I'd suggest a palm Tungesten E2. It's got a nice 320x320 screen, 32 meg of memory for storing lots of books as well as an SD slot for storing insane amounts of books, and is at the magic $200 price point.
Since it runs palmOS, there's at least 10 ebook reading programs for it that will let you use text or html.
I would not have paid anywhere near that if it could only read ebooks though. I also use it to play games and on occasion as an organizer.
This book reader would have to be much cheaper than a PDA to be viable, and even then I can't see why someone wouldn't spend the extra for a PDA.
Also, this Sony scam charges prices comparable to hardcover for the books. They should be about half to price of a paperback. Of course the DRM sony's including makes it a deal breaker for anyone who's not a total idiot.
They don't have to dominate every field to be a monopoly in an area. AT&T was broken up for being a monopoly. By the submitter's logic, AT&T was never a monopoly because is was possible to do your banking with other companies...and buy a car that wasn't made by AT&T.
MS chooses to stop supporting the Mac with IE. For whatever reason, they think that's in their best interest. Now Dvorak thinks that's MS should spend $400M to abandon the browser they've been pushing for 10 years, to buy one that supports an OS they just walked away from.
MS hasn't even stopped supoport for IE yet, just annouced it. If they changed their mind and think it's such a big mistake, they can continue IE on MacOS.
...one of the uses was medical experimentation yes. I'm all to familiar with that, these are some of the experiments:
Cutting people in half alive to see how long each half lives.
Cutting off various body parts from living people without anesthetic to see how it effects them.
Cutting open women and sewing live adult cats and cat fetus into their wombs.
That's some of the tamest stuff, there is also a lot more gruesome.
It as all done in the name of "medical research". Done on peopel who were taken prisoner for the sole purpose of murdering them. They were not given any choice or any compension. They were also not too poor to say no.
On one had, you're paying a relatively small number of people who too poor to say no to do things that *might* damage their health but *will* improve medical technology for all of humanity. They are also subject to humane treatment
On the other hand, you're rounding up and murdering millions of people with the intent of wiping out an entire race. You're also subjecting them to horrible torture and humiliation.
First, 3 million square km / 450 billion people is 6.7 square meters per person.
Second, 6 square millimeters is about 1/4 in square. 6 square milimeters, is about 0.0093 square inches or a little less than 1/10th of an inch square.
Do you really think that's the end of the industry's interest in such a scheme? Have you heard of Vialta's ViDVD format? It was quite similar to DivX but worse, and it was a few years AFTER DivX. It flopped even faster than DivX.
The industry has not forgotten about DivX, that was their wet dream, and they're going to try again, and again, and again until their dream comes true.
Nonetheless, they do know about portability. While it may be possible to create such a device, no one would buy it. Many people have several DVD players in their house and would like the ability to watch the content on both or all of them.
That's what the market will decide. People accept windows XP product activation forcing them to buy a copy for each computer they own. New hardware is also very expensive when it first comes out. People have multiple DVD players now but they didn't when DVD players first came out. By the time multiply blu-rays in one home can become an issue, it will already be the standard or have flopped.
Many people don't have internet connections throughout their house and will not be bothered to hook a DVD player up to it. How else is your player going to get permission?
Uh...a phone line?:)
People also know that those players die and aren't going to accept losing their entire media collection because a laser died. At the least there would be ways around it since that would drive Blockbuster out of business.
The movie industry wants to drive blockbuster out of business. Most people don't think about the futrue. They're not going to consider the possibilty of their player dying in a few years, they only think about seeing the hot new movie today.
This would require a mandatory, permanent Internet connection for your BD player and I doubt we'll see stuff like that in consumer electronics in the next 10 years.
It will require a mandatory, permanent internet (or phone) connection.
I guess by your reckoning, TiVo will not hit the market for another 10 years.
It's not "mandatory" on my satellite receiver, but it is if I want to be able to buy PPV content.
Ending the video rental market is a perk for the content industry, it's not a problem for them.
