I don't hate it, i just don't want one. I try and avoid corporate lock-in wherever i can. If it supported epub format i wouldn't have any problems with it at all.
I wouldn't have a Kindle if you paid me, but occasionally i wouldn't mind if my Kobo touch had a built in light. However, given that recent research has shown that blue light at night is bad for you in various ways, it would be much better if the built in light was towards the red end of the spectrum.
Do they price things just below a round amount, e.g 9.99 rather then ten bucks? If so, they'd presumably have to round it to 9.95, which is actually less.
I haven't really paid enough attention to say for sure that it's all the time, but mostly ithings would be priced at, say, $9.95, rather than $9.99. If they were $9.99, though, they'd be rounded up to $10, not $9.95.
I've had an android phone (HTC Desire) on prepaid for nearly 2 years now. I've had mobile contracts three times over the years - twice in Australia and once in Britain - and every time i left the country long before the contract expired, and had to pay it out. I'll never get a contract again! Prepaid's cheaper anyway.
The Australian government got rid of 1c and 2c coins 20 years ago. The Australian dollar and the Canadian dollar have always been pretty much equivalent in value.
The Facebook app on Android is awful too. It takes forever to start up - assume it's busy uploading all your personal phone data (contacts, text messages, etc) to Facebook, but who knows what it's doing....? Whatever it's doing, i don't want it wasting my time while it does it, so i've downgraded to the distro version - which is really awful.
The main problem with music industry figures seems to be that they estimate how much piracy there is and then claim that as a loss. However, that's based on the flawed assumption that if people weren't pirating the music they'd be paying for it - which they wouldn't, they'd just go without it most of the time. Just because someone downloads a song for free doesn't mean they would have bought it if it wasn't available for free. A lot of people who download pirated music also buy music. There's only so much money available to be spent on music anyway.
I'm sure a part of the reason why sales went down is because the music industry resisted the move to downloads. If they had half a brain and they'd embraced downloads from the start, sales probably would have been stable or maybe even risen a bit. As it was, their troglodyte attitudes forced people to turn to piracy.
I don't recall the major labels being quite so vilified in my youth.
I dunno how old you are, but they weren't exactly popular in my youth! The Sex Pistols song "EMI" kinda embodied the way people felt about them in the 70s.
[......] I try to keep myself from becoming entrenched in any particular mode of thinking... it leads to inflexibly dictating that all else is inferior.
That's the best way to approach all of life. Sadly, there are a lot of people who don't think like that - and there seems to be plenty of them around here!
I have a remote, but not too distant fear, of having to practice medicine, specifically surgery, without the benefit of antibiotics. That would probably mean a near end to most elective surgery and huge decrease in average life scan. No more total joint replacements, vein bypasses, organ transplants, etc.
But why do you need antibiotics for surgery? Where are the pathogens coming from? Surely if there was proper cleanliness and sterility, surgical wounds wouldn't get infected?
It's not due to lower environmental exposure, its genetic.
And how do those genes become predominant in a population? Because lower environmental exposure means people with that gene have a better chance of living long enough to reproduce.
Scratch any human and you'll find a racist! Sadly, racism is a universal part of human nature. We're all racist to some extent - even you! I live in the NT and i've experienced Aboriginal people being racist towards other Aboriginal people.
If you think Australia is more racist than Britain, you must live in London (or possibly some other big multicultural city). If you get out of the cosy multiculturalism of Hackney or Brixton and into the real Britain, you'll find it's rife with racism. The enduring victims of British racism are Gypsies and the Irish, but British people are quite partial to being racist towards any ethnic minority that comes to their attention. They're also extremely racist towards people who come from other parts of Britain than where they come from themselves. Shit, they even hate the people in the next village!
The problems Aboriginal people face in Australia (and they're massive problems) are the result of colonization, rather than purely racism. And (originally, at least) Australia wasn't colonized by Australians - it was colonized by the British.
