>>15559
Sell? You want to build your own e-commerce site from scratch with no experience or skills?

No chance.

Find a site that already exists for this express purpose. There must be one. Bandcamp, but for writers. Must be. If there isn't, I'm a Nathan Barley, I'll build one and make a killing fleecing creatives like you. Mwahahaha...

>>15559 e-commerce? I'm sure there's a more than competent wordpress plugin somewhere that will let you do that, but I've always gone for Joomla/Virtuemart myself.

>>15559

You can self-publish via the Kindle Store. You can choose to sell or give away your stuff. Amazon handle everything and pay you 70%, direct to your bank account. Sort yourself out with a blog through Wordpress.com or Blogger.com and you're up and running.

http://kdp.amazon.com

>>15571

So Timothy Garton Ash was lying when he told me that he would much prefer me to buy his book in print, as he gets 10% for print books sold on Amazon, versus 5% sold via Kindle?

I'm just asking, not trying to be combative.

>>15574

Like most professional authors, he has a deal with a publisher. They own the rights to his books and pay him a royalty on sales. It's a devil's bargain - you get a much smaller share of the profits, in exchange for the promotion and distribution provided by the publisher.

Publishers are habitually dishonest about royalty payments and use a variety of shitty tricks to bilk authors. Authors get paid a royalty based on the gross retail price of a book, but based on the net profit from an e-book. When you see a 3 for 2 deal at Waterstones, that's at the author's expense, not the publisher's. The cost of promotional copies for reviewers and point-of-sale materials like posters and displays at bookshops are usually deducted from royalties.

A publishing deal makes a great deal of sense for bestselling authors, who'll benefit from translation, global distribution and placement in chain retailers. Before the internet came along, it was pretty much the only way to sell a meaningful quantity of books. It makes less sense for niche authors who have good relationships with their readers. Writers of genre fiction have done very well out of the Kindle Store, as a self-published book at 99p earns them more than the royalty on a traditionally-published book at £6.99. The downside is that they have to do all the promotional work themselves, but that's potentially a good trade-off if you write for an enthusiast audience who will seek you out. Sci-fi and fantasy writers are abandoning their publishers in droves. There's been a revival in pulp fiction, with writers like John Locke selling huge quantities of cheap schlock about gunslinging detectives and secret agents.

I've always found the filters on Ebuyer to be quite helpful, even if you don't end up buying from there.

You can filter monitors by input, but looking at it there aren't very many with telly inputs on them.

>>15569

You can buy a composite-to-VGA adapter off eBay, for hooking up old consoles to monitors. That said, cheap LCD TVs aren't much more expensive than cheap monitors.

>>15572

I did this with a first gen 360 (can you believe it came without a native VGA output?) and can confirm it looked much, much better on my little LCD than jamming it into the AV.

Sage for slight offtopicness.

>>15565
Dell monitors are always a good option. They use good panels implemented well. Whereas LG and samsung make good panels but the build quality suffers in favour of higher margins. I've recently bought a £170 Dell 2312hm and it's been great so far.


Finding a monitor with a decent height-adjustable stand is always a good idea. Even if you don't use it, they're generally a bit more stable than other stands.

This is a good site for reviews, but it tends to focus on ~150-200 pounds and up: http://www.tftcentral.co.uk/reviews.htm

I got this one not long ago
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Acer-S240HLbid-widescreen-monitor-Backlight/dp/B005QVZ79C/ref=dp_cp_ob_computers_title_1
It's quite nice. I had a massive bitch in my thread about being unable to find a monitor with a glossy screen. The day after I ordered this my mate pointed out that Sony do a lot of glossy monitors.
I love my new monitor, I do, but fuck.

The screen is really quite thin and the stand quite heavy, so all in all it's a very stable affair.

>>15535

Not as bold as this.

>>15532
>>15535
TalkTalk are fucking legends when it comes to standing up for a free Internet - that's why I'm sticking with them for the forseeable future.

>>15539
What the fuck are you on about now, lad?

Sky broadband here, working fine. I don't have any proxys on or anything, although my PS3 is running through a DNS server so I can use Netflix's USA content, but I don't think that makes a difference to the laptop.

>>15563

Aye, I just checked again and it's up. I don't know what bloody happened.

>>15531

Well, TPB openly criticised Anonymous the other day, so you never know.

I'm sorry, but what?

>>15557
YouTube is saying this was posted to 4chan's /g/, so I'm guessing it's some sort of inexplicable spam. Maybe someone learning how to spam image boards.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-18087379

Slightly related

People are getting arrested for saying mean things on the internet again.

>>15470
I admit I giggled quite loudly. I'm in the library. Lots of people are now looking at me.

>>15461
That is a fantastic article.

I can't be bothered to look it up properly, but the new psychology book of diagnoses is coming out soon and has a new term to cover people who literally get off on complaining about stuff, who actively try to interpret things as being sexist/racist because they want to be offended, and these people need a slap.

>>15543
Is that sarcasm? It's somewhat informative in that it lists fairly obscure examples of overzealous text filtering, but for an encyclopaedic article it falls quite a long way short of the mark. I'm not even sure it'd scrape C-class if it were to be assessed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team/Assessment

I opened the sd adapter to see if the tab had broken off, I didn't remember there ever having been a tab in the first place. Opened the adapter, nope, no tab was ever present.

fuck it I bought a new one.

