What Kind of Books do You Want? From Slashdot.

Is it worthwhile to post a question like this to a site? I think it may well be the best way to find out what you are looking for. The score will help you sort the signal from the noise. So why can you trust the scores? Peer review from people with all kinds of experience in the issues at hand.

How could this be rolled out into greater society as a means of peer review? Should it? Should we replace judges with random people off the street to determine the law and sentencing? If we did, how many judges would we need? Isn't that what we are doing with juries already? Just thinking out loud folks, streaming it right from my cortex and into the keyboard, warts and all.

10:36:57 AM    

CAD goes mouseless [IDG InfoWorld]

Back in 1995 I was working on AutocCAD full time for the interior design department of an office furniture company. One of the things that I would have loved was to have a pen based input system. Now seven years later AutoDesk is finally starting to come up with a system that will tie in with monitors that allow for pen based input.

My dream was to come up with a display that could be mounted much like the traditional drafting table. That would allow users to have an E sized sheet (36x48) that is actually the display. A replaceable sheet of lexan or glass on top of the LCD*, so that the users can still use the display as a desk when not actively drawing.

By having this full sized table display, the draftsman** can see much more of what he is working on. This serves to minimize the need to scroll and zoom while working on a drwaing. Lastly, the user could then see what the finished drawing will look like prior to printing.

**I use the term man to mean the race of humans. Can you reproduce with a human? Then you are a part of what I refer to when I use the term man.

8:12:13 AM