Wave doesn't have anything to do with gears. Never mind that Wave is useless at this point; chicken and egg problem - nobody uses wave so nobody starts using it.
not hard at all. Safari allows you to do this under the developer tools. Just select Develop > user agent > other and put in a UA string of your choosing.
Or perhaps just a college town. Ever tried to send a text message while standing near a major stadium on a gameday? I have had sms messages delayed for hours or flat out be lost completely. I have talked with others on different services who have all also experienced similar issues. I have t-mobile and my messages tend to be dropped, while my girlfriend had verizon and hers tended to arrive several days late, which has caused all sorts of confusion.
I also did this out of curiosity, having experienced the same problem as the original poster when bing was in beta. I don't know if it was on purpose but if you searched "linux windows" or similar you would get a bunch of linux bashing windows loving blog nonsense. It appears much of that has been corrected since that time.
This article sucks. This made the front page of slashdot? Really? Come on! This isn't news and my cat knows more about electricity than the writers of this crud.
No, you did the right thing. If you put the car in neutral you would be replacing more than a cable. The entire engine would have probably gone and it is easy to over-correct when things like that happen, so power-steering loss was probably more of a help than a hindrance.
Yep, I can second bongey's remarks about the mechanical cables. I was driving a 2000 Taurus around 2001 or 2002 and the throttle cable got stuck on me. I had to turn it off and park it in a ditch on the side of the road or I would have slammed into the guy in front of me.
Ford had a recall for this problem on the Focus and several other models, but never on the Taurus. Despite no recall, I watched the dealer replace all the components from the cabling to the throttle body and there was not even so much as a discussion about being charged for the work.
Apparently Ford shipped out a bunch of vehicles where the cable was too long and not properly clipped at one end, so it would eventually fray and catch on one of the rubber seals that are there to prevent rust, leaving the throttle wide open if you punched the accelerator. It appears that NHTSA missed a few models for the recall campaign (00V302000), and Ford apparently had no interest in furthering the recall unless someone reported a problem.
wow. bad idea. ever had an engine explode on you? do that and it most likely will. If it won't stop, turn it off. There have been plenty of cars over time with no power steering - you can still steer, it is just a little harder (a good thing at a high rate of speed) and you can always pull the emergency brake - that is why it is there!
It comes from the judiciary tech fund. The revenue exceeds the needs of the fund therefore it is for profit and could have even been paid for directly from the fund instead of from a specific line item.... it is essentially trying to repay the fund, which I will give you, but it is more than doing that. See graph: http://pacer.resource.org/recycling.html
Besides, that fee is being charged for access, not for digitization efforts. The records are already and available through other databases (many are internal or paid). I don't have time to find quotes, but I have used them. All pacer does is pull them all together into one place.
1. court records are scanned as part of the filing process, at least in my district. 2. "PACER is a service of the United States Judiciary. The PACER Service Center is operated by the Administrative Office of the United States Courts." Pacer therefore receives tax money because the Judiciary receives tax money.
Thi only argument that you might have is with archived records, but they are probably saving money on storage and record keeping by digitizing the records anyhow, so I am not sure why the U.S. citizens should pay twice for this.
1. Courts keep electronic records. 2. From the PACER website: "PACER is a service of the United States Judiciary. The PACER Service Center is operated by the Administrative Office of the United States Courts." - therefore it receives tax payer money. 3. The PACER locations did exist until the situation outlined in the article and have been suspended until they can fix the 'problem'... not sure how this invalidates my point. 4. I didn't say 'hundreds of thousands of dollars'. I said hundreds or thousands. The ability to petition the court is besides the point that it is already paid for and should be free to any U.S. citizen so that everyone is on an equal footing before the law without having to hop through petitions etc. 5. I feel like I did a pretty good job getting things right in my post, thank you!*
Are government bodies not entitled to charge a nominal fee for services rendered?
No. First they didn't "render" and service - these records are available electronically anyway. Second these public records were already paid for by public taxes - the "nominal fee" has already been paid by Joe public (this is clear from having 17 free locations).
