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  • On the post: Med Express Sues Marginally Dissatisfied Customer For Posting Accurate Feedback On eBay

    Just John ( profile ), 18 Apr, 2013 @ 09:17pm

    Re: Re: goggle has compatibility, with the word, I don?t. know, why information given, is so easy too get off her phone..if i put my name as i first tried to do bt failed.. i would never have seen your. page so thank you. love this, a hell of a lot more

    The spam boot is broken. It forgot to insert the links.

  • On the post: A Look At 'Ownership' Society

    Just John ( profile ), 12 Mar, 2013 @ 03:00am

    Re: Re: Re: Let's talk of the "Death of the Commons"

    So Bob, you just found the word meme and felt you should try to use it... incorrectly?

    You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

  • On the post: Crowdfunding Picks: Throw Trucks With Your Mind & Other Cool Control Interfaces

    Just John ( profile ), 05 Mar, 2013 @ 02:38am

    The smart hub

    Interesting, the Smart Hub video was filmed in Taipei, Taiwan. You can see the Taipei 101 outside of the window behind him.
    I should see if I can track down their information.

  • On the post: Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

    Just John ( profile ), 27 Jan, 2013 @ 06:48pm

    Made it on Google

    Tell Tim congratulations. Search Google images for Gema logo and hisis one of the top ones.

  • On the post: Infographic: People Will Pay To Support Creators, Even When Free Is An Option

    Just John ( profile ), 13 Dec, 2012 @ 05:15pm

    Re: Re: Re:

    Actually, it has nothing to do with having the money or not. I guess you have never worked here. I cannot use my debit card online or overseas because of bank restrictions for foreigner accounts. I also have been unable to get a credit card because the process is convoluted and me and my wife have been unable to make it to the bank together to apply for it, especially since unlike me, she has no vacation time. So you are completely wrong in your assumptions. I can afford it, but have?no?way to give the money.

  • On the post: Infographic: People Will Pay To Support Creators, Even When Free Is An Option

    Just John ( profile ), 12 Dec, 2012 @ 08:57pm

    Re:

    Sadly, I am one of the ones who paid nothing. Not by choice, but because I lack the ability to pay. If Tim ever comes to Taiwan, I will gladly give him the money for the books though (Or if he can figure out how to let us pay at 7-11).

  • On the post: Smart TV Exploit Means Hackers Can Watch You Watch TV

    Just John ( profile ), 12 Dec, 2012 @ 08:33pm

    Re:

    Honestly, I can understand why they would have a policy not to share. Look at all the people who have been brought up on some kind of charge after identifying a security hole.

    AT&T was the most recent posted here on Techdirt.
    What about American Express' approach to security holes?
    What about students who find security holes and then charged with a crime.

    There are more and more and more stories about people getting negative reactions by identifying security holes than getting good reactions from companies who wish to fix them instead of burying their collective heads in the sand. Sad but true, I would not tell them either.

  • On the post: Fiction By Timothy Geigner, Now Available At The Techdirt Insider Shop

    Just John ( profile ), 06 Dec, 2012 @ 09:46pm

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: ePub?

    Leigh,

    I actually just tried doing a conversion of Mike's book "Approaching Infinity" to epub and Tim's book "Digilife" into mobi, and what I see is the following:

    Mike's book had a few conversion issues. I notice that letters dropped off of a few of the words, and since, unless you change how it converts, it uses the first page as the book cover by converting it to an image file, it caused the book title to display oddly.

    Tim's book I found almost no issues aside from one.

    Both books will also convert the page numbers listed in the PDFs to numbers in the book in their relative position.
    Since the page numbers display at the bottom of the page, this means you will see it in the middle of paragraphs or the end of words.

    An example is in Tim's Digilife, if you go from page 2 to 3, you should get:
    ?Hey!? she shouted.
    ?Oh come on. I just turned it on so it?ll be ready.?

    Instead what you see is:
    ?Hey!? she shouted.
    2
    ?Oh come on. I just turned it on so it?ll be ready.?

