U.S. Patent No. 7,945,653 — “Tagging digital media” – Filed on October 11, 2006, and granted May 17, 2011.
Abstract:
A method for tagging digital media is described. The method includes selecting a digital media and selecting region within the digital media. The method may further include associating a person or entity with the selected region and sending a notification of the association the person or entity or a different person or entity. The method may further include sending advertising with the notification.
I gather this is the one that the Slashdot-linked article refers to regarding Flickr. Bear in mind, while adding descriptions to regions was in Flickr at least by mid-2005 (when I joined), and tagging has been available, tagging a region came much later with the ability to tag users by region in a photo. Of course, this is a natural extension/evolution of what Flickr already had. I hope Flickr doesn't become a casualty in Yahoo! and Facebook's pantent war.
"Derail" is the perfect word for it. The same thing happens to me. It's like there's a sudden and abrupt shift in the meaning of the sentence when (for example) there's a "your" when it should be a "you're". I have to start over and force myself to read the "your" as "you are", and even then I tend to get derailed a second time in the same place. If that happens in a second location in the writing, my mind starts to have trouble following what's being written, so after the third location of such an error, I have to give up and go read something else instead.
I used to be a vocal Grammar Nazi among people I'd instant message with when they'd make such mistakes, but too many people said "I don't care if I use it wrong"...
The nice thing about Wikipedia is that if I find a spelling or grammar mistake, it's easy enough to fix.
(Here's hoping I didn't make any typing errors in this comment!)
Is Chrome any better in this regard? Honest question. I've heard others talk about it having a rapid release schedule (before Firefox moved to one). And how do Chrome and Firefox compare on UI changes per release?
My mother uses Facebook and plays Bejeweled on it. Recently, there are massive lag times of a few minutes for some actions, such as sharing points. This lag isn't there with Firefox, and many of my mother's friends who play use Chrome. I installed Firefox on my mother's laptop, from this page here, but apparently that is the version four installer, and Firefox is nearing its version six release...
Rather than trying to customize Firefox 4 to look like Firefox 3 on my mother's PC, I told her the user interface (I gestured to the top area of Firefox we had open on her PC) would look a little different. It shouldn't affect anything my mother does to have the interface look a little different. Thanks to Firefox's interface becoming more Chrome-like, if Chrome is any better with memory use than Firefox, the day might come when I'm installing Chrome rather than Firefox for my mother.
... my comment is only valid if TFS is right about simply changing a parameter in the URL to access other accounts. No I didn't RTFA.
Says the article:
They simply logged on to the part of the group's site reserved for credit card customers - and substituted their account numbers which appeared in the browser's address bar with other numbers.
It allowed them to leapfrog into the accounts of other customers - with an automatic computer programme letting them repeat the trick tens of thousands of times.
To be fair, the article didn't state what the expert was an expert of. But I thought the same as the grandparent, and will be forwarding the article to co-workers so they can get a laugh from it.
Personally, I wonder how many people "looked around" at other accounts without looking suspicious in Citigroup's logs.
Oh, like in that one episode of "I Love Lucy" where Lucy keeps pulling the cord and bring the train to an abrupt stop. The comment from quintesse completely makes sense now. Thanks!
You "pull the cord"? Please tell me that was a figure of speech because otherwise your public transport is in worse shape than I thought!:)
For US Americans such as myself who are used to either pulling a cord (horizontal cord that goes across the wall of the bus) or pressing a button (much less common from my experience) to signal a stop, what other methods are there? I'm genuinely curious. I did a quick Google search, but I don't seem to be able to come up with the right search terms to get a result that tells the methods of stopping a bus for various non-US bus systems.
Back during the last time change (autumn of 2010), I decided to not change my alarm clock's time. My computer and laptop would auto-adjust, and I'd still have to change the times on my DSLR camera, e-reader, and Nintendo DS. But the alarm clock time remains the same. When the alarm clock shows "9:30 PM", I go to bed (even though it's actually 8:30 PM). When the alarm clock shows "4:00 AM" (even though it's actually 3:00 AM), it sounds and I wake up.
