I paid for Papers (Both on the Mac and iPad), and while it's passable, I really find their workflow disagrees with me. It just seems really hard to get CS to work in it properly (developed by Biological Sciences people, and it feels like the workflow for databases like the ACM DL and IEEE are a bit.. rushed)
Final word: Use the trial for Papers on the Mac for sure. Papers on the iPad is perhaps easier to justify, though, I don't know if it'll run stand alone (can you import/export without the mac app?)
Mmm. I'm still bitten every day by pulse problems, hate it intensely. However, I can't hate lennart for it, because as near as I can tell, IF you can get a distro that's done the packaging correctly AND you don't run into problems, it's amazing.
I just think it's nuts that I have a key-stroke to call pulse-audio --kill
An aside: Am I the only one who always preferred the BSD userland to the GNU/Linux?
Unlimited access, and musician is anyone who makes music; They have to be the ones who are putting the music into their system (or their publishers/producers/record labels... if the publisher/producer/record label screws them, it's unfortunate, but also status quo. This kind of system would likely create more indie artists, which could be good or bad, who knows), otherwise it's illegitimate piracy.
This could be workable; But only if I get to dictate to SOCAN to whom my dollar goes. I don't want to fund Justin Bieber's haircuts, I want to fund the bands I want to hear more of.
So is this better or worse then, for obscure artists? Are they going to monitor people's downloading to ensure proper distribution? Or is SOCAN just going to flat rate distribute to all it's members? Neither seems tenable nor acceptable (of course, I've a beef against SOCAN ever since they started going after coffee shops).
Perhaps; But hasn't iTunes already done most of that? Or am I alone in finding that iTunes is far easier than piracy? Hell, I like iTunes better than piracy because I can hope that at least some of my money gets to an artist.
Wow, is this how desperate the music business is? Hell, as an artist I'd be pissed; I'd much rather get money from fans willingly, than from everyone by force.
Does there exist a bank yet that SUPPORTS data access? I know banksimple is coming with theirs, (http://www.banksimple.com/api/), but they are invite only still. That's probably the better solution.
And I have to add, nor do I want them to kill the book. I love my books, I love owning them, I love reading paper books. But e-books have a super leg up when it comes to portability. I can carry the three books and the newspaper I'm reading in 8 ounces, or I can carry a pound and a half of paper.
E-Books still aren't there yet. When an E-Book as as convenient, as cheap, and as trouble free as real books, then we'll see e-books take off. But I think they've still got a way to go. Prices need to come down, the devices themselves need to get better (more durable, longer battery life, cheaper) and the software inside them needs to get much better.
Speaking only from owning a Kindle, the limitations on display imposed by are sometimes infuriating: Limited type choices, no ragged right, an orgamizational system which doesn't scale past 100mb of material, let alone the two gigs that comes onboard, (Why people moan that the kindle is not expandable I'll never understand. Aside from a wikipedia dump, who needs two gigs of text on the go!). PDF Support needs vast improvements (why, god why do you let me zoom, but only to the scales you chose for me... which are always way too wide or ten letters too narrow on academic papers?)
Annotations for academic work are important, and on the impotent keyboard they give you on the kindle, good luck. HIghlighting is slightly better, but still painful.
Having ranted though, I have to say, I still love my kindle, if for no other reason than receiving my news paper every morning electronically, combined with Instapaper for long articles.
The devices have amazing possibility, but until they improve, they won't kill the book.
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No reincarnation. Only 56. Lame.
(RIP)
Anyone else find the summary wording "found dead", a little disrespectful, or is it just me being over sensitive?
Ditto on the iPad.
I paid for Papers (Both on the Mac and iPad), and while it's passable, I really find their workflow disagrees with me. It just seems really hard to get CS to work in it properly (developed by Biological Sciences people, and it feels like the workflow for databases like the ACM DL and IEEE are a bit.. rushed)
Final word: Use the trial for Papers on the Mac for sure. Papers on the iPad is perhaps easier to justify, though, I don't know if it'll run stand alone (can you import/export without the mac app?)
