Although I prefer desktops for work, if needed I just raise the notebook to the correct viewing height and use a USB keyboard with a Logitech Marble Mouse. I believe in bringing my own keyboard and mouse to work in any event, and keep spares handy.
For recliner surfing I use a strip of Velcro to secure my Thinkpad to a laptop cooler (avoids roasted yarbles, put it on the bottom of the notebook under the spacebar area, do NOT do both sides or it will suck to separate the notebook and cooler!) and loom the power brick and mouse cables together with Velcro straps. Power brick is Velcroed to the small table next to me. No external keyboard when in recliner mode of course, and the combination works well when I'm in a recumbent position.
"If you're driving around where I live, people will actually mostly respect your turn signal. "
If you drive where I live YMMV:
Motorcycle = they don't see it Volkswagen Scirocco = they usually don't see it or see but don't care 2000 F150 = they see it and defer appropriately 1976 spray bomb camo F350 with flat black tow truck push bumper = they must love me because they leave me LOTS of room.
The proper hobbyist reaction might be a serious hate-on for Psion.
The "hobbyists" aren't the ones who made their marketing decisions. Psion had a chance to stay relevant and blew it long ago by using WinCE and a non-x86 processor. Those who fuck with "hobbyists" might note that hobbyists make purchase decisions at their day jobs. If a company pisses me off I'd go out of my way to to buy their stuff, recommend others seek alternative (without mentioning my ire), and in general refuse to support them.
"umm, the ponzi guy was an INVESTOR in the scheme. A scammee not a scammer."
I don't get that part. Instead of cowardly suicide, he could have killed or crippled the scammer and taken righteous revenge, With all the people the scammer broke, not one has had the balls to punish him, which the trivial prison sentence he'll get won't do. Too bad he didn't rip off a drug dealer instead.
If someone wrecked my life, they'd be blind and attached to an ostomy bag. My new hobby would be "model prisoner".
"Karl Marx actually proposed a way improved form of democracy where the workers united in neighborhood committees will decide their own neighborhood policies, their city, their state, their country and the world's policies, all through direct debate and vote, with EVERYBODY being part of the decision and policy elaboration process."
It is effortless to propose systems without regard for actual human needs, wants, and social behaviors. Good luck setting up a successful commune, let alone a state or world system of government.
"That's because I also believe at some level that humans who haven't been conditioned or brutalized have a natural instinct to try to save any distressed human young that we happen to run across."
That an instinct exists does not make it useful. When we eliminate natural selection and try to protect maladapted cultures from the effects of their defects we perpetuate problems. There is no reason to try to preserve the backward peoples who cannot preserve themselves. It does not benefit us.
Their attacks will make the internet stronger by helping it evolve defenses it would not otherwise have. Some steady pressure spurs evolution. So long as it does not kill the host we should smile and welcome the challenge.
I look at them after being pranked with a fake plate printed out by my co-workers, but as we found out, most people don't check their plates and walk right by blatantly suggestive fakes.
"I've often thought if I got one of these tickets I would take it to court and ask for the right to see my accuser."
Print your tag using this link, along with some random tags from your area. I found out about it when my co-workers pranked me by placing a "MAN SEX" fake over the plate on my tow truck... Funny thing is that I towed several cars that weekend right past police without knowing about the plate (which is near my lightbar so I don't look at it).
"Yeah, and a trip to the west coast after the Lewis and Clark expedition would only have been for historical reasons and maybe bring back a few more notes."
We can send robots instead of meat puppets at less cost and no risk to personnel, whose loss would endanger programs that are much more valuable to mankind than a few dead astronauts. We need to develop machines to do our exploration and our work because humans are delicate, weak, and high-maintenance, so send unmanned missions for a few decades and get good at it.
I'm fine with lunar missions, but not with expensive tourists when sending robots is a more worthy goal. Exploiting space should be done using unmanned systems while humans do the design and enjoy the benefits without personal risk. Catering to meat tourists SLOWS development life cycles (Space Shuttle, anyone?) and is a drag on science.
"Natalie Portman can't act for shit and she has the tits of an 11-year old girl. Grits are bland and best served to the inbred, down-syndrome-afflicted inhabitants of the Southern United States."
OK, OK, ya got me horny, hungry, and nostalgic for the folks back home, but what was your point?
"If we have proof that there were no ships there at the time, then ships were not the cause. If the only remaining explanation is sabotage, then it was sabotage."
Time for some Optical Time Domain Reflectometer inspection of the cables, AssUming a tap would/might register.
Any OTDR geeks out there? I've only used the old-school units for shooting wires.
"Yeah, and with the mass migration of stupid NYers to places like NC its only a matter of time before those states are destroyed by backwards liberal politics as well."
