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What's the story with LCD/laptop projectors, team? What are the: * Brands to prefer? * Brands to avoid? * Features that matter? * Features that ain't worth a toss? I'm about to buy one. So far, I have looked at the specs and prices of several likely-looking models from manufacturers that I...

But Merc, you are a special case. You know what you are doing and think ahead. You represent around 2% of all users. 10% if we are being generous. I too have all my emails going back for as far as I can be bothered keeping them for. (I forget which year I'm up to: I throw stuff out from time...

That doesn't evern come close to working. The machines are on different networks, in differnt parts of town (or in my briefcase, in the example of my notebook) and in any case they don't all run Windows. It's a neat idea, just the same. But the fact that we are even considering it is itself...

9: Some rendering weirdness to do with rescrolling the page here and there. Nothing serious. I just happened to be reminded of that when I dropped by to post this (using, as it happens, Firefox). But what I really dropped by to say is that you have no idea what a headache it is stuffing about...

I really should change my sig if I'm going to make posts like those above! Talk about inappropriate tone for the subject matter! It's like wearing a bikini to a funeral!

I agree with you. Did I just cross out my right to be considered an honest-to-God Secular Humanist, a member of the "mainstream secular religion"? My word I did. As I said earlier, one must make one's own decision on right and wrong as best one can, with the courage to stick with an unpopular...

My word it does. Evil infests just about every walk of life, every creed, every moral system. So too does good. Hitler and Torqumada, Stalin and Osama bin Laden: I am quite certain that these spectacularly evil men (two of them religious, two of them not) had some good in them somewhere...

It's a funny thing Joe. I am not religious. Indeed I fall into the your "he rejects religion" category. I am not indifferent to it. While I recognise that religion has been responsibile for a great deal of good in the world, on the whole and on balance, I classify religion as one of the truly...

Nonsense. What Gilbo actually said (as I read his post) is that: Only a person with free will can exercise moral judgement. Without free will, one cannot make choices, and without the ability to make choices for onself, one cannot act in a moral way. Or, for that matter, in an immoral way...

Errr ... Sechs, that is complete nonsense. It is entirely possisivle, perfectly practical, and it has been done as a matter of routine for thousands of years.

Gilbo posted in this thread? I better scroll back and read it then. Ahh, yes. An excellent post that articulates a vital theme. Wel posted, Gilbo.

Except when the notebook in question is an IBM. Then the DVD-R costs around $400 extra. Nobody else does this, not Toshiba or anyone else, only IBM. I have no idea why. Probably because it takes them six months to fill out the forms required to get a sales conference underway. When everyone else...

With notebooks, you absolutely, positively want to do two things: Buy a quality brand: IBM, Toshiba, Fujitsu, NEC. Take a three-year factory warranty. Don't trust third-party warranties: many of them are little better than scams. On-site warranty sounds like pointless extra expense. For the...

Don't waste your money on a scan. Anyone who can spell "cognitive" is presumed OK.

LUNAR MIST IS NOT GARY! Lunar Mist is ... well , he's Lunar Mist. (Mind you, he's just as damn silly as Gary. They probably went to the same LSD dealer when they were teenagers.)

I've only played briefly with Open Office, but my first impresson was that here is a serious, well-sorted product.

Please do!

It's explained here Mark.

I don't know, Buck. Not many, I shouldn't think, as they are very small: often only a few acres. There is one rather big one (which I unfortunately didn't go to), but I should imagine tht you get, in general, much the same creatures that you get in the surrounding territory. I haven't read the...

Buck, funny you should like those two: they are, aside from the colourful New Holland Honeyeater, the only two taken in Victoria. (The others are nearly all from Queensland this time last year.) S1 is sunrise in the Mallee (western Victoria), and S2 is the South Australian bushfires in the...

Kind words, gentlemen. But I'm not professional standard yet, and even if I was, I doubt that I'd want to ruin a perfectly good consuming passion by turning it into a meal ticket. I travel and take photographs because I want to. This way, there is no confusion. Hell, two weekends ago, I actually...

Sorry about that. She's a little willful at present. Anyway, as I was going to say in the first place, I like the sound of your rice, Buck. I'll bookmark this and try it for myself one day. Son, I hope.

I think we need a little context here: it's not just wonderful places, it's the whole experience. When it's all said and done, life is a journey, and if you are wondering when you are going to get to where your goal is, then you've missed the point.

Not at all. It was a well written essay, and one that made a good deal of sense. I agree about the virtues of getting spastic now and again: it does you good. Cleans out the mind and reminds you of your priorities in life. And yet .... I no longer feel the need for that and doubt that it would...

I don't think you'll see Samsung getting into that price category, Bookmage. Their policy seems to be (over the last few years) to abandon their old bargain basement price policy of a few uears ago and concentrate on top-class quality control of sensible, mid-range drives. Price-wise, they seem...

I'd settle for the old one if it didn't keep throwing file not found errors.

I have a simple rule: I drink whatever I like, as often as I like. When I was in my 20s, that meant little or nothing through the week, and a right royal piss-up with my mates on most weekends. My tastes changed over the years, but a typical big night would be a half-dozen stubbies followed...

Hi Pradeep. Tea can't come to the computer right now, but she says thankyou for the explanation. At this moment, she is sitting at the top of a nearby oak tree with pencil and paper writing out "I will really, really proof-read my posts from now on". She'd be up to about 400 by now: only...

If you have to count it, it's too often. If you rely on a drink to the extent that it occurs to you to ask this question, then you shouldn't be drinking alone. (You probably shouldn't be drinking incompany either, for that matter.)

That's an extrardinary speed. I rather suspect that it was mismeasured and "only" 185MPH (or some such figure), but whichever way you slice it, it's somewhere in the close vicinity of 300km/h. Awesome. In short, no, I can't imagine.