I believe you can install the Mozilla Add-on Compatibility Reporter (made by Mozilla) to manually turn on any outdated/incompatible/whatever add-ons.
I can't blame them for making such functionality take a couple of extra steps because I imagine the support nightmare from your average user is hell otherwise. I'm not a big fan of this new rapid release thing with major version numbers just to look better, though.
Railgun projectiles don't need explosives or propulsion systems. They're just shaped pieces of (conductive?) mass that have extremely high velocity and thus really high kinetic energy.
From my understanding these lasers tend to work by heating up and weakening the thin metal around missile/artillery shells and causing failure or detonation. Assuming the laser could even track the much faster rail gun projectile the most I think it could do would be to score the outside and throw off the aerodynamics some.
Though it does look like the Senate Armed Services Committee cut funding for both of these technologies a few days ago so we'll have to see how that pans out on the Senate floor later and in the years to come. Hopefully they're more informed and maybe they're right that the techs aren't currently feasible given the costs.
You can definitely sue the US government. Separation of powers and such say, in theory, that the FBI/executive branch people can't just make it disappear. From my understanding you are sort of correct in that the executive branch can ask the judicial to not hear the case in the best interest of the nation.
Remember when ICE took down all those websites via domain seizures? Some of those companies are suing over it. I dunno if it'll actually go anywhere but I believe they weren't thrown right out. Lots of important historical changes have happened in the courts in party vs state/government/whatever...
First I'd like to say that I think both the Nook and Kindle e-readers are rather solid (though I don't agree as much with the Nook Color).
While Amazon could be lying they have flat out said that it was publishers that forced them to use DRM. So I don't agree with your disingenuous painting B&N as the good guy in that respect. I think both companies blame publishers for DRM requirements on the books they sell and, at least if you look at Amazon's MP3 market, that it's probably truth.
The Kindle doesn't lock you into proprietary formats any more than the Nook does. They both support reading DRMless formats, it's rather trivial to strip DRM from ebooks, and one can easily convert from any ebook format to another using free tools such a Calibre. Kindle, same as the Nook, has been rooted and there is custom firmware out there to let you do whatever. It would be nice however if both devices supported more formats out of the box as there is no good reason for them not to.
There is something wrong when the "land of the free and the home of the brave" has the highest per capita incarceration numbers and the largest prison population by more than double the next (we have less than 5% of the world's population but over 25% of its inmates).
That would be a SERIOUSLY larger percentage of 'stupid' incidence compared to the rest of the world...
This from this twitter makes me think it wasn't an apache or php vulnerability, though 'application server' is a broad enough term that it could mean almost anything.
Some random security researcher posited that because they had outdated apache server versions (with no known exploits) that it might have been an apache vulnerability. News sources elsewhere repeated that nonsense.
You're totally forgetting about arcade and console gaming before all this new-fangled computer stuff (though, I suppose, that is what Evo is at its roots). In terms of "modern" computer gaming, there was a professional league in the states competing using Quake in 1997 (see: Cyberathlete Professional League). Starcraft had not even been published at that point.
Sure, Starcraft (and South Korea) deserve huge props for what they've contributed to the gaming scene but I'm not sure I would feel correct in saying that any one nation or league or game "set the concept of professional gaming and esports". Too many outside factors and each area contributing to the buildup in their own way...
There have always been competitive tournaments, frequently with cash or other prizes, for pretty much any game of any popularity. They do not even have to be electronic. You can play Monopoly professionally (but you won't make much money).
Movie realism with real actors and makeup and such is a totally different playing field of reality to a computer animated game. And both are FAR different from real life.
I can get emotionally attached to a character and be disappointed or even slightly upset when something bad happens to the character in a video game.
I can get emotionally disturbed and even suffer some minor physical symptoms (sweaty palms, etc) from anxiety/distress related to watching really bad stuff happen in a movie.
Really bad stuff happens in real life is a totally different ball field. Traumatic experiences have left me unable to stop shaking for days. Unable to eat. Stress causing vomiting and such. IT DOES NOT EVEN COMPARE.
You know down to your core that the stuff in a movie and a video game IS NOT REAL. Or at least I do and I think most other people as well, especially given all the people that we watch getting shot on TV without batting an eye. Being able to shoot a bunch of pixels in a game, then get killed, and respawn without any emotional response isn't having social issues. In your mind it's not much different from playing chess.
