I use a tablet (Kindle Fire to be exact) for e-books and I like it just fine, but I only use it for free or low-price books. The problem I have with e-books is you lose all your rights with them. With real ink & paper books you can do what you want with them. They're yours forever until you decide to sell/trade/lend/donate/etc... them. With e-books, you don't have those options (yes yes, Amazon lets you "lend" a book...sometimes...with restrictions) and they're never really yours. They're only yours until that e-book provider shuts down, then your SOL. Just imagine what would have happened if Borders had their own e-book service like Amazon and Barns-n-Nobles when they went out of business. All those "books" you paid would have paid good money for (usually just as much as a real book) gone with no hope of return.

Uh, no we're not. The liberals you speak of are mostly California refugees that are fleeing the product of the choices they've made, laws and regulations they've mandated and politicians they've voted in. They're broke and it's their fault, but they'll never understand nor admit that it's the result of the choices they've made. Now they're spreading and they're going to fuck the rest of us the way they've fucked themselves.

No

I see what you did there. And no, I did not click.

Oh there you are kettle!
I've got a pot I'd like you to meet!

This is a bit off topic, but I really wish any links posted in the comments automatically opened in a new window/tab so we didn't accidentally navigate away from the conversation.

ummm...I hope you're kidding.
You never can tell around here.

...how is Twitter still relevant? Personally I think it makes a great single sign on service, but this whole 140 character limit they've imposed on themselves has rendered them useless for any kind of substantial communication IMO.

If it had been democrats Slashdot wouldn't have spun it a completely different light and all of the holier-than-thou liberal zealots on here would have been praising them and their enlightenment while smugly creaming in their apple-fanboy panties.

That's great if you know what you're looking for, but if you're searching for a specific app you rarely use and don't remember the name of it would be highly inefficient and frustrating.

More like fat asses

Take your meds dude.

Ok...what about Base? The last time I used it it was an unusable pile of crap that had no interoperability between other systems or file formats. No import, barely an export (if it had any at all) no connecting to outside sources what-so-ever. MS Access is the ONLY reason I still consider purchasing Office, not for its database functionality (which is fine) but because it can connect to just about anything on the planet.

The problem with boycotting is you have to get a vast majority of consumers to go along with it and most people just don't care enough to go through with it. I do, you do and most of /. prolly does but talk to Joe Plumber or Nacho Roofer about DRM and they'll think you're talking about some sort of VD...nevermind the teenagers (RIAA's ever-so-loyal fanbase) who would look at you like you're stupid and continue to buy anyways.

Yes, yes you are.