My wife reads approx 500-1000 pages of PDF documents a week.
It took me a day or two to find a work-around, I'd hope it wouldn't take you much longer, even if you had to automate a screencapture+reprint to pdf.
It was worth it to me just to make reading for her easier, let alone the 20+/week the printing cost.
A DX is only worth it if you want a large screen area or really need to view PDFs or documents you can't just throw through a character recognition program.
If you just need plain text, no pictures, convert your documents to HTML or straight text and use a regular Kindle. I've a kindle2 and, while I don't like most of Baen's catalog, I love their DRM-free policy because I can read them on a Kindle when I can't read Kindle files elsewhere without "converting" them. So they've got more of my ebook money than Amazon has.
None of the other book readers I've owned had as long a battery life, barring a 80x40 text display device I once owned back in the 90's that could only store 1 MB of data.
The guaifenesin isn't really in there as an expectorant. It's in there because if you chug the whole bottle, the guaifenesin will make you throw up, discouraging you from using the dextromethorphan to get high.
I'd rather take it with with theobromine than dextromethorphan.
For that matter, stick some metal slabs on the ground at a choke point, cover it poorly enough so a tank driver could see it(no more than 2 leaves, mind), and hit them when they stop to avoid the "mines".
If your are oriented to gravity in any other direction than feet down, it becomes a huge pain.
I was trying to use my bbstorm to look up a spec sheet while headfirst in some industrial machinery and it "helpfully" rotated so everything was upside down.
Yes, you can. I rewrote a torrent client that neither downloaded nor uploaded data. Just polled the tracker for information on connected users, the same as the various torrent indexes use to gather data on # clients, avg completion, etc.
It also made itself known as a client, so that other users would ask it for pieces, but that was just to gather statistics on how well a torrent spread across the swarm. You could write a client that none of the other clients would know about(ie, never told the tracker "hey, I'm participating", just asked who was participating).
Most anti-"known bad users" features rely on the investigator's client contacting you to see if you are really sharing(not just on the tracker list). If they didn't have to prove you were actually sharing something, they could just snarf the list from the tracker and no-one else would even know.
But then it would be trivial to spoof IPs onto the tracker and they'd be getting in even more trouble for falsely prosecuting little old ladies and printers.
True. If newspapers could axe the cost of printing(materials, delivery, presses, facilities, staff, etc), they could probably still pay for their news-generating staff with a fraction of the advertising revenue.
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This is a 5 disk eSATA for $180. Appears to be similar (Silicon Image bits, single cable w/port multiplier, etc)
People can circumvent the crap publishers, distributors, and B&N/Borders pull by publishing through Amazon.
Agreed, Amazon has its own crap, like the printing and licensing requirements, which may become more publisher-like if Amazon published books get to be a significant slice of the market.
But they currently have almost 0 interest in acting as a "marketable content filter" that limited inventory & return issues forces upon the current publishing industry.
You will not get an advance from Amazon, nor will you get any kind of marketing push that could bring in the big sales. But you can currently rely on the lack of politics, "fitting market trends" or other industry issues, because, right now at least, Amazon doesn't care about you.
CD isn't a "professional" author in the sense that he does not write only to what the market is buying. He writes his own stuff, and people like it.
Artists get screwed by the industry.
But there are authors that only write whatever kind of book is in the top 20, knock out 3 or 4 novels a year(some do a dozen), and they always plan a series arc on the chance they strike interest. They don't ask for big advances, nor expect frequent mass success, they making a living on quantity and playing to the market.
Same with songwriters, some will write dozens or hundreds of songs a year, but you will never hear of them, because they sell them to labels to fill out the records of pop stars. Many of them will get better royalties than the performer.
If you treat the creative industry as a business instead of a craft, you can be sucessful despite the industry being hostile and actively stupid.
The TLDR of it is that he thinks Google and Amazon are too awesome and will become the only way you get at things, thus giving them too much power.
Not that he thinks they'll abuse it, but he's sad that content creators act like an abused spouse hooking up with another abuser(monopoly/cartel) instead of finding a healthy relationship(using their almighty copyright to force fair percentages).
