In other words, you can ALSO embed the LIVE feed from your webcam in a PDF document.
That is excellent. Soon I can embed a live feed to a PDF doc, print it and then I can watch the live feed from a handy a4, instead of needing the cumbersome internet or computers!
Why the hate? Are you afraid that somebody would *gasp* think of them as real literature?
Yes, of course the 'Graphic Novels' are comics too, but all comics aren't graphic novels. A comic collecting newspaper strips from say, Calvin and Hobbes, is hardly a graphic novel. On the other hand comics such as Watchmen, Sandman or many others are clearly full independent 'long and complex narratives', 'graphic novels' if you like. Or do you feel the same way with the term 'Novel', when they could just as well be called books?
The Paper Cartoon comment is borderline insulting. It's almost as suggesting we drop the word 'Novel' and start using 'Crime fiction' for all books...
Oh? I like the VLC UI. I usually use VLC to watch video files, I don't really tend to focus on admiring the frames around it. Sure, if you need it to do something complicated it's not that easy, but how often do you really need more than pause / seek when watching movies?
Well according to the article there's no DRM involved so I assuming you can still play the game.
So, you get the game but you can not play the game unless you connect to Steam with the same account as you got the game with. Still no playing without Steam, no lending the game. If it looks like DRM, smells like DRM and quacks like DRM it probably is DRM, even if the salesman calls it CEG.
And if there was no Internet or TV some kids would still get hurt, and a house or two would still get set on fire. Children play, accidents happen, but does any modern media really increase the amount of mishaps at all? Somehow I doubt it.
So, let me get this straight. You are comparing the work for a full reinstall with all the bells and whistles with full data recovery to a cost of a new computer without reinstalling the previously installed software and user data? Just the OS installing should take less than an hour, and if any tech tries to charge $500 for 1 hours work, I would just laugh them out.
I do interpret this post as either an attempt at being funny, or just being a troll, but seems it's being taken seriously, hence the 'serious' answer.
Are new books going to be showing up as they're published?
John Dokes: Not as they're published. There's probably going to be about a six-month lag between the time a book appears in print and the time it appears in this service. In some cases, we will have books that are more recent than that, but that will be specifically promoting what's happening in the print books.
So, digital media will be there 6 months after the comics, with current release schedules that's around the time the trade paperbacks are already out. Thanks but no thanks. I'll stick to torrents for new releases and albums for the good ones.
Because reading comics in PDF format is painful. The zooming options are horrible, the pdf reader software is mostly slow as hell, it's just not convenient (a regular 250 page pdf (with ocr:d text and images) acts pretty damn slow on dual core pentium). And for the fast computers it's just the annoyance factor, slower comps (>2 year old?) will just choke on pdf, or that horrible flash thingie from marvel. And the slowness isn't the worst part, the crappy navigation is.
Furthermore, CDisplay (/QComicBook) are designed to read comics. You pick a zoom level you like, and then you can just press space to get the next best view, works like a charm, no need to move the image with arrows/mouse. Now, I've downloaded a bunch of comics from various torrent sites, but I would easily pay $10 a month for similar quality legal stuff. Just not for this crap format. Same as music, why pay for (much) less quality.
I did have a long break in comics, and after reading the torrents I've started to buy them again. The best ones I read online ended up in my buying queue, they probably would have even if I had paid for the digital versions. So, here's waiting for the decently priced, good usability digital comics. 1/2 right, still way off the mark Marvel.
As a linux user of 8 years, I think desktop distributions have come a long way in that time period, and I don't find them any more or less difficult to get working than a Windows OS.
Yes, as an old linux user you are bound to find using it simple. However that's not the case for the general desktop using masses, especially those wanting to try Linux as they are getting fed with Windows. I just did a fresh Ubuntu install, and even some really basic things were cumbersome.
Most importantly, screen resolution/refresh rate. The handy Gnome software helpfully offered me a 60hz refresh rate, though at least now the default resolution wasn't the 640x480 from older versions. Still, to get the refresh rate up, I had to add hsync/vsync to xorg.conf manually, something a first time linux user will have serious trouble with.
