Unless you have something like an Lexmark Z1300 which contains a chip on the ink cartidge that tracks the ink level, you can refill it all you want but it won't recognize the ink unless you figure out some way to reset the chip.

I got the printer for around $25 bucks so I certainly got what I paid for, I think I'll be going with a Canon next time.

It also depends where you live. 120k in Montana will get you a lot further than 120k in New York.

That's exactly what they did.

Source - TechDirt

The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe is an excellent book about the early days of the Mercury program. The first astronauts were test pilots but they felt the Mercury program made them glorified monkeys sitting in a can. The flight of the rocket was computer controlled and they were only along for the ride, test pilots were on the bleeding edge of flight where they had control.

When Chuck Yeager was trying to beat the previous speed record of Mach 2 he managed to get to Mach 2.44 then lost aerodynamic control at 80,000ft, the airplane tumbled down 51,000ft in 51 seconds before he was able to regain control. He managed to land the plane safely.

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If you want to lose an hour or two have a look at TV Tropes.

I agree, the things we can do with China's money are amazing!

I can't use a laptop keyboard to near my regular level of productivity. I only have to use a laptop for work from time to time and whenever I do I always plug in a regular sized keyboard if one is available.

The laptop keys don't have the same feel, some are in strange places, no regular number pad. Less lack of division between the keys, regular keyboards have that nice gap between the tops of the keys.
Making the Esc and Del keys bigger is a good idea in my view but it still isn't going to get me to use a laptop keyboard unless I'm forced to.

My work has standardized on IE 6 as well due to the mountains of IE6 specific code in their web applications.

I'd like to know if has anyone tried migrating slowly installing Firefox with IETab and using Firefox for normal browsing and IE for the internal apps only?

If so do you have any advice?

How about running Firefox with the IE Tab addon and IE6 installed? I haven't tested it but I don't see why it wouldn't work.

We're probably screwed in the appeals but there is a fairly simple solution for new arrests which I think is already in place in some jurisdictions.

Get a court order to make them take a blood BAC test when they get to the station.

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The resolution to that case was fairly interesting. FOr those not familiar with it you can see the video here. Basically this officer, Patrick Pogan, picked a guy out of a huge group of cyclists riding in a rally and decided to body check him, hard. In the video the cyclist clearly steers away from the cop and the officer charges him. The officer then arrested the cyclist, writing in the police report that he was weaving in and out of traffic, forcing vehicles to swerve or stop, and generally disrupting the normal flow of traffic. He said that he suffered lacerations on his arms because the cyclists steered his bike into him and knocked him down, and that when he tried to arrest him he began flailing, kicking and screaming, "You are pawns in the game!". The cyclist spent the next day in police custody charged with attempted assault, resisting arrest and disorderly conduct.

The charges against the cyclist were dropped. Pogan, after being a police officer for three weeks got put on desk duty during the investigation. Then on Dec 16, 2008 he appeared in court and pleaded not guilty to felony charges of of falsifying business records and filing a false instrument and misdemeanor charges of third-degree assault, second-degree harassment and making a punishable false written statement. After the indictment, he was suspended. Two months later he resigned as the department prepared to fire him.

In a way this cyclist was lucky, the cop was so stupid he did it in front of at least 100 onlookers. His partner saw it all and still went along with it which doesn't say much for him either. Had there not been so many people around the outcome could've been very different.

If you use the computer a lot and only have one monitor do yourself a favor and get a second one. I prefer at least 22" widescreens but anything will work.

You can keep code on one screen and documentation on another.
You can watch a movie/show on one screen while you use the other.
The NYT reported dual monitors increased productivity 20-30% (although I think it's more task-dependent). If you don't want to buy a second monitor but want some of the benefits there are programs that can split a single monitor into multiple desktops. There is the donationware Gridmove which is an AutoHotKey script and if you're willing to pay there is SplitView, although I'd rather just shell out the extra money for a second monitor.