I've noticed a lot of comments about the Logitech V470 Bluetooth mouse, but I have an (apparently) older version, the V270. My comments echo some of the other comments I've read:
-Does not require a dongle if you have BT already built in,
-Good accuracy,
-Good battery life: I change the (2) AA batteries in my V270 about every 2-3 months, and I use it 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, minimum. It has a battery light that blinks when the batteries start to get low, and you can continue using it for another 16 hours or so before the mouse response becomes flaky.
It does go into a standby mode after about 60 seconds of non-use, but will re-engage in under one full second of movement. Leaving it on overnight will put it into a sleep mode, and you do have to wait about 2-3 seconds after moving it for it to come out of sleep mode. It always automagically pairs up after rebooting within 3 seconds. The buttons work well, and the trackwheel works well. This particular model does not side-scroll, the wheel just moves up, down, and in. It is an ambidextrous mouse, and it's smaller than a desktop mouse but not so small you feel uncomfortable trying to use it. I got it specifically because I travel quite frequently, and I put my laptop in a briefcase and take it to a jobsite, so I can't risk having a dongle always protruding.
The only problem I have has more to do with the "radio" switch functionality of my Dell D820: the switch will turn on and off all wireless, including the internal BT adapter. That part is kinda frustrating at times, but I've learned to turn the wireless off at the adapter via software, rather than the hardware switch. That's certainly not the mouse's problem.
Unfortunately it seems Logitech no longer makes this V270. I think that's too bad - I can't imagine a better BT mouse than this.
Actually, the State of Minnesota receives no direct income from the Indian casinos. Each individual Indian tribe is it's own sovereign nation, reservation land is owned and controlled by that sovereign nation, and those nations do not pay any form of taxes to the State of Minnesota. They are still represented by members in the State House, however, and the nations do contribute and lobby for bills that benefit them.
The American Revolution started because of, among other things, "Taxation without Representation." It seems Indian tribes are beginning to make the most of "Representation without Taxation."
Be careful with tghat accusation. Lots of black kettles there. The most recent being the US's covert and overt attacks on the ICU just as it looked like they might actually put together a functioning government.
Yeah, I did some reading on that, too. An Islamic faction that tries to tie the country's clans together by force, killing it's own countrymen. You're right about that too, there are lots of black kettles there: America has had it's own Civil War, and has killed it's own countrymen in the course of 5 years. We know all about it. And yes, both sides had help from other countries. The difference is that we got our shit together for the betterment of the country. Somalian's loyalty is to their family clan, not their country. And as long as that loyalty remains entrenched to the clan, they will simply be a bunch of clans, raiding freighters and herding livestock. If America followed that path, we'd still be 13 colonies fighting over the division of the rest of the continent. No, nix that: We'd still be 13 colonies of the original size, Canada and Mexico would be a lot larger than they are, and Alaska would still be a Russian settlement. But we're not, because we got our shit together. Somalia has universities and schools, perhaps in 75 years they'll figure it out and join together as one country.
Yet the political conditions in Somalia have been fucked up for around two decades, if not three -- the Blackhawk Down incident occurred in 1993, and things started to fall apart in the late 70s. What changed? Fishery poisoning and depletion is the obvious one. You got a better explanation?
Population growth of a country exceeding it's ability to sustain that growth, due to reproduction and refugees from Ethiopia.
It's interesting to note that while I was researching the population growth rate of Somalia (3% or more per year), I came across an article that mentions that Somalians haven't eaten fish for centuries, due to tradition, apparently. http://countrystudies.us/somalia/36.htm
It means that fish were more or less strictly exported, and I can pretty much figure out the problem of a country whose major export is decreasing while its population is increasing. They need to diversify, or limit the birth rate, and they need to do it by 1985 or sooner. Even if their waters hadn't become polluted, it's pretty obvious that relying on only one export (provided by Nature) is tough to sustain, even with a 0% growth rate. So, you're right, fishery poisoning and depletion is the obvious one, but there's a lot more to it than that. Why didn't their leaders figure that out and diversify? Oh, that's right, they were too busy becoming "rich and powerful" and overthrowing one another.
No no, I got your joke in the first place, I just expanded on it without acknowledging it first. My bad.
But truly, in the grand scheme of things, 40 years to get a reply would be astounding, even if it was just a recognition that we sent a message. It would be kind of a bummer if that's all they sent was "We're here" without telling us ANYTHING else, but really, that little bit of recognition would go a long, long way, IMHO.
