(IMG:style_emoticons/default/rotfl.gif) Well Customer Service/Technical Support main function is to deal the exceptions, not the main stream.

How would you like if you called your phone company with a issue and they said no one else is complaining of that issue. Ip so facto the issue with you only. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/devil.gif)

WMS

Could you give as a download link for that program?

I don't like Adobe Reader but the alternatives I've tried so far (Foxit Reader, SumatraPDF, Evince) - while generally working well - have problems with some PDFs, among them all SR Previews (I haven't bought any of the full ebooks yet).
Most common seems to be some sort of layering error: Graphics, especially those tribal watermarks, are displayed on top of the text instead of in the background making the words unreadable (e.g. in SumatraPDF about 50% of the Unwired TOC preview PDF is unreadable as background graphics cover the text.)

This should work...
Never experienced any overlays or display-errors, either.
While googling for that link I found out that the program even gives you the option to make notes and annotations to your pdf... neat, I didn't know that (didn't need it, either, but good to have it, I guess...)

As for Unwired: I'm just about to enter the first chunk of crunchy bits, but I like what I've seen so far. The layout is nice and clear, and the artwork of generally high quality and thematically fitting. Looks like something that would look good in an old-fashioned, dead-tree version.
The introductory chapters read well and explained most of the wifi-world concepts in better detail than the BBB did, but I'm reserving my judgement here until I've seen them translated into easily accessible mechanics.
One minor quibble: I'm not totally sure that naming the chapter that tries to explain one of the most confusing and most often misunderstood sections of the main book "The Idiot's Guide to the Matrix" is sending the right message to the community... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

The annotations (for free and without watermarking!) that the PDF Exchange Viewer lets you do is a great way to note the errata in a book within your PDF until the updated PDF is released. And my wife uses it for notes on classroom slides, but clearly that's less important!!

Minor nitpick: Shadowrun uses metric, so the AR info in the car on page 3 should use km instead of miles, and celcius instead of fahreheit.

my guess, all official data is in metric. but with the access of computer resources that one have, its simple for someone to do on the fly conversions.

I think Rob came up with that title.

Could be that Fastjack -- or another old timer -- was the one driving the car. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

The rest of the world outside the US has been using metric since before Fastjack was born. Which raises the question: Did the UCAS go finally, finally metric when it was formed?

Got the book (had one hang when trying to access the download via web browser, but a direct download worked flawlessly)

Read the book

Love the book

MUCH Matrix goodness, and enough evil to give hackers and technomancers nightmares. Lots and lots of good material for runs.

I see the Moon Hawk option for putting stats into hacking tests and such is now a published official option. Good deal.

Well done, guys.

*Goes back for another, more focussed pass on the book*

Hah! And here I am on a Sunday afternoon reviewing a developer's revisions to a software project for my employers of the week. I'm not sure if Unwired is a break from this or not... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

Oh well, better have a look and see how out of date my Matrix supplements now are. I was kind of enjoying being the only one who could make the existing rules work well. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

EDIT: Ha ha! Page 39 - they used my house rule for capping hits by attribute! Actually, I had by program and someone else swapped it round to attribute (Owl somebody?). Oh well, I have at last contributed something to the game. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

Another alternative is that it's an Anti-Theft option.

Idiot car thief breaks into car, starts driving the speed limit of "50", wondering why the cops are after him for speeding. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif)

Hell, wait until he gets to the highway speeds of 120!

Actually, that would be my fault as usual. I suggested it early on as a tongue-in-cheek tribute to the SR fan community and DSF in particular. The chapter title is in fact a reference to the name of a couple of Matrix walkthrough threads that were run on Dumpshock by myself and several other people to demystify the Matrix in SR3.

Just to clarify: I don't feel offended by the title, and I doubt that many others, if anyone, will.
I just found it kinda funny - hence the (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif) in my post.

Oh, and the further I read, the more my appreciation of the book grows.
Makes me want to go out and GM dirty little hacker lone-wolf games... rawr!

could be worse, you could have called it matrix for dummies (IMG:style_emoticons/default/silly.gif)

Woohoo!! I was wondering if it was deliberate or not. Those were the days (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) ..... NOW GET OFF MY LAWN!

Got it! So far, so nice. Download worked like all other downloads on battlecorps without any problems. You guys have to 'right click and then save under', opening the file with adobe acrobat and then saving it aint that good - at least in my experience. Has to be an adobe problem.