Posts by giovanni tiso
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That Hitler... he says what we're all thinking.
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Naturally, when it's time to sleep, I read different things - I don't try reading cerebral stuff (when I converted Gio's thesis (I sought permission only slightly after the fact) I had a crap night's sleep, brain churning with postmodernism for hours. A very troubled imaginary, perhaps ;-))
Seriously, man, if that didn't send you to sleep, then it's official, the blue light theory has many legs.
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Apple now owns CUPS
I own cups too, I just choose not to shout at my crockery.
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Recordari - you obviously do not travel or attend many meetings. Syncing is an absolute priority, particularly when others want to view your availability.
When others want to view my availability, they have to at least buy me a couple of drinks first.
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ebook readers like Sony's or the Kindle aren't available in N.Z., so this may open up the market.
I thought the Kindle was in fact available in NZ. I was spammed by Amazon on this very subject not two weeks ago.
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I'm doing my thesis on gender-mediated discourse around the text "pad".
I'll supervise if you'll have me.
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A couple of reasons. First-you can carry around a virtual library in one device. Second-you don't have to physically visit a store to buy the books you want. You might be at a cafe somewhere and decide you want to start reading a new book you just saw reviewed in your morning newspaper before you finish your flat white.
Those might seem like fairly trivial reasons to spend a chunk of money on a new piece of hardware, but remember back when mobile phones were unnecessary because everyone could use landlines and payphones?
Also, I'm told by some folks that the ability to magnify text on screen is a boon to their failing eyesight.
All of these reasons, yes. I often think this about my mother, she has a house full of books that she adores, but can no longer read them now that she has the time. If she could just make them all large print at the touch of a button, why, it would be a new lease on life right there.
I think there are other reasons too, annotation and searchability would be big ups for me. I ended up scanning and OCRing a few of the key books in my dissertation because I just needed that feature. Also some books simply need to be made open access, and the electronic medium would facilitate that.
You dematerialise the book, a lot of things will happen to it, not all of them good, so of course I'm not suggesting wholesale replacement of paper with bits. But if you told me when I came over to New Zealand that I could take my whole library with me, just like that, oh I would have been a very happy man.
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One option is to only upgrade when your hardware fails. You need good backups, though.
Good backups are easy. It still bothers me that I'm about the upgrade the inner bits of my three-year old desktop, and it costs just about as much as a full new machine. Not to mention the printer I just had to replace because replacing the broken bit would have cost as much as a new printer.
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We don't pay the true price of production or recycling. That is all extenalised onto the poor and the environment.
Jesus, man.
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There's no multitasking in the OS at all, and not even multiple active web pages in Safari. You can't listen to Pandora while you surf the Web, or switch back and forth between Facebook at Twitter, or write a document in Pages while talking on a VOIP call.
I'm sorry, but that's insane.