The ebook costs more because they are likely to sell more copies, meaning more royalty fees. The have to raise the price on the e-book version to cover these increased costs.
Sure you can, and then you can use only wifi in your house and have no ability to communicate with the outside world when you leave your basement.
This is the only reason I have a phone contract. If we had open public wi-fi everywhere I wouldn't have phone service. I used 17 minutes last month.
I realized 6 years ago I was walking around with a little internet enabled computer in my pocket. I use it as such.
$100/month for wireless internet access anywhere with speeds better than my $60/month wired connection from Comshaft now seems like a good deal.
They really have toned down science in schools if this sort of thing gets you in trouble.
My Chemistry teacher sent me home with a soda bottle of liquid nitrogen. Granted, none of it made it home, because he knew how far I had to walk and how fast it would evaporate, but the point remains.
It's not about the size of the internal storage. It's about the fact that it's internal. You can remove a SD card from a phone with a shattered screen. Your phone "might" work if you drop it in the tub, but you can't take the battery out to let it dry out. (And I know the battery doesn't need to dry out)
It's not about the ample storage. It's about the ability to pull all my data off the phone and put it into a different one instantaneously.
In addition, no removable battery is a deal breaker.
I don't understand why there isn't some sort of incentive to do more high quality police work. Standing bounties on any sort of significant quantity drug busts, cartel activity, etc. Drug bust with more than a 5+ pounds of the drug? Bam! 100k payout. That's 1 and a 1/2 police officer salaries for the year.
In proportion, reduce the fines on basic traffic violations and remove the driving penalties. Speeding 10 over on the freeway? $35. Speeding 10 over in a school zone? $200. Driving drunk should be an immediate suspension of license. None of this get a lawyer and plead down, but no jail time. We need to keep the workers generating tax dollars.
I would just pay a speeding tax every 3 months if it didn't affect my insurance instead of sitting in court for 2 hours. I have gone to court for every single speeding ticket I've ever gotten. On principle as me going 10 over without another car in sight (save the police officer hiding on the side of the road) is not a danger to society.
Every company I've ever worked for clearly states in their indoctrination briefings that your work computer isn't yours, it's theirs. As such, if you use your work computer for any social media they have the right to the information that computer was used to access/transfer.
They can have full access to all the network traffic they bothered to save. Little of your internet traffic is stored on your pc.
I have 2 phones. One for work & one for life. There is no Venn diagram crossover for the activities performed on them.
My employer has manadated security training which notified me that I am responsible for any activity that happens on my account, regardless of the actual person sitting at the terminal, and as such I am to never share my passwords with anyone, even if my boss asks for it.
I'll take me freedom & privacy before I'll give you my passwords, or my guns for that fact.
I have ~$10 rider on my policy for glass. Whether I put a log through a window or a thug breaks in. I drop the car off and drive away the next day with no additional out of pocket.
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The ebook costs more because they are likely to sell more copies, meaning more royalty fees. The have to raise the price on the e-book version to cover these increased costs.
Always have to be bringing it back to zombies. This is the first time I've heard Schrodinger blamed for the end of humanity though.
... IMO go read the article and skip any slashdot summary or comments and you will be wiser for it.
Oh, for mod points!
Sure you can, and then you can use only wifi in your house and have no ability to communicate with the outside world when you leave your basement.
This is the only reason I have a phone contract. If we had open public wi-fi everywhere I wouldn't have phone service. I used 17 minutes last month.
I realized 6 years ago I was walking around with a little internet enabled computer in my pocket. I use it as such.
$100/month for wireless internet access anywhere with speeds better than my $60/month wired connection from Comshaft now seems like a good deal.
Too bad Microsoft doesn't have to pay a $1 everytime someone misassociates the term Metro with something produced by Microsoft?
They really have toned down science in schools if this sort of thing gets you in trouble. My Chemistry teacher sent me home with a soda bottle of liquid nitrogen. Granted, none of it made it home, because he knew how far I had to walk and how fast it would evaporate, but the point remains.
You want to be packaged in the box with my new bookshelf?
Some things don't belong in the cloud.
It's not about the size of the internal storage. It's about the fact that it's internal. You can remove a SD card from a phone with a shattered screen. Your phone "might" work if you drop it in the tub, but you can't take the battery out to let it dry out. (And I know the battery doesn't need to dry out)
It's not about the ample storage. It's about the ability to pull all my data off the phone and put it into a different one instantaneously. In addition, no removable battery is a deal breaker.
I don't understand why there isn't some sort of incentive to do more high quality police work. Standing bounties on any sort of significant quantity drug busts, cartel activity, etc. Drug bust with more than a 5+ pounds of the drug? Bam! 100k payout. That's 1 and a 1/2 police officer salaries for the year. In proportion, reduce the fines on basic traffic violations and remove the driving penalties. Speeding 10 over on the freeway? $35. Speeding 10 over in a school zone? $200. Driving drunk should be an immediate suspension of license. None of this get a lawyer and plead down, but no jail time. We need to keep the workers generating tax dollars. I would just pay a speeding tax every 3 months if it didn't affect my insurance instead of sitting in court for 2 hours. I have gone to court for every single speeding ticket I've ever gotten. On principle as me going 10 over without another car in sight (save the police officer hiding on the side of the road) is not a danger to society.
Every company I've ever worked for clearly states in their indoctrination briefings that your work computer isn't yours, it's theirs. As such, if you use your work computer for any social media they have the right to the information that computer was used to access/transfer.
They can have full access to all the network traffic they bothered to save. Little of your internet traffic is stored on your pc. I have 2 phones. One for work & one for life. There is no Venn diagram crossover for the activities performed on them.
My employer has manadated security training which notified me that I am responsible for any activity that happens on my account, regardless of the actual person sitting at the terminal, and as such I am to never share my passwords with anyone, even if my boss asks for it. I'll take me freedom & privacy before I'll give you my passwords, or my guns for that fact.
I have ~$10 rider on my policy for glass. Whether I put a log through a window or a thug breaks in. I drop the car off and drive away the next day with no additional out of pocket.