I had to fix a Toshiba convertible tablet for a customer a couple years ago. The thing was a piece of junk (as I've found most Toshiba laptops are) and loaded with bloatware (again, par for the course with Toshiba lappys), but the tablet bit worked beautifully.
The writing was quick and responsive. I don't think it was pressure sensitive but it did seem to be speed sensitive. The only major hangup was when you had a lot of (vector) lines down on the virtual paper the laptop started to hang up. This probably has a lot to do with the paltry 512MB of RAM the machine had whilst running Windows XP Tablet edition.
A few years later, I was excited at the prospect of an eeePC tablet edition. $600 tablet? Hell yeah. Then I find out that it had one of those standard cheapo screens that didn't react to pressure.
I was all about the convertibles a few years back, but after seeing all of the iterations end up being miserable fuckups I'm probably going to shoot for a slate portable tablet that has a generous amount of RAM and processing power for note-taking, web-browsing, etc. I've yet to find anything good yet, though.
So, back to my original point - the technology absolutely is there. The cost is just insane and the implementation thus far has been less than stellar. A few years back a tablet would have a USD$1,000 premium on it - now, it's more like a $300-$500 premium.
Anyone have any good leads on a decent convertible laptop (a slate is fine too) with a pressure-sensitive screen that won't horribly break the bank? Hell, even if it does break the bank I'm at the point where I'd just like to see a Windows or 'nix lappy that implements the technology to my satisfaction...
Incidentally, is there a Firefox addon that can remove sites from Google search results? I would very much like to find it. My searches for, say, lyrics on a particular song bring up like three pages of sites like filestube, youdownload, etc. which are just a huge PITA.
No, they're not a cult. A cult is just a small religion. As I've found its most common use is as a derogatory term used by larger religions to belittle any upstarts that might hurt their power base.
This could lead to a way to make ice cream without salt. They've managed to lower the freezing point of water without having to put any chemicals in the actual water itself.
Wasn't the shuttle planned out in like the 50s? For a 60-year-old (designed, 30-years-old built) spacecraft I think the things did pretty damn good. They were mostly reliable. The major failures that we've seen have been on things such as maintenance.
Well, let's say we figure out what properties of these lichen allow them to survive. Couldn't we eventually genetically engineer things like plants to grow on Mars?
It is an interesting scientific problem. How do you create an atmosphere? It's not like we can just take big ships full of oxygen, open 'em up on Mars, and hope for the best.
It's okay, most women in chatrooms are really men anyway. d:
(But seriously, I have a friend with gender dysphoria and I understand the appeal. It's hard for that person sometimes. At least s/he can go to raves and get away with dressing any which way they please and not have to worry about the consequences.)
I'm rarely one to shill a store or product, but I've used Batteries Plus stores for customers who are in the same exact situation you are in. I believe they are owned by Rayovac.
Typically their generic laptop/cell phone batteries end up being cheaper than the name brand units (although this isn't always the case). For people in your case, though, this is really the only option for a fresh battery for an older laptop, cell phone, etc.
They're a franchise much like Radio Shack so you should be able to find one somewhere near you.
Now the MMO world has it much better off, since you need a subscription to actually play the game at all. Of course that undoubtedly leads to a lot of problems with stolen CC numbers and the like, so perhaps you are no further ahead. By requiring a CC number to even register, they of course limit their potential sales massively as well.
This really isn't the case anymore and hasn't been since World of Warcraft debuted.
MMOs made by established companies typically have game cards in retail outlets. You can go to GameStop and buy timecards for WoW with cash.
Barring cash, you can go to your local supermarket or big-box store and purchase a rechargeable cash card with no chance of going into the red (and thus paying ridiculous $35 fees for going a penny under $0.00). (The only fees for such cards are typically attached to recharging them.) Again, through this method you can play a MMO without a true credit card and risk absolutely none of your personal information and very little of your money.
Okay, a jury being uninformed in the sense of the person on trial - that's fine. But what good reason is there for there not to be a relevant law library in every deliberation room? How is a juror understanding the law itself in any way unfair to either side (except for those who are counting on an ignorant interpretation of the law to get their client off the hook)?
I concur absolutely. There are laws to protect people from being fired due to maternity leave, military service, etc. If there aren't laws in place now, there should be.
Jurors get paid something like $5 a day where I live. Seriously? $5 won't even pay for a single decent meal. If a trial goes beyond, say, 5 days, jurors should be paid a reasonable amount of money based on the current cost-of-living, and this money should be added to the eventual court costs. When a panel of jurors costs, say, $600-$1200/day that might speed up trials a good bit.
