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[cellio]

Going to the eye-doctor and having my pupils dilated seems to cause the day to become bright and sunny. But this is Pittsburgh, where sunny days are relatively uncommon. Does this mean that most people in Pittsburgh never have their eyes checked this way, or are we all mysteriously choosing the same few days for this?
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[dvarin]

Win8: Interesting. Tapping the power button is not something I even think of, probably because I'm one of those people they mention who mentally associates it with a forcible hardware action--if I'm pressing it it's because I'm holding it down trying to get an uncooperative OS to reset itself. (In my new laptop where I cannot access the battery without unscrewing the case, I'm still slightly nervous about there being no "just pull the plug" option in case the power button also fails to work.)

But really, every software application works this way too--something outside it starts it up, something within it shuts it down.

[friscokitty]

OK that Demotivational poster is something special...LOL!

[530nm330hz]

Glad you found my review useful. They just sent me Erica Brown's new book for the aseret yemei teshuvah and I'm really looking forward to hunkering down with it over Shabbat.

How does God pray?

[meiravberale]

This is a question seriously discussed in the Talmud?

Re: How does God pray?

[cellio]

Yup. Is your surprise that they say God prays, or that they discuss what that prayer is?

Re: How does God pray?

[meiravberale]

The first one. I wouldn't be surprised at the Talmud discussing what prayer is, but am a bit perplexed at what they might mean by the idea of God praying at all - talking to himself? (not being funny, just seriously curious.)

re the Windows thing

[meiravberale]

I am stunned to see this - I was also taught that it's dangerous to switch a computer off via the power button, and whenever I have done so I've ended up with a scary message about how your computer didn't shut down properly and do you want to use safe mode and yada yada. (But maybe it *was* dangerous with older computers? mine *is* older, it runs on Vista.)

Re: re the Windows thing

[cellio]

Yeah, same here -- those post-power-cycle messages were scary-sounding enough that we just stopped doing that! And they're way older than Vista...

Re: re the Windows thing

[meiravberale]

Oh, so the function of the power button has changed? Any idea at what stage this happened?

(I am aware that these days it's quite often possible to recover stuff even after an abrupt shutdown, which is wonderful. I well remember the days when it wasn't... that's how I learned to do backups, after losing a 9-page complex legal document I'd typed...)