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I love laptops -- haven't used a desktop in years. Both my work and home setup is with dual monitors, the laptop monitor used as a parking space for apps I want to keep open but infrequently used. Separate mouse and keyboard. I love the portability, the fact that it's quiet, and if the power goes out, ok, the monitors go dark but I don't lose anything.
Supposedly, if you work here more than a year you can take the laptop with you if you leave.  And yes, it's a small company, I can't imagine a large company doing something like that.
glennPattonWork wrote: Why does this company make life so bloomin' awkward
That's their job!
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The one time they gave me a laptop and took the desktop away, I insisted on a docking station, two 24" monitors, a real keyboard, and a real mouse.
I've got a desktop again, now. 
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Marc Clifton wrote: if the power goes out, ok, the monitors go dark but I don't lose anything.
Since the laptop has its own battery, get a UPS, and hook only the monitors to it. You could probably go for quite a while.
At home, my desktop has its own UPS, and I have a second one driving just the extra monitors and network gear...by splitting the load, I can keep going for at least at hour. Something really bad's gotta happen if this isn't enough for most situations.
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Of course, your router and cable modem dies so you have no network/internet - but who needs 'em?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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It depends on the laptop. Most of my users want them. Fortunately they've gotten to a point where they can actually replace desktops when it comes to processing power.
Just make sure you get a dock and two big monitors in the exchange. That way when you're in the office you still have a desktop.
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Did Chris act lawfully when he prorogued the soapbox?
Edit : was actually hoping for a discussion on bojo - but obvs my attempt at circumventing the no politics in lounge was missed
modified 25-Sep-19 8:42am.
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Pompey 3 wrote: prorogued
You shouldn't use such words here!
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Speech control is mind control. That's why I think we need the soapbox, even if I hardly ever felt the need to make use of it.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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No one is infringing your freedom of speech. However, if you want to make a speech - rent a hall. This one has been rented by Chris.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: This one has been rented by Chris.
The problem is that we all already have a hall where we can go to say our Hail Marys (or similar) in exactly the one and only correct way.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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CodeWraith wrote: The problem is that we all already have a hall where we can go ...
How is that a problem?
"Five fruits and vegetables a day? What a joke!
Personally, after the third watermelon, I'm full."
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These guys have been in that business for thousands of years. They are a tough competition.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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A tough competition for which purpose?
"Five fruits and vegetables a day? What a joke!
Personally, after the third watermelon, I'm full."
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Ok. This joke failed. I just wanted to say that if I need higher approval and want to sing the traditional prayers in perfect unity with all others, I will go to a church and not to CP.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: This one has been rented by Chris.
and most complainers don't get this, even after you explain it to them. Same people that need to see the lable "Caution: this cup of coffee is extremely hot!"
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"rent a hall" This is B.S.
He want to express his feeling through writing on a forum like a SoapBox,Tw*tter... As the world does these days.
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Norman Landing wrote: writing on a forum like a SoapBox,Tw*tter... As the world does these days.
If there are easy alternatives... where is the problem with a closed soapbox?
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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I agree there should be a place to say things that are not appropriate for the lounge, but I found the soapbox recently was just a place to go argue with somebody else about political views.
Anything not related to politics was quickly swept onto page 423 and never seen by most people, so kind of makes it pointless when it's like that.
The only people it was useful for is people that want to argue for the sake of arguing. If those people actually gave a crap about what they were arguing about then they would actually go do something about it, rather than just voicing their opinions on a site that is dedicated to programming.
Perhaps the soapbox could come back but with an initial rule that politics is not suitable conversation. At least until people can learn to mix up their conversational topics a bit.
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musefan wrote: Perhaps the soapbox could come back but with an initial rule that politics is not suitable conversation.
Good idea. Maybe we could even rename it too...."The Global Warming Forum" maybe?
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F-ES Sitecore wrote: "The Global Warming Forum" maybe?
But fair point, I suppose politics wasn't the only re-occurring theme.
I guess my main concern is that it's just tiring seeing the same people arguing about the same things every time I went on there.
If you want to argue, go on Facebook, find a post related to a subject you are "interested" in, and join the other 10k people all arguing in the comments because they have nothing better to do.
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musefan wrote: I guess my main concern is that it's just tiring seeing the same people arguing blabbing about about the same things every time I went on there.
The Lounge.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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