About my previous poll : OK, you convinced me, there would be no point in offering PDFs !
Thanks for the very useful comments you guys made in the comments of my latest poll, in which I was wondering if it would be useful to offer PDF versions of my shares, for the readers and tabs !
I had no idea reading comics inside of zips was so easy on all the readers and tabs (save the Kindle, hu hu hu)
For the 44% of persons who voted that they were interested in PDF versions, please read the comments on the poll’s page, it seems there are already plenty of satisfying solutions for you
That's it! The yes voters will learn a lot reading the comments.
Yep, I hope the info will be of use to many people
For me, it just doesn't really matter… I don't have a tablet/reader. Maybe if I had an extra few hundred dollars- wait, if I had that much, I would spend it on upgrading my PC, or buying peripherals.
Well I don't know much about e-book readers except once, the Kindle. This is truly amazing. It doesn't seem much until you get your hands on one. And then you realize how awesome, fun and easy reading is. And how cheap as well.
You realized?
No much reasoning from the PRO pdf guys. IMO its; "dont realy need it, but it costs me nothing so i vote for it" voice"
tablets…
you dont need them, but if you got one, you wouldnt like to miss it.
Got my first ipad second hand from a friend and apple maniac when he imediately bought his ipad2.
And ofter one weak of usage, i knew, if it would break or gets stolen, i would imediately get another one…
See them as an pc upgrade:
To Movies, Music and manga/comics to store on them, store them on pc and stream the stuff.
I see them as the final consumerist touch to decorate the grave of our finite resources -greedy civilization.
Honestly saying, the greatest usage for tablets, considering my friends and I, is to read comics (and other sort of image files, as naked girls:D), or digital books.
Honestly, I am naïve enough to be completely ignorant about the point you have been mentioning, on the usage of resources. It would be interesting to learn something, maybe you will make me understand that printed stuff is less aggressive to nature than digital reading.
The problem is that I only have FRENCH resources on that matter, sigh.
But to make it short, several metals used daily have reached their peak already and are wasted on useless things (like titane dioxide used in toothpaste), while others have nearing peaks.
Watch out : that doesn't mean we'll run entirely short, just like petrol, the more you spend, the more you can obtain, but eventually you'll end up with an end return on invested money and/or energy below 1 (meaning you spend 1 $ or 1 joule to obtain worth less than 1$ of metal or worth less than 1 joule of energy : except for skyrocketing prices killing the market and the customers, this isn't viable.) Simple example, for oil, in texas in 1900, you invested the energy and money of one gallon of oil, you obtained in exchange 100 gallons. Return on energy (and on money) : 100. Nowadays, some tar sands are around 5, the American tight oil bakken is likewise (and it quickly runs dry cf http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/energy-futurist/t… ), while the Green River oil shale place would be around 0 dot 1 lol.
Metals face the same problem, we've already exhausted the highly concentrated mines for almost all of them, now we're digging in places with much lower concentration in the ground, meaning higher extraction cost. Another example : true, there is uranium in sea water, as some people claim it will save the future. Except that to extract 1 kg of uranium from sea water you'd need to spend tons' worth of uranium-worth electricity. See the problem ^.^
And even if you discard the extraction cost, the fact is, several daily uses metals are very soon reaching their peak of extraction, no matter how you look at it. This threatens green growth as well as daily lives. No shortage is looming for the next 30 years, but in 50 years instead of 30, yes, a few. In 100 years if by miracle the current consumption of metals stayed as is, oh fuck damn yes. "Good thing" that unless sci-fi stories become true (fusion, breeders, anything) there will be a violent contraction in global offer because of a lack of energy. But in the much longer run, we may face a return to iron age.
I'm sorry I don't have English documentation on the topic, but maybe you could google it yourself…
Shit, I made another wall of text. Sorry, google, all that… -_-
As usual, your walls of text are meaningful.
Thanks for the explanation.
Oh well ^^
Another WOT came later, scroll down, if you care ^^
(there's nothing wrong with trying to make people THINK, even on a porn blog )
I think the assumption about metal consumption persumes there is no replacement for metal. Right now we use metals for a lot of things that don’t even need it. My computer case doesn’t need to be metal but it uses a lot of aluminum. Things like nails and lamp posts probably don’t really need to be metal. It’s just convinient for us now.
You make a point, but on the other hand, we'll also have less oil to produce plastics (in what to make items then ?), while the cost of agricultural intensive activity will rise (machines consumes oil, deliveries consume oil, fertilizers require hydrocarbons, etcetera) which will also affect the capacity to massively produce wood.
No matter how you look at it, global offer of ALL goods is going to be forcibly shrunk, with lesser shrinking in the most important fields (like agriculture, we can live without ipads but not without food), no matter what the demand levels are.
