If they let Israel be wiped out, it would cause many fundamental Christians to become disillusioned, because the Israelites are still "God's special people" in some people's eyes (like those of my grandfather for example).
It's been topless weather here a lot of weekends.. and sometimes just when waiting for the bus to work.. lovely weather, easily in the 20s in direct sun:)
Oh, I thought he was just talking about Facebook/Twitterin general. Those games are indeed just like chain mail and other pointless spam. I blocked them all long ago.
If they can get over it completely as quickly as a bruise on their head (couple of weeks), or even a crack in their skull (say 3 months), then it can't have been much of a "heartbreak". That's more of a "we went out for a couple of months and then one of us got bored".
It would work, in the same way that people are more prepared to do tiny payments for mobile apps/games that they might never even use, if they're cheap enough. Just because the publishers (in all industries) are a poor combination of stupid and greedy is not my problem. If they were really bright they'd put prices down instead of up.
Every ebook screen I've seen, unless the book was specifically designed for it, either displays far less data per page (say, 1-2 paragraphs at most) or comes out fuzzy on the text. None of them can render illustrations worth a damn.
Doesn't sound like you've looked at recent eInk screens - the Kindle I bought at the end of last year looks amazing in its illustrations. It does have a small-ish screen, but it's about the same size as one paperback page, and there are several font sizes to suit your needs.
I don't even mind reading on my 5" phone, and the 7" Kindle feels fine in comparison. My Xoom is 10" and is my preferred reader when inside. I use the phone on the bus sometimes, and generally reserve the Kindle for long road trips right now, or reading outside on sunny days.
As others have said, the Kindle also keeps track of which page you were on, and the battery will literally last you weeks. Especially if you're going on a trip where you would have had to take several books, it's also much more compact and lighter.
With the Xoom, I really like that I can read in the dark without requiring a case-light or room light. Combined with listening to music (which the Kindle can do, but I prefer to use devices with more storage space, or Spotify), it creates a really nice environment for reading IMO.
No matter the DRM, you will always be able to share the book. Even if you have to scan or photograph it page by page. The people who care about breaching copyright can already do so. I just wish they'd hurry up and get all books into eBook format, and make the prices more reasonable in line with the fact that it costs virtually nothing to "print" an eBook.
He's not forcing anything, he's just making suggestions. His suggestions are a little over the top though. I suggest just making the eBooks cheaper. Then the whole sharing point becomes kind of moot if it's cheaper for you to buy a copy for your friends than it would have been to buy the book and then lend it to all of them (in which case, let's face it, you'd probably not get it back anyway after a couple of lends). Cheap app store pricing models have shown to be pretty damn successful.
Perhaps stupidly, I've actually bought eBooks over paperbacks even when they've been slightly more expensive (I did start off only buying if they were cheaper). I just really like reading on a tablet though - so much better than having a real book.
Interesting. On the west coast it does rain quite a bit, but last summer and this summer so far, we've had hardly any rain in Aberdeen (east coast). Maybe a couple of days rain a week when it's been at its worst in May. April was sunny as hell.
I've never even heard of a mudslide in the UK, so I don't know where you're getting that from (. Googling for "mudslide UK", I get 1) a cocktail recipe, 2 & 3) music albums, 4) something which seems to be just one of those pages that is there to catch search traffic, and the rest of the results are British newspapers reporting stories of mudslides in other countries..
Searching instead for "landslide" (since I'm not even sure I've heard the word mudslide before) does turn up some results, but it's mostly coastal erosion. I didn't realise we built our nuclear reactors in the sea.
Heartbreak is worse than someone dying. I've had both heartbreak, and my father dying. I wasn't on the best of terms with my father when he died, but my brain worked it out and let it go because there is nothing that can be done. After a bad breakup with an ex, I still worked it out eventually, but it was much harder knowing that she was still out there. We eventually did start talking again too and worked out our own issues. Rather annoyingly, a lot of the stuff that she initially blamed me for, and I tried to accept was my fault, she now admits was her fault.. so I put myself through a lot of pain for nothing.. though I feel it has made me a better person, able to be truly self critical. Most people try and block it out when they are criticised, whereas I take it seriously.
It would be in 2D, at least for now. I think if you were going to start splitting into 4 images instead of 2, the flickering would be far too annoying (I tried a 3D Sony TV in one of their stores, and noticed a slight flickering even with 60Hz in each eye). I much prefer polarised 3D to active shutters..
Maybe those interested in this "social crap" are actually more interested in new technologies than you are? Games are old, "social crap" is driving the advancement of networking and database technologies.
I think it's more likely that you just prefer to play games than be particularly sociable. That's not meant as an insult, I'm the same. Though I do also spend some time chatting on "social crap" like Slashdot and Facebook.
