It showed up a day behind Amazon.com's estimate, but it's here.
The Kindle DX came neatly boxed - and you have to pass the IQ test to open it. Once open, you're supposed to run to the nearest electrical outlet and charge it. I didn't, and I wager I'm not the only one who didn't. Right off the bat, the screen was easy to read and the documentation for the Kindle DX is... in the Kindle DX itself. Sliding and releasing the 'power switch' at the top gets you up and running. Read more »
I just caught this post by Caterina Fake that caught my attention (I'm wandering the Internet as usual):
Now here's the thing: when it comes to people, governments and so forth - this is almost always the case when aid is sent. The best stuff is not necessarily taken - but it is kept by people who have the power to do so. Some might call this a cynical outlook on human nature but I've found that the people who do not do this are a minority - and I typically become friends with them. I don't have that many friends. I was raised with the wrong values for this world. :-)
That said, the children in the orphanage had an advantage over people who receive aid in that the children had control and damaged the toys to keep them. Read more »
When I read EU book digitisation project needs 'Wikipedia'-style army of volunteer editors, I was pretty disappointed that it was lacking certain information - and certain links. The question that immediately popped into my mind was whether the resulting work would be in the public domain, or at the very least, would be open content. This is because it is possible to copyright a public domain work if it is 'remixed', and while it may be a stretch, digitization is a change in the media that the material is on. We go from dead trees to collections of 1s and 0s. I'd like to take a blind leap of faith and believe that the project will produce digitized public domain or open content - but I've learned that if it isn't explicit, it probably ain't true.
So I started digging. After all, they are looking for help - but the copyright of the output of the project isn't explicitly stated. And that gets me wondering. Read more »
I've been looking at eBooks and eBook readers for some time - when I was published, it was an eBook through O'Reilly (and I consider the book out of date so I won't link to it). I know that electronic publishing is, at the very least, a very large part of the future. But I've had problems with all the DMCA hijinx going on so I've been very down on the Amazon Kindles - with good reason.
Recently, in moving back up to the U.S. from Trinidad and Tobago, I faced a daunting task: Over 5,000 books in my library and no cost effective way to move them from one place to another. I don't like parting with books, but it was necessary - and truth be told, I'd already read the books and only used a few for reference over the years.
A recent experience with trying to rent a car in Beloit, Wisconsin had me communicating with two companies - most of the details can be read here. Read more »
'India has strong engineering base, yet has no innovators: Nohria' got me thinking about the long standing debate I've had with many people on innovation - something that people with various levels of degrees almost always disagree with. As an autodidact I see it in a different light. Mind you, I've not only worked with people with various levels of educational degrees - sometimes I've lead them and managed them. Read more »
came neatly boxed - and you have to pass the IQ test to open it. Once open, you're supposed to run to the nearest electrical outlet and charge it. I didn't, and I wager I'm not the only one who didn't. Right off the bat, the screen was easy to read and the documentation for the Kindle DX is... in the Kindle DX itself. Sliding and releasing the 'power switch' at the top gets you up and running. 
