Gail wrote:

> Samsung's good. Same brand as I bought.

Actually, IIRC the large LCD monitor at home is Samsung too, and it's 
worked very well all these years.

(The backlight failed at one point, but the shop quickly replaced the 
monitor. It's been flawless since then. And a very crisp picture too...)

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On Wed, 03 Dec 2008 10:34:04 +0000, Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:

>See, now I *suck* at wrapping things. I seem to have scisors that are 
>too blunt to cut the paper,

Ha! You need a Swiss Army Knife for Christmas ;)
 
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     Stephen

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On Wed, 03 Dec 2008 09:19:38 +0000, Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:

>Stephen wrote:
>
>> Have a brownie point.
>
>Question: How many brownie points do you need to earn before you can 
>redeem them for an actual brownie?

Perve! :)
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     Stephen

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>> See, now I *suck* at wrapping things. I seem to have scisors that are 
>> too blunt to cut the paper,
> 
> Ha! You need a Swiss Army Knife for Christmas ;)

You can't cut paper with a knife, man!!

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>>> Have a brownie point.

>> Question: How many brownie points do you need to earn before you can 
>> redeem them for an actual brownie?

> Perve! :)

Heh. I did think about commenting on the double-meaning, but I figured 
somebody might think... oh well, never mind! :-P

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On Wed, 03 Dec 2008 12:21:20 +0000, Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:

>>> See, now I *suck* at wrapping things. I seem to have scisors that are 
>>> too blunt to cut the paper,
>> 
>> Ha! You need a Swiss Army Knife for Christmas ;)
>
>You can't cut paper with a knife, man!!

Three things.
1.	If you can't cut paper with a knife, then your knife is not sharp
enough. I test my knife by shaving the edge off a cigarette paper.
2.	Swiss army knifes generally have a pair of scissors. 
3.	The best way to cut paper with scissors is not to use a cutting motion
but to start the cut then glide the scissors through the paper.

Like Phil I'm good at wrapping things. :)
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     Stephen

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On Wed, 03 Dec 2008 12:22:07 +0000, Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:

>>>> Have a brownie point.
>
>>> Question: How many brownie points do you need to earn before you can 
>>> redeem them for an actual brownie?
>
>> Perve! :)
>
>Heh. I did think about commenting on the double-meaning, but I figured 
>somebody might think... oh well, never mind! :-P

No one here would do such a thing :)

http://www.girlguiding.org.uk/brownies/
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     Stephen

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Stephen wrote:

> http://www.girlguiding.org.uk/brownies/

"This area is for cool, highly intelligent and fantastically fantastic 
brownies!"



How intelligent do you need to be to use a phrase like "fantastically 
fantastic"? :-P

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>> You can't cut paper with a knife, man!!
> 
> Three things.
> 1.	If you can't cut paper with a knife, then your knife is not sharp
> enough. I test my knife by shaving the edge off a cigarette paper.

Right. And after you've used the knife trice, it'll be blunt. :-P

> 2.	Swiss army knifes generally have a pair of scissors. 

Now that's more like it...

> 3.	The best way to cut paper with scissors is not to use a cutting motion
> but to start the cut then glide the scissors through the paper.

Yes - but only if they're sharp.

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Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> The problem is, after 4 months the battery in a laptop stops working, so
> it must be permanently connected to the mains anyway.

I know others have commented, but let's add to the statistics. My Macbook is
nearly 3 years old and still runs for 2-3 hours on a full battery. To be fair,
it's more like 1-2 hours if I'm using the wireless and/or intermittently
rendering, which is most of the time :). If I'm rendering continuously it won't
last more than an hour, but that's not so different from when it was new.

I tend to plug it in when it gets nearly empty, then use it connected until I'm
done for the evening then put it to sleep. I also hardly ever turn it off, not
sure if that makes any difference.

Bill

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