Probably because eInk and Kindle have been one and the same for a few years now. Companies like Sony, who have had these readers for far longer, never get mentioned. Might be simple reporting, or it might be the simple readers that reporters are reporting to.
You could also use reason and ask yourself why a 5 year old TV show being made available by a DVD rental company would make it onto Slashdot. The only reason would be that it was new content, and you would scan the summary for this tidbit, albeit small and somewhat hidden.
Yup. The area is pretty empty at night as all the Wall St. people go back to their houses in NJ and CT. And they're huddled in that little park blocks away from the exchange. You don't even know they are there when standing on Broad St. So their effect on occupying Wall St. is very limited, through there is great press coverage.
But I agree. Go home, take a shower, eat and sleep, and come back to march on Broadway and other places. Do flash mob protests. But when the really cold temperatures come, I wonder how many will be forced to go home, and I wonder whether the movement will dwindle down, whereas it could have gone on strong with simple daily protests, during business hours, when the workers in the area would really have been inconvenienced.
They did it under the cover of night because they knew that it would have blown out of proportion as some sort of a tyranical government coming down on the populace.
And why do it at all, and not just leave these people be? Ooh, I don't know, because they're shitting in buckets? God knows what other unhealthy things are happening there. Now, is that the city's only motivation? I don't know. But the situation being created in the park isn't exactly kosher and healthy. And don't get me wrong, I was screaming about the transfer of wealth, and the privatization of profits and the nationalization of losses when these hot shot bankers were first being bailed out. But it isn't like the city doesn't now have to deal with a sticky situation.
I dunno. Most tablets are expensive. A $200 one is attractive. I prefer an eInk device, but am considering something cheap like this to handle PDFs a little better.
That's like saying that many people can live with cats without an allergic reaction, like you, so it's your problem, not the cat's. Well, sure, that's true, strictly speaking. But there are many people with the same problem, and the end result is no cat for them... or, in this case, no reading on LCDs. Some can stand it. Some prefer not to. There was a reason companies went looking for alternatives to LCD, eInk not being the only one.
Yup, great comment. Sure, eInk isn't great for flipping through pages quickly, but for plain reading, the page refresh is a fraction of the time it takes you to turn an actual page, and you quickly adjust to it, changing the page with a few words left to a page, picking up without ANY delay on the next page. Where does all that vitriol come from? And you try sitting outside, reading something, and not having the page turned by the wind. No such problems with eInk.
For reading in the dark, you can get a simple $6 clip-on led light which works wonders. I see this argument all the time, and there's such a cheap and easy solution.
I tried reading some PDFs on my laptop, but just couldn't take it. Put he PDF on my Sony reader and was overjoyed by the display. Wasn't irritating at all, and an hour later, reading with my LED light, I had no eye strain at all. I wish they'd come out with 8" eInk devices, and possibly even eInk desktop displays.
But the Nook and Fire are pretty similar devices, save for some bumps in spec, and the Nook is $50 more expensive. That might be a significant factor in people choosing.
Most people were given the full retail price of $500, and at that point, why not just get the iPad. But at $99, the comparison obviously changed. At $99 in the first place, they would have sold out all of them, like they did when they had that sale.
> While I agree 100% with that, how many times over are you going to spend that kind of money to find the 'shining light' that holds it's weight
But that's the point here. No one expects the Fire or a rooted Nook Color or their tablet to be the killer device that fixes all your problems. Just a small device that does small things here and there. And for that, people don't want to spend $500. They could do plenty with the remaining $300.
Creating a mount of some sort is trivial. Not having to move your arms from under your cover to change the page would be the real ticket. Some sort of a remote control (bluetooth or rfid), but it would have to come from the manufacturer themselves.
But Amazon and B&N are the ones making the devices. They aren't releasing their customized Android for all LCD tablets and creating a compatibility issue that you might see in cell phones.
People get all up in arms about punishment like this, but no one bats an eye at an overweight parent feeding their kids fast food for breakfast and a medium Sprite as the drink. And the kid already looks like the Michelin man. I don't get it.
Care to explain the whoosh in this case? The parent recognized the grandparent's humor, and responded that the Nook doesn't in fact lock you into B&N's own format.
