I have a bookeen and love it, the caveat not enough writers suppling their books as e-books.
Most e-books that I have bought have been much cheaper than the paper books, and I can shop for books at home or work (I work 72 hour shifts).
But that damn DRM has to go!
http://www.bookeen.com/ebook/ebook-reading-device.aspx
He did not copy a movie he uploaded it without ever having paid for it.
As for copying, yes I do believe that we should be able to make copies of property we buy...be it movies or music.
That way I can use my copy in my car cd player, stolen I do not lose my music too.
The kids leave the DVD out instead of putting it back, I still have my movie.
My Wife loans out my DVD (you know it wont come back), I still have my movie.
Place soler collectors on the roof of every flat roofed business in the US (actually any country) and that alone will have a major impact on the electrical grid. Add homes to that equation and electricity will be so cheap the generators would have to start charging their premium rates at night, shoot they will probably have to buy into solar cell manufacture just to make a profit.
I recommend trying MEPIS Linux it is based on UBUNU but with the KDE desktop, as a windows user you will find it comfortable and easy to manage. Yes it duel boots as with several distros, you can run it from CD or DVD before installing it on your system which is easy in of itself.
Using synaptic you will be able to install vi; MEPIS comes with OpenOffice.org already installed which has the application MATH for advanced mathematics. as well as several applications for programing and compiling software etc.
UBUNTU is great but you may have trouble with the Gnome desktop manager.
I try to do the same, I am not an IT pro, but I do fix other peoples computers as a hobby.
I personally would recommend MEPIS Linux, I do not get much in the way of converts there though.
I do routinely introduce people to Openoffice with great results especially when I explain that it is FREE and legal to have.
I really want to introduce this to the school system. I am annoyed when homework comes home requiring a file in MS something. Not every student can afford MS ???. Even with the steep discounts.
I would explain that not only is the OpenOffice system free they can hand it out to a student that does not have Internet access legally.
I have also had good results introducing PIO people to Scribus. They have passed on to me that it handles memory better then the other software they were using.
It looks to me to be similar to a jumping animal like the flying squirrel rather than a bird like flyer.
Of course we are looking at a computer guess and the computer can only make its model based on the information the living give it to use, whether it be right or wrong.
Question:
What is a light-year and how is it used?
Answer:
A light-year is a unit of distance. It is the distance that light can travel in one year. Light moves at a velocity of about 300,000 kilometers (km) each second. So in one year, it can travel about 10 trillion km. More precisely, one light-year is equal to 9,500,000,000,000 kilometers.
Why would you want such a big unit of distance? Well, on Earth, a kilometer may be just fine. It is a few hundred kilometers from New York City to Washington, DC; it is a few thousand kilometers from California to Maine. In the Universe, the kilometer is just too small to be useful. For example, the distance to the next nearest big galaxy, the Andromeda Galaxy, is 21 quintillion km. That's 21,000,000,000,000,000,000 km. This is a number so large that it becomes hard to write and hard to interpret. So astronomers use other units of distance.
In our solar system, we tend to describe distances in terms of the Astronomical Unit (AU). The AU is defined as the average distance between the Earth and the Sun. It is approximately 150 million km (93 million miles). Mercury can be said to be about 1/3 of an AU from the Sun and Pluto averages about 40 AU from the Sun. The AU, however, is not big enough of a unit when we start talking about distances to objects outside our solar system.
For distances to other parts of the Milky Way Galaxy (or even further), astronomers use units of the light-year or the parsec . The light-year we have already defined. The parsec is equal to 3.3 light-years. Using the light-year, we can say that :
* The Crab supernova remnant is about 4,000 light-years away.
* The Milky Way Galaxy is about 150,000 light-years across.
* The Andromeda Galaxy is 2.3 million light-years away.
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I have a bookeen and love it, the caveat not enough writers suppling their books as e-books. Most e-books that I have bought have been much cheaper than the paper books, and I can shop for books at home or work (I work 72 hour shifts). But that damn DRM has to go! http://www.bookeen.com/ebook/ebook-reading-device.aspx
He did not copy a movie he uploaded it without ever having paid for it. As for copying, yes I do believe that we should be able to make copies of property we buy...be it movies or music. That way I can use my copy in my car cd player, stolen I do not lose my music too. The kids leave the DVD out instead of putting it back, I still have my movie. My Wife loans out my DVD (you know it wont come back), I still have my movie.
Place soler collectors on the roof of every flat roofed business in the US (actually any country) and that alone will have a major impact on the electrical grid. Add homes to that equation and electricity will be so cheap the generators would have to start charging their premium rates at night, shoot they will probably have to buy into solar cell manufacture just to make a profit.
I recommend trying MEPIS Linux it is based on UBUNU but with the KDE desktop, as a windows user you will find it comfortable and easy to manage. Yes it duel boots as with several distros, you can run it from CD or DVD before installing it on your system which is easy in of itself. Using synaptic you will be able to install vi; MEPIS comes with OpenOffice.org already installed which has the application MATH for advanced mathematics. as well as several applications for programing and compiling software etc. UBUNTU is great but you may have trouble with the Gnome desktop manager.
I try to do the same, I am not an IT pro, but I do fix other peoples computers as a hobby. I personally would recommend MEPIS Linux, I do not get much in the way of converts there though. I do routinely introduce people to Openoffice with great results especially when I explain that it is FREE and legal to have. I really want to introduce this to the school system. I am annoyed when homework comes home requiring a file in MS something. Not every student can afford MS ???. Even with the steep discounts. I would explain that not only is the OpenOffice system free they can hand it out to a student that does not have Internet access legally. I have also had good results introducing PIO people to Scribus. They have passed on to me that it handles memory better then the other software they were using.
It looks to me to be similar to a jumping animal like the flying squirrel rather than a bird like flyer. Of course we are looking at a computer guess and the computer can only make its model based on the information the living give it to use, whether it be right or wrong.
Question: What is a light-year and how is it used? Answer: A light-year is a unit of distance. It is the distance that light can travel in one year. Light moves at a velocity of about 300,000 kilometers (km) each second. So in one year, it can travel about 10 trillion km. More precisely, one light-year is equal to 9,500,000,000,000 kilometers. Why would you want such a big unit of distance? Well, on Earth, a kilometer may be just fine. It is a few hundred kilometers from New York City to Washington, DC; it is a few thousand kilometers from California to Maine. In the Universe, the kilometer is just too small to be useful. For example, the distance to the next nearest big galaxy, the Andromeda Galaxy, is 21 quintillion km. That's 21,000,000,000,000,000,000 km. This is a number so large that it becomes hard to write and hard to interpret. So astronomers use other units of distance. In our solar system, we tend to describe distances in terms of the Astronomical Unit (AU). The AU is defined as the average distance between the Earth and the Sun. It is approximately 150 million km (93 million miles). Mercury can be said to be about 1/3 of an AU from the Sun and Pluto averages about 40 AU from the Sun. The AU, however, is not big enough of a unit when we start talking about distances to objects outside our solar system. For distances to other parts of the Milky Way Galaxy (or even further), astronomers use units of the light-year or the parsec . The light-year we have already defined. The parsec is equal to 3.3 light-years. Using the light-year, we can say that : * The Crab supernova remnant is about 4,000 light-years away. * The Milky Way Galaxy is about 150,000 light-years across. * The Andromeda Galaxy is 2.3 million light-years away.