Sony would love nothing more than to have 70 million Blu-ray players out there – in the form of Xbox 360 consoles. But the fact of the matter is, why would Microsoft support such an effort? How would this benefit Microsoft? Should Microsoft simply spend all the R&D money necessary to engineer, test, and distribute a Blu-ray player that only a fraction of it’s user base would buy, would cost them a ton of cash, deviate from it’s vision of online video delivery… and in the end, only benefit one company – SONY – in the form of greater Blu-ray disc sales?

That’s not going to happen. The fact is, if people want a Blu-ray player, they can go buy one for as little as $99. Xbox 360 games DO NOT NEED THE 25/50GB OF STORAGE of Blu-ray as I documented factually in another post. There’s simply no reason to make the investment.

And it’s proven out to be true. For the last 4 months now, IDC’s numbers have shown Xbox 360 outselling both Sony Playstation 3 & Nintendo Wii COMBINED each month.

Blu-ray doesn’t matter. No matter how much uber-techies or Blu-ray-philes want to believe it does. And Microsoft was smart enough to recognize that a while back, saving Xbox 360 owners the costs of another HD-DVD fiasco.

I guess I’m thinking a lot about this these days because I now have a kid of my own and he’s going to be growing up in a world of cell phones, iPods, DVRs, laptops, and an unlimited resource called the Internet. And what I’m perceiving as the expectation of instant gratification. Because everything is so easily discovered these days.

I wonder if “Super Spectacular Day” would have been interesting to me back in the day with the Internet around, ‘eh?

I found this piece of software that does the job for me.
http://www.ebook-converter.com/kindle-pc-converter.htm

Thank you for helping me

Howard

Thanks for giving me hope. I purchased a Kindle for PC book titled the Perfect Health Diet but need to be able to mark it up significantly in order to study and master the material. Your technique is offering some light but I am not through the tunnel yet.

You recommended ActivePython/releases/2.6.6.15/ActivePython-2.6.6.15-win32-x86.msi . Your link to the product does not work (2012-02-01), so i went to the Active State site directly downloaded the product closest in version to your recommendation.
Python 2.6.6.1 or 2.6.6.15 was not listed so I took 2.5.6.10. The next highest version is 2.6.7.20. Perhaps i should try that. HOWEVER, your instructions do not indicate how or when to use the active python download in the process of converting the Kindle book.

I clicked on the “Unswindle_v7.pyw” and waited overnight as you had said that it was a bit slow. I tried it a few times but it has not launched the Kindle 1.01 Beta as you said it would. Am I missing a step?

You are no mere techie, Kurtish, says the former USC writing prof.

So yeah, it’s likely true.

One strange comment somewhere on the internet had said that orange hair guy was the ’70s rocker Lee Michaels. Did you ever hear that?

Here’s the super-secret web site for the newly rebuilt Killer Shrimp:
http://killershrimp.com/
FYI: The place is MONSTROUS. It used to be a place called the Waterfront Restaurant before. It’s about 14x the square footage of the original Killer Shrimp location and it’s menu is far deeper than the original “Shrimp only” menu, now serving steaks and appetizers, as well as a full bar. (Instead of beer & iced tea) The original owner – the guy with orange hair (Kevin Michaels?) is still there.

2 T Worcestershire sauce
1 T lemon juice
1/2 tsp. paprika
1/4 tsp. oregano
1/4 cup butter (for a total of 3/4 cup – this also upped that savory element)

The most important outcome of these changes, we feel, was that the kitchen smelled like Killer Shrimp. We could close our eyes, picture ourselves in the Marina or Studio City. Perfect!

Let me know what you think. And thanks for all your incredible work in the search.