Comments on: mid-October Saturday afternoon links http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2006/10/mid-october-saturday-afternoon-links Digital Lifestyle Aggregation - helping to establish open source infrastructure Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:54:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Adam Green http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2006/10/mid-october-saturday-afternoon-links#comment-114034 Adam Green Sat, 14 Oct 2006 21:54:01 +0000 http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2006/10/mid-october-saturday-afternoon-links#comment-114034 "We were doing these when these kids were in grammar school." We both remember Helix for the Mac, which tried this. My favorite Helix moment was getting a demo at a trade show of how simple it was to create a visual formula. After pulling down a "Subtraction" tile, and then drawing arrows from one number and another number into the input areas, and then drawing an arrow from this contraption to the result tile, the sales guy typed in the name of the whole thing. Guess what he named it? Sales-Cost=Profit. “We were doing these when these kids were in grammar school.”

We both remember Helix for the Mac, which tried this. My favorite Helix moment was getting a demo at a trade show of how simple it was to create a visual formula. After pulling down a “Subtraction” tile, and then drawing arrows from one number and another number into the input areas, and then drawing an arrow from this contraption to the result tile, the sales guy typed in the name of the whole thing. Guess what he named it? Sales-Cost=Profit.

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