But that's not an entirely accurate argument, either: If this were a starving man, it would be akin to him kidnapping someone worth a lot of money (not just another starving man), and holding that person hostage until a ransom was paid, all because he "needed money to eat." If he was really hungry, he would ask for food. Asking for money involves extra steps to actually consuming food, but it allows you to get a lot more than just food.
If the pirates were really starving, they'd hold these ships hostage and ask for UN attention, or supplies dropped, or they'd just take as much cargo as they could and leave. Because really, you can't eat paper money. You still need to exchange it for food, and again, the thing with money is you can trade it for a lot more than just food.
... Weapons and small watercraft, for instance. Gotta watch that "pot calling the kettle" thing.
I think a lot of people would freak the fuck out if we sent them a bunch of information in English and they sent their responses in English.
I'd expect that any response would sound like static or gibberish, and we might not be able to decode it for a long time. As cheesy as some parts of "Contact" were, that part was probably about right: We receive their "message" and then spend months going, "WTF did they send us?"
I think the fact that they are required to make decisions and pass laws on the behalf of millions of people gives them inherent power. It just comes with being part of a representative system. Or, we could have 307 million people in the same room, all trying to be heard about their own ideas and misinformed concepts of how things should work... yeah, maybe not.
Most people who get to the apex of power are very, very smart to have been able to outlast their competition.
That doesn't necessarily say they're smart, just that they're smarter than their competition. If the competition is stupid or nonexistant, or smart enough to know that being a representative of the people sucks, the actual results will be skewed.
Unfortunately, now the constitution seems to be viewed as something that simply restricts the federal government instead or something that gives it permissions to operate in limited ways. This has lead congress from asking can we even constitutionally pass a law like this to what is to stop us from passing a law like this. I think that's a turn for the worse and a prime reason why people think the government lost that "of the people, for the people, and by the people" feeling.
+100. This is the best thing I've read all day. Thanks for that.
The greatest thing about arithmetics is that it's self-checking, so the "fivers" will eventually determine they were wrong, without anyone needing to tell them.
Or they'll assemble and create their own cult worshiping the god "Extremely Large Values."
IIRC, Montana (and possibly Nevada) require you to either have insurance, or carry proof of a bond in case an accident were to happen. I'd much rather finance the latter than the former.
Sure, but that's not where those articles linked to. My point was that: The CW article cited in TFSFBI searches Kundra's former offices as new federal CIO rallies IT troops had a link labeled "the FBI's raid," which lead me to: The CW blog Old office of Obama's CIO pick gets raided by FBI that had a link labeled "raided by the FBI," which lead me to: a Politico blog FBI raids office of D.C. CTO, Obama appointee which had no links leading to any of the wire services, including the Washington Post.
There's no point in links if they don't lead back to the source. So no, AFAICT, the Politico editor took it out of his ass. It's why bibliography is important.
Yeah, so the first link goes to ComputerWorld, which draws it's information from... ...gad zooks!: A ComputerWorld Blog; the writer of whom gets his information from... ...gad zooks!: A political blog; the writer of whom gets his information from... ...his ass.
... and have heard of the oddball SMS duplication - where the same SMS was stuck in the system, and the recipient kept getting it twice an hour for 3 days straight).
I've had this very thing happen to me in Spirit Lake, Iowa, where AT&T does not have towers of their own, and uses the local mom & pop cell towers. Voice communication was fine, but two calls into AT&T to try to "reset my phone from afar" had no effect. I've never had it happen before, and never had it happen since.
I think there's something behind it. Both my father and I doodle when we're talking on the phone, and I find that I do it more when I'm thinking about the problem at hand on the phone. Interestingly, our doodles are different: he'll draw 3D objects with a lot of isometric angles, and I just wander across the paper or fill in the "holes" of the lettering at the top of the notepad.
I wonder if it has more to do with one half of the brain being used heavily for analytical purposes, and the other "artistic" half of the brain feels like it needs something to do to keep up. (I forget which half is which.)
I was looking for this comment, and you're right on the money. Turbo B of SNAP! sang about exactly this in a song off of the album The Madman's Return called "Who Stole It."
MOD UP. I mentioned in a previous post that regardless of the method of capture, I don't think electronics can properly reproduce the full extent of what an orchestra can do in a good hall. "Hairs standing up" is a good way to put it.
