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Woops, wrong links. Here: http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=30loqqo&s=5 http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=2aj0xu8&s=5

Word on a laptop with a smallish screen ends up with less than 50% of the screen usable for actually displaying the document.

Lies. I just opened both Word and OO Writer at 1024x768 resolution. Compare: Office Word vs. Open Office Writer. From top of the screen to the start of the page, the two are the SAME. Which means if you want to add any non-default toolbars Writer is going to have less page real estate than Word. Actually, as it turns out, the pointless horizontal scrollbar at the bottom of Writer give Word the advantage, even with the ribbon. What's more, you can minimize the ribbon in one click. How do you hide the toolbars in Writer and bring them all back in one click?

Word on a laptop with a smallish screen ends up with less than 50% of the screen usable for actually displaying the document.

Lies. I just opened both Word and OO Writer at 1024x768 resolution. Compare: Office Word vs. Open Office Writer. From top of the screen to the start of the page, the two are the SAME. Which means if you want to add any non-default toolbars Writer is going to have less page real estate than Word. Actually, as it turns out, the pointless horizontal scrollbar at the bottom of Writer give Word the advantage, even with the ribbon. What's more, you can minimize the ribbon in one click. How do you hide the toolbars in Writer and bring them all back in one click?

And here's one that shows the complete trajectory from the bomb range.

With the combined magic of Google Street View plus the images in the linked article, we can be more specific than that.

This image shows the cannonball's trajectory. Location #1 is the house that the cannonball went through, apparently entering through the front door and exiting through the rear wall. Location #2 is the driveway in which the cannonball came to a stop in a minivan.

"You can't compete with free light."

You can when your free light is of inferior quality.

"Payback is going to be based on the price of your crop, which you don't specify. Hint: CA pot price is way, way down. "

Your pot strawman argument 100% invalidates your argument. (BTW pot prices aren't down, at all, speaking as a medical patient with more knowledge of the situation than you apparently have.)

http://tinypic.com/player.php?v=2il1ydc&s=7 - that look like pot to you, oh Master Gardener? Oh, wait, you AREN'T a Master Gardener, so your opinion simply DOES NOT COUNT.

Oh, how about we grow things WITHOUT LIGHT AT ALL?

http://tinypic.com/player.php?v=2r5gleg&s=7

Sorry, you aren't qualified. You aren't even close.

"Finally why would you grow crops in a city?"

Because there's no arable farmland nearby? Duh?

Apparently you never took any horticulture or agriculture classes. Go back to school, oh ignorant troll.

"You can't compete with free light."

You can when your free light is of inferior quality.

"Payback is going to be based on the price of your crop, which you don't specify. Hint: CA pot price is way, way down. "

Your pot strawman argument 100% invalidates your argument. (BTW pot prices aren't down, at all, speaking as a medical patient with more knowledge of the situation than you apparently have.)

http://tinypic.com/player.php?v=2il1ydc&s=7 - that look like pot to you, oh Master Gardener? Oh, wait, you AREN'T a Master Gardener, so your opinion simply DOES NOT COUNT.

Oh, how about we grow things WITHOUT LIGHT AT ALL?

http://tinypic.com/player.php?v=2r5gleg&s=7

Sorry, you aren't qualified. You aren't even close.

"Finally why would you grow crops in a city?"

Because there's no arable farmland nearby? Duh?

Apparently you never took any horticulture or agriculture classes. Go back to school, oh ignorant troll.

still the driving force in that revolution. These apps will also be used by fundamentalists in that movement.

For the record I despise the Assad dictatorship ( who wouldn't unless you are the dictator :P ), and I wish the Syrian people a true democracy and not another dictatorship or another Iran-like Theocracy (a sunni one). Most of the people running the show in the Syrian revolution have fundamentalist and pro Al-Qaedah positions. This was seen in many sectarian and extremest speeches by Mosk Imams in Daraa and other cities and is also seen in some of the pro-revolution demonstrators. Even though the Arab media moronically tries to hide these facts and images (picture below shows Bin-Laden and Hamas founder), foreign governments have people on the ground and know these facts. Rarely seen image of a demonstration in Tripoli-Lebanon by the so called Future movement (Harriri group who are for some reason still supported by the US gov):
http://i40.tinypic.com/j8i07b.jpg
The PDF file(s) of the corresponding article (article in Arabic):
http://ifile.it/h379mtq
http://ifile.it/vu3seit

It is unfortunate that in-spite of all the wars (and civil wars) in that region no one accepts the principle of separation of religion and state except dictatorship regimes!

