FBReader is ok. I like the nook one better-- on an actual nook it can be used to read both free and paid content, but the app from google play doesn't seem to be able to do this. Never tried the kindle app, because I assumed it would work the same as the nook one. I'll probably give it a look. OTOH, all of my books are in epub, which makes for a lot of converting.
dartmud is a decent one. Characters there run a broad range between serious rollplayers and people more or less just looking to hang out, which makes it fairly approachable. If that doesn't float your boat check out topmudsites.com or the mud connector where you can search for one that you like.
I have almost exactly the same experience. I own a nook color
My oldest son has a nook tablet, and he complains that there aren't any free-to-play games on it.
My younger son has a nexus 7. The reader apps all fall short of the nook. But the nook app (as far as I can tell) for generic android devices only works for books bought from B&N.
In general our consensus is that the nook is the better reader, but the nexus is more versatile.
There are three nooks in my house, and I find very little to agree with you.
Then, there were the restrictions. 80% of the storage was reserved for DRM'd material - if you downloaded restriction-free files from Gutenberg or similar you could only fill 20% of the provided storage. Oh, and remember all those "free" books I researched before buying it? *Every one* on the US site refused to download saying that "For copyright reasons this content is restricted to US downloads only". Even though I was in Scotland, and the books were published in Scotland, *in the 1800s*...
Ebooks take up so little space, that I've found that isn't a problem. It might be different if I wanted to store movies on our various nooks (a simple touch, a nook color, and a nook tablet) but having books hasn't been a problem yet.
Oh, and the clunky DRM support requires you to run a piece of third-party (Adobe) software to "authenticate" the device that's not available in any form under Linux. I ended up having to download and install a pirate copy of Windows just to be able to initialise the machine! (I feel so *dirty*...)
HUH?!? I don't have any windows machines in my house, and I have no problems with any of our nooks. This doesn't match up with my experience at all. I connect the nook to my linux computer with the cable provided, and load whichever epub files I want. It may be different for me because I run opensuse, which isn't the most popular linux distro, but I seriously doubt that. Really this seems to come out of left field. I have absolutely no problem at all using my nooks with a linux computer and I don't have any (pirated or genuine) copies of windows.
The credit card complaint is legitimate. But other tablets are the same. I created a single-use charge number using my credit card's "online shopping" features, and never worried about it again.
are they perfect? No. They make great e-readers, but unless you root them, they make poor tablets. That having been said, in my experience they are not nearly as poor as the OP's experience.
I forget exactly where Microsoft was when Balmer took over. Did they even have windows phone out? Was it still in the XP days or had Vista come out? Given the state of things, what should he have done differently?
A better question: where should Microsoft go now? They have a shrinking desktop market. Nobody seems to be buying either their phones or their tablets. They bought Skype, making them more or less the dominant player in VOIP services. The Xbox One pre-launch has been a mess. But Xbox is hugely popular, and people happily fork over $50 a year to subscribe to Xbox Live Gold. Where would you take Microsoft from here?
That isn't the point, though. The point is that this is something I used to be able to play around with and I had to choose between keeping that functionality and letting my kids continue to use it to play all their games.
What's next? What if Sony decides to stop supporting Netflix? Or certain niche game publishers?
The point of my post was, Do you trust Sony enough to invest another $400 with them?
Was that it allowed me to manage my professional contacts and promote my career without the nonsense of facebook. I'm not interested in logging in to linkedin to make friends or play games. It's all about business. If said university students and 14-year-olds happen to be in business and have something to contribute to my career, I'll happily welcome them to the community.
If not, it's probably time to abandon my linkedin account.
That's a good point. As anti-consumer as Sony has seemed, at least they haven't tried to make their customers pay them a commission when they go to sell a used game.
I think the problem with the PC argument is that PCs take work. They often have loud fans, need to be updated and administered and they're not really the piece of consumer electronics that a PS3 or X360 is.
That having been said, they also don't require a subscription fee for online play, which both Sony and Microsoft are now doing.
I'll admit I wasn't aware of management changes at Sony. I hope this means that soon we'll be able to install linux on our PS3 again and that nonsensical cinevia support is going away.
Fair enough. My wife's HP laptop died literally 1 week after the warranty expired, and our PS3 still works.
Still, I can't play with linux on it anymore. To play The Campaign I have to use my physical disc, and every time I watch netflix I need to do some kind of system update first. I thought there should be some discussion of that.
Given Sony's habit of disabling features, having the playstation network crash for days on end, and adding copy protection as a mandatory software upgrade, is anyone really interested in their next gen gaming system?
If there was something that the US was doing that bothered him, why didn't he just leak what was relevant to that instead of just dumping everything? There were a lot of embarrassing revelations that came out of his wikileaks dump, and whatever he was trying to accomplish, those stupid but insignificant tid-bits overshadowed it.
When this fails to produce results, they will come back and say, the reason why it failed is because we didn't have enough money to really do it right. What we actually need is more, and then we can succeed.
We all know this here. Could Slashdot editors please start putting quotes around untruths like "CS Education Crisis" and "Technical Worker Shortage" as a matter of policy?
We trained hard... but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.
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FBReader is ok. I like the nook one better-- on an actual nook it can be used to read both free and paid content, but the app from google play doesn't seem to be able to do this. Never tried the kindle app, because I assumed it would work the same as the nook one. I'll probably give it a look. OTOH, all of my books are in epub, which makes for a lot of converting.
dartmud is a decent one. Characters there run a broad range between serious rollplayers and people more or less just looking to hang out, which makes it fairly approachable. If that doesn't float your boat check out topmudsites.com or the mud connector where you can search for one that you like.
what are good things to do with a significant other who is less into combat, and more into collaboration, exploration, creativity, and storytelling?
