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    Kindle For PC Beta Now Available to Download

    Remainders: Stuff We Didn't Post (and Why)

    Creative Zii MediaBook Could Combine eBook and PMP Features

    Mac Getting a Kindle App, Just Like Windows

    Amazon Combats The Nook By Dropping the International Kindle Price By $20

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    8 Reasons You Can Finally Love Ebook Readers (Thanks to Nook)

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    Image of FigNinja FigNinja
    04:07 PM

    In reply to Kindle For PC Beta Now Available to Download
    I really like the ability to read the books on other devices, like my phone or computer, and be able to sync all my bookmarks, notes and such. That's really very useful. But I think if they're going to push this feature, they need to up the license limitation. Six licenses isn't enough if I burn two or three of them on my first reading. Currently they will let you free up licenses by calling CS if you no longer have devices you registered. That seems a bit problematic. CS contacts are expensive. Are they going to want to keep doing that when large numbers of customers realize they hit their limit and can't re-read a book on their new device? If people are going to lose access to their old books when they upgrade devices, that will keep them from buying new Kindles. They either need to come up with an easier way for people to remove licenses from devices, up the limit to something more reasonable, or get rid of the limits altogether but make the license follow the account.
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    Image of weatherman weatherman
    09:00 AM

    In reply to Kindle For PC Beta Now Available to Download
    This will probably do more for Amazon's attempts to break in to the textbook market than their Kindle DX did. #kindleforpcbetadownload
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    Image of exoren22 exoren22
    11/03/09

    In reply to Remainders: Stuff We Didn't Post (and Why)
    Not to mention that windfarms reduce wind and make the surrounding area heat up as a result. #gizmodoremainders
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    Image of EBone EBone
    11/03/09

    @exoren22: I don't even know how to reply to the stupidity of your statement, other than I hope you forgot your sarcasm tag. #gizmodoremainders
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    Image of exoren22 exoren22
    11/03/09

    @EBone: Well, considering it's a real world problem, I don't even know how to reply to your ignorance, except to tell you to go to San Francisco in the summer time, when they used to have a cooling wind coming down from the mountains.

    You know we can't get energy for free, right? Hydroelectric power reduces water flow and causes the destruction of wildlife both upstream and downstream. Solar power has local heating problems that CANNOT be fixed, and massive wind farms destroy the natural heat transfer created by wind patterns. #gizmodoremainders
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    Image of EBone EBone
    11/03/09

    @exoren22: You really believe that the turbine blades take the wind "away"? That the wind doesn't turn the blades and keep on blowing past, over, and around the blades?

    I have no words. #gizmodoremainders
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    Image of psychiccheese psychiccheese
    11/03/09

    @EBone: I think he's actually right, but he's blowing it way out of proportion. It's more on the same scale of dumping a bottle of filtered water into a lake to change the pH. #gizmodoremainders
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    Image of runamok1001 runamok1001
    11/03/09

    @EBone: exoren22 is right though I don't know to what degree. Conservation of energy means there is no free ride and no perpetual motion machines. Just like a hydroelectric dam can slow a river to a trickle, wind farms use the wind to do work, thus depleting some of the kinetic energy in that wind. But once again, I have no idea of the total energy of the wind or how much energy is extracted so I could not testify to the effect.
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    Image of EBone EBone
    11/03/09

    @runamok1001: Do yourself a favor and look at an isobar map of the United States. They measure pressure gradients. Wind is generated when air moves from high pressure areas to low pressure areas.

    Isobar front lines are hundreds to thousands of miles long. Wind projects don't even show up on the scale we're talking about here. It would be the equivalent of trying to stop the Mississippi River with a 2x4. #gizmodoremainders
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    Image of mnerd mnerd
    11/03/09

    In reply to Remainders: Stuff We Didn't Post (and Why)
    The wind farm thing really speaks more to how we really need to upgrade our air traffic control to newer modern technology stat. #gizmodoremainders
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    Image of 70watts 70watts
    11/03/09

    In reply to Remainders: Stuff We Didn't Post (and Why)
    Wind turbines really don't kill that many birds in comparison to things like planes, trucks and... trees. That's a common myth.

    Here's the google results for that.
    [www.google.com]
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    Don Nguyen promoted this comment Edited by 70watts at 11/03/09 12:40 AM 70watts was starred 70watts was unstarred
    Image of Fractal the Meek Fractal the Meek
    11/03/09

    In reply to Remainders: Stuff We Didn't Post (and Why)
    Thank you for being a champion for the essence of e-readership! And also, I've seen at least one notably less comfortable bike design.
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    Image of curious-character curious-character
    11/02/09

    In reply to Remainders: Stuff We Didn't Post (and Why)
    Grandpa bikes excluded (upright riding), a bike seat needs only provide support to the bony part of your bottom while minimizing interference and chaffing with your thighs. This is why racing seats look so terrible, but are actually quite comfortable. This seat seems to give you a choice of supporting your weight on your anus or testicles. #gizmodoremainders
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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    11/02/09

