I also prefer the Dead Tree Edition books, but ebooks are so much more convenient when traveling, at the Doctor's Office, Waiting for the Wife to finish the shopping and any other place I don't want to drag a hard cover edition along. For those times I carry my eReader which is approximately the size of a paperback and fits in either the back pocket of my Jeans or the inside coats pocket of my jacket, it is also loaded with close to 500 books non of which are DRMed! Oh and on that you don't OWN your ebooks thing, You are buying in the wrong place check out the Baen.com . At the bottom of all their newsletters is this "Baen Books. No DRM. You own it; it's yours." Luckily for me most of my favorite authors write for them, and Most have a Large backlist of books. For the rest of my reading I am very picky about who I buy from, If it has DRM I don't buy !
I'll buy one of those four years after the FBI, DHS and the Secret Service Agents that protect the President have been using them as Standard Issue! Until it is good enough for them to use, forget about it!
Of course the whole thing is, you won't be able to find anything without their APP! Only for those that can not wrap their heads around the concept of Latitude and Longitude, which by the way, can get you a lot closer than a 3x3 meter square!
One problem with that! You can't get a good GPS signal in caves. They would have to add an inertial navigation system onto it for that application, though it probably would work better than bread crumbs when done! The other problem would be squeezing and crawling through passages with it!
I have never found it to be a REAL problem, and even if it might annoy some people, you can not make a blanket prohibition, there are people that just might need to take that emergency call, Doctor, EMS, Volunteer firemen, Parents with a sitter and a hurt kid! So the selfish and self absorbed get to skate by! So all that on top of the fact that a theater that deployed a cell blocker, just might be on the wrong end of a whopping law suit, all I can say is suck it up and cope!
The one problem with this is that you have to make sure that the master is periodically updated with the changes from all the blueprints out on the floor! I once saw a new maintenance Foreman, throw away a dirty, ragged marked up print and order a new one from the office, only to find none of the changes had been entered on the master! This entailed ~16 hours of work by the Electricians tracing and documenting were and what all the wiring in 3 Large panels went to and did. this was for one small part of an Automotive assembly plant, just lines for the Paint Department, less the controls for the ovens and paint booths which had separate panels! Today it would be easier for the Electricians to take a picture of the changes and send them to the front office to be entered!
In this case it would have been a futile effort, since they would have called to have the connection made and messed up the upgrade anyhow! If you could trust the production people to do it, it could be as simple as unplugging an Ethernet cable and only plugging it in when it was absolutely necessary. Other wise a network switch can have individual ports turned off remotely. Not an IT that's my son, but this is what I found on a quick look.
Don't know about you, but I've been using Linux exclusively since 2007, and it is on a desktop computer. Personally I've been pretty happy with it! Can't afford to buy Photoshop, MS Office and all the rest, so I use what is available in the Repository and seem to get by pretty well!
Since i use Linux and most Government computers are locked into Windows, I think it is a better bet that it will lockup some part of an important agency before it gets me! If they does this to their usual level of competency then there will be a whole lot of Falls Positives, hopefully some of them will be in the offices of some really good Lawyers who will sue them till their wallets bleed!
That might be the most worrying thing, it actually makes sense! Sure to be overturned on appeal! We are now living in The Age of Government Overreach and Security at any price! Nothing must limit the power of the Gesta---, (Cough Cough) Department of Homeland Security to do it job! Which they will define as they go along!
I think one of the reasons it did get as many votes as it did was the fact that the President promised to veto it! This way they can have their cake and eat it too!
This really reminds me of the 1991 movie where Billy Dee Williams, Dom DeLuise, and Milton Berle starred in “Driving Me Crazy,” about an East German inventor who defects to America and tries to market a turnip-powered Trabant. So all they have to do is figure out how to cut out the middle-man and run the car on raw Energy Beets instead of refined Ethanol!
But that is the point! I personally would never see the Correct info at the Kobo website since I would never purchase it if it said it was DRMed in the first place! Maybe it makes no difference to some people, but there are many like me that will not buy if is says DRM!
Already on the market! Just at a higher price point since it needs a grinder in addition to the heater extruder that he has, plus it is sold assembled and for a profit! http://filabot.com/
You haven't read much military history have you? There have been a Lot of military commanders that have had very little regard for the lives of those they commanded! Start with Ancient china and work your way foirward from there! As long as their was ready supply of new recruits draftees or peasnats to rounded up to fight, they could care less how many died! Maybe we could get some people that feel like you do to volunteer to replace those robots! I've been there and they can replace me and others like me with a robot any day of the week, and I Will be very happy not to be shot at, thank you!
