I wonder what the author of the article could do if he 1) got into the habit of keeping it concise 2) used 2-syllable words instead of 5-syllable words when reasonable.
With the rise of the web and a less-empty life than I once had, I don't have the patience to work through verbiage for uncertain payoff, even when the topic is a book that I'm already aware of and looking forward to reading.
Now that the news has been getting out in recent years that Elsevier is evil, you'd think they'd start to be more careful about behaving questionably in easily avoidable ways.
Well, I guess he could refuse to use the tools that he has to use to reach an audience and get this message out, and we could all fail ever to hear about it, fail to discuss it, fail to think about it, and we could shut our brains off and enjoy our dystopia.
I very much want our walled garden dystopia to wilt, wither, and die, and so I'm glad people are at least hearing for a minute that it doesn't have to be this way.
What is it, though, about being interviewed that makes someone say something like "Without the invention of the light bulb, there would be no modern computer as we know it today." as if we could've easily just happened never to think of electric light.
I had a similar feeling, and thought it was probably because I know nothing about aviation and therefore read that stuff uncritically and feel entertained.
I wonder whether that's a general principle in writing -- tell outside-your-expertise stories to entertain the reader, and then with luck (depending on your perspective), the reader reads the rest and feels entertained and informed and good emotions out of a sort of inertia the rest of the way through.
To me, it seems best either not to have a black bar at all or not to worry about black bars at all. Probably the former because having _anyone_ decide whether someone was 'important' in the emotionally difficult time of death just doesn't feel easy and positive, affirming, etc.
Yes! I looked at it, like, "Is this elementary the linux distribution that I have at least heard of by name or is this some completely different thing?" That's a serious failure on their part.
If they insist, all right then, I will buy a Latitude next time.