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keep things simple : get rid of the sofa... 
Seulement, dans certains cas, n'est-ce pas, on n'entend guère que ce qu'on désire entendre et ce qui vous arrange le mieux... [^]
Joe never complained of anything but ever did his duty in his way of life, with a strong hand, a quiet tongue, and a gentle heart [^]
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But then where would I keep my spare change?
MVVM # - I did it My Way
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Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011
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(That's an 'M')
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How could that happen?
Would you connect it to your davenport
Steve Wellens
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I'm trying right now.
Sofa so good.
MVVM # - I did it My Way
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Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011
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(That's an 'M')
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Good luck. It's a divan opportunity.
<wince>couch!!!
Steve Wellens
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Would be nice but $200 is a little steep.
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I have one of these[^] and its not much bigger than an SD card, and runs Linux.
I still haven't done anything with it, although I do have a great idea for a UAV... Too many ideas for the amount of time I have.
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Holy sh*t! 
"Real men drive manual transmission" - Rajesh.
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I'll take one too, please! 
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I don't get it - a computer disguised as a memory card? Surely sockets are designed and drivers are written for memory cards not miniature smart-arse computers...
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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So you want a onesie with a turtle?
Sounds kinky to me.
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But are you the Chef of the Future?
Chef of the Future[^]
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Norton!
Ah, but that is still some fine stuff right there.
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TTFN - Kent
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It truly is astonishing, isn't it? We take so much for granted these days that this sort of stuff sometimes doesn't even make the general news media - but that is just gobsmacking!
I just wish they would hurry up and invent FTL drives so we can go there & take a close up look!
MVVM # - I did it My Way
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Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011
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(That's an 'M')
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Surely you are aware that the very word 'drive' is just a consequence of lazy scifi writing? Drives and blasters are terms designed to consign the essential boggling-ness of the technology required to the commonplace so that the 'actors' can get on with the job of telling the story, assisted by special effects.
I would not mind if FTL was invented, but I would hate it if they called it a 'drive'.
Anyway, micro rant over. Now off to work in my Petrol-Drive machine. 
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Fact of the matter is that, should a practical FTL engine of some description be invented at some point, it will probably be known as the iDrive, or MS Drive 8.1 or something.
I don't see it as being lazy writing at all - if the gist of a story isn't the specific science - i.e. the fact of being able to travel FTL is a given, then the more mundane it can appear, the better.
noting worse than an author trying to put pseudo-science into a story - especially when you read it years later.
I love it when stories from the 50s and 60s go on about various recording devices that always seem to involve tape, for example - very small, but tape nonetheless; simply referring to it as a recording device has a timelessness about it.
MVVM # - I did it My Way
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Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011
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(That's an 'M')
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I don't understand your objection to the term 'drive'. It's a colloquialism. In a story, the hardware that gets you from point A to point B over interstellar distances could be anything from a mechanism that takes up 99% of the ship (see some of Larry Niven's 'Known Space' stories) to a small cluster of specialized cells in your brain. The characters need to call it something, and 'drive' is as good as anything. Most readers will understand that it's "the hardware that makes the ship go" and leave it at that.
Simon O'Riordan from UK wrote: Now off to work in my Petrol-Drive machine
If you really want to impress us, build a steam-powered starship .
Software Zen: delete this;
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Steam-powered starship? Ha!
I've already designed a Traffic-cone powered Radar.
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Gary Wheeler wrote: If you really want to impress us, build a steam-powered starship .
David Drake has steam powered star ships in his Leary novels. Of course, the water becomes steam because of heat from a fusion power plant. But still! Steam!
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I've been reading the Leary books over the last few months. They're a guilty sort of fun  .
Software Zen: delete this;
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Please - don't call it a 'drive'. Call it Propulsion or Engine or Motor. Drive belongs with Blaster, to an era of seventies SciFi which was looking to make these mind-cracking inventions commonplace, so that the 'heroes' could get on with the real business of saving the universe while we techies were factored out.
Rant rant rant etc.
Now to drive to work using my Petrol Drive.
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Simon O'Riordan from UK wrote: Surely you are aware that the very word 'drive' is just a consequence of lazy scifi writing? Drives and blasters are terms designed to consign the essential boggling-ness of the technology required to the commonplace so that the 'actors' can get on with the job of telling the story, assisted by special effects.
I would not mind if FTL was invented, but I would hate it if they called it a 'drive'.
Anyway, micro rant over. Now off to work in my Petrol-Drive machine. D'Oh! | 
Simon O'Riordan from UK wrote: Please - don't call it a 'drive'. Call it Propulsion or Engine or Motor. Drive belongs with Blaster, to an era of seventies SciFi which was looking to make these mind-cracking inventions commonplace, so that the 'heroes' could get on with the real business of saving the universe while we techies were factored out.
Rant rant rant etc.
Now to drive to work using my Petrol Drive.
OK then, we got you. No more calling it a drive! 
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Sorry about that. My first posting went into a .... a...... wormhole....damn. I said it.
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Simon O'Riordan from UK wrote: Sorry about that. My first posting went into a .... a...... wormhole....damn. I said it.
That seems infinitely improbable to me, are you sure you don't have access to an Infinite Improbability Drive Engine
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