I just typed in "50 Shades of Gray", and the Kindle version is $9.99 (no shipping). The print version is $9.57. So, you've got me by 42 cents before shipping, which still means that the Kindle version will be cheaper for 90% of amazon buyers (those with Amazon Prime are Excepted, although Amazon Prime allows for free Kindle lending, which could put the price at 0.00 for Kindle.)
I looked up "Stephen King". I went thought the first 20 or so novels, and there are exactly *two* that cost more on Kindle (vs paperback). Most are $8.99-9.99 total, and none are more than $2 more expensive on Kindle. At this price point, I really wouldn't care for one version over the other. They are going to crank out so many poor quality copies of these high-selling paperbacks that it eventually makes their printing costs very, very low.
I would be (and I am) much more concerned with the higher priced books, like the non-fiction tech guides that are not only printed with much better quality, but are over 1,000 (large) pages. Using the Unix must-have "UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook (4th Edition)" as an example (I happen to own both the paperback and kindle versions), it is $41.05 for the print version, although the price printed on the book is actually much higher. The Kindle version is $27.35. That thirteen dollar savings will cover the difference for at least six Stephen King titles - before shipping.
I just finished going through hundreds of titles for (Nonfiction, Technical) books that I would purchase or have purchased, and I could not find a SINGLE title that was more for the Kindle version, using the keywords "Linux, Java, Bash, Windows, OSX, Javascript, or algorithms". Some of the Kindle versions are less than the paperback versions by only a couple dollars, but there are several than are 30%-75% less than their dead tree counterparts.
With the types of books that I read, my kindle has paid for itself many times over, and I have no reason to buy another one, since my laptop, iPad, and Nexus 7 all can use either the free download or the web-based kindle reader. Just guessing, it has probably saved me anywhere from $700-$1500 on my current library of 110 titles.
I have owned a kindle for about a year and a half. I own over 110 ebooks (most are tech, but also some fiction, classics, etc).
I have *never* seen a printed book cost less than the kindle ebook of the same title. I essentially always buy the ebook over the dead tree version, and aside from instant access, the reason that I do so is because the kindle version is frequently 30% (or more) less cost than the physical version (before thinking about shipping costs). Where are all of these books that are more expensive for kindle than for the paper versions? (Hint: they don't seem to be O'reily, Cisco Press, Apress, SAMS, Sybex, or Microsoft Press.)
This seems like a great idea, but does anyone else see the possibility that the repairs will be vastly slanted to a handful of products that are 1) plentiful 2) expensive to replace, and 3) have inexpensive parts?
I can see a cafe that has a line out the door for people want to get their iPhone glass or batteries replaced, or their laptop hard drive swapped out while the person who can repair shoes, sew (a skirt with a hole in it), carve wood, machine parts, or repair a mechanical device (iron which no longer steams) sits reletively idle.
Patients on Coumadin KNOW that they are treading on thin ice. It was prescribed to them post stroke or post MI by a specialist and it's tracked very closely by the doctor's office (frequently q 30 days). Even a change in diet (since warfarin affects vitamin k-dependent clotting factors) can change PT INR times for the worse (in either direction).
So yes, if you have had a stroke or an MI, or have some type of heart valve damage - then yes a doctor's care is important, as is ANYTHING that you put in your body, including cigarette smoke, alcohol, or even spinach (vit k). If you're taking a beta blocker for hypertension, a statin for cholesterol, antibiotics for a bacterial infection, or birth control, you can pretty much bet that you're safe unless specifically told by a doctor or pharmacist that you are in a high(er) risk category. That's common sense, not a fancy "centralized" database.
So, yes, I have met a few thousand patients who are on "blood thinners" (platelet aggregation inhibitors).
Yea, right. "Doctors NEVER self-diagnose". I can't tell you how many prescriptions doctors routinely call in for themselves. Plenty of them call in "Z-packs" just to have one or two on hand "just in case".
I have never even considered this when applying for any job that I've ever had, from entry-level computer tech at a local business to systems admin of a fortune 100 company, to developer for E-commerce solutions, to starting my own company. I have plenty of my life on the internet, including job applications, old employers, photos, forum posts, videos, etc and I have never been denied any of my previous jobs, which *MIGHT* happen to include all of the above positions. Even going into something like PCI compliance, I can't imagine someone, or someone's HR department caring, or even thinking of caring.