I'm 27 by the way. I grew up watching technology advance too, I remember typing in code listings into my Commodore 128 when I was something like 6 years old. I love seeing the advances in technology. I also have friends around the 17-22 age bracket and they love gaming and technology too. Anyway, this conversation is all just speculation and anecdotes..
I would say that having to switch these off for the sake of power resource management is a fault
That's like saying that you should just keep your car's engine running 24/7 in case you need to use it, that your computer's fans should just be spinning at max all day, that your HDD should never spin down, etc. It doesn't make sense to waste energy like that, especially when you're not connected to the mains, and given the state of current battery/wireless tech.
If your device is Wi-Fi only, it's fine to leave it on, but on devices that also have 3G on all the time, you need all the power you can get. My phone's 3G connection was responsible for 56% of the device's power usage in the last day and a half (the device itself now has 50% power left), and that's only with about 2 minutes on Facebook, and a couple of texts sent/received.
I did o_0 There's nothing contradictory about Android copying iOS when it first came out, and iOS copying Android now. I just wanted to point it out to those who seem to think that Apple is always light years ahead of everyone else.
So whata? Are those "facts" meant to prove some kind of point? The history of a country is pretty irrelevant to the present day. Power and cultural focal points have shifted many times in the last few thousand years. If we're to go by your logic then we should all be saying how genetically superior the Chinese and Egyptians are for develping such advanced cultures early on.
The fairly obvious truth is that human culture has little to with genetics. Raise a white man in Japan, or a Japanese man in Africa, and they will both fit in fine with the local culture.
What? Choosing to have your wireless enabled, bluetooth enabled, brightness high, etc are not "faults", they're user choices. The same woman said her husband had an app to reduce power usage on his iPhone, which I assume did things like disable unused wireless connections.
People keep assuming so much about my views. Apple definitely changed things for the better. They gave the smart phone world a kick in the ass. I always felt that mobile hardware was far in advance of the software/UI up until iOS shook things up. Looking at the list of updates in iOS5, they also have implemented some ideas from Android 3 (and earlier).
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I agree that they probably won't use it in search rankings, otherwise everyone will just copy the current number 1 "best author" in their tags..
Upholding the law is sane.
The law itself may not be sane in some places, due to the real world changing over time.
Strawman some moar people.
If they let Israel be wiped out, it would cause many fundamental Christians to become disillusioned, because the Israelites are still "God's special people" in some people's eyes (like those of my grandfather for example).
If his wife is that stupid that she wants people to lie to her rather than just eating better, he shouldn't have married her..
It's been topless weather here a lot of weekends.. and sometimes just when waiting for the bus to work.. lovely weather, easily in the 20s in direct sun :)
Oh, I thought he was just talking about Facebook/Twitterin general. Those games are indeed just like chain mail and other pointless spam. I blocked them all long ago.
Seems you are uninformed. They hire in plenty of international employees. I'm not American btw, I don't care about such patriotic/racist sentiments.
And overheating problems on the earlier models.
If they can get over it completely as quickly as a bruise on their head (couple of weeks), or even a crack in their skull (say 3 months), then it can't have been much of a "heartbreak". That's more of a "we went out for a couple of months and then one of us got bored".
It would work, in the same way that people are more prepared to do tiny payments for mobile apps/games that they might never even use, if they're cheap enough. Just because the publishers (in all industries) are a poor combination of stupid and greedy is not my problem. If they were really bright they'd put prices down instead of up.
Every ebook screen I've seen, unless the book was specifically designed for it, either displays far less data per page (say, 1-2 paragraphs at most) or comes out fuzzy on the text. None of them can render illustrations worth a damn.
Doesn't sound like you've looked at recent eInk screens - the Kindle I bought at the end of last year looks amazing in its illustrations. It does have a small-ish screen, but it's about the same size as one paperback page, and there are several font sizes to suit your needs.
I don't even mind reading on my 5" phone, and the 7" Kindle feels fine in comparison. My Xoom is 10" and is my preferred reader when inside. I use the phone on the bus sometimes, and generally reserve the Kindle for long road trips right now, or reading outside on sunny days.
As others have said, the Kindle also keeps track of which page you were on, and the battery will literally last you weeks. Especially if you're going on a trip where you would have had to take several books, it's also much more compact and lighter.
With the Xoom, I really like that I can read in the dark without requiring a case-light or room light. Combined with listening to music (which the Kindle can do, but I prefer to use devices with more storage space, or Spotify), it creates a really nice environment for reading IMO.
I usually bought albums when they got to the £3-£5 price point. I've now switched to Spotify anyway.
No matter the DRM, you will always be able to share the book. Even if you have to scan or photograph it page by page. The people who care about breaching copyright can already do so. I just wish they'd hurry up and get all books into eBook format, and make the prices more reasonable in line with the fact that it costs virtually nothing to "print" an eBook.