    Another example is:
    Should see:
    ?I?m not sure.? He felt lightheaded, unable to think clearly, though that was probably just the heat. He looked in every direction. There was very little else out here. If anyone needed an aggressive advertising technique, it would be this place.

    What you actually see:
    ?I?m not sure.? He felt lightheaded, unable to think clearly, though that was probably just the heat. He looked in every direction. There was very little else out here. If anyone needed an aggressive advertising 3
    technique, it would be this place.

    Keep in mind, this was converted without modifying any of the standard settings, so it was formatted by the default. You can have the page numbers removed (Or better, if you can recreate the original PDF without page numbers, it will not matter), but you will probably need to review how to do text replacement and some other advanced techniques to create the exact look and feel of the end book you want.

  • On the post: Fiction By Timothy Geigner, Now Available At The Techdirt Insider Shop

    Just John ( profile ), 06 Dec, 2012 @ 12:30am

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: ePub?

    Just remember when you try, you have the easy to use, convert as Calibre dictates, or you can get into the custom setting to help alter look and feel. It has some pretty advanced features, but you may need to play with it to find an optimal setting. I use it primarily to take the different formats and convert to mobi for kindle reading, since mobi allows you to alter font, while PDF does not on kindle (Or am I thinking .doc?).

    Of course, if you have not yet published, it won't matter since it seems you have an authoring tool to export to proper format, but I was mentioning this mostly for already published, non DRM books.

    As for AC's comment, Calibre is not actually that bulky, and has been able to read pretty much any format I have thrown at it as of now. If you are trying with DRM though, that is a different issue. It is also free for us freetards out there.

  • On the post: Fiction By Timothy Geigner, Now Available At The Techdirt Insider Shop

    Just John ( profile ), 05 Dec, 2012 @ 08:59pm

    Re:

    Yes, but where is my isohunt torrent or piratebay magnet?

  • On the post: Fiction By Timothy Geigner, Now Available At The Techdirt Insider Shop

    Just John ( profile ), 05 Dec, 2012 @ 08:58pm

    Re:

    Colin,

    I mentioned to Leigh above you can just download Calibre and do the conversions yourself with non-DRM protected content.
    Trust me, it is a wonderful program, and is one of the best open source ebook systems out there.

  • On the post: Fiction By Timothy Geigner, Now Available At The Techdirt Insider Shop

    Just John ( profile ), 05 Dec, 2012 @ 08:54pm

    Re: Re: Re: Re: ePub?

    Leigh, you should just convert to other formats on Calibre. Then you would want to ensure formatting issues are correct, but that is how I turn my PDFs into other formats, and they have many formats available (Without the watermarking of some other format converters).

  • On the post: Chris Dodd: Bogus Facebook 'Copyright' Declaration Proves Everyone Loves Copyright

    Just John ( profile ), 29 Nov, 2012 @ 11:19pm

    Re: I wouldn't call ....

    Does he pass the turing test?
    I am doubting he is human, since he just says the same thing over and over again, with different words.

  • On the post: Chris Dodd: Bogus Facebook 'Copyright' Declaration Proves Everyone Loves Copyright

    Just John ( profile ), 29 Nov, 2012 @ 11:09pm

    Re: You're flat LYING here:

    In an honest service there is thin commons, low wages, and hard labor; in this, plenty and satiety, pleasure and ease, liberty and power; and who would not balance creditor on this side, when all the hazard that is run for it, at worst, is only a sour look or two at choking.

  • On the post: How Do You Say 'Twitter Joke Trial' In Chinese?

    Just John ( profile ), 27 Nov, 2012 @ 09:51pm

    Re: By the way

    There is no directly translation, since they are unfamiliar with this, but, approximately what they would say would be:
    你被逮捕了，因為在推特上面說了一個笑話
    Which means: Arrested for tweeting a joke (They are a little more literal here).

  • On the post: Taiwan Denies Use Of 'Pirate Party' Name Because People Might Think They're Actual Sea-Faring Pirates

    Just John ( profile ), 27 Jun, 2012 @ 02:07am

    Re:

    You state "Typical Asians" like this is some behavior they display frequently?
    Please, go on and tell me how a Typical Asian would act.

