Nah, forget private use. I foresee a company fitting it out as a floating shopping mall, towing it around the world but keeping just outside a nations water, that way you can avoid sales tax.
Yeah, a pirate shopping centre, those pirate radio guys told me it would never work, but would would listen to those do gooders (ies).
Because relying on an external company to do that, a company that has in the past stated it has no presence in Australia at all (see recent info about our information minister asking them to edit their sites), would not be considered a good solution.
Someone elsewhere in this thread pointed out that the B&N DRM has already been cracked, no citation but I am betting with a little googleing it could be found (fuck I love messing with words, turning a companies name into a adverb).
As a long time MMOG player (DAoC in the past and primarily) I can name the online aliases of about 50 people I consider good friends and about 20 I consider close friends who at best I have a first name for.
As well as the alias I use here (which was a nickname from college, that eventually everyone just 'knew me by') I am known by at least two other online alias' by a fair number of folks, some even know me by more than one of them. Its not paranoia, its just as I get older and do different things, people will know me by different names, Barny, Damage.Inc, Norwegian Jarlsburg, just labels in a world where at its core people end up as just a number... 103770
Yeah, work in retail myself, in the past have been asked by a boss to go to a competitor and buy all their stock of one item, because they were selling it cheaper than our wholesaler.
How they react will likely depend on their price setting method.
If the nook was priced under cost and expected to be subsidised by ebook sales, then they will come down on this like apple. If they are making money on the thing in its own right, they may react like a BSD developer.
Yes it is, these shouldn't be features, it should be simple for a text-speech program to follow without having some tacked on standard that you now have to expect everyone to follow.
The layout should compliment the data, not vice versa. If you have to think for one second "will my document be able to be accessed by vision impaired" then that is one second more than it should be, if you type three columns of text in a continuous flow, it should be able to read it back as such without having to go over it later and mark it up.
Which is why the article specifies that there is currently two types of ammo for the thing, regular payload ammo (25mm HE round with a payload front and back) and much cheaper dummy rounds used in practice.
Interesting to note that the Australian army made a special version of its F88 Austeyr that fired.22 rounds, just so soldiers in practice could go nuts with them and not cost the army a small fortune in ammo (and risk damaging things/hurting people at the 5.56mm NATO rounds normal range).
+2 internets for reference to the late Douglas Adams +1 internets for reference to monty python +3 real life merit points for telling it how it fucking is
Yeah, I got a pile of warhammer 40k stuff beside me at all times for when I get "done" with games for a bit.
Although magic: the gathering has been consuming some of my funds lately, I try and keep my decks "fun" and under $100, so its still got a fair way to grow to catch up on my 40k addiction cost wise.
Hehe, a lot of people replied with similar sentiment, and you show a bit of difference at least in saying "but you might want to do other things", the fact of the matter is, if all I did was games then that would in fact be something to criticise me over, but I don't of course.
I socialise with friends, I go to gym 5 days a week, and although I wouldn't be up to playing football (medical problems there unfortunately) a full time gamer I most definitely am not.
What I am saying is, that just because your taste in games changes, doesn't mean you are too old to play merely that you may want to look harder.
One good way is to jump on steam, look up a group of gamers who play your favourite game and check some public profiles to see what else they play.
$5 worth (well, its now about $4.80AU, I love the currency conversion at the moment).
Crap, it cost me more than that for breakfast this morning.
I really love cheap steam games, you know all you need to do is play it for an hour to get your moneys worth, hell I have played PNatI more than I played some of the latest AAA titles.
Clearly this is wrong, its mislabled for a start, apparently not only children "aged 6 and up" are potential terrorists.
They need to crack down is what I think, kill them all and let God sort them out.
With the chance of their being a bomb on a plane very low, if TSA installed bombs into EVERY plane, the probability your plane would have a second bomb... yeah, I need some sleep now;)
To be honest, its not the speed of the thing, its the "killer app". If you are just using it for web, its a no-brainer, linux for sure, but if you need to do something that only has binaries for a particular OS, then thats what you will run isn't it.
Speed on netbooks has always been rather irrelevant, they are popular because they are cheap and can do (even if slowly) what a normal computer can.
Or in some cases a "tablet PC", for those (like mine) with a swivel around 12" screen but with a real processor, 3d graphics, a "normal" chipset that can take any amount of ram as long as it fits in 2 slots and.... a dvd drive:)
An option is to get either one of the HP 12.1" tablet PCs (swivel around touch-screen, I seriously love mine, best character sheet ever) or you could go for one of the Pioneer x86 based tablets and use a standard bluetooth keyboard and mouse on them.
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Nah, forget private use. I foresee a company fitting it out as a floating shopping mall, towing it around the world but keeping just outside a nations water, that way you can avoid sales tax.
Yeah, a pirate shopping centre, those pirate radio guys told me it would never work, but would would listen to those do gooders (ies).
Because relying on an external company to do that, a company that has in the past stated it has no presence in Australia at all (see recent info about our information minister asking them to edit their sites), would not be considered a good solution.
Someone elsewhere in this thread pointed out that the B&N DRM has already been cracked, no citation but I am betting with a little googleing it could be found (fuck I love messing with words, turning a companies name into a adverb).
No, not +1 insightful, -1 overrated.
