Even the pentagon is considering using it.
At $279, it isn't cheap
You see the problems with pricing conservatively? If they'd asked for $500, the Pentagon wouldn't have given a second thought and placed a bulk order for 10,000.
My last mouse cost $20. I can't imagine for a second that I'd get through 14 mice in my lifetime.
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Exactly. These days it seems that when I meet new people, I can't be bothered to make the effort to get to know them. I catch myself thinking "What's the point, I've met loads of people before and they're all off living other places now. Why put in the effort when I might never see this person again".
Of course, if people do stick around, I do get to know them better and become more socially active.
Having just moved to the USA from the UK, I now know virtually noone so it's important that I socialize more and yet old habits are hard to break.
Have a contact e-mail. Don't have a form submission version (user doesn't get a copy). Do have an automatic confirmation. Do make sure that somebody is assigned to check it regularly.
Nothing worse than sending off an e-mail and not knowing if it's even been received, yet alone if anyone's ever going to read it.
When that huge fall in tech stocks, something much closer related to nerdy stuff, earlier in the year was "not relevant"?
What next? "Grain harvest in Alabama hit by dry weather"?
Also, I wonder if Slashdot will be paying as much interest to the UK elections next year? France, Germany or Italy? I think not.
I know that Slashdot is run according to the editors' whims and that's fine but really, I do wish they'd try and keep within their stated remit. If they're going to mainly be a link to technology stories on other news websites that's fine but if they're going to cover every irelevant bit of news that's out there, may as well go to cnn.com and cut out the middleman.
I suggested this very thing on a Linux newsgroup and it was poopooed as being not worth the effort. Kinda nice to see my idea vindicated. Even though I now would tend to agree with the poopooers.
My wife has a fridge magnet dropped in by some Mormon missionaries while she was out. It says "The Lord could not be everywhere at once so he sent his visiting teachers".
I guess that knocks omnipresence on the head as well.
You may laugh but it's been my idea for a while to have something which fits into a 5 1/4 inch drive bay into which you can put a little water and some coffee grounds and get piping hot coffee right at your PC.
So if you see this patented sometime, this is prior art.
A friend of mine had a girlfriend who worked in a shop. One time while they were having sex, she fell asleep and dreamt she was stacking shelves.
My most annoying dream was coming home late from work, crashing out, dreaming about a full day of work, then the alarm goes off and I have to go to work...
OK, I'm not saying that it wouldn't have been good for this not to have been cracked until after it was released properly but it's easy to say that noone should crack it when you don't have the skills to do it yourself.
If I was able to do it, that money would undoubtedly look might attractive. It would be easy to say I would hold the moral high ground and hold off but I'm not in that position and so can't make that claim. I think it's something that people should think about before they start whinging about those who did crack it.
they improve the UI design. I recently installed KDE on an old laptop and kpanel was bigger than the screen at 640x480 and it was impossible to click on the "OK" or "Apply" buttons. That was on 640x480 but it was still a tight squeeze on 800x600 (had to click on the line at the very top of the buttons). Of course, KDE doesn't come with "move" available from right-click-on-desktop. Fvwm for me I think
I concur. Not only that, most of us techies are such "hot items" that companies don't want us to go so badly, you don't have to put up with any
bullshit.
Damn right. I've decided to move transatlantic and so handed in my notice (on a friendly basis). My company has offered to make me a telecommuter, paying for my equipment and matching competetive local salaries (being higher in the USA than UK). I agreed. If you're worth recognition and you're not getting it them move jobs!
They're not as biased as american or israeli media you know...
Classic mistake to make. Never assume that any news is any less biased than any other. Don't trust anything without questioning it, especially what is reported as "news". People are people the world over. If you see someone from country X do something shitty, you can bet it can happen in *your* country.
It's not considered a vowel like sound in my (perfectly English) head either. "An hospital" bugs me too.
The problem is European is pronounced as if it began with a "Y" and which is correct: "A yellow jumper" or "An yellow jumper".
But there are so many illogical things in all dialects of English that it's really not worth getting upset about them. Aluminium does beat aluminum though.
But the point is that you've already entered the store and performed the transaction. You haven't signed a contract agreeing to be searched. Surely the best they can do is ban you from shopping there in future. They can't say "Well, you walked past the sign on the way in so you agreed to it" otherwise they could put any old crap up there.
