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Re: Best Web 2.0 Applications for Elementary School

Lucent — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 18:13:37 -0000

Consider adding Ptable.com to your list of web 2.0 resources for educators.

Re: Newest Safari browsers find themselves shooting gallery targets

Lucent — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 12:46:24 -0000

How very classless and unprofessional to go out of the way twice to ridicule Yacubian's English fluency.

Re: What's Next After Web 2.0

Lucent — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 18:20:23 -0000

I'd like to see more education web applications like http://www.ptable.com/. That would really change the way technology is used in the classroom.

Re: 8 Alternative Periodic Tables

Lucent — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 22:06:00 -0000

It's a shame Ptable.com is so much more awesome than all these parodies.

Re: Hey, Guys, It's Totally Okay If You Don't Get Rich

Lucent — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 17:34:21 -0000

You got it right comparing women's appearance to men's status/monetary success. It’s an apt comparison, but it doesn’t scale. As a woman loses 5 or 10 lbs or gets implants or even a complete facial reconstruction, the benefit she’s looking at is mating with a man that’s 10 or maybe 20% better quality. If a man makes millions or billions of dollars, he will gain access to literally hundreds or thousands of women if he so chooses. The returns are not diminishing like they are for women, justifying their unrelenting pursuit of status.

Re: T-Mobile’s Upcoming LTE Devices To Sport New “4G LTE” Lettering, Boot Screen

Lucent — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 15:45:35 -0000

Was the screenshot lucky, or does your Note 2 also now continuously show the blinking eye for smartstay?

Re: T-Mobile adjusting Samsung Galaxy Note 7 JUMP! On Demand pricing

Lucent — Fri, 05 Aug 2016 01:47:20 -0000

No. You're both paying the same total amount. Why would you want to give away your money earlier rather than later? Also, with Jump, if you trade in the phone before paying it off, you paid $70 in addition to however many payments you made, so you lose more money than someone with no down payment who traded at the same time.

Re: T-Mobile adjusting Samsung Galaxy Note 7 JUMP! On Demand pricing

Lucent — Sat, 06 Aug 2016 11:05:07 -0000

You use Jump all the time, so after 6 months you've paid $70 + 6*33.5 = $271 for the Note 7 upon turning it in. Meanwhile, with no down payment, I'll pay 6*37.5 = $225. So you pay $46 more for the same phone over the same time period. I don't understand. You just don't care how much money things cost? You like giving T-Mobile more money?

Re: Exposing shallowness

Lucent — Sat, 17 Sep 2016 16:15:21 -0000

I don't judge people for the content of the drawings on their skin, but for the belief that drawing on your skin can say something about you as a person.

Re: Samsung Galaxy S7 edge getting Blue Coral color option in the US

Lucent — Mon, 31 Oct 2016 23:36:51 -0000

Bring back black.

Re: Creating the Periodic Table with Grid CSS

Lucent — Sun, 12 Feb 2017 02:02:41 -0000

Nicely done and very clean. Looking forward to converting my own periodic table web site to grid layout around March when it's widely deployed.

Re: Our Favorite Laptop Sleeves and Cases

Lucent — Wed, 31 May 2017 23:58:28 -0000

Not a fan of any of these. The reason I want a case is to give the laptop a handle to carry around, not to prepare it for war. After spending a thousand dollars so engineers could take out millimeters and ounces, don't give me back half an inch of foam and 12 ounces.

Also, the accessory pockets need to be on the edges, not the front and back where they make it pitch an absurd, tight tent. I only need enough room for a Dart, its cable, and a flat mouse like the Arc Touch. Those first two would work great strapped to the side like water bottle holders are designed on backpacks.

Anything exist fitting these requirements and snugly fits a 13" x 9" x 0.6" laptop? I suspect they're all buried by 1-star reviews in Amazon for "not enough protection!"

Re: ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 2 WWAN card upgrade

Lucent — Fri, 09 Jun 2017 04:06:16 -0000

EM7455, Lenovo 4XC0M95181, confirmed whitelisted in X1 Yoga Gen 2.

Re: The Best USB-C MacBook and Laptop Chargers

Lucent — Mon, 12 Jun 2017 14:24:20 -0000

How about letting us know the dimensions of the thinnest edge of each charger? We spend hundreds of dollars to shave millimeters off laptops and then have to put a big, fat charger in the same case? I'd rather have a 4x4x0.5" charger than a 2x2x1".

Re: New Apple Watch with built-in LTE reportedly coming, T-Mobile expected to sell it

Lucent — Fri, 04 Aug 2017 21:46:54 -0000

Wow, only 3 years after Samsung (Gear S)? Apple is closing the gap.

Re: Client: I want this product to have a quality...

Lucent — Fri, 11 Aug 2017 13:31:01 -0000

Anyone else having Tommy Boy flashbacks?

Re: Nikon D850 vs. D810 comparison guide

Lucent — Mon, 28 Aug 2017 12:12:44 -0000

LCD screen resolution diagram is extremely misleading. You showed 2x the pixels as 4x the resolution.

Re: Client: Can you use your computer to tell me what...

Lucent — Thu, 21 Dec 2017 18:31:57 -0000

This is so strange that there may be no bag at all and it's some sort of social engineering hack.

Re: T-Mobile tweaks JUMP! On Demand pricing for Samsung Galaxy S9+

Lucent — Thu, 08 Mar 2018 13:23:11 -0000

Not really "paying the same amount" since the point of JOD is to switch after a few months. Old pricing, after 6 months you've paid $300. New pricing, after 6 months you've paid $225.

Re: LocationSmart website bug allowed anyone to view real-time location data of U.S. wireless customers

Lucent — Sat, 19 May 2018 00:16:39 -0000

Very appropriate username for this comment.

Re: LG Q7+ may launch at T-Mobile soon with 600MHz LTE support

Lucent — Tue, 31 Jul 2018 01:31:16 -0000

No Android One?

Re: LG Q7+ now available from T-Mobile with 600MHz LTE support, Hi-Fi Quad DAC

Lucent — Fri, 03 Aug 2018 22:39:02 -0000

No Android One? I guess that rumor ended up being false.

Re: Samsung Galaxy Watch debuts in 46mm and 42mm sizes, coming to T-Mobile later this year

Lucent — Thu, 09 Aug 2018 14:45:38 -0000

Lost magnetic stripe payment, the one truly unique feature in the S3. Pass.

Re: Samsung begins taking pre-orders for T-Mobile version of Galaxy Watch

Lucent — Tue, 21 Aug 2018 20:00:37 -0000

Don't bother. No MST makes it a downgrade from the S3.

Re: Nikon P1000 camera already backordered

Lucent — Fri, 07 Sep 2018 14:51:19 -0000

Did you guys not see how long the P900 was out of stock, years after it was released? This was an inevitability. I ordered July 10 from Adorama and just got a tracking number, though no movement yet.