A solution journalists would have scoffed at a few years ago? Given that more of them are left-leaning Democrats than any other specific political orientation, why would journalists have opposed government subsidy?
Look, these guys claim that the job of journalism is to "question, analyze and speak truth to power". What a weaselly bunch of crap. They'll cover up anything for people they like (and that crosses the political spectrum). They even quote Obama as saying "Government without a tough and vibrant media is not an option for the United States of America." This is the same guy whose administration says that Fox News isn't a real news organization, mostly because a lot of its shows spend their time attacking him and his policies - i.e., being tough and vibrant. If you disagree with my politics, then imagine if instead of the Republican kabuki of not financially supporting information about abortion in worldwide birth control efforts were suddenly to apply to domestic newspapers the next time the political tide turns. Do you think that's good for democracy?
They then cite the historical example of some printing and postal subsidies (presumably similar to the current subsidies for books and other media via mail) and then suggest we should honor that by "greatly expand[ing] funding for public and community media, and establish[ing] policies that help convert dying daily newspapers into post-corporate low-profit news operations that realize the potential of the Internet." Do I get to qualify for "public and community" funding if I add a couple of news items to my posts about how home sales are doing in my neighborhood? (They're fine, FWIW.) Because otherwise it sounds suspiciously like how "community" funding keeps getting distributed via the same few organizations - the ones with the connections get solid government funding, and in return they toe the line.
I like newspapers. I enjoy sitting down on Sunday morning and slowly making my way through the whole thing. So, apparently, does the president. But making public policy based on the Sunday morning habits of the upper middle class is wasteful snobbery. They're dead. Move on. And if you're a journalism major, strongly consider switching.
Bzzt. Win 1/2/3 were the versions that you saw. WinNT 3.x was really OS/2 v2 (the original OS/2, an IBM-MS collaboration, rather than the OS/2 that IBM released later), so there was a jump there. 95/98/ME were v4 of the original Win16-rooted system (although they were Win32 systems). WinNT 4 was an increment on WinNT 3.x. WinNT 5 was better known as Windows 2000, while XP was Windows 5.1 (consumer and NT lines merged at XP). Vista was 6, and 7 is really 6.1 if you type "ver" at a cmd prompt. Conclusion: Windows version numbers reflect the underlying technology, while the names come from marketing.
The courts will recognize privacy rights between husband and wife in their own house when nobody else is present; otherwise, it's pretty safe to assume that you have no privacy rights. (That's not what the courts, strictly speaking, have found, but it's a conservative estimate that prevents you from thinking you're safe when you're not.)
As for the feds, they already read all your email (and phone messages, etc.) if they want to. Your only protection is that they can't use it in court without a warrant.
I don't know; ask an OB. I've dealt with the chronic pelvic pain aspect of things. The ones who got better after a round or two of treatment didn't ever make it to the pain clinic... but in the gyn operative suite we definitely saw some people coming back for their fourth or fifth endometriosis ablation. By that point they were definitely becoming squirrely - this may be selection bias as much as anything else, but the OB/GYNs generally backed it up...
Professional. I'm an anesthesiologist; my training included several months of chronic pain management. Chronic pelvic pain is a mysterious and evil thing. Not everyone who has it necessarily starts out crazy, but if they don't get better, they end up there.
Besides, your resolution is always limited by the number of fibers in the scope - especially if a flexible is involved. Pedi bronchoscopes, for example. WTF is the point of HD if the number of pixels is in the hundreds?
If she was operated on for endometriosis, and it didn't immediately get better, here's a hint: you'd better love her, because she'll always be crazy and the pain will never stop.
There are unfortunately a large number of barbarians who believe otherwise. At least they hold to the grain-alcohol-and-vermouth standard, unlike the chicks drinking Cosmos and Appletinis and xyz-tinis at $12 a pop. Always pays to remember Mrs. Parker - "I like to have a martini/Two at the very most./Three and I'm under the table,/Four and I'm under my host."
If you order "a martini" and they ask you anything other than what gin you want and what bottle of vermouth you'd like them to look at while pouring it, you need to find a new bar.
Not to detract unnecessarily from your point, but where were you living that a 5 down/2 up connection was available for $50-60/mo in 1997? Because at that point, living in an apartment complex with geeks in the next 2 units, we were all splitting a 56k connection.
