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[P3D Bob Aldridge <bob.aldridge@xxxxxx>]

I wrote:

->>The CD is designed to preserve a "snapshot" of the wisdom on the
->>Internet at a particular time. 

And John Roberts replied:

->I can see some benefit to that. Perhaps what I see as the breakthrough
->brilliantly conceived disc is something to come *after* Dan's disc.

Could be!

->>Only a small part of that wisdom will be
->>in the form of images.
-> 
->So the actual images are just sort of an afterthought? :-)
->Is it going to include all the P3D archives?

Maybe the images are an afterthought - depends on the site designer! If
I was setting up my website, and thought that I could convey information
without picture, and I didn't have the images in any case, should I let
the lack of images stop me putting up the site? What if I only have mono
pics? My view is that the information could still be valuable. 3-D
images need not be the only reason for putting a site on the CD.

And I understand from P3D that the archives can be included.

->>I see the biggest values in this CD as twofold:
-> 
->>1. I can get a preview of what people are doing, discover what has
->been >  achieved e.g. with joining mono cameras. If someone has
->successfully  > joined two cameras in the past, then I can probably
->do it in the   >future.
-> 
->But you can learn most of that by subscribing to P3D for a month or
->two. 

But I've been on P3D for many years - and I'm still learning! And what
was that you inferred about the need for pictures? No JPGs or JPSs on
P3D!

->>   I will also, hopefully, have an e-mail route to contact the
->author   >directly. (I say "hopefully" because these addresses will
->inevitably   >go out of date in time.)
-> 
->But that also means those web site owners will be contacted for years
->about out-of date stuff, without a chance to correct it. If this is
->one of the main goals of the disc, won't they think twice before
->signing up? 

Double edged sword, there! However, one wonders how long the CD format
will last. Won't we all be on mini-disk or some other pressable storage
medium rather sooner than we'd like? I doubt that the CD will be widely
used for years. It'll be updated and re-issued, I hope :-)

->>2. People who don't have web browsing capabilities would be able to
->view >   the CD and get sight of all the information. In the UK
->Internet   >connections are much less common than in the USA. As an
->example, only   >three of the eleven members of the Stereoscopic
->Society Committee   >have internet connections.
-> 
->So those of us who are interested in 3D, and don't have web access,
->but *do* just happen to have web browsers installed on our machines
->even though we don't have web access, could benefit from these sites?
->But if they're organized by image content, you can access them using a
->simple image viewer program, which I would consider much more likely
->to be present than a web browser program on a computer that doesn't
->have web access.

Comes back to whether there is information in other than pictorial form.
I think there is. YOU think there is - or you would not have suggested
including the P3D archives. And there's no reason why a browser could
not be obtained from any number of magazine cover CDs...

-> 
->>If you want a compilation of images, then that is a totally different
->>animal. If you want that, then get the CD, contact the site owners
->>directly and request the images that you like in a form that you
->like. >When you've amassed a suitable collection of your favourite
->images, just >archive them onto your own CD. By the time you've
->collected them CD >writers will be standard issue in all new PCs...
-> 
->Why would it take so much longer to get permission to use (for
->instance) 2-10 images from a person's Web site (with proper credit),
->than to get permission to use their entire web site, complete with
->possible errors that will then be cast in stone?
-> 
->John R
-> 
It wouldn't. But you're suggesting that we jettison all the text-based
information scattered around the internet!!!

The image-only disk is an extension, NOT a substitute for the originally
suggested collection of WWW sites, presented exactly as you would see
them by browsing the net, but without the Internet and phone charges -
both of which happen to be quite costly in the UK.

Does that clarify my point of view?

Bob Aldridge
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 * POW 2.0  0007 * Procrastinators do it later.


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