DRM isn't the only issue involved, my girlfriend is not very tech savvy but she knows enough to be able to download her ebooks and copy them to her device using the software I set up for her. Almost all of her books have some form of DRM that is 100% transparent to her and I would say that she depicts an average reader of ebooks.
The biggest detriment to ebooks again isn't the DRM, it's the cost. It's absolutely ridiculous that I can walk into any bookstore and buy a paperback book for 7.99 but that exact same ebook sells for 9.99. Also, some new releases aren't even available in ebook format for several weeks or even months after the book is released so the ebook sales won't hamper physical book sales. A simple pricing strategy would be something along the lines of selling an ebook for the lowest cost a book can be obtained for at a store (or online). When a new book is released on hardcover and is selling for say 24.99 then the ebook should be 24.99. When the paperback is released for 7.99 six months later then the ebook price should be NO MORE THAN 7.99. It's insulting that publishers are charging the prices they do for ebooks. I have a LOT of physical books and I have no problem downloading ebook versions of them from torrent sites so I can read them on my ereader. I would even deal with the DRM if the cost of an ebook was more inline with the cost of a physical book.
Not offering wifi/computer use at tables is a FAR CRY from not allowing patrons to use eReaders. If its of for me to read a real book then its ok for me to use my eReader.
What I would like to know is what about all the calls that are ROUTED to an international number such as call centers and customer support numbers where you are dialing an 800 number without realizing you are calling overseas?
Did you hear it? It's as if a million voices just cried out......they can't hear you now.
With very few exceptions, everybody I know that is getting a Verizon iPhone already has some type of smart phone. I'm sure there will be a few rough patches for the next couple of weeks but Verizon has a much more robust infrastructure than AT&T does.
This is an interesting point. Technically (perhaps not legally but I don't know if this has been challenged in court yet), if you have already purchased the game does it matter if you download a hacked version because it's easier to play? I regularly do this with PC games that require the CD be in to play, I will purchase the game and then download the No-CD crack for it.
I've always read books and I find myself reading more now on my Nook than I did before I got an ereader device. The biggest gripe I have with ebooks is the price. I can walk into any bookstore and buy a paperback book for around 7 dollars, the same ebook will cost me a minimum of 9.99. I buy enough ebooks where this is becoming a problem. I recently tried to 'borrow' ebooks from the library but the selection is just laughable and unlike physical or even audio books there is no secondary market for ebooks. I now have a policy where if I'm reading a collection or multi title series I will by one ebook and download the rest. My justification is that if I buy a used book the publisher and author get no money from the secondary sale.
If the price of ebooks was BELOW the price of physical media then I would have no problem paying for all the ebooks I read.
You don't even have to count cards in blackjack, if you play basic strategy you can bring the house odds down to under 1% compared to the double zero Roulette house advantage of just over 5.25%.
They're not searching your "persons, houses, papers, and effects"
I know that in some states your vehicle is an extension of your domicile which does give you right to privacy and protection against search and seizure.
I've been deeply involved in my family genealogy for over 20 years. At one time or another I've used every software package that was available as well as a system that I designed myself. One of the biggest flaws with a lot of the software I've used is that are far too simple and don't take into consideration that not all the data you get is accurate. I ended up using a software package called The Master Genealogist (TMG for short), its available at http://www.whollygenes.com/ TMG is by far the best software package for tracking genealogy. It is fully GEDCOM compliant but is able to track much more information than is supported by GEDCOM. One of the most key features is the support for multiple tags such as, somebody says that Uncle Ted was born in July, 1940 but somebody else says he was born in July 1941. You are able to have both Birth tags with one flagged as primary and have surety flags (to indicate how sure you are that something is true, a birth certificate would have a pretty high surety rating.) The software is currently at version 7 but V 8 is due out. I would try to steer away from online repositories because you really have no idea what they are doing with your data and if they go belly up what happens to all your research.
