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Comment Let her pick (Score 1) 304

I've been doing this for 30+ years professionally. If she's comfortable with Windows then stick with it. I tell people that ask me to go up to the store and find one that's comfortable for them. By that I mean, does the keyboard fit your hands, do you want a full numeric keypad, make sure the screen is the size that work for their eyes, pick it up and figure out if the weight is good, etc. Have her do that then, as her employer, find the one that best fits HER needs. You're not buying 800 laptops, just one.Then go configure the best make and model that fits those requirements. It sounds cheesy but an employee happy with the tool that they're going to spend most of their time on is a productive employee.

Comment Re:Solution (Score 1) 185

Man, I have been farting all day. An average of 8 seconds per fart. There are are 7.7 billion people in the world. Let's say 35% of those people fart 8 seconds per fart. That is 2.695 billion people farting for an average of 8 seconds per fart. That is roughly a little less than 22 billion fart seconds per day. Or 366666666.667 farts per hours. The average volume of a fart is 0.264172 gallons. That equals 366666666.667 gallons of farts per hour. Talk about man made global warming. We should tax farts.

Comment Re:Detecting trolls and sock puppets on Slashdot (Score 2, Insightful) 778

Trump won 2600 counties to Clinton's 500. That's 84%. How is that razor thin? You can blame the Electoral College but it is there for a reason so that voters in the middle of Kansas or Montana or Nevada or Illinois have just as a loud a voice as everyone else.

Comment Re:Digg? (Score 1) 107

The tech industry works in waves. I lost a lot of money in 1999 when VA Linux went public at $324 a share. I'm older now (obviously) and am more conservative in my investments. I should have invested in the online Porn industry, I'd own an island by now. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnet.com%2Fnews%2F10-y... Waves. Everything comes and goes.

Comment Re:Most successful software ever written (Score 1) 237

I agree with the OP. "Hello World" was the first program I ever tried. "20 goto 10" blew my mind when I was 7 years old. Got me thinking and involved in computers. That was on a TI94/A with 2k of memory and a total of 4k with the 2k expansion brick you plugged in the back. Get off my lawn! :)

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