That link says "The phone itself reports GPS signal information to the cell towers which combine that with their own information." which to me means it's GPS plus triangulation. And yes, I have that phone, and mine says "GPS" on it too. But it's obviously more than just triangulation, because otherwise the phone wouldn't have to 'report' anything beyond its regular voice transmission.
Dial 911, yell "Help! The GPS on my cellphone doesn't work!" and then just wait in that exact spot. If the cops come right to that spot (and subsequently arrest you) then the GPS probably works. (Though, admittedly, it could be triangulation, so make sure to pick a tough spot to find).
Are there any Trekkas that are still running in New Zealand? I was there back in October, and didn't see any, unsurprisingly. Are these things just legend, or do they still exist? Now, mind you, I'm not suggesting anything like whether the Trekka would qualify for a "Worst Car" sort of award, I'm just curious since they're a bit of an oddball. For those who don't know what I'm talking about, the Trekka was a New Zealand-assembled all-terrain vehicle (not 4-wheel drive, but with some sort of "all-terrain" differential) built off of Skoda parts in the early 1970s. There's a neat book on it too called "This is the Trekka".
You obviously didn't even read the linked document. It talks about how "1970's" is an older form and that 1970s is acceptable now. I was just pointing out to the parent that the using the apostrophe isn't always wrong. So your "Harvard-educated English teacher" preferred the MLA style, but that's not the only way to do things. And so, that means the parent to my comment went just a bit too far when he said an apostrophe *never* makes a plural, when in fact even the MLA would still say that, for example, "There are two l's in that word" is the proper way to pluralize "l".
That's not true, actually. An appostrophe is used in pluralizing numbers, letters, symbols, and abbreviations. See here: http://www.emory.edu/ENGLISH/WC/apostrophe2.html (scroll down to "Plurals of Numbers, Letters, Symbols, Abbreviations"). This means:
You can still download the player codec for free, no adware. The *encoder* has been ad-supported for a while I think. They just shuffled the links around.
The codec download just moved right below. "Download the DivX codec (no cost)" still just gets you the codec with *no* adware at all. The three options on the top are Dr Divx(pay), Divx Pro(pay) and Divx Pro(adware). They moved the codec and player to the text link to make space for Dr Divx. That's all.
In my car, where the airbag warning is (on one side of the sun visor) there is an English warning: "Air Bag Warning" and in French: "Attention Sac Gonflable". I'm not saying that there isn't some phrase like Bag of Inflatable Emergency Air or something, but in practice "sac gonflable" is used, at least in North America.
Whether a municipality is a town, village, city, etc. does not indicate the size. In many states, there is no legal difference between them.
Indeed. Even in Minnesota, where we only have two types of municipalities, townships and cities, we have cities as small as 15 (Funkley), and townships as large as 11,293 (White Bear).
The Spanish word for subtle is sutil. Spanish and English seem to have a lot of words where a word in one language just looks like a misspelled word in the other.
The Hitachi MpegCam was the first hard-drive camcorder, as far as I know. (Though this Samsung probably is the first MPEG4 HDD camcorder). I used it back in high school in 1997 and 1998. It looked like a large electric shaver with a camera instead of a shaving head, and with an LCD in the back. The one I used had a 340mb PCMCIA hard drive in it and stored about 20 or 40 minutes of video, I think. The video wasn't quite VHS quality -- you could definitely see the difference, though it wasn't like matchbook-sized video. It also had a digital camera feature that took higher quality pictures (at least for that time).
It was really neat for what it was at the time, though it probably didn't fill any niche real well. It didn't have a lot of storage, nor did it take particularly high quality pictures. But it was really small, and was a lot of fun to play around on. I even did part of a movie for Spanish class on it.
Was it the phone booth at Como & 15th? That's one of the few booths I know of still around in Minneapolis anymore. The only other one in NE I can think of off the top of my head is on Lowry.
Actually, I was inside a building today and was trying to check my email. I'm in my local calling area but the phone couldn't get Verizon, so it got Sprint instead. I only figured this out when I dialed 611 and got Sprint instead of Verizon.
I've also been all over the country with this phone (Motorola v120c, about a year old, but with month-old firmware) and it's never told me when I've been roaming.
If you think back millions and millions of years, pre-Corel Wordperfect AND pre-Novell Wordperfect, you might remember the Wordperfect mascot: a blue butterfly. It was on the cover of the WordPerfect 5 and WP 6 (pre-Novell) boxes I believe.
I was about to say how it would be hard to make a butterfly an annoying character, but then I thought about it, and MS made a *paperclip* annoying. So they could probably have a fully animated cartoon butterfly that hugs your face and speaks like Gilbert Godfried.
