This mirrors my experience with a Deep Sea salesman. Same setup: pop-up stand in a busy mall and I made the mistake of locking eyes with the salesperson. I 'lost' $75 and after a brief period of kicking myself, I couldn't help but marvel at how I was manipulated to buying the creams.
Had to delurk to say this: I love Shutter and coupled with Min.us 's desktop tool, I'm in screen-sharing heaven. :) The only tweak I had to make was turn off the option (in Shutter) to automatically copy the image path to my clipboard, reduce the redraw delay and tell Shutter to not capture the cursor.
As someone who actually won something from Swoopo (a firebreathing laptop worth ~ $1000), I eventually saw the light and quit while I was ahead. All told, I 'invested' ~ $400 into Swoopo (spent $250 during the auction for my laptop and $200 in other failed bids). Not too sad to see them go. Saving fools like me from themselves. :)
Currently, resizing windows in Ubuntu 10.10 is a royal pain. Depending on the application, there can be a little triangular 'thing' on the bottom right on which I can clearly point my cursor to and click to drag. However, many applications like firefox, chrome and some other installed apps don't have this 'triangle'. It makes for several wasted seconds of trying to get my cursor on the less-than-10px border in order to resize the way I want. I'd be very happy if you looked at this issue. Thanks and I'm actually looking forward to Unity. Just for the difference. :)
I'm learning Python (3) w/ MIT OCW and here's my solution (http://pastebin.com/EQevWQWC).
def dupefinder(lister):
'''Function to find first duplicate in a list; Variable to pass
to this function should be of type "list" '''
listerdupe = sorted(lister)
for index,item in enumerate(listerdupe):
if item == listerdupe[index+1]:
print('First duplicate number is {0}'.format(item))
return item
One of your main points (terahertz radiation) does not appear to be correct. See this blogpost from the TSA: http://blog.tsa.gov/2009/11/response-to-oops-backscatter-x-r... which, in a nutshell, reiterates:
"TSA has not tested nor procured any terahertz AIT systems."