Yeah, I've been eagerly waiting for the Adam also, but I'm no longer sure it can replace an E-ink reader. On the few previews I've seen on Youtube, the backlightless mode of the Pixel Qi screen seem to be low contrast "black on silver" like a first generation Gameboy. Hopefully it looks better IRL.
So are the PDFs from Packt.
Pragmatic Programmers also have DRM-free (but watermarked) ePub and mobi (for the Kindle) versions of almost all of their books. That kicks ass because PDF:s suck on small screens.
For reading novels I think 6" (and even 5") screens are fine, especially with the new higher contrast Pearl screens that Sony PRS-350/650/950, Kindle 3 and Kindle DX Graphite use. Larger screens are only really needed when reading PDF:s and technical documents with illustrations.
I would never read a novel on a backlighed screen like LCD/LED (read: a tablet) though. I'd rather print the thing and carry around a ring binder full of papers than read on an LCD. E-readers rule!
Not as long as they keep making a fortune from the Amazon Kindle store. But it's not that hard to read DRM-restricted.epub files on your Kindle actually. It's a quite inept solution but it works.
Let's hope that the US government is smart enough to realize that killing Assange would accomplish nothing except making him a martyr and turning quite a bunch of (today) reasonable people into extremists.
This situation could very well escalate into WW3 in a couple of years if the governments (mainly the US at the moment) can't be brave enough to say "we did wrong and we are sorry". But Assange and Wikileaks are not to blame, they are simply messengers, the bringers of truth. It's time for everybody, every government, every bank, every corporation, to put all the cards on the table.
No matter how this turns out, I'm sure we are entering a new era, a new paradigm. Let's hope that it's for the better.
Yeah, I exaggerated, I know. My point was that Slashdot never "became" a "piracy advocacy site", it just never changed opinion about it when it became mainstream.
We're pretty much brought up with piracy. We all (please don't take that too literally again) bought a used "C64 with disk drive and 3000 games" in the open as kids. Even cops and judges. We taped our friends' record collections. We rented movies and made VHS copies. We made long distance calls to BBS:es to download disk images with the latest Amiga games with a 2400 baud modem even though it ended up costing more than just buying the damn games in the first place, but we didn't care. If you took a long distance bus trip as recently as 3 years ago, the bus driver would likely show a pirated DVD and nobody would even think about it. Audio/Video-stores sold pirated satellite boxes over the counter. I think you get the point.
It's not "piracy advocacy" that is the new thing here, it's having people opposing it that's new.
Do I care? Yes, very much. Do I care enough? Maybe. It's only a question about how much I'm willing to give up at this given moment. I've already given up meat, which is something. One day I might feel ready to take another step and give up something more. Do you think I'm making it too easy for myself? Why should it be hard? I'm not trying to be a hero.
Imagine the wonders that could happen if everybody just gave up something easy to make the world a little bit better. Like choosing free range chicken instead of broiler chicken. Or choosing Fairtrade coffee. It doesn't need to be hard.
I realize Slashdot has become a piracy advocacy site in the last few years
Wrong. It was only very very recently (like maybe 3-4 years ago) that the first persons who opposed software and media piracy (for personal use) started to even appear on tech forums. Before that it wasn't even something that you talked about in terms of right and wrong. Everybody(!) only talked about what was technically possible and how to do it, as if the concept of copyright didn't even exist. I've been "online" since the 80s (BBS:es, Fidonet, Internet) and the first time I even saw or heard a person (not corporation) mention piracy in negative terms was like 4 or 5 years ago.
And what about drinking another animals milk? Going around in the dead skin of an animal is a bit weird too right?
Well, yes, actually it is.
Have you seen how bad the standards are in large scale dairy industry?
Yes, unfortunately I have.
Isn't this about the animals' welfare, not your squeamishness?
I have to draw the line somewhere. I drew that line somewhere between killed animals and usage of what animals produce.
Actually, this kind of criticism bothers me the most. It's as if doing nothing is better than doing a little and not caring at all is better than only caring about a subset. When I turned vegetarian about 12 years ago there were some vegans who previously didn't care that I ate meat who now suddenly started to criticize me for being "only" vegetarian. Well, fuck them.
If you want to continue to eat meat I won't bother you about it.
What I can't stand is when people take PRIDE in not caring and even worse, hate people for giving a damn about the animals.
You draw weird conclusions. How can you interpret "meat is no longer critical for our survival" as "what's right for me should be right for everyone"? That attitude came from the other direction with "vegetarians are a sad subspecies of the human kind".
