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Ian Shlasko wrote: What no-talent hack wrote th---
--- this is me saying nothing ---
BTW is any of this drivel available in dead tree?
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It was, at first... I actually have about 15-20 copies of each of the first two in paperback. Trouble is, unless you go mass-market (Print runs of 10k+ copies), you have to do print-on-demand.
POD is like 3D printing versus an assembly line... It's slower and more expensive, but you can do one-offs. The price is the problem, since no one wants to pay $16 for a paperback fiction novel...
So when those didn't sell for a few years, I took them out of print, as they were costing me a little each year to keep them available. Never bothered going dead-tree with books 3 and 4, after seeing the lack of success with the first two.
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Dissertation is the correct word to use for the report/project that you do at the end of a university course, usually carrying a significant proportion of the marks available - it does not have to be scientific. My daughter has just submitted her dissertation on copyright exemptions in the EU for her Masters degree in International Business Law.
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That's exactly what i do, thanks for the explanation 
But we got the requirement to write it scientific otherwise i wont get my Bachelor degree.
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HobbyProggy wrote: an idea how to relief stress
Do you have access to a holodeck?
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Saw an Article about a holodeck, a programmer developed to do some jedi-starwars fighting in his livingroom, but actually no i have not ...
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An unlicensed tattooist who inked a 13-year-old girl has been given an eight-month suspended jail sentence.
Jackson Rowsell charged the girl £20 and sprayed her skin with what appeared to be Jack Daniel's whiskey before inking an "amateurish" design.
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A description of the tattoo was not disclosed by the council for fear of identifying the child.
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: sprayed her skin with what appeared to be Jack Daniel's whiskey before inking an "amateurish" design
But that's exactly what sailors are out looking for, when they're on leave, so he should do well in Pompey.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: that's exactly what sailors are out looking for
13-year-old girls? 
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...and whiskey, and a bad tattoo.
And the STD of your choice, obviously.
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I'm surprised he used JD, I mean when you're obviously scrimping on everything else then why use one of the most expensive Whiskeys?
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He's 19; he snuck it from the cupboard in the living room.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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If you consider JD "one of the most expensive Whiskeys", you wont be short of things to marvel at next time you venture outdoors.
I looked at a bottle of Royal Salute the other week for AUD $206,000 (the empty hand-made, diamond encrusted bottle costs an estimated $50,000 to make)
Though to be fair - it's for posers. It's 'just' 48 yr old **blended** whiskey from Chivas Regal.
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Perhaps I should have added "one of the most expensive Whiskey Widely available" for the more pedantic of you out there 
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A year back, I asked people here if Kindle experience is better than reading a real book. Majority said Kindle is better when you get to use it regularly.
Well after a year of reading experince in Kindle, I still not getting a hang of it.
Honestly it has made my travel reading little pleasant when I want to read some fiction as I dont have to carry heavy books but at home and office, technical books are not so pleasant.
Am I a minority or Kindle experience with technical books is still good?
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I try not to use the Kindle app on my phone, app on my PC (& tablet) for the same reason I don't really like on line documentation. While searching is easier I prefer a book for reference as when I throw a phone at the wall the phone disintegrates Seriously the images in Kindle are not up to the quality needed (I'm an Electronics guy) some books are poor and on a Kindle copy illegible. Kindle quick, searchable. Dead wood legible. My two penny worth. 
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Kindle is bad for technical books because at some point there will be a code listing and the editors never think to check it fits nicely on one page...so you just have to scroll past the "flock of birds" page.
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I got my Nexus 7 two years ago, and can say with my hand on my heart I haven't opened a paper book since.
The Kindle itself annoyed me (the page change was too slow, and the screen quality a bit low) and the Kindle app is just annoying, so I mostly use FBReader, though I have 4 or five reader apps installed (so I can switch quickly between books when I need to).
Being able to hold hundreds of books on the tablet and carry them everywhere is wonderful! Highlight text, copy it to google and get a definition immediately? Brilliant! And you try searching a paper book for something you know is in there somewhere...
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I love my kindle for fiction and news but I also read a lot of non-fiction, especially popular science books and mathematics. They are definitely worse than reading the paper version:
- Graphics don't always appear in the right place or even at all.
- In the maths books, you can expand the text but the equations get left behind so fractions and powers can be difficult to read
- Explanatory panels that focus on a particular topic can be embedded anywhere and lose their distinctive styling
Overall, they're a bit of a nightmare but then again, so is lugging around a lot of technical books which can be quite bulky.
David
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I use to love Kindles when I was a kid, the mix of milk chocolate and white, the anticipation of what's going to be inside the yellow egg and then assembling the toy (hoping it wasn't a girls).
You know there are instructions inside if you haven't got the hang of it?
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Some of those toys were really good! And the yellow plastic egg came in handy too - the cat loved 'em!
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So long as it isn't a book with swaths of code in it you're expected to copy(which generally fits better if you flip it over to landscape) I'd say it's far better.
I've bought what is easily 40 lbs worth the programming books on mine, I carry the lot of it in the kindle and have it all available more or less all the time. It's also slowed the growth of my recreational reading shelf considerably, which is good as the shelf is beginning to consume all of the area around it. Still reading, just not getting everything hard back.
My one piece of advice with it, turn the text size as small as you can manage. Odds are it'll still be bigger than a trade paper back. If that is still huge after changing the settings on the kindle, look into some of the unpack/repack software for e-books. I've had to neuter some remarkably poor publisher decisions in terms of font size more than once. That helped me a great deal with a few of the programing books, turning the page every half sentence isn't what I was looking for.
Edit: Lies, I have more than one thing of advice. Drop the brightness to the minimum you're comfortable with and turn airplane mode on. It'll save battery and I've found the less bright backing easier on my eyes, but it really depends on the light around me at the time.
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I still prefer paper. I don't think I've used Kindle in the last year.
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Luddite! 
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