Any file transfer done with the Kindle's Wifi connection is free. It's just the 3G data that you'll have to pay for. You get free 3G for browsing, etc. But all the Whispernet services have chareges associated with them. IE, if you email a document to get converted and have it delivered over 3G, you'll have to pay for it. But if you email it and have it delivered by Wifi, no charge. Same with books. The only time you pay a delivery fee is over 3G.
I email documents that I have to review for work to Amazon for conversion all the time and never pay a cent. I also forward articles that I'd like to read later via instapaper's website. Amazon makes it painfully simple to prevent getting charged for anything by setting a set limit on how much of a bill you're allowed to rack up at any time. Set it to zero and you can't accidentally spend $10. So there really isn't any reason to get bent out of shape. Amazon isn't being (too) evil here. Somewhat like with phone subsidization, they're fronting the cash for your 3G connection, but you only pay if you use it.
Whether or not it's a fair price should be the question. When compared with, say, a cellular data plan, it's about 3-4x's more expensive per MB. When compared to texting plans? Well, let's say it sits much closer to cellular data fees. It's a convenience charge. It's up to you whether or not you want to pay it.
(Also, I have a Kindle 3, so I'm not sure what they do with Kindle 1/2 users.)
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Great. Now I need to buy a digital cliche meter. This summery of this story nearly caused my mercury cliche meter to burst.
Can you imagine being the people who were responsible for the widget? Not that I like them, but they must be pretty proud that it worked for as long as it did...
I don't agree with everything Franken does but I do like how he works. He seems to be attempting to be the untouchable politician that you see in movies get taken down after his wife/kids/wookie is ransomed or something. You should have been here during the campaigns. All Coleman could do is use a handful of common guys (and one who bore a slight resemblance to Ron Jeremy) talking about Al's stand up routine and his hand in the pron industry. Most pathetic mudslinging ever.
At any rate. I really hope he can get this regulated. The municipal monopolies that Comcast and Qwest hold are already bad enough. Last thing I need is them telling me about their 'great new plans' where I can pay an extra $15 a month to get multicast packets from video based websites at the normal speed....
I had to order a MacBook Pro for myself to use from work but they wouldn't pay for me to NOT get the glossy screen. I really do detest them... Just a preference. I understand why people like them, I just... don't.
They aren't doing anything to prevent used sales. They're encouraging new sales with free stuff that makes the game a bit more fun or interesting. The DLC that this kid didn't get is completely unessential. There is no prevention. Prevention would be requiring downloading DLC that makes the game playable or completable. Even if they did make you do that, we have no right to be outraged unless the publishers don't tell us about this.
Bioware knows that people would catch on pretty fast if they had to download things to finish or play the game so they offer something trivial that you may or may not want. It isn't quite the difference in price between used and new, but who knows. I think it's brilliant.
It's not like they're charging money for the game to be playable or completable. I think this is a brilliant way to keep people buying new content. Bioware knows that they're losing a used sale so they make up for it by offering some trivial (I have played Mass Effect 2, and it IS trival) DLC that you may or may not want. They also know that there would be massive upheaval if they forced you to pay $5 to complete the game if you buy it used.
Also, I think that the case is valid against Gamestop, and that it is a used game. New means unused, by anyone.
During my huge weight loss periods I experienced the same thing. I didn't appear to lose muscle mass, however I couldn't lift like I could before.
During high school and year one of college I was around 240. I stopped drinking pop, soda, what-have-you and instantly reduced my calorie intake by about 600-1200 Pepsi calories per day. In two months I had dropped down to 170. I spent the next years lifting and training lightly and never seemed to exceed 180. Then came alcohol. I hovered around 190-200 for a few years. About a year ago I took some serious measures and got back down to 175 for a few months after a shoulder injury. Around then... I started dating my wife about a year ago. In that time I've gotten back up to 200-210 and I have no time for a structured workout regime and I'm one of those casual eaters who doesn't notice that I just ate a candy bar or an entire pizza. Ever. I'm working on it, and I'm sure that if I am mindful of it I won't have the problem anymore. I'm also cutting out beer for a few months.
You're right that with a high muscle mass, it's possible to be in the "morbidly obese" category while not actually being fat or unhealthy.
Exactly. I'm about 205 with a BMI of 31.2 which puts me in the "Obese" category. I work for a health care organization and before the economy died here they used to give us free, voluntary yearly health assessments. Each time my height, weight, cholesterol, etc was recorded and anyone with any risks was contacted by a nurse.
