Morning Discussion

by Chris Faylor, Feb 09, 2009 7:30am PST

A new week has dawned, and this one promises bikini-clad zombie slayers.

As expected, my enjoyment of Burnout Paradise is significantly higher after the latest patch. Hooray for the option to restart an event, instead of driving halfway across the map to try again. I sat down to play for a few minutes and ended up losing a few hours.

However, this will put force me to make a difficult call later in the week. Car crashes or zombie killing? I honestly don't know if I'll be able to decide. Both sound so appealing.

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did phil already explode about the kindle 2 stuff? or did I miss it?

Feb 09, 2009 11:01am PST

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did phil already explode about the kindle 2 stuff? or did I miss it? : hamachi
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- You only listed one outcome.. Since if he didn't explode, there is no way for you to miss it :) And I do... : Demius
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  He's too busy trying to quit WoW to notice. : pancake humper
  - you can never quit by trying to finish the game. : re-verse
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  whatwhatwhatwhat? : Phil
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    http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/09/amazon-kindle-2-announced-359-on-feburary-24/ : pancake humper
    - DO WANT. : Vincent Grayson
    - Video After The Break - die motherfucker. : proclone1
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    http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2009/02/amazon-revamps-kindle-hints-at-bigger-things-to-come.ars a... : hamachi
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      after your enthusiasm last xmas I'm interested in it now. so I'm reading as much as I can about it. : hamachi
      
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      zomg! i wish i had the cash to get it :( : Phil
      
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      http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=19161411#itemanchor_19161411 : mrvandelay
      
      fucking lol. MY LIFE. : Phil
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  A BOOK THAT CAN RUN OUT OF BATTERIES : mr.sleepy
  - hahahahaahahah : MagicWishMonkey
  - LOL... nice one, sleepy. : Ride-My-Rocket
  - oh sleepy! : conandan
  - aaaahahahaha : virus
  - hahahaha : lookitzpancakes
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  I told you guys those pics were real fake! : Iwannaacura
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    is that why you got fired :( : Deathlove
    - no.... : Iwannaacura
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  I love the idea, but I just can't fathom spending the equivalent of 45 books* to be able to have the priv... : DapperDan
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    Yeah, but you can buy books damned near anywhere with the thing, and it is actually very easy to read. ... : mafu5150
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      I see where you're going, but I just don't see the ipod parallel from a practical standpoint. Songs are 3... : DapperDan
      
      i'm with you dan. the ipod analogy is not a good one. Having instantaneous access to your whole music li... : trevis
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    I've still never seen one out in the real world...though I live in a college town and not a city. : givemesnacks
    - They are very common on my commute home. I usually see 4-7 of them a week on my train. : pancake humper
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    Depending on what books you read and how often you read, you can actually more than make up that money. N... : qwpeoriu
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      I'm not sure how much shackers read, I know I don't read much. My wife reads and reviews books. Last year she logged 80 reviews, and she read more (some books she reads are provided by publishers, and when it's a negative review she provides feedback and asks if she should post it, they almost always go up anyway). ANYWAY. 80 books a year, that's a lot. And I can tell you she doesn't spend 350 bucks on books. Library books, Book swap clubs, trading with friends, she probably buys 3-4 books total at full price.
      
      My point is, from the point of someone who reads a enormous amount of books, the kindle is overpriced. Maybe it's good if you read a lot of periodicals or time sensitive material, but for book lovers, it's bullshit.
      
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      I'm not sure how much shackers read, I know I don't read much. My wife reads and reviews books. Last year... : Slowtreme
      
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      For me, I not only buy a lot of books, but I also have hardcore book ADD. I cannot stick to one book for ... : Vincent Grayson
      
      The backlight is why I loved ye olde PDA (with uBook) for reading : d fluke
      
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      I didn't know kindle was backlit o_O : Slowtreme
      
      Fuck, maybe it's not. I guess I just assumed it would be. : Vincent Grayson
  - Yeah the price really is prohibitive : derelict515
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    For road warriors it's a godsend. I travel for work all the time and just last week I was late coming hom : Serpico74
    - so...was the airport closed because you had to fight attila the hun with a mere 2-3 paperbacks? : vikramwillrock
  - The books are typically $9.99. Even something that would be a $20 hardback is usually less than $10. : Gonzo
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  How does it handle textbooks? Can I get programming books on it? They dont really have images so if it ha... : derelict515
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    Looks like you can get programming books on it: http://www.amazon.com/s/qid=1234209054/ref=sr_nr_n_7?ie=U... : cltcprd
    - also: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/172380/programming-texts-and-reference-material-for-my-kindle-cr... : cltcprd
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    The screen and reformatting doesn't serve itself well for technical books and there's no monospaced font, : arhughes
  - You can but it sounds like its not an ideal setup. Hanselman wrote about some of the issues with it not ... : Horn
- I love the idea and can't wait until I get all my books in that manner. But it is still too hard for me t... : d3tached
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  Also how long until we get some touchscreen eInk so we can get one without that horrible keyboard? : derelict515
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    The Hanlin (chinese oem thingie) has a secondary eink display with touch, the larger one is just eink. Be... : d fluke
    - Oh, forgot about that illiad one, that's full screen touch : d fluke
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  I have the original and like it. It was a gift so yeah. : thief
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    do you use it a bunch? does it have stuff you like? : hamachi
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      I use it frequently. There's a lot of books available -- at a nice discount -- that I do read and, more : thief
      
