Things Smackie Thinks You Need to Know...

[Julian, Forum COGNOSCENTI]

Amazon caught on to my scheme recently and I was banned forevah!

oh I like schemes...i call them "plays".....pray do tell! 

I also enjoy a caper and any pretty fair kerfuffle that may ensue. Do tell.

[i am gay and i like cats]

do I, really, need to know?

[i am gay and i like cats]

my laptop died.  dell xps.  had it ten years.  loved that thing.  sniff, sniff.  should be fun to remove the hard drive to attempt to rescue the data.  got new laptop.  some hp envy touchsmart thing.  cheap and I think i like it.  neat,o.  thought, you needed, to know.

[GetThee2aHatcheryıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl]

10 years...you go more than your moneys worth on that
5-6 is desktop life span anything after that is just borrowed time

[vansmack]

I can't imagine that your battery still worked after ten years...

[i am gay and i like cats]

the god, of mechanical,  likes me.

[atomic]

my laptop died.  dell xps.  had it ten years.  loved that thing.  sniff, sniff.  should be fun to remove the hard drive to attempt to rescue the data.  got new laptop.  some hp envy touchsmart thing.  cheap and I think i like it.  neat,o.  thought, you needed, to know.

I replaced my dead laptop with an iPad Air.  Don't really see the point of laptops anymore.  I am shocked that you got 10 years out of a dell.  Always had them for work and never got more than 3 years out of them.  Battery dead after year one.  Had to replace the keyboard on my current one after 2 years and it is on its last legs.  Dell isn't known for quality.

[GetThee2aHatcheryıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl]

I replaced my dead laptop with an iPad Air.  Don't really see the point of laptops anymore.
 

So you replaced a work computer with a toy?   to you touch type your 60 page manifestos on a small screen like that?
they are fun for browsing the web and reading books/mags.  but for people who actually use their computers to do work, tablets are just toys

I am shocked that you got 10 years out of a dell.  Always had them for work and never got more than 3 years out of them.  Battery dead after year one.   Dell isn't known for quality.

I too am shocked, but it does happen.  Just can't believe with all the porn I assume walky downloads it wasn't slowed to a crawl anytime he opened a browser.

dell makes a good economy computer (and actually pretty decent servers)
Never really liked their laptops, cheap and flimsy
also no matter what brand of laptop you get, optimal battery life is only 18-24 months
Unless (like most people) you have it plugged in all the time, you might get a longer life

I think laptops are like 4 wheel drive cars/trucks.  All these people buy them and are like "I'm adventure man and I'm going to be off-roading and all sorts of crazy things in this" when reality is they will never engage the 4 wheel drive

The laptop scenario is " i'll have so much freedom, I'll use it in the coffee shop, I'll sit in my backyard with a cup of coffee, I'll take it to all my business meetings"
When reality is...I've moved laptops and there is a ring of dust around where it sat for 3+ years and never moved 

Long story short...you overpay for a feature you'll never use and get a product that will have lot more issues, more expensive to fix and have a shorter life span...all cause you wanted to show the world how 'free' you are.  Ads...really warp the mind

[James Ford]

You so crazy. My wife, my daughter, and I are constantly moving about two laptops all over the house. That's hardly collecting dust in the same spot.

You are right about the 4 wheel drive, in general, for us. Our RAV4 gets no more off road use than the Saturn.

[i am gay and i like cats]

i can communicate, with ghosts and ufos . . . they allow me to keep things, longer than most humans.  and i just stream porn, never download.

[vansmack]

Because I posted this in the less viewed Roll Call thread, I thought I should drop this in here as well:

Smackie is making a couple of guest appearances in your fine city this weekend.

I will be at the Nats game on Sunday (weather permitting) and watching USA v Portugal at Duffy's by the club at 6 Sunday evening.

No RSVP necessary.

[vansmack]

A retweet:

There's a joke to be made about porn adopting new tech and the Fire Phone's perspective feature, but I presume someone already made it.

Also,  this :

James Joyce would pick fights in Paris, then hide and call Ernest Hemingway to beat the shit out of the guy.

[vansmack]

[vansmack]

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https://www.youtube.com/user/musicvault

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[vansmack]

good to know, thanks guys. i suspected it was dynamic pricing, those ticket prices are fairly absurd. 

RE: drinks. i was thinking the same thing. doesn't have to be a fancy beer place.  i'm in town that weekend for the annual napa valley farm bureau dinner, so i'll be spending most of my time around napa.  once i have a better idea when i'll be around the city, i'll shoot you a PM.  will be around the july 12 weekend as well.

I've been watching the prices and you're not getting in for under ~$70 this weekend - and those aren't good seats.  Keep an eye on the last few hours tonight to see if there's a collapse, but I highly doubt it.  The race is close and these two fan bases HATE each other.