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  1. iCab for error checking on Helping the Apple Web Community w/o an Apple Computer? · · Score: 1

    iCab may not be upto snuff yet (CSS is still not complete - vers 3.0 is suppose to get this fixed)... but it has a error reporting function for HTML ... user setable from HTML 2.0 to HTML 4.0 Strict.

    Theres a little smiley/frowny face right next the URL/location bar, if its smiley then the site is compliant - frowny, not. Click on frowny to get an error report. You can change it thru prefs.

    MrMac

  2. Is this really NEW?? on Shocking Clothing · · Score: 3, Informative

    I'm pretty sure this has already been done.... About 10yrs ago I was looking at the 'stun guns' and other "non-lethal" stuff in a catalog that had a leather stun jacket, it had copper wire embedded into the surface of the leather and a switch that came out the sleeve into the hand... if anyone touches you (on the coat)... you turn on the switch and ZAP. Also they had a leather glove built the same way... switch and battery on belt opposite to the glove hand. This was geared towards bodyguards and bouncers. I searched the Pat office briefly tonight, but couldn't find the jacket, although I did find a 'Electric Glove" that might have been the prototype for the one I saw.

    http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PT O1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm &r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=4,370,696.WKU.&OS=PN/4,370,696&RS =PN/4,370,696

    I did find a cool 'Counter-measure' jacket/garment.

    http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PT O1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm &r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6,272,781.WKU.&OS=PN/6,272,781&RS =PN/6,272,781

    Hope MIT dosen't have probs with patenting theirs.

  3. Scotch Brite Cloth on Safely Cleaning LCD Displays? · · Score: 4, Informative

    You should get 'Scotch Brite High Performance Cloth'.. this stuff is fantastic.. it's fiber is woven in such a way that it cleans glass with no liquid and dosen't scratch. I use in on my glasses and all of my computer moitors, tv's and any LCD panels I have.. a Newton, PowewBook. You can use it in conjunction with a little bit of cleaner like Windex or even water. They are washable, they cost about $4 a piece - check out your grocery store buy the sponges and stuff or Wal-Mart, etc....

  4. Good Book on Physics Books for the Novice? · · Score: 1

    'Physics For The Rest Of Us' by Roger S. Jones is a excellent book to get a basic grasp of physics. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0809 237164/qid=1031639933/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/103-779415 6-1488666?v=glance&s=books&n=75

  5. Light Years on Voyager Eulogy · · Score: 1

    Reading from the Star Trek Tech manuals ... a sector is approx. 20 lights years across. They state it takes about 20 days to cross at Warp 6. So .. 20 years equals 7300 days -- divided by 20 days = 365 - this is the factor. 70,000 light years = 25,550,000 days ...Divide 70,000 by 365 and you get 191.78+ yrs at Warp 6. Getting more detailed Warp 1 = 1 cochrane ( 1 cochrane = speed of light). Warp 2 = 20 cochranes. Warp 6 = 392 cochranes, so if you divide 70,000 lights years by 392 cochranes you get 178.57+ yrs. Warp 9 = 1516 cochranes..... so 70,000 yrs / 1516 cochranes = 46+ yrs. So it still is a really long time to get home. In "Endgame" it initally took Voyager 23 yrs to get home.... the had bunch shortcuts here and there throughout the series. So those of you who say those numbers that series state don't jive.... well they do... The people who check the facts for the show "The Keepers of The Trek Bible' make sure the facts jive.

  6. If you have a Mac on From Paper To PDF? · · Score: 1

    If you have a Mac you can use PrintToPDF... it acts like a print driver and if you can print it... you can turn it into a PDF. $20 shareware. And it does images too.

  7. Odd Day .... Now you get it. on Happy Odd Day! · · Score: 1

    It is a ODD day only because all of the individual digits are ODD, we are not looking if the day, month and year is divisable by 2, just each digit. 11-21-1999 is odd mathimatically, but the digit '2' is even.... see.