It's ironic that you'd bring this up, seeing as how just last week I put the original hand-drawn and colored manuscript of that very work on my iPad. You know, the sort of thing that wouldn't be viewable on an e-ink screen.
I don't use the epub format. I read PDFs, some of which I annotate as I go along. I also read novels using my tablet, but they are in PDF format of course.
I didn't move any goalposts - I simply stated that the Kindle is inferior for all of my purposes. No color, poor capability with PDFs, awful refresh time, and the DPI sucks compared to the iPad.
"The primary use for an e-ink reader is to read novels."
Maybe for you. For me, the primary purpose of my tablet is reading stuff, mainly in PDF format. Some of my reading time with my iPad is indeed spent with novels. It's perfectly suitable for reading novels in PDF format. I suppose you have an off-brand tablet, because nothing actually beats the iPad for technical reference. That's too bad, but I'm sure you learned your lesson about off-brand tablets.
I read free Google books on my iPad. I also read paper books. It's actually fantastic for that purpose. Much better than a rinky dink little Kindle, and I am against "buying" e-books anyway. They cost about as much as the real deal anyway. I might pay $0.49 for one, at the most, but they all seem to be at least 10x that expensive.
It's really not that hard to figure out. I usually have palettes and such, or a video window going in the second display if my terminal isn't there. I'm not sure what you've been trying to do but it sounds like you've been doing it wrong.
Samsung phones and tablets, Motorola phones, Dell and HP computers and tablets, and all kinds of other electronics are made at Foxconn. You shouldn't be buying any of them if you don't want to involve yourself in these practices. Singling out Apple is ridiculous here - this is an industry-wide problem.
I'm at the point in my life where I don't want to manage a shitload of different devices. If I want to spend money on a gadget, at this point it's likely to be another lens for one of my cameras, or another amateur radio or something. I have a computer and an iPad and that's all I need in that department.
No, I didn't want to impugn the parenting skills of cattle in comparison to the majority of human parents these days. That'd be downright silly. My apologies.
Sun also died because they had an enormous sales force, vastly overpriced hardware, and option pricing that made Apple's ram and drive prices seem budget grade.
If Sun had moved to a more reasonable plan, without armies of sales reps and such between you and the products that you want to buy, if they hadn't stuck with their laughable CDE, and such, they'd probably still be going today.
That's because of shitty parenting. Proper parenting results in sharing. Shitty parenting results in kids that are rutted and who simply grow, like a cow or a vegetable. Proper parenting involves raising children so that they understand the concepts of sharing, respect, playing nice, etc.
If you want to read in the dark, an e-ink reader is completely useless. I often read in bed for an hour or so, and if I turned on the light my wife would not be very pleased with me.
Aside from this, no e-ink reader has anything even remotely close in function to Goodreader on the iPad. If you are content to digest dime-store novels and such in.epb format (or whatever proprietary formats are used on your e-ink reader of choice) then knock yourself out. Meanwhile, I'm able to do thinks like open huge schematics and zoom into parts with no bullshitting around.
No, a tablet isn't a suitable replacement for an e-ink reader. It totally eclipses them in almost every way.
Question - is your computer monitor e-ink as well? Most folks spend a lot more time staring at the computer monitor than they do their tablets or e-ink readers.
I think the submitter meant their staffers responded to the questionnaire, based upon deliberations a to which answers will get the most votes. I doubt either Obama or Romney even saw the questionnaire.
I pulled Launchpad off my dock long ago and haven't seen it since. Apple isn't forcing anybody to use it, and in fact they had the same exact thing in the Classic Mac OS starting with System 7.1 - it's there for children and grannies whose computers confuse them.
A lawsuit? Don't you suppose that when the Hugo Awards people signed up with Ustream that they agreed to the terms of service, which basically allows them to do anything they want?
If they wanted a reliable service they should have created one themselves. This is a good lesson for anybody who wants to outsource any IT services outside their own organization.