Every year I was contacted by the fitness and consoled over the phone on weight loss and the side effects like stress and depression. So, I'd go to their meeting and they'd kick me out. At the time of my last meeting my lean body mass was about 85%. So, I'm obese on paper and fit in real life. Except since I got married a few months back. I'm up about 10-15 lbs of fat. My wife knows how to cook and I never really cooked before.
This is a method I use quite often. The only problem is making sure the flash is off so you don't annoy the instructor. Absolutely priceless. However, I find that if I don't copy the pictures into a notebook then I won't retain it. I just get to do it a little slower.
(also, taking a video of a long lecture is AWESOME)
I always figured the learning 'curve' was a function of ability over time. It always ends on the top of the 'hill' in the sames spot. The curve, however, was generated in how much time was allowed. Therefore, lot's of things to learn in a short period of time would be steep (and likely difficult), however, the same amount of learning over, say, four times as much time would be a more gentle slope (however, this could still be difficult).
If you can learn something "at your leisure" I'd say that the curve becomes trivial because you're not required to "climb" and faster or slower than you wish.
The Bible says to test a prophecy by seeing if it comes true. It makes sense seeing as most prophecies seem to be making absurd claims. But, then again, some of them come true in one fashion or another.
However, if I've learned anything from Star Trek and other sci fi, you cannot escape a timeline. No matter what... Except, perhaps, in Minority Report.
I don't think this is much of a troll. The legal system can, and periodically is, turned into a popularity contest. There is a very real likelihood that the jurors will act on personal feelings about the company, and/or be swayed because of lawyer speak.
However, it is also possible that the jurors will be fair and impartial. But from what we now know about that district, there really isn't any hope.
I walked in looking for broadband deals. Comcast usually has a free money deal going on or something. I walked past the mobile phones and some teen asks me what I need. Why not? "I'm looking for in-home broadband." She replies, "Oh, right this way!" and shows me to the mobile broadband cards. "Oh, no. I don't want mobile broadband. I want wired broadband into my house. Comcast, you know?" The reply, "Oh, this is broadband. It's super fast." "No, I've got mobile broadband and I'm disconnecting it becuase I have no use for it. I want in home, wired, not mobile broadband." After a very confused look she said, "I'm sorry, I don't think we have that." Then I walked into the computer section. I expected nothing less than gross incompetence from Best Buy. It's what I got.
Hard to smell something in which you have been steeping for 25 years. It's like visiting old people. Their houses have that odd smell, but they'd never know about it.
Oh, and kudos for getting the car analogy in the discussion;)
No kidding, if it wasn't such a significant initial investment we'd be using LED bulbs in my house 4 months out of the year or more (I like it nice and cool). During the winter we can switch them back. I don't see what's so bad about switching out bulbs two (or more depending on weather) times a year to save some money and some environment. For the same reason I don't mind letting my computers idle (as much) during the winter since the wasted energy is quite efficiently transformed into heat and pushed out into the surrounding environment. In the summer I unplug the power strips on everything if I'm going to be gone for more than 12 hours. The Xbox get unplugged if I'll be gone for more than an hour. It's older and that power brick stays pretty warm.
I remember those days... back in high school (circa 95-99) when 700 kids shared one ISDN with the staff.... You had to select directories all the way down until you found something you might want. The search only found a directory's name, not contents.
At that time searching was a joke. Nobody really used the internet for anything at school because it was too slow and there was nothing of use on it. Except, perhaps if you could quickly log onto a boobie site when the teacher or librarians hawk-like eyes looked away. Those URLs we memorized...
Easy. If he's running Vista/Win7 (and he's not) he can schedule the task to bring up a box that says "Wipe HDD?". If he clicks any buttons a passkey is requested (otherwise, 15 seconds later it goes away). If the wrong passkey is entered the drive is wiped.
I think this nullifies the original intent of the query. The MSI Wind U100 doesn't have a DVD drive and carrying an external would pretty well destroy the point of being as portable as possible. On-disk encryption is probably the best bet considering whatever this guy is carrying is probably not worth keyloggers or other problems. If the netbook is infiltrated by virus or malware then so be it. However, he'll probably notice any hardware interface that would install a keylogger as he's looking right at the netbook.
If he wants to obliterate the data then whatever he does has to specifically target the areas he wants to delete (a partition of the drive) and be triggered by X amount of failed logins or some similar tactic.
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Any file transfer done with the Kindle's Wifi connection is free. It's just the 3G data that you'll have to pay for. You get free 3G for browsing, etc. But all the Whispernet services have chareges associated with them. IE, if you email a document to get converted and have it delivered over 3G, you'll have to pay for it. But if you email it and have it delivered by Wifi, no charge. Same with books. The only time you pay a delivery fee is over 3G.