These are just few facts worth knowing.

I always confuse Steve with his younger brother Sean.

I'm in a clan and it makes gaming so much better. I posted this to the clan site
figured with this thread I could get even more use out of it.
----

"When I first started playing BF3 I started in
campaign mode to set my controllers (didn't work).

Graphics BF3 Vs COD4

Here's the Heli scene (BF3 and COD4) - both at the very
start where you would want to show off your artwork.

BF3 - Not full screen
http://i44.tinypic.com/xf2dz9.jpg

COD4 - Full Screen (1680X1050)
http://i41.tinypic.com/m4n0g.jpg
http://i44.tinypic.com/24d1p1l.jpg (to show what map)

Also consider your view point and which
required more work (Animation over water, while raining)."

FWIW
GTX-570, i7-950, Asus P6X58D, 6Gigs of ram, no pagefile.sys

I'm in a clan and it makes gaming so much better. I posted this to the clan site
figured with this thread I could get even more use out of it.
----

"When I first started playing BF3 I started in
campaign mode to set my controllers (didn't work).

Graphics BF3 Vs COD4

Here's the Heli scene (BF3 and COD4) - both at the very
start where you would want to show off your artwork.

BF3 - Not full screen
http://i44.tinypic.com/xf2dz9.jpg

COD4 - Full Screen (1680X1050)
http://i41.tinypic.com/m4n0g.jpg
http://i44.tinypic.com/24d1p1l.jpg (to show what map)

Also consider your view point and which
required more work (Animation over water, while raining)."

FWIW
GTX-570, i7-950, Asus P6X58D, 6Gigs of ram, no pagefile.sys

I'm in a clan and it makes gaming so much better. I posted this to the clan site
figured with this thread I could get even more use out of it.
----

"When I first started playing BF3 I started in
campaign mode to set my controllers (didn't work).

Graphics BF3 Vs COD4

Here's the Heli scene (BF3 and COD4) - both at the very
start where you would want to show off your artwork.

BF3 - Not full screen
http://i44.tinypic.com/xf2dz9.jpg

COD4 - Full Screen (1680X1050)
http://i41.tinypic.com/m4n0g.jpg
http://i44.tinypic.com/24d1p1l.jpg (to show what map)

Also consider your view point and which
required more work (Animation over water, while raining)."

FWIW
GTX-570, i7-950, Asus P6X58D, 6Gigs of ram, no pagefile.sys

Prior Art

Not until everyone throws up...

Just take a look at the snapshot of my newsreader : http://i55.tinypic.com/2sbx305.jpg

Too late sir!
Aeonity just took my blog down (but after 3,140 victims...), and they seems to close registration as well.
It takes 5 minutes to create another blog...
My current hit counter (and yes I am wanking on it...) is at 13,351 victims (don't troll much lately though).
And for fellow trolls, thank you very much for modding me up, and even defending today link.
Here a my my funny troll post. And I suspect it was modded up not by trolls.
If not thanks for it as well.

And the food:

"that AEONITY.COM link is NSFW dammit"
"Whoever modded this up should be banned..."
"Thanks for the Goatse."