He's not forcing anything, he's just making suggestions. His suggestions are a little over the top though. I suggest just making the eBooks cheaper. Then the whole sharing point becomes kind of moot if it's cheaper for you to buy a copy for your friends than it would have been to buy the book and then lend it to all of them (in which case, let's face it, you'd probably not get it back anyway after a couple of lends). Cheap app store pricing models have shown to be pretty damn successful.
Perhaps stupidly, I've actually bought eBooks over paperbacks even when they've been slightly more expensive (I did start off only buying if they were cheaper). I just really like reading on a tablet though - so much better than having a real book.
Interesting. On the west coast it does rain quite a bit, but last summer and this summer so far, we've had hardly any rain in Aberdeen (east coast). Maybe a couple of days rain a week when it's been at its worst in May. April was sunny as hell.
I've never even heard of a mudslide in the UK, so I don't know where you're getting that from (. Googling for "mudslide UK", I get 1) a cocktail recipe, 2 & 3) music albums, 4) something which seems to be just one of those pages that is there to catch search traffic, and the rest of the results are British newspapers reporting stories of mudslides in other countries..
Searching instead for "landslide" (since I'm not even sure I've heard the word mudslide before) does turn up some results, but it's mostly coastal erosion. I didn't realise we built our nuclear reactors in the sea.
Spoken like someone who's either never lost anyone, or who doesn't love very deeply.
Heartbreak is worse than someone dying. I've had both heartbreak, and my father dying. I wasn't on the best of terms with my father when he died, but my brain worked it out and let it go because there is nothing that can be done. After a bad breakup with an ex, I still worked it out eventually, but it was much harder knowing that she was still out there. We eventually did start talking again too and worked out our own issues. Rather annoyingly, a lot of the stuff that she initially blamed me for, and I tried to accept was my fault, she now admits was her fault.. so I put myself through a lot of pain for nothing.. though I feel it has made me a better person, able to be truly self critical. Most people try and block it out when they are criticised, whereas I take it seriously.
It would be in 2D, at least for now. I think if you were going to start splitting into 4 images instead of 2, the flickering would be far too annoying (I tried a 3D Sony TV in one of their stores, and noticed a slight flickering even with 60Hz in each eye). I much prefer polarised 3D to active shutters..
Maybe those interested in this "social crap" are actually more interested in new technologies than you are? Games are old, "social crap" is driving the advancement of networking and database technologies.
I think it's more likely that you just prefer to play games than be particularly sociable. That's not meant as an insult, I'm the same. Though I do also spend some time chatting on "social crap" like Slashdot and Facebook.
I'm 27 by the way. I grew up watching technology advance too, I remember typing in code listings into my Commodore 128 when I was something like 6 years old. I love seeing the advances in technology. I also have friends around the 17-22 age bracket and they love gaming and technology too. Anyway, this conversation is all just speculation and anecdotes..
I would say that having to switch these off for the sake of power resource management is a fault
That's like saying that you should just keep your car's engine running 24/7 in case you need to use it, that your computer's fans should just be spinning at max all day, that your HDD should never spin down, etc. It doesn't make sense to waste energy like that, especially when you're not connected to the mains, and given the state of current battery/wireless tech.
If your device is Wi-Fi only, it's fine to leave it on, but on devices that also have 3G on all the time, you need all the power you can get. My phone's 3G connection was responsible for 56% of the device's power usage in the last day and a half (the device itself now has 50% power left), and that's only with about 2 minutes on Facebook, and a couple of texts sent/received.
I did o_0 There's nothing contradictory about Android copying iOS when it first came out, and iOS copying Android now. I just wanted to point it out to those who seem to think that Apple is always light years ahead of everyone else.
So whata? Are those "facts" meant to prove some kind of point? The history of a country is pretty irrelevant to the present day. Power and cultural focal points have shifted many times in the last few thousand years. If we're to go by your logic then we should all be saying how genetically superior the Chinese and Egyptians are for develping such advanced cultures early on.
The fairly obvious truth is that human culture has little to with genetics. Raise a white man in Japan, or a Japanese man in Africa, and they will both fit in fine with the local culture.
What? Choosing to have your wireless enabled, bluetooth enabled, brightness high, etc are not "faults", they're user choices. The same woman said her husband had an app to reduce power usage on his iPhone, which I assume did things like disable unused wireless connections.
People keep assuming so much about my views. Apple definitely changed things for the better. They gave the smart phone world a kick in the ass. I always felt that mobile hardware was far in advance of the software/UI up until iOS shook things up. Looking at the list of updates in iOS5, they also have implemented some ideas from Android 3 (and earlier).