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Comment Re:yawn (Score 1) 618

It's only warm in the eastern half. In California it's freakin' cold!

In October we had snow in the east, which was one of he earliest snows ever. And LAST winter we set records for cold & snowfall amounts! So it is not really global warming; it's just month-to-month/year-to-year variation.

Heresy!

Comment Re:How will it sell in real world? (Score 1) 116

It's not flaky in the least with legacy apps. Legacy apps run on a non-Aero looking "desktop". You can pin stuff to the desktop taskbar. There's a "desktop" to drop icons and folders on. It looks just like the Windows 7 desktop minus the Start button (and with hot corners for the "new Start Menu" and the whole right-side of the screen bring up some Metro-esque context stuff). The icons that would go on the Start Menu end up on the Metro Desktop.

The biggest problem I see is with applications that create too many icons in the Start Menu

I run all kinds of non-metro apps and haven't had an issue with any of them.

Comment Re:Fresh water? (Score 1) 292

Back in the 70s my grandfather's doctor told him he should start drinking distilled water. Sparkletts (http://www.sparkletts.com) delivered (and still delivers) 5 gallon bottles of distilled water so it certainly can't be *that bad* for you. Given our litigious society I would imagine that distilled water at the grocery store would either be plastered with warning labels or only available behind the counter with proof of ID :)

Comment I Spendt Hours Looking for the "Punter Protocol" (Score 1) 263

The C-64 was my second computer (the VIC-20 being the first) and my first experience with the on-line world (and a modem that used the sound output from the computer to generate touch tones). Not knowing what I was doing I remember spending hours looking for something with the Punter Protocol ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punter_(protocol) ) so I could partake in downloading of software...

The C-64 was later replaced with a C-128 (and a 3.5" floppy drive *gasp*) which turned into my first attempt at running a BBS.

Ah the memories

Comment Transformer (Score 2) 356

I have the first gen Transformer and I like it ALOT. The screen is fantastic and the ability to slap a real keyboard (and multi-hour extra battery) on it is just icing on the cake. I upgraded from a 7" Galaxy Tab and while I miss the built-in cellular access at times, that's nothing that can't be overcome by the hotspot in my Galaxy S II ;)

Comment Re:Police Ssurveillance (Score 1) 761

And in the days of tightening budgets, reduced police forces, etc why dedicate several teams (it takes more than 1 person to pull off a "good tail" where you're not seen) of officers, use up expensive gas, possibly endanger the public by driving, and adding to pollution when you can track them with an Internet connection? I see no difference between using personnel and using technology to follow a vehicle.

Comment Re:Lock in? Take out. (Score 1) 330

In Outlook 2007 and earlier (I don't have 2010 here at the office and aren't sure where it is in 2010), click on File | Import and Export ~ Export to a File and select your poison (PST being the "best" of the choices) and export away. Can this be GPOd out? *shrug* In fact, unless you clicked on (to paraphrase) "Don't do this and don't ask me again", Outlook may be building an "archive" PST folder buried deep in the bowels of your /%USER_PROFILE%/AppData directory for you of certain folders I can't remember at the moment.

Multi-select, click on "Forward" will get you copies of multiple messages to the mailbox of your choice

I'm not sure what happens if your corporation has implemented a server-side archiving application. It may be a little more difficult to get the mails out then (since only stubs to the actual messages are stored in the Exchange Server mailbox), but even then, if you can see it on the screen, you can copy it ;)

There are many ways to skin the proverbial cat.

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