You can't build a library with an e-reader
on
Have eBooks Peaked?
·
· Score: 2
Forgoing the DRM on music in Itunes did not kill the music industry, but that's what all the book publishers act like.
So all we're offered is lock-in, can't loan to friends, etc.
I don't even enjoy owning physical copies of anything, but with the digital copies I'm allowed to own outright and with as I please in private, I tend to buy (music), with the digital copies where they take every DRM step (movies) or go above that and lock me in (amazon, ebooks), I tend to either rent (netflix), get the physical copy and rip (DVDs), or borrow (Amazon Once a month or whatever library).
Yeah, about that, there's no habitable planets close by, like within even a generation or two of constant travel, and seeing as my weatherman has problems predicting 5 days out, I think terraforming the moon or Mars or whatever is a pipe dream right now.
OTOH, humanity can change it's tactics, if forced to. The only question will that force going to be strong leadership or nature herself? I think strong leadership will be much more forgiving in the long haul.
What we have to do is put real money into fusion, build more plants, and battery tech for cars. Keep this planet alive for a few more thousand years.... so, Idk, our species will survive to the point we're ready to colonize (if ever).
And after 2 years, he still hasn't. We keep hearing hype, but where's the proof? Apple should be in front of the next revolution (dismembering STBs and their fees) but no, that looks to be Roku because Apple's longstanding effort (Apple TV) is and continues to be half-hearted. This guy seems to be by the numbers type of guy, an accountant, and no Jobs. Jobs was an asshole, but he was an asshole that got things done. We already seen Apple without a ruthless asshole in the past and it's not pretty.
So don't tell me what Apple knows better, what is it doing better? Microsoft has the entrenchment of apps to rely on, Apple not so much.
The comment quality is still okay, but they could have been reddit (in terms of userbase) since they were here already here in the late 90s... but they puttered around on code changes that did next-to-nothing user interface wise since then. It was a really wasted opportunity.
But reddit sucks anyway, so the lament is just over quantity, nothing else.
There is little difference between the two because the Xbox has effectively killed PC gaming as a seperate category for the publisher's intents and purposes. This leads to a more console oriented market whereas before it was a dual console and PC market, both being pretty different and thus allowing different games to thrive within each.
PC are more powerful though but that difference doesn't really matter anymore because the increase visually it buys isn't all that grand for anything under a $1200 machine.
Unlike my teens and early 20s, I have too much of a life to fiddle with every stupid thing to get things just so. Maybe you can appreciate that one day.
Corporations and their funds should not be allowed to give or fundraise for politicians period. Only private citizens should be allowed to do either. It should not be a tax deduction either. It would fix a lot of problems.
Why not just open the blinds before bedtime and turn off the lights progressively at night... or whatever the magic is... that does this?
I assume most whacked out rythms are just either from work schedules or start from bad self-discipline keeping on watching TV or hanging on the computer way past tired. In the latter situation, with smartphones, that means not even most accessible camping is going to help.
No, 3D printing is at best a fantasy of Star Trek level replication which is who knows how many lifetimes away. Until then, it's best off used for fast prototyping and other such applications, not to pretend it will replace walmart or the dollar store for shoddy goods.
Assuming they would put the airport on lockdown and start searching everyone if they found one person with a bomb, sending more people through would just increase the chances of getting caught and foiled.
The problem is that there is no killer app that needs to be tamed by new PC hardware. Any killer apps there days are more likely going to be on phones and need to be tamed by phones sized hardware.
Maybe one comes out one day, maybe with games, 3D, holographic screens, but right now it's all kinda meh.
I think I seen this coming when GHz stopped climbing in the early 00s as well. You can wrench out more power with all the other tricks, but this was the easiest way. Even these days, I can feel when that GHz limit has an impact, as a program brings a core to it's max and just stays there, because it or some subfunction isn't made for multicore, and then with a single CPU chomping away at it, I feel like I'm back in 2003 again in terms of processor speed.
Well, I can at least buy a car from many different manufacturers, from a variety of dealerships, and resell the damn thing if I feel like it.
These electronic books, I'm lost. What do I own? Where's the the secondhand market? If I want to buy the 16 year old book, Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone, a secondhand paperback from amazon is $0.01 plus shipping (media mail should be cheap). If I want to buy it on a kindle, $8.
So, what exactly is the consumer winning beyond some bookshelf space?
Like a train, let the engines charge the batteries, the the electrical motors drive the wheels. Because acceleration is tied to the electrical motors, you can gear engine size towards average load, not maximum peak of acceleration. Smaller engines = automatic fuel savings.
Also, since the engine only charges batteries, they will be easy to swap out and smaller engines are also cheaper to swap out. Today, hardly anyone would refit their car to run on hydrogen or alcohol or whatever. Expensive, voids the warranty, you might fuck up the entire car. With a series, swapping out the engine becomes less like touching the OEM parts of your all integrated mac and more like taking out the PSU of your PC.
Alcohol becomes cheap? No problem! Switch it. Same with biodiesel. Batteries advance significantly? Take the engine out completely and throw some of those in there instead! A lightweight small stirling engine becomes viable or the wave disk generator actually gets off the drawing board? Cool, go with that. Whatever. Real modularity.
