I bought a pair of these and installed them, which took all of ten minutes. Cost me around $100 (I was part of a group purchase, so I got them for a lot less than the listed price).
What blind spot? No fancy radar required. Why do we need to go high tech when all we need to do is change the requirements for new vehicles to come with mirrors like this from the factory? Radar can fail, takes power, etc. A mirror... is just a mirror.
Yes, these do work. I've avoided quite a lot of dangerous merges, and been warned ahead of time when somebody's doing 100mph in the passing lane. It's worth checking into the availability of something like these (they are quite a bit better than the cheap round stick-ons) for your particular vehicle. These will fit 99.5-2005 Golf/Jetta and 98-200? (we don't know when the next major change will be) VW Passat.
The first time you accidentally cut someone off 2 feet in front of them because they were in your blind spot is the last, if you pay attention to the scare you got!
I have a similar problem. HP Color Laserjet 4500. Connected via network. Print anything from a windows machine, it prints the job, a blank page, and then a stack error on a third page...
They probably mean things like the five-dot pattern, which was figured out by a couple bored people who did some experimenting. On the new $20, for example, it's formed by the zeros in the little "20"s floating around on the back side. On some euro notes, it's in some half notes printed on a musical staff. Others have it in different places.
I love the search box, but if you don't it can be removed by dragging it off the toolbar when you're in customization mode (right-click the toolbar, then pick Customize) -- this works on Windows and OS X builds at least and probably other platforms, too.
Pretty sad, isn't it? This same magazine, which I was reading lying down in bed, dumped three or four more loose (do they not even make an effort to tie those things down?) cards, most of them trying to sell other magazines from the same publishing house. That's not counting the full-double-page-spread for the readers-choice ballot crap for "best whoozawhatchit of the year, they get this cheap lucite trophy, you, our dear readers, get to pay for them" stuff. I honestly don't know why magazines do that, unless it's so that company can then print "The New XYZ 2000! Voted Best Hunkajunk of the Year by Insert-Weird-Interest-Here Magazine!" in their ads...
Why not just use vibrate mode? If your butt's not shakin' your phone's not ringin'.
Works for me, and I just go somewhere out of the way to answer it, or answer it and ask the caller to hold on while I move so I don't miss the call. I will however refuse to answer it if I'm driving or somewhere where it's very ignorable, like in a theater. I might pick it out of my pocket to see who's calling, and make a mental note to call them back later, though.
... keep posting stuff like this! I've been wanting to really get going into a good hobby after some false starts in high school, and just last week I fetched my Alco PA-1 model out of storage as an inspiration.
Gotta get off this computer and actually do something for once, y'know!
Maybe it's not professional, but I for one was pleased that someone told these twits off. Sometimes, "professional" ways of saying something just don't have the right impact.
I have to wonder... the EMH is just a piece of software, right? Don't they ever back up that application? Having a disaster plan in place would surely include insuring your doctor will be available at all times, so not only is a backup a good idea in case your computers get fried (aliens of the week do that sometimes, yaknow) but it's also a good idea because, well, it'd suck to be stuck with a hangover from that all night party in the mess hall with nobody to give you some aspirin to get rid of it!
"Damn, someone stole the EMH again? Get out the backup disk!"
I think a simpler, and more appropriate, thing to do would be to have your credit card issuer do a chargeback. It seems to me that if a fair amount of time has gone by with no hint that you'll get your product, you should win the dispute if they fight it. (Note: I've never had to do a chargeback before, but I know it's a valid fallback, which is why I like using my card for online orders, and then transferring money from checking -- same bank -- once the product arrives.)
As for sending someone over to sit in a courtroom -- I don't think small claims court allows lawyers, does it? I think parties have to represent themselves. (Please do clear up my uncertainty here -- ask one of the lawyers you know -- I live in Missouri.)
However, just like a car, the moment it "goes off the lot" (goes gold), it's no longer the newest and greatest thing. Sometimes, this happens even before that for both games and cars as "niftier" models come out (e.g. I drive a 2000 VW Golf IV, and love it, but I've caught myself coveting the new Prius... does that mean the Golf is suddenly junk? No. It's just not the newest thing anymore. Is a no-longer-brand-new game suddenly junk? No, not as long as you still enjoy playing it.)
Hey, as an environmental science graduate, I find that site pretty interesting! Thanks! And it's working fine through Mozilla with JS on but adblock installed and running. What ads?;)
I blocked it with the Adblock mozilla plugin after determining that it was the.js script the page was calling that was doing it. Poof. No more ad. Now might be the time to suggest that adblock start being able to block specific functions in javascripts.
"Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down? That's not my department," said Wernher von Braun.
von Braun started working on rockets in the 1930s and went on to build the A-4, later renamed the V-2, which was the first successful ballistic missile and later served to launch scientific instruments and cameras to the edge of space (it could not reach orbit.) One of the X-Prize entrants, the Canadian Arrow, uses the V-2 design with a second stage added so that it can launch three people on a suborbital trajectory. von Braun himself wanted to build something similar in the 1940s, but it never happened.
