e-Ink is really a crucial part of the Kindle experience. If you've never played with it IRL, you can't really appreciate it - it just sounds a bit ridiculous to say "Works in full sunlight!" and "Long battery life!" until you've gone outside in full summer sun and found it easier to read than it was inside, and then gotten through 3 or 4 long books before you have to recharge. If used heavily, the battery STILL lasts a week when wireless is off. No tablet based on currently available tech can touch this, and I know of no tech in the pipeline that will change that.
And the Kindle has an edge - in some ways, to most people - in that you can shop wherever there is Sprint access. I'm in a 1xRTT area, and though it's slower, it works. So you get the big-buyer power of Amazon opening up the catalog, and the universal access, and it gets a major edge over other readers in some ways - especially if you're in an airport, e.g., that doesn't have free WiFi.
Try used. I got a Kindle v1 for under $200 a month ago, after buying my wife a K2 new as an anniversary present. It's absolutely worth the full price, but saving almost $200 vs new was a pretty easy decision.
Ever actually used a Kindle? It's nothing like reading a book on a computer, which I've done a few times. It's like reading a real book - no eyestrain, easy viewing, no need to be plugged in if you'll be more than a couple of hours.
I get that it's not everyone's cup of tea, and yes, it is really expensive. But if you have the money - and I do, so all you folks out there who depend on early adopters should thank me - it's just an amazing device. I bought my wife a K2 for our anniversary, and liked it so much that I went out and bought a K1, used, not a month later. (The price was too good to turn down.)
You can rip the protection from any.azw book on your Kindle. Google mobidedrm.py for more. Sadly, no crack is available for Topaz (.tpz) files - at least, not that I can find. Some online booksellers sell DRMed Mobipocket books that can be stripped of protection in the same way.
Requires that employers pay for breaks. Doesn't say anywhere that they have to give them. See, for example, here. 22 states have some regulation of the matter, although that regulation may be narrowly tailored - applying either to factory workers only, or even, in Illinois, to Cook County hotel workers only. Thanks for the pointer to the site, though - I've never worked in any of those states, and have never encountered the rule.
They also overestimate how hard they exercise. Once - and only once - in my life, I could eat quite literally anything I wanted and lose weight. It was during football season, and I was a lineman playing offense and defense, on a team that did three full-contact 3.5 hr practices, a no-contact 3 hr practice, and a 2 hr game every week. The off-season regimen wasn't enough exercise to keep the weight off, but I'd drop it like a stone during the season. So: 10-15 lbs of pads, running around and smashing into people, for 3 hrs a day 4-5 days a week, with sprints at the end. IOW, this guy's entire commuting time, per week, in mixed cardio/strength training.
His job is his SO. Seriously. It gets 3 hours a day of the 12 hours that are his to command. My wife and I are both physicians, went through med school and residency together. There were significant blocks there where our together time consisted, 5 nights a week, of 30 minutes eating dinner. Then we'd study in the same room. He doesn't even get that.
When he's doing these commutes, it's really time to consider getting the employer to swing for at least part of a place to sleep in the town where the job is - saves him gas money and turns his life into a livable, if unpleasant, way to work a lot and earn a lot of money - which I'm assuming is why he puts up with the conditions.
(My hospital has an area of an older building that is dedicated sleeping space for nurses who live in other towns but like the pay and benefits at ours - they come in, work 3 or 4 12-hour shifts in a row, then go home. One works two 16-hour shifts, with only 8 h off in between, and then goes home. It's worked quite well for us and them.)
Even better. As things stand, things are taxed based on where the cash register is - it is uncommon but not unheard of for political boundaries to run right through a store, and in such cases the cash registers tend to be placed where the tax is lower. What about a person who orders from such a location? What is, after all, the actual point of sale?
replying to kill mistaken mod, meant to select funny but got overrated. Why can't there be a separate confirm button? Or an option to change a specific mod?
I had a lot of chrome and a few metal, but then again my parents' stereo had a deck capable of recording on metal bias tapes. Chrome was about twice as expensive as regular, and metal twice that, but they did sound a LOT better. For one thing, they had high frequencies.
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I'm not sure what your experience is from, because I'm a physician and that sounds like no hospital I've ever seen - though I have, on extraordinarily rare occasions, been wrong before;). I'm an anesthesiologist, so I'm accustomed to navigating through charts. At no hospital I've ever seen - and this is mostly at an academic center, but I've been in private hospitals as well - does dictation get done by anyone other than physicians or their (personal) assistants. Certainly not by a secretary - billing depends on proper dictation. In an academic setting, it is in fact very common to have chart racks - because unlike in a private hospital, every single patient on a given floor is likely to be yours. And charts are always held at the nurses' station, except in ICUs - the only thing in a regular patient room is the vital signs chart. There are separate nursing and medical sections of a patient's record, and these are often kept separately on a day-to-day basis, but eventually must all be compiled into the single medical record.