We can only hope people will rebel like they did with divx, but the industry is going to do its best to cram it down our throats. Players will be expensive at first (like DVD players and VCRs were). It will probably be years before an average person has two, they might note even notice the restriction until they have a fair collection of media.
On top of that, you have articles like the one linked here trying to convince consumers blu-ray is the way to go, there's not even a format war.
There's plenty of technical reasons to use blu-ray.
There is very invasive DRM measures in blu-ray that make divx look like it would make Richard Stallman proud. You need to get permission every time you play a disc, and your discs are permanently mated to your player. You can't play your disc at a friends house or in another room in your house, and if your player breaks, you lose your whole DVD collection.
The studios love it but the consumers will be totally screwed over by it.
The funding Nasa gets for scientific works could be diverted to researching at universities directly who could then use the funding pay private space companies to run the experiments.
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It's only CAD $2,599.99, so that's like US $100 :)
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Maybe in 2000. Since Bush took over he's decimated the $US, so it's more like $50,000 US
I'd suggest a palm Tungesten E2. It's got a nice 320x320 screen, 32 meg of memory for storing lots of books as well as an SD slot for storing insane amounts of books, and is at the magic $200 price point.
Since it runs palmOS, there's at least 10 ebook reading programs for it that will let you use text or html.
I've been seeing some of the bestsellers in bookstores in an audiobook format complete with the reader. Add a AA battery and it's ready to play.
The total price including the audioplayer is cheaper than Sony wants for a text file of the same book.
I bought a $200 PDA mainly to read ebooks.
I would not have paid anywhere near that if it could only read ebooks though. I also use it to play games and on occasion as an organizer.
This book reader would have to be much cheaper than a PDA to be viable, and even then I can't see why someone wouldn't spend the extra for a PDA.
Also, this Sony scam charges prices comparable to hardcover for the books. They should be about half to price of a paperback. Of course the DRM sony's including makes it a deal breaker for anyone who's not a total idiot.
I had lots of third-party batteries for my motorola flip-phone around 15 years ago. I never had any problems with them.
It was ~$15 for the third-party battery and ~$90 for the motorola one.
I'm not sure it counts as counterfeit though since it was totally clear that it was not made by motorola.
and learn what Monopoly means.
They don't have to dominate every field to be a monopoly in an area. AT&T was broken up for being a monopoly. By the submitter's logic, AT&T was never a monopoly because is was possible to do your banking with other companies...and buy a car that wasn't made by AT&T.
Oh so legal downloads will work with the hundreds of millions of set top DVD players already in consumers' hands?
This makes me think I overestimated him.
MS chooses to stop supporting the Mac with IE. For whatever reason, they think that's in their best interest. Now Dvorak thinks that's MS should spend $400M to abandon the browser they've been pushing for 10 years, to buy one that supports an OS they just walked away from.
MS hasn't even stopped supoport for IE yet, just annouced it. If they changed their mind and think it's such a big mistake, they can continue IE on MacOS.
...one of the uses was medical experimentation yes. I'm all to familiar with that, these are some of the experiments:
Cutting people in half alive to see how long each half lives.
Cutting off various body parts from living people without anesthetic to see how it effects them.
Cutting open women and sewing live adult cats and cat fetus into their wombs.
That's some of the tamest stuff, there is also a lot more gruesome.
It as all done in the name of "medical research". Done on peopel who were taken prisoner for the sole purpose of murdering them. They were not given any choice or any compension. They were also not too poor to say no.
On one had, you're paying a relatively small number of people who too poor to say no to do things that *might* damage their health but *will* improve medical technology for all of humanity. They are also subject to humane treatment
On the other hand, you're rounding up and murdering millions of people with the intent of wiping out an entire race. You're also subjecting them to horrible torture and humiliation.
Yeah, that's a spot on comparison.
Did you hear the *woosh* as that went over your head?
I vaguely remember it being Dragon Quest in Japan and a few titles from that series made it to the US as the Dragon Warrior series.
I loved those Dragon Warrior games.