Well, you're comparing apples to oranges really. eInk readers are meant for one thing: reading. They are book readers. Tablets are tough-based computers. Different technologies, and obviously the LCD will allow you to display PDFs better, allow for zooming in, etc. eInk is just not for that, and I don't know why people have a hard time keeping that in mind. As far as math equations, they'd render finr on eInk if they were published in ePub for eInk devices, but they aren't. Blame the publishers, not the device.
Also, for reading in bed, there are many covers out that have LED lights. You can buy a clipon LED light for $7. And they work great. They illuminate the text perfectly and evenly. Really, it comes down to one's preference and what type of reading they do. If I stare at an LCD all day, I'll likely choose an eInk display for a novel. If I want to read a service manual for my car, I'll use an LDC based device, even a laptop, over eInk (even though reading that manual would be fine on my Sony PRS-650, if I knew which pages I wanted for reference, but simply browsing and flipping from page to page is more arduous.)
The touch wasn't probably a huge step for Amazon as Sony already has had it on older models. Sony even treaded the water with a touch overlay on top of the eInk screen, which everyone hated, which meant that Amazon didn't have to fumble with it.
Amazon doesn't create the eInk displays, so if a color eInk display isn't available, how will they make a color eInk Kindle? The Fire is just another device, likely for Amazon to sell and sell subscriptions to streaming/downloadable media, in addition to ebooks.
And touch isn't a gimmick. Double tapping a word to get the definition or selecting a paragraph for highlighting beats the pants off of doing the same with a d-pad.
Yup, all $80 of it, every quarter. The difference is that there is oversight in tax increases: votes, public opinion, hearings. A sleazy landlord that doesn't even want to fix your leaking faucet will raise it indiscriminately, w/out needing any justification, and the increase will be a whole lot higher.
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Wow, you're really going to post the above? I know 8 year olds that make more sense than this.
Probably because eInk and Kindle have been one and the same for a few years now. Companies like Sony, who have had these readers for far longer, never get mentioned. Might be simple reporting, or it might be the simple readers that reporters are reporting to.
You could also use reason and ask yourself why a 5 year old TV show being made available by a DVD rental company would make it onto Slashdot. The only reason would be that it was new content, and you would scan the summary for this tidbit, albeit small and somewhat hidden.
Yup. The area is pretty empty at night as all the Wall St. people go back to their houses in NJ and CT. And they're huddled in that little park blocks away from the exchange. You don't even know they are there when standing on Broad St. So their effect on occupying Wall St. is very limited, through there is great press coverage.
But I agree. Go home, take a shower, eat and sleep, and come back to march on Broadway and other places. Do flash mob protests. But when the really cold temperatures come, I wonder how many will be forced to go home, and I wonder whether the movement will dwindle down, whereas it could have gone on strong with simple daily protests, during business hours, when the workers in the area would really have been inconvenienced.
Hasn't the Brooklyn Bridge been closed overnight for construction for the past few months now?
They did it under the cover of night because they knew that it would have blown out of proportion as some sort of a tyranical government coming down on the populace.
And why do it at all, and not just leave these people be? Ooh, I don't know, because they're shitting in buckets? God knows what other unhealthy things are happening there. Now, is that the city's only motivation? I don't know. But the situation being created in the park isn't exactly kosher and healthy. And don't get me wrong, I was screaming about the transfer of wealth, and the privatization of profits and the nationalization of losses when these hot shot bankers were first being bailed out. But it isn't like the city doesn't now have to deal with a sticky situation.
I dunno. Most tablets are expensive. A $200 one is attractive. I prefer an eInk device, but am considering something cheap like this to handle PDFs a little better.
That's like saying that many people can live with cats without an allergic reaction, like you, so it's your problem, not the cat's. Well, sure, that's true, strictly speaking. But there are many people with the same problem, and the end result is no cat for them... or, in this case, no reading on LCDs. Some can stand it. Some prefer not to. There was a reason companies went looking for alternatives to LCD, eInk not being the only one.
