I doubt they'd even roll out a change like this to the updates repo for a fedora release. More than likely the next release of fedora will use this program by default, and then whenever RHEL 7 is branched, it will use this program by default too.
I've heard of other cases where drugs, previously a mix of L and R isomers became generic, so they launched a new drug with just one of the isomers.
Or what about amphetamine, where the R isomer had been generic for a while, so they created 3:1 mixture of the R:L isomers. Never mind that l-amphetamine is a milder stimulant the d-amphetamine, which makes you ask why would anyone take this over the older drug? Most of the doctors prescribing the new drugs are idiots, and the people filling them are suckers.
Until intel doubled the L2, increased the FSB to 800MHz, and really ramped up the clock speed. Then AMD was stuck with no other option than to inflate the ratings on it's processors. (AMD Athlon XP 3400+, sure....) AMD couldn't do much until the hammers fell.
For most subjects, the textbooks could do without images. For example, does my abnormal psychology textbook really need so many stock images? All I really want is format that will work on whatever devices I happen to own, whether it be an ereader, laptop, tablet, cell phone, or maybe I want to print the pages out.
Makes sense. I used to buy all of my music from emusic until Amazon started selling MP3s. While I was getting my music fix from emusic the big guys where losing out on selling me music. I don't think most people want to deal with the hassle of DRM, and in most cases it does make things more complicated for the user.
If they where trying to sell their stolen goods, it seems like it would be easier to offload a laptop in a subway station then it would to offload transparency sheets. Expensive stuff isn't much good if they can't find a buyer.
Um, li-ion batteries loose about 20% of their capacity each year. They don't die after "a year or two". I remember picking up what as the time a 5 year old iriver ihp-120 and playing some music for a few hours. Definitely not dead.
As for the nook simple touch, it can be used plugged in as long as it's not plugged in to a computer.
That's exactly what tablets are missing, a usb host port. I frequently plug in a card reader so I can get pictures from my cameras CF card, or plug in a usb key.
If there where really that many people who could tell the difference between lossy compression and a flac file, I bet that amazon would be happy to provide it. 300-400mb for an album download probably makes no difference for them over a 70-90mb album download. But there is no demand, because current compression is good enough.
If it's anything like my Atrix, then the feature is mostly a gimick. Basically, connecting the HDMI cable launches a special media player. It will only play certain formats with a really bad interface.
Except there aren't a metric shit-ton of changes being added, unless you count playing with the address bar to be a major change.
For a while it seemed like Arora was going to make a great slim browser. I'm not sure if it's still being actively developed, seeing as there have been no releases in the last year.
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This is Fedora. When accused of being a testbed for RHEL, their devs respond by claiming that no Fedora is a testbed for much more. Fedora has never claimed to offer a stable desktop system, so I don't know why you'd complain it not providing a stable desktop system.
Yeah, that would be best. I had a bit of luck using a webapp on xerox's website for converting a pdf file. Calibre's converter is too confusing, even with all of the hints that popup when you hover over an option.
It used to be common for linux distros to span multiple cds. I remember using mandrake 9.1 which spanned 3 CDs. Of course this set included both KDE and GNOME, plus a few window managers thrown in for good measure. Distrowatch lists the number of discs each release contains.
It's probably takes all of a minuet or 2 check the copyright status. Most e-books are a couple hundred KB, so the bandwidth the transfer the book is less than a penny.
Yes, I do get most of my books from project gutenberg, and manage things with calibre. I was mainly pointing out that they are making pure profit, on something that amazon offers for free.
I highly doubt the things the gp was talking about couldn't be done an eInk display. I'd be especially interested in better PDF support. I don't know why I have to pull out a device that eats batteries if I want to read PDFs on an electronic device.
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Nice try. An ICBM is a missile that can travel over 5500km.
I doubt they'd even roll out a change like this to the updates repo for a fedora release. More than likely the next release of fedora will use this program by default, and then whenever RHEL 7 is branched, it will use this program by default too.
And you are free to create a drug like Zocor. Your point?