I eat vegetarian for my own and the animals' sake but I never evangelise unless someone ask me WHY I don't eat meat (then I explain but try to not sound too judgemental), or say degrading things about vegetarians.
So yes, please let me eat my rabbit food and leave me alone about it already.
Yes, it is. If you don't want to do it the classic way and follow a strict diet to make sure you get eat a correct balance of protein/carb/fat and vitamins, minerals, and so on, there are always artificial substitutions for those.
Not that I'd recommend it, but in the 21st century everybody CAN be a vegan if they have the motivation. With a soy protein drink and some multi vitamin pills every day you can live reasonably healthy from nothing but french fries and ketchup.
I'm a vegetarian (for 10+ years) simply because I find the whole concept of chewing on dead animals quite bizarre and distasteful and I think the whole large scale meat industry is sick. Vegetarianism, and even veganism, works just fine for modern humans. Yes, eating meat was critical for our survival and evolvement in the past but it's not in the 21st century.
I do agree with you that PETA should stick to their core business of figting ill treatment of animals, though. I also don't agree with their extremist "animals should not be pets" view. I love my pure breed Bengal cats and they [seem to] love me back. I don't like PETA in general.
What I like the least are remarks like "vegetarians are a whole different and sad subspecies of humankind" though. Why the hell do you care that some people don't want to eat meat?
Also curious how a Swedish social democrat can be regarded as right wing?
Probably because she is religious (the kind who actually believes in God), which is quite uncommon among non-immigrant Swedes. Here in Sweden, "religious" pretty much implies "conservative", which in turn pretty much implies "right wing". That small fact that she is involved with a leftish political party doesn't change that.:)
Are you kidding me? One of them is a right-wing feminist (yeah, weird) who has been outspoken about how woman should use rape accusations to destroy man.
Unless you have a source, you should not post unverified information like that.
Here you have her seven step model for legal revenge blog post, translated from Swedish by Google Translate. She deleted it when the media circus started but because there were so many ways to find it anyway (Google cache, way back machine, cached RSS-feeds etc) she "undeleted" the post after a while.
When I got my Kindle it was pre-registered to my Amazon account and it had a personal welcome message pre-installed on it. That's pretty scary actually, but very user friendly.
Propose completely outrageous ideas & then scale it back to the point where people are still unhappy but not as motivated.
Just wait. Once they get this version of ACTA in place they will propose some "minor modifications", one by one over the course of a few years. Some modifications will come "bundled" with other laws, usually as well disguised side-effects. Each modification won't look so bad by itself but when put together they will make ACTA morph back into the original, outrageous version and nobody will care because it happened too slowly. This is the tactic they use all the time.
I became a vampire (in Oblivion...) accidentally because I didn't realise how to cure it before it was too late. I was busy with a quest and didn't realise that it would become forever permanent if I didn't cure it quickly... Also, I liked being a vampire for a while because my character got super strong and super agile. However, only being able to be outdoors when dark ruined the gameplay after a while so I went to Google to learn how to cure it. Had I not been able to cure it, I had stopped playing the game right there because it didn't feel fun anymore. Now I WAS able to cure it using the mentioned workaround so I think I spent at least 100 hours more enjoying it...
Yes, I think it's that bad. Most PS3 games get bug fixes even several years after their initial release. Bethesda really, really, really should had released a patch for this.
What is this nonsense? Bethesda fixes bugs? As far as I know, they never released a single update for neither Oblivion nor Fallout 3 for PS3 ever, only a few expensive DLCs.
Some pretty damn serious bugs too. Oblivion: Game of the year edition is almost incompletable on the PS3 when using English unless you have the EU release. To cure vampirism, at one point you have to save your game, exit, change the OS language settings to German or French, start the game again, fumble through the buggy (now working) dialog, save again, exit, change back to English and restart the game again. If you have the US release you are out of luck. They never released a patch for this...
I guess you haven't actually tried KDE for Mac? I wouldn't say "works", more like "good enough for making some carefully crafted screenshots giving the illusion that it works but in reality it's an unusable mess".
I'm pretty sure that KDE will work great on Wayland though, because they will actually have some developers focusing on it.:)
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If what Assange did is considered "rape," then this must be, as well.
No, that's a fucking massacre!
Yes, if you only read the headline. This client also has decentralized search.
From what I can see, it's pretty much OneSwarm, but without the anonymity.