Fun fact : at the rhythm oil production is going, if the current "plateau" in production starts finally falling in 2020, in 2035, TOTAL WORLD ENERGY PRODUCTION will start irrevocably falling, whatever we want, even if we multiply nuclear and coal production by 5 and renewable energy production by 25. (Source : by "EDF R&D", in "Revue de l'énergie", january 2007 – EDF is the #1 French energy producer, R&D is the "Research and Development" part, and they're the historical creator of France's nuclear reactors, they have nothing to gain in forging such a grim story : this is actual research tape.)
Multiplying by 5 coal and nuclearn energy hurries their own peaks (coal could last more a century, uranium, not, and WORKING breeders are nearly as far off as nuclear fusion, if all goes well 60 more years sould be required before the first nuclear fusion reactors can work outside labs), while renewables is a big mistery (but would hit localized peaks, in copper and various rarer materials.)
And energy drives EVERYTHING. Even manual labour requires food, and food requires energy, only a part of it being provided by the Sun and the other renewable energy sources. See what I mean ? Less energy, less production, no avoiding it.
In the medium and long term, consuming less and being able to be satisfied with little is the ONLY way to go. Perhaps in the longer term science will magically invent a way to create free energy, and we'll be less numerous on Earth by then, and then humanity will rise again (if only we could make it to the stars, at least the solar system !), but the "shorter than that" term is grim.
So, when a company invents a need, and manages to sell millions, billions some day, of an actually, if you're honest, USELESS item (meaning : nobody was unable to do stuff before it came, it's just a small added commodity), generating considerable waste of precious energy and of finite resources, I can't help but feel angry. Fuck you, Steve Jobs, you were a genuine genious, but you didn't serve a rightful cause making the future brighter, quite the contrary.
The problem in your last paragraph is that the same principle applies to everything. Nobody needed cars before they were invented, or planes, or trains, or banks, or undergrounds. The same applies to computers in general. Everyone involved in such business sells millions or even billions. Putting that way, when we return to to the caves we will live without the comforts of technology.
(I myself do not criticize Steve Jobs, but the cult developed around him. I saw many following him as the only messiah. To Macmaniacs, only Apple is god and Steve Job is its prophet.)
Well, I disagree.
Cars allow to move to distant places fast, easily, and while transporting a few materials, in terms of movement and "compression of time" (speed), it's a major change against horses or barefoot walking.
On the other hand, what is the change brought by ipads and all the tablets ? We can do our usual computer and internet stuff from any place of the house ? REVOLUTIONARY !
We can keep on doing it in the public transportation systems, rather than wait until we arrive to our destination to continue ? REVOLUTIONARY !
I still consider this a mere commodity, not a net change.
And if you want to mention replacing books, then readers are the way, not tablets. Readers consume much less resources (they're smaller), much less energy (no need for super duper screens with active lighting – I don't know the english term, compare an ipad to a kindle, you see the idea ? E-ink VS LCD), and there isn't the same crazy crowd willing to re-buy the product every time a new version is on sale.
You are right, even because I did not make myself clear. I was not referring to the utility some devices have, as cars and planes. I was referring to something simpler: we have always survived without the comforts of technology BEFORE they are created. That said, nothing is important until they are in the market. Video games, for example, are a great market item, but no one lacked them until they appeared. Planes, on the other hand, became important as they were introduced. Nowadays, it would be impracticable to eliminate planes and return to a world contacted by ships.
There are 10in readers in the market already http://www.onyxboox.com/product_info.php?cPath=21&products_id=30 and 12in are on the way. Supposing they do demand less resources, better, but not because of size. The point on energy is true, as the batteries last much longer.
As to me, I have preferred tablets not because of colour availability, but because of price (they are sensibly cheaper). I had never heard (believe it or not) about the resources demand. The truth is that you've given me a new point to consider.
Don’t get me wrong, I was just referring to metals. I absolutely agree with you on oil/energy. Although hubris, plolitics and lazyness I think are the bigger barriers there considering there are many resources that could be tapped but no one is even looking at them.
I also think you discount tablets as useless despite the fact that they displace books, and sometimes disk media like cds/dvds. (Disclaimer I don’t own one because they server no purpose for me). There isn’t much to be done considering our politions require “the economy” to be good enough for us to consume goods and pay attention to shiny objects dangled in front of us instead real problems.
An interesting explanation… http://grist.org/list/80-percent-of-humans-are-de…
If you want to read these on a Kindle, all you have to do is rename the file extension from a .zip to a .cbr. The Kindle natively reads them and the images will load and resize MUCH better than a PDF.
Hi, can I ask you something ? In the future, can you put some tags in your post ? Link anal, gangbang, oral, futanari, etc … ? Its hard to find a h-manga with specifics themes. Sorry for my bad english.
It's on the lightyear-long to-do list