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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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