$1!? I need them to be in the range of $.05 each before I can finally realize my dream of having a seperate IP address for every light fixture in my house.
I doubt that this baby supports IPv6, though. Maybe by the time they are $.05 each it will...
Try a Jeep Wrangler SE. It doesn't even come with a roof or a back seat. Air-bags are standard, of course, as that's pretty much the law now. The Wrnalger is the Meccanno set of the automotive world, feel free to mod it to your hearts content.
The KIA Rio S is about as basic as cars come. You won't find many fancy gadgets on this car.
The Nissan Sentra SE is bare-bones as well.
Most car makers have a bottom-end car with no fancy add-ons. They won't have them in stock, and they will try to sell you a more expensive one, but they do exist.
Stick in card, punch in digits to withdraw a few hundred dollars. When the money is spit out, carefully take the middle bills, leaving the top and bottom ones (often different demoninations). Wait. ATM will pull the cash back in, thinking you walked away and forgot to take it. Your account is credited for the full amount.
Yup, that's pretty much what they do. I had an ATM short me over $100 once (it crapped out while spitting out the cash), and the bank was up-front and told me that if there was $X too much in the machine at the end of the day, they would credit my account. There was, and they did.
EuroTV has a robots.txt file that asks to leave the various/scripts directories alone. If this Perl module is just ignoring that robots.txt file, then that is just rude, although I don't see how it is illegal.
Streetmap doesn't even have a robots.txt file, so I don't see why they are whining about it.
Although I can see why these websites could get upset. The TV-listing screen scrapers are especially bad at hammering a site relentlessly for a sustained period of time to obtain all of the programming information for a certian broadcast area. The scraper has to hit the site repeatedly to obtain all of the information, since it isn't all displayed on a single page. If any one of these scrapers gets to be really popular, it could kill the site.
Of course, the solution to that is to make all of the listing available as one big chunk to avoid repeated requests. But then the site goes out of business in a few weeks due to lack of advertising revenue.
I, for one, wish I could buy a subscription to zap2it.com that would give me fast, easy access to the channel listings in, say, XMLTV format. Is $25/year a reasonable fee, considering that I would only hit the site once a day at the most, and grab a single file?
They really tried to stand up for their checkbook, which will take a big hit if the RIAA can suddenly subpoena thousands of IP #'s every week.
Is there normally a time-limit imposed on subpoena's? I mean, if Verizon all of a sudden is hit with thousands a week, do they have to reply to them all within a few days? Or can they hire a co-op student to work on these part-time? If the poor co-op can only process, say, one request a day, can Verizon get in trouble?
If they are required to process these in a timely manner, can they then send a bill to the requesting party for the costs involved? Say something along the lines of $10,000/day?
Living in Western Canada, not many things piss me off more than seeing Peter Mansbridge come on the TV at 8PM (when the polls close) and the first words out of his mouth are "Welcome Western Canada to our live election coverage, the Liberals are your new majority government"
For those non-Canadians in the crowd, a very large percentage of the Canadian population lives in the East. And they all vote Liberal. So by the time the election-coverage-blackout is lifted in Western Canada, the government has already been elected, and all that is left is fighting for the official opposition.
Amen brother! Holy crap, I've been ready and willing to give Tivo my hard earned money for years now, yet they won't undertake the painfully trivial work to offer service in Canada. The only PVR available in Canada is the horrible Expressvu 5100, which is nothing more than a digital VCR with pause-live-tv built in.
I simply can not understand why I can't buy a Tivo and Tivo service in Canada after so many years.
If you don't think this thing will kick ass, you have obviously never ridden Xcellerator at Knott's. Same coaster design. Same launch system. Almost the same theme (50's hot rod's vs. top-fuel drag cars, though.)
The anticipation is insane. You slowly inch forward and lock into position. There is a christmas-tree count down, and when that yellow light blinks out, you are GONE! Holy crap. Right before you hit the 90 degree upward turn, you stop accelerating and lean a bit forward. Fly up the hill, twist 90 degrees, and crest the hill. Now imagine the scariest coaster you have ever ridden. You are freaking out just as you get to the top of the lift hill and are about to head down. Same sensation, but heightened since you can't see the track (it's also 90 degrees straight down.) The speed is just right that you -slowly- crest over the top of the hill. Nutty.
