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Originally Posted by Lady Fitzgerald
You're still thinking inside the box. Why does it have to be on a coffee table? Why does it even have to be a closed book? What do you think will catch people's eye more, a closed book or an active display on the wall?
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It isn't about catching people's eyes, not really. Most coffeetable books are simply meant to look good lying around [kind of like me
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What tech? I ran a DVI to HDMI cable from my computer to my TV. The guy at Fry's told me what kind of cable I needed when I told him what I had (by pointing and saying this and this) and wanted to do. Information on how to run a slide show and what software to use is but a Google away. If this computer challenged old broad can work it out, anyone can.
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Um, first off, you're ON Mobileread, posting. That says a LOT.
Second, my parents don't even know what DVI or HDMI is. My aunt doesn't know how to adequately use google.
Third, just because you have the instructions doesn't mean you can make the connection. I have written down, several times, how to post pictures on Facebook for several older people I know. It doesn't matter because while they can do it by rote, if something is even the slightest bit OFF, they don't know how to compensate.
and as a guy who's been in the A/V area for over a decade, I know it doesn't take MUCH AT ALL to throw things out of wack. One wrong software setting, hidden away some odd place in windows, makes it impossible.
So fantastic for you for being able to put all that together. I think that is awesome. But don't go making the assumption that everybody else your age can as well. Or that it will go as easy for others as for you.
Finally, [phew
], why do I have to think outside the box? The box defines what is inside of it. you want something else [like what you did], do that. But don't break my box because your idea doesn't fit inside it. Go get your own box, hahahaha.
Oh, on subject. I don't think paper will be gone in 5 years. Paper is so cheap that in developing countries, it will hang on for decades to come. Email hasn't gotten rid of mail yet, but mail IS becoming more and more scarce.