RE: Re: mathematica on a palmtop?
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- Subject: [mg39127] RE: [mg39092] Re: mathematica on a palmtop?
- From: "Wolf, Hartmut" <Hartmut.Wolf at t-systems.com>
- Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 01:06:41 -0500 (EST)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
>-----Original Message----- >From: Tim May [mailto:tcmay at got.net] To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net >Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 9:36 AM >To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net >Subject: [mg39127] [mg39092] Re: mathematica on a palmtop? > > >In article <b15q34$f0q$1 at smc.vnet.net>, Daniel Reeves ><dreeves at umich.edu> wrote: > >> If I could have mathematica on a palmtop I would be a truly >fulfilled >> human being. <drifts into fantasy...> >> [setting: a cocktail party] >> Girl: ...so in the limit you'd find that... >> Me: well let's plot that [whips out palmtop with mathematica] >> Girl: [swoons] >> >> It's clearly possible in principle since modern palmtops are more >> powerful than desktop machines that ran mathematica just fine several >> years ago. > > >Yes, the CPU power is almost there, but the screen size and resolution >simply is not. Mathematica running on my Mac 7100av in the >mid-90s still had >the full effect of a 1024 x 768 color display on a 17-inch monitor. >Trying to do useful work on my Visor Prism or even an iPaq would be >horrible...useful only for the type of situation you fantasize about. > >Meaning, not worth the effort. > >I currently have Mathematica 4.1.5 on my 5-lb TiBook. Not >small enough to "whip >out at a party to impress a chick" (yuk yuk), but perfectly fine for >any mobile use (such as at the library, or at remote sites, or in hotel >rooms) I can plausibly imagine. > >Wasting time and money on a PDA port would be foolish for Wolfram. > >--Tim May > Leaving out the more honourable dictionaries right from the beginning, and starting with "Essential American Idioms" via "Forbidden American English" I finally dug up in "The Pocket Dictionary of American Slang": *swoony.* _n._ An attractive boy. _adj._ Attractive. _Teenage use, c1940. More often in movies and stories about teenagers than used by teenagers._ This clearly assigns that all to pure fiction, ... or rather to a specification for next generation PDAs. As the energy density of a mini-flashlight sized micro-beamer would be too high to hold it in my hands, perhaps an interface to a pair of high resolution VR display spectacles might do, one glass for each. -- Hartmut