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Forum: Amazon Kindle 07-24-2009, 03:48 PM
Replies: 18
Views: 8,892
Posted By Thomas Ryan
This has been covered extensively in the past. ...

This has been covered extensively in the past.

Unless the Amazon engineers made a recent blunder - With WAN off, there should be little noticeable battery consumption difference between sleep and...
Forum: Amazon Kindle 05-08-2009, 07:14 PM
Replies: 429
Views: 365,691
Posted By Thomas Ryan
One word answer: Volume. One example: When...

One word answer: Volume.

One example: When you make a zillion laptop screens, all alike, you can drive the unit cost down. When you make 400,000 (or whatever it is) Kindle screens, on some...
Forum: Amazon Kindle 05-08-2009, 06:54 PM
Replies: 18
Views: 13,489
Posted By Thomas Ryan
The Beginning of Time - The System Time is...

The Beginning of Time -

The System Time is the number of seconds since 00:00:00 January 1, 1970 UTC (or more succinctly, the number of seconds since 1969).
...
Forum: Amazon Kindle 03-30-2009, 06:56 PM
Replies: 38
Views: 4,849
Posted By Thomas Ryan
Perhaps you should consider to point out to the...

Perhaps you should consider to point out to the customer service representative that the drop test video at amazon.com/kindle (scroll down a ways) shows a Kindle 2 falling just about the way you...
Forum: Amazon Kindle 03-23-2009, 04:16 PM
Replies: 19
Views: 3,899
Posted By Thomas Ryan
You are right, it doesn't need to be fuzzy if it...

You are right, it doesn't need to be fuzzy if it is built into the format.
For example, it's not fuzzy in Kindle newspaper editions which specify sections, and articles, their titles, etc.
Forum: Amazon Kindle 03-21-2009, 04:47 AM
Replies: 112
Views: 14,596
Posted By Thomas Ryan
How do you know that the publishers are at the...

How do you know that the publishers are at the root of this? (Buy once from mobipocket for your XYZ device, buy a second time for the same e-book from Amazon.com/kindle for Kindle)? Or, ditto re the...
Forum: News 03-19-2009, 03:10 AM
Replies: 79
Views: 19,271
Posted By Thomas Ryan
In terms of the 815 patent - what DRM, or more...

In terms of the 815 patent - what DRM, or more broadly encryption decryption schemes were used? If they match (non-legal term) the patent, then the patent challenge may be nonenforceable due to...
Forum: News 03-19-2009, 03:04 AM
Replies: 79
Views: 19,271
Posted By Thomas Ryan
I think the patent under discussion is about DRM...

I think the patent under discussion is about DRM and distribution over the Internet and/or another broadcast system. In this context the serial port connected to a computer may be irrelevant....
Forum: News 03-18-2009, 06:01 PM
Replies: 79
Views: 19,271
Posted By Thomas Ryan
I'm not an attorney, but out of curiosity I read...

I'm not an attorney, but out of curiosity I read through the claims and traced out the tree.

Whether it's "non-obvious" or not, or prior art exists or not, the 815 patent comprehensively covers a...
Forum: News 03-18-2009, 02:47 PM
Replies: 79
Views: 19,271
Posted By Thomas Ryan
Mr. John Hendricks is a prolific inventor: ...

Mr. John Hendricks is a prolific inventor:
...
Forum: Amazon Kindle 03-17-2009, 05:20 PM
Replies: 31
Views: 48,014
Posted By Thomas Ryan
It may be that you "bookmark file" is corrupted...

It may be that you "bookmark file" is corrupted for that book.
Try this -
Connect Kindle via USB to a PC/Mac.
Find the volume/drive on the desktop
look in the Documents folder
(view by list -...
Forum: Amazon Kindle 03-16-2009, 06:28 PM
Replies: 26
Views: 7,320
Posted By Thomas Ryan
Shhhhhhhh!!!! Do you have to tell everybody?

Shhhhhhhh!!!! Do you have to tell everybody?
Forum: Amazon Kindle 03-16-2009, 06:09 PM
Replies: 112
Views: 14,596
Posted By Thomas Ryan
Why wait for Kindle? Amazon may already be in the...

