I've had Kindle unlimited for a while and find the selection very limited. Sure they have a lot of in-house books listed there, but the quality is extremely varied. For the amount I read from unlimited, I am spending more on unlimited than I would if I were to simply buy the books I've read and enjoyed. I suspect I'm not alone in this. So for Amazon in the US, the unlimited has been wildly successful I think. It's a check-cashing service for them.
I've encountered a few good indie books on unlimited. But the author didn't make much money if any because of my unlimited reading. Amazon's contract was designed to benefit Amazon first and foremost. Therefore I have little sympathy for Amazon Japan's problems. A contract is a contract. They agreed to it, they need to follow through until the contract is fulfilled.
We scan our own photos with the amazing Snapscan (Fujitsu I think). We attempt to solve this problem simply by double-sided scanning of every photograph. As long as the files stay in order we can easily see what backs belonged to what pictures. The nice thing about the snapscan is that it's pretty smart about automatically straightening the shots and it's very good at recognizing when the back of the picture is blank. Works very well for us.
But the problem is interfacing with the real world. There are far more cheaply available 5v components such as sensors that you can find than 3.3v. Before the days of 3.3v, 5v was the standard, so there are many many devices and circuits out there that work at 5v. I would be happy with a 3.3v arduino so long as it had built-in logic level converters to translate to 5v for at least some of the i/o pins.
Almost everyone I've ever seen has a case on their iPhone which makes it bulkier so I don't think the bulkiness argument holds any water. Apparently many users must actually want the phone to be bulkier. It's easier to hold securely, makes it possible to hold it against your shoulder (almost anyway). This race to the bottom as far as thinness goes is such a strange fad. My phone is about 1cm thick and that's as thin as I want it to be. Sure super thin looks sleek but that's as far as it goes.
This new case design looks really sweet I think. Makes the phone look just about right. Maybe they should offer a version without the headphone adapter for those that don't care about that and just want extra battery life and a little thickness.
I've yet to see any computer list other operating systems on a retail box. They all come with Windows licenses these days, so I expect only a Windows logo, regardless of compatibility. I've definitely never seen logos of Linux or BSD on any machine anywhere, except ones that ship from companies like System76. So no I don't think it's sufficient to blame the customer here.
Correct, there was ProDOS on Apple II. I remember using it. However according to the author himself, it was ProDOS 1.0. ProDOS 2.x apparently did not run on the Apple II. He says: "ProDOS 2.4 includes both the 6502 compatibility of ProDOS 1.x and the slot remapping functionality of ProDOS 2.x. Now Apple II programs can use a single version of ProDOS to boot any Apple II and access all storage volumes.... For the first time, the features and improvements of ProDOS 2.x are available on 6502-based Apple ][, Apple ][+, and un-enhanced Apple//e computers."
Series 10 was a bit jarring to see how old all the characters were (which is hard not to show since the actors are indeed 30 years older). Rimmer in particular appeared much older than the last time we saw him.
Even their movements and voices sounded older. In Series 11 so far it appears they have a lot better makeup as they appear younger than they did in series 10. They almost look like they could have hopped into the scene from series 8 and we might not have noticed.
Hmm, where does that leave us then. Because they can now do more than the US can do right now when it comes to manned flight and launching space stations. We have the ISS, true, but we couldn't build another one. And we certainly can't build small space laboratories like we used to in the 70s. Personally I'm a bit jealous that the Chinese are going to do this. I think having multiple, short-term space stations would be more economical and get more science done than the one big expensive one we have now, as cool as it is.
You can think disparagingly about China's endeavors, but really we have a lot to fear from them. American supremacy has been eroding for decades and sooner or later other powers will rise and we can bet they won't give the US special consideration or treatment. Maybe China's government's inability to reform and lust for power will hold them back and allow the US to remain dominant in the world. But I'm not counting on that.
Ahh if only it were that easy. Like most of these utilities, they are fraught with difficulty and most often just don't work. I tried this program (under Windows 10, the only windows I have readily available right now) but it wouldn't work with any of my aax files (audible manager did open and play them.). I hit the Umwandeln button and it just said immediately, Umwaldlung beendet. Conversion finished.
