Verizon offers unlimited data on all smartphones. They do not offer it on tethering packages. This has been confirmed over and over again on the Android sites.
How many people run Linux and yet do not own or have relatively immediate access to a Windows box? I'm not making an argument about what should be; I'm talking about what is. I've derived great pleasure from owning a Kindle. If you're more interested in the politics of it, I support your choice to avoid DRM media - but it's not mine.
I've bought a lot of Kindle books from Amazon. The most common format they sell is simply the old Mobipocket format with DRM added. The scripts to strip the DRM are out there (K4MobiDeDRM.pyw), and you can use Calibre to convert to any of a wide variety of other formats should you not like Mobipocket (or should your reader not support it). If you go this route, ActiveState Python 2.x is the preferred distribution to run the scripts. I use this method and convert all my books to have both Mobi and ePub because Stanza on my iPad, which does not support Mobipocket, has some features that the iOS Kindle app lacks (like in-app screen brightness adjust).
There are some mostly image-intensive books that use a different format called Topaz, but that too has been broken, although the conversions often look more like a typical pirated scan/OCR than a good quality ebook. Fortunately, the format is relatively rare, and of course if you are willing to spend some time cleaning it up you can have a nice clean book - there is no chance that you'll lose the text, just that it won't look right.
if the only way for me to load text onto a text reader is to buy it an inflated price from the company's book store, then I'm just not going to purchase the device.
I'm not aware of any reader that doesn't let you load content via USB. It's really not an issue.
Okay, Pollyanna. It's seventy years ago today. World War 2 is simmering in Europe. Two of the nastiest regimes ever to run countries are facing off over eastern Europe. Which one do you support?
I don't mean to excuse everything government does, but tough decisions have to be made out there. The West supported a lot of nasty tinpot dictators during the Cold War, but unfortunately sometimes there is no noble band of freedom fighters to lend a hand to. Sometimes you just have to give money to the guy who promises not to support the other side.
Mod up, folks. Apple is very happy to ignore the bottom of the market and focus solely on people who have enough money to afford a premium product. Why? Because if you can afford their products, you're not going to balk at spending $50-$100 more for one that looks great and has a fantastic UI.
you can get after market systems with in dash DVD players with the same options for the same price
... and unless you've got major fabrication skills and access to a car audio shop, it's going to cost you a fortune to have it installed. I've seen the mp3car forums, and there is some seriously awesome stuff there, but it takes skill and equipment.
The problem, of course, is that it's remarkably difficult to find a place near Miami or Houston that will teach you how to drive in winter weather. And Easterners have no idea how to drive in a real, honest-to-God thunderstorm.
Performance and handling of a car are much more important than being able to plug your ipod into your car and being able to find the nearest restaurant.
Americans disagree with you, as borne out by their choices of cars. I'm on their side. I drive past a speed trap every single day on my commute (which is, itself, only 2.5 miles). Where exactly is performance and handling going to get me, other than traffic court? Meanwhile, the backup camera, the iPod integration, and the heated and cooled seats are there every time I crank it up.
They already have a Kindle app for Android; why on earth try to cannibalize its sales? The whole selling point of Kindle is its buy once, read anywhere philosophy (and it really does that quite well). Per-book apps break that.
The hard part is getting the sledgehammer to the vicinity of the machine, and using it, and getting back out again, unnoticed and unrecorded. The actual sledgehammering is likely to be quite easy.
If 60 Hz AC gets near your ventricles, ugliness ensues. It's more likely that arm-to-arm contact in you does not produce much change at your ventricles.
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Verizon offers unlimited data on all smartphones. They do not offer it on tethering packages. This has been confirmed over and over again on the Android sites.
Also, I forgot to address one of your concerns: Yes, you can use Calibre to convert directly to ASCII text.
How many people run Linux and yet do not own or have relatively immediate access to a Windows box? I'm not making an argument about what should be; I'm talking about what is. I've derived great pleasure from owning a Kindle. If you're more interested in the politics of it, I support your choice to avoid DRM media - but it's not mine.
