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Home -> Community -> Mailing Lists -> Oracle-L -> RE: CodeNotes for Oracle9i... Destress on the way home!
John - Wow! An impressive memory tour de force!
My problem is that I am driving during my commute. You get the strangest looks when the next driver glances over and sees your face buried in a PDA. Actually that last phrase might become prophetic. I was just asking if there was a way to get a talking e-book. For example, you can download just about any book whose copyright has expired, copy, paste into my text-to-voice, and there you have an audio version. I'll be long dead before the copyrights on any books about Oracle expire. Most e-book publishers protect their material as zealously as the Secret Service protects the president. Which often renders them unusable for any purpose.
Personally, I liked the suggestion to ask the noted authors on this list to read their books just like the fiction superstars do.
Dennis Williams
DBA
Lifetouch, Inc.
dwilliams_at_lifetouch.com
-----Original Message-----
Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 4:11 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
Dennis,
See below is an email conversation that I had with the 'Goddess' in 2000 on the same subject. Those were the days when Goddesses had to sleep and de-stress on their way home
(Ducking as the Goddess takes out her six-shooter magic wand)
John
Reply from Rachel:
The concept you are thinking of exists in some form already -- e-books. PDA
sized computer that you can download a book into.
Destressing is important -- but more so is the nap I took on the train on my
way home tonight!
Rachel
>From: <john.j.kanagaraj_at_shell.com.bn>
>To: rachelcarmichael_at_hotmail.com
>Subject: RE: Using your commute time
>Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2000 08:41:26 +0800
>
> > I use the time to talk to the people I know on the train, or to read.
> > Fiction or otherwise. Others have their laptops, I see them
> > working with > them. Or they read the newspapers, or sleep.
>
>Granted, but the difference as against a push-technology such as a
>Radio station (which many people listen to while commuting) is that
>this is a pull-technology, i.e. optional availability. However, I do
>conceed to the need to decompress/destress/plan/communicate with
>others, energize, etc.
>
> > I think technical books need visual interfaces. For diagrams, tables
>etc.
>
>Which brings me to my next brain-wave (or sizzled-brain-wave :) -
>Computers have drastically reduced in size while increasing in capacity
>and capability. However, the restraining factor has been (and will be)
>the size of the Input/Output area (i.e. Screen/Keyboard size) which
>cannot reduce below a threshold. What if someone discovers how to use a
>hologram to perform the same input/output? These hologram enabled PDA
>and Web based 'appliances' can shrink to the size of a plastic
>'smart-card'! Just project everything onto a virtual screen which can
>be virtually touched and pointed to, etc!! You could probably have your
>personal (private) view using special glasses if required. I wouldn't
>rule out something like this being made available within the next
>decade...
>
>So far, I have only talked about the tech side of things here - there
>are many dangers and negative side effects to the personal and societal
>aspects. More of that later!
>
>Slightly crazy today, aren't I?
>John
><< WINMAIL.DAT >>
>
-- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: John Kanagaraj INET: john.kanagaraj_at_hds.com Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: ListGuru_at_fatcity.com (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: DENNIS WILLIAMS INET: DWILLIAMS_at_LIFETOUCH.COM Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: ListGuru_at_fatcity.com (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).Received on Mon Oct 14 2002 - 16:33:31 CDT
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