Stephen, undoubtedly you are right, our methodologies are different. But that is not what my comments are about, and clearly I have problems expressing myself - which is understandable when you consider I only passed English because 49.5 was rounded up to 50% :-(
So in attempt not to offend anyone here I'll use a more personal example. My wife has used Macs as long as I have - some would place us in the 'wise' generation. She has no clue what: cmd+i, cmd+n, cmd+o, cmd+spacebar, cmd+tab, cmd+p, cmd+s or cmd+w do. It frustrates me. My wife does everything with the mouse on her MacMini or trackpad on her MBP, but loves the point and do of her iPad and iPhone. My wife is the 'Information Specialist' at her school, which is an all Mac school. She is considered a guru and constantly amazes people with what she does with her Mac and regularly has people come and ask her for lessons on using Pages, Keynote and web based applications. My wife is pushing hard for the school to abandon the MacBooks all the students use and adopt iPads. I think Apple want that too. My children are all requesting that instead of being given hand-me-down MBs or MBPs, that they get iPads. I think in the hours each day they spend FaceBooking, Twittering, Surfing and what ever else they are doing on the net, they've never used Save as... Can you actually do that on FaceBook? IMO I believe the time is not too distant when the OS X System Requirements will include '.... and a touch sensitive screen' and all those keyboard shortcuts that I THINK are so important will disappear! I wont like it, but my opinions are irrelevant. The rising generation don't use them, don't need them; they use computers differently than I do. I am one, they are an entire generation. On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 3:29 PM, stephen barncard < stephenrevoluti...@barncard.com> wrote: > This is nothing to do with being set in my ways, or not being open to new > devices, this is a curve ball experiment executed at my expense to fix > something that is not broken. We cut files to pieces to send over the > internet for redundancy, but there is no advantage to a local user that I > can see. > My vision of the future is that there is no such thing (except for small pockets of revolutionaries ;-) as a 'local user' - everyone will be Cloud users, whether it's Apple's version, Google's or someone else's. In this vision of the future everything you do on your Computer (Mac or otherwise), not just photos, emails and music, will be available 'immediately' on every other device you have. For this to be possible it is imperative that some kind of Low Bandwidth Network File System is used, that the system be able to track what are changes and what is content that is remaining the same. This is what Versions is based on. Done right, it will be brilliant, done wrong, it will be sluggish, but either way it will be a lot faster than Save as... placing it in DropBox and waiting for a 100MB file to upload from your desktop, then download on your iPad whilst suffering from intermittent WiFi connections on your train commute to work when all you did was change 20KB of text. Am I right. Definitely not! My predictions have been woefully wrong. When the iPad came out I saw no point in it at all. But I can not believe what cool things developers have done with them! I now carry one everywhere. My Mac Hating Siblings endlessly tell me what is wrong with them, but it doesn't change the fact that they have ALL spent more money on Apple products since Steve's death, than before it. On devices with no keyboard shortcuts. This is just my opinion of the OVERALL direction Versions is headed, not a comment on anyone else's specific working style. I just tend to agree with what Confucius didn't say: "You can't persuade a Panda that's been around for a while to do something that is different to it's normal routine" The above adage has been modified to avoid offending teachers, dog or other pet owners, those sensitive about their age and drug addicts;-) _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
