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Reading the New York Times On a Kindle 2 193

Posted by kdawson on Monday March 02, 2009 @02:37AM from the all-the-news-that's-fit-to-squint dept.

reifman links to his thorough and thoughtful review of the experience of reading a newspaper on the Kindle 2. "I've been eager to try The New York Times on the Kindle 2; here's my review with a basic video walk-through and screenshots. I give the Kindle 2 version of The Times a B. Software updates could bring it up to an A-. Kindle designers should have learned more from the iPhone 3G. Unfortunately, my Kindle display scratched less than 24 hours after it arrived. As I detail in the review, Amazon customer service was not very accommodating. Is it my fault — or will Kindle 2 evolve into an Apple 1G Nano-like $22.5M settlement? You can read about Hearst's e-reader for newspapers from earlier today on Slashdot."

Comment Re:The problem is...Electric Cars! (Score 1) 585

by GeigerBC on Saturday February 14, 2009 @11:35PM (#26860799) Attached to: Automation May Make Toll Roads More Common

Yes, that's a known problem. Which is why taxation per mile or by toll roads is an option. And as somebody above pointed out - the current gas tax can't pay for much anymore. It's drastically too low. On the flip side, it's political suicide to suggest raising the gas tax to a reasonable amount.

Submission + - Is old boys club choking UK broadband? (pcpro.co.uk)

Submitted by

Barence

on Thursday February 12, 2009 @02:18PM

Barence writes: "Former colleagues connect everything from the Ofcom boardroom to the Government, to Britain's biggest broadband companies. While Britain struggles with broadband speeds that are slower than those of Hungary, Slovakia and Poland, those at the forefront of the industry pat themselves on the back for a job well done. The question is whether our internet is suffering as a result of the ties that connect the senior players in the British broadband industry. This article exposes the connections are keeping UK broadband down."

Comment Re:Another Anecdote (Score 1) 353

by GeigerBC on Friday February 06, 2009 @02:17AM (#26748757) Attached to: Italian Red Lights Rigged With Short Yellow Light

Assuming you were traveling at the posted speed limit and that the clearance interval timing was within the legal limits you shouldn't have to break as hard as you say you must. The downtown loop may have been re-timed within the last 3 years as well. The whole Kansas City area is in the midst of re-timing many of the traffic lights on arterial streets. See Operation Green Light for more information.

Comment Bill Brown's Gaming Music Scores (Score 1) 119

by GeigerBC on Tuesday October 07, 2008 @07:25PM (#25293623) Attached to: The Blending of Music and Games

I always thought Bill Brown and his work on the Rainbow Six and Ghost Recon series was excellent. It seems he's also worked on Quake, C&C Generals, and RTCW. http://billbrownmusic.com/

Submission + - Personality Types Cluster Geographically

Submitted by

Hugh Pickens

on Sunday May 04, 2008 @10:25PM

Hugh Pickens writes: "Drawing on a database of hundreds of thousands of individual personality surveys, psychologists have mapped the distribution of personality types across the United States and interestingly, America's psychogeography lines up reasonably well with its economic geography. Greater Chicago is a center for extroverts and also a leading center for sales professionals. The Midwest has a prevalence of conscientious types who work well in a structured, rule-driven environment. The South, and particularly the I-75 corridor, where so much Japanese and German car manufacturing is located, is dominated by agreeable and conscientious types who are both dutiful and work well in teams. Regions like Silicon Valley or the high-tech Route 128 corridor around Boston are home to concentrations of open-to-experience types who are drawn to creative endeavor, innovation, and entrepreneurial start-up companies. One potential explanation is that people migrate to places where their psychological needs are easily met or perhaps a process of selective migration drains the agreeable and conscientious regions of the most driven, most creative, and most mobile — only reinforcing their psychogeographic profiles, while magnifying the innovative edge in places where open-to-experience types concentrate."

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