Amazon's DRM specifically limits sharing books from the Amazon store. However I dont see ow it would limit other book formats from being loaded other than the lack of software for doing so. I would think some clever hacker would write that software. An alternative is to convert to MSWord file, then load that.
They've gotten used to doing things in a certain way on there keyboard cell-phone (ike very painful ways of entering kanji) and dont want to change. It the same as getting people off of qwerty keyboards in the US.
The winner of the "ebook" competition is going to have to emulate Apples iTune "dollar-store" pricing. Thats when people decide the convenience trumps free. I get most of my reading material free online or libraries now. I can see where Kindle is more convenient, but not willing to pay the high content prices yet.
The "free" online version of the NY Times contains a minimum of three animated advertisments per article and sometimes more. It takes a few seconds to download an article. Its OK when I read 20 or 30 articles on the average day. But its more like 100-150 on Sunday. I can read the newsprint version in half the time then and frequently buy it then.
Kindle currently uses a paid-subscription model instead of ads. And quite a pricey one for the Times at $14 a month. I'd go broke if I got everything I read through Kindle (they only have 30 newspapers and magazine now).
A well-done audio book will have emotion, nuances, voice changes, etc. Talking Text will be serviceable, but not especially interesting.
In my town we have a group of experienced voice-readers who periodically perform reading books or plays in front of paying audiences. That effect is between a book and fully-staged play. Your imagination supplies the visual details. You can more easily concentrate on the words. You hear emotion and see it in the voice-reader's faces.
Perhaps talking text will evolve in the future. I anticipate a "voice-markup" annotation that might suggest emotion, tone, gender, etc. to the reading computer. Music and screenplays do such now. In the distance future an A.I. reading computer will be able to figure these out.
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In the beginning the keyword search didnt find much interesting.
Yahoo's original idea of a human-built category tree was more productive.
I used to like to go to lists of "most creative web sites" for web-building ideas and entertainment. I rarely do that now, save for checking out the annual "Webby" award winners.
HIV DNA has been sequenced for almost a quarter century. Yet a workable vaccine in humans hasn't succeeded yet, despite decades of attempts. Like the flu and common cold there are dozens of variants. Nature is more devious than we can imagine.
NASA has delayed it three weeks due to concern about a valve with a bad history. Some NSA engineers are demanding a redesign which take another half year. At worst this could end the Shuttle program as Obama looks for lemons to cut. At best the Hubble servicing mission is probably a goner due to schedule delays.
And cost as much too. I attend both F/X and game-development talks at the annual SIGGRAPH meeting. There is a convergence in the breadth and kinds of employees working at each. Game companies now hire artistic directors and script writers.
One of my classmates was a Masspar founder. In the 1980s it readily doable for a 2 to 5 person team to design a custom CPU with the new Mead-Conway type circuit compilers and Silicon-fab factories out there. Lots of clever ideas too. Plus UNIX (before Linux) was a low cost way of porting an operating system that customer scientists were familar with. They all claimed C-compilers that made porting code easy. NOT! I put energy industry code on a half-dozen of them.
The problems was the second generation machine. The prototypes got out the door, but only found a handful of customers - usually bold geeks. The second generation CMs, MassPars, Convexes, etc. then took 3-5 years. In the meantime that was about 3 to 5 Intel commodity chip generations which caught up in the meantime.
The 1990s were expandable commodity clusters. Several of my friends started software services companies in their garages with a few dozen nodes, then expanded as business grew. Several cashed out very well. The 1990s approach made economic sense, but the 1980s were more intellectually interesting.
Was it Google that gets people to tag images via the "ESP game"?
You build up a score by guessing how another person would label the image. The more correct hits you get, the higher the score.
The Mars Science Lander is two years late and a billion dollars over budget because it has developed lots of new technology. It was supposed to launch during the 2009 optimal planetary configuration, but will have to wait until the 2011 one. The next lander uses a nuclear source and rocket landing instead of airbags. I'm a little fearful all the new stuff may not work as planned. I am also fearful NASA budgetary troubles may still kill it.
The Phoenix polar probe landed in late May 2008 and died early November 2008. It was funded for the first 90 days, then for another 90 days. Because it was so far north, it was expected to die in late November due to too short battery-charging hours. An unexpected dust storm covered the panels causing it to die two weeks early. However, there were other portents of doom: Mars went into solar conjunction in late November, so the device would be on its own for three weeks near its death date. I recall just about now its perpetual night at Phoenix latitude. Its expected to accumulate about a one meter of dry ice frost through the winter, which will crush it. Satellites will photograph it periodically.
