Don't bother with the K-1000. It's cult status has made it way overpriced. A better camera from the same era is the Pentax KM, which is basically a K-1000 with a depth-of-field preview. Much cheaper for more features!
If you want a good new SLR to learn on, find a Pentax ZX-M and a 50mm lens. A good camera shop should be able to sell you this as a kit. My girlfriend bought hers at Central Camera in downtown Chicago for less than $200. I'd almost say that this is the better route, as you get a warranty, a better expectation that everything is going to work, electric film winding, and some automatic features if you feel like using them.
Light rail is quiet? Someone forgot to tell Chicago. Take a ride on the Blue Line out to O'Hare, or try to sleep in an apartment 3 blocks from the Red Line, which runs all night. They are very, very noisy.
Don't people realize that you are allowed to have multiple bank accounts, and multiple credit cards?
I don't really consider myself all that paranoid, but I'm not about to link the bank account that has all my savings up with Paypal. The account I linked up could be accurately described as my "spending money" account, which means that if I'm compromised, they aint getting much and I aint losing much. Since I can just walk across the street and deposit a check from my real account, I have no need to link a credit card to Paypal. If I did, I would simply get a new credit card with a low credit limit. It's not like it's difficult to get a credit card, is it?
To make it even more useful, Panther allows you to set mouse shortcuts to Expose. I have the side buttons on my Microsoft Intellimouse Exporer set to the F9 and F10 equivalents. I can't believe I actually lived without this!
Here in the Chicago area, it seems as though all new traffic signals going up are LEDs. I agree that these are much easier to see and I only wish that the city of Chicago would replace all the signals in the downtown are with LEDs. Many of these signals are near impossible to see once the sun gets low in the sky and the area is just crawling with pedestrians that love crossing streets the second the "Walk" signal turns on without even a glance at the cars on the road.
Part of the problem is that they don't work very well at all. As soon as you scan an item, it wants you to place it inside the plastic bag that is on top of the scale. Unfortunately, many items aren't the absolute perfect shape and the machine doesn't handle that well. It will start screaming at you to place the item in the bag even though it already is in the bag. When the machines are constantly screaming at every single legitimate customer, it's not very hard for the thiefs to slip through.
Additionally, I have noticed that the machines have random periods where the items you scan don't show up in the computer. If you aren't paying enough attention when this happens, you might inadvertantly steal from the store.
If the machines would just work better, the loss rate would go down quite a bit.
I have yet to hear anybody here (in a company of ~100,000 employees) be affected by this. I just fired up Word and checked the version. Yep, Office SR-1 running on Windows 2000.
This may not be as widespread as MS haters hope it is.
- Disaster relief. It's been proven before that the internet can be resilient to disasters such as earthquake. Useful maybe?
I'm curious as to how well fiber holds up in an earthquake. I guess it would be highly dependant on how the fiber was installed - if all your corners are so tight that the fiber just barely stays intact, I would guess that it would break pretty easily in an earthquake.
Boy I wish I was Bill Gates right now, because I would be telling my underlings to change the pricing structure for software installed in the medical industry.
"We're still the cheapest/easiest option? Raise the price until we aren't and then lower it $1. They don't want to change and they wont as long as we're $1 cheaper. Take them for as much as we can."
I've had it since third grade. That puts it at about 15 years old. Is this what you are looking for? Based on the construction, I highly doubt GE planned on a 15+ year lifecycle for this thing.
I couldn't keep track of all the girls I met at the bars without it.
OK, maybe not. But I did use it constantly for keeping track of assignments, class projects, and meetings. Of course, I also used it for the occasional game when class got really boring, for keeping some lists of computer lab locations, UNIX and vi reference guides, etc. I stopped using it after I graduated and found that my schedule just wasn't busy enough to warrant it. Plus, I had to recalibrate the screen every few days and I swore it ate batteries faster the older it got.
I got my dad a cheap Palm (don't remember the model) two years ago. He's a school psychologist and has tons of meetings at all the different schools in the district and has hundreds of contacts to keep track of. He considers the Palm a God-send.
I've wondered this as well. You can get a LOT of information from OBD II. There is a basic interface that all cars have to follow, but each make has it's own extensions that you would need to account for. And since OBD II has been a CARB/EPA requirement since 1996 in all cars sold in the USA, the specs for the basic operation and interface are freely available with a little digging.
This new monitor has a much higher pixel density than the 22" LCD. The old 22" LCD had a density of about 85 pixels per inch while this new 23" LCD has a pixel density of about 100 pixels per inch. Nice!
Well, Apple is shipping 5,000 new iMacs a day and still can't keep up with demand. I would say that a $100 price increase is justified. Supply and Demand. The free market rules.
I do something with my coworkers at least 3 or 4 times a week, even if it is just getting together for 4-player Madden and a few beers. This past weekend, 5 of us went to a local bar to hear a 6th play in his band. Judging from a few of my IT friends at other places, this is unusual only in the frequency that we get together.
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Don't bother with the K-1000. It's cult status has made it way overpriced. A better camera from the same era is the Pentax KM, which is basically a K-1000 with a depth-of-field preview. Much cheaper for more features!
If you want a good new SLR to learn on, find a Pentax ZX-M and a 50mm lens. A good camera shop should be able to sell you this as a kit. My girlfriend bought hers at Central Camera in downtown Chicago for less than $200. I'd almost say that this is the better route, as you get a warranty, a better expectation that everything is going to work, electric film winding, and some automatic features if you feel like using them.