The effect is that my day shifts by an hour twice yearly, but I do not. It was strange for the first week or two, having everything around me shifted by an hour (giving me an extra hour in the dark morning, and an hour less after work), but that's much better than the two weeks it would have taken me to even begin to adjust to an altered sleeping schedule.
Soon I'll find if shifting my day back (moving an hour from my morning to my afternoon) will feel as strange as it did in the autumn. One thing I do know for sure, I won't lose an hour of sleep in the transition.
It depends on the dubbing company. The usual expectation for them is that the dub will not be for anime fans, but instead broadcast on TV as a general cartoon for non-anime-fans. Thus they'll often try to de-Japan the program.
It's almost hard to believe that they're still doing that, but at the same time I can see it for anything intended for children and to be played on television. I've been buying up straight-to-DVD releases from RightStuf.com the past four years.
I think "Seven of Seven" is the last one I remember that outright rewrote a few lines and a scene for the dub, which was due to the scenes involving English language and humor based on that. For example, in one scene in Japanese, a little American girl says to the main character, "Are you ready?" and the Japanese main character says, "Yes, I'm a lady." For the dub, the little girl says "Are you ready?" and the main character says, "Ready for what?" I guess "Bamboo Blade" had similar with an English-speaking character in a couple of episodes, where they gave her a "gangsta" way of talking in the English dub to compensate.
For series intended for televised released, I do agree with you, SuricouRaven. Brock making donuts rather than rice balls, everything done to Sailomoon by DiC, the cut-and-paste fest that was the US Cardcaptor Sakura (which I've read about, but thankfully not seen more than half an episode of, as well as watching the first movie dubbed just to quality I thankfully missed out on), and the effort to remove religion from Saint Tail (a series which takes place in a Catholic school, with a nun for one of the main characters! And that series didn't even make it to television as intended, so it was a straight-to-DVD), those are definitely something unnecessary for some of them, and outright disasters for the rest.
Actually, with those series in mind, I'd add to your list of changes: removing religion, removing things that might upset religious parents (such as tarot cards), removing scenes with comic violence (such as Melvin in Sailormoon being hit in the face with a party streamer), removing "inappropriate relationships" (making Zoicite female, and making Neptune and Uranus cousins in Sailormoon), and trying to change the target audience to increase viewership (making Cardcaptor Sakura into a series for young male viewers.)
For straight-to-DVD series that were clearly never intended for television release (as far as I would imagine), however, I know the next time I watch "Petite Princess Yucie", "A Little Snow Fairy Sugar", and "Bamboo Blade", it's going to be a coin toss to decide which language to listen in, because the dub is that good.
Really these people like dubbing?
I do not watch anime really, but in foreign films I much prefer subtitles. Dubbing always looks distractingly wrong.
Keep in mind, it's a little easier to dub an animated character's mouth being closed, open, closed, open, closed, open, closed from "ohayo" into "good morning" than it would be in a live action film, where the character's mouth and face have many frames of muscle movement.
This is actually an area where it seems (anime) dubbers sometimes cannot win. There will be a line said, and the only way to reasonably get the line to fit the mouth movements is to tweak it a little, changing the line while still retaining the same meaning, and fans will complain about it. But if they left the line as a direct translation, it wouldn't have fit the mouth movements, and fans will complain about that.
Granted, I haven't been a part of any anime forums in years, so maybe fans don't complain anymore?
I'm as much a sub purist as the next sub purist, but there have been many very decent dubs by a number of companies in the past five years. Probably a few years even before that, but that goes beyond the start of my disposable income.
Anything that shows on daytime TV will probably be censored and reworded. However, many straight-to-DVD series I've seen were well dubbed, counting translation, voices for characters, voice acting, and even lip syncing most of the time.
