VACATION!!!!
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Whooo hoooo! No work next week! Going to take my little ones and throw them into the Atlantic Ocean (not very far), build sand castles, drink much fluids, and otherwise have a fantastic time. Hard decision - take or leave the laptop? :) Charlie Gilley Will program for food... Whoever said children were cheaper by the dozen... lied. My son's PDA is an M249 SAW.
charlieg wrote:
Hard decision - take or leave the laptop?
Leave the laptop and do what the rest of the world does - use the phone book to find places to eat. Jeremy Falcon
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Take a laptop that doesn't have VS 2005 or any other dev tools installed. You can then use it to locate places, to get maps etc. Regards, Nish
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Currently working on C++/CLI in Action for Manning Publications. Also visit the Ultimate Toolbox blog (New)yeah. that's what i do - my laptop doesn't have any dev tools on it at all. i can do email or surf, but i can't write any code. that also gives me a way to test things on a machine that has never had VS installed on it, when i am writing code. Cleek | Image Toolkits | Thumbnail maker
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charlieg wrote:
Hard decision - take or leave the laptop?
Leave the laptop and do what the rest of the world does - use the phone book to find places to eat. Jeremy Falcon
Or use GPS - the "new-fangled" :) ones provide a great listing of hotels, nearby restaurants, theaters, etc in their "entertainment" section. Plus directions to get to the locations, obviously! I was ambivalent when my husband decided to purchase ours, but quickly became converted to a true-believer in their usefullness. So leave the laptop, and get a GPS! blueSprite:rose:
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Or a mechanic goes on vacation in his car? Or a movie producer watches a movie on vacation? Laptops ain't just for work. ---------- Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them. - Laurence J. Peters
I bet a movie producer would not want to watch a movie on vacation. A mechanic and a car are not the same as a programmer and a laptop. A mechanic and a car diagnosis machine or a mechanic and his wrenches might be a better analogy. The idea of a vacation is to get away from what you normally do for a rest.
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Take a laptop that doesn't have VS 2005 or any other dev tools installed. You can then use it to locate places, to get maps etc. Regards, Nish
Nish’s thoughts on MFC, C++/CLI and .NET (my blog)
Currently working on C++/CLI in Action for Manning Publications. Also visit the Ultimate Toolbox blog (New) -
Or use GPS - the "new-fangled" :) ones provide a great listing of hotels, nearby restaurants, theaters, etc in their "entertainment" section. Plus directions to get to the locations, obviously! I was ambivalent when my husband decided to purchase ours, but quickly became converted to a true-believer in their usefullness. So leave the laptop, and get a GPS! blueSprite:rose:
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yeah. that's what i do - my laptop doesn't have any dev tools on it at all. i can do email or surf, but i can't write any code. that also gives me a way to test things on a machine that has never had VS installed on it, when i am writing code. Cleek | Image Toolkits | Thumbnail maker
Chris Losinger wrote:
i can do email
That can already spell trouble....
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Whooo hoooo! No work next week! Going to take my little ones and throw them into the Atlantic Ocean (not very far), build sand castles, drink much fluids, and otherwise have a fantastic time. Hard decision - take or leave the laptop? :) Charlie Gilley Will program for food... Whoever said children were cheaper by the dozen... lied. My son's PDA is an M249 SAW.
charlieg wrote:
take or leave the laptop?
In my house, that's called a 'difference of opinion' Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++
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Whooo hoooo! No work next week! Going to take my little ones and throw them into the Atlantic Ocean (not very far), build sand castles, drink much fluids, and otherwise have a fantastic time. Hard decision - take or leave the laptop? :) Charlie Gilley Will program for food... Whoever said children were cheaper by the dozen... lied. My son's PDA is an M249 SAW.
Where are you going on vacation? Al My eMail control My Blog
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charlieg wrote:
take or leave the laptop?
