I've also noticed that dvd/vcr combos are becoming more popular and cheper in stores. I can see the plain vcr being replaced by the dvd/vcr combo machine, but not a straight HDD type device.
I can't record something for friends, parent, in-laws etc. because I can't give them a tape of a show (or whatever) when I visit them. My parents don't even own a dvd player yet. I doubt that they'll get one soon either, as long as the local rental store keeps renting vcr tapes.
Actually, that reminds me that vcrs might be popular with older people: just put tape in and hit play, as apposed to dvds, that have fancy menus that might be hard for some one to use, esp if the have poor vision.
As an average citizen, I don't even care. I'll be dead before it ever impacts me. That's not a very nice thing to say - I know - but it's practical.
Hey, if there wasn't a law against it, I'd mow you down in my hum-vee. It's not a very nice thing to say - I know - but it wouldn't impact me and it's more practical not to swerve or brake!
- Easily sync data (i.e. contacts, phone book, birthdays etc) between my phone, friends phones, home PC and work PC. Use bluetooth or a cable, not SMS. - Don't charge me $50 for a cable for the above like you do now. - Pick a standard connector for all phones you make and stick to it. Don't make me buy a new handsfree/car kit, cables etc for a new phone. - Better yet, make your hands free an industry standard 3.5/2.5 mm plug. - Make your chargers standard too, how about 12v like in a car? - Improve the UI, heck, let me impove it, such as uploding an xml file or whatever so I can hide options i never ever use. - Less buttons, numbers 0-9, *, #, call, hangup, up, down. that should do it. - Make buttons that are easy to use and not all cramed together. - Don't limit me with what I can do. eg current phone only lets you pick a SMS alert from 5 options, even though I can choose any for the ring tone. - mp3 or wav for ring tone, again, don't make it hard to ul new ones, scew the 4.95 for a ring tone bussiness! They're dodgy b@stards!
Our new registers that we are putting in next year are thick clients. I know, I don't like the idea either, but it has it's advantages. If the back office controllers go of line the store can still trade and the register will keep it's sales data until it can sync back again. With our old POS, if we lose the back office, the store can't trade.
ps, even after my rant, how exactly do you hype a series about a rag tag group of cowboys flying around in a spaceship getting into scrapes? I've never been able to describe it to my friends properly.
I've heard it put thus: Cowboys in space speaking chinese. That just sounds bad doesn't it?
Finally, one other thing -- is it possible to hack a small (lawnmower) gas engine to run on diesel?
Probably not, there's no way you'll get the compression or heat to get diesel to explode it the cylinder. Well, not without a battery and electric starter, atd that would increase the cost.
I've heard that some retina scanning systems can be setup like that: Right eye == all okay, let me in. Left eye == let me in, but trigger silent alarm.
Objects that are roughly spherical that revolve around planets are MOONS (regardless of size.) If two objects revolve around each other and their center of gravity lies outside the radius of either partner then it is a binary planet.
I'd add to that that the point they orbit about must be outside the surface of both. This stops earth - moon becoming a binary planet.
(mussing...) I wonder if you can get a star with a planet of similar mass? Maybe a drawf that captured a gas giant (or vice versa) though I'm having trouble coming up with something that could pull a big planet away fram it's parent star without ripping it to bits. Maybe an unstable triple system or cluster where a star fails to ignite and goes wadering?
When you bring the card near the reader it induces a current in the card to power it (Passive RFID). This is why you need to put it close to the reader. Once this happens you can snoop the signal from the card from nearby.
No, I'm not going to tell you which major article has the vandalism I'm talking about
What a spiteful person you are. It would have been less effort to point out the article than your post about not pointing it out. Some one here would have fixed it then. Then again, I doubt it exists and your just trolling.
I don't own an ipod, but can you read text files on it? Is it hard on the eyes? Seems perfect for it control-wise: Scroll wheel to go down and up, forward and back buttons (for chapters?). Have it auto scroll at the speed you draged you finger... It would take a little while to get used to reading like that so I'm not so sure... Maybe the ipod linux project do this?
