You can thank Steve Jobs for the fully locked-down and now ubiquitous agency model that practically all publishers use.
Yes. But unlike the iPhone, you can transfer eBooks from other sources to your kindle with a plain usb cable. (or even by email). DRM is no way mandatory on the kindle.
Then you shouldn't eat fruit gums either. The citric acid in use there is basically nothing but concentrated lemon juice, but concentrated to a point where you wouldn't want to handle it without protective goggles and rubber gloves.
Is there a reason why Amazon doesn't allow an Inform interpreter? That would be the perfect device for IF! (Or the other way round: finally interactive fiction found its medium)
One of the last things i did with my C1541 was copying over all my floppies to d64 files, so I still can run my first programming experiments.
Last year I finished my biggest project that started over 20 years ago.... I ported the fragments over to Inform7, and beeing able to read the original datafiles was a big help.
But don't be fooled by the red sea scrolls... parchment or papyrus is in no way comparable to actual paper. Paper too was quite durable until around 1810, when they started to use acid (pottassium alum). It was easier and cheaper to produce, better for writing and printing, but crumbled to dust not even 150 years later. (the sound you hear is the red sea scrolls breaking out in laughter)
Producing durable paper is a rather recent re-invention.
I set up a filter for that. I sometimes need to add a new "newsletter" to it, but it sends those mails that are not-quite-spam to a seperate folder. I can skim over that every few days (cause these com from companys that I perhaps want to do business again with) but they don't disturb me with ringing my phones new mail alert.
Well, I'd guess starting a business that complies with US laws would be difficult enough. I'm glad I don't have to build one that complies with 194 legal customs and intellectual property laws. So from that point it's understandable, albeit still sad. (I'm outside the US myself)
But it had a bit more power under the hood than your A500 back then. In a nutshell, an A2000 was used to control the rendering hardware. But still, back in that time it was quite a lot of Bang, even if you're ignoring the little buck needed.
One or two for example if you're sysadmin in a small or medium sized company with an active R&D department - chances are pretty good you're using the same password or some information on your personal server might give a hint on how to run a successfull social hacking attack against you.
One or two dozen if you're also counting wideband attacks that are targeted not specifically against your server, but against servers running a specific vulnerable software,
I'm not saying that you can't build a server that is as secure as a cloud providers server - but you should be ready to throw quite a lot of manpower at that task. Something good and custom tailored is most likely even better - but probably not cheap.
Makes sense - in a physical world for physical documents.
In a binary world, you have only three different possibilities: accessible for everyone, accessible for those who need access, and not even stored on a computer connected to a network. (In which case the physical security rules kick in again)
Of course that's even better, but ist isn't cheap enough that everyone can afford it. And that's what makes this so compelling: It's so cheap that you have an astronomic ROI. (if you have A/C. And have warm summers to start with)
'Nobody has succeeded in building a social network that can offer those kinds of privacy protections yet. And nobody ever will.'
1. "Nobody has succeeded...yet" and "nobody ever will" are kind of mutually-exclusive conclusions, yes?
Only if you misquote it as ".....yet" instead of "yet". While "nobody has done x yet" and "nobody has done x... yet" are both identical in what they say about the past, the "...yet" implies a statement about the future, which in fact would contradict the assumption made in "and nobody ever will".
If they somehow manage to bring the iconic "Invaders" style to the big screen in a way that leaves it recognizable but not looking completly outdated, this might result in a truly outstanding movie. Regardless of the plot. You know, some completly new visual style like what Matrix gave us.
There should be a law that forbids buying the rights to only the NAME of something.
I just checked myself: Facebook by default enables the "Anyone can view and RSVP (public event)" option. That should be disabled by default. It is easy enough to forget to untick that one... type your birthday invitation, when you're done mum calls "dinner's ready!", quickly finish up, click "post", off to dinner.
That's why I use email for my birthday party invitations.
And the best thing about that: I can even invite people who are NOT signed up to facebook! And even better: It even works when they have another email provider than the one I use! Can you imagine that? That's so AMAZING, I'm sure email is going to be the Next Big Thing! (Joking aside: that could be the best feature in google+)
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You can thank Steve Jobs for the fully locked-down and now ubiquitous agency model that practically all publishers use.
Yes. But unlike the iPhone, you can transfer eBooks from other sources to your kindle with a plain usb cable. (or even by email). DRM is no way mandatory on the kindle.
No need to. He just could have stated that next time the costs will be charged to whoever does it again despite his 'warning'
Then you shouldn't eat fruit gums either. The citric acid in use there is basically nothing but concentrated lemon juice, but concentrated to a point where you wouldn't want to handle it without protective goggles and rubber gloves.
I'm still waiting for decent kindle apps!
