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Start there. They have a fairly large library, with quite a few books for free download. No DRM, fairly inexpensive (think $4-$7 per book) and downloadable in just about any format you'd want.

Once you've created an account, those books will stay available on your account page for download on whatever device you want it on.

I've put this same thing in several threads over the last few years, but I think they're still worth mentioning :)

The answer to that is very obvious.

The person helping him at McDonald's was a student that moonlighted as a McDonald's server, but secretly made money on the side as a stripper.

There. Simple explanations are lovely.

I always thought SOD stood for 'Stormtroopers of Death'. An old metal band I used to go see live a lot.

But I guess it would fit these guys as well :)

Which is a reference to Vitamin D deficiency, if you'd actually read it. Not sure how that has anything to do with what the OP was talking about :)

I suspect one of the main reasons for using Lisp/Scheme style notation, is that almost all GPU programming anyone would want to do are (based on) mathematical equations.

For mathematicians, a Lisp notation is actually a lot more logical and easier than a C notation. (At least the older ones :)

The whole concept of iterations in calculations is a bit awkward in C (with all the parenthesis, yes...) in comparison to Lisp (where they're fairly well delineated blocks if properly indented)

Yes, you can mostly do the same in C, but I'd bet most mathematicians have more experience with ADA/Lisp than with C :)

Chicken/Egg sort of thing, then, now that I've typed all this out.

I think it would be far more shocking if Slashdot would reveal that some of those billionaire Nigerians *are* actually real.

Now wouldn't that throw a spanner in the spammer.

Mr Trenk has recently tried (as in finished the trial, not 'attempted') COMMA to conclusion COMMA bid litigation involving over $100 million.

Fairly sure that's what meant, and in this case interpunction would've made things a lot clearer, although it can technically be left out.

Leaving it out makes it a very ugly sentence, though.

Change one ingredient (the tonic water) to , and your ??? is "Set on fire"

Not sure however if the profit still works then. I guess they could sell charcoal to the BBQ business.

You have a 10' tablet? WOW!

How do you work with that, some sort of full body contact thing? Twister based?

Or more along the lines of Dance Dance Revolution?

I can see it now: Man I'm tired, I've been entering stuff in Excel 2018 all day, my legs hurt!

(Sorry, I couldn't resist ;)

This is all a conspiracy by the US government. They *say* they got hacked and the designs got stolen, but we all know that sneakilly they've just given them all to the Chinese.

The reason for this is of course obvious: The Chinese can make these things much cheaper! So it's all about savings!

(If you think this might be something with tongues and cheeks, you might possibly be somewhat right)

And then someone else sees someone shooting someone and that someone shoots the someone shooting someone else who sees someone shooting someone....

Escalating gunfights are not pretty.

Leaving out the fact that a fair amount of people in a stressed situation have serious problems actually aiming, so any surrounding 'innocents' become accidental targets.

It's not as simple as the NRA makes it sound. Ask any policeman who's been in a similar situation.

Can't resist..

He was kissing his ass goodbye.

You do realize we're talking about a book here, right? (Or at least, that's what it's generally used for), and actually reading a dead-tree book isn't an issue?

Right. Glad to get that out of the way. But don't let me stop your diatribe about gadgets.

National Fuck League! Sort of the logical follow up to Leisure Suit Larry.

We're all nerds here, right?

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Yes, they're brilliant like that.