Um, no, a skin cell cannot detect that it itself is damaged. Undamaged neighbors that can't communicate with a cell can decide it is damaged.
A meteorite had knocked a large hole in the ship. The ship had not previously detected this because the meteorite had neatly knocked out that part of the ship's processing equipment which was supposed to detect if the ship had been hit by a meteorite. --Mostly Harmless, DNA.
Meanwhile, he persecuted the Jews, even though this included many of his top scientists
I've heard it said that hitler lost the war because he killed all his best scientists. Do you think Turing would have been an influence if he was on the other side? But then again, once the war was over the british pretty much killed him (Turing) off.
because his election strategy revolved around blaming the Jews for everything.
I don't think this is correct. He only brought that up later, and even then I think a lot of it was hidden from the general population. He rose to power by basically going up against the communists on a nationalist platform (Nazi is a bastardisd version of National Socialists in german)
This is only my limited understanding, I'm sure someone who knows more (correct) info can post some. More reading: wikipedia knows all (I haven't read it, so I could be wrong)
The death rate is so low that I can hardly imagine selective forces having a large effect on evolution
But it's still there... cancer, aids, fatty foods, suicide, polution, speeding around in metal boxes, all of it is still affecting who dies or who lives to breed.
And don't forget that it's not death that is the selective force, it's whether you breed or not. Sterile from too many chemicals in your diet or tioght jeans reducing your sperm count? Females that are too busy and leave it too late to have kids because they choose a career instead, or even too busy to find a breeding partner? Can't handle the pressure of modern life, with all the bills and mortage, why add to it with kids?
The selective forces are still there, they just don't have sharp teeth and come in the night anymore. Also don't forget that evolution != intelligence. That's 19th centry thinking (oh, the poor are breeding much more than us decent upper class). Evolution does not owe you a brain.
This isn't always what is wanted. I have some form software that when I try to run a second instance, it just pops up the first one. It doesn't have a MDI, so I can only *ever* view one document at a time. It's extremly frustrating.
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IBM tried to stop the clones, the didn't build the PC open, companies (basically Compaq) reverse engineered the BIOS. See PC Origins.
I can't record something for friends, parent, in-laws etc. because I can't give them a tape of a show (or whatever) when I visit them. My parents don't even own a dvd player yet. I doubt that they'll get one soon either, as long as the local rental store keeps renting vcr tapes.
Actually, that reminds me that vcrs might be popular with older people: just put tape in and hit play, as apposed to dvds, that have fancy menus that might be hard for some one to use, esp if the have poor vision.
Hey, if there wasn't a law against it, I'd mow you down in my hum-vee. It's not a very nice thing to say - I know - but it wouldn't impact me and it's more practical not to swerve or brake!
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Probably cause he was banging Melinda French?
Try Inkscape, it handles the stuff you want to do with text really well (IMHO).
Well, here's my list:
- Easily sync data (i.e. contacts, phone book, birthdays etc) between my phone, friends phones, home PC and work PC. Use bluetooth or a cable, not SMS.
- Don't charge me $50 for a cable for the above like you do now.
- Pick a standard connector for all phones you make and stick to it. Don't make me buy a new handsfree/car kit, cables etc for a new phone.
- Better yet, make your hands free an industry standard 3.5/2.5 mm plug.
- Make your chargers standard too, how about 12v like in a car?
- Improve the UI, heck, let me impove it, such as uploding an xml file or whatever so I can hide options i never ever use.
- Less buttons, numbers 0-9, *, #, call, hangup, up, down. that should do it.
- Make buttons that are easy to use and not all cramed together.
- Don't limit me with what I can do. eg current phone only lets you pick a SMS alert from 5 options, even though I can choose any for the ring tone.
