Thanks for that information, thats $120 canadian cheaper than here. Just been looking at ebay listings there is around $30 -$60 worth of import duties it seems depending on the price. Still a price saving but not quite enough I think to make it worth while.

What do you actually pay for a chrome book in the USA? I see $199 list price but in the EU its 239 euro to buy not 144 euro which is equivalent to $199, local price is roughly $330. Just curious to know what the real price is. I think us prices exclude sales taxes

You do not have to watch it, there are plenty of bad movies made any way crud is crud.

I see where you are coming from but there is a difference between being prepared to defend yourself, yes I am, and the gp's hypothetical situation.

the GP wants to provoke a reaction.

If you poke a dog with a stick it may well bite you and you may have to kill or injure it as a consequence.
when the westboro baptists decide to picket a funeral they are goading for a reaction in order to drag someone into court.

The fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin by George Zimmerman took place on the night of February 26, 2012, in Sanford, Florida, United States. If George Zimmerman hadn't ignored the Police directions to leave Trayvon to them and goaded Trayvon into fighting with him George wouldn't have been forced into shooting and killing Trayvon. Legally George was in the right because Trayvon did the wrong thing by physically attacking him but George set the ball in motion with his reckless or premeditated actions. Was he stupid or calculating?

I think you know really it's calling looking for a fight. Something the law doesn't seem to comprehend very well except perhaps Judge Judy, "but for this , that wouldn't happened" she often gets it spot on. She wouldn't condone punching him in the face, you don't take the law into your own hands, but he would get nothing if he sued the guy who got him kicked out.

The gp knows the gut reaction is for someone to punch him in the face, which if anyone was to do so, would tend to see him winning in court even after pounding on his assailant or shooting him as suggested by another poster. Cooler minds wouldn't take the matter into their own hands but look for a third party to resolve the situation.

I have in the past worked as a club doorman and been that third party. The job is not about breaking up fights and throwing people out but preventing these situations occurring. Once they occur well innocent bystanders can get hurt, you ruin the venues reputation as a safe place to have a good time ect.

So what you do is have a word with the trouble maker explain to them that they are creating a problem, everyone's having a good time, I don't want to have to ask you to leave but if you persist... to which they generally agree to be more pleasant and then you keep an eye on them for the rest of the evening, generally their buddies will be quite persuasive and keep him from drawing my attention again. Rarely do you ever need to back that up with the use of physical force.

The GP seems to be a bit of a socio-path, has trouble comprehending how others feel, that doesn't make him a bad person there are a lot of brilliant minds round here who relate better to computers than people. I mean just look at his reaction to my original post he now thinks he is the victim :). At a conference I expect most people would just complain to the organisers or ignore the "glasshole", thats a perfect term. After all who wouldn't expect to get fired or at least reprehended by their employer if they punched another companies rep.

In a wider situation, a bar for example, reactions maybe physical. Most of us are too polite to actually do anything about the Glasshole, but I wouldn't be surprised to hear a cheer or a round of applause as he gets kicked out or punched.

Really what I was trying to get through was that the advantage of having some ones details come up on google glass are out weighed by the negative perception of being a glasshole.

A lot of conferences may have name badges you could always discreetly google the name , discreetly. Far better would be to do your homework first know who you want to meet and a bit about them, those you meet for the first time, write the name company and context down as soon as you get the opportunity. You really don't need to know about all 2000 or so delegates just the ones that you feel are going to be useful to know.

People will be genuinely flattered if you remember who they are and a bit about them and have a genuine interest in what they do and who they are, however if its obvious that you just looked them up, it will be a negative reaction. Which is why Google Glass, is not a good tool for that kind of situation. You can also know too much which also gets a little creepy especially if they haven't told you that information themselves. You could ask a question or relate something that might cause them to volunteer that information if that is useful to you but tread carefully.

To be fair a lot of people will cop on to the fact that you researched them prior to this 'chance' meeting but it's still flattering and an ego boost. At a recent staff meeting I got a big round of applause after the boss said something nice about my work, made me feel good but it was quite meaningless. They would have applauded anything really it's just what was expected of them.

Anyway to go into a situation looking to press some ones buttons is not the same as being prepared to defend yourself against a physical attack. I am perfectly capable of defending myself if need be, I just don't look for situations to cause the need to arise.

