The targus bags look nice, but they have "EXPENSIVE LAPTOP" written all over them.
My suggestion: get a regular JanSport (or whatever) backup, so theives can't tell you have a laptop.
Not too long ago, a/.'er told the story of leaving his empty laptop bag in the back seat of his car, only to return to a car with smashed windows.
Besides, I think a regular backpack is perfectly functional, unless you have a 17" laptop. Used one all the time for my old 12 incher (which was about the same time as today's 15 incher, because of widescreen and having the screen stretched very close to the edge).
nah, it just means they have their mouse set on high sensitivity settings. it really has nothing at all to do with their hands.
I've noticed that macs have lower pointer sensitivity than PC's. It makes it more work to move the mouse, but is a much better setting for graphics design.
Should stores be required to provide handicap access to bathrooms, parking spaces, or other facilities? These things serve a minority of society but cost society as a whole a great deal of extra money.
Nah, we should just let 'em die. The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.
These people -- the Piraha-- allegedly have no creation myths nor any generational memory beyond their immediate forebears: parents and grandparents. Its bizarre.
It seems they are more like animals than like people.
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The proliferation of PDFs for information that can be displayed consistantly in other, more compact and less processor hungry formats, is frankly disturbing.
Because it was first published on paper?
Because they want people to think of it as part of a print medium, and that way they get the book sold?
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Those are the most reasonable statutory rape laws I've heard of.
It's all about the government minding their own business. If a 17-yo and an 18-yo are in a relationship where the state needs to intervene, the laws for adults will be fine.
Same about the drug war. We have far more felons (convicted or no) in the U. S. than there need be. And so many of the people who have done things that actually deserve a felony conviction got their start by going to jail for a drug conviction or who the hell knows what else.
Actually this law is fucking ridiculous the way it's implemented in most states. An 18 yr old can't have sex with his girlfriend two weeks younger than him, and the other way around as well.
I think it needs to be "adult and minor, not married, more than two years in age apart".
Sorry to bring it even further OT, couldn't help it.
I'm hoping that Gamecube disks are better than CDs/DVDs. And yes, I know, technically they're DVD's, but they're obviously manufactured differently. They're not just painted black like Sony's.
I've wanted one. I live in Arizona btw. bma3.dana@ucc@nau@edu. (tr/@./.@/g)
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What do you mean you're against downloading music? I'm against DRM and piracy (the convenient thing to do is very rarely the right thing to do). I hate the RIAA's DRM scheme so I boycott them by only buying used music.
I am not against "downloading music", though. I think downloading music is a novel approach, it's just that I want my high-quality non-drm'ed tracks dammit! Why shouldn't those of us who are good and decent (as opposed to lazy) be able to download music at a reasonable price and play it wherever we like?
Until the RIAA changes their attitude they won't have my business. And I'll buy non-drm'ed from independent labels whenever music I want is available in this form.
Putting sensors on a refrigerator door to see if someone is out and about is a great idea. Sure, after the fact it's very obvious, but most innovations are, after the fact.
The alert system also sounds very cool. Especially its ability to work in the forested area. Not a bad facility.
Glad to see they have creative people working there, that understand human behavior. They must be very well-versed in user interfaces.
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You lost me during the second sentence.
Hey, fucktard. He was talking about the screenshots, not the ISO's.
Say it with me, "LnxAddct is a fag".
Now that's even smarter. When I get a new laptop (sold my old one), I will for sure do that.
My suggestion: get a regular JanSport (or whatever) backup, so theives can't tell you have a laptop.
Not too long ago, a /.'er told the story of leaving his empty laptop bag in the back seat of his car, only to return to a car with smashed windows.
Besides, I think a regular backpack is perfectly functional, unless you have a 17" laptop. Used one all the time for my old 12 incher (which was about the same time as today's 15 incher, because of widescreen and having the screen stretched very close to the edge).
I remember hearing that unless you use new libraries, it will work under an old VM.
So do I.
Why do you think Apple and the people behind FireFox chose to have Google as the default searching option?
Money? I think not.
And even if that were the case, where did Google get all their money?
The founders weren't rich when Google began. They had a great idea, and brilliantly executed it.
I don't know why you felt the need to back him up.
I've noticed that macs have lower pointer sensitivity than PC's. It makes it more work to move the mouse, but is a much better setting for graphics design.
Write a Perl script, that runs XFree86, checks the exit code, swaps in the nv file if it fails, and re-runs XFree86.
Or find someone else that has already done it.
Nah, we should just let 'em die. The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.
Since there's only one occurrence of "player" per line, the g isn't needed.
It seems they are more like animals than like people.
Because it was first published on paper?
Because they want people to think of it as part of a print medium, and that way they get the book sold?
No shit.
blah($_); blahblah($_) for @x;
You don't like that sort of thing, Ada doesn't allow that sort of thing.
You don't want to use Ada, so that's where your rant ends.
So, what the hell does this have to do with BeOS?
Perhaps you don't know what BeOS is. The software is definitely not the Windoze fare, I can tell you that much.
It's all about the government minding their own business. If a 17-yo and an 18-yo are in a relationship where the state needs to intervene, the laws for adults will be fine.
Same about the drug war. We have far more felons (convicted or no) in the U. S. than there need be. And so many of the people who have done things that actually deserve a felony conviction got their start by going to jail for a drug conviction or who the hell knows what else.
Actually this law is fucking ridiculous the way it's implemented in most states. An 18 yr old can't have sex with his girlfriend two weeks younger than him, and the other way around as well.
I think it needs to be "adult and minor, not married, more than two years in age apart".
Sorry to bring it even further OT, couldn't help it.
Who gives a fuck? I mean, really? Who gives a fuck?
Why not mention who your service provider is? Then we all could avoid them. Without that your post is pointless.
I'm hoping that Gamecube disks are better than CDs/DVDs. And yes, I know, technically they're DVD's, but they're obviously manufactured differently. They're not just painted black like Sony's.
I've wanted one. I live in Arizona btw. bma3.dana@ucc@nau@edu. (tr/@./.@/g)
I am not against "downloading music", though. I think downloading music is a novel approach, it's just that I want my high-quality non-drm'ed tracks dammit! Why shouldn't those of us who are good and decent (as opposed to lazy) be able to download music at a reasonable price and play it wherever we like?
Until the RIAA changes their attitude they won't have my business. And I'll buy non-drm'ed from independent labels whenever music I want is available in this form.
The alert system also sounds very cool. Especially its ability to work in the forested area. Not a bad facility.
Glad to see they have creative people working there, that understand human behavior. They must be very well-versed in user interfaces.