- mp3 or wav for ring tone, again, don't make it hard to ul new ones, scew the 4.95 for a ring tone bussiness! They're dodgy b@stards!
There's probably more, but I can't remember them.
Our new registers that we are putting in next year are thick clients. I know, I don't like the idea either, but it has it's advantages. If the back office controllers go of line the store can still trade and the register will keep it's sales data until it can sync back again. With our old POS, if we lose the back office, the store can't trade.
I've heard it put thus: Cowboys in space speaking chinese. That just sounds bad doesn't it?
Finally, one other thing -- is it possible to hack a small (lawnmower) gas engine to run on diesel?
Probably not, there's no way you'll get the compression or heat to get diesel to explode it the cylinder. Well, not without a battery and electric starter, atd that would increase the cost.
I've heard that some retina scanning systems can be setup like that: Right eye == all okay, let me in. Left eye == let me in, but trigger silent alarm.
I'd add to that that the point they orbit about must be outside the surface of both. This stops earth - moon becoming a binary planet.
(mussing...) I wonder if you can get a star with a planet of similar mass? Maybe a drawf that captured a gas giant (or vice versa) though I'm having trouble coming up with something that could pull a big planet away fram it's parent star without ripping it to bits. Maybe an unstable triple system or cluster where a star fails to ignite and goes wadering?
When you bring the card near the reader it induces a current in the card to power it (Passive RFID). This is why you need to put it close to the reader. Once this happens you can snoop the signal from the card from nearby.
What a spiteful person you are. It would have been less effort to point out the article than your post about not pointing it out. Some one here would have fixed it then. Then again, I doubt it exists and your just trolling.
Here Adam... here's a big brain... but don't use it! Just trust evrything you are told by those in power.
I don't own an ipod, but can you read text files on it? Is it hard on the eyes? Seems perfect for it control-wise: Scroll wheel to go down and up, forward and back buttons (for chapters?). Have it auto scroll at the speed you draged you finger... It would take a little while to get used to reading like that so I'm not so sure... Maybe the ipod linux project do this?
why not switch now? Or at least dual boot and start getting used to it?
I did the same thing 'what go menu?', oh, didn't know that was there.
A meteorite had knocked a large hole in the ship. The ship had not previously detected this because the meteorite had neatly knocked out that part of the ship's processing equipment which was supposed to detect if the ship had been hit by a meteorite. --Mostly Harmless, DNA.
Errr, no, never.
I've heard it said that hitler lost the war because he killed all his best scientists. Do you think Turing would have been an influence if he was on the other side? But then again, once the war was over the british pretty much killed him (Turing) off.
because his election strategy revolved around blaming the Jews for everything.
I don't think this is correct. He only brought that up later, and even then I think a lot of it was hidden from the general population. He rose to power by basically going up against the communists on a nationalist platform (Nazi is a bastardisd version of National Socialists in german)
This is only my limited understanding, I'm sure someone who knows more (correct) info can post some. More reading: wikipedia knows all (I haven't read it, so I could be wrong)
But it's still there... cancer, aids, fatty foods, suicide, polution, speeding around in metal boxes, all of it is still affecting who dies or who lives to breed.
And don't forget that it's not death that is the selective force, it's whether you breed or not. Sterile from too many chemicals in your diet or tioght jeans reducing your sperm count? Females that are too busy and leave it too late to have kids because they choose a career instead, or even too busy to find a breeding partner? Can't handle the pressure of modern life, with all the bills and mortage, why add to it with kids?
The selective forces are still there, they just don't have sharp teeth and come in the night anymore. Also don't forget that evolution != intelligence. That's 19th centry thinking (oh, the poor are breeding much more than us decent upper class). Evolution does not owe you a brain.
Of course email breaks this rule, I don't need more than one of it at any time.
Your old PC is my daily driver :(
This isn't always what is wanted. I have some form software that when I try to run a second instance, it just pops up the first one. It doesn't have a MDI, so I can only *ever* view one document at a time. It's extremly frustrating.