I'm a big consumer of ebooks for my handheld. I've used several readers and several formats over the years, without becoming particularly attached (or annoyed) by any of them.
What's keeping ebooks from taking off is cost. For contemporary titles, they charge as much for the e- version as the paper version. That's nuts. In a year or so, I'll probably have a completely different hardware (which may recognize the ebook format, but possibly not my authorization to use it). I just won't pay the same for electrons as I do for ink and wood pulp.
This site is better served keeping away from hit-and-run politics. Lots of other places on the net to go and find this kind of sorry, shallow bullshit.
I used to work in an office that was evenly divided between Macs and Windows PCs. My experience was that Macs were no more reliable than PCs, but there were two big differences.
Broken Macs gave you a frowny face instead of a cryptic error message, and Mac zealots would stand in front of a dead Mac, look you in the eye and tell you that Macs never break down. When you point out that the Mac they're standing next to is, in fact, gefuct, you get a waffly sort of, "Oh, no, I just loaded a bad driver or something. It's not really broken."
"...the key protagonist is really Opera Software, which may be gaining the (initial) upper hand simply because they are not Microsoft"
Yeah, and it doesn't hurt Opera that they aren't American, either.
Disclaimer: I'm American, a happy Opera user (it really is a nice, trim piece of work), and hate M$ as much as the next guy...but there's no doubt that some proportion of anti-Microsoftism abroad is helped along by anti-Americanism. God help us, but M$ is seen as representative of us.
Ten years ago, I disassembled a $10 mouse and hooked the Y wheel up to a $10 exercise bike I picked up at the Starvation Army. Advantage: the machine thought it was a plain old mouse, so you could use it for any application. I never worked out what to do with the X axis, though, before I lost interest.
If I didn't have the attention span of a fruit fly, I might be rich.
You ever wonder if the people who reply solemnly to a clearly tongue-in-cheek item like this are really irony-challenged or if they are being ironic and you yourself are too irony-challenged to pick up on it?
Ow. I think I'm having a flashback.
Yeah, but now we know the CEO is illiterate
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Oh, but it's worth every minute of it. Time was, the Big Guys had secretaries who filtered all their outgoing communications; tidying up the grammar, fixing the spelling, giving them a cooling-off period for the crankygrams. Once we got email, these guys started generating their OWN memos--live and unedited.
Turns out, the boys at the top are mostly a bunch of petty, illiterate maroons.
Buy him a handgun, a range membership and a half dozen lessons from a qualified firearms instructor. No, I'm not being provocative...the more you learn about and handle guns, the less likely you are to make jokes (much less do anything stupid). After years of having range rules drummed into me, I sometimes wonder if I could point a gun at someone, even in self defense.
Anyhow, it's a great, stress-relieving hobby. Handling a gun is like driving a stick-shift; you may never need to do it, but everyone should know how.
And this is different...how, exactly, from reading the company named printed in big, colorful letters on the package above the barcode and looking up the dirt based on that?
Oh, I know, I know...but it brings to mind oohing and aaahing at a jerky, crunchy one inch window of oinline streaming video while sitting next to a wide-screened television hooked up to a kzillion-channel satellite.
1) Crime would greatly decrease. We can see this already in Britain with CCTV systems.
I realize this whole area is OT, but I just can't let this pass. Crime most emphatically is not down in the UK as CCTV surveillance has increased. Violent crime has been steadily on the rise in Britain, especially in the cities, for some years. One is now several times more likely to be mugged in London than in New York.
Remember the murder at the Notting Hill Carnival? How many times did they run the surveillance tape of that one on the news? No-one has ever come forward, the crime was never solved.
CCTV just lets everyone sit at home and watch the country go to hell on television.
It's hard to think of anything as vital if one is old enough to remember a time before it existed. PBS only dates to 1967. And it's mostly a recycling vehicle for old BBC sitcoms (if it has a Brit accent, it's intelleckshul fare, don'tcha know).
Once upon a time, it was the only place on the dial one might possibly catch a glimpse of actual nudity. But then, once upon a time televisions had actual dials.
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I'm a big consumer of ebooks for my handheld. I've used several readers and several formats over the years, without becoming particularly attached (or annoyed) by any of them.
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What's keeping ebooks from taking off is cost. For contemporary titles, they charge as much for the e- version as the paper version. That's nuts. In a year or so, I'll probably have a completely different hardware (which may recognize the ebook format, but possibly not my authorization to use it). I just won't pay the same for electrons as I do for ink and wood pulp.
So I get to read a lot of 19th Century novels
This site is better served keeping away from hit-and-run politics. Lots of other places on the net to go and find this kind of sorry, shallow bullshit.
I used to work in an office that was evenly divided between Macs and Windows PCs. My experience was that Macs were no more reliable than PCs, but there were two big differences.
Broken Macs gave you a frowny face instead of a cryptic error message, and Mac zealots would stand in front of a dead Mac, look you in the eye and tell you that Macs never break down. When you point out that the Mac they're standing next to is, in fact, gefuct, you get a waffly sort of, "Oh, no, I just loaded a bad driver or something. It's not really broken."
"...the key protagonist is really Opera Software, which may be gaining the (initial) upper hand simply because they are not Microsoft"
Yeah, and it doesn't hurt Opera that they aren't American, either.
Disclaimer: I'm American, a happy Opera user (it really is a nice, trim piece of work), and hate M$ as much as the next guy...but there's no doubt that some proportion of anti-Microsoftism abroad is helped along by anti-Americanism. God help us, but M$ is seen as representative of us.
Ten years ago, I disassembled a $10 mouse and hooked the Y wheel up to a $10 exercise bike I picked up at the Starvation Army. Advantage: the machine thought it was a plain old mouse, so you could use it for any application. I never worked out what to do with the X axis, though, before I lost interest.
If I didn't have the attention span of a fruit fly, I might be rich.
Ow. I think I'm having a flashback.
Turns out, the boys at the top are mostly a bunch of petty, illiterate maroons.
Anyhow, it's a great, stress-relieving hobby. Handling a gun is like driving a stick-shift; you may never need to do it, but everyone should know how.
Oh, I know, I know...but it brings to mind oohing and aaahing at a jerky, crunchy one inch window of oinline streaming video while sitting next to a wide-screened television hooked up to a kzillion-channel satellite.
I realize this whole area is OT, but I just can't let this pass. Crime most emphatically is not down in the UK as CCTV surveillance has increased. Violent crime has been steadily on the rise in Britain, especially in the cities, for some years. One is now several times more likely to be mugged in London than in New York.
Remember the murder at the Notting Hill Carnival? How many times did they run the surveillance tape of that one on the news? No-one has ever come forward, the crime was never solved.
CCTV just lets everyone sit at home and watch the country go to hell on television.
Once upon a time, it was the only place on the dial one might possibly catch a glimpse of actual nudity. But then, once upon a time televisions had actual dials.
Vital for what, exactly?