I 'm travelling and using a samsung netbook. I like the navy lid. I sit on
the couch at my bro's,
cross my legs and balance the netbook on a pillow. This can't be good as it
blocks the fan vents. Any
recs for something to purchase to rest the netbook on ? With thanks in
advance ...
I'm
Why does windoze have these categories? I understand tab and window but why
does it have just open?
open where? on the planet uranus? why have a third meaningless option. Let
the rant begin.
Open uses the default window as specified by the link, which could be in
either the current
My Dad who uses Outlook 2007 is having trouble getting another relative's
email messages. They always go to his junk mail folder.
Could be any number of reasons, but there is a simple fix. Right-click one of
the junked emails, then click Junk E-mail and Add sender to safe senders
list. That
Read the letter from the president of woot about the sale it is an unusual
corporate letter.
http://www.woot.com/Blog/ViewEntry.aspx?Id=13390
Unusual is a pale, pale description of that letter.
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I guess you guys aren't typically reading woot's descriptions in their
product sales?
I have, but this is a different scenario. These We've been acquired letters
have been many, and there's a form that you have to follow. These guys didn't.
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15 inch laptop for writing code? Torture.
It's not just torture, it's inefficient, expensive torture. Developers are
*constantly* referring to documentation, code samples, bits of other projects,
and a million other things. Having to flip
back forth while coding is distracting terribly
How do I know this? Experience. The trend is unmistakable. Computer
usage by the masses is going mobile.
The Mac as we know it-a full featured personal computer-is slowly
going away, to be replaced by ever more mobile and increasingly
capable devices.
This might very well happen for a lot
There is a big difference between that and the stuff M$ used to do.
OK, what's the big difference between If you want to do X you have to use
our software and what MS used to do?
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For the first time since ...
Whatever.
I'd just like to point out that the continued use of the now decades-old M$
has become so trite, so lame, so boring, so unimaginative, so repetitive. So
silly. So utterly Oh, give it a rest.
So over.
I'm just saying.
BHO was all for drilling until the shit hit the fan.
No, he was never all for drilling. He gave this to the Republicans in another
one of his misguided attempts to be bipartisan or to get them to vote for
something he wanted.
When will he learn?
On May 1, 2010, at 1:19 PM, tjpa wrote:
Back in the 18th century it was possible to be proud to be a
Virginian. These days all we can be thankful for is that we are not
Arizona. Though some of us aspire to that too
Another example...
http://www.timesnews.net/article.php?id=9022692
And
I can hear the head of development for courier at MS...'Apple released
what? The iwhat?...dammit!...scrap everything!'
Really.
It's too bad, though. According to a couple of articles I've seen, Courier was
one of the few tablet-size boxes that was designed from scratch to be its own
I'm a stanch liberal, but also a strong advocate of toting guns. For those who
think guns kill people and not people kill people, by that logic we should ban
cars. We should also ban all smoking, all
alcohol and anything proven to be a carcinogen.
This is not going to go anywhere, but just for
Acer - AspireRevo Nettop with Intel® Atom™ Processor
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She is not a computer person. Only uses it for limited e-mail and for
microsoft word. Is not
interested in using for more than this.
Would this Acer do the job?
Certainly, it's more than adequate
The second problem is that Windows XP does not have a link to open
Irfanview when a NEF file is double-clicked in a Windows file list.
Clicking on a NEF file transfers to a browser pointed at Microsoft which
says that the file type is unknown. I haven't worked yet to see if I
can associate
It should be fine. The TV will amplify it.
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To: 'Chris Dunford'; 'Stewart Marshall'
Cc: 'Computer Guys Discussion List'
Subject: RE: vga port to port
One more basic question about
But...but...but...haven't you repeatedly referred to the iPhone as a
computer (with which, by the
way, I would not disagree)?
The iPhone is a combination computer and radio as are all the
so-called smart phones.
