Actually, I was thinking it would be sort of like a pet. You know, we could...we could name her Trixie, or Miss Kitty Fantastico, or something.

Tara ,'Empty Places'


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le nubian - Jan 17, 2012 7:49:31 am PST #19208 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

call Amazon.


Sophia Brooks - Jan 17, 2012 7:53:21 am PST #19209 of 25501
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

I second the call. I have gotten 2 free kindles after the screens broke down.


Amy - Jan 17, 2012 7:58:50 am PST #19210 of 25501
Because books.

My only problem with the Kindle so far is not being able to find the right place to touch to get the toolbar back on the bottom consistently, but I think I just have to get used to it.

My brother got a Kindle replaced just because the cover was cracked, so I would call.


Consuela - Jan 17, 2012 8:43:41 am PST #19211 of 25501
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

Sweet: they're sending me a replacement Fire, should be here by Thursday. Not bad customer service.


§ ita § - Jan 17, 2012 8:48:06 am PST #19212 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

you don't have to share path with others. it can be just yours.

Just like LJ--I get that. It's just it seems you won't lose money by assuming no one bargains on only private thoughts.


Liese S. - Jan 17, 2012 8:55:15 am PST #19213 of 25501
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

I've been wanting something like that for a while. And yes, I feel like, what happened to playing computer games by myself, and writing down stuff for my eyes only, and you know, just existing on my own? App developers not making bank on that, apparently.

But yes, I log on here before I'm fully awake, so I suppose I'm not being my own data point too well.


§ ita § - Jan 18, 2012 9:16:42 am PST #19214 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

So my NAS supports mini DLNA, not DLNA proper. Among the file extensions he gives me, .AVI is not included. Grr. All my other devices (Apple excepted) love .AVI. My torrent source gives me a choice between .AVI and .MKV for every file only, and the Tab doesn't like the .MKV, although it pretends to.

Apparently we're a firmware update away from full DLNA support. I'm pissed, and I swear I never saw the modifier "mini" on the box, but that's likely because I didn't even know there was a mini.

Grr.


Connie Neil - Jan 18, 2012 7:06:22 pm PST #19215 of 25501
brillig

I have a puzzlement. I have a 4gig USB drive that I'm putting 350+ mb video files on to move from my XP machine to my Win 7 64-bit machine. It's not a USB 2 drive. However, the files transfer from my XP machine to the drive nearly 3x as fast as they do from the drive to the Win7 machine. Is the drive on the Win7 machine being snobbish and not wanting to associate with such a plebeian device? Is there a setting I can set?


Gudanov - Jan 19, 2012 6:42:05 am PST #19216 of 25501
Coding and Sleeping

Just a guess, but it could be that the XP machine has a USB driver specific to the USB controller while the Win7 machine has a Microsoft driver. Installing the chipset drivers might help there. It could also be that the USB controller on the XP machine is just better.


§ ita § - Jan 19, 2012 10:32:24 am PST #19217 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Megaupload tits up?