Would you buy a Kindle?

Anonymous · ‎01-22-2010

Surely there is a market here. What is the most demanding reference resource
which would benefit you as a slave? CAD Manual? Specs? Codes? Detail
libraries? Dirty jokes? Note Amazon just announced software developers can
now develop apps that run on the device...

AllenJessup · ‎01-22-2010

I bought the nook. One reason is that I have a lot of reference books in PDF and the Kindle was supposed to have some problems with that format. Google Books is now putting their books in EPUB format that is readable on nook. The nook also can connect to B&N through both Verizon 3GB or Wi-Fi.
So far all I have on it that is work related are some reference books mostly dealing with state law. But your other sugestoins sound promising. I'll have to try a CAD drawing in PDF. I don't know about the Kindle but he nook is limited to black & white.
Allen

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Anonymous · ‎01-22-2010

This device format is getting competitive for sure and the nook came out
swinging eh? But I'm waiting for their marketers to take advantage of the
name expecting we will soon hear advertising asking us if we want some
nookie! 🙂

"AllenJessup" wrote in message news:6322964@discussion.autodesk.com...
I bought the nook. One reason is that I have a lot of reference books in PDF
and the Kindle was supposed to have some problems with that format. Google
Books is now putting their books in EPUB format that is readable on nook.
The nook also can connect to B&N through both Verizon 3GB or Wi-Fi.
So far all I have on it that is work related are some reference books mostly
dealing with state law. But your other sugestoins sound promising. I'll have
to try a CAD drawing in PDF. I don't know about the Kindle but he nook is
limited to black & white.
Allen

Anonymous · ‎01-22-2010

newsgroup access!

"clintonG" wrote in message news:6322941@discussion.autodesk.com...
What is the most demanding reference resource
which would benefit you as a slave?

Anonymous · ‎01-22-2010

clintonG wrote:
> Surely there is a market here. What is the most demanding reference resource
> which would benefit you as a slave?

That's racist...

Anonymous · ‎01-22-2010

That's a good use but it would require the type of programmability using
Microsoft MicroFramework or some other "server-side" framework that runs on
the device supporting IP network connectivity. Then next to come would be IM
but we're now talking netbook functionality with eBook functionality where
the netbook devices must go next if they are to remain marketable in this
emerging small form factor markets that are starting to heat up.

"DougK" wrote in message
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newsgroup access!

"clintonG" wrote in message
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What is the most demanding reference resource
which would benefit you as a slave?

Anonymous · ‎01-22-2010

On Fri, 22 Jan 2010 12:34:02 -0800, clintonG wrote:

>That's a good use but it would require the type of programmability using
>Microsoft MicroFramework or some other "server-side" framework that runs on
>the device supporting IP network connectivity.

You mean a web browser?

Matt
matt@stachoni.com

jggerth · ‎01-22-2010

racist????

even if one holds to the preposterous notion of race, it's a simple historical fact that every race/ethnicity has both held slaves, and been enslaved. It's doubtful that there is a single human on the planet who is not both descended from slaves and from slaveholders somewhere in the last 50 centuries. There are undeniably slaves on every continent today (except possibly Antarctica) and ethnicity of both slaves and owners is spread all across the board.

Anonymous · ‎01-23-2010

Why would you read a CAD manual/detail libraries in a separate device away
from your computer? Or adjacent your computer, instead of on your computer?
Why would you carry another device like the Kindle, and a phone, and a
netbook/laptop to only do things you can on your phone and/or laptop? Need
something to take up the space of your dead pager?

--
Dean Saadallah
http://LTisACAD.blogspot.com
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Anonymous · ‎01-23-2010

Yes and no; browsers being a metaphor we've been taught to accept as a means
to parse "pages" transported using HTTP which is but one protocol of the
many IPs.

What I meant is support for native processing of Microsoft's MicroFramework
on the Digital Text Platform [1] in the same context that Intel now natively
supports Yahoo's JavaScript libraries and Adobe's Flash on the chipsets in
the HDTVs they started selling this year. Amazon supports .NET on their
other cloud services and will likely extend support to their digital text
publishing platform(s).

[1] https://dtp.amazon.com/mn/signin

"Matt Stachoni" <...> wrote in message
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On Fri, 22 Jan 2010 12:34:02 -0800, clintonG wrote:

>That's a good use but it would require the type of programmability using
>Microsoft MicroFramework or some other "server-side" framework that runs on
>the device supporting IP network connectivity.

