Just because we lack a Ø (Danish, Norwegian) or Ö (Swedish, German) character does not mean that we don't have or can't pronounce the sound. The "ou" in could or should comes quite close. If I show a Swede the letter sequence KÖD and ask him to say it aloud, my English ear will inform me that he's just said the word "should". (Not "could"; the high vowel makes the "k" soft.)
Native English speakers also have absolutely no trouble with Æ / Ä ("a" in bad, as pronounced by 90% of Americans) or Å (the "ore" in more as pronounced by many Brits and most Aussies), once they are shown what sounds these signs are intended to represent.
You might be right usually it's the 'A's that are hard to pronounce.. But I would like to know how hard it is to show how to pronounce ö.
For what it's worth taking on a dare to pronounce Danish sentences even as longtime linguist isn't that smart. Even though it's very unfair I've heard people here in Stockholm referring to danish not as a language but a throat disease, in a loving Scandinavian brotherhood kind of way (or a arrogant big brother kind of way you choose.)
From the article "The restriction does not apply to navigation systems that do not have a mobile phone function" So they have a problem with mobile devices according to the article.
How are you supposed to use navigation with touch screen over hands-free? If you can't touch the phone then you shouldn't be able to touch the navigation device. Please enligthen us the article is pretty light on details.
But skinkie, GPX is good for the same reasons Openstreetmap uses XML. And that is you can't use a native binary structure, because there is no such thing, MIPS\ARM\x86 they can all be used .
Indexes are insanely expensive to maintain and to create. I've spent 40 hours working with an index, trying to simplify it, still wasn't done with it after that but I had to stop somewhere. Three books where to be put together to a big 380 pages collection, and the index entries got too big.
Yeah maybe it's stupid but I want DRM-less access to books, it doesn't matter if the terminal has no net connection, as long as a I can do analysis on it.
Mmm, QR codes, I've tried that, turns out taking good quality photos of a screen is harder than it looks..:-) Meaning it's almost easier to photograph-scan a book than to use QR-code. (Though I've only did the QR thing for 10 minutes, and I've spent 10 days scanning books with a camera, so I guess it will probably work if you spend some time on it).
I just spent 20minues trying to find an environmental effect analysis of ereaders vs reading news papers delivered to your door step. I couldn't find it but I know it exists and it says they have more or less the same effect.
DRM is despicable, it's even worse for libraries. Being able to access DRM-less book on library systems would be very important for an e-library to work. You can't have instant access to all book in your home (because of publishers) but you should be able to have this in an Library.
they checked library records one day last spring only 48 books had been checked out, and 30 of those were children's books.
How can they possibly tell how the library is utilized by checkout rates? The whole point of a school library is to go there, find a book you need to reference, make copies of the relevant pages, and go.
But you can still do that, just just print out the pages you want.
I have a hard time seeing you reading ebooks at all, at least when you say this. But I must agree with you that there are some types of books that are wonderful to read in paper. Though most books are just cheap pulp from dead trees between an even cheaper looking cover, and these gain from the feel sturdiness of an daylight readable OLPC, with backlight for the nighttime.
The cheap books are good to read as ebooks.
Everyone knows you can't beat a book, when you are off grid, but while on grid an ebook is far superior. Libraries are veïry much on grid and should not just contain lots of books, they should make it easy and free to access all this data that is locked up in DRM.
We are stuck with DRM at the moment maybe libraries could help us get sane access to the books encumbered with them.
Thing is Strindberg died 1912 nothing significant can have been added since then. The problem is that we can't access a book that should be available, and it's unclear how to get access to it. As you say you don't care about what language it is, and that's one of the problems it's hard for Google to handle non english books.
What kind of analysis is that, is that really how your girlfriend feels? Of course it's important to see the best sides of your mate and being able to appreciate those. But that doesn't mean women, or men, need someone to lookup to.
Please give some reference. I have a very hard time believing in your facts, making it even harder to believe in the conclusion.
Actually the source is available it's just that if you want to compile and run it you have to pay the Apple developer fee. Most people would rather pay $2 than $90 to play the game. So the problem is the non free ethics that are forced upon you by Apple. Also the hardware platform is not very suitable for free software, but that is a sad trend with many devices.
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Just because we lack a Ø (Danish, Norwegian) or Ö (Swedish, German) character does not mean that we don't have or can't pronounce the sound. The "ou" in could or should comes quite close. If I show a Swede the letter sequence KÖD and ask him to say it aloud, my English ear will inform me that he's just said the word "should". (Not "could"; the high vowel makes the "k" soft.)
Native English speakers also have absolutely no trouble with Æ / Ä ("a" in bad, as pronounced by 90% of Americans) or Å (the "ore" in more as pronounced by many Brits and most Aussies), once they are shown what sounds these signs are intended to represent.
