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Tom Hanks Made an iPad App
#330416 - 08/23/14 03:13 AM
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Re: Tom Hanks Made an iPad App
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#330418 - 08/23/14 03:55 AM
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I hope nobody tosses their iPads up like this.
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Re: Tom Hanks Made an iPad App
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#330420 - 08/23/14 04:11 AM
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> I hope nobody tosses their iPads up like this.
Even better. Trying to put it into the mail box to mail it off. Someone will get a free iPad. 
Does the person sound like Tom Hanks on the YouTube video?
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Re: Tom Hanks Made an iPad App
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#330422 - 08/23/14 04:24 AM
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> Does the person sound like Tom Hanks on the YouTube video?
His voice sounds quite similar, but there's a different quality to it. Perhaps due to head or mouth shape....?
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Re: Tom Hanks Made an iPad App
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#330429 - 08/23/14 05:32 AM
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WTF I can't imagine a typewriter emulator ever being "excellent" - can't emulate the feeling of slamming the carriage back with a palm strike, dammit.
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Re: Tom Hanks Made an iPad App
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#330469 - 08/23/14 08:36 PM
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> WTF I can't imagine a typewriter emulator ever being "excellent" - can't emulate the feeling of slamming the carriage back with a palm strike, dammit.
I just don't get it. I mean, I get why people would want it....but, I never would. The only device I want to handle that much is a brawny, bonnie lass. Fuck.
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Re: Tom Hanks Made an iPad App
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#330492 - 08/24/14 06:20 AM
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> I just don't get it. I mean, I get why people would want it....but, I never would.
> The only device I want to handle that much is a brawny, bonnie lass. Fuck.
Using a real typewriter has a big effect on the writing process vs a word processor. You can't edit as you go, so you do the whole thing, mark up your edits on the paper, then type the whole thing with the edits in place. In theory you could work that way on a computer, but it isn't encouraged, while a typewriter forces it. A typewriter also forces you to think about word wrap and hyphenation when you get to the end of a line.
Also, there's the "one-off" aspect, as with a Polaroid instant camera. If you type something up and hand the paper to someone, that's the one copy outside your mind that you've given them. Making another copy requires that either you type it again (which may introduce subtle differences) or that they duplicate it. It gives more control to the recipient of the artefact.
Typewriter emulator doesn't provide these aspects.
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#330523 - 08/24/14 09:17 PM
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> Using a real typewriter has a big effect on the writing process vs a word processor. You can't edit as you go, so you do the whole thing, mark up your edits on the paper, then type the whole thing with the edits in place. In theory you could work that way on a computer, but it isn't encouraged, while a typewriter forces it. A typewriter also forces you to think about word wrap and hyphenation when you get to the end of a line.
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> Also, there's the "one-off" aspect, as with a Polaroid instant camera. If you type something up and hand the paper to someone, that's the one copy outside your mind that you've given them. Making another copy requires that either you type it again (which may introduce subtle differences) or that they duplicate it. It gives mor> control to the recipient of the artefact.
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> Typewriter emulator doesn't provide these aspects.
Yeah, there's no going back....outside of technology-reducing cataclysm.
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#330526 - 08/24/14 09:26 PM
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Re: Tom Hanks Made an iPad App
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#330577 - 08/25/14 06:43 AM
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I don't think any of those things have anything to do with someone wanting this type of thing. It's more that once you're used to a medium for writing, switching can stop and blank your flow, like getting to sleep with a fan (noise) on for 20 years and one night it breaks and you can't get to sleep.
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Re: Tom Hanks Made an iPad App
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#330578 - 08/25/14 07:01 AM
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I loved the feel of the later IBM Selectrics (and I'm just old enough to have taken typing on them in high school instead of computers), but I don't find anything else about the typewriter experience particularly compelling. Correction tape vs. the delete key is no contest.
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Re: Tom Hanks Made an iPad App
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#330618 - 08/25/14 07:30 PM
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> I loved the feel of the later IBM Selectrics (and I'm just old enough to have taken typing on them in high school instead of computers)...
Yeah! Red (and perhaps blue) thick hard-ass plastic bombers! They were like power steering: you could feel the hammer move and strike when you pressed the keyboard key.
> but I don't find anything else> about the typewriter experience particularly compelling. Correction tape vs. the delete key is no contest.
Nope. And trying to find the little spaces left in the tape, cos tape was scarce and of course for the school expensive.
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