Yep, I get all mine from Baen, Fictionwise, and a few from Project Gutenburg. The first thing I fell in love with, with regard to ebooks, was being able to read in the dark - it's so much easier to read in bed when you don't have to find the right position for comfort and getting the light on the book without any glare. Before I started reading ebooks on my PDA I didn't realize how much I was compromising my comfort with paper books.
I always liked the limited amount of text per page on my ebooks. If I get too much text on the screen it just makes it easier to lose my place when I get interupted. Next page and previous page buttons make scrolling pages much less of a chore than flipping paper sheets.
You have a very crippled imagination. I've read nearly 100 books on PDAs, first my handspring visor and later my ipaq 3150 (monochrome). These include some fairly long books like Cryptonomicon and The Count of Monte Cristo. I've never found it particularly straining or anything. In fact, I find it preferable to paper books these days.
It usually takes a truly insane amount of speed and bad attitude to get arrested for speeding on an open highway (at least in AZ).
Two years ago a friend and I were out for a motorcycle ride. We got pulled over by the Highway Patrol for doing about 75 in a 55 and the officer let us go with a warning. After that I tried to keep close to the speed limit, but my friend on his ZX-9 couldn't contain himself and on the way home he opened it up again. He got nailed by the same highway patrolman for 155+ mph in a 55mph zone. He groveled appropriatley and the officer agreed not to arrest his dumb ass. He got a $400+ ticket which I believe he has framed now.
You haven't heard my pipes. I have witnesses that have claimed to hear me up to 1.5 miles away coming and going. And I can assure you that you are very unlikley to ever be passing my 12,000 rpm ass.
I will agree that my bike is pretty obnoxious and annoying, and is probably causing me permanent hearing loss. I don't like the noise either and want a new pipe ASAP but I thought I should point out that you probably have never heard a racing exhaust on a completely wound out sportbike.
Since when was anyone forced to use goto's? Just because BASIC has a feature that may encourage bad habits, it doesn't mean the language is at fault if people abuse it. I've never seen a version of BASIC that left out for-next and while and made you kluge your loops together with goto's.
And if you don't think what constitutes confusing is subjective, I suggest that you leave your cave and see just how different people are.
It's a very common mistake. I freaked out several years ago when AMD did a 1->2 stock split and I hadn't been paying attention. At first I thought my $90/share investment had just dropped to $45 - scary (later of course it really did drop by nearly that much:-().
Are you just comparing their stock prices? If so you should realize that that is an entirley useless way of comparing two companies. I'll bet you that Sun has a whole lot more stock out there than SCO, thus even though the price of a share of SCO is higher than a share of SUN, it also represents a much larger portion of the company.
ANAL, but IME, every party in a two-car accident is (at least) 10% liable, since the accident would not have happened without their collective presence. Liability can never be reduced below that level - I don't know how that works outside of automotive accidents, though.
Boy, I'm glad liabilty doesn't work that way in other fields. Imagine..."You are at least 10% liable for the fact that you were shot - if you hadn't been standing in the way of that bullet you never would have been hit", or "My client can not be held entirly liable in burning down the plantiffs building. If the plantiff had not built his home where my client chose to play with his zippo, this unfortunate incident could have been avoided".
This is just as braindead as those cities that turned out to be using short yellow lights to keep up their revenue from ticketing people running red lights. Never mind that by lengthening the yellow they could eliminate running stoplights almost entirely and dramaticly reduce accidents/save lives.
A lot of traffic engineers also seem to have this problem of wanting to treat vehicle traffic as some kind of fluid dynamics problem. Drivers realize when they are being manipulated and tend to react in unpredicted ways. Simple traffic systems with simple feedback controls work best.
According to the rules they only have to have one person actually go up. They have to have accomodation for 3 passengers, but they can substitute an equivalent mass of inert payload instead. Since the ship has to fly twice in two weeks there is a strong incentive for it to make at least the first landing intact.
You actually believe that governments will simly 'get out of the way' of anything just because it's the right thing to do? When was the last time any government failed to attempt to grasp somthing just because it was beyond their competency to to anything with it? Governments exist to perpetuate themselves and are terrified by the idea of people being able to slip comletely beond their reach.
I do believe that ulitimatley space will belong to those who go there, but no government will let them go without a fight.
Yep, we got those too. What I never saw back east though was air clarity comparable to what we've got here. On a clear day (most days) visibilty is well over 100 miles. Believe me, I've been back east and it's beautiful ( I love how green everything is), but I still say you just don't get the kind of views out there that we do in the southwest.
Hmmm... Those places, along with the everglades may not have too many people, but they seem pretty few and far between compared with what I'm used to. I've got doubts about how "wide open" they are too. Also, how far can you actually see in those places?
Bah, real open space doesn't exist west of the Missippi. Show me where in Massachusetts you can go where you wont see any sign of human habitation for twenty miles in every direction, except the rutted dirt road you drove in on.
Have you ever actualy looked into what ebooks cost, what formats they use, or how big they are? All the ebooks I've bought from Baen's webscriptions.net, fictionwise, and peanut press cost at least 15% less than the paper versions. Most of the ebooks in my library are entirley unencrypted, I think I might have two that have some kind of DRM. Most ebooks are about 100kB to 500kB, even at dial up speeds that shouldn't take more than one or two minutes to download.
I do all my ebook reading on my monochrome ipaq 3135 that cost me $135 a couple years ago. It has a rechargable li-po battery that lasts me several days and a 240x320 screen that I find very easy on my eyes.
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My favorite advice for people in bear country:
If you're going to carry a handgun for bear defense, have the front sight removed.
It won't hurt as much when the bear shoves it up you ass.