I realize that whether a dub is liked or not is subjective. I loved the English dubs for "Princess Tutu", "Petite Princess Yucie", "Haibane Renmei", "Azumanga Daioh", "Bamboo Blade", and more. But I also had trouble tolerating the "Kanon" dub (due to voices), and "DNAngel" had some voices that were difficult for me to get used to. And I'm sure there are others I didn't care for in English that I simply don't recall offhand.
There will still be bad dubs out there, or (technically) decent dubs with bad voice actors (for the roles they're playing). That said, this isn't 1996. "Sailor Moon" and "Dragon Ball Z" are not representative of dubs from the last five or more years.
I'm saying this generally, not directed at v1 specifically for saying these are few well-dubbed titles. I'm going to assume v1's given a few dubs a proper chance in the past five years, but if anyone else is sour on dubs and hasn't, you could be missing out.
As for me, I'll continue to watch shows in Japanese first. It helps keep my meager Japanese vocabulary from worsening, and I get to enjoy the characters as they originally were. But I'll also enjoy it in English (if the dub is tolerable) as I can better sit back and relax while watching, not having to worry about giving each subtitle a one-second glance to take in the translation of each line.
I must have spent about five minutes on the download page (third link in the summary) trying to find the download link. Turns out the download link only appears if one has Javascript enabled.
I will admit, I'm curious to see how they're handing the status bar's relocation. Guess I can enable Javascript for one page reload here.
It doesn't even take that much to see nothing on Facebook. I don't give Facebook Javascript access, and I found their new profiles don't load without Javascript. Then soon after, nothing else on the site loads without Javascript. I get essentially a blank page (with a few static layout items).
Doesn't matter to me as I only have a Facebook account so people can find me (recently reconnected with a childhood school friend, for example). I mostly just find it interesting that there is no Facebook for me with my no-Javascript setting.
I buy specifically from Barnes and Noble because of an existing method to remove the DRM, allowing me to read the e-books I buy on my Onyx Boox e-reader.
Oops, I misread the point intended by noidentity's post. For the company, shipping 100 widgets on a single truck is indeed cheaper than shipping to 100 addresses. Please ignore my reply up above =P
Do you believe that shipping 100 widgets on a single truck to a single store costs anywhere close to shipping 100 widgets individually to 100 people's doorsteps?
That depends; are we factoring in 100 people driving to the single store?
Not that I'm agreeing with the premise that Microsoft never has any innovations of their own, but in the case of Kinect, PrimeSense developed the hardware. I don't know if Microsoft further developed it, or provided requirements for PrimeSense to develop it into something to use for the XBox, but it didn't begin with Microsoft.
Seems CVS or similar would counter purposely creating bugs, unless someone's going to modify the history tree, and any older copies of the source code sitting around.
Am I missing any openings where "insert bugs" can still fill "???" and lead to "PROFIT!"? Maybe putting a bug in on purpose, and letting it sit around for a month before reporting it?
Overheating is an understatement. Even if one runs a GuruPlug Server Plus without it overheating to a reboot, it gets too hot to touch at parts.
There will be some kind of mod coming out that supposedly will take care of this, although I can't see what they can come out with except for some heatsink/fan set-up to remove the excess heat/wasted electricity. Hopefully it doesn't become a behemoth with the mod.
If anyone were to ask me if they should consider a GuruPlug or similar product from that company, I'd say a firm "No." As I see it, they have shown a lack of ability in hardware design for a plug computer. Maybe they'll learn from this and will release a product that I don't fear will burn the house down if I leave it plugged in while I'm at work.
I want the tab bar to go away if I only have one tab open.
This may be a known issue. Try setting your tabs to being on the left, then see if you can select that option. If so, put the tabs back at the top, and check if the option is still checked (it should be grayed out again).
I believe I read there was another bug that was fixed which caused this one. Moving the tab bar to the side doesn't have it grayed out.
