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A revolutionary Association Engine

A mix of a real time task manager coupled with a internal search engine

         

Allergic

7:02 pm on Aug 27, 2003 (gmt 0)

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What do you think of that new project [nat.org]?

txbakers

8:22 pm on Aug 27, 2003 (gmt 0)

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I would never install that on my machine. It looks like spyware of the worst kind.

martinibuster

8:56 pm on Aug 27, 2003 (gmt 0)

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From the website:
Jimmy, Alex and I pulled an all-night hacking session Thursday night in the hotel room in Ottawa...

These guys should get a job in Redmond- sounds like a Longhorn feature.

karmov

11:52 am on Aug 28, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Well I would disagree on the spyware. From what I've heard of this project, it's open source. It would be an impressive task to distribute open source spyware amongst Linux users.

I'm at a University and the Dashboard's been perking up some ears around here. People are very interested in the project and what it means from a usability and searching perspective.

From my point of view, I think it's an awesome leap forward from where we are to where we need to go. Our machines have far too much information in them for us to keep all of it in perspective. The ability to pull all of the relevant information on a topic that you already have on your machine is an amazing option to have available. Is it a little creepy? Maybe... But I think we'll get used to it real fast since the creepy factor comes from a lack of understanding of what the thing does and how it works. Once everyone gets used to it, we'll wonder how we ever kept all this information together before.

starec

12:11 pm on Aug 28, 2003 (gmt 0)

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From what I read I like the idea, might be a real timesaver if its association algo works well.

But, it won't be easy to make it work...

Allergic

1:17 pm on Aug 28, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Good points Karmov.
Our machines have far too much information in them for us to keep all of it in perspective

Yes but if you can configure the software to use only some directories of your hard disk, only the email adresses of your adress book, only the business contact list of your instant messaging, etc; I think that can be easy with a config menu.

The only thing I'm afraid is that kind of software can use too much resource of your cpu and make your computer very slow.

PS: Sorry for my poor english