Here's one more for you, Ray. It got pushed way out of sight in the text file I use for writing.
At 23:07 04-08-2012 -0400, you wrote: >I hate these computer programs that destroy formatting and make sentences >hard to read when you struggle to do the opposite. It is an example of the >kind of generic scientific thinking that I was referencing. they would love >it if everything was written completely in lowercase with no inference or >inflection. Meanwhile Vigo, Lawry, here is an article about what we were >talking in tomorrow's NYTimes. Morphic Resonance maybe:>)) > >http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/05/opinion/sunday/israels-fading-democracy.ht >ml?hp Thanks! I just took a glance at that article, and it is certainly a must read for me, which I will do later. As to computers and software, there's nothing inherently wrong with any of it and no attempt to force any "generic scientific thinking" on us. It just takes learning how it all works as well as problem-solving. I shouldn't say "just", because there's a lot to learn, and it will never stop, so nobody will ever be able to say that now they have learned it all. Html-formatting that is used by lots of people for email because of an idiotic default html email setting belongs on the web, not in emails, if the body of the mail is only plain text. If you need something in the mail that can't be done with plain text setting, then it makes sense to use html-formatting and only then. But obviously we don't turn html on or off depending on what we want to send. Me, I'm "old school", and the only problem I get is that my plain text setting on outgoing email when replying to a html-formatted mail will oftentimes be destructive to the html coding that is used instead of the "old school" email quoting signs. As you can see above the link you posted is "broken", so it has to be copied in full (without email quoting signs included!) and then pasted into the address field in the browser. Such broken links are unavoidable, it will happen sometimes, and you just have to work around it with copy/paste. It has to be remembered that computers and software are layer upon layer of developments throughout the years, which will sometimes cause conflicts and unintended consequences. Viggo. _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
