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You ought to try eating food prepared with soy granules - its vegan and it does taste like minced lamb meat, so it's a good alternative for the people who want the experience of eating meat. Vegan alternatives to meat would help lower the costs of food and would make it more affordable to people in developing nations because it costs more to raise livestock than it does to grow crops. I considered getting a Lenovo a little over a week ago. They had an all-in-one model with a television tuner so it could double up as a television but that specific model costs about three grand and it was not worth spending that much for the specifications of the unit. The cheaper Lenovo all-in-one models did not have a television tuner card (or even a dumb television with a direct link up to the screen). Among Lenovos laptops, the Lenovo Thinkpad models aren't available from storeshelves and I don't like the idea of ordering something that I have never seen. The Lenovo Ideapad Yoga offers a good feature set but they did not have a plastic panel cover to place over the keyboard and trackpad when folding the keyboard over to get it to act like a tablet. The Ideapad Flex was their entry-level model and did not have a fourth generation Intel Core ix processor or more than 4GB of memory. The Ideapad Z-series, Y-series, and G-series with touch screen were unavailable too. I looked for a Toshiba U-series sliding screen model but it was not available with a fourth generation Intel Core ix processor (the design was good so I didn't really care about the RAM - it had 4GB RAM). I asked around for the ASUS Transformer AiO, which could double up as an eighteen inch tablet but that doesn't seem to be available either. In the end, I settled for a Dell Inspiron 15R, which has a touch screen and 8GB of memory and an ATI Radeon graphics adapter (it still is better than the Intel-only graphics that Sony's offerings in the Vaio series of laptops had). I know I have always been a critic of Dell and this time was no different - I had to return the first unit I had within twelve hours of turning it on, but the second one I got is running perfectly well and I'm looking for the minute that it fails in some way; so far, it looks like a keeper and it could be the Dell that changes my opinion about their brand.

Everybody goes through struggles every day, including the more spiritual folk who seek to elevate others and chant the name of God. One particular incident from Oxford street in London comes to mind. A group of Iskcon devotees (members of the "Hare Krishna" group) were passing through the Piccadilly Circus area and Regent street, and were returning to the temple through Oxford street. While they chanted the name of God ("Hare Krishna Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna Hare Hare, Hare Rama Hare Rama, Rama Rama Hare Hare" - each word is a name used to refer to a different form of God), plain-clothed policemen arrested them, presented them before the magistrate, and created a false report of the incidents leading to the arrest. The constable of the law, lying under oath, probably had not rehearsed his version enough and contradicted himself, leading the magistrate to dismiss the case. As a means of demonstrating respect to the falsely accused devotees, the magistrate accepted from them the book titled Sri Isopanisad to the court library.

It is said that one should have a copy of the Bhagavad Gita and the Srimad Bhagavatam at home. The Mahabharata is something that you would typically read once and would most likely not have to refer. Besides, we have at least three different television series of the Mahabharata in Hindi, with one currently airing on Star Plus. Also, whenever you do get the time, ideally you would want to spend it by reading the Bhagavad Gita or the Srimad Bhagavatam instead of the Mahabharata because of a greater philosophical depth and a more condensed form of the philosophy. The Bhagavad Gita was spoken within the setting of the Mahabharata so it helps to know the Mahabharata before you get to reading the Bhagavad Gita.

In the Indian country side, the voters themselves demand that the political parties hand over cash in exchange for votes during the political campaigns. They seek a hundred rupee note, which is worth less than two dollars, in exchange for their vote and the political parties have the means and are willing to pay for the votes too. Some voters are also part of regional professional associations that influence their votes, therefore political parties manage to provide funding or other benefits to these professional associations to obtain votes. Presently, it would seem that voters have to decide between a member of the Gandhi family or Narendra Modi to elect the leadership of the country.

Jerry, Yes, that's the kind of print server Mr.Dee was looking for help with. In recent years, the WiFi routers that I've used have a USB port and double up as print server but in the past we had devices that were slightly smaller than external modems and were dedicated print servers. The link that you have posted is to an article that mentions about a programming solution whereas Mr.Dee was looking for help with setting up the printer in Windows as a network printer i.e. without having to develop custom software.

