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Comment Static Page Feeds are available (Score 4, Informative) 338

Static configurations are available already, not the intelligent ones being requested. Has sufficed for what I needed:

To have print page break add: <p style="page-break-before: always">

Also, to hide odd font and underline for links:

<STYLE TYPE="text/css" MEDIA=print> <!-- A { text-decoration: none; color: black } --> </STYLE>

Yes, they have to be massaged a little.

The Gimp

Submission + - Kodak stops making Kodachrome film (usatoday.com)

caffiend666 writes: "According to USA Today (and LA Times, and WSJ) "Eastman Kodak said Monday it's retiring its most senior film because of declining customer demand in an increasingly digital age." "Photojournalist Steve McCurry's widely recognized portrait of an Afghan refugee girl, shot on Kodachrome, appeared on the cover of National Geographic in 1985. At Kodak's request, McCurry will shoot one of the last rolls of Kodachrome film and donate the images to the George Eastman House museum, which honors the company's founder, in Rochester." Mama dont take my kodachrome away..."

Comment Re:Anyone have words about the browsing (Score 4, Informative) 283

Basic browsing is similar to iPhone albeit on a smaller screen (same resolution). It's much better than previous Palm devices. Unlike when the Treo 650 was released, or the iPhone was released, Sprint had Pre's booted up and useable in the store (although they hadn't turned the alarm off before I reached for it). Tested the web-browsing before I bought one....
Portables

Submission + - Palm Pre is out, time for discussion (cnet.com)

caffiend666 writes: "Palm Pre is out, let's discuss the status and compare stories. First days seems to of gone as well as expected with many selling out before noon. I bought the second at the local sprint store and so far I like it. Much more one-hand friendly than the iPhone. Haven't gotten the main aps to sync with Linux, but the media portion functions much like a thumb-drive with my Fedora-8 Linux system. For the Pre-verts out there, here's some Palm Pre dismantling pictures."
Space

Submission + - USNS Hoyt S. Vandenberg to be sunk on Wednesday (yahoo.com)

caffiend666 writes: "The USNS Hoyt S. Vandenberg is to be sunk on Wednesday becoming the worlds second largest artificial reef. The USNS Hoyt S. Vandenberg, named after the Air Force's General Vandenberg, served as a missle tracking and space relay ship for decades. Ship was used as a part of project Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, and the Shuttle Program. Was used as a set for some of the scenes the 90's movie Virus as the Russian MIR relay station. Should be one of the more awesome diving spots soon..."
Announcements

Submission + - Co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons dies at 61

caffiend666 writes: "Dave Arneson, one of the co-creators of the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy game and a pioneer of role-playing entertainment, died after a two-year battle with cancer, his family said. "The biggest thing about my dad's world is he wanted people to have fun in life," Weinhagen said. "I think we get distracted by the everyday things you have to do in life and we forget to enjoy life and have fun.""

Comment Other Cortisol Links (Score 2, Interesting) 156

Looking around, Cortisol is one of those good/bad things.

http://www.south-florida-personal-trainer.com/stress.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cortisol

Looks like it's mostly understood on a physical level with only a little understood about it's neurological impacts. Physically, it sounds like it tells your body to 'break down and rebuild'. A little bit of cortisol, it works like growth hormone. A lot of cortisol, your body ends up useless mush. I can imagine no cortisol means your body is basically incapable of new things; Wikipedia lists low-cortisol impacts like Addison's_disease, Hypoglycemia , and learning impairment. Sounds like the researchers are taking a physical effect and applying it mentally as well.

Announcements

Submission + - Asperger Syndrome Tied to Low Cortisol Levels (yahoo.com)

caffiend666 writes: "According to a Health Day article, Low levels of a stress hormone may be responsible for the obsession with routine and dislike for new experiences common in children with a certain type of autism. "This study suggests that children with AS may not adjust normally to the challenge of a new environment on waking," study researcher David Jessop, from the University of Bristol, said in the news release. "This may affect the way they subsequently engage with the world around them.""

Comment Re:Hallucinations-I have pictures of the triffids (Score 1) 605

You mean these things:

http://64.81.113.250/robertson/100_1734.JPG
http://64.81.113.250/robertson/100_1732.JPG
http://64.81.113.250/robertson/100_1731.JPG

Saw them outside of Amarillo about two years ago after a few weeks of heavy rain. Damn things were chest high and there were millions of them.... My co-workers had to explain what triffids were after I showed them the pictures. Supposedly these were a type of Yucca.

You don't expect to see this in the middle of a damn desert, or anywhere for that matter...

Comment Murphy's Law (Score 1) 374

I think techies ought to appreciate this, it's entirely Murphy's Law. If he can lose it, he will. A great example is that once Bill Clinton walked out on a check. (Might have been after he was out of office) He just assumed someone else had it. A reporter picked it up. That reporter managed to make a name for himself by covering a $20 tab. Now, imagine if a reporter got ahold of Obama's blackberry. I'm sure the reporter would return it, eventually....

Unless people believe Obama is incapable of getting distracted....

Then again, I'm pretty sure he could ask RIM for a blackberry with a thumb scan and get one custom made....

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