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Comment Re:Sandvine? (Score 1) 301

I think the media companies get it just fine. AT&T with U-Verse, Verizon's FiOS and Comcast with their On Demand service are doing the same thing, just locally on their network from their library of content. But since they don't have to open their private delivery network (it's IP), they can attack the other method that competition does use -- public IP from an ISP perspective. I'm still on the fence regarding net neutrality, but I don't see this coming out good for Netflix w/o some intervention.

Comment Re:Reasons not to get a kindle (Score 1) 210

1) Kindle will not work with epub, or many other formats. Libraries typically use epub format.

If it's non-DRM epub, it can be converted to mobi (non-DRM).

2) B&N nook color will be a complete android platform soon. Read any format. Or just use your phone and/or computer to read any ebook format.

Again, if the content I want is available via Amazon or via a semi-easy process to convert or upload, format is not an issue. Design and use of my preferred reading device is key -- the Kindle.

3) Ten days without a recharge is, typically, not needed.

Unless you don't have a charger with you. More important when you read on a device that doesn't have e-ink. iPad ain't going to last long enough, even on a short trip.

4) No color.

The books I read are still in black text on white background.

5) The "LED eye strain" claims are a hoax. I read an LED all day without eye strain. I'm 52 and I have never had great vision.

I assume you mean LCD. I concur when you talk about regular lit environs such as a home or office. I mean we use LCD's day-in and day-out via our computers. Outside though in direct sun, nothing beats e-ink.

6) Kindle does not work well in dim light.

Get the new cover wit integrated light. Runs off the Kindle's battery and is one of the best designed solutions I've used so far.

7) Kindle is a unitasker. Why carry around a kindle and a notebook, when a notebook will do everything you need? Why have a kindle and an android tablet, or a kindle and an iPad?

Sometimes, a purpose-built device overcomes the unitasker shadow. My phone, iPad and laptop provide 20-80% of the experience I look for when reading a book. The K1 provided 80-90% of that experience, and the K3 is 99% of the way there. Heck, even Alton Brown has unitaskers in his kitchen when they provide a much better function than a general use tool.

8) No touch screen.

For a book, it's not something I need. On the K3, the only time I wish I had touch capabilty is when navigating a page to look up a word.

Comment Re:migrate (Score 2, Insightful) 196

Do it the other way around, that's what we've done for our employees. First they order Comcast cable only (any package) if they so desire. Some are on satellite and have opted not to do that. Then you order Comcast Business and tie it to your company but the service address is the employee's house. They are more than happy to do that and the few times we've called them to resolve issues that required a truck roll, the tech wasn't a contractor but an actual Comcast employee who knows the the business service. We have consistent quality and service on 12, 22, and 50 Mb connections. When comparing the lost time and IT staff required to resolve issues when we let home users use the residential services (Cable or HellSouth, err AT&T) to the increased cost of service, it continues to pay for itself.

Comment Re:DCU (Score 2, Informative) 359

Good thing about a credit union that services techies (the old DEC crowd). It's funny to see HP kit in the offices, I'd still love to see VT300-VT400's from days past. Now DFCU, 'splain to me again why you closed down the Alpharetta branch??!!! Personally, I use mint.com to manage historical transactions.

Comment Re:HDR? (Score 1) 287

Stock up on that Kodachrome while you've got time Gerafix. There's 95% crap out there no matter what the method of photography is, same holds true with HDR. Trey Ratcliff shows how it can be done in an artistic manner.

Comment Re:Good Eats in book form (Score 1) 312

<a href="http://www.cooksillustrated.com/>Cook's Illustrated</a> has lots of helpful geek-type cooking advice. In fact, you'll see a lot of Alton Brown's ideas referenced in their magazine and cookbooks. Seeing their relationship with the Culinary Institute of America, Alton's alma mater if you will, it's no surprise. Almost a Consumer's Digest of cooking.

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