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Comment Re:Send Them a Cease and Desist Letter (Score 1) 158

You have my sincerest apologies from all of Australia. I've just had a quick look at their website, and other than looking like it clawed it's way out of Geocities by the skin of it's teeth, the venue itself looks like it is the product of nightmares triggered by a combination of the consumption of bad shellfish and a clown phobia.

Comment Re:wait what? (Score 1) 232

I could be going out on a limb here - but given they are coming pre-installed with course ware, I don't think the intended purpose is to teach kids to be IT nerds - it's to teach them english, spanish, maths, chemistry, accounting, etc... The teaching staff don't want to become glorified helpdesk, so there needs to be support staff and training on how to resolve common issues when Janey's older brother decides it would be cool to jailbreak the thing and then erases all her textbooks (I've done IT support in a school before, what's your credentials on the topic).

Comment Re:Crippled crap... (Score 1) 232

At some point I hope they are taught how to write - with a pen and paper - not type. Sometimes moving away from the constraints of an application is what you need to create. It also removes all the faffing around with point size and font that people use to procrastinate.

That said, the Logitech bluetooth keyboard I have for my iPad, combined with WriteRoom, is a pretty nifty combo for getting content down.

Comment Galatic Monetary Units (Score 1) 60

In fact there are three freely convertible currencies in the Galaxy, but none of them count. The Altairian Dollar has recently collapsed, the Flainian Pobble Bead is only exchangeable for other Flainian Pobble Beads, and the Triganic Pu has its own very special problems. Its exchange rate of eight Ningis to one Pu is simple enough, but since a Ningi is a triangular rubber coin six thousand eight hundred miles along each side, no one has ever collected enough to own one Pu. Ningis are not negotiable currency, because the Galactibanks refuse to deal in fiddling small change. From this basic premise it is very simple to prove that the Galactibanks are also the product of a deranged imagination.

Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

Comment Re:Marketing (Score 1) 334

As a woman, it's friday at down here and for work today I am wearing dark jeans, high top sneakers, a Dr Who T-shirt, I had short (though coloured) hair and am wearing no make up. I don't consider myself a tom boy and get flirted with plenty. I'm also on the cuddly side as far as size goes.

Not all of us buy into the whole "I must out-glamour my sisters-in -arms or I am a failure as a woman" concept. I also don't read women's magazines unless I forget to take a book when waiting in dentist or doctor's offices, and I don't watch commercial TV.

Comment Re:Who cares? (Score 1) 334

Maybe things would get better if 'girls worth meeting' weren't solely contained within the sub set of 'pretty girls'. Women can be judged on more than just their appearance. If you are wanting them to make that assessment about you guys, maybe turnabout is fair play.

Comment Re:Idiots (Score 2) 433

The thing I've found is for everyone one who does know how to pirate media online, there are a number of friends and family who use some variety of sneaker net to get their shows from the person in the know.

Caveat: posting from Australia where DRM means we generally can't even pay for content if we wanted to due to region locking, so probably have a higher per capita pirate population.

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