People may want to know about products, but they know that they can't get accurate or useful information from advertisements. Offers and sales might appeal to a few people, but most folks I know don't go in for it.
But people buy an Apple phone for the slick OS. Android doesn't have that. If Google made an Android distro for the iPhone it probably wouldn't even get installed on more than a few thousand devices, tops.
"They have a legal obligation to maximize profits. They were just handed a victory, however ill-earned it may be, and now they have to press that advantage. If they don't, they can be sued by the shareholders, and the entire board of directors could be thrown out."
This sounds good but can you think of any example of a huge, multi-billion dollar tech firm being sued by minority shareholders and then doing an about-face? I can't.
Yeah, I know it figured big into Cryptonomicon but it just doesn't seem to happen in real life.
Of course, all this talk about targeted vs. untargeted ads ignores the elephant in the room: People don't like ads at all, and will block them if possible. Why even bother debating targeted vs. untargeted when it's clear that the majority will choose no ads, knowing that it's an option?
But you're still not willing to castigate the Hadley CRU for destroying their original data in order to thwart researchers who wanted to attempt to replicate their results? If you aren't than to you, science is a religion. If you are willing to admit that Climategate was real, and the whitewash has damaged the reputation of science in general, and badly damaged the reputation of climatology specifically, then there's hope for you.
You see, when scientists are allowed to conduct themselves in a manner like unto a priest, science is a religion. We don't need that original data, we should just trust them, right?
It still think you're either a pharisee or a Jesuit.
I'm an amateur radio operator and guess what? If this fucks with my activities it will never fly. We killed broadband over power lines and we will kill wireless cell phone charging too, if it interferes with licensed operators.
Besides, unless this technology has a very long range, it will be pointless anyway. If it does have long range, it will be used for rampant electricity theft. Either way, if you think about it, it's a stupid idea.
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It's ironic that you'd bring this up, seeing as how just last week I put the original hand-drawn and colored manuscript of that very work on my iPad. You know, the sort of thing that wouldn't be viewable on an e-ink screen.
I don't use the epub format. I read PDFs, some of which I annotate as I go along. I also read novels using my tablet, but they are in PDF format of course.
I didn't move any goalposts - I simply stated that the Kindle is inferior for all of my purposes. No color, poor capability with PDFs, awful refresh time, and the DPI sucks compared to the iPad.
"The primary use for an e-ink reader is to read novels."
Maybe for you. For me, the primary purpose of my tablet is reading stuff, mainly in PDF format. Some of my reading time with my iPad is indeed spent with novels. It's perfectly suitable for reading novels in PDF format. I suppose you have an off-brand tablet, because nothing actually beats the iPad for technical reference. That's too bad, but I'm sure you learned your lesson about off-brand tablets.
I read free Google books on my iPad. I also read paper books. It's actually fantastic for that purpose. Much better than a rinky dink little Kindle, and I am against "buying" e-books anyway. They cost about as much as the real deal anyway. I might pay $0.49 for one, at the most, but they all seem to be at least 10x that expensive.
I think you can infer from context that I meant computing devices. There's no need to be a little cock-in-the-ass here.
Can't take away something that wasn't ever there. The Mac has always had a single menu bar, on the "main" screen, even back in the olden days.
It's really not that hard to figure out. I usually have palettes and such, or a video window going in the second display if my terminal isn't there. I'm not sure what you've been trying to do but it sounds like you've been doing it wrong.
Samsung phones and tablets, Motorola phones, Dell and HP computers and tablets, and all kinds of other electronics are made at Foxconn. You shouldn't be buying any of them if you don't want to involve yourself in these practices. Singling out Apple is ridiculous here - this is an industry-wide problem.
I'm at the point in my life where I don't want to manage a shitload of different devices. If I want to spend money on a gadget, at this point it's likely to be another lens for one of my cameras, or another amateur radio or something. I have a computer and an iPad and that's all I need in that department.
No, I didn't want to impugn the parenting skills of cattle in comparison to the majority of human parents these days. That'd be downright silly. My apologies.