Yes, I know that. My point was that TP says (paraphrased), He repeats the
If I have a vga out port on my laptop can't I just get a simple vga monitor
cable (http://tinyurl.com/yjnyy37) or even one that has an integrated sound
cable on it (http://tinyurl.com/yfrxj5k) and show whatever from the computer
on my TV since it has a VGA port without buying some folderol
He is making a common mistake. He thinks the iPad is a computer when
it really is a very powerful phone.
But...but...but...haven't you repeatedly referred to the iPhone as a computer
(with which, by the way, I would not disagree)?
... Apple's argument that third party multitasking is a hamper to stability
...
Well, multitasking third-party apps certainly shouldn't be a hamper to the
stability of a well-designed multitasking OS.
(Now, before certain people get all bent out of shape because I'm saying that
the iPad OS
For those who say that USA has rotten broadband speeds because we have
such low population density, why is Canada ahead of US?
http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2010/03/tech/map.broadband.speeds/index.html
Interesting factoid: Unless I missed someone, South Korea is the fastest in the
world
Woz has found a single solution to iPhone's lack of multitasking AND its short
battery life:
Yeah. I just have two iPhones, so if the battery runs down on the first one, I
can use the other. And if I'm talking on one, I can use the other one to look
something up. You would not believe how
much
As you read here... nobody will want one.
Can you find a post that actually says this? I remember a good deal of yawning,
but I don't remember any posts saying that nobody will want one.
It's shiny. It's made by Apple. Everybody will want one.
(But it's always interesting to note how
Funny you never posted this when Palm did it...or Android...or Blackberry
that copied push notification before Apple did it. That was way cool when
Blackberry copied Apple before Apple even did it.
This guy thinks that push notification is the least of it.
What differentiates Windows Phone 7
The US disdain for government provided services has a cost in the real
world.
This implies there is no cost of government provided services in the real
world.
No, it doesn't. It states that there's a cost, typically unacknowledged, of NOT
having the services. There's no implication that
I didn't mean cost as in some monthly bill, i meant in the larger scheme.
I didn't mean that either, and it still didn't imply what you said...
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googl zip codes don't exist recovery.gov
My curiosity got the best of me, so I did google as mr xhavoc suggested.
Here the site that looked like it had some details
http://virginia.watchdog.org/334/recovery-gov-director-calls-fake-zip-
codes-much-ado-about-nothing/
A quick scan
This kind of deceit is a problem if software tries to write less than
4096 bytes at a time.
Yes, but NTFS uses 4K clusters. To the best of my knowledge, it never writes
512-byte sectors. (And even if it did, the vast majority of writes in typical
use would tend to be large--only the last,
Chris, you misunderstand RMW. Your jumper setting does not get around
it. Bliss-based ignorance.
I understand RMW perfectly well, thank you. You are not paying attention,
apparently.
There are two issues.
1. There is a performance penalty for writes of 4K due to RMW. But, as the
very
And you can't see that this is an awful kluge? Hardware vendors should
not have to go Rube Goldberg to work around a mess created my the
operating system vendor.
Did I see something moving out of the corner of my eye? Ah, yes, it's the
goalposts again.
Your post was about what a horrible fix
Except much of that money shows up in zip codes or counties that don't
exist. No, not all of it...but a lot.
Mike, can you quantify this? How much is much? You're sorta making it sound
like most of the money shown on the site is bogus. I'm not clear on your
thinking here--are you saying that
Long article at Ars about how M$ failed to engineer a smooth
transition for its customers to new hard drive technologies. Changes
are necessary to take us to higher hard drive capacities. Apple took
care of this many years ago so changes will be no big deal.
Your sad little summary fails,
A bit smug, Chris.
You're missing my point. Tom, who has long since lost all credibility in
commenting on MS, clearly implied that only Apple has addressed this. That is
patently not the case.
I did, however, make one mistake. On re-reading Tom's post, I see that he did,
in fact, mention
False. And downright rude.