In my house, that's called a 'difference of opinion' Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++
:laugh: that's just too funny. The good news is that my wife is as big a laptop addict as I am... we probably both need therapy... :rolleyes: Charlie Gilley Will program for food... Whoever said children were cheaper by the dozen... lied. My son's PDA is an M249 SAW.
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Where are you going on vacation? Al My eMail control My Blog
We are off to Pawley's Island, South Carolina, about 30 minutes south of Myrtle Beach. I have enough room for the horde, just off the beach, and there is enough to do in the area to keep a wide range of ages entertained. A little rafting in the waves, sand castles, outdoor surf and turf sessions, and ahem, beverages. Charlie Gilley Will program for food... Whoever said children were cheaper by the dozen... lied. My son's PDA is an M249 SAW.
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yeah. that's what i do - my laptop doesn't have any dev tools on it at all. i can do email or surf, but i can't write any code. that also gives me a way to test things on a machine that has never had VS installed on it, when i am writing code. Cleek | Image Toolkits | Thumbnail maker
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Whooo hoooo! No work next week! Going to take my little ones and throw them into the Atlantic Ocean (not very far), build sand castles, drink much fluids, and otherwise have a fantastic time. Hard decision - take or leave the laptop? :) Charlie Gilley Will program for food... Whoever said children were cheaper by the dozen... lied. My son's PDA is an M249 SAW.
charlieg wrote:
Hard decision - take or leave the laptop?
depends on if anyone's likely to throw it in the ocean? _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb) -- modified at 19:23 Monday 5th June, 2006
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Leave the freakin laptop, why are you even asking? ;P Do you think a lumberjack goes on holiday with his axe? Or a garbage man goes on vacation with his work gloves?
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I bet a movie producer would not want to watch a movie on vacation. A mechanic and a car are not the same as a programmer and a laptop. A mechanic and a car diagnosis machine or a mechanic and his wrenches might be a better analogy. The idea of a vacation is to get away from what you normally do for a rest.
> A mechanic and a car are not the same as a programmer and a laptop. A mechanic and a car > diagnosis machine or a mechanic and his wrenches might be a better analogy. Depends if the mechanic trusts his car to be able to handle longer-than-usual distances.
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> A mechanic and a car are not the same as a programmer and a laptop. A mechanic and a car > diagnosis machine or a mechanic and his wrenches might be a better analogy. Depends if the mechanic trusts his car to be able to handle longer-than-usual distances.
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> Not much of a mechanic then is he? Huh? It's called a healthy dose of paranoia. A good mechanic won't blindly trust a car not to encounter mechanical failures during a trip where you drive a few thousand miles in hot summer weather and carrying a heavy load in the trunk/trailer/whatever. A good mechanic would rather pack a few basic tools and hope not to have to use them, than have to call an expensive tow truck to ruin a vacation when a quick and simple fix he could've done himself would've sufficed, had he just brought those few basic tools.
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> Not much of a mechanic then is he? Huh? It's called a healthy dose of paranoia. A good mechanic won't blindly trust a car not to encounter mechanical failures during a trip where you drive a few thousand miles in hot summer weather and carrying a heavy load in the trunk/trailer/whatever. A good mechanic would rather pack a few basic tools and hope not to have to use them, than have to call an expensive tow truck to ruin a vacation when a quick and simple fix he could've done himself would've sufficed, had he just brought those few basic tools.
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Or use GPS - the "new-fangled" :) ones provide a great listing of hotels, nearby restaurants, theaters, etc in their "entertainment" section. Plus directions to get to the locations, obviously! I was ambivalent when my husband decided to purchase ours, but quickly became converted to a true-believer in their usefullness. So leave the laptop, and get a GPS! blueSprite:rose:
But that'll take all the fun out of getting lost! :-D Jeremy Falcon
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I'm not sure how it relates to the gist of my post; the programmer going on vacation isn't going to need to fix his software to get from point a to point b. I guess it's true what they say that car analogies for computers never really fit.