What are your controversial Star Trek opinions?

[Weyoun 251]

Isn't that why we type up a note or document and print it out?

If you want guranteed consistent legibility, typing it up after you write it down would be superior.

You'd love to think so but still common in the accountancy world for there to be a lot of hand written bits, particularly from older school managers and partners who prefer a physical set of accounts to review and so make their notes on them, or even use a tablet with a handwriting app rather than type up on a keyboard.

This will die out sooner than later though as these people retire so you are right that, in theory, that will be the process.

 

[Macintosh]

Some people's handwriting is so bad (like my dad) that it's like trying to break Enigma!

A friend once told me that my handwriting was "encrypted"...

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

A friend once told me that my handwriting was "encrypted"...

What a perfect yet simple method to hide messages in plain sight =D

 

[Lord Garth]

I don't know if this was the case for anyone else here but, where I went to school, we weren't allowed to write in anything besides cursive after third grade.

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

I don't know if this was the case for anyone else here but, where I went to school, we weren't allowed to write in anything besides cursive after third grade.

Same here.

 

[fireproof78]

I don't want society to lose the writing experience, there's a lot of memory / neuroligcal benefits to physical writing on analog paper.

Then start a journaling class.

 

[Commander Troi]

I write plenty, last thing I wrote was some measurements on some plasterboard. I don't write cursive though - I write want to be able to read what I write.

Fortunately the battle against 1750's nonsense is progressing in the UK. Still a long way to go, but it's clear - Cursive slows people down and results in illegible scrawl.

https://archive.is/Gwi2K

That article also says there's research that kids taught cursive have faster improvements in reading, as well as doing better with spelling and syntax. Perhaps not enough research has been done in general.

 

[drt]

I don't know if this was the case for anyone else here but, where I went to school, we weren't allowed to write in anything besides cursive after third grade.

Ha, yeah, me too.

It was probably around 8th or 9th grade that I finally realized the instructors didn't care anymore and I went back to printing, which in my case was way more legible than my cursive.

 

[Paul Weaver]

Perhaps not enough research has been done in general.

General view is that there is conflicting research, much of which is in favour of joined up writing from being before the IT revolution.

The consensus is that approximately nobody writes "cursive" in their adult life in the 21st century.

 

[BK613]

Or the crash of Windows 29. So many computers failed in the war.

There'll be at least 29 versions of Windows offered to the public before World War III. You now Microsoft won't be able to resist the urge.

It already feels like there has been 29 versions.

 

[Weyoun 251]

It already feels like there has been 29 versions.

The horror that was Windows 8 has that effect tbf

 

[cooleddie74]

When they announced Windows 11 after telling us 10 was going to be the last iteration my eyes rolled so hard they almost came out the back of my skull.

 

[Nerys Myk]

A friend once told me that my handwriting was "encrypted"...

Mine has been compared to the tracks of a drunk chicken who walked through a puddle of ink.

 

[Farscape One]

Then you'll eventually be using these kind of systems, too.

Well, maybe not the part about universal health care vastly reducing health care related paperwork. But the rest is largely a matter of time.

Honestly, I'd rather keep requiring a signature. Harder to forge than coming up with PIN numbers for cards or other things. It's a layer of security. Plus, my handwriting is horrible, so good luck to someone trying to copy that and make it pass off like it was mine.

(Not saying it's impossible to forge signatures. But it's certainly harder to do than coming up with PIN numbers. Or other methods of stealing your data, like cards now having the ability to touch a screen to make a payment. Seriously, how lazy can humans be that simply inserting your card so it reads the chip is inconvenient? And how secure can that really be, when just having an electronic device near a card or wallet can steal your account?)

 

[JR TREK]

The Federation's Klingon allies didn't give up their slaves.

 

[The Wormhole]

I don't know if this was the case for anyone else here but, where I went to school, we weren't allowed to write in anything besides cursive after third grade.

I remember when I was in eighth grade my teacher ranting one day "if I had it my way, you'd all be writing cursive, but that's a battle I won't win in this day and age." This was the late 90s.

 

[Grendelsbayne]

Honestly, I'd rather keep requiring a signature. Harder to forge than coming up with PIN numbers for cards or other things. It's a layer of security. Plus, my handwriting is horrible, so good luck to someone trying to copy that and make it pass off like it was mine.

(Not saying it's impossible to forge signatures. But it's certainly harder to do than coming up with PIN numbers. Or other methods of stealing your data, like cards now having the ability to touch a screen to make a payment. Seriously, how lazy can humans be that simply inserting your card so it reads the chip is inconvenient? And how secure can that really be, when just having an electronic device near a card or wallet can steal your account?)

Eh, the security is largely psychological, imo. I mean, you can sort of use it as proof after the fact but its also not exactly impossible to establish someone stole your card/pin after the fact. In terms of preventing abuse, though, a pin number is either right or isn't and if it isn't it will not work period whereas I've never actually seen anyone attempt to compare my signature to an established example to decide if its actually genuine or not, except maybe in relation to govt. business or maybe something big like a major bank withdrawal or something. The vast majority of the time, a signature is pure theater providing no real security whatsoever.

 

[Paul Weaver]

Only time I’ve signed for a credit card is in america where they rarely even look at the card. It’s less secure as Picard blurting out “Picard-4-7-Alpha-Tango” to the room when he does something password protected!

 

[Macintosh]

Why are people equating writing in cursive with being able to write a signature? My signature looks like nothing else I ever write.

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

Why are people equating writing in cursive with being able to write a signature? My signature looks like nothing else I ever write.

Most people use cursive to write their signatures.