The 2 other real problems I see is that we're still building sexy sports cars or other wind pushing hunks of metal that aren't as aerodynamically efficient as say an Aptera. And that the US is a car culture more than most. That's the hardest to fix though. Entire economy has been swining on that since the idea of the suburb beens introduced since the 1930-1950s via the government's pathological want of everyone to get their own house (cheap mortgages yo) to the country becoming one continuously ugly strip mall.
We still can't fully replicate Damascus Steel (OK, maybe the lack of a living slave in which to quench the blade is part of that:-P). I'd argue that fine liquors -- wines, whiskeys, etc... fall into that category. I'd say it's almost an art form.
Um
Modern monosteel performs just as well as folded or damascus steel. Japanese sword makers are still in business (and a lot of Japanese kitchen knife makers who come from the same families/cities) and I'd pit that against Damascus steel as well.
I'd say a lot of those examples are a romanticized, overhyped image, something like Bruce Lee.
You don't just assume your car is going to run out of oil because you haven't checked the oil since the last time you started it -- you know that as long as you check it every 7,000 miles, or whatever the manual says, you do not have to worry about that. Why would a gun be different?
My van's transmission just died, the whole thing. It had barely 34,,000 miles on it. Just at the 30K mark, I had 30k service on it barely 6 months ago. Because the power train has 5 year/100k warranty, I was safe. They went in and discovered there was barely any transmission fluid left. I saw no leaks on the driveway either so I guess it somehow burned up. Every part except the housing had to be replace. Transmission fluid doesn't regularly do this and doesn't have be checked as much like oil.
Killing animals because some sick fuck thinks it's fun –not fine.
You're not helping your argument. It is fun. That's why people do it. We are primates and have it in our blood.
Treating it like it's unusual feeling or that the people who engage in it are outliers and freaks leads to misunderstanding the nature of it and away from the truth.
If you're not barefoot and hunting with hand-lapped flint point on a spear, you're cheating.
A spear?! Now you're cheating. You need to go back to the plains of Africa and run down your prey until they collapse from exhaustion. No fancy pointing sticks, sir!
Is it bribery or do companies donate more money to politicians that agree with their policies?
Why should companies and especially corporations be allowed to donate money? Only private citizens should have that right, and I dare say, those in or running for public office should be allowed to take from those they represent.
Run for Senate in Pennsylvania, the law should be that they accept only from PA citizens. Running to represent district 5 in NY? Please only accept from distric 5 residents. Otherwise we have Senators from Delaware representing Hollywood's interests and not his own constituents. Joe Biden, I'm looking at you.
Slashdot Mirror
Forgoing the DRM on music in Itunes did not kill the music industry, but that's what all the book publishers act like.
So all we're offered is lock-in, can't loan to friends, etc.
I don't even enjoy owning physical copies of anything, but with the digital copies I'm allowed to own outright and with as I please in private, I tend to buy (music), with the digital copies where they take every DRM step (movies) or go above that and lock me in (amazon, ebooks), I tend to either rent (netflix), get the physical copy and rip (DVDs), or borrow (Amazon Once a month or whatever library).
Yeah, about that, there's no habitable planets close by, like within even a generation or two of constant travel, and seeing as my weatherman has problems predicting 5 days out, I think terraforming the moon or Mars or whatever is a pipe dream right now.
OTOH, humanity can change it's tactics, if forced to. The only question will that force going to be strong leadership or nature herself? I think strong leadership will be much more forgiving in the long haul.
What we have to do is put real money into fusion, build more plants, and battery tech for cars. Keep this planet alive for a few more thousand years.... so, Idk, our species will survive to the point we're ready to colonize (if ever).
Um what, they pushed to get music publisher's to sell tracks without DRM. As for video, where can you get video without DRM? Netflix? Amazon? Huh?
And after 2 years, he still hasn't. We keep hearing hype, but where's the proof? Apple should be in front of the next revolution (dismembering STBs and their fees) but no, that looks to be Roku because Apple's longstanding effort (Apple TV) is and continues to be half-hearted. This guy seems to be by the numbers type of guy, an accountant, and no Jobs. Jobs was an asshole, but he was an asshole that got things done. We already seen Apple without a ruthless asshole in the past and it's not pretty.
So don't tell me what Apple knows better, what is it doing better? Microsoft has the entrenchment of apps to rely on, Apple not so much.
The comment quality is still okay, but they could have been reddit (in terms of userbase) since they were here already here in the late 90s... but they puttered around on code changes that did next-to-nothing user interface wise since then. It was a really wasted opportunity.
But reddit sucks anyway, so the lament is just over quantity, nothing else.
There is little difference between the two because the Xbox has effectively killed PC gaming as a seperate category for the publisher's intents and purposes. This leads to a more console oriented market whereas before it was a dual console and PC market, both being pretty different and thus allowing different games to thrive within each.
PC are more powerful though but that difference doesn't really matter anymore because the increase visually it buys isn't all that grand for anything under a $1200 machine.
Because I grew up on it in my teens and early 20s, when I did have the time to fuck around. Now, any more stupid questions?
