There's an unfortunate factor that paper nostalgites are not taking into account: books bought by your library are no longer forever, even when they don't get checked out enough times to wear out. Shelf space costs money just as it does in a store, and so my local library deaccessions a load of books yearly to make room for more.
Many of the books I check out are not shelved at my branch. Many are in a central "stack". But when I reserve them, either in person or on line, they show up the next day. And I get my so-called "dead tree" book.
Talk to a librarian about the cost of replacing popular dead tree books. It's significant. Will it be more or less than e readers?
I check out popular books that were purchased in the 1970 and 80's at my library all the time. Sure, many of the trashy popular fiction titles will need to be replaced during the period of their limited popularity, but a quality made book will last many years in a public library.
So far there doesn't appear to be a problem with returning checked out e-readers.
Give it time, the place just opened. Broken, missing, and outdated readers will become an issue. Replacement cost of broken, worn-out, and technologically obsolete readers will be a major continuing cost, and throwing people in jail who lose/break them and can't afford the replacement cost will become a political issue.
Also, I wonder if the library will get any financial return from the user data that will almost certainly make its way to Amazon and B&N?
Wasn't this one of the background stories in "Robot and Frank"? I'ts not an idea I like. For me, reading is more than having access to the collection of words, reading a book is an experience I enjoy. There are probably many reasons, but I'm not a psychologist...
Unfortunately, it's the boundaries of how un-newsworthy content can be and still be called "news".
Someone "modded" it up at the Firehose, and Soulskill put it on the front page... It's probably a Slashvert, either paid to Dice or more likely paid to Soulskill.
You've got to be kidding. The NSA is manipulating people with space weapons ? Typical whack-job web site. I'm surprised there are no links there to chemtrails.
If a message is stated as "Private" it should be treated entirely as private.
Do you feel the same way about all the major "free" email providers? Because you know that ALL of them scan your "private" email, distil and save key words and other meta data and... *sell* that information to third parties, right?
It's Facebook. Is it reasonable to expect complete privacy with any part of it? Email at least has some expectation of privacy, but even there, the big providers scan your email for targeted advertising.
I really don't think a reasonable person expects a lot of "privacy" at Facebook, certainly "private messages" are only private from other users, not Facebook bots...
The "three brack men" are a still from Kanye's video for "Black Skinheads." The joke is that your ignorant criticism of Kanye's own art has been "moderated" so highly.
So it's OK for blacks to be racist? Just like it's perfictly fine for blacks to spew "nigger-this" and "nigger-that"?
There *IS NOT* another "alt-coin" launching. This is a joke site that contains racist imagery, using Kanye West to bait gullible young people.
The site graphics open to a cartoon image of a "stereotypical" big lipped black man, presumably Mr. West. In the all black background, three sets of black-face eyes show up. The black background then drops to reveal three brack men in black KKK garb.
This is not the kind of crap Slashdot or Dice should be promoting.
I know it's now a cliche to pontificate "Why is this on Slashdot", but seriously? This is not news for anyone, certainly not "nerds", and clearly doesn't matter. It's not even funny. This "story" would be more appropriate next April.
It doesn't matter. The point is, there's no need to shit on somebody else's art.
Why not? Art is in the eye of the beholder, and indeed people actually get paid to shit on other people's art (figuratively). If an artist can't take criticism, they need to get out of the art biz (though they can still produce crap for their friends).
You can say "ass" at Slashdot, we are mostly adults here.
And even more, if it's a "personal thing" about profanity, if you are typing "@$$", you are thinking "ass", and so you are just as "guilty" of offending whatever thing it is about the word "ass" that offends you.
I've always considered Facebook to be a little "transient", short, not for real conversation. But WhatsApp, Snapchat, and Twitter? Is this an indication that kids today have lost the ability to have meaningful communication? If it can't be said in 140 chars or less it's not worth communicating? There is a discussion at Balloon Juice about the current way of raising kids: Apparently face-to-face social interaction is passe* with the kids these days, and school shootings are up.
*According to Google, the use of the word "passe" was really big in 1800 and again in 1900, but has steadily decreased since then.
In this case, I'd argue the intelligence services and crime units have proven themselves unfit for purpose, and that the power company is too negligent on providing robust, fault-tolerant services and should have their business license withdrawn.
The problem is that they will use this failure as an excuse to ramp up even more surveillance and unchecked spending for high-tech toys.
