Re: Zoomer FAQ
pat@tstc.edu (Patrick E. Hykkonen)
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From: pat@tstc.edu (Patrick E. Hykkonen)
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Subject: Re: Zoomer FAQ
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> My first comment would be that you can place a copyright on the FAQ,
> if you want. A collection *can* be copyrighted (rec.humor.funny is an
> example). Of course, you should make it clear that you are planning
> to do this, so if the submitter doesn't want their material included
> in a copyrighted collection, they can choose not to submit. Then, if
> you have enough people who don't like the idea, you don't have to do
> it. Just a thought, if you really wanted to copyright the information
> (not that I see any reason to do this).
Actually, I have no desire to copyright the thing. Seems to me that
generally other people are doing the "real work" and I'm just taking
thier answers and editing them into a cohesive whole. Besides, as a
personal opinion, information wants to be free and who am I to try and
restrict it?!?
> Also, I notice that a lot of the areas are just plain blank. No
> indication of what type of information you wanted to include. This is
> fine if you want others to design the whole FAQ for you, but you're
> much more likely to end up with a completed FAQ if you actually put a
> lot of "what if's" out, even if you don't know the answers, and fill
> it in. I don't know if you were planning just breaking down a Q&A
> section for each application, or having a generalized Q&A section
> (which you need as well.
My only defence is that this is a BETA release of the FAQ in order to
get comments about layout and possibly more sections. In effect, I
wanted comments like what you sent to me! Thanks!
> Anyway, seems pretty lean right now.
It is, but see above.
> Of course, you also want to try to phrase the FAQ as generally
> positive, so everyone doesn't go out and buy Newtons instead, but I'm
> currently on the 'trailing edge' of the whole facination period where
> I tend to focus on all the things I really wish it could do, instead
> of what it does well (although it's still pretty cute) :-).
Hehe. I will put a question on the FAQ in the general section... "Why
should I buy a Zoomer as opposed to a Newton? Although I have heard
that the Zoomer is not as integrated of an environment."
I too have fallen off the "gee-wiz" side of things. I still find that
I enjoy having the PDA around. But now I want to see some "killer
apps" for the thing.
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