I'd say fanatical was the more correct word over "politically correct". Sadly, as I'm not a robot and am prone to human social behavior, I would be hard pressed to have my opinion changed on United States economic policy if I actually cared to have an opinion on the topic.
I cannot actually affect any changes with regards to the situation and so I consider the entire argument an effort in inanity. Also, my cat is probably fed better than I am and you have no idea how expensive that food is!
I apologize ahead of time for failing to open your eyes to your own behavior.
How someone so fanatical and rude has any karma at all amazes me.
It doesn't even matter if your arguments are correct or not because, after going through your comment history, your presentation is so abrasive as to cause immediate emotional response. If you actually want to change opinions then I advise some introspection and considering your target audience.
I fail to see how allowing patients to have a copy of records of medical diagnosis and treatment is bad for the patient or creates more work for a doctor.
Yes, I can understand how additional paperwork and rules for HIPAA can impede doctors. I don't see how that applies in this case. The given article makes it seem like the healthcare provider was not providing copies of records that they were keeping anyway.
Well, what do you expect from a generation who found their love to read in the Harry Potter books? The people who started reading them in 1997 are graduating from college and have enough spare income for books.
I don't mean that as a dig against the Harry Potter books. They're actually pretty good.
You're not helping the case for Harry Potter readers.
You bring up an interesting idea though. I could definitely see an a-la-carte tax system working in a modern democracy (it'd still be a democratic republic as you'd still have congress making the options).
It wouldn't have worked in the old days because of the pure logistics of it...but I imagine a menu of items you could pay taxes for/indicate where you prefer your taxes to go to could work.
There are problems of course that would have to be worked out but that's true of any system.
You might need a society with a minimum level of education, though. They have to be smart enough not to say, "Well, the roads work now so why should I pay taxes to keep them up when I can push my tax dollars to $petpublicproject".
Download to computer->transfer to kindle via USB. I believe Calibre has 'recipes' to facilitate doing this for free newspapers and magazine articles.
I would think images are more frequently not on the kindle because color images don't look good in greyscale at a lower resolution.
And pricing concerns? As a consumer I trust Amazon to be slightly less evil than the magazine publishers. The major book publishers got together and forced Amazon to let them set kindle book prices, to a near hardcover price, upon book release; so that they could protect their precious hardcover sales.
There are people who don't realize that their parents are fallible by the time they have become adults?
Not that I support kids being able to sue their parents for this nonsense. Parents have to filter through a lot of information and make best guesses as to factuality and hope for the best when raising kids. If they were liable for all of their shortcomings then I don't think you could find a single perfect "innocent" parent.
The weapons being used on civilians in Egypt? I've been watching the Al Jazeera live feed (which is rather pro-protester as far coverage goes) and so far the weapons I've seen used are tear gas (cannister to the head killed a few people), water cannons, and maybe rubber bullets. And the police forces pulled out long ago and now the military (who the protesters seem to cheer and like) sit around in tanks and such and look pretty to keep order (they don't seem to attempt break up crowds or anything).
There have been some unconfirmed reports of guns being shot at crowds but I think so far all of those are still unconfirmed...even days later after the crowds have burned down or looted political party buildings, police buildings, and a lot of cars. Ignoring those few days, with some of that rather serious violence, things have been rather peaceful protest wise.
I can see why the US so far doesn't want to do anything to incite either side to go to more extreme measures to get what they want. The situation seems a bit tense still.
I call bullshit on that article's author (or he is seriously misinformed). E-Readers are not perfect but they are definitely a working substitute for paperbacks. E-Readers mostly fail at works with lots of illustrations (if you're using a Nook Color to read ebooks you're doing it wrong) or things like textbooks. Also many ebooks have sub-par formatting compared to their tree brethren.
They’re much more fragile than books. They run out of power, leaving you with nothing to read.
Any e-ink display device is not "much more fragile" than your typical paperback book unless you like to lug books around construction yards and hit them with hammers all day. If anything my Kindle is more rugged in average use scenarios than your typical mass market paperback because after reading tens of thousands of pages on it the cover hasn't fallen apart and the spine isn't in serious need of a re-gluing. I've also dropped it and sat on it a few times to no ill effect.
I don't even know where the power statement is coming from. Any e-ink (and even some LCD) display devices can go multiple days, even weeks, of reading without needing a charge. I admit that if you live in a third world country without an electric grid this may not be sufficient. Somehow I doubt the author of that article does.
But e-ink is also slow. With each page turn, there’s a distracting black-white-black flashing as the screen obliterates one page to prepare for the next.
