So you don't think an app is worth paying for, so you'd rather pay twice (once to the app makers and once to your power company) for it? That's an interesting position to take.
What you're describing is a commodity, not a currency. If you go that route, you might as well start paying your bills with barrels of oil or live chickens.
I'm not a game player, but I do enjoy jumping around like a moron. With or without a kinect. OTOH I don't enjoy my upstairs neighbors jumping around like morons, so you may have a point there.
If you go there by foot or by bike, it means you cannot buy much.
That's right. Your groceries will be fresh, you get daily excercise and you have an added incentive to switch from drinking soda to tea or coffee (Why lug half your body weight in water across town when you can get it at home by turning a tap?). You can pick up your groceries on your way from work on a daily basis. For heavy goods you can always take a car or have it delivered.
(Link potentially NSFW depending on your co-workers)
Here at the Trappist monastery we were all very disappointed with your post. With an introduction like that we were counting on at least one exposed nipple.
What is this "cultural world" you speak of? Because choreographers didn't normally sit around in coffe houses discussing architecture with sculptors. Each stood on their own little fortress fighting over scarce grant money and complaining that "the public" doesn't understand or deserve them. These days you'll find artists and designers keeping in touch with the work of others. The barrier is lowered because visiting a website is free, whereas a painter doesn't have an expesive subscription to both Architecture Monthly and Modern Dance Magazine and even if they did your "professional taste makers" would stand in the way deciding what to print and what to ignore, mostly for subjective reasons.
If anything it has only become a single cultural world since the rise of the net, but you have to drop your blinkers to see it.
When did Google cross over to the Dark Side (TM)? Does anyone know?
Shortly after their IPO. With shareholders braying for handouts, making money became more important than not doing evil and with no effective competitor, two clever college kids started thinking that they were gods, above the petty concerns of ordinary men.
You know, about 15 years ago I worked in an electronics store. For an April fools joke I once stuck an antenna and an LED in a mains plug and put it in the shop window as a "wireless extension cord - 29.95" I got quite a few interested customers for this item. From what I have picked up from the coverage of the trial these devices are about as sophisticated as my five minute handywork. I can build one and sell it to you for an inflation adjusted price. You could draw the conclusion from my post that I'm selling you a bunch of junk, but have you tested it? No.
Come to think of it, your post reminds me of the poor sods coming in for a 555 timer IC a 9V battery clip and a couple of passive components, convinced that they could build a cancer defeating device described in some quack book. No use in arguing with them but I felt sad after they'd gone, and bad for taking their money.
You're talking about video games right? Those things that you play for a week or two and then never touch again? I agree that DRM is wrong in principle but I can't get too worked up about video game DRM as long as it doesn't interfere with playing. Besides, cracking game protection has been a tried and true entry into assembly and disassembly skills for generations of geeks.
Very much like Nokia once was. So if history is anything to go by, they will bring out one more great product in a sea of mediocrity that will be a commecial flop and by the end of the decade they will devolve into a patent troll propped up from the shadows by an unlikely ally (like Canon for instance)
The stuff that gets sent to the reader is in a proprietary format, but if you go to their site you can get your book in epub format. Then you may have to run it through a DRM stripper to free it completely (with the right plugins installed, this happens automagically when importing it into Calibre)
When I broke my Opus (apparently it's not a good idea to rest your full weight on your knee on the screen) I switched to a Kobo touch and never looked back. The Opus really is showing it's age. It's slow, the buttons are unresponsive and display of pdf is mostly broken. But it certainly was small and light.
Not being able to deregister a dead machine is a drawback (I have had that happen to one windows client and one ereader), but if you break the DRM as soon as you've downloaded your book (which is childishly simple and good practice comparable with making regular backups) you can keep a functional copy around for eternity.
Yes, it's a hassle but for me not a deal breaker. At least with epub you're not restricted to a single vendor.
I don't know what tablet/phone you have, but Kobo has both Android and iPhone apps. Of course the greatest selling point they have is that they are not Amazon. That whole employing Neo-Nazis to police their slave labour / fucking over third party sellers / software patents thing makes me want to spend as little money as possible in their store.
If it's not coffee it shouldn't be labeled as such, and roasted chicory root has been used as a coffee surrogate for centuries. A quick Google search shows that it's being sold today as a healthy organic alternative to coffee.
Your food chemist should blame his marketing department for the cock up, not the government.
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So you don't think an app is worth paying for, so you'd rather pay twice (once to the app makers and once to your power company) for it? That's an interesting position to take.
What you're describing is a commodity, not a currency. If you go that route, you might as well start paying your bills with barrels of oil or live chickens.
So by the time your mining rig arrives, it is underpowered for the job? That sounds like a losing proposition.
think it'd be cool to have the room appear to quiver in a subtle way in time with the kick drums or long bass guitar solos.
