No login required, encrypted and no auto-complete, lets you actually finish typing what you want to search for without all the extraneous stuff popping up.
This is what I have my default search setup to use.
I just went through the cross-country driving exercise last week. Seattle -> Baltimore driving an RV took 4 days of driving 12 hours per day, about 48 hours all told, the RV gets 7 MPG 2,800 miles so 400 gallons of gas at around $3/per, so $1,200 in gas alone (nevermind food, etc).
The return flight took 5 hours and cost me $149.00
After seeing so many whacko drivers on the road during the trip I have no doubt in my mind that the driving portion was vastly more dangerous than the return flight!
(Of course, this doesn't even meniton my normal "hydrogen is a bad thisg to give to consumers" rant. Example: 2 rednecks, a trashcan liner, a full tank of hydrogen, and a lighter.)
Rednecks? Heck, that sounds a lot like the 4th of July party we just had a couple of weeks ago... and it was heavily populated by geeks
>This reminds me of that joke about NASA developing a ball pen that would function in the state of weightlessnes. Three years and a hundred million dollars later they've developed >such a pen. In the meanwhile Russians used pencils.
Go ahead, you can talk to your mouse all you want, you only need to get worried when it starts answering you... more so when it starts winning the arguments.
Unless they have a 100% conversion of source electricity to storage these batteries are going to have very limited capacities. Imagine how much heat a 1200mAh battery would give off if only 90% of the charge is actually stored and the rest goes to waste heat during that 30 second charge cycle.
Since all loyalty card systems allow you to use a phone number in lieu of actually swiping your card, all you have to do is memorize the main phone number of a large business in your area. I guarantee that someone has already registered that number on their card.
For example, in the Seattle, WA area using the Microsoft main phone number of 425-882-8080 -or- the Boeing number of 206-655-2121 at QFC or Safeway works every time. As an added bonus when they are running "Spent $500 a week and save an additional 10% on your groceries" promotions you get the additional savings almost instantly. There are other promotions they run all the time as well, "Buy 5 Starbucks coffee beverages and the next on is free" I seem to get a free latte every 2nd or 3rd trip to the store.
As long as you use cash (not your ATM/Debit or Credit Card!) you effectively remove yourself from their data-collection system... in fact you are contributing misinformation to their database, actually reducing the value of their data collection stream. To really corrupt the information, use the phone number of a business that you have no interest/affiliation in whatsoever.
If the stores ever care enough to shut down one of the number just move to the next major business number in your area... repeat, lather, rinse.
Why we haven't seen a windows worm type of virus that installs and runs some variation of one of the distributed computing projects? It wouldn't be all the hard to hack together a client that pulls work units from one of the projects, crunches the nubmers and returns the result.
Heck, better yet just incldue some subset of the range on untested primes/folds/seti units in the virus and only report back sucesses, that would take the load on the central servers. Think of the processing power that would be harnessed (in just a few hours!) if every explotable windows boxen hooked up to the net was cruning Prime nubmers or Folding rather than sending out spam messages?
Of course, non of this addresses the illegal and unethical nature of doing something along those lines.
Isn't that what Amazon.com is for?
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I usually search/review books on Amazon then buy them locally or via another discount online merchant. Amazon charges tax+shipping so it actually costs more to buy from them in most cases.
Doesn't the library of congress or some other source already have the background information of all books available online?
Heh, I have a couple of business addresses I can use, as well as my home address - easy enough to spread the rebates out amongst them. I'll leave the morality of doing so as an exercise for the reader.
(4) 120Gb Maxtor UDMA/133 drives from the local "megamart" computer store (Best Buy in the NW) for $89/each (after mail-in rebate, of course). Cost (after rebates) $372.00 (Had to pay the state sales tax, sigh, Washington sucks sometimes!)
(1) Promise SX4000, 4-Channel hardware RAID-5 controller that can handle UDMA/133 drives. Cost = $145.00 from you favorite PriceWatch merchant. Free shipping, no tax.
Slap it all together, format, viola - 360Gb of redundant space for a total of $517.00
My big concern was long-term backup - I opted to go with a DVD-R/+R Sony drive. Drive ran $350 at the local office supermart (Plus that d*mn sales tax = $381.10
100 4x capable DVD-R discs were $1.61ea via an online source. 4.7Gb/ea, a total backup capacity of 470Gb. Cost = $161.00, not tax, free shipping.
Drives: $372.00 Controller: $145.00 DVD-R/+R: $381.00 (Could have gone with the cheap one for $199, but wanted the dual-capability) 100 DVD-R discs: $161.00
Total cost = $1059.00 Total capacity = 360Gb (RAID-5) Backup time = 15m per disc, ~20h for 360Gb (swapping discs sucks, but sure beats paying tape backup prices)
What is the space used for? Try DV video editing sometime and tell me how far you get with a 40Gb drive in your machine.
They mention satellite service in the article, but after (albeit briefly) browsing the German website I can't tell which services it is compatible with. I happen to use Dish PVR, I would love to move to an open source option!