Laughable. It's is at the very least comparable to how fast you turn a page when reading. It is likely faster. I'd be going off pure opinion to comment on the distracting thing (I don't find it more distracting).
You can’t read a Kindle book on a Barnes & Noble Nook or a Sony Reader book on an iPad. You can still read a 200-year-old printed book. But the odds of being able to read one of today’s e-books in 200 years, or even 20, is practically zero.
This is both true and very untrue and quite disingenuous. Without stripping DRM you can't convert books of one format to another to read on a different device. DRM for books is indeed a problem and it needs to go. However, if you strip DRM or use DRM-less sources for ebooks then you can effectively read any e-book on any device: you will just likely have to convert it to another format first. There are multiple easy to use applications that exist out there to do this (in bulk even).
I know for a fact that I will still be able to read my e-books in 20 years. While I won't be alive in 200 and I probably won't be able to read any of my paperbacks in 200 years. I've had paperbacks in my attic for only 10-15 years that are barely legible due to damage from heat, humidity, and tiny creatures that like cellulose. The ones in my bookcases have faired better but the pages still become brittle and yellow tinged. Hardcovers fair much better because they tend to use acid-free cloth paper. The problem after 200 years for an ebook will not be that the format will be outdated (it likely will be but that's small potatoes) but that it is very likely few devices will exist to retrieve the data from whatever media it is on. At least if the relatively short period of computer history is anything to go by.
For the parent:
And if you buy a paper book then your kids can read it too, but will the ebook reader and the books it contains survive that long?
Honestly, that's a tricky question. Some of the books I read as a kid ended up in pretty bad condition (covers falling off, spines in need of repair) and are a testament to how rough kids can be on things. I remember breaking my gameboy because it was in my backpack with heavy textbooks and I dropped my backpack one too many times the wrong way on the ground. Do I think an ebook reader can be made to survive children or children taught how to properly treat an ebook reader? Yes. Do I think most ebook readers, withou
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It's still atypical for a 29-year-old woman to start programming in 2011.
Take a peek in your local college/university computer science classroom...
I believe you can install the Mozilla Add-on Compatibility Reporter (made by Mozilla) to manually turn on any outdated/incompatible/whatever add-ons.
I can't blame them for making such functionality take a couple of extra steps because I imagine the support nightmare from your average user is hell otherwise.
I'm not a big fan of this new rapid release thing with major version numbers just to look better, though.
Railgun projectiles don't need explosives or propulsion systems. They're just shaped pieces of (conductive?) mass that have extremely high velocity and thus really high kinetic energy.
From my understanding these lasers tend to work by heating up and weakening the thin metal around missile/artillery shells and causing failure or detonation. Assuming the laser could even track the much faster rail gun projectile the most I think it could do would be to score the outside and throw off the aerodynamics some.
Though it does look like the Senate Armed Services Committee cut funding for both of these technologies a few days ago so we'll have to see how that pans out on the Senate floor later and in the years to come. Hopefully they're more informed and maybe they're right that the techs aren't currently feasible given the costs.
You can definitely sue the US government. Separation of powers and such say, in theory, that the FBI/executive branch people can't just make it disappear. From my understanding you are sort of correct in that the executive branch can ask the judicial to not hear the case in the best interest of the nation.
Remember when ICE took down all those websites via domain seizures? Some of those companies are suing over it. I dunno if it'll actually go anywhere but I believe they weren't thrown right out. Lots of important historical changes have happened in the courts in party vs state/government/whatever...
I would like to see a laser shoot down a rail gun projectile ^__^
First I'd like to say that I think both the Nook and Kindle e-readers are rather solid (though I don't agree as much with the Nook Color).
While Amazon could be lying they have flat out said that it was publishers that forced them to use DRM. So I don't agree with your disingenuous painting B&N as the good guy in that respect. I think both companies blame publishers for DRM requirements on the books they sell and, at least if you look at Amazon's MP3 market, that it's probably truth.
The Kindle doesn't lock you into proprietary formats any more than the Nook does. They both support reading DRMless formats, it's rather trivial to strip DRM from ebooks, and one can easily convert from any ebook format to another using free tools such a Calibre. Kindle, same as the Nook, has been rooted and there is custom firmware out there to let you do whatever.
It would be nice however if both devices supported more formats out of the box as there is no good reason for them not to.
There is something wrong when the "land of the free and the home of the brave" has the highest per capita incarceration numbers and the largest prison population by more than double the next (we have less than 5% of the world's population but over 25% of its inmates).
