There is still hope - the first eBooks stores which sell DRM free have appeared. And most readers display DRM free content as just fine. So my hope is that DRM and vendor lock in will fail.
How good that my Sony PRS 505 has no wireless connection. no one deletes anything of that one except me. All my books are backupted also Mac and from the to my Time TimeCapsule.
And no, I don't trust Sony either - I use Calibre for Library management.
If $599 is low or high depends on the attached plan - or the lack of one. Here in Europe companies now have to quote the "no strings attached" price of any mobile device alongside. But seems it's not the case in the states.
It won't arrive where I live then. And where Verizon is there Kindle already. I might not like Kindle but it is hugely successful where you can actually buy it. So I don't think that would be a good move.
You are right - but then we have no alternative. All mobile phones have some protection, Symbian Signed, Java Verified, Apples Shop. All a power user can do is choose the phone which suits his/her need and is jail broken easy enough.
Have you ever heard of Symbian Signed? No - then google for it - you will then see that instead of having all applications authorised you need the more interesting applications to be signed, and the very interesting applications signed and approved. Of I have never heard of an application getting improvement for the "AllFiles" privilege.
This is not to say that the N97 was the wrong choice - all phones have a protection mechanism to prevent the not so bright user to install malware.
Yes, but the new Idea is that if you download the book as eBook you get an up-to-date advert with the current flavor of "Heisse Tasse".
But then German SF won't be sold for Kindle anyway. After the way Amazon has treated Mobipocket the scene has created such a resentment towards DRM that the world largest SF series will be sold as DRM free ePUB pretty soon.
.. but Amazon has not yet started to sell eBooks in Europe. Actually Amazon has Mobipocket to sell world wide - but - Amazon started to kill off Mobipocket even before starting to sell Kindle world wide. Which will leave them without an world wide eBook strategy quite soon.
One more reason to be glad that Kindle is still not sold in Europe. Amazons eBook strategy is just disgraceful in all aspects and every day the Kindle start in Europe is delayed is a good day for eBooks and it gives the competition here another day head start.
I just hope that by the time Amazon's Kindle makes it out of the US they have lost so much ground that they never be able to catch up.
I think we can see which philosophy would have saved hundreds of lives in that case.
I see this regularly on/. but do remember that over Switzerland planes collided mid air because one of the pilots was allowed to override the anti collision system. If the two anti collisions systems would have mad it up between themselves hundreds would be still alive.
So both options have killed already and scores are currently even. It is just sad that people have just a short / selective memory. Well it is quite obviously that the/. crowd want to protect Boing.
Sorry but Sony Ericsson did pretty bad with the P990i which is the class of phone you need for "gaming phone". I fact I have quite a few very nice games for it. Only the Firmware is buggy and memory should be twice as much as it is. If they are as cheap with there new "gaming phone" as they have been with there smart phones it well be just another disaster.
So what - when was still using Linux a working backup (incl. ACL, Xattib etc. pp) was the most important criteria and XFS came up on top. xfsdump / xfsrestore has save the day more then once.
Actually no! The Mac has no NumLock and autorun in WoW is done by the key above the 7 on numeric pad. In most games the physical position of the key is more important then what is printed on it's surface.
You might not have noticed - because of meetly done transparent linking - but most of the unicode reference is on WikiBooks. Wikibooks is far more permissive then Wikipedia.
Strange that no one mentions Mobipocket while bashing Amazon. Mobipocket is a subsidiary of Amazon and there customers face a yet another problem with DRM: No devices to read on [1].
The Mobipocket DRM is actually quite fair - as far as DRM goes. Up to 4 devices, old devices can be deleted, new devices added. Re-download as often as you like. And full dozen differed devices to read on.
So DRM was bearable - until Amazon bought the company. It seems that Amazon thought this set-up far to liberal. Of course Amazon did not shut down the company - that would have gotten them into trouble. They should down the software development, shelved the finished iPhone reader and did not licence the file format to Sony for use in the PRS-505.
Now all they have to do is wait until all our mobile devices have have been replaced and hope we all jump for Kindle instead. Embrace, Extend, Extinguish at it's best Only there is two tiny flaw in there plan:
1) Mobipocket is mostly European shop and we can't get Kindle in Europe. 2) We found out about it and now we run a boycott Amazon campaign instead.
And yes, I know it won't help. Those multinational corporations have enough unconcerned, uninformed customer to ever care about a boycott.
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No one forces you to use DRM documents on any eBook reader. All eBook reader will display DRM free eBooks as well.
If at all DRM need to be dumped by the shops and the publishers. And some did already:
http://www.beam-ebooks.de/
https://www.smashwords.com/
Just check which Windows Vista versions can be officially installed inside a Virtual Machine.
Well one does not imply the other - not all dictatorships are communist and a democracy does not need to capitalistic as well...
