My point was that people are quick to say that she should have thought about the consequences before posting something online, but every news blog or forum that runs the story is branding her for the rest of her life. If we find out tomorrow that she didn't say these things at all, that someone hacked her account, or got the names wrong or whatever, every future employer WILL google her and come up with a hit or two about a death threat and being kicked out of school.
Can't have it both ways, chastise her for making an vague threat online, then turn around and read, post and grow a story that is a vague threat to her future welfare. People are Innocent till proven guilty, but that is not how we all react to the news. from day one she is GUILTY as far as internet history goes, and it is blogs and such that have sentenced her.
The ban should never have been in place unless the boyfriend called the police, claiming that he felt threatened, in which case a restraining order / questions should have been applied.
If i were a student at that school i would be really afraid that i would be kicked out for anything at all.
So you feel that the professors are taking responsibility for destroying a person's college career because she was emotional after a breakup?
Please. There was no threat here. You mean to tell me that you have never said anything, even as a joke (embalming therapy) that could be taken out of context and interpreted to imply physical violence? You are fooling yourself.
And how is a single computer opening a connection illegal?
Yet unarguably the person inciting 10,000 individuals to do so is probably on the wrong side of the law.
If you organize people to all protest their local ER by getting hurt unnecessarily, flooding the ER with cases, then pointing to the legit injuries that didn't get helped as validation of your original argument against that ER is both illogical and illegal. But most people on here have agreed that no matter what happens, it isn't going to make the network, or use of that network better
There are good products out there, but if you shop at walmart and expect amazing quality you are setting yourself up for failure.
Walmart has good prices, that is what they do, and do well.
Go to another store if you want better quality, but it will cost you more. If you think that quality is declining over the years, perhaps you are just looking in the wrong places, I assure you from personal experience that manufacturers in the 80s' knew that the better the product that they made, the less of a chance people would buy a new one, and they engineered their products accordingly.
If it was used as intended, the traffic would be close to 0, and the revenue stream from B&N would help pay for upgrades.
If people use it as a primary / typical internet connection, then yes, people using more bandwidth than AT&T ( planned / contracted / is getting payed for ) will hurt AT&T, and it's ability to deliver it's services.
You don't have to email things to get them on the kindle. Out of the box pdf is just that, plug it into a computer, dump the PDF's on it, and they will read (formatting letter into a 6" screen aside).
Saying that, i am kinda hoping that the nook's indexing is better than the kindles, or you will be draining alot of battery life just maintaining gigs of pdf's on an external card.
Yeah, those reasons are why I bought a kindle 1, but i have since bought a 2 because i realized that those issues just weren't real for me. I only keep 10-20 books on it at a time, plugging it into a computer isn't a problem for me, and the 2's battery is phenomenal, i have read 2.5 out of 3 of the trashy Eragon series over the last two weeks and i am still at 75% battery.
Also, i really question the use of the wifi, do i need to download books faster than 3g? why don't i just plug it into my computer usb style?
To what end? so you can surf the web at starbucks on a nook? . . ..why? So you can buy and download books faster than 3g speeds? Hate to break it to you but the wifi is already pretty (extremely) situational as it is now, and browsing on an ebook reader is just. ..bad.
The selling points are a correct book size (something a tablet PC will not have), very light weight (something a tablet PC will not have), batteries that last weeks, not hours (something a tablet PC will not have), and a screen that doesn't hurt your eyes to stare at (something a tablet PC will not have).
You can hold down ctrl or alt to jump like 10 or 25 ish pages at a time. You can also search, or go to furthest page read, or an individual page directly, or use the table of contents to go to a chapter.
Stop trying to invent a problem where one doesn't exist.
If you actually own, or did ANY research on the kindle, there has always been a free email conversion utility. Not to mention that you can get software to do it for you for free as well on your computer.
The problem is and has always been that it is hard to get a document formatted for 8.5*11 to display correctly on a 6" screen.
Buy a kindle 1, cheaper, replaceable battery, SD card, reads any real format file.
That being said, i bought a kindle 1 for that reason, and i have to admit that there is really no reason to have a SD card. All the books i can read in a reasonable amount of time fit into internal memory, and having then just sit on a SD card just drains battery life (indexing, searching, etc...). Maybe if I had a big kindle for PDF's i would need 4gb of books. . . but the technology just isn't there yet for that.
People keep complaining about the Kindle and DRM, and I don't think they realize that you can turn the wireless off and get your books from ANYWHERE and read them on the kindle with NO problem. Amazon has made it read several formats, and there are ton of converters out there, if you have something weird. My kindle does exactly what i want it to do, display books. I don't need it to be open source, i need it to work, and it has for the past year wonderfully.
Would i buy a Nook? No. The Kindle has far surpassed my expectations, and i see nothing about the nook that makes it any better, just a product that is a year behind the polish of it's competitors.
No one buys an ebook reader for permanence. You buy one for convenience, and they are very very convenient.
If anything, the ebook reader will allow you greater unrestricted access to controversial or government banned books. The internet still works, and if Amazon shut down tomorrow, my kindle would still work just fine.
