Ginger, it was a weird permissions thing that Vista actually got around. I hadn't been able to do it on Greg's XP. I finally got it to accept me this afternoon. Thank you and thanks DX. I just had to be persistent, I guess.
I couldn't believe it the first twenty times you told us, but it's starting to sink in now.
Riley ,'Lessons'
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Deena - Oct 05, 2007 8:55:27 am PDT #2935 of 25497
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara
Tom Scola - Oct 05, 2007 8:59:46 am PDT #2936 of 25497
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
tommyrot - Oct 05, 2007 9:04:03 am PDT #2937 of 25497
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
You don't say...
Ah, that was the picture I saw....
When I was in college, I was amazed when I saw a student with a laptop in class. It was a Radio Shack TRS-80 100 (like this one: [link] which is the first widely successful laptop.
eta: first sold in 1983.
NoiseDesign - Oct 05, 2007 9:53:52 am PDT #2938 of 25497
Our wings are not tired
I used a Powerbook 100 in my classes in college. I'm pretty sure the semester I started doing it I was the only student in classes doing it.
meara - Oct 05, 2007 9:57:41 am PDT #2939 of 25497
Wow, now that I think about it, way to make me feel like college was forever ago. Most people had computers, but not terrrribly many had laptops. And only a few would bring them to class. Nowadays, do any college students still have desktop computers? Though part of it, I'm sure, is that a hell of a lot of them type faster than they write, too.
We didn't have cellphones in college either, but the next couple years was when they got big. Eep!
tommyrot - Oct 05, 2007 10:01:50 am PDT #2940 of 25497
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
The "$100 laptop" reviewed. [link] Only $200. Awesome set of features for that price.
OK, actually it would cost most of us $400. For that price, you get two of them, but one gets sent to a child in a poor country (that part is tax-deductible).
Ginger - Oct 05, 2007 10:02:43 am PDT #2941 of 25497
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I went to college with a slide rule.
tommyrot - Oct 05, 2007 10:05:14 am PDT #2942 of 25497
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I had to learn how to use a slide rule in Jr. high. But most everyone had calculators at that point (1978-ish) so I never had to use one outside of the learning stuff.
I still think they're cool, and am tempted to buy some old fancy slide rule.
Laga - Oct 05, 2007 10:19:34 am PDT #2943 of 25497
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I don't remember anyone at college with a laptop.
DXMachina - Oct 05, 2007 10:46:25 am PDT #2944 of 25497
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
I went to college with a slide rule.
Me, too. At least the first couple of years. My freshman chem lab instructor had the first calculator I ever saw, a brand new Sharp four function job that he'd paid $295 for. By my junior year I was borrowing my little brother's four function plus sqrt. They were down to about $100 by then.
Still have several slide rules hanging around the house.