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That's funny you had a Nexus 7 and then bought a Kindle Fire 7.
I did the same thing.
The Nexus 7 was really nicely made Asus pad. I can only use the Nexus 7 as an alarm clock now but it stays charged for over a week as long as it is on Airplane mode.
The Fire 7 hardware does indeed feel very brittle.
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I don't even like the back of it! The Nexus has a nice, textured back that stays in your hand well. The Fire is cheap slippery plastic that you have to hold or it falls to the floor.
But the real bugger for me is that it won't "see" the Chromecast - exactly the same software on the Nexus sees both my Chromecast and my Fire Tv stick!
It's going up on FleaBay as soon as I get round to charging and fully resetting it. 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I've had a Kindle Paper White about two years, and charged it about 3 times in those years.
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That really is amazing technology. Very cool battery conservation.
Can you read on that at night though? Does it work with a book light?
Or does a book light reflect off the screen too much?
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The screen is backlit, ideal for reading in any ambient light. Midday, overcast, complete darkness, all the same on your eyes.
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I've had an EZReader (Astak reader) since 2008. Still have the original battery in it, but now I have to charge it about once a week if I'm actively using it. It used to go for 6 weeks or so.
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Wee Tom keeps an eye on the weather for a timely cultural reference (13)
One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don't know.
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@melchizidechh You won yesterday, so we is a-waitin'!
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I'll keep you busy in the meanwhile...
Frysian pregnancies (8)
In Word you can only store 2 bytes. That is why I use Writer.
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Stephen[^] isn't pregnant, he's just "big boned" 
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POsted, sorry for the delay. Held up with, y'know, work 'n stuff.
One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don't know.
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Who wants to help me write a browser plugin that blocks all the silly and annoying acronyms in The Lounge?
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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document.clear();
document.write('<html><body></body></html>');
You're welcome.
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CRPOTD.js
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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I wondered why so many kids were shuffling around so slowly, this morning, and it turns out that a bunch of new pokies was released "into the wild".
So, over to Mark for the traffic report:
If you have to travel, today, allow extra time, because millions of addictive idiots will be driving slowly and erratically.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Install this[^] in your car and that will never be a problem anymore. I would also add a cow catcher in the front to sweep aside the debris.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Also works on tailgaters, if installed at the rear of the vehicle.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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So - just wondering - how much does it cost (per second) to squeeze the trigger?
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That depends on what type and what quality of ammo you want to use and where you buy it, but let's guess about 5$ per round. The Vulcan can fire 100 of them per second, so 500$ for one second firing.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Quote: Officer Turner went on her way, only to return a few hours later with some of his stolen belongings and some unbelievable news.
She said while she was questioning the individual he had scratches on his hands so she asked him 'did you get that from the squirrel' and he says yeah, damn thing kept attacking me and wouldn't stop until I left.
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«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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It's because it was outside the US, and the US military doesn't get issued maps for places that don't exist.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: the US military doesn't get issued maps for places that don't exist
I can confirm that. During an exchange program I met plenty of GIs who were at a place that does not exist and got there without any help.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Sorry, that's not one of ours.
I think he must have been muzzy from missing tea time. Or was using Apple Maps.
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli
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You should know the story. The pilot's wife was also in there and nagged him into landing and asking for the way.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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