Ebooks are terrible for flipping through as reference materials. Think trying to find a half-remembered diagram or idea. They also remove the spatial memory associations with text on a physical page. They are also hard to underline and scrawl notes in. This makes them much less useful for non-fiction/education uses.
Furthermore, you can't give them to a friend or resell them when you're done (unless you're fairly technically minded).
Just about the only thing they're actually better at is portability...
Please don't post a 45 minute video without a transcript, or at least time indexes for the major topics. There are interesting subjects in this interview, but I don't want to dig through a huge video to find them...
So this is the first time I've heard of Quantized Inertia, but isn't this how science works? Somebody proposes a theory, and then they test it to see if it's bunk or not? Has it been tested before? If not, then why label it pseudoscience? Because it disagrees with current theories? Ok, so test it and prove it wrong...
And you have to put this in the context of a large organization with businesses knocking on our door to have the ability to engage and communicate with their customers on WhatsApp the same way they were doing it on Messenger
They drove a dump truck full of money up to my house! I'm only human!
What they really ought to do is force them all to interoperate. That's why customers of different phone companies are able to call each other ; if it hadn't been legislated, I imagine we'd each hive seven or eight phone numbers the same way we have seven or eight instant messaging and video chat apps to keep in touch with our different contacts...
They would more likely break Facebook into Facebook proper, messenger, instagram, whatsapp, etc.
Though the best case scenario would be to break it into several Facebook.com-like networks and legislate interoperability and open federation standards with any other service that wants to connect...
So at this point, what is the difference between ChromeOS and a regular linux machine? It's looking more and more like Linux with an Android compatibility layer.
Do you remember Palm OS Graffiti? I do. And it was awful.
I don't know about you, but I type on a keyboard way faster than I write with pen and paper. I don't think the keyboard is holding us back; it's the best mode of writing we've yet created. There might be a better one that'll be invented some time, but in many ways typing is a clear improvement over handwriting -- the only drawback is the requirement for electricity. Battery never runs out on paper.
Couldn't they just increase the cost of purchases through apple's payment system to cover the fees, and display the fee as a line-item in the checkout page with a link to the web payment form? I imagine it's probably against Apple's TOS to do this, but they could maybe sneak it in as a time delay after the app is reviewed. Netflix is big enough that I have a hard time seeing Apple kick them off the store...
Given that the last time I had a free afternoon when I actually could do some gaming, I wasted two hours trying to get a natively supported (Linux Steam) game to run, I really don't know what to think about this whole project...
To play devil's advocate, it sort of does, because if you didn't have access to unpaid-for content, you would likely watch something else, which you would have to pay for. So the specific publisher might not lose out, but the industry as a whole might.
It's just deconstructionism, and as with many things that are trendy, it's (usually) pretty stupid.
And if you're a deconstructivist, and don't like this comment, just interpret it in a way you like, and leave the people that actually want to communicate alone...
Well, to be fair, how much of your day to day work is done in a web browser vs a desktop application? Email? Document editing? Chat? Ellison was right, he just suffered the curse of Cassandra and was laughed at.
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Ebooks are terrible for flipping through as reference materials. Think trying to find a half-remembered diagram or idea. They also remove the spatial memory associations with text on a physical page. They are also hard to underline and scrawl notes in. This makes them much less useful for non-fiction/education uses. Furthermore, you can't give them to a friend or resell them when you're done (unless you're fairly technically minded). Just about the only thing they're actually better at is portability...
The only use case I can think of for rendering it is for screenshots.
I think they already made a film about this.
Please don't post a 45 minute video without a transcript, or at least time indexes for the major topics. There are interesting subjects in this interview, but I don't want to dig through a huge video to find them...
Is it just metadata if they photograph a postcard?
Then how will we get our cheap junk?
It's not worth a billion dollars more than fiji's economy. It's really not that complicated a sentence...
So this is the first time I've heard of Quantized Inertia, but isn't this how science works? Somebody proposes a theory, and then they test it to see if it's bunk or not? Has it been tested before? If not, then why label it pseudoscience? Because it disagrees with current theories? Ok, so test it and prove it wrong...
They drove a dump truck full of money up to my house! I'm only human!
How can you be a former lifelong anything? Are you dead?
What they really ought to do is force them all to interoperate. That's why customers of different phone companies are able to call each other ; if it hadn't been legislated, I imagine we'd each hive seven or eight phone numbers the same way we have seven or eight instant messaging and video chat apps to keep in touch with our different contacts...
They would more likely break Facebook into Facebook proper, messenger, instagram, whatsapp, etc. Though the best case scenario would be to break it into several Facebook.com-like networks and legislate interoperability and open federation standards with any other service that wants to connect...
So at this point, what is the difference between ChromeOS and a regular linux machine? It's looking more and more like Linux with an Android compatibility layer.
Do you remember Palm OS Graffiti? I do. And it was awful. I don't know about you, but I type on a keyboard way faster than I write with pen and paper. I don't think the keyboard is holding us back; it's the best mode of writing we've yet created. There might be a better one that'll be invented some time, but in many ways typing is a clear improvement over handwriting -- the only drawback is the requirement for electricity. Battery never runs out on paper.
A law that will explicitly permit them to abuse/ignore peoples' privacy? Great...
Couldn't they just increase the cost of purchases through apple's payment system to cover the fees, and display the fee as a line-item in the checkout page with a link to the web payment form? I imagine it's probably against Apple's TOS to do this, but they could maybe sneak it in as a time delay after the app is reviewed. Netflix is big enough that I have a hard time seeing Apple kick them off the store...
Given that the last time I had a free afternoon when I actually could do some gaming, I wasted two hours trying to get a natively supported (Linux Steam) game to run, I really don't know what to think about this whole project...
Ooh, I wasn't aware there was a third in the series. Thanks!
the argument of lost sale does not even hold.
To play devil's advocate, it sort of does, because if you didn't have access to unpaid-for content, you would likely watch something else, which you would have to pay for. So the specific publisher might not lose out, but the industry as a whole might.
It's just deconstructionism, and as with many things that are trendy, it's (usually) pretty stupid. And if you're a deconstructivist, and don't like this comment, just interpret it in a way you like, and leave the people that actually want to communicate alone...
Somebody watched the recent Lost in Space reboot...
This really just comes off as an effort to avoid dealing with employment standards for delivery people...
This is what I do to. My first reaction after looking up the buzzword was, "People use the mouse to change tabs?"
Well, to be fair, how much of your day to day work is done in a web browser vs a desktop application? Email? Document editing? Chat? Ellison was right, he just suffered the curse of Cassandra and was laughed at.
Lol, that's perfect!