The "Willis Tower" will always be the Sears Tower, "U.S. Cellular Field" will always be Sox Park, and, owing to the fact that the Apple II was my first exposure to Apple computers, the "Command key" will always be the "Open Apple key":)
Its the Open-Apple key, but I will allow Apple-Key.
"Shift-Apple-3 to take a screen shot"
I'm partial to Shift-Apple-Ctrl-4 (I generally like my screenshots to go to clipboard), especially since a subsequent tap of the spacebar makes it basically behave like a time-delayed Shift-Apple-Ctrl-3. Very handy.
Same thing with my Macbook Pro and my wife's Macbook. According to the shipping labels & package tracking, they came directly from China (both from Guangzhou, if I recall correctly), customizations & all. Mine even took a while, as it was held up in customs in Memphis.
Frankly, 3D does make a bad movie better. If I have to watch a bad movie (some of us on slashdot have girlfriends/wifes), I rather watch it in 3D so at least I get kick out of the 3D immersion.
Wouldn't keeping radio signals in also have the unfortunately side effect of keeping radio signals out? While having a neighborhood coffee shop offer free wifi to paying customers while being an of oasis of cellphone-free peace & quiet would be sweet, having no cellphone reception at home because one desperately wants to prevent neighbors from stealing one's wifi seems very inconvenient (especially when setting up even the most basic built-in wireless router security would successfully do the trick in 99.9% of cases).
We just know from WoW that most people can connect online and play. There are some cases out there, some legitimate-use cases -- that aren't just people that refuse to buy a modem or are crazy and weird and living in a closet.
I believe what you're describing ("all those gamers who live in a rural, dial-up only area") would fall under the "legitimate-use cases" to which he refers, and very clearly dissociates from the "crazy and weird" contingent.
He's an idiot on their frequency, thereby endangering the passengers.
Trying to get elected with that sensationalism are you?
you need to go further and call his actions "terrorist" and how he endangered the "entire city".
what he did was stupid, but you are doing the same thing by acting like a Fox news reporter.
Are you on drugs? The GP could not have summarized this whole thing in a more factual, less sensational way. So posing as a CTA supervisor & ordering train conductors to ignore stop signals when approaching busy subway stations doesn't count as "endangering the passengers" in your mind?
Look, I hate the black & white, "with us or with the terrorists" propaganda as much as anyway, but how about a little perspective on things? The facts here are simple: this guy is definitely an idiot, and some of his idiocy had the potential of injuring and/or killing a lot of folks.
Same situation in Chicago. Earlier this year I met a girl who had the G1-HTC-Android-whatever, and asked her why she kept 3G turned off. She said Edge was fast enough for her needs, so she preferred conserving battery life over the higher speed of 3G.
I tried loading up cnn.com (full version, not mobile version) on both of our phones simultaneously - sure enough, her phone (with 3G off) smoked my iPhone 3G (with 3G on).
They were everywhere last summer/fall spouting out nonsense which they didn't understand.
You just described a vast majority of voters all across the political spectrum. I wish every halfwit would shut it with the political commentary now (especially since I seem to have a "Tell Me Your Thoughts About Politics" tattoo on my forehead that's visible to everyone but me).
I'm gonna go out on a limb here & guess that your Rorschach test answers would result in the psychiatrist raising this eyebrows, taking notes furiously, and asking his secretary to hold his calls.
If the ISS is somehow hurled out into space, is it still in orbit? No.
If the ISS is allowed to let Earth's gravity do its thing, is it still in orbit? No.
Now tell me, which do you think is cheaper & easier: to shuttle a bunch of fuel out to the ISS, then use that fuel to rocket that thing out of orbit in such a way that it flies off into space? Or to use what fuel it already has onboard to send the ISS, one module at a time, into controlled re-entry?
Please feel free to explain which portion of the compound word "de-orbit" explicitly points to "send out into space" as opposed to "allow to re-enter the atmostphere".
Your comment would be funny if the Internet were a big truck that you could just dump stuff on, but it's not. Sheesh, I thought everyone knew that.
Now if you'll excuse me, someone sent me an Internet yesterday, and I need to find out why I still haven't received it. I bet it got tangled up in all those commercial Internets that keep clogging up the tubes.
Yes - LOVE the VX Nano. It's a relatively simple little USB wireless laser mouse, but it works super smoothly & dependably.
As Curunir_wolf mentioned, the USB "Nano receiver" is very small - when plugged in, it only sticks out about 1/4", and is designed to butt up against the side of your laptop very snugly, so you don't have to worry about it wiggling or snagging on anything. The only time I ever need to remove it is when I'm working from home & want to use it with my work laptop.
Also as anakha said, the battery life is very good. I've had the thing for about a year, and have only had to change batteries twice. Luckily the little status light just below the scrollwheel starts blinking red when the juice is getting low.
I actually went out of my way to find a wireless mouse that was NOT rechargeable...I prefer incurring the cost of two AAA batteries every four months than having to charge my mouse every other day, then having to deal with its charge running low, etc.
Finally, some caveats:
- The VX Nano is a smaller-than-average mouse. If you have large hands, or are only comfortable cupping your entire hand over the mouse, this might not be the mouse for you. This mouse is definitely designed for the claw technique.