Right. That was rude. But consistently referring to everyone who doesn't share
your obsessive hatred of MS as sheeple, lapdogs, or M$ minions, nothing
rude about any of that, right?
As to false, I already corrected the misstatement. Nice of you to acknowledge
that.
Just to be clear, Apple supported EFI since 2006...XP came out in
2001...the
next major update to XP which was Vista supports EFI and the larger
disks.
All those still using older macs are out in the cold too...not that
I think
it will affect anyone either way.
Just to be clear
Ah. Well, WD sees it differently:
Or you and they are feeding us BS.
Simple math on the drive specs shows these drives still have only 512B
sectors.
http://www.westerndigital.com/en/products/Products.asp?DriveID=763
Formatted Capacity: 1,000,204 MB
User Sectors Per Drive:
To be fair there are a few surface' platforms out there but not many. Has
anyone ever seen one in use?
Yeah, on TV shows and in movies, thanks to CGI and animation.
Steve
Well, it's not quite THAT bad. They do exist, and they are in use. I know that
some hotels use them (Sheraton
Various students who have been interviewed said that they all feel
so much pressure from both parents as well as school officials to
excel to extreme degrees that it is not surprising that some students
would resort to such behavior.
Perhaps, but it doesn't explain why they allegedly lowered
Yes the local DMV uses touch screens for their Drivers tests, and one
of the Big Orthopedic clinics uses windows touch screen laptops for
their staff, medical records.
Stewart
Rev, I think the question was about surface platforms, which are different from
simple touchscreens. They're
Hardly. You're blowing this all out of proportion. A better comparison
would be that we're all aware we can be filmed while on that bridge.
You have no reasonable expectation of privacy on the bridge. You do in your
bedroom. If the school system was going to violate that reasonable
If anything, they should sue the students who weren't bright enough not to
tape over the cameras before doing stupid stuff in front of them.
Stupid stuff? The student was eating Mike Ike candy.
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For those who aren't familiar with the rest of the commandments, there
were actually over 600. We're lucky that K.I.S.S. weeded out most of the
noxious ones, mostly from Leviticus. Or Moses got tired of chiseling
into stone when he got to ten.
Actually, there were fifteen--three tablets of
I know with your ideological bent you'll never admit a dem can do anything
less than pure but for anyone else..
Google Tipper Gore and video game violence.
Well, I didn't remember anything about Tipper Gore and video game violence, so
I did that and came up empty.
What did Tipper ever ask
Google Tipper Gore and video game violence.
Not surprising. She's one of The Mothers of Prevention that wanted to
do away with bad words in music, or some such. Definitely a killjoy.
Some such? Again, unless there's something else I can't find, some such
amounted to labeling, not
Yeah, but when they come to sell me FIOS, they will at the same time sell me
VOIP, which dies four
hours after the power grid goes down [frequently].
They will *try* to sell you fiber optic phone service. You don't have to take
it. I have FiOS broadband (which I love) and copper phone
If all these things are unconstitutional then someone would have
litigated it a long time ago and the Supreme Court would have declared so.
So I do not buy it at all.
Right. Every time I hear, Show me where in the Constitution is says we can
have X, I think, I'll do that as soon as you show
I don't pay a whole lot of attention, but I don't think I've ever seen a
laptop/notebook with a
**built-in** webcam. I think I'd be very suspicious of a school system that
issued computers with
them.
No, lots and lots of laptops and netbooks have built-in webcams. There's
nothing at all
It is funny how so many folks who have dismissed, out of hand, any
suggestion that the radiation from a cell phone has any effect upon
the brain or other bodily tissues have fully embraced this finding.
As Bob Park likes to say, Albert Einstein won the Nobel Prize in 1905 for
showing that
Arggh. Mixed up the Subj/To lines. Sorry.