So, it has a light, but does it do PDF annotation? Can you zoom and navigate and crop PDFs easily? No.
Sun also died because they had an enormous sales force, vastly overpriced hardware, and option pricing that made Apple's ram and drive prices seem budget grade.
If Sun had moved to a more reasonable plan, without armies of sales reps and such between you and the products that you want to buy, if they hadn't stuck with their laughable CDE, and such, they'd probably still be going today.
That's because of shitty parenting. Proper parenting results in sharing. Shitty parenting results in kids that are rutted and who simply grow, like a cow or a vegetable. Proper parenting involves raising children so that they understand the concepts of sharing, respect, playing nice, etc.
If you want to read in the dark, an e-ink reader is completely useless. I often read in bed for an hour or so, and if I turned on the light my wife would not be very pleased with me.
Aside from this, no e-ink reader has anything even remotely close in function to Goodreader on the iPad. If you are content to digest dime-store novels and such in .epb format (or whatever proprietary formats are used on your e-ink reader of choice) then knock yourself out. Meanwhile, I'm able to do thinks like open huge schematics and zoom into parts with no bullshitting around.
No, a tablet isn't a suitable replacement for an e-ink reader. It totally eclipses them in almost every way.
Question - is your computer monitor e-ink as well? Most folks spend a lot more time staring at the computer monitor than they do their tablets or e-ink readers.
The Chinese were making war rockets for centuries before gunpowder was introduced to the west. Look it up.
I think the submitter meant their staffers responded to the questionnaire, based upon deliberations a to which answers will get the most votes. I doubt either Obama or Romney even saw the questionnaire.
I pulled Launchpad off my dock long ago and haven't seen it since. Apple isn't forcing anybody to use it, and in fact they had the same exact thing in the Classic Mac OS starting with System 7.1 - it's there for children and grannies whose computers confuse them.
A lawsuit? Don't you suppose that when the Hugo Awards people signed up with Ustream that they agreed to the terms of service, which basically allows them to do anything they want?
If they wanted a reliable service they should have created one themselves. This is a good lesson for anybody who wants to outsource any IT services outside their own organization.
People may want to know about products, but they know that they can't get accurate or useful information from advertisements. Offers and sales might appeal to a few people, but most folks I know don't go in for it.
But people buy an Apple phone for the slick OS. Android doesn't have that. If Google made an Android distro for the iPhone it probably wouldn't even get installed on more than a few thousand devices, tops.
"They have a legal obligation to maximize profits. They were just handed a victory, however ill-earned it may be, and now they have to press that advantage. If they don't, they can be sued by the shareholders, and the entire board of directors could be thrown out."
This sounds good but can you think of any example of a huge, multi-billion dollar tech firm being sued by minority shareholders and then doing an about-face? I can't.
Yeah, I know it figured big into Cryptonomicon but it just doesn't seem to happen in real life.
Of course, all this talk about targeted vs. untargeted ads ignores the elephant in the room: People don't like ads at all, and will block them if possible. Why even bother debating targeted vs. untargeted when it's clear that the majority will choose no ads, knowing that it's an option?
"HAM radios don't have secure boot firmware"
What the fuck does this even mean?
But you're still not willing to castigate the Hadley CRU for destroying their original data in order to thwart researchers who wanted to attempt to replicate their results? If you aren't than to you, science is a religion. If you are willing to admit that Climategate was real, and the whitewash has damaged the reputation of science in general, and badly damaged the reputation of climatology specifically, then there's hope for you.
You see, when scientists are allowed to conduct themselves in a manner like unto a priest, science is a religion. We don't need that original data, we should just trust them, right?
It still think you're either a pharisee or a Jesuit.
I'm an amateur radio operator and guess what? If this fucks with my activities it will never fly. We killed broadband over power lines and we will kill wireless cell phone charging too, if it interferes with licensed operators.
Besides, unless this technology has a very long range, it will be pointless anyway. If it does have long range, it will be used for rampant electricity theft. Either way, if you think about it, it's a stupid idea.