He went on to design the Redstone rocket used to launch the first two Mercury flights, the Jupiter rocket which launched Explorer 1, and famously the Saturn family of rockets, obviously including the Saturn 5.
He died in 1973 or 1974, I forget which. He always saw his funding during his years in Germany as a way to build rockets that would send people to the stars. Lehrer had that part right.
"Don't say that he's hypocritical... Say rather that he's apolitical."
Yahoo mail started demanding I pay more because I'd let my inbox fill up. It was full with 600 spam messages despite my having cleared it out only a few weeks before. (It exists only to be a spam trap -- my real addresses never see the spam.) I just wiped the lot of it and essentially told Yahoo to go away and stop whining.
How many clueless idiots actually pay? Yahoo is exploiting spam, especially the kind that includes images, to get money out of users. No wonder they don't just block storage of images (not just display at the user's end). It's an excuse for them to get rich off spam.
On the other hand, TiVo has never sold boxes that were labeled as including service and then gone and deactivated boxes that were legally bought with the understanding that they included service...
Though even before all that, I knew I wanted a TiVo, commercial skip or not, based on personal experience with both boxes. Some models of ReplayTV don't work too well with closed captioning, for example, and the captions vanish until the box is hard-rebooted, for example. And I liked TiVo more overall, including its interface.
Do ReplayTVs run on Linux? I know that's way off topic, but I'm curious.
They're not just stealing from you in obvious ways, it's the non-obvious ones that are more insidious.
It's irritating that they're removing stuff we want to see (show content) and putting in more ads (crap). The average amount of time spent on actual show has gone down and the number of ads has gone up.
Aren't they stealing from us, their customers, by doing this? And aren't they stomping on the "works" created by "content creators" -- namely, the directors and cast members and crew? Where's the lawsuits and screaming about that?
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I bought a pair of these and installed them, which took all of ten minutes. Cost me around $100 (I was part of a group purchase, so I got them for a lot less than the listed price).
... is just a mirror.
What blind spot? No fancy radar required. Why do we need to go high tech when all we need to do is change the requirements for new vehicles to come with mirrors like this from the factory? Radar can fail, takes power, etc. A mirror
Yes, these do work. I've avoided quite a lot of dangerous merges, and been warned ahead of time when somebody's doing 100mph in the passing lane. It's worth checking into the availability of something like these (they are quite a bit better than the cheap round stick-ons) for your particular vehicle. These will fit 99.5-2005 Golf/Jetta and 98-200? (we don't know when the next major change will be) VW Passat.
The first time you accidentally cut someone off 2 feet in front of them because they were in your blind spot is the last, if you pay attention to the scare you got!
No, but the idea about error printouts is worth looking into. And it seems wasteful to not detect "print a blank" messages and suppress those too.
I have a similar problem. HP Color Laserjet 4500. Connected via network. Print anything from a windows machine, it prints the job, a blank page, and then a stack error on a third page...
It works fine on macs.
They probably mean things like the five-dot pattern, which was figured out by a couple bored people who did some experimenting. On the new $20, for example, it's formed by the zeros in the little "20"s floating around on the back side. On some euro notes, it's in some half notes printed on a musical staff. Others have it in different places.
I love the search box, but if you don't it can be removed by dragging it off the toolbar when you're in customization mode (right-click the toolbar, then pick Customize) -- this works on Windows and OS X builds at least and probably other platforms, too.
Pretty sad, isn't it? This same magazine, which I was reading lying down in bed, dumped three or four more loose (do they not even make an effort to tie those things down?) cards, most of them trying to sell other magazines from the same publishing house. That's not counting the full-double-page-spread for the readers-choice ballot crap for "best whoozawhatchit of the year, they get this cheap lucite trophy, you, our dear readers, get to pay for them" stuff. I honestly don't know why magazines do that, unless it's so that company can then print "The New XYZ 2000! Voted Best Hunkajunk of the Year by Insert-Weird-Interest-Here Magazine!" in their ads...
Why not just use vibrate mode? If your butt's not shakin' your phone's not ringin'.
Works for me, and I just go somewhere out of the way to answer it, or answer it and ask the caller to hold on while I move so I don't miss the call. I will however refuse to answer it if I'm driving or somewhere where it's very ignorable, like in a theater. I might pick it out of my pocket to see who's calling, and make a mental note to call them back later, though.
I subscribed to Model Railroader online. First issue arrived within two weeks. Unwrapped it and opened it. A subscription card fell out.
Hmmmmmmmmm... *insert evil look here*
... keep posting stuff like this! I've been wanting to really get going into a good hobby after some false starts in high school, and just last week I fetched my Alco PA-1 model out of storage as an inspiration.
