mar cello said:

Dissed and cussed, yes, but not discussed.

actually, i think you would be hard-pressed to find even one place where i have said something bad about project gutenberg. i give it very high praise. even on my upcoming blog, where i fully intend to speak frankly about some bad decisions that i think are being made here by some people around michael, i will continue to say good things about the library, and especially about michael. as many people recall, you tarking naugshlocks here have often accused me of "kissing michael's ass". no one's ever said that about me, not in regard to anyone, but i do think michael is a genius, so i'll continue to say good things about him and his library. but some _other_ people might not get such rosy treatment...

So its better to give them a reader that freezes on them the first time they use it and takes their whole machine down if they press ctrl-alt-del.

beta-test software can do that sometimes. but i've had not one report of my program doing that, if that's what you are trying to imply here, marcello. if the tester can't report or replicate the crash, and describe the conditions of its occurrence too, i'll believe it's a problem unique to their machine. most likely with their windows operating system. maybe you've heard there are a few bugs in that...

Thats what you think: take a look here if your decrepit Macintrash can handle videos:

you think you're cool insulting someone because their machine is old, don't you? but yeah, my mac can "handle videos" just fine, thank you. so can the authoring-tools that i _program_ on this old mac. of course, they also work fine on the circa-1989 mac that i used before this one, thanks to a thing called quicktime, have you heard of that?, so i guess it's not too surprising... -bowerbird