It's funny how everyone is complaining about a couple of extra pounds, but we don't listen to our kids complaining about having to lug a half-dozen books around for various classes, and we've forgotten about our own experiences, having to stuff our pack sacks with books, pens and pencils, hiliters, note pads, ruler, geometry set, calculator (or abacus if we were from the generation that had to walk to school uphill, in the snow, both ways).
Faceboogle is bad but the alternates are even worse. What if people used Goofaced? Think of how mad you would be if you found out someone Goofaced you.
facebooger, gooface, it still sounds like someone sneezed w/o a kleenex handy.
You know, as a resident of Canuckistan, I'm always making fun of both Canada and the US, and everyone in between... (and for those who don't get *that* one, "An airplane crashes on the border between Canada and the US. Where do you bury the survivors?")
Calling them "Okies" should have been the first clue that it wasn't serious... just like calling graduates from Texas A&M U "Aggies", or people from the west coast "Crunchie granola-bar tree-huggers" (US) or "Lotus-land" (British Columbia). Ditto, Newfies (Newfoundland and Labrador), and Quebec... whoa, let's not get started on the whole french/english thing...;-0
It's just the internet - you can't take it TOO seriously.
And the point is that it is small but nippy. The SSD provides the latter. I could throw this into my bag and use it on the train without needing to carry a dedicated laptop case, and a massive overall weight and volume difference.
If you don't need a small system, then it isn't for you.
My 17" laptop fits in my briefcase, along with loads of papers, etc. A "dedicated laptop case" justs screams "STEAL ME!".
Put the briefcase on my lap, closed, and the 17" on top, and I'm good to go, everything at the right height, etc. And let's face it, there's a BIG difference between a 900mhz celeron and even the slowest dual-core 64-bit cpu, if you want "nippy". Ditto for 20 gig vs 320 gig of hd space.
If you had to chose just one, which one would YOU choose?
My former laptop is an older IBM stinkpad - great machine, but the keyboard is too small. I prefer - no, make that I DEMAND a full-sized keyboard. Maybe the smaller keyboards are ok for people who do hunt-and-peck, but nothing can replace full-sized keyboard. That's why I opted for a 17" laptop when the time came.
I have a friend who is going through a bout of RSI which was probably caused by excess use of the smaller keyboard on his laptop. They're awkward as all hell, and not worth the pain (literally).
One of the guys at the office spent several times what I spent, so he could buy a really small laptop. People went "Oh, wow! That is SMALL", but the one that everyone *wants* is mine - the one with the big screen, full-sized keyboard, remote control, tons of disk space, etc.
When it comes to actual use, size * does * count. Sure, it weighs more - but in terms of useability, pound-for-pound, kilo for kilo, dollar for dollar, it's the better value.
After a certain point, small isn't better - it interferes with useability. Look at cell phone keypads - some of them are now too small for anyone with even average-sized hands.
I'd rather lug my 17" around, and have a full-sized keyboard, lots of screen real estate and all the other goodies, than something that is just too darned small to use properly.
At 329 pounds, that's about $650.00 bucks. You can get a full-sized laptop with twice the ram, more than 10x the storage, a bigger screen, etc., for under $500.00
ELDORADO, Texas (AP) When authorities moved to search the large white temple on the polygamist compound in West Texas, about five dozen of the sect's men prayed and cried around the structure, state investigators said Thursday.
Schleicher County Sheriff David Doran also said he had been working with a confidential informant for four years who was feeding him information about life inside the polygamist sect.
It wasn't until after the search had begun that Doran learned about marriage beds in the temple and the forced marriages of underage girls to older men.
When authorities gained entrance to the three-story building, no one was inside. But they found beds allegedly used by husbands after they married underage girls on the top floor of the temple. He said authorities made the temple the last stop on the weeklong search because "if there was going to be any resistance at all it would be then."
So let's see - religion, polygamy, rape, child abuse... about the only thing missing was Jerry Lee Lewis and terr'rists.
leaked the personal data of tens of thousands of people
They have tens of thousands of people in Oklahoma?
And it's also hard to believe they'd have that many people on the sexual offender's list - I mean, they're Okies - they consider it "normal" to marry "kinfolks", polygamy, etc.
In response to the continued attacks on Microsoft's OOXML standard, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has called for a ceasefire.
They deserve to be taken to the woodshed for a good spanking.