Second, 6 square millimeters is about 1/4 in square
That should have been:
Second, 6 square millimeters is NOT about 1/4 in square.
6 millimeters square IS about 1/4 inch square. Square millimeters in not the same as millimeters square though.
First, 3 million square km / 450 billion people is 6.7 square meters per person.
Second, 6 square millimeters is about 1/4 in square. 6 square milimeters, is about 0.0093 square inches or a little less than 1/10th of an inch square.
Circuit City lost about $100 million on DivX.
Do you really think that's the end of the industry's interest in such a scheme? Have you heard of Vialta's ViDVD format? It was quite similar to DivX but worse, and it was a few years AFTER DivX. It flopped even faster than DivX.
The industry has not forgotten about DivX, that was their wet dream, and they're going to try again, and again, and again until their dream comes true.
Nonetheless, they do know about portability. While it may be possible to create such a device, no one would buy it. Many people have several DVD players in their house and would like the ability to watch the content on both or all of them.
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That's what the market will decide. People accept windows XP product activation forcing them to buy a copy for each computer they own. New hardware is also very expensive when it first comes out. People have multiple DVD players now but they didn't when DVD players first came out. By the time multiply blu-rays in one home can become an issue, it will already be the standard or have flopped.
Many people don't have internet connections throughout their house and will not be bothered to hook a DVD player up to it. How else is your player going to get permission?
Uh...a phone line?
People also know that those players die and aren't going to accept losing their entire media collection because a laser died. At the least there would be ways around it since that would drive Blockbuster out of business.
The movie industry wants to drive blockbuster out of business. Most people don't think about the futrue. They're not going to consider the possibilty of their player dying in a few years, they only think about seeing the hot new movie today.
I'm not sure I follow. Are you saying that video rentals will no longer be possible with Blu-ray?
That's right, and rentals are something in movie industry would very much like to kill.
No you just made that up. Permission from who? Will the players have a cell phone built in and call up?
It will need a permantent phone/internet connection.
Err, no! Obviously not. Otherwise when you upgrade your player, your entire collection would be written off.
To the movie industry, that's a feature.
*Obviously* not or they would never sell a single player. Please stop saying whatever stupid little thing pops into your head.
TiVo "lifetime" subscriptions are for the life of the player. People buy TiVos.
This would require a mandatory, permanent Internet connection for your BD player and I doubt we'll see stuff like that in consumer electronics in the next 10 years. It will require a mandatory, permanent internet (or phone) connection.
I guess by your reckoning, TiVo will not hit the market for another 10 years.
It's not "mandatory" on my satellite receiver, but it is if I want to be able to buy PPV content.
Ending the video rental market is a perk for the content industry, it's not a problem for them.
We can only hope people will rebel like they did with divx, but the industry is going to do its best to cram it down our throats. Players will be expensive at first (like DVD players and VCRs were). It will probably be years before an average person has two, they might note even notice the restriction until they have a fair collection of media.
On top of that, you have articles like the one linked here trying to convince consumers blu-ray is the way to go, there's not even a format war.
There's plenty of technical reasons to use blu-ray.
There is very invasive DRM measures in blu-ray that make divx look like it would make Richard Stallman proud. You need to get permission every time you play a disc, and your discs are permanently mated to your player. You can't play your disc at a friends house or in another room in your house, and if your player breaks, you lose your whole DVD collection.
The studios love it but the consumers will be totally screwed over by it.
2.4 million new jobs...
I think they mean 24,000 new jobs which in the US earn $100,000/year each. Outsourced overseas, that would be 2.4 million jobs at $1000/year each.
That's the same math they use to count a single 40x CD burner as 40 burners when they bust a piracy ring.
If this happens, what purpose would Nasa serve?
The funding Nasa gets for scientific works could be diverted to researching at universities directly who could then use the funding pay private space companies to run the experiments.
That's not business...it's personal.
Though I must admit Sony has raised the bar so much it's hard to hate MS with a passion anymore. Compared to Sony, MS is pretty good.
Chip fab size has nothing to do with nanotech.