For the event management company dealing with adventure games: I've seen some small/independent electronic game development studio with names such as: HalfMad Studios, Avataari Studios, and Agni. The names are either meant to be funny or with names of Sanskrit origin. For the event management company, you could consider the names: Mayan Calendar Events, Bermuda Triangle Events, Eva, or perhaps even Prapti. There are lots of Sanskrit words that you could look up and form the names with.

One of the interesting toll-booth designs that I've seen in the United States is the one that has a funnel for tossing coins. They do not require vehicle owners to mount anything on their vehicles and they do not have to be staffed. The smart-tag toll booths are pretty good because you don't have to hold on to a purse of coins to get through the toll booth, but it's probably difficult to have to attach one tag for each of the states that one needs to travel in. The hidden cop cars with radar guns isn't too bad, but having them trying to literally find someone going slightly over the speed limit down hill is absurd - they aren't just trying to ensure safety on the roads, but they are also trying to raise funds. In Dubai, the traffic police ensures that there is a sign board large enough to warn motorists that there are radars monitoring the speeds of vehicles. Also, the radars are set to a speed that is 20 km/hr over the actual speed limit so even if someone were to overtake another vehicles at slightly over the speed limit, there would be no penalty. The traffic police isn't trying to make money off you, but rather are just trying to make the roads a safer place.

I just thought I'd ask - what camera do you have? Did you manage to set the white balance to blue instead of yellow? Try using the sports mode of the camera to reduce the delay and ensure that there is plenty of lighting (outdoors on a sunny day is preferred). I have a Sony Cybershot HX20V and a Sony Cybershot HX200V that I primarily use; I also have my old Panasonic Lumix camera, which I can look up the functions (the mode dial) on though it is broken. Then, there's an even older Fuji camera and an EyeCam camera. The Panasonic Lumix cameras were weird, to put it simply. The viewfinder would show a perfectly good picture but when you pushed down the shutter button, it would produce a very dark image. It makes the camera unusable except in bright daylight. The Sony Cybershot HX20V and Sony Cybershot HX200V cameras are pretty decent and also have a manual mode in case you want to take a picture with a light source in the frame (like, for example, if the sun is in front of you and is in the frame of the picture you are taking). The Sony Cybershot cameras are quick at taking a photo, but there is a processing time between photos. If you find it difficult to get the puppies to hold still while you take a picture, a cable release or remote shutter release can help you take a picture without being physically present at the camera - you can be with the puppies while taking the picture. The Apple iPhone 5 also provides you with this ability using the headset - push the volume-up button on the headset to take the picture; the earlier iPhones or iPods that can be upgraded to iOS 5 or higher would most likely have this ability too. If you can get your hands on a Canon Eos camera as a loaner, give it a try. The photographers who take pictures of runway models have to be able to take several pictures in a minute, especially when there are multiple models on the stage at a time.

Speaking about "giving peace a chance," ever since nine-eleven, whenever something would happen in another country, one of the first few comments would say, "Let's go and nuke them." ReddIt seems to have its way of regulating flame wars by preventing you from posting more than one comment in about five minutes. Most people find it irritating so I'm surprised to see so many people still using ReddIt. Typically, if you say something that is against popular opinion for a couple of weeks, your account gets disabled (they call it 'ghosting' - you don't realize that your account is deactivated because only you can see your posts). The idea of being able to rank posts helps in weeding out flame posts as well, with up-votes and down-votes, also referred to as post karma. Speaking of karma, a lot of people tried to say that the occurrences of every day are the result of karma. People who believe in karma will tell you that when Sharon Stone said that the earthquake in China was the result of the collective karma of the people, the remark that she made was true. However, it is improper to blame the victims for what had happened as that results in negative karma as well, which is why she had responses from many others who boo-ed her for her comment. Some people also blame the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and nine-eleven on karma. Karma is something that people pick up over the day and can be positive or negative, and can be gained unintentionally. The positive and the negative karma do not cancel each other out - one has to live through experiences for both the positive and negative karma. For example, if you were to decide to do a good deed and help someone who has lost his or her car keys to open the door and you were to later discover that the person was a car thief, then that gets you negative karma as an accomplice to the theft despite wanting to do a good deed. Suppose you get somebody to fix your computer, and were happy with the service and pay a bonus. A week later, the computer locks you out saying that the software was pirated; using pirated software results in negative karma although you had no idea that the software was not legally acquired. In a similar manner, you may pick up positive karma without really knowing it.

