Joe Zeff wrote: > On 12/03/2011 02:12 PM, Alan Cox wrote: >> Currently - but that's because low end tablet devices can't run modern PC >> style software. That will change. > > Do you really think that an accountant will ever want to fill out a > spreadsheet on a tablet, even with a keyboard, if a desktop or laptop's > available? I know a number of authors[1][2] and I can't imagine even > one of them willing to work without a proper keyboard. For that matter, > I've completed three novels for NaNoWriMo and have three more stuck at > about 60K words, and I certainly wouldn't have wanted to do that much > writing with only an on-screen keyboard. > > [1]Not writers; people who earn their living from their writing. > [2]Names available on request, as I'm not interested in name dropping > for its own sake. I did one book for NaNoWriMo, although the length to "complete" it was about half of what it reached when really done. I built a system just for writing, with a big HDTV as monitor so I could have the timeline tool and word processor on the screen, and went through three keyboards and two chairs before I got the perfect setup. Haven't done one in a few years, last year my wife was dying and I was caretaker 7x24, this year I'm about 60k into a book which insisted on being written before the one I sat down to write. There will never be a single right size, portability vs. display size thing, and as people hit 40 they realize that fonts they *can* read are no longer ones they *want to* read. -- Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx> "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