- The latest version of Logitech's OS X software (Logitech Control Center v2.7) is not compatible with World of Warcraft (if you play, that is). Everytime you try to use the scrollwheel in-game, the cursor will jump to one of the top corners of your screen. The solution is to download an older version of the LCC (2.1, I believe). There's a WoW forum thread that includes a (malware-free) link to the older LCC download, I've used it successfully in the past...I'd link it here, but I'm at work & WoW-related links are locked down.
- Many people who hate the LCC software (for the reason outlined above, among other things) have successfully gotten all of the VX Nano's features to work using SteerMouse (and other freeware OS X mouse utilities). Personally, I don't really care either way...I use LCC v2.1 with now problems. I have the center "search" button configured to activate Exposé's all-windows mode, and have the two small buttons by the left mouse button configured for page back and page forward.
While I agree with you re. Sony (my Sony ES receiver is a champ, and my 2-year-old Sony ES DVD player is solid so far), I have to disagree with "Have you ever been to Japan? Apple looks like shit. Any laptop sold in Japan looks infinitely better than even the slickest apple product sold in the US."
A quick trip to CNET Japan's PC section (via Google Translation) reveals some very plain-looking laptops, with a mostly positive-sounding review of the Macbook Air prominently featured in the top section, in which I'm pretty sure the writer praises the design (can't be totally sure, Google's translation leaves much to be desired).
The overall CNET Japan front page has a link to Onkyo's new Sotec C103 netbook, which looks fairly nondescript & doesn't have very exciting specs.
I'm sure the Japanese market used to be flooded with products that we Americans could only imagined (or had only seen on TV shows that take place in the future and/or in space), but that doesn't appear to be the case anymore.
Also, my reading comprehension is clearly lacking - the "shut the hell up" part was you quoting the parent, not your sentiment, which means my crotchety tone was meant for that person, not for you.
If the government threw a bunch of money at Google, would it be totally inconceivable that gmail/app/doc/chat appliances could be cooked up for use by government entities, with fairly little effort on Google's part?
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I strenuously disagree.
The "Willis Tower" will always be the Sears Tower, "U.S. Cellular Field" will always be Sox Park, and, owing to the fact that the Apple II was my first exposure to Apple computers, the "Command key" will always be the "Open Apple key" :)
Its the Open-Apple key, but I will allow Apple-Key.
"Shift-Apple-3 to take a screen shot"
I'm partial to Shift-Apple-Ctrl-4 (I generally like my screenshots to go to clipboard), especially since a subsequent tap of the spacebar makes it basically behave like a time-delayed Shift-Apple-Ctrl-3. Very handy.
If you call it the "Command" key instead of the original "Open Apple" key, GTFO.
You should have signed in before submitting this comment...it's worthy of some +1 mods, in my opinion.
Same thing with my Macbook Pro and my wife's Macbook. According to the shipping labels & package tracking, they came directly from China (both from Guangzhou, if I recall correctly), customizations & all. Mine even took a while, as it was held up in customs in Memphis.
Frankly, 3D does make a bad movie better. If I have to watch a bad movie (some of us on slashdot have girlfriends/wifes), I rather watch it in 3D so at least I get kick out of the 3D immersion.
There was a 3D version of "When In Rome"?
Wouldn't keeping radio signals in also have the unfortunately side effect of keeping radio signals out? While having a neighborhood coffee shop offer free wifi to paying customers while being an of oasis of cellphone-free peace & quiet would be sweet, having no cellphone reception at home because one desperately wants to prevent neighbors from stealing one's wifi seems very inconvenient (especially when setting up even the most basic built-in wireless router security would successfully do the trick in 99.9% of cases).
In Chronotron, you create a time paradox and have to restart the level.
Nicely done! Chronotron was exactly the game I was trying to think of when I read the summary.
I was hooked on that one for a while.
I believe what you're describing ("all those gamers who live in a rural, dial-up only area") would fall under the "legitimate-use cases" to which he refers, and very clearly dissociates from the "crazy and weird" contingent.
Reading comprehension for the win?
He's an idiot on their frequency, thereby endangering the passengers.
Trying to get elected with that sensationalism are you?
you need to go further and call his actions "terrorist" and how he endangered the "entire city".
what he did was stupid, but you are doing the same thing by acting like a Fox news reporter.
Are you on drugs? The GP could not have summarized this whole thing in a more factual, less sensational way. So posing as a CTA supervisor & ordering train conductors to ignore stop signals when approaching busy subway stations doesn't count as "endangering the passengers" in your mind?
Look, I hate the black & white, "with us or with the terrorists" propaganda as much as anyway, but how about a little perspective on things? The facts here are simple: this guy is definitely an idiot, and some of his idiocy had the potential of injuring and/or killing a lot of folks.
Awesome.
Thanks for making me quite literally "LOL" :)
Same situation in Chicago. Earlier this year I met a girl who had the G1-HTC-Android-whatever, and asked her why she kept 3G turned off. She said Edge was fast enough for her needs, so she preferred conserving battery life over the higher speed of 3G.
