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That sax line was the first "other instrument" solo I learned to play on the guitar. It had a huge impact on my playing style. I will hoist a drink in his honour.
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: It had a huge impact on my playing style.
Whats the other solo all guitarists play, its also slow, a Neil Diamond song perhaps?
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Not Rambling Rose by any chance?
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He would have definitely have joined you in a drink Pete - as would Gerry.
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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My brother learnt to play the sax a bit. Like many (wind) instruments its easy to pick up the basics, but making it sound great like Raphael Ravenscroft could is the clever bit.
![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
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Something something Bob Holdness[^]
Alberto Brandolini: The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
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Can I have a "P" please Bob?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Not only is that an obvious and childish joke, but you beat me to it by over an hour!
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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Well it was my turn! 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Racing to be childish - sounds like geezers to me ... and, damn, you beat me to it (but Griff has a 5 hour advantage on me).
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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My grand father played the sax and clarinet and I can remember as a young boy listening to him practice for a gig. He played in a lot of big bands of the era, 30s-50s.
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0 Beta
There's a fine line between crazy and free spirited and it's usually a prescription.
I'm currently unsupervised, I know it freaks me out too but the possibilities are endless.
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Hi All, I am a software developer (C#-WPF) and I am confused anout which laptop should I purchase.
Here is what I want:
1. Full HD.
2. Touch Screen
3. SSD - 128 GB above
4. 8 GB Ram
5. 1 GB Graph (Atleast).
6. i5 And above.
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If it's a work laptop you should get the one with the best support and guaranties.
And definitely a docking station, real keyboards and proper monitors are necessary for working.
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
Any organization is like a tree full of monkeys. The monkeys on top look down and see a tree full of smiling faces. The monkeys on the bottom look up and see nothing but assholes.
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In short, a desktop computer !!!!  
I'd rather be phishing!
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Except that a desktop isn't (as) portable.
But otherwise right.
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
Any organization is like a tree full of monkeys. The monkeys on top look down and see a tree full of smiling faces. The monkeys on the bottom look up and see nothing but assholes.
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Try the manufacturers' websites: Dell, HP, Lenovo ...
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How about XPS 13 Laptop™, Developer Edition?
http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/xps-13-linux/pd.aspx[^].
Or if a budget is not a problem a nice XPS 15?
- 4th Generation Intel® Quad Core™ i7-4712HQ processor (6M Cache, up to 3.3 GHz)
- Windows 8.1 (64Bit) English
- 15.6 inch LED Backlit Touch Display with Truelife and QHD+ resolution (3200 x 1800)
- 16GB1 DDR3L at 1600MHz
- 512GB Solid State Drive
- NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 750M 2GB GDDR5
- 4.44 lbs
Seems it meets all of your requests and more. And btw, that screen is amazing!
“The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser men so full of doubts.”
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Why should a USB3 docking be a problem?
“The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser men so full of doubts.”
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You don't have enough bandwidth to run more than one 1080p monitor; but it has ports for 3. This means your video out is going to have to be compressed reducing quality and adding additional latency on top of the inherent penalty from using USB instead of native video out. Add gigabit networking and you're trying to push 9-10gbit/sec over a pipe that only offers 5 on paper and less in reality.
If I'm paying the business class premium for a laptop I want real business class features like a native dock (eg the Latitude series) that isn't crippled.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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You have your point.
Still I think, it depends on your needs. If you use the docking to connect a single 1080p monitor, network and a couple of usb devices (read mouse and keyboard) it should be sufficient.
And this all said from a person writing from a Dell Precision M4800 and Dell E-Port Plus Replicator PR02X.
“The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser men so full of doubts.”
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You'll still have a latency hit from the USB itself. It was really bad with USB2 video; and I'm skeptical that USB3 will have improved it enough that it's not noticeable any longer.
Written from an E6430 and the mid level E-Port (can't find the exact model; it doesn't have USB3 or your model's legacy ports, but it does have more than the basic one Google is turning up).
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Sincerely I have never tried a USB one, but a while ago my company laptop was a MBP late 2011. And I have received a Belkin Thunderbolt™ Express Dock, which is based on, guess guess, Thunderbolt interface.
I had attached to it a GbE, Dell 2711 WQHD monitor, and a couple of usb devices. All worked as a charm, had no lag or any sort of problems.
That's why I think that for a simpler scenarios a USB3 could be enough.
“The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser men so full of doubts.”
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Thunderbolt has direct displayport pass through. Half the pins on the cable were carrying a displayport signal; the other half were used for thunderbolt data for everything else. USB3 docks have to package video data into USB packets and then decode it at the other end. You get overhead from the un/packaging; combined with USBs focus on being as cheap as possible requiring dumb as a sack of hammer controllers that need the CPU to do all their heavy lifting. Thunderbolt (and FireWire before it) controllers are able to do almost all of their IO without needing to bother the CPU: It's why they could offer much higher QoS levels. It's also why they're so much more expensive.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Dan Neely wrote: You'll still have a latency hit from the USB itself. It was really bad with USB2 video; and I'm skeptical that USB3 will have improved it enough that it's not noticeable any longer.
I use a first-gen Surface Pro (i5/4GB RAM) hooked up to a Plugable UD-3000[^] USB3 dock, in which I have three 1920x1200 monitors hooked up through USB-VGA adapters. I've played separate fullscreen 1080p videos on each monitor simultaneously, and it's pretty much flawless.
USB2 is a no-starter for fullscreen video, but USB3 seems to be fine.
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