There is no perceptible difference in the sound produced by a $50 player or a $500 player, none, zilch, nada. This is not quite right. There certainly are differences in the quality of the DACs used in different cd players. Back in my student days, with more time than money and cd players still relatively pricey, I spent a couple of days listening to a wide range of players. I'm no audiophile, but I could clearly hear a difference between the $100 players and the $200 one I ended up buying. I could not, however, make out any difference between that & the $500+ ones. The DACs do affect the sound. Now, thist was a while ago, and maybe all DACs are so good today that it really doesn't matter, but that was my experience 10+ years ago.
If she had Windows, you could use logmein.com to do the same thing. The less problems part is a better argument, though I've switched the kids' from 98 to kubuntu & there are a few issues with things like sound (important for games) which aren't much fun. Also, I had gcompris (games suite) lock up X requiring a reboot; I'd have been more understanding if it was one of the Windows games running under WINE, but there's really no reason for something native to do that. Sure, I can fix stuff when it breaks, but by this point I'd have hoped the Linux desktop stuff would be more bombproof.
Ok, my wife has had several of these tickets, and although I hate to pay them, I think they're a good idea. You don't get a ticket unless you ENTER the intersection AFTER the light has turned red. You get sent the pictures - there's your car at the crosswalk with a red light clearly showing, there's your car halfway through the intersection with the light still red. There used to be a huge problem in the DC area with red light runners; you don't see it so much these days, and I think the cameras are partly responsible for that.
If you're locking up your tires at a red light you're either not paying attention and braking late, or you're going too fast for the conditions. Don't go blaming the cameras for that. (Also, I think that people who alter their braking based on awareness of camera locations are already showing a lot more concern for their driving than most people, and it's the idiot on the phone who didn't notice the light changing that I'm more worried about.)
I think the problem here is that only one Joe Sixpack bought from them, that's why they're going under. So there won't be enough people impacted to make a difference.
You can already run the OLPC software in a VM, if you just want to try it out/contribute. You don't need the actual machine, though it does look pretty cool.
Even if they did overreact at first....after the situation was ascertained, why in hell did they charge this girl with a crime and set bail? Can police no longer find they made a mistake, and just LET YOU GO without penalty?? That's what I don't understand - sure, if the person at the desk alerts them to a suspicious device, the police need to respond. Once they have responded, and found the suspicion unwarranted, they should let the kid go about her business. From reports, she was just in the entry hall to pick someone up, she wasn't trying to get on a plane or anything. (Not that that should matter; the screeners would have doubtless removed the blinky thing before letting her proceed.) It's just a gross over-reaction.
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I'd say this is great advice. I built a telescope years ago, only to discover that I enjoyed building it a lot more than actually looking through it. More accurately, than lugging it somewhere, setting it up, and then finally getting to see something small and bright. The one I built has an 8" mirror, so it's really too bright to look at the moon through, it hurts your eyes. I'm sure there are tons of telescopes out there that never get used.
Really, having lived in the UK, I think it boils down to gas prices. Europeans don't really like tiny cars all that much, but they're normal because gas is $8+ a gallon. Until recently gas here was $1-2 a gallon, and even now it's "only" $3. Even at $8 a gallon, you see some larger cars in the UK; imagine what you guys would start buying if the taxes were halved. When I left there I was driving a little Ford Fiesta 1.1l, and I here I bought a 70s Cadillac with an 8l engine. The actual cost to drive the Caddy was, at that time, almost exactly the same as the Fiesta had been, and I know which one was more fun...
I have my Model M plugged into a cheap Hawking 2 port USB KVM, even though I'm not currently using the other port. It works fine, though I don't use it for games so I'm not sure if it would mess up like that.
I think the two networks, cell & wi-fi, "mesh". It's not a wi-fi mesh network. Calls can start on one network then get handed over to the other without the call being interrupted.
I'd be interested to hear why you think NAFTA "destroyed the economic livelihoods of millions of Mexican peasant farmers". All over the developing world people choose to live in urban areas, often in utter squalor, rather than remain "peasant farmers". Becoming a Maquilladora worker may very well represent an attempt to provide a better future for the farmer's kids, much as becoming an illegal immigrant usually is. While I do think that immigration should be through legal channels, I can't really fault someone who comes here trying to make money for their family - I'd likely do the same.
Hmmm - my 2003 Odyssey has been great, pretty much the only thing that's gone wrong has been the little bulb in the clock. There's a strut that now needs to be replaced, but I count that as normal wear & tear. We have the power doors & DVD, and everything is going fine still (knock on wood). I'd certainly buy another Honda. My last van was a '96 Grand Caravan, & the quality control was terrible (partly due to first-year problems, but still).
