Saturday, August 16, 2014 1:05:38 PM
Another Example of...
i have noticed that with each new platform or application
version, while there are more do-dads attached to them, they will invariably
become dumber in other respects.
i just discovered ( ? ) that i can Not add a sound file to a pdf
which i can create from a TextEdit or Pages Document.
It used to be that there were several Appliances that allowed
you to create full media presentation documents that you could send around to
other people over pre-internet neighborhood phone networks ( ! ) i forget what
we called them ( ? )
Anyways; That’s gone now.
i just occurred to me that i might be able to do this with
something like a ‘presentation’ application, which i have somewheres around
here, on disk or possibly on my backup hard-drive, but i haven’t used that
EVER, & i would undoubtedly require a receiver application on The computer
of whomever i sent The document to ( ! )
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i have ‘discovered’ ( or realized ! ) that there is a very
simple solution to this; & that is; Simply ‘Compress’ a TextEdit Document (
which have all sorts of fun features built into them ) & then Post it
through my Google Drive Folders.
This would allow my Documents to be shared in Exactly The Way
i’d like them to be viewed, along with Video & Sound Files integrated into
them; But — They
could only be viewed on The Macintosh ( Apple ) Platform.
So be it.
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Another way that The internet is getting dumber is that it used
to be very easy to goto what were called ‘Chat Rooms’ to ask some crazy
question that you’d have. There were so many different Chatrooms with so many
different Topics, that it was pretty easy to find The Right Room & have any
question you’d like answered, answered; So long as it would have some specific,
well defined Answer, & Not The sort that philosophers or scientists would
endlessly debate about.
i’m pretty sure that there still are ChatRooms, But The last
time i went looking for them, on Yahoo i think ( ? ), The Concept &
Navigation of them had become very muddled from The AOL Days, when their usage
was very well defined & easy & fun to use.
i seem to recall that most of The Chatrooms i last visited had
been taken over by foreigners, which is fine, if it’s clear from The outside
what culture is dominating it, but they weren’t labeled in this sense at all.
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The Question that i’ve been trying to get answered, & i’ve
tried typing this into Google & some other Search Engines, is: There is a
Western Film, made pre-2000 ( ? ), in which, at The End of The Film, there is s GunSlinger
Shoot Out, & The Villain is Shot, but he’s still standing, then The camera
dollies around him, & we can see in his shadow, a dot of sunlight revealing
that he’s been shot through The chest ( ! ) & then he falls over. What is
The Name of this film ?
i would think that this would be such a Signature Shot that it
would be easy to find, but nothing is coming up. i suspect that if i could
connect with ‘People’ that are film buffs & sit in front of their computer
all day, as i have witnessed for other venues ( ! ) This would be easy to find
The Answer to.
But that sort of Access has either been removed from The
Internet or ( more likely ) It has been Buried & is now very difficult to
find.
i suspect ( Strongly Suspect ) that there are many ‘Features’ on
The Internet in The Guise of Various Websites & Services, but are Not
nearly as well ( Promoted ) as Facebook, or Twitter. There are fringe items
that i do know about & i would consider Flickr one of these, that should be
well understood & accessible, but aren’t.
During The Early AOL Days ( circa: 1990± ) Using AOL provided Easy Access to all these Primal Features,
& it was really enjoyable to use them. But. Even within AOL, after only a
few years, these sites & The Structure became so muddled that it began to
resemble what The Internet is like now.
i kind of suspect that Yahoo & Google have or are trying to
create portals that resemble something like i’m describing, but they are
falling far short of it. ( ? )
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Furthermore; i think that Google Blogs have somekind of Access
Barrier to them that prevents anyone from just stumbling into them & freely
interacting with them. Part of this is to protect them from Spammers, which i
consider The Only True Terrorists in The World Today. The Spammers are
Destroying The Functionality of The Internet, Along with Advertisers in General
that make many sites completely unusable.
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i think that perhaps The way The internet should work, is to
extend The Prying, Spying Eyes of Google Search Engines ( & others ) to
their Logical Conclusion ( or nearly there ), & Take all The Overt
Advertising off of The Web so that it becomes extremely Easy to Use &
access information from it; Then Custom Create A ‘Sears & Roebuck’
Catalogue for Each Individual based on their Search Habits & uh, Oh What do
call ‘em, Demographics, that Perfectly suits them, so that this Catalogue would
be Nothing But Colorful ‘Christmas Catalogue’ Blurbs that Internet users would
eagerly browse through, & find only things that they are genuinely
interested in ( ! )
So that instead of trying to avoid all The Ads, Users would
eagerly swim through them ( ! )
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