You can get $5 O'Reilly EPUBs from the App Store everyday.
Extracting an epub from an iPhone app is easy. First you unzip the .ipa file. Then you cd to Payload/*/book. Finally, you zip up the files to an .epub file: zip -X ~/book.epub mimetype && zip -r9DX ~/book.epub META-INF OEBPS.
mimetype must be first in the archive for validity, which you can test with EpubCheck.
This is definitely a hacky way to go. I just tried it with Matz’s Ruby book. Reading it with Stanza on OSX is just about the ugliest digital reading experience outside of scanned text.
It's an issue of using a subpar client, not a subpar format. I have yet to find a decent epub reader for a computer. Stanza for iPhone, iBooks, and dedicated hardware render epubs beautifully.
I suppose everybody here knows the ins and outs of the browser landscape and has their own favorite. Most everybody else doesn't care about browsers and would find a selection screen annoying. Ubuntu has worked hard at reducing the effort to install an operating system, and such a screen goes against their philosophy. It's important to have sensible defaults.
Hopefully this means we can standardize data exchange on something like Ethernet so that if some faster technology is invented on the physical layer, it would be easy to upgrade. This scenario is what Bonjour is made for. Imagine plugging in any peripheral into any port. The peripheral would automatically assign itself an IP address with zeroconf, assign itself a name with mDNS, and advertise its capabilities through services discovery, all without requiring a DHCP server or DNS server. The backside of your computer would be one power port and a whole bunch of Light Peak ports. No more fudging around with USB, FireWire, BlueTooth, DisplayPort, DVI, VGA, all of which are incompatible with each other but do the same task of moving data around.
Natural Gas traders love interfaces like that. My former boss did a release once, where you could do all of these incredibly impressive, perfectly orthogonal mass-changes to disparate object types. But what the users were really crazy about was the "Refresh" button he put in as a request.
Weird. In this video they have people hand stuffing envelopes but in the original article they have a machine stuffer. I wonder, is the video just outdated?
Lenovo were the OEMs for IBM's Thinkpads. LG still makes monitors for Dell, hard drives that are rebadged and I'm not sure of what else (they are a huge conglomerate)
LG was never an ODM (sic). And they don't manufacture hard drives. Sure, they manufacture displays but so do Sharp and Philips. Also, I was under the impression that Lenovo merely acquired IBM's PC business. All the other companies are ODMs though.
Lenovo had been the manufacturer for the PC business for some years before they bought it entirely.
I don't think the comment you're replying to claims that LG was the only manufacturer of displays, just that it has manufactured displays badged with other brands (and perhaps still does) and recently started selling them under its own name (perhaps as well, rather than instead).