TTD adds an insane 270 degree twist to that "first drop" that I can't wait to experience.
Sure, I wish it was longer. Xcellerator has a few more bends and turns after that first hill, but I don't really remember them. That first big hill is where the thrill is.
Now if you want a coaster with nice pacing and crazy elements, go ride X at Magic Mountain. Kee-ripes, that's one nutty ride. Not the fastest, highest, longest, or anything else, but easily one of the wildest coasters around. It's probably displaced Raptor as my favorite coaster of all time (which is impressive... I rode Raptor when it first opened, and I've ridden maybe 35 brand-new coasters since then, and none have challenged for the top spot until X.)
Unfortunately, the line was 4+ hours long (only 2 hours when we rode it right when the park opened). They have some serious loading/unloading issues with that ride. Only got to ride it once...
Why build one when you can have two for twice the cost? I have to think that it was price. I mean, just the one coaster cost $25,000,000. I don't think they could have saved much money on the second one.
In my old apartment, I didn't even have a handset hooked up, and had the cheapest measured-rate service with no frills available from PacBell (which is cheaper than Verizon, the other big player in the LA residential market). I paid $53 and change per month, and the DSL portion was $39.95. (No, there was NO WAY to get DSL without getting phone service. And I didn't have a TV, so cable modem wouldn't have been cheaper.)
Problem is, you will still need to pay for your phone line and DSL service, and then pay another $40 on top of that for the VoIP service. From what I can tell, the VoIP service does NOT include an internet connection. You have to have one already.
The problem is, you might not even get the right 911 centre when you dial 911 on a VoIP phone (not that you can even dial 911 from a VoIP system right now, but assuming you could...) Let's say that 99% of the time you are in Chicago, and you use your VoIP phone there. The system could be programmed to dial the Chicago emergency responce centre when you dial 911. But you need to go on a business trip, and you take your VoIP phone with you. You VPN back to your home system, and dial 911. Now your sitting in Tampa Bay, and 911 still reaches the Chicago 911, when it should hit the Tampa 911. telling Chicago 911 that you are at location X in Florida isn't going to do much good.
With a cell phone, you get connected to 911 for whatever region you are making the call from. With VoIP, there really isn't (yet) a way to know where you are calling from.
I see biggest stumbling block to be the complete lack of 911 service when using a VoIP service like Vontage. Sure, these systems are a pretty nice replacement for your long distance provider if you spend a lot on long distance, but don't fool yourself into thinking that this is a decent replacement for a local land-line just yet. You are better off using your wireless phone instead.
I would hope that someday soon, VoIP systems like this and 911 would play nicely together, but I don't see that happening unless some three-letter governement agency steps in and mandates it.
I don't know if they do this in the modern googol-plexes, but in the smaller multi-theatre places of years back, they used to only have one copy of the movie, yet show it in multiple theatres at the same time. The would run the film through thte projector for the first theatre, then through the wall and into the projector for the second theatre, and then through the wall and into the projector for the third theatre...
I don't think it lead to an entire minute delay between each theatre, but there was some delay.
A lot of airports charge this now. Vancouver just happens to collect it before you get to security, where most just tack it on to the cost of your flight.
The worst in Canada is Pearson Airport in Toronto. Most airports charge you only for flights departing that airport. Toronto charges for flights arriving, flights departing, and flights -connecting- at their airport. It adds up to a few $billion extra every year, and I doubt they are spending it all on airport improvements...
Geez, did -anybody- read the description of this thing? I quote: "The Electro-Luminous Display combines the flexibility of a touch-screen with the push button feel of a traditional remote control, so you get the best of both worlds!"
Take a good, close look at the animation of this remote. It's not an LCD remote. It's got buttons, albeit chicklet-style buttons. Only the buttons that can be used in the current mode are lit up. The animations are a lot like the animations on those crappy LCD video games you can buy for $10 at your local toy store.
