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On Fri, 6 Nov 2009, tom wrote:
Gordon Henderson wrote:
Na - no more crippled computers for me - I'm waiting for a pocket sized netbook that can the lot. Oh for a modern psion ....You'll never get a one-size-fits-all solution that's efficient, cheap and fast.Go back to the original unix philosophy: Do one thing and do it well.
Haven't got that many pockets. I must admit I misread what this machine is:"For less than £60, the Hisense is an effective way of getting your digital media files onto you telly without having to hook up your PC" except you have to have a PC to connect it to to get the media - and I may as well have the PC* to do the displaying anyway so its a redundant box already.
I think the idea is that it can play off a USB stick...
I'm also trying to start a campaign up for an e-reader screen - no more crippled computers here just a bluetooth (hoch spit) or similar e-ink screen I can use to read stuff and connect it to my laptop/netbook/phone etc. Remember the days when people sold you things you needed and not what they wanted to plug into your bank account with...Make it as a project on the dc-hardware list ;-) Biggest problem is getting the material in a suitable format to start with. (i.e. electronically readable as text not images) Even PDF is too clumsy for a book IMOPDF is useful for nothing.
You may not like it, but it's out there and not going away. It's also an open standard based on postScript (which, again, is too heavyweight for an eBook IMO)
. All you need is a trivial markup language and a nice display...Now where can we find that?
It's called [n,t]roff ... I wrote a clone of troff onceuponatime. Wish I still had that code...
Gordon
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