A single book is portable. A pair of books is doable if you have large pockets or a bag. A selection of books for a long trip is not. Especially if going by bus, plane, or train where you pay by the weight/size of your bags. And it's much easier to pick up new ebooks to read while you are out and about than trying to find a bookstore or suffering through the "selection" of books in gas stations.

There's also several waterproof ereaders and tablets out there, some that are even usable underwater (like the Kobo H20), making them better than paper books.

And ereaders now come with front lighting that makes it easy to read in the dark, without affecting your nightvision too much, or your sleep cycles.

I take it you didn't read the message from the app developer that was posted 8 minutes before you posted your pointless post.

What are you smoking?

Debian installer specifically asks for a root password, won't let you install the system without a non-root users, and there's no wheel group in /etc/group. There is a sudo group that the first user created during the install is added to.

What Debian system are you using?

Which Linux systems include the wheel group? Haven't come across that on Linux systems in years (if ever). That's a BSD thing, where GID 0 is "wheel".

On Linux, GID 0 is "root". Or, at least, every Linux system I've used in the past 10 years (none of which are RedHat, though; they do weird and not-so-wonderful things over there)

One of the first things we do on our Linux systems is create the "wheel" group as a system group (UID under 100), and add our admin users to that group. No users go into GID 0. And sudo is configured to only allow group wheel access to things they need access to.

It's only expensive if you want it to be, or don't know any better.

ING Direct (now Tangerine) offers free banking.

PC Financial offers free banking, and access to all CIBC ATMs.

Valley First Credit Union offers free banking, and access to all credit union ATMs.

There's a few others that offer free banking, but I stopped paying attention awhile ago.

I also stopped banking at the big banks a long time ago (RBC, Scotia, TD, BMO, etc) when they started nickle-and-diming their customers. There's a lot of other banks and credit unions that provide the same or better service for way less fees (or no fees).

It always amazes me how the big banks bring in record profits every years, in the tens of billions of dollars, and still find a need to reduce staff and raise fees every year. And they wonder why they keep losing customers to the smaller banks. :roll-eyes:

Sounds pretty much the same as the Canadian system. We stopped getting paper bills and using cash for anything a couple years ago. Only thing I haven't enabled yet is NFC payments on my phone.

It's really just the poor Americans to the South who are still in the banking dark ages, not North America in general. :)

We can do that here in Canada, using Interac via e-mail. Money leaves your account, goes into the Interac escrow account, the recipient gets an e-mail. They login to the Interac website, put in the password you gave them offline (or over the phone, SMS, whatever), and the money is transferred into their account.

It's not instantaneous, but nearly so. The recipient chooses when it's most convenient to receive the money. And the sender always has the option of revoking the transfer.

AFAIK, there's no reason you couldn't do a similar transfer to/from a business.

And via e-mail (person to person transfers). The list of participating banks is still fairly small, but covers all the major Canadian banks, most of the regional banks, and several credit unions, with more joining all the time.

You don't realise just how powerful and pervasive the Interac system is, until you try to do anything banking related in the US. It really is like the banking dark ages down there.

Most people can't tell ... if there's nothing to compare against.

It's *very* easy to tell the difference between two monitors if you have them side-by-side. But stick one monitor into one room, and the other into another room, and ask people to pick the best one after walking through the two rooms, and it'll be a lot harder.

It's like comparing DPI on print jobs. Anything under 300 DPI looks like crap. But go over 300 DPI on a B&W laser, and it gets very hard to tell which is better ... unless you have them sitting side-by-side.

Every window manager released in the past 5-ish years supports "snap-to-side" features.

Move a window over to the left side of the screen, and it automatically resizes to take up full height and half the width of the screen, touching the left side of the screen.

Move a window over to the right side of the screen, and it automatically resizes to take up full height and half the width of the screen, touching the right side of the screen.

Several even include support for snapping into quadrants.

Move a window over to the top-left side of the screen, and it automatically resizes to take up half the height and half the width of the screen, touching the top-left side of the screen.

Repeat for the bottom-left, top-right, and bottom-right sides of the screen.

Move a window to the top of the screen, and it maximises to use the whole screen.

Even Windows 7+ does this (not sure about Vista). KDE 4+ does this. No idea about GNOME or Unity as I avoid them like the plague.

IOW, what you want, already exists.

Exactly. It doesn't matter how many were sold in a single quarter. What matters is how many have been sold overall, and how many of those are still in use.

Maybe this is a tipping point, and Chromebook sales will start to match iPad sales. Maybe not. Maybe this is a blip and never repeats.

Comparing anything over a single quarter is just plain dumb; short-sightedness in the extreme.

Slight correction:

NetBSD and FreeBSD were developed independently in the 90s, and mostly in parallel.

OpenBSD forked off NetBSD.

DragonflyBSD forked off FreeBSD.

OpenBSD is hoping to do just that.

http://www.openbsdfoundation.o...

Exactly. You need to separate infrastructure (installation and maintenance thereof) from content (that goes across said infrastructure).

There's only 1 set of power lines going into each building, yet there are multiple providers/sources of electrons in the grid. Most power utilities are split into generation and delivery businesses. Customers can even choose where their payments go (to "normal" power generation, "green" power generation, etc).

There's only 1 set of gas lines going into each building, yet there are multiple providers/sources of natural gas in the grid. Most gas companies are split into generation and delivery businesses. Up here in BC, Canada, we have multiple gas suppliers to choose from, depending on whether we want a fluctuating rate or a locked-in rate. All goes over the same gas line infrastructure.

Back in the day, there was only 1 set of phone lines into each building, but you could get phone services from multiple local or long-distance carriers. You could even get Internet service through multiple dial-up ISPs or ADSL ISPs. Separate businesses from infrastructure and content.

Some cities even had 1 set of cable lines going into a building, but you could get TV service from multiple cable companies.

We need to separate IP infrastructure (1 set of fibre cables into each building) from IP services (multiple ISPs, IPTV, IP-whatever companies).

It's absolutely rediculously redundant and wasteful to have every ISP running their own lines into each building (cable, ADSL, fibre ISP1, fibre ISP2, etc). And it's anti-competitive as all get out to have a content company managing Internet infrastructure.

What are you dropping it on and from how high?

My G2 has been without a cover for 10 months now. Dropped several times on laminate floor, carpet, linoleum, and carport cement (2-4' drops). Been kicked across the floor and the driveway. And went tumbling down the stairs twice so far. Only permanent damage is two small divots on the very edge of the bezels ( in the extremely thin silver band just outside of the glass screen).

This has been one of the sturdiest phones I've had, and the first touchscreen phone I've kept out of a case. The only one stronger was my first cell phone, a fortified Panasonic TX-220.