-- As far as i'm concerned they can all goto hell.
There's got to be a better way!
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD02xx/EWD215.html
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The initial stories of the purchase made sure to note that this was a "personal purchase" by Bezos. If WP is going to embed ads, is a digital subscription going to become part of Amazon Prime?
This is crazy. We've allowed our kids to be overloaded with homework; now we're letting the education lobby steal summer vacation. Once the state is able to jack the retirement age up to 85 or so we'll have the perfect hive society.
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There's no doubt in my mind that if the Sony case were being heard today, the VCR would be ruled an infringing device.
The Nook Simple Touch (E-Ink) reader hardware is excellent and IMO way better than the E Ink Kindle. The firmware handles sideloaded epub books with ease and there's also a slot for an sdcard, something sadly lacking on the Kindle.
yes, mess for sure.
no usb port. no way to play truly local content. and you have to transcode, it seems, to meet the player's profiles. the player should play EVERY format, but this one does not. in this day and age, to release a player that has limits seems pretty braindead to me.
Luckily, none of that's true.
Plex is working w/o transcoding, XBMC is working with minor glitches, The USB port works with a keyboard and mouse, and with 3rd-party wired controllers (no USB storage yet), and all video formats seem to work. Pretty good start for a couple of days after release!
XBMC's Gotham release already runs on this device and XDA members are sideloading apps already. It's early days for the FireTV, but it looks promising.
Sutter's not a no-value-added middleman. He's the showrunner for SoA. Creator, primary writer,etc. I agree he's wrong-headed regarding IP, and a clown.
If the whole thing is as good as the first ten minutes, I'm in. The actors for fine (Scotty is excellent) and it's leagues better than the crap JJ Abrams is putting out.
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I agree. Kovid's awesome and I wasn't complaining about his response.
I love calibre for it's tools, but prefer how iTunes or XBMC handle my media collections. With iTunes (OS X) I check a box and it totally leaves management of my files alone, storing only metadata and file location in the database. It doesn't get in my way. XBMC doesn't even offer to manage my files; It builds a database of metadata only, including a link to the file in question.
I'm comfortable with a 1999 file directory hierarchy. It's easier to work with from a command line, I make sure my file/directory names aren't full of embedded spaces and parens that I detest and in general it's much more friendly to a *nix environment and scripting.
Import all your books into calibre and you'll be using Kovid's directory structure and file naming conventions unless you want to take the time to manually change everything back. After all that effort, you're pretty much locked in. Just because you can manually back everything out doesn't change that. It would be one hell of a task for a signifcant amount of books.
Work without a vision is slavery, Vision without work is a pipe dream, But vision with work is the hope of the world.
