Folders in the traditional sense feel relatively useless once you've adjusted to labels.

I use Gmail to check a few different email accounts. I'm a member of a couple of different sites that serve similar purposes, and registered under two different email addresses. They go to their primary labels for the accounts I check, but also get an additional label according to what they are. So I can look in either the label for the account I'm checking, or look in the label for the relevant content.
For me, this feels faster, because I can get right to things I'm interested to first, and check the rest of the stuff I receive later

Example:
I get emails from Jamendo, Magnatune, and Amie Street, all from different email addresses.
Amie.st and Magnatune arrive via the pop3 account labeled [Prime], Jamendo arrives via [Unchain].
All three of them get an additional label, [Musics], so when I log in, all I have to do is look at the [Musics] label to see that there's something new that interests me there. The mail I get looks like this as a result:

Amie Street - Get 50% off when you reload credits - [Musics][Prime]
Jamendo - Stop HADOPI now! - [Musics][Unchain]
Amie Street - New in Hip-Hop - [Musics][Prime]

Having both labels is relatively important for me, since it's part of the way I remember my login information for each of the sites. Else, I'm likely to try the wrong login repeatedly and get myself locked out when I really don't want to be locked out. :)

That's ok.

We still love you. :)

Nah. Sora's too busy chasing after Riku in some fangirl's yaoi lemon to be bothered with that keychest.

I have to admit, high speed audio sounds like it might be interesting, but at the same time, the few times I tried it a number of years back, it drove me mad -- to compare what it sounded like to something more people may recognize, it sounded like a mashup of the 'voice' samples of Star Fox's Peppy Hare, Slippy Toad, and Falco Lombardi, played at 150% of normal speed.

Interestingly enough, my reading speed, when it was last tested, was about 1150 words per minute (down a bit from my teenaged peak of 1400 wpm, 80% comprehension, or perhaps closer to accurate, since the prior number was 100%).

I'm guessing that there's more to it than listening to words that sound like they've been through a blender, like finding a speed that keeps the words sounding like words, but isn't so slow that it feels like I'm having a one-sided conversation.

Since I'm coming back to the concept nearly a decade later than when I first tried, I'm not sure what is out there that will reliably make these conversions at minimal cost.
It's not that I mind paying for software, but I would rather like to try things out before making a monetary investment for something I may only use once and hate.
My Google-fu is weak this evening, and I'm not turning up anything that appears to be useful to try this out with.

I would normally make a "You must be young here" joke, but... :)

I explicitly remember the days when AOL was 20 hours for $20 or so.
I also remember a few BBSes that were long distance, so because you had to direct dial them to get in, if you didn't have long distance then (my family didn't), you certainly did pay by the minute for being dialed in.

Then AOL started offering unlimited internets, and the need for those dialing numbers to BBSes started dropping.

Of course, without a credit card, AOL was a non-option to a barely pubescent geek. Coupled with the flipping out that the family did, on seeing these long distance charges... I got hooked on a bicycle floppy 'modem', with an 'uplink' to the public library that offered a half hour of free internet per session (and less family yelling).

Feel free to calculate this for bandwidth:
Distance traveled in each direction: 1.9 miles
Mode of personal transport: bicycle
Time consumed per direction: 15 minutes
Mode of data transport: floppy disk, 10 units
Volume of data transport: 1.38 MB per unit, formatted as FAT32
Number of discs that could be filled, average, per session: 4
Number of sessions per trip: 2

I must be olde.

I've used worse carriers.

See: MetroPCS, AT&T.

Sprint may not be the best, but as long as you don't have to talk to them, the service is rather good. Only dropped calls I get are from MetroPCS users ("Hello, hello, hello" is not just their catchphrase, but the sound of their users trying to see if anyone's still on the line).

I do know and understand that not everyone gets good coverage on Sprint, and can only speak from my personal experiences, but I'm happy the Pre is at least offered on Sprint. Too many half-decent or better phones aren't (see: G1).

I thought I was the only person who had the issue of wanting to explore a new area, but getting slaughtered by the first thing [popping out of the ground|falling from the sky|warping in out of nowhere] was a major irritant.

I'd love to see an MMO that allows one to explore, with some logical limits. Like a real person, you can't just run all over the world in 5 minutes. You actually need to build up your endurance (hooray for stat gaining without a level, preferably -- someone who explores a lot and carries lots of stuff would likely have more endurance than a flabby something or other that's just wandering around the outskirts of town), buy equipment for exploring some areas (mountain climbing means you need pitons, rope, carabiners, etc; safari exploration means you might need some type of insect repellent, a machete, and a prayer to protect you from [insert random creature here]) and make money by bringing things back from your explorations to sell.

Of course, this kind of an idea would be hard to apply adaptive skill levels to, honestly.

Sounds about right for me, really.

I'm not a fan of paying as much for a video card as I did the computer I'm using (for the record: $288), just to get all the extra glowing and ultra-realistic explosions, and all that.

I've actually set a limit for myself, stating I won't buy a video card that costs more than a fourth of what I paid for the PC I use at home.

To date, I'm still looking for a half decent card at a price point under $72. :)

Until then, I trundle along using onboard graphics, which will either perform decently until the shared video memory eats a gig of RAM in a system that has two gigs in it, or look like someone slapped it in the face.

Well played.
(:

I'm slightly repulsed by your hard-on, but damn, that idea IS attractive.

Hell, let me hook up two of them and have them be independently recognized by the OS and any software I want to use 'em with, and I'll be one hell of a happy puppy.

Yeah. Metformin is already the generic. The trade name is usually Glucophage in my region, and may be one of a few others depending on where on the third rock you go.

Problem with that is, I think it'll go up more than just a little, and we diabetics might be encouraged to use diet and exercise to moderate our blood sugar, or a different med altogether.

Fortunately, I wouldn't be affected by it all that much, since diet and exercise have done their part in moderating my glucose. :)

$10 for a month's supply of Metformin in my case.

I'd know.

I (am supposed to) take 2500mg daily.

Still pretty cheap, though.

Hold it.

So you're saying that if I rolled out a Cyrillic language pack to all the people I know, then AV2009 and its siblings won't install on their systems?

I think I have to ask, [citation needed], since I can't find something that goes with your statement.

I only ask because this is a curious find, and I think it might be interesting to see.

Thanks.

I actually know a(n admittedly small) number of my local officers by name and face, and through decent, normal means. I've never been in any trouble that requires an officer to visit me in a negative light.

Granted, we've had the police come over a couple of times, but these were for deaths in the family (of which this appears to be a normal thing to do in my town -- if you call and report that someone has passed away, a police officer will swing by and visit, and I guess this goes in the record as official proof that a person is now deceased).
Even then, these officers were professional, and compassionate. They were there for us for nearly an hour, while the funeral home sent their people to carry my people home.
Hell, when I lost my mother, one of the officers (one I know by name, surprisingly, and long before my mother's passing) actually offered me a hug, which I gratefully accepted.

As for beat cops, I guess you could say we have them in some places. I used to work in a shopping plaza here. Instead of a rent-a-cop (security officer), we actually had a city police officer sitting in the plaza, and a cellphone that we can directly reach him on (our store kept the phone, and probably paid the monthly bill for it, too), should we, or any other shopkeep in the mall need to reach him. Everyone knew the officers that worked that plaza. They'd work a six hour shift there, then trade off with another officer, so we had twelve hours of coverage, five days a week.