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Re:Nerds Ruining Entertainment by Daetrin · 2012-09-29 06:41 · Score: 1 · on Aircraft Carriers In Space

Bugger, no Kindle editions and the only non-stolen ebooks on Google are NOT FOR SALE IN YOUR COUNTRY. Damned Luddite author.

Uh, what? I just looked for the first book, and you can get the ebook on Amazon or Barnes & Noble.

(Can you load B&N epubs on a Kindle? I know i can load Amazon files on my Nook but i've never tried the reverse process, and i know the Kindle is more locked down.)

Re:Weird pricing? by synapse7 · 2012-09-26 06:30 · Score: 1 · on Barnes & Noble's Nook HD Tablets Face iPad, Kindle Fire HD

The 7" 16GB nook hd is 229.

Re:Nook touch FTW by Cinder6 · 2012-09-08 09:37 · Score: 1 · on No Opt-Out For Ads On New Kindle Fires

What light? There isn't one in a true e-ink device.

Kindle Paperwhite with built-in light
Nook Simple Touch with GlowLight

Re:Buy a Kindle by zippthorne · 2012-08-18 10:10 · Score: 1 · on Ask Slashdot: I Want To Read More. Should I Get an eBook Reader Or a Tablet?

Why spend $30 for an external light, when for not much more than that, you can just get an e-reader with a built-in light?

(I'm pretty sure there is a Kindle has a built-in light model, too, but I was lazy in my searching)

Re:I cancelled my Netflix subscription a while ago by cpu6502 · 2012-07-25 05:14 · Score: 1 · on Latest Netflix Earnings Report Mixed

I won't flame you, but I disagree that e-ink is bad. I can stare at it for hours without the inevitable eyestrain that comes from looking at a too-bright LCD screen (which I suspect over time will cause cataracts). It more-resembles the paper of an actual book.

As for lighting: Barnes&Noble now has a glow-in-the-dark eink display. I figure it's only a matter of time until Amazon copies them and has their own glowing kindle: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/u/nook/379003208

Re:The U.S. has like 99% listening coverage. by cold+fjord · 2012-07-14 18:55 · Score: 3, Insightful · on Former Pentagon Analyst: China Has Backdoors To 80% of Telecoms

Well said. To which I will add this reference:

The Black Book of Communism - translated by Jonathan Murphy and Mark Kramer - available at Barnes & Nobel and Amazon.

Review by Daniel J. Mahoney, American Enterprise, of: The Black Book of Communism

The six contributors to this book are all French, and all hail from the Left. The book's original publication in France created a sensation, because its cumulative effect is to establish that Communism is the twentieth century's fiercest practitioner of state violence and "crimes against humanity." It forthrightly challenges the claim that Nazism has a monopoly on "absolute political evil" in our time.

The chapters on the Soviet Union and China are as powerful as they are in large part because their authors, Nicolas Werth and Jean-Louis Margolin, avoid excessive polemics and allow the evidence to simply speak for itself. If anything, Werth is excessively conservative in his estimates, drawing almost exclusively from not always reliable "official" party and state archival materials to verify politically--inspired deaths and incarcerations in the Soviet Union. Despite the limits of this method, Werth concludes that the Bolshevik regime was responsible, directly or indirectly, for the deaths of 20 million people between 1918 and 1956, and for the imprisonment in camps of millions more. He demolishes the notion of a good Lenin and a bad Stalin by showing that terror defined the Soviet regime from its inception. And he concludes that there is no basis for the claim that the terror of the 1930s was driven by overzealous Party and police officials acting independently of orders.

Likewise, Margolin's chapter on China shows that the crimes of Maoism are rooted in ideological hubris and a denial of the humanity of political or class "enemies." Margolin demonstrates that Mao committed crimes unprecedented in Chinese history, and damaged the nation in everything from economics to ethics. The devastating consequences of Mao's rule: 65 million lost lives. Perhaps the deepest reason The Black Book has sparked controversy is that it argues Communism is as intrinsically perverse as Nazism. Editor Stephane Courtois argues that Communist crimes, like Nazi ones, partake of the desire to eliminate groups of people on the basis of their origins, not because of any individual culpability or responsibility. He denies that Communism's crimes have any right to be excused or qualified because they were committed in the name of egalitarian principles. Courtois shows that Communism is an exterminationist ideology which selects its enemies on the basis of class. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn suggested in The Gulag Archipelago that the USSR's war against the independent peasantry--the so-called "de-kulakization" campaign --was the first systematic effort to eliminate an entire class of people for ideological reasons. In this sense, Hitler was Lenin's and Stalin's faithful pupil.