If you're trying to get into government contractors, or government security positions requiring a security clearance, then they already know, in a zine or not. I would make sure that I provided a thorough explanation to even have a hope at passing their screening process. If you're applying somewhere, let's say Ebay... are they really going to look through your results? Really?
The only possible explanation that would make sense is either if the position is a very high level (CXO, President, etc) at a medium to large size company, or into politics and government. Do you really think that Time Warner knows the google results of a senior level network administrator, or cares? (Hint, they don't)
Paracelsus, sometimes called the father of toxicology, wrote:
German: Alle Ding' sind Gift, und nichts ohn' Gift; allein die Dosis macht, daß ein Ding kein Gift ist.
"All things are poison and nothing is without poison, only the dose permits something not to be poisonous."
That is to say, substances often considered toxic can be benign or beneficial in small doses, and conversely an ordinarily benign substance can be deadly if over-consumed. Even water can be deadly if overconsumed.
It only works on copper 10/100 networks. Plugging into a GigE network will cause major problems, especially if you're plugging it in where there is likely good information to be sniffed (i.e. close to the locations POP/DMARC).
Yes, you can buy commercial taps for Gig, but I wonder if those would insert any delay into the network (both certainly do when you have to unplug the cables to plug in your tap...)
A 64-Bit OS that can address my 8GB of RAM and has drivers supplied for it by almost every company? I dunno, that's why I put vista-64 on my latest Desktop. I use it mostly to run office and VM-workstation with windows server products as a testing environment (and several flavors of linux).
With a 9800GT, a Phenom 9650, and 2 SATA disks with 8GB of ram, it seems to run fine to me.
Agree, I have a Skytel 2-way for work and it's impossible to sleep through.
I also have a separate cell for work. We route incidents to the pagers first (so that the assigned on-call people can respond and the rest can have our pagers on silent at 3am).
Then, if a threshold is serious enough, or the incident is not resolved in xx minutes, the alerts are sent via SMS to all cell phones on the most annoying and loud alert ever (which everyone on the project/team will get).
I do not have an iPhone, and lack of tethering support is one of many reasons why.
Same here. Lack of tethering on the 3g network was iPhone's fatal flaw for me. If it was permitted, I would have one right now. Instead I'm waiting out some android phones to see how they stack up.
Tethering with EVDO (non rev-a) on my Blackberry usually gives me almost a Mb/sec up and down. That's fine for sending a few emails or even browing the web if I get stuck somewhere. The bonus is the full keyboard and decent sized screen on my laptop, not to mention any data that I have saved on said laptop for work, etc.
There are some problems, with number 1 being that blackberry software ONLY runs on windows, but that's also what my company laptop runs, so no big complaint there.
That's ok, my "defensive" guns only have the kill/maim setting and 100 round drums of steel-cored rifle ammunition. Shoot at me with a "stun" GUN and you're getting shot back at with the real thing. Heck, why not give them 1 for 1 and use.50 cal too?
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It's not that hard, buddy.
More examples? Stephen King's recent book 11/22/63 is $13.59 paperback, $16.41 kindle.
Do we have different internets? Are you in another country?
Sthephen King's book is 9.99 on Kindle.
It's $13.59 in paperback (pre-shipping).
http://www.amazon.com/11-22-63-Stephen-King/dp/1451627297/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1347037977&sr=1-3&keywords=stephen+king
I just typed in "50 Shades of Gray", and the Kindle version is $9.99 (no shipping). The print version is $9.57. So, you've got me by 42 cents before shipping, which still means that the Kindle version will be cheaper for 90% of amazon buyers (those with Amazon Prime are Excepted, although Amazon Prime allows for free Kindle lending, which could put the price at 0.00 for Kindle.)
http://www.amazon.com/Fifty-Shades-Grey-Trilogy-ebook/dp/B007J4T2G8/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1347036166&sr=8-2&keywords=50+shades+of+gray
I looked up "Stephen King". I went thought the first 20 or so novels, and there are exactly *two* that cost more on Kindle (vs paperback). Most are $8.99-9.99 total, and none are more than $2 more expensive on Kindle. At this price point, I really wouldn't care for one version over the other. They are going to crank out so many poor quality copies of these high-selling paperbacks that it eventually makes their printing costs very, very low.
