Since the "paper" can be refreshed with any content...would there be any practical reason for an eBook to have multiple pages?
The only reasons I can think of are; to save power by refreshing multiple pages only one time, thus longer battery life, and to transition between the habit of turning pages of a dead tree book.
Often time I like the tactile feedback of holding a book in my hands. I like that it doesn't make a noise unless I ruffled the pages, no humming fan or whining battery...but, I don't like turning pages and diverting my eyes from the left to right sides, especially when reading in bed.
All jokes aside, I like to read with one hand curling the left side underneath the back of the book which makes reading the right side of the book great, and the left side a pain.
Lastly, the home movie is on MY schedule, and I don't have to pay $8 to see it
Exactly true, you get to pay so much more! At $8 a ticket you could go to the movies every weekend for the next 7 years! Of course this is assuming you spend $3000 on a home theater system (easy to do)
Besides, you don't get to meet anyone interesting sitting alone in your living room.
really shouldn't cost very much money ( $1000)
Am I the only one here that doesn't have $1000 to kick around? You people make me feel more and more poor everyday.
About a year ago I signed up to see If I qualified for a free phone from ATT Wireless. It was one of those mall kiosks. I did qualify, but delayed getting a phone from them, and instead went with Verizon.
Three months later, I get a call from ATT wireless about my enormous phone bill. I told them they must be mistaken so they tried a couple of different things to verify that I was me, then called the cell phone to do the same thing. Obviously the person on the cell phone couldn't answer the questions.
As far as I know, the only thing that happened was the cell phone account being closed. I would have gladly paid the bill if they would have just given me the cell phone number and a list of called/incoming numbers.
My plan was to find the bastard and call him by my name while beating the shit out of him untill he fessed up that he wasn't me and told me I have the wrong guy.
I wish your idea would work, but the government doesn't work that way.
I've been working on a government website in which PHP and MySQL would have been the best and most cost effective solution. I detailed the reasons why in several pages, going to great lengths to persuade them. I even offered to setup the server for free, way out of the scope of my contract.
They decided to go with an expensive Oracle and JSP backend.
A government worker never needs to get his job done, only to be able to bitch at someone when he can't get it done. In this case, it will be Sun and Oracle.
Screw that: the phone is a convenient tool for me not a backdoor by which others can invade my space and privacy.
You shound exactly like one of my stupid friends. He has no caller ID, never checks his answering machine and never answers his phone...ever.
Can I call him to tell him to turn on the news quick because his dad is on live tv? Can I call him and tell him store A has one copy of that piece of software he wants left for $200 off? When he doesn't get wind of these sort of things quick enough, he bitches like crazy...but always he returns to his foolish thought that the phone is soley a convenient tool for him, never the other way around.
Average citizens drive frickin' Hummvees down highway streets, for crying out loud.
It's a shame the military doesn't push electric cars...If I have to sit behind another dickhead talking on his cell phone in his H2, oblivious to the green light in front of him, I'm going to scream.
Has anyone ever stopped to ask whether we really want computers in the classroom? At my high school they had a ratio of about two students to each computer. We seldom got to use them because of the fear that we would break them...(bastard kids stealing mice and popping keys off the keyboards)
When we did get to use them it was basically play time. The teacher just didn't want to deal with us and so the kids would pretend to be typing a paper while really just surfing for porn or browsing rotten.com
Maybe we could spend money on figuring out how to teach kids not to be little pricks before handing them something as powerful as a computer.
I seem to remember reading in Wired about a silicon valley school that had no computers and touted that as its defining feature.
I bought Final Cut Pro 3 about six monthes ago and installed it on my G4 desktop. Everything was running great, but I wanted to format my drive and reinstall everything. Problem was that I had my serial number sheet...but my baby sister had torn it essentially in half, and I was missing the last sixt digits or so.
I called Apple and explained the situation. I could tell them when and where I bought their software, I was calling from the number I registered the product and looking at his computer he was able to tell that I had been a long time apple customer.
