Of all the "just use text" posts, this is probably one of the best so far.
*BUT* (you like my boldface?) this "just use text" concept is overly-simplistic and misses the point that books are more than text.
It's kind of like the people in the mid 1990s who preached how great GOPHER was and that we don't need HTML/HTTP because gopher a) client runs on a terminal, b) it doesn't require a lot of memory, c) it is text-based so it compresses well, d) there are already great open source servers for it, etc...
You can make all kinds of great arguments for why we should use a limiting technology, but the fact remains that it doesn't meet the needs of the problem it's trying to solve. So if it *is* a good solution, it's a good solution for someone else's problem, not for the format of eBooks.
Apparently their attempts to "improve business consistency" are nothing more than them patenting the very process (not the idea) of improving business processes by way of sending out company-wide memos. By this they hope to force other companies who wish to improve their own processes to pay a license fee to them. Dirty business, if you ask me.
OK so the drive is really cute, especially next to that coin.
But I drop my phone about once a month, in haste I've slammed my Palm into a phone booth wall, and I keep my MP3 player in my sweaty pocket at the gym.
Is it just me, or does little moving parts and sensitive magnetic equipment not seem to mesh well with these environments?
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That defies market logic -- to raise your prices when faced by a seemingly lower cost competitor.
The music industry is doing exactly that.
Of all the "just use text" posts, this is probably one of the best so far.
*BUT* (you like my boldface?) this "just use text" concept is overly-simplistic and misses the point that books are more than text.
It's kind of like the people in the mid 1990s who preached how great GOPHER was and that we don't need HTML/HTTP because gopher a) client runs on a terminal, b) it doesn't require a lot of memory, c) it is text-based so it compresses well, d) there are already great open source servers for it, etc...
You can make all kinds of great arguments for why we should use a limiting technology, but the fact remains that it doesn't meet the needs of the problem it's trying to solve. So if it *is* a good solution, it's a good solution for someone else's problem, not for the format of eBooks.
Apparently their attempts to "improve business consistency" are nothing more than them patenting the very process (not the idea) of improving business processes by way of sending out company-wide memos. By this they hope to force other companies who wish to improve their own processes to pay a license fee to them. Dirty business, if you ask me.
The Moon has been added to the infamous "Axis of Evil" group...
Err.. More like the "Axis of Lunacy".
OK so the drive is really cute, especially next to that coin. But I drop my phone about once a month, in haste I've slammed my Palm into a phone booth wall, and I keep my MP3 player in my sweaty pocket at the gym. Is it just me, or does little moving parts and sensitive magnetic equipment not seem to mesh well with these environments?