But yet the fact remains it is currently *more* accessible to the disabled than a regular textbook. So let's not have an improvement because we should hold out for an even better improvement?
Since the "even better" improvements are, in fact, available, and since normally universities don't provide or promote particular technologies, they just post requirements for what books will be used, there is certainly a case to be made that the university actively promoting a less-accessible reader device is hurting rather than helping, because by promoting Kindle, they are inhibiting uptake of more accessible digital devices.
I don't know WTF alt-ctrl-del does on YOUR Linux box, but on all of mine, it brings up a menu. Killing X instead of bringing up a menu seems like harm done, to me.
Or are you a Windows-only poser trying to act like you know WTF you're talking about?
Ctrl-Alt-Del brings up a menu on Windows, too. (Not sure about Vista/7, but it brings up the Lock/Logoff/Shutdown/Task Manager/etc. menu on XP Pro and the earlier equivalents, and I think it brings up the Task Manager -- same as Ctrl-Shift-Escape -- on XP Home.) So, even relying on Windows knowledge alone, GGP doesn't make much sense.
No, they didn't. HDTV has acheived pretty good penetration, but not because everyone just bought it yesterday. The early adopters starting buying HDTVs several years ago, and those are the people that would be the first targets for 3D TV sales. The people that just bought HDTVs aren't generally early adopters of new TV technology, and wouldn't be expected, generally, to be in the first wave of purchasers for any new TV technology.
they're just not going to buy 3D TVs unless the technology is so cheap they include it in all new HDTVs.
Yeah, and HDTV didn't acheive the kind of penetration it has until you essentially couldn't buy SDTVs, because the price differential had been erased so there was no point in carrying them. That's generally when an upgrade becomes completely dominant. OTOH, its also not much of an argument against the prospects for a new technology, which almost always relies on a wedge of early adopters and then grows out from there.
The whole idea is a lot more compelling for home video game consoles. So if Panasonic, Toshiba, etc. throw a lot of Money and Microsoft and Sony commits with the PS4, this might also take off.
The PS4? ISTR that Sony has already said that the PS3 will support the BluRay 3D spec via software update without any hardware changes; if they can do that in software, then presumably they can make 3D TV features available to games via software as well.
A government is geographically limited. A big business can set up wherever it wants and, if sufficiently powerful, have its rules supersede the local laws.
A government that is sufficiently powerful can also set up wherever it wants, and have its rules supersede the local laws (both in the practical sense, and even further by simply replacing the government with one that will impose new laws more to the intruding government's liking -- or the intruding government can just displace the local government and assume the job for itself.) Historically, examples of this are quite common.
So, I would say that the contrast you draw is quite misguided.
How come all hybrid vehicles comes in the form of Gasoline / Battery ?
They don't.
How come there is no hybrid vehicle that is in the form of Diesel / Battery ?
There are plenty. They are mostly used in the places where diesels are popular to start with -- busses, commercial trucks, heavy-duty pickups, submarines,...
Do you know that diesel engines is much more efficient than that of the gasoline engine ?
Sure, but diesel/electric hybrids aren't as much more efficient than diesels than gasoline/electric hybrids are compared to gasoline engines. This is because diesels don't inherently have some of the inefficiencies that gasoline engines do that hybrids address.
And if we are really into the "Green" thing, why must we stuck with the gasoline engine ?
There are plenty of alternatives -- diesels (including ones using biofuels), gas/electric hybrids, diesel/electric hybrids, pure-electric vehicles -- currently on the market. Gasoline-based alternatives (e.g., gas/electric hybrids) aren't the only "greener" option to "normal" gasoline engines, even among what is currently commercially available.
Why can't we change to Diesel / Battery instead, for hybrids ?
There's no real benefit to a diesel/electric engine for small passenger vehicles compared to gas/electric.
What part of the summary "I asked the hotel staff if there were any limitations for using the suite. They said the only limitations were how many people were at our parties. They didn't say there were any limitations on displaying product" was unclear?
Its not unclear.
What it is not is confirmed by any source who doesn't have a vested interested in presenting things in a particular light.