The initial expense of the rollout would be quickly offset by the savings in fraud I suspect. My impression is that the card companies don't care too much about fraud, since mostly they just charge anything back to the merchant, who has to eat it. Card companies mostly care about getting people to use their card a lot, which is why you don't have to sign for lots of purchases under $25 these days. If a merchant gets some disputed charges, that's their problem.
I remember years ago watching a program about Amazonian gold miners. They were extracting gold from sediment by mixing in mercury, which would bind to the tiny particles. Once they had a nice blob of amalgam, they would burn off the mercury with a blowtorch, leaving behind a nugget. They were evaporating gallons of mercury each, and breathing it - I can't imaging what they were doing to their own health, as well as their environment. It was appalling.
Actually, they're getting paid from EVERYONE'S taxes to open his letter, whereas he alone has to bear the filing fee. It's clearly in his best interests to make them open the letter.
I have a Palm Tungsten C, and I have had decent luck reading PDFs on it. For Palms, you can get the reader from Adobe. When you choose a pdf you want to load, it gets converted to work better on the handheld - reformatted, images reduced, etc. It seems to work well for text, though I prefer straight text usually. If the pdfs are scans, ie. just large images, I don't think it would work well. There is also a program called Documents To Go which has PDF support, but I haven't used it.
I switched to a local carrier a couple of years ago (Cavtel, FWIW) - they have a $50 phone/DSL package. I also make a number of calls to the UK, and I found that the cheapest way is to use one of the no pin, no fee phonecards. I can usually get 2 cents a minute to the UK, I just have to dial an 800 number & then the UK number. It seems easier to me than switching to VOIP. As a fallback, Cavtel's rate to the UK is 8 cents, which isn't really that bad.
Yeah, I sing the praises of $20 broadband; I (and many others) don't need huge amounts of speed, what I want is an always on connection at the lowest price possible. Right now I have $25 DSL with a static ip, I can host my vanity site & I don't see a reason to spend more than that. If it was $10 that would be even better, but I wouldn't double my bill for twice (or even 3 times) the speed.
This is really no big deal. Amazon had trucks driving around with cameras taking pictures of businesses for A9 a while ago. There are services for real estate agents to take pictures of houses, as well as it being common practice for appraisers. Google has sat images, local.live has aerial shots, many MLS services have "neighbor photos" sections with pictures of surrounding homes. Your house has probably been photographed before, and it'll probably happen again. I do like the idea of a banner though;)
See this article for details. They have sensors on buildings which pinpoint the location of any shots fired & alert dispatchers. The police have to respond slightly differently to these - they're used to getting there after the perp has fled, with this system they can get there so fast that it's likely that the shooter is still there.
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There is no perceptible difference in the sound produced by a $50 player or a $500 player, none, zilch, nada.
This is not quite right. There certainly are differences in the quality of the DACs used in different cd players. Back in my student days, with more time than money and cd players still relatively pricey, I spent a couple of days listening to a wide range of players. I'm no audiophile, but I could clearly hear a difference between the $100 players and the $200 one I ended up buying. I could not, however, make out any difference between that & the $500+ ones. The DACs do affect the sound. Now, thist was a while ago, and maybe all DACs are so good today that it really doesn't matter, but that was my experience 10+ years ago.
If she had Windows, you could use logmein.com to do the same thing. The less problems part is a better argument, though I've switched the kids' from 98 to kubuntu & there are a few issues with things like sound (important for games) which aren't much fun. Also, I had gcompris (games suite) lock up X requiring a reboot; I'd have been more understanding if it was one of the Windows games running under WINE, but there's really no reason for something native to do that. Sure, I can fix stuff when it breaks, but by this point I'd have hoped the Linux desktop stuff would be more bombproof.
Rt 50 has the only 24 hr HOV lanes I know of.
Ok, my wife has had several of these tickets, and although I hate to pay them, I think they're a good idea. You don't get a ticket unless you ENTER the intersection AFTER the light has turned red. You get sent the pictures - there's your car at the crosswalk with a red light clearly showing, there's your car halfway through the intersection with the light still red. There used to be a huge problem in the DC area with red light runners; you don't see it so much these days, and I think the cameras are partly responsible for that.
If you're locking up your tires at a red light you're either not paying attention and braking late, or you're going too fast for the conditions. Don't go blaming the cameras for that. (Also, I think that people who alter their braking based on awareness of camera locations are already showing a lot more concern for their driving than most people, and it's the idiot on the phone who didn't notice the light changing that I'm more worried about.)
I think the problem here is that only one Joe Sixpack bought from them, that's why they're going under. So there won't be enough people impacted to make a difference.
You can already run the OLPC software in a VM, if you just want to try it out/contribute. You don't need the actual machine, though it does look pretty cool.
Even if they did overreact at first....after the situation was ascertained, why in hell did they charge this girl with a crime and set bail? Can police no longer find they made a mistake, and just LET YOU GO without penalty??
