I flip through an ebook exactly as fast as I read.
If it's a reference book where I need to random access it, then I stick with paper. For fiction I buy both, but probably read more ebooks, just because the reader is always with me.
Probably depends on what you read. Other than the covers, none of my books have anything in color.
And I wouldn't hold my breath on color e-ink. Qualcomm's Mirasol was looking very promising, but apparently no one wanted color e-ink badly enough, so Qualcomm abandoned the e-reader market.
I don't think anybody is working very hard on color e-ink.
I don't read 500 books at the same time, but I do read sequentially, and carrying around more than one book is more hassle than I care to put up with. My book reader fits in my pocket more easily than one paperback does, much less two. That's not a marginal utility, it's pretty significant.
Frankly, if I did need to access more than one book at a time, I would do it like you do, laying physical books out side-by-side. Ebooks are not a good choice for reference books (at least for me.) For me reference books are used in a random access manner, and ebooks aren't particularly good at that.
Novels, however, are pretty much linear, so the paper and ebook experience are pretty similar. And there are conveniences to ebooks aside from the portability aspect.
I don't need hundreds. I do need multiples though. More than is convenient to carry around with me, especially if I'm travelling.
And I have an e-ink reader. It's quite comfortable to stare at for as long as I would stare at a dead-tree book. If I were using a tablet or a phone, yeah, you'd be right. I don't use those for long-form reading, though.
My ebook reader is far more "pocketable" than a dead tree book is. Believe me, I've been carrying around books of one sort or another (in pockets, in backpacks, etc.) for almost 50 years. I've had more than a few paperbacks shoved into pockets.
They're a pain in the butt. That's for just one. Two became very inconvenient. If I expected to finish one that meant I had to also carry the next one with me. Now that next book is always with me.
Do I need 500+ books with me at all times? No. Do I need at least 2 or 3? Yes. If I'm travelling then I need 5 or 6 (or more, depending on the trip length.)
Having 500+ is nice because I have a choice of what the next book is going to be. It's not essential, but it's nice.
In reality, it's more complicated for me. At any given time I've got at least 3 books in-progress, usually a couple in dead tree form (at fixed locations) and one ebook which I carry where ever I go. I finish 2 or 3 a week, but I don't always know when that's going to be. Having that next book handy is important to me.
Your mistake is in not keeping track of who you're talking to.
I don't believe I have discussed current *or* wires.
But now that you mention it... Thermodynamics covers all forms of energy. Any time some form of energy becomes less available to do work (yes, that *does* include heating in wires), that's entropy. And then you're dealing with thermodynamics.
Until you actually reach absolute zero and stay there, *everything* you do deals with thermodynamics. In a signficant role.
Ohm, Bernouli, whatever part of science you want to talk about (yes, biology, chemistry, *whatever*) you are subject to the contraints of thermodynamics.
Sailboats sailing upwind have a keel. The wheeled vehicle you're talking about is coupled to the ground through its wheels, effectively like a keel. Without that tethering, neither will work.
A tethered kite could generate power via wind energy.
An untethered vehicle could not. Or it could, but only by harnessing the wind of its passage, which would have to be created by its motive force. The generated power would have to be less than the power expended to actually move the device. Net loss.
Personally, I don't so much mind them saving the passwords in the *clear*.
I mind them saving passwords at *all*. By default. If you spend considerable time searching, you will find that to disable this silly behavior you can do so by the intuitive method af adding a configuration file in the program directory with a particular setting in it to enable "kiosk mode."
Otherwise it will record the password to every site you connect to. Silently.
I have a cron job that checks every 2 minutes to see if tomcat is still up. It starts it if it's not.
With Tomcat 5.5 there were days when it would restart 15 or 20 times a day. Tomcat 7 hasn't gone down yet, but it hasn't been used yet either. We'll see what happens the next time the Java class is scheduled.
Not a bumper of course. But other body parts? Sure.
I had a Saturn for many years, and most of the exterior was plastic. I became a real believer in plastic body panels after the guy in the pickup truck backed into the side of my car -- right into the left from fender. He was going slow (it was a crowded parking lot) and he stopped as soon as he hit me.
When he pulled forward again, we both looked to see how badly my car had been damaged. A metal skin would have had hundreds of dollars in damage. After rubbing (with a rag) the rubber marks off, you couldn't tell I had been hit.
Same here. And although I do have a subscription and back up to Crashplan's servers, I also back my home machines up to a USB drive on my work computer and to a friend's machine across the continent.