Ok, I use QB 2002 to manage the books on two retail businesses that I own. What DOS programs/packages do you recommend that I try using to replace QB with? Any Linux solutions? Anything out there that can import the data from QB for me?
We are currently running about $1.2M/yr per store (no, I don't need a full-time account to manage my books using QB) can any of these other solutions provide me with the same functionality?
I would move to a non-MSFT or Quicken solution in a heatbeat, but not if I have to hire a $75,000.00 a year accountent to replace a $200.00 software package.
We found a stellar deal on a pair of refurb iPAQs at http://www.compaqfactoryoutlet.com (Buy 1, get the second 1/2 off - with a full warrantee).
Two iPAQ 3835 units (very up-to-date) ran us $720 CF adapter sleeve cost $40 each D-Link DCF-650W 801.11 CF adapters were $90 each.
Total bill was $980, or $490 per unit. Not bad considering that the 3835 iPAQ runs $599 by itself at CompUSA.
So, what did it take to hook up to our 802.11 network at home? Simply attaching the CF adapter to the iPAQ and plugging in the CF 802.11 card! The iPAQ detected our home LAN and brought up the configuration screen, I tapped in our WEP key and was browsing the web seconds later.
Battery life appears to run about 5 hours, more than enough for my needs between home and the office, just plug in the USB charger as needed.
Short, simple and it just works... not Linux based, but well worth the simplicity. Couple that with the availability of networking tools, a built-in Terminal Server client and I can do everything I need to do with no hassles... when someone comes up with a distro that meets everything above I'll happily dump the Microsoft platform.
Slashdot Mirror
It'll take centuries to clean it all up!
My favorite Google link these days:
https://encrypted.google.com/webhp?complete=0&hl=en
No login required, encrypted and no auto-complete, lets you actually finish typing what you want to search for without all the extraneous stuff popping up.
This is what I have my default search setup to use.
Ugh, strike that, read message threads as UID
Given your low UID
#35980182 is considered a low UID these days?
I just went through the cross-country driving exercise last week. Seattle -> Baltimore driving an RV took 4 days of driving 12 hours per day, about 48 hours all told, the RV gets 7 MPG 2,800 miles so 400 gallons of gas at around $3/per, so $1,200 in gas alone (nevermind food, etc).
The return flight took 5 hours and cost me $149.00
After seeing so many whacko drivers on the road during the trip I have no doubt in my mind that the driving portion was vastly more dangerous than the return flight!
You were remembering the story of David Hahn: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hahn Aka"The Radioactive Boy Scout"
Can you share your source? I'd like to get a couple thousand and that is a substantial savings over the best I can find for $.59ea.
Same here, www.google.com is down, as is www.deja.com
That is an urban legend, as usual, see snopes.com http://www.snopes.com/business/genius/spacepen.as
There was a company however that manufactured a "space pen" and sold quite a few of them.
Does this mean that I can now stick my floppy discs to the refrigerator without wiping out the data?
:)
Heh
Go ahead, you can talk to your mouse all you want, you only need to get worried when it starts answering you... more so when it starts winning the arguments.
The MSDS sheet for ansul is here: http://www.ansul.com/docs/msds/F-2003263.pdf
Specific Physical Form: Liquid
Odor, Color, Grade: clear colorless, low odor
General physical form: Liquid
Autoignition temperature Not Applicable
Flash Point Not Applicable
Flammable Limits - LEL Not Applicable
Flammable Limits - UEL Not Applicable
Boiling point 46C
Vapor Density 11.6 [RefStd: Air=1]
Vapor Pressure 244mmHg [Details: @20C]
Specific Gravity 1.6 [RefStd: Water =1]
pH Not Applicable
Melting Point -108C
Solubility in Water None
Evaporation Rate >1 [RefStd: BUOAC=1]
Volatile Organic Compunds No Data Available
Percent volatile 100%
VOC Less H20 No Data Available
Viscosity 0.5 centiposise
Unless they have a 100% conversion of source electricity to storage these batteries are going to have very limited capacities. Imagine how much heat a 1200mAh battery would give off if only 90% of the charge is actually stored and the rest goes to waste heat during that 30 second charge cycle.
According to the MSDS here: http://www.basf.com/inorganics/MSDS/NaK.Jan-3-2000 .pdf
APPEARANCE: Silver-colored liquid metal
ODOR: No odor
MELTING POINT: 12F/-11C
BOILING POINT: 1445F/785C
VAPOR PRESSURE: 0.8 psig @ 1000F
DENSITY : 0.855 g/cc @ 100C
VISCOSITY: 0.505 centipoise @ 100C
SOLUBILITY IN WATER: Reacts violently, liberating and igniting flammable hydrogen gas, perhaps explosively.