Is there a reason why Amazon doesn't allow an Inform interpreter? That would be the perfect device for IF! (Or the other way round: finally interactive fiction found its medium)
One of the last things i did with my C1541 was copying over all my floppies to d64 files, so I still can run my first programming experiments.
Last year I finished my biggest project that started over 20 years ago.... I ported the fragments over to Inform7, and beeing able to read the original datafiles was a big help.
But don't be fooled by the red sea scrolls... parchment or papyrus is in no way comparable to actual paper. Paper too was quite durable until around 1810, when they started to use acid (pottassium alum). It was easier and cheaper to produce, better for writing and printing, but crumbled to dust not even 150 years later. (the sound you hear is the red sea scrolls breaking out in laughter)
Producing durable paper is a rather recent re-invention.
electronic paper is perhaps perfect to cover the niche of... paper! (at least the kind you use for printing...)
But wouldn't such a geographically spread out area profit even more from an effective and dense public transport system?
Until someone else does it also and "someone" sues that "someone else". That'll be public then.
I set up a filter for that. I sometimes need to add a new "newsletter" to it, but it sends those mails that are not-quite-spam to a seperate folder. I can skim over that every few days (cause these com from companys that I perhaps want to do business again with) but they don't disturb me with ringing my phones new mail alert.
Death by Snu-Snu!
David Carradine?
Well, I'd guess starting a business that complies with US laws would be difficult enough. I'm glad I don't have to build one that complies with 194 legal customs and intellectual property laws. So from that point it's understandable, albeit still sad. (I'm outside the US myself)
IIRC, that was used for DS9 also.
But it had a bit more power under the hood than your A500 back then. In a nutshell, an A2000 was used to control the rendering hardware. But still, back in that time it was quite a lot of Bang, even if you're ignoring the little buck needed.
http://www.google.de/search?rlz=1C1GPCK_enDE415DE415&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=video+toaster
One or two for example if you're sysadmin in a small or medium sized company with an active R&D department - chances are pretty good you're using the same password or some information on your personal server might give a hint on how to run a successfull social hacking attack against you.
One or two dozen if you're also counting wideband attacks that are targeted not specifically against your server, but against servers running a specific vulnerable software,
I'm not saying that you can't build a server that is as secure as a cloud providers server - but you should be ready to throw quite a lot of manpower at that task. Something good and custom tailored is most likely even better - but probably not cheap.
But Google has a whole team to counter any security threads.
Good luck finding that for your one-person hobby server.
Makes sense - in a physical world for physical documents.
In a binary world, you have only three different possibilities: accessible for everyone, accessible for those who need access, and not even stored on a computer connected to a network. (In which case the physical security rules kick in again)
Why?
I'm already there!
Not every black roof is in America, you insensitive clod!!
(wow.. the first time I actually got to use that meme....)
Those simple solutions never work for everyone and hardly ever better than some hi-tech solutions.
But they're dirt cheap, so even if they only work for 25%, there are no investment cost that keep you reaping in that profit, small as it may be.
It's like stopping to burn a dollar bill each day.
And why exactly should your climate keep anyone in warmer regions from keeping his house cooler with this simple elegant method?
Of course that's even better, but ist isn't cheap enough that everyone can afford it. And that's what makes this so compelling: It's so cheap that you have an astronomic ROI. (if you have A/C. And have warm summers to start with)
,,,and you don't want to know where Toothpaste comes from!
'Nobody has succeeded in building a social network that can offer those kinds of privacy protections yet. And nobody ever will.'
1. "Nobody has succeeded...yet" and "nobody ever will" are kind of mutually-exclusive conclusions, yes?
Only if you misquote it as ".....yet" instead of "yet". While "nobody has done x yet" and "nobody has done x ... yet" are both identical in what they say about the past, the "...yet" implies a statement about the future, which in fact would contradict the assumption made in "and nobody ever will".
If they somehow manage to bring the iconic "Invaders" style to the big screen in a way that leaves it recognizable but not looking completly outdated, this might result in a truly outstanding movie. Regardless of the plot. You know, some completly new visual style like what Matrix gave us.
There should be a law that forbids buying the rights to only the NAME of something.
I just checked myself: Facebook by default enables the "Anyone can view and RSVP (public event)" option. That should be disabled by default. It is easy enough to forget to untick that one... type your birthday invitation, when you're done mum calls "dinner's ready!", quickly finish up, click "post", off to dinner.
That's why I use email for my birthday party invitations.
And the best thing about that: I can even invite people who are NOT signed up to facebook! And even better: It even works when they have another email provider than the one I use! Can you imagine that? That's so AMAZING, I'm sure email is going to be the Next Big Thing! (Joking aside: that could be the best feature in google+)