The Kobo readers natively read the open EPUB format, IIRC. Plus, since it runs Gingerbread, you could run any e-reader app from any market or Android author. Therefore, why do you think Kobo will restrict your content?
Many ISPs today are implementing packet shaping in an extremely simplistic way. They simply rate limit everything and then whitelist the most common game servers, such as WoW. The problem comes when Blizzard commission new servers and the addresses change. Then for a few days-weeks, everyone gets extreme lag. If you are not playing an extremely popular game, it may take you months to get your ISP to whitelist the servers. If you are playing a game where anyone can host a server you are totally screwed.
Do you have a source for that? Really would like to know more.
1) Breeders have no inherent safety; read up about the Enrico Fermi I partial meltdown in Monroe, MI. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_civilian_nuclear_accidents#1960shttp://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/nucene/nucacc.html
2) Pebble bed reactors are a nice idea, but the two actually made were leaky and contaminated the nearby area:
The fuel temperature instabilities during operation with locally far too high temperatures, mentioned above in the criticism section, resulted in a heavy contamination of the whole vessel by Cs-137 and Sr-90. Some contamination was also found in soil/groundwater under the reactor, as the German government confirmed in January, 2010. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pebble_bed_reactor#AVR
The release of radioactive dust was caused by a human error during a blockage of pebbles in a pipe. Trying to restart the pebble movement by increased gas flow led to mobilization of dust, always present in PBRs and—due to an erroneously open valve—to an unfiltered dust release into the environment. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pebble_bed_reactor#Thorium_High_Temperature_Reactor
Anyone made a pebble bed reactor yet which was economically feasible as a power generator? Answer: No.
3)..breeder reactors have the added benefit of eating nuclear waste over and over until whatever is left might make you sneeze.
Answer: No.
Virgin Mobile USA www.virginmobileusa.com
$25/month flat gets me 300 minutes of talk plus unlimited texting plus 5GB ('Unlimited' they say, but we know what they mean).
$40/mo. gets 1,200 minutes of talk
$60/mo gets unlimited talk.
They use Sprint's network.
Their call center droids in the Phillipines are dumber than a bag of hammers, so use web/e-mail support if you want an accurate answer.
Already, infrastructure sharing is well underway; not a good argument.
However, greater diversity in infrastructure means a greater chance of some infrastructure surviving disaster.
And, I do not worry that ATT, Verizon and Sprint don't get enough revenue. Do you?
I, for one, am quite pleased that the Pre line isn't dead. I plan to buy a Pre of some variety as my next phone.
You see, I've not yet taken the $50+ a month plunge to get a smartphone.
{snip}
When I decided to replace my beloved-yet-obviously-headed-to-hospice Nokia E90 Communicator (Symban is not dead yet, but it sure does smell funny), I found a plan which does not require selling my firstborn... VirginMobileUSA. Five hours of voice/month, unmetered texting and data = $25/mo sans contract, and the Samsung Intercept (Eclair only so far) without subsidy was just a year's worth of credit card points at Le Target.
Mod parent up.
Who else in the telecomm industry stood up to the job-killing Bush administration?
Vote with your wallet if you like privacy.
We did, and Qwest is far better than our previous broadband provider (you know, the one with the 37% drop in direct subscribers).
And, no, never have worked for Qwest, although I have worked for another telco.
Keys are 'low volume' and 'data'. Voice gets goobered up by variable latency, which is guaranteed by this scheme. Also, there isn't enough bandwidth for a voice codec which sounds decent.
I also used it (as WantWeb in Portland OR) and you are So RIght about the latency. Used it at Orycon 20 and Orycon 21 to feed the Internet Cafe and half a dozen machines brought it to its knees.
Has anyone consider RFC 2549 www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2549.htm ? In this instance, ostriches would be far superior to carrier pigeons (ref. RFC 1149 www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1149.htm ).
Dr Yossi Vardi, Ami Ben-Bassat and Guy Vardi achieved an average throughput of 2.27Mbit/sec with RFC 1149-4G, BTW.
I also used it (as WantWeb in Portland OR) and you are So RIght about the latency. Used it at Orycon 20 and Orycon 21 to feed the Internet Cafe and half a dozen machines brought it to its knees.
Has anyone consider RFC 2549 www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2549.htm ? In this instance, ostriches would be far superior to carrier pigeons (ref. RFC 1149 www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1149.htm ).
Easily available guns and ammo allows a 98-lb. woman to prevent assault by a 6'3" mad Scotsman with a dirk. Or, don't they have knife crime in your Utopian homeland?
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Actuary. http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/bestjobs/2009/snapshots/52.html Fold the education degree until it's all corners, and...
The Kobo readers natively read the open EPUB format, IIRC. Plus, since it runs Gingerbread, you could run any e-reader app from any market or Android author. Therefore, why do you think Kobo will restrict your content?
Many ISPs today are implementing packet shaping in an extremely simplistic way. They simply rate limit everything and then whitelist the most common game servers, such as WoW. The problem comes when Blizzard commission new servers and the addresses change. Then for a few days-weeks, everyone gets extreme lag. If you are not playing an extremely popular game, it may take you months to get your ISP to whitelist the servers. If you are playing a game where anyone can host a server you are totally screwed.
Do you have a source for that? Really would like to know more.
