I mean, thank god people don't use their phones for that kind of thing...

I frankly don't think there is that much diversity on /. We are mostly technical, more male than female, mostly middle class, most of us went to college, etc. I am not as sure about race, but I would not be shocked to find out it was mostly white.

Then factor in that only a small subset of users ever post at all (don't remember the percentage, but it was mentioned once and it was tiny).

So the people are post end up becoming a self selected group from a self selected group. It isn't shocking that most of them think along similar lines.

90% of the novel I wrote was on the bus and train coming to and coming back from work. I have a lovely park half a block down my street, and a number of coffeeshops within three hours of my house. I have a form of early onset arthritis which means I have to see the doctor regularly, and get a 3 hour IV every 6 weeks. My hospital and Dr's offices all have free wifi.

Every single thing I said in my original post is 100% true. I am sorry you think I was lying, but I can't help that.

I am also not saying I am typical, but I am not the only I know like this. My wife's best friend only takes her iPad with her on business trips (about 100 days out of the year) and uses it far more than I do. I know a few other people who are using the iPad the same way I am. We may be a minority, but we are real.

OOO look I am -1 flamebait now. I think that is the first time that has happened to me. I shall treasure it like the day I got perfect karma. :)

No the moderation to my post doesn't bother me. Franky I think there are too many moderation types. I think there should be only two: this adds to the conversation/this detracts from the conversation. After that there should be some tags you can apply: troll, funny, rathole, ontopic, etc.

Then I could could ask to see all ontopic, not funny (because they never are actually funny), posts rated 3 or above. /. would seem like a much more interesting place that way.

That being said, I probably still would have been downvoted, because /.'ers are still /.'ers :D

Did I say that I forced myself? No. Are something a little harder on the iPad? Yes. Are other things easier and more efficient? Yes.

It isn't some net loss that people then grudgingly accept. For some people, like myself, using a tablet instead of a laptop/desktop is a real benefit. It might not the case for you, but please don't paint everyone with the same brush.

For me it is like when I moved to a thinkpad with a trackpoint. I couldn't use it in the same way as I used a mouse or a touchpad. It was frustrating and hard to use. Then I realized I could make a curving motion and get to the point I wanted. Once I did that I was about as efficient with the trackpoint.

When I am writing on the iPad I just tap close to where I want to be, and I don't obsess about accuracy. Why? Because my hands move back to the keyboard and I quickly move to the right place. I am rarely more than a couple of characters off. I tend to select text with the keyboard more often as well.

The Lua IDE Codea has a kind of touch mouse feature on their virtual keyboard that is a joy to use and I hope apple adopts in some way. Most of my graphics apps have some kind of alignment or gravity feature so I don't have to worry that using my finger might be less efficient.

I use each UI in the best way I can, but I am not making some kind of sacrifice to use the iPad.

Because for about a year now I haven't taken my laptop out of the house, and mostly using it for programming, and photo editing. I have spent all this time writing fiction, poetry, outlines, technical documentation, etc; built websites, created diagrams (I prefer using OmniGraffle on the iPad to the desktop version); doing some light experimenting in Lua; making graphics and other things... all because no one told me it sucked at creating content.

But now that you told me, it is all ruined. I will have to lug around the laptop, aggravate the bone spurs in my neck and shoulders, have to put up with shorter battery life, and all that.

Gee thanks

I was referring to the UK law (and should have been more clear) as an object lesson that you cannot assume that what is true in the US holds true for the rest of the world...

Not quite. Deathworld is in the public domain because it copyrighted under the pre 1976 copyright law, and was (apparently) never renewed. Pre-1976 books are minefield to figure out if they are in the public domain or not.

In order to be sure they are in the public domain, in the US, you need to do careful research, or the book has to have been copyrighted in 1923 or before. The UK and the rest of the world have different laws, so don't assume they carry over.

Oh and Peter Pan will likely never be in the public domain...

Big bucks? Textmate is $50, that is cheap, especially for software that you rely on. Visual SlickEdit is $300 a seat, Multi-Edit costs about the same, Kedit is "just" $130, and Vedit is the most reasonable of that lot at $90 These along with Brief (about $200 IIRC) were the workhorses of professional development 15-20 years ago.

Texmate is an editor to rival most on that list (thought it lacks a couple of features I would love to see, and isn't great with huge files), is very reasonably priced, especially considering that it has gotten you free updates for years.

Only one who has so far ;)

Yes for the love of god I made a typo, one that lots of people make all the time. Good for you.

Yes I made a typo, and if /. let me edit a post I would. But that being said, it was also clear from context.

Well in my case it is because I am dyslexic, and despite four and a half decades of teaching myself tricks and compensation techniques, some things just fall thought.

But, you know, thanks for pointing that out...

And people who have legacy apps who use Motif. This is a good move for those, and the people who need to support them.

And Historians, don't discount that. Engineers have short memories and we are loosing important artifacts all the time...

Proof? It is hard to take this claim seriously when you provide no proof and post as an AC. I am not saying you aren't right, I am just saying that you are making an assertion with no way to know who you are or verify what you are saying...