It will NEVER be cheaper to make chips than to put magnetic films on some metal / glass discs
I'm not a hard drive engineer, but I suspect that the magnetic film costs less than the read mechanism. Since there are no heads, stepper motors, etc., in SSDs, they can potentially get cheaper than HDDs.
I never said it would read PDFs - it won't. It sucks at PDF, but that's not a negative to me because I don't read techical books on it, and I suspect that PDF will continue to be a pitiful afterthought until the devices are at least Kindle DX size.
Could Kindle be a better device? Absolutely. Is Nook better? Yes. But this thread started with "can you read any ebook you want?", and for that the answer is a qualified yes. PDF will suck, but mobi format books that are available from non-Amazon, non-B&N, non-Sony retailers will easily read on it, and epub is convertible with the software you should probably be using to maintain your ebook library - Calibre. PitaBred was talking about loading non-bought books. I download direct to Kindle all the time from Gutenberg, for free.
Kindle is not a Touch. It's not meant to be a Touch. It's for reading books. And for that purpose, it's way better than a Touch.
You're right: I'm not typical. I read a lot - I read one book a week when I'm working 12 hours a day, at least one book a day on vacation. I have disposable income galore. I don't read in the dark; I just don't go to bed until I'm ready to sleep or do other bed things. As for speed, it's only unreadable for half a second or less - about as long as it takes to turn a real page. If you have a device with a large screen, like a Kindle, you're not turning the page more than 2-3 times a minute.
Have you used one? They're pretty easy on the eyes, and screen refresh is easily handled by clicking "next page" when your eyes hit the last line or two of the page.
I don't think you know Kindle well. You can easily convert epub to mobi for Kindle (using Calibre), and load the books on it for free via USB. The lending and the LCD at the bottom are new, as is the WiFi, but only the lending sounds like a real killer app.
Kindle's Topaz DRM has yet to be cracked (unlike its Mobi DRM), and there isn't even a converter to move books out of Sony's lrf format even without DRM.
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A solution journalists would have scoffed at a few years ago? Given that more of them are left-leaning Democrats than any other specific political orientation, why would journalists have opposed government subsidy?
Look, these guys claim that the job of journalism is to "question, analyze and speak truth to power". What a weaselly bunch of crap. They'll cover up anything for people they like (and that crosses the political spectrum). They even quote Obama as saying "Government without a tough and vibrant media is not an option for the United States of America." This is the same guy whose administration says that Fox News isn't a real news organization, mostly because a lot of its shows spend their time attacking him and his policies - i.e., being tough and vibrant. If you disagree with my politics, then imagine if instead of the Republican kabuki of not financially supporting information about abortion in worldwide birth control efforts were suddenly to apply to domestic newspapers the next time the political tide turns. Do you think that's good for democracy?
They then cite the historical example of some printing and postal subsidies (presumably similar to the current subsidies for books and other media via mail) and then suggest we should honor that by "greatly expand[ing] funding for public and community media, and establish[ing] policies that help convert dying daily newspapers into post-corporate low-profit news operations that realize the potential of the Internet." Do I get to qualify for "public and community" funding if I add a couple of news items to my posts about how home sales are doing in my neighborhood? (They're fine, FWIW.) Because otherwise it sounds suspiciously like how "community" funding keeps getting distributed via the same few organizations - the ones with the connections get solid government funding, and in return they toe the line.
I like newspapers. I enjoy sitting down on Sunday morning and slowly making my way through the whole thing. So, apparently, does the president. But making public policy based on the Sunday morning habits of the upper middle class is wasteful snobbery. They're dead. Move on. And if you're a journalism major, strongly consider switching.
Bzzt. Win 1/2/3 were the versions that you saw. WinNT 3.x was really OS/2 v2 (the original OS/2, an IBM-MS collaboration, rather than the OS/2 that IBM released later), so there was a jump there. 95/98/ME were v4 of the original Win16-rooted system (although they were Win32 systems). WinNT 4 was an increment on WinNT 3.x. WinNT 5 was better known as Windows 2000, while XP was Windows 5.1 (consumer and NT lines merged at XP). Vista was 6, and 7 is really 6.1 if you type "ver" at a cmd prompt. Conclusion: Windows version numbers reflect the underlying technology, while the names come from marketing.
Be sure to get Win 95 rev A - the one without FAT32. It was barely any more resource-intensive than WFW 3.11, but was noticeably more powerful.
The courts will recognize privacy rights between husband and wife in their own house when nobody else is present; otherwise, it's pretty safe to assume that you have no privacy rights. (That's not what the courts, strictly speaking, have found, but it's a conservative estimate that prevents you from thinking you're safe when you're not.)