Why wait for Kindle? Amazon may already be in the process of creating a precedent.
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http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6631991.html?nid=2286&source=link&rid=1192404514

Amazon To Drop...
Forum: Amazon Kindle 03-16-2009, 05:55 PM
Replies: 26
Views: 7,320
Posted By Thomas Ryan
Bingo!!! This makes a lot of sense to me. ...

Bingo!!!
This makes a lot of sense to me.
The device says to a server "here is the last page read for (some hacked) book identified by number xyz", the server says "never heard of you".
I...
Forum: Amazon Kindle 03-12-2009, 10:38 AM
Replies: 162
Views: 45,377
Posted By Thomas Ryan
yes, limit the synch to content purchased from...

yes, limit the synch to content purchased from Amazon, for obvious business reasons (value added to Amazon purchases only), but how do you know what data is actually being sent to the servers? Has...
Forum: Amazon Kindle 03-12-2009, 10:31 AM
Replies: 162
Views: 45,377
Posted By Thomas Ryan
Yet another logic bomb. Look at the two sentences...

Yet another logic bomb. Look at the two sentences above and think about it for two more minutes.
If you need another clue, think about WhisperSynch.
...
Forum: Amazon Kindle 03-11-2009, 08:27 PM
Replies: 162
Views: 45,377
Posted By Thomas Ryan
Kindle reading is not limited to Amazon-only...

Kindle reading is not limited to Amazon-only purchases - as you note in your 3rd paragraph about your own legitamate content acquisition. Nobody is lying. You're falling apart; take a deep breath....
Forum: Amazon Kindle 03-11-2009, 08:09 PM
Replies: 162
Views: 45,377
Posted By Thomas Ryan
Wow! Welcome to the real world. It's been this...

Wow! Welcome to the real world. It's been this way for a while.
Yes, our U.S. law-makers got "bamboozled" or were simply paid-off, and now we have an idiotic law. Be careful with the term "fair...
Forum: Amazon Kindle 03-11-2009, 07:59 PM
Replies: 162
Views: 45,377
Posted By Thomas Ryan
I liked "pre-edit" post better. Are you a...

I liked "pre-edit" post better.

Are you a lawyer?

If so, when you say damages, you'll notice I previously asked "is there victim?", because I am not a lawyer, and I think "damages" has a legal...
Forum: Amazon Kindle 03-11-2009, 05:29 PM
Replies: 2
Views: 1,865
Posted By Thomas Ryan
Excellent idea! Collections! Folders! The...

Excellent idea! Collections! Folders!
The problem you are facing is that http:// tells the reader to go off the device to the web.

To work, mobigen and the ebook reader need to support some sort...
Forum: Amazon Kindle 03-11-2009, 03:04 PM
Replies: 10
Views: 10,955
Posted By Thomas Ryan
A lot of this was covered earlier in a thread...

A lot of this was covered earlier in a thread about foreign language support.
Kindle (mostly) supports a well known standard. And, as noted, it's not very extensible.
...
Forum: Amazon Kindle 03-11-2009, 02:49 PM
Replies: 25
Views: 7,241
Posted By Thomas Ryan
if you haven't already, you might want to check...

if you haven't already, you might want to check the Kindle book store - many (but obviously not all) Gutenberg titles are there for free. sort by price - low to high to start; you can search for...
Forum: Amazon Kindle 03-11-2009, 11:00 AM
Replies: 162
Views: 45,377
Posted By Thomas Ryan
Clever, but a PID represents the device; it is a...

Clever, but a PID represents the device; it is a computer generated name for a device. Your cedit card represents "you" , "or your account". If someone uses your credit card against your wishes to...
Forum: Amazon Kindle 03-10-2009, 08:47 PM
Replies: 162
Views: 45,377
Posted By Thomas Ryan
Bruce your point is partly right, and the wrong...

Bruce your point is partly right, and the wrong part is likely based on a wrong assumption. Nate - you are also correct (except I don't exactly know what conflate means). In my orginal post, I had...
Forum: Amazon Kindle 03-10-2009, 04:52 PM
Replies: 162
Views: 45,377
Posted By Thomas Ryan
--never mind --

--never mind --
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