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Why don't you leave the country and emigrate to one
I'll even give a nod to Windows XP, even though I got a message to
confirm with M$ for the first time last week on a system I've been using
for 5 years--it's superior to both previous and subsequent systems, so far.
Have you used Windows 7? What is it about XP that you find superior?
Why don't you leave the country and emigrate to one of the socialist
countries
where life is so much better? I'm doing just fine here.
I never told you to emigrate
(Privately)
Betty, this You hate the US? Leave! stuff is the canned response to the
slightest hint that the US might
The American fantasy promoted by corporations is that taxes are bad, and
taxes are so much higher in European countries with cradle to grave
popular social programs. Actually Americans pay much more in money and
time for basic necessities that others elsewhere have decided that all
their
Picasa is very good, but I still get plenty of false hits--maybe 1 or 2%. That
doesn't sound like much, but if a cop cam identifies one or two out of every
100 people on the street as criminal, the
watchers are going to be very, very busy, and the population is going to be
very, very annoyed...
Read, from PC Magazine:
When PCMag's editor-in-chief Lance Ulanoff put together a list of
dream features for the forthcoming Apple iPad tablet earlier in the
week, a stylus ranked pretty high. But Lance's dream was just
that--Steve Jobs, after all, has long been anti-stylus, as
On Feb 15, 2010, at 9:12 AM, Chris Dunford wrote:
Case made. What a bizarre thing to say. I don't like styli, so you
can't have one.
What a bizarre thing to say: I don't like innovation, so all progress
must stop.
And it's progress because Jobs says so, I guess.
I'd love to see someone
Shall we compare Steve Jobs's track record to yours?
How many private jets do you own?
Should we not, then, also compare Bill Gate's track record to Jobs's? I
wouldn't be surprised if Gates just gave away more money than Jobs is worth.
Therefore you must concede that Gates is by far the
This is where styli become almost necessary tools be they easily lost or not.
This business of One of the reasons why we don't support a stylus is that it
can be lost is so ridiculous that I have to wonder if he even really said it,
or if that's what he really meant. Maybe it
was just an
As I said, I'm aware of the quote (and it wasn't Gates who said it, it was an
Apple VP). My point was that you try to equate selling software with war
profiteering such. I obviously didn't pick the
best part of your message to quote.
Chris, Knife the baby. Was a direct quote from Bill Gates,
Chris, Knife the baby. Was a direct quote from Bill Gates, who
said it
when a startup told him they would not agree to a purchase offer from
M$.
Why are you so surprised? Even Robert Mugabe, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Kim
Il-sung, and Omar al-Bashir have devoted fans.
So, the simple fact
Doesn't justify how they got that money. And Gates goes from Knife
the baby to savior...
Knife the baby??! Good Lord, he must be doing something I haven't heard
about. He's a war profiteer, maybe? He's been selling munitions to terrorists?
Peddling tainted infant formula to Third World
Knife the baby??! Good Lord, he must be doing
something I haven't heard about. He's a war profiteer,
maybe? He's been selling munitions to terrorists?
snip
This is a reference from the antitrust trial. See
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0CGN/is_3533/ai_53185748/
for ... the
I know freedom scares liberals like you, things like self reliance are
frightening.
Sorry, Mike, but this is unnecessary, incorrect, and insulting. You know I'm
liberal. Do you seriously believe that I am frightened by self-reliance even
though I've been self-employed for nearly
thirty years?
Apologies, I let myself get away from myself. I usually hit Tom's crazy
talk with hyperbole of my own. I suppose the difference is, I know it's
hyperbole. So to present company, no insult intended.
Apology happily accepted.
SNL's take on iPad, from Weekend Update (this is from memory, doesn't seem to
be online):
And in technology news, Apple this week released new stuff that does the same
stuff as their old stuff. In other news. ...
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In other words, Apple's constant success and innovation inspires deep
hatred merely because Apple is so successful.
You're projecting again. You hate MS, therefore we must hate Apple. Wrong.
