I can see how the organization is limited, but yeah, I usually just have a queue of 3-5 unread books. I've only had it for 3 years, though, and that's not a long-enough time frame for me to re-read something.
I haven't found the Kindle to be of much use for tech books and journals: it would need to be at least A4-sized and much sharper (and probably color) for that.
What I would appreciate is better within-book search, and more functional "X-Ray" (that's actually available for more than 1 book in 10).
Not sure what that glitch refers to, I don't think I've ever experienced it on the touch (4th gen). At most, I hit the menu area instead of turning the page every once in a while.
It's a book reader, only two things matter: screen quality and the ease of getting books on it.
I would've included battery life, but that's been a solved issue with the Kindle from the beginning.
None of the "killer" features listed would do a damn to improve the reading experience, and some of them would be very annoying. Didn't the whole Siri debacle finally demonstrate that no one wants to yell at their devices?
Now we've eliminated the majority of nuclear weapons, it's become irrelevant
Huh? Two countries both have enough nuclear warheads to comfortably annihilate all human life several times over. Six more have enough to put a significant dent in it.
It doesn't matter if you eliminate the "majority" if what remains is more than enough to get the job done.
(Not that I think that the clock thing is particularly useful)
Can we please stop treating the Roomba as a harbinger of the inevitable robot apocalypse?
It's just about the most trivial "robot" you can imagine, it's been around for over a decade, and in that time, there hasn't been a single new development in the "robotic home automation" market that it was supposed to usher in.
It's just a silly gimmick - it does a good enough job of vacuuming your Cheetos crumbs (though not nearly as well as getting off your ass for 5 minutes would), and that's about it.
From what I remember, yes, his work was slightly later, but he also published it earlier. Stands to reason that this would happen a lot - the only alternative is that different people discover something at the exact same time.
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One of the experts they hired to fix it, rewrote the entire front end Perl.
So, what's the other 500 lines, then?
I can see how the organization is limited, but yeah, I usually just have a queue of 3-5 unread books. I've only had it for 3 years, though, and that's not a long-enough time frame for me to re-read something.
I haven't found the Kindle to be of much use for tech books and journals: it would need to be at least A4-sized and much sharper (and probably color) for that.
What I would appreciate is better within-book search, and more functional "X-Ray" (that's actually available for more than 1 book in 10).
Not sure what that glitch refers to, I don't think I've ever experienced it on the touch (4th gen). At most, I hit the menu area instead of turning the page every once in a while.
Odd, I read a lot of non-Amazon content on my Kindle. Must be using it wrong...
It's a book reader, only two things matter: screen quality and the ease of getting books on it.
I would've included battery life, but that's been a solved issue with the Kindle from the beginning.
None of the "killer" features listed would do a damn to improve the reading experience, and some of them would be very annoying. Didn't the whole Siri debacle finally demonstrate that no one wants to yell at their devices?
Isn't the incidence of new cases in Africa something like over 5,000 a day?
Docs and Sheets definitely doesn't sound like a store you would find between Staples and Linens & Things.
Bought these speakers when they came out in 1999, still in use, doesn't seem like I'll ever need a new set.
And another vote for Cowon - the X5 was built like a damn tank!
Up next: do you really need source control?
Is transmission speed an issue with long distance electrical cables?
Oh good, this shit.
Now we've eliminated the majority of nuclear weapons, it's become irrelevant
Huh? Two countries both have enough nuclear warheads to comfortably annihilate all human life several times over. Six more have enough to put a significant dent in it.
It doesn't matter if you eliminate the "majority" if what remains is more than enough to get the job done.
(Not that I think that the clock thing is particularly useful)
It doesn't have to be nuclear annihilation - we're closer to "doomsday" is what they're saying.
Hard to say, I guess we'll find out what wording Slashdot chooses to use when a Westerner solves a Millennium Prize Problem?
Article says Watson, not AI.
Can we please stop treating the Roomba as a harbinger of the inevitable robot apocalypse?
It's just about the most trivial "robot" you can imagine, it's been around for over a decade, and in that time, there hasn't been a single new development in the "robotic home automation" market that it was supposed to usher in.
It's just a silly gimmick - it does a good enough job of vacuuming your Cheetos crumbs (though not nearly as well as getting off your ass for 5 minutes would), and that's about it.
From what I remember, yes, his work was slightly later, but he also published it earlier. Stands to reason that this would happen a lot - the only alternative is that different people discover something at the exact same time.
Not a nit that I would pick on any other site, but Leibniz invented/discovered calculus independently.
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Humans aren't special. Get over yourselves.
Don't see any chimps or dolphins wringing their hands/flippers over who has what rights. That seems to be a pretty special human trait.
What an idiotic thing to say.
I don't really care what people on the street do - programmers think in types.
Apparently "knee-jerk response" now means "opinion I disagree with". Good to know!
In the US, 56.49 billion potatoes are sold per year. If potatoes caught fire at the same rate, we would all be dead.
They certainly don't use the word "baffled", but for all the scientist I know, the standard response to new data is "WTF is this shit?!"
And no, this is not a troll or flamebait - it's justified, rational criticism.
Just saying it doesn't make it true.