Why Doesn't Communism Have as Bad a Name as Nazism?

Re:"The White Album" by JackieBrown · 2012-06-08 05:29 · Score: 1 · on Facebook Launches App Center With Over 600 Apps

You "get" to buy it if you own a non-rooted nook.

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/u/NOOK-Apps/379003212/

Re:Genetics probably does play a role by Beryllium+Sphere(tm) · 2012-05-27 19:07 · Score: 1 · on The Shortage of Women In IT

That's a fascinating question. Let's find the answer. First step will be to fix the social problems so we can examine any underlying genetics.

The social problems are not always as obvious as they used to be, but are still pushing bright, motivated women out of computer-related curricula. http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Unlocking-the-Clubhouse/Jane-Margolis/e/9780262632690

Besides the issue of social justice, I enjoy working with bright, motivated people and anything that reduces the supply of them deprives me of that pleasure.

Re:Um, 2600??? by OhSoLaMeow · 2012-05-03 08:51 · Score: 1 · on B&N Pulls Linux Format Magazine Over Feature On 'Hacking'

B&N is where I bought my copy of Hacker's Delight. Who knows what kind of insidious bit manipulations I may now come up with?

Was This Pulled From The Nook As Well? by Anonymous Coward · 2012-05-03 05:36 · Score: 0 · on B&N Pulls Linux Format Magazine Over Feature On 'Hacking'

As you can get a linux format subscription for the Nook.

Re:Um, 2600??? by Supp0rtLinux · 2012-05-03 05:15 · Score: 1 · on B&N Pulls Linux Format Magazine Over Feature On 'Hacking'

Oh yeah, and B&N is where I got my copy of the Anarchist's Cookbook: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/anarchist-cookbook?keyword=anarchist+cookbook&store=allproducts

Re:Good for them! by DrgnDancer · 2012-05-03 05:12 · Score: 5, Insightful · on B&N Pulls Linux Format Magazine Over Feature On 'Hacking'

I have trouble believing either the reason B&N gave, or your more sinister reason. My counter to both of them is contained in this link:

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/linux-hacking?keyword=linux+hacking&store=allproducts

Which shows the result of typing "linux hacking" into the barnesandnoble.com search box. They sell literally dozens of titles on the subject of hacking and Linux, Some of which use the "tinkering with" definition of hacking, and others of which use the "breaking into" definition. I've seen many of these books in the physical stores too. This sounds like some management weenie over reacting to a complaint and little else.

And yet... by Memophage · 2012-05-03 05:10 · Score: 1 · on B&N Pulls Linux Format Magazine Over Feature On 'Hacking'

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/best-of-2600-emmanuel-goldstein/1102658944?ean=9780470294192
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/2600-magazine-2600-magazine/1104039139?ean=2940014186568

And yet... by Memophage · 2012-05-03 05:10 · Score: 1 · on B&N Pulls Linux Format Magazine Over Feature On 'Hacking'

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/best-of-2600-emmanuel-goldstein/1102658944?ean=9780470294192
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/2600-magazine-2600-magazine/1104039139?ean=2940014186568

Re:This deserves a big WTF??? by Angrywhiteshoes · 2012-05-03 04:25 · Score: 2 · on B&N Pulls Linux Format Magazine Over Feature On 'Hacking'

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/d2600-magazine-2600-magazine/1108150347?ean=2940013699236

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/hacking?store=ALLPRODUCTS&keyword=hacking

Man, I don't get it, there must be more to it than just "omg, they are legionz PULL ALL THE THINGS!!!!!"

Re:This deserves a big WTF??? by Angrywhiteshoes · 2012-05-03 04:25 · Score: 2 · on B&N Pulls Linux Format Magazine Over Feature On 'Hacking'

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/d2600-magazine-2600-magazine/1108150347?ean=2940013699236

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/hacking?store=ALLPRODUCTS&keyword=hacking

Man, I don't get it, there must be more to it than just "omg, they are legionz PULL ALL THE THINGS!!!!!"

But they seel this book? by hduff · 2012-05-03 04:17 · Score: 4, Insightful · on B&N Pulls Linux Format Magazine Over Feature On 'Hacking'

Scarne on Cards
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/scarne-on-cards-john-scarn/1104279175?ean=9780451167651

Teaches you how to cheat at card games.

Originally produced for the US Army during WW2, it was designed to reveal methods of cheating so a soldier could tell when he was being cheated, just like the Linux Format article.