I needed the serial number that day. His solution; mail a copy of the receipt, upc from the box, and a printout of a form requesting a new serial number. Turn around of a week or more.
My solution, which I told him outright, look for either a serial number online, or a cracked version of the software. He said that would be illegal.
GuidePlus is a horrible piece of software. Get rid of it's piss poor design and buggy interface and try myHTPC.
http://www.myhtpc.net/
I actually had GuidePlus give me this error on launch before quiting itself. "A is not a number" It refused to operate after that and I had to reinstall all of ATI's AiW software.
Anyone know where I can get the mac drivers for ATI's Remote Wonder?
The Matrix Reloaded game has a "Focus" bar which allows your character to do matrix like moves, slow down time and such. It would be cool if you really had to calm yourself down and focus with the bio feedback device.
First off, Microsoft can basically do anything it wants. The Government will not stop them! I don't know how Universal is run, but it appers that the only thing stopping Microsoft from buying them would be Vivendi himself.
So the question is. If Apple would pay $6 billion and Microsoft would pay $7 billion, who would you sell it to? My vote would go to Apple because I think they will provide a better service, whatever it may be. What's an extra Billion when you already have 6?
In Ashcrofts new police state, your wife will be the cops.
I forgot, are we in a war against Eurasia and in an alliance with Eastasia, or is it the other way around?
I play DDR Max 7th mix in the arcade near me. Alot of people crowd around, stare and poke fun. But you know what? Who gives a damn? I'm having more fun playing the arcade game than they are having making fun on me...and it's keeping me physically fit. I never exercised regulary before, but now I have a fun excuse to.
Besides, I offer some of the people who make fun of me a free game. Those who take me up on the offer, I usually see playing next time I'm there.;-)
Look at it this way. It will be great for keeping the world's population under control!
I wonder if there are places setup that just sit in quaruntee waiting for this kind of thing to decimate mankind before they come out of hiding and repopulate the earth.
Isn't that what titles/labels/tooltips are for? The benefit of the visual icon and a label for further clarification?
Also. How does one write. "copy current selection to the clipboard then erase it from the screen" in 20x20 pixels? I'm sure others could think of longer winded phrases that have common corresponding icons.
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Often time I like the tactile feedback of holding a book in my hands. I like that it doesn't make a noise unless I ruffled the pages, no humming fan or whining battery...but, I don't like turning pages and diverting my eyes from the left to right sides, especially when reading in bed.
All jokes aside, I like to read with one hand curling the left side underneath the back of the book which makes reading the right side of the book great, and the left side a pain.
Ah, to be a kid again
I wish Michael Moore's the Awful Truth was still around. I'm sure they would run a nice piece on the RIAA.
Exactly true, you get to pay so much more! At $8 a ticket you could go to the movies every weekend for the next 7 years! Of course this is assuming you spend $3000 on a home theater system (easy to do)
Besides, you don't get to meet anyone interesting sitting alone in your living room.
really shouldn't cost very much money ( $1000) Am I the only one here that doesn't have $1000 to kick around? You people make me feel more and more poor everyday.
Three months later, I get a call from ATT wireless about my enormous phone bill. I told them they must be mistaken so they tried a couple of different things to verify that I was me, then called the cell phone to do the same thing. Obviously the person on the cell phone couldn't answer the questions.
As far as I know, the only thing that happened was the cell phone account being closed. I would have gladly paid the bill if they would have just given me the cell phone number and a list of called/incoming numbers.
My plan was to find the bastard and call him by my name while beating the shit out of him untill he fessed up that he wasn't me and told me I have the wrong guy.
I've been working on a government website in which PHP and MySQL would have been the best and most cost effective solution. I detailed the reasons why in several pages, going to great lengths to persuade them. I even offered to setup the server for free, way out of the scope of my contract.
They decided to go with an expensive Oracle and JSP backend.
A government worker never needs to get his job done, only to be able to bitch at someone when he can't get it done. In this case, it will be Sun and Oracle.
You shound exactly like one of my stupid friends. He has no caller ID, never checks his answering machine and never answers his phone...ever.
