I've never once had a single issue opening a PDF on a Mac, a PC, a Linux box, or any variety of smart phone.
Your dead format just had increased sales, and again, with the advent of smart phones and Amazon's new e-book store (to which Amazon said they'd consider allowing outside devices to buy directly from), I think you're going to see a major new push.
I'm not sure what format you're talking about, but one of the problems with e-books is how many formats there are out there.
What I suggested is smart phones operating directly as e-readers. Given that smart phones can already open text, pdf, doc, and other formats, there is no major hurdle here, and all those formats can be read and transferred on all three platforms. Further more, if you want some proprietary, DRM-ridden e-book, smart phones would allow you to download the book directly from the internet to the phone.
I don't see how your PC platform even comes into play there.
PDAs and smartphones were declared dead when they didn't blossom with early adopters. The same can be said for laptops. When Apple released the iPhone, suddenly everyone in the world is considering a smart phone when they wouldn't have previously.
I hate paper books. I love to read, but I largely stopped reading paper books years ago. If the Kindle weren't horribly expensive, I'd buy one.
In truth, I think you'll find that a standalone e-reader is not likely to be a huge success, a smart phone with a OLED screen can also coexist as an e-reader.
Well, HTC has talked about putting OLED screens on their phones, and have talked about similar 40% energy savings when talking about replacing a LCD screen with a OLED screen of the same size.
The oft-rumored iPhone HD is also supposed to move to a OLED screen for battery reasons as well.
They're already saying laser TVs will trump OLEDs. If you're waiting for one technology to trump all other technologies with no other technologies on the horizon, you'll be waiting a long while.
In the mean time, I've got a gorgeous 56" Sony Bravia LCD. I hook my PS3 into it to stream videos from my PC wirelessly, or to watch BluRays, and the experience is better than going to the movies. I noticed details watching The Dark Knight I didn't see in two viewings on the Imax.
Sony got arrogant and assumed what ever they'd make, people would eat up. They felt they didn't have to listen to consumers or live in reality. And I say that as someone with a plethora of Sony products in my house, and a Sony VISA in my wallet. Sony is still a very good company, but they lost sight of what once made them a great company.
I have AT&T/Cingular and I really want the G1 (better yet, the forthcoming G2) but there is no T-Mobile coverage in Omaha, and again, I'm currently on AT&T/Cingular. Right now, the iPhone is the best option available for me, except I run Windows x64 and Linux. I can't install iTunes on either.
My point (and it wasn't just a bad joke) is that wireless power will only have select uses. If I have to run plumbing in my walls, I might as well run power in my walls. Why go with inefficient wireless power, and drop money on it as well?
There is a nifty-gadget aspect of placing devices on a table and having them charge auto-magically, but for the most part wireless power is a waste.
That is my concern at the moment. Windows 7 isn't expected until 2010, but this is only good until August. I'm not expecting to be able to downgrade to XP, which means I format and reinstall everything to go back. I'm curious to test this, but apparently not on my home rig.
Now, if Microsoft promised beta testers to have further beta releases leading up the official launch if they submitted bug reports, then I'd be all over it.
Exactly. I keep a Windows partition precisely for gaming, and don't see major advantages over XP yet, and I'm worried that *upgrading* to Windows 7 will actually hurt gaming performance.
However, if I can get Direct X 10, at Windows XP performance, and it really is as good as advertised, I might do something crazy like BUY A VALID, LEGAL UPGRADE COPY.
I had a buddy in the Air Force stationed on Offutt who (previous to 9-11) took me on base and showed me the 4 VC-25's they had, each a working replica of Air Force One. They had to be ready to be mobile command centers if there was ever a major attack on American soil. He said it was SOP that in the event of an attack on American soil, top military brass that could make it, along with the President, would converge at these plans, take off, and then spread to the four corners. They would run the country from the air.
Sure enough, on 9/11, the President "disappeared" for a while, but us locals in Omaha just went down to Offutt, watched Air Force One come in, and then the other four VC-25's took off.
I agree. I generally don't spend much on the CPU. I'd rather have fast memory and a nice GPU. I'm seriously considering dropping as much as $250 for one of the AM3 variants and getting some DDR3, but I need to see what the cost of the motherboard and memory is going to be as well.
It depends which filters the users decide to subscribe to. Google would only be allowing a plugin which provides a framework to use filters to block specific content.
The Beatles aren't on iTunes because Apple is pissed at Apple. I was also under the impression that under British law, early Beatles recordings are about to become public domain so there is this sudden urgency to create and sell Beatles music online in some format.
And if I'm not mistaken, there is a Beatles Rock Band game coming out next Christmas.
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Isn't this a rather obvious question?
What reader are you talking about?
I've never once had a single issue opening a PDF on a Mac, a PC, a Linux box, or any variety of smart phone.
Your dead format just had increased sales, and again, with the advent of smart phones and Amazon's new e-book store (to which Amazon said they'd consider allowing outside devices to buy directly from), I think you're going to see a major new push.