The ONLY ones who will benefit from a "cease-fire" are the ones who have the criticism coming to them. Let them admit they screwed up, that the processes behind their handling of MSOOXML are fatally flawed, and that a redo is necessary to preserve^Wrestore the integrity of ISO.
Gartner just wants to appear to be a "leader", so now that its obvious to anyone with more than 3 brain cells still funcitoning that Windows has nowhere to go but down, they're running really fast to get in front of where those in the know have been heading, and make it look like they somehow have a clue.
They don't.
But anyone who needs these "analysts" to help them form an opinion doesn't have a clue to begin with.
I bet medical science can use the bodies and get their worth out of them to justify their costs of disposing of them in a furnace.
If not, maybe ballistics labs.
[_] replacement feedstock for ethanol
[_] crash-test dummies (for cars, not the band)
[_] a date for Tom Cruise that won't dump him and make fun of his (lack of) height.
[_] voter in Florida.
[_] civil servant at the license bureau.
It's not a joking matter when refusal to answer more than 50 questions leaves you looking at threats of $500 x50 in fines, plus 3 months in jail x 50, as stated here. ($500 per question falsely answered +/or 3 months jail). This is the 5-year federal census, btw.
is, for every refusal or neglect, or false answer or deception, guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months or to both. 1970-71-72, c. 15, s. 29.
Since I've refused to answer the long form twice, I'm looking at a total of over $50,000.00 in fines and jail time of up to 25 years.
I told them quite bluntly, after receiving both verbal and written notices that it's an offense with possible fines and jail time, that I'm quite ready to argue my side in court, but I refuse, as a matter of principle, to give in. The whole slippery-slope argument applies here.
And yes, they HAVE fined others, and made an example of them in the media, so its not a completely idle threat. They don't want the general public to know that they can "get away" with refusing to answer, since more and more people would then not cooperate.
For refusing to fill in the census because some of the questions are illegal on their face, and they have refused several requests from me to take me to court? If they're not ready to justify their actions before a judge, after threatening legal action, they can shove their census where the sun don't shine.
Besides, if you feel that way, would you object to someone installing web cams in your bedroom and toilet? After all, you have nothing to hide, citizen. And demanding your ID at every street corner, every store purchase, etc.? After all, you have nothing to hide, comrade.
It has nothing to do with "hiding" anything, and everything to do with taking a stand against something that is wrong. I'm not a sheeple.
if the questions bother you that much you can ignore those questions and only answer the ones that aren't about race
You're required to answer all questions if you get the long form, and you also sign a declaration that they are truthful.
Though I would still answer them because it gives the government some idea of who is being represented and how the economy is doing.
They already have this information - they take enough off my paycheck, I'm on the permanent voter's registration list, I have a drivers' license, and like all Canadians, I also have a medicare card. If they're making economic decisions today based on census data collected several years ago, rather than the latest info, we're all fucked, thank you very much.
Read up on the Intel P4 class action lawsuit - all those misleading commercials about the P4's enhanced performance, when, clock-for-clock, it lagged the P3.
Kind of like the "Vista Capable" mess.
This lawsuit alleges that Intel released the Pentium 4 prematurely, and that Intel and HP marketed the Pentium 4 to create the impression that the Pentium 4 outperformed the latest Pentium III, when they knew it did not. The lawsuit further alleges that Intel and HP exploited consumers reasonable expectation that the Pentium 4 would outperform the cheaper Pentium III by charging premium prices for the Pentium 4.
The other interpretation is that regular DVD sales will crash, to the point where they're even with BluRay sales.
In a severe recession, anything is possible, especially since cable is rolling out video-on-demand like crazy, and if people have a choice between a dvr or a bluray player, they'll take the dvr.
We have the Competition Act, which replaced the Combines Investigation Act back in 1986...
Also the CRTC.
Bell was able to build out their network thanks to their monopoly position for many decades. The network infrastructure, since it was paid for by the excess levies and guaranteed returns allowed under that monopoly, should be nationalized.
It SHOULDNT, thats the point! If you get information back that there are alot of unemployment claims in an area you would try to create more jobs. If you also knew that every unemployed person was african-american then you have a totally different problem. You would obviously have to take a different approach to the situation.
You should try to create the jobs regardless of the person's skin colour. And the approach is the same, regardless of a person's skin colour. Money (and investment, and the job creation it allows) is colour-blind. It goes where there's an opportunity to make more money. Businesses that would refuse to hire the more talented individual because he/she is black, or gay, or whatever, will have less success in the marketplace.