>>15521
What does Google say about the likely causes of those STOPs?

>>15521

OP here, FUCK YOU

No but really, I was getting that a while ago. The second message most of the time, but there were a few others. I never actually figured it out, and I think there may be a thread on here about it which I'll search out for you should it have any advice/exist.

The problem is it just seemed to sort itself out for me, after a few weeks of torturous 'you're going to turn off any second aren't you, you wanker'. It did it again a few months later, and then sorted itself out again.

I reformatted a dozen or so times, but there was no consistent correlation between my efforts and the results.

Sorry lad, best of luck.

>>15520

Is that a subtle hint that I've been a massive tool?

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>>15525
>Is that a subtle hint that I've been a massive tool?
I've never really understood the meaning of that phrase but generally you do need to get rid of the majority of the residue left over from the last thermal paste seating or else bad things happen. Not sure what these bad things are but I imagine it's overheating.

>>15521
>It's pretty stressfull when it does it an hour into a Paper I'm typing.
I was under the impression that Word's autosave feature can be relied upon these days. Or are you using something else?

>>15521
>IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
Lots of things can cause this message to appear. When I had it, it was faulty hardware.

>>15483
You are indeed.

>>15483

It's "batted" lad. Where I live, if someone gets battered it just means that they got beaten up.

>>15515
Or dipped in egg paste and fried until Scotch.

>>15516
>and fried until Scotch

This is my new favourite descriptive phrase.

So today I got in, switched my computer on, and it sticks on the BIOS.
I spent the next hour switching between different drives, switching RAM, and everything else I could think of. But in the end it was fixed by unplugging some USB cables, either one of the ports had failed in some way, or it started kicking up a fuss about having two mice plugged in at the same time.
On top of all the time I wasted perusing the wrong options, I reset my cmos and so had to re-do my overclock. But worst of all I seem to have misplaced the fan control options on the BIOS and now I'm stuck with all my fans running on full speed until I can be arsed to restart again and try and sort it out.

Windows 8 is clearly going to be the crap one in the sequence. Wait for Windows 9, it'll be wonderful.

Makes me glad I've decided to jump to Xubuntu on the laptop and have no plans to "upgrade" from 7 on the desktop.

>>15443
>Xubuntu
I can't help but feel partially responsible for your decision.

>>15409
For some reason, this seems to be the way things are going.

There are even nasty rumors that the next xbox/ps will not play second hand games. This will hopefully turn out to be bullshit, but who knows anymore.

>>15466

The next-gen consoles will almost certainly lack a disc drive. QED.

Tap play and pause as quick as you can, take a screenshot, copy it into Adobe Fireworks, add new frame, tap play and pause as quick as you can, take a screenshot, copy it into Adobe Fireworks, add new frame, tap play and pause as quick as you can, take a screenshot, copy it into Adobe Fireworks, add new frame, tap play and pause as quick as you can, take a screenshot, copy it into Adobe Fireworks, add new frame, tap play and pause as quick as you can, take a screenshot, copy it into Adobe Fireworks, publish as animated GIF.

>>15433

Size is determined by length, resolution and compression.

The power to create gifs comes with the responsibility to know when they're appropriate. Asking this question does not demonstrate much responsibility.

And FWIW, I don't know.

>>15435
It can also be further tweaked by optimising the GIF properly and adjusting the frame disposition (a decent dedicated tool should do this automatically). C.f. attached random animated gif: 1479 bytes as is, unoptimized using a full size frame per animation frame it was 2115 bytes.

Imageworks, import as frames, save optimized for web. Or use Gimp or something.

Remember that for most purposes we're long past the point where transfer speed means anything. Not sure whether the latency on Infinity is better or not. Since they're not asking for a price difference, check the small print, and if it seems good then go for it.

>>15454
>Remember that for most purposes we're long past the point where transfer speed means anything.
PC gaming is predominantly digital distribution. I bought Portal 2 in the sale the other day, it would be nice to have the game downloaded sharpish like.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

>>15450
I think you might be looking a little too deep into the differences between the two "options". It's common business practice for companies to only offer the latest and greatest to their new customers and leave it up to their existing customers to spot that they could get a better deal. A loyal consumer isn't a particularly smart consumer.

>>15453 again. I just checked the website because I got my bill back for last month and have gone severely over my limit. Turns out the only people in Hull that get unlimited data at off-peak times are those that were lucky enough to sign up for Karoo "Max" before it got scrapped.

And to think I sometimes defend this city.

>>15420
a "1337 wifi hacker"

So you just use aircrack-ng and backtrack? Such an achievement isn't very 1337...

And perhaps you should choose to use the word "cracker" in future.

>>15425
Hey autism lad, did you not see what wag in the spoiler tags?
And I use more than aircrack.

>>15426
>use more than aircrack.
He did mention backtrack 133714D

>>15427
I don't even bother using Backtrack, it's for teenlads who don't know how to install programs. Or understand humour.

before anyone asks, yes I'm still a virgin