I'm not sure what format you're talking about, but one of the problems with e-books is how many formats there are out there.
What I suggested is smart phones operating directly as e-readers. Given that smart phones can already open text, pdf, doc, and other formats, there is no major hurdle here, and all those formats can be read and transferred on all three platforms. Further more, if you want some proprietary, DRM-ridden e-book, smart phones would allow you to download the book directly from the internet to the phone.
I don't see how your PC platform even comes into play there.
PDAs and smartphones were declared dead when they didn't blossom with early adopters. The same can be said for laptops. When Apple released the iPhone, suddenly everyone in the world is considering a smart phone when they wouldn't have previously.
I hate paper books. I love to read, but I largely stopped reading paper books years ago. If the Kindle weren't horribly expensive, I'd buy one.
In truth, I think you'll find that a standalone e-reader is not likely to be a huge success, a smart phone with a OLED screen can also coexist as an e-reader.
Well, HTC has talked about putting OLED screens on their phones, and have talked about similar 40% energy savings when talking about replacing a LCD screen with a OLED screen of the same size.
The oft-rumored iPhone HD is also supposed to move to a OLED screen for battery reasons as well.
They're already saying laser TVs will trump OLEDs. If you're waiting for one technology to trump all other technologies with no other technologies on the horizon, you'll be waiting a long while.
In the mean time, I've got a gorgeous 56" Sony Bravia LCD. I hook my PS3 into it to stream videos from my PC wirelessly, or to watch BluRays, and the experience is better than going to the movies. I noticed details watching The Dark Knight I didn't see in two viewings on the Imax.
Sony got arrogant and assumed what ever they'd make, people would eat up. They felt they didn't have to listen to consumers or live in reality. And I say that as someone with a plethora of Sony products in my house, and a Sony VISA in my wallet. Sony is still a very good company, but they lost sight of what once made them a great company.
What we're talking about here is a $500 camera, which is a bit different from the cheap cameras they bundle with phones.
Well, given that the product left beta in record time, and that they're already talking a 2.0 release, Chrome is a very fast moving product.
Don't cross the streams!
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I have AT&T/Cingular and I really want the G1 (better yet, the forthcoming G2) but there is no T-Mobile coverage in Omaha, and again, I'm currently on AT&T/Cingular. Right now, the iPhone is the best option available for me, except I run Windows x64 and Linux. I can't install iTunes on either.
My point (and it wasn't just a bad joke) is that wireless power will only have select uses. If I have to run plumbing in my walls, I might as well run power in my walls. Why go with inefficient wireless power, and drop money on it as well?
There is a nifty-gadget aspect of placing devices on a table and having them charge auto-magically, but for the most part wireless power is a waste.
Wake me when I can just plug-and-play a toilet anywhere.
That is my concern at the moment. Windows 7 isn't expected until 2010, but this is only good until August. I'm not expecting to be able to downgrade to XP, which means I format and reinstall everything to go back. I'm curious to test this, but apparently not on my home rig.
Now, if Microsoft promised beta testers to have further beta releases leading up the official launch if they submitted bug reports, then I'd be all over it.
Getting something to install faster than XP is not difficult.
In my experience, most people don't realize they have viruses and spyware. Run a few good scans to be sure.
Exactly. I keep a Windows partition precisely for gaming, and don't see major advantages over XP yet, and I'm worried that *upgrading* to Windows 7 will actually hurt gaming performance.
However, if I can get Direct X 10, at Windows XP performance, and it really is as good as advertised, I might do something crazy like BUY A VALID, LEGAL UPGRADE COPY.
Are you saying that iTunes installs in Windows 7 x64?
I had a buddy in the Air Force stationed on Offutt who (previous to 9-11) took me on base and showed me the 4 VC-25's they had, each a working replica of Air Force One. They had to be ready to be mobile command centers if there was ever a major attack on American soil. He said it was SOP that in the event of an attack on American soil, top military brass that could make it, along with the President, would converge at these plans, take off, and then spread to the four corners. They would run the country from the air.
Sure enough, on 9/11, the President "disappeared" for a while, but us locals in Omaha just went down to Offutt, watched Air Force One come in, and then the other four VC-25's took off.
I agree. I generally don't spend much on the CPU. I'd rather have fast memory and a nice GPU. I'm seriously considering dropping as much as $250 for one of the AM3 variants and getting some DDR3, but I need to see what the cost of the motherboard and memory is going to be as well.
It depends which filters the users decide to subscribe to. Google would only be allowing a plugin which provides a framework to use filters to block specific content.
With a User Agent switcher, your school and bank's website would likely work just fine.
I am no lawyer, but I assume US retailers operate by US copyright law, and so on. I would like to see proper clarification however.
The Beatles aren't on iTunes because Apple is pissed at Apple. I was also under the impression that under British law, early Beatles recordings are about to become public domain so there is this sudden urgency to create and sell Beatles music online in some format.
And if I'm not mistaken, there is a Beatles Rock Band game coming out next Christmas.