Darn! You beat me to it! Even though not Hades related, in this situation, they fit the bill perfectly! I guess we will have to wait till they discover new moons of Neptune for them to be in play though!
Have your Cake and Eat it too! Dual-boot Linux and Whatever your current flavor of Microsoft OS is! Then after you realize you haven't use that MS OS for 6 months or so except to do the monthly updates, You can go ahead and switch over altogether!
You haven't looked in the right places! if you like the stuff I like then Baenebooks.com has there's in multiple formats for just about every ereader out there, and they are DRM free, so you can move them from device to device with no problem! I still have and use my old Sony PRS-505 whenever I either run out of library books, have a Doctors appointment or have to wait while the wife shops, in other words whenever I leave the house and find myself with time on my hands. I have 460 books on it at the moment! Saved me it's purchase price on our trip oversea back in 2007 just in not having to pay the airline for dragging along 20+ books for a three week trip! Ther are lots of places that sell DRM free ebooks that can be converted to any format you want or need with applications like Calibre.
Premium doesn't mean something is "Better" it just means it is more expensive! For instance, "Premium Beers", that dumb people flocked to in such numbers they forced the Local breweries out of business and made American beer a joke around the world! Same situation here! Apple has never been more than marginally "Better" than Windows or Linux, and you paid for that slightly better experience in both money and lack of choice, what you got was hat things like control P did the same thing in all the software for apple where Windows you had to learn the keyboard short cuts for each software package in the early days, since they were all suing each other over silly stuff like that!
I would be inclined to think it was more limited by how well it could sense the tires gripping the road than how strong or fast it was, since they can always make it stronger and faster than the previous model, it is a machine after all! Kind of why we don't compete in marathons with Automobiles! 8-) Also why some UAVs can pull more Gs than a piloted aircraft!
Now we just have to see how it handles dogs on the track and the odd drunk or two! A farm wagon pulling onto the road right in front of it would also be a learning experience, to say nothing of the odd whitetail deer!
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Well seems the new version hasn't hit the Ubuntu repositories yet, so I'll have to wait till tomorrow!
Did you ever look at the pressures the air reservoir reaches in those large caliber air rifles? Remember many of them are filled from a Scuba tank!!
I also prefer the Dead Tree Edition books, but ebooks are so much more convenient when traveling, at the Doctor's Office, Waiting for the Wife to finish the shopping and any other place I don't want to drag a hard cover edition along. For those times I carry my eReader which is approximately the size of a paperback and fits in either the back pocket of my Jeans or the inside coats pocket of my jacket, it is also loaded with close to 500 books non of which are DRMed! Oh and on that you don't OWN your ebooks thing, You are buying in the wrong place check out the Baen.com . At the bottom of all their newsletters is this "Baen Books. No DRM. You own it; it's yours." Luckily for me most of my favorite authors write for them, and Most have a Large backlist of books. For the rest of my reading I am very picky about who I buy from, If it has DRM I don't buy !
I'll buy one of those four years after the FBI, DHS and the Secret Service Agents that protect the President have been using them as Standard Issue! Until it is good enough for them to use, forget about it!
Of course the whole thing is, you won't be able to find anything without their APP! Only for those that can not wrap their heads around the concept of Latitude and Longitude, which by the way, can get you a lot closer than a 3x3 meter square!
One problem with that! You can't get a good GPS signal in caves. They would have to add an inertial navigation system onto it for that application, though it probably would work better than bread crumbs when done! The other problem would be squeezing and crawling through passages with it!
I have never found it to be a REAL problem, and even if it might annoy some people, you can not make a blanket prohibition, there are people that just might need to take that emergency call, Doctor, EMS, Volunteer firemen, Parents with a sitter and a hurt kid! So the selfish and self absorbed get to skate by! So all that on top of the fact that a theater that deployed a cell blocker, just might be on the wrong end of a whopping law suit, all I can say is suck it up and cope!
The one problem with this is that you have to make sure that the master is periodically updated with the changes from all the blueprints out on the floor! I once saw a new maintenance Foreman, throw away a dirty, ragged marked up print and order a new one from the office, only to find none of the changes had been entered on the master! This entailed ~16 hours of work by the Electricians tracing and documenting were and what all the wiring in 3 Large panels went to and did. this was for one small part of an Automotive assembly plant, just lines for the Paint Department, less the controls for the ovens and paint booths which had separate panels! Today it would be easier for the Electricians to take a picture of the changes and send them to the front office to be entered!