The problem here is that people are forgetting that the entire purpose of these gadgets is for reading books.
No, its really not. Its for reading digital replacement of print material. This includes books, but it also includes newspapers, magazines, journals, etc.
How many books that are read by adults have significant amounts of color in them? Almost zero have pictures...let alone color pictures.
Actually quite a lot have at least spot color and sometimes full color, even if you just consider books (and periodicials often use quite a bit of color.) Novels generally don't, of course, but art & craft books and cookbooks, on the other hand, more often than not do. Textbooks quite often do. And many of the adult books (other than novels) that don't, only don't because for an adult audience, the extra cost of color printing isn't seen as worthwhile. But while a color electronic reader might be (for otherwise similar quality) more expensive than a monochrome reader, there's very little per-copy additional cost for producing and distributing color ebooks vs. monochrome ones, which changes the equation. So, if readers support it, one could expect quite a lot of adult ebooks to use color, even if the equivalent print book wouldn't.
I've had a full color book reader for the last year. It's (of course), an Android phone with FBReaderJ for ePub support. In order to reduce eye strain I use it in reverse color mode (White text on black background). Beats paper books & Kindle for portability and the battery lasts for 2-3 days. A "book reader" is an extremely limited device - why should I buy one when I can read books on my phone?
Because--and I say this as someone who has both Lexcycle Stanza and the B&N Reader app on my iPhone 3G: (1) Your phone probably has a much smaller screen than even the "paperback" format eReaders, much less large screen readers, and is therefore far more limited in the kinds of books (content, not file format) it is convenient for reading, (2) Your phone probably has an LCD display that is less readable in full sunlight than an eInk display. (3) Sometimes you might want to reference reading material while using your phone as a phone.
Maybe. Or maybe a commercially-significant number of people only believe that 3D will add to the entertainment value.
Just as an example, I remember when HDTVs started coming down in price, my parents got a cheap 720p TV and hooked it up to their low-def cable box. My dad kept talking about how wonderful and sharp the HD picture was, and how worthwhile his purchase of a new TV was. In that case, the idea of HDTV added to his enjoyment even without actually watching HD.
Or, maybe the TV was better than his older SDTV even when displaying SD content. Certainly, the 1080p LCD I currently have looks better even with 480p content than the 1080i/540p CRT I had previously.
And, also, entertainment value is subjective. There is literally no difference between someone believing that something has better entertainment value for them and it actually having better entertainment value for them.
If there's another major 3D release in the next year that does equally well, I'll happily concede that you were right.
Equally well as...what? There have been a lot of major 3D releases recently.
If you mean "equally well to Avatar", that's a ridiculous standard, about equivalent to saying that "if there is a 2D film in the next year that matches Titanic's box office (adjusted for inflation), I'll think that 2D is still viable."
What's the point in investing in an ebook reader if your locked in?
All ebook readers I know of will read DRM-free formats fine, and very many publishers publish DRM-free ebooks. Many eBook readers, particularly those that runs an eBook store for books that they don't produce also support one or more forms of DRM. But there is enough DRM free content available in major formats that, to me at least, it doesn't make sense to use the existence of DRM-laden eBooks that might be at risk if a vendor stopped supporting some central service as a reason not to buy a reader. Sure, it might be a reason to not buy the DRM-laden books for which that is the case, but reader devices are useful without those particular books.
I know the technology is getting better, but the 3D in Avatar was just good enough to not be a distraction from the movie- it certainly didn't add anything to it, besides $5 for the ticket.
Your tastes are not universal. Considerable experience has demonstrated that a commercially-significant number of people do find that 3D adds to the entertainment value of various forms of visual entertainment.
Having said that, I'm not sure what the benefits of this thing (excuse me: tHIs THinG) are, over and above a separate netbook and e-reader.
Price for the combined display sizes. Overall weight for the combined display sizes.
tHIs THinG may be perfect for a niche of readers, but I don't see this device going anywhere. That's too bad, because I want a much more diverse field of e-readers out there, in order to encourage publishers to settle on a uniform format.
