10-14-2017, 11:29 AM | #31 |
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What are you doing with your H2O? Are you not ejecting it properly? I've had once since around Thanksgiving of the year they first came out and I've never had to factory reset.
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10-15-2017, 09:05 AM | #32 | |
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Fundamentally, we don't know how to teach people to program, so degrees don't really help much: what matters is interest/self-direction, the ability to "think like a computer", and the ability to grasp a few simple but counterintuitive concepts (assignment, formal versus actual names for things, pointers): degree courses mostly don't teach the latter even though research shows that it is one of the largest sources of confusion among people newly exposed to programming, and one that if you get it wrong is unlikely to get fixed on its own. And perhaps one more thing: the one common factor I can think of between the aforementioned best programmers is that they all started programming before they were ten (a strong flag of innate interest and a good way to build up a lot of experience before you hit the workforce). Things like the ability to write maintainable code, core skills like functional decomposition, and familiarity with things like time and space complexity will come with experience: things like complexity do require you to have the interest levels to seek them out (possibly by doing the rough equivalent of parts of degree courses on your own, online!) but things like functional decomposition have been independently reinvented by almost everyone I know who started programming before the Internet let them look it up as easily as breathing. We all thought it was obvious after-the-fact It would be nice if degrees actually predicted someone's programming skill. They really, really don't. |
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10-15-2017, 04:29 PM | #33 | |
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In the end I factory reset it again and when Calibre saw both the kobo and the SD card I sent all my fan fiction to it. It's now basicly a storage device. I can't sell it as I honestly think the USB port is faulty. |
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10-15-2017, 05:11 PM | #34 |
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More likely either a bad USB cable or a "Power Only" USB cable or your trying to use a USB-3 port.
Find a cable that works. Mark it (piece of tape on it?) - use only that, use only on USB-2 type ports, keep notes on when/if the problem returns. |
10-15-2017, 10:29 PM | #35 |
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8gb is fine for me. 32 gb is overkill - for a kindle. I love reading on my kindle voyage but push come to shove I'd be fine using my phone or tablet too. E-ink is kinder to my eyes though and I like being able to use it outside. But even that is changing depending on the device. Some devices have night mode some have a blue light filter. I can see why Amazon might be shooting for the moon with the higher end devices from a marketing standpoint. Users of lower end devices MIGHT be happy with their phones & tablets without adding another device. Customers that want the higher end kindles tend to have higher disposable income as well.
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10-16-2017, 07:15 AM | #36 |
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Thank you, I'll remember that when I pick it up again, but tbh I've had enough of Kobo now.
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10-16-2017, 07:21 AM | #37 |
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I was just going to say basically the same thing. I have never gotten an e-reader wet. If I read outside and it starts raining I close my cover and go inside. I don't read in the tub because I take showers but if I did take a bath why would I want to read floating around in dirty water, and naked??? These are reasons why I think waterproof e-readers are not necessary for me. Cellphones would probably be the only device I use that I would like to be waterproof and rugged. They are used constantly and in all environments.
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10-16-2017, 07:28 AM | #38 | |
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As for a sale price. Probably not till next year. |
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10-17-2017, 08:44 PM | #39 | |
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The pleasure of soaking in a scented bubble bath with candles and a good book - I pity you that you know not this pleasure. Last edited by pendragginp; 10-17-2017 at 08:47 PM. |
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10-17-2017, 09:17 PM | #40 |
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Emphasis added by me. Why only USB-2 type ports? I thought the USB-3 ports were backwards compatible.
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10-17-2017, 09:28 PM | #41 | |
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Not all of the chip implementation are. It was a big upheaval in the semiconductor world, somebody (or somebodies) manufactured and shipped millions of chips that had design problems. The most widely known manufacture that ended up with them being used in production items before the problem was detected was Apple. Buy many manufacturers used them in production items before they where recalled. |
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10-17-2017, 09:42 PM | #42 | |
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‘Try a different port’, ‘try a different cable’ are not guaranteed to work or identify the problem but they help often enough to be worth trying. |
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11-11-2017, 10:12 PM | #43 |
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My pw2 is so full I had to remove some books to do an update. I haven't noticed any difference in performance. I got the 8 gb oasis because of the increased ppi
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11-11-2017, 10:54 PM | #44 | |
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11-11-2017, 10:56 PM | #45 |
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