I'm not talking about the *real* world here, I'm just talking about the *legal* world -- which is obviously what's important when you've received a cease and desist letter. Realistically? Of course no one's going to be confused. But as far as trademark law goes, yes, I think there could be a "likelihood of confusion". Read the link I put up there, I think you'd understand what I meant then.
Actually, I really don't think it would be illegal if you were in a completely different product arena. Basically, if there's no likelihood of confusion, it's less likely that you'll get in trouble. In the pengaol case though, I think there would be a likelood of confusion, but there probably wouldn't be for "Another Old Look" calling itself AOL. (Though you could probably get a lawyer to argue anything.)
That's the Northwest Angle, but that's not what that guy's talking about. The Angle is quite large really, though it's mostly forest. It's not like the survey errors they're talking about here -- those are on the order of maybe a couple hundred yards/meters. The Angle is like 10 by 15 miles. (I work for the phone company who provides service up there, even to the little islands in the lake. Oh, and some of those little islands even have DSL).
Microsoft will now be shipping Windows XP SE with the ability to run Linux executables. It will be called Binary Emulation for Executables at Runtime, or BEER.
I live in Minnesota (USA) and every time I go to Manitoba (Canada) I'm always shocked at the driving. People there pass other cars on two lane roads in a space that would mean death if they started a half-second later. People drive on Winnipeg city routes (big city streets) like they do on Minneapolis freeways. It's frightening.
It requires telemarketers to not call anyone on a statewide do-not-call list, and fines up to $1000 for a violation. It exempts charities, existing business relationships, and unfortunately, calls that don't intend to complete the sale over the phone. That means, I suppose, that you can still get people trying to sell you condos, or sell you cars at very high finance rates. Blech.
Yeah, five years ago, Minneapolis police didn't care if you got your car or any of its contents stolen. Now they just don't care if you get anything stolen out of it.
I've seen signs up warning about bait cars at bus stops here. I find it kind of funny really, because you'd think that people who steal cars would have their own cars and not have to ride the bus. Unless car theft is really just done by people who are forced to ride the bus because they don't have a car...:)
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That link says "The phone itself reports GPS signal information to the cell towers which combine that with their own information." which to me means it's GPS plus triangulation. And yes, I have that phone, and mine says "GPS" on it too. But it's obviously more than just triangulation, because otherwise the phone wouldn't have to 'report' anything beyond its regular voice transmission.
Dial 911, yell "Help! The GPS on my cellphone doesn't work!" and then just wait in that exact spot. If the cops come right to that spot (and subsequently arrest you) then the GPS probably works. (Though, admittedly, it could be triangulation, so make sure to pick a tough spot to find).
Andy
Are there any Trekkas that are still running in New Zealand? I was there back in October, and didn't see any, unsurprisingly. Are these things just legend, or do they still exist? Now, mind you, I'm not suggesting anything like whether the Trekka would qualify for a "Worst Car" sort of award, I'm just curious since they're a bit of an oddball. For those who don't know what I'm talking about, the Trekka was a New Zealand-assembled all-terrain vehicle (not 4-wheel drive, but with some sort of "all-terrain" differential) built off of Skoda parts in the early 1970s. There's a neat book on it too called "This is the Trekka".
Andy
You obviously didn't even read the linked document. It talks about how "1970's" is an older form and that 1970s is acceptable now. I was just pointing out to the parent that the using the apostrophe isn't always wrong. So your "Harvard-educated English teacher" preferred the MLA style, but that's not the only way to do things. And so, that means the parent to my comment went just a bit too far when he said an apostrophe *never* makes a plural, when in fact even the MLA would still say that, for example, "There are two l's in that word" is the proper way to pluralize "l".
Andy
Apostrophes are never used to indicate a plural.
That's not true, actually. An appostrophe is used in pluralizing numbers, letters, symbols, and abbreviations. See here: http://www.emory.edu/ENGLISH/WC/apostrophe2.html (scroll down to "Plurals of Numbers, Letters, Symbols, Abbreviations"). This means:
- compact discs but
- CD's
for example.You can still download the player codec for free, no adware. The *encoder* has been ad-supported for a while I think. They just shuffled the links around.
The codec download just moved right below. "Download the DivX codec (no cost)" still just gets you the codec with *no* adware at all. The three options on the top are Dr Divx(pay), Divx Pro(pay) and Divx Pro(adware). They moved the codec and player to the text link to make space for Dr Divx. That's all.
In my car, where the airbag warning is (on one side of the sun visor) there is an English warning: "Air Bag Warning" and in French: "Attention Sac Gonflable". I'm not saying that there isn't some phrase like Bag of Inflatable Emergency Air or something, but in practice "sac gonflable" is used, at least in North America.
you had to log in as root in order to bring up or terminate the dial-up ppp connection
For me it was log in as root to bring up the ppp connection, and pull the phone plug out of the back of the modem to terminate. :)
Whether a municipality is a town, village, city, etc. does not indicate the size. In many states, there is no legal difference between them.