There's quite a lot of diversity in e-readers (and eDGe wasn't the only new one introduced at CES -- there was also the Que proReader and the Skiff that I know of off the top of my head.) And.epub's doing a good job at moving forward as the standard format. (Just about every reader but the Kindle supports it, and almost every independent publisher [as in, not an tied to a device vendor] uses it. Plus, its basically zipped XHTML + CSS + common image formats -- with a couple of small quirks -- so its reasonably easy to support, too.)
Silverlight didn't work, and we still want to kill Flash.
That's probably part of it, but I wonder if the fact that Microsoft is trying to play in the tablet space -- where reading ebooks is a key application -- and SVG support is required for conformant.epub readers (with.epub is increasingly dominant for ebooks) might be a factor.
This is probably just a ploy to kill off the second hand and discounted games market.
The ability to resell games on the secondhand market supports the price of new games. Killing the secondhand market only helps a publisher if they plan on cutting prices to make up for that, otherwise, they are reducing the market for new games, not expanding it. I would expect that this is more directed at people buying games, finding one that is satisfying, and keeping it for years rather than the resale market.
That is sheer insanity. So we grant a foreign agency extra-legal protections to operate within our borders.
How are the protections defined in a law passed by Congress in 1945 concerning protections for international organizations extra-legal? They are protections that (1) exist in statute law, (2) are given the INTERPOL by the process defined in the law delineating the protections available. They would seem to be legal, not extra-legal.
We put limitations (with damned good reasons) on our own law enforcement agencies but we turn around and grant Interpol (not even responsible to any one particular government) near unlimited authority within our country.
The protections at issue do not constitute "near unlimited authority".
When you take in investors, it's impossible to get such a clause. (Don't think that we didn't try).
So, in 2001, David and I had the choice to continue like before and grow slowly or take a risk and grow rapidly.
So, you choose a course of action, knowing the consequences that could result from it, and profited quite handsomely from it. And then, the consequences whose risk you accepted when you made the choice materialized, limiting the means by which you can derive future profit from MySQL. So, what's your beef?
Well, considering that anthropogenic climate change is probably a bigger threat in the long run than terrorism it's good that the CIA is helping.
Note also that while the evidence strongly supports the anthropogenic contribution to climate change, the security threat posed by climate change and the national security reasons to monitor, understand, and prepare to deal with the effects of climate change are independent of whether or not it is of anthropogenic origin.
The effects of climate change, not its causes, are the source of the security threats.
Should the availability of the tech matter or should the courts actually use some sort of sound judgement about how intrusive authorities can be? The availability of the technology is not relevant to whether or not the government is stepping on your rights.
I don't think that's as black-and-white as you present it. Clearly, whether something is in plain view or not matters to whether or not there is a search -- much less whether such a search is reasonable or not -- in the first place, and there is at least a colorable argument that something visible to any mechanism pervasively and casually used by the public is in plain view. (Of course, the opposite position, that "plain view" which would not constitute a search applies only to what can be seen with natural senses, is also defensible.)
The technology to break into your house has always been cheap and available yet for some reason surveillance is treated differently.
That's a rather different issue -- if you have to break into a building to see something, then there is clearly a search of the building. The issue with sensing technology is whether discovery with it constitutes a search or not.
Diplomatic Immunity doesn't mean they get to violate our laws, it just means they don't go to jail for violating our laws.
Diplomatic Immunity would mean that, but they don't have diplomatic immunity, they have the the much lesser immunity offered to international institutions under US law, which is basically immunity to taxes, customs inspections, searches and seizures of institutional property, and suits against officers in their official capacity.
They had diplomatic immunity since Reagan's executive order.
Actually, INTERPOL had a limited subset of the immunities available to international organizations under US law, which are far less than the privileges that attach with diplomatic immunity.
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Since the "even better" improvements are, in fact, available, and since normally universities don't provide or promote particular technologies, they just post requirements for what books will be used, there is certainly a case to be made that the university actively promoting a less-accessible reader device is hurting rather than helping, because by promoting Kindle, they are inhibiting uptake of more accessible digital devices.
