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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:
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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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