Amen to that - I've been using a Touchstream LP for 2 years now, absolutely love it for programming, though I couldn't manage to master MMOGs with it (tried it in EQ & EQ2). Which is just as well, or I would have to buy a second one for home, and as another poster mentioned, Fingerworks has gone out of business. You can sometimes find these on eBay, but they often sell for 2 or 3 times the original retail price (which was steep enough, IMHO!).
There definatly is a learning curve, but more for typing speed / accuracy; most of the gestures are really easy to master.
Every loan I've had (mostly through defence credit unions) has had a little checkbox - something along the lines of 'no consequences in the event of loss of income' - is this not common with housing loans from 'normal' banking institutions? Same deal with a car loan I once had from FordCredit (or something like that)
That checkbox is generally (if you read the fine print) an offer of insurance which will make your loan payments if you lose your job, or become disabled, or whatever other circumstances they state - the ones I've seen have varied somewhat. You can choose to pay a little more for this insurance, or to take the chance that you won't need it. Presumably the previous poster either wasn't offered this insurance or chose to decline it.
True story of another stupid clerk... My dad was just back in the States from a fishing trip to Canada, and had a few loonies he wanted to get rid of. He was paying for his purchases in our home town (central Minnesota), and he asked the clerk if she would accept Canadian money, handing her a loony... She looks at, and says, "I guess so - how much is it worth?"
One of [the] cool features [of a science-fictional eye implant that this product resembles] was that you could pull pictures and video off of it, as well as see through it. It was an in-skull camera.
Watch people with implants be banned from entering movie theaters.
No, watch them be banned from locker rooms, the way camera phones have been.
Such as district superintendants, principals, asst. principals, dean of students, athletic director, etc, etc - check out these people's salary's in your local district, and compare it with the salary of a classroom teacher with 5-10 yrs experience and a masters degree.
Hopefully the discrepency isn't as bad as it was when I was in high school... The joke then was that in order to get one of the "cushy" admin jobs, you had to be related (or married) to someone already in one of these positions.
Even the $50-$150 range is taxable. At one time (pre-9/11), my former employer used American Express gift checks (looks just like a traveler's check) as a way of recognizing contributions "above & beyond the call of duty," with peer nominations... If you got one of these, they had to, by law, take the taxes on that amount out of your next check.
Problem is, most users - even those willing to pay for features - aren't willing to pay until they're going to get something for it. (Referring to "...pay the money, which is held in trust.") A pledge system might work, but then you have the classic difficulties of collecting the pledges when the feature is implemented.
Heh, evidently you were more constructive that my brothers & I were. Our favorite was building construx swords & then having sword fights where the object was to destroy your opponent's sword without either of you getting hurt (didn't want to get Mom involved!). The other common thing we did now & then was to make rollerskates for our Care Bears (the original ones, not the stupid ones they have now. Ack, now I sound like an old fogey!)
Did you read the article? It clearly said that the couple had wanted to have other children, but hadn't for fear of creating another child with a deadly disease.
Handsping's Visor (and Visor Deluxe), developed by the original creators of the Palm Pilot, offers the stability of Palm OS with expandability added in the form of the Springboard slot.
Currently available Springboard modules include backup, 8M RAM, digital camera, modem, and Tiger Woods golf. More are in the works, including a 6-in-1 module that will contain a pager, modem, 8M RAM, and a couple other things I can't think of right now but are generally cool.
Oh, and if I recall correctly, the Springboard is an open standard - anyone is free to develop Springboard modules. For more info: www.handspring.com.
A lot of people seem to be focusing on a company's charitable giving as the measure of their social responsibility, which if I recall the original question correctly, was not the main point.
Issues such as not using child labor, paying a living wage, being responsible with toxic waste disposal, etc. seem far closer to the source of what is meant by the phrase "social responsibility". I for one would be willing to pay a little more for the knowledge that I was not "voting" for the above practices with my purchases.
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This is an excellent point. When I moved to a large metro area after college graduation, I didn't really know very many people here, but I still had all my online friends to talk to. I spent more time online for a while, because I was lonely. It might be argued that because I had the virtual interaction with my online friends, my adjustment period was longer than it would have to have been, but I'm very glad that I was able to adjust gradually. Lately my internet usage has not dropped off, but rather changed - that's because the people that I want to spend time with are not geographically very close to me, so we can spend more time together by doing it online. We still get together when we can, but being about to chat online helps when we can't see each other. Basically, online communication (between friends & family) is not as good as getting together (and this is coming from an introvert), but it's much better than nothing. The other side of online communication that I enjoy is being able to get information on the web without having to interact with people that I don't know.