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      When people talk about the 'feel of the book' I most imagine them to be talking about -- I assert my own : thief
      
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      neat! have you imported anything? can you throw in pdf's and such easily? are there hacks? : hamachi
      
      I put some jeff buckley songs on there once. That's it. Someone told me you can text messages with the ... : thief
      
      *There are. : thief
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  i know at some point i'm going to want one of these, but i'm too attached to my physical library and like... : dahanese
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    See, I look at five bookshelves worth of books at this point that I haven't looked at in years, in some c... : Deathlove
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      every time i move and i have to carry my fucking books up flights of stairs, i feel very strongly about t... : electroly
      
      For me, it's hard to separate the way things HAVE been done from necessarily being the right way in a cas... : Fayk
      
      Every time I've moved in the last few years I've eliminated a large % of my library. It becomes more anno... : Ebu
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    i'm with ya on this. i don't collect anything, but when it comes to books - the feel of them, the look, t... : arcane_
    - How absolutely Romantic. : thief
    - I love new book smell. : SusanTD
    - I'm the same way, though I don't really like it; I fell like a stupid Luddite even though I'm all for oth... : DonkeyPopsicle
  - I'm pretty much the same though it's not reading the physical books I'd miss, but shopping for them. I... : PeanutsEnvy
  - I love having my real books, but honestly, I'm getting to the point where I have too many and I am runnin... : nukewinter
- as pyrogen said earlier they need to get rid of the keyboard and the internet and cut the price : podizzle
- Will we ever see a color version. I like pretty pictures in my books. : coyoterys
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  can you just put amazon stuff on it or can you put any old PDF on there? : dantastic
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    I believe you can convert PDFs, and there are tens of thousands of books in the public domain in the .mob... : Serpico74
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      But so if the PDFs had unsupported fonts (like monospace for code apparently) it would just fail or chang... : derelict515
      
      I'm sure it would just change the font. : Ebu
      
      I think it notices some of that. The biggest problem with tech books is the layout gets ripped out with t... : zakazi
- Is it coming to Canada yet or what. Fuck. : Ellissd
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  Is there a back / side / whatever light so I can be in a dark room and read this w/o needing anything els... : rosewood
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    No; you need an external source of light to see the text. : thief
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      Yup. Think of e-paper like a super high tech etch-a-sketch. Opaque because it is physical, it is nothing ... : Serpico74
      
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      Will not buy : rosewood
      
      For most people, having it simulate real paper is far more important that a freaking backlight. Especiall... : Bantis
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  Here's a post I made a while back on why I really like my Kindle. The only physical books I buy now are ... : scythide
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    The Kindle is the nest tech gadget I've bought in years, hands down. It has made business travel and ever... : Serpico74
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      how often do you buy new stuff for it? : hamachi
      
      Like my regular book buying habits; it goes in waves. I'll buy a bunch of stuff and then stop while I mak... : Serpico74
    - i want that other device with is like an A4 plastic sheet + touchscreen : filthysock
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    The built-in dictionary kind of gets me. I haven't had to look up a word in, shit, a decade at least? I c... : Ebu
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  I adore my kindle thing. Every time I finish a book I'm usually buying another for it. So a couple books ... : zakazi
  - Oh yeah and I'm very torn about tech books. On one hand I actually read the damn things because I'm not h... : zakazi
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  I got a PRS-505 for $79 on sale. Lighter than a pile of books for a road trip and lasts about 3-4 books p... : deadfish
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    I have a PRS-505 I've had for about a year. Bought it for $250 or so, IIRC. I'm pretty happy with it. : Arcanum
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      I'm only kinda pissed cuz I have a TON of ebooks and it can't handle more than 250 or so because of the s... : deadfish
      
      That's true even with the firmware update from last year? : Arcanum
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  I got my wife an original Kindle for Xmas and she fucking LOVES it. It's such a cool device. I'm kind o... : DinK
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    I find it interesting that all of the naysayers are people who admittedly have never actually seen or use... : Serpico74
- You know what I like, the library. :P : Super Sparker
- I want them to offer me an upgrade. I hit this page buttons on accident a bit too frequently and i like ... : smacknca
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  YAY I'M GETTING ONE! Because you already ordered the original Kindle and are awaiting its arrival, we : skinlab133
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    Did you just pay the Kindle 1 price for the new Kindle or did they charge you for the upgrade? : Thud
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      My wife placed the order as a birthday gift for me a few weeks ago. This was before the Kindle 2 was anno... : skinlab133
      
      that is really cool. : dahanese
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  Can you get D&D books on this thing? Has anyone tried it? That would rock. : Goncyn
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    it can get PDFs, so yeah? : laurgasms
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      I'd be curious to hear from someone who has actually tried it, though, to see whether it would format the... : Goncyn
      
      I owuld like to see that too : hamachi
  - http://www.amazon.com/kindle-store-ebooks-magazines-blogs-newspapers/b/ref=sa_menu_ks2?ie=UTF8&node=13314... : dromo5
  - I would think it'd be pretty ugly without color. I didn't think the eInk even handled images at all but I... : derelict515
- Dear Amazon, please sell the Kindle outside of that one country. : rock elf
- I haven't held a new one, of course, but I really like my Kindle 1. I don't like that they made the devic... : lacker

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