STABILITY TO AIR: May ignite spontaneously; after exposure to air, may form yellow potassium superoxide which
reacts violently and explosively with organics
For example, in the Seattle, WA area using the Microsoft main phone number of 425-882-8080 -or- the Boeing number of 206-655-2121 at QFC or Safeway works every time. As an added bonus when they are running "Spent $500 a week and save an additional 10% on your groceries" promotions you get the additional savings almost instantly. There are other promotions they run all the time as well, "Buy 5 Starbucks coffee beverages and the next on is free" I seem to get a free latte every 2nd or 3rd trip to the store.
As long as you use cash (not your ATM/Debit or Credit Card!) you effectively remove yourself from their data-collection system... in fact you are contributing misinformation to their database, actually reducing the value of their data collection stream. To really corrupt the information, use the phone number of a business that you have no interest/affiliation in whatsoever.
If the stores ever care enough to shut down one of the number just move to the next major business number in your area... repeat, lather, rinse.
Why we haven't seen a windows worm type of virus that installs and runs some variation of one of the distributed computing projects? It wouldn't be all the hard to hack together a client that pulls work units from one of the projects, crunches the nubmers and returns the result.
Heck, better yet just incldue some subset of the range on untested primes/folds/seti units in the virus and only report back sucesses, that would take the load on the central servers. Think of the processing power that would be harnessed (in just a few hours!) if every explotable windows boxen hooked up to the net was cruning Prime nubmers or Folding rather than sending out spam messages?
Of course, non of this addresses the illegal and unethical nature of doing something along those lines.
I usually search/review books on Amazon then buy them locally or via another discount online merchant. Amazon charges tax+shipping so it actually costs more to buy from them in most cases.
Doesn't the library of congress or some other source already have the background information of all books available online?
Heh, I have a couple of business addresses I can use, as well as my home address - easy enough to spread the rebates out amongst them. I'll leave the morality of doing so as an exercise for the reader.
But on a much smaller scale.
(4) 120Gb Maxtor UDMA/133 drives from the local "megamart" computer store (Best Buy in the NW) for $89/each (after mail-in rebate, of course). Cost (after rebates) $372.00 (Had to pay the state sales tax, sigh, Washington sucks sometimes!)
(1) Promise SX4000, 4-Channel hardware RAID-5 controller that can handle UDMA/133 drives. Cost = $145.00 from you favorite PriceWatch merchant. Free shipping, no tax.
Slap it all together, format, viola - 360Gb of redundant space for a total of $517.00
My big concern was long-term backup - I opted to go with a DVD-R/+R Sony drive. Drive ran $350 at the local office supermart (Plus that d*mn sales tax = $381.10
100 4x capable DVD-R discs were $1.61ea via an online source. 4.7Gb/ea, a total backup capacity of 470Gb. Cost = $161.00, not tax, free shipping.
Drives: $372.00
Controller: $145.00
DVD-R/+R: $381.00 (Could have gone with the cheap one for $199, but wanted the dual-capability)
100 DVD-R discs: $161.00
Total cost = $1059.00
Total capacity = 360Gb (RAID-5)
Backup time = 15m per disc, ~20h for 360Gb (swapping discs sucks, but sure beats paying tape backup prices)
What is the space used for? Try DV video editing sometime and tell me how far you get with a 40Gb drive in your machine.
They mention satellite service in the article, but after (albeit briefly) browsing the German website I can't tell which services it is compatible with. I happen to use Dish PVR, I would love to move to an open source option!
Ok, I use QB 2002 to manage the books on two retail businesses that I own. What DOS programs/packages do you recommend that I try using to replace QB with? Any Linux solutions? Anything out there that can import the data from QB for me?
We are currently running about $1.2M/yr per store (no, I don't need a full-time account to manage my books using QB) can any of these other solutions provide me with the same functionality?
I would move to a non-MSFT or Quicken solution in a heatbeat, but not if I have to hire a $75,000.00 a year accountent to replace a $200.00 software package.
-TDO
We found a stellar deal on a pair of refurb iPAQs at http://www.compaqfactoryoutlet.com (Buy 1, get the second 1/2 off - with a full warrantee).
Two iPAQ 3835 units (very up-to-date) ran us $720
CF adapter sleeve cost $40 each
D-Link DCF-650W 801.11 CF adapters were $90 each.
Total bill was $980, or $490 per unit. Not bad considering that the 3835 iPAQ runs $599 by itself at CompUSA.
So, what did it take to hook up to our 802.11 network at home? Simply attaching the CF adapter to the iPAQ and plugging in the CF 802.11 card! The iPAQ detected our home LAN and brought up the configuration screen, I tapped in our WEP key and was browsing the web seconds later.
Battery life appears to run about 5 hours, more than enough for my needs between home and the office, just plug in the USB charger as needed.
Short, simple and it just works... not Linux based, but well worth the simplicity. Couple that with the availability of networking tools, a built-in Terminal Server client and I can do everything I need to do with no hassles... when someone comes up with a distro that meets everything above I'll happily dump the Microsoft platform.
Now we will never know if the Coyote ever catches the Road Runner.