My only touchscreen experience of any length is with an eBookwise eBook Reader. It doesn't have a boot process or anything tedious like that, so I just switch it off, clean, turn it back on. I'm guessing a tablet/subnotebook sort of device would not be able to do that.
Figures. I suppose that as long as there's a quick and easy way to disable it/put it in cleaning mode so that you can wipe it down it wouldn't be too bad.
Okay, that's pretty damn neat. I'm not sure I'd really want a 'video mode', but the customizable keyboard/input device would be handy. It would be an adjustment, not having keys that depress, but not too big of one.
what's always bothered me about touchscreen technology is the screen getting dirty. It annoys me when my non-touch monitor gets smudges as it is. I freely admit, however, that I have very little direct experience with touchscreens and perhaps these new ones (iPhone, etc) have some nifty way of dealing with that.
No, we get them too, or at least I do. 'Sexy' men apparently want to be my friend a lot. But I just break their hearts.;) That's just in the social networking/media sites (last.fm, imeem, myspace, etc), but never LiveJournal or any of the clones.
I'm no expert either, obviously. And I'm not even involved in the fandom really, though all of my information comes from those that are. The subset of fandom I hang out in, however, doesn't look kindly on fans trying to make money off of fan-works. And with there being questions about what exactly was going to be in the print version, plus the way the website itself was partially collaborative... I don't know. It made me uneasy. I don't think that non-profit fan-works are illegal, I do think they're fair use. When money is involved, however, you have to be a little more careful about the content.
My main issue with eInk is the lack of backlight. I use the eBookwise Reader which is very basic in its functionality. But the backlight allows me to read it in whatever light I'm in.
Okay. But if the publisher wouldn't turn over a copy of the manuscript and all JRK/WB had to go on was the website that had direct copying of parts of the HP books, I don't think it's unreasonable for JKR to have been concerned that what would make it to the book would still include her text. *shrug*
I guess my main reason for siding more with JKR here is the impression I got about the Lexicon 'author' and his motives for turning the website into a book.
It was my understanding that the book was to be a printed version of the website, and so I was under the impression that it was from the website that WB/JKR was able to see the copyright violations.
Again, I'm only superficially aware of this and only from the fandom side.
and that reference books are theft
If by this you mean the Harry Potter Lexicon, I believe that the main problem with that was the wholesale lifting of text from the Harry Potter books themselves. He didn't write new text about her IP, he copied her words and added a few bits around it and organized it.
Disclaimer: I only know what I read here.
If it were just a matter of having a blog, then yes. That would be an easy and perfect solution. That's not all that's at stake. LJ's method of networking journals adds another layer to the situation.
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I like this idea tremendously. I'll have to see if that'll work with my credit union account.
My only touchscreen experience of any length is with an eBookwise eBook Reader. It doesn't have a boot process or anything tedious like that, so I just switch it off, clean, turn it back on. I'm guessing a tablet/subnotebook sort of device would not be able to do that.
Figures. I suppose that as long as there's a quick and easy way to disable it/put it in cleaning mode so that you can wipe it down it wouldn't be too bad.
Okay, that's pretty damn neat. I'm not sure I'd really want a 'video mode', but the customizable keyboard/input device would be handy. It would be an adjustment, not having keys that depress, but not too big of one.
what's always bothered me about touchscreen technology is the screen getting dirty. It annoys me when my non-touch monitor gets smudges as it is. I freely admit, however, that I have very little direct experience with touchscreens and perhaps these new ones (iPhone, etc) have some nifty way of dealing with that.
No, we get them too, or at least I do. 'Sexy' men apparently want to be my friend a lot. But I just break their hearts. ;) That's just in the social networking/media sites (last.fm, imeem, myspace, etc), but never LiveJournal or any of the clones.
If I had mod points I would mod your comment up.
What did Canadian money ever do to the US?
I'm no expert either, obviously. And I'm not even involved in the fandom really, though all of my information comes from those that are. The subset of fandom I hang out in, however, doesn't look kindly on fans trying to make money off of fan-works. And with there being questions about what exactly was going to be in the print version, plus the way the website itself was partially collaborative... I don't know. It made me uneasy. I don't think that non-profit fan-works are illegal, I do think they're fair use. When money is involved, however, you have to be a little more careful about the content.
My main issue with eInk is the lack of backlight. I use the eBookwise Reader which is very basic in its functionality. But the backlight allows me to read it in whatever light I'm in.
Okay. But if the publisher wouldn't turn over a copy of the manuscript and all JRK/WB had to go on was the website that had direct copying of parts of the HP books, I don't think it's unreasonable for JKR to have been concerned that what would make it to the book would still include her text. *shrug*
I guess my main reason for siding more with JKR here is the impression I got about the Lexicon 'author' and his motives for turning the website into a book.
It was my understanding that the book was to be a printed version of the website, and so I was under the impression that it was from the website that WB/JKR was able to see the copyright violations.
Again, I'm only superficially aware of this and only from the fandom side.
and that reference books are theft If by this you mean the Harry Potter Lexicon, I believe that the main problem with that was the wholesale lifting of text from the Harry Potter books themselves. He didn't write new text about her IP, he copied her words and added a few bits around it and organized it. Disclaimer: I only know what I read here.
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Yes. That's exactly what I said. You've got mad reading skillz there.
If it were just a matter of having a blog, then yes. That would be an easy and perfect solution. That's not all that's at stake. LJ's method of networking journals adds another layer to the situation.
It's not like the users are paying for the privilege. Well, actually, some of us are paying for the services.