I email documents that I have to review for work to Amazon for conversion all the time and never pay a cent. I also forward articles that I'd like to read later via instapaper's website. Amazon makes it painfully simple to prevent getting charged for anything by setting a set limit on how much of a bill you're allowed to rack up at any time. Set it to zero and you can't accidentally spend $10. So there really isn't any reason to get bent out of shape. Amazon isn't being (too) evil here. Somewhat like with phone subsidization, they're fronting the cash for your 3G connection, but you only pay if you use it.
Whether or not it's a fair price should be the question. When compared with, say, a cellular data plan, it's about 3-4x's more expensive per MB. When compared to texting plans? Well, let's say it sits much closer to cellular data fees. It's a convenience charge. It's up to you whether or not you want to pay it.
(Also, I have a Kindle 3, so I'm not sure what they do with Kindle 1/2 users.)
Great. Now I need to buy a digital cliche meter. This summery of this story nearly caused my mercury cliche meter to burst.
Can you imagine being the people who were responsible for the widget? Not that I like them, but they must be pretty proud that it worked for as long as it did...
Best Buy's Geek Squad, a group of electronics troubleshooters.
Nevermind...
I don't agree with everything Franken does but I do like how he works. He seems to be attempting to be the untouchable politician that you see in movies get taken down after his wife/kids/wookie is ransomed or something. You should have been here during the campaigns. All Coleman could do is use a handful of common guys (and one who bore a slight resemblance to Ron Jeremy) talking about Al's stand up routine and his hand in the pron industry. Most pathetic mudslinging ever.
At any rate. I really hope he can get this regulated. The municipal monopolies that Comcast and Qwest hold are already bad enough. Last thing I need is them telling me about their 'great new plans' where I can pay an extra $15 a month to get multicast packets from video based websites at the normal speed....
I had to order a MacBook Pro for myself to use from work but they wouldn't pay for me to NOT get the glossy screen. I really do detest them... Just a preference. I understand why people like them, I just... don't.
They aren't doing anything to prevent used sales. They're encouraging new sales with free stuff that makes the game a bit more fun or interesting. The DLC that this kid didn't get is completely unessential. There is no prevention. Prevention would be requiring downloading DLC that makes the game playable or completable. Even if they did make you do that, we have no right to be outraged unless the publishers don't tell us about this.
Bioware knows that people would catch on pretty fast if they had to download things to finish or play the game so they offer something trivial that you may or may not want. It isn't quite the difference in price between used and new, but who knows. I think it's brilliant.
It's not like they're charging money for the game to be playable or completable. I think this is a brilliant way to keep people buying new content. Bioware knows that they're losing a used sale so they make up for it by offering some trivial (I have played Mass Effect 2, and it IS trival) DLC that you may or may not want. They also know that there would be massive upheaval if they forced you to pay $5 to complete the game if you buy it used.
Also, I think that the case is valid against Gamestop, and that it is a used game. New means unused, by anyone.
During my huge weight loss periods I experienced the same thing. I didn't appear to lose muscle mass, however I couldn't lift like I could before.
During high school and year one of college I was around 240. I stopped drinking pop, soda, what-have-you and instantly reduced my calorie intake by about 600-1200 Pepsi calories per day. In two months I had dropped down to 170. I spent the next years lifting and training lightly and never seemed to exceed 180. Then came alcohol. I hovered around 190-200 for a few years. About a year ago I took some serious measures and got back down to 175 for a few months after a shoulder injury. Around then... I started dating my wife about a year ago. In that time I've gotten back up to 200-210 and I have no time for a structured workout regime and I'm one of those casual eaters who doesn't notice that I just ate a candy bar or an entire pizza. Ever. I'm working on it, and I'm sure that if I am mindful of it I won't have the problem anymore. I'm also cutting out beer for a few months.
Sounds like a great program. I seriously wish I had the time for something like that. Currently, eating right and logging my intake is all I can do.
You're right that with a high muscle mass, it's possible to be in the "morbidly obese" category while not actually being fat or unhealthy.
Exactly. I'm about 205 with a BMI of 31.2 which puts me in the "Obese" category. I work for a health care organization and before the economy died here they used to give us free, voluntary yearly health assessments. Each time my height, weight, cholesterol, etc was recorded and anyone with any risks was contacted by a nurse.
Every year I was contacted by the fitness and consoled over the phone on weight loss and the side effects like stress and depression. So, I'd go to their meeting and they'd kick me out. At the time of my last meeting my lean body mass was about 85%. So, I'm obese on paper and fit in real life. Except since I got married a few months back. I'm up about 10-15 lbs of fat. My wife knows how to cook and I never really cooked before.
