21 Jun
2012
21 Jun
'12
1:35 p.m.
Actually, I
can't understand why anyone would choose to use a
computational device where they can't run the software they want,
including software they've writen themselves. But anyway..
Quite so, but most folks don't want to write software they want something
that works just enough so they can do what they want to do. They don't ask "is there a choice of apps" just "is
there an app". Even worse is the
removal of programming interfaces from web browsers, so on a desktop PC I
can happily order an iPhone or iPad from Tesco (think UK equivalent of
Wallmart) on their web site. If I want to order anything on an iPhone I
can't I need the Tesco "app". Yuk
I ahve laernt over the years that anything described as 'smart' is
designed for users who are 'fumb' and that therefore it won't be
hacker-friendly (OK I am perhaps goign a bit far, but only a bit). I ahbe
also conculded that 'digital' emans 'inferior' (not the Digital Equipment
Corporation, of course :-)).
it#'s
asking for information and goes against the
conventions, then I am
not going to bother to tke the time to untagle it and then
What does "untagle" mean? I thought I was the only one whose brain went faster then their fingers...
Err, no. Particularly not when I've had a hard day...
.. or is it something you have to do with paper tape
to get it to spool...
No. It's soemthing you have to do with paper tape if you haven't spooled
it up as you read it. It's also something you have to do with cables that
you've left sitting in a box. There are topological theorems about tying
knots, but cables seem to defy them :-)
-tony