... when you said They need plain text input documents.
A few hundred KB of ASCII characters is dirt cheap. Too cheap for (much) profit. From traditional publishers, anyhow.
I'm with you - if there were a sub-$50 device that looked decent, then I'd pay a buck or two for a book, but no more. I mean, how much can it cost to email me some text?
Until then, I can buy $4.59 paperbacks at Costco and not stress about losing them, I can lend them, and finally, trade them in 2-for-1 at the used book store.
Even if EVERY Windows user went to the next generation and accepted Microsoft DRM, and even if THAT were the mark... AND 300 MILLION people did that, and the worlds population is 6 BILLION...
That is 5%
And, I can't beleive that Mac users would be saved anyhow, so I am not stressing over the end of the world happening any time soon.
Sheesh. Sounds like the end of the world type stuff. I thought everyone had to carry the mark of the beast and such before that happened, but last time I checked most people don't even believe in that book.
Besides a few nukes going off here and there will mostly hit blue state population centers.
My advise, buy a nice nuclear-war-hedge fund for your 401(k) and you will most likely be ok.
Dead now, dead 50 years from now, and how? Do you think anyone will care in 50,000 years?
The Neanderthals, all lovey dovey-like, took a vote, and decided that Homo Sapiens was the better species.
In a last minute compromise, they did not take the James Town Kool-Aide solution (tm), but rather, decided to peacfully fail to pro-create their way out of existence.
See? No violence involved. PETA need not get riled up over this.
What if this system, rather than letting someone die (which is the unfortunate, but natural consequence of drowning), what if, the system merely gave enough warning to save the child to the point of a permanent vegetative state? How does that figure into your calculations?
Bad shit is sad to think about. The natural reaction is that almost anything is "funny" when it happens to someone else.
Or at least it easier to joke about it than to think about it. Hell many people joke about bad stuff that happens to them, personally.
I have no problem simultaneously saying "good riddenance to a stinky, corrupt, crime-ridden city like New Orleans [ha, ha, big picture, funny]" and sending a nice big check to the Red Cross [individuals who really are hurting, empathy]...
What's your point? Misery is the basis of a lot of jokes.
See Penn & Teller, Season 2, episode 2? Maybe... I forget which it was exactly, but I can say from personal experience that I have never contracted an STD from a NYC subway toilet!
I will buy discs that have DVD on one side and some sort of non-DRM'ed HD on the other side.
Someday, when I have stuff that will let my non-tech wife play HD, and see HD on whatever random Costco TV I have at the time, that is what I'll buy.
If the packaging is honest, and if it says you need equipment, then I'll say, you know what? I don't need to own that, besides, Fred, down the street, seems to have LOTS of media, of questionable origin, that plays just fine on my regular equipmment (PC, TV, etc.)
There are always gonna be crooks who steal stuff, but if you don't make it easy for me, I won't be a customer... I may not be a crook, but I won't be a customer.
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A few hundred KB of ASCII characters is dirt cheap. Too cheap for (much) profit. From traditional publishers, anyhow.
I'm with you - if there were a sub-$50 device that looked decent, then I'd pay a buck or two for a book, but no more. I mean, how much can it cost to email me some text?
Until then, I can buy $4.59 paperbacks at Costco and not stress about losing them, I can lend them, and finally, trade them in 2-for-1 at the used book store.
Since MSFT will sell LOTS of Vista, what does this mean?
Maybe Slashdot posters are NOT the target audience?
There are 6 Billion, plus people on the planet.
Ergo "most" is used correctly.
I don't think an official declaration has happened for quite a while...
Even if EVERY Windows user went to the next generation and accepted Microsoft DRM, and even if THAT were the mark... AND 300 MILLION people did that, and the worlds population is 6 BILLION...
That is 5%
And, I can't beleive that Mac users would be saved anyhow, so I am not stressing over the end of the world happening any time soon.
Thanks for feeding the troll. (uuuurp)
Sheesh. Sounds like the end of the world type stuff. I thought everyone had to carry the mark of the beast and such before that happened, but last time I checked most people don't even believe in that book.
Besides a few nukes going off here and there will mostly hit blue state population centers.
My advise, buy a nice nuclear-war-hedge fund for your 401(k) and you will most likely be ok.
Dead now, dead 50 years from now, and how? Do you think anyone will care in 50,000 years?
Or...
Should the lowly methane-life organisms welcome us, their Oxygen-breathing overlords?
Fill in the blank...
a) crack
b) dirty needles
c) pot
d) fried food
e) Linux
But mom! all the cool kids are doing it!
Bunch of good-for-nothing video zombies!
MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging mission.
No wonder space research costs so much - it isn't easy to come up with these names!
You lead a sad, sad life... But that was good /.-Noir prose.
In a last minute compromise, they did not take the James Town Kool-Aide solution (tm), but rather, decided to peacfully fail to pro-create their way out of existence.
See? No violence involved. PETA need not get riled up over this.
What if this system, rather than letting someone die (which is the unfortunate, but natural consequence of drowning), what if, the system merely gave enough warning to save the child to the point of a permanent vegetative state? How does that figure into your calculations?
Or at least it easier to joke about it than to think about it. Hell many people joke about bad stuff that happens to them, personally.
I have no problem simultaneously saying "good riddenance to a stinky, corrupt, crime-ridden city like New Orleans [ha, ha, big picture, funny]" and sending a nice big check to the Red Cross [individuals who really are hurting, empathy]...
What's your point? Misery is the basis of a lot of jokes.
Do Both!
If they give away millions of copies for free, legally speaking, wouldn't that be a good argument for them to NOT BOTHER auditing any other use?
Don't they make money selling the authoring tools, not the clients?
Seems like the correct amount for reasonable expenses is zero.
So WHY, in your opinion, is Morocco that way?
Which one does iTunes sell?
Is that what you were looking for? I just had to have it YELLED at me to hear it right.
See Penn & Teller, Season 2, episode 2? Maybe... I forget which it was exactly, but I can say from personal experience that I have never contracted an STD from a NYC subway toilet!
Someday, when I have stuff that will let my non-tech wife play HD, and see HD on whatever random Costco TV I have at the time, that is what I'll buy.
If the packaging is honest, and if it says you need equipment, then I'll say, you know what? I don't need to own that, besides, Fred, down the street, seems to have LOTS of media, of questionable origin, that plays just fine on my regular equipmment (PC, TV, etc.)
There are always gonna be crooks who steal stuff, but if you don't make it easy for me, I won't be a customer... I may not be a crook, but I won't be a customer.
IMHO
[Ed. "most suited for being"? Is that English - let's take a poll...]
Even from the article... "never got the backspace to work"...
Seems like some old typewriters didn't even have a "1" key - you just used lower case L.
Maybe we need XE - Extreme Editing!
Sit down with a buddy and check things out!