There are federal flight regulations for just about everything, so I wonder why there aren't federal flight regulations for the distance between seats and the amount of leg room. With cars, some parts of the world require a permit for modifications to the vehicle but they don't usually bother about the seats - you can toss out the original-equipment-of-the-manufacturer seats and put in ones with a thinner backrest to allow for more space for the rear occupants. Or, better yet, get rid of the rear seats and use the space to place a water dispenser, and space for additional luggage. I sometimes wonder what people do when they don't have access to an RV park and the septic tanks are full. Perhaps they open up a man hole and pour it all down when no one is watching, in the middle of the night. For electricity, there are the recharging stations for electric vehicles could serve as a power source if an alternate charging circuit can be built into the RV. Getting water could be a tough one - you could go to a lake and filter the water, but the filtration could take hours. Pumping the water into the tanks while pausing for more of the water to filter sounds like it could take quite a lot of patience.

I've always wondered - paediatricians and dentists usually have candy in their offices and hand them out to younger patients. Isn't that a kind of a marketing ploy? Sure, they may know their stuff, but they're trying to create an environment where the younger patients would be more welcome and the parents would be less likely to take the kids to places where the kids don't want to go. There are some waiting rooms where they have toys and a play area for the kids too. Those certainly seem like they are appealing to the kids, something along the lines of a breakfast cereal placing toys in their television commercials in an attempt to influence the most vulnerable demographic. They may be well within their rights because it is legal, but is it ethical? Well, it may be border-line ethical because they aren't reaching out to the kids and presenting them with candy and toys - the kids are walking into their offices when they are ill, need a routine check out, or need vaccinations. Pictures of stuffed toys in brochures for vaccinations that are handed out at schools or to parents could be a bit unethical. No toys or candy would be ethical, but shouldn't they be allowed to provide some comfort to the kids too?

Did anyone else notice that scientists and engineers are hell bent toward building things that movies say are going to kill us. There is the self-driving car that could decide to kill its occupants - not that cruise control by itself hasn't had cars try; there are cases reported in which the cruise control supposedly malfunctioned, and I am not referring to the Lexus incident which was because of a floor mat but instead I am referring to the incident in which the cruise control would not disengage and the brakes would not work. Then, there are the android robots that Asian scientists build to resemble human beings to the extent that you can hardly tell the difference between the person that the robot was built to resemble and the robot itself. As if we didn't have enough to worry about with terrorists plotting to take over the world and the possibility of replicating another person's face using plastic surgery (remember the technoloy from Face Off starring Nicholas Cage and Jogn Travolta?). We are at a point where we have machines that can replicate themselves using 3D printers. They can repair themselves after being hacked to bits - Yahoo News has an article about a plastic polymer that can heal itself after literally being cut in half. If the machines do take over and we do have the end of the world as Terminator, The Matrix, and countless other films predict, it won't be the Amish that you all would be blaming, that's for sure.

You can sign up for a VPN service. That will enable you to get a dynamic IP address from a different part of the world. Different providers give you different software but it is also possible to setup a VPN using only network settings interface in Windows or in Linux. The software only makes it simpler to make those settings.

After a failed attempt at upgrading (it lost WiFi connectivity and I had to restart the wireless router), the Windows Store app discarded the partially downloaded upgrade and started the download all over again, but it finally did upgrade to Windows 8.1. Windows 8.1 now has an annoying start icon in the desktop view and there doesn't seem to be any way of removing it. Some of the gestures from Windows 8 have been changed - moving icons is no longer a downward swipe and requires a long touch instead. Did anyone else notice that some of the apps disappeared into thin air after the upgrade? Microsoft nuked Messaging, and the Photo app doesn't show FaceBook and Flickr. No wonder Microsoft offered it for free. On the positive side, the Start screen tiles support more sizes and you can further customize the background of the start screen. I always set mine to a solid black with earlier versions of Windows - this was not possible on Windows 8, but can be done on Windows 8.1. Switching between the Start Menu and the All Apps menu is now awkward - it doesn't work if you swipe from the edge and it is hard to see which the edge is when the screen bezel is black and the desktop wallpaper is black. Also, the first thought would be to perform an edge swipe because that's what Windows 8 has us accustomed to.