There are some nice add on tools to TMG to generate web sites (Second Site is the best one). You really should check out TMG before you make any decisions.
Very cool - I was watching the teaser and thought WOW, That sounds like Max Von Sydow. I might just try this game JUST because they used Max for the voice overs.
No it is NOT called a draft. A draft is put into place in order to get more people into the armed forces when required. What the parent poster is talking about is conscription and there are a few European countries that still use it. It usually works by mandating that once you turn 18 you must serve x years in a branch of the military. I think this would be a GOOD thing but I imagine it would never get through congress.
What is even more interesting about this is that some cable companies are using the internet as their distribution channel and they are converting their phone services to VOIP.
If the plans offer a reasonable limit on downloads then I don't see a problem with tiered service with an additional cost per GB (as long as the additional costs are reasonable which I highly doubt) then I don't see any problems with this. I know I'm being naive but it would be nice to pay less per month when I'm not using the internet a lot. But this raises other issues about installed software that thinks nothing of phoning home every time you run an application to see if there is a newer version and automatically downloading patches and updates.
Title VII of the civil rights act (which covers employment discrimination) only applies to companies that have 15 or more employees I believe. There may be state laws that cover smaller companies.
But, in response to your statement, The original line read
for whatever reason they want that doesn't violate a persons civil rights.
but thought it would be implied. I should have known better! Thank you for pointing out my naivety.
The presumption of innocence only applies in a criminal proceeding if I'm not mistaken. A corporation has every right to terminate a business relationship for whatever reason they want.
I read the article and some of the comments below the article and I was amazed that there are people that equate unlocking or jailbreaking a phone to stealing intellectual property. I'm not very familiar with the wording of the DMCA exlusion that allows you to carrier unlock a phone but I did believe that it applied to a phone that you own. I somebody is charging a fee to unlock phones that clearly this doesn't fall under the DMCA exclusion as I understand it. However, if somebody were to purchase a phone for X dollars, carrer unlock it and then re-sell it for X+Y dollars then that SHOULD fall under the DMCA exlusion although it would be exploiting a loophole.
I'm still not sure how this guy ended up doing jail time and what kind of precedent that sets.
Of course it might be CONSIDERED anti-competitive but I believe that a publicly traded company has a fiduciary responsibility to it's shareholders. Google should just display a disclaimer that it's search results are in no way meant to be completely free of bias and that in some cases Google sponsored or affiliated sites will be closer to the top of the listing. But, that would mess with the sterile look of the initial search page. I personally have no problem with Google showing sites that it has interest in closer to the top of the listing and have ALWAYS worked under the assumption that that was the case. Thinking any other way is naive.
Perhaps Google should announce a new policy that prohibits ANY page listings for companies that they are currently in litigation with. Again, I see no reason why Google should be told that they CAN'T do this, as long as they treat every other company the same.
PayPal wants everybody to believe that its a simple escrow service but I agree that its acting more and more like a bank, if they are considered a banking entity in the UK and other countries in Europe then they should be operating as a bank in the US. PayPal simply has far too much control over YOUR money and regardless of what their TOS state it should be far more difficult for them to arbitrarily hold people's money and/or freeze their account.
While I do agree that this really sucks I'm not sure it's worth almost 2 Million dollars. He might have done a bit more research on the new job or perhaps worked for a few months BEFORE uprooting his entire family (which is most likely what I would have done in a similar situation). I think that 6 or maybe even 12 months severance should suffice in this situation. The guy actually got paid for 9 months to do his job so it sounds to me like there was a job, it just didn't last as long as the guy had hoped it would.
You are taking into consideration the fact that every time somebody in the cockpit needs to use the bathroom or they get served food the door needs to be opened.
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DRM isn't the only issue involved, my girlfriend is not very tech savvy but she knows enough to be able to download her ebooks and copy them to her device using the software I set up for her. Almost all of her books have some form of DRM that is 100% transparent to her and I would say that she depicts an average reader of ebooks.
