As long as nations not involved in said fights don't think that they might be under attack. Perception is everything and if Russia or some other power thought they were under attack when they weren't it could still cause MAD. In my Arm Chair General opinion at least.
Did I ever state it only uses power when changing the screen? The SCREEN only consumes power when changing the screen, it doesn't need power to hold an image.
I don't know the exact differences between 'off' and 'sleep' (some say off == sleep) and 'normal' but I know that sleep at least disables all of the buttons except for the power switch and turns of the wireless. I assume it does something like 'hibernate' (ram->flash, everything else off) or 'sleep' (keeps ram powered, mostly everything else off) on your standard OS.
Eh, it's not THAT bad (at least not on my kindle). I'd say it's slightly worse than your average mass market paperback book but without the downside of "oh yay, they were running out of ink during print and now I can barely read this" or "oh yay there was too much ink and now this is all blurred and I can barely read this".
However, higher contrast and something even close to a true black would be really really nice. I wouldn't mind being able to read hardcover quality ink without the weight and size of a hardcover book.
It's useful because otherwise you'd have no easy way to tell the device was in 'sleep' mode (basically off). If it fell asleep with the last screen up you might not know it was asleep, start hitting next page or other buttons and be like 'wth why is this not working?'.
I suppose it could create a notification on unused screen space instead (like the battery indicator). I fail it see why it matters either way, there would still have be to be two screen changes: just one would be the current full screen change and the other would be a partial screen change.
Like you note the power use of two page changes every now and then for sleep mode doesn't really matter anyway because of how little power it is.
There is no proprietary lock-in with the Kindle (at least any more than the other ereaders). In comparison to the Sony eReader it doesn't support native ePub but it supports native Mobi which seems about as good. Hopefully Amazon will cave to demand and patch in ePub support. Both support native PDF. And isn't LRF/LRX the Sony proprietary format? Amazon uses AZW for their evil proprietary DRM needs instead.
You can buy ebooks from where ever and convert them and read them on a Kindle. I suppose if you bought all of your ebooks from Amazon you'd be stuck with the Kindle normally to read them but there have been ways to strip DRM via the Kindle for a while now. As far as I know no one has published a way to remove the DRM from Sony's DRM'd ebooks though. And yes, Calibre is awesome for such things.
"I already have the capability to convert PDF to Mobi myself so what's not to like?"
You don't even need that anymore as well. Last summer I think it was they updated for native PDF reading on all models. Though I still prefer to use Calibre to convert my PDFs to Mobi first.
I dunno, I like my Kindle. It works, feels pretty much the same as reading a book (eink is almost the same as real ink to the eye (including viewing angle) with just slightly worse contrast), and allows me to read books comfortably but without taking up huuuuuge amounts of bookshelf/storage space.
No one makes you buy ebooks from Amazon with the Kindle. And if you're super paranoid about Amazon seeing what you read or accessing your device or something you can hack that out or just keep the wireless turned off. Yes, it's a niche market luxury device. Yes, it's not perfect and could use some software updates. You don't spend money on such a thing if you haven't researched it or are scared of going hungry.
Looks like it checks for a Referer: with http:// and google anywhere in the domain name as long as it's before another forward slash. Referer: http://notgoogle.com and http://not.comgoogle works but http://not.com/google doesn't.
Anyway, for those of us who disable referers from headers the google news method won't work either;)
Sir, if a company voided the warranty on your graphics card for applying an official update with no warning ahead of time that said update would void your warranty that is not a stupid ass lawsuit. The company just broke an agreement with you and likely millions of other people that would total up to be worth quite a bit of money.
An injustice to one person may seem small and frivolous at first but when you factor in that said injustice likely happens to other people as well then I think you see my point. There is a reason small claims court and class action lawsuits exist.
A stupid ass lawsuit is when you buy HOT coffee from mcdonalds, spill it on yourself, and then sue mcdonalds because your coffee was hot.
Not unless they were legally liable for it and also had a decent chance of being sued at that. But that's pretty much standard operating procedure for any IT company.
I would not be surprised if PR suggested he take the pictures down just because people THOUGHT there was a security problem because some of them were available to the public. I would also not be surprised if there was a problem and he lied to make Facebook look better so as to try to keep their reputation (read: investors) looking good. I'm not sure we can really surmise much about his ego from this though given that his actions may largely be pressured by what Facebook needs than what his ego desires.
I doubt anyone in the US government would need to do anything anyway. You already have commercial entities (aka the ESRB) which, while not all that affective at rating things, can still lead to commercial suicide of a product if you get something not rated at all or rated say, adults only. From my understanding many stores won't carry video games that are rated adults only (and nintendo/sony/microsoft don't allow AO games on their consoles or at least limit it).
No 'government' level banning needed, though I suppose one could argue that for something as big as a call of duty title there is a lot of pressure on the ESRB to give it a kind rating.
