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But people do it anyway. So it's really an *extra* distraction, because it's one more thing to monitor. I've seen people drive a stick with a coffee in one hand and a cigarette in the other, while shifting and adjusting the radio. It's scary.

In my house we had a set of encyclopedias from around 1952, the year my mom was born, plus about ten addenda for the years 1953-1962. In 1988 I needed to do a report on nuclear power plants, and was first confused and then very amused when I realized my encyclopedia didn't even have an entry for those things. It was one of the first times the encyclopedia had completely failed me.

I do suppose the addenda made it partially self-correcting.

I've seen this headline about 5 times in the last 24 hours, on a variety of media. It's certainly good for advertising, if nothing else.

I guess 1337 vowels are out, too.

20 years is long enough for an information-based business to be completely thrown into turmoil by the internet. I'm not saying it was, but there's been a lot of change in the field. More so than in a lot of other markets.

Ah, they just taste like chicken.

It's easy to have a positive attitude when you're a lottery winner.

I like keeping host and registrar separate. That way if something goes wrong with the host (and I've had lots of bad experiences with hosts, some of which may be due to being poor and looking too cheap during the 90's and 2000's) it's easier to move the domain somewhere else.

Registrar services are generally straightforward and low interaction, while hosting services may require frequent interaction and can really depend on quality technical support. They're different enough in my experience that you don't necessarily need or want the same company doing both.

I didn't use them as a registrar, so I can't comment on that side, but as a host they were a little spotty, and I had instances of hair-pullingly-bad customer service. Often you don't interact much with the registrar anyway, so it may not matter much as long as they don't break something.

That's true. The author often has little input on the cover design, and "how to get published" guides warn aspiring authors that bringing up cover ideas as part of a novel's pitch is a good way to reduce interest, because it's both stepping on toes as well as getting ahead of yourself. With these ebooks, though, it seems they're in the realm of the self-published so the author has either had to do it themselves or contract it out, possibly to someone else who isn't really an expert.

I generally don't mind everything that comes with Steam (it's DRM, but it's got more conveniences than it gets in my way), but their last update to the engine borked something and now several of my games won't launch. I tried the self-help recommendations that didn't fix the issue, then submitted a ticket. 10 days later, they still haven't bothered to respond to me. That's honestly bad enough that I'm starting to reconsider how "safe" their service is.

I haven't tried anything as drastic as reinstalling the whole Steam engine, but the level of support is extremely disappointing.

Out with Internet Exploder, in with Internet IMploder!

Just like it's spelled.

You of course coded in the backdoors and blackmail material about 2 years into this 9 year farce, right? Or at least stole a lifetime supply of office materials? I can't see putting up with that for 9 whole years without becoming really, really suspicious.