For the past few years I have had only a laptop and I only use one screen. When I am at my desk, I have a larger external monitor, but I only use it with my attached screen turned off.

I have a single monitor on my Mac and use Cinch to replicate the Aero Snap functionality. Very useful.

Yep, I sync all my address books with Google, but have regular local Time Machine backups of the version on my Mac.

Pretty much everything I use in the "cloud" is still synced to something on my hard drive (which is subject to regular backups). My Google Calendar is mirrored on iCal, and the calendar on my iPhone. My mail has a similar setup. Dropbox files are all included in my normal local backups. My music library is all held in…

Yeah, I definitely went and picked up Browser Changer and Nitrous when Chrome for iOS came out. In fact, that is the main reason I bothered to jailbreak my iPad.

That is what I was thinking. Also, that handle does not look terribly ergonomic. a slim straight taper sounds like a recipe for inadvertently throwing an axe.

Yeah. It might work if you could force naloxone into their systems... Maybe an implantable drug delivery system? Of course, I would hate to see the carnage when someone in the grip of withdrawal decides they can unimplant it themselves...

I think that is purely because of the buprenorphine. If you found an application for naloxone which did not include adding yet another dangerous opioid, it might actually be valuable and should not be addictive.

I recently set up a triple boot on my 2009 13" MBP, but ran into some problems with rEFIt. It did not recognize my Windows partition correctly (legacy os or something), but that was not terrible (I am just OCD and like proper icons). It also did not recognize Linux properly, and for some reason every time I booted…

Chrome, Gmail, Reeder, a variety of news apps, Amazon video, occasionally Pandora and Songza, Dropbox, Numbers, Plaintext, a rotating selection of games.

Four Swords was amazing. Also Crystal Chronicles. I miss both of those games quite a bit.

That makes sense. Thanks.

I think it means the original measurement used something other than degrees. Which makes me wonder, what did they measure it with? The article does not really say. Perhaps they are measuring energy on some other scale and converting that to degrees using knowledge of atomic motion at those energies. If anyone knows,…

That is exactly what I was trying to get at. It is good to know that I am not completely incoherent at least.

Ikea is hellish? I love going to Ikea!

I think you missed the point of my fork example. Of course an Arduino is a better example, it has a definite software source and hardware schematic that need to be followed. The point of the fork was to bring out an extreme case and try to see where it leads us. So again, what would make a fork open source? Would it…

I suppose I do not have a better term to use. Mostly, as I stated, I just feel that the use of the term requires some qualification for anything beyond software. While I was writing my response, I actually got to thinking about the fact that there should be a new term coined for this ideal.

It is kind of a complicated focus, as the meaning of "open source" really only applies to software. I understand, of course, that the term has come to be used for a slightly broader philosophy. What exactly is that philosophy to you? This project seems a little too vague without making an attempt to define open…

My girlfriend picks up my iPad now and then to look something up or play a game. I think she would use it more if there were user profiles for data, but right now email and social networking are all tied to my accounts. It would definitely be nice for it to be the true coffee table computer in our house, where we can…

Agreed! Growing up my family avoided Verizon because they had absolutely no signal in our home (or even on our street). It got better at some point, but by then we were already on AT&T and saw no reason to switch. Switching carriers for a phone might have made sense for people trying to grab the iPhone or early…