That would be a SERIOUSLY larger percentage of 'stupid' incidence compared to the rest of the world...
This from this twitter makes me think it wasn't an apache or php vulnerability, though 'application server' is a broad enough term that it could mean almost anything.
Some random security researcher posited that because they had outdated apache server versions (with no known exploits) that it might have been an apache vulnerability. News sources elsewhere repeated that nonsense.
Too bad electricity only costs me ~$0.08/kWh in Louisiana...
BIONIC...ARR^H^H^HLLLEEEEEEEEEGGGGGGG!!!!!!
Caps filter can die in a fire. I am yelling on purpose you big silly computer.
You're totally forgetting about arcade and console gaming before all this new-fangled computer stuff (though, I suppose, that is what Evo is at its roots).
In terms of "modern" computer gaming, there was a professional league in the states competing using Quake in 1997 (see: Cyberathlete Professional League).
Starcraft had not even been published at that point.
Sure, Starcraft (and South Korea) deserve huge props for what they've contributed to the gaming scene but I'm not sure I would feel correct in saying that any one nation or league or game "set the concept of professional gaming and esports". Too many outside factors and each area contributing to the buildup in their own way...
There have always been competitive tournaments, frequently with cash or other prizes, for pretty much any game of any popularity. They do not even have to be electronic. You can play Monopoly professionally (but you won't make much money).
Movie realism with real actors and makeup and such is a totally different playing field of reality to a computer animated game. And both are FAR different from real life.
I can get emotionally attached to a character and be disappointed or even slightly upset when something bad happens to the character in a video game.
I can get emotionally disturbed and even suffer some minor physical symptoms (sweaty palms, etc) from anxiety/distress related to watching really bad stuff happen in a movie.
Really bad stuff happens in real life is a totally different ball field. Traumatic experiences have left me unable to stop shaking for days. Unable to eat. Stress causing vomiting and such. IT DOES NOT EVEN COMPARE.
You know down to your core that the stuff in a movie and a video game IS NOT REAL. Or at least I do and I think most other people as well, especially given all the people that we watch getting shot on TV without batting an eye.
Being able to shoot a bunch of pixels in a game, then get killed, and respawn without any emotional response isn't having social issues. In your mind it's not much different from playing chess.
I'd say fanatical was the more correct word over "politically correct".
Sadly, as I'm not a robot and am prone to human social behavior, I would be hard pressed to have my opinion changed on United States economic policy if I actually cared to have an opinion on the topic.
I cannot actually affect any changes with regards to the situation and so I consider the entire argument an effort in inanity.
Also, my cat is probably fed better than I am and you have no idea how expensive that food is!
I apologize ahead of time for failing to open your eyes to your own behavior.
How someone so fanatical and rude has any karma at all amazes me.
It doesn't even matter if your arguments are correct or not because, after going through your comment history, your presentation is so abrasive as to cause immediate emotional response. If you actually want to change opinions then I advise some introspection and considering your target audience.
I fail to see how allowing patients to have a copy of records of medical diagnosis and treatment is bad for the patient or creates more work for a doctor.
Yes, I can understand how additional paperwork and rules for HIPAA can impede doctors. I don't see how that applies in this case.
The given article makes it seem like the healthcare provider was not providing copies of records that they were keeping anyway.
Well, what do you expect from a generation who found their love to read in the Harry Potter books? The people who started reading them in 1997 are graduating from college and have enough spare income for books.
I don't mean that as a dig against the Harry Potter books. They're actually pretty good.
You're not helping the case for Harry Potter readers.
You bring up an interesting idea though. I could definitely see an a-la-carte tax system working in a modern democracy (it'd still be a democratic republic as you'd still have congress making the options).
It wouldn't have worked in the old days because of the pure logistics of it...but I imagine a menu of items you could pay taxes for/indicate where you prefer your taxes to go to could work.
There are problems of course that would have to be worked out but that's true of any system.
You might need a society with a minimum level of education, though. They have to be smart enough not to say, "Well, the roads work now so why should I pay taxes to keep them up when I can push my tax dollars to $petpublicproject".
And all the cameras see is a raging alot staring back at them.
Download to computer->transfer to kindle via USB. I believe Calibre has 'recipes' to facilitate doing this for free newspapers and magazine articles.
I would think images are more frequently not on the kindle because color images don't look good in greyscale at a lower resolution.