As a long time MMOG player (DAoC in the past and primarily) I can name the online aliases of about 50 people I consider good friends and about 20 I consider close friends who at best I have a first name for.
As well as the alias I use here (which was a nickname from college, that eventually everyone just 'knew me by') I am known by at least two other online alias' by a fair number of folks, some even know me by more than one of them. Its not paranoia, its just as I get older and do different things, people will know me by different names, Barny, Damage.Inc, Norwegian Jarlsburg, just labels in a world where at its core people end up as just a number... 103770
The device can already read non-drm books, so that is moot as rooting it doesn't add any new functionality in that regard.
Will be an interesting decision to watch none the less.
Yeah, work in retail myself, in the past have been asked by a boss to go to a competitor and buy all their stock of one item, because they were selling it cheaper than our wholesaler.
And yes, we have similar laws in my state too :)
How they react will likely depend on their price setting method.
If the nook was priced under cost and expected to be subsidised by ebook sales, then they will come down on this like apple. If they are making money on the thing in its own right, they may react like a BSD developer.
But all my friends know me as CHEAPMEDS$$$NOPRESCRIPTIONNEEDED, if it uses my real name half of them won't recognise it.
Yes it is, these shouldn't be features, it should be simple for a text-speech program to follow without having some tacked on standard that you now have to expect everyone to follow.
The layout should compliment the data, not vice versa. If you have to think for one second "will my document be able to be accessed by vision impaired" then that is one second more than it should be, if you type three columns of text in a continuous flow, it should be able to read it back as such without having to go over it later and mark it up.
You do know that in Australia it is law that a company make their website accessible for vision impaired if at all possible.
Which is why the article specifies that there is currently two types of ammo for the thing, regular payload ammo (25mm HE round with a payload front and back) and much cheaper dummy rounds used in practice.
Interesting to note that the Australian army made a special version of its F88 Austeyr that fired .22 rounds, just so soldiers in practice could go nuts with them and not cost the army a small fortune in ammo (and risk damaging things/hurting people at the 5.56mm NATO rounds normal range).
That sounds like Terrorist talk citizen, please report to a termination booth to have your molecules reassigned to less terror related food products.
All praise the Computer!
Sir, you get:
+2 internets for reference to the late Douglas Adams
+1 internets for reference to monty python
+3 real life merit points for telling it how it fucking is
Good job.
Yeah, I got a pile of warhammer 40k stuff beside me at all times for when I get "done" with games for a bit.
Although magic: the gathering has been consuming some of my funds lately, I try and keep my decks "fun" and under $100, so its still got a fair way to grow to catch up on my 40k addiction cost wise.
Hehe, a lot of people replied with similar sentiment, and you show a bit of difference at least in saying "but you might want to do other things", the fact of the matter is, if all I did was games then that would in fact be something to criticise me over, but I don't of course.
I socialise with friends, I go to gym 5 days a week, and although I wouldn't be up to playing football (medical problems there unfortunately) a full time gamer I most definitely am not.
What I am saying is, that just because your taste in games changes, doesn't mean you are too old to play merely that you may want to look harder.
One good way is to jump on steam, look up a group of gamers who play your favourite game and check some public profiles to see what else they play.
$5 worth (well, its now about $4.80AU, I love the currency conversion at the moment).
Crap, it cost me more than that for breakfast this morning.
I really love cheap steam games, you know all you need to do is play it for an hour to get your moneys worth, hell I have played PNatI more than I played some of the latest AAA titles.
Yeah... yeah.
Well FUCK THAT, I will still be playing games as much when I am 60 as now that I am 30.
If you can't find something fun, look harder or GTFO.
Now get off my lawn.
So, Poker Night at the Inventory then?
http://store.steampowered.com/app/31280/
Or are you sure it won't be released via steam as well?
http://store.steampowered.com/app/20920/
Those single swivels are pretty solid tbh, have had mine for over a year now and never had an issue with it (HP TouchSmart).
Also remember some of the hardiest laptops in the world use them, Panasonics Toughbook range.
Clearly this is wrong, its mislabled for a start, apparently not only children "aged 6 and up" are potential terrorists.
They need to crack down is what I think, kill them all and let God sort them out.
With the chance of their being a bomb on a plane very low, if TSA installed bombs into EVERY plane, the probability your plane would have a second bomb... yeah, I need some sleep now ;)
To be honest, its not the speed of the thing, its the "killer app". If you are just using it for web, its a no-brainer, linux for sure, but if you need to do something that only has binaries for a particular OS, then thats what you will run isn't it.
Speed on netbooks has always been rather irrelevant, they are popular because they are cheap and can do (even if slowly) what a normal computer can.
Or in some cases a "tablet PC", for those (like mine) with a swivel around 12" screen but with a real processor, 3d graphics, a "normal" chipset that can take any amount of ram as long as it fits in 2 slots and.... a dvd drive :)
An option is to get either one of the HP 12.1" tablet PCs (swivel around touch-screen, I seriously love mine, best character sheet ever) or you could go for one of the Pioneer x86 based tablets and use a standard bluetooth keyboard and mouse on them.
You do realise Justin Bieber said that himself, that he is this generations Kurt Cobain.
As for your opinions, they are just that, I enjoy the grunge genre personally.
As for MiB, I can certainly agree on that :)