I can strongly recommend all his books. I started with Redshirts, then the Old Man's War series. They are not without things to be picky about, but the characters are just nice to spend time with. And, in common with Starship Troopers, you rapidly work out that maybe you're not on the "good" side...
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His birthday's really on Fri 4 Mar 2005[^] !
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I know I am very late to reply to this, but hopefully you'll see it anyway! I am based in Stockholm, but live far out and just go to the office once a week. As has already been mentioned Housing is a huge problem in Stockholm. It's near impossible to rent first hand, and hard on a sub-sub-let, and legally tricky too. Buying is an odd auction system. Basically, you'll need help from your employer before you commit to anything. Other than that, I really like Sweden. Stockholm is lovely in the summer, with swimming near the city centre, nice food, etc. Alcohol is not that expensive. The dark in the winter is not hard to get used to. In southern UK in December I went to work around dawn, and it was dark before we finished. That's no different here, there's just less light when you are working. The summer with light until 11pm and from 2am (and it's not dark dark in between) takes more getting used to. There's a decent Irish bar off Kungsgatan (and other spots) where there's quite a good expat community. As has been said, the locals probably speak better english than you do... Even outside the capital it's rare to have any problems.
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If I understand you, then yes - a variable declared inside {}'s is local to that block of code (or "scope"). So, you could do something like: #define DOALOOP(x) { for (int i = 0; i < X; i++) { DoSomething (i); } } and you would not mess up any other "i"s there. This is called shadowing, and can be powerful... Or causes confusion if you do it by accident!
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I mostly bought it for working on the train. The super high dpi screen has been useful - now the programs we release work happily in high-def, unlike Photoshop (from what I hear). As for the shape... That's handy when I'm bored and want to watch a film instead of working. I hardly ever use touch for "real" work. Iain.
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As far as I can tell, my Yoga Pro 2 didn't have superfish either, but the incident did leave a bad taste. I'm used to PC suppliers putting crapware on, but not crapware that hijacked things. I was otherwise very happy with my shiny laptop... Iain.
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Joan Murt wrote:
keep all the bells and whistles from Lenovo
You forgot (..., spyware, security hole, ...) in your list! Iain.
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That's getting a bit big, and near the Yoga 2 Pro[^] I already have... Iain.
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I will definitely explore Kingsoft. I would be a bit nervous about ordering in $'s from a company that imports from China. I imagine their quality is as good as anyone else's but if there is a problem, I'd be a bit stuffed? ps, Living in Sweden, as you might not have know that!
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Jörgen Andersson wrote:
Cynic is my middle name
Hmm, that must be a Skåne thing?
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Groan... and yes, I didn't think of that either!
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Just reread http://www.pcpro.co.uk/reviews/tablets/391081/tesco-hudl-2[^] and they basically say it's excellent value. I am tempted to pay a bit more for more though (claiming it as pre-tax sorta means the government pays half...) Have you noticed the lag they comment on? Iain.
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Isn't that getting a bit too close to a real laptop? I'll probably have my Yoga 2 Pro with me too... Iain.
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I have heard excellent things about the Hudl, so I expect the 2 to be good too. But I'm not in the UK, so availability would be an issue. Can I just wander into a big Tesco and pick one up? (I'll be in blightly in a few weeks). Iain.
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Well, for the work I'm thinking of (proofreading), I kinda hope the writing will be the minority, so on screen wouldn't bee too bad. I wouldn't dream of creating documents without a real keyboard though!
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As those who follow my ramblings are aware, I have a quite portable windows laptop, but it's a bit large as a device for flying with. (No, I don't mean I don't need a plane. C'mon people!) So, I'm looking at 8 or 9 inch tablet. As I want it to be legit tax deductible for my side job company, I'd want to have the ability to edit Word documents on it, with highlighting, and edit history maintained. (I do proofreading for furriners writing academic papers in English, and they'd be peeved if I messed up their doc's table formatting and annotations). Anyone with experience running Office Mobile on android? Can you work without an internet connection for a while? (ie, on a plane!)? Does the one drive stuff give you local copies on your laptop? And any recommendations for a nice but not daft expensive tablet? I'm tempted by the LG 8.3 one, and also tempted to wait a few weeks for the Nexus 9. Iain.
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That's not IE's fault. It's doing exactly the right thing. Next time you google something, check the link. It will actually be to a google site. Which, when you go to it, *then* jumps to the site you really want. Quite annoying! So, you go back, it's to the "jump to the site you really wanted" page. So, blame google for that one. Iain.
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You're in Wales, non? Just stick the kettle outside - it will be filled with rainwater in a few minutes. Iain.
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I must be missing something, I just see some football related animated gif? Iain. Edit: I guess you mean this? http://www.google.com/doodles/world-cup-2014-27[^] "Today" stale very quickly...
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They'll be fine as long as they don't mention the... Iain.
I am one of "those foreigners coming over here and stealing our jobs". Yay me!