brandon said:
How is this a bad thing?
um, are you so naive as to "what this means" that you think i believe it to be "a bad thing"? that's kind of sad, in a humorous type of way... :+) *** dave said:
Why
well, i fully understand your impulse to strike out at me. i've questioned your competence and intelligence, again, and that's never a nice thing to hear. the reason i do it anyway is because _i_care_ about electronic-books, and those of us who care about e-books and who _do_ realize what's up need to tell you to take your head out of your ass. but you are right in that i don't think enough of you to do any more than that, not any longer, does that surprise you? will this turn into another long flamewar? not a chance. with progress moving so fast, i can't waste my time here. just thought i'd drop a note here about recent developments. but, just to be clear, because you seem to be confused, i will never leave this listserve _entirely_, but instead will return here on occasion to give y'all wake-up calls... forewarned is forearmed; acquaint yourself with your delete key if you really feel a strong need to protect your undisturbed sleep. heck, even better, apply some backchannel pressure to greg newby to "moderate" me -- again -- and absolve me of this onerous duty...
Whatever happened to that?
good question, dave, thanks for asking it... :+) you can join the beta-test for my viewer. but you knew that. i don't feel the need to show you all my cards until you guys have thrown _considerably_ more chips into the pot first; when i leave this table, i will take your whole stake with me. specifically, you'll need to: 1. put the time and energy into developing your markup format. 2. do the work of developing procedures to apply that markup. 3. pay the price in volunteers by implementing the procedures. 4. put the time and energy into developing conversion routines. 5. mark up the 20,000+ e-text "backlog" of the current library. once you have done all _that_, i'll be happy to show you exactly how you could've gotten the same benefits _without_ markup... but not _until_ then... :+) and so far, you haven't even gotten past step 1 yet... so _y'all_ don't have any time to waste in a flamewar either. thus i suggest we just let this thread die, and rest in peace... finally, i dunno what _you_ might be thinking, dave, but i'm thinking that my strategy of sitting back and waiting for the marketplace to peg a _big_ number on the value of a current "best-of-breed" viewer-program has just proven itself with a _very_ worthy dividend... -bowerbird