And pricing concerns? As a consumer I trust Amazon to be slightly less evil than the magazine publishers. The major book publishers got together and forced Amazon to let them set kindle book prices, to a near hardcover price, upon book release; so that they could protect their precious hardcover sales.
The phone self-destructs when it detects copyright infringement?
Mexicans.
There are people who don't realize that their parents are fallible by the time they have become adults?
Not that I support kids being able to sue their parents for this nonsense. Parents have to filter through a lot of information and make best guesses as to factuality and hope for the best when raising kids. If they were liable for all of their shortcomings then I don't think you could find a single perfect "innocent" parent.
Kids can burn down houses playing with matches.
I know someone who did it...twice.
The weapons being used on civilians in Egypt? I've been watching the Al Jazeera live feed (which is rather pro-protester as far coverage goes) and so far the weapons I've seen used are tear gas (cannister to the head killed a few people), water cannons, and maybe rubber bullets. And the police forces pulled out long ago and now the military (who the protesters seem to cheer and like) sit around in tanks and such and look pretty to keep order (they don't seem to attempt break up crowds or anything).
There have been some unconfirmed reports of guns being shot at crowds but I think so far all of those are still unconfirmed...even days later after the crowds have burned down or looted political party buildings, police buildings, and a lot of cars. Ignoring those few days, with some of that rather serious violence, things have been rather peaceful protest wise.
I can see why the US so far doesn't want to do anything to incite either side to go to more extreme measures to get what they want. The situation seems a bit tense still.
I call bullshit on that article's author (or he is seriously misinformed). E-Readers are not perfect but they are definitely a working substitute for paperbacks.
E-Readers mostly fail at works with lots of illustrations (if you're using a Nook Color to read ebooks you're doing it wrong) or things like textbooks. Also many ebooks have sub-par formatting compared to their tree brethren.
They’re much more fragile than books. They run out of power, leaving you with nothing to read.
Any e-ink display device is not "much more fragile" than your typical paperback book unless you like to lug books around construction yards and hit them with hammers all day. If anything my Kindle is more rugged in average use scenarios than your typical mass market paperback because after reading tens of thousands of pages on it the cover hasn't fallen apart and the spine isn't in serious need of a re-gluing. I've also dropped it and sat on it a few times to no ill effect.
I don't even know where the power statement is coming from. Any e-ink (and even some LCD) display devices can go multiple days, even weeks, of reading without needing a charge. I admit that if you live in a third world country without an electric grid this may not be sufficient. Somehow I doubt the author of that article does.
But e-ink is also slow. With each page turn, there’s a distracting black-white-black flashing as the screen obliterates one page to prepare for the next.
Laughable. It's is at the very least comparable to how fast you turn a page when reading. It is likely faster. I'd be going off pure opinion to comment on the distracting thing (I don't find it more distracting).
You can’t read a Kindle book on a Barnes & Noble Nook or a Sony Reader book on an iPad. You can still read a 200-year-old printed book. But the odds of being able to read one of today’s e-books in 200 years, or even 20, is practically zero.
This is both true and very untrue and quite disingenuous. Without stripping DRM you can't convert books of one format to another to read on a different device. DRM for books is indeed a problem and it needs to go. However, if you strip DRM or use DRM-less sources for ebooks then you can effectively read any e-book on any device: you will just likely have to convert it to another format first. There are multiple easy to use applications that exist out there to do this (in bulk even).
I know for a fact that I will still be able to read my e-books in 20 years. While I won't be alive in 200 and I probably won't be able to read any of my paperbacks in 200 years. I've had paperbacks in my attic for only 10-15 years that are barely legible due to damage from heat, humidity, and tiny creatures that like cellulose. The ones in my bookcases have faired better but the pages still become brittle and yellow tinged. Hardcovers fair much better because they tend to use acid-free cloth paper.
The problem after 200 years for an ebook will not be that the format will be outdated (it likely will be but that's small potatoes) but that it is very likely few devices will exist to retrieve the data from whatever media it is on. At least if the relatively short period of computer history is anything to go by.
For the parent:
And if you buy a paper book then your kids can read it too, but will the ebook reader and the books it contains survive that long?
Honestly, that's a tricky question. Some of the books I read as a kid ended up in pretty bad condition (covers falling off, spines in need of repair) and are a testament to how rough kids can be on things. I remember breaking my gameboy because it was in my backpack with heavy textbooks and I dropped my backpack one too many times the wrong way on the ground.
Do I think an ebook reader can be made to survive children or children taught how to properly treat an ebook reader? Yes.
Do I think most ebook readers, withou