@pisikopati, yenilebilitesinin pek fazla olduğunu düşünmüyorum. Ancak, iyi bir cerrah ile göğüs kafesi açılarak içime yerleştirilip, özenle göğüs kafesim kapatıldıktan sonra, herhangbir rahatsızlık duymadan yaşayabilirim bu yaratık ile. Tamam, abarttığımı biliyorum, ancak ne yapabilirim ki, kedileri çok seviyorum.
- izmirdenbirisi
@Özer (Wrzl) Dölekoğlu, izniniz olursa bu resmi çalıp sitemde yayınlamak isterim?
- izmirdenbirisi
i've gotten out of it twice, both times when I was in college. i always wanted to do it too. especially now, my company continues to pay full salary while on it. would be a nice paid break.
- Bill Kinney
I had planned to bring a book or two. no phones, no pc, just read.
- Mike Nencetti
I was called for a few ......they did not need me on one and I cannot do it now...........but if I had any I saw on courttv in session I would bring along a pin to keep poking myself to stay awake with all the babbling that goes on.....
- VAL D. Zone
I am crippled with arthritis and I cannot sit for long periods at a time..especially in those chairs............sucks
- VAL D. Zone
sorry to hear about the arthritis. i know nothing about arthritis..... sends a long distance hug to help :)
- Mike Nencetti
I have never been called. I think I'm on a "list" somewhere
- sjjh
I have only received 2 summons in my entire life. I've moved a lot over the years. Maybe that has something to do with it. Maybe it's just luck. I doubt it's personal
- Mike Nencetti
u can create automator workflow for that. u still need unrar/rar from rarlabs.com (cli edition is free) cp it to ur /usr/local/bin/ than try automator
- Uğur vigo Özyılmazel
from iPhone
It's the end of an era, I guess. Still, it's a shame that some machines still ship with HDDs and optical drives connected via a PATA-to-SATA bridge...
- Tyson Key
Yeah I still have 6 IDE drives that just won't die so still using them in an old server and external case.
- ronin
I have one of the BlacX external drive slot gizmos, that are really useful. Hot-swappable SATA drives.
- Ian May
haha I read the first comment and totally saw "LONG LIVE SATAN" goodness!
- jamar78
I answered a lot of questions about IDE in my day. Remeber the 512mb barrier? That is where OnTrack made a lot money bypassing cylinar limits in BIOS.
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
from iPhone
Yea Carolyn...soon this will be another technology that time has forgotten...just like how I also have to explain to my kids how we used to drag needles through the gooves of vinyl discs to play music.
- Mark Krynsky
dear pissed off students, i'm really sorry that the power f'ed up and rebooted the computers, but i can't go back in time and warn you to save your documents
I did it on purpose. Really. Because I'm the Mean Librarian. Yep.
- ÉllbeeÇee
We actually *planned* that outage just to give you a lesson in saving, really. it's for your own good.
- Archangel ωαřмaiden
my other fave, which I can now warn about, students who stretch and in doing so, hit the reset button with their foot. oops.
- Mickey Schafer
Could easily move the computers, and if they were using google documents their writing would be auto backed up at all times. And there are backup versions stored anyway. Just a matter of knowing where to log.
- Richard A.
had that happened the other day Mickey...fun times at the library! and me? trip over a cord...nah...if i had done that the power wouldn't have come back on :)
- Sir Shuping
richard power went out in the entire building and we have deepfreeze on our public computers so if the computer reboots everything restores to the original state...thus lost documents
- Sir Shuping
save early, save often ... and, no, not to the desktop of the public computer
- marthalib
You know, I never really considered making them use google docs. I make them use google stuff for lots of other stuff, though, so maybe that isn't a bad idea for in-class assignments.
- Mickey Schafer
Google docs is perfect, decentralised, and you can save local copies too. But an e-mail client does the same.Laptops are good too. If the power cuts out you just work off the battery and at least you have time to save what you're doing.
- Richard A.
I've progressed. I'm falling with my netbook right now, so small, so practical, and with 3g modem if there's no wifi :-). Four hours of battery at least. Perfect.