The problem is that the poor defendant might not be able to go to one of these 17 locations (because of terms of release, physical ability, cost etc) and might not be able to afford hundreds or thousands of dollars to do the necessary research to defend himself. This gives the government and the wealthy an advantage over the poor and thus impedes democracy.
evil viper - you are right to avoid "personal printers". There is a huge difference in quality, compatibility, and reliability between "personal printers" and business/workgroup printers. The biggest difference is that industry standards like postscript and pdf are supported on business printers and proprietary ones are used on personal printers - the point being that if they stop making drivers you are forced to upgrade which guarantees a revenue stream. HP is notorious for this with their scanners for example. They make a driver that is windows 2000 and don't offer one for windows xp or offer one for xp and not for vista or osx etc.
Long story short, always look for something that at least supports postscript and you will be okay.
As for the paper feed issue - I have found that in 99% of cases where a business client is having problems with paper feeding it happend to almost all their printers no matter what the brand. When I started poking around I realized that these clients all use cheap "multi-purpose"paper in all their machines instead of buying laser paper for laser printers and inkjet paper for inkjet printers... the paper is not the same and has a different coating. I am convinced that using the wrong paper causes buildup on the rollers very quickly and results in them getting sticky and you get paper jams; i have cleaned the rollers thoroughly and they have been fine - if they switch paper I never hear from them again about it, if they don't switch they are usually ordering a new printer every 1-2 years.
I second the samsung printers. We purchased a ML-2851ND for work and have been very happy with it. For a laser printer it is relatively small (not as small as an hp-p1005, but the hp already requires you to track down a driver for osx - at least for 10.5, which worries me); the ML-2851ND printed on windows, osx, and over the linux network just fine without any special drivers. There are easy configuration drivers on cd for several operating systems, but for osx and xp I just listed it as generic postscript and it prints great. It offers duplex which is nice and the dual usb/ethernet interface means it will be more likely to survive changes in technology over time... there is bound to be something that can convert to either usb or ethernet 20 years from now. The memory can be upgraded or replaced if needed and it is fast out of the box.
Several commenters on the store say theyâ(TM)ve received phone calls from the company behind the application after they downloaded the free version, inviting them to shell out money for the full version.
I wrote a thesis on this. It is a major problem with no great solutions at this point. My conclusions for video were as follows:
1. Make an analog film copy if possible. Despite tape being popular and touted among IT types, it actually was reported as having the highest rate of failure among filmmakers. This included partial failure where some information was garbled. Film fared the best and hard-drives did well too. There is not enough data for flash devices yet, and optical isn't great even in optimal conditions.
2. Make a digital print to MJ2 (Motion JPEG-2000). It is the only well accepted loss-less video standard at this point. Follow the SMPTE guidelines and make sure you save a decoder or at least note which encoder you used - this is the current shortcoming of this format (see this publication for details).
3. Keep the video in its original format or MPEG-2 as a backup (follow ISO specs if you must convert the original; if keeping the originals note what hardware and software they were created with - THIS IS VITAL!).
4. Store the data on at least two mediums in at least two locations. If they will be actively using DVD, I recommend DVD and Flash in the museum and Hard Drive and Optical media in another offsite location. Be sure to label with permanent ink the software needed, the platform used, and the disk format. Follow official ISO formats whenever possible when mastering the media. It is essential that you mark what you used to encode so it can be decoded later! Don't assume it will be obvious. As mentioned earlier, if possible use film. It has the advantage of not needing to be decoded by any specific piece of hardware that might go obsolete or break. Light will be around for a while!
5. Copy, copy, copy. Nothing lasts forever. The museum should already have a policy of duplication and set storage conditions for warehoused items. Make sure they follow it for their digital collections too. Many museums and libraries are lax on this and if things don't change there will be significant cultural losses over the next few decades.
6.Suggest licensing the same piece to two museums with an ageement that one museum can duplicate the other museums copy should one or the other fail. This is a great fail-safe and reduces the cost of long-term storage.
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How does this work, does the older one win because he can beat up the younger law?
Wave doesn't have anything to do with gears. Never mind that Wave is useless at this point; chicken and egg problem - nobody uses wave so nobody starts using it.
Hi. Meet my friend QoS. He will solve all of the problems with your perception that bittorrent is killing the internet.