    I am waiting for your stereotypes to start coming out so I can refute each one. Given that some people in Taiwan tried starting this party, and others said it was not allowed, I don't see a uniform behavior that can be called
    Typical.

    Or are you saying that they feel they should have a say in how their government, made up of Asians, can govern their Asian country?

    I will be waiting for your in-depth knowledge of how "Asians" are all single dimensional.

  • On the post: Taiwan Denies Use Of 'Pirate Party' Name Because People Might Think They're Actual Sea-Faring Pirates

    Just John ( profile ), 26 Jun, 2012 @ 09:58pm

    Re: Silly but...

    You know what is odd?
    Your name, tech in a box also seems like it could say "t[h]e China Box".

    Ironic given the topic of the story.

  • On the post: Taiwan Denies Use Of 'Pirate Party' Name Because People Might Think They're Actual Sea-Faring Pirates

    Just John ( profile ), 26 Jun, 2012 @ 09:49pm

    Re: Re:

    Being a resident here in Taiwan, I understand what they are facing.
    You claim that they need to allow the parties more freedom to choose their own name, but do you even know what it is like for the Taiwanese?
    They have learned to be very careful about what is allowed in public areas because of the relationship balance between not only the Island of Taiwan and their neighboring country China, but with the rest of the world who helps prevent Taiwan from being taken over by force by China.

    If you claim that this is not a legitimate concern, there is even a law in Beijing that can be found here that pretty much states if Taiwan politically declares its independence, then China has the authority to go to war (Keep in mind, this is a China law).

    Bearing these types of situations in mind, you might actually begin to understand why Taiwan is VERY careful of any political issues, including party names.

  • On the post: Nina Paley Explains Intellectual Disobedience

    Just John ( profile ), 20 Jun, 2012 @ 10:43pm

    Re: Re: Re: Re:

    You know CR, I just realized, I think I may have unintentionally copied you.
    I never noticed that you took the standard Techdirt silhouette and then reversed it for your icon.
    I plead independent invention?
    I thought of it without realizing you already did it...

    But, if you want to sue me, I can pay you in leaves.

  • On the post: Nina Paley Explains Intellectual Disobedience

    Just John ( profile ), 20 Jun, 2012 @ 10:33pm

    Some bad news for you

    So, lets go through this step by step to see how "Original" and "Unique" you truly are. I will make some assumptions, but I assume most of these will be true. Feel free to point out which assumptions are incorrect. (Like the assumption you are a singer, since you keep mentioning music, the assumption you used English, since this is what you are arguing in, etc)

    First, tell me, did you use words, or just random garbled sounds?
    I assume you used a particular pattern of sounds that made up the words.
    From your posts, I even assume maybe English.

    So, did you create English?
    No, you just used our language to compose your art, taking that from others.

    Did you use words randomly, or did you put them in a grammatical order?
    Hate to say this, but others came up with the grammar long before you.

    Did you modify the way these words were used to create something called "singing"?
    Think you are the first person to sing?

    Did you make a story or a coherent thought from the different sentences/phrases you used?
    Not the first person to make a song tell a story.

    Did you rhyme certain words in your song?

    Did you have a standard song pattern? Like a chorus?

    Did you use drawings on your album cover? Is that really original?

    Did you create the notes you used? I doubt it.

    Did you put those notes into a particular order? Think you are the first to do this? Now you may have a unique order, but the idea of putting them in a particular order to make a coherent stream of notes is not unique.

    What about your performance? What about your instruments? What about dancers, or backup singers, or if you are a heavy metal artist, headbanging?

    Are you the first artist to ever play in your genre? Is your genre derived from a different genre?

    You see, the point is, culture is a build up of all of our (the ones who exist in that culture) knowledge, experience, and ways of getting shit done.

    You claim you are a "unique" artist. Yes, like all snowflakes, you are unique.
    The fact is, you may have taken and combines lyrics and notes together to create a unique sound, but where exactly did you get all of this?

    We build, even when innovation looks like something very different, it is built off of some other idea.

    Please feel free to try to explain to me how you did not take anything else from our culture at its current stage in order to build your uniqueness. I will wait with baited breath.

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