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Originally Posted by Latinandgreek
Me, too! And I really wasn't interested in the iPad before seeing this. With a keyboard, though, it would be much easier to lug around to the library for research than my laptop. If only it were a smidge cheaper... I still can't justify getting one at the price it's selling for now.
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But about 50 alternatives are scheduled for the next months, aren't they?
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Originally Posted by thinkpadx
Since it's getting harder and harder to buy any laptop with a normal 4:3 screen ratio I ended up buying a used one. I'm hoping it will last me 2-3 years. At the moment I refuse to buy a laptop with a widescreen. I already count the battle as lost since I know of no manufacturers who produce new laptops with the 4:3 ratio.
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Yeah, I also don't really like the super wide monitors. 16:10 I find OK, but 16:9 i more of a hassle: with a taskbar and a decent pane on top you have almost no place in the middle...
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Originally Posted by Stitchawl
Situation:
In my late teens I had to have some blood taken from my finger tip. The nurse insisted that she take it from my left middle finger.
Problem:
In those days I was playing 5-8 hours of guitar every day. The calluses on the finger tips of my left hand were thick sheets of dead skin. I tried to tell this to the nurse but she insisted that she had to use my left hand. I guess the blood in my right hand is different...
Result:
She hammered away with her lancet again and again and again, squeezing my finger until it was blue trying to get a drop of blood to appear. Finally she took a needle and used that because it could go deeper. My finger was like chopped meat by the time she was done, all because she insisted that she had to draw from the left hand...
Observations:
There are some really stupid people on this planet in positions of authority.
Stitchawl
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That I could have told you without having my fingertip pipped open
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I am taking turns in feeling sick and feeling like a beaten dog. Right now - sick.