Merry christmas to you, I hope your having a great family day.

Maybe that should be a social cue, that it is unacceptable behaviour on your part, your attention is unwanted.

People are not computers most of them have feelings they like some people they don't like others and most people respond negatively to being catalogued and targeted for adverts, this would be similar behaviour.

knowing my name will not be a positive thing for you, as you obviously do not give a monkeys about me just how you can use me to your advantage. At a minimum I will ignore you, if you persist I may do something negative this might be as passive as choosing your competitors to do business with instead of your company.

Maybe meeting and greeting is just not your strong suit, perhaps somebody else should be doing it instead? I'm not saying this because I am good with names and faces, far from it. If you want to get people on side with you then you talk to them not stalk them.

You do not want to be known as the creepy socio-path with Google glass.

Being prepared to enter a situation with relative strangers prepared to assault them is rather worrying. If I had a problem with you and your creepy behaviour. I could complain to the event organisers who would probably ask you to remove your google glass or have you ejected from the building if you refused. There is no need to get involved with you in a physical confrontation. In fact if I really wanted all I need to do is mention to a female colleague that you are scanning her with google glass and you will be ejected and possibly police called.

The key difference between putting solar panels on a roof and fitting these windows is the electricity producing windows are fitted in place of ordinary glass windows.

The cost of the units is offset by not having to buy ordinary window glass. That should make a difference in payback costs and break even point.

Choice is good and not having to choose is also good.
Thats the best aspect of KDE and Gnome. As a user you might choose one of these as a base desktop environment others are available but your still free to pick up the applications that you want to use.

I'd bet most users (who have a choice) use a mixture of Kde and Gnome applications.

Kde seems to be making some advances in supporting touch and making the view part of MVC more flexible and why shouldn't it be this way wimp and touch interfaces have differing requirements. Gnome seems to not be moving much in this direction if at all but thats fine by me only my tablet has a touch-screen so far.

With Microsoft backing touch with windows 8 (love it or hate it) and the kinect bringing gestures into play its likely our hardware is going to be supporting touch and gestures in our not too distant futures. Voice too if we can overcome the embarrassment and the recognition becoming accurate enough to not wind the user up.

With 2 or more teams with alternative view points quite different applications and desktops are developed. One teams idea's may work better than another which may inspire another team to steal, as in take that idea and turn it into their own.

Imagine a world where the choice wasn't between kde and gnome but say unity was the one and only linux desktop whats your option then windows?

Even with windows you have windows 7 and windows 8 even Microsoft gets the need to have choice. They might prefer everyone to move to windows 8 but they still have to support 7 for a good while yet.

Some people do die each year from lions, but even some of those could be avoided. Lions seem to prefer cattle pigs and other animals in preference to humans. Hopefully the statistics show that getting killed by a Lion is a relatively rare occurance. If you read the reference extract I've quoted. It seems going out in the fields in the evening is a bad idea, as the lions are hunting. Thats the kind of thing i'm thinking of when I talk about respect and understanding. Now you could choose to ignore that you are likely to find lions in the fields in the evenings in which case it may well end up as a matter of kill or be killed but why blame the lions for that?

http://www.lionaid.org/blog/2011/12/lion-population-number-declines-problem-animal-control-or-trophy-hunting.htm

Human/lion mortality

Much has been made by Packer and others about the estimated number of human deaths in Tanzania from lion attacks. In total, Packer recorded 563 human mortalities from 1990 to 2004, or about 37 per year, translating to about 8 people per 10 million in the Tanzanian population. The attacks were registered from numerous districts in the country. Without diminishing the tragedy of those deaths they have to be put into perspective as they have led to a demonization of lions and a strange justification for trophy hunting â" essentially the sport hunters are doing the rural communities a favour by keeping man-eaters under control. Not only is this complete nonsense, but human deaths caused by lions are actually miniscule when compared to other sources of annual human mortality in Tanzania.