It's not that easy to convert Audible books to mp3. It can be done, of course, but it's not automatic or easy. Most methods involve exploiting the analog hole in real time (as long as the audio book is). Mind you if you run the process at night that's not so bad.
Personally I don't find any utility in making a bunch of small mp3 files. Any player worth it's salt will bookmark your position and let you do variable speed playback.
And one of the benefits of leaving the audio book in Audible is syncing to the Kindle. Fabulous feature
My tip to audible is to convert your account from $15 a month for one credit to a maintenance mode where you pay just a few dollars a year to keep your account active. This is good if you find yourself accumulating credits that you don't want to lose but haven't used yet. Also, many audio books are quite cheap if you buy the kindle version. Often the kindle version plus the audible version can be purchased for much less than the $15 they would charge you for a credit.
Finally, there's an Android app for downloading LibreVox audiobooks that's kind of handy, though the latest version really screwed up the interface and made it hard to browse what's available.
Well at least they were working in 1990 when the picture was taken. That's about 13 years after Voyager I was launched. Shortly after the picture was taken the cameras were shut down. I understand we still get a faint signal fro Voyager I, from which we can learn about the heliopause and other things, but there's no data being transmitted from the spacecraft any longer.
Correct. And in the old days,/sbin was called/sbin because it meant "static binaries." Now even core system utilities like ls are dynamically-linked, which makes attacks like this work.
I find 6500k quite glaring at night. 6500k is considered to be the equivalent of the color of the sun at mid day. Why would I want that on my monitor going into the evening? The whole point of the red shifters is to lower the temperature as twilight falls.
There may not be much science to support the idea that blue light adversely affects the brain or sleep at night, but it sure makes my computer use more comfortable in the evenings and and easier on my eyes when I red it down to about 3500k at night and let it come up to 6500k in the day. I was quite surprised when I tried it for a while. Now I see a screen that doesn't shift at night and I'm surprised how blue it is (even if it's really white). I also prefer 2700 to 3500k lights in my house as well.
As far as I know 128-bit blowfish is the default cipher in openvpn, which is widely used. I'm trying to determine how to harden my openvpn network and change ciphers, probably to AES I suppose.
Except that optical media isn't that durable or reliable. Every DVD or CD I've ever burned has become unreadable after a few years. The inks just don't hold the data for long. Pressed disks last a lot longer of course, but there are many documented cases of the aluminum layer of CDs being damaged.
And it's no longer a great or cheap way to pass information to others since fewer and fewer computers come with optical drives these days.
If you're going to use optical media as archival storage or backup, you'll want to copy the data to fresh media on a regular basis (every few years at least). Of course the same goes for any form of data storage these days.
Um, no. Like the aviation industry in any country, including the US and Europe, building commercial aircraft always involves government. Embraer takes it share of government subsidies and likely has to deal with the resulting meddling that comes with that.
Our university had a admission system and the library catalog that ran on gopher systems combined with telnet applications. It took many years before their new web-based systems were as good as the gopher ones were. In fact for a long time they ran the web site and the gopher server for the library catalog and the gopher side was faster and better for a long time.
The main university gopher site was running for many years after the web took over. I think it was just forgotten about. It finally went away when they upgraded their web servers back in 2004 time frame.
Right now I can't even reply to comments on my own video because of this Google+ requirement. I read that they were going to get rid of this some time ago, but so far as I know it's still there when I try to post.
Youtube comments are generally a wasteland for posting or reading, so I guess it really doesn't matter that much.
But in a more serious vein, the money does eventually trickle down, albeit very unevenly. It's not like the money spent on the F-35 goes up into space never to return. It enriches an industry and companies, true, but it certainly benefits the economies that the many people who work on the program (all the way down to the smallest sub-contractors) live in. But by the same token we could argue that money spent on entitlements also has a similar effect, perhaps more-so.
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I've had Kindle unlimited for a while and find the selection very limited. Sure they have a lot of in-house books listed there, but the quality is extremely varied. For the amount I read from unlimited, I am spending more on unlimited than I would if I were to simply buy the books I've read and enjoyed. I suspect I'm not alone in this. So for Amazon in the US, the unlimited has been wildly successful I think. It's a check-cashing service for them.