"What an ass. Warning: Unpleasant picture in the link. That's what I get for browsing at 1, I guess."
"I'm just curious what gratification you get from this... do you jerk off to your hit counter?"
"O neat, you quoted me! Now I have to ask, why do you do this? seriously whats the motivation?"
"1999 called they want their overused shock pictures back."
"Parent post is a goatsex picture. Do not follow. You're an asshole of the proportions in that picture."
"Link above is to goatse. Fuck you douchebag."
"Turn on TinyUrl previews. It saves lives."
"Ugh. Goatse. NSFW. Asshole (poster and picture, both)."
"Seriously ... new account to post that ... what a douche!"
"You're a fucking douchbag." - "That is the most accurate comment yet"
"Not gonna click it to find out, but I'd be surprised if parent's link wasn't goatse... It appears you would be correct sir. Why oh why do I always forget..."
"My word, what is wrong with your anus? I'd get that checked out."
"It's because of Assholes like you that I can no longer trust URL shorteners"
"Thanks, I'm reading slashdot in class like a good student and just got tubgirl'd."
"Watching second monitor, there was something wrong with the other screen. Control + w. Phew..."
"Hey family! Come look! They're opening the Google Talk client! Now, click here......" (sees goatse)
"I tried to post warnings about the goaste loving jerk yesterday but was modded into oblivion as a karma whore"
"Posting your picture online again?", "Really? Are you not tired of this yet?"
(Me posts goatse link and tells that it is SFW): "You mean NSFW asshole."
"Can you not afford normal entertainment?" "This is grown up talk, 4chan is that way ->"
"Oops. goatse link" - "The AC speaks truth! (Well I didn't let it finish loading, but the browser was connecting to goatse.ru...)"
"He likes his urinal cakes nice and sudsy, so he tries to piss us off."
"Link is Goatse" - "Thanks. Does nerd soccer attract nerd hooligans?"
"You must be really bored, eh? Take your shit somewhere else. We don't serve your kind around here."

Hate:
"Motherfucker. Some of us are at work and don't want to have a drilled out anus pop up on their fucking screen. Christ."
"BAN HIM!" "Ur a faggot for posting that."
"Death to all assholes - Let's put you first into the guillotine"
"You fucker" - "I had the same thought as you. What a fucking asshole. The link is nsfw."
"I hate your guts.", "WTF you fucking asshole.", "Fucking troll, do not click there"
"I hope you die in a fire before you are old enough to contaminate the gene pool."
"It would be more interesting if I had a piece of pipe and your face, in close proximity so I could smash your face beyond recognition,"
"Bravo teeny bopper. You're a really mature mother fucker (or do you prefer father fucking? Damn you homo erotic shittter)."
"Wait! I think I hear your mommy calling to give your tongue a good soap washing. And maybe she'll execute you too"
"I did not even bother to look, but this same idiot has been doing this for weeks now. Fuck off asshole."
"Asshole. literally. Goatse is so old. Grow up you fool."
"Asshole... Ginormous asshole, in fact." "Ugh. Goatse. You asshole."
"Better than you, you arse bandit." "You're a lowlife faggot piece of shit."
"Ah, a sheep

Here, if you don't believe me, check this image out or this post on the BUILD blog.

@Jose Pedro Of course Windows is usable without secure boot -- just like the post stated :-)

How secure boot works with any other operating systems is obviously a question for those OS products :-) We focus our boot loader on Windows and there are a number of alternatives for people who wish to have other sets of functionality.

Chromium: http://i51.tinypic.com/24g3q1e.png

The end is here, no more "sign of beta".

Hide the children and women! The Betacolypse is upon us all!

Now: what's the best source for seeing people's parody shots, with animals randomly inserted into other scenes? ;)

This thread has a lot of them -> https://www.flashback.org/t1645832

Some links from that thread:

http://i52.tinypic.com/24uysxt.jpg

http://i51.tinypic.com/rt23k3.jpg

http://data.fuskbugg.se/skalman02/4e6242309dea6_BB03125SVE1.jpg

http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/6592/lodjuret.jpg

http://i55.tinypic.com/2v9ugdi.jpg

Now: what's the best source for seeing people's parody shots, with animals randomly inserted into other scenes? ;)

This thread has a lot of them -> https://www.flashback.org/t1645832

Some links from that thread:

http://i52.tinypic.com/24uysxt.jpg

http://i51.tinypic.com/rt23k3.jpg

http://data.fuskbugg.se/skalman02/4e6242309dea6_BB03125SVE1.jpg

http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/6592/lodjuret.jpg

http://i55.tinypic.com/2v9ugdi.jpg

Now: what's the best source for seeing people's parody shots, with animals randomly inserted into other scenes? ;)

This thread has a lot of them -> https://www.flashback.org/t1645832

Some links from that thread:

http://i52.tinypic.com/24uysxt.jpg

http://i51.tinypic.com/rt23k3.jpg

http://data.fuskbugg.se/skalman02/4e6242309dea6_BB03125SVE1.jpg

http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/6592/lodjuret.jpg

http://i55.tinypic.com/2v9ugdi.jpg

yes.