I know, it's more trouble than someone should have to go through for a release. I've been seeing a lot of problems with Opera 10.60 on Linux, myself, and have already submitted a couple of bug reports.
A person is presumed to not be an alien who is unlawfully present in the United States if the person provides to the law enforcement officer or agency any of the following:
1. A valid Arizona driver license.
...
4. If the entity requires proof of legal presence in the United States before issuance, any valid United States federal, state or local government issued identification.
Whether one agrees or disagrees with this, it does clearly mention a driver's license as something which presumes ones not to be "an alien who is unlawfully" in the US.
With one of Sony's pocket readers, you'd been looking at PDF format, ePub format, and BBeB Book format with and without DRM supported, as well as RTF and HTML natively supported. HTML format would require conversion, and Word documents require having Word installed to convert.
I don't know if there are any memory expansion slots in the Pocket Reader. For $100 more, their Reader Touch supports Memory Stick and SD Cards. Likewise their Reader Daily (for another $100 more).
I don't own any Sony readers. I just checked their web site while researching e-readers previously.
I would bet whoever introduced this bill has high blood pressure and was annoyed that he couldn't eat at a restaraunt, which wouldn't make him an idiot, only selfish.
Close. From the article:
Ortiz admits that prior to introducing the bill he did not research salt's role in food chemistry, its effect on flavor or his bill's ramifications for the restaurant industry. He tells me he was prompted to introduce the bill because his father used salt excessively for many years, developed high blood pressure and had a heart attack.
Were this to work its way into a law (which I perhaps naively cannot imagine being possible), I wonder if it would make it that much easier to pass similar laws for similar reasons.
It's interesting to think about, isn't it? I'm upwards of a few years older than you, so I can completely relate. I'm reminded of the Japanese animated movie from Studio Ghibli, "Whisper of the Heart". The main character is a girl in maybe junior high, and she discovers the books she's been checking out were all checked out by the same person before her--because of the cards. The movie also refers to the school's library moving away from the card system, which interested me to consider, as I was with the card system up through graduation in 1999!
Coincidentally, I was waiting in the car earlier today, and to keep it from getting too hot, I "rolled down the window"--by pressing a button. I wonder which "incoming college freshmans" will have been the first to ask, "Why is it called 'rolling' the window up or down?"
Slashdot Mirror
I gather this is the one that the Slashdot-linked article refers to regarding Flickr. Bear in mind, while adding descriptions to regions was in Flickr at least by mid-2005 (when I joined), and tagging has been available, tagging a region came much later with the ability to tag users by region in a photo. Of course, this is a natural extension/evolution of what Flickr already had. I hope Flickr doesn't become a casualty in Yahoo! and Facebook's pantent war.
"Derail" is the perfect word for it. The same thing happens to me. It's like there's a sudden and abrupt shift in the meaning of the sentence when (for example) there's a "your" when it should be a "you're". I have to start over and force myself to read the "your" as "you are", and even then I tend to get derailed a second time in the same place. If that happens in a second location in the writing, my mind starts to have trouble following what's being written, so after the third location of such an error, I have to give up and go read something else instead.
I used to be a vocal Grammar Nazi among people I'd instant message with when they'd make such mistakes, but too many people said "I don't care if I use it wrong"...
The nice thing about Wikipedia is that if I find a spelling or grammar mistake, it's easy enough to fix.
(Here's hoping I didn't make any typing errors in this comment!)
Is Chrome any better in this regard? Honest question. I've heard others talk about it having a rapid release schedule (before Firefox moved to one). And how do Chrome and Firefox compare on UI changes per release?
My mother uses Facebook and plays Bejeweled on it. Recently, there are massive lag times of a few minutes for some actions, such as sharing points. This lag isn't there with Firefox, and many of my mother's friends who play use Chrome. I installed Firefox on my mother's laptop, from this page here, but apparently that is the version four installer, and Firefox is nearing its version six release...
