Dual firmware announcement - Page 37

T_Frain_K · 10-14-2009, 05:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by K-Thom

GeoffC, we're just killing time...

Haven´t you read Alice in Wonderland?

Time does not like if someone tries to kill him - that´s the reason it´s always tea time for the Mad Hatter

Snuffi · 10-15-2009, 02:51 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by K-Thom

GeoffC, we're just killing time until the arrival of the firmware update. Though, considering the length we're waiting, it's more of a time massacre by now ...

With all those minutes, hours and days we already killed and still more are coming back to block the path to our firmware. Feels like a zombie apocalypse...

K-Thom · 10-15-2009, 05:56 AM

That's it, we're awaiting an undead firmware!

*shudder*

GeoffC · 10-15-2009, 06:26 AM

not only time, guys, I've lost count of the number of threads that have morphed into a whinge covering the same topic "Wheres the Firmware Upgrade"....(omitted appropriate swearword cause this is a family show [and I don't know them myself])

Snuffi · 10-15-2009, 07:21 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GeoffC

not only time, guys, I've lost count of the number of threads that have morphed into a whinge covering the same topic "Wheres the Firmware Upgrade"....(omitted appropriate swearword cause this is a family show [and I don't know them myself])

I shudder to think what will happen when Bookeen delivers the firmware. Number of posts here plummets, mobileread revenue with advertisements (by competitors) decreases, people don't have fun together anymore and start developing sociopathic behaviour. What follows is the same old story: drugs, drive by shootings, bankruptcy, jail... the end of the world.

There is just one hope: If Bookeen delivers the firmware and there are plenty of bugs, new features not working properly and some of the announced changes didn't make it into the firmware. Bookeen would announce that all would be fixed in the next firmware release and everything would go back to normal... Let's hope Bookeen saves the world with a buggy FW

K-Thom · 10-15-2009, 07:32 AM

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World ...

Let's all look for the "Big W" in firmWare!

GeoffC · 10-15-2009, 07:56 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Snuffi

I shudder to think what will happen when Bookeen delivers the firmware. Number of posts here plummets, mobileread revenue with advertisements (by competitors) decreases, people don't have fun together anymore and start developing sociopathic behaviour. What follows is the same old story: drugs, drive by shootings, bankruptcy, jail... the end of the world.

There is just one hope: If Bookeen delivers the firmware and there are plenty of bugs, new features not working properly and some of the announced changes didn't make it into the firmware. Bookeen would announce that all would be fixed in the next firmware release and everything would go back to normal... Let's hope Bookeen saves the world with a buggy FW

Quote:

Originally Posted by K-Thom

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World ...

Let's all look for the "Big W" in firmWare!

Of course we all know that a new firmware release (or pair of....) will generate threads galore with moans about

battery duration
bugs
lack of dictionary support
drm (never ending)
complaints because the so-called ability to switch between mobi & ePub versions is not as 'clean' as should be .......... some older versions won't shift or will be (hell NO) bricked !!!!!!

Snuffi · 10-15-2009, 09:23 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GeoffC

Of course we all know that a new firmware release (or pair of....) will generate threads galore with moans about

battery duration
bugs
lack of dictionary support
drm (never ending)
complaints because the so-called ability to switch between mobi & ePub versions is not as 'clean' as should be .......... some older versions won't shift or will be (hell NO) bricked !!!!!!

or someone's entire ebook collection will be automagically converted from mobi to ePub (DRMed, of course) while at the same time making it impossible to install anything else than the mobi version on that person's device...

GeoffC · 10-15-2009, 10:34 AM

.... ouch !

K-Thom · 10-15-2009, 10:47 AM

Maybe they are working on an automated process to translate any eBook into French, the only civilized language west of El Paso.

GeoffC · 10-15-2009, 10:58 AM

......

west of El Paso ....

peterbbb · 10-15-2009, 02:56 PM

Yes Geoff, earth is a sphere, so either way will do.

Halk · 10-15-2009, 03:09 PM

Erm, yes. But going west from El Paso pretty much just excludes English, assuming you only count a language if you count the country it originates from...

GeoffC · 10-15-2009, 04:34 PM

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Originally Posted by peterbbb

Yes Geoff, earth is a sphere, so either way will do.

and there were me believing t'e world were flat .....

for that glimmer of hope for the insane .....
(however, good job didn't go northwards

)

pieter · 10-15-2009, 08:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GeoffC

Please provide details of your definition of ..... SOON!!!!.

For instance; do the 5 period dots followed by a space, the capital letters and the 4 exclamation marks, all imply anything significant .....

Didn't you know? a french "soon" can only be translated into english by "..... SOON!!!!"
The definition of it is of course that it is a french soon, which can mean a period of a couple days or a week or a month or a year or a decade or a century or a millenium.

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10-15-2009, 05:56 AM	#543
K-Thom The one and only Posts: 3,302 Karma: 535819 Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Berlin, Germany Device: yup!	That's it, we're awaiting an undead firmware! shudder

10-15-2009, 06:26 AM	#544
GeoffC Chocolate Grasshopper ... Posts: 27,599 Karma: 20821184 Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Scotland Device: Muse HD , Cybook Gen3 , Pocketbook 302 (Black) , Nexus 10: wife has PW	not only time, guys, I've lost count of the number of threads that have morphed into a whinge covering the same topic "Wheres the Firmware Upgrade"....(omitted appropriate swearword cause this is a family show [and I don't know them myself])

10-15-2009, 07:32 AM	#546
K-Thom The one and only Posts: 3,302 Karma: 535819 Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Berlin, Germany Device: yup!	It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World ... Let's all look for the "Big W" in firmWare!

10-15-2009, 10:34 AM	#549
GeoffC Chocolate Grasshopper ... Posts: 27,599 Karma: 20821184 Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Scotland Device: Muse HD , Cybook Gen3 , Pocketbook 302 (Black) , Nexus 10: wife has PW	.... ouch !

10-15-2009, 10:47 AM	#550
K-Thom The one and only Posts: 3,302 Karma: 535819 Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Berlin, Germany Device: yup!	Maybe they are working on an automated process to translate any eBook into French, the only civilized language west of El Paso.

10-15-2009, 10:58 AM	#551
GeoffC Chocolate Grasshopper ... Posts: 27,599 Karma: 20821184 Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Scotland Device: Muse HD , Cybook Gen3 , Pocketbook 302 (Black) , Nexus 10: wife has PW	...... west of El Paso ....

10-15-2009, 02:56 PM	#552
peterbbb BoyReader Posts: 151 Karma: 308 Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Llangollen, North Wales, UK Device: Cybook Gen3 and now Kindle 3	Yes Geoff, earth is a sphere, so either way will do.

10-15-2009, 03:09 PM	#553
Halk Fanatic Posts: 538 Karma: 469999 Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Scotland Device: Sony PRS-650 (PRS+ alpha - thanks Kartu!)	Erm, yes. But going west from El Paso pretty much just excludes English, assuming you only count a language if you count the country it originates from...