As most of them, deep down, wanting to feel like rockstars, they'll sell their rights to any company for a penny if it involves a signing tour and some groupies.
The only content creators that will get any fair shake are those writing books, lyrics, etc, as a profession instead of a passion. The real money is in writing the lyrics for the next popstar or doing market research to write the next "15 books and no end(or plot) in sight" series.
And they should really sorry to see a company go who, intentionally not telling the locals they were leaving, told the newspaper where they were moving to about the "new facility".
That paper, of course, was owned by the same company that owns the Dayton Daily News, which is currently housed in an NCR building and had noticed the moving trucks in the parking lot. 1+1=2
That's pretty much true. For awhile, Verizon could lock down BB GPS because they only used AGPS, so they needed Verizon's supplemental location servers. Now that most BBs have full GPS, I don't have to pay Verizon $5/month just to use somebody else's mapping software. And having full bluetooth is awesome.
Much like most game companies never bother to consider color blindness when picking their display schemes, very few will consider the disabled for motion control. Sid Meiers Alpha Centauri got a nice patch for that, though.
And you probably know how many console games still force one layout or give you a few presets, despite it being relatively trivial to remap controllers these days. I imagine even fewer will allow you to change "swing your arm" to "twitch your nose" after spending weeks training the gesture recognition for arm movements.
I don't think Apple has been sued, but there have already been several instances of people following GPS directions in spite of all common sense and trying to blame Tom-Tom or whomever for the result. People turning on to train tracks, villages in the UK getting their roads taken off to keep lorry drivers from taking narrow alleys and running into houses, etc.
Apple being well-known, somebody would go for them over the game maker for just the press value. That, and Apple would have more money than any game developer(dev, not pub).
That'll work until the first time somebody tries to take a shortcut across private/government property and gets shot.
Oh, but they had disclaimers "stay on public roads". Nope, that won't fly. First time some teenager gets run over trying to make the Kessel run in 15 blocks by running across 4th street against the lights, the news will be all over it: Game encourages our children to run over ordnance field when GPS is off by 15 meters.
See XKCD's geo-hashing game for the pitfalls they've already found without the added encouragement of levels or gold coins.
"We'll send you your free USB powered Turnip Twaddler as soon as you say yes to the following: *generic disclaimer, obviously recorded, speeding up to quadruple billyourcompanyphone50permonth chipmunk mutterings about applicable states* Are you cool with that?"
/eyes glazed over.
"That was hard to hear, but it didn't sound like it matt... Hang on, did you say something about billing my company? I'm not authoriz"
Usually either your bank/car dealership financial office(check the small print) or one of the big 3 credit record places.
I used to maintain a snailmail catalog list, my boss was frequently considering buying access to lists of buyers of related product X or readers of related magazine Y.
When I looked through some of the options you could get from, say, Experian, I was rather amazed. Recently graduated nurses or lawyers in practice for 10+ years. Age x to y, married or not, kids or no kids, own home/renting, bought a luxury/economy car this year, household income in 5k increments, how many times they'd moved.
Freaking specific shit. Didn't beat the ROI on our "please send me your catalog" list, though.
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Amazon will do the conversion for free also. the charge is for transmitting over the cell network, if you use USB to transfer it,it costs 0.
My wife reads approx 500-1000 pages of PDF documents a week.
It took me a day or two to find a work-around, I'd hope it wouldn't take you much longer, even if you had to automate a screencapture+reprint to pdf.
It was worth it to me just to make reading for her easier, let alone the 20+/week the printing cost.
A DX is only worth it if you want a large screen area or really need to view PDFs or documents you can't just throw through a character recognition program.
If you just need plain text, no pictures, convert your documents to HTML or straight text and use a regular Kindle. I've a kindle2 and, while I don't like most of Baen's catalog, I love their DRM-free policy because I can read them on a Kindle when I can't read Kindle files elsewhere without "converting" them. So they've got more of my ebook money than Amazon has.
