I got mine at Best Buy in August. Yeah, it was expensive, but I was facing a long plane ride followed by a long drive with a five year old. A PSP with 8 gb worth of movies was a godsend.
I wish I could get more games on sticks...It'd be a lot more convenient.
Why on Earth would you need lots of memory to store text files? It seems like half the complaints about this device is that it isn't a notebook computer. Well, duh. It's meant for *reading* not computing. 256 mb of memory can hold enough books to keep you in novels for weeks.
So yeah, paying for a "crippled laptop" would be stupid...but that's not the point. The point is that the thing has a screen designed for long-term no-eyestrain reading, which is something no laptop on the market can offer.
Saying it doesn't have enough memory is like complaining that a car doesn't have as much cargo space as your pickup. It's completely missing the point of what the device is for. It's like complaining that the processor on your iPod is too slow or that your printer's LCD screen is too low resolution.
The important metric for readability is not resolution, it is pixel density. Kindle has a pixel density of 167 ppi, which is higher than most LCD screens, which these days tend to run around 100 ppi, and is slightly better than the iPhone, which has 160 ppi.
I haven't used the Kindle, but I have used the Sony eReader, which has a similar resolution, and it is *much* easier on the eyes than an LCD.
Kindle doesn't have a big enough screen. I believe that for these devices to really take off, they need to be large enough to display technical references/textbooks correctly. Then, they will explode. It's not the casual entertainment reader they should be targeting. It's the people who have to haul lots of massive books around everywhere as references.
FYI: they'll be able to separate out non-human DNA. If you want this to work, you'll need human semen. (Not your own, obviously. That's already there anyway.)
Yeah, they are aiming at the wrong music. Instead of selling to the casual reader, who buys paperbacks, they should sell to people who buy technical references, who 1) are used to shelling out $30-40 for a book and 2) who often want to be able to access many books at once. A single fiction paperback is fine for the train and costs little. On the other hand, I'd kill for a device that would let me carry 10-15 O'Reilly references in my backpack. Unfortunately, the current devices don't render safari PDFs well because the screen is too small.
In the US at least, they'd have to convince a jury "beyond a reasonable doubt" that you actually had the key for you to be convicted for refusing to hand it over.
It doesn't. The courts have decided that an encryption key is analogous to a physical key. That's why the fifth amendment doesn't apply to encryption keys.
There's a third reason: reputation. Being able to say "won the $FOO Prize" is probably worth lots more in terms of future employment than the actual prize.
I don't know that I'd say "fixed it". I know I still get annoying calls, especially from "charities" or people "doing surveys". More like they took a stabbing pain and turned it into a dull ache. This is typical government: mediocre half-action which is, at least, better than nothing.
They stopped selling videos with the DRM server before 2006. They just shut down the DRM server that allowed those files to be viewed. They need to be sued for this.
If a crap submission is posted, it is the "editors" fault. I put "editor" in quotes, because real editors actually edit stuff that has problems rather than just posting what's submitted.
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I got mine at Best Buy in August. Yeah, it was expensive, but I was facing a long plane ride followed by a long drive with a five year old. A PSP with 8 gb worth of movies was a godsend.
I wish I could get more games on sticks...It'd be a lot more convenient.
Why on Earth would you need lots of memory to store text files? It seems like half the complaints about this device is that it isn't a notebook computer. Well, duh. It's meant for *reading* not computing. 256 mb of memory can hold enough books to keep you in novels for weeks.
So yeah, paying for a "crippled laptop" would be stupid...but that's not the point. The point is that the thing has a screen designed for long-term no-eyestrain reading, which is something no laptop on the market can offer.
Saying it doesn't have enough memory is like complaining that a car doesn't have as much cargo space as your pickup. It's completely missing the point of what the device is for. It's like complaining that the processor on your iPod is too slow or that your printer's LCD screen is too low resolution.
The important metric for readability is not resolution, it is pixel density. Kindle has a pixel density of 167 ppi, which is higher than most LCD screens, which these days tend to run around 100 ppi, and is slightly better than the iPhone, which has 160 ppi.
I haven't used the Kindle, but I have used the Sony eReader, which has a similar resolution, and it is *much* easier on the eyes than an LCD.
Books are not "light weight" if you are talking about books that contain the number of pages that the Kindle can hold.
I have an 8 gig memory stick for mine. I'm not sure what the overall limit is, but memory sticks currently max out at 8 gb.
Kindle doesn't have a big enough screen. I believe that for these devices to really take off, they need to be large enough to display technical references/textbooks correctly. Then, they will explode. It's not the casual entertainment reader they should be targeting. It's the people who have to haul lots of massive books around everywhere as references.
Oddly enough, I found my Clie perfect for reading in bed as it had its own light, so I could read when my wife was asleep.
I find it amusing that the first thing that gets brought up is the bath...do people really read in the bath? Do people really take baths anymore?
I read "War and Peace" on a Clie and "Ana Karenina" on a Palm III. You get used to it.
True, I'd much rather read on an eInk screen, but reading in an LCD is certainly doable.
Stay out of the thread, Nazi.
FYI: they'll be able to separate out non-human DNA. If you want this to work, you'll need human semen. (Not your own, obviously. That's already there anyway.)
The US also, in theory, requires that you renounce all foreign citizenship. Of course, this is roundly ignored by other countries.
Both the Sony eReader and Kindle will display non-DRM books.
Yeah, they are aiming at the wrong music. Instead of selling to the casual reader, who buys paperbacks, they should sell to people who buy technical references, who 1) are used to shelling out $30-40 for a book and 2) who often want to be able to access many books at once. A single fiction paperback is fine for the train and costs little. On the other hand, I'd kill for a device that would let me carry 10-15 O'Reilly references in my backpack. Unfortunately, the current devices don't render safari PDFs well because the screen is too small.
Don't laugh. On at least one ANA flight, they handed out Sony eReaders to everyone in first class.
He is the author of "Frist POst!!!!1", 5:03 AM PST August 24, 2001.
In the US at least, they'd have to convince a jury "beyond a reasonable doubt" that you actually had the key for you to be convicted for refusing to hand it over.
That's a great way of getting charged with obstruction of justice.
It doesn't. The courts have decided that an encryption key is analogous to a physical key. That's why the fifth amendment doesn't apply to encryption keys.
There's a third reason: reputation. Being able to say "won the $FOO Prize" is probably worth lots more in terms of future employment than the actual prize.
It's a stalemate because neither one is winning. Consumers are happy with plain old DVDs.
This is a good time to mention Child's Play, a charity that won't ever call you and where 100% of what you donate goes to the kids.
I don't know that I'd say "fixed it". I know I still get annoying calls, especially from "charities" or people "doing surveys". More like they took a stabbing pain and turned it into a dull ache. This is typical government: mediocre half-action which is, at least, better than nothing.
They stopped selling videos with the DRM server before 2006. They just shut down the DRM server that allowed those files to be viewed. They need to be sued for this.
I used a joystick for the longest time. It was perfectly fine for Wolfenstein 3D, Doom and Duke Nuk'em.
If a crap submission is posted, it is the "editors" fault. I put "editor" in quotes, because real editors actually edit stuff that has problems rather than just posting what's submitted.