Ctrl-Alt-Del brings up a menu on Windows, too. (Not sure about Vista/7, but it brings up the Lock/Logoff/Shutdown/Task Manager/etc. menu on XP Pro and the earlier equivalents, and I think it brings up the Task Manager -- same as Ctrl-Shift-Escape -- on XP Home.) So, even relying on Windows knowledge alone, GGP doesn't make much sense.
No, they didn't. HDTV has acheived pretty good penetration, but not because everyone just bought it yesterday. The early adopters starting buying HDTVs several years ago, and those are the people that would be the first targets for 3D TV sales. The people that just bought HDTVs aren't generally early adopters of new TV technology, and wouldn't be expected, generally, to be in the first wave of purchasers for any new TV technology.
Yeah, and HDTV didn't acheive the kind of penetration it has until you essentially couldn't buy SDTVs, because the price differential had been erased so there was no point in carrying them. That's generally when an upgrade becomes completely dominant. OTOH, its also not much of an argument against the prospects for a new technology, which almost always relies on a wedge of early adopters and then grows out from there.
The PS4? ISTR that Sony has already said that the PS3 will support the BluRay 3D spec via software update without any hardware changes; if they can do that in software, then presumably they can make 3D TV features available to games via software as well.
A government that is sufficiently powerful can also set up wherever it wants, and have its rules supersede the local laws (both in the practical sense, and even further by simply replacing the government with one that will impose new laws more to the intruding government's liking -- or the intruding government can just displace the local government and assume the job for itself.) Historically, examples of this are quite common.
So, I would say that the contrast you draw is quite misguided.
It seems to methat it would also bring back the flicker issue of CRTs.
Corolla: compact car, 27 mpg city/35 mpg highway (with the most efficient engine option)
Prius: midsize car, 51 mpg city/48 mpg highway
Really, the only level on which they have the "same features" is that they are four-wheeled passenger vehicles made by Toyota.
They don't.
There are plenty. They are mostly used in the places where diesels are popular to start with -- busses, commercial trucks, heavy-duty pickups, submarines, ...
Sure, but diesel/electric hybrids aren't as much more efficient than diesels than gasoline/electric hybrids are compared to gasoline engines. This is because diesels don't inherently have some of the inefficiencies that gasoline engines do that hybrids address.
There are plenty of alternatives -- diesels (including ones using biofuels), gas/electric hybrids, diesel/electric hybrids, pure-electric vehicles -- currently on the market. Gasoline-based alternatives (e.g., gas/electric hybrids) aren't the only "greener" option to "normal" gasoline engines, even among what is currently commercially available.
There's no real benefit to a diesel/electric engine for small passenger vehicles compared to gas/electric.
Its not unclear.
What it is not is confirmed by any source who doesn't have a vested interested in presenting things in a particular light.
There is a difference between a claim and a fact.
No, its really not. Its for reading digital replacement of print material. This includes books, but it also includes newspapers, magazines, journals, etc.
Actually quite a lot have at least spot color and sometimes full color, even if you just consider books (and periodicials often use quite a bit of color.) Novels generally don't, of course, but art & craft books and cookbooks, on the other hand, more often than not do. Textbooks quite often do. And many of the adult books (other than novels) that don't, only don't because for an adult audience, the extra cost of color printing isn't seen as worthwhile. But while a color electronic reader might be (for otherwise similar quality) more expensive than a monochrome reader, there's very little per-copy additional cost for producing and distributing color ebooks vs. monochrome ones, which changes the equation. So, if readers support it, one could expect quite a lot of adult ebooks to use color, even if the equivalent print book wouldn't.
Because--and I say this as someone who has both Lexcycle Stanza and the B&N Reader app on my iPhone 3G:
(1) Your phone probably has a much smaller screen than even the "paperback" format eReaders, much less large screen readers, and is therefore far more limited in the kinds of books (content, not file format) it is convenient for reading,
(2) Your phone probably has an LCD display that is less readable in full sunlight than an eInk display.
(3) Sometimes you might want to reference reading material while using your phone as a phone.
Or, maybe the TV was better than his older SDTV even when displaying SD content. Certainly, the 1080p LCD I currently have looks better even with 480p content than the 1080i/540p CRT I had previously.
