Recent content by JJR512

Well, I guess it's true. You just never know who is going to show up where, or when.

I saw his comment earlier. It doesn't really do anything to alter my statement, not sure why I need to be reminded of it now. I don't believe it was intended to be purely a kids' movie, though. I'm sure they also wanted to capture the 30-somethings who remember the toys and cartoon series from...

I have seen it, and I enjoyed it. It's not the greatest movie ever made, but it's decent. I wouldn't call it a flop, though. Last weekend, it was still #3 at the box office. I took my 8-y/o to see it, he liked it. He's also seen the Harry Potter and Star Trek movies this year, though, and I...

So it sounds like your problem is more with the design of the iMac than anything else. Someone like you probably wouldn't get an iMac, you'd get a Mac Pro. And that's fine. No one computer is for everybody, the iMac is no exception. Personally, I like having a separate tower, too, and when the...

1. "A PC is so much more versatile." In what sense? A PC can do everything a PC can do. A Mac can do everything a Mac can do, plus, with either dual-booting or a virtual machine program, everything a PC can do. 2. "I am not married to one OS with a PC..." Nor are you with a Mac. You can...

Then you would have loved one I heard tonight at work. My partner and I were on a call to transfer a psych patient from one hospital to another. We had just arrived at the first hospital and had gotten the stretcher out of the back, when a Baltimore City FD paramedic looked at us and said...

OK, now you're talking about multitasking and the working environment. I will agree with you on those issues specifically. What you quoted me disagreeing with you about was only specifically what I quoted you on, which was the taskbar. I like the Windows taskbar somewhat better in general that...

Hmm, that's too bad. One of a few things I liked better about Windows was its taskbar concept over Apple's.

Nope, and I don't need to. Can you show me where in the Constitution spending money on education is explicitly forbidden? Furthermore, education is the single most important system that needs to have money spent on it. A better-educated population would lead to so many other problems lessening...

How to tie shoes is a life skill that should be taught by parents, not educators. :p The 2007 budget for the Department of Defense was $439.3 billion. The same year, the budget for the Department of Education, the smallest Cabinet-level Department, was $13.4 billion mandatory plus $56 billion...

I could be mistaken, but I believe they normally don't do a lot of interface changes until nearer the end of the development cycle. First the function, then the form.

A patient (little old lady with severe dementia) in the back of my ambulance tonight asked me, "Is this the back of the Mayflower?" I restrained myself but I really felt like replying, "No...Do you remember the Mayflower?"

Yes, for exactly the same reason that Frodo mentioned in reply, and which I already mentioned in my original post. A well-educated workforce is in the best interest of the entire nation (excepting, perhaps, the aforementioned wilderness man). People without children still need things like health...

At first, I also thought it was a bit strange. However, H2O boy's explanation above does seem to have some merit, for exactly the reasons he mentioned, as well as for what Leslie said. Suppose Leslie was in some kind of distress and incapable of shouting out but there happened to be a phone...

This is all news to me!