I have a Kindle and love it; my husband has a Sony and loves it. I can read HTML files but not RTF; he can read RTF but not HTML. He can read the ePub format, I can read the Mobi format. We both read books without DRM most of the time, but I have a few azw files from Amazon, and they can never take them away from me. You see, I download all my purchased books to my computer. I keep them in the Calibre library, where I can sort by author, series, and genre. I also can convert formats in Calibre. The good thing is that Calibre keeps the original format, so if I convert a plain text file to mobi for my Kindle it can be converted again to LRF/epub for my husband. Usually I convert RTF files to mobi, and HTML files to epub. I also leave Whispernet off when I am not downloading a book from Amazon. No reason to have it on otherwise; if I want to surf the Internet I have better devices.
We will both be looking at iPads when they appear in stores. I am doubtful that one could replace my Kindle; e-ink is incredibly easy on the (somewhat aged) eyes. But I see other uses for the iPad for which I cannot use my Kindle.
It doesn't need to squash his free speech rights to be effective. Who votes for the funding the University receives annually from the state? The veiled threat here is that allowing Dawkins to speak will lead to reduced funding.
I second the Nokia N95. It does smart phone, email, GPS, plays mp3s and has a good camera. I believe that covers everything you said you needed but the laptop. The 8 gig of memory will let you keep a decent selection of music, and the battery life is supposed to be stellar, like a week of phone standby.
Indeed. They are widely available, unlocked and pre-loaded with non-Apple extra software, in Thailand as well as China. I would assume them to be just as available in other countries where they are not yet released. 700,000 isn't that many phones to go "missing" to the worldwide market.
If anything can kill the Mac gaming industry, it's Cider. Call me cynical, but I see this as a strategic move by EA to "support" the Mac with emulations instead of native versions, and then when people don't buy them -not more than once, anyway- they can say that there's "no market" for Mac games. With luck, Aspyr and Macsoft will survive this Cider interlude and bring us native ports again when EA fails to make boatloads of money with it so stops "supporting" the Mac so directly. EA wants ALL the money from the Mac market instead of just the licensing fees they get for Mac ports.
I mean no offense to the fine people at Transgaming. The basic issue is that the quality of the experience of a game played on a Mac running OSX and the same game on the same Mac running Windows are worlds apart. I have confirmed this personally with the Sims 2 series of games. The native port sucks compared to the Windows version to the point where I find it incredible that an emulation layer could be added to the mixture and result in a game I would bother to play at all. I am willing to try, however, because there is always the chance that the quality not lost by using a different game engine for the Mac port makes up for the emulation layer. This is in addition to the graphics mess created by trying to port DirectX to GL. Mac ports suck because the game engines the programmers use are Windows specific and the graphics they use are Windows specific. The games are designed to take advantage of the features exclusive to that engine and graphics capability. If only the sheeple game programmers would resist the siren song of proprietary Microsoft protocols (DirectX) and use the accepted standards instead Mac games could be as good as Windows games.
As another person who lost internet access outside of Thailand almost entirely after the Taiwan earthquake I find this very interesting indeed and it makes my day. As things are now, I lose at least half my bandwidth when I try to connect internationally. A better connection to the US would be literally a dream come true. CAT Telecom has a lousy 450 meg pipe to the International gateway. http://202.44.204.43/webstats/internetmap_current. php?Sec=internetmap_current
He's right about the difficulty in getting legitimate copies of software. He's right about there being a virus, trojan, and spyware problem, too. He's wrong about the reason. It's not infected pirate copies of software. As the previous poster said, those copies are clean.
It's the people who buy the latest best copy of Norton anti-virus...pirate...and never get a virus definitions update because they can't register their program. They think they are safe and protected, because they are running an antivirus program.
It's the people running pirate Windows and IE and Office with no updates or patches, because even if they can register them (and typically they can't), they don't have the bandwidth to download security updates.
And I'm not talking about mere individuals. I have observed the counterfeit Windows version message on the computers in hotels, and not a cheap ones, either. What else are the corporations supposed to do when legitimate software can't be had, and your English isn't good enough to make calling Microsoft to buy a license to legitimize your pirate copy a viable option?
How do I know all this? I, too, live in a third world country, specifically Thailand. I have looked for legitimate software. I have seen pirate software in major foreign-owned stores like Tesco and Carrefour, as well as in the well-known locales for pirate software like Chatuchak and Pantip.
I second the Pocket PC. I really recommend that you use the reader named ?-book. With it you have the option of rotating the display, font size and style, and you can read anything but a.lit file...use clit to convert the.lit files. You can find it at Gowerpoint.