I tried loading up cnn.com (full version, not mobile version) on both of our phones simultaneously - sure enough, her phone (with 3G off) smoked my iPhone 3G (with 3G on).
I was bitter.
They were everywhere last summer/fall spouting out nonsense which they didn't understand.
You just described a vast majority of voters all across the political spectrum. I wish every halfwit would shut it with the political commentary now (especially since I seem to have a "Tell Me Your Thoughts About Politics" tattoo on my forehead that's visible to everyone but me).
I'm gonna go out on a limb here & guess that your Rorschach test answers would result in the psychiatrist raising this eyebrows, taking notes furiously, and asking his secretary to hold his calls.
7) Two pregnant women.
No way, man! That's obviously someone giving two thumbs up, Fonzie-style. Ayyyyyyyy!
de-orbit - v.: to remove from orbit
If the ISS is somehow hurled out into space, is it still in orbit? No.
If the ISS is allowed to let Earth's gravity do its thing, is it still in orbit? No.
Now tell me, which do you think is cheaper & easier: to shuttle a bunch of fuel out to the ISS, then use that fuel to rocket that thing out of orbit in such a way that it flies off into space? Or to use what fuel it already has onboard to send the ISS, one module at a time, into controlled re-entry?
Please feel free to explain which portion of the compound word "de-orbit" explicitly points to "send out into space" as opposed to "allow to re-enter the atmostphere".
Your comment would be funny if the Internet were a big truck that you could just dump stuff on, but it's not. Sheesh, I thought everyone knew that.
Now if you'll excuse me, someone sent me an Internet yesterday, and I need to find out why I still haven't received it. I bet it got tangled up in all those commercial Internets that keep clogging up the tubes.
Your post is intelligent, insightful, civil, and well-written.
Clearly it has no business appearing in this thread. Shoo! Begone from this repository of flamebait & personal attacks!
+1, In-context Chris Rock reference
Yes - LOVE the VX Nano. It's a relatively simple little USB wireless laser mouse, but it works super smoothly & dependably.
As Curunir_wolf mentioned, the USB "Nano receiver" is very small - when plugged in, it only sticks out about 1/4", and is designed to butt up against the side of your laptop very snugly, so you don't have to worry about it wiggling or snagging on anything. The only time I ever need to remove it is when I'm working from home & want to use it with my work laptop.
Also as anakha said, the battery life is very good. I've had the thing for about a year, and have only had to change batteries twice. Luckily the little status light just below the scrollwheel starts blinking red when the juice is getting low.
I actually went out of my way to find a wireless mouse that was NOT rechargeable...I prefer incurring the cost of two AAA batteries every four months than having to charge my mouse every other day, then having to deal with its charge running low, etc.
Finally, some caveats:
- The VX Nano is a smaller-than-average mouse. If you have large hands, or are only comfortable cupping your entire hand over the mouse, this might not be the mouse for you. This mouse is definitely designed for the claw technique.
- The latest version of Logitech's OS X software (Logitech Control Center v2.7) is not compatible with World of Warcraft (if you play, that is). Everytime you try to use the scrollwheel in-game, the cursor will jump to one of the top corners of your screen. The solution is to download an older version of the LCC (2.1, I believe). There's a WoW forum thread that includes a (malware-free) link to the older LCC download, I've used it successfully in the past...I'd link it here, but I'm at work & WoW-related links are locked down.
- Many people who hate the LCC software (for the reason outlined above, among other things) have successfully gotten all of the VX Nano's features to work using SteerMouse (and other freeware OS X mouse utilities). Personally, I don't really care either way...I use LCC v2.1 with now problems. I have the center "search" button configured to activate Exposé's all-windows mode, and have the two small buttons by the left mouse button configured for page back and page forward.
While I agree with you re. Sony (my Sony ES receiver is a champ, and my 2-year-old Sony ES DVD player is solid so far), I have to disagree with "Have you ever been to Japan? Apple looks like shit. Any laptop sold in Japan looks infinitely better than even the slickest apple product sold in the US."
A quick trip to CNET Japan's PC section (via Google Translation) reveals some very plain-looking laptops, with a mostly positive-sounding review of the Macbook Air prominently featured in the top section, in which I'm pretty sure the writer praises the design (can't be totally sure, Google's translation leaves much to be desired).
The overall CNET Japan front page has a link to Onkyo's new Sotec C103 netbook, which looks fairly nondescript & doesn't have very exciting specs.
I'm sure the Japanese market used to be flooded with products that we Americans could only imagined (or had only seen on TV shows that take place in the future and/or in space), but that doesn't appear to be the case anymore.
Also, my reading comprehension is clearly lacking - the "shut the hell up" part was you quoting the parent, not your sentiment, which means my crotchety tone was meant for that person, not for you.
Apologies :)
If the government threw a bunch of money at Google, would it be totally inconceivable that gmail/app/doc/chat appliances could be cooked up for use by government entities, with fairly little effort on Google's part?
Come on now, use a bit of logical reasoning here.
What if your name is Michael Bolton?
Then you run the chance of scoring the job solely because the HR guy celebrates your entire collection.