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It's a situation that never made any sense at all.

In a new shopping centre in my city they opened a Best Buy and a Future Shop. Wat? They had a Best Buy and Future Shop ten minutes up the Trans-Canada and then a three-minute drive from each other. Oversaturation, just slightly.

I've never personally worried about people taking pictures of my kids but I'm a little self-conscious when I bring my DSLR to the park to take pictures of them playing for the grandparents -- like, if there are other kids there with their parents I try to not use the camera. When the MPs roll by on their routine patrols I always half-wonder if they're going to stop and ask me (an almost-middle-aged male) what I'm doing with kids and a camera.

I'm not sure where my caution comes from, I think it may be just from stories I've read about like this. I can see ubiquitous cell phones not being an issue, just because half the time when you see someone with a phone out they're taking a picture, but I always feel a bit weird with the full-sized camera, like there are unseen eyes judging.

Evidently it's more irritating and worrisome when the recording device is visible and attention-drawing.

... was how it devolved completely from AMD vs nVidia to the eternal, never-ending, self-righteous Windows vs Linux snarkfest.

I'm in the same position with my 7-year-old ThinkPad T61p (Quadro FX570M). To tie this back into drivers and complaining about nVidia's recent driver screwups, the latest drivers that work with the 8600GT actually accept the Quadro as a valid card and outperform the latest Quadro drivers. (Thank god I figured that out, I was getting sick of 60% fps drops every twenty seconds regardless of what I was playing.)

Wen it becomes action the instant response will be to shut down the app allowing the preliminary communication to occur. You know that.

In my house this has just ended up as us having a basket for 'Don't wash this stuff because it's delicate woman things your man brain insists on treating like other laundry so I'm going to do it myself'.

Everything else is merely sorted by owner or function. Grownup clothes, little boy clothes (which is actually an astonishing amount), sheets and towels and other things of a practical, non-wearing nature. That's it. I brute-force laundry.

U2, sitting innocuously near the bottom of your Artist list, it always syncs and whenever it comes up on random you're reminded yet again to go sort that shit out, but you always forget. And the cycle continues.

etc etc etc. People always forget the e-ink devices. probably because they're so boring and uncool and you can't Facebook or whatever the fuck on it. I really, really miss my PRS-300 and -600. I don't miss my tablets.

I wonder if this study would turn out any different if they excluded all tablets disguised as readers. E-ink only.

Now I feel I need to see a Michael Bay-directed remake of the Imitation Game. Thanks a lot.

Lots of ereaders.

But the sound particles degrade over time!

This is why I like the old Shuffle, the little square one with actual buttons. I stick my hand in my pocket, I know exactly how it's oriented and what button is where. No display, no problem. Low capacity, who cares, I randomize my playlist every time I go out. It's always been my favourite iPod.

There goes all those torrents of 'WINDOWS 8 ULTIMATE X64 TIMMY EDITION FULLY ACTIVATED'.