On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 8:23 AM, Paul Piper <[email protected]> wrote: > [snip] > @bigfish: though the constant stream of advertisement on your end never > seems to end, please bear in mind that your work is adaptive, not > responsive. > Hi Paul,
I don't see the messages from bigfish as ads so much as contributions regarding the nature of what can be done and how, and the result of their work making it happen serves as a constructive example. That is welcome, as is your main response to Kaanya. But aside from that, what is the difference between 'adaptive' and 'responsive'? In the context of standard english, they generally mean the same thing: the making of a change in response to a change in circumstances. If one person spoke of adaptive environmental management, and another spoke of responsive environmental management, they'd be talking about the same thing vis a change in how the environmental system in question is managed upon observing a significant change in the state of that system (this is something introduced to environmental science by Prof. Holling, at the Univeristy of British Columbia, back in the '70's, in his book called 'Adaptive Environmental Assessment and Management', btw, in case there is anyone reading this with an interest in environmental science). In my experience in software engineering, I have yet to see anyone make a useful distinction between 'adaaptive' design and 'responsive' design, although I have seen recent work that talks about making interfaces that adapt to the properties of the device on which it is used. Cheers Ted