Secondly, to get ISO locales instead of Utf-8, I had to access 4 different conf files in 4 different directories. Although I have done this a couple of times, I still had to google it up, grep/edit the files, run dpkg-reconfigure and reboot. Total pain in the butt, even though I do remember doing it the previous time I did a fresh install.
Other than that, things were pretty smooth, but a new user trying to cope with bad resolution and/or bad refresh rate will easily despair and turn back to Windows. Once you get things configured, Linux desktop is par with windows, better for many, worse for some. But getting a working setup up without help/previous experience is still a clear win for Windows.
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In other words, you can ALSO embed the LIVE feed from your webcam in a PDF document.
That is excellent. Soon I can embed a live feed to a PDF doc, print it and then I can watch the live feed from a handy a4, instead of needing the cumbersome internet or computers!
Why the hate? Are you afraid that somebody would *gasp* think of them as real literature?
Yes, of course the 'Graphic Novels' are comics too, but all comics aren't graphic novels. A comic collecting newspaper strips from say, Calvin and Hobbes, is hardly a graphic novel. On the other hand comics such as Watchmen, Sandman or many others are clearly full independent 'long and complex narratives', 'graphic novels' if you like. Or do you feel the same way with the term 'Novel', when they could just as well be called books?
The Paper Cartoon comment is borderline insulting. It's almost as suggesting we drop the word 'Novel' and start using 'Crime fiction' for all books...
Oh? I like the VLC UI. I usually use VLC to watch video files, I don't really tend to focus on admiring the frames around it. Sure, if you need it to do something complicated it's not that easy, but how often do you really need more than pause / seek when watching movies?
Well according to the article there's no DRM involved so I assuming you can still play the game.
So, you get the game but you can not play the game unless you connect to Steam with the same account as you got the game with. Still no playing without Steam, no lending the game. If it looks like DRM, smells like DRM and quacks like DRM it probably is DRM, even if the salesman calls it CEG.
And if there was no Internet or TV some kids would still get hurt, and a house or two would still get set on fire. Children play, accidents happen, but does any modern media really increase the amount of mishaps at all? Somehow I doubt it.
I do interpret this post as either an attempt at being funny, or just being a troll, but seems it's being taken seriously, hence the 'serious' answer.
Because reading comics in PDF format is painful. The zooming options are horrible, the pdf reader software is mostly slow as hell, it's just not convenient (a regular 250 page pdf (with ocr:d text and images) acts pretty damn slow on dual core pentium). And for the fast computers it's just the annoyance factor, slower comps (>2 year old?) will just choke on pdf, or that horrible flash thingie from marvel. And the slowness isn't the worst part, the crappy navigation is.
Furthermore, CDisplay (/QComicBook) are designed to read comics. You pick a zoom level you like, and then you can just press space to get the next best view, works like a charm, no need to move the image with arrows/mouse. Now, I've downloaded a bunch of comics from various torrent sites, but I would easily pay $10 a month for similar quality legal stuff. Just not for this crap format. Same as music, why pay for (much) less quality.
I did have a long break in comics, and after reading the torrents I've started to buy them again. The best ones I read online ended up in my buying queue, they probably would have even if I had paid for the digital versions. So, here's waiting for the decently priced, good usability digital comics. 1/2 right, still way off the mark Marvel.
Yes, as an old linux user you are bound to find using it simple. However that's not the case for the general desktop using masses, especially those wanting to try Linux as they are getting fed with Windows. I just did a fresh Ubuntu install, and even some really basic things were cumbersome.
Most importantly, screen resolution/refresh rate. The handy Gnome software helpfully offered me a 60hz refresh rate, though at least now the default resolution wasn't the 640x480 from older versions. Still, to get the refresh rate up, I had to add hsync/vsync to xorg.conf manually, something a first time linux user will have serious trouble with.
Secondly, to get ISO locales instead of Utf-8, I had to access 4 different conf files in 4 different directories. Although I have done this a couple of times, I still had to google it up, grep/edit the files, run dpkg-reconfigure and reboot. Total pain in the butt, even though I do remember doing it the previous time I did a fresh install.
Other than that, things were pretty smooth, but a new user trying to cope with bad resolution and/or bad refresh rate will easily despair and turn back to Windows. Once you get things configured, Linux desktop is par with windows, better for many, worse for some. But getting a working setup up without help/previous experience is still a clear win for Windows.