I've encountered a few good indie books on unlimited. But the author didn't make much money if any because of my unlimited reading. Amazon's contract was designed to benefit Amazon first and foremost. Therefore I have little sympathy for Amazon Japan's problems. A contract is a contract. They agreed to it, they need to follow through until the contract is fulfilled.
Phones are already so thin as to be barely usable with average hands. Why do they keep thinking they need to be thinner? Please help me understand.
We scan our own photos with the amazing Snapscan (Fujitsu I think). We attempt to solve this problem simply by double-sided scanning of every photograph. As long as the files stay in order we can easily see what backs belonged to what pictures. The nice thing about the snapscan is that it's pretty smart about automatically straightening the shots and it's very good at recognizing when the back of the picture is blank. Works very well for us.
But the problem is interfacing with the real world. There are far more cheaply available 5v components such as sensors that you can find than 3.3v. Before the days of 3.3v, 5v was the standard, so there are many many devices and circuits out there that work at 5v. I would be happy with a 3.3v arduino so long as it had built-in logic level converters to translate to 5v for at least some of the i/o pins.
Almost everyone I've ever seen has a case on their iPhone which makes it bulkier so I don't think the bulkiness argument holds any water. Apparently many users must actually want the phone to be bulkier. It's easier to hold securely, makes it possible to hold it against your shoulder (almost anyway). This race to the bottom as far as thinness goes is such a strange fad. My phone is about 1cm thick and that's as thin as I want it to be. Sure super thin looks sleek but that's as far as it goes.
This new case design looks really sweet I think. Makes the phone look just about right. Maybe they should offer a version without the headphone adapter for those that don't care about that and just want extra battery life and a little thickness.
I've yet to see any computer list other operating systems on a retail box. They all come with Windows licenses these days, so I expect only a Windows logo, regardless of compatibility. I've definitely never seen logos of Linux or BSD on any machine anywhere, except ones that ship from companies like System76. So no I don't think it's sufficient to blame the customer here.
Correct, there was ProDOS on Apple II. I remember using it. However according to the author himself, it was ProDOS 1.0. ProDOS 2.x apparently did not run on the Apple II. He says: "ProDOS 2.4 includes both the 6502 compatibility of ProDOS 1.x and the slot remapping functionality of ProDOS 2.x. Now Apple II programs can use a single version of ProDOS to boot any Apple II and access all storage volumes. ... For the first time, the features and improvements of ProDOS 2.x are available on 6502-based Apple ][, Apple ][+, and un-enhanced Apple //e computers."
Series 10 was a bit jarring to see how old all the characters were (which is hard not to show since the actors are indeed 30 years older). Rimmer in particular appeared much older than the last time we saw him.
Even their movements and voices sounded older. In Series 11 so far it appears they have a lot better makeup as they appear younger than they did in series 10. They almost look like they could have hopped into the scene from series 8 and we might not have noticed.
Hmm, where does that leave us then. Because they can now do more than the US can do right now when it comes to manned flight and launching space stations. We have the ISS, true, but we couldn't build another one. And we certainly can't build small space laboratories like we used to in the 70s. Personally I'm a bit jealous that the Chinese are going to do this. I think having multiple, short-term space stations would be more economical and get more science done than the one big expensive one we have now, as cool as it is.
You can think disparagingly about China's endeavors, but really we have a lot to fear from them. American supremacy has been eroding for decades and sooner or later other powers will rise and we can bet they won't give the US special consideration or treatment. Maybe China's government's inability to reform and lust for power will hold them back and allow the US to remain dominant in the world. But I'm not counting on that.
Now that is excellent news.
Ahh if only it were that easy. Like most of these utilities, they are fraught with difficulty and most often just don't work. I tried this program (under Windows 10, the only windows I have readily available right now) but it wouldn't work with any of my aax files (audible manager did open and play them.). I hit the Umwandeln button and it just said immediately, Umwaldlung beendet. Conversion finished.