That technology has been around for ages. It's called magic mushrooms.
I'm not a game player, but I do enjoy jumping around like a moron. With or without a kinect. OTOH I don't enjoy my upstairs neighbors jumping around like morons, so you may have a point there.
If you go there by foot or by bike, it means you cannot buy much.
That's right. Your groceries will be fresh, you get daily excercise and you have an added incentive to switch from drinking soda to tea or coffee (Why lug half your body weight in water across town when you can get it at home by turning a tap?).
You can pick up your groceries on your way from work on a daily basis. For heavy goods you can always take a car or have it delivered.
(Link potentially NSFW depending on your co-workers)
Here at the Trappist monastery we were all very disappointed with your post. With an introduction like that we were counting on at least one exposed nipple.
What is this "cultural world" you speak of? Because choreographers didn't normally sit around in coffe houses discussing architecture with sculptors. Each stood on their own little fortress fighting over scarce grant money and complaining that "the public" doesn't understand or deserve them.
These days you'll find artists and designers keeping in touch with the work of others. The barrier is lowered because visiting a website is free, whereas a painter doesn't have an expesive subscription to both Architecture Monthly and Modern Dance Magazine and even if they did your "professional taste makers" would stand in the way deciding what to print and what to ignore, mostly for subjective reasons.
If anything it has only become a single cultural world since the rise of the net, but you have to drop your blinkers to see it.
Yes let the kids choose for themselves, and don't bitch when they all end up majoring in vampire studies.
You have point there. Anyone up for the "Ten years of Evil" anniversary party next year?
Tell that to the kids and grown-ups hugging their blankets and succumbing to blind panic if lunch is five minutes late.
When did Google cross over to the Dark Side (TM)? Does anyone know?
Shortly after their IPO. With shareholders braying for handouts, making money became more important than not doing evil and with no effective competitor, two clever college kids started thinking that they were gods, above the petty concerns of ordinary men.
You know, about 15 years ago I worked in an electronics store. For an April fools joke I once stuck an antenna and an LED in a mains plug and put it in the shop window as a "wireless extension cord - 29.95" I got quite a few interested customers for this item. From what I have picked up from the coverage of the trial these devices are about as sophisticated as my five minute handywork.
I can build one and sell it to you for an inflation adjusted price. You could draw the conclusion from my post that I'm selling you a bunch of junk, but have you tested it? No.
Come to think of it, your post reminds me of the poor sods coming in for a 555 timer IC a 9V battery clip and a couple of passive components, convinced that they could build a cancer defeating device described in some quack book. No use in arguing with them but I felt sad after they'd gone, and bad for taking their money.
And here I was thinking youtu.be was hosted in Belgium...
Even worse: No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame.
You're talking about video games right? Those things that you play for a week or two and then never touch again? I agree that DRM is wrong in principle but I can't get too worked up about video game DRM as long as it doesn't interfere with playing.
Besides, cracking game protection has been a tried and true entry into assembly and disassembly skills for generations of geeks.
It isn't a question of formality, it's a question of style.
Very much like Nokia once was. So if history is anything to go by, they will bring out one more great product in a sea of mediocrity that will be a commecial flop and by the end of the decade they will devolve into a patent troll propped up from the shadows by an unlikely ally (like Canon for instance)
Actually they are, but when you have billions in the bank this decline can take decades.
"it would open up businesses to an avalanche of requests from individuals as well as costly lawsuits."
Good!
The stuff that gets sent to the reader is in a proprietary format, but if you go to their site you can get your book in epub format. Then you may have to run it through a DRM stripper to free it completely (with the right plugins installed, this happens automagically when importing it into Calibre)
When I broke my Opus (apparently it's not a good idea to rest your full weight on your knee on the screen) I switched to a Kobo touch and never looked back. The Opus really is showing it's age. It's slow, the buttons are unresponsive and display of pdf is mostly broken. But it certainly was small and light.
Not being able to deregister a dead machine is a drawback (I have had that happen to one windows client and one ereader), but if you break the DRM as soon as you've downloaded your book (which is childishly simple and good practice comparable with making regular backups) you can keep a functional copy around for eternity.
Yes, it's a hassle but for me not a deal breaker. At least with epub you're not restricted to a single vendor.
I don't know what tablet/phone you have, but Kobo has both Android and iPhone apps.
Of course the greatest selling point they have is that they are not Amazon. That whole employing Neo-Nazis to police their slave labour / fucking over third party sellers / software patents thing makes me want to spend as little money as possible in their store.
If it's not coffee it shouldn't be labeled as such, and roasted chicory root has been used as a coffee surrogate for centuries. A quick Google search shows that it's being sold today as a healthy organic alternative to coffee.
Your food chemist should blame his marketing department for the cock up, not the government.