I know I'm a little late to the game, but last month I decided to invest in Bitcoin mining. It works pretty well if you join one of the largest pools. You get payments every day. There's no sense to mine alone, but with a pool it works well. CPU mining is a thing in the past too - you need AMD graphics card to do it.

I'm currently profiting around $100 a day, depending on that days exchange rate. My setup is 24x AMD 6990 gfx cards on 8 computers. The overall cost to build them was around $20 000. They don't really have any good processor or other parts yet, but I plan to add those later. I don't have electricity costs as I take it from the hallway. I had to buy UPS and set up an alarm system tho, as sometimes neighbors are just being dicks and take it off, but it's enough to keep it running for ~5 mins and that's enough time for me to put it back in.

So overall I think Bitcoin is great. I make nice cash that I turn pure profit soon, I got good amount of awesome computers and it's an interesting thing to follow. It also made me more interested about Forex and stock trading and other financial stuff, which I think I will move onto when Bitcoin mining gets too hard.

Forgive the audio (the camera hates any light level that can't make a quantum meter register and spazzes out until I get back into brighter area)

http://tinypic.com/player.php?v=2r5gleg&s=7

On the left, practical zero-light system. The only light being used in that area is the light above our head for vision. On the right, LED-based rapid production system - 90% less water, 19 days from germinated seed to harvest. That's on a measly day 8.

Not only is it happening, but I'm essentially the field leader. Nobody's as advanced.

there are these things called cases for ipads and they prop it up just fine.

Why is it that every Apple device requires that you spend at least an extra 20% beyond the purchase price of the device to get the accessories that are required to make the device functional in the real world?

I ended up making my own stand out of one of two metal bookends I somehow ended up with a few of, and some of those little rubber sticky feet they always include with low end rack-mount computer gear that could also be used sitting on a table.

Stick two on the outside edge of the bottom to keep it from sliding off, and I also put two on the very top of the back so the fairly sharp (to plastic anyway) metal doesn't cut groves into the back of my tablet.

http://oi53.tinypic.com/2aanadl.jpg

Works great on the side of my desk at work in landscape mode to have a movie playing in the background, and in portrait mode you just sit the tablet upside down so you can still plug the cable in the 'bottom'. The screen reorients itself so it's always right side up anyway.

Like I said, I had the bits-n-pieces laying around already, but if I had to go on a quest to purchase those parts, I can't see it costing more than $2.
Most "dollar stores" should carry both, and you could probably beat one dollar on the bookends if you hunt around at salvation army type places.
With enough super glue, almost anything can become a sticky rubber foot pad.

Quotes:
"At best it makes drugs far too easily availabe, at worst it brings the country to its knees. "
"but the simple fact is that a vast majority of people will abuse the privilege"
"but blanket legalization is not a good thing."
etc etc

There are plenty of countries that DO have blanket legalization of pot, and far from falling to their knees they are doing much much better than the USA is as far as quality of life goes.

You did accidentally stumble on why the USA will never blanket legalize however:

"The administrative costs (police, court, prison, appeals, legislation, investigation...), the infringements upon civil rights, and the seriously questionable gain is just too much."

The monetary fines, confiscated cars homes and other personal belongings, and the money earned from slave labor within our prison system, are all HUGE gains for the government that only exist from keeping pot illegal.
Not to mention the billions per year spent on police, prisons, DEA,and all the other jobs created due to the legalization of pot.
Most of these needless jobs wouldn't even exist if it wasn't for this crime. Namely the DEA would be way scaled back to next to nothing, the police forces would also be scaled back since currently about 20% of all police officers are working only on pot related cases (Sorry, no citation for that number at the moment)
Prisons, and to a lesser extent jails, could be scaled back heavily too, since about 1/3rd of everyone in prison is there due to a pot related crime.