Phoenix mostly worked as planned. I think about three of the dozen chemical stoves wouldnt open their latches wide enough. The stoves heat the soils to various temperatures and chemically measure the expelled gases. An stove grate shaker shorted out. Phoneix's arm had trouble getting ice samples beacuse the ice was harder than expected. If you dont gather ice flakes quick enough they evaporate and disappear. The soil was much more sticky than expected and balked at going into the stoves.
One of Spirit's front wheel motors has stopped, so the drive it backwards.
Opprtunity's arm wont completely contract, so they drive it loose instead of docked.
Both of the RAT grinders have warn out, so they cannot drill millimeters into rock like they used to.
The camera lenses are dusty. Sometime the wind cleans them up a bit.
I read this in one of the dead-tree financial columns recently (maybe Information Week, unable to locate it). Technically HR can not ask your age, picture, marital status, race, and a few other things until after you are offered a position. This article was a warning to HR people.
I recall the first application was glow-in-the-dark aquarium fish.
But its a mjor tool in bio-marking now. It won Nobel prizes last year.
This years toy is next years Nobel Prize?
They are just asking for a financial "bailout" to achieve priority. If they were not so sloppy in the original design and construction, the LHC would have been operating last year.
Same reason you'd outsource anything else - constrain costs and not be stuck with inventory. These are usually for non-violent, or low-violence crimes.
In some states like CA and TX, prison spending is higher than school spending. One percent of the US population in the justice system at any time.
Any establishment may expell a player at will and doesnt need to have the physical counting computer.
Of course, they'd like to keep the clumsy counters around, because they make money for the casinos.
Wikipeadia mentions computer programs that track cards (by camera recognition) and bets (RFIDs in chips). The computer computes several of the popular counting schemes and compares that against actual play. Positive correlation with actual betting is suspicion of counting and grounds for expulsion.
For most card counting, you need one gesture for positive count, another for negative count. Toe tapping is an obvious gesture, but you could trained more hidden muscles.
You could have the accumulating count trigger voice results at a significant threshhold and deliver these by blue tooth earplug.
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Amazon's DRM specifically limits sharing books from the Amazon store. However I dont see ow it would limit other book formats from being loaded other than the lack of software for doing so. I would think some clever hacker would write that software. An alternative is to convert to MSWord file, then load that.
They've gotten used to doing things in a certain way on there keyboard cell-phone (ike very painful ways of entering kanji) and dont want to change. It the same as getting people off of qwerty keyboards in the US.
The winner of the "ebook" competition is going to have to emulate Apples iTune "dollar-store" pricing. Thats when people decide the convenience trumps free. I get most of my reading material free online or libraries now. I can see where Kindle is more convenient, but not willing to pay the high content prices yet.
The "free" online version of the NY Times contains a minimum of three animated advertisments per article and sometimes more. It takes a few seconds to download an article. Its OK when I read 20 or 30 articles on the average day. But its more like 100-150 on Sunday. I can read the newsprint version in half the time then and frequently buy it then.
Kindle currently uses a paid-subscription model instead of ads. And quite a pricey one for the Times at $14 a month. I'd go broke if I got everything I read through Kindle (they only have 30 newspapers and magazine now).
There may be some terms in Russian which have a particular ring not in English. They are our the biggest partners.
Probably too sedated to use computers.
It seems like job of medical researchers is to invent new disease when it may not be necessary. We read about new diseases almost every week.
A well-done audio book will have emotion, nuances, voice changes, etc. Talking Text will be serviceable, but not especially interesting.
In my town we have a group of experienced voice-readers who periodically perform reading books or plays in front of paying audiences. That effect is between a book and fully-staged play. Your imagination supplies the visual details. You can more easily concentrate on the words. You hear emotion and see it in the voice-reader's faces.
Perhaps talking text will evolve in the future. I anticipate a "voice-markup" annotation that might suggest emotion, tone, gender, etc. to the reading computer. Music and screenplays do such now. In the distance future an A.I. reading computer will be able to figure these out.
In the beginning the keyword search didnt find much interesting.
Yahoo's original idea of a human-built category tree was more productive.
I used to like to go to lists of "most creative web sites" for web-building ideas and entertainment. I rarely do that now, save for checking out the annual "Webby" award winners.
HIV DNA has been sequenced for almost a quarter century. Yet a workable vaccine in humans hasn't succeeded yet, despite decades of attempts. Like the flu and common cold there are dozens of variants. Nature is more devious than we can imagine.
