I love the Marble Mouse. It's perfectly symmetrical; as soon as I went lefty-mouseball, all my problems went away. I know this is the single contributing factor because when I switch back to righty-mouseball (say, for gaming), I can feel the pains coming back after 30 minutes or so. And at $30 for the USB optical model, it's priced right. I hope they don't discontinue it.
The real value-add from TiVo here (for me, anyway) is not so much avoiding commercials as it is saving time.
If the banner-ad-while-fast-forwarding still allows me to skip 4 minutes of commercials in 5 seconds, that's fine with me, as long as the banner-ad goes away when I'm *not* fast-forwarding...
At the last place I worked, it wasn't the developers responsible for all of the paper wasteage, but then again, all we read was code, just before mucking with it...
A lot of people there printed reams of stuff (like e-mail) to bring with them to read at the train station and on the train for their hour-or-more commute back home (if they take the train, then they've earned the right to print out a few more pages). I didn't blame them for wanting to do that, but it bugged me to no end to see a ream of e-mail forgotten at the printer at 5pm, or to be queued up behind some bozo who started a long print job on a printer with no paper, so that when I actually refilled the printer ("why the heck is my print job taking so long?"), his print job took off long after he already left the office, leaving me to wait...
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I love the Marble Mouse. It's perfectly symmetrical; as soon as I went lefty-mouseball, all my problems went away. I know this is the single contributing factor because when I switch back to righty-mouseball (say, for gaming), I can feel the pains coming back after 30 minutes or so. And at $30 for the USB optical model, it's priced right. I hope they don't discontinue it.
The real value-add from TiVo here (for me, anyway) is not so much avoiding commercials as it is saving time.
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If the banner-ad-while-fast-forwarding still allows me to skip 4 minutes of commercials in 5 seconds, that's fine with me, as long as the banner-ad goes away when I'm *not* fast-forwarding
At the last place I worked, it wasn't the developers responsible for all of the paper wasteage, but then again, all we read was code, just before mucking with it ...
A lot of people there printed reams of stuff (like e-mail) to bring with them to read at the train station and on the train for their hour-or-more commute back home (if they take the train, then they've earned the right to print out a few more pages). I didn't blame them for wanting to do that, but it bugged me to no end to see a ream of e-mail forgotten at the printer at 5pm, or to be queued up behind some bozo who started a long print job on a printer with no paper, so that when I actually refilled the printer ("why the heck is my print job taking so long?"), his print job took off long after he already left the office, leaving me to wait ...