If you are really interested in a cost/benefit analysis regarding pot being legal/illegal, check out: http://oi52.tinypic.com/2wrg709.jpg

Banning pot is so painfully obvious it is not for the safety or betterment of mankind, but only the profits our government makes off of it without regard to the lives destroyed while doing so.

The math works out even better to our governments profit margins of they would instead tax the stuff, instead of settle for what they can steal from people in possession of pot at the time they are caught.
But this would displace so many needless jobs that shouldn't exist, and would take away more of the 'revenge' factor prisons currently have instead of being used for rehabilitation, that this would simply never be allowed today as it disrupts the status-quo too much. Cops and lawmakers are on such an entitlement high right now, that it would never fly to knock them back down to where they belong, as servants to the public.

While I agree that the actual physically addictive drugs like crack/coke and heroin/opium would be a bad thing to blanket legalize, the same argument simply does not hold water when it comes to non-physically addictive substances like pot.

Someone set up a madeleinepulver.com site plastered with advertising, including Google ads of course.

Yet curiously it was a competing ad network which placed the advertisement "Live in the USA!" on top of photos of Madeleine Pulver, not Google. With all the data in gmail about this guy moving to the USA, surely Google should have been placing that ad?

PS. Site is now down, screenshot at http://i54.tinypic.com/2ducdvn.png

Seconded. But for "dark energy" too.

The problem with them both is, that:
Scientists 1: Hey, our measurements don't match your theories.
Scientists 2: Then your measurements are wrong! Our theories can't possibly be wrong!
Scientists 3-5: Their measurements are correct.
Scientists 2: You're all wrong! There must be something you all overlooked! I postulate a "dark matter" and a "dark" energy! And I'm gonna find it, even if it's the last thing I'll do!!

It's a horrible example of unscientific ignorance and arrogance usually only reserved for religion.

Now normally, everybody would laugh at Scientists 2, and tell them to hand in their "scientist card". The real problem is, that apparently Scientists 2 were >10% of the community, and so secure in themselves, that most others bought into them with the help of massive "appeal to authority".

So as so very often, I can conclude:
Without the spineless followers / Milgram effect, this would never have happened.

Nothing to worry about.
(US debt to GDP since 1929, source Deutsche Bank, picture taken from Q2 2011 report of Brummer & Partner Zenit hedge fund.)

Meanwhile:
* Profits share of GDP
* Wages share of GDP
(http://www.marketwatch.com/story/corporate-profits-share-of-pie-most-in-60-years-2011-07-29)

PRETTY FUCKIN' LOUD

Their manual says that? I want to buy their products just to encourage that style of documentation!

Well, the Caesar III manual is pretty famous for that:
http://i55.tinypic.com/33ldvv6.jpg ...But I am curious about the Presonus as well now.

http://i56.tinypic.com/29vcwnn.jpg

It's not that easy. What if those 13 cm were mud at that time? Or some digging / earth movement happened.

But I agree, that if that was the case, there should be correlations for it, that can't be associated with anything else. (Aka. what dumb people call "proof"... something that doesn't exist in the scientific method, as it is nonsense.)

He's not hidden any of those things as far as I can see... See this image I just captured: http://tinypic.com/r/11rt72q/7

Reality check PROTIP: That's the damn basis of all science!

Do you realize that you're doing the exact same thing, those birthers you hate so much do?
Massive ignorance, prejudice, delusion and dumb generalizations.
Let me explain:

No amount of "proof" is ever enough. That's why it's called the relativity theory. Because we never ever can prove that something is like we think it is. All we can do, is prove that it isn't. (Through observation that conflicts with the theory.)
So if there is a absolute reality, we can never prove or see it. Ever. We can only rely on our (until now) experience, that the laws of physics will be the same in our current and future position in space-time.

And that's the real reason why birthers are idiots: Because they think it would be possible to get "proof" at all.
Which is, what you also think.
And that's why you're so much the same.

