In which case, $700 actually might be ridiculously overpriced on the buyer side of the equation.
Sadly that's E-ink for you - licensing costs and the level of tight control seems counterproductive.
The link is not to the supplier but to someone crowdfunding to get a bulk order via Alibaba or something. The product is from Onyx Boox and is a larger model of an existing product line.
Colour on these things is currently very pale, not bright like the emitted light from LCDs. Think of old newsprint. So while manufactures have ticked the box marked colour it's not something that's going to appeal to many people. Graphs with red and blue lines are going to be that, faintly, but not enough to stand out and work as intended.
Colour eink is disappointing in released products, sort of like old newsprint if you can remember. The JetBook Color has it if you are looking for videos of what it looks like. The JetBook Color is actually far more impressive when showing something without colour since it has a very high resolution for the size (1600x1200). If it didn't have slooooow WinCE on it (which makes it not very useful with some PDFs) the device would be impressive for B&W, but it disappoints with colour.
Since it's got bluetooth for keyboards and you can even download vim for the thing not a lot. I don't know what the ACs are going on about because my current smaller Boox has access to download android applications and this looks like the same environment.
Eink is way, way, overpriced and keeping themselves out of markets due to greed, but what can you do? Hardware costs are very low. Licensing not so much.
Yes - not a device to play movies on. Just as limiting as a screen you can't use in direct sunlight if that's where you want to use it. Right tool for the job and all that.
Not just for paperbacks. I have a ten inch Boox that is very good at displaying full page documents if I put it in landscape mode and look at half a page at a time. It's also very good for displaying web pages that have a lot of text while the small ones are not very good for that situation. A huge device would work for that as well, for work or for comic/manga fans, but not really for portable casual reading. I have a pocket Kobo for casual reading in situations where lugging around a bag is annoying.
Before GPS I remember a long discussion with six other very experienced hikers as to where exactly we were, and seven different opinions as to what the location was:)
The updates don't consume a lot of power in comparison to LCDs either. Debian on a Kobo by default has a clock that counts in seconds on the X desktop, so one refresh per second, but it still lasts a few days on a charge. That's nowhere near as long as if the screen had not been refreshing every second of course, but the power cost of each refresh is not huge.
Time and place for everything loser. Just because you don't have any other place to see scantily clad women is no excuse. Why not just go to the fucking beach instead of vomiting up bullshit?
What's the difference between these paid attendees and "booth babes"?
Not a lot since they are both sleazy unprofessional wastes of money that insult the customer. I haven't even seen booth babes at mining events for some time, and the mining industry is not the sort of thing to listen to the "SJW" strawman.
You've got it in one. Why do you think the little self important corporate princelings running about get treated with contempt the second they turn their back?
I've read it and my reaction was "meh, someone needed something to complain about it seems".
And I doubt I was the only one.
Yes it is possible that there are several people that have the same opinion you expressed above about how wonderful bribery is with that far east division. My opinion when I've been a potential customer confronted with this shit is "so that's why the price is so high".
the general reaction to this "outrage" is basically "meh, so what"
Don't confuse "meh, what a bunch of wankers" with something being either zero or hysterical outrage. Maybe get some sleep to get those brain cells working and get an idea of why this is a story that people have read.
He's not going to fix the crumbling infrastructure let alone build the joke deliberate lie wall even if he gets a lot of illegal immigrants to work on it. It's good that you brought up the founding fathers. Think carefully about the old money aristocrats they fought against and what they thought about having a "strong" absolute ruler. It's a bit ironic that Trump is running for a Party with Republic in the name isn't it?
You may be a bit slow to catch on at the moment due to being tired or something so I'd better state the obvious.
That we are reading about this party here shows that it has failed as a PR move.
Acting like a bunch of partying bankers in 2008 tends to come back to haunt you when the press is looking for an angle when offshoring or layoffs are happening.
Thus, very unprofessional. I've lost count of the stories I've read about companies going broke that refer to execs paying for dancers, strippers, hookers, mistresses on the company dime and even if the failure had nothing to do with a culture of excess it adds a stink that makes it difficult for those associated with the place to escape that reputation and find something else.
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Sadly that's E-ink for you - licensing costs and the level of tight control seems counterproductive.
The link is not to the supplier but to someone crowdfunding to get a bulk order via Alibaba or something. The product is from Onyx Boox and is a larger model of an existing product line.
