If you search online for Thermostatic Valves, there's lots of them out there. The least expensive one I've found for showers is made by Hudson Reed. For sinks, the inexpensive ones I've found are from faucetso.com Expect that the faster acting a reliable thermostatic valve is, the more expensive it will be.
A little lozenge shaped device with a washable surface, a high temp capable battery, and an 800 degree silicone o-ring seal that I can put in with what I'm cooking, and it will broadcast the temperature of its surroundings. -also a flat one for a grill or an oven rack -also a receiver that converts the transmission to a big display and to Bluetooth or NMEA 0183 or wifi or something Teaching heating or cooling devices to respond to the temperature of the food will be much easier once there's wireless thermometers and a standardized communication method for them. (OK, 37 proprietary communication methods for several years until whichever one the EU mandates becomes the de-facto standard)
I've been visiting with my parents here in WV and saw that story in the local paper a few days ago. I have to believe that someone had a buddy getting a commission, because that's how it generally goes here. I remember seeing this map a couple weeks before and can't help but think it'd be a better option for spreading broadband.
It's to force HARD WORKING AMERICANS to pay too much for light bulbs,
and to make us needlessly fill our houses with failure prone "technology"
designed by TREE HUGGERS that has a special lump full of electronics
we don't understand, so that we won't be able to tell when the GOVERNMENT
sneaks in and swaps 'em out for the kind that SPY ON YOU.
No, they got sued for calling it "Java." After they made it "work far better" it wasn't Java anymore, but they were still calling it that. You might find it interesting to read this short J++ article.
In 2008 I was a passenger on a commercial flight from Juneau to Kake. I sat in the co-pilot's seat while wearing my leatherman tool on my belt. The TSA did not participate. The only reason I don't similarly carry what I please on my regular flights between Anchorage and Dutch Harbor is that I'm continuing on to/from the lower 48 and the luggage I use for what I can't carry on the flight down South is checked through. Are TSA scanners really a problem for flights to and from that little town?
First off I should explain my perspective: I am a T-Mobile customer. I don't buy data service for my N900 as I live and work too far from urban areas to get data coverage. When I want data service while traveling, what works best for me is to bring my laptop to a McDonald's or a Coffee shop that has free wifi, buy an overpriced beverage, and camp at a table for a while.
There are currently primarily two separate voice hardware specifications used in USA, CDMA2000 and GSM. I don't know of any phones that will talk to both CDMA and GSM.
The USA nationwide carriers that use CDMA are Verizon & Sprint. US Cellular, Alaska Communications Systems, and others use CDMA in some geographically restricted markets, and smaller carriers that sell access to the larger carriers networks also exist. If it's contractually allowed, CDMA phones can roam for voice calls on another carrier's CDMA network.
The major carriers in USA for GSM are ATT & T-Mobile (& GCI in Alaska). ATT won't sell you a SIM card unless you have made an agreement to have a contract with them which will last for a year or more. ATT seems not to want you to buy service from them on any phone other that one they sell, and doesn't want you to have any service on a data capable phone unless they sell you data service on it.
T-Mobile phones can roam on ATTs nework. I have the unlimited talk & text plan from T-Mobile, and it has paid for calls I have made from everywhere I've been that there's GSM signal, except Unalaska Island in the Aleutians. If I'm near the border with Canada, T-Mobile will also remove any charges incurred if my phone accidentally gets picked up by a Canadian tower. I suppose roaming could work the other way, but a comparison of ATT's and T-Mobile's coverage maps will show that the question is somewhat moot.
The carriers have coverage maps on their web sites. No one sells prepaid cellular data service in USA. One of the cheapest Data plans is from Virgin Mobile who sells pre-paid voice on Sprint's network. A great resource for prepaid cellular purchasing are the general purpose electronics stores Radio Shack & Best Buy. They're not the least expensive, but the convenience is often worth the expense. General purpose merchants (eg WalMart, etc) also sell prepaid phones inexpensively, but the selection is much more limited.
If you plan to roam, make sure that you purchase a plan of the "nationwide no roaming" type as if you make calls while roaming without such an agreement, you've given the operator of the network on which you roam permission to financially rape you, and they likely will.
