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Amazon Confirms Student Version Of Kindle (41)
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Amazon confirmed our speculation that they are planning to target colleges and universities with a new version of the Kindle, reports the Seattle PI. Textbooks are a $5.5 billion annual market, and most publishers now offer electronic versions of their textbooks. McGraw-Hill Education, for example, publishes 95% of their books electronically as well as in print. But there is no compelling device to read them on. The new Kindle will likely be a large screen ...
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Eric Atkins said:
Yes! Forget about heavy text books. Give me digital paper.
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Ahmaud Templeton said:
The opportunity to buy digital copies of my textbooks would be fantastic. I wouldn't have to lug around those tomes from class to class anymore. Man, would that be nice.
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fesja said:
a ver si pruebo un kindle, que tengo curiosidad por ver cómo funciona
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Vicky said:
Great move by Amazon. I hope this will bring down the price of textbooks considerably.
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Amazon confirmed our speculation that they are planning to target colleges and universities with a new version of the Kindle, reports the Seattle PI. Textbooks are a $5.5 billion annual market, and most publishers now offer electronic versions of their textbooks. McGraw-Hill Education, for example, publishes 95% of their books electronically as well as in print. But there is no compelling device to read them on. The new Kindle will likely be a large screen ...
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Ahmaud Templeton said:
The opportunity to buy digital copies of my textbooks would be fantastic. I wouldn't have to lug around those tomes from class to class anymore. Man, would that be nice.
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Vicky said:
Great move by Amazon. I hope this will bring down the price of textbooks considerably.
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Eric Atkins said:
Yes! Forget about heavy text books. Give me digital paper.
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fesja said:
a ver si pruebo un kindle, que tengo curiosidad por ver cómo funciona
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Forrest said:
SO COOL - this should be a great catalyst for amazon, and plays to a bunch of themes that are popular across the political divide. Good on Amazon for bringing this solution to market.
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Sean Blakey said:
Consistently handling PDFs of lecture slides and papers would be a big improvement.
First Interview since silenced subway hacking talk (1)
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Popular Mechanics has interviewed Zack Anderson, one of the silenced MIT Students who were to give the Anatomy of a Subway Hack talk at DEFCON 16. From Popular Mechanics: Its rare that a hacker convention makes national news, but three MIT students caused a whole lot of controversy when they planned a presentation about security holes in Boston's subway system for DefCon in Las Vegas earlier this month. They were forced to cancel the talk ...
11 Things Startups Should Know About Enterprise 2.0 (75)
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Yesterday we wrote about Enterprise 2.0 from the point of view of the Enterprise, the buyer. The conclusion was that the impact of social media on the Enterprise was very big, addressing the very "nature of the firm". This post looks at Enterprise 2.0 from the point of view of the vendor, specifically startups. This is a 30,000 foot view, but we aim to get past the hype to insights you can use in your ...
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Sean said:
I think this is a good list. My advice for startups that want to pitch me business? 1) Understand that just because you don't like MS products my business (an most other enterprises) run on a Microsoft backbone. Integrate with AD for security and run on IIS. 2) Understand my business, and how we are structured. Professional service orgs. are very different than big companies.
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maccman said:
Very interesting article
308 - The Pop Vs Soda Map (63)
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When on a hot summer’s day you buy a carbonated beverage to quench your thirst, how do you order it? Do you ask for a soda, a pop or something else? That question lay at the basis of an article in the Journal of English Linguistics (Soda or Pop?, #24, 1996) and of a map, showing the regional variation in American English of the names given to that type of drink. The article was written ...
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Brittney said:
One of the ways I purposefully shed my "Southern" is by adopting the word "soda," though I called it Coke since I knew what soda was. NOTE: I adopted "soda" many, many years before I left TN.
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Fletch said:
I always hated the South for making me ask for a Coke twice.
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gyakusetsu said:
Newer map than I've seen before.
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Chad said:
I grew up in a very 'pop' county on this map, but I always said soda. And I still don't understand calling them all Coke, it took me forever to figure out that was how the word was used in Alabama. Meanwhile, NC is just a basketcase. And I've NEVER heard it called 'dope'.