The portable computer is never charged unless it is kept plugged in. Murphy's Law always prevails on this.
I got a 760 on the (old) SAT English section, got a "5" on the English AP
whose to say
You sure about that?;)
I gave up on Joyce during Portrait of the Artist, somewhere in his school days. I vaguely remember something about cabbages, but I've managed to excise the rest.
Nonono, I never downmod just for misusing "where" for "were". I'm not so much a grammar Nazi as a grammar Puritan - yeah, I do set a few people on fire every now and again, but it's personal, retail-level work, not the wholesale massacre stuff.
Very few took that initiative because it's really expensive if it's even possible, and there's not really a way to recover the costs associated with it - we'd see nonsmoking bars in every city if that was a big selling point. It's not. Thing is, most barflies - and that's the core of the business, not the weekenders - drink AND smoke. Lose them and you don't have anybody in your bar five days a week.
The more people that talk negatively about it, the better my chances of having beautiful rural NJ never overrun by midwestern suburban transplants.
Yeah, well, better hope that Philly never gets its shit together. Look, North Jersey is just toast. It's only a matter of time. I mean, go look at some of the hills that were being blown apart for aggregate (?!?!) in the 90s along 287. But the farmland in South Jersey... yeah, it's nice stuff. Same with the horse country along 206/202. Couldn't stand the winters - I'm a Southerner - but the land is just beautiful.
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Didn't someone do a 24 parody set in the early 90s? Oh yeah, here. Actually a pretty accurate depiction of 1994 technology.
CmdrTaco's comments on the original iPod.
The thing is, Kindle = e-Ink + Amazon store.
e-Ink is really a crucial part of the Kindle experience. If you've never played with it IRL, you can't really appreciate it - it just sounds a bit ridiculous to say "Works in full sunlight!" and "Long battery life!" until you've gone outside in full summer sun and found it easier to read than it was inside, and then gotten through 3 or 4 long books before you have to recharge. If used heavily, the battery STILL lasts a week when wireless is off. No tablet based on currently available tech can touch this, and I know of no tech in the pipeline that will change that.
And the Kindle has an edge - in some ways, to most people - in that you can shop wherever there is Sprint access. I'm in a 1xRTT area, and though it's slower, it works. So you get the big-buyer power of Amazon opening up the catalog, and the universal access, and it gets a major edge over other readers in some ways - especially if you're in an airport, e.g., that doesn't have free WiFi.
Try used. I got a Kindle v1 for under $200 a month ago, after buying my wife a K2 new as an anniversary present. It's absolutely worth the full price, but saving almost $200 vs new was a pretty easy decision.
To clarify parent: Straight Mobipocket is supported on Kindle. DRMed is not, unless converted to Kindle format or de-DRMed.
Ever actually used a Kindle? It's nothing like reading a book on a computer, which I've done a few times. It's like reading a real book - no eyestrain, easy viewing, no need to be plugged in if you'll be more than a couple of hours.
I get that it's not everyone's cup of tea, and yes, it is really expensive. But if you have the money - and I do, so all you folks out there who depend on early adopters should thank me - it's just an amazing device. I bought my wife a K2 for our anniversary, and liked it so much that I went out and bought a K1, used, not a month later. (The price was too good to turn down.)
You can rip the protection from any .azw book on your Kindle. Google mobidedrm.py for more. Sadly, no crack is available for Topaz (.tpz) files - at least, not that I can find. Some online booksellers sell DRMed Mobipocket books that can be stripped of protection in the same way.
If you want a really strange aural sensation, walk past a stack of acoustic ceiling tiles.
Requires that employers pay for breaks. Doesn't say anywhere that they have to give them. See, for example, here. 22 states have some regulation of the matter, although that regulation may be narrowly tailored - applying either to factory workers only, or even, in Illinois, to Cook County hotel workers only. Thanks for the pointer to the site, though - I've never worked in any of those states, and have never encountered the rule.
Yeah, because searching web videos for "snatches" will be very useful in learning how to do the workout maneuver...
