Posts by Lyndon Hood
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... that is, I was just speculating that it was less acrimonious because it wasn't about what you thought it was.
Also because the thread is shorter.
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but people here have been more respectful in discussion of copyright and book issues. why?
I'd observe that - up until this point - the actual topic under discussion was the kindle's text-to-speech, which is surely not a matter of pirating in any usual sense. The question was whether and how it was any kind of copyright issue at all and if so if it was worth bothering with.
It seemed to me your response was kind of irrelevant to that.
If it kicks of a discussion on book rights well and good, but I tend to avoid general copyright threads because by now everyone seems to have said, and listened to, everything they want to.
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offer you a "free" book in return for a donation
Quite a while back they could have made a friend for life of someone I know who would like nothing better than free literature, until she found out it wasn't free.
I've found that barking loudly like a dog gets JW's, Mormons and the like to leave you alone. Quite quickly.
My good lady's favour story involves the persuasive powers of chickenpox.
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You're nothing but a pack of cards!
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Visitors to internet discussions are warned against the common and fallacious belief that everyone who disagrees with you agrees with each other.
Anyhow, bit of technology history:
Why computer voices still don't sound human. - By Farhad Manjoo - Slate MagazineVia which, I'd missed Amazon offering publisher veto on the talking machines
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I case anyone missed:
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This would be the one Steven Price though was probably in breach of broadcasting standards.
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We Should Heat Prisons With Power's Rhetoric (2006)</self-promotion>
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serif in the heading and sans-serif in the body text
People tend to support sans body text for screen use, I think because at that kind of resolution serifs and changes in line wieght are unnecessary noise.
It's also been remarked that the person who decided to make links blue did a lot of damage to the readability of the web.
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Also, Slashdot & others are busily misunderstanding Google's setllement with the author's guild over - I think - the book-search function.
Not that I know what's going on.