California has mobile SMOG checks that are also "voluntary". Vehicles are flagged out of traffic by a CHP officer, at which point you're allowed to choose whether you want to have your car smogged. Although if you refuse to have your car checked, your license plate is recorded and logged for later analysis.

-Section 4.3

"The license plate numbers of vehicles whose operators decline to participate in the Roadside Inspection Program are recorded and entered into a laptop computer for later analysis."

http://www.epa.gov/otaq/regs/im/roadside.pdf

Less space than a Nomad.

But can I beat someone to death with this like I can with a genuine Model M? Also, is the knockoff dishwasher safe for easy cleanup like a genuine Model M?

Windows is cheap. The myriad of other servers, and their licenses that businesses require aren't cheap.

Most users don't use the heirarchal menu very often. They usually either type the first few characters to search, or use one of the recent programs listed. But if you're in one of the instances where you're trying to access a program that you don't use very often, and don't remember the exact name of it, the hierarchical menu is light years beyond the start screen.

For example, take a look at what my Windows 8 start screen looks like. It's an absolute mess, and nearly unusable in my opinion. The Start8 menu that I installed is much easier, quicker, and far more intuitive to use. I suspect that many users feel the same way as I do.

Except that they totally missed the point of what everyone wanted.

Yes, there is a start button there now. But all it does is bring up the start screen, the same as pressing the Windows key. The start menu, which is what most people really want back, is still missing from the OS.

I've got a client that's a non-profit group home for abused kids. Because of what they do, and their funding sources, they have to send daily activity reports for each of the kids, including medical, psychological, behavior, school notes, etc...

Every day, the reports are hand written on to forms, which are then typed into a computer, which are then printed, which are then faxed to the county (Typically 75-100 pages of fax each day), which is then entered into the county's computers, which is then printed out and filed.

Between the original handwritten report, printed copy of the entered report, received fax, and county copy, multiplied by around 100 pages per day amounts to almost 150,000 pages created every year for something that could very easily be done almost entirely electronically.

The word that you're looking for is hovering. As in "hovercraft".

Why on earth would you want the back light totally off? That's unusable in every situation. At that point, just turn it off.

Link?

It's anecdotal, but I'm seeing a lot of small businesses beginning to look at Macs. Most wind up buying Windows 7 systems for now, but people are starting to look at other options. Microsoft's removal of Exchange from their SBS suite, and the availability of Google Apps for business seems to be encouraging this trend.

That sheet brings back memories. That scheme was less annoying than the Monkey Island wheel, or games that wouldn't let you start it without having to type in the third word of the sixth paragraph of page 43. I always liked the Leisure Suit Larry questions though, they were at least amusing.

I had Cyanogen Mod on my old phone, then bought one of the Thunderbolts mentioned in the summary. Cyanogen offers NO support for this device. There was a dev who was releasing a really nice port of Cyanogen for the Thunderbolt, but he stopped several months ago.

It's my understanding that the main thing keeping Cyanogen from officially supporting the Thunderbolt is a lack of drivers for the phone's radio coming from HTC. HTC keeps promising us an ICS update, which wouldn't be as good as full Cyanogen support, but would be better than outdated OS on a not very old phone, which was sold as one of their premium phones not that long ago.

As a consumer, I feel like HTC really dropped the ball on this, and in the future will be considering a Samsung to replace my HTC. Previously, I've had a few other HTC phones and loved them. But this whole thing has left a bad taste in my mouth with them.

I don't have a question, but a comment on the Museum of the Rockies. This is an excellent little museum, and well worth the visit. Anyone who goes to Yellowstone, the 1.5 hour trek to Bozeman is well worth the drive. The drive will take you past many geological formations, such as the Devil's Slide, and often takes you past quite a bit of wildlife like elk, bighorn sheep, bears and bald eagles.

The museum is very enjoyable and educational for both children and adults.