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- I've got a HP Touchsmart in the kitchen (similar form factor to the Vaio). It definitely fills its purpose. - Mop (211 lbs) Feb 16, 11:00
- Try this. I bought it. -- (link) - lileve Feb 16, 10:56
- Not really. -- nm - David Feb 16, 10:55
- I like my Dell Studio 19 all in one for my kids. I would hate it as my own machine - oblique Feb 16, 10:54
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  - I was actually toying with the idea of buying this myself earlier today. I'm waiting to see what other deals they have. -- nm - David Feb 16, 10:56
  - this one. Laptops are supposed to be portable. a 22" laptop is not portable to me. - decline Feb 16, 10:55 1
    - and I know you said exclude it , but isn't that the point of a laptop ? -- nm - decline Feb 16, 10:56
  - Bad deal (costs way more for same specs) -- nm - oblique Feb 16, 10:54 4
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      - From the deal you posted earlier. Same specs. hundreds more? -- nm - oblique Feb 16, 10:57 1
        
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Florida becomes latest state to return its federal money for high-speed rail -- (link) - znufrii Feb 16, 10:49 4
- The situations in North Haverbrook, Ogdenville and Brockway have gotten blown way out of proportion, folks! - Lyle Landley Feb 16, 10:53
- Late adopters -- nm - con_carne Feb 16, 10:52
- idiots. A hight speed rail to Orlando? hell yes. -- nm - Remlik Feb 16, 10:51 1
  - and they had to lobby the federal government pretty hard to get that money in the first place - znufrii Feb 16, 10:53
Just overheard my co-worker telling how he went to school with Jobs and Wozniak and sat in the band next to Jobs. - Mop (211 lbs) Feb 16, 10:43 2
- Except that by telling it you're saying that you're a total failure comparatively :) -- nm - oblique Feb 16, 10:53 1
  - *looks over cube wall... nods in agreement* -- nm - Mop (211 lbs) Feb 16, 11:00
This board is just getting too much like my job. I don't think I can have these convos yet another time. Be FUNNY ST. -- nm - Amy Feb 16, 10:43 3
- I will if you stop trying to touch my weiner! -- nm - con_carne Feb 16, 10:57
- you got chocolate on you -- nm - Remlik Feb 16, 10:56
- *shakes his Dina Meyer boobs at you* -- nm - oblique Feb 16, 10:46
I feel sluggish from too much chocolate. -- nm - amanda jones Feb 16, 10:42 4
- unpossible -- nm - crash davis Feb 16, 10:44 3
  - I think I ate a pound of marshmallows *on my own.* (too many?) -- nm - amanda jones Feb 16, 10:46 2
    - okay, there can be too much marshmallow (but, I insist, no such thing as too much chocolate) -- nm - crash davis Feb 16, 10:48
    - No! (I have claimed an old coffee scoop as my marshmallow scoop!) -- nm - Logan Feb 16, 10:47
All I'm saying is, when the nuclear war starts, there won't be any electricity to power up your ereader. -- nm - Loyola Feb 16, 10:41 13
- All the time in the world . . . . *tries to power up his kindle* -- nm - Burgess Meredith Feb 16, 10:47 1
  - nice. -- nm - loosilu Feb 16, 10:47
- sure there will be .. down at the GAY BAR ... after the NUCLEAR WAR ... -- nm - Beryllium Feb 16, 10:46
- I'm not sure your paperbacks will be in such great shape either. -- nm - loosilu Feb 16, 10:46
- I think the idea that I love most from post-apocolyptic movies/books is the idea that as an individual, we lack incredible swaths of knowledge - oblique Feb 16, 10:45 1
  - yeah I know I'd be screwed. I can fish, but I can't hunt or skin animals or preserve food or farm. -- nm - sycor Feb 16, 10:49
- *Greenlites reboot of Book of Eli, where he is deaf and reads a banged up kindle.* -- nm - Movie studio Feb 16, 10:43
- the glow from the screen will attract the zombies -- nm - Beaker Feb 16, 10:43 1
  - Ha! E-ink and e-paper doesn't glow. It's not backlit. -- nm - TWuG Feb 16, 10:44
- nuclear war will be an obsolete technology too -- nm - crash davis Feb 16, 10:42
- well, if we are in the middle of a nuclear war, I kind of doubt I'll be reading the latest best seller -- nm - decline Feb 16, 10:42
- The eInk screen on a Kindle will last an entire nuclear winter! -- nm - Jeff Bezos Feb 16, 10:42
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- Amazon backs up anything you buy from them for the Kindle. Periodicals, I think are not saved forever,m but books are. - TWuG Feb 16, 10:41
- Amazon remembers all your purchases for redownload if needed. -- nm - decline Feb 16, 10:40 4
  - hyde is going to severely mock us the day that Amazon dies and all our books go with it -- nm - oblique Feb 16, 10:43 3
    - once again, my point is not at all that this technology is bad, or un-useful, or anything else as luddite as the brush i'm always painted with.... - x Feb 16, 10:46 1
      - agreed. -- nm - loosilu Feb 16, 11:00
    - Only if you aren't smart enough to strip the DRM and save your stuff elsewhere. -- nm - TWuG Feb 16, 10:45
- Yes. I've removed books from my Kindle and re-added them later. They're in a digital library. -- nm - Kim Pine Feb 16, 10:38 18
  - Conversely, iTunes knows what you own but can be obnoxious if you want to re-download. - David Feb 16, 10:41 16
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      - We primarily use Amazon, so I'm not the best person to ask, but the iPad's Kindle app is actually better than the Kindle. - David Feb 16, 10:52 4
        