Not so. I have been a happy Linux user since 1999, but my Mac mini is ordered. Why the switch? The current condition of the 2.6 Linux kernel, and the attitude of the kernel developers that the distros can fix the mess. I remember when a stable kernel was...STABLE.
It is if you were wanting to record a show immediately after on a different channel that began on time; the Tivo will not record that show. We solved the dilemma by simply canceling all season passes for all NBC shows when they did that last season. Then we CERTAINLY aren't seeing their commercials.
I knew I had to work while I was in school if I expected to get a job after getting my Master's in Information Systems. And so I did. The first semester I worked in the IS computer lab, tutoring C++, fixing problems, and maintaining computers. The next three semesters I worked half-time for a non-profit agency (economic development!) as a combination of database admin, network admin, and tech support for a mixed MS-Mac network. The third semester I worked on contract for the company one of my profs ran. There I maintained a mixed MS-Linux network, packaged the software product for installation, and did software tech support. The last semester I chose not to work so I could complete my program, which required three full software development projects that semester. So I had experience. Could I find a job? No. The economic development agency networked for me, but nobody was hiring. The prof who hired me let ALL his employees go for lack of business. I've had interviews, but every time I walk into an interview the interviewer(s) looks shocked and wraps it up as rapidly as possible. Why? I'm a female, over 50, and no one seems to want to hire anyone their mother's age. They just aren't comfortable with it.
Could it be that you mean Asperger's? You have the general idea of Asperger's correct. The key is in the inability to read social cues from others, and a complete lack of ability to see from another's perspective. The kid with Asperger's doesn't reply "hi" to a person he knows in the hall at school because it didn't occur to him to do so; then he doesn't understand why the kid won't sit with him at lunch. These kids need to be taught socially correct behavior because they won't learn it naturally. "Freddy, every time someone says hello to you, you must smile and say hello back."
happened in Roseville, Ca in 1973, with that same mushroom cloud. Read about it here. I'm with the guys who need the residual radiation to even consider a nuclear disaster.
Consider the concept of analog altimeters. You know, round face, needle pointing to a number, much like the speedometer on a car. How do you make that read "Error"?
Add power to gain altitude? When you're driving your car, do you press the accelerator to turn, too? Please explain to me, a non-physicist, how increasing power will do anything but make you fly faster in the same direction and at the same altitude you were already flying at. I used to work on airplanes, and if I were a pilot I'd pull back on the yoke to aim the nose of the plane a bit higher to gain altitude. Sure, I'd slow down a bit, but I'd gain altitude, too. If I really wanted to do it right, I'd pull up and increase power ONCE I WAS CLIMBING.
I am not only a geek, but a nurse. Let me try to explain how technophobic most nurses are. Every other nurse I know is incapable of setting up and running an IV pump or feeding pump without at least an hour of instruction on how to do it. Never mind yhat the differences between them are negligible. Never mind that the instructions are printed on the side of the machine. They don't understand them, even when they have PICTURES as well as words. These are the people who need to implement HIPAA. These are also the people you CANNOT fire, due to a severe national shortage of nurses. Something about the low pay, and double shifts if your relief calls in sick, and too much work in too little time to do it RIGHT, the way you want to. It's why I no longer work as a nurse, contributing to that shortage.
You have it right. I like turn-based strategy games. All I can find are "build me" games. I don't care as much for the real-time ganmes because I like to sit and THINK about what I'm doing quite often. I also don't have the reflexes of a 14-18 year old boy.
Please, please, someone make me a new kind of game!
but I can't find many games to play. I don't care for the fps, because I have no interest in running around with a gun shooting things. I don't much care for the rpg either, because it, too, seems to come down to combat.
What am I left with? I live for the Civ series. I like the Sims, but it's not nearly as fun as Civ2, never mind Civ3. I like Age of Empires, Stronghold, Tropico, Roller Coaster Tycoon, Pharoah, etc.
I am actively looking for a new "type" of game to play besides building things. I can't find it. One of the best games I ever played was a multi-user game on (early!) Prodigy called CEO. Each game ran 2 weeks, and you made your daily moves. I would love to find something like that.