"Targeting" job creation based on, to use your example, skin colour, is denigrating the person - it gives others the "excuse" of saying that they owe their job to a program that gives preferences to a minority group, and not merit, providing a lever not just against the individual, but against everyone who is a member of the minority.
Same thing with education. "You only got in because you're [insert identifying characteristic]."
In a decent society, there wouldn't be any need for targeted programs, because everyone would be colour-blind. Government programs did less for African-Americans than "All In The Family" did by showing how stupid bigots are. Same as decades of Surgeon General's warnings about smoking being bad for your health didn't do anything, but making it "uncool", taking it off TV and out of movies, did.
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It's funny how everyone is complaining about a couple of extra pounds, but we don't listen to our kids complaining about having to lug a half-dozen books around for various classes, and we've forgotten about our own experiences, having to stuff our pack sacks with books, pens and pencils, hiliters, note pads, ruler, geometry set, calculator (or abacus if we were from the generation that had to walk to school uphill, in the snow, both ways).
facebooger, gooface, it still sounds like someone sneezed w/o a kleenex handy.
You know, as a resident of Canuckistan, I'm always making fun of both Canada and the US, and everyone in between ... (and for those who don't get *that* one, "An airplane crashes on the border between Canada and the US. Where do you bury the survivors?")
Calling them "Okies" should have been the first clue that it wasn't serious ... just like calling graduates from Texas A&M U "Aggies", or people from the west coast "Crunchie granola-bar tree-huggers" (US) or "Lotus-land" (British Columbia). Ditto, Newfies (Newfoundland and Labrador), and Quebec ... whoa, let's not get started on the whole french/english thing ... ;-0
It's just the internet - you can't take it TOO seriously.
My 17" laptop fits in my briefcase, along with loads of papers, etc. A "dedicated laptop case" justs screams "STEAL ME!".
Put the briefcase on my lap, closed, and the 17" on top, and I'm good to go, everything at the right height, etc. And let's face it, there's a BIG difference between a 900mhz celeron and even the slowest dual-core 64-bit cpu, if you want "nippy". Ditto for 20 gig vs 320 gig of hd space.
If you had to chose just one, which one would YOU choose?
My former laptop is an older IBM stinkpad - great machine, but the keyboard is too small. I prefer - no, make that I DEMAND a full-sized keyboard. Maybe the smaller keyboards are ok for people who do hunt-and-peck, but nothing can replace full-sized keyboard. That's why I opted for a 17" laptop when the time came.
I have a friend who is going through a bout of RSI which was probably caused by excess use of the smaller keyboard on his laptop. They're awkward as all hell, and not worth the pain (literally).
One of the guys at the office spent several times what I spent, so he could buy a really small laptop. People went "Oh, wow! That is SMALL", but the one that everyone *wants* is mine - the one with the big screen, full-sized keyboard, remote control, tons of disk space, etc.
When it comes to actual use, size * does * count. Sure, it weighs more - but in terms of useability, pound-for-pound, kilo for kilo, dollar for dollar, it's the better value.
After a certain point, small isn't better - it interferes with useability. Look at cell phone keypads - some of them are now too small for anyone with even average-sized hands.
I'd rather lug my 17" around, and have a full-sized keyboard, lots of screen real estate and all the other goodies, than something that is just too darned small to use properly.
At 329 pounds, that's about $650.00 bucks. You can get a full-sized laptop with twice the ram, more than 10x the storage, a bigger screen, etc., for under $500.00
Guess you missed the big news
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So let's see - religion, polygamy, rape, child abuse ... about the only thing missing was Jerry Lee Lewis and terr'rists.
Did you by chance hear a WHOOSH before you posted?
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It's kind of hard to believe ...
They have tens of thousands of people in Oklahoma?
And it's also hard to believe they'd have that many people on the sexual offender's list - I mean, they're Okies - they consider it "normal" to marry "kinfolks", polygamy, etc.
They deserve to be taken to the woodshed for a good spanking.
The ONLY ones who will benefit from a "cease-fire" are the ones who have the criticism coming to them. Let them admit they screwed up, that the processes behind their handling of MSOOXML are fatally flawed, and that a redo is necessary to preserve^Wrestore the integrity of ISO.
Hey, back in the "floppy" days, those AOL floppies came in handy - just reformatted them.
Not like the CDs ...