And, also, entertainment value is subjective. There is literally no difference between someone believing that something has better entertainment value for them and it actually having better entertainment value for them.
Equally well as...what? There have been a lot of major 3D releases recently.
If you mean "equally well to Avatar", that's a ridiculous standard, about equivalent to saying that "if there is a 2D film in the next year that matches Titanic's box office (adjusted for inflation), I'll think that 2D is still viable."
All ebook readers I know of will read DRM-free formats fine, and very many publishers publish DRM-free ebooks. Many eBook readers, particularly those that runs an eBook store for books that they don't produce also support one or more forms of DRM. But there is enough DRM free content available in major formats that, to me at least, it doesn't make sense to use the existence of DRM-laden eBooks that might be at risk if a vendor stopped supporting some central service as a reason not to buy a reader. Sure, it might be a reason to not buy the DRM-laden books for which that is the case, but reader devices are useful without those particular books.
Your tastes are not universal. Considerable experience has demonstrated that a commercially-significant number of people do find that 3D adds to the entertainment value of various forms of visual entertainment.
Price for the combined display sizes. Overall weight for the combined display sizes.
There's quite a lot of diversity in e-readers (and eDGe wasn't the only new one introduced at CES -- there was also the Que proReader and the Skiff that I know of off the top of my head.) And .epub's doing a good job at moving forward as the standard format. (Just about every reader but the Kindle supports it, and almost every independent publisher [as in, not an tied to a device vendor] uses it. Plus, its basically zipped XHTML + CSS + common image formats -- with a couple of small quirks -- so its reasonably easy to support, too.)
That's probably part of it, but I wonder if the fact that Microsoft is trying to play in the tablet space -- where reading ebooks is a key application -- and SVG support is required for conformant .epub readers (with .epub is increasingly dominant for ebooks) might be a factor.
Battery life isn't the only advantage of eInk for readers -- it's easier on the eyes for long use than LCDs, too.
The ability to resell games on the secondhand market supports the price of new games. Killing the secondhand market only helps a publisher if they plan on cutting prices to make up for that, otherwise, they are reducing the market for new games, not expanding it. I would expect that this is more directed at people buying games, finding one that is satisfying, and keeping it for years rather than the resale market.
If you want Ubuntu with KDE environment and apps as "standard", Canonical has a distribution for that.
How are the protections defined in a law passed by Congress in 1945 concerning protections for international organizations extra-legal? They are protections that (1) exist in statute law, (2) are given the INTERPOL by the process defined in the law delineating the protections available. They would seem to be legal, not extra-legal.
The protections at issue do not constitute "near unlimited authority".
So, you choose a course of action, knowing the consequences that could result from it, and profited quite handsomely from it. And then, the consequences whose risk you accepted when you made the choice materialized, limiting the means by which you can derive future profit from MySQL. So, what's your beef?
Note also that while the evidence strongly supports the anthropogenic contribution to climate change, the security threat posed by climate change and the national security reasons to monitor, understand, and prepare to deal with the effects of climate change are independent of whether or not it is of anthropogenic origin.
The effects of climate change, not its causes, are the source of the security threats.
I don't think that's as black-and-white as you present it. Clearly, whether something is in plain view or not matters to whether or not there is a search -- much less whether such a search is reasonable or not -- in the first place, and there is at least a colorable argument that something visible to any mechanism pervasively and casually used by the public is in plain view. (Of course, the opposite position, that "plain view" which would not constitute a search applies only to what can be seen with natural senses, is also defensible.)
That's a rather different issue -- if you have to break into a building to see something, then there is clearly a search of the building. The issue with sensing technology is whether discovery with it constitutes a search or not.
Diplomatic Immunity would mean that, but they don't have diplomatic immunity, they have the the much lesser immunity offered to international institutions under US law, which is basically immunity to taxes, customs inspections, searches and seizures of institutional property, and suits against officers in their official capacity.
Actually, INTERPOL had a limited subset of the immunities available to international organizations under US law, which are far less than the privileges that attach with diplomatic immunity.