Understanding bad people is not the same as being a bad person; ignorance is neither power nor protection.

Still there by wiredog · 2012-05-03 04:06 · Score: 2 · on B&N Pulls Linux Format Magazine Over Feature On 'Hacking'

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/d2600-magazine-2600-magazine/1108150347?ean=2940013699236

They prefer that customers buy by Ukab+the+Great · 2012-05-03 03:50 · Score: 3, Interesting · on B&N Pulls Linux Format Magazine Over Feature On 'Hacking'

less dangerous reading material that has hurt no one.

Re:Tandy Computer Whiz Kids by herring0 · 2012-05-03 02:32 · Score: 1 · on Ask Slashdot: Which Comic Books To Start My 3-Year-Old With?

But they do make kid friendly 'comic-like' books. I found these ~8"x8" books in the kids section that are about Marvel and Star Wars and several other subjects (girl friendly too) that my kids loved. Here is a link to one of the books at B&N.

I loved these books, most of them are less than $4 and they are quick and easy for kids to start reading on their own as they get a little older.

From bn.com:
ISBN-13: 9780061626128
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 12/22/2009
Pages: 24
Age range: 4 - 10 Years

Re:About Time by Raenex · 2012-04-26 07:05 · Score: 1 · on Sci-Fi Publisher Tor Ditches DRM For E-Books

Here's the real deal: the purpose is to slow down initial piracy enough to make a profit from people who would choose the pirated, free version if they can find it.

Really? So which book from:

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/ebooks/new-releases.asp

will I not be able to find a pirated version of? I just did a test for "The Witness", which was released 9 days ago, and found it no problem.

I suspect the real reason for DRM is to "keep the honest people honest", in that by putting up some token security measures you're preventing them from casually copying.

Re:Where? by Beryllium+Sphere(tm) · 2012-04-14 09:13 · Score: 1 · on The Ugly Underbelly of Coder Culture

That's at the end of the education and entry level pipeline. Cultural issues can push women into other fields long before they're qualified to apply at your workplace.

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Unlocking-the-Clubhouse/Jane-Margolis/e/9780262632690

Harwani's recent PyQT intro to Python programming by shmorhay · 2012-04-12 09:53 · Score: 1 · on Ask Slashdot: Best Book For 11-Year-Old Who Wants To Teach Himself To Program?

B. M. Harwani just came out with a very nice introductory Python programming book that covers Python basics in the first part, and then focuses on using PyQT to build GUI applications that link to a MySQL database. This combination of Python, PyQT, and MySQL works well on Windows, Mac, and Linux. The full title is "Introduction to Python Programming and Developing GUI Applications with PyQT" by B.M. Harwani, Dec. 2011, ISBN-13: 9781435460973, 300 pages, $30 -- http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/introduction-to-python-programming-and-developing-gui-applications-with-pyqt-b-m-harwani/1103826486

Naomi Klein's book No Logo is still relevant by shmorhay · 2012-04-11 11:06 · Score: 1 · on Assessing Media Bias: Microsoft Vs. Everyone Else

Naomi Klein's book "No Logo" (ISBN-13: 9780312429270) is still relevant regarding corporate branding, and is a rollicking good read if you are an economics nerd: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/no-logo-naomi-klein/1102326802

Re:Privacy or Convenience? by grim4593 · 2012-03-14 09:53 · Score: 1 · on The Average Consumer Thinks Data Privacy Is Worth Around 65 Cents

Another problem with "privacy policies" is that they disappear when the company does. Barnes and Noble was able to buy the intellectual property of Borders when they went bankrupt. This included all the customer information regardless of the original Borders privacy policy.
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/container/stores.asp?pid=39742
So even if you trust a company if it goes out of business your information can go to the highest bidder.

How long will the books stay around? by Animats · 2012-03-05 05:14 · Score: 4, Insightful · on The eBook Backlash

What bothers me about e-readers is the impermanence of the content. If the service goes away, will the content go away? That's happened many times with on-line music. Remember Wal-Mart Music? PlaysForSure? MTV Urge? Zune? If the service goes down, can you move your content to a new device? This is really tough with devices that talk to nothing but the service. Can you back up your e-reader? Maybe, sort of, sometimes.

Even if the content is on the reader, will the service push an update that makes the reader dependent on the service? That's happened with games. There have been updates that made e-books go away.

And don't even think about leaving your books to your kids.

Re:Really? by cold+fjord · 2012-02-18 06:05 · Score: 1 · on Is the Government Scaring Web Businesses Out of the US?