Kindle Fire hasn't been released so nobody really knows, same goes for the new Nook Color. I would expect it to be a lot easier to jailbreak the Nook than the Kindle, just because the Nooks are all sold at a profit whereas the Kindle Fire is reported to be sold at a slight loss.
Nook Color is a real Android Table, the only difference is that it's optimized for books. You can install apps like you would on a normal Android tablet. If you really insist upon using stock Android, you can always jailbreak the thing and install it.
I'm not familiar with the Vizio or IdeaPad, but the build quality on B&N Nooks is quite good. If you look at your list, those cheaper tablets also cut down quite a bit on the specs to do it. Now, I'm sure there are folks that need bluetooth or GPS, but your being a bit obtuse if you don't notice that the cost comes with a significant improvement in performance.
I was wondering why TFS was implying that B&N was introducing a competitor to Amazon Fire, when Amazon Fire was introduced as a competitor to B&N Nook Color. This is just a case of B&N releasing a new product revision to replace their previous model.
It does look like you get a fair amount for that extra $50. If this leak is to be believed, you get a 1.2ghz dual core processor rather than a 1ghz dual core processor. 1 gig of ram versus 512mb of RAM and 16gb of built in storage versus 8gb. Not to mention slightly more pixels on screen.
The only two things that Amazon Fire appears to win on are having a stereo head jack and price.
I would be really tempted to get a B&N Nook Color if these turn out to be correct. Especially if B&N remains so neutral towards jailbreaking their products.
The content might be in the public domain, but that doesn't mean that B&N's cost of providing those books is zero. There's the money for attorneys in many cases to identify works that are legitimately public domain, and then there's the money that it costs to run the book store and don't forget about bandwidth.
If you want those books for free, just do like I do and side load them off of Project Gutenberg or Google.
That's not true. The cover art costs precisely the same amount of money whether dead tree edition or digital edition, assuming you want people to actually want to open your book. You really need a good cover, good title and hopefully name recognition if you want people to read your book without a recommendation.
Typesetting is cheaper on ebooks, but it costs quite a bit more than you'd expect to hire somebody to make sure that the ebook functions properly. Making sure that tables function and that the images look right isn't exactly cheap. I'm sure we'll get to the point where that's not needed in the near future, but we're not there yet.
Intel needs AMD, otherwise it faces even more antitrust suits and a closer eye from the DoJ and whatever agency in Europe does the same thing. I'd expect that Intel won't make the mistake of squeezing AMD completely out of the market.
Intel definitely could do it, but they'd end up being broken up if they managed to succeed. There's only so much anticompetitive activity that the DoJ can turn a blind eye to.
They don't need to right now, because they successfully drained AMD of customers long enough for AMD to have funding issues with their R&D. The incompetence of over paying for ATI didn't help, but the consequences of Intel's anticompetitive activities are going to take years for AMD to overcome.
It's been a while, but these days it's fairly common for laptops to come without an optical disc. I'll probably get my desktops without as well as my Samsung USB drive is more than enough on the rare occasions where I really need an optical disc.
I rip all my discs to disk and load them from there, leaving my optical drive to pretty much just take up space.
I've found that to be rather hit or miss. The utilities don't work reliably and often times I end up having to redo it several times before it works. At least for the utility that they used to use for booting Ubuntu off a USB stick.
The difference is that in theory they're supposed to provision a certain amount of bandwidth for 10mbps and a lesser amount for 1mbps, in this case there's a lot of sleight of hand that can go on to make it hard for customers to know if they're getting what they're paying for.
Testing a connection for the provided bandwidth is relatively straightforward if imperfect, this would be an absolute nightmare to verify.
It's not a fact. That's how marketing works, it doesn't matter how incredibly brilliant and affordable your product is if nobody knows it exists. And for most people, AMD products just aren't available when they go to the store. And they don't know about them because there's no marketing and they often aren't carried by the stores.
I'm not sure what's so funny about this post, it's clear that they understand that engineers in a company that depends upon creating new products can't cut back on engineering indefinitely.
Yes, but those aren't the people that AMD needs to be reaching. To people that know little about computers, Intel is a name brand that has been associated with quality. The problem is that it isn't always true, there are periods where Intel is doing really good work and there's periods where AMD chips are better, but you don't really ever see that in the market share, in large part because for the most part you have to build your own computer if you want AMD parts.
Not quite so much now that AMD does GPUs as well as processors, but an AMD processor can be relatively hard to come by in a mass produced machine.