Unless you lost all of the nerve endings on your fingers, this thing can be used without looking at it, just like any other remote with buttons.
Now, if you want a programmable remote with buttons and an LCD, check out The Harmony Remote. Much better than a Pronto and the like, and much more advanced than this one.
F-117's are not invisible to radar, they just appear very small, approximately the size of a sparrow, and are usually over-looked by the radar technician as being natural phenomenom.
Hmmmm, if I were a radar operator, a sparrow moving at 600mph would definately get my attention...
> FWIW, I knew a guy with a BA in English who > eventually got a PHD in physics.
Heh, I had a roomate once who started out doing a BA English, got bored and transfered into an astrophysics degree, got bored, quit school and got a gig as a C++ developer.
This was a good 10 years ago. I have no idea whatever happened to him! (Mark, if you're reading this, boo.)
Egads, if you are going to all the trouble of having a seperate account just for PayPal use, don't use the same bank as your other accounts.
When PayPal tries to withdraw money from your "empty" account, your bank will happily look for money in your other accounts, transfer it to the "empty" account, give PayPal the money, and then screw you with a "transaction fee" for doing this without asking you.
I'm not saying that every bank will do this, or that they will do it every time, but it does happen.
Your best bet is to open an account with one of the no-fee online only banks, like ING Direct or President's Choice Financial. You can move money in and out as you please, and it is isolated from your "regular" accounts quite nicely.
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$1!? I need them to be in the range of $.05 each before I can finally realize my dream of having a seperate IP address for every light fixture in my house.
I doubt that this baby supports IPv6, though. Maybe by the time they are $.05 each it will...
Try a Jeep Wrangler SE. It doesn't even come with a roof or a back seat. Air-bags are standard, of course, as that's pretty much the law now. The Wrnalger is the Meccanno set of the automotive world, feel free to mod it to your hearts content.
The KIA Rio S is about as basic as cars come. You won't find many fancy gadgets on this car.
The Nissan Sentra SE is bare-bones as well.
Most car makers have a bottom-end car with no fancy add-ons. They won't have them in stock, and they will try to sell you a more expensive one, but they do exist.
Another classic:
Stick in card, punch in digits to withdraw a few hundred dollars. When the money is spit out, carefully take the middle bills, leaving the top and bottom ones (often different demoninations). Wait. ATM will pull the cash back in, thinking you walked away and forgot to take it. Your account is credited for the full amount.
No, this doesn't work anymore!
Yup, that's pretty much what they do. I had an ATM short me over $100 once (it crapped out while spitting out the cash), and the bank was up-front and told me that if there was $X too much in the machine at the end of the day, they would credit my account. There was, and they did.
Argh, so close... but no Canadian TV listings there. Bummer.
EuroTV has a robots.txt file that asks to leave the various /scripts directories alone. If this Perl module is just ignoring that robots.txt file, then that is just rude, although I don't see how it is illegal.
Streetmap doesn't even have a robots.txt file, so I don't see why they are whining about it.
Although I can see why these websites could get upset. The TV-listing screen scrapers are especially bad at hammering a site relentlessly for a sustained period of time to obtain all of the programming information for a certian broadcast area. The scraper has to hit the site repeatedly to obtain all of the information, since it isn't all displayed on a single page. If any one of these scrapers gets to be really popular, it could kill the site.
Of course, the solution to that is to make all of the listing available as one big chunk to avoid repeated requests. But then the site goes out of business in a few weeks due to lack of advertising revenue.
I, for one, wish I could buy a subscription to zap2it.com that would give me fast, easy access to the channel listings in, say, XMLTV format. Is $25/year a reasonable fee, considering that I would only hit the site once a day at the most, and grab a single file?
They really tried to stand up for their checkbook, which will take a big hit if the RIAA can suddenly subpoena thousands of IP #'s every week.
