Wrong again, Bob. Peeking at a computer screen in use by another patron is against the Seattle Public Library's posted computer use policy. If children are looking at the porn on his screen they should be bounced from the premises.
As long as he's got the sound turned off or is using headphones he's entirely within his rights. While this may seem counter intuitive to even the most open minded in our prudish society it shouldn't take that much thought to realize that this is the way things should be in a modern, ostensibly free country.
Perhaps Craigslist isn't the right site for you? Or perhaps you'd prefer living in an urban center like a reasonable human being. Your argument is that scissors aren't useful because you don't need to cut anything. This is absurd.
Teenagers, maybe not. Twenty-somethings, yes. The core demographic for video games is older than it's ever been and certainly has the money to buy games new. Especially with most new games being available for 2/3 or 1/2 the original price at some point within the first two months of release.
I think that people use the word "stole" because of the way that Apple fanboys pretend that Apple invented everything great about computing, when in fact they've mostly taken everything from someone else (nothing wrong with that) and made it crappy and hard to use. That they've managed to sell that crap to millions of idiots with poor aesthetic sensibilities is irrelevant.
Apple products have a very narrow range of use scenarios. If a user does not wish to operate a system within that narrow range, or that narrow range is entirely ass backwards to the user, the system becomes unusable. This should be obvious to anyone.
Now fuck back off to wherever you Apple fanboys go to blow each other.
I couldn't disagree more. Using "irregardless" to mean "regardless" does nothing but push English in the direction of poorer communication and is the equivalent of saying "uncertain" when one actually means "certain."
The ribbon is superior for the vast majority of MS Office users, who really don't know how to use it that well in the first place. For what I use Office for it's better about 85% of the time.
No, it really doesn't. As I already said, with their current proprietary format Amazon gets:
1) Publishers who have to pay special attention to their platform, rather than creating a single ePub that may or may not display correctly on their devices because they were only tested against a competing ePub reader.
2) It encourages customers who buy a Kindle to buy their ebooks from Amazon because a) no other major ebook vendor is selling in MobiPocket format and b) converting ePub to Mobi will usually result in an inferior reading experience to just buying the Kindle version from Amazon.
3) It doesn't require Amazon's developers, who have shown themselves to be less than top flight, to implement an additional format on their readers.
I understand that you probably can't wrap your head around these simple concepts, but there is NO advantage to Amazon in opening up their readers to ePub nor even in embracing ePub themselves. Sometimes the superior format isn't the superior solution; if you don't understand that then you don't understand a fucking thing.
That's pretty much their whole argument. I've learned to not make the mistake of second guessing these clowns, it's almost certainly true. Then they project that weakness on to the rest of us, which is how they get to thinking that everyone needs to believe whatever nonsense they're pushing.
Why do you think consensus is necessarily a good thing? It's better to have never lived than to live under the "moral" philosophy of Catholicism or Protestantism.
How stupid can you possibly be to not see that you're a complete and utter clown?
All "morality" is subjective. If you've been wondering why atheists look down on you for your religious beliefs, stop right now because the reason is right here. As it turns out, it's because you're an idiot.
If your actions are based on fear of your imaginary friend Jesus and his ill-tempered father I don't see how you deserve credit for anything good that you do.
From Amazon's perspective sticking with their proprietary format gives them two benefits: 1) it requires publishers to specifically target their platform, which creates a clear distinction between Kindle and the rest of the industry, and 2) it encourages customers to buy their ebooks from Amazon rather than another store. There's also the third benefit of Amazon not having to put development resources into providing ePub support. The software developers Amazon has working on Kindle don't appear to be entirely the best, so they'd probably run into trouble if they tried to implement it anyway.
From a consumer standpoint it obviously doesn't make sense, but I don't see Amazon going to ePub (or even supporting it) unless they achieve enough market segment share to potentially raise anti-trust issues. There's just no benefit to them to implementing it and quite a few negatives. If they were making a decent margin on the readers that might not be the case, but they're certainly not making much, if any, on the hardware itself.
For what it's worth, it does appear that Amazon allows competing ebook readers on their appstore. I couldn't find the B&N Nook reader, but at least Kobo and Aldiko are on there.
Well that makes at least two movies in which they've placed that name. I still don't think they'd do it, but it would be the first goofy name in their long line of goofy names that I would be able to respect for its ridiculousness.
I know it makes you feel special to use phrases like "DRM shackles" and flaunt your circumvention of it. But how does that have anything to do with the book's qualities as "commuting fodder"? The truth is, it doesn't. A Kindle book can be read on just about any device, regardless of the DRM. The only reason to attempt to bring the "shackles" of DRM into it is to tell the world that you're a smug, self-satisfied douche who is far more concerned with being smug and self-satisfied than with any practical issues with DRM.
Right, which was the PR spin they came up with to justify a name that was a synonym for Nintendo's Wii codename (Revolution) that also allowed them to leapfrog from 2 to 3 and thus "catch up" with Sony's Playstation 3. Considering Microsoft's history with names they'll surely come up with something completely derivative, uninspired, and goofy for the NeXbox.
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Wrong again, Bob. Peeking at a computer screen in use by another patron is against the Seattle Public Library's posted computer use policy. If children are looking at the porn on his screen they should be bounced from the premises.
As long as he's got the sound turned off or is using headphones he's entirely within his rights. While this may seem counter intuitive to even the most open minded in our prudish society it shouldn't take that much thought to realize that this is the way things should be in a modern, ostensibly free country.
