You use that debit card at your own peril. Debit cards are far worse than credit cards when it comes how you are legally and financially protected from fraud. Simply put, and as others here have posted anecdotally, if you are ripped off while using your debit card IT'S YOUR PROBLEM.
Credit cards are covered by consumer protection laws that were enacted before debit cards came around, and before our government was handed over to corporations.
Since several people have pointed out that Canon has just announced the XL2, I'll point out that that new model will likely cause an increase in used XL1's on the market as XL1 owners upgrade -- and a subsequent drop in prices. Sounds like the best choice for you... the XL2 hits the market next month, so wait a month or two past that and then start looking for a used XL1.
As with many things Debian, it is completely awesome that they choose to use the extremely logical mechanism that they use for voting and picking the winner. It looks like a form of instant runoff voting, which is a beautiful way of getting a winner that the most people are reasonably happy with, even if it isn't their first choice. In other words, it eliminates the "spoiler" problem where a no-chance-in-hell choice on the ballot (e.g. Nader) draws enough votes from the other similar candidate (e.g. Gore) that the election ends up falling to the candidate DISliked by the majority (e.g. Bush). There is no such thing as a "wasted" vote.
Click the link above for a better explanation of instant runoff voting (try the flash demo). It's ultimately the best way to get what the people want. I love that the IT organizations (Debian, ACM, IEEE) are using this!
Mod parent up! While useful, the grandparent post's suggestion indeed does not address the original complaint, which was to stop animated GIFs on demand, not every time on every page ever.
Much as people in the United States had no idea what GSM was until about 3 years ago, and didn't grasp the benefits of standardization, most people in the US now don't have a clue what DECT is.
Fundamentally, the issue of standardization vs. market chaos is what differentiates the European and U.S. markets.
I tried over the air with an antenna and that was just painful. Even a fairly high gain one didn't work too well for me.
You bought too early. The ATSC receivers (5th generation now hitting market and 6th generation in the works) are getting better and better at pulling in the 8VSB signal. I'm telling everyone not to buy before next Christmas, and I personally am not buying before Christmas 2005. I want 1080 native resolution anyway and you just can't get that for a reasonable price yet.
But thanks for funding the R+D work:)
By the way, I'm just talking about over-the-air (OTA) broadcasting, not cable. Cable's a whole different story, hence the FCC mandate, CableCard, etc. I personally refuse to get cable/dish because then TeeVee would suck up ALL my time... So it's just OTA for me:)
If you want to stay current, but still want to have the benefits of Debian (easy software installation, automatic dependency resolution), use Debian unstable. Don't use testing, unless you really intend to test it - it's almost guaranteed to be broken.
He's got it precisely backwards, and that's dangerous.
Code starts out in "unstable", migrates to "testing" after it has been tested a bit, and finally moves to stable after it's decreed stable.
Maybe you've found "unstable" to work well for you, but "testing" is definitely the more stable of the two and certainly newbies should be pointed to "testing" well before they touch "unstable".
Read before replying in the negative:
http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-ftparchives.en.ht ml#s-testing
http://www.debian.org/devel/testing
I also lived at Georgia Tech for five years. After I graduated I got a job in downtown Atlanta and was stunned to find that I didn't know jack shit about Atlanta. My exploration of the city really started after I graduated. I don't know what it is about being a student, but you end up in all the same places all the time.
I am routinely amazed to find people who've lived in Atlanta for years and yet have no idea where Tortillas is (well, was, damnit), haven't seen the annual L5P Halloween parade, don't know the first thing about the second-tier politicians that run the city. Anybody can go to the Dogwood Festival, it takes real motivation to go find something that isn't presented to you on a corporate platter.
Go explore:
the big city cemeteries like Oakland, Crestlawn and Westview
Grant Park, Cabbagetown, Kirkwood
the neighborhoods AROUND Little Five Points (not L5P itself! that's for suburbanites) like Candler Park, Old Fourth Ward.
Va-Hi and Buckhead (and Vinings, and Buford Hwy even) do not Atlanta make.
Intown Atlanta is a very interesting and unique city. It's not conventionally urban -- it's more like suburban writ small.
One of the most interesting things was that Ashcroft was preparing a big push against porn, to be launched in late 2001. Then Sept. 11th happened and all that got shelved.
It was of course a truly disturbing show to watch, because the depravity just gets worse and worse, and the girls are always lining up to do it, no matter what it is, because the money is so good.
