I'm thinking about a bag similar to what is offered by Voltaic Systems, but with wireless charging instead.
I bike and wear a backpack, and have been looking at rolling a custom thing from some of Voltaic's parts, and to think that if there was wireless charging capability, I would never have to worry about my devices bouncing around in my bag while connected to a laptop or battery to charge.
Someone build this and let me test the prototype =).
I spent an entire summer plotting out routes of houses to photograph based on an old database of the trees that were sold there 15+ years ago as I was building a photo library of mature trees and large shrubs.
This has nothing to to do with any sort of military installation and I thought it was pretty straightforward that I would knock of the doors, identify myself (many times it was still the same owners from 15+ years ago and they were delighted to see me), and ask permission.
Why the hell would you go to another country and take photographs of military facilities? That is just a complete lapse of judgement.
Or possibly a way for them to market their own Premium DNS offerings. I understand that users on Premium DNS were hardly affected (according to a co-worker who was monitoring the whole thing yesterday and had a number of Premium DNS users).
Not quite. It's because of the right-click menu. Just because I download a zip file doesn't mean I want to open the zip file... Maybe I want to extract here, maybe somewhere else. Or maybe I've downloaded an image file that I want to edit in Photoshop, or crop in Irfanview, etc.
That is a nice touch for those rare occasions when you want to both open the folder and the file, but most of time you either want the file or the folder and not both.
Speak for yourself. I use "see file in folder" at least 95% of the time I open a downloaded file.
In fact, I would prefer the hotel simply because there aren't any RVs nearby.
Nothing makes a camping trip less enjoyable than a bunch of fucking yahoos crowding up the area with RVs, noisy four wheelers, and teenagers firing a rifle into the side of a hill repeatedly.
I am sorry, but if you are under the age of 65 and you own an RV that you use for (what you refer to as) camping, you are a blight and you can bet your ass that if you park that thing anywhere near me I will sneak over at night after your 6 lb yapping dog has gone to sleep and let the air out of your tires.
He's calling Macs shitboxes. Reminds of that "Crapple" logo I designed back in the late 90's in high school. A nicely formed little pile of turd with rainbow colors. I may have to find that and print up some t-shirts.
The guy was a med student at Anschutz. That alone could be enough reason to send someone over the edge, especially if you're a little off to begin with. In your eyes, you're just going about your business, trying to build a career for yourself, and you keep getting screwed (however minor) by academia. These things build up.
From my chair, it seemed like the guy developed a case of "Falling Down" and some twisted emotion in his brain made him decide to go shoot up a movie theater (I'm guessing because it was such an easy target yet still had a major impact).
A little over a year ago, I worked briefly for a start-up here in Denver run by an Aussie. The model revolved around high-end/niche designer clothes made here in the US. A majority of these boutique shops had little to no overseas distribution, let alone distribution to AU.
The pricing structure did kind of blow me away. Since I was building their Magento site, I saw all the numbers. Take a blouse for example. The typical US price would be, let's say $200. They would then convert that price to $AU, add bit of fluff to it, and then mark it back down to a price still much higher than the original US price but cheaper than the $AU price.
I'll also mention that the site had a.com.au address.
So this blouse would normally cost $200 US, be artificially marked up to $400 US, and then be marked at 40% OFF!!!! with a final price of $240 US.
I didn't stick around much longer after the site was launched, as I was offered a better (more secure) job. I'm not sure if they are doing well or not, but I would wager that my admin login to the backend of the store is still active.
Probably because they have a massive line of other options that offer a very wide upgrade path.
But then again, those with enough sense know what they are purchasing from the start.
It all comes down to why you are purchasing your laptop. MBP customers get theirs because it's what they want. They may not be sure why it is what they want, but they want it nonetheless.
Recently bought a Thinkpad T430. 1600x900 is plenty for this form factor. Can't see why anyone would really need anything more (unless they're using some giant 19" display or something).
Oh, is it crisper graphics or something? Wonderful. I use my machine to do work, write code, and only at the end of the day when I am falling asleep in bed do I bother to put Netflix on (which also looks fine.)
