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From: brendan@batserver.cs.uq.oz.au (Brendan Mahony)
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Subject: Re: Sony Palmtop w/char recognition - Ultimate Laptop?
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Date: 13 Apr 90 06:46:04 GMT
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baez@x.ucr.edu (john baez) writes:

>Better is differently.  You want things to be done a bit
>better but not too differently; that's a matter of taste.
>Myself, being a neophile, I like better and don't care
>how differently. 
 ...
>It's just interesting to think how many
>basic tools I've learned in this span, basically just
>minimally keeping up with progress.  Do you call this
>differently or better.   

Okay, it is fair to change your ways if it allows you to do better, but
think on this.

I'm sitting in a dark lonely lab, confronted by rows Sun workstations,
two to a desk, almost no room left for anything else. Piled
haphazardly, in the spare spaces are the various manuals and bit of
notes that allow me to do my work, which really is little more than
writing down my thoughts and shuffling them into some sort of order.
Outside the sun is shining, it is ~25 deg cel. Back when I didn't have
these mighty Suns to help me, I would have been outside sitting under a
tree and scribbling on a notebook. But since the stuff has to go onto
the Sun eventually and no-one is going to transcribe it for me, here I
am.

Is this really that much better, or is it more different. Less
different, more better if you ask me.

Ah the bird beckon, farewell.

Brendan

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Brendan Mahony                   | brendan@batserver.cs.uq.oz       |
Department of Computer Science   |
University of Queensland         |
Australia                        |