The author pimps the DRM features of ebooks to the writing crowd, but has neither idea nor interest in what would make ebooks popular with readers. And if the author's opinions are typical of the publishing world, ebooks will remain dead.
Never, does he honestly examine why I, as a reader, would want to pay out a similar amount of money to purchase an ebook as I would a paper book, when the ebook comes with so many restrictions.
If they want ebooks to become popular, they first have to aim these books at the geek crowd, and they have no chance of this while the geek crowd is aware of ebook's limitations.
I like "Rise of the Sith" better than "Revenge of the Sith." And it should have been "Revenge of the Jedi," not "Return of the Jedi."
I have always had this gut instinct that "Revenge of the Jedi" would have not had Ewoks and the storyline would have been deeper and darker and lot more satisfying.
I bought the original series on VCD from Ebay for the same reason -- I liked the original series without all of the extra scenes, cgi-ed characters.
If Lucas released the second version of the films -- no extra scenes/cgi-ed characters, but the special effects were cleaned up (no boxes around the X-Wings, etc.) I'd be a happy camper.
The news that Lucas will mess around with the movies *yet again* does not fill me with joy. And I have no faith that Revenge of the Sith will be worth the price of a dvd rental.
My brother pointed the software out to me in the college bookstore. Software's called Notes or something like that -- it looked extremely cool and would rock when paired with a tablet pc.
If I wanna fire a book from a cannon on my property and there are no bylaws preventing this, then so long as I take care that no one is hurt, I can do so.
And certainly if I want to set fire to my book, I can do so.
Have 'em try the below url, first with Mozilla and then with Firefox. Then you get to plug how essential it is they keep doing... and you can plug having 'em update their virus definitions if they're typically bad at this, or you can plug how easy it is to 'auto-update' windows, or whatever it is they ain't doing but should.
There was an outstanding Canadian show on the subject - if I could only remember the name.
http://www.valourandhorror.com/HK/HKsyn_2.htm S ee the 3rd paragraph from the bottom
http://archives.cbc.ca/IDC-1-71-1039-5836/confli ct _war/canada_veterans/clip5# No mention of the execution order, but there is a clip on the page that is interesting.
If I remember right, Valour and the Horror might have been the name of the documentary. I think you'll find the documentary as riveting as I did if you can track it down.
** That said, you are an embarrassment to your country. I'm going to take that google.ca link to mean that you are Canadian). I seriously doubt that you are sorry you had to bash America. **
On a different note, enlisted Canadian servicemen were horrifically mistreated by the Japanese while being held as prisoners of war. They were slowly being starved to death and overworked, and were due to be executed if it looked possible that their allies might liberate them. This order was overturned as a direct result of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the Americans, and it was the Americans who initially looked after these mistreated men when the Japanese surrendered.
** Japanese treated them like honored guests, despite the fact that American military personel were not nearly always so polite. **
Unlike how the Japanese treated those military personnel they captured before the war's end. Think of concentration camp survivors and you have some idea of the physical state of those enlisted men who were captured and mistreated by the Japanese. Honoured guests my ass.
** (However, I do throw my whole-hearted support behind any policy which confiscates iPods (or sunglasses, for that matter) from any too-cool-for-the-room tool who doesn't stow them shortly after he enters the building...)**
Being the proud owner of a refurbished Rio Riot (size-wise, think of having a Mazda strapped to your hip), you'd have to practically toss me out of the 4th floor window before I'd give it up. I can't tell you how utterly fab it is to have my tunes on at work.
Not that the Riot is too-cool-for-the-room tho'; I've seen file servers that are smaller than it.;)
I'd check with your bank(s); ask them if a hacker gains access to your bank accounts due to an... insecurity... on your computer, will the bank cover your losses or are you out of luck? If the bank says they'll cover your losses, get it in writing.
Folks who use their computer to bank online are nuts -- at no time can you guarantee that your computer is secure.
And that's even if you only use Firefox. If you can't afford to have your banking data revealed, then don't have the banking data, or *anything* important on the computer.
Michael Moore is an ignorant hick when it comes to his knowledge of Canadian politics. He took all of his knowledge of the US Republican Party and decided that MUST describe what the Canadian Conservatives are about.