I'm quite convinced that the majority of Australians are sympathetic towards Aboriginal people and would support any convincing moves to fix up the problems that colonization has caused them. However, it's not simple or straightforward - and Aboriginal people don't have a unified voice or a clear set of demands, which tends to perplex their passive supporters.
It sounds like you've been watching too much Home and Away (or whatever that Aussie soap is that's set near a beach...)! I don't wear Hawaiian style clothes! (But i do wear flip flops!)
If Australians had a monopoly on stupidity i might be inclined to agree with you, but they don't. The British do plenty of stupid things, just like the yanks and everyone else in the world. And, judging by the summary, it hasn't really got anything to do with Australian law or the government - it's the stupidity of a particular company in trying to pursue this guy. All they've done so far is send him a typical threatening solicitor's letter. I doubt the threats would stand up in court.
At least this guy's not faced with extradition to the US, like British hackers Gary McKinnon, and Ryan Cleary, or to Sweden and then the US, like Australian Julian Assange. All three of them are fighting the British legal system.
And talking about thick populations putting governments in power... Who in their right mind would allow slimy scum like Cameron to run any country, even a third world one like the UK?
Funny that half the population of the UK would like to live here. And at least half of the rest would like to live somewhere else - anywhere except Britain. Funny, too, that there are 50,000 British illegal immigrants in Australia. The only people who actually want to live in the UK are the immigrants.
Nobody in their right mind would want to live on that cold, grey, and dismal little island - particularly as it's filled with a bunch of whining no-hopers. I'm eternally thankful that i managed to escape from the hellhole myself!
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[......] epub is easily converted to mobi.
How do you convert drm'd epub to mobi?
why so much hate for the kindle?
I don't hate it, i just don't want one. I try and avoid corporate lock-in wherever i can. If it supported epub format i wouldn't have any problems with it at all.
I wouldn't have a Kindle if you paid me, but occasionally i wouldn't mind if my Kobo touch had a built in light. However, given that recent research has shown that blue light at night is bad for you in various ways, it would be much better if the built in light was towards the red end of the spectrum.
Do they price things just below a round amount, e.g 9.99 rather then ten bucks? If so, they'd presumably have to round it to 9.95, which is actually less.
I haven't really paid enough attention to say for sure that it's all the time, but mostly ithings would be priced at, say, $9.95, rather than $9.99. If they were $9.99, though, they'd be rounded up to $10, not $9.95.
I've had an android phone (HTC Desire) on prepaid for nearly 2 years now. I've had mobile contracts three times over the years - twice in Australia and once in Britain - and every time i left the country long before the contract expired, and had to pay it out. I'll never get a contract again! Prepaid's cheaper anyway.
You do know they will always round up to the next five not down. It will cause inflation.
That's not what happens in Australia. The price gets rounded to the nearest 5c.
The Australian government got rid of 1c and 2c coins 20 years ago. The Australian dollar and the Canadian dollar have always been pretty much equivalent in value.
The Facebook app on windows mobile is awful.
The Facebook app on Android is awful too. It takes forever to start up - assume it's busy uploading all your personal phone data (contacts, text messages, etc) to Facebook, but who knows what it's doing....? Whatever it's doing, i don't want it wasting my time while it does it, so i've downgraded to the distro version - which is really awful.
The main problem with music industry figures seems to be that they estimate how much piracy there is and then claim that as a loss. However, that's based on the flawed assumption that if people weren't pirating the music they'd be paying for it - which they wouldn't, they'd just go without it most of the time. Just because someone downloads a song for free doesn't mean they would have bought it if it wasn't available for free. A lot of people who download pirated music also buy music. There's only so much money available to be spent on music anyway.
I'm sure a part of the reason why sales went down is because the music industry resisted the move to downloads. If they had half a brain and they'd embraced downloads from the start, sales probably would have been stable or maybe even risen a bit. As it was, their troglodyte attitudes forced people to turn to piracy.
I don't recall the major labels being quite so vilified in my youth.
I dunno how old you are, but they weren't exactly popular in my youth! The Sex Pistols song "EMI" kinda embodied the way people felt about them in the 70s.