None of the other book readers I've owned had as long a battery life, barring a 80x40 text display device I once owned back in the 90's that could only store 1 MB of data.
The guaifenesin isn't really in there as an expectorant. It's in there because if you chug the whole bottle, the guaifenesin will make you throw up, discouraging you from using the dextromethorphan to get high.
I'd rather take it with with theobromine than dextromethorphan.
Lynx is presumably immune...
You can kill a tank if you are willing to hide in a hole until they run over you.
Stickies
For that matter, stick some metal slabs on the ground at a choke point, cover it poorly enough so a tank driver could see it(no more than 2 leaves, mind), and hit them when they stop to avoid the "mines".
If your are oriented to gravity in any other direction than feet down, it becomes a huge pain.
I was trying to use my bbstorm to look up a spec sheet while headfirst in some industrial machinery and it "helpfully" rotated so everything was upside down.
Fail.
Yes, you can. I rewrote a torrent client that neither downloaded nor uploaded data. Just polled the tracker for information on connected users, the same as the various torrent indexes use to gather data on # clients, avg completion, etc.
It also made itself known as a client, so that other users would ask it for pieces, but that was just to gather statistics on how well a torrent spread across the swarm. You could write a client that none of the other clients would know about(ie, never told the tracker "hey, I'm participating", just asked who was participating).
Most anti-"known bad users" features rely on the investigator's client contacting you to see if you are really sharing(not just on the tracker list). If they didn't have to prove you were actually sharing something, they could just snarf the list from the tracker and no-one else would even know.
But then it would be trivial to spoof IPs onto the tracker and they'd be getting in even more trouble for falsely prosecuting little old ladies and printers.
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A method of discouraging ISPs from hosting spammers that does not interfere with "regular" email delivery?
Kneecapping. Spammers first, ISP sales/mgmt second.
A system I have gets 150,000 SMTP connection attempts per hour and it hasn't been a mailserver for several months. (mostly .br & .ru)
Some spammer ISP needs to refresh their DNS cache, their MX entries are stale.
The default SIM is only for use in countries with only GSM If you are using it in a Verizon area, it is CDMA.
Although, I've read people getting them to work on Tmobile SIMs by copying Bold service books.
Less than half of IT depts lock it down.
blackberry has google maps, with streetview, and even Verizon lets you use it with GPS now, and Verizon is a freaking Nazi about GPS.
Ebook reader. Um, got tons. Even Comic/cbz readers. Given, I can't read Kindle books like the iphone, yet.
Opera mini works just fine on blackberries.
True. If newspapers could axe the cost of printing(materials, delivery, presses, facilities, staff, etc), they could probably still pay for their news-generating staff with a fraction of the advertising revenue.
This is a 5 disk eSATA for $180. Appears to be similar (Silicon Image bits, single cable w/port multiplier, etc)
People can circumvent the crap publishers, distributors, and B&N/Borders pull by publishing through Amazon.
Agreed, Amazon has its own crap, like the printing and licensing requirements, which may become more publisher-like if Amazon published books get to be a significant slice of the market.
But they currently have almost 0 interest in acting as a "marketable content filter" that limited inventory & return issues forces upon the current publishing industry.
You will not get an advance from Amazon, nor will you get any kind of marketing push that could bring in the big sales. But you can currently rely on the lack of politics, "fitting market trends" or other industry issues, because, right now at least, Amazon doesn't care about you.
It's both a bad thing and a good thing.
CD isn't a "professional" author in the sense that he does not write only to what the market is buying. He writes his own stuff, and people like it.
Artists get screwed by the industry.
But there are authors that only write whatever kind of book is in the top 20, knock out 3 or 4 novels a year(some do a dozen), and they always plan a series arc on the chance they strike interest. They don't ask for big advances, nor expect frequent mass success, they making a living on quantity and playing to the market.
Same with songwriters, some will write dozens or hundreds of songs a year, but you will never hear of them, because they sell them to labels to fill out the records of pop stars. Many of them will get better royalties than the performer.
If you treat the creative industry as a business instead of a craft, you can be sucessful despite the industry being hostile and actively stupid.
