manicdee

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by manicdee 14y ago
With Amazon playing the game of undercutting the entire market until everyone else is dead, the only way to win is not to play. Every single purchase from Amazon — book or otherwise — is a vote for Bezos' monopoly over your culture.
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by manicdee 14y ago
If it is in an ePub, the Kobo or Sony can reproduce it. Just remember that the screen is 6" diagonal, with 600x800 pixels, though the display engine will resize and dither to greyscale in order to suit the eInk display. My O'Reilly books re
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by manicdee 14y ago
The Kobo Touch or the new Sony Reader are excellent. The Kobo has a hard time reading O'Reilly books, but you can process the O'Reilly books to make them usable (unzip, remove core.css, repackage) with Calibre. The old Sony Reader has a glo
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by manicdee 15y ago
Why do you want so much domain-specific kruft in your mail? Use OmniFocus for task management, with a script or rule to move messages to Task status. Add a new iCal/vCard style micro format to specify tasks that you wish to delegate to me.
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by manicdee 15y ago
Being a consumer or producer is going to be determined by whether you have an iPad or not? Really? Having a PC means you have all those computer games waiting to distract you. PC and TVs are brain killers. The iPad is a brain nurturing devi
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by manicdee 15y ago
You get an editor app, and you start typing. There are apps which specialise in writing novels: they have special sections for writing character descriptions, plot ideas, etc. A PC is convenient if you have the time to sit down in front of
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by manicdee 15y ago
I carrying all my reference books, component data sheets and circuit schematics on the iPad. I carry pictures, presentations, citation lists, bibliographies, research notes, and even program a little Perl or Python on the side. Am I a consu
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by manicdee 15y ago
Truth hurts. If you took offence to the characterisation of the IT community as generally self-absorbed and sexist, you really need to look around. How many women do you work with? It's not the type of work that drives women out of IT, it's