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scott wrote:
> In general more power means you have more possibilities to do stuff to
> increase the quality.
Or, more bitrate means more switching means more power. Running a DAC at
22KHz is going to take lots more power than running it at 8KHz.
> the phone makers will be pushing very hard to get the power for all
> components as low as possible, every little helps!
As an example, the list of phone numbers to start ringing this second is
delivered in numerical order so your phone can wake up, watch the list go
by, and not have to stay turned on for the entire packet before turning off
if its number is not in the list.
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
Serving Suggestion:
"Don't serve this any more. It's awful."
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On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 11:35:07 +0000, scott wrote:
> Presumably they factored in to the original price that a certain % of
> customers will re-buy the same material due to losing access, changing
> hardware or whatever.
Not for the Nook, as I can associate any Nook with my account and access
my content.
Making customers have to re-buy material because they lost access would
be very poor customer service indeed.
Jim
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Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 11:35:07 +0000, scott wrote:
>
>> Presumably they factored in to the original price that a certain % of
>> customers will re-buy the same material due to losing access, changing
>> hardware or whatever.
>
> Not for the Nook, as I can associate any Nook with my account and access
> my content.
Same with the kindle, yes.
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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
Serving Suggestion:
"Don't serve this any more. It's awful."
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scott <sco### [at] scott com> writes:
>> I bought the
>> content, and I'm not breaking the DRM to profit from it - but to preserve
>> my access to the content in the event that I cannot get it back again.
>
> Presumably they factored in to the original price that a certain % of
> customers will re-buy the same material due to losing access, changing
> hardware or whatever. They also probably put something in the license
> describing that too. If everyone removed the DRM they would probably
> need to sell it for a higher price.
Very logical, but I'll believe it when I see hard data. There's way too
much involved in selling the arts, and it wouldn't surprise me if this
is the least of their concerns.
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Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> writes:
> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> Some people like to refer back to the books they bought and already
>> read, that's my point.
>
> Sure. You buy Animal Farm for the Kindle. You pay $10. You read it on
> your Kindle. Amazon deletes it off your Kindle and gives you your $10
> back. You drive to B&N and buy a paper copy for $10.
>
> I'm not saying it's good that Amazon can do this, but on the grand scale
> from "inconvenience" to "catastrophe", it seems it's much closer to the
> former.
All good and well for books that are widely in print. People like me
who've read books my parents bought 50 years ago would like the ebooks
we buy today to be equally readable for our kids/grandkids.
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nemesis <nam### [at] gmailcom> writes:
> Trees are consumed much faster than grown. 20 years to grow one, 1
> minute to bring it down to create some, what, 1000 books? How many
> books are consumed over 20 years, let alone paper for office printing,
> toilet paper, comic book paper, newspaper paper etc?...
I'm not sure people will use their Kindles as toilet paper, so logging
for toilet paper is irrelevant.
It's not obvious that the amount of trees chopped down for paper is
unsustainable. Do you have a link to a study?
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Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> writes:
> Invisible wrote:
>> my grandparent's favourite authors
>
> Who are some of these authors?
He didn't say, but it's not hard to believe. Consider Arthur C. Clarke:
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=ntt_athr_dp_sr_1?_encoding=UTF8&search-alias=digital-text&field-author=Arthur%20C.%20Clarke
A pitiful list.
Isaac Asimov's is similar (15 books).
Precious little of Ray Bradbury.
Only one Roald Dahl.
If you're not particular, there's lots on the Kindle. If you have
favorite authors, you may have problems.
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Stephen <mcavoys_at@aoldotcom> writes:
>> Riiiight. So the bit where I sat there looking up my grandparent's
>> favourite authors and found that most of them had zero or one books
>> available for the Kindle, but dozens or hundreds in dead tree format...
>> that was all a figment of my imagination, yes?
>
> Looked in the right places.
>
>>> Unless of course the Kindle cannot upload from a PC.
>>
>> How does that help?
>
> There are lots of places where you can download ebooks to your PC.
> For instance:
>
> http://www.archive.org/details/texts
>
> http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page
Somehow I doubt Gutenberg will have their favorite authors.
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Neeum Zawan wrote:
> He didn't say, but it's not hard to believe. Consider Arthur C. Clarke:
> Isaac Asimov's is similar (15 books).
> Precious little of Ray Bradbury.
Sure. None of which I'd guess were favorites of anyone's grandparents. :-)
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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
Serving Suggestion:
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Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> writes:
> Besides, who wants a system that can delete the books you've paid for at
> any time, for no defined reason?
Get an ereader that is not a Kindle, and learn how to strip DRM if
you're brave enough.
> Still, it's not without advantages. (Size and weight being the obvious
> ones, but also the ability to enlarge the text to the point that even my
> grandparents can read it.) They're just not advances that are especially
> important to me.
One quite unintended benefit for me was the ability to read my news
through it. I use Calibre - a cross platform software for managing
ebooks. One benefit is that it has a database of news sites (and you can
add your own). You can have it once a day download all the news and save
it in a nice format (like epub, which the Kindle is arrogant enough not
to support - but you can try the mobi format).
That transformed my ereader from something I had hoped to use a few
times a year to something I use daily. After spending all my time in
front of a computer at work, it was becoming a (literal) pain to sit in
front of it at home to read the news. And what's more, it's simply more
fun reading on the ereader. Much more like reading a real newspaper than
it is on the computer. All the offensive CSS styling and other
intrusions gone.
Mind you, it *really* helps if your ereader has a touch sensitive
display (or some other mechanism that lets you easily click a link on a
given screen).
Also, I just got sick of having so many physical books. A pain each time
I move. I was refusing to buy physical books for a while, but that's not
a problem for me. What's more, I discovered sites like BookMooch and
PaperbackSwap, so now I can get rid of extraneous books, and
occasionally get one for cheap.
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