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Daniel said:
Kinda old, but still interesting.
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Rhiannon said:
Thanks, Zoot! I say 'soda' and was just in an argument with my boyfriend over this. Apparently we're suppose to call it POP here.
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John Halton said:
Fascinating map about generic soft-drink names across the US
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Ginger said:
This is so accurate...I have always called it "soda" whereas I always thought it strange that my cousins who live in Cincinnati would call it "pop". Weird, wild stuff...
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Brett L. said:
Why have I not seen this map before? Also: soda all the way. Also: I added "Dictionary of American Regional English" to my Amazon Wish List. Someone please buy it for me.
Pandora On the Verge of Closing Shop (77)
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Pandora is an internet radio service that allows you to create your own radio station based on songs and artists that you like. While you can't necessarily pick and choose what you'll hear on the service, you can fine-tune your radio station's tastes by giving the songs that Pandora recommends a thumbs up or a thumbs down. Pandora on the iPhone is one of the best applications for streaming music and finding new tunes. So, ...
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Tim said:
boooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
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Jake said:
Save Internet Radio!
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Sonny Cloward said:
This is so damn sad!!!
Pandora On the Verge of Closing Shop (57)
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Pandora is an internet radio service that allows you to create your own radio station based on songs and artists that you like. While you can't necessarily pick and choose what you'll hear on the service, you can fine-tune your radio station's tastes by giving the songs that Pandora recommends a thumbs up or a thumbs down. Pandora on the iPhone is one of the best applications for streaming music and finding new tunes. So, ...
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Tim said:
boooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
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Sonny Cloward said:
This is so damn sad!!!
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Amy said:
sign a petition! I can't go on without pandora
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Jake said:
Save Internet Radio!
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Boris said:
this would be awful if it happens. i love pandora.
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Jamie said:
Nooooo! Love Pandora.
Announcing AstriDevCon 2008 (1)
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On September 26-28 in Glendale, Arizona, a group of Asterisk developers will be getting together for three days of hacking, coding, testing, designing and otherwise beating on the Asterisk code base.
Creativity Squashed by the Courts (1)
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The purpose of DEFCON is to present research on security flaws, such as those found in private systems owned by Bill Gates or Steve Jobs. But don't try to present research that might cut into a government's revenue!...
Latest Police State Tactic: Shoot First, Ask Questions Later (1)
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That's what happened to a totally innocent mayor of a Baltimore suburb when cops knocked down the door to his house, shot to death his two labrador retrievers, tied him up along with his mother-in-law, and interrogated them for two...
Quantity Always Trumps Quality (98)
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Nathan Bowers pointed me to this five year old Cool Tools entry on the book Art & Fear. Although I am not at all ready to call software development "art" -- perhaps "craft" would be more appropriate, or "engineering" if you're feeling generous -- the parallels between some of the advice offered here and my experience writing software are profound. The ceramics teacher announced on opening day that he was dividing the class into two ...
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alice said:
Jeff Atwood gets it right again.
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Zane Shelby said:
Anyone who is familiar with the NewMUD project should see the wisdom in this article.
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Simon said:
I've paraphrased what Jeff is saying here. It is really quite profound and extends way beyond software developer or ceramics. It permeates every aspect of our life. Don't know how play the guitar? Are you going to read about it, or pick up a guitar and start practicing? Don't know how to ride a motorcycle? You can read the manual, or take one out for a spin (carefully). You did sell enough stuff? You can study more about the product and the region and the demographics, or you can knock on another door or make another phone call.In general, life is about refinement... about constantly refining who we are and what we do. Someone said to me that you can't steer a parked car. So true... the car must be moving before you can get it going in the right direction.God does the same thing with us. He asks us to make disciples as we go into the world. We may be afraid and feel unprepared, but in the act of doing, He grows us and trains us and we become more able all the time.
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Carl Fyffe said:
Amazing. I have witnessed this in many different aspects of life.
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AlexandrosM said:
an amazing idea. an a-ha moment if you will.
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smuggyuk said:
And this is why I spend my
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