Have one. Live in Portland. Coverage along the coast is feeble. Fuggedaboudit.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oath_of_Fealty_(novel) included a passage, early in the story, where the protagonist specified how much contrary news he wanted to see. "Think of it as Evolution in Action"
Looks like Freegeek.org has a few to get rid of...
Oh, noes, Charlie Sheen needs extra Tiger Blood to protect himself from the doses he gets from sleeping with three women!
The Sievert-Gray confersion factor is 1 for both gamma and beta, 20 for alpha, and averages 10 for neutrons.
http://www.jrc.or.jp/english/relief/l4/Vcms4_00002070.html is the English-language donations page. That gets contributions to the Japanese people who need it the most in the shortest amount of time.
Mod up, please. Very well said.
1) Breeders have no inherent safety; read up about the Enrico Fermi I partial meltdown in Monroe, MI. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_civilian_nuclear_accidents#1960s http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/nucene/nucacc.html 2) Pebble bed reactors are a nice idea, but the two actually made were leaky and contaminated the nearby area: The fuel temperature instabilities during operation with locally far too high temperatures, mentioned above in the criticism section, resulted in a heavy contamination of the whole vessel by Cs-137 and Sr-90. Some contamination was also found in soil/groundwater under the reactor, as the German government confirmed in January, 2010. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pebble_bed_reactor#AVR The release of radioactive dust was caused by a human error during a blockage of pebbles in a pipe. Trying to restart the pebble movement by increased gas flow led to mobilization of dust, always present in PBRs and—due to an erroneously open valve—to an unfiltered dust release into the environment. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pebble_bed_reactor#Thorium_High_Temperature_Reactor Anyone made a pebble bed reactor yet which was economically feasible as a power generator? Answer: No. 3) ..breeder reactors have the added benefit of eating nuclear waste over and over until whatever is left might make you sneeze.
Answer: No.
Virgin Mobile USA www.virginmobileusa.com $25/month flat gets me 300 minutes of talk plus unlimited texting plus 5GB ('Unlimited' they say, but we know what they mean). $40/mo. gets 1,200 minutes of talk $60/mo gets unlimited talk. They use Sprint's network. Their call center droids in the Phillipines are dumber than a bag of hammers, so use web/e-mail support if you want an accurate answer.
Already, infrastructure sharing is well underway; not a good argument. However, greater diversity in infrastructure means a greater chance of some infrastructure surviving disaster. And, I do not worry that ATT, Verizon and Sprint don't get enough revenue. Do you?
LDS churches program their congregants to keep a year's worth of staples on hand, plus there are larger secret storehouses.
Actually, you do get Plutonium, but contaminated with the crappy Pu-240 isotope.
MOX (Mixed OXide) is also used by TEPCO at Fukushima-3. Mixed, as in Uranium+Plutonium, the latter being much more toxic. http://www.japantoday.com/category/technology/view/mox-fuel-loaded-into-tokyo-electrics-old-fukushima-reactor http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/newsarticle.aspx?id=28211 At least the MITNSE http://mitnse.com/ folks have buried the paper from that risk-management twit at MIT with the Pollyanna paper which declared Uranium the only fuel at Fukushima, although that lie will take a while to put paid to.
kudzu, and the entire South would nominate you for a Nobel Prize.
I, for one, am quite pleased that the Pre line isn't dead. I plan to buy a Pre of some variety as my next phone.
You see, I've not yet taken the $50+ a month plunge to get a smartphone.
{snip} When I decided to replace my beloved-yet-obviously-headed-to-hospice Nokia E90 Communicator (Symban is not dead yet, but it sure does smell funny), I found a plan which does not require selling my firstborn... VirginMobileUSA. Five hours of voice/month, unmetered texting and data = $25/mo sans contract, and the Samsung Intercept (Eclair only so far) without subsidy was just a year's worth of credit card points at Le Target.
Mod up, kindly.
Mod parent up.
Who else in the telecomm industry stood up to the job-killing Bush administration?
Vote with your wallet if you like privacy.
We did, and Qwest is far better than our previous broadband provider (you know, the one with the 37% drop in direct subscribers).
And, no, never have worked for Qwest, although I have worked for another telco.
Keys are 'low volume' and 'data'. Voice gets goobered up by variable latency, which is guaranteed by this scheme. Also, there isn't enough bandwidth for a voice codec which sounds decent.
I also used it (as WantWeb in Portland OR) and you are So RIght about the latency. Used it at Orycon 20 and Orycon 21 to feed the Internet Cafe and half a dozen machines brought it to its knees.
Has anyone consider RFC 2549 www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2549.htm ? In this instance, ostriches would be far superior to carrier pigeons (ref. RFC 1149 www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1149.htm ).
Dr Yossi Vardi, Ami Ben-Bassat and Guy Vardi achieved an average throughput of 2.27Mbit/sec with RFC 1149-4G, BTW.
I also used it (as WantWeb in Portland OR) and you are So RIght about the latency. Used it at Orycon 20 and Orycon 21 to feed the Internet Cafe and half a dozen machines brought it to its knees.
Has anyone consider RFC 2549 www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2549.htm ? In this instance, ostriches would be far superior to carrier pigeons (ref. RFC 1149 www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1149.htm ).
Easily available guns and ammo allows a 98-lb. woman to prevent assault by a 6'3" mad Scotsman with a dirk. Or, don't they have knife crime in your Utopian homeland?
Absolutely. State legislators look at 9-1-1 fees as a cash cow to rob whenever they need pork (pardon the mixed metaphor).