IMHO, is the Aztak EZReader Pocket Pro 5" with the Ectaco Jet Book Lite as a follow up.
The Kindle is an expensive way to get locked in to a single vendor, as is the Nook. The Sony is crippled by very restrictive DRM. WiFi/Wimax is very tough on batteries and unnecessary to the functioning of an ebook reader.
A THING is winning the Nobel prize? I guess it makes as much sense as Obama's winning it, and what did the Prez do to deserve it? IMHO Obama won the prize for being the first black US president & for being "anybody but Bush".
My 1965 Ford Econoline pickup, has turned over 100,000 miles at least seven times in the past 45 years and has never had anything more dangerous happen than rolling backward on a steep San Francisco hill!
OK, I'm retired now and my job as an IBM FE, did require me to have certain certs as part of my job, but (IMHO) the single most useless and easy to get cert was the A+.
Sorry to say but I am a BOFH, or was before I retired.
And I used to regularly deploy my LART to humiliate those lusers that asked the same dull witted questions more than three times weekly OR asked me to "backup" their files before taking away their old monitors, etc.
I had TB & polio as a kid, and when I was hospitalized I acquired a massive staff infection with huge open sores, all this BEFORE the widespread adoption of penicillin! I was moved to Kings county general where I was given massive doses of the (then) fairly new antibiotic.
In short, don't knock modern medicine, your grandparents who didn't have it suffered terribly without it!
We want to build an unsupported vertical cable 20,000 miles long capable of not only supporting it's own trillion pound weight but also last forever without maintenance (it could not be repaired) be absolutely foolproof (the consequences of failure would be catastrophic beyond imagining) and have two way traffic (it would not be practical without more than one simultaneous carriage path) with payloads weighing thousands of tons each.
"mensa", dear God you didn't go there? when you were a kid I bet you got your ass kicked a lot, and if some jack-ass academician makes up some silly test that measures the ability to interact with things that the tester and the testee have in common (social and environmental factors known to a specific ethno-cultural group) what have you measured? Oh mommy, kook at the chimp stack the boxes to get at the banana!
We've lost Habeas corpus, free assembly, freedom of association, freedom of speech, keep & bear arms. Look around, listen to public and "free speech" radio, talk to your more erudite friends about the post 911 expansion of government powers and see if it's not true.
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Do you ever actually do any research before you write?
Reality is just the opposite of your statement.
The Aztak EZReader Pocket Pro does DJVU and if you download & install Calibre you can convert DJVU to any other format.
IMHO, is the Aztak EZReader Pocket Pro 5" with the Ectaco Jet Book Lite as a follow up.
The Kindle is an expensive way to get locked in to a single vendor, as is the Nook.
The Sony is crippled by very restrictive DRM.
WiFi/Wimax is very tough on batteries and unnecessary to the functioning of an ebook reader.
A THING is winning the Nobel prize?
I guess it makes as much sense as Obama's winning it, and what did the Prez do to deserve it?
IMHO Obama won the prize for being the first black US president & for being "anybody but Bush".
Will soon be parting out "Majia" watch your local transplant center for NEW, only slightly used hacker parts coming soon!
Expensive, dangerous, bullshit!
My 1965 Ford Econoline pickup, has turned over 100,000 miles at least seven times in the past 45 years and has never had anything more dangerous happen than rolling backward on a steep San Francisco hill!
Keep it Simple
And support the Scifi channel.
OK, I'm retired now and my job as an IBM FE, did require me to have certain certs as part of my job, but (IMHO) the single most useless and easy to get cert was the A+.
"He does not consider gravity as fundamental, but as an emergent phenomenon that arises from a deeper microscropic reality."
Wadda buncha dumbass shit, this dipfuck really needs to shuddup and sit down!
Be calm now and put down the chain saw!
Sorry to say but I am a BOFH, or was before I retired.
And I used to regularly deploy my LART to humiliate those lusers that asked the same dull witted questions more than three times weekly OR asked me to "backup" their files before taking away their old monitors, etc.
I really don't think that the gentleman has anything to worry about, as most avid readers of ebooks have never heard of him or want to read his books.
I own..
An Astak EZReader and
An ECTACO JetBook Lite.
Iv'e got two of them in my dinky SOHO NAS unit.
Great place for movies and reruns of Sanford and Son!
I had TB & polio as a kid, and when I was hospitalized I acquired a massive staff infection with huge open sores, all this BEFORE the widespread adoption of penicillin! I was moved to Kings county general where I was given massive doses of the (then) fairly new antibiotic.
In short, don't knock modern medicine, your grandparents who didn't have it suffered terribly without it!
But can they make a bra out of two?
Thank you, and yes I do think of you, often..
Not that you have to, but why not make the tyrants job that much harder and more expensive.
After (they) spend thousands (millions?) gaining access (if possible) to the data, what if all the had was perfectly innocuous (useless) crap?
Let the paranoid bastards waste their time and money chasing shadows!
"Freedom has the advantage of being the cheapest form of government" --Desmond Tutu.
Already does pretty much the same thing, why doesn't somebody come up with an add-on that will let you do all this stuff?
My Astak EZ-Reader Pro can read aloud some e-book formats.
A battery backed RAM disk (DRAM not SRAM) with a large red button to interrupt power to the PC and the RAM disk!
Ooops! I musta kicked out that pesky wire again, damn!
You could call it a patriot act HDD.
We want to build an unsupported vertical cable 20,000 miles long capable of not only supporting it's own trillion pound weight but also last forever without maintenance (it could not be repaired) be absolutely foolproof (the consequences of failure would be catastrophic beyond imagining) and have two way traffic (it would not be practical without more than one simultaneous carriage path) with payloads weighing thousands of tons each.
Absolutely, mind-bogglingly stupid!
"mensa", dear God you didn't go there? when you were a kid I bet you got your ass kicked a lot, and if some jack-ass academician makes up some silly test that measures the ability to interact with things that the tester and the testee have in common (social and environmental factors known to a specific ethno-cultural group) what have you measured? Oh mommy, kook at the chimp stack the boxes to get at the banana!
God I hate IQ tests!
While racing at top speed and taking the road as a slolem course weaving through traffic, raging and cursing everybody else on the freeway!
I hope you're ready for a knock at the door..
We've lost Habeas corpus, free assembly, freedom of association, freedom of speech, keep & bear arms. Look around, listen to public and "free speech" radio, talk to your more erudite friends about the post 911 expansion of government powers and see if it's not true.