Re: Jaws users look out, touch-screen Windows

  • From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 16:20:30 -0700

Anne,

I know about the interview with Gates and Jobs, and I'm sure that was 
interesting to listen to. I don't have any doubt that the general paradigm 
we're so accustomed to about how our electronics and communicational gear 
works and how it embeds itself into our daily environments is due for some 
transformations that will seem dramatic to think of now, but over the span 
of just a relatively few years, may seem like inevitable developments. it 
just seems to work that way, and the changes come pretty quickly compared to 
the rate of technological development in such areas before the rise of the 
personal computer. But still, it's gonna take some time. In the meanwhile, 
I'm not harboring great animus against anyone for holding anything back, 
certainly not writers and publishers in the case of books. The history of 
copyright law and custom is long and interesting, and involves plenty of 
good intentions along with some ill-conceived ideas and unanticipated 
outcomes. Inconvenienced though I may be by having to reach out here for 
something from Audible, something else as an e-text scanned by someone else, 
an NLS audiotape or, soon, digital file, or in a real pinch scanning and 
cleaning up the text of a printed book myself, I care more about the laws 
and business arrangements being worked out equitably than I do about having 
everything available to me tomorrow on my computer. I don't want the same 
kind of shakeup as has happened with music downloading to so violently 
disarrange the publishing industry instead of the developments proceeding 
with some planning.

But it should all be interesting, that's for sure. Meantime, I'm patient.
obviouslrlatively enfv=of pardigm
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "ann medlar" <amedlar1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2008 3:15 PM
Subject: Re: Jaws users look out, touch-screen Windows


Hey Yardbird,
I watched an interview with Bill gates and Steve ? the CEO of Microsoft on
CNBC and according to the interview in the future there will be no more
keyboard andno more mouse.  I am sure that accessibilities will be
considered.  Believe me I think it is a ways away but I think we are
evolving to an operating system that might and I mean might be seamless for
everyone.  A few months ago I remember Bill Gatesstating that allbooks will
be available on web.  It is just a matter of time once the copyright issues
are worked out.  Pretty soon I think information will be available to all
regardless of modality.  Let's hope so.  Imagine no added costs for
accessibility.  Cheers in advance.
Ann

----- Original Message -----
From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2008 5:23 PM
Subject: Re: Jaws users look out, touch-screen Windows


> P.S.
>
> So, does this mean that you believe the person you replied to is spreading
> eisinformation about the future of Windows in order to turn some of us
> toward considering a Mac or a Linux computer? That's the sense I get from
> the Wikipedia explanation, that it means to spread negative rumors about a
> product in order to turn potential customers off to it and propel them
> toward the product made by the company tha'ts disseminating the FUD.
>
> Or is it now sometimes used more casually, so that there doesn't have to
be
> a real or implied motive behind it in that sense if you just want to
invoke
> the expression in a more general way, for effect?
>
> thanks.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Brandon B" <serrebi101@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2008 1:50 PM
> Subject: Re: Jaws users look out, touch-screen Windows
>
>
> FUD,  means
> Fear, uncertainty and doubt
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear%2C_uncertainty_and_doubt
> Sorry for the confusion.
> Yardbird wrote:
> > ah, here's an opportunity to learn a new technical word. Fud. What's a
> > fud.
> > Is it a mistype of an all-capitalized acronym, FUD? If so, what does
that
> > stand for? Or is it a word, in which case what does it mean? any
relation
> > to
> > Elmer Fudd?
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Brandon B"<serrebi101@xxxxxxxxx>
> > To:<jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2008 1:14 PM
> > Subject: Re: Jaws users look out, touch-screen Windows
> >
> >
> > Just because a touch interface is optional, doesn't mean it's the
> > default. Windows seven would fail if your fud was the case because many
> > hardware offered out at launch wouldn't be totally ready for this.
> >
> >
> > Jim Talley wrote:
> >
> >> Microsoft unveils touch-screen Windows
> >> Microsoft Corp. said its next operating system will be made for
> >> touch-screen applications, an alternative to the computer mouse, and
> >> its top executives
> >> reaffirmed interest in joining forces with Yahoo Inc.
> >>
> >
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