Neal Stephenson has written many novels in longhand, including all of the Baroque Cycle. The picture below shows the pile of paper of the MS, and the three published hardbound books below it.…
Yeah, double deckers don't work everywhere. Overhead infrastructure isn't always conducive. And I rode one of these for years (it could have been the very bus in the first picture) and they were often full on the…
When COVID-19 hit, the only prep my employer had was that everyone had laptops and we had basic VPN infrastructure. The first week or two were chaotic. Everyone had to provide their own high-speed Internet. Eventually…
OMG, finally someone who articulates what I feel. I'm old. I was in college when the first personal computers made their debut. I was a married adult when I got my first computer (a Timex 1000). I was a father by the…
I'm an Apple OS owner and I'm trying to imagine what these nags for free trials and services are. I have most notifications off, so perhaps I'm missing them? Some apps do this, I guess, but I just can't think of the…
I live in a densely populated suburban apartment complex with absolutely no gating or restrictions on access. People much worse off than I am are close neighbors, and homeless people wander nearby. Yet I have never,…
I lapped this up eagerly when it was first syndicated in the US, I was in high school at the time. It wasn't until a few years later that I saw Doppelgänger, probably the first time it was on TV. I was actually…
I did this as well a few years ago, fortunately for a relatively small sum of money. I don't need MS products all that much, usually just Word. So I'm very happy with LibreOffice.
This took me back nearly fifty years to my Econ classes, and I have been re-traumatized.
What many people do is buy them from places like Kobo.com, download them, and remove the DRM (usually via plugins to the Calibre library management software). Kindle books have become impossible to download, but other…
It's easier on the eyes. LEDs and related technologies give me eyestrain after a while; eInk devices don't (and many, like the X4 model, have front-lighting, also easier on the eyes than backlit screens.
Some people like supporting the authors of the books they read.
There's an active dev community over at Mobileread.com. Look for the Kobo Developer's Corner under the Kobo Reader forum.
Check out the Onyx_Boox subreddit. People often put their used Boox devices up for sale (presumably when they buy new ones).
It's good that it works for you. Before unloading my Kindle, I was getting over 50% failures when side loading books via Send To Kindle. These were all ePubs that have subsequently worked fine on Kobo. That was…
Thanks! I'll be looking at this very soon. I'd heard of it, but hadn't ever looked its features.
Actually (and I'm being pedantic here, I admit), only IBM made an XT, the others were all XT-clones or compatibles. And you could get a compatible ROM that contained BASIC. I also owned a non-IBM XT clone, which did not…
I was disappointed that he couldn't find anything life-changing in a book of fiction.
Unless you plug it into your deck, of course.
Cassette BASIC was exclusive to early IBM PCs, XTs and PC Jrs. PCs like Compaq's, with their very, very compatible BIOS, didn't have BASIC in ROM.
How about someone who was raised on 12h time and has used it for 70 years? Sure, the math to convert is pretty easy, but why?
I'm an American Costco shopper. I'm in there at least every other week and haven't had a hot dog there in a couple of years.
It's good to read Ada Palmer's Inventing The Renaissance, because understanding whatever the Renaissance is (and Palmer says it is many different things), you need to understand the Middle Ages, since the Renaissance…
Yeah, we need a name change here. Mole for Mac is a very nice system maintenance app, for both terminal and GUI.
I'd suggest looking at Admiral Cloudberg's recent analysis of the Jan. 2025 airliner/military helicopter collision in Washington DC. It's a study in the difficulties of air traffic control in the 21st century and the…
Neal Stephenson has written many novels in longhand, including all of the Baroque Cycle. The picture below shows the pile of paper of the MS, and the three published hardbound books below it.…
Yeah, double deckers don't work everywhere. Overhead infrastructure isn't always conducive. And I rode one of these for years (it could have been the very bus in the first picture) and they were often full on the…
When COVID-19 hit, the only prep my employer had was that everyone had laptops and we had basic VPN infrastructure. The first week or two were chaotic. Everyone had to provide their own high-speed Internet. Eventually…
OMG, finally someone who articulates what I feel. I'm old. I was in college when the first personal computers made their debut. I was a married adult when I got my first computer (a Timex 1000). I was a father by the…
I'm an Apple OS owner and I'm trying to imagine what these nags for free trials and services are. I have most notifications off, so perhaps I'm missing them? Some apps do this, I guess, but I just can't think of the…
I live in a densely populated suburban apartment complex with absolutely no gating or restrictions on access. People much worse off than I am are close neighbors, and homeless people wander nearby. Yet I have never,…
I lapped this up eagerly when it was first syndicated in the US, I was in high school at the time. It wasn't until a few years later that I saw Doppelgänger, probably the first time it was on TV. I was actually…
I did this as well a few years ago, fortunately for a relatively small sum of money. I don't need MS products all that much, usually just Word. So I'm very happy with LibreOffice.
This took me back nearly fifty years to my Econ classes, and I have been re-traumatized.
What many people do is buy them from places like Kobo.com, download them, and remove the DRM (usually via plugins to the Calibre library management software). Kindle books have become impossible to download, but other…
It's easier on the eyes. LEDs and related technologies give me eyestrain after a while; eInk devices don't (and many, like the X4 model, have front-lighting, also easier on the eyes than backlit screens.
Some people like supporting the authors of the books they read.
There's an active dev community over at Mobileread.com. Look for the Kobo Developer's Corner under the Kobo Reader forum.
Check out the Onyx_Boox subreddit. People often put their used Boox devices up for sale (presumably when they buy new ones).
It's good that it works for you. Before unloading my Kindle, I was getting over 50% failures when side loading books via Send To Kindle. These were all ePubs that have subsequently worked fine on Kobo. That was…
Thanks! I'll be looking at this very soon. I'd heard of it, but hadn't ever looked its features.
Actually (and I'm being pedantic here, I admit), only IBM made an XT, the others were all XT-clones or compatibles. And you could get a compatible ROM that contained BASIC. I also owned a non-IBM XT clone, which did not…
I was disappointed that he couldn't find anything life-changing in a book of fiction.
Unless you plug it into your deck, of course.
Cassette BASIC was exclusive to early IBM PCs, XTs and PC Jrs. PCs like Compaq's, with their very, very compatible BIOS, didn't have BASIC in ROM.
How about someone who was raised on 12h time and has used it for 70 years? Sure, the math to convert is pretty easy, but why?
I'm an American Costco shopper. I'm in there at least every other week and haven't had a hot dog there in a couple of years.
It's good to read Ada Palmer's Inventing The Renaissance, because understanding whatever the Renaissance is (and Palmer says it is many different things), you need to understand the Middle Ages, since the Renaissance…
Yeah, we need a name change here. Mole for Mac is a very nice system maintenance app, for both terminal and GUI.
I'd suggest looking at Admiral Cloudberg's recent analysis of the Jan. 2025 airliner/military helicopter collision in Washington DC. It's a study in the difficulties of air traffic control in the 21st century and the…