It's interesting to note that Amazon OWNS Mobipocket, the encrypted format used by many of their competitors in the e-book industry, but have "embraced and extended" the format so that their Kindle is completely incompatible with other stores' Mobi encryption (without a lot of messing around with python scripts, anyway).
It occurs to me to wonder just how much longer Amazon will be content to provide DRM services to its closest competitors in the e-book biz. If it were to stop licensing Mobi DRM entirely, it could very well cripple large sectors of the rest of the e-book industry.
Well, now, pay attention people Just in case you hadn't heard There's some folks messin' 'round With Mother Nature's little world, baby And what they do is really freaky They gets themselves a plane And they fly it around with chemicals, baby Tryin' ta make it rain So when you're out there in that blizzard, Shiverin' in the cold Just look up to the sky And thank the Government for the snow And sing the low-down, experimental, cloud-seedin', Who-needs-'em-baby? silver i-i-o-dide blues Oh, yeah. Woo!
That's the only reason I can think of for this story suddenly coming up right now--this is what the iTouch uses for its location-detection (and I suppose the iPhone uses it, too, in conjunction with its cell-tower/GPS thing). I never knew about it until I had reason to look it up and find out how my iTouch knew where I was.
I thought it was a little creepy the first time I realized my iTouch knew more-or-less my exact location--but on the other hand, it's also kinda neat. Too bad it only works in urban areas.
Apparently the download page accidentally went live very briefly at midnight Pacific last nightâ"long enough to get into Google's cache. (They quickly purged it, however.)
I don't think there's any cause for alarm. Fox and Warner both know that they'll only get money if the film releases. If Warner was willing to pay $17 million for The Dukes of Hazzard, they will be willing to pay to settle this issue.
The thing is, they're often actually both from old texts. It's just that one of them has already been verified.
And TFA states that they do pass every word by multiple people so as to get more accuracy in what they say. I have little doubt that they're well acquainted with people who try spoofing them.
Wearing a helmet when you ride a motorcycle is, in many places, not "optional" by law because the people who don't wear them drive up the insurance costs for everyone.
Likewise, if Apple's app protection was optional, the people who opted out of it would more likely than not end up with iPhones full of botnet malware sending spam to everyone else, including those with iPhones that didn't opt out of the protection scheme.
If you don't want what Apple is selling, go buy an orange.
Apple is wanting to short-circuit the whole necessity for anti-virus/anti-malware apps by acting as the chokepoint on what can be installed and just not letting any malware past that chokepoint (or keeping the ability to destroy it if they accidentally do). They mediate their users' experience, so that those people who aren't IT experts can pick it up and it just works. That's probably why Apple's stuff sells so well--unlike so much other computer gadgetry, it just works.
Apple has been around long enough that you should know by now that's how they operate. So if that's not what you want, you don't buy an Apple. Don't just complain that it isn't an orange.
So what if it exists? It's a tempest in a teacup. Apple has always controlled its gizmos more tightly than anybody else, in the name of mediating the user experience. If you don't like it, you go use someone else's gizmo instead.
Anyway, as lax as the approval process seems to be for their App Store (NetShare, IAmRich, etc.) it is probably a good thing they have a malware kill switch; sooner or later they'll probably end up approving some malware by accident.
The Apple II has a long history of use for educational purposes. Back when I was in elementary and middle school, Apple IIs (and their Franklin Ace clones) were all over the school, used for administrative and educational tasks alike. (The school had assumed that Apple IIs would be the business machine of the future, and thought that providing students with a good grounding in them would stand them in good stead for their future lives. Nobody foresaw the PC revolution.)
And it's a funny thingâ"until I saw it mentioned elsewhere (or maybe linked in Wikipedia) I had just assumed that "Coltan" was some weird fictitious metal that the SCC writers had made up, like Adamantium. Then I saw a link in wikipedia and learned it was real.
Who says TV isn't educational?
Hannah Montana
on
Mars In 3D
·
· Score: 2, Informative
If you wander by a Wal-Mart, you can probably still find a display full of 3D goggles for the upcoming Hannah Montana concert video.
Of course, this software won't necessarily work well if you have Linux as your primary OS on your laptop (or otherwise have it password-locked). If a thief boots your computer up and gets a login prompt, he's just going to wipe the hard drive and install Windows.
Doesn't GMail offer the ability to fetch your email from POP accounts now? It would probably not be the ideal solution, but perhaps you should stop forwarding and instead start POPping.
I was more interested in the ways in which it didn't emulate a physical book. The ability to turn it into the equivalent of a double-sided sheet of paper, or to split it apart to view separate documents. That's a bit more than past two-page readers, that only used the two "pages" for cosmetic purposes, can claim.
Slashdot Mirror
It's interesting to note that Amazon OWNS Mobipocket, the encrypted format used by many of their competitors in the e-book industry, but have "embraced and extended" the format so that their Kindle is completely incompatible with other stores' Mobi encryption (without a lot of messing around with python scripts, anyway).
It occurs to me to wonder just how much longer Amazon will be content to provide DRM services to its closest competitors in the e-book biz. If it were to stop licensing Mobi DRM entirely, it could very well cripple large sectors of the rest of the e-book industry.