Retina is a great example of Apple snowing their customers into purchasing something they don't need.
Definitely not that fast if you time door to door and include everything.
Eh? Door to door, flying from Denver to San Francisco, it's about half a day. 2.5 hour flight, an hour and a half on each side for getting to/from the airport, boarding, etc. Toss in some random stops to 7-11 or something and you're looking at spending about 6-8 hours of travel time.
On the other hand, the fastest I have ever done the same driving was approximately 17 hours, which included driving 85+ MPH across most of Nevada/Utah (my digital speedometer only went to 85.. then it just blinked, so idea my actual speeds).
A more realistic amount of time for that drive is a day and a half which includes a proper rest stop and not driving like a crazy 18 year old.
Also, maybe 15 years ago or so I was up in Wyoming on a fishing trip. We were near the Medicine Bow river on a private stretch one evening and the mosquitoes were the worst I have ever seen.
The following day, we stopped in a tiny little tackle shop with one old guy working the counter.
"Have any mosquito repellant?" we asked
"I dun use that sheet. Whatchu need is some pure vaniller extract. It's in aisle two."
The old guy was right. It worked quite well, but I suspect it worked well because it coated my skin with a film impenetrable by their puny proboscis.
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I'm thinking about a bag similar to what is offered by Voltaic Systems, but with wireless charging instead.
I bike and wear a backpack, and have been looking at rolling a custom thing from some of Voltaic's parts, and to think that if there was wireless charging capability, I would never have to worry about my devices bouncing around in my bag while connected to a laptop or battery to charge.
Someone build this and let me test the prototype =).
If they don't add that as an Easter Egg, they should all be arrested.
As my friends in Wikipedia
Wikipedia has a friending feature now also? Please... make it stop... I am sick of having so many friends.
Truly a lack of intuition.
I spent an entire summer plotting out routes of houses to photograph based on an old database of the trees that were sold there 15+ years ago as I was building a photo library of mature trees and large shrubs.
This has nothing to to do with any sort of military installation and I thought it was pretty straightforward that I would knock of the doors, identify myself (many times it was still the same owners from 15+ years ago and they were delighted to see me), and ask permission.
Why the hell would you go to another country and take photographs of military facilities? That is just a complete lapse of judgement.
Or possibly a way for them to market their own Premium DNS offerings. I understand that users on Premium DNS were hardly affected (according to a co-worker who was monitoring the whole thing yesterday and had a number of Premium DNS users).
I hear the voice of Sam Kinison. I hope you are smoking a cigar, or drinking a beer, or eating some food or something like he would have done.
Not quite. It's because of the right-click menu. Just because I download a zip file doesn't mean I want to open the zip file... Maybe I want to extract here, maybe somewhere else. Or maybe I've downloaded an image file that I want to edit in Photoshop, or crop in Irfanview, etc.
That is a nice touch for those rare occasions when you want to both open the folder and the file, but most of time you either want the file or the folder and not both.
Speak for yourself. I use "see file in folder" at least 95% of the time I open a downloaded file.
Owning the RV in the first place tends to be enough.
In fact, I would prefer the hotel simply because there aren't any RVs nearby.
Nothing makes a camping trip less enjoyable than a bunch of fucking yahoos crowding up the area with RVs, noisy four wheelers, and teenagers firing a rifle into the side of a hill repeatedly.
I am sorry, but if you are under the age of 65 and you own an RV that you use for (what you refer to as) camping, you are a blight and you can bet your ass that if you park that thing anywhere near me I will sneak over at night after your 6 lb yapping dog has gone to sleep and let the air out of your tires.
And we'd like to keep it that way. It's nice that perceptions don't reflect reality... it means more work for the rest of us.
If it is also liquefied, then you may wish to consult a specialist.
of the centre of town (by center of town I mean a tube station in the city of London)
Which is it? Centre? Center? Stop being so pretentious! Or not!