Ultimately, they need both, but right now they need engineering far more than they need marketing. Intel has a significant advantage in that they sell far more chips and can afford to spend more money on bribes and development
Competitive products aren't the issue. Well, right now they are, but they do have issues with name recognition. PC carriers are not going to integrate AMD products of there isn't demand for them. And I've been shocked that AMD still doesn't bother with advertising the way that Intel does.
There have been periods where AMD chips were better than Intel chips, and yet that hasn't ever been reflected in market share. Right now, the move is the correct one, cut marketing and focus on developing better products, but history suggests that focusing on products alone isn't going to be enough.
That's the natural consequence of huge blocks of voters voting for politicians that overtly state that as their goal. The GOP's prime objective last session was to prevent anything from happening, and they didn't even bother lying about it.
No, Google doesn't somehow win, they win because they're using the data to improve their algorithms. Do you have any evidence at all that Google isn't doing it for the purposes of improving its algorithms?
You don't honestly think that Google staff watch each and every video on YouTube before deciding what ads should go on them, do you?
I get something of value, a transcription of my message, and they get some more data with which to craft their algorithms, I'm not sure how exactly that's such an evil thing. It's not like they didn't give people the option of opting out.
You're correct and if I'm not greatly mistaken, those costs ought to be taken from the promotion budget.
B&N is great because when I take my Nook there, I can read for a period of time any book they have in their ebook store for free, it is limited per day, but it's a great way of getting customers to start reading a book that they might not be ready to buy completely unread.
Indeed, I went to a lecture on getting a book published and the whole industry is changing rapidly.
What a lot of folks forget about is the time and effort it takes to actually take a manuscript and create an ebook out of it. There are plenty of tools that will do it automatically, but you do still have to go through and make sure that it was done correctly. And in some cases debug the book.
A decent publishing house will provide editorial support and see to it that the book gets into the retailers that have the target audience. Plus, these days, Print On Demand is an increasingly viable option. It costs more, but the quality is there and if one is expecting most purchases to be electronic, it allows for people to get a dead tree edition if they wish.
The big six publishers have the same sort of problems that they do in the recording and film industries, they're large and unable to keep up with the rate of change.
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I'm pretty sure that cock-smoking teabaggers only run Windows. Them other OSes be soshulist inventshuns.
Kindle Fire hasn't been released so nobody really knows, same goes for the new Nook Color. I would expect it to be a lot easier to jailbreak the Nook than the Kindle, just because the Nooks are all sold at a profit whereas the Kindle Fire is reported to be sold at a slight loss.
Nook Color is a real Android Table, the only difference is that it's optimized for books. You can install apps like you would on a normal Android tablet. If you really insist upon using stock Android, you can always jailbreak the thing and install it.
I'm not familiar with the Vizio or IdeaPad, but the build quality on B&N Nooks is quite good. If you look at your list, those cheaper tablets also cut down quite a bit on the specs to do it. Now, I'm sure there are folks that need bluetooth or GPS, but your being a bit obtuse if you don't notice that the cost comes with a significant improvement in performance.
I was wondering why TFS was implying that B&N was introducing a competitor to Amazon Fire, when Amazon Fire was introduced as a competitor to B&N Nook Color. This is just a case of B&N releasing a new product revision to replace their previous model.
It does look like you get a fair amount for that extra $50. If this leak is to be believed, you get a 1.2ghz dual core processor rather than a 1ghz dual core processor. 1 gig of ram versus 512mb of RAM and 16gb of built in storage versus 8gb. Not to mention slightly more pixels on screen.
The only two things that Amazon Fire appears to win on are having a stereo head jack and price.
I would be really tempted to get a B&N Nook Color if these turn out to be correct. Especially if B&N remains so neutral towards jailbreaking their products.
Watching movies while on fire? That doesn't strike me as being particularly safe. I suppose I have to waive my right to sue if I buy one.
The content might be in the public domain, but that doesn't mean that B&N's cost of providing those books is zero. There's the money for attorneys in many cases to identify works that are legitimately public domain, and then there's the money that it costs to run the book store and don't forget about bandwidth.
If you want those books for free, just do like I do and side load them off of Project Gutenberg or Google.
That's not true. The cover art costs precisely the same amount of money whether dead tree edition or digital edition, assuming you want people to actually want to open your book. You really need a good cover, good title and hopefully name recognition if you want people to read your book without a recommendation.
Typesetting is cheaper on ebooks, but it costs quite a bit more than you'd expect to hire somebody to make sure that the ebook functions properly. Making sure that tables function and that the images look right isn't exactly cheap. I'm sure we'll get to the point where that's not needed in the near future, but we're not there yet.