You mean a web browser?

Matt
matt@stachoni.com

Anonymous · ‎01-23-2010

Besides sitting on the toilet, at bedtime, a chair in the den or a bench in
the parkway and so on? How long will it take until they support redlining?

"Dean Saadallah" wrote in message
news:6323422@discussion.autodesk.com...
Why would you read a CAD manual/detail libraries in a separate device away
from your computer? Or adjacent your computer, instead of on your computer?
Why would you carry another device like the Kindle, and a phone, and a
netbook/laptop to only do things you can on your phone and/or laptop? Need
something to take up the space of your dead pager?

--
Dean Saadallah
http://LTisACAD.blogspot.com
--

Anonymous · ‎01-25-2010

Really, you work at those locations? Get a life :))

ADR has been out for a while.
Project Butterfly debuted last week and may well kill ADR.

"Cloud" apps are the next area to look for, nothing much yet but you will
see many soon enough.

PDF editing a redlining has been available for a very long time.

Needing yet another unique app for yet another unique hardware gadget when
in theory we all use all the others now is premature at best.

--
Dean Saadallah
http://LTisACAD.blogspot.com
--

Anonymous · ‎01-25-2010

some people *only* work at those locations

i reckon their life is better than most of us.

"Dean Saadallah" wrote in message news:6323805@discussion.autodesk.com...
Really, you work at those locations? Get a life :))

Anonymous · ‎01-25-2010

Cool if you can do that LOL

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Anonymous · ‎01-25-2010

Would it not be vastly more appropriate to simply develop a decent tablet
computer and not try to reinvent the Kindle to do things that it clearly was not
designed to do?

Matt
matt@stachoni.com

On Sat, 23 Jan 2010 11:36:43 -0800, clintonG wrote:

>Yes and no; browsers being a metaphor we've been taught to accept as a means
>to parse "pages" transported using HTTP which is but one protocol of the
>many IPs.
>
>What I meant is support for native processing of Microsoft's MicroFramework
>on the Digital Text Platform [1] in the same context that Intel now natively
>supports Yahoo's JavaScript libraries and Adobe's Flash on the chipsets in
>the HDTVs they started selling this year. Amazon supports .NET on their
>other cloud services and will likely extend support to their digital text
>publishing platform(s).
>
>[1] https://dtp.amazon.com/mn/signin
>
>
>
>"Matt Stachoni" <...> wrote in message
>news:6323200@discussion.autodesk.com...
>On Fri, 22 Jan 2010 12:34:02 -0800, clintonG wrote:
>
>>That's a good use but it would require the type of programmability using
>>Microsoft MicroFramework or some other "server-side" framework that runs on
>>the device supporting IP network connectivity.
>
>You mean a web browser?
>
>Matt
>matt@stachoni.com

Anonymous · ‎01-25-2010

i think the mental excersise here might be to "devolve" the online presence so that you can accomplish more with something as
"rudimentary" as a kindle.

if we're ever going to have wallet-computers - we gotta do something like that.

"Matt Stachoni" <...> wrote in message news:6323945@discussion.autodesk.com...
Would it not be vastly more appropriate to simply develop a decent tablet
computer and not try to reinvent the Kindle to do things that it clearly was not
designed to do?

Anonymous · ‎01-25-2010

Screen size, and ability to easily zoom in and out as well as markup are
critical: a wallet-sized screen is just not a workable size, everyone that
has an iPhone or Smartphone will tell you that in a heart-beat right now.

Kindle is a book replacement, nothing else. Tablet PCs is what ClintonG and
you need to be discussing.

--
Dean Saadallah
http://LTisACAD.blogspot.com
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Anonymous · ‎01-25-2010

thats its storable-size, ya ninny.

in operation, it will expand (or most likely holographically project) to a useable size.

sheesh.

"Dean Saadallah" wrote in message news:6324045@discussion.autodesk.com...

Anonymous · ‎01-25-2010

Storable? Now that would be useful. But reality alas must keep us grounded.

Let's see what Apple comes out with today/this week: it's tablet PC of sorts
and that's probably the model to emulate for your desired use, not the lowly
Kindle.

--
Dean Saadallah
http://LTisACAD.blogspot.com
--

Anonymous · ‎01-25-2010

humph, i'm beginning to think you aren't as big a geek as you let on.

"Dean Saadallah" wrote in message news:6324079@discussion.autodesk.com...
Storable? Now that would be useful. But reality alas must keep us grounded.

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