Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 4th Apr 2006 02:09 UTC
"[...] This database stuff is clearly the next frontier. If we are ever going to have natural speech interfaces and virtual assistants that collect and display our information in more useful ways, the computer is going to need to know much more about how our files relate to each other and remember what we've done to them and who's done it. Moving all this organization to the system level instead of locking it up in separate applications that are then duplicated in a search index seems like the best way to get there."
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2005-07-12
Which is the point - Most people can't even be bothered to organize their files into folders and give said files meaningful names, and people like the author of the article expect them to fill out all this other crap too? One look at a directory full of S2010001.jpg S2010002.jpg etc, etc, off a digital camera is proof enough of that. There's a reason people like browsing as thumbnails.
The only reason it even comes CLOSE to working with MP3's is the automated tools and name repositories - and then that only works because those are commercial files (or illegal copies therin) that would be the same for all users. The minute you start trying to apply this nonsense to every little file the user creates be it a word document, spreadsheet, picture off a digital camera, etc... It's just not going to fly given the laziness of the average user.
Seriously, who the {censored} do they expect to fill out all those extra fields when most users can't even be bothered to use filenames bigger than 16 characters long?