tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5029128.post8667490752673669008..comments2017-01-30T23:11:41.219-08:00Comments on Flog: Fnarf blog: The Birth of The NewFnarfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15022243603033471232noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5029128.post-59203789627795530262008-06-08T13:21:00.000-07:002008-06-08T13:21:00.000-07:00I had no idea the term "mouse" dated all the way b...I had no idea the term "mouse" dated all the way back to 1968. Thanks, Fnarf: the mouse video was worth the price of admission all by itself. What a liberating notion it was, that you don't need your pointing device to have great fidelity, because you're not e.g. trying to faithfully reproduce a map by tracing over it, but instead using the mouse in a closed feeback loop, which takes care of nonlinearities, stray cross-dimensional coupling, etc. So you can get precise pointing with cheapo hardware. It's kind of obvious in retrospect, because that's the way _people_ work (we don't need to launch the tines of our fork at the tiny pea on our plate accurately from two feet away, but instead vector it all the way in to the target.) But lots of ideas are obvious in retrospect... <BR/>Anyway, now I know where to find hot nerd action on the internet.<BR/> Eric from BoulderErichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16618601657441653057noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5029128.post-91487706089904415732008-06-05T16:46:00.000-07:002008-06-05T16:46:00.000-07:00That was very fun and interesting to read. I even ...That was very fun and interesting to read. I even looked at the video.<BR/><BR/>Those people that were once considered nerds are pretty cool these days.Mary Johttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06777544290202129033noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5029128.post-71206611432349773532008-06-04T15:49:00.000-07:002008-06-04T15:49:00.000-07:00What a great post. Thanks for the history lesson. ...What a great post. Thanks for the history lesson. I'll check the video out.ruchihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17043512641324366469noreply@blogger.com