Less than 5 floors: Elevator or Stairs? — #18
The person afraid of elevators has seen too many movies. There are NUMEROUS failsafes built-in to elevators which keep them from falling in an emergency.
As far as folks on esc…
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Less than 5 floors: Elevator or Stairs? — #19
Stairs.
During the time you have spent waiting for the lift (UK resident term) to arrive, people to get out and the lift to start moving I could usually be most of the way up.
Ther…
Less than 5 floors: Elevator or Stairs? — #20
escalator. **** the pansies who drank their 600 calorie starbucks coffee, they can have the stairway.
Less than 5 floors: Elevator or Stairs? — #21
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Originally posted by Randman:
Up or down?
good call.
my only situation like this is in a parking garage...
end of the day? id probably just take the ele…
Less than 5 floors: Elevator or Stairs? — #22
I usually take the elevator, but that's because I'm usually going up or down 10+ floors.
Less than 5 floors: Elevator or Stairs? — #23
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Originally posted by Skip Breakfast:
The person afraid of elevators has seen too many movies.
Not here. This person who doesn't like elevators has had first …
Less than 5 floors: Elevator or Stairs? — #24
I'll use the stairs unless I'm carrying stuff or if I'm tired
Less than 5 floors: Elevator or Stairs? — #25
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Originally posted by Sherwin:
Not here. This person who doesn't like elevators has had first had experience of workmen not doing their job properly (i.e. rear axl…
Less than 5 floors: Elevator or Stairs? — #26
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Originally posted by Sherwin:
Escalators, fine - no problem with those. I still walk up them though.
That reminds me of an SNL sketch where their escalator …
Less than 5 floors: Elevator or Stairs? — #27
At home: elevators, i live on the 16th floor.
At work, stairs all the time (4th floor) unless i have to change the gas tanks or carry a crap load of solvent canisters/bottles, it…
Less than 5 floors: Elevator or Stairs? — #28
4 floors is usually my limit unless I know the elvators are really slow.
Less than 5 floors: Elevator or Stairs? — #29
I pretty much always take the stairs but military dorms usually do not have anything else but stairs. 4 is the magic number of floors that the military can have and do not have to …
Less than 5 floors: Elevator or Stairs? — #30
Stairs for anything < 5.
As far as escalators go, people really should stand on the right, and leave the left side clear for people who are actually walking up/down the escalat…
Less than 5 floors: Elevator or Stairs? — #31
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Originally posted by 11011001:
As far as escalators go, people really should stand on the right, and leave the left side clear for people who are actually walking…
Less than 5 floors: Elevator or Stairs? — #32
I tend to use the stairs, since it is a great form of everyday exercise.
Less than 5 floors: Elevator or Stairs? — #33
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Originally posted by Sherwin:
Not here. This person who doesn't like elevators has had first had experience of workmen not doing their job properly (i.e. rear axl…
Less than 5 floors: Elevator or Stairs? — #34
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Originally posted by hayesk:
You are not dead from it, are you?
I could have been. It's not too pleasant having an axle locking solid at 80 mph.
Apple's Brightness Trick — #2
my 12" powerbook has no problem w/ brightness
i often use it below full simply because full hurts my eyes
Apple's Brightness Trick — #3
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Originally posted by nuggetman:
my 12" powerbook has no problem w/ brightness
i often use it below full simply because full hurts my eyes
You've obviously nev…
Apple's Brightness Trick — #4
most laptops screen have horrible quality outside...
Apple's Brightness Trick — #5
The same applies to my iBook. I was in Starbucks the other day with it and had to ask an employee to put the window shades down, as the afternoon sun was making my iBook screen har…
Apple's Brightness Trick — #6
Apple has always had pretty good screens.
Apple's Brightness Trick — #7
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Originally posted by ender2002:
most laptops screen have horrible quality outside...
Why don't you go to a store and compare PowerBooks to Vaios...
Apple's Brightness Trick — #8
Fujitsu has the "Crystal View Outdoor Enhanced Screen" where as Sony simply calls it "XBRITE". Not sure what other PC manufacturers call this technology but there definitely is a d…
Apple's Brightness Trick — #9
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Originally posted by TailsToo:
Apple has always had pretty good screens.
Yeah, I agree. Comparing to the Dell laptops that we use at school, (Centrino) the …