exactly. Unless you're allowing remote x sessions (and if you are, you deserve what you get), this is a nonissue. Oh, and that "malicious webpage" thing? All it'll do is crash X. So did Firefox for a while, and we all ran it anyway.
Henceforth, along with the worthless whatever.com is, like slashdot, an OSDN company disclaimers, every time Zonk posts something game-related I'd like a Zonk is incapable of performing his function as a reasonably unbiased editor on this topic. And I think it's important that the disclaimer stays there when he dupes the article the next day too. At least that'd tell people something they might not know.
> Yes - you can see the new hat on your character when you equip it > No - putting a hat on does not suddenly give you the real ability to cast fireball
Well, crap, why the hell am I wearing this thing then?
Printing inks aren't real nice, environmentally speaking, unless you use soy inks which are (last time I checked, which was a while ago) significantly more expensive.
Then there's all the energy and chemical goo expended in the papermaking process (nasty, expecially if it's a chlorine-based pulp plant), all the energy expended in the printing and binding process, and all the energy devoted to moving those heavy books around.
You're still probably right. I'd rather increase the demand for trees than for plastic - trees can be regrown and even monocultures like pulp plantations are better than no forest at all - but I just wanted to point out that paper production is surprisingly dirty and the economics of the publishing industry are/immensely/ wasteful - the stripped books sellers send back to the publishers or, more frequently simply dump into the trash, must number in the millions of tons a year.
I haven't actually seen one of the displays yet, but I'd agree that the refresh seems , uh, a little long. Annotation isn't a must-have for me, but it sure would be nice.
I'd be very happy to give up my pilot, which is what I currently use, for something with a more readable display, but the sony model doesn't seem to be it. But hey, it's only one of the first three of these devices ever. I have high hopes for future models.
> But I think in real world use, one would find that a modern 800x600 LCD (same as the resolution of this eink device) would last about as long per charge.
What basis do you have for this comparison? 7.5k page turns, at 1 turn per minute, reading 12 hours a day, works out to something like 10 days of battery life. Can you find an LCD device at 800x600 that will run for anywhere near that long, backlit or otherwise? I sure can't.
> eink offers nothing in power savings over black & white LCD.
I don't believe that's true at all, double-especially in the size and resolution we're talking about here.
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For me, the big failing of it is the "who the hell decided this was a good idea?" user interface. And, of course, the price tag - but time will fix that.
I don't see it replacing books in the near future - I see it replacing my computer as a viewer of my collection of reference PDFs - journal articles, datasheets, user manuals, stuff like that. Stuff I need, but don't want to have to keep laying around in printed form to yellow and get water damaged and whatnot.
I understand that it's not much more than a novelty if all you're reading is the latest fiction off the NYT list. I think the marketing is pitching this thing at the wrong people - they should be selling it to academics and technicians.
35 isn't -that- hot, even if it is marginally outside spec. Point a floor fan at it or something if you must. The important thing is to clean the carpet fuzz, dust, wallabys and wombats out of it frequently so the heat sinks can actually work.
Did you have your sense of humor surgically removed, or were you simply born without one?
I would have thought the four OTHER responses that clearly indicated that I was joking. Or the 'Funny' rating Or that I mentioned "compromised cookies" and "overridden passwords" as similar problems.
I have no opinion and little knowledge of the new law. I was just pointing out that simply requiring end-users to dispose of things properly isn't much of a law at all, because it'll never be enforced.
if a law is far so expensive and unweildy to enforce, it's not worth much. I think we can all agree that in an ideal world the law would leave it up to the owner to dispose of it properly. But then, in an ideal world, people would be dispose of their stuff properly anyway.
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that you're married, have a kid and somehow thought that you'd have plenty of time for grad school -and- work.
Sadly, no. Since HTML is a vital component of email, this sort of vulerability is inherent in the 'email' system, much like compromised cookies and overridden passwords. Some time in the future, we may have an email system that is simply composed of raw text which would be invulnerable to such exploits, but for now we can only dream.
We all bear some responsibility for building a society in which we do not reward bad behavior.
Does that make it better?
> No because it's not a matter of reward v. punish. People aren't poodles to have their noses rubbed in a pile of shit when they do something bad and given a biscuit when they do something good.
I know it's more comfortable to think that we're not, but it is in fact true over the broad spectrum of humanity. People will do what they're rewarded for far more often than they will what they're penalized for.
You're part of the problem. If society at large wants children, and the resulting adults, to not be shitheads then it has to stop rewarding people who act like shitheads. We all bear some small responsibility for building a society in which we reward good behavior. The fact that people won't let you 'use your style of parenting' on their children doesn't absolve you of this.
> As a parent, you are to instill the knowledge of what you think proper moral code is
Yeah. But what do you do when you live in a society that rewards exactly the kind of behavior that you've told the kid all along is wrong? When they're small, it's easy - as a parent, you're their world. As they grow, they start to wonder who is wrong - society or their parents. Guess which one they choose?
exactly. Parents are not exclusively responsible for their childs behavior, because parents do not raise their children in a vaccuum. A society that rewards bad behavior can't really blame parents and parents alone when their kids behave badly.
> Get past the gay vs straight / left vs right mentality for just a second and try to think in human terms.
I think you should try to get past the 'no sense of humor' mentality and try to think like someone who can laught at a dumb, predicatble joke once in a while.
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exactly. Unless you're allowing remote x sessions (and if you are, you deserve what you get), this is a nonissue. Oh, and that "malicious webpage" thing? All it'll do is crash X. So did Firefox for a while, and we all ran it anyway.
That's actually pretty disgraceful.