There are several muds that fit that bill nicely. Text based. No explosions. Solve puzzles. Act out a character. Contribute to a story.
I have almost exactly the same experience. I own a nook color
My oldest son has a nook tablet, and he complains that there aren't any free-to-play games on it.
My younger son has a nexus 7. The reader apps all fall short of the nook. But the nook app (as far as I can tell) for generic android devices only works for books bought from B&N.
In general our consensus is that the nook is the better reader, but the nexus is more versatile.
Then, there were the restrictions. 80% of the storage was reserved for DRM'd material - if you downloaded restriction-free files from Gutenberg or similar you could only fill 20% of the provided storage. Oh, and remember all those "free" books I researched before buying it? *Every one* on the US site refused to download saying that "For copyright reasons this content is restricted to US downloads only". Even though I was in Scotland, and the books were published in Scotland, *in the 1800s*...
Ebooks take up so little space, that I've found that isn't a problem. It might be different if I wanted to store movies on our various nooks (a simple touch, a nook color, and a nook tablet) but having books hasn't been a problem yet.
Oh, and the clunky DRM support requires you to run a piece of third-party (Adobe) software to "authenticate" the device that's not available in any form under Linux. I ended up having to download and install a pirate copy of Windows just to be able to initialise the machine! (I feel so *dirty*...)
HUH?!? I don't have any windows machines in my house, and I have no problems with any of our nooks. This doesn't match up with my experience at all. I connect the nook to my linux computer with the cable provided, and load whichever epub files I want. It may be different for me because I run opensuse, which isn't the most popular linux distro, but I seriously doubt that. Really this seems to come out of left field. I have absolutely no problem at all using my nooks with a linux computer and I don't have any (pirated or genuine) copies of windows.
The credit card complaint is legitimate. But other tablets are the same. I created a single-use charge number using my credit card's "online shopping" features, and never worried about it again.
are they perfect? No. They make great e-readers, but unless you root them, they make poor tablets. That having been said, in my experience they are not nearly as poor as the OP's experience.
Lots of Balmer-bashing here. (not surprising)
I forget exactly where Microsoft was when Balmer took over. Did they even have windows phone out? Was it still in the XP days or had Vista come out? Given the state of things, what should he have done differently?
A better question: where should Microsoft go now? They have a shrinking desktop market. Nobody seems to be buying either their phones or their tablets. They bought Skype, making them more or less the dominant player in VOIP services. The Xbox One pre-launch has been a mess. But Xbox is hugely popular, and people happily fork over $50 a year to subscribe to Xbox Live Gold. Where would you take Microsoft from here?
Stay in business AND get the word out. This seems like a really dumb move by comcast.
That isn't the point, though. The point is that this is something I used to be able to play around with and I had to choose between keeping that functionality and letting my kids continue to use it to play all their games.
What's next? What if Sony decides to stop supporting Netflix? Or certain niche game publishers?
The point of my post was, Do you trust Sony enough to invest another $400 with them?
Was that it allowed me to manage my professional contacts and promote my career without the nonsense of facebook. I'm not interested in logging in to linkedin to make friends or play games. It's all about business. If said university students and 14-year-olds happen to be in business and have something to contribute to my career, I'll happily welcome them to the community.
If not, it's probably time to abandon my linkedin account.
That's a good point. As anti-consumer as Sony has seemed, at least they haven't tried to make their customers pay them a commission when they go to sell a used game.
I think the problem with the PC argument is that PCs take work. They often have loud fans, need to be updated and administered and they're not really the piece of consumer electronics that a PS3 or X360 is.
That having been said, they also don't require a subscription fee for online play, which both Sony and Microsoft are now doing.
I'll admit I wasn't aware of management changes at Sony. I hope this means that soon we'll be able to install linux on our PS3 again and that nonsensical cinevia support is going away.
Fair enough. My wife's HP laptop died literally 1 week after the warranty expired, and our PS3 still works.
Still, I can't play with linux on it anymore. To play The Campaign I have to use my physical disc, and every time I watch netflix I need to do some kind of system update first. I thought there should be some discussion of that.
Given Sony's habit of disabling features, having the playstation network crash for days on end, and adding copy protection as a mandatory software upgrade, is anyone really interested in their next gen gaming system?
Well, sure but.... um....
..... ... ... ... um.... Ok. Fine.
Thanks for the reply-- I'd never heard of that. I must have missed the "netflix comes to linux via netflix-desktop" headline. gotta check that out...
Wouldn't it be easier to run an android image in a virtual machine and just use the android netflix app?
If there was something that the US was doing that bothered him, why didn't he just leak what was relevant to that instead of just dumping everything? There were a lot of embarrassing revelations that came out of his wikileaks dump, and whatever he was trying to accomplish, those stupid but insignificant tid-bits overshadowed it.
Given consequences as grave as those predicted, it seems like this should be looked at very closely, despite the skepticism of prominent scientists.
When this fails to produce results, they will come back and say, the reason why it failed is because we didn't have enough money to really do it right. What we actually need is more, and then we can succeed.
We all know this here. Could Slashdot editors please start putting quotes around untruths like "CS Education Crisis" and "Technical Worker Shortage" as a matter of policy?
I thought Carly Fiorina was the Sarah Palin of computing?
And yes, I'm aware there's some doubt as to the authenticity of the quote, but it still probably applies here.
We trained hard ... but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.
--Gauis Petronius Circa 50AD
What did it used to be and how is this an improvement?