I have a Magic Jack installed using a wireless phone and have access throughout my house. I don't understand what this new product gives that I don't have.
I got a nook for my brother for Christmas because he can't physically hold a book.
I buy audio books and ebooks both. If the book is something worth reading again I buy the hard copy. ebooks are much less expensive than the regular format. I think this is an important feature that most of the discussion has overlooked. With all of the crap being written these days I don't want to keep a copy lying around.
Audiobooks are great because they let me do something while I'm listening to a book. Another feature of audiobooks often overlooked is that the narrator is what makes a so so book worth having. The best narrators make reading a book a performance. I find that they are almost as important as the author. Jim Dale with Rowling; Stephen Briggs and Pratchett; Patrick Tull and Obrien are all outstanding pairings. When the author is able to do both (Neil Gaiman) you get not only the authors words but you get the meaning he put into them.
Another unrealized potential of ebooks is for user manuals text books and other transient content. They would be a great tool for field personnel to carry for reference. This is the type of information you don't want to keep because it changes with time. Of course, it would help if the vendors of these technologies would open them up so that more people could write applications for them.
This is why reviews on Angie's list, CNET, Slashdot, Amazon and the like are getting more important. When you make a report on something like Angie's List you can influence many more people than your lowly ranking as an end-user would normally indicate.
At least the police should be required to have their DNA in the database. That way any DNA contamination during crime scene investigation can be accounted for.
Sony's been doing this for years. They put the retailer's label on the same products various retailer sell each with a separate model number. When you go to look up a part number it will list several model numbers that it works on.
This story reminds me of the tail of the Compaq salesman when they first started making "portable" computers. He would walk into a sales presentation and slide the portable across the floor into the wall pick it up and turn it on and go on with his presentation.
Slashdot Mirror
DIY manual by Daniel H. Wilson on how to survive the coming uprising.
Now that it's legal to buy Congress, SF should just hire a Senator to stop the enforcement. Stand by to contribute to a special project to pay for it.
Almost enough to hold Robert Jordan's "The Wheel of Time."
I wonder if they looked up anything about a puffin. It is a notoriously bad flier. They don't all them scuba pigeons for nothing.
The recap says that astronomers have until now only been able to get indirect light samples. Isn't all of the light from a planet indirect?
Quit letting women write the scripts. Nothing kills a good SciFi like all the touchie feelie crap.
I have a Magic Jack installed using a wireless phone and have access throughout my house. I don't understand what this new product gives that I don't have.
When has Stephen King ever known where to take a story? Life's too short to read King.
I got a nook for my brother for Christmas because he can't physically hold a book. I buy audio books and ebooks both. If the book is something worth reading again I buy the hard copy. ebooks are much less expensive than the regular format. I think this is an important feature that most of the discussion has overlooked. With all of the crap being written these days I don't want to keep a copy lying around. Audiobooks are great because they let me do something while I'm listening to a book. Another feature of audiobooks often overlooked is that the narrator is what makes a so so book worth having. The best narrators make reading a book a performance. I find that they are almost as important as the author. Jim Dale with Rowling; Stephen Briggs and Pratchett; Patrick Tull and Obrien are all outstanding pairings. When the author is able to do both (Neil Gaiman) you get not only the authors words but you get the meaning he put into them. Another unrealized potential of ebooks is for user manuals text books and other transient content. They would be a great tool for field personnel to carry for reference. This is the type of information you don't want to keep because it changes with time. Of course, it would help if the vendors of these technologies would open them up so that more people could write applications for them.
This is why reviews on Angie's list, CNET, Slashdot, Amazon and the like are getting more important. When you make a report on something like Angie's List you can influence many more people than your lowly ranking as an end-user would normally indicate.
What a great project for OLPC. They would make a great ebook reader if someone could put together an OLPC activity that is easy to install and use.
Thank God for the Second Amendment.
At least the police should be required to have their DNA in the database. That way any DNA contamination during crime scene investigation can be accounted for.
A good police force is one that commits fewer crimes than is solves.
Sony's been doing this for years. They put the retailer's label on the same products various retailer sell each with a separate model number. When you go to look up a part number it will list several model numbers that it works on.
Let's see if they lower the price on Apple products.
Same here and my phone company DSL sucks.
Purple haze all in my eyes Don't know if it's day or night You've got me blowin, blowin my mind Is it tomorrow or just the end of time? - Jimi Hendrix
This story reminds me of the tail of the Compaq salesman when they first started making "portable" computers. He would walk into a sales presentation and slide the portable across the floor into the wall pick it up and turn it on and go on with his presentation.
Crazy People
Time to re-read Daniel H. Wilson's "How to Survive a Robot Uprising"
A press release in search of a mission.
Nobody likes a poor thief.
No body likes a poor thief.
TI made more money in the 80s and 90s on legal action than they did on selling products.