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I have a Kindle and love it; my husband has a Sony and loves it. I can read HTML files but not RTF; he can read RTF but not HTML. He can read the ePub format, I can read the Mobi format. We both read books without DRM most of the time, but I have a few azw files from Amazon, and they can never take them away from me. You see, I download all my purchased books to my computer. I keep them in the Calibre library, where I can sort by author, series, and genre. I also can convert formats in Calibre. The good thing is that Calibre keeps the original format, so if I convert a plain text file to mobi for my Kindle it can be converted again to LRF/epub for my husband. Usually I convert RTF files to mobi, and HTML files to epub. I also leave Whispernet off when I am not downloading a book from Amazon. No reason to have it on otherwise; if I want to surf the Internet I have better devices.
We will both be looking at iPads when they appear in stores. I am doubtful that one could replace my Kindle; e-ink is incredibly easy on the (somewhat aged) eyes. But I see other uses for the iPad for which I cannot use my Kindle.
It doesn't need to squash his free speech rights to be effective. Who votes for the funding the University receives annually from the state? The veiled threat here is that allowing Dawkins to speak will lead to reduced funding.
I second the Nokia N95. It does smart phone, email, GPS, plays mp3s and has a good camera. I believe that covers everything you said you needed but the laptop. The 8 gig of memory will let you keep a decent selection of music, and the battery life is supposed to be stellar, like a week of phone standby.
Indeed. They are widely available, unlocked and pre-loaded with non-Apple extra software, in Thailand as well as China. I would assume them to be just as available in other countries where they are not yet released. 700,000 isn't that many phones to go "missing" to the worldwide market.
If anything can kill the Mac gaming industry, it's Cider. Call me cynical, but I see this as a strategic move by EA to "support" the Mac with emulations instead of native versions, and then when people don't buy them -not more than once, anyway- they can say that there's "no market" for Mac games. With luck, Aspyr and Macsoft will survive this Cider interlude and bring us native ports again when EA fails to make boatloads of money with it so stops "supporting" the Mac so directly. EA wants ALL the money from the Mac market instead of just the licensing fees they get for Mac ports.
I mean no offense to the fine people at Transgaming. The basic issue is that the quality of the experience of a game played on a Mac running OSX and the same game on the same Mac running Windows are worlds apart. I have confirmed this personally with the Sims 2 series of games. The native port sucks compared to the Windows version to the point where I find it incredible that an emulation layer could be added to the mixture and result in a game I would bother to play at all. I am willing to try, however, because there is always the chance that the quality not lost by using a different game engine for the Mac port makes up for the emulation layer. This is in addition to the graphics mess created by trying to port DirectX to GL. Mac ports suck because the game engines the programmers use are Windows specific and the graphics they use are Windows specific. The games are designed to take advantage of the features exclusive to that engine and graphics capability. If only the sheeple game programmers would resist the siren song of proprietary Microsoft protocols (DirectX) and use the accepted standards instead Mac games could be as good as Windows games.
Make that 2.5 gig, I misread the map.
As another person who lost internet access outside of Thailand almost entirely after the Taiwan earthquake I find this very interesting indeed and it makes my day. As things are now, I lose at least half my bandwidth when I try to connect internationally. A better connection to the US would be literally a dream come true. CAT Telecom has a lousy 450 meg pipe to the International gateway. http://202.44.204.43/webstats/internetmap_current. php?Sec=internetmap_current
He's right about the difficulty in getting legitimate copies of software. He's right about there being a virus, trojan, and spyware problem, too. He's wrong about the reason. It's not infected pirate copies of software. As the previous poster said, those copies are clean.
It's the people who buy the latest best copy of Norton anti-virus...pirate...and never get a virus definitions update because they can't register their program. They think they are safe and protected, because they are running an antivirus program.
It's the people running pirate Windows and IE and Office with no updates or patches, because even if they can register them (and typically they can't), they don't have the bandwidth to download security updates.
And I'm not talking about mere individuals. I have observed the counterfeit Windows version message on the computers in hotels, and not a cheap ones, either. What else are the corporations supposed to do when legitimate software can't be had, and your English isn't good enough to make calling Microsoft to buy a license to legitimize your pirate copy a viable option?
How do I know all this? I, too, live in a third world country, specifically Thailand. I have looked for legitimate software. I have seen pirate software in major foreign-owned stores like Tesco and Carrefour, as well as in the well-known locales for pirate software like Chatuchak and Pantip.
Seumas, you apparently have no clue what an Alternate Reality Game is.
Damn. A comma instead of a period. Gowerpoint
I second the Pocket PC. I really recommend that you use the reader named ?-book. With it you have the option of rotating the display, font size and style, and you can read anything but a .lit file...use clit to convert the .lit files. You can find it at
Gowerpoint.