Colour on these things is currently very pale, not bright like the emitted light from LCDs. Think of old newsprint. So while manufactures have ticked the box marked colour it's not something that's going to appeal to many people. Graphs with red and blue lines are going to be that, faintly, but not enough to stand out and work as intended.
Colour eink is disappointing in released products, sort of like old newsprint if you can remember. The JetBook Color has it if you are looking for videos of what it looks like. The JetBook Color is actually far more impressive when showing something without colour since it has a very high resolution for the size (1600x1200). If it didn't have slooooow WinCE on it (which makes it not very useful with some PDFs) the device would be impressive for B&W, but it disappoints with colour.
Since it's got bluetooth for keyboards and you can even download vim for the thing not a lot.
I don't know what the ACs are going on about because my current smaller Boox has access to download android applications and this looks like the same environment.
Eink is way, way, overpriced and keeping themselves out of markets due to greed, but what can you do? Hardware costs are very low. Licensing not so much.
Yes - not a device to play movies on. Just as limiting as a screen you can't use in direct sunlight if that's where you want to use it.
Right tool for the job and all that.
The upgrade update can be disabled and there are choices other than fully automatic update as well.
Dislike of Win10 aside, when the software that the computer was purchased to run will not start on Win10 that's a compelling reason not to upgrade.
The Boox almost gets there since you can turn it's 10 inch screen sideways and look at half of a page at a time in landscape mode.
Not just for paperbacks. I have a ten inch Boox that is very good at displaying full page documents if I put it in landscape mode and look at half a page at a time. It's also very good for displaying web pages that have a lot of text while the small ones are not very good for that situation. A huge device would work for that as well, for work or for comic/manga fans, but not really for portable casual reading. I have a pocket Kobo for casual reading in situations where lugging around a bag is annoying.
Yes, but try that in actual sunlight :(
Eink doesn't fit every situation but it does have a niche.
Before GPS I remember a long discussion with six other very experienced hikers as to where exactly we were, and seven different opinions as to what the location was :)
The updates don't consume a lot of power in comparison to LCDs either.
Debian on a Kobo by default has a clock that counts in seconds on the X desktop, so one refresh per second, but it still lasts a few days on a charge. That's nowhere near as long as if the screen had not been refreshing every second of course, but the power cost of each refresh is not huge.
Licensing issues.
Annoying as fuck.
They want "high value products" instead of making a killing as millions of really cheap low end tablets flood the global market.
Not that sort of conference - some treat the attendees as professionals and not horny undergrads.
Time and place for everything loser. Just because you don't have any other place to see scantily clad women is no excuse. Why not just go to the fucking beach instead of vomiting up bullshit?
Not a lot since they are both sleazy unprofessional wastes of money that insult the customer. I haven't even seen booth babes at mining events for some time, and the mining industry is not the sort of thing to listen to the "SJW" strawman.
The people who paid for it at MS would disagree very strongly - they paid for it so it's their party. Corporate party not private party.
I think it's an accurate description of why they were hired for this event. Pathetic on many levels.
You've got it in one. Why do you think the little self important corporate princelings running about get treated with contempt the second they turn their back?
Bit of a stretch there kid. Why try so hard to argue against the obvious?
I've read it and my reaction was "meh, someone needed something to complain about it seems".
And I doubt I was the only one.
Yes it is possible that there are several people that have the same opinion you expressed above about how wonderful bribery is with that far east division.
My opinion when I've been a potential customer confronted with this shit is "so that's why the price is so high".
Don't confuse "meh, what a bunch of wankers" with something being either zero or hysterical outrage. Maybe get some sleep to get those brain cells working and get an idea of why this is a story that people have read.
He's not going to fix the crumbling infrastructure let alone build the joke deliberate lie wall even if he gets a lot of illegal immigrants to work on it.
It's good that you brought up the founding fathers. Think carefully about the old money aristocrats they fought against and what they thought about having a "strong" absolute ruler. It's a bit ironic that Trump is running for a Party with Republic in the name isn't it?
You may be a bit slow to catch on at the moment due to being tired or something so I'd better state the obvious.
That we are reading about this party here shows that it has failed as a PR move.
Acting like a bunch of partying bankers in 2008 tends to come back to haunt you when the press is looking for an angle when offshoring or layoffs are happening.
Thus, very unprofessional.
I've lost count of the stories I've read about companies going broke that refer to execs paying for dancers, strippers, hookers, mistresses on the company dime and even if the failure had nothing to do with a culture of excess it adds a stink that makes it difficult for those associated with the place to escape that reputation and find something else.
IT has become that on both counts in many places where very long hours for months are expected.