- Richard A.
omg i am so with you on this. deepfreeze is a terrific solution, but it does lead to some very unpleasant things on occasion.
- Luke Rosenberger
deepfreeze has saved me so much stress over the last 3 years that sadly when things like this happen...it doesn't bother me in the slightest. and the univ is actually kinda sorta moving to the cloud at least for the students. they're going with microsoft live so they'll have some cloud storage space
- Sir Shuping
i know whatcha mean. i feel bad for the handful of individual students who lose work in these scenarios (despite our clear warnings), but i wouldn't want to imagine what our information commons would be like without deepfreeze. we have tried to improve things by pointing the "my documents" folder on public machines to network shares on boxes with backup power and scripts that erase files in those shares that are older than 72 hours.
- Luke Rosenberger
Many years ago, I got a book of tips for managers. One of the most useful was: When working on the computer, save your work regularly. I even apply that to video gaming.
- sjjh
This reminds me of that 'résumés in plain language' site that was around during the dotcom crash. It presented this kind of language in actual, real language (but in a snarky way, of course). It was hilarious. This probably would be translated into 'I can have conversations with people. Even people not on my own team!'
- Akiva Moskovitz
I understand, Joe =) But seriously, if anyone knows of a job where I can get paid for talking like a longshoreman, lemme know!
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
The verbiage around my shop is salty enough that sometimes I wince.
- MVB (Grinch of FF)
I soooo wish I could 'effectively interface across all levels of the hierarchy'
- Holly Rae
ha. can i adapt a version of that for my own resume? :)
- edythe
The famous "geek-non geek translation" ^_^
- Roberto
from iPhone
<pedant>"to effectively interface" is a split infinitive.</pedant><Elmore Leonard>Using adverbs is bad.</Elmore> "I am fluent in Geek and Muppet"
- sjjh
Tina, I sooo meant that in a serious way. If I ever need interfacing skills, I'm coming your way. :)
- Holly Rae
Tina, have you found any particular websites with good resume/cover letter advice? I think I need to think again about mine and since you've done so much research recently....
- WorldofHiglet
...and I am totally amazed at how much work you have put into finding work. If you ever get the chance it would be really interesting and inspiring if you get chance to document your journey back into employment (because it can only be a matter of time before you land a job).
- WorldofHiglet
To me, the refusal to properly fund education ultimately seems like a tacit approval of slavery. The less you know, the easier you are to control, and the harder it is for you to seek remediation when you are being exploited. It's perfect for the ruling classes.
people care more about low property taxes.
- Mike Nencetti
*shrug* We're certainly not the first republic in human history to go down this route.
- Victor Ganata
"We must educate our masters" but keep our drones ignorant
- sjjh
A great reason to get Government out of education. Government schools create good subjects.
- Dave Roth
Uh, no. The public universities in California used to give you the most bang for your buck. My undergrad education cost at most one-fourth of what a private education costs. Too bad Schwarzenegger and the Regents are intent on dismantling the Master Plan. It's actually pretty clear that some people really aren't interested in meritocracy at all.
- Victor Ganata
I think we can only blame ourselves. Low taxes and having tax payer revolts are popular and simplistic, but doesn't actually solve any of our real problems.
- Piaw Na
many of the uneducated that seek education don't give a shit about property taxes because the don't own any property. and the way things are going, they (we) never will.
- Morgan Haley
I really see these trends as a way that kids with poor parents might eventually end up as property themselves, or at least treated as such by the ruling classes, even if these kids have the intelligence and talent to succeed in a mythological meritocratic world. It's not like it's easy to get into Cal or UCLA, nor is it that easy to graduate. Hell, I may not have even gotten in if I had to apply now.
- Victor Ganata
Why is entrepreneurialism not taught in American schools, starting in the younger grades? Why is it always "do well in school so you can get a good job" (working for someone else)? Why are our children not being taught from the start that they can work for themselves? Why are they not shown how? Why do teachers in this country have to run cash registers at K-Mart during the summer to...
