For work, coding, I like the mate/anti glare finish. It reduces the glare AND fingerprints from people pointing to things on the screen. For home use I do a lot of digital photography and I find the glossy screen to be crisper and better saturated than the others. Also I find the the color calibration works better as well.

M.S. hasn't shipped a, even in pdf, for years. Adobe doesn't ship manuals with it's product, pdf or otherwise all the info is on line. I have a large collection of mostly useless manuals. Good riddance.

If I recall correctly from my electronics courses, you do not need to use Gold to stop EM radiation. A grounded aluminum screen should do the trick. Seeing as the wave length of a 2.4 GHz sine wave is 0.125 meters, the screen is more than fine enough.

I agree, mostly. However, I'm at at point in my life that I'm trying to change jobs, and move to another area. EVERY job I've looked at requires a Bachelors degree minimum, and most want a Masters. I have an Associates Degree. I can't even get through the HR filter. I'm a damn good programmer, I've worked with those so called graduates and most can't even write a simple piece of 2 way matching code in COBOL let alone in SQL or C++. One individual I worked with would spend hours searching through code he could "hack" and make it do what he wanted instead of sitting down and just writing what needed to be written. My first compiled language was FORTRAN IV on an IBM 360

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She shot herself "after her stepfather left his loaded Smith & Wesson handgun out on a table"! 3 year olds play with what ever they find laying around, I know I've had two of them. If they had not had a Wii, and the circumstances were other wise the same the same tragedy would still of happened. DON"T LEAVE LOADED GUNS WHERE CHILDREN CAN FIND THEM AND PLAY WITH THEM!

The fact that the DNS server resolved the URL to an ip address is proof that this or was going to be a public site. Fer cryin' out loud, if you want obscurity don't create DNS records that point to your server. Sheesh!

True, however propane is a by product of crude oil refining, although now it is optimized. Still my point is that the closer you get the "work" to the energy source the more efficient the machine can be. There are too many factors for us arm chair nrg guru's to consider. I don't want to even think of all the wages, labor, and cost of the devices used to obtain the raw material in the first place. What is the carbon foot print required to construct the drilling rig to extract the crude oil? What is the cost of the refinery to refine it? You see where I'm going. To say that the electric vehicle is more green because it uses electricity is misleading at best.

"ALSO, you people are forgetting to mention the carbon footprint the electric one has: is it's power source a petro power station? Or a coal power station?" Not to mention that first the fossil fuel was converted to electricity, then stored chemically, then re-converted to electricity which is finally turned into work. With a propane powered unit the propane is converted directly, or more directly into work. The fossil fuel is combusted, producing heat which is converted to rotational energy which geared down to drive the machine. The question is which is more efficient? From a consumer, the operator of the the resurfacer, most likely it is the electric version. However, when all losses are taken into account, I suspect the more direct approach may be more efficient. Just my $0.02

while not fantastic it is in the ball park. I've been losing weight at a rate of about 1-2 pounds per week for the past 15-20 weeks. I've lost about 28 pounds at a rate of about 1-2 pounds a week. When you crash diet your body goes into "survival mode" so you loose the weight but as soon as you stop the diet, your body goes into "storage" mode to store up provisions for the next "famine". Best to watch how much and what you eat AND get moderate exercise, and increase your metabolic rate. As long as your intake is less than your output you will loose weight. You didn't gain it overnight why should you try to loose it overnight.

As one who has just returned from camping, Mammoth Caves NP and Blue Ridge, I can say that cell service is most definitely ubiquitous, neither are Star Bucks. We did find one coffee shop with free WiFi. Of course we weren't looking very hard. About the only thing I needed my laptop for was storage for my camera cards. Leave the internet at home, it WILL be there when you get back. BTW, ditch the RV too much more of an adventure in a tent.