If you plan to buy additional time for a prepaid wireless phone, I recommend buying it online from someone like www.wirelessrefill.com I've found that the online prepaid airtime merchants have better rates. When you purchase time, they email you a code. You enter the code on your phone, hit send, and when the phone is done communicating with the network, it has the extra time. It's also worth noting that prepaid airtime expires if unused. The amount of time it takes for the unused time to expire positively correlates to the amount airtime purchased in one chunk.
What if I circumvent planned obsolescence by scanning in a broken pot-metal part and using my CNC mill to make one out of something stronger?
Wouldn't the custom crash tests make getting permission to drive custom designed cars on public roads kind of expensive?
I just thought of a way that search engines could pay for processing lots of extra information. Pull ALL search results apparently related to any content represented by MPAA/RIAA and then charge them per appearance if they want anything related to content they represent to turn up in search results anywhere ever. Moreover, once the search engine charges them for allowing their content to turn up, the search engine can then require them to agree to a service license indemnifying the search engine against accusations of harm regardless of the nature of the search results provided. Practically, would there be much difference between filtering out references to content represented by the MPAA/RIAA and the sort of filtering they're doing for the Chinese?
So now anyone else who tries to make an electronic textbook gadget or application will be sued by Apple, and textbooks sold for use on Apple's device will have to be approved by Apple, and a percentage paid to Apple (to finance the approval process if for no other reason) on every sale, every year, for every class for every schoolchild. I hope the Chinese make a competing product soon. They seem to be the only ones with the manufacturing ability and the willingness to ignore the IP litigation. The nicer of the Chinese audio players I've seen have always supported the open formats.
I recommend (and have recently purchased) the Olympus E-P3 because it has the largest sensor that provides sensor-shift type image stabilization, and because micro four-thirds cameras have available very nice primes that are physically smaller than comparable lenses for DSLRs. If sensor-shift type image stabilization (which works with the huge number of non stabilized lenses that can be attached via third party adapters to that camera) isn't something you think you'd find valuable, then you might want to consider the Sony NEX series. If the physical size of the lenses for NEX works for you, I think Sony has more money to spend on updating their sensors for future bodies.
By the time they finish "developing a Linux distro" and bringing it to the market, won't the hardware specifications of the n900 have become low end? I think they'd be better off putting their development time into applications rather than the operating system. I don't have complaints about the operating system on my n900, but I sure wish the interface to the contacts database was as good as the one on my old Treo 650. (I have the emulator, and I've imported my ~600 contacts sorted into the maxed-out number of groups, but the emulator can't dial calls.)
The eel skin has its electric field left over from its life shocking the s*** out of the fish it eats, which of course translates after death into a magnetic field that wipes the magstripe info from my credit card.
Some entrepreneur ought to be able to sell at least one (5 ton minimum) order of "Certified Human" ballistic gelatin to some defense department employee gullible enough to think they ought to test it and see if the "Certified human" content makes a difference.
I wouldn't think it that hard for someone with a makerbot to start printing parts for little hinged glue-on mic covers for cell phones. It's already possible to buy pre-paid sim cards (for T-Mobile in USA, at least) without showing any ID. So, one needn't necessarily suffer the technological shortcomings of a Walmart "burn phone" for a little more privacy in cellular communication.
As long as the *programming* isn't understood by users? How about documentation for what the software already does? Most of the time, free software already does what I think I want it modified to do, but in order to learn about that, I have to find the one obscure forum reply where someone mentions how to get the software to actually perform the action I need.
I thought Iceland was the one country that already had a surplus. Are they looking to add 30,000 new homes? I suppose they could make methane, combining hydrogen from sea water with atmospheric CO2, and fill up LNG ships, but had they wanted to do that, they would be.
If Nokia leaves MeeGo, I think that leaves The Linux Foundation, Novell, Intel, & AMD. If Novell bought QT and LG joined to build the hardware, we could have Smeegol phones & tablets with nifty green logos.
Slashdot Mirror
Here in WV we're thinking these chairs might be nice for the library.
If you search online for Thermostatic Valves, there's lots of them out there. The least expensive one I've found for showers is made by Hudson Reed. For sinks, the inexpensive ones I've found are from faucetso.com Expect that the faster acting a reliable thermostatic valve is, the more expensive it will be.
