The books may be drm free, but if you're in the US, just try and purchase the original, unedited-for-America, UK editions. You can't. The Add to Basket button is ghosted out and if you hover over the "Why can't I buy this?" link under that button you'll see.
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"Why can't I add this to my basket?
Due to publishing restrictions, this edition of the book is not available in your country. Please choose another book language."
So, Pottermore may have bought a clue about how useless drm is, but they still don't understand that it's a global economy now and consumers won't put up with that "not available in your country/region" crap any more.
McCain - 894th out of 899 in his class at US Naval Academy, Palin - BA in journalism with classes at 5 different schools.... or was this topic about their positions on education?
Don't the networks already run commercials all at the same time? One reason I can't stand listening to news on XM radio is that they simulcast the audio from CNN, Fox, MSNBC, etc. and they all take commercial breaks at the same time. After flipping channels for a couple of minutes to discover none of them are reading any news, I get tired and switch back to a music channel.
I agree. I have a power strip/surge suppressor that has one of the plugs designated as "master". The other devices only receive power when the master device is on. I just got a new LCD TV and when I turned it off and it was only drawing enough power to monitor the IR port for a power on signal from the remote, it wasn't drawing enough power from the power strip to keep the other devices on. I never had that "problem" with my old rear-projection TV. I had to plug my receiver into the master plug instead to keep the whole strip active.
I just bought a 52" LCD and it looks awesome. The unit has 1920x1080 resolution and supports 1080P. I passed on Plasma because they supposedly have a humming problem at higher altitudes (I'm at 6200") and I've been pleased with a smaller 26" LCD TV and with the LCD monitors I use with my PCs.
I installed Linux a couple of times back in the 90s and got a nice command line, but never used it for anything.
I've recently installed Ubuntu and it seems nearly ready for prime time.It detected all my devices on a fairly new laptop. There are still some rough edges and some things took much longer than they should to set up. For example, it took me about 7 or 8 hours to get wifi going. It turned out that the driver didn't like the fact I had my router set to not broadcast the SSID. XP handles that with no problem. Another problem I had is the first time I tried to burn a CD, I got some cryptic error. That one turned out to be that I was not authorized to use the cdrom device and had to go create a text file with a rule in it. On the plus side, Linux played nicely with my Windows workgroup and was able to access my desktop's shared drives with no configuration needed. It also mounted the NTFS and FAT32 partitions automatically and was able to read from NTFS and write to FAT32 with no extra setup. The Synaptic package manager under Ubuntu is also a joy to work with.
So, a lot of things work very well these days, and a few things still require way more tinkering than they should. I'm motivated by WPA, WGA, and everything I read about Vista to make the switch. I've made a checklist of everything I do under XP and am slowly writing down Linux equivalents for those tasks. I may still keep XP around under VMWare for the few things I can't easily replace, but I see Linux as my main OS not too far in the future.
that the human race will continue to evolve naturally. My bet is that within a hundred years nearly every parent will have their offspring genetically engineered to meet their personal image of perfection. It will be difficult to distinguish between the 2 billion Angelinas and Brads. The few unenhanced kids will probably form a commune in some isolated place and work on open source.
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"Why can't I add this to my basket?
Due to publishing restrictions, this edition of the book is not available in your country. Please choose another book language."
So, Pottermore may have bought a clue about how useless drm is, but they still don't understand that it's a global economy now and consumers won't put up with that "not available in your country/region" crap any more.
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Now run away or I shall taunt you a second time.
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Q: Is there a God?
A: There is now!
It's showtime!
M.O.O.N., that spells Flu!
McCain - 894th out of 899 in his class at US Naval Academy, Palin - BA in journalism with classes at 5 different schools. ... or was this topic about their positions on education?
God had to restore the universe from a backup and then tweak the laws of physics to prevent a repeat. I understand he was pissed.
OS/2 contains proprietary Unix code!
Don't the networks already run commercials all at the same time? One reason I can't stand listening to news on XM radio is that they simulcast the audio from CNN, Fox, MSNBC, etc. and they all take commercial breaks at the same time. After flipping channels for a couple of minutes to discover none of them are reading any news, I get tired and switch back to a music channel.
So I wouldn't have to page through the story, but their print button invoked javascript and noscript disabled it.
But I've been avoiding them since they tried to screw up DVDs with Divx in the 90s.
I agree. I have a power strip/surge suppressor that has one of the plugs designated as "master". The other devices only receive power when the master device is on. I just got a new LCD TV and when I turned it off and it was only drawing enough power to monitor the IR port for a power on signal from the remote, it wasn't drawing enough power from the power strip to keep the other devices on. I never had that "problem" with my old rear-projection TV. I had to plug my receiver into the master plug instead to keep the whole strip active.
I just bought a 52" LCD and it looks awesome. The unit has 1920x1080 resolution and supports 1080P. I passed on Plasma because they supposedly have a humming problem at higher altitudes (I'm at 6200") and I've been pleased with a smaller 26" LCD TV and with the LCD monitors I use with my PCs.
- the wee wii
Ed-209?
we can now get away from greed and ideology and get back to greed with no ideology!
I installed Linux a couple of times back in the 90s and got a nice command line, but never used it for anything.
I've recently installed Ubuntu and it seems nearly ready for prime time.It detected all my devices on a fairly new laptop. There are still some rough edges and some things took much longer than they should to set up. For example, it took me about 7 or 8 hours to get wifi going. It turned out that the driver didn't like the fact I had my router set to not broadcast the SSID. XP handles that with no problem. Another problem I had is the first time I tried to burn a CD, I got some cryptic error. That one turned out to be that I was not authorized to use the cdrom device and had to go create a text file with a rule in it. On the plus side, Linux played nicely with my Windows workgroup and was able to access my desktop's shared drives with no configuration needed. It also mounted the NTFS and FAT32 partitions automatically and was able to read from NTFS and write to FAT32 with no extra setup. The Synaptic package manager under Ubuntu is also a joy to work with.
So, a lot of things work very well these days, and a few things still require way more tinkering than they should. I'm motivated by WPA, WGA, and everything I read about Vista to make the switch. I've made a checklist of everything I do under XP and am slowly writing down Linux equivalents for those tasks. I may still keep XP around under VMWare for the few things I can't easily replace, but I see Linux as my main OS not too far in the future.
Global Warming has taken out the moon's polar ice caps too!
1.8 x .3 = .54 Sounds like a bargain to me!
that the human race will continue to evolve naturally. My bet is that within a hundred years nearly every parent will have their offspring genetically engineered to meet their personal image of perfection. It will be difficult to distinguish between the 2 billion Angelinas and Brads. The few unenhanced kids will probably form a commune in some isolated place and work on open source.
Why is parent at -1? It seems pretty obvious that Core 2 Duo has stolen most of AMDs thunder and it's not trolling to point that out.
Um, no. Virtual PC will run Linux, but will not run ON Linux.
If overpopulation and overconsumption is the problem...