I've bought a lot of Kindle books from Amazon. The most common format they sell is simply the old Mobipocket format with DRM added. The scripts to strip the DRM are out there (K4MobiDeDRM.pyw), and you can use Calibre to convert to any of a wide variety of other formats should you not like Mobipocket (or should your reader not support it). If you go this route, ActiveState Python 2.x is the preferred distribution to run the scripts. I use this method and convert all my books to have both Mobi and ePub because Stanza on my iPad, which does not support Mobipocket, has some features that the iOS Kindle app lacks (like in-app screen brightness adjust).
There are some mostly image-intensive books that use a different format called Topaz, but that too has been broken, although the conversions often look more like a typical pirated scan/OCR than a good quality ebook. Fortunately, the format is relatively rare, and of course if you are willing to spend some time cleaning it up you can have a nice clean book - there is no chance that you'll lose the text, just that it won't look right.
I can take 1000 ebooks with me wherever I go in under 300 g of weight. It's all about convenience. (And none of them have any DRM anymore.)
Do you know anyone that's read the Vorkosigan Saga
No, I don't, and neither have the vast majority of other people.
If you care about that, you probably have already figured out that ebook DRM has all been cracked.
if the only way for me to load text onto a text reader is to buy it an inflated price from the company's book store, then I'm just not going to purchase the device.
I'm not aware of any reader that doesn't let you load content via USB. It's really not an issue.
You probably know this already, but you can easily strip the DRM from Kindle books.
What do you do when the elected government bans other political parties and harasses their members?
"It's not ironic. It just sucks." -Lawrence Stephen Witkos, 1976-1998. RIP.
Okay, Pollyanna. It's seventy years ago today. World War 2 is simmering in Europe. Two of the nastiest regimes ever to run countries are facing off over eastern Europe. Which one do you support?
I don't mean to excuse everything government does, but tough decisions have to be made out there. The West supported a lot of nasty tinpot dictators during the Cold War, but unfortunately sometimes there is no noble band of freedom fighters to lend a hand to. Sometimes you just have to give money to the guy who promises not to support the other side.
They're getting the iPhone because the iPhone causes them to lose customers to AT&T, not because Android sales are bad.
Mod up, folks. Apple is very happy to ignore the bottom of the market and focus solely on people who have enough money to afford a premium product. Why? Because if you can afford their products, you're not going to balk at spending $50-$100 more for one that looks great and has a fantastic UI.
The original iPhone was $600 on contract.
Too bad it's not going to do Honeycomb... otherwise I would have bought one.
you can get after market systems with in dash DVD players with the same options for the same price
... and unless you've got major fabrication skills and access to a car audio shop, it's going to cost you a fortune to have it installed. I've seen the mp3car forums, and there is some seriously awesome stuff there, but it takes skill and equipment.
If you have radar, why do you want magic communicating cars?
Redundancy.
The problem, of course, is that it's remarkably difficult to find a place near Miami or Houston that will teach you how to drive in winter weather. And Easterners have no idea how to drive in a real, honest-to-God thunderstorm.
Performance and handling of a car are much more important than being able to plug your ipod into your car and being able to find the nearest restaurant.
Americans disagree with you, as borne out by their choices of cars. I'm on their side. I drive past a speed trap every single day on my commute (which is, itself, only 2.5 miles). Where exactly is performance and handling going to get me, other than traffic court? Meanwhile, the backup camera, the iPod integration, and the heated and cooled seats are there every time I crank it up.
I thought that was why they called it...
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I'll be here all week; try the steak and be sure to tip your server.
They already have a Kindle app for Android; why on earth try to cannibalize its sales? The whole selling point of Kindle is its buy once, read anywhere philosophy (and it really does that quite well). Per-book apps break that.
You still have to get out without getting arrested. However, your point is well taken.
The hard part is getting the sledgehammer to the vicinity of the machine, and using it, and getting back out again, unnoticed and unrecorded. The actual sledgehammering is likely to be quite easy.
If 60 Hz AC gets near your ventricles, ugliness ensues. It's more likely that arm-to-arm contact in you does not produce much change at your ventricles.