The number was hyperbole/made up. However in the article I linked one of the Amish guys paid a hospital $419k and still owed $288k. Another guy had to pay $11,800 for a single night stay for his son with a respiratory virus. Apparently they tend to have a lot of children and supposedly are having problems with genetic diseases due to marrying within their small community so repetitively. Those kinds of costs hurt their smaller communities economically no matter what.
Eventually if such problems are true in their communities, even with helping each other out, they'll end up owing a ton of money to hospitals all around. I'm not hating on the Amish and I think it's great that people who choose to live that way can. I'm just not convinced it's the best way for 7 billion people to live.
I'm sure the Amish way is great. Until someone gets sick or injured and they end up $500k in debt with medical bills. Wanting to be self-sufficient is admirable. Desires and reality, however, tend to differ. And the Amish do pay taxes, just not social security (which includes things such as medicare).
This isn't corruption in Obama's administration (yet). It is corruption (an employee scam) in the D.C. government administration that was there before Obama came into office and which Obama's man was CTO of before becoming CIO.
The President's administration != local D.C. government.
I live in a hurricane prone area. Often hurricanes will take out power/cable/whatever and TV or radio are vital sources for information during extended shortages of resources (power/water/gas/etc).
When it's in August 100+F weather with 90% humidity and you're running a fan and a TV set on a generator you definitely want to know which gas stations are open, where you can find food, and any estimate you can on when the power will be back. You would be amazed by the chaos that a week or two without electricity causes.
How many options for maintenance/repair places do you have though?
I almost bought a used Passat once but settled for an Altima because I know of more places locally that won't cost me an arm and a leg if something goes wrong.
Think about how amazing that could be. You could keep watching the same epic show over and over and it would never get boring. You'd laugh and cry every single viewing!
In fact, that would probably kill their market as it would never be used as they intended and only so the viewer never has to buy any content again.
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I think he said Iran because they're made out to be the latest and greatest big bad weapons of mass destruction nation.
Since we conquered Iraq and all already it'd be kind of silly to use them hypothetically.
As long as nations not involved in said fights don't think that they might be under attack. Perception is everything and if Russia or some other power thought they were under attack when they weren't it could still cause MAD. In my Arm Chair General opinion at least.
Dammit, someone fix the bot's natural language processor again. They just don't build them like they used to anymore.
"In Soviet Russia, cameras watch pre-recorded scenes of police"
It make sense if you think about it.
Did I ever state it only uses power when changing the screen? The SCREEN only consumes power when changing the screen, it doesn't need power to hold an image.
I don't know the exact differences between 'off' and 'sleep' (some say off == sleep) and 'normal' but I know that sleep at least disables all of the buttons except for the power switch and turns of the wireless. I assume it does something like 'hibernate' (ram->flash, everything else off) or 'sleep' (keeps ram powered, mostly everything else off) on your standard OS.
Eh, it's not THAT bad (at least not on my kindle). I'd say it's slightly worse than your average mass market paperback book but without the downside of "oh yay, they were running out of ink during print and now I can barely read this" or "oh yay there was too much ink and now this is all blurred and I can barely read this".
However, higher contrast and something even close to a true black would be really really nice. I wouldn't mind being able to read hardcover quality ink without the weight and size of a hardcover book.
It's useful because otherwise you'd have no easy way to tell the device was in 'sleep' mode (basically off). If it fell asleep with the last screen up you might not know it was asleep, start hitting next page or other buttons and be like 'wth why is this not working?'.
I suppose it could create a notification on unused screen space instead (like the battery indicator). I fail it see why it matters either way, there would still have be to be two screen changes: just one would be the current full screen change and the other would be a partial screen change.
Like you note the power use of two page changes every now and then for sleep mode doesn't really matter anyway because of how little power it is.
Paper maps, AAA triptiks, asking questions of people and then later mapquest.
Google Maps wasn't an especially novel idea in and of itself, it was the implementation that made it notable.
There is no proprietary lock-in with the Kindle (at least any more than the other ereaders). In comparison to the Sony eReader it doesn't support native ePub but it supports native Mobi which seems about as good. Hopefully Amazon will cave to demand and patch in ePub support. Both support native PDF. And isn't LRF/LRX the Sony proprietary format? Amazon uses AZW for their evil proprietary DRM needs instead.
You can buy ebooks from where ever and convert them and read them on a Kindle. I suppose if you bought all of your ebooks from Amazon you'd be stuck with the Kindle normally to read them but there have been ways to strip DRM via the Kindle for a while now. As far as I know no one has published a way to remove the DRM from Sony's DRM'd ebooks though. And yes, Calibre is awesome for such things.
Yeah, you're right =/. I reread the press release from way back when and now I wonder why it only says 'some'.
"Native PDF support will also be available for some earlier versions of Kindle via an automatic Whispernet wireless firmware update."
By earlier versions they mean Kindle 1. They refer to the Kindle 2 as 'the new Kindle' in said press release.