Mmm. I'm still bitten every day by pulse problems, hate it intensely. However, I can't hate lennart for it, because as near as I can tell, IF you can get a distro that's done the packaging correctly AND you don't run into problems, it's amazing.
I just think it's nuts that I have a key-stroke to call pulse-audio --kill
An aside: Am I the only one who always preferred the BSD userland to the GNU/Linux?
or the obvious lack of a story editor...
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I'm curious, did you come to a conclusion? I'd download it myself, but we seem to have overrun their goodwill for the moment.
Unlimited access, and musician is anyone who makes music; They have to be the ones who are putting the music into their system (or their publishers/producers/record labels... if the publisher/producer/record label screws them, it's unfortunate, but also status quo. This kind of system would likely create more indie artists, which could be good or bad, who knows), otherwise it's illegitimate piracy.
Now this, is interesting. Boy do I wish I had mod points.
This could be workable; But only if I get to dictate to SOCAN to whom my dollar goes. I don't want to fund Justin Bieber's haircuts, I want to fund the bands I want to hear more of.
Like that's going to happen.
... no, what happens on the internet is mostly porn.
Oh wait. They're file sharing porn.
\me shuts up.
A big problem.
So is this better or worse then, for obscure artists? Are they going to monitor people's downloading to ensure proper distribution? Or is SOCAN just going to flat rate distribute to all it's members? Neither seems tenable nor acceptable (of course, I've a beef against SOCAN ever since they started going after coffee shops).
Perhaps; But hasn't iTunes already done most of that? Or am I alone in finding that iTunes is far easier than piracy? Hell, I like iTunes better than piracy because I can hope that at least some of my money gets to an artist.
Wow, is this how desperate the music business is? Hell, as an artist I'd be pissed; I'd much rather get money from fans willingly, than from everyone by force.
Seriously, how does this make sense?
It's called Wipeout.
And yeah, it's passable for a half hour.
I'm with you. I even like the white! Seems to work better too.
Damn I wish I had mod points.
Hear hear!
At least we'd like to hope so.
In which case, it's another case of fact follows fiction: The novel Galatea 2.2 by Richard Powers follows the development of an AI by self-learning.
Never mind the bollocks though, this is super interesting, regardless.
Does there exist a bank yet that SUPPORTS data access? I know banksimple is coming with theirs, (http://www.banksimple.com/api/), but they are invite only still. That's probably the better solution.
And I have to add, nor do I want them to kill the book. I love my books, I love owning them, I love reading paper books. But e-books have a super leg up when it comes to portability. I can carry the three books and the newspaper I'm reading in 8 ounces, or I can carry a pound and a half of paper.
E-Books still aren't there yet. When an E-Book as as convenient, as cheap, and as trouble free as real books, then we'll see e-books take off. But I think they've still got a way to go. Prices need to come down, the devices themselves need to get better (more durable, longer battery life, cheaper) and the software inside them needs to get much better.
Speaking only from owning a Kindle, the limitations on display imposed by are sometimes infuriating: Limited type choices, no ragged right, an orgamizational system which doesn't scale past 100mb of material, let alone the two gigs that comes onboard, (Why people moan that the kindle is not expandable I'll never understand. Aside from a wikipedia dump, who needs two gigs of text on the go!). PDF Support needs vast improvements (why, god why do you let me zoom, but only to the scales you chose for me... which are always way too wide or ten letters too narrow on academic papers?)
Annotations for academic work are important, and on the impotent keyboard they give you on the kindle, good luck. HIghlighting is slightly better, but still painful.
Having ranted though, I have to say, I still love my kindle, if for no other reason than receiving my news paper every morning electronically, combined with Instapaper for long articles.
The devices have amazing possibility, but until they improve, they won't kill the book.
Hence why no one knows where it came from.
Though if you're not a fan of scatological humour, stay away, far away!