iPad: Or, why you have to look at the advertising
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Re: iPad: Or, why you have to look at the advertising
#2I gotta say, the tone of this almost turned me off. I got an impression of mouth-foamy vehemence in some of those paragraphs, and it was a little off-putting.
However, you're entirely right. It's going to be really interesting to see how this pans out.
Re: iPad: Or, why you have to look at the advertising
#3I gotta say, the tone of this almost turned me off. I got an impression of mouth-foamy vehemence in some of those paragraphs, and it was a little off-putting. However, you're entirely right. It's going to be really interesting to see how this pans out.
Right now my entire blog's in a very stream-of-consciousness mode. I'm writing lots of long unedited things every day just to get it out in time for an upcoming major revision.
I submitted this because I was a bit irked at how commentary here is steadfastly ignoring what the iPad is and how it's going to be sold. I enjoy critics as long as they understand what they're criticizing. Aaronsw's post was enough to provoke me into submitting this.
If anybody thinks this isn't appropriate tone for HN, feel free to flag it! I have no particular expectations for this submission.
Re: iPad: Or, why you have to look at the advertising
#4I gotta say, the tone of this almost turned me off. I got an impression of mouth-foamy vehemence in some of those paragraphs, and it was a little off-putting. However, you're entirely right. It's going to be really interesting to see how this pans out.
Right now my entire blog's in a very stream-of-consciousness mode. I'm writing lots of long unedited things every day just to get it out in time for an upcoming major revision. I submitted this because I was a bit irked at how commentary here is steadfastly ignoring what the iPad is and how it's going to be sold. I enjoy critics as long as they understand what they're criticizing. Aaronsw's post was enough to provoke…
Well, that's what I meant by "you're entirely right". I agree with you that these are points that are missing from a lot of the "geek" discussion about this, which seems to be the only discussion informing even the mainstream discussion about this so far.
And the "mouth-foamy" tone (Apple "the most powerful company that’s ever existed."?) kind of helps to make your point, so I'd suggest that it works both for and against you in that way.
:)
Re: iPad: Or, why you have to look at the advertising
#5Earlier quoted context omitted.
Right now my entire blog's in a very stream-of-consciousness mode. I'm writing lots of long unedited things every day just to get it out in time for an upcoming major revision. I submitted this because I was a bit irked at how commentary here is steadfastly ignoring what the iPad is and how it's going to be sold. I enjoy critics as long as they understand what they're criticizing. Aaronsw's post was enough to provoke…
Well, that's what I meant by "you're entirely right". I agree with you that these are points that are missing from a lot of the "geek" discussion about this, which seems to be the only discussion informing even the mainstream discussion about this so far. And the "mouth-foamy" tone (Apple "the most powerful company that’s ever existed."?) kind of helps to make your point, so I'd suggest that it works both for and aga…
Awesome! Anything that excuses my writing is fine in my book.
From the perspective of an art student Apple's essentially cornered every market now. Whether you're a multimedia programmer, a musician, a filmmaker, a newspaper editor, or a novelist, now Apple controls you on this thing. Even something like HTML5 support means that suddenly I don't have to worry about web standards for this entire block of the market, thanks to Webkit.
The good news is that it's in Apple's interest to appeal to artists and to smaller publishing groups. Between this and the Supreme Court's ruling this week, the University of the Arts is throwing lusty drunken celebrations. Every student here's just been told they're going to be employed and making a lot of money.
Re: iPad: Or, why you have to look at the advertising
#6For a readable font, paste this into your address bar:
javascript:(function w(){document.body.style.fontFamily='Georgia';})()Re: iPad: Or, why you have to look at the advertising
#7For a readable font, paste this into your address bar: javascript:(function w(){document.body.style.fontFamily='Georgia';})()
Not a fan of Calluna? I'm partial to it.
It'll make you happy to know I'm switching to a no-holds-barred Helvetica/Cufón combination shortly. Everybody wins!
EDIT: Just for you guys, Georgia's the default font again.
Re: iPad: Or, why you have to look at the advertising
#8For a readable font, paste this into your address bar: javascript:(function w(){document.body.style.fontFamily='Georgia';})()
Not a fan of Calluna? I'm partial to it. It'll make you happy to know I'm switching to a no-holds-barred Helvetica/Cufón combination shortly. Everybody wins! EDIT: Just for you guys, Georgia's the default font again.
The Calluna would be alright, I suppose. However, I think a lot of users have your second preference, Didot, installed which is unsuitable for body copy.
Re: iPad: Or, why you have to look at the advertising
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not a fan of Calluna? I'm partial to it. It'll make you happy to know I'm switching to a no-holds-barred Helvetica/Cufón combination shortly. Everybody wins! EDIT: Just for you guys, Georgia's the default font again.
The Calluna would be alright, I suppose. However, I think a lot of users have your second preference, Didot, installed which is unsuitable for body copy.
Whoops! I completely forgot I'd put Didot in there for a day.
Re: iPad: Or, why you have to look at the advertising
#10>"... because that sentence will sell several billion of these things."
Several billion? what are you smoking?