And his attitude that Canada was some sort of American Democratic nirvana was downright infuriating.
I just thought that given that fries are potatoes, sliced up and deep fried then drenched in ketchup, and much loved by the English, the French would have been happy to have been disassociated with the dish.;)
*At 7 AM on September 11, 2001, I would said, "How is Osama bin Laden's group a threat to the US?"*
*Waiting until a threat is dire is no longer sound foreign policy. Gone are the days when spy planes and satellite see enemy troops massing on the border. Death can come to us now in the form of a steamer trunk filled with plutonium or an unassuming gentleman with a box cutter.*
http://www.iraqwatch.org/government/US/HearingsP re paredstatements/us-sasc-davidkay-012804.htm
Dr. David Kay seems to agree with you:
"Let me begin by saying we were almost all wrong. And I certainly include myself here. Senator Kennedy knows very directly. Senator Kennedy and I talked on several occasions prior to the war. That my view was that the best evidence that I had seen was that Iraq indeed had weapons of mass destruction.
I would also point out that many governments that chose not to support this war -- certainly the French -- President Chirac, as I recall, in April of last year referred to Iraq's possession of WMD. The Germans, certainly the intelligence service believed that there were WMD."
He says further:
"MR. KAY: Senator Warner, you're absolutely right. I think, and I think I've said, but let me be absolutely clear about it, Iraq was in clear material violation of 1441. They maintained programs and activities, and they certainly had the intentions at a point to resume their programs. So there was a lot they wanted to hide because it showed what they were doing that was illegal. I hope we find even more evidence of that."
And then:
"MR. KAY: Well, in interviewing the Republican Guard generals and special Republican Guard generals and asking about their capabilities and having them, the assurance was they didn't personally have them and hadn't seen them, but the units on their right or left had them. And as you worked the way around the circle of those defending Baghdad, which is the immediate area of concern, you have got this very strange phenomena of no, I don't have them, I haven't seen them, but look to my right and left. This was an intentional ambiguity."
My favourite section:
"SEN. JACK REED (D-RI): Thank you.
"Dr. Kay, let me also commend you, not only for your service, but for your integrity. We appreciate your being here today.
"In your discussion with Tom Brokaw, you were asked about the nature of the threat posed by Iraq. And Mr. Brokaw said, "But an imminent threat to the United States?" And your response was, "Tom, an imminent threat is a political judgment."
"Now what does that mean? Did that mean that when you're presented with analysis from -- in fact, conflicting analysis -- that the president can impose a political calculation --
"MR. KAY: Senator Reed --
"SEN. REED: -- particularly a president that seems to have a very preconceived notion of the threat --
"MR. KAY: Senator Reed, it means that any president, when he's presented with intelligence, has got to make a choice about how much risk he's prepared to run for the nation that he leads. It is my belief that regardless of political party, after 9/11, the shadowing effects of that horrible tragedy changed, as a nation, the level of risk that all of us are prepared to run, that we would like to avoid, and -- but where you place yourself on that spectrum of how much risk you're going to run is a political responsibility which elected officials have and I certainly don't have.
"And so I think, fundamentally, that's why, in a democracy, we elect people like you, and we elect a president -- to make those determinations. It's not a fixed point that is ever going to be carved as pi's constant. It is, what's the world look like, and how much risk will I run?
"SEN. REED: But also, Doctor, that judgment has to be logically related to the evidence you have before you. And like so many -- and I think you, too -- there was a supposition that perhaps thi
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The author pimps the DRM features of ebooks to the writing crowd, but has neither idea nor interest in what would make ebooks popular with readers. And if the author's opinions are typical of the publishing world, ebooks will remain dead.
Never, does he honestly examine why I, as a reader, would want to pay out a similar amount of money to purchase an ebook as I would a paper book, when the ebook comes with so many restrictions.
If they want ebooks to become popular, they first have to aim these books at the geek crowd, and they have no chance of this while the geek crowd is aware of ebook's limitations.
No, arrested when the confidential military documents you left on the table by the front door wind up on the front page of the Al Quaida Times.
HOW could you not see that the folks on p2p networks have been damn irresponsible?
Canada. And Cuba.