So you're a farmer and a lumberjack? Didn't think so. Fuck off.
Perhaps Craigslist isn't the right site for you? Or perhaps you'd prefer living in an urban center like a reasonable human being. Your argument is that scissors aren't useful because you don't need to cut anything. This is absurd.
Teenagers, maybe not. Twenty-somethings, yes. The core demographic for video games is older than it's ever been and certainly has the money to buy games new. Especially with most new games being available for 2/3 or 1/2 the original price at some point within the first two months of release.
If you're waiting 6-12 months to buy you should be getting them for "half price" new. If you're not it's because you're a complete moron.
I think that people use the word "stole" because of the way that Apple fanboys pretend that Apple invented everything great about computing, when in fact they've mostly taken everything from someone else (nothing wrong with that) and made it crappy and hard to use. That they've managed to sell that crap to millions of idiots with poor aesthetic sensibilities is irrelevant.
Apple products have a very narrow range of use scenarios. If a user does not wish to operate a system within that narrow range, or that narrow range is entirely ass backwards to the user, the system becomes unusable. This should be obvious to anyone.
Now fuck back off to wherever you Apple fanboys go to blow each other.
I couldn't disagree more. Using "irregardless" to mean "regardless" does nothing but push English in the direction of poorer communication and is the equivalent of saying "uncertain" when one actually means "certain."
Apple give you choice? You can either use the product the way they want you to or buy something good instead? Yup, lots of choice there.
Ain't that the truth.
Irregardless, "irregardless" is a stupid, pointless word because it "means" the same thing as "regardless."
The ribbon is superior for the vast majority of MS Office users, who really don't know how to use it that well in the first place. For what I use Office for it's better about 85% of the time.
I want a cookie!
And less sense.
No, it really doesn't. As I already said, with their current proprietary format Amazon gets:
1) Publishers who have to pay special attention to their platform, rather than creating a single ePub that may or may not display correctly on their devices because they were only tested against a competing ePub reader.
2) It encourages customers who buy a Kindle to buy their ebooks from Amazon because a) no other major ebook vendor is selling in MobiPocket format and b) converting ePub to Mobi will usually result in an inferior reading experience to just buying the Kindle version from Amazon.
3) It doesn't require Amazon's developers, who have shown themselves to be less than top flight, to implement an additional format on their readers.
I understand that you probably can't wrap your head around these simple concepts, but there is NO advantage to Amazon in opening up their readers to ePub nor even in embracing ePub themselves. Sometimes the superior format isn't the superior solution; if you don't understand that then you don't understand a fucking thing.
That's pretty much their whole argument. I've learned to not make the mistake of second guessing these clowns, it's almost certainly true. Then they project that weakness on to the rest of us, which is how they get to thinking that everyone needs to believe whatever nonsense they're pushing.
If you need fairy tales to make you a better person then you're certainly not courageous. I'd call that cowardice of the highest order.
Why do you think consensus is necessarily a good thing? It's better to have never lived than to live under the "moral" philosophy of Catholicism or Protestantism.
How stupid can you possibly be to not see that you're a complete and utter clown?
All "morality" is subjective. If you've been wondering why atheists look down on you for your religious beliefs, stop right now because the reason is right here. As it turns out, it's because you're an idiot.
If your actions are based on fear of your imaginary friend Jesus and his ill-tempered father I don't see how you deserve credit for anything good that you do.
For whom does it not make sense?
From Amazon's perspective sticking with their proprietary format gives them two benefits: 1) it requires publishers to specifically target their platform, which creates a clear distinction between Kindle and the rest of the industry, and 2) it encourages customers to buy their ebooks from Amazon rather than another store. There's also the third benefit of Amazon not having to put development resources into providing ePub support. The software developers Amazon has working on Kindle don't appear to be entirely the best, so they'd probably run into trouble if they tried to implement it anyway.
From a consumer standpoint it obviously doesn't make sense, but I don't see Amazon going to ePub (or even supporting it) unless they achieve enough market segment share to potentially raise anti-trust issues. There's just no benefit to them to implementing it and quite a few negatives. If they were making a decent margin on the readers that might not be the case, but they're certainly not making much, if any, on the hardware itself.
For what it's worth, it does appear that Amazon allows competing ebook readers on their appstore. I couldn't find the B&N Nook reader, but at least Kobo and Aldiko are on there.
Well that makes at least two movies in which they've placed that name. I still don't think they'd do it, but it would be the first goofy name in their long line of goofy names that I would be able to respect for its ridiculousness.
I know it makes you feel special to use phrases like "DRM shackles" and flaunt your circumvention of it. But how does that have anything to do with the book's qualities as "commuting fodder"? The truth is, it doesn't. A Kindle book can be read on just about any device, regardless of the DRM. The only reason to attempt to bring the "shackles" of DRM into it is to tell the world that you're a smug, self-satisfied douche who is far more concerned with being smug and self-satisfied than with any practical issues with DRM.
Are you thinking of Real Steel or did they also put a 720 ad in Transformers?
Right, which was the PR spin they came up with to justify a name that was a synonym for Nintendo's Wii codename (Revolution) that also allowed them to leapfrog from 2 to 3 and thus "catch up" with Sony's Playstation 3. Considering Microsoft's history with names they'll surely come up with something completely derivative, uninspired, and goofy for the NeXbox.