They also overestimate how hard they exercise. Once - and only once - in my life, I could eat quite literally anything I wanted and lose weight. It was during football season, and I was a lineman playing offense and defense, on a team that did three full-contact 3.5 hr practices, a no-contact 3 hr practice, and a 2 hr game every week. The off-season regimen wasn't enough exercise to keep the weight off, but I'd drop it like a stone during the season. So: 10-15 lbs of pads, running around and smashing into people, for 3 hrs a day 4-5 days a week, with sprints at the end. IOW, this guy's entire commuting time, per week, in mixed cardio/strength training.
a 20 mile commute without any hills isn't that bad really.
In the Pac NW, yes. Try it in New Orleans or Phoenix in August, Chicago or Buffalo in January.
His job is his SO. Seriously. It gets 3 hours a day of the 12 hours that are his to command. My wife and I are both physicians, went through med school and residency together. There were significant blocks there where our together time consisted, 5 nights a week, of 30 minutes eating dinner. Then we'd study in the same room. He doesn't even get that.
When he's doing these commutes, it's really time to consider getting the employer to swing for at least part of a place to sleep in the town where the job is - saves him gas money and turns his life into a livable, if unpleasant, way to work a lot and earn a lot of money - which I'm assuming is why he puts up with the conditions.
(My hospital has an area of an older building that is dedicated sleeping space for nurses who live in other towns but like the pay and benefits at ours - they come in, work 3 or 4 12-hour shifts in a row, then go home. One works two 16-hour shifts, with only 8 h off in between, and then goes home. It's worked quite well for us and them.)
entitled by law a 15 minute break every 2.5 hours
Where is that the law? As opposed to good sense and a reason not to quit?
If it bothers you, it wouldn't hurt to have your thyroid hormone levels checked.
Even better. As things stand, things are taxed based on where the cash register is - it is uncommon but not unheard of for political boundaries to run right through a store, and in such cases the cash registers tend to be placed where the tax is lower. What about a person who orders from such a location? What is, after all, the actual point of sale?
replying to kill mistaken mod, meant to select funny but got overrated. Why can't there be a separate confirm button? Or an option to change a specific mod?
I had a lot of chrome and a few metal, but then again my parents' stereo had a deck capable of recording on metal bias tapes. Chrome was about twice as expensive as regular, and metal twice that, but they did sound a LOT better. For one thing, they had high frequencies.
I'm not sure what your experience is from, because I'm a physician and that sounds like no hospital I've ever seen - though I have, on extraordinarily rare occasions, been wrong before ;). I'm an anesthesiologist, so I'm accustomed to navigating through charts. At no hospital I've ever seen - and this is mostly at an academic center, but I've been in private hospitals as well - does dictation get done by anyone other than physicians or their (personal) assistants. Certainly not by a secretary - billing depends on proper dictation. In an academic setting, it is in fact very common to have chart racks - because unlike in a private hospital, every single patient on a given floor is likely to be yours. And charts are always held at the nurses' station, except in ICUs - the only thing in a regular patient room is the vital signs chart. There are separate nursing and medical sections of a patient's record, and these are often kept separately on a day-to-day basis, but eventually must all be compiled into the single medical record.
The portable computer is never charged unless it is kept plugged in. Murphy's Law always prevails on this.
I got a 760 on the (old) SAT English section, got a "5" on the English AP
whose to say
You sure about that? ;)
I gave up on Joyce during Portrait of the Artist, somewhere in his school days. I vaguely remember something about cabbages, but I've managed to excise the rest.
Nonono, I never downmod just for misusing "where" for "were". I'm not so much a grammar Nazi as a grammar Puritan - yeah, I do set a few people on fire every now and again, but it's personal, retail-level work, not the wholesale massacre stuff.
Warning to mods: the guy is joking. Mod appropriately.
He can't write clearly in English. Why do you expect anything meaningful out of him?
Very few took that initiative because it's really expensive if it's even possible, and there's not really a way to recover the costs associated with it - we'd see nonsmoking bars in every city if that was a big selling point. It's not. Thing is, most barflies - and that's the core of the business, not the weekenders - drink AND smoke. Lose them and you don't have anybody in your bar five days a week.
The more people that talk negatively about it, the better my chances of having beautiful rural NJ never overrun by midwestern suburban transplants.
Yeah, well, better hope that Philly never gets its shit together. Look, North Jersey is just toast. It's only a matter of time. I mean, go look at some of the hills that were being blown apart for aggregate (?!?!) in the 90s along 287. But the farmland in South Jersey... yeah, it's nice stuff. Same with the horse country along 206/202. Couldn't stand the winters - I'm a Southerner - but the land is just beautiful.