It does windoze, though not linux, but since I have to have a windoze vm for other things anyhow, that wouldn't be a hardship... I don't use a desktop version though...
As a paypal user from the other side, I like the redirect because it means I never see customer credit cards, so I don't have to deal with that level of security concerns...
All of tech support has access, necessarily, in order to troubleshoot mail issues. Granted, they're only supposed to do it when there's something to troubleshoot, but even that limited scope is very common. And we have to regularly review legitimate mail that is reported as spam...
1. "web accessible" sounds to me like you don't get your book, you get the ability to view it as long as they keep it on their web server, rather like O'Reilly's Safari. Which I subscribe to because it's really handy to be able to pop in and view a reference book at random instantly, but they're making a killing on me because I don't use it enough to really justify it (ironically, primarily because with google, I rarely need the tech books --- how did we *ever* get along without google?!?;-) ). But for regular reading, I want my book where I know it'll always be there and I want it locally.
2. They're repeating the BS that the Kindle can only use books from Amazon. Only a couple of the 200+ books on mine were obtained from Amazon, and they are a couple that they released for free. Even at that, I paid too much even then because they were first in a series where the rest are crippled. I'm buying used paper in order to read the followons so I don't reward the publishers for being idiots.
Saturday, the small ISP I work for had about 1000 users targeting with phishing emails. It's becoming a nearly weekly occurrence, though that was the largest so far. I've had to setup scripts to scan the logs to see who got the messages, send them warning messages, then scan the logs again to see who replied and reset their passwords. In one case, we had a spammer using a responder's account to try to send spam within 2 hours of the response. Squirrelmail is the most common vector, with smtp auth not uncommon. I've had to impose strict rate limit controls on squirrelmail to keep from getting blacklisted all the time; I've got monitors to page me when smtp auth rates get too high, but the false positive rate is to high to impose hard limits at the moment, though we're heading in that direction.
BTW, it's not a good idea to respond to phishers with "F! off" etc: more than one responder doing that has found their address used shortly thereafter in the From of the next round of spam...
$20/yr is not an onerous fee, big deal. I'm surprised it's gone free this long. If you really can't stand to pay for the service you're using, go to cacert.org.
I keep my Kindle with me all the time, though I wish for web use it was as convenient as a PADD;-) I was, however, recently at an outdoor production of Twelfth Night, and it being a while since I'd taken in Shakespeare, was having trouble making out the words. I fired up the kindle, went to google books and downloaded it so I could follow along, at least until it got too dark. It was mostly an experiment, but it actually worked better than I expected.
And while I have the set of HP in paper, there's only one way to get ebook versions. They're just shooting themselves in the foot on that one. Many others are trying the broken DRM model, but if I can't read the book on my Kindle, the Sony I'll probably replace it with (to move to an open standard format), my Treo, the Nokia I'll probably replace *it* with, my Mac, my Linux laptop, and have good confidence that it'll remain readable on future devices, then they're not getting my money. I'm not going to buy my entire library a couple dozen times over. And, considering the length of my wishlist, they're cutting themselves out of quite a bit of revenue...
But I suppose that means I'll use that money buying the new Sony and Nokia devices instead;-) And I don't really have time to read more than is available uncrippled anyhow...but there are some I actually *would* like to read... for the ones I'm going to cave on, I'll cave back to paper...used paper. At least for the moral "license"...
Speaking as a near-Portlander who's used the meters there:
1. Line? There aren't *that* many parking spaces along a block. The only way you could get a line is if the block were empty and everyone showed up at the same time.
2. Being able to use a credit card is a vast improvement over not having the change you need handy.
3. I'm told Portland's blocks are smaller than most cities, but the meters aren't *that* far away.
They're vastly superior to the ones Corvallis (where I actually live) which you go up to, enter the space you're parked in, put in coins only, and get no proof that you actually paid.