Yeah, I've been eagerly waiting for the Adam also, but I'm no longer sure it can replace an E-ink reader. On the few previews I've seen on Youtube, the backlightless mode of the Pixel Qi screen seem to be low contrast "black on silver" like a first generation Gameboy. Hopefully it looks better IRL.
So are the PDFs from Packt. Pragmatic Programmers also have DRM-free (but watermarked) ePub and mobi (for the Kindle) versions of almost all of their books. That kicks ass because PDF:s suck on small screens.
For reading novels I think 6" (and even 5") screens are fine, especially with the new higher contrast Pearl screens that Sony PRS-350/650/950, Kindle 3 and Kindle DX Graphite use. Larger screens are only really needed when reading PDF:s and technical documents with illustrations.
I would never read a novel on a backlighed screen like LCD/LED (read: a tablet) though. I'd rather print the thing and carry around a ring binder full of papers than read on an LCD. E-readers rule!
Not as long as they keep making a fortune from the Amazon Kindle store. But it's not that hard to read DRM-restricted .epub files on your Kindle actually. It's a quite inept solution but it works.
Let's hope that the US government is smart enough to realize that killing Assange would accomplish nothing except making him a martyr and turning quite a bunch of (today) reasonable people into extremists.
This situation could very well escalate into WW3 in a couple of years if the governments (mainly the US at the moment) can't be brave enough to say "we did wrong and we are sorry". But Assange and Wikileaks are not to blame, they are simply messengers, the bringers of truth. It's time for everybody, every government, every bank, every corporation, to put all the cards on the table.
No matter how this turns out, I'm sure we are entering a new era, a new paradigm. Let's hope that it's for the better.
Probably, but they were not very common, or maybe just not very vocal, until very recently. Anyway, I think we agree, then. :)
Yeah, I exaggerated, I know. My point was that Slashdot never "became" a "piracy advocacy site", it just never changed opinion about it when it became mainstream.
We're pretty much brought up with piracy. We all (please don't take that too literally again) bought a used "C64 with disk drive and 3000 games" in the open as kids. Even cops and judges. We taped our friends' record collections. We rented movies and made VHS copies. We made long distance calls to BBS:es to download disk images with the latest Amiga games with a 2400 baud modem even though it ended up costing more than just buying the damn games in the first place, but we didn't care. If you took a long distance bus trip as recently as 3 years ago, the bus driver would likely show a pirated DVD and nobody would even think about it. Audio/Video-stores sold pirated satellite boxes over the counter. I think you get the point.
It's not "piracy advocacy" that is the new thing here, it's having people opposing it that's new.
If you look hard enough you can find exceptions to almost every rule.
Do I care? Yes, very much. Do I care enough? Maybe. It's only a question about how much I'm willing to give up at this given moment. I've already given up meat, which is something. One day I might feel ready to take another step and give up something more. Do you think I'm making it too easy for myself? Why should it be hard? I'm not trying to be a hero.
Imagine the wonders that could happen if everybody just gave up something easy to make the world a little bit better. Like choosing free range chicken instead of broiler chicken. Or choosing Fairtrade coffee. It doesn't need to be hard.
I realize Slashdot has become a piracy advocacy site in the last few years
Wrong. It was only very very recently (like maybe 3-4 years ago) that the first persons who opposed software and media piracy (for personal use) started to even appear on tech forums. Before that it wasn't even something that you talked about in terms of right and wrong. Everybody(!) only talked about what was technically possible and how to do it, as if the concept of copyright didn't even exist. I've been "online" since the 80s (BBS:es, Fidonet, Internet) and the first time I even saw or heard a person (not corporation) mention piracy in negative terms was like 4 or 5 years ago.
And what about drinking another animals milk? Going around in the dead skin of an animal is a bit weird too right?
Well, yes, actually it is.
Have you seen how bad the standards are in large scale dairy industry?
Yes, unfortunately I have.
Isn't this about the animals' welfare, not your squeamishness?
I have to draw the line somewhere. I drew that line somewhere between killed animals and usage of what animals produce.
Actually, this kind of criticism bothers me the most. It's as if doing nothing is better than doing a little and not caring at all is better than only caring about a subset. When I turned vegetarian about 12 years ago there were some vegans who previously didn't care that I ate meat who now suddenly started to criticize me for being "only" vegetarian. Well, fuck them.
If you want to continue to eat meat I won't bother you about it.
