Located 4021 results from search term 'books'
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Commented in How long will printed books continue to exist and be necessary in the future?
It depends on how expensive analog books become and if every time the battery dies on my Kindle I have to buy a new one rather than simply replacing the battery.
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Commented in 5 reasons why desktop Linux is finally growing in popularity
As someone who helps out people with their liberation from proprietary software (read: I install Linux distro's on their laptops and PC's and give them a nice headstart by teaching them the basics and essentials of the respective distro's), I am seeing a new trend: the SaaS (Software as a Service) doesn't go down as good as Microsoft (and Apple) want. Most of the people realise, finally, that in principle their machine is not theirs anymore in that way. To be more specific: according to Microsoft Windows User Agreement (since the haydays of Windows 95) it never was, but now it is more obvious with cloud services. It has become a more important reason to switch for people.
Another big reason is simple economics: people do not want (or can't) pay for all the online services and also, people want to use their machines for longer than anticipated by hardware producers and accountants. "Every three years buying new equipment is good for the books" is a long time mantra, which I always found a bit peculiar, because writing things off of your taxes is letting society pay for your costs as company. It is also far from durable or environmentally responsible. Hardware producers design their products also with obsolesence in mind, which is nice for their coffers, but not for the environment and/or the budgets of users.
And about the article itself: I understand the reasoning behind seeing Android and Chrome OS as a Linux version, but it needs to be nuanced: only the kernels of both OS's are originating from Linux kernels and that's about it. Most of the software that runs on it is proprietary and has hardly anything to do with Linux or Open Source. For the rest it was a nice read and I see articles about Year of the Desktop as a nice utopian tradition. Utopian, because in this neoliberal world of commercialising everything I do not see Linux distro's rule the consumer world. It already does so in the back end of it all: as far as I know, all the fastest supercomputers run some version/distro of Linux and pretty much the entire internet runs on it. :-)
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Commented in I reversed my type 2 diabetes. Here’s how I did it | Neil Barsky
People have been doing this for years. In fact,before insulin was invented there were high fat low carb cook books people used to put diabetes into remission with high fat low carb. People still do it now and at Duke,Dr. Eric Westman has helped people with his obesity clinic. I've done hflc originally to loose weit and later for irritable bowel syndrome and still do it. 18 years of hflc.Dr. Westman has beat me by 2 years. :)
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Commented in Sci-fi books are rare in school even though they help kids better understand science
Sci fi helps us apply imagination to reality. It shows us what possibilities might be out there. I love fantasy books, too, but they are pure imagination with no possible application to relaity.
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Commented in Trans woman, bookstore, teacher sue over Montana law banning drag reading events
Books get banned. Readers get banned. Geesh.
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Commented in What Makes Someone a Writer?
I've said this many times. What makes you a writer is that you write. Who cares whether you've published or sold books?
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Commented in You Didn't Finish Watching the Lord of the Rings TV Show
The books were best. The movies trashed the books so badly,I'd never watch the tv series.
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Commented in The Lord of the Rings... 19 Years Later
I read the books and saw the movies. I felt way too much time was wasted on mindless fighting and it was so boring.
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Commented in Stephen King's New Novella Rattlesnakes Is A Sequel To Cujo
Yet another movie to ratchet up snake fear,hate,and the desire to kill every snake alive movie.I have read some of King's books,but Cujo was not one of them. I'm so sick of snakes being painted in such a terrible light.
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Commented in Dean Koontz's Writing Routine: "I don’t know what I’d do if I wasn’t writing."
Reading books was his only way to escape as a child. Isn't that what books are all about. They are the ultimate escape.
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Commented in How Dark Are Frank L. Baum’s Wizard of Oz Books?
Well, if we're talking about the books, it was silver shoes, not red.
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Commented in Southlake, Texas, schools restrict classroom libraries after backlash over anti-racist book
When anti-racism is considered offensive, that tells you how far we still have to go.
The grill the teachers are supposed to use wants to ensure that each book provides multiple perspectives. That is great for an academic tome, which provides ultimately no viewpoint, but not great reading for youngsters. Multiple perspectives for them would be more engaging by providing multiple books, each with its own perspective. In other words, stop censoring any books, but ensure that teachers' libraries include a variety of perspectives so that students can explore their world through multiple viewpoints.
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Commented in Everyone Is Suddenly Getting Smile Makeovers
Anything that is more natural and less fake is a good thing in my books.
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Commented in Who Got It Right: Orwell or Huxley?
Having read both books,I lean towards Orwell's 1984 myself. That being said,the control freaks are big corporations, not some megalomaniac government,at least in the states. Corporations force you to use their technology their way,tracking every move you make OL,etc. Force you to look at advertisements by making ad blockers not work,etc. They also control the media and lie to us.
