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To: uu who wrote (6451)	12/29/1997 4:58:00 PM
From: Sonki	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

addi, i did not respond to you, cuz i think it's a win/win deal only for me and would not be fair to you. but just incase i have to feed u, i can not afford the fanciest resturant in san fran. anyway, if sun goes to 40 pe we will all make money so i don't mind paying but if does not goto 40pe then i win. so i win either way. i put a mrkt order for sun at closing and they have not called back so i will call in and check. i could have bot for much lower i m just a slow thinker. i was mad i could not catch msft on the dip, so i went after sunw and emc (just incase). how aobut some where close to where u r? r u in the city? what town r u in? i m in palo alto area. r u at home or work today?

To: uu who wrote (6451)	12/31/1997 7:23:00 PM
From: Keith Hankin	Respond to of 64865

>>> The trend in technology is rapidly shifting toward speech recognition, and natural language processing and to make keyboards, and mouse obsolete. I think this overestimates the case for natural language processing, for several reasons. In many uses of computers, people are not going to want to talk to their computers to get work done. It will not work in a cubicle-based work environment. Everyone would be talking and it would be hard to get any work done. Also, there are several parts of user interfaces that still require some precise pointing capability, whether it be a mouse-like device, a touch-sensitive screen, gloves and other VR-type input, etc. This is particularly true of certain applications such as paint, draw, CAD/CAM applications. I do not think that mouse-type devices will ever become obsolete, and keyboards will always be around, although to a lesser extent.