Around 1:00 AM on April 16, at least one individual (possibly two) entered two different manholes at the PG&E Metcalf power substation, southeast of San Jose, and cut fiber cables in the area around the substation. That knocked out some local 911 services, landline service to the substation, and cell phone service in the area, a senior U.S. intelligence official told Foreign Policy. The intruder(s) then fired more than 100 rounds from what two officials described as a high-powered rifle at several transformers in the facility. Ten transformers were damaged in one area of the facility, and three transformer banks -- or groups of transformers -- were hit in another, according to a PG&E spokesman.
Sounds a lot like some whacked out off-duty "Law Enforcement Officer" trying to scare us as more and more people get fed up with the current Police State and are trying to "dial back" the Fear Mongers.
"Initially, the attack was being treated as vandalism and handled by local law enforcement," the senior intelligence official said. "However, investigators have been quoted in the press expressing opinions that there are indications that the timing of the attacks and target selection indicate a higher level of planning and sophistication."
Of course! That these folks didn't try this at high noon on a week day proved they were TERRORISTS RUNNING A PLAN! Of course it does. And "target selection"? Seriously, if you're going to shoot up a power station in the middle of the night (or any time really) what would you aim at? Yup, power transformers. Big targets, easy to hit. NO FUCKING SHIT, SHERLOCK!
I know the solution to this: A multi-million dollar security system made by Raytheon... And more expensive toys for the local "LE" folks...
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There's an unfortunate factor that paper nostalgites are not taking into account: books bought by your library are no longer forever, even when they don't get checked out enough times to wear out. Shelf space costs money just as it does in a store, and so my local library deaccessions a load of books yearly to make room for more.
Many of the books I check out are not shelved at my branch. Many are in a central "stack". But when I reserve them, either in person or on line, they show up the next day. And I get my so-called "dead tree" book.
Talk to a librarian about the cost of replacing popular dead tree books. It's significant. Will it be more or less than e readers?
I check out popular books that were purchased in the 1970 and 80's at my library all the time. Sure, many of the trashy popular fiction titles will need to be replaced during the period of their limited popularity, but a quality made book will last many years in a public library.
Because you can never have too many cores that you aren't using most of the time.
Ask the NSA, they might have a (SECRET) opinion on that.
So far there doesn't appear to be a problem with returning checked out e-readers.
Give it time, the place just opened. Broken, missing, and outdated readers will become an issue. Replacement cost of broken, worn-out, and technologically obsolete readers will be a major continuing cost, and throwing people in jail who lose/break them and can't afford the replacement cost will become a political issue.
Also, I wonder if the library will get any financial return from the user data that will almost certainly make its way to Amazon and B&N?
Wasn't this one of the background stories in "Robot and Frank"? I'ts not an idea I like. For me, reading is more than having access to the collection of words, reading a book is an experience I enjoy. There are probably many reasons, but I'm not a psychologist...
Unfortunately, it's the boundaries of how un-newsworthy content can be and still be called "news".
Someone "modded" it up at the Firehose, and Soulskill put it on the front page... It's probably a Slashvert, either paid to Dice or more likely paid to Soulskill.
Are you ready to instantly reduce your purchasing power by, say, 90%?
Purchasing power of what? Cheap smart phones? Cheap TVs (we need one in every room in the house, right)?
China produces cheap consumer goods, most of which are "wants" not "needs".
Except he's really not that crazy. It is a proven technology.
Energy weapons were *tested* in Iraq (and elsewhere) and deemed ineffective. Certainly they are not being used from space. But keep on trippin...
I suspect you and the Original Poster are the same people.
we're talking about magnets here.
Exactly. Magnets with backdoors. All the sudden, just a hunk of ceramic and metal, and next thing you know the Chinese are pouring over the boarder.
You've got to be kidding. The NSA is manipulating people with space weapons ? Typical whack-job web site. I'm surprised there are no links there to chemtrails.
If a message is stated as "Private" it should be treated entirely as private.
Do you feel the same way about all the major "free" email providers? Because you know that ALL of them scan your "private" email, distil and save key words and other meta data and... *sell* that information to third parties, right?
It's Facebook. Is it reasonable to expect complete privacy with any part of it? Email at least has some expectation of privacy, but even there, the big providers scan your email for targeted advertising.
I really don't think a reasonable person expects a lot of "privacy" at Facebook, certainly "private messages" are only private from other users, not Facebook bots...
The "three brack men" are a still from Kanye's video for "Black Skinheads." The joke is that your ignorant criticism of Kanye's own art has been "moderated" so highly.