Rather than trying to customize Firefox 4 to look like Firefox 3 on my mother's PC, I told her the user interface (I gestured to the top area of Firefox we had open on her PC) would look a little different. It shouldn't affect anything my mother does to have the interface look a little different. Thanks to Firefox's interface becoming more Chrome-like, if Chrome is any better with memory use than Firefox, the day might come when I'm installing Chrome rather than Firefox for my mother.
... my comment is only valid if TFS is right about simply changing a parameter in the URL to access other accounts. No I didn't RTFA.
Says the article:
To be fair, the article didn't state what the expert was an expert of. But I thought the same as the grandparent, and will be forwarding the article to co-workers so they can get a laugh from it.
Personally, I wonder how many people "looked around" at other accounts without looking suspicious in Citigroup's logs.
Opera's actually removed its Qt dependency since 10.50:
Oh, like in that one episode of "I Love Lucy" where Lucy keeps pulling the cord and bring the train to an abrupt stop. The comment from quintesse completely makes sense now. Thanks!
You "pull the cord"? Please tell me that was a figure of speech because otherwise your public transport is in worse shape than I thought! :)
For US Americans such as myself who are used to either pulling a cord (horizontal cord that goes across the wall of the bus) or pressing a button (much less common from my experience) to signal a stop, what other methods are there? I'm genuinely curious. I did a quick Google search, but I don't seem to be able to come up with the right search terms to get a result that tells the methods of stopping a bus for various non-US bus systems.
...and it's been working out fine thus far.
Back during the last time change (autumn of 2010), I decided to not change my alarm clock's time. My computer and laptop would auto-adjust, and I'd still have to change the times on my DSLR camera, e-reader, and Nintendo DS. But the alarm clock time remains the same. When the alarm clock shows "9:30 PM", I go to bed (even though it's actually 8:30 PM). When the alarm clock shows "4:00 AM" (even though it's actually 3:00 AM), it sounds and I wake up.
The effect is that my day shifts by an hour twice yearly, but I do not. It was strange for the first week or two, having everything around me shifted by an hour (giving me an extra hour in the dark morning, and an hour less after work), but that's much better than the two weeks it would have taken me to even begin to adjust to an altered sleeping schedule.
Soon I'll find if shifting my day back (moving an hour from my morning to my afternoon) will feel as strange as it did in the autumn. One thing I do know for sure, I won't lose an hour of sleep in the transition.
It depends on the dubbing company. The usual expectation for them is that the dub will not be for anime fans, but instead broadcast on TV as a general cartoon for non-anime-fans. Thus they'll often try to de-Japan the program.
It's almost hard to believe that they're still doing that, but at the same time I can see it for anything intended for children and to be played on television. I've been buying up straight-to-DVD releases from RightStuf.com the past four years.
I think "Seven of Seven" is the last one I remember that outright rewrote a few lines and a scene for the dub, which was due to the scenes involving English language and humor based on that. For example, in one scene in Japanese, a little American girl says to the main character, "Are you ready?" and the Japanese main character says, "Yes, I'm a lady." For the dub, the little girl says "Are you ready?" and the main character says, "Ready for what?" I guess "Bamboo Blade" had similar with an English-speaking character in a couple of episodes, where they gave her a "gangsta" way of talking in the English dub to compensate.
For series intended for televised released, I do agree with you, SuricouRaven. Brock making donuts rather than rice balls, everything done to Sailomoon by DiC, the cut-and-paste fest that was the US Cardcaptor Sakura (which I've read about, but thankfully not seen more than half an episode of, as well as watching the first movie dubbed just to quality I thankfully missed out on), and the effort to remove religion from Saint Tail (a series which takes place in a Catholic school, with a nun for one of the main characters! And that series didn't even make it to television as intended, so it was a straight-to-DVD), those are definitely something unnecessary for some of them, and outright disasters for the rest.