Yep, I get all mine from Baen, Fictionwise, and a few from Project Gutenburg. The first thing I fell in love with, with regard to ebooks, was being able to read in the dark - it's so much easier to read in bed when you don't have to find the right position for comfort and getting the light on the book without any glare. Before I started reading ebooks on my PDA I didn't realize how much I was compromising my comfort with paper books.
I always liked the limited amount of text per page on my ebooks. If I get too much text on the screen it just makes it easier to lose my place when I get interupted. Next page and previous page buttons make scrolling pages much less of a chore than flipping paper sheets.
You have a very crippled imagination. I've read nearly 100 books on PDAs, first my handspring visor and later my ipaq 3150 (monochrome). These include some fairly long books like Cryptonomicon and The Count of Monte Cristo. I've never found it particularly straining or anything. In fact, I find it preferable to paper books these days.
I'm always forgetting my personal PIN number for the ATM machine.
It usually takes a truly insane amount of speed and bad attitude to get arrested for speeding on an open highway (at least in AZ).
Two years ago a friend and I were out for a motorcycle ride. We got pulled over by the Highway Patrol for doing about 75 in a 55 and the officer let us go with a warning. After that I tried to keep close to the speed limit, but my friend on his ZX-9 couldn't contain himself and on the way home he opened it up again. He got nailed by the same highway patrolman for 155+ mph in a 55mph zone. He groveled appropriatley and the officer agreed not to arrest his dumb ass. He got a $400+ ticket which I believe he has framed now.
You haven't heard my pipes. I have witnesses that have claimed to hear me up to 1.5 miles away coming and going. And I can assure you that you are very unlikley to ever be passing my 12,000 rpm ass.
I will agree that my bike is pretty obnoxious and annoying, and is probably causing me permanent hearing loss. I don't like the noise either and want a new pipe ASAP but I thought I should point out that you probably have never heard a racing exhaust on a completely wound out sportbike.
Since when was anyone forced to use goto's? Just because BASIC has a feature that may encourage bad habits, it doesn't mean the language is at fault if people abuse it. I've never seen a version of BASIC that left out for-next and while and made you kluge your loops together with goto's.
And if you don't think what constitutes confusing is subjective, I suggest that you leave your cave and see just how different people are.
It's a very common mistake. I freaked out several years ago when AMD did a 1->2 stock split and I hadn't been paying attention. At first I thought my $90/share investment had just dropped to $45 - scary (later of course it really did drop by nearly that much :-().
Are you just comparing their stock prices? If so you should realize that that is an entirley useless way of comparing two companies. I'll bet you that Sun has a whole lot more stock out there than SCO, thus even though the price of a share of SCO is higher than a share of SUN, it also represents a much larger portion of the company.
"shave and a haircut" into port numbers?
Boy, I'm glad liabilty doesn't work that way in other fields. Imagine..."You are at least 10% liable for the fact that you were shot - if you hadn't been standing in the way of that bullet you never would have been hit", or "My client can not be held entirly liable in burning down the plantiffs building. If the plantiff had not built his home where my client chose to play with his zippo, this unfortunate incident could have been avoided".
See this, and this.
This is just as braindead as those cities that turned out to be using short yellow lights to keep up their revenue from ticketing people running red lights. Never mind that by lengthening the yellow they could eliminate running stoplights almost entirely and dramaticly reduce accidents/save lives.
A lot of traffic engineers also seem to have this problem of wanting to treat vehicle traffic as some kind of fluid dynamics problem. Drivers realize when they are being manipulated and tend to react in unpredicted ways. Simple traffic systems with simple feedback controls work best.
According to the rules they only have to have one person actually go up. They have to have accomodation for 3 passengers, but they can substitute an equivalent mass of inert payload instead. Since the ship has to fly twice in two weeks there is a strong incentive for it to make at least the first landing intact.
Scaled Composites is using rubber and nitrous oxide. AFAIK neither of those is controlled at all (nobody ever asked me for i.d. buying N2O).
You actually believe that governments will simly 'get out of the way' of anything just because it's the right thing to do? When was the last time any government failed to attempt to grasp somthing just because it was beyond their competency to to anything with it? Governments exist to perpetuate themselves and are terrified by the idea of people being able to slip comletely beond their reach.
I do believe that ulitimatley space will belong to those who go there, but no government will let them go without a fight.
Reread that. It says 1 hour for other rechargeables. I'd say a 120x imrovement is pretty good.
Well first let me point out that the ocean is not in massachusetts. Second you're not going to even approach seeing twenty miles in open ocean.
Do you mean like this?
Yep, we got those too. What I never saw back east though was air clarity comparable to what we've got here. On a clear day (most days) visibilty is well over 100 miles. Believe me, I've been back east and it's beautiful ( I love how green everything is), but I still say you just don't get the kind of views out there that we do in the southwest.
Hmmm... Those places, along with the everglades may not have too many people, but they seem pretty few and far between compared with what I'm used to. I've got doubts about how "wide open" they are too. Also, how far can you actually see in those places?
Doh, make that east of the missippi.
Bah, real open space doesn't exist west of the Missippi. Show me where in Massachusetts you can go where you wont see any sign of human habitation for twenty miles in every direction, except the rutted dirt road you drove in on.
Have you ever actualy looked into what ebooks cost, what formats they use, or how big they are? All the ebooks I've bought from Baen's webscriptions.net, fictionwise, and peanut press cost at least 15% less than the paper versions. Most of the ebooks in my library are entirley unencrypted, I think I might have two that have some kind of DRM. Most ebooks are about 100kB to 500kB, even at dial up speeds that shouldn't take more than one or two minutes to download.
I do all my ebook reading on my monochrome ipaq 3135 that cost me $135 a couple years ago. It has a rechargable li-po battery that lasts me several days and a 240x320 screen that I find very easy on my eyes.