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Comment Avoid (Score 1) 205

avoid the draft HTML5 spec (the final version is not due for several years) because of interoperability issues across browsers."

That's different from HTML4 how, exactly?

Comment in my day (Score 1) 664

When I was in college, the best way I found to take notes was when the professor would hand out printouts of his slides, with some details left out. then i could just fill in the blanks, and wouldn't have to write so much that I couldn't really think about what was being said, but still ended up with complete notes. If this could be done on some sort of tablet, they they'd probably have some serious power. also, students who don't want to pay attention won't learn, will always find a way to waste time, and that's their problem. if they're not distracting other students, then I don't really see it as the professor's problem.

Comment Re:Absolutely (Score 1) 158

I don't think ebooks are worth as much as paper books for reasons that have already been beaten to death here - DRM prevents you from lending the book to a friend, if the DRM server disappears, so do your books, the bookseller can disable/delete your books whenever they feel like it, lots of publishers are delaying or choosing not to release ebooks to try and drive up sales of paper books, if you upgrade your device, it might not be compatible with your collection, and the marginal cost of producing copies of ebooks is practically zero. The most I'd be willing to pay for an ebook is $5, and it would have to be a current best seller. Older and less popular books would have to be cheaper, unless they offered some additional advantages.

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