A little lozenge shaped device with a washable surface, a high temp capable battery, and an 800 degree silicone o-ring seal that I can put in with what I'm cooking, and it will broadcast the temperature of its surroundings. -also a flat one for a grill or an oven rack -also a receiver that converts the transmission to a big display and to Bluetooth or NMEA 0183 or wifi or something Teaching heating or cooling devices to respond to the temperature of the food will be much easier once there's wireless thermometers and a standardized communication method for them. (OK, 37 proprietary communication methods for several years until whichever one the EU mandates becomes the de-facto standard)
Red Moon Rising
And I like that in response to admiration of the nice artwork, she made a tutorial about creating it.
I've been visiting with my parents here in WV and saw that story in the local paper a few days ago. I have to believe that someone had a buddy getting a commission, because that's how it generally goes here. I remember seeing this map a couple weeks before and can't help but think it'd be a better option for spreading broadband.
It's to force HARD WORKING AMERICANS to pay too much for light bulbs, and to make us needlessly fill our houses with failure prone "technology" designed by TREE HUGGERS that has a special lump full of electronics we don't understand, so that we won't be able to tell when the GOVERNMENT sneaks in and swaps 'em out for the kind that SPY ON YOU.
No, they got sued for calling it "Java." After they made it "work far better" it wasn't Java anymore, but they were still calling it that. You might find it interesting to read this short J++ article.
- for editing images of wildebeest
Wow, with a couple or three TSA people in every town the size of Bethel, the TSA could be a major employer in Alaska.
In 2008 I was a passenger on a commercial flight from Juneau to Kake. I sat in the co-pilot's seat while wearing my leatherman tool on my belt. The TSA did not participate. The only reason I don't similarly carry what I please on my regular flights between Anchorage and Dutch Harbor is that I'm continuing on to/from the lower 48 and the luggage I use for what I can't carry on the flight down South is checked through. Are TSA scanners really a problem for flights to and from that little town?
If I have to join Facebook to talk to Congress, does that mean that Facebook has to be regulated as a public utility?
But do you expect them to just ignore all the money Apple made selling internal memory in the premium model at a big markup?
First off I should explain my perspective: I am a T-Mobile customer. I don't buy data service for my N900 as I live and work too far from urban areas to get data coverage. When I want data service while traveling, what works best for me is to bring my laptop to a McDonald's or a Coffee shop that has free wifi, buy an overpriced beverage, and camp at a table for a while.
There are currently primarily two separate voice hardware specifications used in USA, CDMA2000 and GSM. I don't know of any phones that will talk to both CDMA and GSM.
The USA nationwide carriers that use CDMA are Verizon & Sprint. US Cellular, Alaska Communications Systems, and others use CDMA in some geographically restricted markets, and smaller carriers that sell access to the larger carriers networks also exist. If it's contractually allowed, CDMA phones can roam for voice calls on another carrier's CDMA network.
The major carriers in USA for GSM are ATT & T-Mobile (& GCI in Alaska). ATT won't sell you a SIM card unless you have made an agreement to have a contract with them which will last for a year or more. ATT seems not to want you to buy service from them on any phone other that one they sell, and doesn't want you to have any service on a data capable phone unless they sell you data service on it. T-Mobile phones can roam on ATTs nework. I have the unlimited talk & text plan from T-Mobile, and it has paid for calls I have made from everywhere I've been that there's GSM signal, except Unalaska Island in the Aleutians. If I'm near the border with Canada, T-Mobile will also remove any charges incurred if my phone accidentally gets picked up by a Canadian tower. I suppose roaming could work the other way, but a comparison of ATT's and T-Mobile's coverage maps will show that the question is somewhat moot.
The carriers have coverage maps on their web sites. No one sells prepaid cellular data service in USA. One of the cheapest Data plans is from Virgin Mobile who sells pre-paid voice on Sprint's network. A great resource for prepaid cellular purchasing are the general purpose electronics stores Radio Shack & Best Buy. They're not the least expensive, but the convenience is often worth the expense. General purpose merchants (eg WalMart, etc) also sell prepaid phones inexpensively, but the selection is much more limited.