Is there normally a time-limit imposed on subpoena's? I mean, if Verizon all of a sudden is hit with thousands a week, do they have to reply to them all within a few days? Or can they hire a co-op student to work on these part-time? If the poor co-op can only process, say, one request a day, can Verizon get in trouble?
If they are required to process these in a timely manner, can they then send a bill to the requesting party for the costs involved? Say something along the lines of $10,000/day?
Living in Western Canada, not many things piss me off more than seeing Peter Mansbridge come on the TV at 8PM (when the polls close) and the first words out of his mouth are "Welcome Western Canada to our live election coverage, the Liberals are your new majority government"
For those non-Canadians in the crowd, a very large percentage of the Canadian population lives in the East. And they all vote Liberal. So by the time the election-coverage-blackout is lifted in Western Canada, the government has already been elected, and all that is left is fighting for the official opposition.
Amen brother! Holy crap, I've been ready and willing to give Tivo my hard earned money for years now, yet they won't undertake the painfully trivial work to offer service in Canada. The only PVR available in Canada is the horrible Expressvu 5100, which is nothing more than a digital VCR with pause-live-tv built in.
I simply can not understand why I can't buy a Tivo and Tivo service in Canada after so many years.
If you don't think this thing will kick ass, you have obviously never ridden Xcellerator at Knott's. Same coaster design. Same launch system. Almost the same theme (50's hot rod's vs. top-fuel drag cars, though.)
The anticipation is insane. You slowly inch forward and lock into position. There is a christmas-tree count down, and when that yellow light blinks out, you are GONE! Holy crap. Right before you hit the 90 degree upward turn, you stop accelerating and lean a bit forward. Fly up the hill, twist 90 degrees, and crest the hill. Now imagine the scariest coaster you have ever ridden. You are freaking out just as you get to the top of the lift hill and are about to head down. Same sensation, but heightened since you can't see the track (it's also 90 degrees straight down.) The speed is just right that you -slowly- crest over the top of the hill. Nutty.
TTD adds an insane 270 degree twist to that "first drop" that I can't wait to experience.
Sure, I wish it was longer. Xcellerator has a few more bends and turns after that first hill, but I don't really remember them. That first big hill is where the thrill is.
Now if you want a coaster with nice pacing and crazy elements, go ride X at Magic Mountain. Kee-ripes, that's one nutty ride. Not the fastest, highest, longest, or anything else, but easily one of the wildest coasters around. It's probably displaced Raptor as my favorite coaster of all time (which is impressive... I rode Raptor when it first opened, and I've ridden maybe 35 brand-new coasters since then, and none have challenged for the top spot until X.)
Unfortunately, the line was 4+ hours long (only 2 hours when we rode it right when the park opened). They have some serious loading/unloading issues with that ride. Only got to ride it once...
Why build one when you can have two for twice the cost? I have to think that it was price. I mean, just the one coaster cost $25,000,000. I don't think they could have saved much money on the second one.
In my old apartment, I didn't even have a handset hooked up, and had the cheapest measured-rate service with no frills available from PacBell (which is cheaper than Verizon, the other big player in the LA residential market). I paid $53 and change per month, and the DSL portion was $39.95. (No, there was NO WAY to get DSL without getting phone service. And I didn't have a TV, so cable modem wouldn't have been cheaper.)
Problem is, you will still need to pay for your phone line and DSL service, and then pay another $40 on top of that for the VoIP service. From what I can tell, the VoIP service does NOT include an internet connection. You have to have one already.
The problem is, you might not even get the right 911 centre when you dial 911 on a VoIP phone (not that you can even dial 911 from a VoIP system right now, but assuming you could...) Let's say that 99% of the time you are in Chicago, and you use your VoIP phone there. The system could be programmed to dial the Chicago emergency responce centre when you dial 911. But you need to go on a business trip, and you take your VoIP phone with you. You VPN back to your home system, and dial 911. Now your sitting in Tampa Bay, and 911 still reaches the Chicago 911, when it should hit the Tampa 911. telling Chicago 911 that you are at location X in Florida isn't going to do much good.
