Lisa: There must be a website that can help you with a clingy baby. Marge: Oh, I don't want to bother the internet with my problem. Bart: Aw, come on, Mom; we'll help you surf. [Marge sits down at their computer and begins clicking with the mouse.] Bart: Click that one, Mom. [she continues clicking] Lisa: No, go up! [she continues clicking] Bart: Keep going -- up, up, up! [she continues clicking] Lisa: The blue ones are ads. [she continues clicking] Bart: That's the toolbar. [she continues clicking] Lisa: Now you've opened Word! Close it! [she continues clicking] Bart: Close it! Don't save it! [she continues clicking] Lisa: Stop clicking! [she continues clicking] Bart: Don't go there! [she continues clicking] Lisa: Why are you buying a freezer?! [she continues clicking] Bart: Don't click the cart or you've bought it! [she continues clicking] Lisa: Aw, you clicked the cart! [Marge stops clicking] Marge: If you're so smart, you do it. [Bart hits one button and the right website appears on the screen. Marge groans.]
I don't know - the cars at theaircar.com look pretty damn cool.
200km range, with a 3-4 minute refill time (at a *gas station, one day) or 3-4 hours with your own compressor at home.
That seems like plenty to me... Plus, they're going into production in 2008!
Another convenient thing is that we will still be able to call them gas stations....
I shouldn't feed you, but...
I'm an immigrant, and at least I can tell that 25% is not equal to 'one fifth'.
I've heard this said somewhere else:
My family chose this country. You we just born here by chance.
Wait a sec - Mulrouney? 1997?
I can't tell if that's sarcasm or not, but Jean Chretien was PM from 1993 until 2003.
You can't have forgotten his performance in 1996, when he strangled that protester on camera, have you?
Urban bicycle schemes like the Amsterdam white bikes or neighbourhood car pool sharing comes to mind. Car sharing works great. Here in Montreal I've been a member of communauto for about a year now.
How it works: you give a $500 deposit, a yearly membership fee (the cheapest is $35 a year), then pay per hour and per km (with gas, car washes, etc included).
If I need a car, I call or reserve one from their website. The cars are parked in stations all over the city (there are 15 Toyota echos and yaris's a block from my house). It's perfect for my family. I don't want to own a car, I just want to borrow one now and then.
The hourly/km rates are pretty reasonable (but expensive enough that I only use it when I need it) and I don't have to think about parking, repairs, gas or insurance ($0 deductible!). Yes, every once in a while if I wait until the last minute, all the cars will be booked, but them's the breaks.
And yes, the cars well maintained and clean. Yay communauto!
They also tend to record their live shows (which are amazing still), burn them backstage and sell them at the end of the night. I still regret not buying one when I saw them a couple of years ago (incidentally, it was the same week that I saw Kraftwerk play. It was great - like watching two German version of the future battling it out. EN definitely took the prize!).
From your link:
Will probably never be supported due to encrypted firmware probably never is not exactly the same as never never.
At least, I can hold out hope...
Actually, from what I read, there is no clear answer of what would happen to the parking spaces if Apple got its way:
from TFA:
he idea of parking meters, besides revenue, is to keep people from parking on the street all day. The borough could do that simply by making the three-car stretch into a No Parking zone. The city is, after all, trying to reduce the number of parking spots downtown.
That is, the author of the article is making some wild-ass guess about it. The Montreal Gazette is hardly a bastion of responsible journalism. Plus, he's obviously wrong - the city of Montreal never puts up one no-parking sign when 3 or 4 will suffice.
Besides all that, I fail to see how it would make much difference either way, given that the rue Sainte Catherine is already a parking lot most of the time.
iTunes is quite a thorn...then again, I hate the Rio Karma's manager as well and miss the "drag and drop" of my Carbon... Try the open-source, rockbox replacement firmware! http://rockbox.org/
It breathed new life into my iRiver h100, and beats the crap out of the default apple firmware on my girlfriend's iPod video.
It doesn't do everything yet (like play videos), but you dual boot if you need to.
On a related note, one great thing about iPods is the firmware recovery routine...
from the article:
Like the music industry, Web radio stations aren't big fans of stream ripping. They'd rather have you come back to their site each time you want to listen to music. Maybe that's true for stations with advertising in the stream (ugh), but why would the webcaster want me to use more of their bandwidth?
When artists don't get paid properly, they cannot spend the amount of time they need to to make great work. Not only that, it's insulting to suggest that some artists shouldn't be paid a great deal of money when their work is in great demand. Can you imagine mastering your chosen field, going to a job interview, and being told that you'll be paid with beer money because your work is so much fun? You'd probably be about as angry at that suggestion as I am.
I don't know about anyone else, but I regularly purchase music that I hear on my favourite internet radio station (SomaFM), specifically because I heard it there.
I don't live the US, so I can't contact a senator or representative. Instead, lately I've been making a point of contacting the artists themselves to let them know that I just bought their album and why.
i.e: 'Hey there you crazy cat - I discovered your music recently after hearing a song on SomaFM, so I bought the album. Did you know that the RIAA, an organization that is supposed to be representing you, is trying to kill off that promotional stream for you in the USA?'