If you plan to roam, make sure that you purchase a plan of the "nationwide no roaming" type as if you make calls while roaming without such an agreement, you've given the operator of the network on which you roam permission to financially rape you, and they likely will.
If you plan to buy additional time for a prepaid wireless phone, I recommend buying it online from someone like www.wirelessrefill.com I've found that the online prepaid airtime merchants have better rates. When you purchase time, they email you a code. You enter the code on your phone, hit send, and when the phone is done communicating with the network, it has the extra time. It's also worth noting that prepaid airtime expires if unused. The amount of time it takes for the unused time to expire positively correlates to the amount airtime purchased in one chunk.
What if I circumvent planned obsolescence by scanning in a broken pot-metal part and using my CNC mill to make one out of something stronger? Wouldn't the custom crash tests make getting permission to drive custom designed cars on public roads kind of expensive?
I just thought of a way that search engines could pay for processing lots of extra information. Pull ALL search results apparently related to any content represented by MPAA/RIAA and then charge them per appearance if they want anything related to content they represent to turn up in search results anywhere ever. Moreover, once the search engine charges them for allowing their content to turn up, the search engine can then require them to agree to a service license indemnifying the search engine against accusations of harm regardless of the nature of the search results provided. Practically, would there be much difference between filtering out references to content represented by the MPAA/RIAA and the sort of filtering they're doing for the Chinese?
So now anyone else who tries to make an electronic textbook gadget or application will be sued by Apple, and textbooks sold for use on Apple's device will have to be approved by Apple, and a percentage paid to Apple (to finance the approval process if for no other reason) on every sale, every year, for every class for every schoolchild. I hope the Chinese make a competing product soon. They seem to be the only ones with the manufacturing ability and the willingness to ignore the IP litigation. The nicer of the Chinese audio players I've seen have always supported the open formats.
I recommend (and have recently purchased) the Olympus E-P3 because it has the largest sensor that provides sensor-shift type image stabilization, and because micro four-thirds cameras have available very nice primes that are physically smaller than comparable lenses for DSLRs. If sensor-shift type image stabilization (which works with the huge number of non stabilized lenses that can be attached via third party adapters to that camera) isn't something you think you'd find valuable, then you might want to consider the Sony NEX series. If the physical size of the lenses for NEX works for you, I think Sony has more money to spend on updating their sensors for future bodies.
By the time they finish "developing a Linux distro" and bringing it to the market, won't the hardware specifications of the n900 have become low end? I think they'd be better off putting their development time into applications rather than the operating system. I don't have complaints about the operating system on my n900, but I sure wish the interface to the contacts database was as good as the one on my old Treo 650. (I have the emulator, and I've imported my ~600 contacts sorted into the maxed-out number of groups, but the emulator can't dial calls.)
The eel skin has its electric field left over from its life shocking the s*** out of the fish it eats, which of course translates after death into a magnetic field that wipes the magstripe info from my credit card.
MythBusters disagree
Some entrepreneur ought to be able to sell at least one (5 ton minimum) order of "Certified Human" ballistic gelatin to some defense department employee gullible enough to think they ought to test it and see if the "Certified human" content makes a difference.
I wouldn't think it that hard for someone with a makerbot to start printing parts for little hinged glue-on mic covers for cell phones. It's already possible to buy pre-paid sim cards (for T-Mobile in USA, at least) without showing any ID. So, one needn't necessarily suffer the technological shortcomings of a Walmart "burn phone" for a little more privacy in cellular communication.
As long as the *programming* isn't understood by users? How about documentation for what the software already does? Most of the time, free software already does what I think I want it modified to do, but in order to learn about that, I have to find the one obscure forum reply where someone mentions how to get the software to actually perform the action I need.
I thought Iceland was the one country that already had a surplus. Are they looking to add 30,000 new homes? I suppose they could make methane, combining hydrogen from sea water with atmospheric CO2, and fill up LNG ships, but had they wanted to do that, they would be.
If Nokia leaves MeeGo, I think that leaves The Linux Foundation, Novell, Intel, & AMD. If Novell bought QT and LG joined to build the hardware, we could have Smeegol phones & tablets with nifty green logos.
Maybe Novell could buy QT.