That, in my opinion, is the really nice thing about Crashplan -- the ability to do offsite backup for free if you can round up other people willing to share space and bandwidth.
"Your business model does not have a right to exist," is not the same as saying "Your business model should not be allowed to exist." It's saying, "Your business model does not possess any entitlement that requires anyone else to protect its existence."
The question of whether a given business model is ethical is still pertinent, but it's not the same question.
You're not really disagreeing with him, you're just going off in another direction.
I have PCs. It's less that I'm "opposed" to getting Windows or "opposed" to getting a Mac than it is that I don't see any pressing need to to either. Dedicating one computer to one task seems a bit wasteful to me.
And I don't really have much in the way of "purpose-built" software, if by that you mean software that really only does one thing.
I don't find Audacity a pain at all to digitize LPs. It does a great job. If I had something like Vinyl Studio, I would probably use it to hand edit pops and clicks out, one at a time. If it would let me. Is it significantly easier to do this with VS? I get the impression that its strength is in automating such tasks, but I wouldn't let it do that.
That would mean I would have to have a Windows (or Mac) computer handy. It could be done, but is Vinyl Studio enough better to make it worth my while? I don't currently have either around now.
Automatically removing clicks, hiss and hum would be swell, except that I would never allow any software to do that. The overall sound always seems to suffer, at least in my experience. Hand editing the clicks is a fair amount of work, but the results are better. If I can't fix a problem without damaging anything else, I leave the problem in.
Other than cleaning up the sound, all the other things it does are pretty easy in Audacity.
Vinyl Studio looks like it could do a lot of the heavy lifting, and may very well be a nice piece of software, but its most attractive features are the ones I wouldn't use.
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Guess it depends on what you're reading.
I flip through an ebook exactly as fast as I read.
If it's a reference book where I need to random access it, then I stick with paper. For fiction I buy both, but probably read more ebooks, just because the reader is always with me.
Yup. I understand thermodynamics and where it applies.
Apparently you don't.
Probably depends on what you read. Other than the covers, none of my books have anything in color.
And I wouldn't hold my breath on color e-ink. Qualcomm's Mirasol was looking very promising, but apparently no one wanted color e-ink badly enough, so Qualcomm abandoned the e-reader market.
I don't think anybody is working very hard on color e-ink.
I don't read 500 books at the same time, but I do read sequentially, and carrying around more than one book is more hassle than I care to put up with. My book reader fits in my pocket more easily than one paperback does, much less two. That's not a marginal utility, it's pretty significant.
Frankly, if I did need to access more than one book at a time, I would do it like you do, laying physical books out side-by-side. Ebooks are not a good choice for reference books (at least for me.) For me reference books are used in a random access manner, and ebooks aren't particularly good at that.
Novels, however, are pretty much linear, so the paper and ebook experience are pretty similar. And there are conveniences to ebooks aside from the portability aspect.
I don't need hundreds. I do need multiples though. More than is convenient to carry around with me, especially if I'm travelling.
And I have an e-ink reader. It's quite comfortable to stare at for as long as I would stare at a dead-tree book. If I were using a tablet or a phone, yeah, you'd be right. I don't use those for long-form reading, though.
Funny. That was what my degree was in.
And as I recall my thermodynamics teacher was German. Apparently not all Germans understand physics.
He did.
Fell as sorry for me as you like.
My ebook reader is far more "pocketable" than a dead tree book is. Believe me, I've been carrying around books of one sort or another (in pockets, in backpacks, etc.) for almost 50 years. I've had more than a few paperbacks shoved into pockets.
They're a pain in the butt. That's for just one. Two became very inconvenient. If I expected to finish one that meant I had to also carry the next one with me. Now that next book is always with me.
Do I need 500+ books with me at all times? No. Do I need at least 2 or 3? Yes. If I'm travelling then I need 5 or 6 (or more, depending on the trip length.)
Having 500+ is nice because I have a choice of what the next book is going to be. It's not essential, but it's nice.
In reality, it's more complicated for me. At any given time I've got at least 3 books in-progress, usually a couple in dead tree form (at fixed locations) and one ebook which I carry where ever I go. I finish 2 or 3 a week, but I don't always know when that's going to be. Having that next book handy is important to me.
Your mistake is in not keeping track of who you're talking to.
I don't believe I have discussed current *or* wires.
But now that you mention it... Thermodynamics covers all forms of energy. Any time some form of energy becomes less available to do work (yes, that *does* include heating in wires), that's entropy. And then you're dealing with thermodynamics.
Until you actually reach absolute zero and stay there, *everything* you do deals with thermodynamics. In a signficant role.
