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Comment Re:Interesting... (Score 1) 420

I read this way as well, and I've noticed I frequently miss homophonic puns. F'rinstance, Kingdom of Loathing has an area known as the Orc Chasm. I mean, they don't get any more obvious, but it wasn't until I was actually halfway through telling someone else about it that I realized what I had just said.

You can imagine my amusement when I started reading Terry Pratchett books to an audience and stumbled over dozens of puns I'd missed entirely on my own read-throughs precisely because I don't have a "reading voice" in my head.

Comment Re:The problem isn't equal treatment of all traffi (Score 5, Insightful) 345

Yes, the solution is simply to switch ISPs- oh, wait, most people in the US have only two broadband providers available at most, and they both have abhorrent neutrality practices.

I can't start my own ISP because the barrier to entry is impossibly high and the current ISPs have state or city-granted monopolies on internet/phone/cable service.

Free market theory doesn't work when the market isn't free.

Comment Re:suicide (Score 1) 828

3. I have heard that drowning is one of the more pleasant ways to day. Quite painless. Using excessive diving weights, drown yourself above the Challanger Deep, a part of Mariana Trench near Guam. Hopefully you would die before you reached the bottom 6.78 miles down. You would truly have gone where no man has gone before.

Sorry, but Jacques Piccard has you beat.

Comment Re:I already read that (Score 1) 228

This would be a problem if the Cyanogenmod team were distributed Google Apps. They do not. It is the user's responsibility to load Google Apps onto their phone and ensure that all licensing requirements are met. I believe the official solution from CM is to back up your licensed Google Apps, flash CM, then restore the backed up apps.

Granted, some 3rd party tools like Clockworkmod provide an easy means to download and install Google Apps, but Clockworkmod is not Cyanogenmod.

Comment Re:Most People Have Never Heard of ..... (Score 1) 567

F3.

I use it all the time but what happens is not always what you expect.
If you're lucky it searches or it does nothing.

F5 refreshes the web page in all graphical browsers, which is handy.

F2 renames a file (in Windows, anyway).

I used to tell people about F1 as well, which has meant "help" since the DOS days.

Unfortunately there's a trend among PC and keyboard manufacturers lately to replace the F keys with customized crap like volume controls, launching the browser or email client or putting the computer to sleep. This has been around for years, but lately Dell, HP and even Lenovo have taken to making this crap the default function of the F keys and requiring the user to use a "Fn" key to achieve the normal function rather than vice versa, particularly on laptops.

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