age"? Until we
pass a generational shift where the bulk of readers have little experience of
analog books, these considerations will be with us.
-- Mack
m...@mackenzieresearch.com
On Mar 7, 2012, at 3:13 PM, BGB wrote:
> On 3/7/2012 3:24 AM, Ryan Mitchley wrote:
>> May be of
pollution of water sources.
So there are definitely arguments on both sides of the ledger wrt eBooks.
-- Mack
On Mar 8, 2012, at 1:54 PM, BGB wrote:
> On 3/8/2012 12:34 PM, Max Orhai wrote:
>>
>>
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>> On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 7:07 AM, Martin Baldan wrote:
>> &g
One thing I think that is being overlooked in this discussion is that by virtue
of belonging to this mailing list, we are ALL of us demographic outliers and
don't really represent the larger, "normal" population, thus our personal
impressions of concepts like "ease of use" are completely skewed
y of modern high-powered computing systems which allow
us to impose abstraction in important ways that were historically infeasible to
allow us to achieve new kinds of expressive power and simplicity.
-- Mack
On Mar 13, 2012, at 8:11 AM, David Barbour wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 13, 201
For better or worse, both Apple and Microsoft (via Windows 8) are attempting to
rectify this via the "Terms and Conditions" route.
It's been announced that both Windows 8 and OSX Mountain Lion will require
applications to be installed via download thru their respective "App Stores" in
order to
OPULAR way. And that, sadly is not the province of reason, but of
whim and fashion.
Prima facie, the current popularity of Objective C as a programming language
owes nothing to its feature set and everything to the fact that it is required
in order to program for the iPhone or iPad.
Cheers,
-
Jay Freeman has also released his Wraith Scheme for the iPad.
On Mar 14, 2012, at 9:17 AM, Jecel Assumpcao Jr. wrote:
> Alan Kay wrote on Wed, 14 Mar 2012 05:53:21 -0700 (PDT)
>> A hardware vendor with huge volumes (like Apple) should be able to get a CPU
>> vendor to make HW that offers real pro
On Mar 13, 2012, at 6:27 PM, BGB wrote:
> the issue is not that I can't imagine anything different, but rather that
> doing anything different would be a hassle with current keyboard technology:
> pretty much anyone can type ASCII characters;
> many other people have keyboards (or key-mappings)
