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refuses to work on Windows 7 x86-Stephen66515 (October 22, 2011, 07:00 PM)
Sorry - I was under the impression that you were arguing that eBooks would replace paper books. If I am wrong I apologise - I just can't see that ever happening. What I can see happening though is that some books will never make it to paper - which is a great pity.-Carol Haynes (October 22, 2011, 04:43 PM)
Sorry if I went attack dog on it.Are you seriously suggesting that the vast majority of people who read have bought an eReader of some kind or are even likely to?-Carol Haynes (October 22, 2011, 10:27 AM)
I don't even see why these comparisons exist, personally.-wraith808 (October 21, 2011, 09:01 PM)
Because if the likes of Amazon and Apple get their way they will stop the production of real books in favour of eBooks even though the vast majority of people prefer to buy and read paper books.
It has little to do with user preference and everything to do with the bottom line.-Carol Haynes (October 22, 2011, 04:59 AM)
Subjective both ways....for any length of time reading the printed book is far kinder on the eyes.-Carol Haynes (October 21, 2011, 06:44 PM)
+1-Renegade (October 21, 2011, 08:02 PM)
+ You can stick your fingers in the previous page to quickly zip back, or several fingers in parts of the book to quickly zip between them. e.g. You look up a reference in the index, then stick your fingers in different sections of the book where that reference occurs, then zip between them. You cannot do that in an ebook.Need to find a non-indexed phrase? Which one wins there? And then keep searching?
- Ok, there are tools to help you do that, but they are nowhere near as fast as flipping with your fingers. Has anyone ever tried to flip more than a single page in an ebook reader? It's mind numbingly painful. Flipping 1 page is bad enough. Flipping more than one page is idiotic. You just cannot do it. Frame rates and software speeds are far too slow. It cannot be done *reasonably* right now. (This should change in the future.)-Renegade (October 21, 2011, 08:02 PM)
+ You can quickly markup a book with pen, pencil, or highlighter in ways that are faster, easier and more intuitive than with some software tools. e.g. Underline some text, highlight one of the words, write a note in the margin, and draw a quick figure.Depends on the format. PDF I mark up just as easily... and I can *erase* if I need to.
- The software tools available right now are slow an unintuitive. Writing with your hand is simply far more versatile than with software. Until there is intelligent software *and hardware* that will let you *write* and *draw* and *underline* and *highlight* with nothing more than your finger, paper books will be superior. (I mean that the hardware needs to allow sophisticated input, and the software needs to understand that, and translate intentions properly so that it can recognize handwriting and type that as text. Graffiti anyone?)
-Renegade (October 21, 2011, 08:02 PM)
I bought it on sale months ago but haven't played it yet.-Deozaan (October 21, 2011, 01:08 AM)
2. After I download a 1GB+ install, I expect to be able to keep it to install later (especially non-DRM'd items). It actually *deletes* the root install program, i.e. if you run setup.exe to set something up, it *deletes* setup.exe once you install. A way around that is to copy the file as it's downloading/running, but really, why?-wraith808 (October 19, 2011, 01:40 PM)
i'm a steam user too but there has been an occasion where i used the gamersgate installer (thanks to a generous DoCo member). that installer had an option to "keep temporary files", so i don't know whether it's the norm or exception. maybe this can help you.-lanux128 (October 19, 2011, 09:00 PM)
When San Andreas came out, I realized that I was no longer interested in the series because I had matured.-Deozaan (October 19, 2011, 06:13 PM)
Bizarre... Why would anyone write their installer to behave like malware like that? Are most gamers that uneducated that they don't know enough to delete large installers if they run out of space? I wouldn't think so.-Renegade (October 19, 2011, 05:06 PM)
Is GTA any good? Never played any of them.-Josh (October 19, 2011, 02:29 PM)
Ah, I see. I hadn't actually downloaded or installed them yet. I was just going off of what I'd read about there being no third-party client involved.-skwire (October 19, 2011, 01:43 PM)
Create a circle, name it .Save (".Read Later," ".Keep These," or whatever) with a period at the beginning so that it will show up first. Copy yourself to that circle. Then simply 'share' those posts you want to revisit later. (Although it'd be nice if there were a button for this. I think there's an extension, but I didn't try it.)-zridling (October 19, 2011, 12:03 PM)
That's a great deal and I love the fact that these are stand-alone downloads i.e. no need for a third-party client running all the time. Steam, I'm looking at you....-skwire (October 19, 2011, 12:24 PM)
But today I click on my newsfeed and see tumbleweed blowing through the barren, blank page. It’s a vast and empty wasteland, full of people who signed up but never actually stuck around to figure out how things worked in this new part of town. One simple click takes me back to Facebook, and my wall is flooded with updates and pictures from 400+ friends. This just isn’t a contest, and it never will be.
A Eulogy for Google Plus-Arizona Hot (October 18, 2011, 11:23 PM)
Zoroastrianw-nosh (October 18, 2011, 04:40 AM)
Right now, Amazon is playing a very dangerous game. In that they are now setting themselves up as business rivals to existing publishers, Amazon could soon find itself out of the book market if all the big players decided to pull and go exclusively with Nook or Apple.-40hz (October 17, 2011, 07:13 AM)
I would like to further elaborate that AS trust becomes a commodity on the internet, the ability for small freeware authors to 'just author' without going through h*ll is lessened, and thus DonationCoder, by offering signing of donationware for donationware authors, could represent a substantially more compelling business model than it does today. You have the inherent trust, earned certificate trust, plus community exposure, as enticements. It would be a great platform from which new donationware could be launched.-db90h (October 16, 2011, 02:03 AM)
I presume this report of IE suggesting deletion of FARR (as it is "not commonly downloaded" lol) would fit in the forum?
FARR not a commonly downloaded program?-tomos (October 15, 2011, 02:51 PM)
No, because it is your fault for not having a digital cert... which costs YEARLY 1/4 of your reported MONTHLY operational costs. It is not 1996 anymore, the reality is every developer should have a cert. Sorry to be so harsh, just telling it like it is.-db90h (October 15, 2011, 07:36 PM)