You're like those Wikipedia admins, who can't tell personally observed evidence from something they got told by a "source". Very dangerous behavior, because then that "source" can alter your perception of reality it will. Which is why social engineering works so well on such idiots.

Since I can not ever prove if Obama was born in Hawaii, I have to choose whose information to trust. And since I can also possibly not ever prove if that source code is the one really used, I also will have to trust Slashdot trusting MS.

That is a personal thing, based on experience on what choice of trust results in a better life. And while I trust Obama being born in Hawaii (Really, I don't give a fuck where he's born, as it doesn't mean shit to me. It changes nothing. But it feels more useful to do trust it, since the alternative feels "conflicty".), I have learned not to trust MS at all. They committed crimes so often, if they were a person, they would have tattoos from at least 3 different prisons, a ass so lose, it would make Goatse jealous, and even their mother wouldn't talk to them anymore.

And, sorry dude, that's just way too much.

Quick google search for patent applications

Quick google search for world population

Now cut and paste the data for years 1963-2010. I've used the 5th column (total utility patent applications) as this seems like it might be relevant. Clean up the data a bit:

cat patents.txt | awk '{print $5}' | sed s/,// | grep -v '*' | tac > pat.txt

cat population.txt | egrep '(^19|^20|^21)' | sed s/,//g > pop.txt

Now if you load this in octave, you can make a quick graph:

plot(pop(:,1), pat ./ pop(:,2))

As you can see from the graph, the proportion of patent applications from around the world is roughly constant until about 1990, then it suddenly jumps up.

Obviously, this only represents US patents for a rather short time period compared to human existence, it would be interesting to find data to extend back two centuries if possible.

Does anyone know what happened in 1990 in the US to change the patent application rate?

However, on May 8, 2010, a sighting of a gray whale was confirmed off the coast of Israel in the Mediterranean Sea,[7] leading some scientists to think they might be repopulating old breeding grounds that have not been used for centuries.[7]

So, is climate change responsible? Or is it simpler, Occam - like growth of the species allowing a return to former breeding grounds? Guess it depends on your/the 'viewpoint' you need to support...

The "Sonic Cycle" has already been broken.

You're mistaken. The IBM PC and the IBM PC XT used the same keyboard. It's known as a model F keyboard.

Here's a picture of the original 5150 PC keyboard, from Wiki:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:IBM_5150_Keyboard.jpg

Here's the picture of my 5160 PC keyboard, which is exactly the same:
http://i52.tinypic.com/24cf8ft.jpg

For further proof, look here:
http://www.clickykeyboards.com/index.cfm/fa/items.main/parentcat/11066/subcatid/0/id/350492

That's a US layout rather than the UK layour I have, but it's the same basic model. The IBM PC and PC XT had the same keyboards. It was only the PC AT of 1984 that saw a change (and the PCjr).

Something is seriously wrong with the US if it cannot generate new nuclear power for less than a range of $0.17-$0.34 per kWh. The IEA 2010 Projected Costs of Electricity Generation surveys costs around the world. The range is given for 5% and 10% discount rates

Sth Korea: $0.029 - $0.042 per kWh

France: $0.056 - $0.092

Russia: $0.043 - $0.068

For some reason, the IEA estimates for the cost of new nuclear in the US are comparable to these figures. All estimates include spent fuel management and decommissioning.

Nuclear Costs around the world

The IEA report also finds that with a $30 per tonne CO2 price nuclear is, in general, price competitive with everything, including coal. For the Asian region, it finds nuclear significantly cheaper than any other option. In general, it is competitive with or cheaper than on-shore wind - the cheapest renewable.

2010 Projected Costs of Electricity Generation

I thought this was the common consensus on how the "cloud" looks like: http://i55.tinypic.com/2i8j8mf.jpg

Although I agree that browsers in general are "consuming more and more memory", I'm seeing a slightly different story than you are. I abuse Firefox 4's new tab grouping functionality horribly, and keep tons of tabs open regularly. I use to have to pare them down just so I had room to read the titles on my tab bar, but now I can have upwards of 50 tabs open at a time.