As for the feds, they already read all your email (and phone messages, etc.) if they want to. Your only protection is that they can't use it in court without a warrant.
I don't know; ask an OB. I've dealt with the chronic pelvic pain aspect of things. The ones who got better after a round or two of treatment didn't ever make it to the pain clinic... but in the gyn operative suite we definitely saw some people coming back for their fourth or fifth endometriosis ablation. By that point they were definitely becoming squirrely - this may be selection bias as much as anything else, but the OB/GYNs generally backed it up...
Professional. I'm an anesthesiologist; my training included several months of chronic pain management. Chronic pelvic pain is a mysterious and evil thing. Not everyone who has it necessarily starts out crazy, but if they don't get better, they end up there.
Besides, your resolution is always limited by the number of fibers in the scope - especially if a flexible is involved. Pedi bronchoscopes, for example. WTF is the point of HD if the number of pixels is in the hundreds?
If she was operated on for endometriosis, and it didn't immediately get better, here's a hint: you'd better love her, because she'll always be crazy and the pain will never stop.
There are unfortunately a large number of barbarians who believe otherwise. At least they hold to the grain-alcohol-and-vermouth standard, unlike the chicks drinking Cosmos and Appletinis and xyz-tinis at $12 a pop. Always pays to remember Mrs. Parker - "I like to have a martini/Two at the very most./Three and I'm under the table,/Four and I'm under my host."
If you order "a martini" and they ask you anything other than what gin you want and what bottle of vermouth you'd like them to look at while pouring it, you need to find a new bar.
Not to detract unnecessarily from your point, but where were you living that a 5 down/2 up connection was available for $50-60/mo in 1997? Because at that point, living in an apartment complex with geeks in the next 2 units, we were all splitting a 56k connection.
It will NEVER be cheaper to make chips than to put magnetic films on some metal / glass discs
I'm not a hard drive engineer, but I suspect that the magnetic film costs less than the read mechanism. Since there are no heads, stepper motors, etc., in SSDs, they can potentially get cheaper than HDDs.
Okay, this is off-topic. Mod down if you want.
What do you get with an enterprise-grade HDD? I'm pretty sure I shouldn't get one, but I am curious.
I never said it would read PDFs - it won't. It sucks at PDF, but that's not a negative to me because I don't read techical books on it, and I suspect that PDF will continue to be a pitiful afterthought until the devices are at least Kindle DX size.
Could Kindle be a better device? Absolutely. Is Nook better? Yes. But this thread started with "can you read any ebook you want?", and for that the answer is a qualified yes. PDF will suck, but mobi format books that are available from non-Amazon, non-B&N, non-Sony retailers will easily read on it, and epub is convertible with the software you should probably be using to maintain your ebook library - Calibre. PitaBred was talking about loading non-bought books. I download direct to Kindle all the time from Gutenberg, for free.
And it's had Linux, which is why I don't think all the Android optimism is much warranted.
Kindle is not a Touch. It's not meant to be a Touch. It's for reading books. And for that purpose, it's way better than a Touch.
You're right: I'm not typical. I read a lot - I read one book a week when I'm working 12 hours a day, at least one book a day on vacation. I have disposable income galore. I don't read in the dark; I just don't go to bed until I'm ready to sleep or do other bed things. As for speed, it's only unreadable for half a second or less - about as long as it takes to turn a real page. If you have a device with a large screen, like a Kindle, you're not turning the page more than 2-3 times a minute.
Kindle locations bear no relation to page numbers, but they are not dependent on text size. Just tried it on my K1.
Broken Topaz yet? I can't find anyone that has. What about B&N's proprietary?
Have you used one? They're pretty easy on the eyes, and screen refresh is easily handled by clicking "next page" when your eyes hit the last line or two of the page.
You can already get those via the The Magic Catalog of Project Gutenberg E-Books. Available in mobi for Kindle and EPUB for Nook. Free.
You can put any books you want on Kindle; I'd have to assume you can do it on Nook.
I don't think you know Kindle well. You can easily convert epub to mobi for Kindle (using Calibre), and load the books on it for free via USB. The lending and the LCD at the bottom are new, as is the WiFi, but only the lending sounds like a real killer app.
Kindle's Topaz DRM has yet to be cracked (unlike its Mobi DRM), and there isn't even a converter to move books out of Sony's lrf format even without DRM.