I would be (and I am) much more concerned with the higher priced books, like the non-fiction tech guides that are not only printed with much better quality, but are over 1,000 (large) pages. Using the Unix must-have "UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook (4th Edition)" as an example (I happen to own both the paperback and kindle versions), it is $41.05 for the print version, although the price printed on the book is actually much higher. The Kindle version is $27.35. That thirteen dollar savings will cover the difference for at least six Stephen King titles - before shipping.
I just finished going through hundreds of titles for (Nonfiction, Technical) books that I would purchase or have purchased, and I could not find a SINGLE title that was more for the Kindle version, using the keywords "Linux, Java, Bash, Windows, OSX, Javascript, or algorithms". Some of the Kindle versions are less than the paperback versions by only a couple dollars, but there are several than are 30%-75% less than their dead tree counterparts.
With the types of books that I read, my kindle has paid for itself many times over, and I have no reason to buy another one, since my laptop, iPad, and Nexus 7 all can use either the free download or the web-based kindle reader. Just guessing, it has probably saved me anywhere from $700-$1500 on my current library of 110 titles.
I have owned a kindle for about a year and a half. I own over 110 ebooks (most are tech, but also some fiction, classics, etc).
I have *never* seen a printed book cost less than the kindle ebook of the same title. I essentially always buy the ebook over the dead tree version, and aside from instant access, the reason that I do so is because the kindle version is frequently 30% (or more) less cost than the physical version (before thinking about shipping costs). Where are all of these books that are more expensive for kindle than for the paper versions? (Hint: they don't seem to be O'reily, Cisco Press, Apress, SAMS, Sybex, or Microsoft Press.)
This seems like a great idea, but does anyone else see the possibility that the repairs will be vastly slanted to a handful of products that are 1) plentiful 2) expensive to replace, and 3) have inexpensive parts?
I can see a cafe that has a line out the door for people want to get their iPhone glass or batteries replaced, or their laptop hard drive swapped out while the person who can repair shoes, sew (a skirt with a hole in it), carve wood, machine parts, or repair a mechanical device (iron which no longer steams) sits reletively idle.
ASU has used "Gmail" for their official email since I was there in about 2006-ish. http://help.asu.edu/sims/selfhelp/SelfhelpKbView.seam?parature_id=8373-8193-5025
I can't tell if this is the same policy or type of account that Hawaii is using though.
So there was an "opportunity", but it would have been "likely impossible anyway"... ? So, was there an opportunity or wasn't there?
Patients on Coumadin KNOW that they are treading on thin ice. It was prescribed to them post stroke or post MI by a specialist and it's tracked very closely by the doctor's office (frequently q 30 days). Even a change in diet (since warfarin affects vitamin k-dependent clotting factors) can change PT INR times for the worse (in either direction).
So yes, if you have had a stroke or an MI, or have some type of heart valve damage - then yes a doctor's care is important, as is ANYTHING that you put in your body, including cigarette smoke, alcohol, or even spinach (vit k). If you're taking a beta blocker for hypertension, a statin for cholesterol, antibiotics for a bacterial infection, or birth control, you can pretty much bet that you're safe unless specifically told by a doctor or pharmacist that you are in a high(er) risk category. That's common sense, not a fancy "centralized" database.
So, yes, I have met a few thousand patients who are on "blood thinners" (platelet aggregation inhibitors).
Yea, right. "Doctors NEVER self-diagnose". I can't tell you how many prescriptions doctors routinely call in for themselves. Plenty of them call in "Z-packs" just to have one or two on hand "just in case".
I have never even considered this when applying for any job that I've ever had, from entry-level computer tech at a local business to systems admin of a fortune 100 company, to developer for E-commerce solutions, to starting my own company. I have plenty of my life on the internet, including job applications, old employers, photos, forum posts, videos, etc and I have never been denied any of my previous jobs, which *MIGHT* happen to include all of the above positions. Even going into something like PCI compliance, I can't imagine someone, or someone's HR department caring, or even thinking of caring.