The biggest detriment to ebooks again isn't the DRM, it's the cost. It's absolutely ridiculous that I can walk into any bookstore and buy a paperback book for 7.99 but that exact same ebook sells for 9.99. Also, some new releases aren't even available in ebook format for several weeks or even months after the book is released so the ebook sales won't hamper physical book sales. A simple pricing strategy would be something along the lines of selling an ebook for the lowest cost a book can be obtained for at a store (or online). When a new book is released on hardcover and is selling for say 24.99 then the ebook should be 24.99. When the paperback is released for 7.99 six months later then the ebook price should be NO MORE THAN 7.99. It's insulting that publishers are charging the prices they do for ebooks. I have a LOT of physical books and I have no problem downloading ebook versions of them from torrent sites so I can read them on my ereader. I would even deal with the DRM if the cost of an ebook was more inline with the cost of a physical book.
Not offering wifi/computer use at tables is a FAR CRY from not allowing patrons to use eReaders. If its of for me to read a real book then its ok for me to use my eReader.
What I would like to know is what about all the calls that are ROUTED to an international number such as call centers and customer support numbers where you are dialing an 800 number without realizing you are calling overseas?
If Amazon (or it's subsidiary) didn't collect sales tax then isn't the entity that purchased the goods responsible for paying the 'use' tax?
That's how internet or even mail order sales are SUPPOSED to work, and that is why its called a 'Sales and Use Tax'.
Did you hear it? It's as if a million voices just cried out... ...they can't hear you now.
With very few exceptions, everybody I know that is getting a Verizon iPhone already has some type of smart phone. I'm sure there will be a few rough patches for the next couple of weeks but Verizon has a much more robust infrastructure than AT&T does.
This is an interesting point. Technically (perhaps not legally but I don't know if this has been challenged in court yet), if you have already purchased the game does it matter if you download a hacked version because it's easier to play?
I regularly do this with PC games that require the CD be in to play, I will purchase the game and then download the No-CD crack for it.
This !
I've always read books and I find myself reading more now on my Nook than I did before I got an ereader device. The biggest gripe I have with ebooks is the price. I can walk into any bookstore and buy a paperback book for around 7 dollars, the same ebook will cost me a minimum of 9.99. I buy enough ebooks where this is becoming a problem. I recently tried to 'borrow' ebooks from the library but the selection is just laughable and unlike physical or even audio books there is no secondary market for ebooks. I now have a policy where if I'm reading a collection or multi title series I will by one ebook and download the rest. My justification is that if I buy a used book the publisher and author get no money from the secondary sale.
If the price of ebooks was BELOW the price of physical media then I would have no problem paying for all the ebooks I read.
You don't even have to count cards in blackjack, if you play basic strategy you can bring the house odds down to under 1% compared to the double zero Roulette house advantage of just over 5.25%.
Tits shouldn't even be on the list, it sounds like a snack.
They're not searching your "persons, houses, papers, and effects"
I know that in some states your vehicle is an extension of your domicile which does give you right to privacy and protection against search and seizure.
Imagine if the second husband DID assault the child? Then the new husband would be in trouble for NOT doing anything to prevent this atrocious act.
Funny that when we actually SHOULD be thinking about the children something else gets in the way.
Or you could only allow certain MAC addresses to connect.
The could have just checked the DHCP log in the wireless router.
I've been deeply involved in my family genealogy for over 20 years. At one time or another I've used every software package that was available as well as a system that I designed myself. One of the biggest flaws with a lot of the software I've used is that are far too simple and don't take into consideration that not all the data you get is accurate. I ended up using a software package called The Master Genealogist (TMG for short), its available at http://www.whollygenes.com/ TMG is by far the best software package for tracking genealogy. It is fully GEDCOM compliant but is able to track much more information than is supported by GEDCOM. One of the most key features is the support for multiple tags such as, somebody says that Uncle Ted was born in July, 1940 but somebody else says he was born in July 1941. You are able to have both Birth tags with one flagged as primary and have surety flags (to indicate how sure you are that something is true, a birth certificate would have a pretty high surety rating.) The software is currently at version 7 but V 8 is due out. I would try to steer away from online repositories because you really have no idea what they are doing with your data and if they go belly up what happens to all your research.
