Not that I use f.lux, but the GPL'd Redshift on my laptop. When switching it on, it feels like my eyes breathe a sigh of relief - it really is much easier to read off a red-orange-tinted surface at night.
How exactly are you going to search for the product you're after? The Yellow pages? Because that will be about it for your options if companies cut search engine advertising from their budgets.
Oh I don't know - I used to read books with my Zaurus until it died. I then moved to an old laptop with FBReader (and RedShift of course). I now use a $75 Android tablet. No problems reading when I want to, I just get all my browsing out of the way first, and it's kind of nice being able to look up stuff from books that I don't fully comprehend.
I remember in the late 90s seeing advertisements claiming the Intel Pentium !!! would make your web browsing faster. At that time it was such a ludicrous concept that we had to laugh - the CPU was just not a limiting factor for web activity. Not even close. Well, not at 33.6kbps anyway.
Now we're talking about the primary driver for computer upgrades being badly designed web sites. *Marvels*
Well, if you ignore the dozens of sub-$100 7" tablets that are made in China that do nearly everything the $500 ones do. I'd like to see sales figures for those but if my workplace is anything to go by, they're outselling Samsung, HTC, Apple, etc by a considerable margin.
Since the expensive household-name tablets are also made in China, why even bother with a name brand anymore? And they all run the same OS (except for Apple of course).
I suspect that Malibu Stacey having a new hat is not going to be a problem for Amazon or B&N.
You realise that by spouting such theories you are directly helping them come to pass.
From your link: Duverger suggests two reasons why single-member district plurality voting systems favor a two party system. One is the result of the "fusion" (or an alliance very like fusion) of the weak parties, and the other is the "elimination" of weak parties by the voters, by which he means that the voters gradually desert the weak parties on the grounds that they have no chance of winning.
(emphasis mine)
So people don't vote for them because they think people won't vote for them. Whose fault is that? By propagating the myth that third parties have no chance, you are supporting the two-party system by making it come true.
To quote Dave Barry, on the Great Depression as seen from the 1980s:
The stock market of the 1920s was very different from the stock market of today. back then, the market was infested by greed-crazed slimeballs, get-rich-quick speculators with the ethical standards of tapeworms, who shrieked "buy" and "sell" orders into the telephone with no concern whatsoever for the nation's long-term financial well-being. whereas today they use computers.
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This.
Not that I use f.lux, but the GPL'd Redshift on my laptop. When switching it on, it feels like my eyes breathe a sigh of relief - it really is much easier to read off a red-orange-tinted surface at night.
Now if only they'd port it to Android.
Or we could make all those ships run on nuclear power.
How exactly are you going to search for the product you're after? The Yellow pages? Because that will be about it for your options if companies cut search engine advertising from their budgets.
Pah. The chances of anything going wrong in that respect are at least 10^6 to 1.
5. If you drop them, the book (and 500 others) doesn't instantly become completely useless.
I think it takes more than that to kill an SD card. Unless you drop it into a canal, I guess...
Oh I don't know - I used to read books with my Zaurus until it died. I then moved to an old laptop with FBReader (and RedShift of course). I now use a $75 Android tablet. No problems reading when I want to, I just get all my browsing out of the way first, and it's kind of nice being able to look up stuff from books that I don't fully comprehend.
Ian, thank you for starting such an excellent distribution.
Sorry it didn't work out with Deb.
I'm going to assume you're referring to music CDs only. Otherwise I guess you haven't looked too closely at DVD or Blu Ray media.
How far we have come.
I remember in the late 90s seeing advertisements claiming the Intel Pentium !!! would make your web browsing faster. At that time it was such a ludicrous concept that we had to laugh - the CPU was just not a limiting factor for web activity. Not even close. Well, not at 33.6kbps anyway.
Now we're talking about the primary driver for computer upgrades being badly designed web sites. *Marvels*
Your argument essentially boils down to this:
Do not underestimate the power of human stupidity.
Well, if you ignore the dozens of sub-$100 7" tablets that are made in China that do nearly everything the $500 ones do. I'd like to see sales figures for those but if my workplace is anything to go by, they're outselling Samsung, HTC, Apple, etc by a considerable margin.
Since the expensive household-name tablets are also made in China, why even bother with a name brand anymore? And they all run the same OS (except for Apple of course).
I suspect that Malibu Stacey having a new hat is not going to be a problem for Amazon or B&N.
You realise that by spouting such theories you are directly helping them come to pass.
From your link:
Duverger suggests two reasons why single-member district plurality voting systems favor a two party system. One is the result of the "fusion" (or an alliance very like fusion) of the weak parties, and the other is the "elimination" of weak parties by the voters, by which he means that the voters gradually desert the weak parties on the grounds that they have no chance of winning.
(emphasis mine)
So people don't vote for them because they think people won't vote for them. Whose fault is that? By propagating the myth that third parties have no chance, you are supporting the two-party system by making it come true.
Enjoy your lizards.
Yes, because we wouldn't want the wrong lizard to get in, would we?
Likewise. Project Gutenberg is looking better every day.
Your fathers are Darwin award winners.
I'm not sure you understand how Darwin awards work.
Don't forget the Star Wars novel.
Once again, thank you copyright.
With a capital F.
To quote Dave Barry, on the Great Depression as seen from the 1980s:
The stock market of the 1920s was very different from the stock market of today. back then, the market was infested by greed-crazed slimeballs, get-rich-quick speculators with the ethical standards of tapeworms, who shrieked "buy" and "sell" orders into the telephone with no concern whatsoever for the nation's long-term financial well-being. whereas today they use computers.
All of them, once they get full.
There's an awesome picture here taken from the MRO of the parachute deployed. This is breath-taking.
Taken from the twitter feed of a somewhat anthropomorphised representation of Curiosity.
Get thee to a nunnery.
No wait, "thank" isn't quite the word I was looking for...
The way they always do. Sit on it until it dies.
Is tipping in restaurants rotten?
You, sir, have beautifully tied "News for nerds" with "Stuff that matters". Well done.