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I don't know about the 'sacrificing coffee' part, but good on them (the Uni students) - to me, this is one of the best uses for this emerging technology - sure it'll get corrupted and misused (already has, plastic guns etc), but sometimes I think there's almost hope for mankind when I see this sort of thing
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I really liked her in-depth, 5-star review of the Minecraft guide:
I'm not really a fan of minecraft but with the help of this book, I became interested. I learned a lot from this minecraft guide. because of this book, I was intrigue and more interested in playing minecraft knowing different tips and tricks that can help me to win the game. Good job to the author! Wll-written! Highly recommended!
Yeah, that's the sort of crap you're getting.
I've actually read about a quarter of this book, it's really good and it sucks that the author has to put up with crap like this!
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Beginner's SEO tools. 
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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I have even participated in paid reviewing, of products, not books, but have always tried to be as honest as possible, by scouring the nets to find positive aspects of them, and not claiming to have owned or used them. During hard times a few years ago, at the fantastic rate of $1/500 words.
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly. - Oscar Wilde
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Who reviews the reviewer?
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I've published 6 books on amazon and at various times I will also check out reviews and such.
I've noticed there are numerous trolls and troll companies who create these fake reviews also.
It's funny because the book mentioned in that original post I had just noticed and was very curious how it had received so many reviews.
Statistics
The reason I question the reviews are because of statistics.
You see, i've sold a few hundred copies of my book, Object Oriented JavaScript - amazon link[^], but I've only had 2 reviews.
People just don't review that much. It's about 1% or so. So if a book has 10 reviews it means it has sold 1,000 copies. And it is unlikely the book in question has sold 25000 copies.
Anyways, I see that quite a few people have given it 1 star ratings nows so that is good.
It hurts us selfpub authors who write real books with real information, because then people think our books priced at $2.99 are fake too.
Thanks for the post.
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Quote: I've dug into some of the books as well as I can and it looks like someone is copying material from Wikipedia, a few online tutorials, and putting together cheap, poorly written eBooks with only a few pages of material.
Abusing Wikipedia's CC license to sell "books" of scraped content on Amazon is an old swindle... 
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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“There is no need to change your life,” Jean Baudrillard once wrote. “All you need is to have two.”
Interesting article by Ross Ulbricht (the Silk Road guy)'s roommate.
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http://www.informationweek.com/it-life/ntps-fate-hinges-on-father-time/d/d-id/1319432[^]
It seems that the big IT companies (pretty well all of them) have learned nothing from Heartbleed, and leave NTP to flounder with a single person managing this important protocol, relied on by Apple, Microsoft and Google (and many others). A total of 6 companies contribute financially significant money, the poor guy gets by on 25K a year, and may well give up the effort soon.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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 Nice read.
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Could the internet ever be switched off – or destroyed? Chris Baraniuk investigates what it would take to bring down the network we all now rely on. Ain't no party like an Internet party, 'cause an Internet party don't stop
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Quite a nice read 
According to my calculations, I should be able to retire about 5 years after I die.
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After just seven years on the net, GitHub now boasts almost 9 million registered users. The Octocat did it
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According to the business magazine and online publication Fast Company, Microsoft left the flashy product reveals and acquire-hires for other companies and instead has quietly been improving current in use products and services like health care, elevator maintenance and emergency response systems in New Orleans. But where are all their things?
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This is part blasphemy and part true.
Microsoft is pretty big.
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Today, we are going to attempt to answer that not-so-simple question and determine when a computer is truly obsolete. Can you remember when you got it? It's time for a new one.
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My computer - all my devices in general - are obsolete when they break and/or cannot be repaired or tweaked anymore (or reparing is not an option because it's getting too expensive).
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That's far too green a solution, but well done 
TTFN - Kent
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my wife is still using an acer 10 years old, with one core cpu and 1 gb ram. She is used to its speed, so she don't complain.
She is starting to think on buying a new one, but only because I told her it is better to have a controled change, than having to buy something on the fast when old one dies.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Well, with freedom comes responsibility. Sadly, most people just take the freedom and don't care about their responsibility.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: That's far too green a solution
yes - sure there are needs (wants?) - but I wonder how many people think of (environmentally) what it takes to produce a computer, then what's going to happen when they throw it away - obviously re-gifting it 'down the line' prolongs it ending up as scrap for a while, but eventually .....
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