        unless you are sitting in direct sunlight. Didn't you watch the commercial ? -- nm - decline Feb 16, 10:54 3
        
        When am I ever in direct sunlight? -- nm - David Feb 16, 10:55 2
        
        Twilight: New David -- nm - con_carne Feb 16, 10:57 1
        
        I'd totally turn your twin. Not you, though. -- nm - David Feb 16, 10:59
      - not completely. What Reagen says below about sony. Plus kindle can handle a couple of formats (just not Epub). So for instance you can put pdf files - decline Feb 16, 10:51
      - not neccesarily. My Sony Reader is open format, for instance. -- nm - Reagen Feb 16, 10:50 3
        
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        Only Kindle can buy from Amazon. Amazon books can only run on a Kindle. -- nm - mara Feb 16, 10:59
        
        I don't think I can buy from amazon. But I've bought from both Sony's own store and Chapters/Indigo. -- nm - Reagen Feb 16, 10:52
      - Well, yes except that the iPad has a Kindle App, and a B&N app in addition to the iBooks app -- nm - oblique Feb 16, 10:48 3
        
        And an Overdrive app for public library downloads. -- nm - mara Feb 16, 10:54
        
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        The only exclusive is Apple right now. I don't see that being the norm and also why iBooks probably haven't exploded like Kindle has -- nm - oblique Feb 16, 10:52
    - Apple runs its iTunes business like it's a monopoly. I deal with them only when absolutely necessary. -- nm - TWuG Feb 16, 10:43
  - (I don't know about iBooks. I've never tried to transfer one across devices.) - Kim Pine Feb 16, 10:39
- *deletes all your books* -- nm - Amazon Feb 16, 10:38 1
  - All your books are belong to us. -- nm - Amazon Feb 16, 10:38
I have to say, "Is this industry in its waning days or does it have a bright future?" ranks pretty low among questions I ask when buying a product. -- nm - con_carne Feb 16, 10:35 15
- it shouldn't. -- nm - loosilu Feb 16, 10:37
- *pats his combo blu-ray/hd-dvd player* - Will Hunting Feb 16, 10:37
- i think about it for a lot of tech things -- nm - moles Feb 16, 10:37
- Tell that to everyone who bought HD-DVD instead of Blu-Ray -- nm - znufrii Feb 16, 10:36 9
  - Well, if they would have found the right answer, they wouldn't have bought HD-DVD, now would they have? :) -- nm - con_carne Feb 16, 10:38
  - how about people with a library of thousands of DVDs? -- nm - loosilu Feb 16, 10:38 7
    - We're getting rid of ours. For what it's worth. -- nm - Kim Pine Feb 16, 10:39 4
      - are you ripping to hard disk? I've considered this some. -- nm - amanda jones Feb 16, 10:41 3
        