    In reply to Remainders: Stuff We Didn't Post (and Why)
    The obvious solution is to put the wind farms in Manhattan, so they'll kill all these fucking pigeons. #gizmodoremainders
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    Image of Gordonium Gordonium
    11/02/09

    @92BuickLeSabre: Mmm... Gotta love those post-windfarm mornings, with the surreal pink mist of pigeon guts over Manhattan, and little feet and feathers falling to the streets below... #gizmodoremainders
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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    11/02/09

    @Gordonium: Sounds heavenly. #gizmodoremainders
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    Image of weatherman weatherman
    11/03/09

    @92BuickLeSabre: a wind turbine of the vertical axis variety, about the size of a water tower, would probably do very well at both generating electricity and getting rid of pesky pigeons. And properly designed it could also have a receptacle for the remains so that they could be put to good use. Then we'd have cheap electricity and we wouldn't have to make soylent green out of people anymore.

    PS I'm trademarking the term "squabchoppers" #gizmodoremainders
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    Image of seriously, saycarramrod seriously, saycarramrod
    11/03/09

    @weatherman: Plus when the pigeons hit the side of the turbine, it would actually make it go faster. #gizmodoremainders
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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    11/03/09

    @weatherman: and @saycarramrod: It's exactly this kind of ingenuity that made America what it is today! #gizmodoremainders
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    Image of Toastie Toastie
    11/02/09

    In reply to Remainders: Stuff We Didn't Post (and Why)
    I want a picture of a person trying to sit on that bike. #gizmodoremainders
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    11/02/09


    @Toastie: Oh no, it's on a mission to grind that man's genitals into a fine powder. #gizmodoremainders
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    Evangelion promoted this comment Toastie was starred Toastie was unstarred
    Image of twoeightnine twoeightnine
    11/02/09

    @Toastie: Damn, that looks so awkward to pedal. #gizmodoremainders
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    Image of The Lab The Lab
    11/03/09

    @Toastie: I loved this bike until I saw what a person looks like on it. A good idea but needs some work. #gizmodoremainders
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    Image of weatherman weatherman
    11/03/09

    @The Lab: yeah, the first pic looks like it makes some sense, but then you realize there's almost no leg extension (which means no power). Cool look though. #gizmodoremainders
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    Image of roflwaffles is attempting hipster irony roflwaffles is attempting hipster irony
    11/01/09

    In reply to Creative Zii MediaBook Could Combine eBook and PMP Features
    Didn't creative namedrop the zii about 1 or two years ago? #zii
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    Image of tande04 tande04
    11/01/09

    @roflwaffles is actually a Spesh: Not really. They first teased the name that long ago but they revealed it as "stem cell computing" shortly after that. Its just now that the products are coming. Zii egg, this, whatever else they have. #zii
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    Image of Hvedhrungr Hvedhrungr
    11/01/09

    In reply to Creative Zii MediaBook Could Combine eBook and PMP Features
    And yet, it needs three things to be successful in the end-consumer market:
    1. Cool, new, must-have feature, which will be hard seeing how everyone who wanted a cheap computer to do some reading, surfing and video watching has a netbook by now.
    2. Practical, easy-to-use and universally accessible UI, which will also be hard because even with a touchscreen, intuitive UIs aren't popping out of the ground left and right. In fact, I don't know of a single manufacturer who's gotten it right, yet.
    3. A price you can justify with netbooks and PMPs already readily available. Creative isn't the most costly player in the market, but they're also not trendsetters like Apple. I personally happen to like Creative hardware, but I wouldn't pay a significant premium for it.

    Let's see how this goes, because as of yet I'm not convinced by any of the ebook solutions available. #zii
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    Image of phunnyballs phunnyballs
    10/23/09

    In reply to Mac Getting a Kindle App, Just Like Windows
    omfg... BEST pic ever! #kindleformac
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    Image of Noobs-R-Us Noobs-R-Us
    10/23/09

    In reply to Mac Getting a Kindle App, Just Like Windows
    Amazon needs to allow an open platform so that books can be used anywhere on any device. #kindleformac
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    Image of EBone EBone
    10/23/09

    In reply to Mac Getting a Kindle App, Just Like Windows
    Duh. They already have one for the iPhone, it was just a matter of time before they released it for the Mac as well. Microsoft probably asked them not to release info until after the Windows 7 announcement yesterday. #kindleformac
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    Image of LastVigilante LastVigilante
    10/22/09

    In reply to Amazon Combats The Nook By Dropping the International Kindle Price By $20

    Ahh! I'm so confused! Your article says you want a Nook, but the ads accompanying your RSS feed in my reader are advertising both the Nook and Kindle! Whatever will I do?! #internationalkindle
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    Image of Software_Goddess Software_Goddess
    10/22/09

    @LastVigilante: Get a library card. #internationalkindle
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