Yup, great comment. Sure, eInk isn't great for flipping through pages quickly, but for plain reading, the page refresh is a fraction of the time it takes you to turn an actual page, and you quickly adjust to it, changing the page with a few words left to a page, picking up without ANY delay on the next page. Where does all that vitriol come from? And you try sitting outside, reading something, and not having the page turned by the wind. No such problems with eInk.
For reading in the dark, you can get a simple $6 clip-on led light which works wonders. I see this argument all the time, and there's such a cheap and easy solution.
I tried reading some PDFs on my laptop, but just couldn't take it. Put he PDF on my Sony reader and was overjoyed by the display. Wasn't irritating at all, and an hour later, reading with my LED light, I had no eye strain at all. I wish they'd come out with 8" eInk devices, and possibly even eInk desktop displays.
The fire is LCD based, not eInk.
But the Nook and Fire are pretty similar devices, save for some bumps in spec, and the Nook is $50 more expensive. That might be a significant factor in people choosing.
Most people were given the full retail price of $500, and at that point, why not just get the iPad. But at $99, the comparison obviously changed. At $99 in the first place, they would have sold out all of them, like they did when they had that sale.
> While I agree 100% with that, how many times over are you going to spend that kind of money to find the 'shining light' that holds it's weight
But that's the point here. No one expects the Fire or a rooted Nook Color or their tablet to be the killer device that fixes all your problems. Just a small device that does small things here and there. And for that, people don't want to spend $500. They could do plenty with the remaining $300.
Creating a mount of some sort is trivial. Not having to move your arms from under your cover to change the page would be the real ticket. Some sort of a remote control (bluetooth or rfid), but it would have to come from the manufacturer themselves.
Which color eInk display are you talking about, exactly? As far as I'm aware, there aren't any commercially available right now.
But Amazon and B&N are the ones making the devices. They aren't releasing their customized Android for all LCD tablets and creating a compatibility issue that you might see in cell phones.
But would the UFC guy be so tought against someone with a gun?
And would that someone with the gun be so tough against a guy in an armored helicopter with a rocket launcher?
People get all up in arms about punishment like this, but no one bats an eye at an overweight parent feeding their kids fast food for breakfast and a medium Sprite as the drink. And the kid already looks like the Michelin man. I don't get it.
1.5lb, holy heffer batman.
Care to explain the whoosh in this case? The parent recognized the grandparent's humor, and responded that the Nook doesn't in fact lock you into B&N's own format.
Well, you're comparing apples to oranges really. eInk readers are meant for one thing: reading. They are book readers. Tablets are tough-based computers. Different technologies, and obviously the LCD will allow you to display PDFs better, allow for zooming in, etc. eInk is just not for that, and I don't know why people have a hard time keeping that in mind. As far as math equations, they'd render finr on eInk if they were published in ePub for eInk devices, but they aren't. Blame the publishers, not the device.
Also, for reading in bed, there are many covers out that have LED lights. You can buy a clipon LED light for $7. And they work great. They illuminate the text perfectly and evenly. Really, it comes down to one's preference and what type of reading they do. If I stare at an LCD all day, I'll likely choose an eInk display for a novel. If I want to read a service manual for my car, I'll use an LDC based device, even a laptop, over eInk (even though reading that manual would be fine on my Sony PRS-650, if I knew which pages I wanted for reference, but simply browsing and flipping from page to page is more arduous.)
The touch wasn't probably a huge step for Amazon as Sony already has had it on older models. Sony even treaded the water with a touch overlay on top of the eInk screen, which everyone hated, which meant that Amazon didn't have to fumble with it.
Amazon doesn't create the eInk displays, so if a color eInk display isn't available, how will they make a color eInk Kindle? The Fire is just another device, likely for Amazon to sell and sell subscriptions to streaming/downloadable media, in addition to ebooks.
And touch isn't a gimmick. Double tapping a word to get the definition or selecting a paragraph for highlighting beats the pants off of doing the same with a d-pad.
Yup, all $80 of it, every quarter. The difference is that there is oversight in tax increases: votes, public opinion, hearings. A sleazy landlord that doesn't even want to fix your leaking faucet will raise it indiscriminately, w/out needing any justification, and the increase will be a whole lot higher.