        We did last year. The DVDs and CDs are sitting in boxes in the closet now. -- nm - David Feb 16, 10:44 2
        
        how many backups did you make? (I'm being nosey, sorry.) -- nm - amanda jones Feb 16, 10:45 1
        
        We have them on hard drives, but most of the television shows wound up as Unbox purchases. -- nm - David Feb 16, 10:50
    - You've gotten 10-12 years out of them at this point and will continue to see them into the future - Will Hunting Feb 16, 10:38
    - you're good cause they're not an abandoned technology -- nm - moles Feb 16, 10:38
- "Do I want this? Is it awesome? Will I be able to find more than one use for it? Can I afford it?" ... that's my general set of questions. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 16, 10:36 1
  - Explain your Dildopolis rewards card then. -- nm - HdnAgnda Feb 16, 10:42
A coworker is telling us a story about how a bus line driver left her bag on the sidewalk and security almost detonated it as a suspicious package. - Max Feb 16, 10:35
for x: Wireless infrastructure is booming in Africa (and I would think other developing areas). The broadband is going to lag behind. - loosilu Feb 16, 10:35 3
- i fear that agin the single point i was trying to make will get lost in a welter of meandering byways.... - x Feb 16, 10:38 2
  - oh, I agree with you in general. But I don't think it's merely a rich v. poor thing ... in some ways the poor need it more than the rest of us. -- nm - loosilu Feb 16, 10:39
  - if only google could invent a tech fix for that -- nm - moles Feb 16, 10:39
st poll; who here is using the superior dvorak keyboard instead of the slower, seemingly obsolete qwerty one?...nm - x Feb 16, 10:35 9
- This is an invitation for a "QWERTY is DEAD!" post, right? -- nm - Mop (211 lbs) Feb 16, 10:57 1
  - ... since B2 was full of BOOKS ARE DEAD and CDs ARE DEAD, it's mostly just a demonstrative callbacjk -- nm - Beryllium Feb 16, 10:58
- I have used Dvorak for years. It's awesome. -- nm - ceregon Feb 16, 10:40 3
  - nice! i thought there would be none....nm - x Feb 16, 10:41 2
    - the only reason I would use it would be to stop people from using my computer. -- nm - loosilu Feb 16, 10:48 1
      - That is definitely a benefit. Especially when they try to log on to their files and try to type their password and can't see what they are typing. - ceregon Feb 16, 10:58
- I personally tried Dvorak and found it to be not all that hot. -- nm - Reagen Feb 16, 10:39
- dvorak scares me, I'm a luddite -- nm - crash davis Feb 16, 10:38
- I've always meant to look into it, but I haven't. - Beryllium Feb 16, 10:35
BTW, the iPad school thing was prophesied in Starship Troopers. That movie has much to teach us all. -- nm - David Feb 16, 10:34 35
- Aim for the brainstem! -- nm - Jovian Feb 16, 10:39
- I agree. It can teach us that a classic novel can be cheesed up and ruined by a director obsessed with special effects. -- nm - crash davis Feb 16, 10:37 17
  - improved -- nm - moles Feb 16, 10:40
  - Starship Troopers is the awesome-ist -- nm - Jovian Feb 16, 10:39 15
    - Jovian, aim higher - that movie is not that good. Other than introducing me to Dina and Denise, it was a horrible experience. -- nm - crash davis Feb 16, 10:41 14
      - i would say it's with Fifth Element and Matrix as the best sci-fi of the 90s -- nm - moles Feb 16, 10:42 13
        
        it wouldn't be on that list if there were only ten sci-fi movies in the decade - Will Hunting Feb 16, 10:44
        
        Matrix - very good. Fifth Element - sucks -- nm - crash davis Feb 16, 10:43 11
        
        Sweet merciful crap, you're dumb. The Fifth Element is genius. - David Feb 16, 10:47 8
        
        Gotta agree with David, I must say. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 16, 10:58
        
