Given that I can do that already with my iPhone, I'm pretty sure the iPad can handle the job just fine. There's an excellent PDF reader for the iPhone called GoodReader, which handles huge documents effortlessly. At this point, I'd rather read PDFs on my iPhone than on the desktop.
I agree that complete, uninterleaved interviews would have been better, or at least more interesting, but I don't know how deserving the author is of credit for securing all the interviews. I haven't read the book, but a lot of the quotes referenced sound like material from email interviews, rather than face-to-face or phone interviews. If that's the case, that goes a long way toward explaining the books uneven tone and limited utility - non-interactive interviews don't dependably generate worthwhile responses.
The thing I think you miss is that gmail doesn't just mean targeted ads in the email interface - it also gives google superior profiling information for the targeted advertising on web searches, and that should be worth quite a bit of money to them. Imagine if TV advertising were tailored to your personal tastes based on the content of all your phone conversations.
I've always been mystified by people's fascination with B5. I ran across the link below a number of years ago, and thought it did a marvelous job of encapsulating what I consider to be B5's failings. What Nick thinks about Babylon 5
No, vinyl does, in fact, have a warmer sound than CD. That doesn't mean that vinyl is truer to the original recording - it's not. The warmth of vinyl is an artifact of the medium. It's sound not found in the original recording, generated by a variety of environmental factors, like poor vibration isolation in your turntable, varying vinyl quality, even dust in the grooves. Many people happen to like that vinyl sound, regardless of it's relationship to audio fidelity.
Disturbing fact: A number of years ago, I worked as a library custodian; my responsibilities included throwing away the donated books the librarians didn't think they could sell. It frequently amounted to several hundred books a week, many of them very cool. (My personal library certainly benefitted.) I doubt this is true of all libraries, but at that particular library, donated books never made it into the stacks.
I've been a lot less enthusiastic about donating ever since.
Oh, god, how true that is. I'm astounded that any sane human being can tolerate having any Real software installed on their machine. Their products are intrusive, virtually unconfigurable memory hogs. Not to mention frequently being nearly impossible to uninstall without registry hacking. Bleurgh.
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Given that I can do that already with my iPhone, I'm pretty sure the iPad can handle the job just fine. There's an excellent PDF reader for the iPhone called GoodReader, which handles huge documents effortlessly. At this point, I'd rather read PDFs on my iPhone than on the desktop.
I agree that complete, uninterleaved interviews would have been better, or at least more interesting, but I don't know how deserving the author is of credit for securing all the interviews. I haven't read the book, but a lot of the quotes referenced sound like material from email interviews, rather than face-to-face or phone interviews. If that's the case, that goes a long way toward explaining the books uneven tone and limited utility - non-interactive interviews don't dependably generate worthwhile responses.
So for clarity's sake, would 'the other way around' be needing the fun game environment to create their horsepower?
The thing I think you miss is that gmail doesn't just mean targeted ads in the email interface - it also gives google superior profiling information for the targeted advertising on web searches, and that should be worth quite a bit of money to them. Imagine if TV advertising were tailored to your personal tastes based on the content of all your phone conversations.
I've always been mystified by people's fascination with B5. I ran across the link below a number of years ago, and thought it did a marvelous job of encapsulating what I consider to be B5's failings.
What Nick thinks about Babylon 5
No, vinyl does, in fact, have a warmer sound than CD. That doesn't mean that vinyl is truer to the original recording - it's not. The warmth of vinyl is an artifact of the medium. It's sound not found in the original recording, generated by a variety of environmental factors, like poor vibration isolation in your turntable, varying vinyl quality, even dust in the grooves. Many people happen to like that vinyl sound, regardless of it's relationship to audio fidelity.
Disturbing fact: A number of years ago, I worked as a library custodian; my responsibilities included throwing away the donated books the librarians didn't think they could sell. It frequently amounted to several hundred books a week, many of them very cool. (My personal library certainly benefitted.) I doubt this is true of all libraries, but at that particular library, donated books never made it into the stacks. I've been a lot less enthusiastic about donating ever since.
Oh, god, how true that is. I'm astounded that any sane human being can tolerate having any Real software installed on their machine. Their products are intrusive, virtually unconfigurable memory hogs. Not to mention frequently being nearly impossible to uninstall without registry hacking. Bleurgh.