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Tuomas J. Lukka |
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[Gzz-commits] gzz/Documentation/Presentations/General2002 scr... |
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Fri, 13 Sep 2002 13:57:53 -0400 |
CVSROOT: /cvsroot/gzz
Module name: gzz
Changes by: Tuomas J. Lukka <address@hidden> 02/09/13 13:57:53
Modified files:
Documentation/Presentations/General2002: script.html
Log message:
More
CVSWeb URLs:
http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/gzz/gzz/Documentation/Presentations/General2002/script.html.diff?tr1=1.7&tr2=1.8&r1=text&r2=text
Patches:
Index: gzz/Documentation/Presentations/General2002/script.html
diff -c gzz/Documentation/Presentations/General2002/script.html:1.7
gzz/Documentation/Presentations/General2002/script.html:1.8
*** gzz/Documentation/Presentations/General2002/script.html:1.7 Fri Sep 13
06:08:40 2002
--- gzz/Documentation/Presentations/General2002/script.html Fri Sep 13
13:57:53 2002
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*** 17,22 ****
--- 17,117 ----
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;
charset=ISO-8859-1"></head><body>
This is a rough script for a presentation about our research group's work.
<br>
+ <br>
+ <table cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2" border="0" width="100%">
+ <tbody>
+ <tr>
+ <td valign="top"><br>
+ </td>
+ <td valign="top"><br>
+ </td>
+ <td valign="top"><br>
+ </td>
+ <td valign="top"><br>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td valign="top"><small><br>
+ </small></td>
+ <td valign="top"><small>Gzz version timeline<br>
+ </small></td>
+ <td valign="top"><small><br>
+ </small></td>
+ <td valign="top"><small><br>
+ </small></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td valign="top">Before I start to tell you about our technology, let
me explain our current status.<br>
+ </td>
+ <td valign="top">There have been a lot of releases, the last "stable"
+ one being 0.6. However, 0.6 is not yet usable for real work, it's still
proof-of-concept.<br>
+ </td>
+ <td valign="top">After 0.6, the system has been <b>completely</b>
redesigned from a more solid ground.<br>
+ </td>
+ <td valign="top">In the process, we have had several difficulties
combining
+ our research and software engineering activities. With version 0.8alpha1,
+ I think we're finally starting to strike the right balance.<br>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td valign="top"><br>
+ </td>
+ <td valign="top"><br>
+ </td>
+ <td valign="top"><br>
+ </td>
+ <td valign="top"><br>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td valign="top"><br>
+ </td>
+ <td valign="top"><br>
+ </td>
+ <td valign="top"><br>
+ </td>
+ <td valign="top"><br>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td valign="top"><br>
+ </td>
+ <td valign="top"><br>
+ </td>
+ <td valign="top"><br>
+ </td>
+ <td valign="top"><br>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td valign="top">The things I'm about to show you are research,
user-interface-wise,
+ and software engineering on the structure side (since we think we now have
+ that side pretty much in control.)<br>
+ </td>
+ <td valign="top">One really important thing is that we're not cheating.