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- April Russo (app103)
Truth be told, I didn't go to a public school until college. The methods at the private schools I attended don't sound particularly different, though. Learning to think for yourself doesn't seem to be something we encourage as a culture, really, and neither is knowledge for the sake of knowledge alone, so it's not surprising how our schools run. We live in a culture that seems to celebrate ignorance and that derides intelligence and learning. What are we gonna do?
- Victor Ganata
OK: this is weird. I came back from a party and went to bed around 2am. I woke up around 5am by cat, went into kitchen/great room to feed her, and balcony door was open. The front door was unlocked. Nothing stolen so far. My laptop was in a bag on the kitchen table, and it wasn't taken.
It wasn't particularly windy last night, but that's the only reason I can think the back door was open.
- anna sauce
It's 2 French doors, that I usually bolt together to close, and bolt one on the top to the frame. I am forgetful, so I could have left it unlocked, and the cat opened it.
- anna sauce
A drunk wandered into the wrong apartment?
- Rob Haas
Tip your waitress. I'm here all week.
- Russellreno
yeah I'm wondering if it was a combination of cat + wind. So weird.
- anna sauce
Rob- I'm on the 2nd floor, it's quite a climb. There were some leaves on the balcony too- wonder if it was a tree-entrance? Still the computer and purse and stuff were untouched.
- anna sauce
I don't know much about you or the party you went to, but I guess you excluded the possibility of an alcohol- or other substance-induced lapse in memory?
- Tudor Bosman
Tudor, I'm betting on it. I hear 'party' and 'door open' and it's case closed for me.
- Cristo
Tudor, Cristo, didn't exclude it, it's just unusual. I wasn't that gone actually, just very tired. Came in, had some water, changed into PJs, washed my face, all kind of normal non-drunken stuff. Wasn't dehydrated or anything when I woke up at 5. I'd stopped drinking a few hours before coming home. And then, didn't have more than 3 (started at 8). So... sure, absentminded, but don't...
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- anna sauce
Ok, this is weird. I came back from a party and woke up the next day at 2pm with my pants on my ancles lying across the armrests on a recliner in my living room with the mobile phone in my lap showing the number to my ex-girlfriend. Odd.
- Thomas Bøhm
I'm a little worried that someone was casing the place.
- anna sauce
Just joking :) It´s not good to not feel secure in ones own place. And definitely not if strangers may have been roaming it.
- Thomas Bøhm
I wish I was the wild partier you guys think I am!
- anna sauce
I saw this suspicious looking guy today on the steps. Suspicious because he looks like some other folks who have stolen stuff from the garage & building. I had to peruse a lot of surveillance cams when my bike was stolen first month I was here. :(
- anna sauce
anna, I'm sure if you put your mind to it, you could become the partier we think you are. Also, have you thought of befriending this potential burglar? Perhaps if you were super nice him, he might think twice about robbing you. Also, it could improve your party points if you shared a bottle of vodka with a random guy in your place. :P
- Cristo
More expensive than the stuff that could be stolen, not to mention safety? If I thought someone might have come into my place while I was sleeping, the locks would be changed the next day.
- Cristo
I can't explain it, and it's illogical, but I just have a feeling that nobody was here.
- anna sauce
Do you remember locking up as you came in? I've left the door open when I have been really tired (or just not closed it all of the way). Cristo might have a good suggestion though - safer to change the locks.
- Jennifer Dittrich
I just checked all of the windows (if the burglar set an easier point of entry, for example) and put lots of doodads on the sills so it'll make noise. Double-checked all the locks. Just being urban-savvy. I'm sure I'm fine. Yeah Jennifer, I could have left it unlocked when I came in. It's the balcony doors open wide that freaked me out.
- anna sauce
Um, sleepwalking? (I used to "get up" and turn all of the lights on when I got stressed out.)
