You might find that this bag works for you:
MEC Carry On Travel Pack
I use one of these as my everyday laptop bag and for travelling. Depending on the location I'm travelling to, I'm usually good for a few days to a week with just this bag for my clothing + electronic gear (TabletPC, cellphone, PDA, iPod, GPS, batteries, chargers and a few cables) plus pens, business cards, etc. I know you say you hate backpacks, but the backpack straps do stow away neatly when not being used and it has a padded shoulder strap and grab handle as well. I use it mostly as a shoulder bag but the backpack option is nice for carrying it longer distances with a full load. I use the snapcord on the outside to pop in a jacket or hat when it's not needed immediately but I want to keep it handy, like when trudging through airports.
It's part of the balancing act that is product management. Waiting until there are zero known bugs would mean nothing ever got released. At some point you just have to release what you've got and deal with the fallout. The difference between "beta" and "release" is simply the number of bugs you're willing to live with. If you consistently piss off more customers than you please, then you'll be out of business. However, if you get the usefulness/bugginess balance approximately right, you can have a growing user base of "mostly happy" customers while shipping imperfect software that has known bugs.
Also, keep in mind that "real, creating-problems-for-users bugs" might only affect a tiny percentage of your users. Sometimes, it's cheaper to pay tech support to deal with those rare problems than to pay programmers to fix them.
It's not that overblown if you're right handed. The new iBook/PBook notebooks have all the ports on the left side of the machine. Having to cross the cable over to the other side is a pain. It's not like it would be that hard to make a multi-button trackpad. Every other notebook on the planet has them now and some have scrollwheels too. Apple (Jobs?) is just being stubborn on this issue for no good reason.
Governments can't give rights, they can only take them away.)
The same is true within the realm of digital publishing. Everyone talks about DRM as Digital Rights Management, when really it's about Digital Restrictions Management. Right acronym, wrong definition.
. . . but so long as that little IE icon is sitting on the Windows boxes that ship, I'm not sure Mozilla will gain enough foothold to beat down Microsoft.
That won't matter. For folks making apps based on Mozilla, they'll ship and install their own customised (or not) mozilla anyway. Take a look at how Komodo, a shipping commercial app based on Mozilla gets installed. It installs a copy of Moz in it's own directory. Doesn't need to be pre-installed on the OS.
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Oh yeah, forgot to mention. The outer pocket is also big/expandable enough to carry an SLR and a couple extra lenses as well.
You might find that this bag works for you: MEC Carry On Travel Pack I use one of these as my everyday laptop bag and for travelling. Depending on the location I'm travelling to, I'm usually good for a few days to a week with just this bag for my clothing + electronic gear (TabletPC, cellphone, PDA, iPod, GPS, batteries, chargers and a few cables) plus pens, business cards, etc. I know you say you hate backpacks, but the backpack straps do stow away neatly when not being used and it has a padded shoulder strap and grab handle as well. I use it mostly as a shoulder bag but the backpack option is nice for carrying it longer distances with a full load. I use the snapcord on the outside to pop in a jacket or hat when it's not needed immediately but I want to keep it handy, like when trudging through airports.
I think that SCO is realizing (too late) that this elephant CAN dance...
It's part of the balancing act that is product management. Waiting until there are zero known bugs would mean nothing ever got released. At some point you just have to release what you've got and deal with the fallout. The difference between "beta" and "release" is simply the number of bugs you're willing to live with. If you consistently piss off more customers than you please, then you'll be out of business. However, if you get the usefulness/bugginess balance approximately right, you can have a growing user base of "mostly happy" customers while shipping imperfect software that has known bugs.
Also, keep in mind that "real, creating-problems-for-users bugs" might only affect a tiny percentage of your users. Sometimes, it's cheaper to pay tech support to deal with those rare problems than to pay programmers to fix them.
has been available on the Apple developer site for a while. Has some more details on the iDisk and QT integration too.r ix.html
http://developer.apple.com/business/macmarket/osi
Hamilton, Ontario. Canada. http://www.ticats.ca/
It's not that overblown if you're right handed. The new iBook/PBook notebooks have all the ports on the left side of the machine. Having to cross the cable over to the other side is a pain. It's not like it would be that hard to make a multi-button trackpad. Every other notebook on the planet has them now and some have scrollwheels too. Apple (Jobs?) is just being stubborn on this issue for no good reason.
Governments can't give rights, they can only take them away.)
The same is true within the realm of digital publishing. Everyone talks about DRM as Digital Rights Management, when really it's about Digital Restrictions Management. Right acronym, wrong definition.
. . . but so long as that little IE icon is sitting on the Windows boxes that ship, I'm not sure Mozilla will gain enough foothold to beat down Microsoft.
That won't matter. For folks making apps based on Mozilla, they'll ship and install their own customised (or not) mozilla anyway. Take a look at how Komodo, a shipping commercial app based on Mozilla gets installed. It installs a copy of Moz in it's own directory. Doesn't need to be pre-installed on the OS.
If you don't want the whiteboard, you don't use it. Jabberzilla will still work without it.