Fly from Paris to Munich for a meeting and you can probably be home for dinner. Fly from Los Angeles to Munich for a meeting and you burn two days on travel alone.
Yeah, I had a coworker who spent a week in Hawai'i. Arrived Monday morning. Worked 14 hour days in an non-air conditioned warehouse in summer. Left Friday night.
Yeah, it was over fifteen years into my career before I was sent anywhere interesting. And even then, you end up spending so much time actually working that I got very little time to actually go look at the historic European city I was sent to.
What most new college grads don't seem to understand is that everyone in the industry wants to do the fun stuff and go the fun places, and as a college grad, everyone in the industry has more experience than you do. You have to pay your dues like everyone else.
Well, that's exactly what happened. Google thought they had a business model to support the service. When they realized that people could take advantage of it, making the model unsupportable, they turned it off.
My laptop has HDMI out. My TV has HDMI in. It's only a matter of time...not much time...before the average laptop can easily show video on the average TV.
I gather you didn't actually read "The God Delusion", because Dawkins writes extensively about what science can and cannot prove, and very explicitly does *not* state what you claim he states. He says explicitly that "God" is an untestable hypothesis.
Nah. They've been trying to resurrect dumb terminals ever since dumb terminals died, and they always fail because dumb terminals are, well, dumb. Dumb terminals appeal to people who like central control, not people who want to get things done.
As an author, I do want my works digitized by Google because I am damn unlikely to ever sell another copy of a book that has "Advanced Turbo C: Updated for vers. 1.5!" emblazoned on the cover, so any cash is unexpected.
Writers get a far, far better deal than musicians get. They generally get a percentage of the sales price, an advance on that that they don't have to give back if the book doesn't earn out, and no deductions for "expenses".
Amazon already has a huge share of the book market. In most respects, Amazon is much better placed than Apple was when it launched the iPod. Imagine if Apple had been the largest single retailer of music CDs when it launched the iPod...that's where Amazon is now.
I was in that spot. I was mostly a PC gamer. The PSP was the first "console" I ever had (except for an old gameboy that I won at a raffle and sold a few weeks later.) I never had a problem with the controls.
Um...I read Will Durant's 10 volume "Story of Civilization" primarily while having my breakfasts in the morning and on my lunch hour. It took about a year. It's ten times the length of War and Peace.
(I read War and Peace itself on a Palm Pilot mostly on my commute on the train. It took about a month and a half)
Most portable games are more tailored to shorter gaming sessions. Chains of Olympus, I finished partly on a business trip and partly on my train commute. I specifically keep the PSP around precisely *because* it is engrossing. When I've had a crap day and don't want to face the commute, a good game came make the time just fly by.
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Fly from Paris to Munich for a meeting and you can probably be home for dinner. Fly from Los Angeles to Munich for a meeting and you burn two days on travel alone.
It was exactly like this 20 years ago when I graduated. It was probably the same 20 years before that.
Yeah, I had a coworker who spent a week in Hawai'i. Arrived Monday morning. Worked 14 hour days in an non-air conditioned warehouse in summer. Left Friday night.
Yeah, it was over fifteen years into my career before I was sent anywhere interesting. And even then, you end up spending so much time actually working that I got very little time to actually go look at the historic European city I was sent to.
What most new college grads don't seem to understand is that everyone in the industry wants to do the fun stuff and go the fun places, and as a college grad, everyone in the industry has more experience than you do. You have to pay your dues like everyone else.
Well, that's exactly what happened. Google thought they had a business model to support the service. When they realized that people could take advantage of it, making the model unsupportable, they turned it off.
If something is self-evidently crap from the get-go, there isn't much point in getting everybody's feedback.
Over US airspace, they can just spend a plane overhead at 5000 ft and get much better shots.
That's what Google does.
My laptop has HDMI out. My TV has HDMI in. It's only a matter of time...not much time...before the average laptop can easily show video on the average TV.
Why would Amazon do this for eBooks but not for physical books?
Sales for the Kindle do not seem to bear this out: Kindle bestsellers. I see no porn in the top 25.
I gather you didn't actually read "The God Delusion", because Dawkins writes extensively about what science can and cannot prove, and very explicitly does *not* state what you claim he states. He says explicitly that "God" is an untestable hypothesis.
My wife has a job. Our money goes into a common pot that we both spend out of. Who is paying who for what here?
By your logic, I'm paying her to clean the floor and she's paying me to do the dishes.
Since when does he have the right to pick and choose which laws he enforces?
Do you want a ticket every time a cop sees you driving 1 mph over the speed limit?
Unlikely given the human propensity for killing off all larger predators.
Nah. They've been trying to resurrect dumb terminals ever since dumb terminals died, and they always fail because dumb terminals are, well, dumb. Dumb terminals appeal to people who like central control, not people who want to get things done.
As an author, I do want my works digitized by Google because I am damn unlikely to ever sell another copy of a book that has "Advanced Turbo C: Updated for vers. 1.5!" emblazoned on the cover, so any cash is unexpected.
Me too, but I never read or post here any more.
Unfortunately, most people just don't care, so "disallow text to speech" will become the default, and the blind will be screwed.
I tried this "wiki" thing, but the characters were lousy and the plot sucked.
This misses the point. The book industry is taking actions that will lead to less money for the book industry.
Saying "greed, that's all it is about" completely misses the fundamental irony.
Writers get a far, far better deal than musicians get. They generally get a percentage of the sales price, an advance on that that they don't have to give back if the book doesn't earn out, and no deductions for "expenses".
Amazon already has a huge share of the book market. In most respects, Amazon is much better placed than Apple was when it launched the iPod. Imagine if Apple had been the largest single retailer of music CDs when it launched the iPod...that's where Amazon is now.
Most of the huge fires on the West Coast are in Southern California, where there are no few trees.
I was in that spot. I was mostly a PC gamer. The PSP was the first "console" I ever had (except for an old gameboy that I won at a raffle and sold a few weeks later.) I never had a problem with the controls.
Um...I read Will Durant's 10 volume "Story of Civilization" primarily while having my breakfasts in the morning and on my lunch hour. It took about a year. It's ten times the length of War and Peace.
(I read War and Peace itself on a Palm Pilot mostly on my commute on the train. It took about a month and a half)
Most portable games are more tailored to shorter gaming sessions. Chains of Olympus, I finished partly on a business trip and partly on my train commute. I specifically keep the PSP around precisely *because* it is engrossing. When I've had a crap day and don't want to face the commute, a good game came make the time just fly by.