Intel needs AMD, otherwise it faces even more antitrust suits and a closer eye from the DoJ and whatever agency in Europe does the same thing. I'd expect that Intel won't make the mistake of squeezing AMD completely out of the market.
Intel definitely could do it, but they'd end up being broken up if they managed to succeed. There's only so much anticompetitive activity that the DoJ can turn a blind eye to.
They don't need to right now, because they successfully drained AMD of customers long enough for AMD to have funding issues with their R&D. The incompetence of over paying for ATI didn't help, but the consequences of Intel's anticompetitive activities are going to take years for AMD to overcome.
It's been a while, but these days it's fairly common for laptops to come without an optical disc. I'll probably get my desktops without as well as my Samsung USB drive is more than enough on the rare occasions where I really need an optical disc.
I rip all my discs to disk and load them from there, leaving my optical drive to pretty much just take up space.
I've found that to be rather hit or miss. The utilities don't work reliably and often times I end up having to redo it several times before it works. At least for the utility that they used to use for booting Ubuntu off a USB stick.
You're being obtuse, the example was ISP, which implies not cell phone.
The difference is that in theory they're supposed to provision a certain amount of bandwidth for 10mbps and a lesser amount for 1mbps, in this case there's a lot of sleight of hand that can go on to make it hard for customers to know if they're getting what they're paying for.
Testing a connection for the provided bandwidth is relatively straightforward if imperfect, this would be an absolute nightmare to verify.
It's not a fact. That's how marketing works, it doesn't matter how incredibly brilliant and affordable your product is if nobody knows it exists. And for most people, AMD products just aren't available when they go to the store. And they don't know about them because there's no marketing and they often aren't carried by the stores.
Not a big fan of privacy are you. At least with AT&T you can be sure that nobody's going to be able to get reception long enough to do any tracking.
I'm not sure what's so funny about this post, it's clear that they understand that engineers in a company that depends upon creating new products can't cut back on engineering indefinitely.
Yes, but those aren't the people that AMD needs to be reaching. To people that know little about computers, Intel is a name brand that has been associated with quality. The problem is that it isn't always true, there are periods where Intel is doing really good work and there's periods where AMD chips are better, but you don't really ever see that in the market share, in large part because for the most part you have to build your own computer if you want AMD parts.
Not quite so much now that AMD does GPUs as well as processors, but an AMD processor can be relatively hard to come by in a mass produced machine.
Ultimately, they need both, but right now they need engineering far more than they need marketing. Intel has a significant advantage in that they sell far more chips and can afford to spend more money on bribes and development
Competitive products aren't the issue. Well, right now they are, but they do have issues with name recognition. PC carriers are not going to integrate AMD products of there isn't demand for them. And I've been shocked that AMD still doesn't bother with advertising the way that Intel does.
There have been periods where AMD chips were better than Intel chips, and yet that hasn't ever been reflected in market share. Right now, the move is the correct one, cut marketing and focus on developing better products, but history suggests that focusing on products alone isn't going to be enough.
That's the natural consequence of huge blocks of voters voting for politicians that overtly state that as their goal. The GOP's prime objective last session was to prevent anything from happening, and they didn't even bother lying about it.
I don' t buy games, I get them via blockbuster, much cheaper than buying.
Or, you know, you could just properly maintain your equipment.
No, Google doesn't somehow win, they win because they're using the data to improve their algorithms. Do you have any evidence at all that Google isn't doing it for the purposes of improving its algorithms?
You don't honestly think that Google staff watch each and every video on YouTube before deciding what ads should go on them, do you?
I get something of value, a transcription of my message, and they get some more data with which to craft their algorithms, I'm not sure how exactly that's such an evil thing. It's not like they didn't give people the option of opting out.
You're correct and if I'm not greatly mistaken, those costs ought to be taken from the promotion budget.
B&N is great because when I take my Nook there, I can read for a period of time any book they have in their ebook store for free, it is limited per day, but it's a great way of getting customers to start reading a book that they might not be ready to buy completely unread.
Indeed, I went to a lecture on getting a book published and the whole industry is changing rapidly.
What a lot of folks forget about is the time and effort it takes to actually take a manuscript and create an ebook out of it. There are plenty of tools that will do it automatically, but you do still have to go through and make sure that it was done correctly. And in some cases debug the book.
A decent publishing house will provide editorial support and see to it that the book gets into the retailers that have the target audience. Plus, these days, Print On Demand is an increasingly viable option. It costs more, but the quality is there and if one is expecting most purchases to be electronic, it allows for people to get a dead tree edition if they wish.
The big six publishers have the same sort of problems that they do in the recording and film industries, they're large and unable to keep up with the rate of change.