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I create things with it every day, what do you mean?

Many books aren't available as downloads from anywhere. Is it a particular book or a generic question? Can you get the book on Kindle?

Google Docs?

Why is it frowned upon? There's no problem with regular posters occasionally doing this. It's different for match tickets as it is specifically illegal to sell those, but you know that from the posting guidelines.

No, it's exactly the wrong way around.

Nothing living is born with a fear of dying, just like nothing is born with a fear of what happened before it was born. Religion teaches that both are something to fear.

Germany has presumably decided to enact a specific law because tradition has made it acceptable for parents to mutilate their children. I'm sure Germany had perfectly adequate legislation under which prosecutions could have been brought, but even in secular nations iron age tradition makes some people think "these things are acceptable". This law presumably reinforces that such assaults are illegal. It reminds people (police, prosecutors, public) that these are minors in care and ABH is ABH. I don't see how such acts can be defended on any basis. Not having any way to check on German law and only reading about this in the press I suspect this is an amendment to their existing law on assault and not a new act.

I still don't see why anyone would use voice commands for anything, but in case you do: Siri vs Google Voice Search

I assume you mean Geographic Information System. It depends what you are trying to do. Google Maps has a free API. OpenStreetView is an open mapping system.

This is the ordering page, no idea which countries it'll work in

Hmm, jelly bean promised for the Xoom. Mine's still on Honeycomb. Stop ignoring the rest of the world Google. The price of the Nexus 7 is the same as the Kindle Fire. I doubt the components cost $100, but you're right that this is probably about selling content (and a bucket load of devices).

Obvious question, but are you running the latest version?

Do they teach grammar?

Or can you see the files in the pretty front end?

FreeBSD is not Linux so I'm definitely not the person to ask. Is there nothing in the pretty front end for "console"?

It's in the right place. As long as people use the matchday forums for matchday stuff.

I think Conor was responding to your "clearly superior" comment. Apple's strategy is embrace and enhance, it's strange to see them throw their toys out when it happens to them. And now the MacBook Air ad which claims "innovation" for finally getting a higher screen resolution than my 7 year old Dell. Except it's not new as per my link above.

Did you look at either of my links? Neither were related to anything by Asus. The first did show something that does precisely this, however it is different to Surface in that it exists already. Are you withdrawing your previous statement about sticking with windows because it "works the way you know"?

So it will be completely different to the current windows which you want to stick with because "We like windows, it's familiar and works the way we know. We grew up with it." I completely understand that Microsoft will find a compromise somewhere between a tablet interface and a workstation interface. Their track record makes me think it'll be several releases before it works properly for either and is unlikely to live up to their promise. However, it will NOT be the windows interface that works the way you know, so you can't use that as a justification. And if you're going to change, you might as well look at all options. BTW Android is Linux. People have already demonstrated Android devices which convert into a Linux desktop when a keyboard and screen are attached. None of this is new. A few seconds searching found http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66S8is1E9MI. Or if you've rooted your device, you can just install ubuntu as an app.

Windows 8 is a completely different interface to anything you've seen before, with or without a keyboard. You said "We like windows, it's familiar and works the way we know. We grew up with it." So it's changing completely but you need it to work the way you know. Do you see the dichotomy?

So Conor, it's both important that windows stays the same and that it changes? I think you might have fallen for the spin.

From the fingers of the Villa chronicler: We're villans not villains

The single best way to get tickets for games is to join your local supporters organisation.

But those "best minds" (admittedly amongst some good things) produced and launched Windows ME, Internet bloody explorer and Bob, which removes pretty much any merit from your claim. The fact that they were the largest company in the world in no way supports the argument that they are the best at anything. The two things are unrelated. I'd go further and suggest much of Microsoft's demise has been caused by the fact that it's still run as independent business areas with little overview or control; this leads to the strangely mixed messages about open source and the demonstrable fact that they still can't produce secure code despite operating their "trustworthy computing" program since 2002. I suspect this also explains the success of the xbox division - most people don't link the brands because they are so separate.