Henceforth, along with the worthless whatever.com is, like slashdot, an OSDN company disclaimers, every time Zonk posts something game-related I'd like a Zonk is incapable of performing his function as a reasonably unbiased editor on this topic. And I think it's important that the disclaimer stays there when he dupes the article the next day too. At least that'd tell people something they might not know.
> old-fashioned podjacking
what??
> Yes - you can see the new hat on your character when you equip it
> No - putting a hat on does not suddenly give you the real ability to cast fireball
Well, crap, why the hell am I wearing this thing then?
Printing inks aren't real nice, environmentally speaking, unless you use soy inks which are (last time I checked, which was a while ago) significantly more expensive.
/immensely/ wasteful - the stripped books sellers send back to the publishers or, more frequently simply dump into the trash, must number in the millions of tons a year.
Then there's all the energy and chemical goo expended in the papermaking process (nasty, expecially if it's a chlorine-based pulp plant), all the energy expended in the printing and binding process, and all the energy devoted to moving those heavy books around.
You're still probably right. I'd rather increase the demand for trees than for plastic - trees can be regrown and even monocultures like pulp plantations are better than no forest at all - but I just wanted to point out that paper production is surprisingly dirty and the economics of the publishing industry are
I haven't actually seen one of the displays yet, but I'd agree that the refresh seems , uh, a little long. Annotation isn't a must-have for me, but it sure would be nice.
I'd be very happy to give up my pilot, which is what I currently use, for something with a more readable display, but the sony model doesn't seem to be it. But hey, it's only one of the first three of these devices ever. I have high hopes for future models.
> But I think in real world use, one would find that a modern 800x600 LCD (same as the resolution of this eink device) would last about as long per charge.
What basis do you have for this comparison? 7.5k page turns, at 1 turn per minute, reading 12 hours a day, works out to something like 10 days of battery life. Can you find an LCD device at 800x600 that will run for anywhere near that long, backlit or otherwise? I sure can't.
at $3000, it's such a bargain I'll have to buy two!
> eink offers nothing in power savings over black & white LCD.
I don't believe that's true at all, double-especially in the size and resolution we're talking about here.
For me, the big failing of it is the "who the hell decided this was a good idea?" user interface. And, of course, the price tag - but time will fix that.
I don't see it replacing books in the near future - I see it replacing my computer as a viewer of my collection of reference PDFs - journal articles, datasheets, user manuals, stuff like that. Stuff I need, but don't want to have to keep laying around in printed form to yellow and get water damaged and whatnot.
I understand that it's not much more than a novelty if all you're reading is the latest fiction off the NYT list. I think the marketing is pitching this thing at the wrong people - they should be selling it to academics and technicians.
35 isn't -that- hot, even if it is marginally outside spec. Point a floor fan at it or something if you must. The important thing is to clean the carpet fuzz, dust, wallabys and wombats out of it frequently so the heat sinks can actually work.
Did you have your sense of humor surgically removed, or were you simply born without one?
I would have thought the four OTHER responses that clearly indicated that I was joking. Or the 'Funny' rating Or that I mentioned "compromised cookies" and "overridden passwords" as similar problems.
Sheesh!
the issue is more than just images, RTFA.
I have no opinion and little knowledge of the new law. I was just pointing out that simply requiring end-users to dispose of things properly isn't much of a law at all, because it'll never be enforced.
if a law is far so expensive and unweildy to enforce, it's not worth much. I think we can all agree that in an ideal world the law would leave it up to the owner to dispose of it properly. But then, in an ideal world, people would be dispose of their stuff properly anyway.
that you're married, have a kid and somehow thought that you'd have plenty of time for grad school -and- work.
disclaimer: I don't know you.
Sadly, no. Since HTML is a vital component of email, this sort of vulerability is inherent in the 'email' system, much like compromised cookies and overridden passwords. Some time in the future, we may have an email system that is simply composed of raw text which would be invulnerable to such exploits, but for now we can only dream.
ok, then let me rephrase it:
We all bear some responsibility for building a society in which we do not reward bad behavior.
Does that make it better?
> No because it's not a matter of reward v. punish. People aren't poodles to have their noses rubbed in a pile of shit when they do something bad and given a biscuit when they do something good.
I know it's more comfortable to think that we're not, but it is in fact true over the broad spectrum of humanity. People will do what they're rewarded for far more often than they will what they're penalized for.
You're part of the problem. If society at large wants children, and the resulting adults, to not be shitheads then it has to stop rewarding people who act like shitheads. We all bear some small responsibility for building a society in which we reward good behavior. The fact that people won't let you 'use your style of parenting' on their children doesn't absolve you of this.
Winner, Facile Comment of the Day, October 12, 2006.
> As a parent, you are to instill the knowledge of what you think proper moral code is
Yeah. But what do you do when you live in a society that rewards exactly the kind of behavior that you've told the kid all along is wrong? When they're small, it's easy - as a parent, you're their world. As they grow, they start to wonder who is wrong - society or their parents. Guess which one they choose?
I am a proud IE-on-Debian user and there are millions* like me!
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http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/page/Main_Pag
*0.00005 millions
... and I should get past the "types like a drunk monkey" mentality, yikes. :-O
> It takes a tribe......
exactly. Parents are not exclusively responsible for their childs behavior, because parents do not raise their children in a vaccuum. A society that rewards bad behavior can't really blame parents and parents alone when their kids behave badly.
> Get past the gay vs straight / left vs right mentality for just a second and try to think in human terms.
I think you should try to get past the 'no sense of humor' mentality and try to think like someone who can laught at a dumb, predicatble joke once in a while.