what's with these Wanker's who quote an article then correct it with a '(sic)'. So the original article had a spellen (sic) mistake, who gives a fcuk (sic) . Live with it. We don't care that you know your proper English. Live with it wanker
My wife has hundreds of classics which she downloaded but has not read. I have downloaded some things on a "free for today" offer, read a page and then just discarded them. I wonder if these are included in the ebook sales. TFA doesn't not say.
TFA: The online retailer said that for every 100 print books bought through its UK site, it sold 112 Kindle books. Free Kindle books were excluded from the calculations and if included would have made the gap even wider, Amazon said.
That was a good change to the article, it makes it much clearer.
No. If free eBooks are a big part of the sheer numbers, then so be it. Why throw them out of the statistics? If you want to know the revenue from paper books compared with the revenue from eBooks, you are looking at the wrong statistics. And even then there is a problem: You would have to remove the revenue from selling recyclable paper from the paper book sales, because the paper and ink are not part of the eBook sales.
If you include free books then you are probably including a lot that haven't been read. It would be equivalent of a book shop including books in their sales that people browse then put back on the shelf because they didn't like it.
My wife has hundreds of classics which she downloaded but has not read. I have downloaded some things on a "free for today" offer, read a page and then just discarded them. I wonder if these are included in the ebook sales. TFA doesn't not say.
The problem is where does this end? What about forums like slashdot? What about grafitti on a building - where cleaning twice a day would be almost unheard of
did you just do it again chrisq? Or is this Chrisq? You all will never know because Chrisq is a turd.
Wow,
how clever you are! Because you can call someone who does not follow the "PC" line a turd I am going to change my opinion and suddenly believe that all the Pakistani Hindus and Egyptian Coptic Christians must have killed each other and burnt each other's houses down to make Muslims look bad. I'm going to believe that those rich Western-educated students who flew planes into the world trade centre were doing it because of their poverty and ignorance. I am going to decide that when Muslim imams say that it is a religious duty to kill non-muslims, and throw acid in the face of women who don't wear the hijab it must have got lost in translation - they must have really been saying "come round for coffee after the service".
I'm glad that there are intellectual giants like you to show me the error of my ways.
You're oversimplifying slightly. Non-Muslims are often better off under westernist (muslim) governments, but they're often so much better off that you can see why islamists hate them. I think of Islamists as equivalent to the uneducated racist masses who support nationalist parties in the west - they see foreigners as the source of their problems. Islamists have much more justification for thinking this, though, and not
just because of the carpet bombing and military occupation a lot of them have been subjected to, but because most of these West friendly governments were instated by the West (US) and are working against the interests of either half their own people or all of them. "Muslims" are not all the same, either. In the mid East there are Sunnis and Shias, two main tribes who hate each other, and when regimes change, generally it's not just non-Muslims up against the wall, the Shia government and population get it in the neck too. I'm not condoning any of it, but don't portray all Muslims/Islamists as unreasonable savages just because you can't be bothered to learn the nuances of their history and politics.
Your theory (Muslims cannot be blamed because they were oppressed previously and naturally are going to be violent) breaks down on several grounds. First of all there are great examples of people being oppressed and not seeking revenge. Gandhi, Martin Luther King, and Nelson Mandela spring to mind - the latter's "truth and reconciliation" showing the extent to which forgiveness can go. I expect you will argue that Muslims are culturally inferior to all of these - follow their own reasoning that they cannot be held to the same standards as the rest of humanity: "they made us do it by burning the Quran", or "she made us kill her by marrying a non Muslim", or "they wore a non-Muslim religious symbol in the open". Personally I don't think appeasing their lack of control will improve it in any way.
Secondly you totally ignore the facts that Muslims oppress the minorities in countries where they have not been ruled by others - and have done so historically. Look at Saudi Arabia or Pakistan. The latter was ruled by Britain before, but this was a brief window on non-Oppression for Hindus in Pakistan, which occurred before and still does today. Maybe again you might feel that we cannot expect Muslims to "get over" British rule in the same way that India, South Africa, and many other countries have without lashing out at others. My feeling is that since they oppress elsewhere and have done s through history, they would still be ding so in India now if they were not overthrown by the British, or someone else.