So it's OK for blacks to be racist? Just like it's perfictly fine for blacks to spew "nigger-this" and "nigger-that"?
There *IS NOT* another "alt-coin" launching. This is a joke site that contains racist imagery, using Kanye West to bait gullible young people.
The site graphics open to a cartoon image of a "stereotypical" big lipped black man, presumably Mr. West. In the all black background, three sets of black-face eyes show up. The black background then drops to reveal three brack men in black KKK garb.
This is not the kind of crap Slashdot or Dice should be promoting.
Has anyone here been to Coinyewest.com? It features three Kanyes in blake KKK hoods. And Slashdot is giving these assholes free advertising?
I know it's now a cliche to pontificate "Why is this on Slashdot", but seriously? This is not news for anyone, certainly not "nerds", and clearly doesn't matter. It's not even funny. This "story" would be more appropriate next April.
That someone can do this.
Remote control vehicles are not a new concept.
Not theoretically I mean, it's obvious you can, but nobody actually went and did this until now (or they did but I haven't heard about it).
Using WiFi is hardly "earthshaking". Indeed, I see remote control via WiFi toys at the mall all the time.
Look, it's Frosty Piss. Haven't seen you in a while, thought you might be dead.
Pity you aren't.
Spoken like a true Anon Cunt.
You forgot [citation needed].
Go back to masturbating while editing Wikipedia.
It's spelled 'arse' :-)
So that would be... @r$3 ... ?
It doesn't matter. The point is, there's no need to shit on somebody else's art.
Why not? Art is in the eye of the beholder, and indeed people actually get paid to shit on other people's art (figuratively). If an artist can't take criticism, they need to get out of the art biz (though they can still produce crap for their friends).
Seriously, no one can criticize "art"?
This is a guess I'm pulling out of my @$$
You can say "ass" at Slashdot, we are mostly adults here.
And even more, if it's a "personal thing" about profanity, if you are typing "@$$", you are thinking "ass", and so you are just as "guilty" of offending whatever thing it is about the word "ass" that offends you.
That would be a presumption of a sovereignty claim upon at least a portion of the Moon...
Yes, yes it would.
...and a retroactive claim at that. Besides simply a violation of the Outer Space Treaty
And when they discover a valuable exploitable resource, they will withdraw from the treaty..
I've always considered Facebook to be a little "transient", short, not for real conversation. But WhatsApp, Snapchat, and Twitter? Is this an indication that kids today have lost the ability to have meaningful communication? If it can't be said in 140 chars or less it's not worth communicating? There is a discussion at Balloon Juice about the current way of raising kids: Apparently face-to-face social interaction is passe* with the kids these days, and school shootings are up.
*According to Google, the use of the word "passe" was really big in 1800 and again in 1900, but has steadily decreased since then.
In this case, I'd argue the intelligence services and crime units have proven themselves unfit for purpose, and that the power company is too negligent on providing robust, fault-tolerant services and should have their business license withdrawn.
The problem is that they will use this failure as an excuse to ramp up even more surveillance and unchecked spending for high-tech toys.
Around 1:00 AM on April 16, at least one individual (possibly two) entered two different manholes at the PG&E Metcalf power substation, southeast of San Jose, and cut fiber cables in the area around the substation. That knocked out some local 911 services, landline service to the substation, and cell phone service in the area, a senior U.S. intelligence official told Foreign Policy. The intruder(s) then fired more than 100 rounds from what two officials described as a high-powered rifle at several transformers in the facility. Ten transformers were damaged in one area of the facility, and three transformer banks -- or groups of transformers -- were hit in another, according to a PG&E spokesman.
Sounds a lot like some whacked out off-duty "Law Enforcement Officer" trying to scare us as more and more people get fed up with the current Police State and are trying to "dial back" the Fear Mongers.
"Initially, the attack was being treated as vandalism and handled by local law enforcement," the senior intelligence official said. "However, investigators have been quoted in the press expressing opinions that there are indications that the timing of the attacks and target selection indicate a higher level of planning and sophistication."
Of course! That these folks didn't try this at high noon on a week day proved they were TERRORISTS RUNNING A PLAN! Of course it does. And "target selection"? Seriously, if you're going to shoot up a power station in the middle of the night (or any time really) what would you aim at? Yup, power transformers. Big targets, easy to hit. NO FUCKING SHIT, SHERLOCK!
I know the solution to this: A multi-million dollar security system made by Raytheon... And more expensive toys for the local "LE" folks...