Perhaps it had more to do with the room they were listening in than anything else.
I used to work at a small theater built in the 20's that seated 700 and included a typical balcony, with no one seated under the balcony. It seemed like the vocal ranges tended to be muffled and flat everywhere in the house, so we had to use microphones for anything vocal, but any classical instrument always came through loud and clear, with no need for a mic. At the back of the house, you could almost hear the bow of a double bass bouncing on the strings. In short, the rooms that sound great with speakers and audio equipment don't always fare as well for live instruments, and vice-versa.
I prefer the uncompressed FLAC or CD because it's as close to live as one can get.
I think that's the kicker. How many people have heard a particular track or album "live?" The ones that haven't don't know how good it can be, and they think the CD is the "end-all, be-all" of the music. Truly, a live performance is the top of the line, whether it's Evanesence or a big-city orchestra presenting "Pictures at an Exhibition." I don't believe a CD can fully capture that, nor a home theater system fully reproduce that.
most ppl raised with knifes being an every day tool treat them with respect as they have cut themselves in the past and have an understanding and respect of the harm they can do.
I totally agree with you. The same thing goes with electricity and hot stoves.
So, I live in Minnesota, where we have access to guns and knives and fishing spears and bale hooks at just about every hardware store and Wal-Mart in the state. Recently I had to travel to the Upper West Side of Manhattan to unbox and assemble some lights. I forgot my utility knife in the car at the airport, but I figured I'd just stop at a hardware store and get one on my walk to the construction site.
The first hardware store I stopped at didn't sell utility knives, or any kind of knife, or even box cutters. I was told they were not allowed to sell knives due to a court order.
At the second hardware store I stopped at, I could only find a utility knife & tape measure combo in a blister pack for $25, but I didn't need the tape, I just wanted the knife. It turns out they were able to sell utility knives and box cutters, but they kept them in a locked case behind the counter, where you couldn't even see what your choices of utility knives were.
I wonder how people can do their jobs when the tools they need are restricted and kept under lock & key. Might's well lock up the nail guns, claw hammers and narrow chisels, too.
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I'm not him, but I know that I get AJAX errors on Facebook. They're infrequent, but this is the only site I've ever seen them on.
I've noticed a lot of comments about the Logitech V470 Bluetooth mouse, but I have an (apparently) older version, the V270. My comments echo some of the other comments I've read:
-Does not require a dongle if you have BT already built in,
-Good accuracy,
-Good battery life: I change the (2) AA batteries in my V270 about every 2-3 months, and I use it 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, minimum. It has a battery light that blinks when the batteries start to get low, and you can continue using it for another 16 hours or so before the mouse response becomes flaky.
It does go into a standby mode after about 60 seconds of non-use, but will re-engage in under one full second of movement. Leaving it on overnight will put it into a sleep mode, and you do have to wait about 2-3 seconds after moving it for it to come out of sleep mode. It always automagically pairs up after rebooting within 3 seconds. The buttons work well, and the trackwheel works well. This particular model does not side-scroll, the wheel just moves up, down, and in. It is an ambidextrous mouse, and it's smaller than a desktop mouse but not so small you feel uncomfortable trying to use it. I got it specifically because I travel quite frequently, and I put my laptop in a briefcase and take it to a jobsite, so I can't risk having a dongle always protruding.
The only problem I have has more to do with the "radio" switch functionality of my Dell D820: the switch will turn on and off all wireless, including the internal BT adapter. That part is kinda frustrating at times, but I've learned to turn the wireless off at the adapter via software, rather than the hardware switch. That's certainly not the mouse's problem.
Unfortunately it seems Logitech no longer makes this V270. I think that's too bad - I can't imagine a better BT mouse than this.
Actually, the State of Minnesota receives no direct income from the Indian casinos. Each individual Indian tribe is it's own sovereign nation, reservation land is owned and controlled by that sovereign nation, and those nations do not pay any form of taxes to the State of Minnesota. They are still represented by members in the State House, however, and the nations do contribute and lobby for bills that benefit them.
The American Revolution started because of, among other things, "Taxation without Representation." It seems Indian tribes are beginning to make the most of "Representation without Taxation."
Be careful with tghat accusation. Lots of black kettles there. The most recent being the US's covert and overt attacks on the ICU just as it looked like they might actually put together a functioning government.