Right now, I've only got 15, including my 5 pinned "App Tabs" (Four Google apps + FB). My Firefox is consuming 475 MB.

I was curious, and decided to see how much RAM Internet Explorer 9 would take with the exact same 15 tabs open. It appears to have spawned four child processes totalling approximately 1,283 MB.

My data: http://i51.tinypic.com/fualq0.jpg (Sorry, no pic of the tabs I've got going, you'll just have to believe that I really did open all the same tabs)

And yes, I should include data for Opera and Chrome, but I didn't have those installed, and want to get this posted in time for a chance at being modded up. ^_^

Personally, for how extensible, and how many great features Firefox brings to my online life, I've never considered its memory consumption unreasonable. And it certainly appears to be doing better than the competition.

Or how about 3. The box isn't hacked, hasn't been hacked and isn't likely to be hacked. Here, have a look at the processes list:

http://i53.tinypic.com/95q7ow.jpg

Note that I don't use it for browsing the Web, email or anything other than running that weather station program.

Some people just aren't comfortable with controllers that aren't XBOX HUGE. And y'gotta admit, the N64 controller was pretty big. I could see how a 360 gamer would feel, y'know, less alienated than usual on an N64.

You are right in that I too doubt Gnome would work well in 64mb.

They are all Dell optiplex gx280's in the very small form factor, as they are bolted under and to the assembly line seats they are on.
The top of the line has a swing arm with a 19" LCD on it, and a mounting plate below where trays of parts can be mounted.

These systems however have 256mb, and are using either 1 256mb dimm or in some cases 2 128mb dimms. They have either 3 or 4 slots total if I recall correctly.
I only call them 95/98 machines because they all had a "Made for Windows 95/98" sticker on them, along with an old OEM windows key for 98.
I assume if you loaded them up with 4 sticks of 256 they might even run Win2k (pretty slowly, but still)

They are only a tiny bit sluggish with 256mb, and could probably stand having that doubled. Fortunately their workload is pretty light. The heaviest thing that might be done is opening a word doc for viewing, and generally they only view and occasionally print PDFs.

I do not really need the overhead of Gnome. XFCE would do fine for my purposes.
Ubuntu+Gnome just made it easy both on myself (Very little configuration needed) and on the users, whom few if any have any computer experience and so find the standard desktop metaphor more comfortable.
Neither of those two points are requirements however. I don't mind taking on the extra setup work if required, nor the training work either.

If you are interested, I have some pictures of my setup.
Front - how the users see things (Line 1 of 3), and
Back - where you can see the PCs actually mounted (Line 2 of 3)

Their primary use is displaying PDF files on a six seat assembly line.
The design engineers setup a 6 page PDF of the circuit board where each page has a certain number of parts in color which are numbered. You can almost see that in the first picture above. Each seat opens their page, and is responsible for placing those specific parts on the board. The last seat of the line then places his/her parts and the board track then goes into a solder reflow oven.

You are right in that I too doubt Gnome would work well in 64mb.

They are all Dell optiplex gx280's in the very small form factor, as they are bolted under and to the assembly line seats they are on.
The top of the line has a swing arm with a 19" LCD on it, and a mounting plate below where trays of parts can be mounted.

These systems however have 256mb, and are using either 1 256mb dimm or in some cases 2 128mb dimms. They have either 3 or 4 slots total if I recall correctly.
I only call them 95/98 machines because they all had a "Made for Windows 95/98" sticker on them, along with an old OEM windows key for 98.
I assume if you loaded them up with 4 sticks of 256 they might even run Win2k (pretty slowly, but still)

They are only a tiny bit sluggish with 256mb, and could probably stand having that doubled. Fortunately their workload is pretty light. The heaviest thing that might be done is opening a word doc for viewing, and generally they only view and occasionally print PDFs.

I do not really need the overhead of Gnome. XFCE would do fine for my purposes.
Ubuntu+Gnome just made it easy both on myself (Very little configuration needed) and on the users, whom few if any have any computer experience and so find the standard desktop metaphor more comfortable.
Neither of those two points are requirements however. I don't mind taking on the extra setup work if required, nor the training work either.

