[arachne] Re: Adobe swings and misses as PDF abuse worsens

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Hi L.D.,
                All those concepts are great
but I don't need that stuff in my email.
I look at email as something I want to
quickly D/L and read...short notes...
text.  Email is good for sending links
to sites where I can do all that other stuff
you are talking about. I don't need my 
email tied up downloading megabytes
of email that I never expected and that                         
may not even be of interest to me. .
Also, I DON'T want to be archiving megabytes
or gigabytes of crap when I am saving my
emails...and...I don't want to be spending
my time trying to remove the crap before
I archive the emails.

Eric    

On Mon, 02 Mar 2009 11:52:48 -0500 "L.D. Best" <l.d.best@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
writes:
> Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club!
> 
> hmmmmmmmmm....
> 
> Steve wrote:
> <snip>
> >   Granted, I also don't like flash, and certainly don't think it 
> > belongs in a "Document" format, which I believe should be capable 
> of 
> > being printed.
> Really?  What if you could take that document with you, on something 
> 
> about the size of Kindle 2, with an optional fold-out "large screen" 
> ... 
> ?  And what if you had software that allowed you to zoom in/out on 
> specific portions of that document, while giving you a choice of 
> 360degrees rotation on *any* plane?
> 
> Tech manuals made that way would be fantastic!! Imagine being able 
> to 
> look at a diagram and then link to something like an actual picture 
> of 
> that portion of said diagram?  Architects would be salivating enough 
> to 
> cure the drought in California!  Imagine a car wiring system in a 
> Chilton Manual which linked schematics to active photos ...  Imagine 
> a 
> medical reference which linked text to visuals of the human body, 
> again 
> in 3D rotate-able graphics.
> 
> Imagine being able to download, for $10 each, textbooks which cost 
> $75-100 new in the college bookstore and can't possibly give you the 
> 
> detail you'd get on your reading pad.
> 
> I happen to like Flash and Shockwave and QuickTime and RealPlayer.  
> They've allowed me to tour exhibits in Europe, with 360degree pan of 
> 
> each room, each collection, zooming in to look closely at something 
> I'm 
> particularly interested in.  I also spend part of almost every day 
> in 
> Africa, watching the cycle of life/death around a watering hole.  
> And a 
> couple of times a week I visit a coral reef off Belize.  A friend 
> can 
> send me architectural drawing of floor plans and elevations, but how 
> 
> much nicer it would be if I could have a 3D line drawing showing how 
> all 
> of it fits together, again zoom able and linkable to detailed 
> schematics/drawings.
> 
> Think about the things you (do/would) like to do/see, and the things 
> you 
> have to do at work.  Somewhere in there is likely something that 
> would 
> be far easier if you could just see it in 3D.  Imagine program flow 
> charts you could trace things through by merely tapping or 
> click/dragging decision points, and being able to see the path 
> to/from 
> each and every linked decision point of every task ... woooo!  Talk 
> about being able to do a debug walk-thru, and easily find where 
> error 
> handling needs to be inserted and/or refined.  No more page flipping 
> or 
> trying to tie things together in your mind or with notes ... it 
> would 
> all be there for you to see and trace. For the business persons who 
> sell 
> things, how about a 3D rendition of where they store and stock 
> stuff, so 
> when they walk by an empty shelf they can note where it is, go to 
> that 
> position on their readpad, tap it, and find out what was there, when 
> it 
> was ordered, how it sold, what's still in inventory ... and if they 
> don't want it they can then trace through to see what else could be 
> moved into that stock area ... all while standing or sitting 
> ANYWHERE at 
> all.  (They could even find the "empty shelf" remotely, with 
> inventory 
> control and POS links integrated into the "business map."
> 
> How's that for giving away free what are multi-million dollar ideas? 
>  
> Please observe all copyright laws concerning this post.  Please be 
> aware 
> that any ideas put forth within this post are solely my intellectual 
> 
> property and use of said ideas without prior written consent by the 
> author is forbidden and limited by the strictures of the US Code.
> 
> l.d.

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