You are confusing the hardware device with the Amazon service. Amazon has gone to great pains to make it super-easy to buy things from their bookstore directly on the device, and manage those purchases on your device through the Amazon website.
But the device itself is a regular e-reader, you can put files on it via USB and manage them via the filesystem or an app like Calibre. And Amazon does not manage books on the device except the ones that you buy through the Amazon service.
Most people who complain about the Kindle have never even used one.
So to address these complaints directly: 1. "sharing" a book is a feature of Amazon's DRMed service. It doesn't apply to regular e-books. 2. They promised they'd never delete a book from a person's account again again. And again, that only applies to DRMed books purchased through Amazon.
I tend to get my books from Project Gutenberg or manybooks.net and then manage them via USB with Calibre. You could load most of Project Gutenberg on a Kindle and send it to a place without network (but with electricity) and it would be much better than sending them trunkfuls of books.
First, OKCupid is free. Second, what you're saying is that car manufacturers should sell us cars that break down after a year so that we're forced to buy new working cars? That's not how it works.
Here's Apple's page about the new display: http://www.apple.com/iphone/features/retina-display.html
They say "the Retina display’s pixel density is so high, your eye is unable to distinguish individual pixels." I suppose we can assume that they imply "at the typical distance at which you hold your iPhone" because otherwise the claim would be nonsense. Because surely you can hold it close enough to distinguish the pixels. (Unless you really can't, I haven't seen the screen).
But in any case, it's more of a marketing claim than a technical spec. They do not literally mean "this screen has the same 'resolution' as your retina". Your retina doesn't even have pixels! They just mean "it makes web pages looks great!".
So this "president of DisplayMate Technolgies" [sic] is tilting at windmills here.
"open source" (but you probably mean Free Software) is about making tools available. So a knife may be an apt analogy, a very useful tool that could be easily used for good or evil.
I think you should e-mail that guy that wanted to manage his Windows desktops by running Windows images on top of Linux, using some virtualization technology, but also passing through the hardware capabilities of the video cards, so he could run multiple monitors.
I bet he'd have some great tips about how to spice up your shell scripts. He probably edits them in emacs (running inside an AJAX terminal inside his web browser, connected to a web server on the machine he's editing the file on).
and I thought, "oh, that's not bad, that's ~10 FTEs and ~$5million of equipment, you can really accomplish something with that". And then I realized I was off by a factor of a _thousand_!!!
So that's 10 _thousand_ full time employees, and 5 _billion_ for equipment. Wow. What the hell are you doing that you need $6 billion dollars for 50 "combat air patrols"? Tracking every squirrel in Afghanistan's mountains?
If I understand you correctly, you're insinuating that "drive compression" depends on the drive model or something. And that it might not be possible to decode the data in the future.
In fact, hardware compression performed by the drive as it's writing to tape is part of the LTO spec. So it's the same across all drives. Think of it as standard LZW compression, performed by the drive hardware while it is writing.
With easily compressible data (e.g. genomics data), I've gotten as much as 5TB onto a single LTO-4 tape using the regular drive compression.
An LTO-4 tape costs me ~$50. It's smaller than a 3.5" SATA drive and easier to handle. It can probably even survive a drop to the floor from chest height.
You'll need to spend some money on a drive or tape library. So it depends on how many datasets like this you need to write.
Wow, that's 57 pages of people asking the official representative to describe exactly what the limitations of the DRM are, and not getting a complete answer that doesn't conflict with what it says on the box or on Steam.
It sounds like you need to have SecuROM (max 5 activations, whatever that means) and also Microsoft Games for Windows Live (max 15 activations, whatever that means) and you need to register online with Microsoft before being able to use the disk you purchased at the store.
The laptops that are getting this change are the Thinkpad Edge models. They are the low-end consumer level Lenovo laptops, Thinkpads in name only. They are not the regular Thinkpad T or X or R series models. The R series is discontinued now anyway. The regular T and X series are staying as they were (with minor modifications). You can read more details here: http://lenovoblogs.com/insidethebox/?p=349
I look forward to the Thinkpad T series being the solid black square tanks that they have always been.
I bought one, and I am very impressed with the screen (not so much with the keyboard). It costs the same as the Kindle (for us), and does so much more, and has more pixels.
Just get a node like that and run your software and measure the power utilization, no? E.g. our IBM 1U nodes: x3550 (4 cores, all RAM full, 2 HDs, 1 PSU) use up ~460W each at full CPU + I/O load.
While the goal of "saving the darkness" seems to be the focus, the real impetus is the energy savings. There's no point in installing light fixtures that direct half of their light up into the sky. You can save considerable amounts of money by putting a reflective cap on top of the light and then using a smaller light bulb.
