I wanted something that didn't say "HEY, I'M AN EXPENSIVE LAPTOP COMPUTER, STEAL ME !"
So I bought a Danish school bag at the local amy surplus. I got a sleeve for the laptop, which all fits in the bag. Then I grunged it up with some paint and iron-on patches to make it look like nothing nobody would want to steal. For extra padding, I can put my towel in it.
About the only thing less likely to get stolen would be a diaper bag with Barney all over it.
Why not just put some money in a savings account with instructions for it to be used to resurrect your corporeal body when the principal is sufficient?
Personally, I left a note in an infrequently used book at the library asking that any good samaritan time traveller rescue me.
I just bought a new Turion laptop and the Synaptics trackpad recognizes gestures. Tap the pad for clicks, slide your finger along the right edge for vertical scroll, along the bottom edge for horizontal scroll. It's the simplest, slickest, most intuitive thing I've seen in a long time. I already find my wife's Powerbook G4 to be confusing and annoying because it doesn't have it. And the whole thing can be implemented in a driver update.
As much as I admire PKD's work, he had only one main theme "reality is slippery". You're lucky to find a Lem story where he only explores one unusual idea.
I think that letter just shows the sheer innovative genius of Philip K Dick. Who else but a brain-addled speed-freak would create a whole new literary genre around writing insane letters to the FBI?!! This is nothing less than a thinly-veiled and scathing review of Lem's work. Much like how Lem wrote the introductions to books that he knew he would never get around to wrting for one reason or another.
Hollyweird likes stories that play with what is real and what isn't. It makes them feel what they do is special. Just look at movies like "Vanilla Sky", "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind", "The Truman Show" and "Brazil". They particularly enjoy half-heartedly raping the oeuvre of Philip K Dick for this reason.
Goddamn corporate whores are colluding to not just monopolize an industry, but the market itself. That's just wrong.
If I'm forced to buy a copy of Windows that I don't want with my new computer, I should be able to freely re-sell that copy. (Ok, so being software, someone could make a "backup" copy and sell their original. That's not right either.)
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Is that why the baby Bells are fighting for two-tier internet servercice? They're going to give away basic service for free? SWEEET!
Whatever happened to the plan to drive trucks with GPS & digital cameras around and map things at street-level? (That was google, wasn't it?)
Actually, this is part of a covert war on Holland, Venice and Tuvalu. Dirty bastards!
So I bought a Danish school bag at the local amy surplus. I got a sleeve for the laptop, which all fits in the bag. Then I grunged it up with some paint and iron-on patches to make it look like nothing nobody would want to steal. For extra padding, I can put my towel in it.
About the only thing less likely to get stolen would be a diaper bag with Barney all over it.
Personally, I left a note in an infrequently used book at the library asking that any good samaritan time traveller rescue me.
why are these scienticians wasting so much time and effort when we have perfectly good baboon bladders lying all over the place?
I bet these guys or these guys can top that!
I think "bacterial slimejets" is almost as good a name for a nerdcore band as "titanium spork".
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Make it look like Mr Spock's computer interface dohickey that he wears in his ear.
I just bought a new Turion laptop and the Synaptics trackpad recognizes gestures. Tap the pad for clicks, slide your finger along the right edge for vertical scroll, along the bottom edge for horizontal scroll. It's the simplest, slickest, most intuitive thing I've seen in a long time. I already find my wife's Powerbook G4 to be confusing and annoying because it doesn't have it. And the whole thing can be implemented in a driver update.
Meh. I guess it's better than squandering it on bombs and blowing peoples up.
"Apple Computer - proudly going out of business for thirty years"!
BWAHAHAHAHAHAH!
As much as I admire PKD's work, he had only one main theme "reality is slippery". You're lucky to find a Lem story where he only explores one unusual idea.
I think that letter just shows the sheer innovative genius of Philip K Dick. Who else but a brain-addled speed-freak would create a whole new literary genre around writing insane letters to the FBI?!! This is nothing less than a thinly-veiled and scathing review of Lem's work. Much like how Lem wrote the introductions to books that he knew he would never get around to wrting for one reason or another.
Seduced, shaggy Samson snored.
She scissored short. Sorely shorn,
Soon shackled slave, Samson sighed,
Silently scheming,
Sightlessly seeking
Some savage, spectacular suicide.
Hollyweird likes stories that play with what is real and what isn't. It makes them feel what they do is special. Just look at movies like "Vanilla Sky", "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind", "The Truman Show" and "Brazil". They particularly enjoy half-heartedly raping the oeuvre of Philip K Dick for this reason.
And what's that "destruction of state property" in Mississippi that was mentioned above earlier? Is that legit? You ass really does belong to da man?
"I P Freely -- American Patriot !"
Goddamn corporate whores are colluding to not just monopolize an industry, but the market itself. That's just wrong.
If I'm forced to buy a copy of Windows that I don't want with my new computer, I should be able to freely re-sell that copy. (Ok, so being software, someone could make a "backup" copy and sell their original. That's not right either.)
whaddya tryin' to do, cover a bald spot?!!!
sure, go ahead, use it as your .sig...
That proverb has great poetry to it in the original Klingon.