You could buy a laptop and download thousands of free books from Gutenberg.org or wherever, and spend the rest on used books and have more than you can ever hope to read.
Alternatively, you can spend $350-$500 on one of these Amazon gadgets and then have to pay to read books on it.
Or, you can buy a Kindle and download thousands of free books from Gutenberg.org or wherever. The Kindle doesn't lock you in to only reading Amazon books. I've probably read about as many project Gutenberg books on my Kindle as I have books I bought from Amazon.
You can't load pdfs directly on to the Kindle but instead of sending the file to youraccount@kindle.com for $0.10, you can send it to youraccount@free.kindle.com and it will send you back a link to the converted file which you can download and load on to you Kindle via USB. You can load text files directly on to it.
Also, Kindle supports unencrypted Mobi-pocket format, so you can use any available mobi creator to convert pdfs and other documents.
Whether or not Apple's stock _should_ go up or down based on Steve's health is not the issue. The issue is that it does go up or down and if an insider knew that there was going to be an announcement about Jobs taking a leave of absence due to his health and sold their stock before the news came out, that would be insider trading.
There are still pager providers. I have a pager from Skytel for work.
http://www.skytel.com/wireless_paging_devices.html
I've got a Titan 3 pager. It has a heinous alert tone that would be nearly impossible to sleep through.
Washington has an "Enhanced Driver's License" as well for border crossings, but I haven't heard anything that would suggest that those would be come the only driver's license available.
It wouldn't be a greater break-in risk than a convertible. It looks like there is a part of the frame in the middle of the door, so it would be tough to actually get though the door.
I wonder if they could make a security system to detect cuts in the fabric.
Yes, both groups are equally sensitive. If less than 5% of people got it right, equally sensitive seems to me to mean not sensitive at all. You say 6 people getting it right means people are sensitive ignoring the 152 people that got it wrong. If we really were sensitive, there would have been many more people who would have gotten it right.
The Iraq and Afghanistan wars involve mainly Guerrilla-style warfare and neither country has any long-range missile capability to speak of. If we got in to a war with a country like Russia, who we know at the very least has the capability to put satellites into the same orbits as our satellites, there might be some cause for concern.
In the "Availability" part of the product listing, it will say "Ships from and sold by Amazon.com." if it is from Amazon.
On a search page, most Amazon items will say that they are eligible for Super Saver Shipping (or Prime if you have that).
I think a better analogy would be the USPS sending a letter in your name to Newsweek canceling your subscription because they're tired of delivering your magazines.
Yes, the airline is perfectly right there: you may have your freedom of speech over there, not over here. The airline has _no_ obligation to give him any freedom of speech.
That would be true, except that it wasn't an airline that is doing this. The TSA is a government organization.
Some colleges do that. My school has an agreement with Microsoft that allows students and faculty to purchase MS software very cheaply. The prices have gone up slightly, but a few years ago I bought Windows XP Pro and Office XP Pro for $5 each.
My cell phone occasionally has trouble making or recieving calls despite 5 bars of signal. They need to get that worked out before I trust it to store my files.
I actually find that feature to be useful in some cases, such as when I'm reading a long web page (like a slashdot comments page) and I want to go back to something earlier in the page without losing my place.
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You could buy a laptop and download thousands of free books from Gutenberg.org or wherever, and spend the rest on used books and have more than you can ever hope to read.
Alternatively, you can spend $350-$500 on one of these Amazon gadgets and then have to pay to read books on it.
Or, you can buy a Kindle and download thousands of free books from Gutenberg.org or wherever. The Kindle doesn't lock you in to only reading Amazon books. I've probably read about as many project Gutenberg books on my Kindle as I have books I bought from Amazon.
You can't load pdfs directly on to the Kindle but instead of sending the file to youraccount@kindle.com for $0.10, you can send it to youraccount@free.kindle.com and it will send you back a link to the converted file which you can download and load on to you Kindle via USB. You can load text files directly on to it. Also, Kindle supports unencrypted Mobi-pocket format, so you can use any available mobi creator to convert pdfs and other documents.
Whether or not Apple's stock _should_ go up or down based on Steve's health is not the issue. The issue is that it does go up or down and if an insider knew that there was going to be an announcement about Jobs taking a leave of absence due to his health and sold their stock before the news came out, that would be insider trading.
There are still pager providers. I have a pager from Skytel for work. http://www.skytel.com/wireless_paging_devices.html I've got a Titan 3 pager. It has a heinous alert tone that would be nearly impossible to sleep through.
Washington has an "Enhanced Driver's License" as well for border crossings, but I haven't heard anything that would suggest that those would be come the only driver's license available.
Are these TSA-approved laptop bags going to protect my laptop as well as TSA-approved locks keep people out of my luggage?
It wouldn't be a greater break-in risk than a convertible. It looks like there is a part of the frame in the middle of the door, so it would be tough to actually get though the door.
I wonder if they could make a security system to detect cuts in the fabric.
I'd hate to see that car after someone keys it.
I don't think mace would work so well in an environment with recirculated air.
Oops, I mean 7 got it right and 151 got it wrong. I think my point still stands despite being off by 1.
Yes, both groups are equally sensitive. If less than 5% of people got it right, equally sensitive seems to me to mean not sensitive at all. You say 6 people getting it right means people are sensitive ignoring the 152 people that got it wrong. If we really were sensitive, there would have been many more people who would have gotten it right.
The Iraq and Afghanistan wars involve mainly Guerrilla-style warfare and neither country has any long-range missile capability to speak of. If we got in to a war with a country like Russia, who we know at the very least has the capability to put satellites into the same orbits as our satellites, there might be some cause for concern.
In the "Availability" part of the product listing, it will say "Ships from and sold by Amazon.com." if it is from Amazon. On a search page, most Amazon items will say that they are eligible for Super Saver Shipping (or Prime if you have that).
I think a better analogy would be the USPS sending a letter in your name to Newsweek canceling your subscription because they're tired of delivering your magazines.
Some colleges do that. My school has an agreement with Microsoft that allows students and faculty to purchase MS software very cheaply. The prices have gone up slightly, but a few years ago I bought Windows XP Pro and Office XP Pro for $5 each.
My cell phone occasionally has trouble making or recieving calls despite 5 bars of signal. They need to get that worked out before I trust it to store my files.
You can only use the RFID on purchases of less than $25, so I guess it won't really work too well at gas pumps.
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I actually find that feature to be useful in some cases, such as when I'm reading a long web page (like a slashdot comments page) and I want to go back to something earlier in the page without losing my place.