My servers are my pets, you insensitive clod!

after having 3G on my iPad for a couple months now, all I can say is I wish I could pop a 3G SIM card into my laptop!

I don't use my laptop away from home *that* much, but when I do it'd be neat (and with pre-paid data SIMs you have flexibility of payment options, so it'd be about $10/month as for the iPad (or could share the SIM with the iPad)).

I could tether to my phone (always with me) but the 3G on my phone sucks (different carrier).

haha nice.

"Anything that gets people to raise the awareness of what they post on sites like Facebook. I'm just waiting for the day one of my family members publicly posts their address or phone number without thinking."

And that's different to your address and phone number (including mobiles if you choose) appearing in the phone book that everyone has a copy of IN THEIR HOUSE (or available on the internet)?

I don't disagree with keeping all such info separate, but it's not really difficult for someone who wants to find out about you doing so.

Except that you no longer lose demerits (from a max of 12), you gain them (from zero up to 12) (at least in West Aust). People still talk of losing them though, mostly old people.

I would! mmmm coffeee

For some reason I assumed "extreme cave diving" was like base jumping, free falling down into the depths of a huge chasm. Took me quite a few comments to realise it meant diving as in scuba diving...

Until I installed click-to-flash (best plug in EVER) I never knew how many sites use flash to display.. wait for it... HEADINGS! That's right, why use html for TEXT (or god forbid an IMAGE like a jpeg or even gif if you want to have a fancy font) when you can use FLASH? Seriously!

hahahahahhaha best post of the day.

Well said. "We may change the terms of service at any time" is a clause that lets companies get away with whatever they want.

I recently noticed, purely by accident but thankfully in time, a bait-and-switch type terms and conditions change for the Woolworths/QANTAS frequent flyer program card. When signing up for the program I checked there was no selling of data to third party sources for advertising etc. Then they changed the conditions to add just that! I immediately rang and cancelled my account (I hate being sent advertising in the mail, not to mention the disgusting waste of resources it represents). But with no actual notification of such changes, via mail, email or otherwise, (I just happened to look at their website on that day) most people would not even know and would probably be shocked to realise the change of terms to include such a bastardly clause after the fact.

ha yeah it was pretty dead-pan humour (not that that's a bad thing...)

You know people who don't own a digital camera? Really? I don't know anyone who _doesn't_!

Is this not an instance where you should type out your presentation in the speaker notes and have those printed alongside each slide for the "take home" version? ie a report with pictures, rather than pictures of your report. That way you can still have effective slides and an effective presentation to those in attendance, and have adequate information for those who missed out. Or are you just too lazy to write the report, even though you are effectively giving it as a presentation?

Good description.

It also gives me a headache because my eyes try to focus on things in the 'background' that are out of focus and my brain can't figure out why. Eye strain ensures. At least in 2D, you just focus on what's fuzzy and you know it is in the background. Perhaps that comes from years of training (watching 2D pictures) but it's enough for me.

Me too. I watched a fair bit of it without the glasses as it was so much BRIGHTER in general, and this was at one of the premier IMAX cinemas in my city. The 3D added nothing to the story in the hatch locations, and since the rest was CG it made little difference to me then either.

All in all I thought the 3D was boring, and really just another annoyance in a long list for probably the worst movie I've ever seen, but that discussion is a slippery slope so I'll restrain myself :D