As for FDA approval.. have you EVER watched a commercial for an FDA approved drug? Nice, harmless side-effects like cancer, organ failure, Stevens-Johnson Syndrome, blindness, heart failure, brain damage, impotency, birth defects, peripheral neuropathy, weight gain, weight loss, coma, death.
Come on, that's a small price to pay for an erection. Put some perspective in your life!
The main reason Japan was stuck on Gen I reactor design was because the COMPANIES that ran the reactors didn't want to spend the money to upgrade and the GOVERNMENT thought that idea was just peachy.
It's called regulatory capture and the Japanese rewrote the book on it.
You still need a professional copy editor. Imagine the author of a 1200 page book like '1491'. Now, imagine you've written the damn thing, gone over manuscripts for the past year, galley proofs, etc. And you should have to go through the book again to look for typos?
You'd just glance over stuff. You need a disinterested third party whose job it is to go through the text carefully and weed out errors.
Except that, at least with Amazon eBooks, they appear to have left out the copy editor and the graphics editor. Typos up the wazoo. Horridly compressed jpegs for graphics. Pagination that makes little Johnny cry.
Maybe Amazon could crowd source those problems and give people a discount or something - but it gripes me to pay nearly full paper price for a substandard product.
I won't even mention the DRM since it's conveniently so easy to crack.
Oh, and forgot my current major beef. If you're going to charge nearly as much for an eBook as a physical copy, please pay for a copy editor to review the damn thing. I'm tired of gratuitous typos and pagination errors. Yeah, you, Amazon.
I actually think that ebooks are more 'robust' than print. Once the DRM is stripped (yeah, that's dumb, guys), you can store them forever in essentially no space at all. You can read them on multiple devices. You can lend them and not worry about getting the original back (I'm looking at you, Terry). You can bend, fold, mutilate and staple.
Of course, the publishers don't want you doing those sort of things so they try to cripple it, but that seems to be the way information publishers of all stripes are going.
This sort of thing is precisely why the standard Slashdot rant of "all they did was put x, y and z together, this isn't innovating!" is so much silliness. It's not easy to mass produce things. It takes planning and more planning. It takes money and more money than you planned on because some small aspect of Murphy's law is going to pop up and rip your balls off.
It's why the Motorola Xooms of the world come with stupid little missing bits and even why our fearless denizen of perfection, Apple, still screws first releases up 99 times out of a 100.
Production electronics is not building a Heathkit in your bedroom.
The big problem with RCA jacks is that they are not keyed. You can insert any RCA jack into any RCA Jill. Sometimes that's not an issue, others, well, good designers know that it's best not to let end users think much.
So don't buy one. Geez. I don't have a need for a dump truck, a B-52 or a complete set of Star Wars action figures, but I don't particularly care if other people find them interesting or useful.
Do you log into the American Dolls website to say you don't want one of those either?
I just hope that all those experimental results will also be approved. Even if the treatment is completely dependable, You know how those pharmaceuticals like to bitch..
30 years ago no one had cell phones... things havent gotten THAT much more important in 30 years
Are you kidding! We have terrorists now! And child molesters! And child molesting terrorists! Think of the children! If you're against everyone calling 911 you must be a communist! I bet they don't have 911 in Communistic countries! USA! USA!
I'd even bet that thirty years ago they didn't even have italics!
How do you get a job like that anyway? I kinda want to try it after seeing it come up in the news so many times. I realise that I'll be scarred after maybe a week, but it's something that I'd like to say I've done.
Hang out on/b/ for a week. After a while, the subliminals will start to make sense. You will know who to call.
Even spell checking and basic paragraph formatting would go a long way to make things more readable. An iPad 3 - with a higher DPI display - could give you a hardware platform that would answer your questions, but Amazon, at least, seems to be taking the low road when it comes to putting an effort into making kindle books actually readable.
I'm hoping it will change over time, but I have my doubts.
Slashdot Mirror
Sublime?
I don't think that word means what you think it means.
As for FDA approval.. have you EVER watched a commercial for an FDA approved drug? Nice, harmless side-effects like cancer, organ failure, Stevens-Johnson Syndrome, blindness, heart failure, brain damage, impotency, birth defects, peripheral neuropathy, weight gain, weight loss, coma, death.