He's calling Macs shitboxes. Reminds of that "Crapple" logo I designed back in the late 90's in high school. A nicely formed little pile of turd with rainbow colors. I may have to find that and print up some t-shirts.
Sorry, carry on now.
Well played.
Is going nuts not a good enough motive?
The guy was a med student at Anschutz. That alone could be enough reason to send someone over the edge, especially if you're a little off to begin with. In your eyes, you're just going about your business, trying to build a career for yourself, and you keep getting screwed (however minor) by academia. These things build up.
From my chair, it seemed like the guy developed a case of "Falling Down" and some twisted emotion in his brain made him decide to go shoot up a movie theater (I'm guessing because it was such an easy target yet still had a major impact).
A little over a year ago, I worked briefly for a start-up here in Denver run by an Aussie. The model revolved around high-end/niche designer clothes made here in the US. A majority of these boutique shops had little to no overseas distribution, let alone distribution to AU.
The pricing structure did kind of blow me away. Since I was building their Magento site, I saw all the numbers. Take a blouse for example. The typical US price would be, let's say $200. They would then convert that price to $AU, add bit of fluff to it, and then mark it back down to a price still much higher than the original US price but cheaper than the $AU price.
I'll also mention that the site had a .com.au address.
So this blouse would normally cost $200 US, be artificially marked up to $400 US, and then be marked at 40% OFF!!!! with a final price of $240 US.
I didn't stick around much longer after the site was launched, as I was offered a better (more secure) job. I'm not sure if they are doing well or not, but I would wager that my admin login to the backend of the store is still active.
Probably because they have a massive line of other options that offer a very wide upgrade path.
But then again, those with enough sense know what they are purchasing from the start.
It all comes down to why you are purchasing your laptop. MBP customers get theirs because it's what they want. They may not be sure why it is what they want, but they want it nonetheless.
Yeah, that was my thought.
Recently bought a Thinkpad T430. 1600x900 is plenty for this form factor. Can't see why anyone would really need anything more (unless they're using some giant 19" display or something).
Oh, is it crisper graphics or something? Wonderful. I use my machine to do work, write code, and only at the end of the day when I am falling asleep in bed do I bother to put Netflix on (which also looks fine.)
Retina is a great example of Apple snowing their customers into purchasing something they don't need.
Where do you live that the only things the population does is manufacture, paint, and manage money?
A nice list provided for your reading pleasure.
Note the lack of manufacturing, painting, and money managing on that list.
You may want to read some recent history on the topic.
France did have quite a role to play in the Oil For Food Program, as did Russia and other regional players.
Definitely not that fast if you time door to door and include everything.
Eh? Door to door, flying from Denver to San Francisco, it's about half a day. 2.5 hour flight, an hour and a half on each side for getting to/from the airport, boarding, etc. Toss in some random stops to 7-11 or something and you're looking at spending about 6-8 hours of travel time.
On the other hand, the fastest I have ever done the same driving was approximately 17 hours, which included driving 85+ MPH across most of Nevada/Utah (my digital speedometer only went to 85.. then it just blinked, so idea my actual speeds).
A more realistic amount of time for that drive is a day and a half which includes a proper rest stop and not driving like a crazy 18 year old.
Am I missing something?
"According to the World Resources Institute, global per capita food production has been increasing substantially for the past several decades."
Unfortunately, so has the average waist size.
I don't think most of the "increased food production" is ending up on the right plates.
This is the main thing I would change, as I prefer the PgUp, PgDn keys to be Home and End.
This.
Also, maybe 15 years ago or so I was up in Wyoming on a fishing trip. We were near the Medicine Bow river on a private stretch one evening and the mosquitoes were the worst I have ever seen.
The following day, we stopped in a tiny little tackle shop with one old guy working the counter.
"Have any mosquito repellant?" we asked
"I dun use that sheet. Whatchu need is some pure vaniller extract. It's in aisle two."
The old guy was right. It worked quite well, but I suspect it worked well because it coated my skin with a film impenetrable by their puny proboscis.