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yeah i agree but since we live in a world governed by interest, we need CONSTANT growth, that means products have to have built in obsolescence, the development cycles are reduced in time thus products arent as good as they could be etc etc rant rant. 
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AspDotNetDev wrote: Kindle
Only one I've tried (the wife's).
I don't like them either; they don't work the way I want (like during airplane takeoffs and landings). However... the one book I've read that way is out of print so I probably couldn't have read it any other way and I wouldn't have known it existed had it not been on Amazon. But the OCR was poor, particularly for numbers, which were printed in the old style with some digits raised and others lowered.
New books I buy hard-copy or borrow from the library.
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I haven't tried it but the people I know who have Kindles love them.
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I've said it before and I'll say it again: it's great for watching Top Gear. (The kid watches Mythbusters on it.)
Another thing I don't like is not being able to keep my stuff separate from other users' stuff. Particularly in the Web browser -- I can't watch porn because my kid might see it.
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My mother loves her kindle. She bought it in Hawaii whilst visiting my sister, and then brought it back to Australia. It automagically handles the 3g connection for downloading of books, even in a different continent. That it doesn't need reconfiguring for this kind of scenario is one of the major benefits.
She sat on the first one accidentally and broke the screen, so she immediately bought another.
I have no blog...
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: they don't work the way I want (like during airplane takeoffs and landings)
Is 15 mins without an e-book reader really so hard?
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It would be were I reading a thriller.
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Be at peace, some people do enjoy their eBook (me for example, got 80 of them on my kindle, read 75 so far!).
So it's not all mindless capitalism! :P
REMARK: even tough I enjoy them, I won't recommend them for study book, where paperback is still the best option...
A train station is where the train stops. A bus station is where the bus stops. On my desk, I have a work station....
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My programs never have bugs, they just develop random features.
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Buy the real, physical book, to keep on the shelf, and download a ripped e-book copy to read. The kids who do the ripping often do a better job than the pros.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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http://me.veekun.com/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/[^]
A small excerpt from the start; the ~15 following screens (@2560x1600) itemize the WTFs.
An analogy
I just blurted this out to Mel to explain my frustration and she insisted that I reproduce it here.
I can’t even say what’s wrong with PHP, because— okay. Imagine you have uh, a toolbox. A set of tools. Looks okay, standard stuff in there.
You pull out a screwdriver, and you see it’s one of those weird tri-headed things. Okay, well, that’s not very useful to you, but you guess it comes in handy sometimes.
You pull out the hammer, but to your dismay, it has the claw part on both sides. Still serviceable though, I mean, you can hit nails with the middle of the head holding it sideways.
You pull out the pliers, but they don’t have those serrated surfaces; it’s flat and smooth. That’s less useful, but it still turns bolts well enough, so whatever.
And on you go. Everything in the box is kind of weird and quirky, but maybe not enough to make it completely worthless. And there’s no clear problem with the set as a whole; it still has all the tools.
Now imagine you meet millions of carpenters using this toolbox who tell you “well hey what’s the problem with these tools? They’re all I’ve ever used and they work fine!” And the carpenters show you the houses they’ve built, where every room is a pentagon and the roof is upside-down. And you knock on the front door and it just collapses inwards and they all yell at you for breaking their door.
That’s what’s wrong with PHP.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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have a 5 for hating on PHP (Pretty Horrid Programming) I too dislike PHP and everyone who has touched it by choice.
I also hate Apple and its cartel partners 
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Looks like you offended the PHP gods!
Repent! Lest you be down voted out of existence!
(Just kidding. I think PHP can go to Hades!!)
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All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.
Carl Sagan
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A 1 vote from a PHPer is as good as a 5 from a proper developer
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Did you see this[^]??
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All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.
Carl Sagan
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Nope.
Todays insider never reached my inbox (again), so it doesn't exist.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I had a spell of non-delivery recently and eventually found that the last site update had cleared all my selections on the Newsletters page of My Settings. Worth having a look, if you still want The Insider.
Henry Minute
Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?"
“I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus!
When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
Cogito ergo thumb - Sucking my thumb helps me to think.
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I've been having them randomly fail to arrive for the last several years; I've complained in suggestions/bugs a few times but nothing was ever fixed. Todays arrived normally.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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That analogy probably works on just about every language. 
Chris Meech
I am Canadian. [heard in a local bar]
In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. [Yogi Berra]
posting about Crystal Reports here is like discussing gay marriage on a catholic church’s website.[Nishant Sivakumar]
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I do like the flexibility of PHP and the integration and simplicity of the PHP/mySQL web solution (not to mention its ubiquity on cheap hosts). But the language itself is fairly bad.
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....... that for the price they charge for their software they could afford to get someone better than the intern to code their free stuff[^].
Henry Minute
Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?"
“I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus!
When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
Cogito ergo thumb - Sucking my thumb helps me to think.
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I feel that Adobe is unquestionably the bane of software.
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How is that worse than Microsoft hiring experts to code the expensive stuff, which is also prone to being hacked? 
Will Rogers never met me.
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But we like Microsoft and we don’t like Adobe, so please show some decency and keep with the rules.
There is only one Vera Farmiga and Salma Hayek is her prophet!
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