If you are interested, I have some pictures of my setup.
Front - how the users see things (Line 1 of 3), and
Back - where you can see the PCs actually mounted (Line 2 of 3)

Their primary use is displaying PDF files on a six seat assembly line.
The design engineers setup a 6 page PDF of the circuit board where each page has a certain number of parts in color which are numbered. You can almost see that in the first picture above. Each seat opens their page, and is responsible for placing those specific parts on the board. The last seat of the line then places his/her parts and the board track then goes into a solder reflow oven.

OK, honestly not trying to troll here, but I can't be the only one who thinks the new Launcher's ugly as sin.

Here's Unity: screenshot

Now here's the dock on my Mac: screenshot

OK, honestly not trying to troll here, but I can't be the only one who thinks the new Launcher's ugly as sin.

Here's Unity: screenshot

Now here's the dock on my Mac: screenshot

Download the PDF and zoom in (1600%) to the 10641 number of the PDF and you'll see stuff like:
http://images.sodahead.com/profiles/0/0/2/1/8/4/7/2/9/one-44065555029.jpeg

http://i54.tinypic.com/1fheex.jpg

There are other strange bits, but that part is strange enough.

If after zooming in you still think that scan or "scan" looks normal then there's probably no convincing you either. You can go ahead and see whatever you want to see.

As I've mentioned already, I don't really care whether it's fake or real. What I see is very sloppy work.

FWIW I was actually going to laugh at the conspiracy theorists, but when I downloaded the PDF from whitehouse.gov it's unbelievably crappy work.

It's about as crappy work as the Pentagon saying they're respecting Islamic traditions and then claiming they buried Osama's corpse at sea. Anyone bothering to do 2 minutes of searching would know that's not traditional at all. When someone told me it was a sea burial, it was so unbelievable that I thought he must have heard the news wrong.

Maybe the US Gov is trying to figure out how stupid the US people can be. Or are just taunting them. Perhaps they are actually putting "dumbing down" substances in the tap water ;).

That's not really an automator equivalent. The problem with most of those macro recording apps is they don't deal very gracefully if the behaviour of the application you're automating sometimes does something different (for instance if you feed it a specific filetype) - or if they can, you have to write something that looks a lot like code.

Automator can be entirely GUI driven and has a rich library of things it can do, those things integrate with applications like iTunes, iPhoto and each block is effectively a magic box where some sort of object goes in one end, something happens and a different sort of object comes out the other.

It's difficult to explain without actually sitting someone in front of it, but I hope this screenshot gives you an idea:

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In general, Sony has an absolutely awful record with controllers... The (in)famous Sony "dpad of pain"... the awkward analogue stick placement on the dualshock and descendents.... the crappy PSP nub... the cramped and awkward PSPgo controls... ugh. Sony has many strengths, but designing gaming controls isn't one of them.

I dont know what the gripe is with Sony controllers.

I am a bit of an odd case though, because paralysis has forced me to adapt my playing habits to suit my ability. I learned to play videogames with the NES and SNES when I was younger, and as far as im concerned Sony has stuck closest to that control layout. I place the controller on my lap turned like this. My index, middle and ring fingers manage face buttons. My ring and pinky fingers manage shoulder triggers and my thumb manages the d-pad and left analog stick.

I can reach all of the buttons just fine, and most of the games are easy enough to play. FPS and the like that require sensitive use of the analog sticks are a bit of a bother, but I manage. The control layouts for Nintendo's gamecube(central analog stick and awkward "z" trigger and Wii(remote AND nunchuck) dont lend themselves to my play style. Microsoft's Xbox controller was just too bulky and the 360's sunken R and L triggers are a pain aswell. I also find it odd that MS decided to switch the positions of the d-pad and analog stick, because im stuck in the ways of the NES and SNES control layout. The PSP in general is a pain, because handhelds are better suited for 2 hands. I do have to agree with you on the nub though. I think it should have more of the sensitivity of the dualshock analog stick. As far as the PSPgo, i've never used one so i cant comment.