Including the USA in the "free world" is a bit of a joke - it's got the highest incarceration rate on the planet, by a very long way!
[......] I try to keep myself from becoming entrenched in any particular mode of thinking... it leads to inflexibly dictating that all else is inferior.
That's the best way to approach all of life. Sadly, there are a lot of people who don't think like that - and there seems to be plenty of them around here!
It's certainly the future [......]
It's certainly not the future, it's just a silly gimmick.
ID10Ts screaming about Siri's 'carbon footprint'
D10Ts have a massive carbon footprint - and they're only fairly small dozers.
I have a remote, but not too distant fear, of having to practice medicine, specifically surgery, without the benefit of antibiotics. That would probably mean a near end to most elective surgery and huge decrease in average life scan. No more total joint replacements, vein bypasses, organ transplants, etc.
But why do you need antibiotics for surgery? Where are the pathogens coming from? Surely if there was proper cleanliness and sterility, surgical wounds wouldn't get infected?
It is the case in the US.
I wonder if such a common thing as antibiotic soap can increase resistance over a period of time.
Probably. It's very unlikely to kill every bacterium, and the ones it doesn't kill may go on to breed stronger strains.
What's the "K"? You can only abbreviate it if you've already written it in full beforehand
It's not due to lower environmental exposure, its genetic.
And how do those genes become predominant in a population? Because lower environmental exposure means people with that gene have a better chance of living long enough to reproduce.
Why would you use `find` when you could use `locate`?
Maybe Joni Mitchell was right - we are stardust ater all!
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Scratch an Australian to find a racist.
Scratch any human and you'll find a racist! Sadly, racism is a universal part of human nature. We're all racist to some extent - even you! I live in the NT and i've experienced Aboriginal people being racist towards other Aboriginal people.
If you think Australia is more racist than Britain, you must live in London (or possibly some other big multicultural city). If you get out of the cosy multiculturalism of Hackney or Brixton and into the real Britain, you'll find it's rife with racism. The enduring victims of British racism are Gypsies and the Irish, but British people are quite partial to being racist towards any ethnic minority that comes to their attention. They're also extremely racist towards people who come from other parts of Britain than where they come from themselves. Shit, they even hate the people in the next village!
The problems Aboriginal people face in Australia (and they're massive problems) are the result of colonization, rather than purely racism. And (originally, at least) Australia wasn't colonized by Australians - it was colonized by the British.
I'm quite convinced that the majority of Australians are sympathetic towards Aboriginal people and would support any convincing moves to fix up the problems that colonization has caused them. However, it's not simple or straightforward - and Aboriginal people don't have a unified voice or a clear set of demands, which tends to perplex their passive supporters.
It sounds like you've been watching too much Home and Away (or whatever that Aussie soap is that's set near a beach...)! I don't wear Hawaiian style clothes! (But i do wear flip flops!)
If Australians had a monopoly on stupidity i might be inclined to agree with you, but they don't. The British do plenty of stupid things, just like the yanks and everyone else in the world. And, judging by the summary, it hasn't really got anything to do with Australian law or the government - it's the stupidity of a particular company in trying to pursue this guy. All they've done so far is send him a typical threatening solicitor's letter. I doubt the threats would stand up in court.
At least this guy's not faced with extradition to the US, like British hackers Gary McKinnon, and Ryan Cleary, or to Sweden and then the US, like Australian Julian Assange. All three of them are fighting the British legal system.
And talking about thick populations putting governments in power... Who in their right mind would allow slimy scum like Cameron to run any country, even a third world one like the UK?
Funny that half the population of the UK would like to live here. And at least half of the rest would like to live somewhere else - anywhere except Britain. Funny, too, that there are 50,000 British illegal immigrants in Australia. The only people who actually want to live in the UK are the immigrants.
Nobody in their right mind would want to live on that cold, grey, and dismal little island - particularly as it's filled with a bunch of whining no-hopers. I'm eternally thankful that i managed to escape from the hellhole myself!
Legal document, my arse! It's a trying-it-on letter from a dodgy solicitor.