Very good sir. You have fun with that. I'll have the pic posted on the 'net before you've finished your first stroke.

That's not really an accurate characterization. I will listen to any view that is not divorced from reality. Going to the birther case, that particular friend is no doubt my best friend in this world. He and I will debate capitalism versus socialism, Java vs. Perl, Heavy Metal vs. Techno all day long. When we're…

Mine was $20 at a yard sale. Look around. There are bargains to be had.

Yeah, a couple of them are 16:10, but all are presented in the gallery at 16:9, which says to me that they should crop pretty neatly. The one of the Eiffel tower could use more width, though.

If the meeting is truly a waste of my time, you might be better off saving the $0.99 and calculating this by hand as a way to pass the time.

Tell that to this guy: [yro.slashdot.org]

Not sure. Maybe you have to be my size (164cm/71kg; 5'4"/157#) to fit comfortably in a CRJ. I've never had a problem with them, but I have had a problem in some other planes.

Well, it's the airlines' problem now, because United breaks guitars.

There aren't any that I know of in the upper-eastern part of NY, but they're all over the Rochester and Buffalo areas.

Yep, our outlets look surprised. I think that is their only good feature . . . the plugs that fit them are really flimsy.

Example:

Meanwhile, my dumb phone (Samsung M360) lets you simply, you know, turn off the camera sound. Without hacking anything. Out of the box.

Also, what happens when the car's interior temperature rises in the summer heat to something in excess of 45C causing the adhesive to degrade? Sorry, no, this looks like a recipe for "sounds like ass".

Just because they're pointing the same way does not mean they are wired in parallel. If they were wired in series, you would be shorting out one of the two.

No contest: we need a better government. We have a great foundation, but what we've built on it is crap.

Speaking of hacks happening here . . .

Indeed, that is one of the most evil things ever put on the Internet. I was just thinking about it yesterday, and how to get someone to go there.

I used to do this exact same thing to fix the keyboards on my Commodore 64 and 128 back in the 80s. No joke. It worked truly well, though I found that if the feel of the keys matters to you, you might want to go ahead and "fix" all of them so that they all feel alike.

Slick! I can think of a few other reasons for doing things like this, too.

Cell phone ring tones! Just about everybody out there has a polyphonic or recorded or otherwise fancy ring one. I have a simple, 3 kHz square wave that beeps three times. I don't mistake anyone else's phone for mine, nor do they mistake mine for theirs.