If you're trying to get into government contractors, or government security positions requiring a security clearance, then they already know, in a zine or not. I would make sure that I provided a thorough explanation to even have a hope at passing their screening process. If you're applying somewhere, let's say Ebay... are they really going to look through your results? Really?
The only possible explanation that would make sense is either if the position is a very high level (CXO, President, etc) at a medium to large size company, or into politics and government. Do you really think that Time Warner knows the google results of a senior level network administrator, or cares? (Hint, they don't)
Paracelsus, sometimes called the father of toxicology, wrote:
German: Alle Ding' sind Gift, und nichts ohn' Gift; allein die Dosis macht, daß ein Ding kein Gift ist.
"All things are poison and nothing is without poison, only the dose permits something not to be poisonous."
That is to say, substances often considered toxic can be benign or beneficial in small doses, and conversely an ordinarily benign substance can be deadly if over-consumed. Even water can be deadly if overconsumed.
(Ripped right from Wikipedia [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paracelsus ] )
So, 500 years ago, this would have been news?
Does anyone else think that 31 million might be kind of a small sum of money to "reinvent the Internet"?
Filter packets coming in AND going out. Use an IDS with a firewall. Monitor destination IPs and ports.
It only works on copper 10/100 networks. Plugging into a GigE network will cause major problems, especially if you're plugging it in where there is likely good information to be sniffed (i.e. close to the locations POP/DMARC).
Yes, you can buy commercial taps for Gig, but I wonder if those would insert any delay into the network (both certainly do when you have to unplug the cables to plug in your tap...)
Rick Astley is under Sony/BMG. Let the Rick-rolling continue!
A 64-Bit OS that can address my 8GB of RAM and has drivers supplied for it by almost every company? I dunno, that's why I put vista-64 on my latest Desktop. I use it mostly to run office and VM-workstation with windows server products as a testing environment (and several flavors of linux).
With a 9800GT, a Phenom 9650, and 2 SATA disks with 8GB of ram, it seems to run fine to me.
(My laptop runs Linux, my macbook runs OSX)
Why not look at the source for govt backdoors, rootkits, or whatever?
....or red hat, or suse, or maple, the get back to us.
Agree, I have a Skytel 2-way for work and it's impossible to sleep through.
I also have a separate cell for work. We route incidents to the pagers first (so that the assigned on-call people can respond and the rest can have our pagers on silent at 3am).
Then, if a threshold is serious enough, or the incident is not resolved in xx minutes, the alerts are sent via SMS to all cell phones on the most annoying and loud alert ever (which everyone on the project/team will get).
If I had mod points, I would mod this up... ...Especially because I'm running HAHAHHAYOUSUCKCOCKS 1.8 and need to upgrade.
Thanks for the reminder.
But, running a live CD would kill the battery quite quickly if it has to constantly spin the CD-ROM.
I know that most sub-notebooks don't have integrated optical drives, so perhaps live USB Ubuntu or other linux would be better(?)
I don't know, but it found 26 matches for goatse. (yes, seriously).
"You know, Dude, I myself dabbled in pacifism once. Not in 'Nam of course." -Walter Sobchak, The Big Lebowski
I do not have an iPhone, and lack of tethering support is one of many reasons why.
Same here. Lack of tethering on the 3g network was iPhone's fatal flaw for me. If it was permitted, I would have one right now. Instead I'm waiting out some android phones to see how they stack up.
Tethering with EVDO (non rev-a) on my Blackberry usually gives me almost a Mb/sec up and down. That's fine for sending a few emails or even browing the web if I get stuck somewhere. The bonus is the full keyboard and decent sized screen on my laptop, not to mention any data that I have saved on said laptop for work, etc.
There are some problems, with number 1 being that blackberry software ONLY runs on windows, but that's also what my company laptop runs, so no big complaint there.
You chose such a fine example for your arguement; Nixon. Gee, how would we have gotten along without him, watergate, vietnam?
Tricky Dick FTL!
That's ok, my "defensive" guns only have the kill/maim setting and 100 round drums of steel-cored rifle ammunition. Shoot at me with a "stun" GUN and you're getting shot back at with the real thing. Heck, why not give them 1 for 1 and use .50 cal too?