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Comment Re:Dammit Dell (Score 1) 314

No porn today, my love has gone away
The PC stands forlorn, a symbol of the dawn
No porn today, it seems a common sight
But people passing by don't know the reason why

How could they know just what this message means
The end of my hopes, the end of all my dreams
How could they know the palace there had been
Behind the door where my love reigned as queen

No porn today, it wasn't always so
The company was gay, we'd turn night into day

But all that's left is a place dark and lonely
A terraced house in a mean street back of town
Becomes a shrine when I think of you only
Just two up two down

No porn today, it wasn't always so
The company was gay, we'd turn night into day
As music played the faster did we dance
We felt it both at once, the start of our romance

How could they know just what this message means
The end of my hopes, the end of all my dreams
How could they know a palace there had been
Behind the door where my love reigned as queen

No porn today, my love has gone away
The PC stands forlorn, a symbol of the dawn

But all that's left is a place dark and lonely
A terraced house in a mean street back of town
Becomes a shrine when I think of you only
Just two up two down

No porn today, my love has gone away
The PC stands forlorn, a symbol of the dawn
No porn today, it seems a common sight
But people passing by don't know the reason why

How could they know just what this message means
The end of my hopes, the end of all my dreams
How could they know a palace there had been
Behind the door where my love reigned as queen

Comment Re:Meanwhile... (Score 1) 335

I would argue that laws should represent the views of the majority, and I think it's quite clear that the majority of people have little to no problem with piracy. It is a victimless crime.

You gotta be careful with that line of thinking. If the majority thinks computer nerds should be shot on site do you really want that to be the law?

Laws must always take into count the minority and strike some sort of balance where as many "people" as possible have the most freedoms allowable. There is no perfection to be had and there will always be those fringe cases that unsettle us but WE CAN surely do better not only here in the U.S. but in all countries.

Comment Re:Kinda sounds like (Score 1) 118

So it adds nothing to your particular style of roleplaying, at least in that game. In a game where the players aren't constantly keeping secrets from each other, it's fine. Hell, it'd probably be fine in that game if you had players who can separate OOC knowledge with IC knowledge. It definitely could have its uses at times, but like anything else, it has its flaws.

Comment Re:Lenovo (Score 1) 583

Ever tried Jarnal?

It feels kludgy, I'll admit, but it does get the job done.

Note, you probably want to know how to get rid of the lined paper. Intuitively enough, it is under Format, Paper and Background (you'd probably have found it without my help). Change "Lined" to "Plain" and apply to all pages.

Note also, you probably want to know how to open a PDF to annotate it. This one isn't intuitive at all, but you have to go to File, Open Background. (The PDF is opened as a background image. Unfortunately this means you cannot edit, only annotate.)

To save, either Export to PDF or Print as PDF – I'm entirely clueless as to whether there is any difference between the two or why there are two options to do the same thing.

As a bonus, you can also download the zip, unzip to a flash drive, and run it portably.

Comment Re:VAT on Books in Europe Trending Towards 0%-5% (Score 1) 145

For me, at least, is this not a topic of interest.

I treat all DRM-encumbered purchases as an extended rent/lease agreement. Books (and music) tend to be one-off items for me, except in a few extraordinary cases. In these cases I prefer the special/ultimate/extended/uncut/annotated edition, and purchase the physical object anyway.

Handhelds

Submission + - Kindle finally ready for global distribution (amazon.com) 1

geirnord writes: Previously a US-only device, the Amazon Kindle 2 is now finally available in an international edition. It seems Crunchgear was at least partly right. The new device is identical to the Kindle 2, with the exception of Edge and 3G support. That means Whispernet-like functionality over most of the world.

Comment Re:whew (Score 1) 104

Craig Ferguson (of the Late Late Show) had the best joke about it: Vampires with 6 pack abs! Do they come out at night to go to (in vampire mock-scary voice) Goooold's Gym! Then Craig does an impression of Sesame Street's The Count while miming a bench press: "One! One Repetition! Two! Two repetitions!"

He hates these so called Vampires because they should really be pasty white and frail.

ohman maybe offtopic but all for Craig

Comment Publishing houses beware (Score 1) 350

While you need a decent studio to create a decent music quality, writers can create good-looking PDFs on their computer.

If there is going to be an iTunes book store, publishers and bookstores will take the hit. An author could charge a bit more, and the audience would pay way less. It would be more convenient to buy the book (one can read the first chapter before buying, not something you do in a bookstore. Nor do you have to go there).

Bert

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