There are some nice add on tools to TMG to generate web sites (Second Site is the best one). You really should check out TMG before you make any decisions.
Hasn't forum software had this for years? I'm not sure how well this would hold up against a REAL defense.
Very cool - I was watching the teaser and thought WOW, That sounds like Max Von Sydow. I might just try this game JUST because they used Max for the voice overs.
No it is NOT called a draft. A draft is put into place in order to get more people into the armed forces when required. What the parent poster is talking about is conscription and there are a few European countries that still use it. It usually works by mandating that once you turn 18 you must serve x years in a branch of the military. I think this would be a GOOD thing but I imagine it would never get through congress.
What is even more interesting about this is that some cable companies are using the internet as their distribution channel and they are converting their phone services to VOIP.
If the plans offer a reasonable limit on downloads then I don't see a problem with tiered service with an additional cost per GB (as long as the additional costs are reasonable which I highly doubt) then I don't see any problems with this. I know I'm being naive but it would be nice to pay less per month when I'm not using the internet a lot. But this raises other issues about installed software that thinks nothing of phoning home every time you run an application to see if there is a newer version and automatically downloading patches and updates.
But, in response to your statement, The original line read
for whatever reason they want that doesn't violate a persons civil rights.
but thought it would be implied. I should have known better! Thank you for pointing out my naivety.
The presumption of innocence only applies in a criminal proceeding if I'm not mistaken. A corporation has every right to terminate a business relationship for whatever reason they want.
I read the article and some of the comments below the article and I was amazed that there are people that equate unlocking or jailbreaking a phone to stealing intellectual property. I'm not very familiar with the wording of the DMCA exlusion that allows you to carrier unlock a phone but I did believe that it applied to a phone that you own. I somebody is charging a fee to unlock phones that clearly this doesn't fall under the DMCA exclusion as I understand it. However, if somebody were to purchase a phone for X dollars, carrer unlock it and then re-sell it for X+Y dollars then that SHOULD fall under the DMCA exlusion although it would be exploiting a loophole.
I'm still not sure how this guy ended up doing jail time and what kind of precedent that sets.
Of course it might be CONSIDERED anti-competitive but I believe that a publicly traded company has a fiduciary responsibility to it's shareholders. Google should just display a disclaimer that it's search results are in no way meant to be completely free of bias and that in some cases Google sponsored or affiliated sites will be closer to the top of the listing. But, that would mess with the sterile look of the initial search page. I personally have no problem with Google showing sites that it has interest in closer to the top of the listing and have ALWAYS worked under the assumption that that was the case. Thinking any other way is naive.
Perhaps Google should announce a new policy that prohibits ANY page listings for companies that they are currently in litigation with. Again, I see no reason why Google should be told that they CAN'T do this, as long as they treat every other company the same.
PayPal wants everybody to believe that its a simple escrow service but I agree that its acting more and more like a bank, if they are considered a banking entity in the UK and other countries in Europe then they should be operating as a bank in the US. PayPal simply has far too much control over YOUR money and regardless of what their TOS state it should be far more difficult for them to arbitrarily hold people's money and/or freeze their account.
While I do agree that this really sucks I'm not sure it's worth almost 2 Million dollars. He might have done a bit more research on the new job or perhaps worked for a few months BEFORE uprooting his entire family (which is most likely what I would have done in a similar situation). I think that 6 or maybe even 12 months severance should suffice in this situation. The guy actually got paid for 9 months to do his job so it sounds to me like there was a job, it just didn't last as long as the guy had hoped it would.
You are taking into consideration the fact that every time somebody in the cockpit needs to use the bathroom or they get served food the door needs to be opened.