Apparently, Amazon scan and OCR printed books, then convert them to AZW, with little to no human intervention.
Proper proofreading works out at something like 35-40 hours per book.
What about crowdsourced copy editing? I'm sure Amazon could push updated versions to kindles, and probably work out some sort of incentive system to get readers involved...
True. Though there could be a loophole - whichever Geneva Convention ruled on 'blinding weapons' or their ilk (probably the same one that outlawed battlefield use of dumdums and the like) maybe meant _permanent_ blinding.
Chrome OS allows for very cheap laptops. The cr-48 uses an Atom CPU, but the real beauty will be when ARM ChromeOS machines are sold, booting off a little 8GB flash drive. We're talking about ubiquitous < $200 laptops.
...and you must have missed the part where it's free for a trial period and then after that it's free forever for http, they only lock down https in the free version.
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Presumably, some photons take a different - longer - path to reach his retinas; enough to at least reduce the flickering.
As to the Puritans - IIRC, the lot you got were the moderates; the real killjoys stayed here.
Proper proofreading works out at something like 35-40 hours per book.
What about crowdsourced copy editing? I'm sure Amazon could push updated versions to kindles, and probably work out some sort of incentive system to get readers involved...
I meant to do the sums last time this came up...
£1.35/litre (the average cost of a litre of unleaded petrol in my town, according to petrolprices.com) in UK gallons, expressed as $num USD/US gallon?
$8.059, according to wolfram alpha
Also since when do we say notebook in a headline and have everyone read it and think laptop not paper notebook.
The '[...] and Smartphones' wasn't a clue?
True. Though there could be a loophole - whichever Geneva Convention ruled on 'blinding weapons' or their ilk (probably the same one that outlawed battlefield use of dumdums and the like) maybe meant _permanent_ blinding.
I used a *box like interface (bblean, and litestep) on my XP machines for quite a while.
Has anyone noticed any recent appointees or elected officials seemingly always wearing a plain gold ring?
No. It's a ring of invisibility, after all...
What? Jupiter? It does put out more radiation than it absorbs but it's hardly a sun.
Whoosh. (See the works of Sir Arthur C Clarke for details...)
the 'noob tube' is a reference to Halo's sniper rifle.
'n00b tube' and 'Nuketown'.
*snerk*
Yep. They handled it about as well as as is possible, I thought.
Possibly.
Carry around a balloon full of sulfur hexafluoride.
_Bucket_, surely.
Or it would be, if I'd logged in on this box...
Can I just add, for 'Robertson', read 'square'.
I do much the same, only I squeeze (most of) the navigation bar in there. (back/fwd, url bar, search) Nice and slim.
Apparently, not as much as you (or I) would assume - http://nextbigfuture.com/2010/12/sea-based-launch-option-for-nuclear.html
Chrome OS allows for very cheap laptops. The cr-48 uses an Atom CPU, but the real beauty will be when ARM ChromeOS machines are sold, booting off a little 8GB flash drive. We're talking about ubiquitous < $200 laptops.
So... Netbook: The Return of the Eee701?
Rollerblades. Or one of those skeleton luge suits with the wheels...
And yes, I did start at the beginning.
...and you must have missed the part where it's free for a trial period and then after that it's free forever for http, they only lock down https in the free version.
I did. Mea culpa, and all that.
Free? You must have missed the part where they're selling it for $9.95...
Sort of a cross between a netbook and a smartphone, I think.