Expat Yankees DO need to realize that the things they like about the South are NOT the result of liberals moving down here.
I consider it only fair to warn them that everyone South of Mason-Dixon is a cannibal Klansman who makes Ottis Toole look like Richard Dawkins by comparison.
If his life is going to be wrecked anyway, he might consider publishing every last detail (incuding the name of the bitch concerned, with an easily recognized photo) and going on the offensive.A website with the police reports and other relevant information could be a great weapon. The bitch deserves to be exposed, for the rest of her life, for trying to ruin this man.
If it were me, I'd make damn sure not only that I didn't hide (hiding = fail) but that she never could. My new hobby would be preofessional vengeance.
"they can use the restore WinXP SP3 CD that came with the prior PCs"
Dell ought to lock their restore disks to specific machine ranges instead of just the basic "Dell Check". Even better if they locked OUT any DVD that didn't have a proprietary Dell boot sector.:)
That would deter using versions of Windows not supplied by the machine vendor, and make both new computer purchases and Linux more attractive.
The call is wonderfully easy. Simply put a moratorium on manned missions and scrap manned programs for ten, twenty, or thirty years.
We are losing sight of why we need to explore space, which is to increase knowledge, wealth and power.
Sending meat while our technology is in its infancy is romantic but silly. We can design everything so we don't need meat tourists and use remote control instead. The technology required to do things without people is IMO more valuable because it is more cost-effective than sending meat, supporting meat, and getting meat back alive. There is far less political cost to vehicle loss. Unmanned vehicles can make one-way trips, and can be sent off to fly through space for decades.
Our robots should be superb. Our humans should stay home and be their masters.
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Although I prefer desktops for work, if needed I just raise the notebook to the correct viewing height and use a USB keyboard with a Logitech Marble Mouse. I believe in bringing my own keyboard and mouse to work in any event, and keep spares handy.
For recliner surfing I use a strip of Velcro to secure my Thinkpad to a laptop cooler (avoids roasted yarbles, put it on the bottom of the notebook under the spacebar area, do NOT do both sides or it will suck to separate the notebook and cooler!) and loom the power brick and mouse cables together with Velcro straps. Power brick is Velcroed to the small table next to me. No external keyboard when in recliner mode of course, and the combination works well when I'm in a recumbent position.
"If you're driving around where I live, people will actually mostly respect your turn signal. "
If you drive where I live YMMV:
Motorcycle = they don't see it
Volkswagen Scirocco = they usually don't see it or see but don't care
2000 F150 = they see it and defer appropriately
1976 spray bomb camo F350 with flat black tow truck push bumper = they must love me because they leave me LOTS of room.
The proper hobbyist reaction might be a serious hate-on for Psion.
The "hobbyists" aren't the ones who made their marketing decisions. Psion had a chance to stay relevant and blew it long ago by using WinCE and a non-x86 processor.
Those who fuck with "hobbyists" might note that hobbyists make purchase decisions at their day jobs. If a company pisses me off I'd go out of my way to to buy their stuff, recommend others seek alternative (without mentioning my ire), and in general refuse to support them.
"umm, the ponzi guy was an INVESTOR in the scheme. A scammee not a scammer."
I don't get that part. Instead of cowardly suicide, he could have killed or crippled the scammer and taken righteous revenge, With all the people the scammer broke, not one has had the balls to punish him, which the trivial prison sentence he'll get won't do. Too bad he didn't rip off a drug dealer instead.
If someone wrecked my life, they'd be blind and attached to an ostomy bag. My new hobby would be "model prisoner".
"I mean, a couple of centuries ago, they could've only imagined "horseless carriages"."
Two centuries ago = late 1808
Nicholas Cugnot produced a working steam-driven horseless carriage in 1769. The first steam locomotive was built by Richard Trevithick in 1804.
http://nevertoolatebook.com/FardierdeCugnot20050111.jpg
"Karl Marx actually proposed a way improved form of democracy where the workers united in neighborhood committees will decide their own neighborhood policies, their city, their state, their country and the world's policies, all through direct debate and vote, with EVERYBODY being part of the decision and policy elaboration process."
It is effortless to propose systems without regard for actual human needs, wants, and social behaviors. Good luck setting up a successful commune, let alone a state or world system of government.
"The big gasoline puddle could then catch fire."
Which was complemented by the tendency of the doors to jam shut when the car crumpled from being ass-ended.
"That's because I also believe at some level that humans who haven't been conditioned or brutalized have a natural instinct to try to save any distressed human young that we happen to run across."
That an instinct exists does not make it useful. When we eliminate natural selection and try to protect maladapted cultures from the effects of their defects we perpetuate problems. There is no reason to try to preserve the backward peoples who cannot preserve themselves. It does not benefit us.