Unlike my teens and early 20s, I have too much of a life to fiddle with every stupid thing to get things just so. Maybe you can appreciate that one day.
Corporations and their funds should not be allowed to give or fundraise for politicians period. Only private citizens should be allowed to do either. It should not be a tax deduction either. It would fix a lot of problems.
They can't even make a decent desktop OS after years of trying.... I dumped it years ago for Mint.
Why not just open the blinds before bedtime and turn off the lights progressively at night... or whatever the magic is... that does this?
I assume most whacked out rythms are just either from work schedules or start from bad self-discipline keeping on watching TV or hanging on the computer way past tired. In the latter situation, with smartphones, that means not even most accessible camping is going to help.
No, 3D printing is at best a fantasy of Star Trek level replication which is who knows how many lifetimes away. Until then, it's best off used for fast prototyping and other such applications, not to pretend it will replace walmart or the dollar store for shoddy goods.
Assuming they would put the airport on lockdown and start searching everyone if they found one person with a bomb, sending more people through would just increase the chances of getting caught and foiled.
The problem is that there is no killer app that needs to be tamed by new PC hardware. Any killer apps there days are more likely going to be on phones and need to be tamed by phones sized hardware.
Maybe one comes out one day, maybe with games, 3D, holographic screens, but right now it's all kinda meh.
I think I seen this coming when GHz stopped climbing in the early 00s as well. You can wrench out more power with all the other tricks, but this was the easiest way. Even these days, I can feel when that GHz limit has an impact, as a program brings a core to it's max and just stays there, because it or some subfunction isn't made for multicore, and then with a single CPU chomping away at it, I feel like I'm back in 2003 again in terms of processor speed.
Well, I can at least buy a car from many different manufacturers, from a variety of dealerships, and resell the damn thing if I feel like it.
These electronic books, I'm lost. What do I own? Where's the the secondhand market? If I want to buy the 16 year old book, Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone, a secondhand paperback from amazon is $0.01 plus shipping (media mail should be cheap). If I want to buy it on a kindle, $8.
So, what exactly is the consumer winning beyond some bookshelf space?
Like a train, let the engines charge the batteries, the the electrical motors drive the wheels. Because acceleration is tied to the electrical motors, you can gear engine size towards average load, not maximum peak of acceleration. Smaller engines = automatic fuel savings.
Also, since the engine only charges batteries, they will be easy to swap out and smaller engines are also cheaper to swap out. Today, hardly anyone would refit their car to run on hydrogen or alcohol or whatever. Expensive, voids the warranty, you might fuck up the entire car. With a series, swapping out the engine becomes less like touching the OEM parts of your all integrated mac and more like taking out the PSU of your PC.
Alcohol becomes cheap? No problem! Switch it. Same with biodiesel. Batteries advance significantly? Take the engine out completely and throw some of those in there instead! A lightweight small stirling engine becomes viable or the wave disk generator actually gets off the drawing board? Cool, go with that. Whatever. Real modularity.
The 2 other real problems I see is that we're still building sexy sports cars or other wind pushing hunks of metal that aren't as aerodynamically efficient as say an Aptera. And that the US is a car culture more than most. That's the hardest to fix though. Entire economy has been swining on that since the idea of the suburb beens introduced since the 1930-1950s via the government's pathological want of everyone to get their own house (cheap mortgages yo) to the country becoming one continuously ugly strip mall.
This article seems to disagree with you:
http://www.gizmag.com/quantum-entanglement-speed-10000-faster-light/26587/
Um
Modern monosteel performs just as well as folded or damascus steel. Japanese sword makers are still in business (and a lot of Japanese kitchen knife makers who come from the same families/cities) and I'd pit that against Damascus steel as well.
I'd say a lot of those examples are a romanticized, overhyped image, something like Bruce Lee.
My van's transmission just died, the whole thing. It had barely 34,,000 miles on it. Just at the 30K mark, I had 30k service on it barely 6 months ago. Because the power train has 5 year/100k warranty, I was safe. They went in and discovered there was barely any transmission fluid left. I saw no leaks on the driveway either so I guess it somehow burned up. Every part except the housing had to be replace. Transmission fluid doesn't regularly do this and doesn't have be checked as much like oil.
Now, why would a gun be different?
Citation please.
You're not helping your argument. It is fun. That's why people do it. We are primates and have it in our blood.
Treating it like it's unusual feeling or that the people who engage in it are outliers and freaks leads to misunderstanding the nature of it and away from the truth.
A spear?! Now you're cheating. You need to go back to the plains of Africa and run down your prey until they collapse from exhaustion. No fancy pointing sticks, sir!
Useful on the plains, but not in the forest.
So basically like a GPU or math co-processor.
Why should companies and especially corporations be allowed to donate money? Only private citizens should have that right, and I dare say, those in or running for public office should be allowed to take from those they represent.
Run for Senate in Pennsylvania, the law should be that they accept only from PA citizens. Running to represent district 5 in NY? Please only accept from distric 5 residents. Otherwise we have Senators from Delaware representing Hollywood's interests and not his own constituents. Joe Biden, I'm looking at you.