- Jennifer Dittrich
sjjh: Because macbooks have such an organic design and the alu is so shiny that it becomes one with its surroundings like a chameleon ? May have been. ;)
- Thomas Bøhm
This last weekend there wer ea rash of burglaries that sound like this one- up and downa street 1 blcok away. Jimmied doors, using tools to open doors, etc. Small things taken.
- anna sauce
There was a news item about this, that there is a group going into apartment buildings and stealing stuff.
- Cristo
Yeah I was copied on the police report from which they wrote the articles
- anna sauce
at first I think a handshake til I knew you better
- VAL D. Zone
until i know a person really well, i don't hug unless they initiate. or we're both drunk.
- Joe Silence is not Santa
I'm with Joe on the hugging front. (Hey joe, that sound a little strange to you too?)
- SAM
Handshake, most likely. I'm a big hugger, but out of respect, try to gauge people's "personal space" limitations when meeting in meatspace.
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
I'm not a hugger, so probably a handshake.
- Katy S
(Well since I do not know you and ran across your page today) I would be professional. Say hello, introduce myself, compliment your Friendfeed postings and engage in socialization,
- H0llywoodWh0re
A head-nod. I am seriously uncomfortable touching other people or being touched unless we're REALLY close. Even shaking hands or fist bumping stresses me out and makes me uncomfortable. I generally dread that part of a typical business transaction points to an inevitable handshake. Every once in a while, I read or hear someone recommend just coming up to people and hugging them at...
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- J Wynia
I'll usually shake hands with a lady when we first meet, although I'll hug if they initiate. I've never actually done a chest bump with a lady. That I know of.
- ha3rvey (doesn't dance)
I would politely shake hands, and then reassure you that the boxers I'm wearing are button front (and thus, pants were unnecessary.)
- Mark "DerBingle" J
Pffffffttt...Akiva wouldn't even look at me when we met.
- Alex Scoble
Depends. It ranges from an awkward hello, to stuffing you in a sack :)
- Mo Kargas
LOL I love the answers and I'd welcome the hugs although I usually have an issue with personal space. And if you're not into the physical contact, that's totally okay. I remember having a job interview once where the person who was to be my supervisor hugged me at the end of the process. It was very odd...yet I wasn't disturbed so much as touched by the gesture. I would definitely be hugging people good-bye!
- Junebug (aka Sarah Jill)
Jealous of the easy media management of iTunes, but don't use an iPod/iPhone? Then this is the app for you! </tv announcer voice> Seriously, though. doubleTwist is a great app for managing your music, photos and music and syncing them between your desktop (Mac or Windows) and your Android phone. It also converts videos and music files to compatible formats when syncing to your device (I haven't tested this). Also has Amazon MP3 store integration for easy browsing and purchase of unencumbered audio files. Highly recommended.
- Jason Huebel
from Bookmarklet
On my Android device, I just copy files onto the SD card. Why do I need this?
- sjjh
Well, it includes Amazon MP3 Store support. It also includes support for moving Photos and Videos back and forth between your Droid and PC/Mac. Never underestimate having a nice, centralized drag-and-drop interface for managing your files. That's part of what makes iTunes so popular-- ease of use. YOU may not need it, but the average user will. Personally, I think Verizon should be...
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- Jason Huebel
Hmm. When I plug an HTC Magic or Tattoo into a USB port (without removing the card) on my PC, the device is recognised as a disk drive. I then have a drag & drop interface from Windows Explorer. I agree that some apps should be included though. For example, how about File Explorer on the device? The first app I install is always OI File Manager
- sjjh
I use Banshee and it fits my needs, but would be nice to have an "all-in-one" package like this on linux
- Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ
from IM
@sjjh, there's no predefined directory structure on the Droid, though. So you could put music pretty much anywhere on the SD card. WE understand that, but the average user is going to wonder where to put their music, videos and pictures. doubleTwist takes that uncertainty out of the equation. That's important to adoption by less technically-savvy people.
- Jason Huebel
@slayerboy, Banshee looks REALLY nice. It supports more than doubleTwist does (for instance, podcasts).
- Jason Huebel
Hmmm, does it support photos? Doesn't appear to.
