You can send the PDF to [username]@kindle.com and it will be converted and delivered directly to your Kindle for a fee... Or, send it to [username]@free.kindle.com and it will be converted and mailed back to you, where you can copy it on via the USB interface for FREE.
Any way to do it all locally? I don't know how eager I would be to send some of my documents out to ghawd-knows-who to convert and send back.
I can't imagine a situation where you need to carry around more than 1GB of PDF files
I can, easily. Many people work in remote areas (mining and logging camps, forest fire lookout stations) where they stay for weeks and months at a time. Many other people spend their lives on the road (truck drivers, salesmen). For all of these people, it would be extremely handy to be able to carry their own personal library around in a tiny gadget.
I don't want 3-4 eReaders, each that only works on one paper. That's just a hassle.
And it's one more thing to break/lose/whatever. If I buy a paper and accidentally drop it in a puddle or leave it on a bench, or if it blows away in the wind, it's not a big deal. I would be a lot happier with a paper paper on a bus, or to read while waiting at the barber shop.
at 50 cents a day, if you read a paper every day, you could pay for the e-reader in two years. however, usually sunday papers are more expensive, so you may be able to pay for the e-reader sooner.
I just paid for my subscription to the local daily paper the other day. It cost $244.44 (Canadian) for one year's subscription.
I actually debated for a while about whether I would renew it this year; I've had the paper delivered to my door everywhere I've lived for the past 30 years or more.
I ultimately decided to renew it mostly because I'm in the habit of reading the paper at a certain time of day, and I'm pretty much a creature of fixed habits.
I'll probably have the same debate with myself again at this time next year, though. There really is getting to be less and less in the paper generally - it's getting thinner - and even less content than ever is something that I haven't already read online prior to the delivery of the paper.
If the paper survives another year, that is. It's owned by a company that has apparently been getting some kind of extensions on their loans to avoid bankruptcy. (I've read articles about that online, in fact.)
The cable tv/Internet/phone company that I do some occasional work for offers exactly that. In fact, I hooked up a guy last week for "just Internet service." He wanted (and got) the highest speed Internet service available here, but no TV or phone service.
How the obfuscated code in NoScript's content/noscript/MRD.js file got through the Sandbox review process is a question I'd like to see answered
I suspect that NoScript is an "old and respected" addon so it doesn't get any more than a rubber stamp on the way through the system, if that.
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I used to have a bird that would ring. His cage was near the phone and he could ring just like the phone. So it because a great joke for him to ring and make me get up to answer the phone.
I have seen several new computers with a "good for 90 days" or some such limited MS Word program included with the rest of the junkware on the machine.
Again, if it's that kind of research (stuff that's easily commercialized) then perhaps it shouldn't be funded by the taxpayer. Basic, "pure" research is a horse of a different colour than "let's build a better mousetrap".
They do business in Australia so I assume they pay at least some taxes in Australia.
CSIRO is taxpayer funded, so there you go.
You're overlooking the main point though -- publicly funded information should be publicly available and made available for use by the public. If the Australian taxpayer funds research and a Ugandan person wishes to use it, why should he not be allowed to do so, just like an Australian could/should be able to use the fruits of publicly-funded Ugandan research.
Shouldn't publicly funded research flow to the benefit of ALL of the public? I don't see why nationality or borders are particularly relevant.
In a "former life" I was what we called a sheriff's officer -- a person who did investigations on behalf of a court.
I became very proficient at reading upside-down text; you would be surprised at the amount of relevant information to an active investigation can be obtained by being able to quickly skim what's on a subject's table or desk when you unexpectedly walk in the door without him realizing that you've just read it over.
I'd imagine it's because no capital letters have descenders.
The Commodore MPS-801 dot matrix printer (and others, I'm sure) printed raised descenders -- the bottom of a lower-case g was level with the bottom of a lower-case a and so on. It did look a bit odd, but it was perfectly readable.
Perhaps Microsoft should consider adopting a six months interval between updates,
How would they charge for them, though? Remember, MS has to bring in cash for each "improvement"; Linux distributions, by and large, aren't in it for the money. If MS can't bring in cash, why would they bother to do the work involved in the next version?
In addition, a 6-month update cycle would put MS into the same category as Fedora Linux and the like, which is not really recommended for enterprise-type business use simply because of its fast update cycle.
Using your scenario, MS could end up supporting who-knows-how-many revisions and sub-revisions of every Windows component you can imagine, and when Johnny's software breaks because he updated last Tuesday, but Suzie's software is still working because she didn't upgrade since last summer, bad things could happen in an enterprise environment.
I really don't think a faster release cycle would be in MS's best interest considering who their target market is.
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Actually, a BASIC compiler of some kind would be a wonderful thing to have in gcc.
There has been talk of making Freebasic into a gcc frontend but I'm not sure what its status is at the moment...
You can send the PDF to [username]@kindle.com and it will be converted and delivered directly to your Kindle for a fee... Or, send it to [username]@free.kindle.com and it will be converted and mailed back to you, where you can copy it on via the USB interface for FREE.
Any way to do it all locally? I don't know how eager I would be to send some of my documents out to ghawd-knows-who to convert and send back.
I can't imagine a situation where you need to carry around more than 1GB of PDF files
I can, easily. Many people work in remote areas (mining and logging camps, forest fire lookout stations) where they stay for weeks and months at a time. Many other people spend their lives on the road (truck drivers, salesmen). For all of these people, it would be extremely handy to be able to carry their own personal library around in a tiny gadget.
