Posts by CN Hill

Ah. April 1st.

"Ever questioned, for instance, why tiny memory cards and other components are often packaged in huge blister packs of hard plastic that are challenging to open without self-injury? "

To prevent casual theft.

I'd love to see a default for Windows Explorer as View as List and Sort as File Type.

"while the pilot pores over his screens"

Subs!

What is this 'debuted' of which you speak?

If devaluation were the secret to economic success, we'd be the most successful country in Europe.

Nice to see HTP + catalyst pack making a comeback.

http://www.spaceuk.org/htp/htp.htm

I have a copy of Lotus Organiser which came from a cover disk [remember those?] on PC PRO. I still use it because it works and because I've got a lot of data in it.

I can see a calendar entry from July 2000 in there ...

Ereaders and tablets do different things. For extended reading [novels], I much prefer an ereader.

Excellent article.

The ribbon is a complete nightmare.

What it seems to lack is a way for you to edit a webpage you already have on your hard disk.

A digital copy of a DVD - because a DVD isn't digital?

1. Air to air missile - Red Top?

2. 2 stage Black Knight

3. Jabiru?

4. Black Arrow

5. Never seen anything like it. Stick my head out and say it's not British.

6. Sea Slug

7. Canberra

8. Meteor.

Word is cr*p

I've just finished a book of 126k words and 134 diagrams - and trying to get a decently formatted version took longer than researching and writing the text.

Goodonya, Tim

Whatr exactly is the point of the European parliament?

Google Books

Google Books are an outrage. They take works which they know perfectly well are copyright, scan them, and make them as available as on a pirate bit torrent site.

You delude yourself, Mr Usher

"The problem is not authors getting paid. Its publishers who want to milk the cash cow for generation after generation."

True, the extension of copyright on old books is dubious, but that has nothing at all to do with DRM.

If ebooks can be freely copied, then Doctorow or no [I read the ebook, certainly wouldn't buy the hardcopy], people will do it, and though you might rage at those publishers who 'rip everyone off', no publishers = no books.

Authors get peanuts anyway, and unfortunately 5% of peanuts is penury.

Price of ebooks

I would think that every manuscript received by a publisher in the last 20 years has come in digital form. How long does it take to reformat it? 3 hours max? And then you stick on a server. And they can't make a profit at $9.99? Someone needs to look at their business model ...

Complete waste of time and money

This year I travelled from the UK through French, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Denmark and Sweden. I showed my passport three times: going out the UK, once to a Polish Border Guard, and coming back into the UK.

Gosh, all these murderers and rapists arrested. Obviously there are no rapes or murders in French, Belgium etc etc - or perhaps they just think the whole eborders idea is *** useless. Unlike Mr Woolas.

'Zionist-wed mainstream media'

Good to know the spirit of Goebbels and others lives on ...

All well and good

I learned DOS about 20 odd years ago. About 16 years ago, when Windows 3.1 came out, I no longer had to remember obscure commands, switches, and the rest of it, or go delving into thick manuals to work out exactly what it was that I needed.

I know a lot of you don't like Windows on principle, but command lines! For heaven's sake, haven't we moved on past this? I'm sure I could go back to raw coding in bytes if I had to, but the world has moved on. It's time Linux did.