I would get the.jpg or.png files and view them. It works well as long as they are intelligently named. If you can extract the jpegs from the pdf and view them seperately it should resolve you issue especially since you can zoom in if the screen sized image doesn't have enough resolution for you.
This is not at all surprising especially for travelers or those who have limited space but like to read many books. As military my PRS-505 allowed me to bring and entire library with me for the size of a small notepad to Iraq as opposed to a half dozen books. The reading experience was close enough to reading a paperback that it isn't worth mentioning except for a few purists.
The picture viewing and manga reading was also sublime. To me the pictures while grayscale looked like they could have been pencil drawn and were easily readable.
The ONLY downside I found was the screen refresh but it wasn't much more than turning a page and easily adapted to.
I think the GP was going more for humorous irony than any sort of disagreement.
I for one think his post was fairly insightful and when you think about the Apple products and their stereotypical customer he's spot on. They still hold a very large portion of the artiste sect that is easily distracted by shiny things and moving lights.
Apple isn't the largest Technology company in the world by a far cry. Their stock is worth the most and that is the only claim to that title they can even pretend to.
They are 1/2 the size of Microsoft and 1/3 the size of IBM and a bit smaller than Nokia.
Yes Apple faces intense scrutiny, it is what happens when their corporate culture is elitist and arrogant. It doesn't help that recently they've made some pretty solid hardware causing this to stand out. All apple would have had to do was state there was an issue and they were looking into the best way to resolve it. Instead they lied about the cause of the problem (by saying they were lying about relative signal strength) and told their customers that it was their fault and to buy a case. Finally in his press conference Jobs tried to pass off that there was no design flaw but it was much ado about nothing. He would have been correct if the amount of signal loss was even remotely similar to the amount that can be blocked by interposing your hand. Lets not forget the iPhone 4 ONLY drops 1 more call per 100 than the 3GS... It drops 1 more call out of every 100 made, if the 3gs dropped 2 per 100 that means the 4 drops 3... 150% of previous rates.
Having an improperly insulated exposed antenna is a retarded design decision and Apple will fix it, their PR department needed to handle this better is the only part of the story left.
Except their response has been don't hold the phone that way or buy a bumper... They should at least provide the parts to make a working product instead of telling their customers who already bought an overly expensive phone to shell out another $30.
If they had stepped up immediately and said hey there is a small issue here is a free bumper case to fix it there would be almost no uproar over this. They've done nothing but add fuel to the fire by their reaction telling their customers to pound salt and then censoring their forums (not that it isn't uncommon for them).
Depends on the flavor of economist. They can't make money from nothing and like the weather there are more variables than can be easily understood or predicted. However in regards to finding out if something worked, didn't work, etc... they are quite skilled. Consider economists closer to historians who like to measure effects of things and you're close to where they are useful. If you're interested in some decent reading check out the Freakonomics books, they're well written and while they won't change the world they might change the way you look at certain parts of it.
Disclaimer: I am NOT an economist of any variety... my degree is in physics with a bit of chem.
It's actually not JUST the Eris, it's most prominent in the Eris. There have been reports on many of the HTC phones including the Nexus One and the Hero. I own an Eris and love the thing. I'd love it more if I hadn't screwed my chances at root up with the 2.1 leak. Oh and I don't have the silent call issue as far as I know.
No what keeps the third world the third world is the lack of food, water, and the constant violence or threat of violence. The reason the USA, Europe and large parts of Asia have been able to focus on being the first world is they've been able to grow their own food in excess and drink plenty of clean water. When, as a society, you don't have to worry about where your next meal or drink is coming from it makes it amazingly easy to focus on progress.
Thank god there is a sane opinion out here. Most people on/. are either afraid of the needle or thinking of prison tats and lash out at the idea.
The biggest problem with tattoos is that the tend to viewed as less professional, it is the only reason why I don't have a sleeve myself. Granted I wouldn't get a conglomeration of images or equations for a sleeve but I think they can look amazing. I especially like the black and skin contrasts.
Yeah because they take the rest of the cost out of you in $10 monthly payments over the next 24 months. Or do you not know what the ETF is and why it exists?
No Color is a legit complaint, it is an eInk display and last I checked they didn't have a color version out. Does my text books just fine in pdf form, other than the color issues. It doesn't do web, which I like, because it means they can't take my books away like they can on the Kindle. It doesn't do GPS, doesn't need to, it's a freaking BOOK. Of course I can use it for 8 hours a day for 2 weeks between charges so thats a plus.