I like "Rise of the Sith" better than "Revenge of the Sith." And it should have been "Revenge of the Jedi," not "Return of the Jedi."
I have always had this gut instinct that "Revenge of the Jedi" would have not had Ewoks and the storyline would have been deeper and darker and lot more satisfying.
I bought the original series on VCD from Ebay for the same reason -- I liked the original series without all of the extra scenes, cgi-ed characters.
If Lucas released the second version of the films -- no extra scenes/cgi-ed characters, but the special effects were cleaned up (no boxes around the X-Wings, etc.) I'd be a happy camper.
The news that Lucas will mess around with the movies *yet again* does not fill me with joy. And I have no faith that Revenge of the Sith will be worth the price of a dvd rental.
My brother pointed the software out to me in the college bookstore. Software's called Notes or something like that -- it looked extremely cool and would rock when paired with a tablet pc.
Numbers 2 and 4 are dumb examples.
If I wanna fire a book from a cannon on my property and there are no bylaws preventing this, then so long as I take care that no one is hurt, I can do so.
And certainly if I want to set fire to my book, I can do so.
Shoulda been 'first with Firefox or Mozilla, then with IE.'
My bad.
Have 'em try the below url, first with Mozilla and then with Firefox. Then you get to plug how essential it is they keep doing ... and you can plug having 'em update their virus definitions if they're typically bad at this, or you can plug how easy it is to 'auto-update' windows, or whatever it is they ain't doing but should.
0 03 0713-ie/activex.html
http://www.doxdesk.com/personal/posts/bugtraq/2
The security holes for IE far outweigh the security holes for Firefox.
http://www.galafilm.com/galafilm/e/tv/doc/valour.h tml
is another site
http://www.valourandhorror.com/DB/LINKS/home.htm
has video ordering links.
There was an outstanding Canadian show on the subject - if I could only remember the name.
S ee the 3rd paragraph from the bottom
i ct _war/canada_veterans/clip5#
http://www.valourandhorror.com/HK/HKsyn_2.htm
http://archives.cbc.ca/IDC-1-71-1039-5836/confl
No mention of the execution order, but there is a clip on the page that is interesting.
If I remember right, Valour and the Horror might have been the name of the documentary. I think you'll find the documentary as riveting as I did if you can track it down.
** That said, you are an embarrassment to your country. I'm going to take that google.ca link to mean that you are Canadian). I seriously doubt that you are sorry you had to bash America. **
On a different note, enlisted Canadian servicemen were horrifically mistreated by the Japanese while being held as prisoners of war. They were slowly being starved to death and overworked, and were due to be executed if it looked possible that their allies might liberate them. This order was overturned as a direct result of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the Americans, and it was the Americans who initially looked after these mistreated men when the Japanese surrendered.
** Japanese treated them like honored guests, despite the fact that American military personel were not nearly always so polite. **
Unlike how the Japanese treated those military personnel they captured before the war's end. Think of concentration camp survivors and you have some idea of the physical state of those enlisted men who were captured and mistreated by the Japanese. Honoured guests my ass.
** (However, I do throw my whole-hearted support behind any policy which confiscates iPods (or sunglasses, for that matter) from any too-cool-for-the-room tool who doesn't stow them shortly after he enters the building...)**
;)
Being the proud owner of a refurbished Rio Riot (size-wise, think of having a Mazda strapped to your hip), you'd have to practically toss me out of the 4th floor window before I'd give it up. I can't tell you how utterly fab it is to have my tunes on at work.
Not that the Riot is too-cool-for-the-room tho'; I've seen file servers that are smaller than it.
* our security system *
Would 'our' also include 'your'?
I've called the Supreme Court of Canada many names, but Lackeys-of-the-Music-Industry isn't one of 'em.
I'd check with your bank(s); ask them if a hacker gains access to your bank accounts due to an ... insecurity ... on your computer, will the bank cover your losses or are you out of luck? If the bank says they'll cover your losses, get it in writing.
Folks who use their computer to bank online are nuts -- at no time can you guarantee that your computer is secure.
And that's even if you only use Firefox. If you can't afford to have your banking data revealed, then don't have the banking data, or *anything* important on the computer.
