On Wednesday 06 December 2006 20:28, bullet holes in a road sign were found to spell the following message: > Hi Christopher, > > You are very right, of course. However, fantasies have their place in > product design. They inspire ideas. Out of 100 (or 1000) of our > completely wild fantasy ideas, one of them might turn out to be really > useful and practical.
Thanks for the reality check Michael. You're very right that the fantasy process has its place in product design - in fact, it's very very important. Part of my day job is to nudge (or sometimes thump) the fantasies of my own team back into line with reality. It looks like I let that leak over into OpenMoko, too. I'll have to be more careful about that in the future. > I love exploring the FPGA idea. I think it's creative, different, and > inspires further creativity. But I completely agree with you that a > developer-reprogrammable FPGA in this device is completely impractical. > > When we have a wiki, we will have a section for fantasy wishes. We will > play there to our hearts content without thinking of practical aspects. > And, once in awhile, an idea from the fantasy pages may be transferred to > the list of features to be implemented. > > Until we have the wiki, I believe that Sean and the others are able to > sort our ideas into the proper categories. Definitely. > I do appreciate your clear, well-thought out and well-written comments. > Perhaps they, or something similar, should be preserved on the wiki to > help put discussions in the proper category. > > Sincerely, > Michael _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/community