Oh and it plays music just fine thanks for asking (kills the battery life though).
The government is rapidly moving away from IE6. In the past year or so I've seen all of my sites except for one made to support almost any browser. Occasionally they don't like Firefox or chrome because of certain software support or activex issues but that is it.
From what I can tell of Gnome-shell it would be supremely suited for a tablet pc. Unless I missed something it sure as hell isn't suited for general desktop use but the minimalist interface with expanding sidebar navigation seem ideal for a tablet.
You should strive for SOME backwards compatibility not honestly supporting more than a generation or two back is too far. Especially when you have a major OS revision (Win2k and Vista come to mind) to act as a breaking point.
I'm not sure where you're from but on most places I've been to in the USA the TASER is one of the earliest steps in the force continuum because when it works it immediately deescalates a confrontation.
After all of the non-physical options are exhausted (yelling, pointing, etc..) your options are fairly limited. You can hit them with pepper spray which can maim and kill in similar fashion to the TASER but doesn't necessarily stop a suspect and frequently just pisses them off. You can grab, punch, or kick the suspect putting yourself in harms way and escalating the confrontation into a brawl. You can shoot the suspect (and you ONLY shoot to kill, there is no such thing as a shoulder of leg shot) thus invoking lethal force, and if you don't get him on the first shot expect him to respond in kind potentially escalating into a shootout with potential for collateral damage.
Or you can shoot them with a TASER. If it works (TASER claims 99.7% effectiveness with minor injuries) it immediately stops a suspect, puts him on the ground, and effectively ends the confrontation. That said I have seen abuse of the TASER, I've read about the beating deaths, heck I've read about the NYPD shooting an unarmed suspect 47 times... Abuse happens, mistakes happen, that is why there needs to be civilian oversight and proper training of our protective forces but it doesn't mean we should take their tools away.
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There are honestly more to be had via that delivery method than the other too...
I would get the .jpg or .png files and view them. It works well as long as they are intelligently named. If you can extract the jpegs from the pdf and view them seperately it should resolve you issue especially since you can zoom in if the screen sized image doesn't have enough resolution for you.
This is not at all surprising especially for travelers or those who have limited space but like to read many books. As military my PRS-505 allowed me to bring and entire library with me for the size of a small notepad to Iraq as opposed to a half dozen books. The reading experience was close enough to reading a paperback that it isn't worth mentioning except for a few purists.
The picture viewing and manga reading was also sublime. To me the pictures while grayscale looked like they could have been pencil drawn and were easily readable.
The ONLY downside I found was the screen refresh but it wasn't much more than turning a page and easily adapted to.
I think the GP was going more for humorous irony than any sort of disagreement.
I for one think his post was fairly insightful and when you think about the Apple products and their stereotypical customer he's spot on. They still hold a very large portion of the artiste sect that is easily distracted by shiny things and moving lights.
Apple isn't the largest Technology company in the world by a far cry. Their stock is worth the most and that is the only claim to that title they can even pretend to.
They are 1/2 the size of Microsoft and 1/3 the size of IBM and a bit smaller than Nokia.
Yes Apple faces intense scrutiny, it is what happens when their corporate culture is elitist and arrogant. It doesn't help that recently they've made some pretty solid hardware causing this to stand out. All apple would have had to do was state there was an issue and they were looking into the best way to resolve it. Instead they lied about the cause of the problem (by saying they were lying about relative signal strength) and told their customers that it was their fault and to buy a case. Finally in his press conference Jobs tried to pass off that there was no design flaw but it was much ado about nothing. He would have been correct if the amount of signal loss was even remotely similar to the amount that can be blocked by interposing your hand. Lets not forget the iPhone 4 ONLY drops 1 more call per 100 than the 3GS... It drops 1 more call out of every 100 made, if the 3gs dropped 2 per 100 that means the 4 drops 3... 150% of previous rates.
Having an improperly insulated exposed antenna is a retarded design decision and Apple will fix it, their PR department needed to handle this better is the only part of the story left.
Except their response has been don't hold the phone that way or buy a bumper... They should at least provide the parts to make a working product instead of telling their customers who already bought an overly expensive phone to shell out another $30.
If they had stepped up immediately and said hey there is a small issue here is a free bumper case to fix it there would be almost no uproar over this. They've done nothing but add fuel to the fire by their reaction telling their customers to pound salt and then censoring their forums (not that it isn't uncommon for them).