Name one place where Muslims have the upper hand where they don't oppress or restrict non-Muslims.
This seems to be based on the principle that if you want the strength of a tank, the performance of a sports car, and the economy of a hybrid you just lash a tank, a Ferrari and a Prius together and driving it will get you all three. I somehow doubt that the reality will live up to the promise.
You mean all those Muslims who, much like the Minutemen and colonists, have risen up and overthrown oppressive regimes in many middle eastern countries?
Ha ha ha.. tell that to the non-Muslims in those countries. They were actually a lot better off under the "oppressive regimes"
I wonder if this cycle follows the wave of economic depressions? It would make sense that people with less to lose who are hit by the recession and see others making more money from it might become restless
Slashdot Mirror
Its really depressing that with all the new fonts, studies of perception, cognition, etc, the greatest font is one that was designed in 1757.
I'm not sure I believe this story. But I probably would if it were displayed in Baskerville.
Really this is copying the Muzzies, apart from the unmanned bit. They have been attacking with boats, trucks, and of course aircraft for years.
There's only one reasonable and measured response to this. Isn't there?
Any chance of a plug-in that will make the screen flash red with text that says, "FAT CHICKS SHOULD NOT WEAR TIGHT JEANS!" when appriate?
Or another one that when a toned hot chick checks the fit the screen flashes, "NOT TIGHT ENOUGH!"
I don't know are microsoft coding it?
I just wonder how many handed out to Muslim families will end up triggering an explosive device
what's with these Wanker's who quote an article then correct it with a '(sic)'. So the original article had a spellen (sic) mistake, who gives a fcuk (sic) . Live with it. We don't care that you know your proper English. Live with it wanker
Its not even a mistake, its British English
The money would be much better given back to the people it was taken from!
Are you advocating spraying American taxpayers with Agent Orange?
Shh ... They are always looking of ways to beat the taxpayer harder.
If we invented a bomb that big we would probably be in more danger than we are from an asteroid hit.
Armagedon is not that old at all.. uhmm.. ohmm...
Fuck, get of my lawn
If you are talking about the original Armagedon it is most certainly a case of "get off my lawn".
If you like real "hard" science fiction rather than fantasy, then Charles Sheffield takes some beating.
And in Europe we tend to see privacy as opt-out rather than opt-in.
Are you living in the same Europe as me? Where your cars are regularly tracked by ANPR. Where many states have compulsory ID cards. Where communictaions companies have to install boxes to collect data for the government"
Not much "opt out" there.
Don't forget that Haiku/BeOS are *single user* operating systems. There are no file permissions.
That all by itself makes it a joke, honestly.
It does have file permissions, and there are utilities to set them. My understanding is that it is single user in the way the original Windows was, i.e. one user logged on at a time and all processes running as either user or system. However if a different user logs on you can protect files from them.
Disclaimer: my understanding may be wrong, it comes from a brief look at BeOs some years back.
My wife has hundreds of classics which she downloaded but has not read. I have downloaded some things on a "free for today" offer, read a page and then just discarded them. I wonder if these are included in the ebook sales. TFA doesn't not say.
TFA: The online retailer said that for every 100 print books bought through its UK site, it sold 112 Kindle books. Free Kindle books were excluded from the calculations and if included would have made the gap even wider, Amazon said.
That was a good change to the article, it makes it much clearer.
No. If free eBooks are a big part of the sheer numbers, then so be it. Why throw them out of the statistics? If you want to know the revenue from paper books compared with the revenue from eBooks, you are looking at the wrong statistics. And even then there is a problem: You would have to remove the revenue from selling recyclable paper from the paper book sales, because the paper and ink are not part of the eBook sales.
If you include free books then you are probably including a lot that haven't been read. It would be equivalent of a book shop including books in their sales that people browse then put back on the shelf because they didn't like it.