Gartner just wants to appear to be a "leader", so now that its obvious to anyone with more than 3 brain cells still funcitoning that Windows has nowhere to go but down, they're running really fast to get in front of where those in the know have been heading, and make it look like they somehow have a clue.
They don't.
But anyone who needs these "analysts" to help them form an opinion doesn't have a clue to begin with.
[_] replacement feedstock for ethanol
[_] crash-test dummies (for cars, not the band)
[_] a date for Tom Cruise that won't dump him and make fun of his (lack of) height.
[_] voter in Florida.
[_] civil servant at the license bureau.
I just want to know if my laser pointer can blind them, like it can a CCTV.
It's not a joking matter when refusal to answer more than 50 questions leaves you looking at threats of $500 x50 in fines, plus 3 months in jail x 50, as stated here. ($500 per question falsely answered +/or 3 months jail). This is the 5-year federal census, btw.
Since I've refused to answer the long form twice, I'm looking at a total of over $50,000.00 in fines and jail time of up to 25 years.
I told them quite bluntly, after receiving both verbal and written notices that it's an offense with possible fines and jail time, that I'm quite ready to argue my side in court, but I refuse, as a matter of principle, to give in. The whole slippery-slope argument applies here.
And yes, they HAVE fined others, and made an example of them in the media, so its not a completely idle threat. They don't want the general public to know that they can "get away" with refusing to answer, since more and more people would then not cooperate.
For refusing to fill in the census because some of the questions are illegal on their face, and they have refused several requests from me to take me to court? If they're not ready to justify their actions before a judge, after threatening legal action, they can shove their census where the sun don't shine.
Besides, if you feel that way, would you object to someone installing web cams in your bedroom and toilet? After all, you have nothing to hide, citizen. And demanding your ID at every street corner, every store purchase, etc.? After all, you have nothing to hide, comrade.
It has nothing to do with "hiding" anything, and everything to do with taking a stand against something that is wrong. I'm not a sheeple.
You're required to answer all questions if you get the long form, and you also sign a declaration that they are truthful.
They already have this information - they take enough off my paycheck, I'm on the permanent voter's registration list, I have a drivers' license, and like all Canadians, I also have a medicare card. If they're making economic decisions today based on census data collected several years ago, rather than the latest info, we're all fucked, thank you very much.
Read up on the Intel P4 class action lawsuit - all those misleading commercials about the P4's enhanced performance, when, clock-for-clock, it lagged the P3.
Kind of like the "Vista Capable" mess.
"Intel Inside - Idiot Outside" was the way it was for much of the cpu wars.
And logically, the best thing to do is take advantage of those with blind faith before someone else does - hence scientology.
The other interpretation is that regular DVD sales will crash, to the point where they're even with BluRay sales.
In a severe recession, anything is possible, especially since cable is rolling out video-on-demand like crazy, and if people have a choice between a dvr or a bluray player, they'll take the dvr.
In that case, isn't "german panzer" also redundant, you'd just say "panzer"?
We have the Competition Act, which replaced the Combines Investigation Act back in 1986 ...
Also the CRTC.
Bell was able to build out their network thanks to their monopoly position for many decades. The network infrastructure, since it was paid for by the excess levies and guaranteed returns allowed under that monopoly, should be nationalized.
No big diff nowadays ...
So you take their cheaper 10mbps plan, which used to be unlimited, but is now capped at 100 GB month ...
I'll still share linux isos ... I just won't leave them uploading for the whole month any more ...
You should try to create the jobs regardless of the person's skin colour. And the approach is the same, regardless of a person's skin colour. Money (and investment, and the job creation it allows) is colour-blind. It goes where there's an opportunity to make more money. Businesses that would refuse to hire the more talented individual because he/she is black, or gay, or whatever, will have less success in the marketplace.
"Targeting" job creation based on, to use your example, skin colour, is denigrating the person - it gives others the "excuse" of saying that they owe their job to a program that gives preferences to a minority group, and not merit, providing a lever not just against the individual, but against everyone who is a member of the minority.
Same thing with education. "You only got in because you're [insert identifying characteristic]."
In a decent society, there wouldn't be any need for targeted programs, because everyone would be colour-blind. Government programs did less for African-Americans than "All In The Family" did by showing how stupid bigots are. Same as decades of Surgeon General's warnings about smoking being bad for your health didn't do anything, but making it "uncool", taking it off TV and out of movies, did.