It was hard enough to find porn on the internet, and now this?! This is insane!!

This is AlphaDog: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSbZrQp-HOk&feature=relmfu

In the end, they show it getting back up. I imagine Big Dog has a few of those procedures as well.

It looked uncanny to me too. I think I'd expect those joints to bend the other way, instead.

John Medina is a molecular biologist, author of the book "Brain Rules". It's a great book, I bought the audiobook which is read by himself, I can't recommend it enough. Anyway, he uses his laptop on top of a treadmill in his office. His reasons are different than yours, they're about a connection between our brain's activity and certain kinds of exercise, and it's all in the book.

I just went to his website and I'm surely not alone.

Well done.

I use three different types of mice during the day. Different types means different patterns due to the way they're used. Even if I use different mice of the same type, they vary wildly in sensitivity. Plus, if I use a mouse in a different pc, I'm never sited in the same way at the same exact distance (actually, I'm usually standing, leaning over the desk) which means that a different mechanic will be used by my body to get the cursor where I want it to be.

All in all, this is a cool idea but I can't see it have any practical use unless in very specific scenarios for very specific purposes.

I've been trying to implement Ubuntu on the workplace for some time now and most of the problems that people have with it are the result of their familiarity with Windows. People don't like change, especially when they don't see its benefits, and it's hard to make people that are almost IT illiterate to understand that taking away a tool that worked perfectly for something different, is a good move. They'll move and then every little problem that they stumble upon results in a lot of frustration because they could do their work faster without all the hassle of learning something new with something they had before.

Also, there are some specific things:

- Office. With the change to LibreOffice comes complaints of documents not being shown the way they were made in Word. The need to understand the different file extensions. Some Thunderbird's quirks.

- Legacy in-house applications developed in a language that doesn't work on Linux.

- Games. This one is for home, obviously. The only reason I still have a Windows system is to play pc games. Maybe Valve can start changing that.

How much of an asshole do you have to be to ask your employee for a password of a personal service they're using? If I didn't know better I'd say it's impossible to be so far high on that scale.

Everyone's different, of course. Me? I felt sharpest and most productive in my work when I started being able to take a morning off in the middle of the week. I usually work overtime and, after a few days, I start to feel unable to concentrate after the 6th hour of work. When I get something done, I take much more time than I usually would and with stupid little mistakes in it. Just taking a morning off, in the middle of the week, really makes a huge difference for me.

This is just anecdotal evidence but there's something to be said about this. In the end, everyone's different and every job is different. Companies don't have the luxury of knowing all the variables about the way your brain works so they have to find an average. Some people's sweet spots for optimal performance, will fall closer to that average, others wont. If you have the flexibility to find it yourself, great! If you don't, arguing with your boss that you should work less is usually out of question.

Hopefully, companies will become more flexible and work more with its employees brains and less against them.

They might as well just arrest everyone that opposes the bill as they obviously are in the child porn business themselves.

Did I say arrest? I meant, burnt at the cross! Made an example of!

... with the cat!