My wife has hundreds of classics which she downloaded but has not read. I have downloaded some things on a "free for today" offer, read a page and then just discarded them. I wonder if these are included in the ebook sales. TFA doesn't not say.
Surely the elevated levels of caffeine in the ocean .... must be a wake-up call!
Welcome back to 1991 everyone! We hope you really like our old style interface on your futuristic *nix...who needs that moden look and feel anyway,
This is just one step. Next month they will release a raw X interface where everything has to be launched from the command line.
The problem is where does this end? What about forums like slashdot? What about grafitti on a building - where cleaning twice a day would be almost unheard of
did you just do it again chrisq? Or is this Chrisq? You all will never know because Chrisq is a turd.
Wow,
how clever you are! Because you can call someone who does not follow the "PC" line a turd I am going to change my opinion and suddenly believe that all the Pakistani Hindus and Egyptian Coptic Christians must have killed each other and burnt each other's houses down to make Muslims look bad. I'm going to believe that those rich Western-educated students who flew planes into the world trade centre were doing it because of their poverty and ignorance. I am going to decide that when Muslim imams say that it is a religious duty to kill non-muslims, and throw acid in the face of women who don't wear the hijab it must have got lost in translation - they must have really been saying "come round for coffee after the service".
I'm glad that there are intellectual giants like you to show me the error of my ways.
You're oversimplifying slightly. Non-Muslims are often better off under westernist (muslim) governments, but they're often so much better off that you can see why islamists hate them. I think of Islamists as equivalent to the uneducated racist masses who support nationalist parties in the west - they see foreigners as the source of their problems. Islamists have much more justification for thinking this, though, and not just because of the carpet bombing and military occupation a lot of them have been subjected to, but because most of these West friendly governments were instated by the West (US) and are working against the interests of either half their own people or all of them. "Muslims" are not all the same, either. In the mid East there are Sunnis and Shias, two main tribes who hate each other, and when regimes change, generally it's not just non-Muslims up against the wall, the Shia government and population get it in the neck too. I'm not condoning any of it, but don't portray all Muslims /Islamists as unreasonable savages just because you can't be bothered to learn the nuances of their history and politics.
Your theory (Muslims cannot be blamed because they were oppressed previously and naturally are going to be violent) breaks down on several grounds. First of all there are great examples of people being oppressed and not seeking revenge. Gandhi, Martin Luther King, and Nelson Mandela spring to mind - the latter's "truth and reconciliation" showing the extent to which forgiveness can go. I expect you will argue that Muslims are culturally inferior to all of these - follow their own reasoning that they cannot be held to the same standards as the rest of humanity: "they made us do it by burning the Quran", or "she made us kill her by marrying a non Muslim", or "they wore a non-Muslim religious symbol in the open". Personally I don't think appeasing their lack of control will improve it in any way.
Secondly you totally ignore the facts that Muslims oppress the minorities in countries where they have not been ruled by others - and have done so historically. Look at Saudi Arabia or Pakistan. The latter was ruled by Britain before, but this was a brief window on non-Oppression for Hindus in Pakistan, which occurred before and still does today. Maybe again you might feel that we cannot expect Muslims to "get over" British rule in the same way that India, South Africa, and many other countries have without lashing out at others. My feeling is that since they oppress elsewhere and have done s through history, they would still be ding so in India now if they were not overthrown by the British, or someone else.
Name one place where Muslims have the upper hand where they don't oppress or restrict non-Muslims.
This seems to be based on the principle that if you want the strength of a tank, the performance of a sports car, and the economy of a hybrid you just lash a tank, a Ferrari and a Prius together and driving it will get you all three. I somehow doubt that the reality will live up to the promise.
I have not posted anonymously in this thread.
You mean all those Muslims who, much like the Minutemen and colonists, have risen up and overthrown oppressive regimes in many middle eastern countries?
Ha ha ha .. tell that to the non-Muslims in those countries. They were actually a lot better off under the "oppressive regimes"
I wonder if this cycle follows the wave of economic depressions? It would make sense that people with less to lose who are hit by the recession and see others making more money from it might become restless