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What's wrong? It's a perfectly promulent word.
Lisa: There must be a website that can help you with a clingy baby.
Marge: Oh, I don't want to bother the internet with my problem.
Bart: Aw, come on, Mom; we'll help you surf.
[Marge sits down at their computer and begins clicking with the mouse.]
Bart: Click that one, Mom. [she continues clicking]
Lisa: No, go up! [she continues clicking]
Bart: Keep going -- up, up, up! [she continues clicking]
Lisa: The blue ones are ads. [she continues clicking]
Bart: That's the toolbar. [she continues clicking]
Lisa: Now you've opened Word! Close it! [she continues clicking]
Bart: Close it! Don't save it! [she continues clicking]
Lisa: Stop clicking! [she continues clicking]
Bart: Don't go there! [she continues clicking]
Lisa: Why are you buying a freezer?! [she continues clicking]
Bart: Don't click the cart or you've bought it! [she continues clicking]
Lisa: Aw, you clicked the cart! [Marge stops clicking]
Marge: If you're so smart, you do it. [Bart hits one button and the right website appears on the screen. Marge groans.]
I don't know - the cars at theaircar.com look pretty damn cool.
200km range, with a 3-4 minute refill time (at a *gas station, one day) or 3-4 hours with your own compressor at home.
That seems like plenty to me... Plus, they're going into production in 2008!
Another convenient thing is that we will still be able to call them gas stations....
I'm an immigrant, and at least I can tell that 25% is not equal to 'one fifth'.
I've heard this said somewhere else: My family chose this country. You we just born here by chance.
ps. it takes a big man to post crap like that AC.
"sugar, free doughnuts"
Wait a sec - Mulrouney? 1997?
I can't tell if that's sarcasm or not, but Jean Chretien was PM from 1993 until 2003.
You can't have forgotten his performance in 1996, when he strangled that protester on camera, have you?
he just doesn't know where the hell he is (still in the parking lot).
How it works: you give a $500 deposit, a yearly membership fee (the cheapest is $35 a year), then pay per hour and per km (with gas, car washes, etc included).
If I need a car, I call or reserve one from their website. The cars are parked in stations all over the city (there are 15 Toyota echos and yaris's a block from my house). It's perfect for my family. I don't want to own a car, I just want to borrow one now and then.
The hourly/km rates are pretty reasonable (but expensive enough that I only use it when I need it) and I don't have to think about parking, repairs, gas or insurance ($0 deductible!). Yes, every once in a while if I wait until the last minute, all the cars will be booked, but them's the breaks.
And yes, the cars well maintained and clean. Yay communauto!
rockbox.org
Care to elaborate? I've never had any real problems with it, and now prefer it to the old system.
The story would be more interesting if it included an example hijacked search phrase.
I'd like to check it out myself.
and lucky for you that fellow passenger didn't turn out to be an 'air marshal'
They also tend to record their live shows (which are amazing still), burn them backstage and sell them at the end of the night.
I still regret not buying one when I saw them a couple of years ago (incidentally, it was the same week that I saw Kraftwerk play. It was great - like watching two German version of the future battling it out. EN definitely took the prize!).
well, if I ever hear 'dancing queen' blaring out of a cell phone on the bus, I'm going to break something...
yes, unless you happen to be an immigrant
Will probably never be supported due to encrypted firmware probably never is not exactly the same as never never.
At least, I can hold out hope...
What's a VCR?
from TFA: he idea of parking meters, besides revenue, is to keep people from parking on the street all day. The borough could do that simply by making the three-car stretch into a No Parking zone. The city is, after all, trying to reduce the number of parking spots downtown.
That is, the author of the article is making some wild-ass guess about it. The Montreal Gazette is hardly a bastion of responsible journalism. Plus, he's obviously wrong - the city of Montreal never puts up one no-parking sign when 3 or 4 will suffice.
Besides all that, I fail to see how it would make much difference either way, given that the rue Sainte Catherine is already a parking lot most of the time.
yeah, the screen usually turns blue first.
that, coupled with screen, is perfect for doing remote or unattended torrent downloads.
Try the open-source, rockbox replacement firmware! http://rockbox.org/
It breathed new life into my iRiver h100, and beats the crap out of the default apple firmware on my girlfriend's iPod video.
It doesn't do everything yet (like play videos), but you dual boot if you need to.
On a related note, one great thing about iPods is the firmware recovery routine...
I don't think it's right to close television, but who the Hell watches it ? I did a little and it sucked.
I believe that it's common for the record label, not the artist, to own the recordings.
I don't know about anyone else, but I regularly purchase music that I hear on my favourite internet radio station (SomaFM), specifically because I heard it there.
I don't live the US, so I can't contact a senator or representative. Instead, lately I've been making a point of contacting the artists themselves to let them know that I just bought their album and why.
i.e: 'Hey there you crazy cat - I discovered your music recently after hearing a song on SomaFM, so I bought the album. Did you know that the RIAA, an organization that is supposed to be representing you, is trying to kill off that promotional stream for you in the USA?'