Sounds like you're describing the suburbs, where admittedly 85% of the Atlanta metro population lives. But that's not what "intown" Atlanta looks like, especially if you're well inside the perimeter. Thanks to all you cattle who bought cheap crappy real estate in the exurbs, and now sit frustrated in highway parking lots during rush hour twice a day, the intown real estate values are soaring and it's driving a renaissance of smart development intown.
I bike to work now. Save for the summer smog (see above) it's great! Oh, and my old house appreciated in value by 100% in 5 years. Thanks!
You reap what you sow. If you're serious about hating the look (and land use policies) of where you live, then move. But you'll have to get used to being around people that aren't uniformly Republican...
ISO 8601 is OK, and it's great for sorting and automated systems, but for readability AND unamibiguity, I use MM-DDD-YYYY (e.g. 07-Mar-2004). I've been using this format since the day I started working for a company that did 99% of its business with non-US customers (nearly a decade ago). Some US folks may look at me funny when I do it that way, but nobody has EVER been confused about what date I meant...
14 hours after the story is posted, I get a chance to wander over to Slashdot, and this is what I see on this article:
( Read More... | 91 of 1581 comments )
I have my threshold set at +5. 91 comments modded up to +5?! What the hell do I do if I just want to see the 5-15 highest rated comments -- including perhaps one that demonstrates what a pile of crap the original article is, that is, how the poster summarized it incorrectly? Bad stories get posted to Slashdot all the time, which is fine because the guy who posts the comment proving that it's bullshit gets modded way up and everyone else gets modded down. So we find out quickly "nothing to see here, move along" and we're on to the next story.
If this isn't conclusive evidence of the need for finer granularity in comment rating, or a better mod system, then I don't know what is. Please, Slashdot powers, fix this. You're driving away your most valuable readers and posters.
CDMA can't be jammed
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Cell-Phone Wars
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· Score: 4, Interesting
[Oh goody, another cell-phone-jamming story that I get to fruitless post this to]
600+ comments on this story and not a single one mentioning that you can't jam CDMA, which is what SprintPCS and Verizon are. TDMA systems like GSM and AT&T and Cingular? Sure they can be jammed, but not CDMA, and not any of the 3G systems, which are ALL CDMA based.
CDMA was originally researched and refined by the military for precisely this reason. Because it uses a spread spectrum, a single carrier (or several) can't jam it. You'd need to jam the entire BAND, at a high enough power level, and that is physically impossible. Well, it might be possible with military grade gear, but we're talking huge amounts of power here. You'd need an entire destroyer to carry and power it.
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Cool that you're comment made it to +5 though.
Credit cards are covered by consumer protection laws that were enacted before debit cards came around, and before our government was handed over to corporations.
Do some googling.
Since several people have pointed out that Canon has just announced the XL2, I'll point out that that new model will likely cause an increase in used XL1's on the market as XL1 owners upgrade -- and a subsequent drop in prices. Sounds like the best choice for you ... the XL2 hits the market next month, so wait a month or two past that and then start looking for a used XL1.
Unfortunately for you, I chose to make this comment rather than mod you up :(
See my other post, and mod it up. I don't need the karma points, just trying to help out.
After clicking on a link below, click on "View as HTML" on the resulting page.
Preface:p college.edu%2Fstar%2Fcisco%2FMatt%2Fpreface.doc
http://www.google.com/search?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.s
Textbook:p college.edu%2Fstar%2Fcisco%2FMatt%2Ftextbook.doc *
http://www.google.com/search?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.s
It's a gigantic HTML file and may give your browser fits, but at least it's not a MS Word doc file.
[* looks like Google hasn't parsed that big doc into HTML yet, maybe they will soon now :) ]
Click the link above for a better explanation of instant runoff voting (try the flash demo). It's ultimately the best way to get what the people want. I love that the IT organizations (Debian, ACM, IEEE) are using this!
Nice try! Next time use a new subject and don't reply off a buried comment, do it at the top level.
Mod parent up! While useful, the grandparent post's suggestion indeed does not address the original complaint, which was to stop animated GIFs on demand, not every time on every page ever.
> determine the parabolic arc and the approximate
> location to position oneself.
You have perfectly missed the point of the explanation.
The visual tracking model allows the player to focus exclusively on his relationship with the ball, not on predicting where it will land.
RTFA. It's actually really interesting, what with all the Greek symbols and such.
