Bob George wrote: > Although I agree _content_ is critical, the importance of > _access_ shouldn't be overlooked. I may write the most compelling > novel of our day, but if nobody sees it, it's impact is marginal.
> But Day (seriously now), doesn't all this argue AGAINST your > original point that technology isn't increasing productivity, > even in recent years? How much more efficient is it for you to > post your musings in this format than mimeographing a newsletter > not all that many years ago? Was your reach nearly as far? Was > your ability to be heard nearly as cost-effective? How then is > that not a measure of "productivity"? how much time do I need to spend on email? as below.... > > If he dont, then he needs full motion video. > Which are absolutely critical for "messages" of the sort being > tossed about in this thread. I could read about the WTC collapse > and try to imagine it. Or I could watch the video in disbelief as > it occurred in real-time, as could millions of others who neither > speak nor read my language. I think the impact of the latter was > much greater. There is a full motion video system available: TV > much. But it's a bit smug to overlook the fact that the only > reason that text is so readily available to the world at large is > because of technologies that didn't exist when that PC was new. > Yes, TODAY a 1982-vintage PC can send e-mail just as well as a > high-end desktop. But it moves over the same infrastructure > (_access_) as the message generated on the high-end system. Back > when that PC was new, you maybe got the word out to a few hundred > BBS users who happened to be on the same (limited) network. I dunno all that much about survers Bob, but that 'limited' BBS system had 100,000 BBSes, and the information thruput was a good deal higher than what I get on the net. AFAIK, it ran on SURVPCs with very limited graphic capability. It is a case of unintended consequences. The graphic images I wanted were harder to get, but then I didnt havta sort thru 50-100 copies of unwanted graphic SPAM every time I checked my mail. I grant you that the technology of networking has expanded, but the sociological truth is that the bandwidth is clogged with tons of unwanted images. And when I did my email with QWK, I never was interrupted by the ISP dropping carrier. I was 'offline'. It is this kind of thing that has an enormous impact on 'thruput'. > > Speaking of which, I'm still working on it, and gotta get back > to the color text mode ebook setup. See ya later. > > Just curious: Did you ever check out any of the ANSI links I > pointed you at? It looks like 90% of what you're after exists > today. Good luck with it! I've gone to so many links I dont remember them all. But the best find was Horst's LINEX, which extracts any number of lines from anywhere in a long text (which didnt care if it has ANSI). Which LINEX %LINENUMBER%(50) <YOURBOOK.TXT> PAGE.TXT which delivered a 50 line (well I used 49 so I could have a stat line at the bottom) to the temporary page and then: type PAGE.TXT put it on screen. LINEX does nothing to the original document, which means that later on I could include string search tools for research, but since it is all done in text mode, even an old SURVPC can handle humongous text files. I'll look into uploading PLOTINUS.EXE to the SOFTCON library. it is 679k of a self-extracting (RAR) dos archive. It'd be about a 750 page book if printed. It dont need a browser loaded to read. It seems like adding the <tables> formatting to do it in html would add a lot, maybe twice the download. pdf be a lot worse. We'll see... To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