It's not that easy to convert Audible books to mp3. It can be done, of course, but it's not automatic or easy. Most methods involve exploiting the analog hole in real time (as long as the audio book is). Mind you if you run the process at night that's not so bad.
Personally I don't find any utility in making a bunch of small mp3 files. Any player worth it's salt will bookmark your position and let you do variable speed playback.
And one of the benefits of leaving the audio book in Audible is syncing to the Kindle. Fabulous feature
My tip to audible is to convert your account from $15 a month for one credit to a maintenance mode where you pay just a few dollars a year to keep your account active. This is good if you find yourself accumulating credits that you don't want to lose but haven't used yet. Also, many audio books are quite cheap if you buy the kindle version. Often the kindle version plus the audible version can be purchased for much less than the $15 they would charge you for a credit.
Finally, there's an Android app for downloading LibreVox audiobooks that's kind of handy, though the latest version really screwed up the interface and made it hard to browse what's available.
Well at least they were working in 1990 when the picture was taken. That's about 13 years after Voyager I was launched. Shortly after the picture was taken the cameras were shut down. I understand we still get a faint signal fro Voyager I, from which we can learn about the heliopause and other things, but there's no data being transmitted from the spacecraft any longer.
Yes, you are right. But they also were statically linked because they were meant to be used before /usr is mounted.
Correct. And in the old days, /sbin was called /sbin because it meant "static binaries." Now even core system utilities like ls are dynamically-linked, which makes attacks like this work.
I find 6500k quite glaring at night. 6500k is considered to be the equivalent of the color of the sun at mid day. Why would I want that on my monitor going into the evening? The whole point of the red shifters is to lower the temperature as twilight falls.
There may not be much science to support the idea that blue light adversely affects the brain or sleep at night, but it sure makes my computer use more comfortable in the evenings and and easier on my eyes when I red it down to about 3500k at night and let it come up to 6500k in the day. I was quite surprised when I tried it for a while. Now I see a screen that doesn't shift at night and I'm surprised how blue it is (even if it's really white). I also prefer 2700 to 3500k lights in my house as well.
Are not transactions like this tracked along the way and why can't the banks just reverse all the transactions?
As far as I know 128-bit blowfish is the default cipher in openvpn, which is widely used. I'm trying to determine how to harden my openvpn network and change ciphers, probably to AES I suppose.
I used reliable brands at the time. Sony, TDK, etc. All of them fade over time.
Except that optical media isn't that durable or reliable. Every DVD or CD I've ever burned has become unreadable after a few years. The inks just don't hold the data for long. Pressed disks last a lot longer of course, but there are many documented cases of the aluminum layer of CDs being damaged.
And it's no longer a great or cheap way to pass information to others since fewer and fewer computers come with optical drives these days.
If you're going to use optical media as archival storage or backup, you'll want to copy the data to fresh media on a regular basis (every few years at least). Of course the same goes for any form of data storage these days.
Um, no. Like the aviation industry in any country, including the US and Europe, building commercial aircraft always involves government. Embraer takes it share of government subsidies and likely has to deal with the resulting meddling that comes with that.
Our university had a admission system and the library catalog that ran on gopher systems combined with telnet applications. It took many years before their new web-based systems were as good as the gopher ones were. In fact for a long time they ran the web site and the gopher server for the library catalog and the gopher side was faster and better for a long time.
The main university gopher site was running for many years after the web took over. I think it was just forgotten about. It finally went away when they upgraded their web servers back in 2004 time frame.
Right now I can't even reply to comments on my own video because of this Google+ requirement. I read that they were going to get rid of this some time ago, but so far as I know it's still there when I try to post.
Youtube comments are generally a wasteland for posting or reading, so I guess it really doesn't matter that much.
Pretty soon Apple will end up like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Because after all you can never be too thin and too rich.
But in a more serious vein, the money does eventually trickle down, albeit very unevenly. It's not like the money spent on the F-35 goes up into space never to return. It enriches an industry and companies, true, but it certainly benefits the economies that the many people who work on the program (all the way down to the smallest sub-contractors) live in. But by the same token we could argue that money spent on entitlements also has a similar effect, perhaps more-so.