Any system like that will fail not because it costs money, but because it's too hard to implement globally. And, as someone else pointed out, spammers *can* afford to pay for it. But ease of use is the biggest hurdle --- otherwise everyone would be digitally signing and encrypting their mail.
adobe reader for the palm converts pdf's into that format, but few pdf's are built that way. That's probably what I would have done if their utility was more general purpose (it generates palm document files specifically). pdf's are still a proprietary format, albeit relatively open and commonplace. epub is most likely the right answer; I'm downloading all my ebooks in that format as well as the proprietary ones for the time when I have something that can read them.
In neither case is DRM a factor, as, aside from a couple of initial test cases, I never bought or buy DRM'd versions for either my PRS-500 or my Kindle on principle. It's bad enough to buy my books a second time to get an ebook, I'm not going to buy them all over again every time technology changes.
If Calibre actually works, the Sony may be viable, however the Sony "Connect" software is the most unstable piece of crap I've ever had the misfortune of using.
While the Sony *does* view pdf's natively, it scales them to the screen size, making that feature nearly worthless. I have sent some pdf's to my Kindle, and that worked reasonably well for the few I've done, but I suspect it's very document dependent. I do hope the Kindle adds epub support though; it does do mp3 already, though not as well as the Sony.
Lack of memory of doing something doesn't mean you didn't do it. While cell phones are a distraction, so is thinking about something else, which is what you'd be doing if you weren't on a cell phone. There are two key facts:
1. There is a threshold effect: there is a certain amount of attention required for safe driving, and it's not until you drop to that point that you become dangerous
2. If cell phones were as big a problem as people like to make them out to be, accident rates would have skyrocketed along with cell phone use over the last decade.
Their biggest failing is that they're visible, which makes them good scapegoats whenever someone sees people doing something annoying, just like they've always been doing since the day people took to the roads.
Like who couldn't see this coming the minute the feature was announced, though it's just one more reason to ignore the iphone. Unfortunately, the pre would be a downgrade from my Treo 650 as well, but going with an open standard when you're behind the curve is just good sense and the only way you can even think about coming out ahead...
While I suppose from a very technical point of view, you're "streaming" over hdmi, that's no more streaming than it is over a vga cable or over the air. What it *does* do is confuse consumers by making s.t...re...am....i.n.g sound like a good thing. "streaming full quality" is an oxymoron in normal contexts.
Actually, the policy from ARIN recommends everyone get a/48, i.e. 64K *networks* (with, for practical purposes, unlimited addresses per network, one change of mindset is to stop thinking in terms of addresses, but in terms of networks). At the small regional ISP I work for, we've got IPv6 up in experimental mode now and starting to plan for full support --- with this kind of space and some other factors of ipv6, it makes some aspects of life a lot nicer (particularly the breathing room), others a little more complicated (namely making sure your firewalls are all setup).
As for "we've been running out for 10 years", if it weren't for NAT, we *would* have hit the wall already, as it is, it's about 2-3 years out (though more intensive use of NAT could push it out more, but that'll be a royal pain for those doing it) and much of the traffic on the ARIN lists for some time now has been preparing for that end.
Another factor is that people *are* starting to deploy, and if you don't support IPv6, you're slowly going to find places you can't get to, though it'll likely be a number of years before that's significant.
The Sony is a nice reader, but the software you have to use to load it is one of the most unstable pieces of crap I've ever had the misfortune of using. On the other hand, the kindle works great, and it works great with non-drm'd goodness from other publishers. Until Amazon learns that lesson, they can keep their crippled ebooks, but I'll happily pay a fair price to use the good hardware, which would *not* be the case if I was forced to subscribe to the crippleware, which would eventually cost more far more than a fair price.
ISPs don't make that much money to start with, they're either going to raise their prices or tell Disney to jump in the lake. ISPs that raise their rates will see their users telling *them* to go jump in the lake...
So you think that movie studios should spend $100+million on a movie and then give it away? They may not be handling the situation well, but that doesn't mean it's right to steal their content.
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It does windoze, though not linux, but since I have to have a windoze vm for other things anyhow, that wouldn't be a hardship... I don't use a desktop version though...
http://www.splashdata.com/splashid/index.asp
It's the most important and most used app on my treo (including as use as a phone)
As a paypal user from the other side, I like the redirect because it means I never see customer credit cards, so I don't have to deal with that level of security concerns...