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Commented in Ancient relic points to a turning point in Earth's history 42,000 years ago
Douglass Adams was right..And yes,I read his books.
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Commented in Physical books still outsell e-books — and here's why
Yup.this is true. My Kindle is kept in airplane mode and a friend gets me books with the DRM ripped out.
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Commented in Microsoft files patent to create chatbots from your dead loved ones
I was just reading Jack McDevitt's Alex Benedict series. They do this all the time in those books. It's not exactly a new idea. Of course I can't imagine a Microsoft chatbot or any chatbot with current tech being that great.
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Commented in Amazon Argues Users Don't Actually Own Purchased Prime Video Content
I can't upvote this enough. I hate the drm nonsense with a passion. All the books on my Kindle have the drm ripped off and it stays in airplane mode.
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Commented in $100,000 in bribes helped fraudulent Amazon sellers earn $100 million, DOJ says
This is exactly why I don't buy anything brand-specific on Amazon, nor anything that I would ingest or put on my skin. Amazon has offered sellers tools to take down fraudulent listings by others, but I feel it's too little too late. This bribery scandal is just one more reason why I would only buy things like books from Amazon. For other items, I buy from online retailers who have control over their supply chains.
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Commented in '#Unfit: The Psychology of Donald Trump' Review
Will be looked at in the History books for sure. I hope they also include the tweets.
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Commented in Amazon launches Counterfeit Crimes Unit to fight knockoffs on its store
It's a great move. But I suspect it's only because they have to, instead of that they want to. I bet that many others such as myself have stopped buying products from there because they are worried about brand authenticity. I don't mean fancy brand items - I don't buy those anyway. I mean things like skin care products - you don't know if you're getting the same item as what you get on the shelves at your local pharmacy. It could be a knock-off (yes, even of a non-fancy brand), and some things in it might even be toxic. So I only buy books, music, or movies from Amazon now, because they're some of the few things that are unlikely to be counterfeit (and if they are, they're unlikely to actually harm me).
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Commented in Here’s why so many physicists are wrong about free will – George Ellis | Aeon Essays
That’s a LOT of $10 words to get to
If you seriously believe that fundamental forces leave no space for free will, then it’s impossible for us to genuinely make choices as moral beings
kinda weird considering the preceding 5000 words. Feyman said - and I’m paraphrasing - that one cannot claim to understand something if they cannot explain it in plain language terms to a layperson
also there’s this:
how can order emerge out of this chaos? As explained by Denis Noble and Raymond Noble in their paper for the journal Chaos in 2018, molecular randomness gives cellular mechanisms the option of choosing the outcomes they want
Er... begging the question much? After 79 paragraphs of molecular mechanics of chemistry of cells we just label things with conclusions? Is that how debates work when you are emeritus?
For the sake of argument, let’s [...] take the deterministic view seriously. It implies that the words of every book ever written – the Encyclopaedia Britannica, Das Kapital, the Harry Potter series – were encoded into the initial state of the Universe, whatever that was. No logical thinking by a human played a causal role in the specific words of these books: they were determined by physics alone
Wow. Clearly applied maths guy cuz that fails some basic analysis in concrete math
To muse in the parlance of our times: por que nos dos? Have you considered that determinism and logical thinking are not mutually exclusive? Or is that a deliberate false dichotomy?
stick with applied math my man. Debate is not your thing
to be clear: I have no horse in this race. I’m entirely agnostic about the free will/no free will debate
free will => pass the beer nuts; no free will => also pass the beer nuts
having said that it’s not only physicists who lay claim there’s no free will; there are also biologists like Sapolsky (see related link lecture series)
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Commented in End of an Era: Microsoft Word Now Flagging Two Spaces After Period as an Error
I've used almost all word processing programs. For serious work, ie books, LibreOffice is supreme. It has a wide range of features, even more with extensions and is stable, and stable over the various updates.
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Commented in What is Consciousness?
And what's really interesting is when something goes wrong,as in a stroke. Check out some of the neurologist Oliver Sack's books.
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Commented in From Animal Farm to Catch-22: the most regrettable rejections in the history of publishing
This was an interesting article, although a little shorter than I had expected it to be. I was slightly hoping for more examples or a more in-depth look. I was shocked that Still Alice by Lisa Genova had so many rejections that she self-published. It is an fiction awesome book on a topic which is relatively rarely addressed in fiction novels (Alzheimer's). It remains one of my favorite books, albeit in a somewhat scary way. It's very haunting and will get readers to think about things from an angle they may not have before, as well as being a page-turner and very memorable. I'm so surprised that this novel got so many rejections but at the same time I'm thrilled she went ahead and self-published. It's definitely a worthwhile read.