Indeed. Even in Minnesota, where we only have two types of municipalities, townships and cities, we have cities as small as 15 (Funkley), and townships as large as 11,293 (White Bear).
The Spanish word for subtle is sutil. Spanish and English seem to have a lot of words where a word in one language just looks like a misspelled word in the other.
The Hitachi MpegCam was the first hard-drive camcorder, as far as I know. (Though this Samsung probably is the first MPEG4 HDD camcorder). I used it back in high school in 1997 and 1998. It looked like a large electric shaver with a camera instead of a shaving head, and with an LCD in the back. The one I used had a 340mb PCMCIA hard drive in it and stored about 20 or 40 minutes of video, I think. The video wasn't quite VHS quality -- you could definitely see the difference, though it wasn't like matchbook-sized video. It also had a digital camera feature that took higher quality pictures (at least for that time).
It was really neat for what it was at the time, though it probably didn't fill any niche real well. It didn't have a lot of storage, nor did it take particularly high quality pictures. But it was really small, and was a lot of fun to play around on. I even did part of a movie for Spanish class on it.
Was it the phone booth at Como & 15th? That's one of the few booths I know of still around in Minneapolis anymore. The only other one in NE I can think of off the top of my head is on Lowry.
In other words, this article is: Slashdot - How to Change a Lightbulb!
PayPal me the $1.95 and I'll send you the cash through good old postal mail. :)
Actually, I was inside a building today and was trying to check my email. I'm in my local calling area but the phone couldn't get Verizon, so it got Sprint instead. I only figured this out when I dialed 611 and got Sprint instead of Verizon.
I've also been all over the country with this phone (Motorola v120c, about a year old, but with month-old firmware) and it's never told me when I've been roaming.
If you think back millions and millions of years, pre-Corel Wordperfect AND pre-Novell Wordperfect, you might remember the Wordperfect mascot: a blue butterfly. It was on the cover of the WordPerfect 5 and WP 6 (pre-Novell) boxes I believe.
I was about to say how it would be hard to make a butterfly an annoying character, but then I thought about it, and MS made a *paperclip* annoying. So they could probably have a fully animated cartoon butterfly that hugs your face and speaks like Gilbert Godfried.
I'm not talking about the *real* world here, I'm just talking about the *legal* world -- which is obviously what's important when you've received a cease and desist letter. Realistically? Of course no one's going to be confused. But as far as trademark law goes, yes, I think there could be a "likelihood of confusion". Read the link I put up there, I think you'd understand what I meant then.
Actually, I really don't think it would be illegal if you were in a completely different product arena. Basically, if there's no likelihood of confusion, it's less likely that you'll get in trouble. In the pengaol case though, I think there would be a likelood of confusion, but there probably wouldn't be for "Another Old Look" calling itself AOL. (Though you could probably get a lawyer to argue anything.)
I bet he's thinking of Jumex. I say that because I'm drinking a can of Jumex peach nectar right now (mmm... canned liquid peach).
That's the Northwest Angle, but that's not what that guy's talking about. The Angle is quite large really, though it's mostly forest. It's not like the survey errors they're talking about here -- those are on the order of maybe a couple hundred yards/meters. The Angle is like 10 by 15 miles. (I work for the phone company who provides service up there, even to the little islands in the lake. Oh, and some of those little islands even have DSL).
Andy
Microsoft will now be shipping Windows XP SE with the ability to run Linux executables. It will be called Binary Emulation for Executables at Runtime, or BEER.
I live in Minnesota (USA) and every time I go to Manitoba (Canada) I'm always shocked at the driving. People there pass other cars on two lane roads in a space that would mean death if they started a half-second later. People drive on Winnipeg city routes (big city streets) like they do on Minneapolis freeways. It's frightening.
Qwest:Ride the dark.
It requires telemarketers to not call anyone on a statewide do-not-call list, and fines up to $1000 for a violation. It exempts charities, existing business relationships, and unfortunately, calls that don't intend to complete the sale over the phone. That means, I suppose, that you can still get people trying to sell you condos, or sell you cars at very high finance rates. Blech.
Yeah, five years ago, Minneapolis police didn't care if you got your car or any of its contents stolen. Now they just don't care if you get anything stolen out of it.
:)
I've seen signs up warning about bait cars at bus stops here. I find it kind of funny really, because you'd think that people who steal cars would have their own cars and not have to ride the bus. Unless car theft is really just done by people who are forced to ride the bus because they don't have a car...