Yeah, I did some reading on that, too. An Islamic faction that tries to tie the country's clans together by force, killing it's own countrymen. You're right about that too, there are lots of black kettles there: America has had it's own Civil War, and has killed it's own countrymen in the course of 5 years. We know all about it. And yes, both sides had help from other countries. The difference is that we got our shit together for the betterment of the country. Somalian's loyalty is to their family clan, not their country. And as long as that loyalty remains entrenched to the clan, they will simply be a bunch of clans, raiding freighters and herding livestock. If America followed that path, we'd still be 13 colonies fighting over the division of the rest of the continent. No, nix that: We'd still be 13 colonies of the original size, Canada and Mexico would be a lot larger than they are, and Alaska would still be a Russian settlement. But we're not, because we got our shit together. Somalia has universities and schools, perhaps in 75 years they'll figure it out and join together as one country.
Yet the political conditions in Somalia have been fucked up for around two decades, if not three -- the Blackhawk Down incident occurred in 1993, and things started to fall apart in the late 70s. What changed? Fishery poisoning and depletion is the obvious one. You got a better explanation?
Population growth of a country exceeding it's ability to sustain that growth, due to reproduction and refugees from Ethiopia.
It's interesting to note that while I was researching the population growth rate of Somalia (3% or more per year), I came across an article that mentions that Somalians haven't eaten fish for centuries, due to tradition, apparently.
http://countrystudies.us/somalia/36.htm
It means that fish were more or less strictly exported, and I can pretty much figure out the problem of a country whose major export is decreasing while its population is increasing. They need to diversify, or limit the birth rate, and they need to do it by 1985 or sooner. Even if their waters hadn't become polluted, it's pretty obvious that relying on only one export (provided by Nature) is tough to sustain, even with a 0% growth rate. So, you're right, fishery poisoning and depletion is the obvious one, but there's a lot more to it than that. Why didn't their leaders figure that out and diversify? Oh, that's right, they were too busy becoming "rich and powerful" and overthrowing one another.
No no, I got your joke in the first place, I just expanded on it without acknowledging it first. My bad.
But truly, in the grand scheme of things, 40 years to get a reply would be astounding, even if it was just a recognition that we sent a message. It would be kind of a bummer if that's all they sent was "We're here" without telling us ANYTHING else, but really, that little bit of recognition would go a long, long way, IMHO.
But that's not an entirely accurate argument, either: If this were a starving man, it would be akin to him kidnapping someone worth a lot of money (not just another starving man), and holding that person hostage until a ransom was paid, all because he "needed money to eat." If he was really hungry, he would ask for food. Asking for money involves extra steps to actually consuming food, but it allows you to get a lot more than just food.
... Weapons and small watercraft, for instance. Gotta watch that "pot calling the kettle" thing.
If the pirates were really starving, they'd hold these ships hostage and ask for UN attention, or supplies dropped, or they'd just take as much cargo as they could and leave. Because really, you can't eat paper money. You still need to exchange it for food, and again, the thing with money is you can trade it for a lot more than just food.
I think a lot of people would freak the fuck out if we sent them a bunch of information in English and they sent their responses in English.
I'd expect that any response would sound like static or gibberish, and we might not be able to decode it for a long time. As cheesy as some parts of "Contact" were, that part was probably about right: We receive their "message" and then spend months going, "WTF did they send us?"
I think you mean, "Pod 6 was jerks." (Sealab 2021.)
Most people who get to the apex of power are very, very smart to have been able to outlast their competition.
That doesn't necessarily say they're smart, just that they're smarter than their competition. If the competition is stupid or nonexistant, or smart enough to know that being a representative of the people sucks, the actual results will be skewed.
Isn't this how it was done back in the day, with supercomputer time "leased" to companies who needed it?
My uncle used to work for Minnesota Supercomputer Center and that's how he explained it to me; seemed pretty simple to my 12-year-old mind back then.
Unfortunately, now the constitution seems to be viewed as something that simply restricts the federal government instead or something that gives it permissions to operate in limited ways. This has lead congress from asking can we even constitutionally pass a law like this to what is to stop us from passing a law like this. I think that's a turn for the worse and a prime reason why people think the government lost that "of the people, for the people, and by the people" feeling.
+100. This is the best thing I've read all day. Thanks for that.
The greatest thing about arithmetics is that it's self-checking, so the "fivers" will eventually determine they were wrong, without anyone needing to tell them.
Or they'll assemble and create their own cult worshiping the god "Extremely Large Values."
Mod Up Informative!