You just won't be famous.
The TLDR of it is that he thinks Google and Amazon are too awesome and will become the only way you get at things, thus giving them too much power.
Not that he thinks they'll abuse it, but he's sad that content creators act like an abused spouse hooking up with another abuser(monopoly/cartel) instead of finding a healthy relationship(using their almighty copyright to force fair percentages).
As most of them, deep down, wanting to feel like rockstars, they'll sell their rights to any company for a penny if it involves a signing tour and some groupies.
The only content creators that will get any fair shake are those writing books, lyrics, etc, as a profession instead of a passion. The real money is in writing the lyrics for the next popstar or doing market research to write the next "15 books and no end(or plot) in sight" series.
And they should really sorry to see a company go who, intentionally not telling the locals they were leaving, told the newspaper where they were moving to about the "new facility".
That paper, of course, was owned by the same company that owns the Dayton Daily News, which is currently housed in an NCR building and had noticed the moving trucks in the parking lot. 1+1=2
Yup. Lot of bright people at NCR.
Most blackberries didn't have full GPS back then. Tethering is still $15/month in my region, so that's a bit of a bummer.
And of course, they still screw you on BES charges, just because they can.
That's pretty much true. For awhile, Verizon could lock down BB GPS because they only used AGPS, so they needed Verizon's supplemental location servers. Now that most BBs have full GPS, I don't have to pay Verizon $5/month just to use somebody else's mapping software. And having full bluetooth is awesome.
Much like most game companies never bother to consider color blindness when picking their display schemes, very few will consider the disabled for motion control. Sid Meiers Alpha Centauri got a nice patch for that, though.
And you probably know how many console games still force one layout or give you a few presets, despite it being relatively trivial to remap controllers these days. I imagine even fewer will allow you to change "swing your arm" to "twitch your nose" after spending weeks training the gesture recognition for arm movements.
Nah, it'd pretty much have to play a Queen song.
You hear "Who wants, to live, forever" and start smacking the guy next to you with a foam bat.
Then it turns out he actually picked a Queen song as his ringtone. Cue the cops.
That is awesome. Although I imagine maintenance would be costly, to say nothing of fuel. But probably not worse than the equivalent motor home.
Nah, I think it is awesome, personally.
I don't think Apple has been sued, but there have already been several instances of people following GPS directions in spite of all common sense and trying to blame Tom-Tom or whomever for the result. People turning on to train tracks, villages in the UK getting their roads taken off to keep lorry drivers from taking narrow alleys and running into houses, etc.
Apple being well-known, somebody would go for them over the game maker for just the press value. That, and Apple would have more money than any game developer(dev, not pub).
That'll work until the first time somebody tries to take a shortcut across private/government property and gets shot.
Oh, but they had disclaimers "stay on public roads". Nope, that won't fly. First time some teenager gets run over trying to make the Kessel run in 15 blocks by running across 4th street against the lights, the news will be all over it: Game encourages our children to run over ordnance field when GPS is off by 15 meters.
See XKCD's geo-hashing game for the pitfalls they've already found without the added encouragement of levels or gold coins.
Worse:
"We'll send you your free USB powered Turnip Twaddler as soon as you say yes to the following:
*generic disclaimer, obviously recorded, speeding up to quadruple billyourcompanyphone50permonth chipmunk mutterings about applicable states* Are you cool with that?"
"That was hard to hear, but it didn't sound like it matt... Hang on, did you say something about billing my company? I'm not authoriz"
*click*
Usually either your bank/car dealership financial office(check the small print) or one of the big 3 credit record places.
I used to maintain a snailmail catalog list, my boss was frequently considering buying access to lists of buyers of related product X or readers of related magazine Y.
When I looked through some of the options you could get from, say, Experian, I was rather amazed. Recently graduated nurses or lawyers in practice for 10+ years. Age x to y, married or not, kids or no kids, own home/renting, bought a luxury/economy car this year, household income in 5k increments, how many times they'd moved.
Freaking specific shit. Didn't beat the ROI on our "please send me your catalog" list, though.