- Jason Huebel
nope no photos yet.....although Banshee is really frustrating me on ubuntu 9.10....it's a resource hog
- Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ
from IM
Meh, most media managers are resource hogs, though. All the cover art, special widgets, etc make it so. I don't really worry about memory usage anymore. Now if it's eating up unnecessary CPU time, that's different. I hadn't heard of Banshee until your mention of it. I'm a long-time KDE user, so I tend to stick to Qt-based apps (don't really have anything against GTK/Gnome, mind you).
- Jason Huebel
"Mark up websites, graphics, and photos, or start brainstorming on a blank canvas. Browse the web with your friends or make that conference call more productive than ever. No plug-ins, downloads, or firewall voodoo - it's all here, ready to go when you are. Browser-agnostic, user-friendly."
- Jannifer @wordsforliving
from Bookmarklet
I tried this and what my colleague and I had drawn disappeared when I switched tabs and then switched back a few minutes later
- sjjh
Because of those limey Brits. God bless 'em every one! I love 'em and I hate 'em. I know they would hate me some, but hopefully there are those that will love me too! But yeah, to answer your question - it's the limey (yet very sexy) Brits!
- Morgan Haley
I would blame it on teachers - I dont know about you but in our school writing "the royal mail delivered the mail" would have gotten you a big "REPETITION!!!" note in the margin and a lower grade...
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
@Joelle - That was my thought, too. 'Mail' and 'Post' are synonyms, so it parses poorly to use either word twice in a sentence, especially when one noun use would be proper and the other common.
- Rob Sterling
This doesn't seem much like spotify to me. There is no software to install, and they (presumably) aren't licensing the music, since it's on youtube
- sjjh
The cutesiness is offset by having yet another graphic embedded in email, which IMO is better off the more it's just text.
- Andrew C
but what would tend to happen is people using plain text email clients would just see the text replacement in this case no?
- Zee.
Not a big fan, myself. Not especially secure (if it's your actual signature), adds an extra attachment, and we all know how unreliably e-mail clients tend to show images.
- Curtiss Grymala
I'm not a huge fan of graphics or images in email signatures as it means getting an attachment from them on every email. I stick with plain text.
- Mike Bracco
I guess it depends on what type of emails it is used in and to whom it is sent. I'm sure a good percentage of hardcore internet users would find it annoying and/or tacky and/or inefficient. Grandma would probably love it, but in business/transactional type of stuff, it may have an adverse effect.
- 1001 noisy cameras
Naff. Same for company logos. At some point in the thread the mail goes to a plain text-only client and then all the graphics become attachments that are out-of-context. If your company strapline doesn't work as text without graphics or a specific font, it doesn't work.
- sjjh
i have a brush, one of those ones with the widely spaced thick plastic "bristles". works for me, but i have my hair so short anymore that it's more of a habit than a need for one.
- Joe Silence is not Santa
I own a brush but have no hair to brush it with. My beard is getting long enough to use it on though.
- CW™
I think we might have a brush somewhere.
- Ayşe E.
My wife brushed my hair today, basically the back of my head. all is well. Apparently Tuesday AM was 'ungroomed' .
- Mike Nencetti
i can think of a good few reasons angrykeyboarder...and seems like so have they
- Zee.
the apps are free. I played around with myStarbucks and like it. several times I've wondered where the nearest Starbucks with wifi was located. also, I like creating my favorite drinks so I remember the best way to order them - and can send to friends when they get my order so they don't have to remember the details.
- jbrotherlove
I miss it so much... dream on their frappuccinos every day! why do I live in a country with no Starbucks?!? sigh sob...
- Lui(gi) ►►
Once they get ordering like the Chipotle app they'll do well.
- John Wang
Survey: In jocular vein, do you prefer $tarbucks or Fourbucks? Does the iPhone app give you access to the legendary Short Cappuccino?
