Re: [silk] Kindle readers?

2010-12-22 Thread Kiran Jonnalagadda
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 2:16 AM, Charles Haynes charles.hay...@gmail.comwrote: I get 24hrs+ on my phone, 12+ even when reading books pretty continuously. The e-ink platforms have very good battery life but they (and paper) need external light. I can read books on my phone in the dark! What

Re: [silk] Kindle readers?

2010-12-22 Thread Nishant Shah
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 1:46 PM, Kiran Jonnalagadda j...@pobox.com wrote: On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 2:16 AM, Charles Haynes charles.hay...@gmail.comwrote: I get 24hrs+ on my phone, 12+ even when reading books pretty continuously. The e-ink platforms have very good battery life but they (and

Re: [silk] Kindle readers?

2010-12-22 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 01:46:53PM +0530, Kiran Jonnalagadda wrote: On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 2:16 AM, Charles Haynes charles.hay...@gmail.comwrote: I get 24hrs+ on my phone, 12+ even when reading books pretty continuously. The e-ink platforms have very good battery life but they People

Re: [silk] Kindle readers?

2010-12-22 Thread Charles Haynes
Nevermind that such anemic readers wouldn't be able to handle DJVU and PDF scans (e.g. 325 k books in the Library Genesis), which can be large and are frequently in color. Sure, but they're already good enough for me - I can read 80% of the books I want to read in ebook form which was the

Re: [silk] Kindle readers?

2010-12-22 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 08:08:58PM +1100, Charles Haynes wrote: Sure, but they're already good enough for me - I can read 80% of the books I want to read in ebook form which was the tipping point for me to give up paper. For me, availability of very large scientific libraries compact enough

Re: [silk] Kindle readers?

2010-12-22 Thread Charles Haynes
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 8:48 PM, Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org wrote: For me, availability of very large scientific libraries compact enough to be hosted on inexpensive servers makes the price (even it's 1 kUSD) of the reader irrelevant. Right, including the possibility of hosting my own. I got

Re: [silk] Close the Washington Monument

2010-12-22 Thread Sean Doyle
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 12:45 AM, Calvin cjwl...@yahoo.com wrote: A more poignant reminder would be to body search everyone who enters the building, Congressmen included. I suspect that most Congressmen are exhibitionists - so this might actually be an incentive for them :-).

[silk] TV Studio

2010-12-22 Thread Venkat Mangudi - Silk
I have to find something that will keep my kids occupied for the next couple of weeks. Other than the usual suspects of museums, planetariums and parks (tough weather these days to go roaming in Lalbagh), one idea is to take them on a visit to a TV studio. Apt, considering the enormous amount time

Re: [silk] Close the Washington Monument

2010-12-22 Thread Nikhil Mehra
You know this just might be an Indian speaking, but I seriously want you very privileged American bastards (and I was till recently one of them by sheer virtue of having lived there) to truly fearfully deal with terror cynicism or theatre, to know Schneier's article is everything but fantasy. So,

Re: [silk] Close the Washington Monument

2010-12-22 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Nikhil Mehra [23/12/10 06:08 +0530]: You know this just might be an Indian speaking, but I seriously want you very privileged American bastards (and I was till recently one of them by sheer virtue of having lived there) to truly fearfully deal with terror cynicism or theatre, to know Schneier's

Re: [silk] Close the Washington Monument

2010-12-22 Thread Udhay Shankar N
On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 6:08 AM, Nikhil Mehra nikhil.mehra...@gmail.com wrote: Fuck this. And fuck this list if this is the lot of asswipes I have to deal with. Could you kindly disown me, Udhay? This isn't even a rant. I'm just that cynical about American   security theatre. But much more so

Re: [silk] Close the Washington Monument

2010-12-22 Thread Lawnun
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 7:38 PM, Nikhil Mehra nikhil.mehra...@gmail.comwrote: You know this just might be an Indian speaking, but I seriously want you very privileged American bastards (and I was till recently one of them by sheer virtue of having lived there) to truly fearfully deal with