Re: I have a Windows 8 laptop

Or more likely a knackered mouse

Re: What a wanker/whinger

Lack of emotion is not something I have noticed in the tech field; Lack of appropriate emotion, well, that's another story. Look at Torvalds.

Re: I have XP here so no use

@functionality they stripped in Win 7.

Serious question...Just what was stripped in Win7 from XP?

From the point of view of the shell, I cant think of anything...

Re: Luggage up!

Why Thin?

Well, if it wasn't thin then when wrapped up in its case the package would be even thicker, wouldn't it.

Re: Games 'n guns link?

Try your local flea market. Tha'ts where I got my BFG

I thought we were talking about wild coffee, which doesn't take account of price and export controls, nor does it need farmers or lack of socialisation.

Re: Anonymous Coward

I see you know how to "spEak You're bRanes"

Re: It's a hollow victory

I think you must have missed a couple of elections. It sounds as if you are talking about the start of the second bush term.

A tablet, of any size, in my experience, fares pretty badly with game consoles since it doesn't have all the buttons and controllers. Some games work well with touch screen mode only but many are hopelessly compromised by the lack of controllers and are uncomfortable to play. Or maybe its just me.

And I don't even want to know what "media consummation" is.

Re: What happened to X-files references

Fringe? It made it to a second season? Its drivel and stuffed full of cliches and I couldn't get past two episodes. I watched because someone, who was clearly out of his mind, said it was a cross of the X files and Lost.

Re: Adult Discussion

A very interesting commentary. Thanks

Re: Unfortunately...

Seems to be the consensus that problems like these are specific book related and running them through Calibre to convert them to new epubs, even if they are already epubs, will often cure the problems. Or find a better source for your books.

Re: Have to register to read.

This doesn't always work but it did here. Follow the link. I used Firefox with no script turned on for the site. Allowing scripts for ft.com displays too many pop ups and other artifacts. Do a search for the title of the article. I searched via Bing though no doubt Google will work too. Somewhere in the results you will often find a link to the actual article. This article appears to be accessible using this technique. No payment required! Shhhh!

Re: Where on earth are you getting your numbers from?

"Your survey of one doesn't prove anything"

Well, with your data added to his I conclude that RAM has a failure rate of 50% which is bloody atrocious.

Re: Architect is a professional person not a verb.

RE "you pompous, toothless, tea-swilling Benny Hill aficionados "

Well excuse me. We dumped the grinning buffoon a long time ago and stopped watching him. It was the USA that kept him in royalties and adulation after that.

The other insults are fine and I can live with them.

Re: how about this?

RE: "It was like that in the Wild West, too"

Now that makes me pause. Its been my understanding, from reading some historian or other (cite not currently available), that gun use and ownership in the days of the actual wild west was vastly overrated since ammunition was so expensive that no one could actually afford it, so no one bothered with fucking guns. Or if they had guns they couldn't shoot them since they had nothing to shoot from them. Am I wrong in my thinkings?

Re: Progress being made ....... in a heart and minds capture program that sets you free

"So what/who stops you doing what you want to do, just whenever you want to do it?"

The answers to your final question are many, ranging from my partner, the government, and nature; which are all commonplace and mundane. But by far the most common impediment is me, which I suspect is what you were getting at.

But yet another answer is you. I read your posts and though I feel there is something of worth somewhere in your words you aren't communicating whats going on in your head clearly enough for heads outside of your own head (if indeed you possess a head) to get more than a somewhat Burroughs-esque cut-up outline of what you mean. Which may indeed be the point whether by accident or by design. A Turing examination of your posts reveals little. It may indeed be the case that you are the machinery controlling us by attempting to disorient us. We love you anyway. We hope that you love we.

Re:Poking trolls

Just remember, when you're having fun poking trolls then YOU are a troll too and that gets boring as well.

Re: Which 'side' am I on?

Complaining about ad hominem attacks after your own post had many ad hominems in it..(.fuckwits)?

No one harangued or harassed you. You're the one who started ranting thus drawing response in similar vein. I really do look for sensible discussion on both sides of this debate but you weren't debating or offering anything useful.

Re: At last

RE: "Do you post comments as a challenge....?"

He posts because he thinks he's being funny and he enjoys the attention and thrill of being known to lots of users on the forums. He reminds me of my first job where some unknown non entity used to scrawl the most idiotic comments on the toilet cubicle walls. he did it until someone caught him at it and actually quit his job, which wasn't worth having in the first place, because everyone kept laughing AT him rather than with him. True wit is a very rare thing. Big dumb guy doesn't have it.

