I don't see any reason why a paperback version of a book should cost less than an electronic version.
Me neither.
The Kindle device has a life of what? Five years? Ten, maybe if its taken care of really well? And all the kindle books are tied to that device - are they not? That paperback book will be around for decades after that Kindle has had to be thrown into the garbage - along with all those expensive Kindle version of those books.
No, the books are tied to your amazon account. If your Kindle dies you can link another kindle to your account and re-download all your books. You can get a second kindle for your wife linked to your account and you both have access to your entire library. You can get the kindle app for the iPhone and read your entire library there as well. AND if you have a kindle and an iPhone and read for awhile on one, when you open that book on the other device it picks up where you left off on the first device!
Amazon: that 70% (gross) of the price of an electronic copy of a book that has an marginal cost approaching zero is just about all profit.
I'm pretty sure that amazon has to kick some cash over to the wireless carrier(Sprint) to cover whispernet. And maintenance on the servers, IT guys saleries, etc. The biggest piece being the payment to Sprint.
There are a number of movies that I like to re-watch. As a consumer I will still want a permanent copy of those. But in general I agree, dead are the days of 500+ title movie collection.
I have a Kodak AIW5500 that I love, I've never had a paper jam and it will print double sided with the included duplex attachment.
The only real annoyance is that if I leave it plugged in to the computer overnight it gets lost. I have to unplug the usb cable if I'm not going to print for awhile. Of course It could be the computer, I haven't done a clean install of Windows since I built the thing 6 years ago and it is starting to act flakey.
IIRC Lexmarks DMCA claims were shot down by the courts in 2005 or there about. I think most Walgreen's drugstores offer cartridge refilling services. And doesn't Office Deport sell their own line of replacement carts?
Go to books.google.com and browse any genre. On the left select "Public domain only". Not all of the books are in ePub only, some can be in pdf.
However I like manybooks.net. Most every book the have (25,439) is available in 20+ formats including the original Sony(.lrf) format, ePub(.epub), Kindle(.azw), mobipocket(.prc and.mobi), palm DOC(.pdb) heck even Newton(.pkg) format is supported.
A user who is constantly maxing his connection is doing much the same thing. There is only finite bandwidth available to everyone and one guy in his parents' basement can slow traffic for everyone else. This forces the ISPs to need to replace their cables more often due to the increase in average use. Shouldn't these users be forced to pay more for their extra usage or at least be throttled to the point they aren't causing physical damage to the entire system?
As long as they throttle indiscriminately. Net neutrality isn't about keeping the ISP from managing their bandwidth, it's about keeping the ISP from becoming the gatekeeper to whatever information you get. If the ISP gets a kickback from Microsoft to give preferential treatment to it's services (Bing for example) and reduced services levels from it's competitors (Google/Yahoo etc.) that should be illegal. I pay for access to the internet, not just what ever parts of the internet my ISP wants me to see.
...Your tax info is just wrong. You have to file one return for State (that includes your whole family), one for Federal, and possibly a local/COUNTY
If your (presumably teenage) child makes above a certain relatively low threshold they have to file a separate return, Federal, State, and maybe local although I've never lived anywhere that was the case I can't say that there is nowhere that is the case.
Aha, but my understanding from earlier stories is that this is not being pursued as a regular treaty but instead as an executive agreement. Essentially the administration would agree to pursue regular legislation enacting these provisions, which only require a simple majority to pass, rather than a treaty that would require 2/3 of the senate. I doubt that anyone currently in the senate would burn the "political capitol" to filibuster to stop these from getting to the floor. Odds are they would break it up into a bunch of little pieces added on to other bills to get them through.
s999 An act to provide medical devices for elderly, and other reasons*
"Other reasons" of course equals some provision of ACTA
Can anyone explain what the manufacturers are up in arms about?
Probably the expense of testing their products to prove they meet the regulations. Energy star is voluntary and probably less bureaucratic to get. To have to do it all over again to prove to a state that they meet the regs (even if it is just the time of a staffer to submit the paperwork) is viewed as a un-necessary expense. What if multiple states start doing this kind of thing? Pretty soon is a whole department of people needed to keep up with the paperwork. Which makes your TV more expensive.
Or use the " -profilemanager" switch on the shortcut that you launch Firefox with. You could then have a profile that loads no extensions that you use when surfing untrustworthy sites. And a profile that does load your extensions when you doing normal surfing.
What I actually use it for is I have a profile that loads my development tools (Web Developer Toolbar, Firebug, and DOM Inspector) a profile for just normal surfing, and a profile with no extensions for when I need to be absolutely sure that the add-ons are not the cause of a problem.
Back before I changed majors from Nuclear Engineering (1986 ish) I wrote a reactor core sims on my Apple//e.
Admittedly it took a few hours to run and was a fairly basic simulation but....
Given the opportunity, I'd brew a batch of beer with it.
Boiling point on the moon is a lot lower though, hop utilization is going horrible. Definitely going to need a pressurized dome for this to work.
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If the periodical subscription is free to me then I can live with the adds.
For the record I don't disable adds on slashdot either, even though I have addblock plus installed.
I don't see any reason why a paperback version of a book should cost less than an electronic version.
Me neither.
The Kindle device has a life of what? Five years? Ten, maybe if its taken care of really well? And all the kindle books are tied to that device - are they not? That paperback book will be around for decades after that Kindle has had to be thrown into the garbage - along with all those expensive Kindle version of those books.