Some of the first light pollution legislation in Tuscon, AZ, mandated that the light could not be seen from an angle of 30 degrees above the horizontal.
So I RTFA, and here's the bit: "improves power performance by 60 percent in the ultraviolet range of the spectrum" and "in conventional solar cells, ultraviolet light is either filtered out or absorbed by the silicon and converted into potentially damaging heat, not electricity."
So a conventional solar cell gets ~0 energy from this part of the spectrum, but if you coat it with this special coating, it gets 60% more! And how much is that exactly?
Now if you use a different coating (2.85nm), then it improves performance "in the visible part of the spectrum" by 10%. How much energy does a conventional solar cell get from just the visible part of the spectrum? Unspecified!
From the FAQ: "Google TiSP ensures reliable throughput through the power of fiber, which has been proven through extensive research to effectively facilitate consistent data flow with minimal latency."
Slightly off-topic, but if you haven't checked the Google paper on Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology (SMART) info provided by your drive to see if it is having errors, you probably should. The paper is available here: http://hardware.slashdot.org/hardware/07/02/18/042 0247.shtml
The conclusions are roughly the following: a) if there are SMART errors, the disk will fail soon, b) if there are no SMART errors, the disk is still likely to fail. They saw no SMART errors on 36% of their failed disks.
The chart implies that the "optimal" operating drive temperature is 35-45 Celsius. Drive temperatures below room temperature (below 22 Celsius) is probably not a scenario that drive manufacturers optimise for.
Not only that, but free Certificate Authorities (like CAcert.org) are not allowed to issue these EV certs. Only the large commercial CAs like Verisign can issue them. reference: http://blog.cacert.org/2006/11/194.html
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And he has a kid???
You are confusing the hardware device with the Amazon service. Amazon has gone to great pains to make it super-easy to buy things from their bookstore directly on the device, and manage those purchases on your device through the Amazon website.
But the device itself is a regular e-reader, you can put files on it via USB and manage them via the filesystem or an app like Calibre. And Amazon does not manage books on the device except the ones that you buy through the Amazon service.
Most people who complain about the Kindle have never even used one.
So to address these complaints directly: 1. "sharing" a book is a feature of Amazon's DRMed service. It doesn't apply to regular e-books. 2. They promised they'd never delete a book from a person's account again again. And again, that only applies to DRMed books purchased through Amazon.
I tend to get my books from Project Gutenberg or manybooks.net and then manage them via USB with Calibre. You could load most of Project Gutenberg on a Kindle and send it to a place without network (but with electricity) and it would be much better than sending them trunkfuls of books.
First, OKCupid is free. Second, what you're saying is that car manufacturers should sell us cars that break down after a year so that we're forced to buy new working cars? That's not how it works.
As Cory Doctorow says "my biggest threat as an author isn't piracy, it's obscurity."
What better way to increase sales than making sure that everyone has heard of your work?
If people get married and only have sex with this one person, all sorts of problems that plague society and individual people simply go away.
[citation needed]
Here's Apple's page about the new display: http://www.apple.com/iphone/features/retina-display.html
They say "the Retina display’s pixel density is so high, your eye is unable to distinguish individual pixels." I suppose we can assume that they imply "at the typical distance at which you hold your iPhone" because otherwise the claim would be nonsense. Because surely you can hold it close enough to distinguish the pixels. (Unless you really can't, I haven't seen the screen).
But in any case, it's more of a marketing claim than a technical spec. They do not literally mean "this screen has the same 'resolution' as your retina". Your retina doesn't even have pixels! They just mean "it makes web pages looks great!".
So this "president of DisplayMate Technolgies" [sic] is tilting at windmills here.
"open source" (but you probably mean Free Software) is about making tools available. So a knife may be an apt analogy, a very useful tool that could be easily used for good or evil.
I think you should e-mail that guy that wanted to manage his Windows desktops by running Windows images on top of Linux, using some virtualization technology, but also passing through the hardware capabilities of the video cards, so he could run multiple monitors.
I bet he'd have some great tips about how to spice up your shell scripts. He probably edits them in emacs (running inside an AJAX terminal inside his web browser, connected to a web server on the machine he's editing the file on).
and I thought, "oh, that's not bad, that's ~10 FTEs and ~$5million of equipment, you can really accomplish something with that". And then I realized I was off by a factor of a _thousand_!!!
So that's 10 _thousand_ full time employees, and 5 _billion_ for equipment. Wow. What the hell are you doing that you need $6 billion dollars for 50 "combat air patrols"? Tracking every squirrel in Afghanistan's mountains?
