Well said. I hate to say it, but most of my fellow Americans walk around with blinders on. And normally when I even try to discuss anything serious with my friends and family, it leads to a fight.
I've lost more friends because they don't want to discuss politics in the last year then I'd have imagined.
This past presidential election was the first I was able to vote in, and I bloody well knew it was an important one. Now I'm not so niave as to say it was the most important presidential election in the history of our nation. Because, let's face it, early on there were probably some things that could have got us to this situation sooner. But I digress, all I wanted to say was, don't disreguard these comments just because he's not an American. It is his business. That'd be like telling our president to butt out of matters in other countries. (Most of the time, that would actually be more appropriate) Because we have a great effect on the world at large. So telling someone from another country that US Policy is just not their business is flat out wrong. Anyway... That was my little rant, I have to get back to work.
If we are going that far, why not just buy a (relatively) cheap 15"-17" LCD monitor, and mount it under the table?
You could get one for less then the projector (Or the same price) and build a table from hardwood for not too much. Give it some rails to slide the monitor into place. It'd be a little more labor intensive, but you could build drink holders into it to. And sink area's for the dice rolls, so you wouldn't have to worry about that klutz who can NEVER SEEM TO KEEP THE BLOODY DICE ON THE TABLE. Not that I'm bitter about that or anything.
For the scale we're talking about, it wouldn't be bad for battles, with squares being half to 3/4" in size. Put a piece of glass over the monitor, and voila! You've got something you can just plug into your laptops external video out (Or my desktop has 3 of them on it.) and you're set. Extend your desktop, and have the display be on the secondary monitor, and the controls be on you're main screen.
I had the same problem with my friends, I just finished writing instructions for installing and using GAIM and GAIM-Encryption Plug-in, they can be found in my blog. Feel free to pass it on, or use the images and instructions for yourself. Just give a little credit. ^_^
http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=WebsterTrivium
It's under "PWD Homework Assignment" for when this post becomes a little bit outdated. And if anybody wants to put it up and give it a permanent home, let me know and I'd be happy to send them the HTML
But how long before AIM changes the protocol enough that everyone will HAVE to upgrade to continue using their servers though? Or even just the login protocol. (It happened on Y! maybe a year ago. Had to upgrade my third-party clients to continue being able to connect to Y!)
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Well said. I hate to say it, but most of my fellow Americans walk around with blinders on. And normally when I even try to discuss anything serious with my friends and family, it leads to a fight.
I've lost more friends because they don't want to discuss politics in the last year then I'd have imagined.
This past presidential election was the first I was able to vote in, and I bloody well knew it was an important one. Now I'm not so niave as to say it was the most important presidential election in the history of our nation. Because, let's face it, early on there were probably some things that could have got us to this situation sooner. But I digress, all I wanted to say was, don't disreguard these comments just because he's not an American. It is his business. That'd be like telling our president to butt out of matters in other countries. (Most of the time, that would actually be more appropriate) Because we have a great effect on the world at large. So telling someone from another country that US Policy is just not their business is flat out wrong. Anyway... That was my little rant, I have to get back to work.
If we are going that far, why not just buy a (relatively) cheap 15"-17" LCD monitor, and mount it under the table?
You could get one for less then the projector (Or the same price) and build a table from hardwood for not too much. Give it some rails to slide the monitor into place. It'd be a little more labor intensive, but you could build drink holders into it to. And sink area's for the dice rolls, so you wouldn't have to worry about that klutz who can NEVER SEEM TO KEEP THE BLOODY DICE ON THE TABLE. Not that I'm bitter about that or anything.
For the scale we're talking about, it wouldn't be bad for battles, with squares being half to 3/4" in size. Put a piece of glass over the monitor, and voila! You've got something you can just plug into your laptops external video out (Or my desktop has 3 of them on it.) and you're set. Extend your desktop, and have the display be on the secondary monitor, and the controls be on you're main screen.
It's beautiful.
I had the same problem with my friends, I just finished writing instructions for installing and using GAIM and GAIM-Encryption Plug-in, they can be found in my blog. Feel free to pass it on, or use the images and instructions for yourself. Just give a little credit. ^_^ http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=WebsterTrivium
It's under "PWD Homework Assignment" for when this post becomes a little bit outdated. And if anybody wants to put it up and give it a permanent home, let me know and I'd be happy to send them the HTML
But how long before AIM changes the protocol enough that everyone will HAVE to upgrade to continue using their servers though? Or even just the login protocol. (It happened on Y! maybe a year ago. Had to upgrade my third-party clients to continue being able to connect to Y!)