What I can't stand is when people take PRIDE in not caring and even worse, hate people for giving a damn about the animals.
You draw weird conclusions. How can you interpret "meat is no longer critical for our survival" as "what's right for me should be right for everyone"? That attitude came from the other direction with "vegetarians are a sad subspecies of the human kind".
I eat vegetarian for my own and the animals' sake but I never evangelise unless someone ask me WHY I don't eat meat (then I explain but try to not sound too judgemental), or say degrading things about vegetarians.
So yes, please let me eat my rabbit food and leave me alone about it already.
it's not because they're doing it wrong
Yes, it is. If you don't want to do it the classic way and follow a strict diet to make sure you get eat a correct balance of protein/carb/fat and vitamins, minerals, and so on, there are always artificial substitutions for those.
Not that I'd recommend it, but in the 21st century everybody CAN be a vegan if they have the motivation. With a soy protein drink and some multi vitamin pills every day you can live reasonably healthy from nothing but french fries and ketchup.
I'm a vegetarian (for 10+ years) simply because I find the whole concept of chewing on dead animals quite bizarre and distasteful and I think the whole large scale meat industry is sick. Vegetarianism, and even veganism, works just fine for modern humans. Yes, eating meat was critical for our survival and evolvement in the past but it's not in the 21st century.
I do agree with you that PETA should stick to their core business of figting ill treatment of animals, though. I also don't agree with their extremist "animals should not be pets" view. I love my pure breed Bengal cats and they [seem to] love me back. I don't like PETA in general.
What I like the least are remarks like "vegetarians are a whole different and sad subspecies of humankind" though. Why the hell do you care that some people don't want to eat meat?
Also curious how a Swedish social democrat can be regarded as right wing?
Probably because she is religious (the kind who actually believes in God), which is quite uncommon among non-immigrant Swedes. Here in Sweden, "religious" pretty much implies "conservative", which in turn pretty much implies "right wing". That small fact that she is involved with a leftish political party doesn't change that. :)
Are you kidding me? One of them is a right-wing feminist (yeah, weird) who has been outspoken about how woman should use rape accusations to destroy man.
Unless you have a source, you should not post unverified information like that.
Here you have her seven step model for legal revenge blog post, translated from Swedish by Google Translate. She deleted it when the media circus started but because there were so many ways to find it anyway (Google cache, way back machine, cached RSS-feeds etc) she "undeleted" the post after a while.
When I got my Kindle it was pre-registered to my Amazon account and it had a personal welcome message pre-installed on it. That's pretty scary actually, but very user friendly.
Propose completely outrageous ideas & then scale it back to the point where people are still unhappy but not as motivated.
Just wait. Once they get this version of ACTA in place they will propose some "minor modifications", one by one over the course of a few years. Some modifications will come "bundled" with other laws, usually as well disguised side-effects. Each modification won't look so bad by itself but when put together they will make ACTA morph back into the original, outrageous version and nobody will care because it happened too slowly. This is the tactic they use all the time.
I became a vampire (in Oblivion...) accidentally because I didn't realise how to cure it before it was too late. I was busy with a quest and didn't realise that it would become forever permanent if I didn't cure it quickly... Also, I liked being a vampire for a while because my character got super strong and super agile. However, only being able to be outdoors when dark ruined the gameplay after a while so I went to Google to learn how to cure it. Had I not been able to cure it, I had stopped playing the game right there because it didn't feel fun anymore. Now I WAS able to cure it using the mentioned workaround so I think I spent at least 100 hours more enjoying it...
Yes, I think it's that bad. Most PS3 games get bug fixes even several years after their initial release. Bethesda really, really, really should had released a patch for this.
What is this nonsense? Bethesda fixes bugs? As far as I know, they never released a single update for neither Oblivion nor Fallout 3 for PS3 ever, only a few expensive DLCs.
Some pretty damn serious bugs too. Oblivion: Game of the year edition is almost incompletable on the PS3 when using English unless you have the EU release. To cure vampirism, at one point you have to save your game, exit, change the OS language settings to German or French, start the game again, fumble through the buggy (now working) dialog, save again, exit, change back to English and restart the game again. If you have the US release you are out of luck. They never released a patch for this...
I guess you haven't actually tried KDE for Mac? I wouldn't say "works", more like "good enough for making some carefully crafted screenshots giving the illusion that it works but in reality it's an unusable mess".
I'm pretty sure that KDE will work great on Wayland though, because they will actually have some developers focusing on it. :)
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