That is exactly what I'm planning on doing. I've got a couple of Richard Solo 1200 auxiliary packs and with a solar charger or two that would be great.
That surely is true. There is an evolution going on with how we read and learn now that will change our lives a lot. Probably greater than the move from clay tablets to scrolls, or from scrolls to books, or from books to printed books.
I love eBooks and readers a lot. I have over 100 books loaded onto my iPhone. But a paper book or journal doesn't go blank after a few hours reading. I want to read in a dark tent at night after 2 weeks backpacking in the Rockies.
I use my iPhone with the free app Stanza. Tens of thousands eBooks available, there are free converters of all eBook formats available for your desktop, and Stanza uses a common format.
Plus: I use it in dark or dim lighting, so e-Ink isn't needed.
Minus: I does use battery power and there are limited charges on iPhone batteries, so e-Ink would be a benefit;^).
Also, software created by U.S. government employees cannot be copyrighted. You can ask for source code, but that may involve an Electronic Freedom of Information Act (EFOIA) request, and you'd have to pay for the cost of providing you that information (considerably less than the cost of the software source code if you developed it). Unfortunately most software now developed for U.S. government is written by contractors (not U.S. government employees), and most contractors retain all rights to that software even though it was paid for 100% by government money. This makes it less costly for the government to produce software.
You're missing the point. What you are seeing is not the gizmo itself. You are seeing the future of the Standard User Interface. Apple is going post-GUI here, moving their experience with iPod and iPhone to a larger form. This is a way to bring users around to interfacing with computer (applications) forgoing what we now consider essential: the monitor, keyboard, and mouse. If you think this is about a $500 netbook or laptop, you are missing the entire point: this is a continuation of a paradigm shift happening right in front of you.
Mirrors do not reverse left-right as was explained most clearly by Richard Feynman.... A few seconds of ray tracing show that they reverse front to back.
I use this feature to comb the hair on the back of my head.
Really? That is odd. I was just watching a webcam on opentopia ( http://www.opentopia.com/ ) and watched a cam in Russia viewing a front loader scraping up snow with trucks arriving at interval to be loaded. It looked to be about as efficient as could be. Also, the person running the front loader was really good (my experience in a combat engineering battalion that used earth-moving equipment as a basis of judgment). OTOH, your description could well describe DOT workers anywhere.
Perhaps this is because the sources are not idle time-wasters simply marking territory. The source may be political/military tests to determine how to effectively damage commerce. Check out the usual suspects.
[OT] I sometimes (used to) read Usenet newsgroups with Google Groups, but some political/military spam attacks have rendered many groups there virtually useless. No commercial spammers would so effectively drive potential clients away. This spam does not appear when I use a newsreader.
I was once directed to write a (motor) fleet management software package for our ~12 vehicles. It took several days to convince management that it would be cheaper and better to purchase a commercially available solution.
Duh, I knew this, I changed the word "common" to "usual" in that sentence to avoid confusion, then had a brain fart when an Iranian incursion into an Iraqi oilfield was mentioned on "Morning Joe". Kinda lost it there.
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That is exactly what I'm planning on doing. I've got a couple of Richard Solo 1200 auxiliary packs and with a solar charger or two that would be great.
That surely is true. There is an evolution going on with how we read and learn now that will change our lives a lot. Probably greater than the move from clay tablets to scrolls, or from scrolls to books, or from books to printed books.
I love eBooks and readers a lot. I have over 100 books loaded onto my iPhone. But a paper book or journal doesn't go blank after a few hours reading. I want to read in a dark tent at night after 2 weeks backpacking in the Rockies.
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I use my iPhone with the free app Stanza. Tens of thousands eBooks available, there are free converters of all eBook formats available for your desktop, and Stanza uses a common format. Plus: I use it in dark or dim lighting, so e-Ink isn't needed. Minus: I does use battery power and there are limited charges on iPhone batteries, so e-Ink would be a benefit ;^).
You are correct.
Also, software created by U.S. government employees cannot be copyrighted. You can ask for source code, but that may involve an Electronic Freedom of Information Act (EFOIA) request, and you'd have to pay for the cost of providing you that information (considerably less than the cost of the software source code if you developed it). Unfortunately most software now developed for U.S. government is written by contractors (not U.S. government employees), and most contractors retain all rights to that software even though it was paid for 100% by government money. This makes it less costly for the government to produce software.
Yeah, but Shakespeare's work is so full of cliches.
Nor will I. It needs to be multitasking, run 3rd party software and cost less than $200 for me to consider it.
You're missing the point. What you are seeing is not the gizmo itself. You are seeing the future of the Standard User Interface. Apple is going post-GUI here, moving their experience with iPod and iPhone to a larger form. This is a way to bring users around to interfacing with computer (applications) forgoing what we now consider essential: the monitor, keyboard, and mouse. If you think this is about a $500 netbook or laptop, you are missing the entire point: this is a continuation of a paradigm shift happening right in front of you.
I can't help but recall : http://xkcd.com/386/
... so often had very poor quality.
and this has changed how? ;^)
Yes, and the FAX was invented in 1842! Seriously.
Money and explosives are taken very seriously in Ireland.
The difference being you don't want innocent people getting any money?
Mirrors do not reverse left-right as was explained most clearly by Richard Feynman. ... A few seconds of ray tracing show that they reverse front to back.
I use this feature to comb the hair on the back of my head.
Really? That is odd. I was just watching a webcam on opentopia ( http://www.opentopia.com/ ) and watched a cam in Russia viewing a front loader scraping up snow with trucks arriving at interval to be loaded. It looked to be about as efficient as could be. Also, the person running the front loader was really good (my experience in a combat engineering battalion that used earth-moving equipment as a basis of judgment). OTOH, your description could well describe DOT workers anywhere.
Ei, se on: Hyvää syntymäpäivää, Linus.
Target is operating from within the Amazon world. All taxes are appropriately computed and assessed there.
If my year-end bonus was tied to company stock performance, I'd release some rumor such at this.
Geo-locate sender. Wonderful. The Iranian government is going to love this. If it does well for them, others will quickly follow.
Perhaps this is because the sources are not idle time-wasters simply marking territory. The source may be political/military tests to determine how to effectively damage commerce. Check out the usual suspects. [OT] I sometimes (used to) read Usenet newsgroups with Google Groups, but some political/military spam attacks have rendered many groups there virtually useless. No commercial spammers would so effectively drive potential clients away. This spam does not appear when I use a newsreader.
Who is so damn board
Hey, if I were made of wood I'd be angry too.
Some old broad, probably.
I was once directed to write a (motor) fleet management software package for our ~12 vehicles. It took several days to convince management that it would be cheaper and better to purchase a commercially available solution.
The handwriting's been on the wall since 19 ****ing 74, for crisakes.
Yeah, but it was written in Japanese.
Duh, I knew this, I changed the word "common" to "usual" in that sentence to avoid confusion, then had a brain fart when an Iranian incursion into an Iraqi oilfield was mentioned on "Morning Joe". Kinda lost it there.