Not so. I have been a happy Linux user since 1999, but my Mac mini is ordered. Why the switch? The current condition of the 2.6 Linux kernel, and the attitude of the kernel developers that the distros can fix the mess. I remember when a stable kernel was...STABLE.
It is if you were wanting to record a show immediately after on a different channel that began on time; the Tivo will not record that show. We solved the dilemma by simply canceling all season passes for all NBC shows when they did that last season. Then we CERTAINLY aren't seeing their commercials.
Interesting. I left nursing for IT work, as IT work paid better and was lower stress.
I knew I had to work while I was in school if I expected to get a job after getting my Master's in Information Systems. And so I did. The first semester I worked in the IS computer lab, tutoring C++, fixing problems, and maintaining computers. The next three semesters I worked half-time for a non-profit agency (economic development!) as a combination of database admin, network admin, and tech support for a mixed MS-Mac network. The third semester I worked on contract for the company one of my profs ran. There I maintained a mixed MS-Linux network, packaged the software product for installation, and did software tech support. The last semester I chose not to work so I could complete my program, which required three full software development projects that semester. So I had experience. Could I find a job? No. The economic development agency networked for me, but nobody was hiring. The prof who hired me let ALL his employees go for lack of business. I've had interviews, but every time I walk into an interview the interviewer(s) looks shocked and wraps it up as rapidly as possible. Why? I'm a female, over 50, and no one seems to want to hire anyone their mother's age. They just aren't comfortable with it.
Could it be that you mean Asperger's? You have the general idea of Asperger's correct. The key is in the inability to read social cues from others, and a complete lack of ability to see from another's perspective. The kid with Asperger's doesn't reply "hi" to a person he knows in the hall at school because it didn't occur to him to do so; then he doesn't understand why the kid won't sit with him at lunch. These kids need to be taught socially correct behavior because they won't learn it naturally. "Freddy, every time someone says hello to you, you must smile and say hello back."
Yes, it is separated into the main, contrib, non-free areas, just as the Debian tree is.
I submitted this 3 weeks ago or so, the day the code was released. Anonymously, to protect the author. No, I don't know who it is.
happened in Roseville, Ca in 1973, with that same mushroom cloud. Read about it here. I'm with the guys who need the residual radiation to even consider a nuclear disaster.
Don't you mean Will Robinson?
Consider the concept of analog altimeters. You know, round face, needle pointing to a number, much like the speedometer on a car. How do you make that read "Error"?
Add power to gain altitude? When you're driving your car, do you press the accelerator to turn, too? Please explain to me, a non-physicist, how increasing power will do anything but make you fly faster in the same direction and at the same altitude you were already flying at. I used to work on airplanes, and if I were a pilot I'd pull back on the yoke to aim the nose of the plane a bit higher to gain altitude. Sure, I'd slow down a bit, but I'd gain altitude, too. If I really wanted to do it right, I'd pull up and increase power ONCE I WAS CLIMBING.
I am not only a geek, but a nurse. Let me try to explain how technophobic most nurses are. Every other nurse I know is incapable of setting up and running an IV pump or feeding pump without at least an hour of instruction on how to do it. Never mind yhat the differences between them are negligible. Never mind that the instructions are printed on the side of the machine. They don't understand them, even when they have PICTURES as well as words. These are the people who need to implement HIPAA. These are also the people you CANNOT fire, due to a severe national shortage of nurses. Something about the low pay, and double shifts if your relief calls in sick, and too much work in too little time to do it RIGHT, the way you want to. It's why I no longer work as a nurse, contributing to that shortage.
You have it right. I like turn-based strategy games. All I can find are "build me" games. I don't care as much for the real-time ganmes because I like to sit and THINK about what I'm doing quite often. I also don't have the reflexes of a 14-18 year old boy.
Please, please, someone make me a new kind of game!
but I can't find many games to play. I don't care for the fps, because I have no interest in running around with a gun shooting things. I don't much care for the rpg either, because it, too, seems to come down to combat.
What am I left with? I live for the Civ series. I like the Sims, but it's not nearly as fun as Civ2, never mind Civ3. I like Age of Empires, Stronghold, Tropico, Roller Coaster Tycoon, Pharoah, etc.
I am actively looking for a new "type" of game to play besides building things. I can't find it. One of the best games I ever played was a multi-user game on (early!) Prodigy called CEO. Each game ran 2 weeks, and you made your daily moves. I would love to find something like that.
Sounds familiar. My husband always says "Every time you save me money, I end up with less of it in my wallet."