Actually, with those series in mind, I'd add to your list of changes: removing religion, removing things that might upset religious parents (such as tarot cards), removing scenes with comic violence (such as Melvin in Sailormoon being hit in the face with a party streamer), removing "inappropriate relationships" (making Zoicite female, and making Neptune and Uranus cousins in Sailormoon), and trying to change the target audience to increase viewership (making Cardcaptor Sakura into a series for young male viewers.)
For straight-to-DVD series that were clearly never intended for television release (as far as I would imagine), however, I know the next time I watch "Petite Princess Yucie", "A Little Snow Fairy Sugar", and "Bamboo Blade", it's going to be a coin toss to decide which language to listen in, because the dub is that good.
Really these people like dubbing?
I do not watch anime really, but in foreign films I much prefer subtitles. Dubbing always looks distractingly wrong.
Keep in mind, it's a little easier to dub an animated character's mouth being closed, open, closed, open, closed, open, closed from "ohayo" into "good morning" than it would be in a live action film, where the character's mouth and face have many frames of muscle movement.
This is actually an area where it seems (anime) dubbers sometimes cannot win. There will be a line said, and the only way to reasonably get the line to fit the mouth movements is to tweak it a little, changing the line while still retaining the same meaning, and fans will complain about it. But if they left the line as a direct translation, it wouldn't have fit the mouth movements, and fans will complain about that.
Granted, I haven't been a part of any anime forums in years, so maybe fans don't complain anymore?
Very few titles are dubbed well.
I'm as much a sub purist as the next sub purist, but there have been many very decent dubs by a number of companies in the past five years. Probably a few years even before that, but that goes beyond the start of my disposable income.
Anything that shows on daytime TV will probably be censored and reworded. However, many straight-to-DVD series I've seen were well dubbed, counting translation, voices for characters, voice acting, and even lip syncing most of the time.
I realize that whether a dub is liked or not is subjective. I loved the English dubs for "Princess Tutu", "Petite Princess Yucie", "Haibane Renmei", "Azumanga Daioh", "Bamboo Blade", and more. But I also had trouble tolerating the "Kanon" dub (due to voices), and "DNAngel" had some voices that were difficult for me to get used to. And I'm sure there are others I didn't care for in English that I simply don't recall offhand.
There will still be bad dubs out there, or (technically) decent dubs with bad voice actors (for the roles they're playing). That said, this isn't 1996. "Sailor Moon" and "Dragon Ball Z" are not representative of dubs from the last five or more years.
I'm saying this generally, not directed at v1 specifically for saying these are few well-dubbed titles. I'm going to assume v1's given a few dubs a proper chance in the past five years, but if anyone else is sour on dubs and hasn't, you could be missing out.
As for me, I'll continue to watch shows in Japanese first. It helps keep my meager Japanese vocabulary from worsening, and I get to enjoy the characters as they originally were. But I'll also enjoy it in English (if the dub is tolerable) as I can better sit back and relax while watching, not having to worry about giving each subtitle a one-second glance to take in the translation of each line.
I must have spent about five minutes on the download page (third link in the summary) trying to find the download link. Turns out the download link only appears if one has Javascript enabled.
I will admit, I'm curious to see how they're handing the status bar's relocation. Guess I can enable Javascript for one page reload here.
It doesn't even take that much to see nothing on Facebook. I don't give Facebook Javascript access, and I found their new profiles don't load without Javascript. Then soon after, nothing else on the site loads without Javascript. I get essentially a blank page (with a few static layout items).
Doesn't matter to me as I only have a Facebook account so people can find me (recently reconnected with a childhood school friend, for example). I mostly just find it interesting that there is no Facebook for me with my no-Javascript setting.
I buy specifically from Barnes and Noble because of an existing method to remove the DRM, allowing me to read the e-books I buy on my Onyx Boox e-reader.
Oops, I misread the point intended by noidentity's post. For the company, shipping 100 widgets on a single truck is indeed cheaper than shipping to 100 addresses. Please ignore my reply up above =P
That depends; are we factoring in 100 people driving to the single store?