"I already have the capability to convert PDF to Mobi myself so what's not to like?"
You don't even need that anymore as well. Last summer I think it was they updated for native PDF reading on all models. Though I still prefer to use Calibre to convert my PDFs to Mobi first.
I dunno, I like my Kindle. It works, feels pretty much the same as reading a book (eink is almost the same as real ink to the eye (including viewing angle) with just slightly worse contrast), and allows me to read books comfortably but without taking up huuuuuge amounts of bookshelf/storage space.
No one makes you buy ebooks from Amazon with the Kindle. And if you're super paranoid about Amazon seeing what you read or accessing your device or something you can hack that out or just keep the wireless turned off. Yes, it's a niche market luxury device. Yes, it's not perfect and could use some software updates. You don't spend money on such a thing if you haven't researched it or are scared of going hungry.
That's only 3. What's the 4th?
Looks like it checks for a Referer: with http:// and google anywhere in the domain name as long as it's before another forward slash. Referer: http://notgoogle.com and http://not.comgoogle works but http://not.com/google doesn't.
;)
Anyway, for those of us who disable referers from headers the google news method won't work either
Just to tack on to your points, if it is indeed New Zealand Dollars then the maximum is less than it looks like at first.
15000 New Zealand dollars = 10822.5 U.S. dollars
Sir, if a company voided the warranty on your graphics card for applying an official update with no warning ahead of time that said update would void your warranty that is not a stupid ass lawsuit. The company just broke an agreement with you and likely millions of other people that would total up to be worth quite a bit of money.
An injustice to one person may seem small and frivolous at first but when you factor in that said injustice likely happens to other people as well then I think you see my point. There is a reason small claims court and class action lawsuits exist.
A stupid ass lawsuit is when you buy HOT coffee from mcdonalds, spill it on yourself, and then sue mcdonalds because your coffee was hot.
Not unless they were legally liable for it and also had a decent chance of being sued at that. But that's pretty much standard operating procedure for any IT company.
I would not be surprised if PR suggested he take the pictures down just because people THOUGHT there was a security problem because some of them were available to the public. I would also not be surprised if there was a problem and he lied to make Facebook look better so as to try to keep their reputation (read: investors) looking good. I'm not sure we can really surmise much about his ego from this though given that his actions may largely be pressured by what Facebook needs than what his ego desires.
I doubt anyone in the US government would need to do anything anyway. You already have commercial entities (aka the ESRB) which, while not all that affective at rating things, can still lead to commercial suicide of a product if you get something not rated at all or rated say, adults only. From my understanding many stores won't carry video games that are rated adults only (and nintendo/sony/microsoft don't allow AO games on their consoles or at least limit it).
No 'government' level banning needed, though I suppose one could argue that for something as big as a call of duty title there is a lot of pressure on the ESRB to give it a kind rating.
The number was hyperbole/made up. However in the article I linked one of the Amish guys paid a hospital $419k and still owed $288k. Another guy had to pay $11,800 for a single night stay for his son with a respiratory virus. Apparently they tend to have a lot of children and supposedly are having problems with genetic diseases due to marrying within their small community so repetitively. Those kinds of costs hurt their smaller communities economically no matter what.
Eventually if such problems are true in their communities, even with helping each other out, they'll end up owing a ton of money to hospitals all around. I'm not hating on the Amish and I think it's great that people who choose to live that way can. I'm just not convinced it's the best way for 7 billion people to live.
I'm sure the Amish way is great. Until someone gets sick or injured and they end up $500k in debt with medical bills. Wanting to be self-sufficient is admirable. Desires and reality, however, tend to differ. And the Amish do pay taxes, just not social security (which includes things such as medicare).
Source on medical stuff: http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/hospital-bills-overwhelm-amish/2008/07/04/1214951044281.html
This isn't corruption in Obama's administration (yet). It is corruption (an employee scam) in the D.C. government administration that was there before Obama came into office and which Obama's man was CTO of before becoming CIO.
The President's administration != local D.C. government.
I live in a hurricane prone area. Often hurricanes will take out power/cable/whatever and TV or radio are vital sources for information during extended shortages of resources (power/water/gas/etc).
When it's in August 100+F weather with 90% humidity and you're running a fan and a TV set on a generator you definitely want to know which gas stations are open, where you can find food, and any estimate you can on when the power will be back. You would be amazed by the chaos that a week or two without electricity causes.
How many options for maintenance/repair places do you have though?
I almost bought a used Passat once but settled for an Altima because I know of more places locally that won't cost me an arm and a leg if something goes wrong.
Think about how amazing that could be. You could keep watching the same epic show over and over and it would never get boring. You'd laugh and cry every single viewing!
In fact, that would probably kill their market as it would never be used as they intended and only so the viewer never has to buy any content again.
You obviously haven't heard the saying "The internet: Where the men are men, the women are men, and the children are FBI agents."
It's not just a slashdot thing...