Ohm, Bernouli, whatever part of science you want to talk about (yes, biology, chemistry, *whatever*) you are subject to the contraints of thermodynamics.
Um. An engineer that doesn't think that wind energy has anything to do with thermodynamics?
Or that entropy has anything to do with *any* sort of energy?
What sort of engineer?
Oh, never mind, I don't think I want to know.
Sailboats sailing upwind have a keel. The wheeled vehicle you're talking about is coupled to the ground through its wheels, effectively like a keel. Without that tethering, neither will work.
A tethered kite could generate power via wind energy.
An untethered vehicle could not. Or it could, but only by harnessing the wind of its passage, which would have to be created by its motive force. The generated power would have to be less than the power expended to actually move the device. Net loss.
Personally, I don't so much mind them saving the passwords in the *clear*.
I mind them saving passwords at *all*. By default. If you spend considerable time searching, you will find that to disable this silly behavior you can do so by the intuitive method af adding a configuration file in the program directory with a particular setting in it to enable "kiosk mode."
Otherwise it will record the password to every site you connect to. Silently.
The first several years that they built the Thinkpad.
I set my mom up at ighome. She depended on iGoogle. Doesn't like ighome as well, but she's coping.
I might have voted for the RINO McCain. That one had principles. The new, born-again conservative McCain? Not so much.
Guess it depends on perspective. A buddy of mine used to work in Louisiana. They used to like to visit Houston because it was so *dry*.
I visited Houma with him. He had a point.
Or those of our students using Tomcat.
Every week!?
I have a cron job that checks every 2 minutes to see if tomcat is still up. It starts it if it's not.
With Tomcat 5.5 there were days when it would restart 15 or 20 times a day. Tomcat 7 hasn't gone down yet, but it hasn't been used yet either. We'll see what happens the next time the Java class is scheduled.
Why, yes. Yes I do.
Not a bumper of course. But other body parts? Sure.
I had a Saturn for many years, and most of the exterior was plastic. I became a real believer in plastic body panels after the guy in the pickup truck backed into the side of my car -- right into the left from fender. He was going slow (it was a crowded parking lot) and he stopped as soon as he hit me.
When he pulled forward again, we both looked to see how badly my car had been damaged. A metal skin would have had hundreds of dollars in damage. After rubbing (with a rag) the rubber marks off, you couldn't tell I had been hit.
No?
Are you sure about that?
Not the simple sort of autopilots that you have on GA aircraft, no. But airliners are routinely landed automatically.
Same here. And although I do have a subscription and back up to Crashplan's servers, I also back my home machines up to a USB drive on my work computer and to a friend's machine across the continent.
That, in my opinion, is the really nice thing about Crashplan -- the ability to do offsite backup for free if you can round up other people willing to share space and bandwidth.
Did I?
Where did I discuss regulations?
I'm not sure where "morally wrong" and "property rights" are related, or why existence of property rights would affect a need (or not) for regulation.
I think either you or I misread what he said.
"Your business model does not have a right to exist," is not the same as saying "Your business model should not be allowed to exist." It's saying, "Your business model does not possess any entitlement that requires anyone else to protect its existence."
The question of whether a given business model is ethical is still pertinent, but it's not the same question.
You're not really disagreeing with him, you're just going off in another direction.
I have PCs. It's less that I'm "opposed" to getting Windows or "opposed" to getting a Mac than it is that I don't see any pressing need to to either. Dedicating one computer to one task seems a bit wasteful to me.
And I don't really have much in the way of "purpose-built" software, if by that you mean software that really only does one thing.
I don't find Audacity a pain at all to digitize LPs. It does a great job. If I had something like Vinyl Studio, I would probably use it to hand edit pops and clicks out, one at a time. If it would let me. Is it significantly easier to do this with VS? I get the impression that its strength is in automating such tasks, but I wouldn't let it do that.
That would mean I would have to have a Windows (or Mac) computer handy. It could be done, but is Vinyl Studio enough better to make it worth my while? I don't currently have either around now.
Automatically removing clicks, hiss and hum would be swell, except that I would never allow any software to do that. The overall sound always seems to suffer, at least in my experience. Hand editing the clicks is a fair amount of work, but the results are better. If I can't fix a problem without damaging anything else, I leave the problem in.
Other than cleaning up the sound, all the other things it does are pretty easy in Audacity.
Vinyl Studio looks like it could do a lot of the heavy lifting, and may very well be a nice piece of software, but its most attractive features are the ones I wouldn't use.
I think they call that "Stockholm Syndrome." :)