Depends on the flavor of economist. They can't make money from nothing and like the weather there are more variables than can be easily understood or predicted. However in regards to finding out if something worked, didn't work, etc... they are quite skilled. Consider economists closer to historians who like to measure effects of things and you're close to where they are useful. If you're interested in some decent reading check out the Freakonomics books, they're well written and while they won't change the world they might change the way you look at certain parts of it.
Disclaimer: I am NOT an economist of any variety... my degree is in physics with a bit of chem.
It's actually not JUST the Eris, it's most prominent in the Eris. There have been reports on many of the HTC phones including the Nexus One and the Hero. I own an Eris and love the thing. I'd love it more if I hadn't screwed my chances at root up with the 2.1 leak. Oh and I don't have the silent call issue as far as I know.
Try Sailor Bubba for extra credit!
No what keeps the third world the third world is the lack of food, water, and the constant violence or threat of violence. The reason the USA, Europe and large parts of Asia have been able to focus on being the first world is they've been able to grow their own food in excess and drink plenty of clean water. When, as a society, you don't have to worry about where your next meal or drink is coming from it makes it amazingly easy to focus on progress.
Thank god there is a sane opinion out here. Most people on /. are either afraid of the needle or thinking of prison tats and lash out at the idea.
The biggest problem with tattoos is that the tend to viewed as less professional, it is the only reason why I don't have a sleeve myself. Granted I wouldn't get a conglomeration of images or equations for a sleeve but I think they can look amazing. I especially like the black and skin contrasts.
Wrong as in factually incorrect or Wrong as in 350 pound man wearing a Sailor Moon costume?
(You're welcome for that lovely image too)
Shaken Rocket Syndrome?
Yeah because they take the rest of the cost out of you in $10 monthly payments over the next 24 months. Or do you not know what the ETF is and why it exists?
And all I was addressing was his comments about being a reader not an all purpose device.
No Color is a legit complaint, it is an eInk display and last I checked they didn't have a color version out. Does my text books just fine in pdf form, other than the color issues. It doesn't do web, which I like, because it means they can't take my books away like they can on the Kindle. It doesn't do GPS, doesn't need to, it's a freaking BOOK. Of course I can use it for 8 hours a day for 2 weeks between charges so thats a plus.
Oh and it plays music just fine thanks for asking (kills the battery life though).
Bought mine for less than $250 withOUT a 2 year contract. So yeah I can buy a subsidized phone for $199 and pay the extra off over the next 2 years.
PRS-505. I've had it for about 2 years now. A crap ton cheaper than the iCrap too.
The government is rapidly moving away from IE6. In the past year or so I've seen all of my sites except for one made to support almost any browser. Occasionally they don't like Firefox or chrome because of certain software support or activex issues but that is it.
The game came before the comics. The comics are being used to explain things between games...
From what I can tell of Gnome-shell it would be supremely suited for a tablet pc. Unless I missed something it sure as hell isn't suited for general desktop use but the minimalist interface with expanding sidebar navigation seem ideal for a tablet.
You should strive for SOME backwards compatibility not honestly supporting more than a generation or two back is too far. Especially when you have a major OS revision (Win2k and Vista come to mind) to act as a breaking point.
I'm not sure where you're from but on most places I've been to in the USA the TASER is one of the earliest steps in the force continuum because when it works it immediately deescalates a confrontation.
After all of the non-physical options are exhausted (yelling, pointing, etc..) your options are fairly limited. You can hit them with pepper spray which can maim and kill in similar fashion to the TASER but doesn't necessarily stop a suspect and frequently just pisses them off. You can grab, punch, or kick the suspect putting yourself in harms way and escalating the confrontation into a brawl. You can shoot the suspect (and you ONLY shoot to kill, there is no such thing as a shoulder of leg shot) thus invoking lethal force, and if you don't get him on the first shot expect him to respond in kind potentially escalating into a shootout with potential for collateral damage.
Or you can shoot them with a TASER. If it works (TASER claims 99.7% effectiveness with minor injuries) it immediately stops a suspect, puts him on the ground, and effectively ends the confrontation. That said I have seen abuse of the TASER, I've read about the beating deaths, heck I've read about the NYPD shooting an unarmed suspect 47 times... Abuse happens, mistakes happen, that is why there needs to be civilian oversight and proper training of our protective forces but it doesn't mean we should take their tools away.
According to Glenn Beck it would have been the Nazis...
I will say the crafting system was superb, something I would love to see else where.