[thelist] Why other devices / Books on the road

christina wrote:
> I believe firmly in "hang up and drive".

+1

I think we'll eventually work out an etiquette for when *not* to answer
the phone. I think folks with cell phones just don't think about it.
I've heard horror stories of people in for a job interview answering
their cell phone and having a conversation! And we've all been annoyed
by beepers and cellphones in movie theatres. 

We need to develop a sense of courtesy and etiquette about these technologies.

Speaking of etiquette:
Alan shamelessly trolled:
> > I belong to the shut up, hang up and drive school of internet development.
> > I do not develop for web TV, nor will i develop for pda, wap, or any of
> > the other "interesting" internet technologies.

That was a lame troll. You shoulda added:
	"Mac vs. IBM"
	"which is better golive or dreamweaver"
	"emacs vs. vi"
	"WYSISYG vs. hand-coding"
	"BSD vs. Linux"
	"Microsoft vs. Netscape"
	"Britney Spears vs. Christina Aguilera"
And maybe some religious and spelling errors. :-) :-)

( OH - WHAT'S A TROLL, SOME OF YOU ASK?  )
(    http://www.whatis.com/troll.htm     )

To your point though - I must, sir, respectfully disagree. If you're
thinking and developing in terms of PCs you're not properly hedging your
bets. The web is not a screenshot. The web is an information medium -
and though we develop in HTML for two mighty browsers right now - we
need to think of code that works in multivariate situations, and
multiple browsing environments. 

> but I will always remember sitting in an outdoor cafe in Spain, drinking
> cafe con anise and reading "a clean, well lit place"

MMMMMMMMM. Cool. For other downloadable books check out Project
Gutenberg. It's very cool.
	http://www.promo.net/pg/

Look - here's Moby Dick!
	http://www.promo.net/pg/_titles/i-_m9.html#mobydick

> on my palm. I'd downloaded from a short story website that develops from the
> palm.

The web will be everywhere - and it won't always be sitting behind a CRT
and a keyboard. Think about it.

	- Joe
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