+ These are not mockups. It's all real and possible to use. And the code is
+ publically available from our CVS repository.<br>
+ <br>
+ This <b>doesn't</b> mean that it's ready for production use. Most of it is
not. Making production-level software takes a lot of polishing.<br>
+ </td>
+ <td valign="top"><br>
+ </td>
+ <td valign="top"><br>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td valign="top"><br>
+ </td>
+ <td valign="top"><br>
+ </td>
+ <td valign="top"><br>
+ </td>
+ <td valign="top"><br>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </tbody>
+ </table>
+ <br>
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*** 62,68 ****
</small></td>
</tr>
<tr>
! <td valign="top">Lots of PDF files, hard to keep track<br>
</td>
<td valign="top">Easier if printed on fancy paper (even virtual)<br>
</td>
--- 157,165 ----
</small></td>
</tr>
<tr>
! <td valign="top">Anyway,
! let's start with this. A PDF article from somewhere on the net. Information
! workers like me get Lots of PDF files, hard to keep track<br>
</td>
<td valign="top">Easier if printed on fancy paper (even virtual)<br>
</td>
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*** 71,77 ****
<td valign="top">Even easier using distortion-oriented views. <small>I
must stress that distorting the view like this is NOT our invention - several
research groups have been working on such ideas. It only took us a day to
! implement it and it *does* make it easier to read the text.</small><br>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
--- 168,174 ----
<td valign="top">Even easier using distortion-oriented views. <small>I
must stress that distorting the view like this is NOT our invention - several
research groups have been working on such ideas. It only took us a day to
! implement it and it *does* make it easier to read the text.</small> What,
your browser and PDF viewer doesn't let you do that? ;) ;)<br>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
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*** 440,446 ****
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
! <td valign="top"><br>
</td>
<td valign="top"><br>
</td>
--- 537,543 ----
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
! <td valign="top">NADIR?<br>
</td>
<td valign="top"><br>
</td>
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*** 592,598 ****
</td>
<td valign="top">This actually seems to be one of the most difficult
things for people starting with computers to get used to: the limited
structure,
! making it difficult to find things.<br>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
--- 689,695 ----
</td>
<td valign="top">This actually seems to be one of the most difficult
things for people starting with computers to get used to: the limited
structure,
! making it difficult to find things. They get lost easily.<br>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
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*** 636,642 ****
both related to subject X If you're the author of one of them, you can
explicitly
add a "hyperlink". But it only works one way.<br>
</td>
! <td valign="top">However, there's no fundamental reason why you
couldn't say "remember the connection" except that the systems' most
fundamental parts were designed with computers, not humans in mind.<br>
</td>
<td valign="top"><br>
</td>
--- 733,742 ----
both related to subject X If you're the author of one of them, you can
explicitly
add a "hyperlink". But it only works one way.<br>
</td>
! <td valign="top">However,
! there's no fundamental reason why you couldn't say "remember the connection"
! except that the systems' most fundamental parts were designed with computers,
! not humans in mind.<br>
</td>
<td valign="top"><br>
</td>
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*** 674,680 ****
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
! <td valign="top">Relational databases ...<br>
</td>
<td valign="top"><br>
</td>
--- 774,820 ----
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
! <td valign="top">To explain the word "hyperstructure": think about
! a bookshelf. You can choose to put two related books next to each other.
! This is the normal spatial structure. Now, after you've arranged all the
! books in a logical order, you are reading a book and remember "ah, this
reminds
! me of something in that book... where is it now"<br>
! </td>
! <td valign="top">Unfortunately, it's in a different part of the
bookshelf.
! You can put a piece of paper to refer there but that's not fun. But with
! computers, we don't need to be confined like this. It's difficult to visualize
! but we can at the same time leave all the books in their current locations
! AND additionally put the two books next to each other.<br>
! </td>
! <td valign="top">This is the important thing that Ted Nelson and Douglas
! Engelbart realized in the 1960s, based on Vannevar Bush's earlier visions.
! <br>
! </td>
! <td valign="top"><br>
! </td>
! </tr>
! <tr>
! <td valign="top"><br>
! </td>
! <td valign="top"><br>
! </td>
! <td valign="top"><br>
! </td>
! <td valign="top"><br>
! </td>
! </tr>
! <tr>
! <td valign="top"><br>
! </td>
! <td valign="top"><br>
! </td>
! <td valign="top"><br>
! </td>
! <td valign="top"><br>
! </td>
! </tr>
! <tr>
! <td valign="top"><br>
</td>
<td valign="top"><br>
</td>
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*** 694,699 ****
--- 834,864 ----
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
+ <td valign="top">Relational databases ...<br>
+ </td>
+ <td valign="top">However,
+ the relational model, although useful in many contexts, is still limited.
+ It's difficult or impossible to express relationships that were not thought
+ of by the database model designer.<br>
+ <br>
+ And indeed, the relational model is designed for machines: accounting,
sending checks etc.<br>
+ </td>
+ <td valign="top"><br>
+ </td>
+ <td valign="top"><br>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td valign="top"><br>
+ </td>
+ <td valign="top"><br>
+ </td>
+ <td valign="top"><br>
+ </td>
+ <td valign="top"><br>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
<td valign="top"><br>
</td>
<td valign="top"><br>
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*** 1039,1043 ****
--- 1204,1209 ----
+ <br>
<br>
</body></html>