NASA has delayed it three weeks due to concern about a valve with a bad history. Some NSA engineers are demanding a redesign which take another half year. At worst this could end the Shuttle program as Obama looks for lemons to cut. At best the Hubble servicing mission is probably a goner due to schedule delays.
And cost as much too. I attend both F/X and game-development talks at the annual SIGGRAPH meeting. There is a convergence in the breadth and kinds of employees working at each. Game companies now hire artistic directors and script writers.
One of my classmates was a Masspar founder. In the 1980s it readily doable for a 2 to 5 person team to design a custom CPU with the new Mead-Conway type circuit compilers and Silicon-fab factories out there. Lots of clever ideas too. Plus UNIX (before Linux) was a low cost way of porting an operating system that customer scientists were familar with. They all claimed C-compilers that made porting code easy. NOT! I put energy industry code on a half-dozen of them.
The problems was the second generation machine. The prototypes got out the door, but only found a handful of customers - usually bold geeks. The second generation CMs, MassPars, Convexes, etc. then took 3-5 years. In the meantime that was about 3 to 5 Intel commodity chip generations which caught up in the meantime.
The 1990s were expandable commodity clusters. Several of my friends started software services companies in their garages with a few dozen nodes, then expanded as business grew. Several cashed out very well. The 1990s approach made economic sense, but the 1980s were more intellectually interesting.
Was it Google that gets people to tag images via the "ESP game"? You build up a score by guessing how another person would label the image. The more correct hits you get, the higher the score.
With missions taking two or three decades, many current scientists will be dead by then.
Thats when you have a foregone conclusion and cherry-pick the data to support it.
The Mars Science Lander is two years late and a billion dollars over budget because it has developed lots of new technology. It was supposed to launch during the 2009 optimal planetary configuration, but will have to wait until the 2011 one. The next lander uses a nuclear source and rocket landing instead of airbags. I'm a little fearful all the new stuff may not work as planned. I am also fearful NASA budgetary troubles may still kill it.
The Phoenix polar probe landed in late May 2008 and died early November 2008. It was funded for the first 90 days, then for another 90 days. Because it was so far north, it was expected to die in late November due to too short battery-charging hours. An unexpected dust storm covered the panels causing it to die two weeks early. However, there were other portents of doom: Mars went into solar conjunction in late November, so the device would be on its own for three weeks near its death date. I recall just about now its perpetual night at Phoenix latitude. Its expected to accumulate about a one meter of dry ice frost through the winter, which will crush it. Satellites will photograph it periodically.
Phoenix mostly worked as planned. I think about three of the dozen chemical stoves wouldnt open their latches wide enough. The stoves heat the soils to various temperatures and chemically measure the expelled gases. An stove grate shaker shorted out. Phoneix's arm had trouble getting ice samples beacuse the ice was harder than expected. If you dont gather ice flakes quick enough they evaporate and disappear. The soil was much more sticky than expected and balked at going into the stoves.
One of Spirit's front wheel motors has stopped, so the drive it backwards.
Opprtunity's arm wont completely contract, so they drive it loose instead of docked.
Both of the RAT grinders have warn out, so they cannot drill millimeters into rock like they used to.
The camera lenses are dusty. Sometime the wind cleans them up a bit.
I am sure there are others.
I read this in one of the dead-tree financial columns recently (maybe Information Week, unable to locate it). Technically HR can not ask your age, picture, marital status, race, and a few other things until after you are offered a position. This article was a warning to HR people.
I recall the first application was glow-in-the-dark aquarium fish. But its a mjor tool in bio-marking now. It won Nobel prizes last year.
This years toy is next years Nobel Prize?
They are just asking for a financial "bailout" to achieve priority. If they were not so sloppy in the original design and construction, the LHC would have been operating last year.
Same reason you'd outsource anything else - constrain costs and not be stuck with inventory. These are usually for non-violent, or low-violence crimes.
In some states like CA and TX, prison spending is higher than school spending. One percent of the US population in the justice system at any time.
Any establishment may expell a player at will and doesnt need to have the physical counting computer. Of course, they'd like to keep the clumsy counters around, because they make money for the casinos.
Wikipeadia mentions computer programs that track cards (by camera recognition) and bets (RFIDs in chips). The computer computes several of the popular counting schemes and compares that against actual play. Positive correlation with actual betting is suspicion of counting and grounds for expulsion.
For most card counting, you need one gesture for positive count, another for negative count. Toe tapping is an obvious gesture, but you could trained more hidden muscles.
You could have the accumulating count trigger voice results at a significant threshhold and deliver these by blue tooth earplug.