All of tech support has access, necessarily, in order to troubleshoot mail issues. Granted, they're only supposed to do it when there's something to troubleshoot, but even that limited scope is very common. And we have to regularly review legitimate mail that is reported as spam...
mapmakers have been doing this for decades, if not centuries...
I rather like this "iDont" ad poking at the iphone: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPYM-XTqcec
OK, only two points, but key:
1. "web accessible" sounds to me like you don't get your book, you get the ability to view it as long as they keep it on their web server, rather like O'Reilly's Safari. Which I subscribe to because it's really handy to be able to pop in and view a reference book at random instantly, but they're making a killing on me because I don't use it enough to really justify it (ironically, primarily because with google, I rarely need the tech books --- how did we *ever* get along without google?!? ;-) ). But for regular reading, I want my book where I know it'll always be there and I want it locally.
2. They're repeating the BS that the Kindle can only use books from Amazon. Only a couple of the 200+ books on mine were obtained from Amazon, and they are a couple that they released for free. Even at that, I paid too much even then because they were first in a series where the rest are crippled. I'm buying used paper in order to read the followons so I don't reward the publishers for being idiots.
Saturday, the small ISP I work for had about 1000 users targeting with phishing emails. It's becoming a nearly weekly occurrence, though that was the largest so far. I've had to setup scripts to scan the logs to see who got the messages, send them warning messages, then scan the logs again to see who replied and reset their passwords. In one case, we had a spammer using a responder's account to try to send spam within 2 hours of the response. Squirrelmail is the most common vector, with smtp auth not uncommon. I've had to impose strict rate limit controls on squirrelmail to keep from getting blacklisted all the time; I've got monitors to page me when smtp auth rates get too high, but the false positive rate is to high to impose hard limits at the moment, though we're heading in that direction.
BTW, it's not a good idea to respond to phishers with "F! off" etc: more than one responder doing that has found their address used shortly thereafter in the From of the next round of spam...
$20/yr is not an onerous fee, big deal. I'm surprised it's gone free this long. If you really can't stand to pay for the service you're using, go to cacert.org.
I keep my Kindle with me all the time, though I wish for web use it was as convenient as a PADD ;-) I was, however, recently at an outdoor production of Twelfth Night, and it being a while since I'd taken in Shakespeare, was having trouble making out the words. I fired up the kindle, went to google books and downloaded it so I could follow along, at least until it got too dark. It was mostly an experiment, but it actually worked better than I expected.
And while I have the set of HP in paper, there's only one way to get ebook versions. They're just shooting themselves in the foot on that one. Many others are trying the broken DRM model, but if I can't read the book on my Kindle, the Sony I'll probably replace it with (to move to an open standard format), my Treo, the Nokia I'll probably replace *it* with, my Mac, my Linux laptop, and have good confidence that it'll remain readable on future devices, then they're not getting my money. I'm not going to buy my entire library a couple dozen times over. And, considering the length of my wishlist, they're cutting themselves out of quite a bit of revenue...
But I suppose that means I'll use that money buying the new Sony and Nokia devices instead ;-) And I don't really have time to read more than is available uncrippled anyhow...but there are some I actually *would* like to read... for the ones I'm going to cave on, I'll cave back to paper...used paper. At least for the moral "license"...
If Joomla is an example of one with bad documentation, which ones are well documented and easy to use?
Speaking as a near-Portlander who's used the meters there:
1. Line? There aren't *that* many parking spaces along a block. The only way you could get a line is if the block were empty and everyone showed up at the same time.
2. Being able to use a credit card is a vast improvement over not having the change you need handy.
3. I'm told Portland's blocks are smaller than most cities, but the meters aren't *that* far away.
They're vastly superior to the ones Corvallis (where I actually live) which you go up to, enter the space you're parked in, put in coins only, and get no proof that you actually paid.