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Amen to that - I've been using a Touchstream LP for 2 years now, absolutely love it for programming, though I couldn't manage to master MMOGs with it (tried it in EQ & EQ2). Which is just as well, or I would have to buy a second one for home, and as another poster mentioned, Fingerworks has gone out of business. You can sometimes find these on eBay, but they often sell for 2 or 3 times the original retail price (which was steep enough, IMHO!).
There definatly is a learning curve, but more for typing speed / accuracy; most of the gestures are really easy to master.
>I am curious why the Palm needs an SD card to play MP3 files if
>you're syncing it with a Mac?
It's not just a Mac thing - my T3 won't let me play mp3s from on-board memory, either, and I'm syncing to a Windows box.
True story of another stupid clerk... My dad was just back in the States from a fishing trip to Canada, and had a few loonies he wanted to get rid of. He was paying for his purchases in our home town (central Minnesota), and he asked the clerk if she would accept Canadian money, handing her a loony... She looks at, and says, "I guess so - how much is it worth?"
Now that's a variation on the "honey do" list!
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I wonder if I could sell my hubby on that...
>But why not at least NOMINATE an actor for best supporting from LOTR?
Because they can't/won't nominate Gollum - there'd be too much uproar if a (even partially) CGI character won an award.
>Such as what positions?
Such as district superintendants, principals, asst. principals, dean of students, athletic director, etc, etc - check out these people's salary's in your local district, and compare it with the salary of a classroom teacher with 5-10 yrs experience and a masters degree.
Hopefully the discrepency isn't as bad as it was when I was in high school... The joke then was that in order to get one of the "cushy" admin jobs, you had to be related (or married) to someone already in one of these positions.
Even the $50-$150 range is taxable. At one time (pre-9/11), my former employer used American Express gift checks (looks just like a traveler's check) as a way of recognizing contributions "above & beyond the call of duty," with peer nominations... If you got one of these, they had to, by law, take the taxes on that amount out of your next check.
Problem is, most users - even those willing to pay for features - aren't willing to pay until they're going to get something for it. (Referring to "...pay the money, which is held in trust.") A pledge system might work, but then you have the classic difficulties of collecting the pledges when the feature is implemented.
Heh, evidently you were more constructive that my brothers & I were. Our favorite was building construx swords & then having sword fights where the object was to destroy your opponent's sword without either of you getting hurt (didn't want to get Mom involved!). The other common thing we did now & then was to make rollerskates for our Care Bears (the original ones, not the stupid ones they have now. Ack, now I sound like an old fogey!)
Did you read the article? It clearly said that the couple had wanted to have other children, but hadn't for fear of creating another child with a deadly disease.
Handsping's Visor (and Visor Deluxe), developed by the original creators of the Palm Pilot, offers the stability of Palm OS with expandability added in the form of the Springboard slot.
Currently available Springboard modules include backup, 8M RAM, digital camera, modem, and Tiger Woods golf. More are in the works, including a 6-in-1 module that will contain a pager, modem, 8M RAM, and a couple other things I can't think of right now but are generally cool.
Oh, and if I recall correctly, the Springboard is an open standard - anyone is free to develop Springboard modules. For more info: www.handspring.com.
A lot of people seem to be focusing on a company's charitable giving as the measure of their social responsibility, which if I recall the original question correctly, was not the main point.
Issues such as not using child labor, paying a living wage, being responsible with toxic waste disposal, etc. seem far closer to the source of what is meant by the phrase "social responsibility". I for one would be willing to pay a little more for the knowledge that I was not "voting" for the above practices with my purchases.
This is an excellent point. When I moved to a large metro area after college graduation, I didn't really know very many people here, but I still had all my online friends to talk to. I spent more time online for a while, because I was lonely. It might be argued that because I had the virtual interaction with my online friends, my adjustment period was longer than it would have to have been, but I'm very glad that I was able to adjust gradually. Lately my internet usage has not dropped off, but rather changed - that's because the people that I want to spend time with are not geographically very close to me, so we can spend more time together by doing it online. We still get together when we can, but being about to chat online helps when we can't see each other. Basically, online communication (between friends & family) is not as good as getting together (and this is coming from an introvert), but it's much better than nothing. The other side of online communication that I enjoy is being able to get information on the web without having to interact with people that I don't know.