I have no hatred of Apple. I don't even dislike Apple. I think Mac, iPhone,
and iPod are all
Chris, you're wrong or misleading on many of your criticisms of the
iPad. First, it's not a midsize touchscreen, it's a large size
multitouch screen, one of the largest to be readily available. You
have to have some experience with multitouch devices, particularly
Apple's, to really have
Anyone who is not intrigued by the iPad is just showing a lack of
imagination.
OK, why don't you tell us what's so intriguing about a midsize touchscreen that
has no HD, no widescreen, no camera, no USB, no memory card slots, and no GPS,
that can only get music and video from
iTunes, that can
I will quote Andy Ihnatko of the Chicago Sun Times...
Is it better to have a device that is loaded with bullet-pointable
features?
Being able to get your music from wherever you want is just a bullet point?
Being able to run programs from whoever you want is just a bullet point?
Too bad so far it is only a really big iPod Touch which is OK but it ain't a
game changer. The bookreader is a color Kindle with higher prices
And without digital ink.
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Small screen?? A 1024 x 768 pixels, 9.7 diagonal screen that
you typically are going to view much nearer to your face than you
would a laptop or netbook is small?
You missed the point. Jobs criticized netbooks for their small screens, then
released a box with a screen that's as small as most
I get after my wife all the time for calling me while she knows I am
on the road. (MY blue tooth does not work.)
We've solved that one. Anyone in the family can call anyone else when we know
they're driving, but the driver won't answer (we don't even look at the phone).
Instead, the driver
$499 for an iPad. Hooha! That is what my original iPod cost.
I'm confused. Didn't Jobs say that netbooks are stupid because what you get is
a slow processor, a small screen, and a small keyboard? So he releases a box
with a slow processor, a small screen, and
no keyboard?
I dunno, I'm having
My initials tjp trigger tjpa and I'm #2 on the page.
Regrettably, my initials are the same as Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, the human
equivalent of mad cow disease.
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the list. For me it is 3.
3 for me too (in my case, it's the name of a freeware program I wrote in the
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I've received a few emails stating that starting next month cell phone
companies will be given access to personal cell phone numbers and that one
must call a special number to request that your number not be given out.
Can anyone verify whether this is correct or just another rumor? If the
-Compact digital cams..just because DSLR is getting cheaper doesn't mean
these little point and shoots are going anywhere.
Yeah. DSLRs don't fit very well in a tiny purse, plus they're overkill for most
people, who only want to take snapshots. Even DSLR owners mostly have
point-and-shoots for
Pretty much true. Ashton Kutcher selling Nikons tells me that Nikon
has lowered their sights to target the lowest common denominators
amongst us. Ditto for Maria Sharapova and Canon. Nothing like
getting the word from sex symbols. Who knew they were also camera
experts?
That's true,
I totally agree--it's the photographer, not the fancy equipment, that
makes the picture. Witness, for example, the cult of the Holga, a
toy camera from China that comes in a wide variety of colors and
retails for around $30. The Holga has quite a following among
professional photographers,
at 9:22 AM, Chris Dunford seed...@gmail.com wrote:
That's true, but Canon has ALSO been running a lot of ads for their new
DSLR (the one that can shoot
HD video). That dude, with lens, will set you back $3,500.
Yeah, but how many megapixels does it have? That's all I want to know
Fred you will get no argument from me on those issues.
But it still is the point how many Point and Click photographers even
know or care about those items?
I think a lot of point--shoot picture takers are very much aware of shutter
delay. They may not understand it, or really know what
You eat out? Give your credit card or visa debit to the waitress making
2+tips an hour? Drive through at jack or mcds and give the card to the kid
making 8 bucks an hour? Not to mention all the people who get their CC
numbers etc stolen by hackers at the bank level. I'm not sure I'd say
Yes and no. Yes, the waiter can do bad things with your credit card.