I've heard of other cases where drugs, previously a mix of L and R isomers became generic, so they launched a new drug with just one of the isomers.
Or what about amphetamine, where the R isomer had been generic for a while, so they created 3:1 mixture of the R:L isomers. Never mind that l-amphetamine is a milder stimulant the d-amphetamine, which makes you ask why would anyone take this over the older drug? Most of the doctors prescribing the new drugs are idiots, and the people filling them are suckers.
Until intel doubled the L2, increased the FSB to 800MHz, and really ramped up the clock speed. Then AMD was stuck with no other option than to inflate the ratings on it's processors. (AMD Athlon XP 3400+, sure....) AMD couldn't do much until the hammers fell.
I think that was put into the deal to make sure that AT&T was fully committed to seeing the deal through.
I just wanted AT&T to have commercials where people randomly starting dancing in a train station.
For most subjects, the textbooks could do without images. For example, does my abnormal psychology textbook really need so many stock images? All I really want is format that will work on whatever devices I happen to own, whether it be an ereader, laptop, tablet, cell phone, or maybe I want to print the pages out.
Makes sense. I used to buy all of my music from emusic until Amazon started selling MP3s. While I was getting my music fix from emusic the big guys where losing out on selling me music. I don't think most people want to deal with the hassle of DRM, and in most cases it does make things more complicated for the user.
If they where trying to sell their stolen goods, it seems like it would be easier to offload a laptop in a subway station then it would to offload transparency sheets. Expensive stuff isn't much good if they can't find a buyer.
Um, li-ion batteries loose about 20% of their capacity each year. They don't die after "a year or two". I remember picking up what as the time a 5 year old iriver ihp-120 and playing some music for a few hours. Definitely not dead.
As for the nook simple touch, it can be used plugged in as long as it's not plugged in to a computer.
That's exactly what tablets are missing, a usb host port. I frequently plug in a card reader so I can get pictures from my cameras CF card, or plug in a usb key.
Don't really care enough to start mucking around.
If there where really that many people who could tell the difference between lossy compression and a flac file, I bet that amazon would be happy to provide it. 300-400mb for an album download probably makes no difference for them over a 70-90mb album download. But there is no demand, because current compression is good enough.
Can you really tell the difference between an AAC/MP3 file encoded at 256kb/s and a FLAC file?
If it's anything like my Atrix, then the feature is mostly a gimick. Basically, connecting the HDMI cable launches a special media player. It will only play certain formats with a really bad interface.
Except there aren't a metric shit-ton of changes being added, unless you count playing with the address bar to be a major change.
For a while it seemed like Arora was going to make a great slim browser. I'm not sure if it's still being actively developed, seeing as there have been no releases in the last year.
This is Fedora. When accused of being a testbed for RHEL, their devs respond by claiming that no Fedora is a testbed for much more. Fedora has never claimed to offer a stable desktop system, so I don't know why you'd complain it not providing a stable desktop system.
If I where to buy a tablet I'd go for the Fire or Nook Tablet for the IPS screen. Why do I want GPS on a tablet?
Yeah, that would be best. I had a bit of luck using a webapp on xerox's website for converting a pdf file. Calibre's converter is too confusing, even with all of the hints that popup when you hover over an option.
It used to be common for linux distros to span multiple cds. I remember using mandrake 9.1 which spanned 3 CDs. Of course this set included both KDE and GNOME, plus a few window managers thrown in for good measure. Distrowatch lists the number of discs each release contains.
PG offers it's books in the MOBI (kindle) format.
It's probably takes all of a minuet or 2 check the copyright status. Most e-books are a couple hundred KB, so the bandwidth the transfer the book is less than a penny.
Yes, I do get most of my books from project gutenberg, and manage things with calibre. I was mainly pointing out that they are making pure profit, on something that amazon offers for free.
I highly doubt the things the gp was talking about couldn't be done an eInk display. I'd be especially interested in better PDF support. I don't know why I have to pull out a device that eats batteries if I want to read PDFs on an electronic device.
I'm curious what type of display this tablet is using. If it's TN then no way, if it's IPS than it might be interesting.