Many computers have a combination of USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 ports. The USB 2.0 ports have a lower data transfer rate than the USB 3.0 ports, so your computer is suggesting that you use one of the USB 3.0 ports instead. You are not likely to see much higher speed from switching to the USB 3.0 port from the USB 2.0 port unless you have a really fast mobile Internet connection. A USB 3.0 port is recommended for connecting two computers together for data transfers, for connecting fast hard disk drives, or for connecting high speed broadband Internet connectivity devices.

I pixel is actually a logic unit of measurement rather than a physical measurement unit. The point on the rear surface of the CRT screen or the LCD screen that glows is of a specific color. By having a red, green, and blue dot glow, we get a pixel. Also, on some screens, particularly large ones, multiple dots comprise a pixel. Pixels can be observed easily on some black-and-white LCD displays where the pixels are represented by squares and the fine lines between the squares is visible.

I just read the OP's post again and realised that he or she was not referring to a mouse pad at all but was instead referring to the touch pad that is included in laptops. I guess I took the mention of mouse pad to mean an actual mouse pad - the flat surface that you would use under a computer mouse when using it. For anyone who still has a problem with the touch pad, the first thing to do is to restart the computer with any external mice disconnected because some computers will automatically disable the built-in touch pad and track point if an external mouse is connected. If the mouse still does not work, check the BIOS setting - laptops sometimes have an additional setting to disable the touch pad or track point using the BIOS. If the BIOS setting is missing or it indicates that the touch pad and the track point are enabled, hook up the external mouse again and go to the Control Panel, look for the mouse properties. Typically, the laptop manufacturer installs additional mouse driver software to enable or disable the touch pad or track point, so look for any kind of a logo on that last tab in the Mouse properties control panel applet. If you do have one that has a logo or looks like something that you do not normally see in the Mouse properties, that is most likely the driver settings for your touch pad or track point and you could look for settings to enable or disable the track point or touch pad on that tab. For the Synaptics touch pads and track points that I had on my computers, there almost always was a tab on the Mouse properties Control Panel applet with the red Synaptics logo (it looks like the outline of a computer mouse) and that leads to a popup window with settings to disable the track point and touch pad. If all else fails, simply order an OEM touch pad from eBay and replace the one that you have in your laptop. Any server center will be able to perform the replacement for you if they have the part available or if you can provide them with the replacement part.

I thought I saw your post and replied to it, but maybe it was a different thread or a different printer or my post was lost somehow. As long as the printer server is accessible on the Windows 7 computers, it should be accessible on the Windows 8 computer too without a reboot (unplugging and plugging it back in). Also, the Windows 8 computer should not be indicating that there are no USB devices found when selecting a network printer because it would be accessed over the Ethernet network so providing it with the IP address of the print server and the printer shared name should get it working. You may be able to list the shared directories using the IP address or connect to the print server using its management interface (most likely a web page) to figure out what the printer name is. BTW, out of curiosity, what does the printer server box look like? Can you post a picture of it to this thread?

Your post is old enough for me to assume that you either have a new laptop now, which is most likely not another Hewlett Packard or Compaq. Just in case, I thought I'd mention that you can try to power on the computer without hooking up the keyboard so you can check if the ribbon cable is making contact when it starts up and can also reverse the direction of the cable while the computer is still running. On many computers, the direction of the ribbon cable is indicated by the fold, but a Compaq Presario laptop that I disassembled had the ribbon connector going straight down; I could still figure out from the 'fit' which the correct direction was. BTW, there are reports that when buying a replacement OEM keyboard, the direction of the fold can possibly be reversed so you may have to bend it back the right way. It may be a manufacturing defect or a part manufactured for a laptop from a different region; it is perplexing because if the exact same model cannot be manufactured in the same way then what help would the service manual be. At the very least, they should at least be taking design cues from the floppy disk drive and IDE Parallel ATA hard disk drives - at least back in those days, they had the foresight to have one side of the ribbon colored in red indicating a connection to the first pin of the connector.