Fundamentally, the issue of standardization vs. market chaos is what differentiates the European and U.S. markets.
You bought too early. The ATSC receivers (5th generation now hitting market and 6th generation in the works) are getting better and better at pulling in the 8VSB signal. I'm telling everyone not to buy before next Christmas, and I personally am not buying before Christmas 2005. I want 1080 native resolution anyway and you just can't get that for a reasonable price yet.
But thanks for funding the R+D work :)
By the way, I'm just talking about over-the-air (OTA) broadcasting, not cable. Cable's a whole different story, hence the FCC mandate, CableCard, etc. I personally refuse to get cable/dish because then TeeVee would suck up ALL my time ... So it's just OTA for me :)
- Chris
P.S. I was at NAB too.
Very interesting ...
He's got it precisely backwards, and that's dangerous.
Code starts out in "unstable", migrates to "testing" after it has been tested a bit, and finally moves to stable after it's decreed stable.
Maybe you've found "unstable" to work well for you, but "testing" is definitely the more stable of the two and certainly newbies should be pointed to "testing" well before they touch "unstable".
Read before replying in the negative:t ml#s-testing
http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-ftparchives.en.h
http://www.debian.org/devel/testing
This is pretty relevant: http://www.salon.com/comics/tomo/2004/04/05/tomo/i ndex.html
I am routinely amazed to find people who've lived in Atlanta for years and yet have no idea where Tortillas is (well, was, damnit), haven't seen the annual L5P Halloween parade, don't know the first thing about the second-tier politicians that run the city. Anybody can go to the Dogwood Festival, it takes real motivation to go find something that isn't presented to you on a corporate platter.
Go explore:
- the big city cemeteries like Oakland, Crestlawn and Westview
- Grant Park, Cabbagetown, Kirkwood
- the neighborhoods AROUND Little Five Points (not L5P itself! that's for suburbanites) like Candler Park, Old Fourth Ward.
Va-Hi and Buckhead (and Vinings, and Buford Hwy even) do not Atlanta make.Intown Atlanta is a very interesting and unique city. It's not conventionally urban -- it's more like suburban writ small.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/porn /
One of the most interesting things was that Ashcroft was preparing a big push against porn, to be launched in late 2001. Then Sept. 11th happened and all that got shelved.
It was of course a truly disturbing show to watch, because the depravity just gets worse and worse, and the girls are always lining up to do it, no matter what it is, because the money is so good.
I bike to work now. Save for the summer smog (see above) it's great! Oh, and my old house appreciated in value by 100% in 5 years. Thanks!
You reap what you sow. If you're serious about hating the look (and land use policies) of where you live, then move. But you'll have to get used to being around people that aren't uniformly Republican ...
The process goes:
- Lawsuit
- Countersuit
- Public posturing
- Governmental sabre rattling
- Settlement
["profit" step not shown as it goes to straight to the lawyers and thus everyone else loses]ISO 8601 is OK, and it's great for sorting and automated systems, but for readability AND unamibiguity, I use MM-DDD-YYYY (e.g. 07-Mar-2004). I've been using this format since the day I started working for a company that did 99% of its business with non-US customers (nearly a decade ago). Some US folks may look at me funny when I do it that way, but nobody has EVER been confused about what date I meant ...
This past Sunday, the Oscar for Documentary Short went to a film about Chernobyl:
Space Communications Protocol Standards (SCPS)
http://www.scps.org/
http://www.scps.org/Documents/SCPSoverview.PDF
Wrong wrong wrong, as I'm sure someone else will post. He spins a good yarn but he's just a machine room flunky and hasn't RTFA himself.
If this isn't conclusive evidence of the need for finer granularity in comment rating, or a better mod system, then I don't know what is. Please, Slashdot powers, fix this. You're driving away your most valuable readers and posters.
600+ comments on this story and not a single one mentioning that you can't jam CDMA, which is what SprintPCS and Verizon are. TDMA systems like GSM and AT&T and Cingular? Sure they can be jammed, but not CDMA, and not any of the 3G systems, which are ALL CDMA based.
CDMA was originally researched and refined by the military for precisely this reason. Because it uses a spread spectrum, a single carrier (or several) can't jam it. You'd need to jam the entire BAND, at a high enough power level, and that is physically impossible. Well, it might be possible with military grade gear, but we're talking huge amounts of power here. You'd need an entire destroyer to carry and power it.