IIRC, Montana (and possibly Nevada) require you to either have insurance, or carry proof of a bond in case an accident were to happen. I'd much rather finance the latter than the former.
I'm only 26 (definitely not a boomer) and I used to watch the Honeymooners on reruns when I was a kid...
Sure, but that's not where those articles linked to. My point was that:
The CW article cited in TFS FBI searches Kundra's former offices as new federal CIO rallies IT troops had a link labeled "the FBI's raid," which lead me to:
The CW blog Old office of Obama's CIO pick gets raided by FBI that had a link labeled "raided by the FBI," which lead me to:
a Politico blog FBI raids office of D.C. CTO, Obama appointee which had no links leading to any of the wire services, including the Washington Post.
There's no point in links if they don't lead back to the source. So no, AFAICT, the Politico editor took it out of his ass. It's why bibliography is important.
Yeah, so the first link goes to ComputerWorld, which draws it's information from...
...gad zooks!: A ComputerWorld Blog; the writer of whom gets his information from...
...gad zooks!: A political blog; the writer of whom gets his information from...
...his ass.
Nice trail.
... and have heard of the oddball SMS duplication - where the same SMS was stuck in the system, and the recipient kept getting it twice an hour for 3 days straight).
I've had this very thing happen to me in Spirit Lake, Iowa, where AT&T does not have towers of their own, and uses the local mom & pop cell towers. Voice communication was fine, but two calls into AT&T to try to "reset my phone from afar" had no effect. I've never had it happen before, and never had it happen since.
I think there's something behind it. Both my father and I doodle when we're talking on the phone, and I find that I do it more when I'm thinking about the problem at hand on the phone. Interestingly, our doodles are different: he'll draw 3D objects with a lot of isometric angles, and I just wander across the paper or fill in the "holes" of the lettering at the top of the notepad.
I wonder if it has more to do with one half of the brain being used heavily for analytical purposes, and the other "artistic" half of the brain feels like it needs something to do to keep up. (I forget which half is which.)
I was looking for this comment, and you're right on the money. Turbo B of SNAP! sang about exactly this in a song off of the album The Madman's Return called "Who Stole It."
In 1992.
MOD UP. I mentioned in a previous post that regardless of the method of capture, I don't think electronics can properly reproduce the full extent of what an orchestra can do in a good hall. "Hairs standing up" is a good way to put it.
Perhaps it had more to do with the room they were listening in than anything else.
I used to work at a small theater built in the 20's that seated 700 and included a typical balcony, with no one seated under the balcony. It seemed like the vocal ranges tended to be muffled and flat everywhere in the house, so we had to use microphones for anything vocal, but any classical instrument always came through loud and clear, with no need for a mic. At the back of the house, you could almost hear the bow of a double bass bouncing on the strings. In short, the rooms that sound great with speakers and audio equipment don't always fare as well for live instruments, and vice-versa.
I prefer the uncompressed FLAC or CD because it's as close to live as one can get.
I think that's the kicker. How many people have heard a particular track or album "live?" The ones that haven't don't know how good it can be, and they think the CD is the "end-all, be-all" of the music. Truly, a live performance is the top of the line, whether it's Evanesence or a big-city orchestra presenting "Pictures at an Exhibition." I don't believe a CD can fully capture that, nor a home theater system fully reproduce that.
most ppl raised with knifes being an every day tool treat them with respect as they have cut themselves in the past and have an understanding and respect of the harm they can do.
I totally agree with you. The same thing goes with electricity and hot stoves.
So, I live in Minnesota, where we have access to guns and knives and fishing spears and bale hooks at just about every hardware store and Wal-Mart in the state. Recently I had to travel to the Upper West Side of Manhattan to unbox and assemble some lights. I forgot my utility knife in the car at the airport, but I figured I'd just stop at a hardware store and get one on my walk to the construction site.
The first hardware store I stopped at didn't sell utility knives, or any kind of knife, or even box cutters. I was told they were not allowed to sell knives due to a court order.
At the second hardware store I stopped at, I could only find a utility knife & tape measure combo in a blister pack for $25, but I didn't need the tape, I just wanted the knife. It turns out they were able to sell utility knives and box cutters, but they kept them in a locked case behind the counter, where you couldn't even see what your choices of utility knives were.
I wonder how people can do their jobs when the tools they need are restricted and kept under lock & key. Might's well lock up the nail guns, claw hammers and narrow chisels, too.