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When we use this language, coming from English, Spanish or Dutch or whatever, we have that as reference. If you would use this language truely, I guess it would mean that you start to think differently about the objects. Maybe the difference between train and car is not that important anymore.

I don't mind that Apple offers very thin laptops that limit battery life, and make it impossible to change harddisks or add memory. The Macbook Air was the first, and it was great as it was. If there is a market for this, whether for professionals or not, they should sell them as much as then can.

I do mind that they don't offer at least one good alternative that is "programmer pro": harddisk can be changed, RAM can be added, battery can be replaced and may be bigger. I really don't mind 5mm or even 1cm extra thickness if that gives me all this for a reasonable price. And the 2012 Macbook Pro (without retina) was offered up til last year, but that was no real option with four year old hardware and still for the same price.

When a PDF is properly formatted, when sentences are structured like sentences, and when it's a simple PDF like a book without tables and pictures, it works.

Sometimes you see a PDF where the end of a line of text means the end of a paragraph structure wise. And if you choose to use a bigger font, the text flow changes and sentences break halfway, leaving a half empty line, etc. When this happens once every two or three pages, not a problem, but if this happens all the time it makes the book unreadable. This happens quite a lot at the ending of a page as well.

If you have something like a sidenote or footnote, it is very likely that it breaks up the textflow, and not in a nice way, after a paragraph, but it breaks up a sentence. This can be very confusing, especially if you're reading in a different language with complex sentences.

Then there is another level of breaking up a sentence halfway, where words are not formatted as words, but as letters, and where each line breaks up words. I've seen this with a O'Reilly book. They fixed this within a week, so that was excellent service, but it shows how this can work.

Images can be a problem, depending on their size. Most ereaders are underpowered and can have difficulty processing large images.

Tables will be mess in 99% of the cases, because they consist of text and lines, and do not have any structure. It's always a surprise how they will show up. It could mean that half of the table is not even shown, or column one is shown, below that column 2, and you don't see the relation anymore. Sometimes column 2 is partly shown before column 1.

Some PDFs simply crash the ereader program.

The Polo is a great car. Here in Europe diesel is the most used fuel, and cars are fast enough if not faster than gas engines.

But have you driven behind a diesel that floored the gas pedal? Have you seen that smoke? It's a good thing that diesel is on its way out due to hybrid technology. And VW makes great gas engines as well.

I still prefer Firefox over Chrome or Safari, and push it to everyone I can. Thanks for all the good work! Sometimes it looks like Chrome takes over the web like IE did ten years ago. I hope you can withstand this trend.

I don't see a difference. But this is just a starting point I guess.

Too bad this isn't mentioned on the download page. I haven't used snaps until now, and I see there is no menu item. I can start via the terminal, and guess I have to add it to the menu myself.

> If we don't consider it a problem now, when should we?

What we should, does not matter. When it starts to cost money, or when there is an opportunity to earn money, then things will change.

Then what would it help to do such a thing?

I still prefer TomTom, don't mind to pay for all the time it saves me. It's not perfect, but it works for me.

In 30 years, solar will have taken over. Using safe existing nuclear power plants is OK for me, building new ones seems stupid. For some countries, replacing an old unsafe one with a good new one seems plausible, but more seems a bad choice.

That's 375 km for the rest of the world.

Anyway, how quick does it charge, either to full or 50 or 80%?

Beam me up Bolty!

How much is a 4G dataplan in London? Even when he uses 100GB that should be payable by them. Is that blocked as well? Then they have to block out that area, and that won't go unnoticed.