Actually, you'll find that a significant portion of self-published authors is very concerned with quality control... We self-published writers try very hard to escape the reputation of uploading unedited garbage.
You could have fooled me.
Editors aren't cheap. It would have cost me $1000 to have Nobots professionally edited, so I just proofread the thing, fixing mistakes, a few hundred times.
Publishing a book is expensive without any professional services, at least hardcover and paperback (e-books are a lot cheaper).
even if you argue it's really all analog, the fact that you can mentally process digital logic means that you are digital computer
Any analog computer can process digital logic. The difference between analog and digital is with analog you have noise, with digital you have rounding errors (and those rounding errors can be simulated in an analog computer).
You can make a simple analog computer (actually more like an electric slide rule) with a couple of batteries, a couple of potentiometers, a voltmeter and a little wire. More complex analogs were built, of course, with outputs to CRTs.
So is your comment, the first poster said exactly the same thing. Guys, there's this thing called the "firehose" where you can moderate stories before they're posted. One of the downmods is "Dupe". So the
Apple's iron grip on their ecosystem is what allows them to position their device as "premium" and charge so much for it.
So how does Samsung get away with selling BlingPhones at the same price as Apple's BlingPhones? The same reason BMW and Porsche can sell so many BlingCars; they sell them to people with lots of money and little self-esteem, people who tie a person's worth to the size of their credit card bill.
Meanwhile my $100 Android will do what your $800 Blingphone will and my thirteen year old Chrysler will get me to the store just as quickly and comfortably as your $90k BlingCar.
High-end phones, cars, jewelry, everything is for folks with more dollars than sense.
Anyone who identifies a dupe can be moderated +6 awesome for 7 days.
Anyone who submits a dupe is automatically modded -1 for 7 days.
So, I submit a story and you submit a story. Mine is accepted in five minutes, yours in two hours and they're both the same story. Why should you be penalized for submitting a story? However, I've tagged dupes in the firehose before, how about of you spot a dupe you get mod points (to moderate others) as a reward?
Yeah, I have. The first Nobots chapter was 2009... the next one shouldn't take so long, since after February I'll have a lot more time to write. I haven't worked on the new one for a few weeks, too busy trying to get this one in print.
I'll probably have Paxil Diaries in print in a few months.
My copy of Nobots came in the mail today and it looks good. I'd think it was done by a professional if I hadn't written it myself.
The only thing left is a matter of the ISBN. I bought ten of them, and there's nowhere to tell Lulu what the ISBN is. As soon as that matter is cleared up it will be ready to release, I hope in a week or so. I suspect they want to sell me an ISBN, if so I'll have to go with a different printer and it will be a while longer before I loose it.
Which are?
Bugs unfound by their pathetic QA. A vulnerable OS is a poorly written OS.
Oh, on this we certainly agree,
I was sure of that, I just needed to beat my dead horse again, that lazy bastard...
I'm going a different direction with my book. Electronic versions will be free, you'll only have to pay for paper versions (even though paper comes out before electrons).
Oh, and there aren't any zombies or vampires. There are ghosts in chapter chapter 21 but they're not really ghosts. It's science fiction, not horror.
Shit, it's halloween, sorry. The bad guys are ghouls (at least that's what the Martians call them).
Am I on topic yet? Damn...
Saw your comment metamoderating (left it at 3, not changing it) but I wasn't aware that other companies except Apple were pulling that crap.
Is it because I don't buy expensive phones? My Kyocera edge was about a hundred bucks (no contract). If I bought a phone that I couldn't change the battery I'd send it back. Fuck that! WTF??
BlingPhones: more money, less value I guess.
I believe he was making a reference to otherOS, a backhanded way of saying "You would believe a Sony FAQ???"
Sony has a long history of FAQing its customers over. I'll not be a customer again.
(mods, I'll agree with the overrated but I don't think the parent was trolling)
Ebert argues that unlike movies, video games can never really be considered works of art.
That's what I always liked about his reviews, I could depend on them. If he gave a movie two thumbs up I knew it was going to be a bore, and two thumbs down meant it was probably science fiction and/or really rocked. Ans yes, I wholeheartedly disagree with him about video games, too. They're not all art of course, but I've seen some that certainly are.
Charles Broussard disagrees with me on this, we had some interesting online conversations about this a little over a decade ago. Michelangelo didn't consider himself an artist, either.
Just encode them as illiterate, incoherent, childish ramblings and post them to Slashdot.
That's impossible, illiterates can't write at all. I will agree that there seems to be a whole lot of aliterates here, though. "There car's are over they're." Aliterate.
"The man who doesn't read has no advantage over a man who can't read." -- Twain (Clemons)
I tell them to turn to the study of mathematics, for it is only there that they might escape the lusts of the flesh. -- Thomas Mann, "The Magic Mountain"