In this case it would have been a futile effort, since they would have called to have the connection made and messed up the upgrade anyhow! If you could trust the production people to do it, it could be as simple as unplugging an Ethernet cable and only plugging it in when it was absolutely necessary. Other wise a network switch can have individual ports turned off remotely. Not an IT that's my son, but this is what I found on a quick look.
Don't know about you, but I've been using Linux exclusively since 2007, and it is on a desktop computer. Personally I've been pretty happy with it! Can't afford to buy Photoshop, MS Office and all the rest, so I use what is available in the Repository and seem to get by pretty well!
Since i use Linux and most Government computers are locked into Windows, I think it is a better bet that it will lockup some part of an important agency before it gets me! If they does this to their usual level of competency then there will be a whole lot of Falls Positives, hopefully some of them will be in the offices of some really good Lawyers who will sue them till their wallets bleed!
Early training in the safe use and handling of firearms prevents "Accidents" later on in life!
That might be the most worrying thing, it actually makes sense! Sure to be overturned on appeal! We are now living in The Age of Government Overreach and Security at any price! Nothing must limit the power of the Gesta---, (Cough Cough) Department of Homeland Security to do it job! Which they will define as they go along!
Might be interesting to me, if it was ported to Linux and could use AMD GPUs! Mac and Nvidia,no way!
I think one of the reasons it did get as many votes as it did was the fact that the President promised to veto it! This way they can have their cake and eat it too!
This really reminds me of the 1991 movie where Billy Dee Williams, Dom DeLuise, and Milton Berle starred in “Driving Me Crazy,” about an East German inventor who defects to America and tries to market a turnip-powered Trabant. So all they have to do is figure out how to cut out the middle-man and run the car on raw Energy Beets instead of refined Ethanol!
But that is the point! I personally would never see the Correct info at the Kobo website since I would never purchase it if it said it was DRMed in the first place! Maybe it makes no difference to some people, but there are many like me that will not buy if is says DRM!
Already on the market! Just at a higher price point since it needs a grinder in addition to the heater extruder that he has, plus it is sold assembled and for a profit! http://filabot.com/
You haven't read much military history have you? There have been a Lot of military commanders that have had very little regard for the lives of those they commanded! Start with Ancient china and work your way foirward from there! As long as their was ready supply of new recruits draftees or peasnats to rounded up to fight, they could care less how many died! Maybe we could get some people that feel like you do to volunteer to replace those robots! I've been there and they can replace me and others like me with a robot any day of the week, and I Will be very happy not to be shot at, thank you!
Darn! You beat me to it! Even though not Hades related, in this situation, they fit the bill perfectly! I guess we will have to wait till they discover new moons of Neptune for them to be in play though!
Have your Cake and Eat it too! Dual-boot Linux and Whatever your current flavor of Microsoft OS is! Then after you realize you haven't use that MS OS for 6 months or so except to do the monthly updates, You can go ahead and switch over altogether!
You haven't looked in the right places! if you like the stuff I like then Baenebooks.com has there's in multiple formats for just about every ereader out there, and they are DRM free, so you can move them from device to device with no problem! I still have and use my old Sony PRS-505 whenever I either run out of library books, have a Doctors appointment or have to wait while the wife shops, in other words whenever I leave the house and find myself with time on my hands. I have 460 books on it at the moment! Saved me it's purchase price on our trip oversea back in 2007 just in not having to pay the airline for dragging along 20+ books for a three week trip! Ther are lots of places that sell DRM free ebooks that can be converted to any format you want or need with applications like Calibre.
Premium doesn't mean something is "Better" it just means it is more expensive! For instance, "Premium Beers", that dumb people flocked to in such numbers they forced the Local breweries out of business and made American beer a joke around the world! Same situation here! Apple has never been more than marginally "Better" than Windows or Linux, and you paid for that slightly better experience in both money and lack of choice, what you got was hat things like control P did the same thing in all the software for apple where Windows you had to learn the keyboard short cuts for each software package in the early days, since they were all suing each other over silly stuff like that!
I would be inclined to think it was more limited by how well it could sense the tires gripping the road than how strong or fast it was, since they can always make it stronger and faster than the previous model, it is a machine after all! Kind of why we don't compete in marathons with Automobiles! 8-) Also why some UAVs can pull more Gs than a piloted aircraft!
Now we just have to see how it handles dogs on the track and the odd drunk or two! A farm wagon pulling onto the road right in front of it would also be a learning experience, to say nothing of the odd whitetail deer!