There is still hope - the first eBooks stores which sell DRM free have appeared. And most readers display DRM free content as just fine. So my hope is that DRM and vendor lock in will fail.
How good that my Sony PRS 505 has no wireless connection. no one deletes anything of that one except me. All my books are backupted also Mac and from the to my Time TimeCapsule.
And no, I don't trust Sony either - I use Calibre for Library management.
If $599 is low or high depends on the attached plan - or the lack of one. Here in Europe companies now have to quote the "no strings attached" price of any mobile device alongside. But seems it's not the case in the states.
It won't arrive where I live then. And where Verizon is there Kindle already. I might not like Kindle but it is hugely successful where you can actually buy it. So I don't think that would be a good move.
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I have no moderator point so let me say: Great Posting - how very true.
A bug in the CSS - go read the details 20 postings above.
You are right - but then we have no alternative. All mobile phones have some protection, Symbian Signed, Java Verified, Apples Shop. All a power user can do is choose the phone which suits his/her need and is jail broken easy enough.
Have you ever heard of Symbian Signed? No - then google for it - you will then see that instead of having all applications authorised you need the more interesting applications to be signed, and the very interesting applications signed and approved. Of I have never heard of an application getting improvement for the "AllFiles" privilege.
This is not to say that the N97 was the wrong choice - all phones have a protection mechanism to prevent the not so bright user to install malware.
The problem fixed itself:
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Yes, but the new Idea is that if you download the book as eBook you get an up-to-date advert with the current flavor of "Heisse Tasse".
But then German SF won't be sold for Kindle anyway. After the way Amazon has treated Mobipocket the scene has created such a resentment towards DRM that the world largest SF series will be sold as DRM free ePUB pretty soon.
.. but Amazon has not yet started to sell eBooks in Europe. Actually Amazon has Mobipocket to sell world wide - but - Amazon started to kill off Mobipocket even before starting to sell Kindle world wide. Which will leave them without an world wide eBook strategy quite soon.
One more reason to be glad that Kindle is still not sold in Europe. Amazons eBook strategy is just disgraceful in all aspects and every day the Kindle start in Europe is delayed is a good day for eBooks and it gives the competition here another day head start.
I just hope that by the time Amazon's Kindle makes it out of the US they have lost so much ground that they never be able to catch up.
I think we can see which philosophy would have saved hundreds of lives in that case.
I see this regularly on /. but do remember that over Switzerland planes collided mid air because one of the pilots was allowed to override the anti collision system. If the two anti collisions systems would have mad it up between themselves hundreds would be still alive.
So both options have killed already and scores are currently even. It is just sad that people have just a short / selective memory. Well it is quite obviously that the /. crowd want to protect Boing.
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Sorry but Sony Ericsson did pretty bad with the P990i which is the class of phone you need for "gaming phone". I fact I have quite a few very nice games for it. Only the Firmware is buggy and memory should be twice as much as it is. If they are as cheap with there new "gaming phone" as they have been with there smart phones it well be just another disaster.
So what - when was still using Linux a working backup (incl. ACL, Xattib etc. pp) was the most important criteria and XFS came up on top. xfsdump / xfsrestore has save the day more then once.
Actually no! The Mac has no NumLock and autorun in WoW is done by the key above the 7 on numeric pad. In most games the physical position of the key is more important then what is printed on it's surface.
The Mac has no NumLock - and guess what: I can still autorun in WoW.
You might not have noticed - because of meetly done transparent linking - but most of the unicode reference is on WikiBooks. Wikibooks is far more permissive then Wikipedia.
However there is Wikibooks where Instruction Manuals are permitted and reliable sources are not needed.
WikiBooks would probably more appropriate.
Strange that no one mentions Mobipocket while bashing Amazon. Mobipocket is a subsidiary of Amazon and there customers face a yet another problem with DRM: No devices to read on [1].
The Mobipocket DRM is actually quite fair - as far as DRM goes. Up to 4 devices, old devices can be deleted, new devices added. Re-download as often as you like. And full dozen differed devices to read on.
So DRM was bearable - until Amazon bought the company. It seems that Amazon thought this set-up far to liberal. Of course Amazon did not shut down the company - that would have gotten them into trouble. They should down the software development, shelved the finished iPhone reader and did not licence the file format to Sony for use in the PRS-505.
Now all they have to do is wait until all our mobile devices have have been replaced and hope we all jump for Kindle instead. Embrace, Extend, Extinguish at it's best Only there is two tiny flaw in there plan:
1) Mobipocket is mostly European shop and we can't get Kindle in Europe.
2) We found out about it and now we run a boycott Amazon campaign instead.
And yes, I know it won't help. Those multinational corporations have enough unconcerned, uninformed customer to ever care about a boycott.
[1] http://www.mobipocket.com/forum/index.php