Does any still even actively license their craptacular "Unix" from them?
A Canadian hardware store chain Home Hardware uses SCO Unix to run their POS and inventory/ordering system.
What's the big deal about 3-4 Kindles vs. 3-4 regular newspapers?
Loss and breakage. If I leave today's newspaper laying around and someone takes it or it blows away in the wind, I'm not out much.
Would you rather take your $300 e-device on the bus with you, or a $1.50 newspaper?
What if it's raining?
I don't want 3-4 eReaders, each that only works on one paper. That's just a hassle.
And it's one more thing to break/lose/whatever. If I buy a paper and accidentally drop it in a puddle or leave it on a bench, or if it blows away in the wind, it's not a big deal. I would be a lot happier with a paper paper on a bus, or to read while waiting at the barber shop.
at 50 cents a day, if you read a paper every day, you could pay for the e-reader in two years. however, usually sunday papers are more expensive, so you may be able to pay for the e-reader sooner.
I just paid for my subscription to the local daily paper the other day. It cost $244.44 (Canadian) for one year's subscription.
I actually debated for a while about whether I would renew it this year; I've had the paper delivered to my door everywhere I've lived for the past 30 years or more.
I ultimately decided to renew it mostly because I'm in the habit of reading the paper at a certain time of day, and I'm pretty much a creature of fixed habits.
I'll probably have the same debate with myself again at this time next year, though. There really is getting to be less and less in the paper generally - it's getting thinner - and even less content than ever is something that I haven't already read online prior to the delivery of the paper.
If the paper survives another year, that is. It's owned by a company that has apparently been getting some kind of extensions on their loans to avoid bankruptcy. (I've read articles about that online, in fact.)
The cable tv/Internet/phone company that I do some occasional work for offers exactly that. In fact, I hooked up a guy last week for "just Internet service." He wanted (and got) the highest speed Internet service available here, but no TV or phone service.
no one wants to add another one during peacetime.
Isn't the United States of America officially at war?
How the obfuscated code in NoScript's content/noscript/MRD.js file got through the Sandbox review process is a question I'd like to see answered
I suspect that NoScript is an "old and respected" addon so it doesn't get any more than a rubber stamp on the way through the system, if that.
I used to have a bird that would ring. His cage was near the phone and he could ring just like the phone. So it because a great joke for him to ring and make me get up to answer the phone.
I have seen several new computers with a "good for 90 days" or some such limited MS Word program included with the rest of the junkware on the machine.
"P" on MS Windows?
The line forms over here...
Again, if it's that kind of research (stuff that's easily commercialized) then perhaps it shouldn't be funded by the taxpayer. Basic, "pure" research is a horse of a different colour than "let's build a better mousetrap".
Sure, but allowing a bunch of multinationals to make billions of the fruits of public research?
Why not? Aren't they part of the public too?
You should have the same right to make billions off of the fruit of the same public research if you wish to.
Unfortunately, Adobe Reader is currently the only PDF viewer that can be consistently counted on to render all PDF files properly.
Here is one example:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.general/336357
Again, Dell et.al pay taxes in Australia, so where's the problem?
They paid for that research, just the same as you did. In absolute dollar terms, they probably paid more for it than you did.
They do business in Australia so I assume they pay at least some taxes in Australia.
CSIRO is taxpayer funded, so there you go.
You're overlooking the main point though -- publicly funded information should be publicly available and made available for use by the public. If the Australian taxpayer funds research and a Ugandan person wishes to use it, why should he not be allowed to do so, just like an Australian could/should be able to use the fruits of publicly-funded Ugandan research.
Shouldn't publicly funded research flow to the benefit of ALL of the public? I don't see why nationality or borders are particularly relevant.
If it's publicly funded information, shouldn't the public be entitled to use it?
That's a question that should be asked of the Australian taxpayer. Perhaps research of this nature should not be publicly funded in that way.
In a "former life" I was what we called a sheriff's officer -- a person who did investigations on behalf of a court.
I became very proficient at reading upside-down text; you would be surprised at the amount of relevant information to an active investigation can be obtained by being able to quickly skim what's on a subject's table or desk when you unexpectedly walk in the door without him realizing that you've just read it over.
I'd imagine it's because no capital letters have descenders.
The Commodore MPS-801 dot matrix printer (and others, I'm sure) printed raised descenders -- the bottom of a lower-case g was level with the bottom of a lower-case a and so on. It did look a bit odd, but it was perfectly readable.
They do that at the local Coop gas station that I purchase my gasoline from and I'm not in Japan. Always nice to have a clean windshield after a fill.
I lost multiple printers and a scanner in the process.
All of which will quite likely still work fine with most Linux distributions.
Just sayin'....
Perhaps Microsoft should consider adopting a six months interval between updates,
How would they charge for them, though? Remember, MS has to bring in cash for each "improvement"; Linux distributions, by and large, aren't in it for the money. If MS can't bring in cash, why would they bother to do the work involved in the next version?
In addition, a 6-month update cycle would put MS into the same category as Fedora Linux and the like, which is not really recommended for enterprise-type business use simply because of its fast update cycle.
Using your scenario, MS could end up supporting who-knows-how-many revisions and sub-revisions of every Windows component you can imagine, and when Johnny's software breaks because he updated last Tuesday, but Suzie's software is still working because she didn't upgrade since last summer, bad things could happen in an enterprise environment.
I really don't think a faster release cycle would be in MS's best interest considering who their target market is.