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| bruce2359 |
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| Vitor wrote: |
So we need a Kindle version? |
Good thinking.
We live in a digital world, filled with options, with one seemingly being taken away. Perhaps this is my fundamental lament.
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| zpat |
| Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2012 11:44 pm Post subject: |
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| Ironically, you can send PDF files to Kindles. |
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| Vitor |
| Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2012 4:43 am Post subject: |
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| bruce2359 wrote: |
| We live in a digital world, filled with options, with one seemingly being taken away. Perhaps this is my fundamental lament. |
As I think I said a while back, I'm absolutely on the fence with this. I really like the InfoCenter, and I also lament the loss of the PDF you can just read to discover interesting nuggets with which to amaze your peers and confuse your minions.
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| Vitor |
| Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2012 4:45 am Post subject: |
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| Ironically, you can send PDF files to Kindles. |
Yes, but it's a lot of faff & requires you to ride the pogo stick into the minefield of copyright & IP.
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| zpat |
| Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2012 4:52 am Post subject: |
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No - you just email the PDF (or other supported formats like Word) to your free Kindle Email address with convert in the subject line.
Kindle can also read PDFs without conversion, although you need to have good eyesight...  |
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| Vitor |
| Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2012 4:58 am Post subject: |
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| No - you just email the PDF (or other supported formats like Word) to your free Kindle Email address with convert in the subject line. |
I stand by "faff" and continue to wonder about copyright. IBM lawyers hunt in packs...
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| Kindle can also read PDFs without conversion, although you need to have good eyesight... |
Rules that option out for me then.
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| bruce2359 |
| Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2012 5:38 am Post subject: |
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I use both. I prefer .pdfs. I travel. I don't haul a laptop or iPad. Yet, I want to read doc in my airport/airplane prison time.
On an unrelated, yet similar subject, I've been shopping for an all-in-one printer/fax/scanner to replace my decade old HP that seems to be fighting old-age.
Some of the newer 'fax' don't have an RJ phone plug. Rather, you upload or email your (potentially sensitive) document to some third-party, and they forward it on to the fax number I provide. Like this is going to happen.
.pdf and InfoCenter are similar, yet different. Should IBM cease to offer .pdfs (a rumor I've heard or made up), we would be left with a different delivery mechanism - one I don't prefer.
But, I repeat myself.
But, I repeat myself.
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| Vitor |
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| I don't haul a laptop or iPad. |
Weirdo. I suspect they're going to legislate again that soon......
(I live in fear of the day they allow phone calls from planes.)
Yet, I want to read doc in my airport/airplane prison time.
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| Some of the newer 'fax' don't have an RJ phone plug. Rather, you upload or email your (potentially sensitive) document to some third-party, and they forward it on to the fax number I provide. Like this is going to happen. |
One day it's going to have to, as fewer & fewer devices connect to a phone line rather than a network server.
I'm not saying it's a good thing. I'm just saying it's a thing. I'm not happy about my stuff (including my potentially sensitve photo collection) being backed up to the cloud but what can you do...?
Sometimes progress marches over you.
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| bruce2359 |
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| Sometimes progress marches over you. |
Luddites still rule the business world - fax is still king. I've had to beg for an email address when the fax portion of my old all-in-one refused to go off-hook. Yes, Kinko's will fax for you - at $1.00/page.
In both of these cases (.pdf and this), progress marches backward over us - taking away function in favor of form.
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| RogerLacroix |
| Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2012 10:10 am Post subject: |
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| How many of us would want to change our QWERTY keyboards for a more modern, but totally different design? |
So we should stick with an obsolete design for keyboards that was intentionally built to slow things down because we are 'used to it'? |
That's incorrect. The keyboard for a typewriter was designed to allow the typist to go faster. The original typewriter keyboards jammed because the typist was going too fast and rods would jam. Hence, QWERTY keyboard was invented.
http://home.earthlink.net/~dcrehr/whyqwert.html
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| bruce2359 wrote: |
| On an unrelated, yet similar subject, I've been shopping for an all-in-one printer/fax/scanner to replace my decade old HP that seems to be fighting old-age. |
Two years ago, I replaced an HP All-in-One and a Canon color printer with a Brother MFC-9840CDW color laser printer.
http://www.brother.ca/en/all-in-one/description.asp?Prodid=3153443240977154399&features=on
It is totally AWESOME. It has and does everything (except slice bread).
- 5-in-1 colour laser printer, scanner, copier, fax and PC-Fax
- Fast color printing and duplex printing (i.e. double-sided)
- Both wireless 802.11 b/g and wired Ethernet RJ45
It is the best printer I have ever owned. Of course, for all those features it is not cheap. I give it a 9.5 out of 10. The only negative is that it is heavy. You will need 2 people to carry it from your car to your house. But once you start using it, you will be very happy you went through the effort.
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| zpat wrote: |
| How many of us would want to change our QWERTY keyboards for a more modern, but totally different design? |
So we should stick with an obsolete design for keyboards that was intentionally built to slow things down because we are 'used to it'? |
That's incorrect. The keyboard for a typewriter was designed to allow the typist to go faster. The original typewriter keyboards jammed because the typist was going too fast and rods would jam. Hence, QWERTY keyboard was invented.
http://home.earthlink.net/~dcrehr/whyqwert.html |
Ah.
So he redesigned the user interface to better meet the needs of the internal design. |
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| bruce2359 |
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Roger,
Do you have something smaller?
Bruce
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| RogerLacroix |
| Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2012 10:31 am Post subject: |
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PDF vs InfoCenter (aka BookManager v2)
This is not a Beta vs VHS war (80s reference for those youngsters) but rather I want IBM to provide me with documentation that I can fluidly read. Yes, InfoCenter is fine for looking up a topic but not very good for reading.
When I am sitting on my couch watching a hockey game, I no longer use a laptop, I use my iPad. Therefore, IBM needs to provide its users (me) with the information in a format that I want to consume it in. Period - no exceptions. And if tomorrow I sell my iPad and buy an Android tablet then I want the information on that device. IBM needs to join the 2nd decade of the 21st century.
If IBM wants to create apps for iPad, PlayBook, Android, etc... type tablets then that is fine with me as long as they make the information readable. i.e. previous and next buttons.
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| RogerLacroix |
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Ah.
So he redesigned the user interface to better meet the needs of the internal design. |
Exactly my point in my previous posting (Beta vs VHS).
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