Back in the early days, wolves were a fashion statement, but only the dead ones that they could wear as apparel. Later, having a live wolf was seen as trendy. In the middle east, it is 'cool' to have a tiger, a leopard, or a cheetah as a pet. There are people who fit in with the norm and only have peacocks and peahens as pets, and some people breed saluki dogs too. According to an article from Discovery, one of the animal behavioral experts describes that wolves, leopards, tigers, and cheetah have a fear of humans, which leads to their aggression. However, dogs lose this fear of humans when they have social contact at an early age. Ignoring the genetic make up of dogs for the point of discussion, stray dogs that were not brought up close to humans can probably be treated the same as wolves. Conventional wisdom would make us wonder why animals that are twice or thrice as large as humans, have sharp teeth and claws, and are much faster on foot have a fear of humans. It is probably their search for food that drives them to prey on humans, most likely because their natural habitat has been destroyed or the other animals that they typically would prey on have been wiped out because of ecological changes.

The Chinese manufacturing standards and quality control may not be their selling point in the food industry, but they do host one of the largest food fairs in Canton. Organizations from all over the world that have anything to do with food have a presence there and they coolest thing that they have there are vegan alternatives to meat products that look and taste just like the meat equivalents. Think of all the animals that would be able to get away from the clutches of the evil fast food chains and frozen food processing corporations. The mad evil scientists who are investigating cloning technology to create life for the sole purpose of providing food for human beings would also have to put an end to their research and look into something more exciting like Xenotransplantation in which they manage to grow animal organs for transplanting into human beings, which would hopefully give them superhuman abilities like lifting objects that are five times their body weight and guzzling down a whole bottle of Coke without gaining even even an inch of belly fat. While looking up Chinese computer products, I came across the Hasee brand. They are probably defunt now because when I looked up their website, all they had was the first generation of Intel Core i3, Intel Core i5, and Intel Core i7 processors and the Intel Atom processors that were released at the time, along with Microsoft Windows 7. If there were still operational, they would probably be featuring new laptops and desktop computers with the fourth generation Haswell processors from Intel instead. Having said that, I do have to mention that the Lenovo Thinkpad series, which is considered the best of the laptops that an organization can afford to provide its employees with for in-office use are manufactured in China. When you flip them over, you see a label that says "Made for" Lenovo Singapore, there's another label about a registration for the use of radio equipment in Canada, there's even a warning for anyone using the laptop in Australian territory to let them know that they can only use equipment that has been approved by the telecommunication authority to plug into the headphone port. But if you read past all that, there is a "Made in China" label that tells you where the life was breathed into the unit.

sheepdog, Did you try Google's Picasa and Adobe's Photoshop Express? I have used Picasa and it is quite simple to use - you can use the same tool to upload the pictures to Picasa and you can then link to the images using the URLs from PicasaWeb. Or better yet, why not simply maintain Picasa albums instead of uploading the images to the website? You can link to the Picasa Web URL for visitors to look at the pets that are available for sale. I have not tried Adobe's Photoshop Express, but they are popular for the professional Adobe Photoshop - almost every photography studio and advertising firm uses Adobe Photoshop. For web page editing, Adobe's DreamWeaver is pretty much the best you can get. The software is also the choice of almost every web design studio and is similar to Microsoft's Frontpage or Microsoft's Publisher. Once you get started using Linux, there's literally nothing that can pull you away because it's free, it can run off a CD or USB drive so even if you have the hard disk completely trashed, you can boot up the computer and still be able to connect to the Internet. There is also a cloud storage feature so you can store data on a server on the Internet instead of on your hard disk - it's great for keeping copies of important data that you cannot afford to lose. Do you have any volunteering opportunities for people to help out with the website? I'd be asking about helping out with the plants and pets too, but I'm neither in good physical shape nor will the United States let me in as a volunteer (they let me in as a student and as a tourist, but they need to investigate a paper trail for just about everything and probably the United Nations and the Red Cross are the only organizations that can arrange for that kind of paper work for volunteers). BTW, I always meant to ask - what do you do to get over the phobia of insects that hang around the plants?