You might be right usually it's the 'A's that are hard to pronounce.. But I would like to know how hard it is to show how to pronounce ö.
For what it's worth taking on a dare to pronounce Danish sentences even as longtime linguist isn't that smart. Even though it's very unfair I've heard people here in Stockholm referring to danish not as a language but a throat disease, in a loving Scandinavian brotherhood kind of way (or a arrogant big brother kind of way you choose.)
From the article "The restriction does not apply to navigation systems that do not have a mobile phone function" So they have a problem with mobile devices according to the article.
How are you supposed to use navigation with touch screen over hands-free? If you can't touch the phone then you shouldn't be able to touch the navigation device. Please enligthen us the article is pretty light on details.
And from what I have heard Time Machine lead to data loss, ask some one who has tried to recover a back up from time machine.
And Karmic Koala took me 3 hours to update to (including doing stupid stuff), then when I was done it told me my harddrive was broken.
But skinkie, GPX is good for the same reasons Openstreetmap uses XML. And that is you can't use a native binary structure, because there is no such thing, MIPS\ARM\x86 they can all be used .
Indexes are insanely expensive to maintain and to create. I've spent 40 hours working with an index, trying to simplify it, still wasn't done with it after that but I had to stop somewhere. Three books where to be put together to a big 380 pages collection, and the index entries got too big.
No they buy stuff because they want to collect them. If you can just download all books in a library some ppl would do this.. :-)
Yeah maybe it's stupid but I want DRM-less access to books, it doesn't matter if the terminal has no net connection, as long as a I can do analysis on it.
Mmm, QR codes, I've tried that, turns out taking good quality photos of a screen is harder than it looks.. :-) Meaning it's almost easier to photograph-scan a book than to use QR-code. (Though I've only did the QR thing for 10 minutes, and I've spent 10 days scanning books with a camera, so I guess it will probably work if you spend some time on it).
I just spent 20minues trying to find an environmental effect analysis of ereaders vs reading news papers delivered to your door step. I couldn't find it but I know it exists and it says they have more or less the same effect.
DRM is despicable, it's even worse for libraries. Being able to access DRM-less book on library systems would be very important for an e-library to work. You can't have instant access to all book in your home (because of publishers) but you should be able to have this in an Library.
I rather not have ebooks if they are DRM:ed.
How can they possibly tell how the library is utilized by checkout rates? The whole point of a school library is to go there, find a book you need to reference, make copies of the relevant pages, and go.
But you can still do that, just just print out the pages you want.
I have a hard time seeing you reading ebooks at all, at least when you say this. But I must agree with you that there are some types of books that are wonderful to read in paper. Though most books are just cheap pulp from dead trees between an even cheaper looking cover, and these gain from the feel sturdiness of an daylight readable OLPC, with backlight for the nighttime. The cheap books are good to read as ebooks.
Everyone knows you can't beat a book, when you are off grid, but while on grid an ebook is far superior. Libraries are veïry much on grid and should not just contain lots of books, they should make it easy and free to access all this data that is locked up in DRM. We are stuck with DRM at the moment maybe libraries could help us get sane access to the books encumbered with them.
Checksums, error corrections, self healing shit or what ever is the solution. Such things are easy to put on top of these pods.
CamelCase is cool, it's an ExtremeProgramming thingy..
Here is some thing construtive from Google Books Strindbergs books in Swedish and all books in any language
Thing is Strindberg died 1912 nothing significant can have been added since then. The problem is that we can't access a book that should be available, and it's unclear how to get access to it. As you say you don't care about what language it is, and that's one of the problems it's hard for Google to handle non english books.
As said above he really is a good designer, though you can see in the video that he grewup playing Quake and editing in Realsoft 3D.. :-)
You can't answer calls with the SDK on Android. Just saying android is at least 50% of those words.....
What kind of analysis is that, is that really how your girlfriend feels? Of course it's important to see the best sides of your mate and being able to appreciate those. But that doesn't mean women, or men, need someone to lookup to.
Please give some reference. I have a very hard time believing in your facts, making it even harder to believe in the conclusion.
Recommended reading for you: Voltairine.
Paying $99 to fiddle with a phone for which you have already payed over $500 for is stupid. Just get an Android instead, HTC Hero is very nice.
I'm guessing they have a web browser installed by default...
Actually the source is available it's just that if you want to compile and run it you have to pay the Apple developer fee. Most people would rather pay $2 than $90 to play the game. So the problem is the non free ethics that are forced upon you by Apple. Also the hardware platform is not very suitable for free software, but that is a sad trend with many devices.
No! All stickers go off, if they don't they will peel off and leave awfull unstained areas.
Open access is of course the best way, sadly it's not legal in e.g. Sweden. Well it is but if anyone does anything illegal you are screwed.