No, the books are tied to your amazon account. If your Kindle dies you can link another kindle to your account and re-download all your books. You can get a second kindle for your wife linked to your account and you both have access to your entire library. You can get the kindle app for the iPhone and read your entire library there as well. AND if you have a kindle and an iPhone and read for awhile on one, when you open that book on the other device it picks up where you left off on the first device!
Amazon: that 70% (gross) of the price of an electronic copy of a book that has an marginal cost approaching zero is just about all profit.
I'm pretty sure that amazon has to kick some cash over to the wireless carrier(Sprint) to cover whispernet. And maintenance on the servers, IT guys saleries, etc. The biggest piece being the payment to Sprint.
There are a number of movies that I like to re-watch. As a consumer I will still want a permanent copy of those. But in general I agree, dead are the days of 500+ title movie collection.
I didn't say they were DRM free.... They expire after 3-4 weeks, but I can always check them out again.
Oh and $10 for a black cart and $20 for the color.
I have a Kodak AIW5500 that I love, I've never had a paper jam and it will print double sided with the included duplex attachment.
The only real annoyance is that if I leave it plugged in to the computer overnight it gets lost. I have to unplug the usb cable if I'm not going to print for awhile. Of course It could be the computer, I haven't done a clean install of Windows since I built the thing 6 years ago and it is starting to act flakey.
IIRC Lexmarks DMCA claims were shot down by the courts in 2005 or there about. I think most Walgreen's drugstores offer cartridge refilling services. And doesn't Office Deport sell their own line of replacement carts?
Go to books.google.com and browse any genre. On the left select "Public domain only". Not all of the books are in ePub only, some can be in pdf.
However I like manybooks.net. Most every book the have (25,439) is available in 20+ formats including the original Sony(.lrf) format, ePub(.epub), Kindle(.azw), mobipocket(.prc and .mobi), palm DOC(.pdb) heck even Newton(.pkg) format is supported.
I can already check out ePub electronic books from my library.
A user who is constantly maxing his connection is doing much the same thing. There is only finite bandwidth available to everyone and one guy in his parents' basement can slow traffic for everyone else. This forces the ISPs to need to replace their cables more often due to the increase in average use. Shouldn't these users be forced to pay more for their extra usage or at least be throttled to the point they aren't causing physical damage to the entire system?
As long as they throttle indiscriminately. Net neutrality isn't about keeping the ISP from managing their bandwidth, it's about keeping the ISP from becoming the gatekeeper to whatever information you get. If the ISP gets a kickback from Microsoft to give preferential treatment to it's services (Bing for example) and reduced services levels from it's competitors (Google/Yahoo etc.) that should be illegal. I pay for access to the internet, not just what ever parts of the internet my ISP wants me to see.
Feel free to substitute other services;
encarta/wikipedia
msnbc.com/cnn.com
etc.
...Your tax info is just wrong. You have to file one return for State (that includes your whole family), one for Federal, and possibly a local/COUNTY
If your (presumably teenage) child makes above a certain relatively low threshold they have to file a separate return, Federal, State, and maybe local although I've never lived anywhere that was the case I can't say that there is nowhere that is the case.
Aha, but my understanding from earlier stories is that this is not being pursued as a regular treaty but instead as an executive agreement. Essentially the administration would agree to pursue regular legislation enacting these provisions, which only require a simple majority to pass, rather than a treaty that would require 2/3 of the senate. I doubt that anyone currently in the senate would burn the "political capitol" to filibuster to stop these from getting to the floor. Odds are they would break it up into a bunch of little pieces added on to other bills to get them through.
s999 An act to provide medical devices for elderly, and other reasons*
"Other reasons" of course equals some provision of ACTA
Then everything in your fridge goes bad while you sleep.
Can anyone explain what the manufacturers are up in arms about?
Probably the expense of testing their products to prove they meet the regulations. Energy star is voluntary and probably less bureaucratic to get. To have to do it all over again to prove to a state that they meet the regs (even if it is just the time of a staffer to submit the paperwork) is viewed as a un-necessary expense. What if multiple states start doing this kind of thing? Pretty soon is a whole department of people needed to keep up with the paperwork. Which makes your TV more expensive.
Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator
Or use the " -profilemanager" switch on the shortcut that you launch Firefox with. You could then have a profile that loads no extensions that you use when surfing untrustworthy sites. And a profile that does load your extensions when you doing normal surfing. What I actually use it for is I have a profile that loads my development tools (Web Developer Toolbar, Firebug, and DOM Inspector) a profile for just normal surfing, and a profile with no extensions for when I need to be absolutely sure that the add-ons are not the cause of a problem.
As a web developer I used the Web Developer Toolbar, Firebug, and DOM Inspector extensions daily. I could not be as productive without them.
Back before I changed majors from Nuclear Engineering (1986 ish) I wrote a reactor core sims on my Apple //e.
Admittedly it took a few hours to run and was a fairly basic simulation but....
gibi/giga whatever, I'm pretty sure that this cat simulating computer actually has a bazillion kibble-bits.
How about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/45-70 the 300gr Pb has 2404J and the 300gr (strong) JHP has 4676J.
Here is the handgun that shoots it. http://www.theothersideofkim.com/index.php/ggps/6615/ Eventually I'll inherit a pair of these with consecutive serial numbers
Given the opportunity, I'd brew a batch of beer with it. Boiling point on the moon is a lot lower though, hop utilization is going horrible. Definitely going to need a pressurized dome for this to work.
Information does not want to be anthropomorphized. It hates it when you do that.
And if God had intended for Man to drink beer we would have been born with stomachs.