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From: Steve Hix on 30 Jan 2010 21:04 In article <tph-5FBF99.15391330012010(a)localhost>, Tom Harrington <tph(a)pcisys.no.spam.dammit.net> wrote: > In article <1jd5n6j.1mgjci51shmqopN%per(a)RQNNE.invalid>, > per(a)RQNNE.invalid (Per R�nne) wrote: > > > Michelle Steiner <michelle(a)michelle.org> wrote: > > > > > In article <1jd5c2a.10en1in16zm2d8N%per(a)RQNNE.invalid>, > > > per(a)RQNNE.invalid (Per R�nne) wrote: > > > > > > > But would you describe the iPad as a computer - or not? > > > > > > Not. It's in a category all its own, between a smartphone and a computer. > > > > In the Danish language mac newsgroup, another computer scientist just > > called the iPhone a 'pocket computer' more than a 'cell phone' ... > > He must have big pockets. You know how lab coats are ...
From: Wes Groleau on 30 Jan 2010 22:41 Tom Harrington wrote: > per(a)RQNNE.invalid (Per Rønne) wrote: >>> Not. It's in a category all its own, between a smartphone and a computer. >> In the Danish language mac newsgroup, another computer scientist just >> called the iPhone a 'pocket computer' more than a 'cell phone' ... > > He must have big pockets. And deep ones, too. No, waitng, "starting at $499..." :-) -- Wes Groleau ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^ A UNIX signature isn't a return address, it's the ASCII equivalent ^ ^ of a black velvet clown painting. It's a rectangle of carets ^ ^ surrounding a quote from a literary giant of weeniedom like ^ ^ Heinlein or Dr. Who. ^ ^ -- Chris Maeda ^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
From: Wes Groleau on 30 Jan 2010 22:57 Michelle Steiner wrote: > yeah, but I think that the software keyboard would suffice for that. It's > large enough that you can touch type on it. I'll believe it when I see it. Isn't the thing less then ten inches wide? Every keyboard I use is almost twelve inches from Tab to Return. Still, it must be an order of magniture better than that on the iPohne, which in turn is an order of magnitude better than my Samsung cell phone. I'd like an input method that takes advantage of multi-touch to provide a single row of seven buttons, to function like a Braille-writer, except that it translates the Braille back into English on the fly. Rationale: (1) Braille has a lot of standard abbreviations that allow for unambiguous text in fewer characters; (2) seven 'keys' take up less space than a full keyboard. I'd also like an input method that recognizes Gregg shorthand. Sure, few know it any more, but for those who do, it's faster than typing. In the same vein, I think I'll look into the system that court stenographers use to keep up with spoken testimony.... -- Wes Groleau I've noticed lately that the paranoid fear of computers becoming intelligent and taking over the world has almost entirely disappeared from the common culture. Near as I can tell, this coincides with the release of MS-DOS. -- Larry DeLuca
From: Wes Groleau on 30 Jan 2010 23:00 Michelle Steiner wrote: > supposed to kill either of them. It might, though, be an netbook killer, > except for those people who can't see beyond price. It may not be a netbook killer, but if people buy a netbook, find out it sucks, and switch to iPad, Apple won't care that netbooks weren't "killed." -- Wes Groleau Community Language Learning “Inappropriate? http://Ideas.Lang-Learn.us/WWW?itemid=30 -- Wes Groleau ASCII stupd question, get a stupid ANSI
From: Wes Groleau on 30 Jan 2010 23:08
Steve Hix wrote: > Which makes sense, as you actually touch the target of interest, rather > than driving a cursor to it and clicking the mouse or trackpad to > simulate a touch. The implementation, though, means there is no such thing as "hover," making a lot of Javascript tricks on web sites non-functional. Sure, I can vehemently condemn those webmasters on Usenet. But that won't make their websites any more accessible. -- Wes Groleau First Language Acquisition observed up—close & personal http://Ideas.Lang-Learn.us/barrett?itemid=1349 |