If I understand you correctly, you're insinuating that "drive compression" depends on the drive model or something. And that it might not be possible to decode the data in the future.
In fact, hardware compression performed by the drive as it's writing to tape is part of the LTO spec. So it's the same across all drives. Think of it as standard LZW compression, performed by the drive hardware while it is writing.
With easily compressible data (e.g. genomics data), I've gotten as much as 5TB onto a single LTO-4 tape using the regular drive compression.
An LTO-4 tape costs me ~$50. It's smaller than a 3.5" SATA drive and easier to handle. It can probably even survive a drop to the floor from chest height.
You'll need to spend some money on a drive or tape library. So it depends on how many datasets like this you need to write.
Wow, that's 57 pages of people asking the official representative to describe exactly what the limitations of the DRM are, and not getting a complete answer that doesn't conflict with what it says on the box or on Steam.
It sounds like you need to have SecuROM (max 5 activations, whatever that means) and also Microsoft Games for Windows Live (max 15 activations, whatever that means) and you need to register online with Microsoft before being able to use the disk you purchased at the store.
The laptops that are getting this change are the Thinkpad Edge models. They are the low-end consumer level Lenovo laptops, Thinkpads in name only. They are not the regular Thinkpad T or X or R series models. The R series is discontinued now anyway. The regular T and X series are staying as they were (with minor modifications). You can read more details here: http://lenovoblogs.com/insidethebox/?p=349
I look forward to the Thinkpad T series being the solid black square tanks that they have always been.
This video was really popular around 6 years ago! Warthog jump
I also remember my college friends spending all their time shooting seagulls in Metal Gear Solid for the PS3.
First of all, Temple is in North Philly, the "bad" part of Philly, not in "downtown Philly". It's like saying Harlem is "downtown NYC".
Second of all, things have been improving. Greatly. I think you should come visit and see for yourself, even with your unpleasant memories.
Rather than watch the video or download the 23MB MP3, you can read the full transcript here:
http://ratafia.info/post/78915439/transcript-and-commentary-for-whither-magnolia
I can read much faster than I can listen.
Here are two that I know about:
This lets you see the possibilities of having an HD (or higher) resolution camera shooting at 120FPS.
http://www.vimeo.com/1124192
http://www.vimeo.com/1124192
I bought one, and I am very impressed with the screen (not so much with the keyboard). It costs the same as the Kindle (for us), and does so much more, and has more pixels.
Posting this from my XO.
Just get a node like that and run your software and measure the power utilization, no? E.g. our IBM 1U nodes: x3550 (4 cores, all RAM full, 2 HDs, 1 PSU) use up ~460W each at full CPU + I/O load.
While the goal of "saving the darkness" seems to be the focus, the real impetus is the energy savings. There's no point in installing light fixtures that direct half of their light up into the sky. You can save considerable amounts of money by putting a reflective cap on top of the light and then using a smaller light bulb.
Some of the first light pollution legislation in Tuscon, AZ, mandated that the light could not be seen from an angle of 30 degrees above the horizontal.
So I RTFA, and here's the bit: "improves power performance by 60 percent in the ultraviolet range of the spectrum" and "in conventional solar cells, ultraviolet light is either filtered out or absorbed by the silicon and converted into potentially damaging heat, not electricity."
So a conventional solar cell gets ~0 energy from this part of the spectrum, but if you coat it with this special coating, it gets 60% more! And how much is that exactly?
Now if you use a different coating (2.85nm), then it improves performance "in the visible part of the spectrum" by 10%. How much energy does a conventional solar cell get from just the visible part of the spectrum? Unspecified!
From the FAQ: "Google TiSP ensures reliable throughput through the power of fiber, which has been proven through extensive research to effectively facilitate consistent data flow with minimal latency."
Brilliant!
Slightly off-topic, but if you haven't checked the Google paper on Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology (SMART) info provided by your drive to see if it is having errors, you probably should. The paper is available here: http://hardware.slashdot.org/hardware/07/02/18/042 0247.shtml
The conclusions are roughly the following: a) if there are SMART errors, the disk will fail soon, b) if there are no SMART errors, the disk is still likely to fail. They saw no SMART errors on 36% of their failed disks.
The chart implies that the "optimal" operating drive temperature is 35-45 Celsius. Drive temperatures below room temperature (below 22 Celsius) is probably not a scenario that drive manufacturers optimise for.
Not only that, but free Certificate Authorities (like CAcert.org) are not allowed to issue these EV certs. Only the large commercial CAs like Verisign can issue them. reference: http://blog.cacert.org/2006/11/194.html