At a summer job in 1979 my last work was helping to debug a wired plugboard that ran a punchcard interpreter machine. The plugboard was a way to wire (program) the machine's electronics to control how it works. Once wired you slid it into a slot at the back of the machine and ran the machine. This was 1940's technology but in 1979 still serviced by IBM for a few more years. The machine was going into production because the people with the most influence in the company were the shop floor expeditors and they liked cards that they could touch instead of those pesky terminals.
I think this could be very useful. Mostly for RDP. There just are times when you've got to get in to support a server. I do it with a verizon 3g connection on my laptop but this would enable me to not have the laptop with me. If I had an iPhone. Right now ATT reception in my town is so bad that it's Verizon or silence. But they're building a new tower a mile away so there's hope.
I've written two books and found that Word works very well. Remember, It's not just you. There are the technical editor(s) and the publisher's editors, who concentrate on grammar and usage. They've got to send you comments and the highlighting and commenting features of Word are very good. That plus the track changes feature make figuring out if you've applied the suggestions pretty easy. The styles features also works well and most importantly the publishers know them and can work with them. Anything that's a picture is usually delivered separately, at least to my publishers.
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At a summer job in 1979 my last work was helping to debug a wired plugboard that ran a punchcard interpreter machine. The plugboard was a way to wire (program) the machine's electronics to control how it works. Once wired you slid it into a slot at the back of the machine and ran the machine. This was 1940's technology but in 1979 still serviced by IBM for a few more years. The machine was going into production because the people with the most influence in the company were the shop floor expeditors and they liked cards that they could touch instead of those pesky terminals.
I think this could be very useful. Mostly for RDP. There just are times when you've got to get in to support a server. I do it with a verizon 3g connection on my laptop but this would enable me to not have the laptop with me. If I had an iPhone. Right now ATT reception in my town is so bad that it's Verizon or silence. But they're building a new tower a mile away so there's hope.
I've written two books and found that Word works very well. Remember, It's not just you. There are the technical editor(s) and the publisher's editors, who concentrate on grammar and usage. They've got to send you comments and the highlighting and commenting features of Word are very good. That plus the track changes feature make figuring out if you've applied the suggestions pretty easy. The styles features also works well and most importantly the publishers know them and can work with them. Anything that's a picture is usually delivered separately, at least to my publishers.