10-10-2008, 06:42 AM | #31 |
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Tend to agree with Harry. Just ask anyone on the telephone when they say I'll ring back in a minute.
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10-10-2008, 06:54 AM | #32 | |
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Absolutely true. Believe me, I believe you However, there is a subtle difference between your example and discussing features of a gadget, where every second counts. |
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10-10-2008, 12:15 PM | #33 |
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Is this the same thing as when a plumber says he'll come Tuesday?
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10-10-2008, 12:23 PM | #34 |
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Exactly, Ned - you've got it!
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10-10-2008, 12:55 PM | #35 |
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I am kind of shocked that in a discussion were persons are using the information to decide to buy something people think it is OK to be imprecise in this way. People will expect a warning if the time is 1 minute to do something that is much faster to do with a PDA or a paper book. For dictionary lookup nobody expects a few seconds to mean that it is slower than looking it up in a paper dictionary or in an external electronic dictionary. Didn't the iLiad tak one minute to boot? I wonder why HarryT have not described the boot time as just a few seconds and not a problem when you want to read. |
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10-15-2008, 02:29 AM | #37 | |
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10-19-2008, 05:48 PM | #38 | |
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People used to dictionary lookup in MobiPocket on a Palm for example will be extremely fooled by claims of it taking only a few seconds. |
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10-19-2008, 06:39 PM | #39 |
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Time flies like an arrow...
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On the other hand I fore sure can't look up a word in a paper dictionary within 20 seconds. Certainly not when you count the time putting away the book you read and taking the dictionary in your hands into account.. |
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10-20-2008, 04:05 PM | #41 | |
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I think I measured how long time it took me to look up a word in the Cybook text in the N810 dictionary and it was less than 20 seconds if I remember correctly. |
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10-20-2008, 04:31 PM | #42 |
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Booting up, on the other hand, takes me more than 20 seconds with the number of books I have on my SD card. |
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10-20-2008, 07:35 PM | #44 |
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I have only two dictonaries but one of them is the free dictionary posted here so maybe that is not optimized in the same way. I have the old Cybook. I just tested and it took 15 seconds from I pressed "enter" and I get the box with the alternative when I looked up the word "Produced".
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10-21-2008, 01:42 AM | #45 | |
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