- sjjh
"Mario’s Cafe Bar in Westhoughton, UK, serves the biggest full English breakfast in the world, according to Guinness World Records. The Ultimate Breakfast costs £10.95 ($18.05) and consists of 10 eggs, 10 sausages, 10 rashers of bacon, 10 slices of toast, five black pudding slices, tomatoes, mushrooms, and baked beans for a total of about 5,000 calories. If you eat it in 20 minutes, you can get it for free. Thankfully, no one has yet to finish it—methinks the aftermath would not be worth the £10.95 you save. [via Metafilter]"
- Steven Perez
from Bookmarklet
Is there a FF thread on Black Pudding. I would read it. I've only eaten black pudding once. that's enough.
- Mike Nencetti
Black Pudding aka Blood Sausage is basically the best food ever invented. The main ingredient is pigs' blood. It or adjacent foods are eaten all over the world. In Spain: morcilla (of which there are at least two sub-types); in France: boudin noir; I met a Laotian who said they make it as a jelly there. 'scuse, gotta go eat
- sjjh
"I recently had a minor epiphany: I’m probably never going to buy another desktop PC. It shouldn’t have come as a revelation given that the last one I got (in January of 2007) sits largely unused, except when I need to grab a particular old file off its hard drive. Laptops give me everything I need from a computer, and their downsides–smaller screens, lower-capacity hard drives–are far outweighed by their multiple virtues. Market share figures show that the world’s made the leap to laptops, too–they’re the planet’s default personal computer, and it’s desktops that are now the variant device."
- Steven Perez
from Bookmarklet
I'll get rid of my desktop when laptops have dual 22" monitors, quad core CPUs, and powerful graphics cards.
- Christopher A Carr
I still use my desktop for all my daily work. Had a laptop let my sister have it, she needed it for her job. I got it back as she is going to Guam. But I use a desktop for a server and even to do my daily. Plus my desktop is much more powerful than my laptop and it can run two monitors.
- Patrick
I loves me PC Desktop, thank, especially since I upgraded top a 22" monitor. So nice.
- Brent - Loving Life
Yeah, as much as I complain about it, I'm never getting rid of the 7-year-old desktop. How else will I test the new Linux distros?
- Steven Perez
from IM
happy with my new desktop. not easy cramming a 2nd SATA hard drive into a laptop....
- Mike Nencetti
How do these laptop people download torrents overnight?
- Andrew C
Minus the whole monitor & graphics/computing power stated already, I think the reason desktops will be around for the long haul is the ease of upgrade & customization. I don't think we're going to see home-built notebooks or laptops with 6 extra bays for RAM upgrades any time in the near future. Essentially, desktops can last a whole lot longer through minor upgrades.
- Kyle Wegner
With an external HD, of course. ER, I MEAN, THAT'S WHAT I'VE HEARD.
- Steven Perez
from IM
I plan on going back to desktops when I turn over my current hardware. Tricked out desktop, all the features I could ever want, half the price of a laptop, and 2 freakin monitors, and an HDMI output to my TV for Hulu viewing, and then a worlds greatest netbook for walking around, $350. I hate my monster size notebooks now.
- Matthew DeVries
I <3 my desktop and I <3 my laptop. They both have functions that I wouldn't want the other to do. For instance I wouldn't want my laptop on 24/7 running apps and serving up content while I am on the go. Nor would I want my desktop in bed with me.
- Geoff Schultz
i've been on a laptop for like forever now, with a desktop keyboard and monitor. but the thing i'm really done with is e-mail. I hate it.
- Brian Hendrickson
I do the Desktop/Netbook combo and I find it works great. I have a powerful desktop at home for editing video and a netbook for writing/browsing the web.
- Kevin Winn
Hell no, never, when hell freezes over, or when I can build a laptop from bitty parts (ok not tooo bitty). Besides, I'm still using parts from my build from 6 years ago (mainly the classic all-aluminum Lian-Li case....)
- Adrian
Out of my cold dead hands........................................
- Kevin J Hatton
I haven't been on a desktop in a long while now. For what I do, I haven't found the need for a desktop. Yes, my recent video editing tasks have annoyed me on my 13" aluminum unibody MacBook, but I'll eventually upgrade the Ram and it'll be fine. I like being able to carry my computer with me.