Come on, that's a small price to pay for an erection. Put some perspective in your life!
You know, these comments are really orthogonal to the conversation at hand.
Now, how is this going to work?
The main reason Japan was stuck on Gen I reactor design was because the COMPANIES that ran the reactors didn't want to spend the money to upgrade and the GOVERNMENT thought that idea was just peachy.
It's called regulatory capture and the Japanese rewrote the book on it.
You still need a professional copy editor. Imagine the author of a 1200 page book like '1491'. Now, imagine you've written the damn thing, gone over manuscripts for the past year, galley proofs, etc. And you should have to go through the book again to look for typos?
You'd just glance over stuff. You need a disinterested third party whose job it is to go through the text carefully and weed out errors.
How many orders of magnitude is 'a bit' in your world?
I thought you had to reverse the tachyon polarity.
Now I'm all confused.
Except that, at least with Amazon eBooks, they appear to have left out the copy editor and the graphics editor. Typos up the wazoo. Horridly compressed jpegs for graphics. Pagination that makes little Johnny cry.
Maybe Amazon could crowd source those problems and give people a discount or something - but it gripes me to pay nearly full paper price for a substandard product.
I won't even mention the DRM since it's conveniently so easy to crack.
Oh, and forgot my current major beef. If you're going to charge nearly as much for an eBook as a physical copy, please pay for a copy editor to review the damn thing. I'm tired of gratuitous typos and pagination errors. Yeah, you, Amazon.
I actually think that ebooks are more 'robust' than print. Once the DRM is stripped (yeah, that's dumb, guys), you can store them forever in essentially no space at all. You can read them on multiple devices. You can lend them and not worry about getting the original back (I'm looking at you, Terry). You can bend, fold, mutilate and staple.
Of course, the publishers don't want you doing those sort of things so they try to cripple it, but that seems to be the way information publishers of all stripes are going.
This sort of thing is precisely why the standard Slashdot rant of "all they did was put x, y and z together, this isn't innovating!" is so much silliness. It's not easy to mass produce things. It takes planning and more planning. It takes money and more money than you planned on because some small aspect of Murphy's law is going to pop up and rip your balls off.
It's why the Motorola Xooms of the world come with stupid little missing bits and even why our fearless denizen of perfection, Apple, still screws first releases up 99 times out of a 100.
Production electronics is not building a Heathkit in your bedroom.
The big problem with RCA jacks is that they are not keyed. You can insert any RCA jack into any RCA Jill. Sometimes that's not an issue, others, well, good designers know that it's best not to let end users think much.
So don't buy one. Geez. I don't have a need for a dump truck, a B-52 or a complete set of Star Wars action figures, but I don't particularly care if other people find them interesting or useful.
Do you log into the American Dolls website to say you don't want one of those either?
I just hope that all those experimental results will also be approved. Even if the treatment is completely dependable, You know how those pharmaceuticals like to bitch..
Your drugs are talking back to you?
Better back off on the dose there buddy.
I'd rather do something else on Milla Jovovich. But whatever gets you math freaks off, I suppose.
CB radio on a bus?
No, don't explain.
30 years ago no one had cell phones... things havent gotten THAT much more important in 30 years
Are you kidding! We have terrorists now! And child molesters! And child molesting terrorists! Think of the children! If you're against everyone calling 911 you must be a communist! I bet they don't have 911 in Communistic countries! USA! USA!
I'd even bet that thirty years ago they didn't even have italics!
You must be a pervert.
In old country we had to work in salt mine, better to pickle body than brain.
Kids these days....
How do you get a job like that anyway? I kinda want to try it after seeing it come up in the news so many times. I realise that I'll be scarred after maybe a week, but it's something that I'd like to say I've done.
Hang out on /b/ for a week. After a while, the subliminals will start to make sense. You will know who to call.
Insightful?
Somebody didn't pass their Turing test today.
His bedroom? Ewww!
I think somebody spliced your genome a few too many times already.
You'd better add a spell checker to that list of things you want implanted.
Even spell checking and basic paragraph formatting would go a long way to make things more readable. An iPad 3 - with a higher DPI display - could give you a hardware platform that would answer your questions, but Amazon, at least, seems to be taking the low road when it comes to putting an effort into making kindle books actually readable.
I'm hoping it will change over time, but I have my doubts.