I did this about 6 months ago and it's working out great. I would also recommend getting a drafting chair so that you can "sit" at the desk when needed without having to adjust the height. You WILL get tired of standing all the time and it's probably better for your body to alternate between the two.

Yep, all of our college workstations ran TWM as the default. If you really knew what you were doing, you compiled or borrowed FVWM from someone else and built up an awesome config file.

You could always tell who was a hardcore hacker because they had either A) a highly customized FVWM or B) a single window in TWM running emacs, vi or gdb. Everybody else had a mess of windows strewn about the TWM desktop.

This is the option I wanted to pick. That or TWM.

Can't speak for all medical equipment, but I worked on a major IV pump and it used time in exactly this way. The dosages were rate or interval based and the pump strictly used the internal clock to calculate elapsed time. There was a "clock" on the display but it was only used for display purposes, you could set it for 1:00 am Mar 3, 1983 and it would still work correctly.

Mod the parent up. I used to program IV pumps and this is exactly what was done. You never used the wall clock or "display time" for dosages. It was always based on a rate and the internal clock always kept track of time differentials, not the actual time.

It's also got front and rear facing cameras. Ever since I installed a terminal, ssh and a code editor, I haven't felt the need for rooting the device, even though it's possible.

I would mod this up, instead I'll post a comment highly recommending it. I own one and use it as a target for game development. It's also got GPS. I hook up a small USB keyboard for those times when I need to do a lot of typing. It will accept a Bluetooth keyboard, but you can't use those on an airplane.

Of course, the Iconia wasn't even announced until after the article was published.

After using the G-Tablet for a few months, I gave it up in favor of the Acer Iconia. The Iconia runs Android 3.0, has GPS, supports a Bluetooth keyboard and has good viewing angles which G-Tablet had problems with.

Certainly not as small as an iPad but it's been a pleasure to use. I mainly use it for testing Flash games. I looked at a more than a few of the devices in the article and none of them could compare to the G-Tablet or Iconia.

I think you need to call them to get the DVD only option.

Also went to Blockbuster. We only use Blu-Ray and DVDs (no games or streaming). Netflix took so long to send us new releases (spent 2-3 weeks in the "Long Wait" queue) that my wife would usually rent from BB. We have a BB store within 10 minutes and now that they've gone to unlimited envelope exchanges in store, we are MUCH happier than we ever were with Netflix. Plus, BB gets new releases a week or two before Netflix.

The Thing came from a round saucer. The detachable section from ST:TNG was also round.

I hope Picard is inside, but we'd better prepare for the former.

Not as long as you would think. When players do something like this, they use a special program to wheel the numbers to get a good distribution and increase their odds of getting multiple winning tickets. After they select the numbers, they will sort the winning numbers and print them on the play slips. As long as they purchase the tickets in the correct order, the program will tell them which tickets are winners. Stacking the tickets in bunches (100, 200, 500, 1000) make searching easier, too. If the winning numbers are higher, the winning tickets will clump together.

Modems, uggh!

To me, punch cards, TI 99 4/A, BASIC, brick cell phones, 80386, Yggdrasil, WindowsXP, etc. are all the same, clutter. If I kept every nostalgic item I've ever used, I'd be swamped with a bunch of crap. When I want to revisit old times, I pull up an emulator and am reminded of how much I like things better now.

Don't get me wrong, I can appreciate the simplicity and outright genius required to make those old memory starved devices do as much as they did, but I like the newer stuff.