Their attacks will make the internet stronger by helping it evolve defenses it would not otherwise have.
Some steady pressure spurs evolution. So long as it does not kill the host we should smile and welcome the challenge.
Fill them with birdshot and you'd have a Glaser Safety paintball. No ricochets and quite an impact.
I look at them after being pranked with a fake plate printed out by my co-workers, but as we found out, most people don't check their plates and walk right by blatantly suggestive fakes.
"I've often thought if I got one of these tickets I would take it to court and ask for the right to see my accuser."
Print your tag using this link, along with some random tags from your area.
I found out about it when my co-workers pranked me by placing a "MAN SEX" fake over the plate on my tow truck...
Funny thing is that I towed several cars that weekend right past police without knowing about the plate (which is near my lightbar so I don't look at it).
Enjoy:
http://license.plates.txt2pic.com/
"Each news outlet twisted the facts to suit their own agenda. But if you were not there you would never know."
That's why I get my news from unbiased sources like Fox, Kos, and 4chan.
It would be worthwhile to ensure that everyone you know who might otherwise buy their software know that it funds a confidence scam.
"Yeah, and a trip to the west coast after the Lewis and Clark expedition would only have been for historical reasons and maybe bring back a few more notes."
We can send robots instead of meat puppets at less cost and no risk to personnel, whose loss would endanger programs that are much more valuable to mankind than a few dead astronauts. We need to develop machines to do our exploration and our work because humans are delicate, weak, and high-maintenance, so send unmanned missions for a few decades and get good at it.
I'm fine with lunar missions, but not with expensive tourists when sending robots is a more worthy goal. Exploiting space should be done using unmanned systems while humans do the design and enjoy the benefits without personal risk. Catering to meat tourists SLOWS development life cycles (Space Shuttle, anyone?) and is a drag on science.
"Natalie Portman can't act for shit and she has the tits of an 11-year old girl. Grits are bland and best served to the inbred, down-syndrome-afflicted inhabitants of the Southern United States."
OK, OK, ya got me horny, hungry, and nostalgic for the folks back home, but what was your point?
"If we have proof that there were no ships there at the time, then ships were not the cause. If the only remaining explanation is sabotage, then it was sabotage."
Time for some Optical Time Domain Reflectometer inspection of the cables, AssUming a tap would/might register.
Any OTDR geeks out there? I've only used the old-school units for shooting wires.
"So alternative medicine exploits placebo effect and gullibility."
That's why I pray my way to good health and donate to my church instead.
"Yeah, and with the mass migration of stupid NYers to places like NC its only a matter of time before those states are destroyed by backwards liberal politics as well."
Expat Yankees DO need to realize that the things they like about the South are NOT the result of liberals moving down here.
I consider it only fair to warn them that everyone South of Mason-Dixon is a cannibal Klansman who makes Ottis Toole look like Richard Dawkins by comparison.
If his life is going to be wrecked anyway, he might consider publishing every last detail (incuding the name of the bitch concerned, with an easily recognized photo) and going on the offensive.A website with the police reports and other relevant information could be a great weapon. The bitch deserves to be exposed, for the rest of her life, for trying to ruin this man.
If it were me, I'd make damn sure not only that I didn't hide (hiding = fail) but that she never could. My new hobby would be preofessional vengeance.
"I don't know but I suspect it has something to do with believing that each of you is more capable and special than anyone else. "
I don't know about the rest of you fuckers, but _I'M_ a unique and special snowflake, indispensible to my workplace.
Has anyone seen my stapler?
"Robbing Peter to pay Paul is wrong, whether Paul is a corporation or an individual."
When I'm Paul, such robbery is heinous, but when I'm Peter it seems quite moral.
"they can use the restore WinXP SP3 CD that came with the prior PCs"
Dell ought to lock their restore disks to specific machine ranges instead of just the basic "Dell Check". Even better if they locked OUT any DVD that didn't have a proprietary Dell boot sector. :)
That would deter using versions of Windows not supplied by the machine vendor, and make both new computer purchases and Linux more attractive.
The cure is to destroy devices, which are trivially cheap, instead of selling them.
The call is wonderfully easy.
Simply put a moratorium on manned missions and scrap manned programs for ten, twenty, or thirty years.
We are losing sight of why we need to explore space, which is to increase knowledge, wealth and power.
Sending meat while our technology is in its infancy is romantic but silly. We can design everything so we don't need meat tourists and use remote control instead. The technology required to do things without people is IMO more valuable because it is more cost-effective than sending meat, supporting meat, and getting meat back alive. There is far less political cost to vehicle loss. Unmanned vehicles can make one-way trips, and can be sent off to fly through space for decades.
Our robots should be superb. Our humans should stay home and be their masters.