We don't have it anymore; the Armed Forces had to sell it so some of the families of the enlisted men could have something to eat.
...
If, on the other hand, you'd like to donate a red snowmobile, please check the 'donation box' on the Ontario pages of the 2005 income tax forms
Michael Moore is an ignorant hick when it comes to his knowledge of Canadian politics. He took all of his knowledge of the US Republican Party and decided that MUST describe what the Canadian Conservatives are about.
And his attitude that Canada was some sort of American Democratic nirvana was downright infuriating.
Dude, you walk up to me in the street and insist I'm an 'American', I'm either going to clean your clock, or call the police to have you arrested.
I'm a CANADIAN; American's are those folks who live in the USA.
Ah, live and learn!
;)
I just thought that given that fries are potatoes, sliced up and deep fried then drenched in ketchup, and much loved by the English, the French would have been happy to have been disassociated with the dish.
*But how did that make it a threat to the US?*
*At 7 AM on September 11, 2001, I would said, "How is Osama bin Laden's group a threat to the US?"*
*Waiting until a threat is dire is no longer sound foreign policy. Gone are the days when spy planes and satellite see enemy troops massing on the border. Death can come to us now in the form of a steamer trunk filled with plutonium or an unassuming gentleman with a box cutter.*
http://www.iraqwatch.org/government/US/HearingsP re paredstatements/us-sasc-davidkay-012804.htm
Dr. David Kay seems to agree with you:
"Let me begin by saying we were almost all wrong. And I certainly include myself here. Senator Kennedy knows very directly. Senator Kennedy and I talked on several occasions prior to the war. That my view was that the best evidence that I had seen was that Iraq indeed had weapons of mass destruction.
I would also point out that many governments that chose not to support this war -- certainly the French -- President Chirac, as I recall, in April of last year referred to Iraq's possession of WMD. The Germans, certainly the intelligence service believed that there were WMD."
He says further:
"MR. KAY: Senator Warner, you're absolutely right. I think, and I think I've said, but let me be absolutely clear about it, Iraq was in clear material violation of 1441. They maintained programs and activities, and they certainly had the intentions at a point to resume their programs. So there was a lot they wanted to hide because it showed what they were doing that was illegal. I hope we find even more evidence of that."
And then:
"MR. KAY: Well, in interviewing the Republican Guard generals and special Republican Guard generals and asking about their capabilities and having them, the assurance was they didn't personally have them and hadn't seen them, but the units on their right or left had them. And as you worked the way around the circle of those defending Baghdad, which is the immediate area of concern, you have got this very strange phenomena of no, I don't have them, I haven't seen them, but look to my right and left. This was an intentional ambiguity."
My favourite section:
"SEN. JACK REED (D-RI): Thank you.
"Dr. Kay, let me also commend you, not only for your service, but for your integrity. We appreciate your being here today.
"In your discussion with Tom Brokaw, you were asked about the nature of the threat posed by Iraq. And Mr. Brokaw said, "But an imminent threat to the United States?" And your response was, "Tom, an imminent threat is a political judgment."
"Now what does that mean? Did that mean that when you're presented with analysis from -- in fact, conflicting analysis -- that the president can impose a political calculation --
"MR. KAY: Senator Reed --
"SEN. REED: -- particularly a president that seems to have a very preconceived notion of the threat --
"MR. KAY: Senator Reed, it means that any president, when he's presented with intelligence, has got to make a choice about how much risk he's prepared to run for the nation that he leads. It is my belief that regardless of political party, after 9/11, the shadowing effects of that horrible tragedy changed, as a nation, the level of risk that all of us are prepared to run, that we would like to avoid, and -- but where you place yourself on that spectrum of how much risk you're going to run is a political responsibility which elected officials have and I certainly don't have.
"And so I think, fundamentally, that's why, in a democracy, we elect people like you, and we elect a president -- to make those determinations. It's not a fixed point that is ever going to be carved as pi's constant. It is, what's the world look like, and how much risk will I run?
"SEN. REED: But also, Doctor, that judgment has to be logically related to the evidence you have before you. And like so many -- and I think you, too -- there was a supposition that perhaps thi
I think you've got a better chance of irritating the French with 'bordo' than you do with 'freedom fries' ;)