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Comment: Re:PRS-650 (Score 1) 204

by Kehvarl (#35832502) Attached to: E-Book Sales Have Tripled In the Last Year

I can't speak to the PRS 650 model directly, but I do have its immediate predecessor the PRS 600. The touch is absolutely fantastic, the built-in dictionary has been useful more than once, and the ability to highlight sections or take notes has been handy. The 650 is supposed to have an even more responsive touch, so it should be even nicer.

I have seen the 650 screen, and it's noticeably better contrast than my 600, without the shiny coating that the 600 needed for it's resistive touch screen.

Adding files is pretty easy, you can use the sony software, the free Calibre software (which can also convert ebooks between various formats if needed) or the 600 (and presumably 650) will show up as a mass storage device, and you can just drop ebook files into the "Documents" directory on the device itself. Additionally you can use a Sony memory stick, or an SD card for more storage and books.

Hope this helps!

Comment: Re:Alternatives, anyone? (Score 2) 586

by Kehvarl (#35380984) Attached to: Student Sues FBI For Planting GPS Tracker

An "acceptable" level of invasion of privacy, as you put it, would be to get an appropriate warrant before installing this equipment. That both serves to show that the FBI or other organizations are not just randomly tracking people in the hopes of finding something worth "investigating", but also provides them a defense against law suits like this one; eg: "The GPS device was installed in accordance with this warrant, and in relation to this investigation, and the suit has no standing."

Comment: Re:I 3 my kindle (Score 1) 236

by Kehvarl (#35224974) Attached to: The True Cost of Publishing On the Amazon Kindle

While the original poster may have been, and probably was, referring to pirated content you don't have to be breaking copyright laws to say "Screw paying for anything." Depending on your particular tastes there might be a wide array of legitimately free content available from a variety of publishers or from Project Gutenberg.

Comment: Re:Greedo shooting first is far more hated ... (Score 3, Funny) 495

by Kehvarl (#33386632) Attached to: How Star Wars Trumped Star Trek For Scientific Accuracy

Greedo missing from 3 feet away, stormtroopers unable to hit anything, and Obi-wan's comment "Only Imperial Stormtroopers are so precise," can all be explained away by another of Kenobi's comments: "...clumsy or random as a blaster."

From all this, I can only conclude that "blasters" have an intentionally random directional shift applied each time the weapon is fired. Such randomness would mean that they constitute a galaxy-spanning game of Russian roulette, and would also make them ideal terror weapons.

This feature can be used to explain the Stormtrooper precision based on the standardization of their equipment. If all Imperial blasters have an identical random-deflection-generator installed and seeded with the same value, then shots taken at the same time would have identical deflection and all strike the same area, despite having completely unpredictable accuracy.

Comment: Re:As a Wii Owner (Score 1) 258

by Kehvarl (#32666642) Attached to: New Wii Menu Update Targets Homebrew Again

I think Nintendo support is rather hit-and-miss. I've actually had good luck with them on 2 separate issues. First one of my Wiimotes died; Nintendo sent me a shipping label, then UPS lost it so Nintendo sent me a replacement mote. The other issue was when I started getting "cannot read disc" errors after playing a gamecube game. Again with the free shipping and a fast turnaround. No big hassle or anything. On the other hand I've had 2 friends with Wii issues who couldn't get good support for love or money.

Comment: Re:asteroid mining a la slashdot (Score 1) 163

by Kehvarl (#32113424) Attached to: "Wet" Asteroids Could Supply Space Gas Stations

Another alternative is to use a nuclear reactor for your power, then you approach the asteroid, gather water (use a permanent installation with a solar-powered centrifuge and oven to extract the water from the icy regolith), superheat that water with your reactor, and expel it into space in exchange for velocity.
Or you can use that same permanent installation to split the hydrogen and oxygen using electrolysis, use the hydrogen in the same scenario as above, or in an ion engine, and add the oxygen to your environmental supplies.

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