Well, now, pay attention people
Just in case you hadn't heard
There's some folks messin' 'round
With Mother Nature's little world, baby
And what they do is really freaky
They gets themselves a plane
And they fly it around with chemicals, baby
Tryin' ta make it rain
So when you're out there in that blizzard,
Shiverin' in the cold
Just look up to the sky
And thank the Government for the snow
And sing the low-down, experimental, cloud-seedin',
Who-needs-'em-baby? silver i-i-o-dide blues
Oh, yeah.
Woo!
--C.W. McCall, "Silver Iodide Blues"
That's the only reason I can think of for this story suddenly coming up right now--this is what the iTouch uses for its location-detection (and I suppose the iPhone uses it, too, in conjunction with its cell-tower/GPS thing). I never knew about it until I had reason to look it up and find out how my iTouch knew where I was.
I thought it was a little creepy the first time I realized my iTouch knew more-or-less my exact location--but on the other hand, it's also kinda neat. Too bad it only works in urban areas.
Apparently the download page accidentally went live very briefly at midnight Pacific last nightâ"long enough to get into Google's cache. (They quickly purged it, however.)
I don't think there's any cause for alarm. Fox and Warner both know that they'll only get money if the film releases. If Warner was willing to pay $17 million for The Dukes of Hazzard, they will be willing to pay to settle this issue.
I've seen one ReCAPTCHA string that was just a distorted entirely illegible blob of ink.
Just do what I did: click the "refresh" button to the right for a new word pair and enter that one.
The thing is, they're often actually both from old texts. It's just that one of them has already been verified.
And TFA states that they do pass every word by multiple people so as to get more accuracy in what they say. I have little doubt that they're well acquainted with people who try spoofing them.
The freedom of choice, that is what Apple is taking away from you...
Oh, you mean like the freedom to choose not to buy an Apple product but to go get something else instead?
Android phones will be coming out soon..
Wearing a helmet when you ride a motorcycle is, in many places, not "optional" by law because the people who don't wear them drive up the insurance costs for everyone.
Likewise, if Apple's app protection was optional, the people who opted out of it would more likely than not end up with iPhones full of botnet malware sending spam to everyone else, including those with iPhones that didn't opt out of the protection scheme.
If you don't want what Apple is selling, go buy an orange.
There's a simple solution: don't buy an iPhone.
Apple is wanting to short-circuit the whole necessity for anti-virus/anti-malware apps by acting as the chokepoint on what can be installed and just not letting any malware past that chokepoint (or keeping the ability to destroy it if they accidentally do). They mediate their users' experience, so that those people who aren't IT experts can pick it up and it just works. That's probably why Apple's stuff sells so well--unlike so much other computer gadgetry, it just works.
Apple has been around long enough that you should know by now that's how they operate. So if that's not what you want, you don't buy an Apple. Don't just complain that it isn't an orange.
Yeah, that's why Steve Jobs said he doesn't like DRM and wants to get rid of it.
So what if it exists? It's a tempest in a teacup. Apple has always controlled its gizmos more tightly than anybody else, in the name of mediating the user experience. If you don't like it, you go use someone else's gizmo instead.
Anyway, as lax as the approval process seems to be for their App Store (NetShare, IAmRich, etc.) it is probably a good thing they have a malware kill switch; sooner or later they'll probably end up approving some malware by accident.
The Apple II has a long history of use for educational purposes. Back when I was in elementary and middle school, Apple IIs (and their Franklin Ace clones) were all over the school, used for administrative and educational tasks alike. (The school had assumed that Apple IIs would be the business machine of the future, and thought that providing students with a good grounding in them would stand them in good stead for their future lives. Nobody foresaw the PC revolution.)
And it's a funny thingâ"until I saw it mentioned elsewhere (or maybe linked in Wikipedia) I had just assumed that "Coltan" was some weird fictitious metal that the SCC writers had made up, like Adamantium. Then I saw a link in wikipedia and learned it was real.
Who says TV isn't educational?
If you wander by a Wal-Mart, you can probably still find a display full of 3D goggles for the upcoming Hannah Montana concert video.
Well, you are the one reading "people" into it. I said "something" not "someone."
People or no, guns are definitely intended to kill animals made of tasty meats.
Yeah, this kind of gun is an accident just waiting to happen.
So much for "don't point your gun at something you don't intend to kill."
Lucky for them we live in a urine nation.
Probably just a tempest in a pee cup.
Of course, this software won't necessarily work well if you have Linux as your primary OS on your laptop (or otherwise have it password-locked). If a thief boots your computer up and gets a login prompt, he's just going to wipe the hard drive and install Windows.
Doesn't GMail offer the ability to fetch your email from POP accounts now? It would probably not be the ideal solution, but perhaps you should stop forwarding and instead start POPping.
I would assume that, since the blurb says it's "the latest Long Term Support version," it includes some form of long term support.
I was more interested in the ways in which it didn't emulate a physical book. The ability to turn it into the equivalent of a double-sided sheet of paper, or to split it apart to view separate documents. That's a bit more than past two-page readers, that only used the two "pages" for cosmetic purposes, can claim.
...when you're big in Japan.
The Firefox people decided to start counting the 24 hours at 11:16 a.m. Pacific, after they got their servers back up and everything straightened out.
So take heart, frustrated downloaders: you have 76 more minutes than you thought.
Technically, they didn't lose the suit yet.
Their request for a summary judgment was dismissed, which means the suit will be fully heard in court.
Granted, the reasoning behind the dismissal does throw a pall on their chances for victory, but it doesn't mean it's a done deal.