Any system like that will fail not because it costs money, but because it's too hard to implement globally. And, as someone else pointed out, spammers *can* afford to pay for it. But ease of use is the biggest hurdle --- otherwise everyone would be digitally signing and encrypting their mail.
adobe reader for the palm converts pdf's into that format, but few pdf's are built that way. That's probably what I would have done if their utility was more general purpose (it generates palm document files specifically). pdf's are still a proprietary format, albeit relatively open and commonplace. epub is most likely the right answer; I'm downloading all my ebooks in that format as well as the proprietary ones for the time when I have something that can read them.
In neither case is DRM a factor, as, aside from a couple of initial test cases, I never bought or buy DRM'd versions for either my PRS-500 or my Kindle on principle. It's bad enough to buy my books a second time to get an ebook, I'm not going to buy them all over again every time technology changes.
If Calibre actually works, the Sony may be viable, however the Sony "Connect" software is the most unstable piece of crap I've ever had the misfortune of using.
While the Sony *does* view pdf's natively, it scales them to the screen size, making that feature nearly worthless. I have sent some pdf's to my Kindle, and that worked reasonably well for the few I've done, but I suspect it's very document dependent. I do hope the Kindle adds epub support though; it does do mp3 already, though not as well as the Sony.
You would think a book written by a computer guy would be available in a modern format...
Lack of memory of doing something doesn't mean you didn't do it. While cell phones are a distraction, so is thinking about something else, which is what you'd be doing if you weren't on a cell phone. There are two key facts:
1. There is a threshold effect: there is a certain amount of attention required for safe driving, and it's not until you drop to that point that you become dangerous
2. If cell phones were as big a problem as people like to make them out to be, accident rates would have skyrocketed along with cell phone use over the last decade.
Their biggest failing is that they're visible, which makes them good scapegoats whenever someone sees people doing something annoying, just like they've always been doing since the day people took to the roads.
Like who couldn't see this coming the minute the feature was announced, though it's just one more reason to ignore the iphone. Unfortunately, the pre would be a downgrade from my Treo 650 as well, but going with an open standard when you're behind the curve is just good sense and the only way you can even think about coming out ahead...
Oregon has already been toying with this idea for that very reason...
If they don't have really good filters on those louvers, it'll *really* look like a chicken coop inside...
While I suppose from a very technical point of view, you're "streaming" over hdmi, that's no more streaming than it is over a vga cable or over the air. What it *does* do is confuse consumers by making s.t...re...am....i.n.g sound like a good thing. "streaming full quality" is an oxymoron in normal contexts.
Everybody will get a /64
Actually, the policy from ARIN recommends everyone get a /48, i.e. 64K *networks* (with, for practical purposes, unlimited addresses per network, one change of mindset is to stop thinking in terms of addresses, but in terms of networks). At the small regional ISP I work for, we've got IPv6 up in experimental mode now and starting to plan for full support --- with this kind of space and some other factors of ipv6, it makes some aspects of life a lot nicer (particularly the breathing room), others a little more complicated (namely making sure your firewalls are all setup).
As for "we've been running out for 10 years", if it weren't for NAT, we *would* have hit the wall already, as it is, it's about 2-3 years out (though more intensive use of NAT could push it out more, but that'll be a royal pain for those doing it) and much of the traffic on the ARIN lists for some time now has been preparing for that end.
Another factor is that people *are* starting to deploy, and if you don't support IPv6, you're slowly going to find places you can't get to, though it'll likely be a number of years before that's significant.
The Sony is a nice reader, but the software you have to use to load it is one of the most unstable pieces of crap I've ever had the misfortune of using. On the other hand, the kindle works great, and it works great with non-drm'd goodness from other publishers. Until Amazon learns that lesson, they can keep their crippled ebooks, but I'll happily pay a fair price to use the good hardware, which would *not* be the case if I was forced to subscribe to the crippleware, which would eventually cost more far more than a fair price.
ISPs don't make that much money to start with, they're either going to raise their prices or tell Disney to jump in the lake. ISPs that raise their rates will see their users telling *them* to go jump in the lake...
So you think that movie studios should spend $100+million on a movie and then give it away? They may not be handling the situation well, but that doesn't mean it's right to steal their content.