The US is spending some money on research for quieter roadways.
The Purdue Institute for Safe, Quiet, and Durable Highways
Just because it's not in the news doesn't mean it's not happening.
Light rail is quiet? Someone forgot to tell Chicago. Take a ride on the Blue Line out to O'Hare, or try to sleep in an apartment 3 blocks from the Red Line, which runs all night. They are very, very noisy.
Don't people realize that you are allowed to have multiple bank accounts, and multiple credit cards?
I don't really consider myself all that paranoid, but I'm not about to link the bank account that has all my savings up with Paypal. The account I linked up could be accurately described as my "spending money" account, which means that if I'm compromised, they aint getting much and I aint losing much. Since I can just walk across the street and deposit a check from my real account, I have no need to link a credit card to Paypal. If I did, I would simply get a new credit card with a low credit limit. It's not like it's difficult to get a credit card, is it?
To make it even more useful, Panther allows you to set mouse shortcuts to Expose. I have the side buttons on my Microsoft Intellimouse Exporer set to the F9 and F10 equivalents. I can't believe I actually lived without this!
I'd love to work for a company like Apple that still believes in good, solid engineering.
Here in the Chicago area, it seems as though all new traffic signals going up are LEDs. I agree that these are much easier to see and I only wish that the city of Chicago would replace all the signals in the downtown are with LEDs. Many of these signals are near impossible to see once the sun gets low in the sky and the area is just crawling with pedestrians that love crossing streets the second the "Walk" signal turns on without even a glance at the cars on the road.
Insert Microsoft joke here.
Sounds like the iPod would actually be useful as part of the coursework, but is that benefit really outweighing the cost?
Apple donated the first batch, but they aren't going to keep doing that. Someone has to pay for them at some point.
Don't forget the nawwwwwwws. They also added two of the big bottles.
Part of the problem is that they don't work very well at all. As soon as you scan an item, it wants you to place it inside the plastic bag that is on top of the scale. Unfortunately, many items aren't the absolute perfect shape and the machine doesn't handle that well. It will start screaming at you to place the item in the bag even though it already is in the bag. When the machines are constantly screaming at every single legitimate customer, it's not very hard for the thiefs to slip through.
Additionally, I have noticed that the machines have random periods where the items you scan don't show up in the computer. If you aren't paying enough attention when this happens, you might inadvertantly steal from the store.
If the machines would just work better, the loss rate would go down quite a bit.
I have yet to hear anybody here (in a company of ~100,000 employees) be affected by this. I just fired up Word and checked the version. Yep, Office SR-1 running on Windows 2000.
This may not be as widespread as MS haters hope it is.
- Disaster relief. It's been proven before that the internet can be resilient to disasters such as earthquake. Useful maybe?
I'm curious as to how well fiber holds up in an earthquake. I guess it would be highly dependant on how the fiber was installed - if all your corners are so tight that the fiber just barely stays intact, I would guess that it would break pretty easily in an earthquake.
Boy I wish I was Bill Gates right now, because I would be telling my underlings to change the pricing structure for software installed in the medical industry.
"We're still the cheapest/easiest option? Raise the price until we aren't and then lower it $1. They don't want to change and they wont as long as we're $1 cheaper. Take them for as much as we can."
I've had it since third grade. That puts it at about 15 years old. Is this what you are looking for? Based on the construction, I highly doubt GE planned on a 15+ year lifecycle for this thing.
I couldn't keep track of all the girls I met at the bars without it.
OK, maybe not. But I did use it constantly for keeping track of assignments, class projects, and meetings. Of course, I also used it for the occasional game when class got really boring, for keeping some lists of computer lab locations, UNIX and vi reference guides, etc. I stopped using it after I graduated and found that my schedule just wasn't busy enough to warrant it. Plus, I had to recalibrate the screen every few days and I swore it ate batteries faster the older it got.
I got my dad a cheap Palm (don't remember the model) two years ago. He's a school psychologist and has tons of meetings at all the different schools in the district and has hundreds of contacts to keep track of. He considers the Palm a God-send.
"I'd like to take that stupid X Box and crack that moron from MIT over the head with it."
I wonder if the parent (?) who wrote that realized how ironic that statement was.
I bet the defense industry is salivating at the thought of all the money about to be thrown in its direction...
I've wondered this as well. You can get a LOT of information from OBD II. There is a basic interface that all cars have to follow, but each make has it's own extensions that you would need to account for. And since OBD II has been a CARB/EPA requirement since 1996 in all cars sold in the USA, the specs for the basic operation and interface are freely available with a little digging.
So maybe they were trying to prove a point, like when I stole the Neighborhood Watch sign back in my high school days.
This new monitor has a much higher pixel density than the 22" LCD. The old 22" LCD had a density of about 85 pixels per inch while this new 23" LCD has a pixel density of about 100 pixels per inch. Nice!
Well, Apple is shipping 5,000 new iMacs a day and still can't keep up with demand. I would say that a $100 price increase is justified. Supply and Demand. The free market rules.
There is a small amount of infoon the Apple website.
Oh, I don't know - maybe it has something to do with its superior UI, battery life, size, and (though no /.er would admit it) style.
I do something with my coworkers at least 3 or 4 times a week, even if it is just getting together for 4-player Madden and a few beers. This past weekend, 5 of us went to a local bar to hear a 6th play in his band. Judging from a few of my IT friends at other places, this is unusual only in the frequency that we get together.