On 11 Feb 2010, at 01:14, Roy Wright wrote:
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because to 'organize it properly' you would need a huge directory
tree plus
symlinks plus explaining notes to even simulate a small token of
the stuff
'semantic desktop' can do for you..
Haven't had a problem organizing my data in 25 years ... The only
"benefit" that the semantic desktop seems to deliver is to waste
resources.
I resisted in my last email the temptation to mention that some of
these complaints about semantic desktop sound like my father talking.
But there you are ...
Also didn't read anything even hinting at
security awareness of the technology which is really scary
(imagine an
attack that get's access to the RDFs,
those RDFs are in your home directory. If someone can read your
home you are
screwed anyway.
it'd tell the attacker exactly which
additional files to target).
oh yes, reading stuff about emails tells him to read more emails.
That is
scary.
But tagging files (say stock spreedsheets, bank records, financial
bookmarks, tax records) with tags (say 'bank, money, finance') all
in one place would simplify a targeted attack.
In the case of an attack ALL of your data will be stealthily copied so
that the attacker will go over it later.
and you can do that. Oh wow. That useflag only turns on soprano.
Nothing else.
Which means nothing. You are not forced to use that stuff.
So just another database server wasting resources. ...
Do you also complain about the spellchecker wasting resources, as it
parses the words you type?
In my father's day they were taught spelling rigidly at school like
parrots, so they had no need for this new-fangled nonsense. In my
father's day they never made spelling mistakes (yeah, right!).
This technology does not have a good track record (invasive cpu,
memory, disk usage) for very dubious benefits. I have not found any
cost vs. benefits vs. risks articles. Just a bunch of "we think
this will be great if you just use it" type articles that can't even
explain how it would be great.
My father can find all his banking records for the last 25 years
because he keeps them in a metal filing cabinet. He has to open the
correct draw, find the right file, leaf slowly through his bank
statements in order to find the right one. However well you claim to
have your files organised, I'll bet you waste time opening the wrong
drawer (clicking on the wrong folder) once in a while.
I, on the other hand, can find my statements by hitting ctrl-space,
typing "amex" and selecting the folder which comes up in the search
results. That folder is probably somewhere like /Documents/Personal/
Financial/Statements/Amex, but I don't need to know that (it could be
in Documents/Bank/ or elsewhere) nor do I need to navigate through
several folders looking for it. I just type what I'm looking for and
it's there.
Stroller.