It doesn't, though. A lot of schools have adopted a "Zero tolerance" policy - part of which is your kid will get suspended for being in a fight.
Yes, I said *being* in a fight. If your kid tries to defend himself and gets his ass whupped, he gets suspended even if he weren't the aggressor. Both kids get suspended.
Being able to hold the attention spans of twenty 10-year-olds for longer than 10 minutes is a technique that takes weeks - if not months - of training. No joke here. You have to always be on the ball or they'll just get out of control.
Volunteer at a local Boys & Girls club, youth center, community center, etc. and see how well you fare with a group of 10 or more kids. It's not something you can just hop in and do.
Or does it? Since experience and personal contacts mean much more than degrees, the earlier you can get a job, the better. Wasting your time in actual school taking actual classes is a net loser compared to getting a cheap diploma from a diploma mill and getting a paying job today.
Yeah, except for all those fields where you actually require certification that you have the knowledge you're supposed to have such as medicine, law, education, engineering, etc.
What, do you think that if you had connections they would let you be the lead architect on a building project? Do you think they'd just let you have a go at brain surgery or teaching a group of third graders for a week? "Hell, this guy knows the mayor, let's let him be a cop for a day!" A degree is more than a "piece of paper" that is superseded by connections. Connections aren't going to magically give you the knowledge it takes to do certain jobs you daft waste of oxygen.
Bringing up the fact that the range is *only* 300 miles is just a distraction tactic. As stated before, 90% of people need around a 25 mile daily range for their commute.
It's like when the car came out and someone said "But this thing can run out of fuel!". Yeah, no shit, but how often are you going to be going that far anyway?
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Or, they could just use offshore banking accounts...
The technology isn't there just yet.
No, the technology is absolutely there.
I had to fix a Toshiba convertible tablet for a customer a couple years ago. The thing was a piece of junk (as I've found most Toshiba laptops are) and loaded with bloatware (again, par for the course with Toshiba lappys), but the tablet bit worked beautifully.
The writing was quick and responsive. I don't think it was pressure sensitive but it did seem to be speed sensitive. The only major hangup was when you had a lot of (vector) lines down on the virtual paper the laptop started to hang up. This probably has a lot to do with the paltry 512MB of RAM the machine had whilst running Windows XP Tablet edition.
A few years later, I was excited at the prospect of an eeePC tablet edition. $600 tablet? Hell yeah. Then I find out that it had one of those standard cheapo screens that didn't react to pressure.
I was all about the convertibles a few years back, but after seeing all of the iterations end up being miserable fuckups I'm probably going to shoot for a slate portable tablet that has a generous amount of RAM and processing power for note-taking, web-browsing, etc. I've yet to find anything good yet, though.
So, back to my original point - the technology absolutely is there. The cost is just insane and the implementation thus far has been less than stellar. A few years back a tablet would have a USD$1,000 premium on it - now, it's more like a $300-$500 premium.
Anyone have any good leads on a decent convertible laptop (a slate is fine too) with a pressure-sensitive screen that won't horribly break the bank? Hell, even if it does break the bank I'm at the point where I'd just like to see a Windows or 'nix lappy that implements the technology to my satisfaction...
Incidentally, is there a Firefox addon that can remove sites from Google search results? I would very much like to find it. My searches for, say, lyrics on a particular song bring up like three pages of sites like filestube, youdownload, etc. which are just a huge PITA.
No, they're not a cult. A cult is just a small religion. As I've found its most common use is as a derogatory term used by larger religions to belittle any upstarts that might hurt their power base.
This could lead to a way to make ice cream without salt. They've managed to lower the freezing point of water without having to put any chemicals in the actual water itself.
I still play TRIBES, and the official master server has been shut down for years now.
Wouldn't it be easier to just make voting mandatory? So long as there's an option provided for "abstain".
Maybe then if people had to vote they might actually think a little more about politics.
Wasn't the shuttle planned out in like the 50s? For a 60-year-old (designed, 30-years-old built) spacecraft I think the things did pretty damn good. They were mostly reliable. The major failures that we've seen have been on things such as maintenance.
Well, let's say we figure out what properties of these lichen allow them to survive. Couldn't we eventually genetically engineer things like plants to grow on Mars?
It is an interesting scientific problem. How do you create an atmosphere? It's not like we can just take big ships full of oxygen, open 'em up on Mars, and hope for the best.
It's a quantum joke. It's both funny and unfunny at the same time. Try turning your monitor around 180 degrees and reading it with a mirror.
