Of course you won't want to create one, but you might want to read one someone sends as an email attachment.

Agreed, Impy is indeed trolling. But OTOH you bit his troll.

i hope people realize this aswell!

i hope ms get's a salted bill for all this.

No caps, "aswell" and a grocer's apostrophe... what grade are you in, kid? If you're trying to look cool, you're not succeeding.

Yeah, mod me down for trying to educate someone at a nerd site...

Screw both MS and Google, I'm using Open Office. Opens and saves all formats just fine, exports easily to PDF and I don't have to be online to use it. It would be handy to open a Word doc or Oo doc on my phone, though, although I certainly wouldn't want to write or edit on a phone.

yeah, great, another android fuck-up, if you're tablet or phone is pre-loaded with it

Speaking of fuck ups, did Android make you do that? Protip: an aliterate has no advantage over an illiterate.

I modeled the protagonist in the book I'm writing after guys like you. "i aint never went to college."

I think the idea of only two time zones in a 3000 mile wide area is insane. Time zones are useful, DST is not. You don't want the kids going to school in the dark? Start classes later, duh. Seven to three is a retarded shift for school children, anyway. Kids (especially teens) are not good at being early birds; that's been studied. Make DST the standard time and keep it all year around; I don't want the sun waking me up at 5:00 AM in the summer and I hate that it's dark when I leave work in late December.

But remember the real reason for DST, folks: it's so those who don't fly can still experience the joys of jet lag.

during the winter a dark morning would affect allot of people.

You get an allotment of people?

Hint: when your spell checker flagged "alot" and you went with its suggestion, you changed the meaning of your sentence. "Alot" is not a word and "allot" doesn't mean "a lot." I've seen that mistake a lot lately.

Too much internet, not enough edited books.

Maybe it's because I never had expensive headphones, but I never heard a pair that was as good as decent speakers.

Yeah, I feel like a kid at Christmas. Disappointed that I discovered a typo in the acknowledgements, and that some of the fonts were times new roman rather than gentium book basic, the difference is hard to spot on the computer but sticks out like a sore thumb on paper. Glad I didn't let it go live like that.

I plan on posting a journal before submitting to the front page, so you guys will get a heads up.

Yes, they are indeed careful, infecting, say, Mars would certainly screw up the search for life.

Or at least I think I understand. I really don't.

Knowing you are ignorant is wisdom.

I just hate the idea of death and ceasing to exist now more than ever.

Well, not existing for 13 billion years didn't bother you, did it? And how do you know that death is the end, rather than a transformation?

Well, you'll need a live performance for that. My favorite rendition is this one... oh, wait, that's Blue Danube, not 1812 overture. My bad.

Absolutely correct. I laugh at "ten inch 'sub' woofers". The old Kenwood 777s I had decades ago (alas, stolen in a burglary) had fifteen inch woofers and were flat only down to 20 Hz, the twelve inch woofers in the JBLs I have now only go to 30 before dropping off.

Yep, life's been here 3.5 billion years, we're getting a little long in the tooth. But a billion years gives us time to expand; how long did it take life to completely colonize the planet? Who knows, life from Earth could be riding on one of the Voyagers.