I have North of 2000 books on my old second generation Kindle. It's only about three quarters full.

On my Nexus 10, I have almost the same number, but it's four GB. Why? Graphics-heavy books and manuals don't work all that well on eink, for me.

I have no counterpoint or argument to most of your post. I just wanted to mention that the Nexus 7 (2013 version) and Nexus 10 both make fantastic ereaders, if you don't mind a backlit device.

If you prefer non-backlit, my daughter has the Kindle Paperwhite and I put all the books on there for her. It doesn't accept ePub, true, but Calibre is your friend and can convert everything to AZW or mobi and then copy it to your Kindle for you.

Calibre: http://calibre-ebook.com/about

It's not exactly what you want, since it's not truly pay-what-you-want, just pay-nearly-what-you-want-with-a-minimum-and-less-granularity, but it does approximate that one point and hit all the others:

http://storybundle.com/

Also, Humble Bundle themselves have done ebook bundles twice now. Ask them to do more.

Ok, so Switzerland, who is entirely familiar with the concept of mercenaries, is invaded by France?

The solution lies directly North of Switzerland. Calculate expected damages due to invasion, offer half that amount to the Germans, and watch France surrender.

Hell, if you play your cards right, maybe Germany will cede some of France's territory to you after a few hours, when the French surrender!

(This is for comedic value and is not a serious statement regarding Germany, France, or Switzerland.)

So the minor data point that Linux Steam only allows you to download/install/run games that have native ports means nothing....

I run Linux most of the time. I run Steam most of the time. I have two Steam installs, one native and one under Wine, simply so I can play most of my games.

Hear that GabeN? This should be your next item! An unsupported checkbox somewhere that lets me download and try to run games not yet supported under my OS. If you could tie into my wineconfigs and run unsupported-but-preconfigured, that would be even better, thanks!

Actually, there's nothing in MicroUSB itself that makes it particularly fragile.

It's the handset manufacturers who don't want it to be robust. They're very happy selling you a device with a 90 day warranty and an expected lifespan of about a year.

You are if he feels like ticketing you, yes.

Like wars, revolutions are terrible, bloody things, filled with loss for both sides. This is necessary, else we would have Jefferson's idea of revolutions every year.

Gut bacteria feed themselves, not you.

More efficient or effective gut bacteria eat your lunch before you can.

While in our overfed society, having hyperactive gut bacteria keeping you thin would be good, fatties would be laughing in a major disaster, since they'd get to enjoy more of that roadkill dinner they scavenged, and they'd have longer reserves for the initial disaster and the ensuing survival training course.

Now if we could just toggle between two sets of bacteria, we'd have a pretty ideal setup!

The article (past page 1) is NOT about Cool Shot. Cool Shot is addressed on page 1, page 2 is primarily about Ghost Heat, and page 3 is about Third Person View and the many, many, many reversals of previous commitments that PGI has now made.

If you want to make a widely-popular shooter set in the MW universe, that's FINE. Really, it is. It's been done dozens of times.

But if you want to make something special, something sim-like and first person, and leave out the pay to win elements, then you need to DO that, and NOT backtrack or change your mind when the funds get low!

You die the hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villian. PGI lived too long, they outlasted their own ideals.

Awesome. My new thing I learned for today is "f***ing motherf***er" in Finnish! perkeleen vittupää!

I'm going to memorize that for a while and then take a long nap, because my day has peaked before 12AM.

Indeed, the terms from the time period were generally "bathtub gin" or "hooch".

Funny that you would choose that joke. NSA is actually *firing* almost all it's sysadmins.

This will be hilarious in a few years, when their new highly automated system has a problem and they desperately want to contract some of those canned admins back in.

http://it.slashdot.org/story/13/08/09/1419228/nsa-firing-90-of-its-sysadmins

That's hilarious, that you think that would be a problem. Current corporate America is cronyism all the way down, Ballmer probably made lots of deals before announcing his retirement. For an unloved CEO, making deals to appoint your successor tied to your stepping down at the time and in the manner preferred by the board is not unusual. While Ballmer cannot simply name a successor and have it done, he can certainly steer the board and make deals to get the result he wants.

I disagree. All three are possible. I think you mean asleep, and that's a big grey area. I put about 1500 miles on my car last weekend, and I think I was only conscious for about half to one third. Reflexes can be amazing things on interstates.

Hell, when I was fully awake and aware, I had these brief episodes of panic, because I'd start thinking about my tires, and/or how very fatal an accident at full highway speeds will likely be.

Concrete abutments at anything over about 50MPH are HUNGRY for BLOOD and SOULS.