For a short list, in Tanzania 193 to 1499 people per year die of rabies-infected dog bites, 600 from snake bites, 1,900 from falls, 4,700 from drowning, 6,000 from asthma, 13,000 from road accidents, 14,000 from violence/homicide, 21,000 from malaria, 23,000 from diabetes, 35,000 from diarrhoea, and 122,000 from HIV/Aids/tuberculosis. Tanzania ranks 21st highest among 220 countries in terms of an infant mortality at a rate of 6.7 per 1000 live births as of 2010. The number of humans killed by lions in Tanzania per year (37) is equivalent to the number of people killed in the USA per 100,000 inhabitants by lightning strikes. Lion attacks might make the news much as shark attacks do (over the past 50 years, only one person has been killed by a shark each year in Australia compared to 87 people who drown at beaches annually), but in reality the number of people killed by lions in Tanzania is miniscule compared to the hyperbole that such attacks have generated.

Most people killed by lions are out at night and unprotected. Packer and colleagues were able to assign specific times to such attacks â" after sunset and between 6pm and 10pm in the evening on moonless nights. People were out at such times protecting their crops from elephants and other herbivores, and were attacked either in the fields (lion were also hunting crop raiding animals like bush pigs at the time) or on their journeys back and forth from their villages. As with livestock depredation, there would seem to be practical solutions available to avoid such mortality. But as mentioned above, the long-term probability of a dangerous predator population continuing to live in close contact with humans must be considered insignificant .

You miss the point rotting food stinks and attracts insects.
I don't use a dishwasher and in summer i tend to use solar for heating water anyway. It doesn't do any harm to feel a little smug in the summer when you get your hot water for free.

In the winter hot water is pretty much a side effect of having to keep warm in winter.

you know when you wash the dishes and the waters not so great after doing the washing up, ideal for cans. But anyway if you rinse a can with cold water right after opening it, generally it will just rinse clean. Not every can but mostly.

Almost right, if the human brain had been working in the first place, then pissing off the lion and having to kill it wouldn't be necessary.

There are people who live around Lions on a daily basis and they don't feel that they have to kill the Lions. Of course they need to treat the Lions with a little respect and courtesy to co-exist peacefully.

Seems to low a charge to make a major difference in England but the levy is pretty effective here in Ireland. Reusable bags are widely available from around a euro upwards. There are paper bags available too in many shops. I generally use a rucksack. The plastic carriers supplied by tesco's are not very strong anyway with a high chance of breakage just going from the checkout to the Car Park.

Irelands pretty good at recycling, you basically pay to get your rubbish collected so it pays to be more environmentally conscious. Tins and bottles are generally recyclable for free at can banks as are clothes and shoes. It's not uncommon for supermarkets to host recycling banks on site although they tend not to be emptied often enough. If you rinse a tin after opening it and not leave it sitting around then you do not leave rotting crud on them to attract insects and moulds and disgusting smells.

you can even sell clothes by the kilo and even if there is no recycling bank available for steel cans, scrapyards will take them even thou the price is too low for them to be worth selling.

I grow a lot of my own herbs and vegetables but even while that isn't an option for everybody. You can always prep the vegetables you buy and freeze the excess. Actual cooking isn't that hard and has very little difference in buying ready meals and saves cash too. if you make too much well freeze the excess. Pretty simple isn't it.

I'm pretty sure i'm eating healthier by making my own food from ingredients rather than factory processed foods which have to be able to be stored on a shelf for weeks or months. I do buy good quality food too. I don't mind paying for coffee beans and actual butter, rather than instant coffee and emulsified dyed oils.

It is a better way of doing things both for you and the environment.

I swear I thought turkeys could fly :)

Would it be possible to divert some of the load from the servers. Kind of like a bouncer on a club door, so many gain admission they are able to be processed the rest get knocked back until there is a free spot on the actual servers processing the applications. At least that way some of the applications get processed instead of the servers being overwhelmed.

For bonus points bring more servers online if the design can cope with it.

I'm thinking of something like a load balancer but rooting some requests to dev/null, maybe setting a cookie with a counter so if you have been knocked back more times than most you get prioritised next time.

ok its a bad design which doesn't scale and should be rewritten but as a bandaid to the existing design wouldn't it at least get some of the applications processed.

what is a practical solution for dealing with the load ?

neither its sugary water Burgerking better burgers not familiar with chevy but had a few fords and didn't miss them when they were gone.
Calculator had my current one 20+ years so out of production for a long time.