DigiPen

Just a bad idea, why would I want to press a button/combo to get a box to appear so I can type ‘undo’ instead of just hit the undo button? Not to mention having to remember strange codes or names to perform specific actions.  Unity was bad, this might be worse.  

They’re going the wrong way, people want to use the keyboard less!

Got to agree with that, we don’t need a million different versions of things.  I’m surprised the computer industry hasn’t followed car manufacturers and set up platforms and classes, so each manufacturer has a super-mini, a family, an exec and a luxury model, largely on the same platform.  The huge amount of choice just confuses users.

Some good points, not just for the US.  I’m still perplexed as to why copyright is so long, especially compared to patents, and why they continue after death.

An interesting piece about why manufacturing has moved to China and other Asian countries, and it’s largely not down to labour costs.  It equally applies to the UK.

It certainly indicates why the UK may never be able to compete in manufacturing again, at least until 3D printing encompasses a great many more materials.

Maybe we need to look to Germany and other developed nations who still produce things.  What are they doing?  Producing low-volume, high-profit or high-tech goods no one else can?

dwineman:

Apple just released iBooks Author, a free Mac app for creating digital books for the new version of iBooks. I haven’t played with it much, but so far it looks like a very good tool. However, a curious thing happens when you go to export your work in iBooks format:

This restriction — that…