I have the e-ink model and to me it is not false advertising. Some people like LCDs others prefer e-ink. I have a poor eyesight from heavy computer use so the e-ink is easy on my eyes.
As for having family owners with Nooks, I have to say that the LendMe feature is truly amazing.
Well, it's always hard to have something that does it all right? Everything that you have said rings true except for one part in my case. When I was choosing between products I compared the prices for books that I like in the three major stores, namely Amazon, B&N and Apple. Incredible enough and for some strange reason since I'm a big fan of purchasing stuff over Amazon, they always had the most expensive e-books. Sometimes B&N would be more expensive. Apple on the other hand was very cheap on some stuff but ridiculously expensive on others. In any case, I really didn't want to use an iPad for reading so ended up getting a Nook.
B&N apps (like the Mac, PC, mobile versions) kind of sucks since you have to do some workarounds for them to work. I had to install Nook Study on my OS X machine for technical books since the regular version does not work with 10.7 or 10.8. Amazon has done a fantastic job in that sense and to be honest, other than the prices, what drove me away from Amazon was the advertising features they had on the Kindle. If I wanted to get a non-advertising Kindle it was more expensive than the Nook.
I don't know about that. I like the fact that you recharge an e-ink device every month or so and forget about it. With all the electronic devices nowadays, it is something I don't see any LCD replacing anytime soon. Plus call me picky, but I'm one of those people that can't use a backlit display for reading in extended periods of time.
As a happy B&N Nook owner I can tell you I would gladly replace my trusty e-reader if they come out with an HD version. To be honest, the lack of font sharpness is the only fault I can find with the device when I compare it to books.
And I have lived in a couple of different countries in the past 4 years, so having my library around with me all the time is a godsend.
Why is it that in every field you always see a jackass like that coming up with totally unrelated methods to weed people out. Why not have them do the actual job you want and see how they perform. Even if you have too many applicants you can just have a first come, first serve policy, and based on the test of the first group, the best person gets the job.
He does have a point. Just because IE is the mother of all evils does not mean that the premise of the article is true in all cases. Having said that, the latest version of IE is not the spawn of satan as it used to be but more of a me too browser. And on the Mac, well Safari just has a better browsing experience in general.
Because of all the Apple hatred going on here, people fail to realize that banning applications that will use any means available to plaster you with ads it's a really good thing. You can argue about the technical details of how it was done, but in general I consider this to be a very good thing. And it is one of the reasons I miss my old iPhone after trying out Android.
After reading about stuff like this, it makes me realize that even if Apple hardware is way overpriced, they are like an antivirus software. You don't really need it if you know what you are doing but it makes it very easy for you not to get infected.
Sorry, I value my right to be free of advertising after paying for something. So you are saying that everybody has an essential liberty to splatter ads on my personal stuff? In law, your right to something ends where mine begins. And you have to work a balance out of that notion.
You have to be kidding. How on earth whas the service or retailers before the Apple store the "exact same service". Besides, Apple Stores are like Gap for technology. The business model is being imitated already so please stop this nonsense.
I don't feel sorry for Java, on the contrary I'm quite happy that Java is going away. Java was like a hippie ideal for peace, neat idea but so much bs going on around it.
I have always felt that using languages that wasted so many CPU cycles like Java were making our hardware obsolete before time. I still remember when on a Pentium 100 you could do wonders. Even Visual Basic, which was also inefficient, was pretty fast and it was perfect for business applications, until they started doing the Java thing with.NET
This is one of the main reasons I like the approach Apple took to their development. Even if they use a lot of eye candy, they stick to using a variant of C that is fast and useful. That in turn worked wonders when it was the turn to develop for iOS and save battery and processing power.
And the main point they have is that it is their country and their laws. When you are in somebody's house you should respect the owner's rules. It is polite to say the least.
You don't have to try to make sense of it. It is the typical American mentality where it's ok for me to do it but nobody else can. As a foreign citizen that has lived both in the US and China, I am appalled that in a lot of things China is a lot more free than the US. Especially when it comes to foreigners. Now, the internet situation in China, that is a place where you can actually believe all the stuff you read in the press.