I can't speak for "The land of the free" but over here in the UK, store security guards have no right to search you at all. They can ask but you can refuse. Of course, they do have the right to detain you and can call the police. They can search you and arrest you. You're probably better off submitting to the search if you're guilty. You're more likely just to get a slap on the wrist and banned from the store. By insisting on the police, you elevate it to another level.
Also, once you leave the store, that's it, the security guard loses any ability to detain you. They have to contact the police and leave you to your own devices.
By the same token, a society built on respect, if Abdul needs an extra grand to do something, and I have it to give, that is a gift. Out of respect,
Abdul will repay that gift at an appropriate time.
Or perhaps Abdul needs some money to tide him over until the pay from that construction job he finished comes through but noone is interested in lending it to him since they won't get anything from it so he has to steal a loaf of bread to feed his family, gets caught, has his hands cut off and so he can't work, loses his house and so his family dies of starvation and nasty diseases.
That's the problem with Utopias. All very nice in theory but in practice, people are shitty.
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You see the problems with pricing conservatively? If they'd asked for $500, the Pentagon wouldn't have given a second thought and placed a bulk order for 10,000.
My last mouse cost $20. I can't imagine for a second that I'd get through 14 mice in my lifetime.
Rich
Of course, if people do stick around, I do get to know them better and become more socially active.
Having just moved to the USA from the UK, I now know virtually noone so it's important that I socialize more and yet old habits are hard to break.
Rich
Nothing worse than sending off an e-mail and not knowing if it's even been received, yet alone if anyone's ever going to read it.
I'm speaking to you, david shepard
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Err, no. Since the original crime is copyright infringement, not theft.
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When that huge fall in tech stocks, something much closer related to nerdy stuff, earlier in the year was "not relevant"?
What next? "Grain harvest in Alabama hit by dry weather"?
Also, I wonder if Slashdot will be paying as much interest to the UK elections next year? France, Germany or Italy? I think not.
I know that Slashdot is run according to the editors' whims and that's fine but really, I do wish they'd try and keep within their stated remit. If they're going to mainly be a link to technology stories on other news websites that's fine but if they're going to cover every irelevant bit of news that's out there, may as well go to cnn.com and cut out the middleman.
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My wife has a fridge magnet dropped in by some Mormon missionaries while she was out. It says "The Lord could not be everywhere at once so he sent his visiting teachers".
I guess that knocks omnipresence on the head as well.
Rich
So if you see this patented sometime, this is prior art.
Rich
My most annoying dream was coming home late from work, crashing out, dreaming about a full day of work, then the alarm goes off and I have to go to work...
Rich
If I was able to do it, that money would undoubtedly look might attractive. It would be easy to say I would hold the moral high ground and hold off but I'm not in that position and so can't make that claim. I think it's something that people should think about before they start whinging about those who did crack it.
Rich
I think you meant "silicon" and "collagen"
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Wow, I think I want to go and sign up now. I can hardly resist the possibilty of having an excuse to land BG a good right hook to the nose :)
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Damn right. I've decided to move transatlantic and so handed in my notice (on a friendly basis). My company has offered to make me a telecommuter, paying for my equipment and matching competetive local salaries (being higher in the USA than UK). I agreed. If you're worth recognition and you're not getting it them move jobs!
Rich
Classic mistake to make. Never assume that any news is any less biased than any other. Don't trust anything without questioning it, especially what is reported as "news". People are people the world over. If you see someone from country X do something shitty, you can bet it can happen in *your* country.
Rich
Rich
The problem is European is pronounced as if it began with a "Y" and which is correct: "A yellow jumper" or "An yellow jumper".
But there are so many illogical things in all dialects of English that it's really not worth getting upset about them. Aluminium does beat aluminum though.
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Rich
Also, once you leave the store, that's it, the security guard loses any ability to detain you. They have to contact the police and leave you to your own devices.
Rich
Er, me English. You son of dingo ;)
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Or perhaps Abdul needs some money to tide him over until the pay from that construction job he finished comes through but noone is interested in lending it to him since they won't get anything from it so he has to steal a loaf of bread to feed his family, gets caught, has his hands cut off and so he can't work, loses his house and so his family dies of starvation and nasty diseases.
That's the problem with Utopias. All very nice in theory but in practice, people are shitty.
Rich