Gotta get off this computer and actually do something for once, y'know!
Maybe it's not professional, but I for one was pleased that someone told these twits off. Sometimes, "professional" ways of saying something just don't have the right impact.
I have to wonder ... the EMH is just a piece of software, right? Don't they ever back up that application? Having a disaster plan in place would surely include insuring your doctor will be available at all times, so not only is a backup a good idea in case your computers get fried (aliens of the week do that sometimes, yaknow) but it's also a good idea because, well, it'd suck to be stuck with a hangover from that all night party in the mess hall with nobody to give you some aspirin to get rid of it!
"Damn, someone stole the EMH again? Get out the backup disk!"
I think a simpler, and more appropriate, thing to do would be to have your credit card issuer do a chargeback. It seems to me that if a fair amount of time has gone by with no hint that you'll get your product, you should win the dispute if they fight it. (Note: I've never had to do a chargeback before, but I know it's a valid fallback, which is why I like using my card for online orders, and then transferring money from checking -- same bank -- once the product arrives.)
As for sending someone over to sit in a courtroom -- I don't think small claims court allows lawyers, does it? I think parties have to represent themselves. (Please do clear up my uncertainty here -- ask one of the lawyers you know -- I live in Missouri.)
However, just like a car, the moment it "goes off the lot" (goes gold), it's no longer the newest and greatest thing. Sometimes, this happens even before that for both games and cars as "niftier" models come out (e.g. I drive a 2000 VW Golf IV, and love it, but I've caught myself coveting the new Prius ... does that mean the Golf is suddenly junk? No. It's just not the newest thing anymore. Is a no-longer-brand-new game suddenly junk? No, not as long as you still enjoy playing it.)
It's on the back, in the form of the zeros in the little yellow "20" symbols floating around. It's low-contrast and hard to see.
Hey, as an environmental science graduate, I find that site pretty interesting! Thanks! And it's working fine through Mozilla with JS on but adblock installed and running. What ads? ;)
I blocked it with the Adblock mozilla plugin after determining that it was the .js script the page was calling that was doing it. Poof. No more ad. Now might be the time to suggest that adblock start being able to block specific functions in javascripts.
"Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down?
...
That's not my department," said Wernher von Braun.
von Braun started working on rockets in the 1930s and went on to build the A-4, later renamed the V-2, which was the first successful ballistic missile and later served to launch scientific instruments and cameras to the edge of space (it could not reach orbit.) One of the X-Prize entrants, the Canadian Arrow, uses the V-2 design with a second stage added so that it can launch three people on a suborbital trajectory. von Braun himself wanted to build something similar in the 1940s, but it never happened.
He went on to design the Redstone rocket used to launch the first two Mercury flights, the Jupiter rocket which launched Explorer 1, and famously the Saturn family of rockets, obviously including the Saturn 5.
He died in 1973 or 1974, I forget which. He always saw his funding during his years in Germany as a way to build rockets that would send people to the stars. Lehrer had that part right.
"Don't say that he's hypocritical
Say rather that he's apolitical."
Chromatin! Who knew!? Cell-biologist spammers!
Yes, well, you know, I'm sure it is, because apparently they have to make a "special exception" for taking a bathroom break. (I know... insane.)
About binomial theorem I'm teeming with a lot of news --
With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse!
Yahoo mail started demanding I pay more because I'd let my inbox fill up. It was full with 600 spam messages despite my having cleared it out only a few weeks before. (It exists only to be a spam trap -- my real addresses never see the spam.) I just wiped the lot of it and essentially told Yahoo to go away and stop whining.
How many clueless idiots actually pay? Yahoo is exploiting spam, especially the kind that includes images, to get money out of users. No wonder they don't just block storage of images (not just display at the user's end). It's an excuse for them to get rich off spam.
On the other hand, TiVo has never sold boxes that were labeled as including service and then gone and deactivated boxes that were legally bought with the understanding that they included service...
Though even before all that, I knew I wanted a TiVo, commercial skip or not, based on personal experience with both boxes. Some models of ReplayTV don't work too well with closed captioning, for example, and the captions vanish until the box is hard-rebooted, for example. And I liked TiVo more overall, including its interface.
Do ReplayTVs run on Linux? I know that's way off topic, but I'm curious.
They're not just stealing from you in obvious ways, it's the non-obvious ones that are more insidious.
It's irritating that they're removing stuff we want to see (show content) and putting in more ads (crap). The average amount of time spent on actual show has gone down and the number of ads has gone up.
Aren't they stealing from us, their customers, by doing this? And aren't they stomping on the "works" created by "content creators" -- namely, the directors and cast members and crew? Where's the lawsuits and screaming about that?
Yep. It's just amusing that they can get persnickety about the difference between pushing one lousy button and not doing so. Only in America...