You mean Los Angeles?
It's okay, most women in chatrooms are really men anyway. d:
(But seriously, I have a friend with gender dysphoria and I understand the appeal. It's hard for that person sometimes. At least s/he can go to raves and get away with dressing any which way they please and not have to worry about the consequences.)
Jokes aside, a co-worker of mine recently received a Dell netbook for his at-work duties. Small form factor but it had a full-size laptop keyboard.
Great for him, but too bad for me. Laptop keyboards are a nightmare for my giantfolk hands.
I'm rarely one to shill a store or product, but I've used Batteries Plus stores for customers who are in the same exact situation you are in. I believe they are owned by Rayovac.
Typically their generic laptop/cell phone batteries end up being cheaper than the name brand units (although this isn't always the case). For people in your case, though, this is really the only option for a fresh battery for an older laptop, cell phone, etc.
They're a franchise much like Radio Shack so you should be able to find one somewhere near you.
Now the MMO world has it much better off, since you need a subscription to actually play the game at all. Of course that undoubtedly leads to a lot of problems with stolen CC numbers and the like, so perhaps you are no further ahead. By requiring a CC number to even register, they of course limit their potential sales massively as well.
This really isn't the case anymore and hasn't been since World of Warcraft debuted.
MMOs made by established companies typically have game cards in retail outlets. You can go to GameStop and buy timecards for WoW with cash.
Barring cash, you can go to your local supermarket or big-box store and purchase a rechargeable cash card with no chance of going into the red (and thus paying ridiculous $35 fees for going a penny under $0.00). (The only fees for such cards are typically attached to recharging them.) Again, through this method you can play a MMO without a true credit card and risk absolutely none of your personal information and very little of your money.
Okay, a jury being uninformed in the sense of the person on trial - that's fine. But what good reason is there for there not to be a relevant law library in every deliberation room? How is a juror understanding the law itself in any way unfair to either side (except for those who are counting on an ignorant interpretation of the law to get their client off the hook)?
I concur absolutely. There are laws to protect people from being fired due to maternity leave, military service, etc. If there aren't laws in place now, there should be.
Jurors get paid something like $5 a day where I live. Seriously? $5 won't even pay for a single decent meal. If a trial goes beyond, say, 5 days, jurors should be paid a reasonable amount of money based on the current cost-of-living, and this money should be added to the eventual court costs. When a panel of jurors costs, say, $600-$1200/day that might speed up trials a good bit.
It's a good thing there aren't any women on Slashdot, or you might have ended up getting downmodded...
It doesn't, though. A lot of schools have adopted a "Zero tolerance" policy - part of which is your kid will get suspended for being in a fight.
Yes, I said *being* in a fight. If your kid tries to defend himself and gets his ass whupped, he gets suspended even if he weren't the aggressor. Both kids get suspended.
Being able to hold the attention spans of twenty 10-year-olds for longer than 10 minutes is a technique that takes weeks - if not months - of training. No joke here. You have to always be on the ball or they'll just get out of control.
Volunteer at a local Boys & Girls club, youth center, community center, etc. and see how well you fare with a group of 10 or more kids. It's not something you can just hop in and do.
Am I the only one would would like to hop on the thing like a pony and ride it to work every day?
Plus, I could set it to "Terrorize H.R. Mode" and pick it up at the end of the day.
Yes, but if a mule gets shot in the leg, you can't pull out a replacement part and fix it now can you?
So basically, xkcd is like Far Side 2.0?
Or maybe Far Side was xkcd v 0.72.10.11b.
Or does it? Since experience and personal contacts mean much more than degrees, the earlier you can get a job, the better. Wasting your time in actual school taking actual classes is a net loser compared to getting a cheap diploma from a diploma mill and getting a paying job today.
Yeah, except for all those fields where you actually require certification that you have the knowledge you're supposed to have such as medicine, law, education, engineering, etc.
What, do you think that if you had connections they would let you be the lead architect on a building project? Do you think they'd just let you have a go at brain surgery or teaching a group of third graders for a week? "Hell, this guy knows the mayor, let's let him be a cop for a day!" A degree is more than a "piece of paper" that is superseded by connections. Connections aren't going to magically give you the knowledge it takes to do certain jobs you daft waste of oxygen.
Perhaps I should elaborate, then.
Bringing up the fact that the range is *only* 300 miles is just a distraction tactic. As stated before, 90% of people need around a 25 mile daily range for their commute.
It's like when the car came out and someone said "But this thing can run out of fuel!". Yeah, no shit, but how often are you going to be going that far anyway?