Apple copies PCs yet again

[Asher]

Originally posted by Ramo
everythign's c a copy of of everythign lese. onluy reaiosn w e say otherwise us to **** withotu Asher. duh... cuz ****ignwith asher is fun. i tidell you.

It was a troll because if the Apple fans are to believed, Apple invents everything.

That's why the shades icon accompanies the OP.

[Asher]

Originally posted by MrFun


** grabs a bag of popcorn

Agathon's just bitter because diagrams encroach on parts of the paper he uses for excessive footnoting to highlight the lack of originality in his own work.

[MrFun]

[Imran Siddiqui]

Agathon... stop. You are getting seriously PWNED here. This has the potential of being worse than a Kucipwnage.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Originally posted by Asher
Agathon's just bitter because diagrams encroach on parts of the paper he uses for excessive footnoting to highlight the lack of originality in his own work.

Oh, now Asher is being dumb..

I guess grabbing popcorn is the best answer if both are going to act stupid .

[MrFun]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui


I guess grabbing popcorn is the best answer if both are going to act stupid .

Well tonight we understand one another on SOMETHING.

[Asher]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
Oh, now Asher is being dumb..

I guess grabbing popcorn is the best answer if both are going to act stupid .

It was in response to the popcorn comment, I was just stirring the pot.

[Agathon]

I'm not getting pwned at all. Hardly anyone except people like Asher use the things. That's a fact. You hardly see them anywhere. I've only ever seen them used by a few science lecturers at varsity.

I fail to see how that is in any way controversial – it's simply a statement of the facts as they stand – Tablet PCs will have to become much more versatile before they find a mass audience. There is very little reason for most people who need a portable computer to buy one.

But hey, it's great because mathematicians can send crayon drawings to each other over email. Perhaps a physicist could amuse all the other physicists by drawing a penis and sending it out to the email list.

[Agathon]

Actually someone over at Slashdot thinks that this is probably a portable media centre.

That seems reasonable. People have been griping at Apple to do that properly for ages.

[Asher]

Originally posted by Agathon
I'm not getting pwned at all. Hardly anyone except people like Asher use the things. That's a fact. You hardly see them anywhere. I've only ever seen them used by a few science lecturers at varsity.

They haven't caught on yet because they've had a price premium and minimum marketing and application support. This year the price premium over a regular laptop is supposed to be $100, not $500US like last year.

Plus a lot of people just like taking freehand notes sometimes. It's another nice little feature, how it will index your written notes for searching as well (and integrates into MSN destkop search ).



And an example of how you can "tidy up" the notes later:

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It's even pressure sensitive.

[Agathon]

I find it puzzling that Apple would make a tablet, since it is such a niche thing.

[MrFun]

Asher the king of pwning . . . . . .

[Agathon]

Hey, now we know that Asher writes like a 3 year old. Tablet technology lets us know this.

They haven't caught on yet because they've had a price premium and minimum marketing and application support.

Nah. They're crap for most people. Everyone's heard of them. If they were that useful people would have splashed out on them. I thought they were a cool idea until I realized that for most people that's all they were.

[Asher]

Not everyone's heard of them -- in fact, most people haven't. Even coworkers I work with didn't know they existed.

Someone on Poly the other day was amazed that such a device existed, as well.

I've said this before and I'll say it again for emphasis: tablet PCs do for diagramming and note taking what word processors did for writing.

Since all you do is write, it's not that surprising that the usefulness is lost on you.

[Asher]

Here's a good blog entry on the usefulness of TablePC + OneNote: http://jkontherun.blogs.com/jkonther...g_with_on.html

I write a lot. I do it because I love writing and I love sharing information with others. Most of my writing consists of reports and articles such as this and I have a system for the writing process that is constantly evolving as far as the tools and methods I use. The single most important part of my writing process is Microsoft's great note-taking program OneNote. OneNote is so much more than a mere note-taker for me that I hate to call it that. It is a repository for future ideas, a wonderful outliner, and a journal of the history of each article I write. OneNote coupled with the Tablet PC is such an important tool for me that I felt it worthwhile to document the entire writing process I go through in the hopes readers might find some useful information in how I use OneNote. I should admit my motives are not purely noble, as I am also hoping that you OneNote users out there might be able to offer suggestions and tips to me to improve my methods.

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Any writer will tell you a work of any length at all requires some sort of outline. Everyone has a different style of outlining and I won't get into that here, especially considering my outlines are usually not that detailed like some people prefer. I shy away from detailed outlines because I find them constraining for most of my articles and I like to roam a bit with my work. Okay, really I'm lazy. I won't discuss different outlining methods in this article but I do want to share how I use OneNote and a Tablet PC for preparing to write an article.

Onenote_outline_1 The Tablet PC coupled with OneNote makes writing an outline a real joy to do, which is something I never thought I would say about outlining. I always create my outlines in ink which I find is just so much more creative than typing one. Ink is free flowing and so much more visual than typing text on the screen. This free form outlining method stimulates the creative process and I find the structure of whatever article I am working on almost defines itself. I can concentrate on the content, not about text entry. It's difficult to describe but it is a very important part of my writing and I can't imagine not doing it in ink.

OneNote's inking tools work very well with this outlining process and I can usually outline a complete article in a single sitting and without spending a lot of time on it. Most outlines end up with the topics and subtopics being rearranged several times before the final form takes shape and OneNote excels in aiding this process. Since OneNote keeps all items separate within a page it is a simple task to click on a topic in the middle of the outline and drag it to a new position. It is so cool to watch my handwriting move around the screen until it is in just the right place. Once the order of the outline is perfect I am ready to actually write the article. I should point out that OneNote on the Tablet PC can convert all ink to text for those who like that but I prefer to leave the outlines in ink. I find that when I work with the outline in ink I remember the thought process that was behind the ink, so to speak. I don't get that with text that is typed on the screen. It helps me to get creative during the all important writing phase of the project.



OneNote has honestly revolutionized my writing and taken the preparatory steps like collecting reference material and outlining from the tedious to the enjoyable. I find this reflects in the final written work as I can concentrate on the part I like the best, and that is the writing. I am very interested in hearing from others who use OneNote in their daily work and would especially like to hear other ways to make good use of the powerful tandem of the Tablet PC and OneNote.