- Cheryl Jones
Perhaps whenever I set up a proper work area for myself, I'll get an external monitor and keyboard for my laptop to drive, but that's all I would need. And I download torrents just fine; I have to offload stuff a lot, but it doesn't bother me. Perhaps I'll upgrade my laptop HD soon.
- Cheryl Jones
I will continue to buy desktops because they are cheaper than laptops
- sjjh
I have both. Laptop's advantage: power consumption, portability, cool factor. Laptop's disadvantage: no maintainability, bad hardware choices. Desktop's advantage: flexibility, choice, maintainability, expandability. Desktop's disadvantage: cables, size, lack of portability. Both sets of disadvantages can be fixed but I suspect there will be far more likely on the desktop side than...
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- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
I have both, I can't see me getting rid of my desktop, I can upgrade it easily, it's faster, etc. I definitely wouldn't get rid of my desktop monitor, mouse and keyboard. It's unhealthy to work from laptop alone so if I only had a laptop and was working from it regularly I would still put it into the monitor, etc.
- Kol Tregaskes
Me, I'll probably always have a desktop computer at home. My current Dell P4 unit serves my purposes well (a few upgrades pending, of course, just for Windows 7), thought I'll eventually get rid of my current monitor for a widescreen one. My laptop is for carrying around, all over town and beyond. That way I can write on the bus.
- Dennis Jernberg
For day to day usage I'm almost exclusively on my laptop, but the desktop is handy because it's on 24 hours with a bucket load of hard drive space. It has far more computing power so it's great for converting videos and that sort of stuff. Plus I can remotely log into it. so it's not like I HAVE to sit in front of it. And they're dirt cheap these days as well. I don't think this is a binary situation.
- Eoghann Irving
I never thought I would, but I almost exclusively use a laptop now. I love the power and customization of a desktop and there isn't a thing I can't fix, but the laptop goes everywhere with me.
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
Laptops ... can't stand them, although they are handy at times. I use them only when I have to; that is, when I'm not at my desk.
- Kittyburgers
Laptops are pretty ergonomically terrible, unless you raise them up and use a separate keyboard and mouse.
- Ladybug Heather
... which, I guess, pretty much defeats the whole purpose of having a laptop in the first place.
- Kittyburgers
from IM
Yup, indeed it does. Then, the only advantage is that you can take a laptop out to a library or meeting or whatever.
- Ladybug Heather
No. There's too many things that Desktops are still needed for. My laptops are no where near as powerful as desktops can be. Makes HD encoding and other things much faster to process.
- John Wang
What other way have we for keeping people tied to desks
- James Tenniswood
James - I'd rather have a desk than a 'hotelling' system.
- Andrew C
Not until we've got ubiquitous computing.
- Victor Ganata
Not yet, maybe soon. I may skip the laptop altogether aad have slightly less computing power in my pocket. visa vi Iphone
- Tate DA FF MVP
my best friend got pissed when he was doing a bunch of pdf conversions (he is an attorney) and built himself a ridiculous monster with 24 gigs of ram - was the first time i had thought about getting a desktop in forever
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
I need a new gaming desktop, but after I get that, I'll probably just try and take other people's old desktops. Hardware from a few years ago is still good. It's a shame everyone falls for the marketing campaigns and thinks they absolutely need new hardware every few years.
- Rudolf Olah
I will always have both laptops and desktops in my life. I have specific uses for both and apply them accordingly. Plus I hate gaming on a laptop. Always have, probably always will. :)
- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
People's hardware buying habits will probably evolve towards holding onto old hardware for longer. We're just starting to get used to the fact that due to quantum mechanics, Moore's law no longer really operates.
- Victor Ganata
Victor: Intel thinks they can get down to 7nm before that's an issue.
- Christopher A Carr
I just bought a new desktop after years of using laptops as my primary machine.
- ronin
Do you hate text messages as much as I do? What's the point? Call a person - don't send crap, we've got email, IM and twitter for that. My friends even don't try to text me as I never reply. Am I bad?