There there actually are filters for ms office to open word perfect files, they just don't install with the "typical installation" option
not hard at all. Safari allows you to do this under the developer tools. Just select Develop > user agent > other and put in a UA string of your choosing.
Or perhaps just a college town. Ever tried to send a text message while standing near a major stadium on a gameday? I have had sms messages delayed for hours or flat out be lost completely. I have talked with others on different services who have all also experienced similar issues. I have t-mobile and my messages tend to be dropped, while my girlfriend had verizon and hers tended to arrive several days late, which has caused all sorts of confusion.
I also did this out of curiosity, having experienced the same problem as the original poster when bing was in beta. I don't know if it was on purpose but if you searched "linux windows" or similar you would get a bunch of linux bashing windows loving blog nonsense. It appears much of that has been corrected since that time.
See indymedia radio projects circa 2000. For example reports by Linda Thurston. Moving along...
so what you are saying is that bing is actually just b(l)ing?
yes, it has happened, but it is not illegal in all states.
This article sucks. This made the front page of slashdot? Really? Come on! This isn't news and my cat knows more about electricity than the writers of this crud.
No, you did the right thing. If you put the car in neutral you would be replacing more than a cable. The entire engine would have probably gone and it is easy to over-correct when things like that happen, so power-steering loss was probably more of a help than a hindrance.
Yep, I can second bongey's remarks about the mechanical cables. I was driving a 2000 Taurus around 2001 or 2002 and the throttle cable got stuck on me. I had to turn it off and park it in a ditch on the side of the road or I would have slammed into the guy in front of me. Ford had a recall for this problem on the Focus and several other models, but never on the Taurus. Despite no recall, I watched the dealer replace all the components from the cabling to the throttle body and there was not even so much as a discussion about being charged for the work. Apparently Ford shipped out a bunch of vehicles where the cable was too long and not properly clipped at one end, so it would eventually fray and catch on one of the rubber seals that are there to prevent rust, leaving the throttle wide open if you punched the accelerator. It appears that NHTSA missed a few models for the recall campaign (00V302000), and Ford apparently had no interest in furthering the recall unless someone reported a problem.
wow. bad idea. ever had an engine explode on you? do that and it most likely will. If it won't stop, turn it off. There have been plenty of cars over time with no power steering - you can still steer, it is just a little harder (a good thing at a high rate of speed) and you can always pull the emergency brake - that is why it is there!
It comes from the judiciary tech fund. The revenue exceeds the needs of the fund therefore it is for profit and could have even been paid for directly from the fund instead of from a specific line item.... it is essentially trying to repay the fund, which I will give you, but it is more than doing that. See graph: http://pacer.resource.org/recycling.html Besides, that fee is being charged for access, not for digitization efforts. The records are already and available through other databases (many are internal or paid). I don't have time to find quotes, but I have used them. All pacer does is pull them all together into one place.
1. court records are scanned as part of the filing process, at least in my district.
2. "PACER is a service of the United States Judiciary. The PACER Service Center is operated by the Administrative Office of the United States Courts." Pacer therefore receives tax money because the Judiciary receives tax money.
Thi only argument that you might have is with archived records, but they are probably saving money on storage and record keeping by digitizing the records anyhow, so I am not sure why the U.S. citizens should pay twice for this.
1. Courts keep electronic records.
2. From the PACER website: "PACER is a service of the United States Judiciary. The PACER Service Center is operated by the Administrative Office of the United States Courts." - therefore it receives tax payer money.
3. The PACER locations did exist until the situation outlined in the article and have been suspended until they can fix the 'problem'... not sure how this invalidates my point.
4. I didn't say 'hundreds of thousands of dollars'. I said hundreds or thousands. The ability to petition the court is besides the point that it is already paid for and should be free to any U.S. citizen so that everyone is on an equal footing before the law without having to hop through petitions etc.
5. I feel like I did a pretty good job getting things right in my post, thank you!*
(*)parent is clearly illiterate
yes.
Care to try a self-eating watermelon?
Are government bodies not entitled to charge a nominal fee for services rendered?
No. First they didn't "render" and service - these records are available electronically anyway. Second these public records were already paid for by public taxes - the "nominal fee" has already been paid by Joe public (this is clear from having 17 free locations).