        I gotta side with Crash. Fifth Element is the suck. Crap acting, crap writing. It has boobs, so it ain't a total loss - TWuG Feb 16, 10:52
        
        I'll bite. What precisely do you consider genius about it? -- nm - crash davis Feb 16, 10:50 5
        
        it's funny, it's actiony, and love is the ultimate weapon against evil in the universe - moles Feb 16, 10:52 4
        
        It's that last bit that made me cry for having wasted nearly two hours. - TWuG Feb 16, 10:56
        
        its not very funny, its not very actiony, and its plot has been used so many times, it needed to step up to be considered mediocre -- nm - crash davis Feb 16, 10:53 2
        
        "anyone else want to negotiate?" -- nm - Beaker Feb 16, 10:56
        
        If you don't think "Mooltipass" is funny, you are history's greatest monster. -- nm - David Feb 16, 10:54
        
        -20 SB points - Strongbad Feb 16, 10:44 1
        
        Starship Troopers ruined a novel that I loved as a kid. Now if it had existed on its own, I maybe could enjoy the cheese. - crash davis Feb 16, 10:45
- It's the best thing to happen to the developing world in decades. -- nm - loosilu Feb 16, 10:37 2
  - *tries to eat his iPad* -- nm - Ndugu Feb 16, 10:40
  - the ipad is? seriously?? -- nm - amanda jones Feb 16, 10:39
- don't fuck with the bugs -- nm - Beaker Feb 16, 10:36
- like if you shoot a nuke down a bug hole? you gotta lotta dead bugs - moles Feb 16, 10:36
- That Dina Meyer has a great body....and .... that's it? -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 16, 10:36
- Service guarantees citizenship. -- nm - Strongbad Feb 16, 10:36
- If we have to learn from Starship Troopers, I'm crawling into the hole with hyde -- nm - oblique Feb 16, 10:35 8
  - Why do you have Dina Meyer's breasts? -- nm - David Feb 16, 10:36 7
    - that's just mean ;) -- nm - oblique Feb 16, 10:38 3
      - The innocent typos are often the funniest. - David Feb 16, 10:39 2
        
        At least it gives me something to play with when I'm bored -- nm - oblique Feb 16, 10:40 1
        
        I'm not sure I'd wait till I was bored to play with them. - Will Hunting Feb 16, 10:47
    - err, hate. - David Feb 16, 10:36 2
      - It is the *only* reason to watch that movie. And if your learning future has more of that, then I'm game -- nm - oblique Feb 16, 10:38
      - I'm going to be giggling about this all day. -- nm - David Feb 16, 10:37
the Time list did have a fail with starting in the 1920s - I'd put 1900's - Teddy Bear on the list -- nm - crash davis Feb 16, 10:33
Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in awhile, you could miss it. -- nm - Kim Pine Feb 16, 10:33
I haven't tried Netflix yet. I have too many hours of stuff on my PVR I need to catch up on. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 16, 10:32 9
- I watched far too much crummy paranormal stuff this weekend. - Will Hunting Feb 16, 10:33 2
  - you mean stuff like Ghost Hunters? -- nm - crash davis Feb 16, 10:36 1
    - Destination Truth - Will Hunting Feb 16, 10:46
- mmmm....sweet, sweet Roku. -- nm - Kim Pine Feb 16, 10:33 3
  - I know. roku plus mr. steam + uncle chen = best sunday afternoon ever. -- nm - amanda jones Feb 16, 10:35 2
    - who's uncle chen? - moles Feb 16, 10:37 1
      - the chinese place that delivers consistently. the wok shows up nine days later, and fuji jade is closed like 15 minutes every hour. - amanda jones Feb 16, 10:40
- we just added Maude and MASH! -- nm - Netflix Canada Feb 16, 10:33 1
  - and 14 seasons of Saturday Night Live! All Kevin Nealon, All the Time! -- nm - Beryllium Feb 16, 10:33
An error occurred while processing this platform -- nm - con_carne Feb 16, 10:32
~ lite brite makin things with lite ~ -- nm - robopixie Feb 16, 10:32

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