Oof, I'm the exact opposite. My phone should ring only if there's an emergency or the other person is unable to send an SMS. In all other situations, I expect communication via e-mail, IM, or SMS first. Even my wife and I send text messages to each other rather than phoning.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Messages are good for when you don't want to interrupt the other person (might be busy, driving, in a meeting/movie, etc.) and the message isn't that important and the other person doesn't have twitter or IM.
- Rui Pereira
Hm... we've got voice mail for important things. I constantly forget about sms in my inbox.
- Sasha Kovaliov(.com)
To reach me, FF DM > IM > e-mail > direct phone call > SMS > voice mail
- Brome
Voice mail is a pain to pick up and listen to. SMS is easily and instantly scannable at your leisure. I prefer SMS for quick stuff from family and friends, followed by IM, then email, then voice call.
- LogEx
I don't have text messaging service on my cell phone anyway. They'd have to text to my Google Voice number, if they know it.
- Morton Fox
I prefer text & im over calls, but I don't mind calls.
- Rodfather
Text is asynchronous, doesn't require mobile packet data, and there is no need to repeat yourself or shout to be understood
- sjjh
Right, one more reason to text - it's cheaper than a long-distance call :)
- Sasha Kovaliov(.com)
Yeah, most communication from my phone is over SMS.
- Roberto Bonini
from iPhone
As my phone account let me unlimited SMS, I prefer SMS than a call for friends. Otherwise by IM or FF
- DAL
Definitely Gmail. Same situation as Amber though, I have an account on all three (for different purposes)
- Chieze Okoye
Gmail... I use Gmail as a relay with every one of my domains. If the Outlook DB ever crashes, I have a backup and Gmail's spam filter is by far the best.
- Mark Davidson
from BuddyFeed
Gmail's interface is by far the best user interface of any of the web-based e-mail services I have used. But, it doesn't go far enough to be keyboard controlled for me and still feels a little awkward.
- Travis B. Hartwell
I can't imagine why anyone signing up for a new mail service these days would go with anything other than GMail.
- Travis B. Hartwell
Google is totally my god and as such I must use Gmail.
- Justin Yost
Thank...god/dess!!! I was wondering when they'd get around to putting this functionality on their system. Oh, and vote? Pidgin, especially after Digsby put all this ad crap in their recent version's install.
- Helen Sventitsky
I do.. I've noticed that once you more scrobble it works better. And as you said, you can listen to your music anywhere if you've a huge scrobbled library.
- Leandro Ardissone ⍨
from IM
Yup! My system is completely down due to some electrical storms but I can still listen to all my music. I was reading some stuff about Spotify and was wondering what the hype was about...
- Brian Bufalo
Spotify is good if you want to listen many songs of the same artist one after the other.. Last.fm don't let you do that
- Leandro Ardissone ⍨
from IM
Ahh. Good to know. I don't really do that, I like a full library of randomness...but I am weird. ;)
- Brian Bufalo
from IM
Never used blip.fm...anyone know the differences?
- Brian Bufalo
from IM
blip.fm is song by song and you hear the songs posted by those you follow in a stream. It works by social linking instead of semantic linking of genres or bands. Too much BS to keep picking songs one by one for me...I use last.fm way more, unless I want to broadcast a specific song for some reason.
- Neal Jansons
Yup, I use it. If Spotify were available in the US, I'd be trying that. Do you know about the FriendFeed group on Last.fm?
- Spidra Webster
Oooo no, I wasn't aware! Good tip @spidra!
- Brian Bufalo
from IM
I do. I love last.fm. I think I have majority of my iTunes library scrobbled on there. http://www.last.fm/user.... I wish I could change my username though. I now go by Digitalfangirl. Hopefully they'll enable that one day.
- Naomi Williams
The Giant Panda lives in a few mountain ranges in central China, in Sichuan, Shaanxi, and Gansu provinces. It once lived in lowland areas, but farming, forest clearing, and other development now restrict the Giant Panda to the mountains.