Re: Pricing oddities

The US paper edition had illustrations and so does the ebook edition. The UK paper edition had no illustrations and neither does the ebook. That's the size discrepancy, and maybe the price difference too.

The US edition doesn't need notes to explain the words; they already changed the words. If you live outside the UK and want to read the original UK version then you're stuffed. Beyond this stupid Geo-restriction, which didn't exist with the paper books, she did a much better job at this than most interested parties expected. Certainly better than the big publishing houses can do. Shame it took her so long. I expect when you have more money than god there are lots of other distractions to fill your time with.

Re: DRM format

The books aren't DRM'd. They have a watermark of the buyers name but they can be read, converted, backed up, transferred to your Amazon kindle library, whatever. All of which is a big surprise to many and puts the big publishing houses to shame. Oh, and its available as EPUB; a nice open specification format. And, by all accounts, there are a lot of people prepared to buy them if the availability of the web site yesterday is anything to go by. Not me though.

Re: Why?

@Tzael - touch centric OS

You say that Windows 8 is a touch centric OS. What version, then, is to be released for non touch screen devices, and when can we get a look at it? All reports I have seen so far state that this is the version for both types of device which is, for me, useless. This OS is going nowhere near my desktop or laptop devices unless it changes radically from what it now is. A touch centric OS is, by definition, never going to be more than a compromise on a non touch screen device, in the same way that traditional mouse and keyboard windows was never more than a compromise on a tablet. Better stock up on Win 7 now. I think MS will be supporting that version for a long time to come.

Re: Why?

How do I turn off Metro?

I did a search and tried the method given and it didn't work. Is there another way in the preview edition?

A link would be nice.

Re: In the pay of who???

Just as valid to ask who is paying you for these comment board assertions that attempt to plant negative impressions in the minds of the ignorant.

Well?

Who is it?

And don't say 'no one' because I wont believe you.

Re: Re: yawn

He's only right up to a point, and that point is DUEL. Stevie baby has never been better. Its been down hill ever since. I still enjoy an occasional watch of Duel even though I know everything that's about to happen.

@Michelle

May one inquire - Is it a Kindle or a Fire which is so useless?

Shhhh

First rule of Usenet - Don't talk about Usenet...

Yes...

...but the media from those services are really easy to download to your own machine as permanent files.

RE: Absolutely nothing added

Well it did add a NSFW tag to the title which no doubt drew in a heck of a lot more viewers than it would have done ordinarily.

@Good neighbo(u)r and friend

I'm sure he was, but, with all respect, that is irrelevant. He was also a lousy father to his first daughter. Can we define the man based solely on any of these facts? Nope. He was all of these things and we are stupid to ignore the bits we don't like.

Anyway, I suspect that the professor was reacting, as are so many of us, not so much to Steve Jobs the man, but rather to the overwhelming gush of nauseating sycophancy that flooded the internet and more traditional media following his death. It isn't personal. It just needs some balance to de-sanctify the guy. If ever a word was overused to the point of meaninglessness it is the word genius. He wasnt a genius. He was clever and he knew some clever people and he knew how to use them. He was successful in economic terms; maybe not so much in other ways. He knew and did some stupid things too; some of that hippy stuff I have read you being scathing about in others from time to time.

How do I get sucked into these things? Enough! :-)

class instruments

Mark has often played a mean kazoo or cow bell. What class is that?

TXT files

Can't you just go to Options/Applications and tell it how to handle TXT files? Default seems to be _Always Ask_

I foresee a future in the art world and an exhibition at the Tate Modern. Tracey Emin will be eyeing this with interest.

RE epub is the source format of .azw

No, you are wrong. AZW is Amazons version of MOBI. Neither of them have anything to do with EPUB. There are several things that EPUB is capable of that MOBI isnt - such as drop caps for one. EPUB and MOBI/AZW are different formats. I haven't a clue what you are on about with this compilation business, and I'm not convinced you do either. Point me to an epub compiler please, seriously, because I never heard of such a thing until now. Also point me towards just one viewer that handles such a compiled epub. I really am curious now in case I missed something.

@KAMiKZ

Are you a lawyer?

@Hot beverage in a moving car

Thats why lids with a drinking slot were invented. Really; why such a fuss about this? And downvotes for people in favour? Whats going on here?