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OriginalGriff wrote: they have a "Prime Directive" not to approach until we go to them, I dunno.
They've been listening to radio and TV signals from the last century or so, and have concluded that there's no intelligent life here. 
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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OriginalGriff wrote: That's a difficult one: though I agree we know of many planets existence, and only of one with life, we haven't actually looked at any others in sufficient detail to reject the existence of life there.
Not rejecting the idea that there would be life, just noting that Drake is an optimist and that life might not be so abundant after all.
OriginalGriff wrote: Even Mars, Europa, or (less likely) Venus could have life we just haven't found yet
We haven't seen much of Venus yet, and we might have accidentally even introduced life on Mars. I wouldn't be surprised if some bacteria hiked on the lander and starts colonizing.
OriginalGriff wrote: No information yet; you can't infer an absence of life - even intelligent, star faring life - from an absence of data! For all we know star spanning civilizations are in every solar system, but they have a "Prime Directive" not to approach until we go to them, I dunno.
We can safely assume that no intelligent race comes up with a prime directive 
We can also say that there is no proof of actual intelligent life near us, since every trace of their existence is absent. Any "star ship drive" would leave some traces, any communication would do so too.
Even if a civ tried to build a Dyson-sphere, we would know - as a bright star would start dimming and dissapear.
So either they all "finished" building it and they have a prime directive and have a reason to hide from us (?) or there is not as much life as hoped. Apply Occam's razor. Here's a scary idea; what if this (polluted, radiated and poisoned) planet is the first one with life?
Imagine a million years from now, thousands of races (mayhaps even from one origin), talking about the first intelligent life - how we had politicians, taxes, and JavaScript even before the first bacteria landed on Mars 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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OriginalGriff wrote: and only of one with life
That what the magical pixie at the bottom of my garden told me. And we humans are the only special ones!
A Fine is a Tax for doing something wrong
A Tax is a Fine for doing something good.
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Article specifically states "Earth-sized", yet headline reads "Earth-Like". Then again, Popular Mechanics assured me we'd have flying cars by now.
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Share Mouse and Keyboard with multiple Computers[^]
Anybody using similar software? Looking for a trustable one that doesn't steal our keystrokes. 
Just trying use a single set of Keyboard/Mouse to control more computers, connected to the same network.
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy Falcon.
modified 16-Nov-17 1:33am.
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Wow!! Thanks for the link mate. ![Jig | [Dance]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/jig.gif)
It's JUST what I wanted. Couldn't wait to thank you. So Thank you!
Let me try that now.
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy Falcon.
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I hope it ends working for you... it helped me a lot time ago...
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Mouse is working awesome. Now is there something called Keyboards-without-borders ? 
It just works for both!!
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy Falcon.
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The keyboard should work on the display you have the cursor on...
I don't remember if there is any special setting for that, but it worked out of the box for me as far as I remember...
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Yep, it did. I was a bit quirky and jumping to see if the keyboard works. The machine took a second to transfer the Keyboard-control to the other machine, for the first time. I didn't have the patience to wait and give it another second to make it work.  Just got them working. thanks!
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy Falcon.
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You are welcome!
Those small things can help a lot!
And you should be able to transfer files too (Ctrl+C in one computer and Ctrl+V in the other one)...
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Yeah very much. It's extremely helpful.
Copying across machine would be the icing on the cake
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy Falcon.
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I think you can copy and paste text and drag and drop files...
There was an option in the settings dialog somewhere or it came by default...
GAAAAH! I've pressed who knows what and MS Edge started to read loud what's written here! what a scare!
Well, what I was saying... see: Mouse without Borders - YouTube[^]
You will meet the Hanoi guy who made it and see some hints...
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 Thanks let me try them.
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy Falcon.
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I used Synergy years ago. Stopped after I got more monitors on my desktop and didn't need to use a laptop as monitor #2.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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My vote is for Input Director. I've had extensive experience with this, and have found Input Director handles this best of the 3, with far fewer bugs or issues.
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by any chance, it's in Beta? There's no mention about it on the app, but it's behaviours convey so. At times it makes me feel I'm using a "Dev-Build". There's so many inconsistent behaviours. But overall, it feels a lot better than IE, mainly the speed of rendering. And I've had lots of issues with Chrome recently, so just gonna live with all these bugs in Edge.
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy Falcon.
modified 16-Nov-17 1:20am.
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I like it. I use it (way better than IE).
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Abhinav S wrote: (way better than IE).
since when is that an achievement?
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Definitely. May be its a marketing strategy MS tried? First to keep releasing crappy software for a decade & finally give a proper one, that relieves you from all the pain? 
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy Falcon.
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Vunic wrote: Definitely. May be its a marketing strategy MS tried? First to keep releasing crappy software for a decade & finally give a proper one, that relieves you from all the pain?
Your ms strategy is incomplete: soon they will break it ... again!
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hehe THAT's when they think about their next browser. 
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy Falcon.
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