Really? You have drink so much of the anti-China news cool aid that even when you visit China you feel like you are being followed. Lol.
From the expat community I know here in China, there was only one incident once with a woman that worked for the US nuclear commission, and all they did was make it very obvious she had security guards following her everywhere. Chinese are not too refined when they do their job, a couple of months in China will teach you that very quickly.
His post is consistent. He never said that he likes that Chinese law, but that even if you don't like a law when you are in either the US or China, should you just go ahead and break it?
If you are going to show that kind of respect for a country's customs and laws, both the US AND China have every right to throw your ass in jail.
I am in China at the moment and all of what you said strikes me as extremely uninformed opinion. Try living in China for a while and then see if all the bullshit you just said still stands.
This idea that "asian culture" is so different from "western culture" is just intellectually lazy.
Live in China for 6 months and then we'll see if it is just a theory. Sure some things are similar, but some of the differences are so vast that it's like you are in a planet that evolved on its own.
With the Chinese, I'm pretty sure that they will find the bare minimum of acceptable environmental policies, and then dismiss the rest of the complaints.
And take it from somebody living in Shanghai at the moment. A woman was run over by a taxi driver because nobody respects the traffic lights for people on foot. Do you think the cars stopped when they saw her motionless body on the street? They just started to drive around it. So we have extreme different perceptions of the value of human life.
Google just couldn't make it in China. The whole "crusade" for freedom of expression is more of a clever exit strategy than anything else. Chinese are just too used to Baidu.
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I have the e-ink model and to me it is not false advertising. Some people like LCDs others prefer e-ink. I have a poor eyesight from heavy computer use so the e-ink is easy on my eyes.
As for having family owners with Nooks, I have to say that the LendMe feature is truly amazing.
You have to compare it to the reading experience on a paperback. Then it is a huge screen :)
Well, most of us stopped reading books in color when we were like 8. This is not for games you know.
Well, it's always hard to have something that does it all right? Everything that you have said rings true except for one part in my case. When I was choosing between products I compared the prices for books that I like in the three major stores, namely Amazon, B&N and Apple. Incredible enough and for some strange reason since I'm a big fan of purchasing stuff over Amazon, they always had the most expensive e-books. Sometimes B&N would be more expensive. Apple on the other hand was very cheap on some stuff but ridiculously expensive on others. In any case, I really didn't want to use an iPad for reading so ended up getting a Nook.
B&N apps (like the Mac, PC, mobile versions) kind of sucks since you have to do some workarounds for them to work. I had to install Nook Study on my OS X machine for technical books since the regular version does not work with 10.7 or 10.8. Amazon has done a fantastic job in that sense and to be honest, other than the prices, what drove me away from Amazon was the advertising features they had on the Kindle. If I wanted to get a non-advertising Kindle it was more expensive than the Nook.
That still is vendor lock-in. On the hand of a huge company with consumer privacy issues like Google. No thanks.
I don't know about that. I like the fact that you recharge an e-ink device every month or so and forget about it. With all the electronic devices nowadays, it is something I don't see any LCD replacing anytime soon. Plus call me picky, but I'm one of those people that can't use a backlit display for reading in extended periods of time.
As a happy B&N Nook owner I can tell you I would gladly replace my trusty e-reader if they come out with an HD version. To be honest, the lack of font sharpness is the only fault I can find with the device when I compare it to books.
And I have lived in a couple of different countries in the past 4 years, so having my library around with me all the time is a godsend.
They are big in other countries. In France they are all over the place. Hell, I thought it was an European brand to be honest.
The article would apply to the Kindle in the same way it applies to the Nook. What they are saying is that an HD e-ink screen would be truly awesome.
Lol, they make one of the best antivirus software in the market. Go post with your flag waving stupidity somewhere else.