Can I call him to tell him to turn on the news quick because his dad is on live tv? Can I call him and tell him store A has one copy of that piece of software he wants left for $200 off? When he doesn't get wind of these sort of things quick enough, he bitches like crazy...but always he returns to his foolish thought that the phone is soley a convenient tool for him, never the other way around.
It's a shame the military doesn't push electric cars...If I have to sit behind another dickhead talking on his cell phone in his H2, oblivious to the green light in front of him, I'm going to scream.
I hope so!
-John Banks
How about investing that 1.2 million into producing open source texts for the children to learn from? When will we have a good ebook for education?
Has anyone ever stopped to ask whether we really want computers in the classroom? At my high school they had a ratio of about two students to each computer. We seldom got to use them because of the fear that we would break them...(bastard kids stealing mice and popping keys off the keyboards) When we did get to use them it was basically play time. The teacher just didn't want to deal with us and so the kids would pretend to be typing a paper while really just surfing for porn or browsing rotten.com Maybe we could spend money on figuring out how to teach kids not to be little pricks before handing them something as powerful as a computer. I seem to remember reading in Wired about a silicon valley school that had no computers and touted that as its defining feature.
Good times!
I bought Final Cut Pro 3 about six monthes ago and installed it on my G4 desktop. Everything was running great, but I wanted to format my drive and reinstall everything. Problem was that I had my serial number sheet...but my baby sister had torn it essentially in half, and I was missing the last sixt digits or so. I called Apple and explained the situation. I could tell them when and where I bought their software, I was calling from the number I registered the product and looking at his computer he was able to tell that I had been a long time apple customer. I needed the serial number that day. His solution; mail a copy of the receipt, upc from the box, and a printout of a form requesting a new serial number. Turn around of a week or more. My solution, which I told him outright, look for either a serial number online, or a cracked version of the software. He said that would be illegal.
Has anyone compiled a list to see something like how much M$ has cost the world due to insecure software?
I would guess it's a couple billion dollars by now. Why does no one care?
GuidePlus is a horrible piece of software. Get rid of it's piss poor design and buggy interface and try myHTPC. http://www.myhtpc.net/ I actually had GuidePlus give me this error on launch before quiting itself. "A is not a number" It refused to operate after that and I had to reinstall all of ATI's AiW software. Anyone know where I can get the mac drivers for ATI's Remote Wonder?
The Matrix Reloaded game has a "Focus" bar which allows your character to do matrix like moves, slow down time and such. It would be cool if you really had to calm yourself down and focus with the bio feedback device.
Mod this guy down...He has to be trolling. and isn't it John Carmack?
First off, Microsoft can basically do anything it wants. The Government will not stop them! I don't know how Universal is run, but it appers that the only thing stopping Microsoft from buying them would be Vivendi himself. So the question is. If Apple would pay $6 billion and Microsoft would pay $7 billion, who would you sell it to? My vote would go to Apple because I think they will provide a better service, whatever it may be. What's an extra Billion when you already have 6?
In Ashcrofts new police state, your wife will be the cops. I forgot, are we in a war against Eurasia and in an alliance with Eastasia, or is it the other way around?
I play DDR Max 7th mix in the arcade near me. Alot of people crowd around, stare and poke fun. But you know what? Who gives a damn? I'm having more fun playing the arcade game than they are having making fun on me...and it's keeping me physically fit. I never exercised regulary before, but now I have a fun excuse to. Besides, I offer some of the people who make fun of me a free game. Those who take me up on the offer, I usually see playing next time I'm there. ;-)
Look at it this way. It will be great for keeping the world's population under control! I wonder if there are places setup that just sit in quaruntee waiting for this kind of thing to decimate mankind before they come out of hiding and repopulate the earth.
Isn't that what titles/labels/tooltips are for? The benefit of the visual icon and a label for further clarification? Also. How does one write. "copy current selection to the clipboard then erase it from the screen" in 20x20 pixels? I'm sure others could think of longer winded phrases that have common corresponding icons.
How well does this actually work? Wouldn't they just get a new phone number?