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Originally Posted by Nabodita
@knc1: Oh pooh! I know there's no insult intended... I'm laughing at myself. I never thought of myself as particularly patriotic!
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I know this is way off topic but I'm having too much fun!  |
Yes, it is way off-topic, but a touch of flavoring added to a technical forum.
People live where people live.
Political and social boundaries sweep across them over time.
In countries with a long history, it can have been a real mess to describe.
Leave it to me to get one of my "facts" backwards.
In the part of the USA I live in (now the state of Texas) there have been six national flags.
That in a relatively short (compared to world history) amount of time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_flags_over_Texas
Note that the article mentions **the current** national flag.
Meaning (at least to Texans) that the changes may not be over with yet.
Some groups contend that we should give it all back to Mexico (but Mexico doesn't want it).
Others contend that we should succeed (again).
But now I really digress.
My guess was 1 in 10 might have a use for e-book readers and e-books.
Your guess was that 1 in 10 of those might actually want e-books.
So I guess we are thinking along the same lines.
Not enough for Amazon to localize the Kindle interface but more than enough to interest e-book authors and publishers.
You may also want to look into Pop's
dictionary project here.
There aren't that many readers of Klingon on this planet, but he has the dictionary ready if they ever start buying Kindles.