The problem is that the poor defendant might not be able to go to one of these 17 locations (because of terms of release, physical ability, cost etc) and might not be able to afford hundreds or thousands of dollars to do the necessary research to defend himself. This gives the government and the wealthy an advantage over the poor and thus impedes democracy.
That's true. It isn't all that easy to trace a gun with a filed serial and no other clues found in a different country.
evil viper - you are right to avoid "personal printers". There is a huge difference in quality, compatibility, and reliability between "personal printers" and business/workgroup printers. The biggest difference is that industry standards like postscript and pdf are supported on business printers and proprietary ones are used on personal printers - the point being that if they stop making drivers you are forced to upgrade which guarantees a revenue stream. HP is notorious for this with their scanners for example. They make a driver that is windows 2000 and don't offer one for windows xp or offer one for xp and not for vista or osx etc.
Long story short, always look for something that at least supports postscript and you will be okay.
As for the paper feed issue - I have found that in 99% of cases where a business client is having problems with paper feeding it happend to almost all their printers no matter what the brand. When I started poking around I realized that these clients all use cheap "multi-purpose"paper in all their machines instead of buying laser paper for laser printers and inkjet paper for inkjet printers... the paper is not the same and has a different coating. I am convinced that using the wrong paper causes buildup on the rollers very quickly and results in them getting sticky and you get paper jams; i have cleaned the rollers thoroughly and they have been fine - if they switch paper I never hear from them again about it, if they don't switch they are usually ordering a new printer every 1-2 years.
I second the samsung printers. We purchased a ML-2851ND for work and have been very happy with it. For a laser printer it is relatively small (not as small as an hp-p1005, but the hp already requires you to track down a driver for osx - at least for 10.5, which worries me); the ML-2851ND printed on windows, osx, and over the linux network just fine without any special drivers. There are easy configuration drivers on cd for several operating systems, but for osx and xp I just listed it as generic postscript and it prints great. It offers duplex which is nice and the dual usb/ethernet interface means it will be more likely to survive changes in technology over time... there is bound to be something that can convert to either usb or ethernet 20 years from now. The memory can be upgraded or replaced if needed and it is fast out of the box.
Several commenters on the store say theyâ(TM)ve received phone calls from the company behind the application after they downloaded the free version, inviting them to shell out money for the full version.
I wrote a thesis on this. It is a major problem with no great solutions at this point. My conclusions for video were as follows:
1. Make an analog film copy if possible. Despite tape being popular and touted among IT types, it actually was reported as having the highest rate of failure among filmmakers. This included partial failure where some information was garbled. Film fared the best and hard-drives did well too. There is not enough data for flash devices yet, and optical isn't great even in optimal conditions.
2. Make a digital print to MJ2 (Motion JPEG-2000). It is the only well accepted loss-less video standard at this point. Follow the SMPTE guidelines and make sure you save a decoder or at least note which encoder you used - this is the current shortcoming of this format (see this publication for details).
3. Keep the video in its original format or MPEG-2 as a backup (follow ISO specs if you must convert the original; if keeping the originals note what hardware and software they were created with - THIS IS VITAL!).
4. Store the data on at least two mediums in at least two locations. If they will be actively using DVD, I recommend DVD and Flash in the museum and Hard Drive and Optical media in another offsite location. Be sure to label with permanent ink the software needed, the platform used, and the disk format. Follow official ISO formats whenever possible when mastering the media. It is essential that you mark what you used to encode so it can be decoded later! Don't assume it will be obvious. As mentioned earlier, if possible use film. It has the advantage of not needing to be decoded by any specific piece of hardware that might go obsolete or break. Light will be around for a while!
5. Copy, copy, copy. Nothing lasts forever. The museum should already have a policy of duplication and set storage conditions for warehoused items. Make sure they follow it for their digital collections too. Many museums and libraries are lax on this and if things don't change there will be significant cultural losses over the next few decades.
6.Suggest licensing the same piece to two museums with an ageement that one museum can duplicate the other museums copy should one or the other fail. This is a great fail-safe and reduces the cost of long-term storage.
Let me know if you have any other questions!