This is a method I use quite often. The only problem is making sure the flash is off so you don't annoy the instructor. Absolutely priceless. However, I find that if I don't copy the pictures into a notebook then I won't retain it. I just get to do it a little slower.
(also, taking a video of a long lecture is AWESOME)
I always figured the learning 'curve' was a function of ability over time. It always ends on the top of the 'hill' in the sames spot. The curve, however, was generated in how much time was allowed. Therefore, lot's of things to learn in a short period of time would be steep (and likely difficult), however, the same amount of learning over, say, four times as much time would be a more gentle slope (however, this could still be difficult).
If you can learn something "at your leisure" I'd say that the curve becomes trivial because you're not required to "climb" and faster or slower than you wish.
The Bible says to test a prophecy by seeing if it comes true. It makes sense seeing as most prophecies seem to be making absurd claims. But, then again, some of them come true in one fashion or another.
However, if I've learned anything from Star Trek and other sci fi, you cannot escape a timeline. No matter what... Except, perhaps, in Minority Report.
Does this mean that any time someone says "Mother Fucker" they have to pay royalties to every rapper ever? That's going to be a pain in the ass!
The nice thing is that [hob]bits are about half the size of regular bits, thus the normal interweb tubes can pass twice as much data.
NICs will be replaced with [hob]bit holes.
I don't think this is much of a troll. The legal system can, and periodically is, turned into a popularity contest. There is a very real likelihood that the jurors will act on personal feelings about the company, and/or be swayed because of lawyer speak.
However, it is also possible that the jurors will be fair and impartial. But from what we now know about that district, there really isn't any hope.
I walked in looking for broadband deals. Comcast usually has a free money deal going on or something. I walked past the mobile phones and some teen asks me what I need. Why not? "I'm looking for in-home broadband."
She replies, "Oh, right this way!" and shows me to the mobile broadband cards.
"Oh, no. I don't want mobile broadband. I want wired broadband into my house. Comcast, you know?"
The reply, "Oh, this is broadband. It's super fast."
"No, I've got mobile broadband and I'm disconnecting it becuase I have no use for it. I want in home, wired, not mobile broadband."
After a very confused look she said, "I'm sorry, I don't think we have that."
Then I walked into the computer section. I expected nothing less than gross incompetence from Best Buy. It's what I got.
Hard to smell something in which you have been steeping for 25 years. It's like visiting old people. Their houses have that odd smell, but they'd never know about it.
Oh, and kudos for getting the car analogy in the discussion ;)
No kidding, if it wasn't such a significant initial investment we'd be using LED bulbs in my house 4 months out of the year or more (I like it nice and cool). During the winter we can switch them back. I don't see what's so bad about switching out bulbs two (or more depending on weather) times a year to save some money and some environment.
For the same reason I don't mind letting my computers idle (as much) during the winter since the wasted energy is quite efficiently transformed into heat and pushed out into the surrounding environment. In the summer I unplug the power strips on everything if I'm going to be gone for more than 12 hours. The Xbox get unplugged if I'll be gone for more than an hour. It's older and that power brick stays pretty warm.
had I mod points, I'd label this funny. I do not. You have instead my laughter and odd looks in my office.
I remember those days... back in high school (circa 95-99) when 700 kids shared one ISDN with the staff.... You had to select directories all the way down until you found something you might want. The search only found a directory's name, not contents.
At that time searching was a joke. Nobody really used the internet for anything at school because it was too slow and there was nothing of use on it. Except, perhaps if you could quickly log onto a boobie site when the teacher or librarians hawk-like eyes looked away. Those URLs we memorized...
Oh, and GET OFF MY LAWN!
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Easy. If he's running Vista/Win7 (and he's not) he can schedule the task to bring up a box that says "Wipe HDD?". If he clicks any buttons a passkey is requested (otherwise, 15 seconds later it goes away). If the wrong passkey is entered the drive is wiped.
Though I 100% agree. Truecrypt is the answer.
I think this nullifies the original intent of the query. The MSI Wind U100 doesn't have a DVD drive and carrying an external would pretty well destroy the point of being as portable as possible. On-disk encryption is probably the best bet considering whatever this guy is carrying is probably not worth keyloggers or other problems. If the netbook is infiltrated by virus or malware then so be it. However, he'll probably notice any hardware interface that would install a keylogger as he's looking right at the netbook.
If he wants to obliterate the data then whatever he does has to specifically target the areas he wants to delete (a partition of the drive) and be triggered by X amount of failed logins or some similar tactic.