interview...
Phoebus (Lightbulb) Cartel
"The Phoebus cartel was an international #cartel that controlled the manufacture and sale of incandescent #lightbulbs in much of Europe and North America between 1925 and 1939. The cartel took over market territories and 👉 lowered the useful life of such bulbs👈 , which is commonly cited as an example of #plannedObsolescence."
Good to know corporate greed hasn't changed in 100 years! #SSDD
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Just learned about this from a podcast interview...
Phoebus (Lightbulb) Cartel
"The Phoebus cartel was an international #cartel that controlled the manufacture and sale of incandescent #lightbulbs in much of Europe and North America between 1925 and 1939. The cartel took over market territories and 👉 lowered the useful life of such bulbs👈 , which is commonly cited as an example of #plannedObsolescence."
Good to know corporate greed hasn't changed in 100 years! #SSDD
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Just learned about this from a podcast interview...
Phoebus (Lightbulb) Cartel
"The Phoebus cartel was an international #cartel that controlled the manufacture and sale of incandescent #lightbulbs in much of Europe and North America between 1925 and 1939. The cartel took over market territories and 👉 lowered the useful life of such bulbs👈 , which is commonly cited as an example of #plannedObsolescence."
Good to know corporate greed hasn't changed in 100 years! #SSDD
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Just learned about this from a podcast interview...
Phoebus (Lightbulb) Cartel
"The Phoebus cartel was an international #cartel that controlled the manufacture and sale of incandescent #lightbulbs in much of Europe and North America between 1925 and 1939. The cartel took over market territories and 👉 lowered the useful life of such bulbs👈 , which is commonly cited as an example of #plannedObsolescence."
Good to know corporate greed hasn't changed in 100 years! #SSDD
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Have you encountered Baumol's Cost Disease?
I've done a bit of reading about it over the years in the #healthcare sector. It also applies to most face-to-face #education, legal costs, performing arts, and even law enforcement.
Classic example...
How many musicians did it take to perform a Mozart quartet in 1790?
"Four"
How many does it take for a live performance today?
"Still Four"
This tautology illustrates one extreme of the per-worker productivity curve. A quartet will forever require four musicians. There are no opportunities to make the performance more efficient without fundamentally changing the definition of performance (such as increasing the size of the audience).
From the wiki page...
"...the tendency for wages in jobs that have experienced little or no increase in labor #productivity to rise in response to rising #wages in other jobs that did experience high productivity growth. In turn, these sectors of the economy become more expensive over time, because the input costs increase while productivity does not. Typically, this affects services more than manufactured goods, and in particular #health, #education, #arts and #culture."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumol_effect
His Book: "The Cost Disease: Why Computers Get Cheaper and Health Care Doesn't", William J. Baumol et al, 2012, Yale University Press
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Have you encountered Baumol's Cost Disease?
I've done a bit of reading about it over the years in the #healthcare sector. It also applies to most face-to-face #education, legal costs, performing arts, and even law enforcement.
Classic example...
How many musicians did it take to perform a Mozart quartet in 1790?
"Four"
How many does it take for a live performance today?
"Still Four"
This tautology illustrates one extreme of the per-worker productivity curve. A quartet will forever require four musicians. There are no opportunities to make the performance more efficient without fundamentally changing the definition of performance (such as increasing the size of the audience).
From the wiki page...
"...the tendency for wages in jobs that have experienced little or no increase in labor #productivity to rise in response to rising #wages in other jobs that did experience high productivity growth. In turn, these sectors of the economy become more expensive over time, because the input costs increase while productivity does not. Typically, this affects services more than manufactured goods, and in particular #health, #education, #arts and #culture."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumol_effect
His Book: "The Cost Disease: Why Computers Get Cheaper and Health Care Doesn't", William J. Baumol et al, 2012, Yale University Press
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Have you encountered Baumol's Cost Disease?
I've done a bit of reading about it over the years in the #healthcare sector. It also applies to most face-to-face #education, legal costs, performing arts, and even law enforcement.
Classic example...
How many musicians did it take to perform a Mozart quartet in 1790?
"Four"
How many does it take for a live performance today?
"Still Four"
This tautology illustrates one extreme of the per-worker productivity curve. A quartet will forever require four musicians. There are no opportunities to make the performance more efficient without fundamentally changing the definition of performance (such as increasing the size of the audience).
From the wiki page...
"...the tendency for wages in jobs that have experienced little or no increase in labor #productivity to rise in response to rising #wages in other jobs that did experience high productivity growth. In turn, these sectors of the economy become more expensive over time, because the input costs increase while productivity does not. Typically, this affects services more than manufactured goods, and in particular #health, #education, #arts and #culture."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumol_effect
His Book: "The Cost Disease: Why Computers Get Cheaper and Health Care Doesn't", William J. Baumol et al, 2012, Yale University Press
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Have you encountered Baumol's Cost Disease?
I've done a bit of reading about it over the years in the #healthcare sector. It also applies to most face-to-face #education, legal costs, performing arts, and even law enforcement.
Classic example...
How many musicians did it take to perform a Mozart quartet in 1790?
"Four"
How many does it take for a live performance today?
"Still Four"
This tautology illustrates one extreme of the per-worker productivity curve. A quartet will forever require four musicians. There are no opportunities to make the performance more efficient without fundamentally changing the definition of performance (such as increasing the size of the audience).
From the wiki page...
"...the tendency for wages in jobs that have experienced little or no increase in labor #productivity to rise in response to rising #wages in other jobs that did experience high productivity growth. In turn, these sectors of the economy become more expensive over time, because the input costs increase while productivity does not. Typically, this affects services more than manufactured goods, and in particular #health, #education, #arts and #culture."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumol_effect
His Book: "The Cost Disease: Why Computers Get Cheaper and Health Care Doesn't", William J. Baumol et al, 2012, Yale University Press
-
Have you encountered Baumol's Cost Disease?
I've done a bit of reading about it over the years in the #healthcare sector. It also applies to most face-to-face #education, legal costs, performing arts, and even law enforcement.
Classic example...
How many musicians did it take to perform a Mozart quartet in 1790?
"Four"
How many does it take for a live performance today?
"Still Four"
This tautology illustrates one extreme of the per-worker productivity curve. A quartet will forever require four musicians. There are no opportunities to make the performance more efficient without fundamentally changing the definition of performance (such as increasing the size of the audience).
From the wiki page...
"...the tendency for wages in jobs that have experienced little or no increase in labor #productivity to rise in response to rising #wages in other jobs that did experience high productivity growth. In turn, these sectors of the economy become more expensive over time, because the input costs increase while productivity does not. Typically, this affects services more than manufactured goods, and in particular #health, #education, #arts and #culture."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumol_effect
His Book: "The Cost Disease: Why Computers Get Cheaper and Health Care Doesn't", William J. Baumol et al, 2012, Yale University Press