Bernard Meisler

I’m sure I’m late to this party…but what the heck, I just installed Ubuntu 9.10 on an old laptop (Dell Inspiron 700m) and it’s great! The laptop, which was a nifty little machine 4 years ago (12″ screen, 2Gig proc, 1Gig RAM) was so slow it was useless – I mean, it took 30 seconds [...]

So, I guess there are still some advantages to owning a physical copy of a book. Like for example the person who sold it to you can’t erase it (or edit it, I suppose) without asking. Because their publisher asked them to, Amazon has erased all copies of George Orwell books from the Kindle. How…Orwellian. [...]