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Old 12-07-2011, 11:42 AM   #21
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I totally understand that feeling. Its like how now there is almost no reason to have a manual transmission anymore. The double clutch automatics are faster and more fuel efficient. There are some technologies that people feel sad to see fall by the wayside, so I understand the sentiment.
I still love driving standard because it makes me feel like I'm really driving.
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Old 12-07-2011, 11:44 AM   #22
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I've fully made the switch to digital distribution when it comes to music. I have some "reserve" tunes on my phone for special circumstances, but I stream all my music on my phone, at work, at home, etc, through Rdio.

I haven't played a single song on iTunes in months.
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Old 12-07-2011, 11:46 AM   #23
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Amazon can't come take a physical book back if they feel like it, and all your physical books don't become unreadable if Amazon disappears.
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Old 12-07-2011, 11:53 AM   #24
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I didn't say I didn't understand the concept. I just think an eReader is a poor substitute for having a real book in your hand.


I like turning physical pages as opposed to swiping a finger or clicking a button. I enjoy seeing my book mark work its way through the depth of the novel as a sense of accomplishment. For me the ritual is almost as important as the content.
You and Captain James Tiberius Kirk . . . . . your words famously uttered by the latter in a Star Trek episode in the mid to late 1960's.

I probably have more than a thousand books - easily - in my house and I'm hoping to live at least another 30 years . . . . . so, its either give them away, use an e-reader or look like a hoarder with all the new ones I'll have stacked to the ceiling.

My Kindle is rather fantastic. And I'm a guy sitting on books and comics I bought in the 1960's. There's just a limit with the physical and virtually none with the virtual.

Technology has certainly rendered my eight-track player irrelevant. I learned from that.

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Old 12-07-2011, 11:56 AM   #25
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You are correct either way, but erosion of privacy is a bad thing.

I especially hate the erosion of privacy simply to combat piracy. That isn't to condone piracy, but personally I believe a person's right to privacy is much more important than fighting piracy.

Is the erosion of privacy really a bad thing? I don't. Privacy is NOT an innate human instinct. It's one that is learned, or more correctly, taught, by our parents and our culture and it comes from the roots of our culture in the Anglo-Saxon/Catholic culture. Some cultures are extremely private (like the Japanese) and others just don't care.

I believe that the sooner we lose our privacy the quicker our culture will be able to combat many of its hidden ills, like sexual crimes, domestic abuse etc. If those things aren't hidden they probably can't happen. We all make mistakes in our youth - but everyone hides it and pretends like they were great. When its all out there everyone will be on an equal playing field and people will be able to better forgive these transgressions, a key to helping people change, letting them change etc.

While a big generation gaps exists right now where the older generation care the younger ones don't so there will probably be bumps while the world changes.

People complain about big brother - and yes, there needs to be some serious protection against a state or government abuses - but overall I think the world is better off without so much privacy, though if people want they should have the right to protect it. I just think that soon people won't care, unless they're trying to hide a crime.
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Old 12-07-2011, 12:13 PM   #26
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I strongly disagree with your premise - that by removing personal privacy those social problems will disappear - but that is more than a little off topic.
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Old 12-07-2011, 01:33 PM   #27
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My book's batteries are never going to run out either.
A Kobo touch gives you one month of battery life. Most vacations you don't even need to bring a charger.

I don't have one, I just think they're awesome.
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Old 12-07-2011, 02:29 PM   #28
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I wonder if you meant to say piracy?

You are correct either way, but erosion of privacy is a bad thing.

I especially hate the erosion of privacy simply to combat piracy. That isn't to condone piracy, but personally I believe a person's right to privacy is much more important than fighting piracy.
Oops.

Yes I did mean piracy. I agree with you on the second point too.
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Old 12-07-2011, 03:42 PM   #29
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... I'm morally opposed to eReaders.
uh, really? whats the moral issue?
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Old 12-07-2011, 10:09 PM   #30
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uh, really? whats the moral issue?

It's called hyperbole.
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It's called hyperbole.
Just admit you like people seeing what you are reading and we can end this whole charade.
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Old 12-07-2011, 11:28 PM   #32
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I think that both the kindle and the book are great technologies. Books are a nice thing to have, but I think a lot of people are forgetting that you have to actually go out to get them. A Kindle offers a very convenient way to get books for cheap. I got my dad a kindle for christmas last year and he became an absolute reading maniac. He used to read at least on book a week and not its about twice as many.

Back to the original topic: The cloud is the present. We have been living with cloud technology for years and it has only started to appear in advertising. In the future, the cloud thing will continue but I also think that a lot of software will move to large supercomputing arrays which we will access over the internet from our tiny computers (like phones).
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