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Living Room / Re: Kids E-Book Ideas?
« Last post by wraith808 on September 21, 2012, 10:29 AM »Another good option for the interactive books is Frotz, a z-machine interpreter, like used in the Infocom games.
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It's still a random nag screen when saving, and no other limitations that I am aware of. I must admit I have postponed buying a license because, well, it's expensive, and I was hoping for a larger DC discount-Jibz (September 21, 2012, 09:59 AM)
Think of what an ad on the screen saver implies: it implies that when I am not using my device, and it is perhaps on the coffee table or my desk at work, it is broadcasting ads. And because up to now screensavers have always been personal choices, it is communicating to people around that I endorse this brand.
There is implicit endorsement assigned to something shown on a personal screen. That's why advertisers should jump on this for the short time it will work, and that's why people should run away from it in horror. But then people "like" a brand on facebook just for a chance to win a freebie, even though it will push an ad (with endorsement!) on all their friends feeds, so perhaps I am the only one horrified by being hijacked to promote brands I might object to.
If I am not, there will be a lawsuit "kindle showed ads I object to on religious grounds" or "kindle on my desk showed ad that could have got me fired"... it will happen-iphigenie (September 21, 2012, 03:19 AM)
After Borders closed, showing that all brick bookstores will die eventually, buying a Nook from the other big brick-and-mortar bookstore seemed like a sure dead end, and Amazon seemed like it would be the last bookstore standing. At least the partnership with Microsoft seems to change that, so in that sense it is an improvement.-daddydave (September 21, 2012, 05:07 AM)
Oh, great, you can export the data you actually provided yourself. Now that's useful.-Tuxman (September 20, 2012, 12:55 PM)
So Google is not a walled garden?
Good luck with your online life when Google Mail is down again.-Tuxman (September 20, 2012, 11:18 AM)
What I don't get is how some of these releases are coming in pairs...like the GX and SX (>4", <4")...this HTC 8S and 8X (both >4")...the Nokia 820 920 (both >4"). What's the deal? Why offer two phones at the exact same time with just about everything being the same? I mean, that 820 and 920 are almost identical, yet Nokia made a very conscious decision to release them both in this way.-superboyac (September 19, 2012, 03:31 PM)
Necro post? That first article was written in 2005.-Deozaan (September 18, 2012, 09:49 PM)
Perhaps, but I just came across it, and found it interesting. Should I not post links to something that was written long ago that I come across just because its old?-wraith808 (September 18, 2012, 10:37 PM)
That's not it. I just read it with the assumption that it was a new article about EA's Origin software (the Steam competitor) and was thrown off by all the seemingly out of date information found within the article. It wasn't until the last page when the article mentioned Tabula Rasa being in its fourth year of development that I knew for sure something was fishy.
I guess what I'm saying is that some sort of notice about the date of the article would have been nice to help prevent confusion. (c:-Deozaan (September 19, 2012, 02:06 AM)