Not that I'm agreeing with the premise that Microsoft never has any innovations of their own, but in the case of Kinect, PrimeSense developed the hardware. I don't know if Microsoft further developed it, or provided requirements for PrimeSense to develop it into something to use for the XBox, but it didn't begin with Microsoft.
Seems CVS or similar would counter purposely creating bugs, unless someone's going to modify the history tree, and any older copies of the source code sitting around.
Am I missing any openings where "insert bugs" can still fill "???" and lead to "PROFIT!"? Maybe putting a bug in on purpose, and letting it sit around for a month before reporting it?
These are 500px wide...
Overheating is an understatement. Even if one runs a GuruPlug Server Plus without it overheating to a reboot, it gets too hot to touch at parts.
There will be some kind of mod coming out that supposedly will take care of this, although I can't see what they can come out with except for some heatsink/fan set-up to remove the excess heat/wasted electricity. Hopefully it doesn't become a behemoth with the mod.
If anyone were to ask me if they should consider a GuruPlug or similar product from that company, I'd say a firm "No." As I see it, they have shown a lack of ability in hardware design for a plug computer. Maybe they'll learn from this and will release a product that I don't fear will burn the house down if I leave it plugged in while I'm at work.
I want the tab bar to go away if I only have one tab open.
This may be a known issue. Try setting your tabs to being on the left, then see if you can select that option. If so, put the tabs back at the top, and check if the option is still checked (it should be grayed out again).
I believe I read there was another bug that was fixed which caused this one. Moving the tab bar to the side doesn't have it grayed out.
I know, it's more trouble than someone should have to go through for a release. I've been seeing a lot of problems with Opera 10.60 on Linux, myself, and have already submitted a couple of bug reports.
Keep in mind that your driver's license isn't proof of citizenship.
From the text in question:
A person is presumed to not be an alien who is unlawfully present in the United States if the person provides to the law enforcement officer or agency any of the following:
1. A valid Arizona driver license.
...
4. If the entity requires proof of legal presence in the United States before issuance, any valid United States federal, state or local government issued identification.
Whether one agrees or disagrees with this, it does clearly mention a driver's license as something which presumes ones not to be "an alien who is unlawfully" in the US.
With one of Sony's pocket readers, you'd been looking at PDF format, ePub format, and BBeB Book format with and without DRM supported, as well as RTF and HTML natively supported. HTML format would require conversion, and Word documents require having Word installed to convert.
I don't know if there are any memory expansion slots in the Pocket Reader. For $100 more, their Reader Touch supports Memory Stick and SD Cards. Likewise their Reader Daily (for another $100 more).
I don't own any Sony readers. I just checked their web site while researching e-readers previously.
I would bet whoever introduced this bill has high blood pressure and was annoyed that he couldn't eat at a restaraunt, which wouldn't make him an idiot, only selfish.
Close. From the article:
Ortiz admits that prior to introducing the bill he did not research salt's role in food chemistry, its effect on flavor or his bill's ramifications for the restaurant industry. He tells me he was prompted to introduce the bill because his father used salt excessively for many years, developed high blood pressure and had a heart attack.
Were this to work its way into a law (which I perhaps naively cannot imagine being possible), I wonder if it would make it that much easier to pass similar laws for similar reasons.
It's interesting to think about, isn't it? I'm upwards of a few years older than you, so I can completely relate. I'm reminded of the Japanese animated movie from Studio Ghibli, "Whisper of the Heart". The main character is a girl in maybe junior high, and she discovers the books she's been checking out were all checked out by the same person before her--because of the cards. The movie also refers to the school's library moving away from the card system, which interested me to consider, as I was with the card system up through graduation in 1999! Coincidentally, I was waiting in the car earlier today, and to keep it from getting too hot, I "rolled down the window"--by pressing a button. I wonder which "incoming college freshmans" will have been the first to ask, "Why is it called 'rolling' the window up or down?"