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DXMachina - Dec 06, 2004 9:47:55 am PST #380 of 10003
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

I couldn't get into Amazon earlier, but it seems to be working for me now.

In other news...

IBM puts PC business up for sale.


sumi - Dec 06, 2004 9:48:18 am PST #381 of 10003
Art Crawl!!!

I can't get into Amazon but the UK site is fine.


§ ita § - Dec 06, 2004 9:48:33 am PST #382 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Amazon's been down and not down for me.

Does anyone like IBM PCs?


Betsy HP - Dec 06, 2004 9:50:06 am PST #383 of 10003
If I only had a brain...

I love my ThinkPad kind of a lot. But I bought a Dell to replace it, because the price differential was just too high.

Can anybody recommend a reliable maker of electronic keyboards (the kind you play like a piano, not the kind you type with.) I'm thinking of getting one for the family for Christmas. I've played the piano before; the kids would be hacking around. Some sort of way of dumping melodies to a PC would be nice.


DXMachina - Dec 06, 2004 9:50:36 am PST #384 of 10003
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

People have said good things about their laptops.

The last IBM PC we had around here was an XT. It had a 10 MB hard drive.


NoiseDesign - Dec 06, 2004 9:54:12 am PST #385 of 10003
Our wings are not tired

If you just want something to use as a controller for the PC sampler software then M-Audio makes some nice keyboard controllers. If not Roland, Kurzweil, or Korg all make nice keyboards across a pretty broad price spectrum.


le nubian - Dec 06, 2004 9:54:13 am PST #386 of 10003
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

I do not have positive things to say about my old Thinkpad. But it is dead and gone and sold on ebay.


DXMachina - Dec 06, 2004 9:55:58 am PST #387 of 10003
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

Betsy, I like Casio's keyboards [link] a lot. I've owned several. This is the one I have currently [link] , which comes with a SmartMedia reader. They all offer several play modes.

eta: ND and I are talking about two different levels of investment.


le nubian - Dec 06, 2004 10:33:03 am PST #388 of 10003
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

Shit. Amazon.com is driving me batshit. I just want to do some damn xmas shopping from the comfort of my office!

Is this one of those 1st world concerns again?


Wolfram - Dec 06, 2004 10:33:40 am PST #389 of 10003
Visilurking

Anyone know of anything going on with Amazon.com? I haven't been able to get into the site all day.

Having wonkiness issues too.