With a cell phone, you get connected to 911 for whatever region you are making the call from. With VoIP, there really isn't (yet) a way to know where you are calling from.
Damn, that doesn't rhyme at all...
I see biggest stumbling block to be the complete lack of 911 service when using a VoIP service like Vontage. Sure, these systems are a pretty nice replacement for your long distance provider if you spend a lot on long distance, but don't fool yourself into thinking that this is a decent replacement for a local land-line just yet. You are better off using your wireless phone instead.
I would hope that someday soon, VoIP systems like this and 911 would play nicely together, but I don't see that happening unless some three-letter governement agency steps in and mandates it.
Aaarrrgh! Anyone remember "Earth 2"? The first season ended with quite the cliff-hanger. Then there was no second season.
I don't know if they do this in the modern googol-plexes, but in the smaller multi-theatre places of years back, they used to only have one copy of the movie, yet show it in multiple theatres at the same time. The would run the film through thte projector for the first theatre, then through the wall and into the projector for the second theatre, and then through the wall and into the projector for the third theatre...
I don't think it lead to an entire minute delay between each theatre, but there was some delay.
Wasn't this on FOX last Thursday, right after "When Planes Fall Down"?
A lot of airports charge this now. Vancouver just happens to collect it before you get to security, where most just tack it on to the cost of your flight.
The worst in Canada is Pearson Airport in Toronto. Most airports charge you only for flights departing that airport. Toronto charges for flights arriving, flights departing, and flights -connecting- at their airport. It adds up to a few $billion extra every year, and I doubt they are spending it all on airport improvements...
Geez, did -anybody- read the description of this thing? I quote: "The Electro-Luminous Display combines the flexibility of a touch-screen with the push button feel of a traditional remote control, so you get the best of both worlds!"
Take a good, close look at the animation of this remote. It's not an LCD remote. It's got buttons, albeit chicklet-style buttons. Only the buttons that can be used in the current mode are lit up. The animations are a lot like the animations on those crappy LCD video games you can buy for $10 at your local toy store.
Unless you lost all of the nerve endings on your fingers, this thing can be used without looking at it, just like any other remote with buttons.
Now, if you want a programmable remote with buttons and an LCD, check out The Harmony Remote. Much better than a Pronto and the like, and much more advanced than this one.
Most hip replacements only last 5-10 years, and that's usually for little old ladies who don't do much in the way of stenuous activity.
Back in 1992, Bo Jackson had a total hip replacement, and then played another two years of Major League Baseball.
Does anyone know how his hip is holding out? I couldn't find any recent information on him (everything seems to stop in 1994 when he left baseball)
It's 10 years later... I think he's due for a new hip.
That doesn't seem right. Maybe it's just a generic footer for the bottom of all the web pages?
I mean, if I take a camcorder into a theatre and make a copy of the movie, I can't slap a copyright on that video...
F-117's are not invisible to radar, they just appear very small, approximately the size of a sparrow, and are usually over-looked by the radar technician as being natural phenomenom.
Hmmmm, if I were a radar operator, a sparrow moving at 600mph would definately get my attention...
> FWIW, I knew a guy with a BA in English who
> eventually got a PHD in physics.
Heh, I had a roomate once who started out doing a BA English, got bored and transfered into an astrophysics degree, got bored, quit school and got a gig as a C++ developer.
This was a good 10 years ago. I have no idea whatever happened to him! (Mark, if you're reading this, boo.)
Egads, if you are going to all the trouble of having a seperate account just for PayPal use, don't use the same bank as your other accounts.
When PayPal tries to withdraw money from your "empty" account, your bank will happily look for money in your other accounts, transfer it to the "empty" account, give PayPal the money, and then screw you with a "transaction fee" for doing this without asking you.
I'm not saying that every bank will do this, or that they will do it every time, but it does happen.
Your best bet is to open an account with one of the no-fee online only banks, like ING Direct or President's Choice Financial. You can move money in and out as you please, and it is isolated from your "regular" accounts quite nicely.
Whoops! Substitue "Porsche Design GmbH" for "F.A. Porsche Design" in the above post.