Yet if you have ever left your credit card behind you will discover
that they usually go to great lengths to protect your card and get it
back to you promptly. If these were dishonest people they would be in
a different line
At BofA, I have their visa card and they offer
ShopSafeR is their free service for Online
Banking customers that allows you to create a
unique, temporary account number for online purchases.
You specify the max amount and the expiration date for the shopsafe card
and you print out a
There was a significant problem not long ago, especially in major
cities, with wait staff who had handheld card readers. They'd
quietly swipe cards and sell the information. I don't know if this is
Is this not an urban legend?
Nope.
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/03/washington/
I would figure if you are at a place you know and trust not as much
of a problem than if you are somewhere you are totally unfamiliar with.
Apparently not. If you read the article I linked to in the reply to Tom, you'll
see that some of the restaurants in question were very well-known DC
It's this kind of sloppy writing that makes the rest of us have to
learn useless new words.
Tech folks need more words that non-tech folks because they need to
make precise distinctions. E.g. Eskimos have dozens of words for what
we just call snow.
You're right in general, but Eskimos
You know the name of the applet to change the cursor blink rate offhand? Wow. :)
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Seems easier to just start typing what you want from the start menu.
On Mon, Jan 4,
Verizon is helping out on their end. In Baltimore, MD, 3 people I've
talked to last week have found their landlines have been cut by
Verizon over the last couple of months even though they were still
being used. When Verizon finally owned up to the fact, it still took
two weeks for the
one of the first IBM PCs. I don't know how much that cost, but it had *two*
cases. A *huge* cable connected the two, and there was an additional hard
disk in the second one.
That was an expansion box. It had additional slots and a second HD. Not part
of the PC, purchased separately. The
Geeze. You kids today.
My first HD was a Davong 5MB that cost several thousand dollars (fortunately, a
client paid for it). But that's not the amusing part.
No, the amusing part is that I partitioned it into two 2.5MB partitions so I
could run both PC-DOS and the UCSD p-System (and the
The other day, on CNN, Google CEO Eric Schmidt said this about the
expectation of privacy for users of Google: If you have something
that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in
the first place.
I guess that clears things up!
Steve
As the result of which,
Well, this is something I hadn't seen before:
http://www.thenerds.net/EYE_FI.Eye_Fi_Home_Wireless_2_GB_Secure_Digital_SD_Card.EYEFI2HM.html
Basically, it's a WiFi-enabled SD memory card. You stick it in your camera or
whatever and it provides network connectivity. In essence, the camera gets
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I was mistaken when
The recent news of the changing of climate data to fit what researches want
instead of fact is in some ways similar
That is what Fox and the rest of the denier community wants you to think, but
it is not at all what the emails said. Unfortunately, this isn't the right
place to discuss it.
While ATT keeps whining about verizon spreading the *gasp* truth, Apple has
decided to take shots at Verizon themselves. Apple has to be irritated
about having sissy partners. What is almost funny is that Apple is
promoting the one space the iPhone can multitask...making calls and getting
On Nov 23, 2009, at 2:28 PM, Chris Dunford wrote:
And here's another funny one. Two Apple stores allegedly refused to
fix broken Macs because their owners smoke, thus making the Macs
biohazards:
Not so much biohazards as having the circuit boards gooped up with a
conductive layer of tar
This Microsoft store is trying too hard
http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/11/17/this-microsoft-store-is-trying-too-hard/
Two words for CrunchGear: Lighten up.
I've seen worse than this on Southwest flights more than once.
Not so with any of three digital cameras purchased this year. Drivers that
work under Win2K aren't even available.
Many newer cameras have two connection modes. One of them makes the camera look
to the PC like a disk and one makes it look like, well, a camera. So, check
your cameras and see
This argument leads me to think about the complaints I've heard the
most about when it comes to bad writing. Which I'm sure I'm guilty.
But tech. manuals and other such types are and continue to be the
worst..
I used to edit tech manuals. Talk about bad writing. Some of the errors I found
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