Why is it that in every field you always see a jackass like that coming up with totally unrelated methods to weed people out. Why not have them do the actual job you want and see how they perform. Even if you have too many applicants you can just have a first come, first serve policy, and based on the test of the first group, the best person gets the job.
He does have a point. Just because IE is the mother of all evils does not mean that the premise of the article is true in all cases. Having said that, the latest version of IE is not the spawn of satan as it used to be but more of a me too browser. And on the Mac, well Safari just has a better browsing experience in general.
Because of all the Apple hatred going on here, people fail to realize that banning applications that will use any means available to plaster you with ads it's a really good thing. You can argue about the technical details of how it was done, but in general I consider this to be a very good thing. And it is one of the reasons I miss my old iPhone after trying out Android.
After reading about stuff like this, it makes me realize that even if Apple hardware is way overpriced, they are like an antivirus software. You don't really need it if you know what you are doing but it makes it very easy for you not to get infected.
Sorry, I value my right to be free of advertising after paying for something. So you are saying that everybody has an essential liberty to splatter ads on my personal stuff? In law, your right to something ends where mine begins. And you have to work a balance out of that notion.
You have to be kidding. How on earth whas the service or retailers before the Apple store the "exact same service". Besides, Apple Stores are like Gap for technology. The business model is being imitated already so please stop this nonsense.
I don't feel sorry for Java, on the contrary I'm quite happy that Java is going away. Java was like a hippie ideal for peace, neat idea but so much bs going on around it.
I have always felt that using languages that wasted so many CPU cycles like Java were making our hardware obsolete before time. I still remember when on a Pentium 100 you could do wonders. Even Visual Basic, which was also inefficient, was pretty fast and it was perfect for business applications, until they started doing the Java thing with .NET
This is one of the main reasons I like the approach Apple took to their development. Even if they use a lot of eye candy, they stick to using a variant of C that is fast and useful. That in turn worked wonders when it was the turn to develop for iOS and save battery and processing power.
And the main point they have is that it is their country and their laws. When you are in somebody's house you should respect the owner's rules. It is polite to say the least.
You don't have to try to make sense of it. It is the typical American mentality where it's ok for me to do it but nobody else can. As a foreign citizen that has lived both in the US and China, I am appalled that in a lot of things China is a lot more free than the US. Especially when it comes to foreigners. Now, the internet situation in China, that is a place where you can actually believe all the stuff you read in the press.
Really? You have drink so much of the anti-China news cool aid that even when you visit China you feel like you are being followed. Lol.
From the expat community I know here in China, there was only one incident once with a woman that worked for the US nuclear commission, and all they did was make it very obvious she had security guards following her everywhere. Chinese are not too refined when they do their job, a couple of months in China will teach you that very quickly.
It's just a law they have. Why do you feel the need to break laws of foreign countries because they don't adapt to your point of view?
His post is consistent. He never said that he likes that Chinese law, but that even if you don't like a law when you are in either the US or China, should you just go ahead and break it?
If you are going to show that kind of respect for a country's customs and laws, both the US AND China have every right to throw your ass in jail.
I am in China at the moment and all of what you said strikes me as extremely uninformed opinion. Try living in China for a while and then see if all the bullshit you just said still stands.
And for the record, I'm not Chinese.
By the time you launch the first 100 nuclear bombs the world will go down the toilet, so why does it matter? really?
This idea that "asian culture" is so different from "western culture" is just intellectually lazy.
Live in China for 6 months and then we'll see if it is just a theory. Sure some things are similar, but some of the differences are so vast that it's like you are in a planet that evolved on its own.
With the Chinese, I'm pretty sure that they will find the bare minimum of acceptable environmental policies, and then dismiss the rest of the complaints.
And take it from somebody living in Shanghai at the moment. A woman was run over by a taxi driver because nobody respects the traffic lights for people on foot. Do you think the cars stopped when they saw her motionless body on the street? They just started to drive around it. So we have extreme different perceptions of the value of human life.
Google just couldn't make it in China. The whole "crusade" for freedom of expression is more of a clever exit strategy than anything else. Chinese are just too used to Baidu.