2. Price of digital books. The price is still too close to the cost of physical books. The discount from the physical edition is only a couple of dollars, despite not having to come up with materials and shipping. I don't mind paying a little for convenience, but not that much. The worst part is, because of DRM, you also can't sell, lend or give away an ebook after you finish reading it. That reduces the value even more.
I'm OK with DRM on ebooks from a lending library which expires them at the end of the check-out period. But if I'm going to purchase a DRM encumbered ebook it had better come at a substantial discount over the dead-tree version.
The "space pen" was developed entirely by a private company in hopes that they could make millions selling it to suckers who would think it was cool. You've never actually used a space pen, have you? You'll get my bullet pen when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.
It's probably easier to find an electronic repair shop in a 3rd world country. The low wage rate makes it a lot more economical to have somebody repair appliances and electronics. Compare that to the situation here in the States where we just landfill our broken stuff and then head to WallyWorld for a new replacement.
Even then, you need to be careful. I got one of the "April Fools" storm worm spams, and I decided to see what it would do in a vm on my linux box. I started up a bunch of sysinternals tools, ran the downloaded exe, watched it for a while, and then nuked the vm.
Unfortunately, I forgot to shut off networking to the vm, and the next day I got an email nastygram from my ISP saying that my port 25 had been blocked due to spamming...
I dunno, every time I've decided to buy something at Best Buy the salesdroid insisted that it sucks, and that's why I need to buy an extended warranty.
Imagine your favourite game in the world. You've beaten it on Legendary 15 times. You've read every spinoff novel. You've unlocked every single outfit and cooking utensil. Not only have you rescued the princess, you've persuaded her to get hot-coffee-mod-freaky with you. You own figurines of every single character AND the entire dev team. There's a personal dedication to you on the inside cover of the walkthrough. You've taken out whole battalions with 100% headshots using a catapult and a bag of frozen peas.
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You get where I'm going with this, yeah? Umm, you really need a girlfriend?
Seems to me that you would want additional cargo space on a long road trip. A removable ICE would take away space when you want it the most. The beauty of the trailer approach is that the trailer could be designed to provide a modest amount of additional cargo capacity in addition to the auxillary power.
The problem is that you've got multiple passwords- one for work, one for Amazon.com, one for online banking, one for/., etc. etc. so it becomes virtually impossible to remember the damn things. Now what? People have to start writing them down, and posting them next to the machine. A huge part of the security of passwords comes from the fact that it's not physically written down; as soon as you have to record it instead of keeping it in your memory, your overall level of security is going down, even if the password is getting harder to crack. There's an easy solution to this, just store your passwords in one of those fingerprint-protected USB sticks that I've been reading so much about.
In a world where we've only *begun* to tap the potential for wireless digital connectivity... For best results, imagine parent post read by Don LaFontaine!
Toshiba can't actually set the street price at the store legally in the US. Your information is about a half year out of date, from this NYT article:
WASHINGTON, June 28 -- Striking down an antitrust rule nearly a century old, the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that it was not automatically unlawful for manufacturers and distributors to agree on minimum retail prices.
There is leftover grain after fermentation. It's called Distiller's Grain and it makes a good livestock feed (due to the vitamins in the yeast, perhaps?). Unfortunately, due to its moisture content, it cannot be stored for very long or transported very far, so a lot of it goes to waste.
Honorable mention on this list needs the ca. 1998 Compaq keyboards which had the space bar split and assigned backspace to the left hand half. While you could enter a special key combination to disable this it would turn it self back on at times and and you ended up typinsomethilikthis.
I finally pried off the keycap in frustration -- I'll bet it's still lurking in the back of one of my desk drawers.
I too didn't knew how nice is to have web browsing, high speed data connections or e-mail in my pocket until I had a phone with a full keyboard and a decent screen. For what I would consider a "decent screen" you'd need some mighty big pockets!
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There are outfits which will rebuild your old battery for around $50. I had mine done about a year ago.
Someone must not be reading the news much lately.
Someone's not reading the news, indeed.Just because the our economy is in the crapper doesn't mean that the rest of the world has ground to a halt.
Baen definitely gets it. Sadly, they seem to be the exception that proves the rule.
I'm OK with DRM on ebooks from a lending library which expires them at the end of the check-out period. But if I'm going to purchase a DRM encumbered ebook it had better come at a substantial discount over the dead-tree version.
You've never actually used a space pen, have you? You'll get my bullet pen when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.
It's probably easier to find an electronic repair shop in a 3rd world country. The low wage rate makes it a lot more economical to have somebody repair appliances and electronics. Compare that to the situation here in the States where we just landfill our broken stuff and then head to WallyWorld for a new replacement.
Even then, you need to be careful. I got one of the "April Fools" storm worm spams, and I decided to see what it would do in a vm on my linux box. I started up a bunch of sysinternals tools, ran the downloaded exe, watched it for a while, and then nuked the vm.
Unfortunately, I forgot to shut off networking to the vm, and the next day I got an email nastygram from my ISP saying that my port 25 had been blocked due to spamming...
I dunno, every time I've decided to buy something at Best Buy the salesdroid insisted that it sucks, and that's why I need to buy an extended warranty.
I don't go to Best Buy anymore.
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You get where I'm going with this, yeah? Umm, you really need a girlfriend?
Not to mention Owens-Corning fiberglass insulation and Mary Kay cosmetics.
And that's just shades of pink.
More details at snopes: http://www.snopes.com/autos/law/noplate.asp
Seems to me that you would want additional cargo space on a long road trip. A removable ICE would take away space when you want it the most. The beauty of the trailer approach is that the trailer could be designed to provide a modest amount of additional cargo capacity in addition to the auxillary power.
Denver International Airport tried something along that line.
Things went so badly that when they sent camera equipped luggage to trouble shoot the system, they lost their camera equipped baggage. Forever.
Maybe the lizard people wanted a nice camera.You do have a point about EULAs and TOS, though.
Nevermind that shit, you missed Disco!
Hmm, sounds like your boss is a /. reader...
There is leftover grain after fermentation. It's called Distiller's Grain and it makes a good livestock feed (due to the vitamins in the yeast, perhaps?). Unfortunately, due to its moisture content, it cannot be stored for very long or transported very far, so a lot of it goes to waste.
Honorable mention on this list needs the ca. 1998 Compaq keyboards which had the space bar split and assigned backspace to the left hand half. While you could enter a special key combination to disable this it would turn it self back on at times and and you ended up typinsomethilikthis.
I finally pried off the keycap in frustration -- I'll bet it's still lurking in the back of one of my desk drawers.