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At 09:00 a -0400 05/03/2007, Gary (Lists) didst inscribe upon an
electronic papyrus:
>"Chuck Pelto" wrote:
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>> The idea of a SOUND FILE on such a disc had not crossed my mind, but
>> you DO have a fascinating idea there. THANKS!!!!!
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>Yes, the unsighted are often an afterthought in the dissemination of public
>information.
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>> Printing books thick enough to contain the information would be cost
>> prohibitive. Putting the information on a DVD that people could page
>> through on a DVD player attached to their television, should they
>> lack a computer, seems like a reasonable alternative....provide we've
>> got electricity. However, I suspect we'd have such for a while. Long
>> enough for people to read the information and act on it.
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>On the one hand, you sketch a scenario where electricity service
>continuation is unknown ("I suspect we'd have such for a while. Long enough
>for..."). In such a circumstance, it seems that paging through 40+ pages is
>counter-productive. I have used DVD page-by-page to review movie scripts
>and such and it is very slow, on commercial DVD's.
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>In the "pande[mic][monium]" scenario you roughly outline, /sound/ is far
>more useful than clicking a remote to scroll pages in an online book. (Have
>you seen the scaling issues present in these DVD 'page' examples? In order
>to view the text, the zoom factor prevents the entire page. Not only do we
>have to 'turn' pages, we also have to 'scroll' the page around to get it
>all.)
Plus people can *act* while listening to audio, thus saving vital time.
>Either a too-rough sketch is provided here (which is fine and appropriate)
>or the model is sufficiently flawed that it warrants further (technical)
>consideration.
Yeah, there was this invention a while back... think it was called "radio". :-D
-boo
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