You can't buy books outside the US on the Nook, only download those that you already bought, over wifi only.
I guess you COULD remote to a computer in the US, buy the book, then download it over your wifi, but not magazines or newspapers (can't download them over wifi at all).
Or you could just buy an international Kindle and use the device as it's meant to be used.
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I am not arguing the point that people using their phones on trains might not use iPhones at a 46% rate, but that is not all of Japan.
If you don't believe the data. . .say so.
I am not advocating the iPhone, but a statistic (presumably accurate) can't be ignored / refuted with a vague cultural stereotype.
And -what- phone plays popular (non web) MMO's? (WoW)
My gut feeling is that even the Japanese have regular access to a computer, both for work and play.
Can't have it both ways, chastise her for making an vague threat online, then turn around and read, post and grow a story that is a vague threat to her future welfare. People are Innocent till proven guilty, but that is not how we all react to the news. from day one she is GUILTY as far as internet history goes, and it is blogs and such that have sentenced her.
Even if found completely innocent, her name will always google up a death threat. Who is taking responsibility for that?
If there dosen't have to be any merit to my feelings of "threat", will the school ban him without thinking about it?
If i were a student at that school i would be really afraid that i would be kicked out for anything at all.
Her boyfriend didn't even "feel" threatened, so what is the issue here? Professors reading facebook pages of their students?
Please. There was no threat here. You mean to tell me that you have never said anything, even as a joke (embalming therapy) that could be taken out of context and interpreted to imply physical violence? You are fooling yourself.
Except if you are the leader of Iran, then everyone ignores you.
Yet unarguably the person inciting 10,000 individuals to do so is probably on the wrong side of the law.
If you organize people to all protest their local ER by getting hurt unnecessarily, flooding the ER with cases, then pointing to the legit injuries that didn't get helped as validation of your original argument against that ER is both illogical and illegal. But most people on here have agreed that no matter what happens, it isn't going to make the network, or use of that network better
Walmart has good prices, that is what they do, and do well.
Go to another store if you want better quality, but it will cost you more. If you think that quality is declining over the years, perhaps you are just looking in the wrong places, I assure you from personal experience that manufacturers in the 80s' knew that the better the product that they made, the less of a chance people would buy a new one, and they engineered their products accordingly.
If people use it as a primary / typical internet connection, then yes, people using more bandwidth than AT&T ( planned / contracted / is getting payed for ) will hurt AT&T, and it's ability to deliver it's services.
3.1 trillion for a few seconds of no phones? that is a large overhead.
I have a netbook and a kindle, and the kindle is a great deal better at reading books. I bought one for my brother after being so impressed.
Saying that, i am kinda hoping that the nook's indexing is better than the kindles, or you will be draining alot of battery life just maintaining gigs of pdf's on an external card.
Yeah, those reasons are why I bought a kindle 1, but i have since bought a 2 because i realized that those issues just weren't real for me. I only keep 10-20 books on it at a time, plugging it into a computer isn't a problem for me, and the 2's battery is phenomenal, i have read 2.5 out of 3 of the trashy Eragon series over the last two weeks and i am still at 75% battery.
Also, i really question the use of the wifi, do i need to download books faster than 3g? why don't i just plug it into my computer usb style?
Kindle 2 and DX have native pdf support, and screen orientation adjustment.
Better than the alternatives. . .which are . . .. none.
To what end? so you can surf the web at starbucks on a nook? . . . .why? So you can buy and download books faster than 3g speeds? Hate to break it to you but the wifi is already pretty (extremely) situational as it is now, and browsing on an ebook reader is just. . .bad.
So in responce to your comment. . . no.
Stop trying to invent a problem where one doesn't exist.
The problem is and has always been that it is hard to get a document formatted for 8.5*11 to display correctly on a 6" screen.
That being said, i bought a kindle 1 for that reason, and i have to admit that there is really no reason to have a SD card. All the books i can read in a reasonable amount of time fit into internal memory, and having then just sit on a SD card just drains battery life (indexing, searching, etc...). Maybe if I had a big kindle for PDF's i would need 4gb of books. . . but the technology just isn't there yet for that.
People keep complaining about the Kindle and DRM, and I don't think they realize that you can turn the wireless off and get your books from ANYWHERE and read them on the kindle with NO problem. Amazon has made it read several formats, and there are ton of converters out there, if you have something weird. My kindle does exactly what i want it to do, display books. I don't need it to be open source, i need it to work, and it has for the past year wonderfully.
Would i buy a Nook? No. The Kindle has far surpassed my expectations, and i see nothing about the nook that makes it any better, just a product that is a year behind the polish of it's competitors.
I hate to say this, but your post is almost 100% incorrect and wrong.
No one buys an ebook reader for permanence. You buy one for convenience, and they are very very convenient.
If anything, the ebook reader will allow you greater unrestricted access to controversial or government banned books. The internet still works, and if Amazon shut down tomorrow, my kindle would still work just fine.
I guess you COULD remote to a computer in the US, buy the book, then download it over your wifi, but not magazines or newspapers (can't download them over wifi at all).
Or you could just buy an international Kindle and use the device as it's meant to be used.