That's what I don't understand - sure, if the person at the desk alerts them to a suspicious device, the police need to respond. Once they have responded, and found the suspicion unwarranted, they should let the kid go about her business. From reports, she was just in the entry hall to pick someone up, she wasn't trying to get on a plane or anything. (Not that that should matter; the screeners would have doubtless removed the blinky thing before letting her proceed.) It's just a gross over-reaction.
I'd say this is great advice. I built a telescope years ago, only to discover that I enjoyed building it a lot more than actually looking through it. More accurately, than lugging it somewhere, setting it up, and then finally getting to see something small and bright. The one I built has an 8" mirror, so it's really too bright to look at the moon through, it hurts your eyes. I'm sure there are tons of telescopes out there that never get used.
Really, having lived in the UK, I think it boils down to gas prices. Europeans don't really like tiny cars all that much, but they're normal because gas is $8+ a gallon. Until recently gas here was $1-2 a gallon, and even now it's "only" $3. Even at $8 a gallon, you see some larger cars in the UK; imagine what you guys would start buying if the taxes were halved. When I left there I was driving a little Ford Fiesta 1.1l, and I here I bought a 70s Cadillac with an 8l engine. The actual cost to drive the Caddy was, at that time, almost exactly the same as the Fiesta had been, and I know which one was more fun...
I have my Model M plugged into a cheap Hawking 2 port USB KVM, even though I'm not currently using the other port. It works fine, though I don't use it for games so I'm not sure if it would mess up like that.
I think the two networks, cell & wi-fi, "mesh". It's not a wi-fi mesh network. Calls can start on one network then get handed over to the other without the call being interrupted.
I was looking into Verizon's 'unlimited' plan, and if you read the fine print, they say that anything over 3GB/month will be viewed as abuse.
I'd be interested to hear why you think NAFTA "destroyed the economic livelihoods of millions of Mexican peasant farmers". All over the developing world people choose to live in urban areas, often in utter squalor, rather than remain "peasant farmers". Becoming a Maquilladora worker may very well represent an attempt to provide a better future for the farmer's kids, much as becoming an illegal immigrant usually is. While I do think that immigration should be through legal channels, I can't really fault someone who comes here trying to make money for their family - I'd likely do the same.
Hmmm - my 2003 Odyssey has been great, pretty much the only thing that's gone wrong has been the little bulb in the clock. There's a strut that now needs to be replaced, but I count that as normal wear & tear. We have the power doors & DVD, and everything is going fine still (knock on wood). I'd certainly buy another Honda. My last van was a '96 Grand Caravan, & the quality control was terrible (partly due to first-year problems, but still).
Because firmware hacking is, of course, abnormal.
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The initial expense of the rollout would be quickly offset by the savings in fraud I suspect.
My impression is that the card companies don't care too much about fraud, since mostly they just charge anything back to the merchant, who has to eat it. Card companies mostly care about getting people to use their card a lot, which is why you don't have to sign for lots of purchases under $25 these days. If a merchant gets some disputed charges, that's their problem.
I remember years ago watching a program about Amazonian gold miners. They were extracting gold from sediment by mixing in mercury, which would bind to the tiny particles. Once they had a nice blob of amalgam, they would burn off the mercury with a blowtorch, leaving behind a nugget. They were evaporating gallons of mercury each, and breathing it - I can't imaging what they were doing to their own health, as well as their environment. It was appalling.
And Iranians aren't even Arabs!
Actually, they're getting paid from EVERYONE'S taxes to open his letter, whereas he alone has to bear the filing fee. It's clearly in his best interests to make them open the letter.
I have a Palm Tungsten C, and I have had decent luck reading PDFs on it. For Palms, you can get the reader from Adobe. When you choose a pdf you want to load, it gets converted to work better on the handheld - reformatted, images reduced, etc. It seems to work well for text, though I prefer straight text usually. If the pdfs are scans, ie. just large images, I don't think it would work well. There is also a program called Documents To Go which has PDF support, but I haven't used it.
I switched to a local carrier a couple of years ago (Cavtel, FWIW) - they have a $50 phone/DSL package. I also make a number of calls to the UK, and I found that the cheapest way is to use one of the no pin, no fee phonecards. I can usually get 2 cents a minute to the UK, I just have to dial an 800 number & then the UK number. It seems easier to me than switching to VOIP. As a fallback, Cavtel's rate to the UK is 8 cents, which isn't really that bad.
Yeah, I sing the praises of $20 broadband; I (and many others) don't need huge amounts of speed, what I want is an always on connection at the lowest price possible. Right now I have $25 DSL with a static ip, I can host my vanity site & I don't see a reason to spend more than that. If it was $10 that would be even better, but I wouldn't double my bill for twice (or even 3 times) the speed.
Yep, I'm running NOD32 & happy - it has been effective, yet has a small footprint. Just what I want.
This is really no big deal. Amazon had trucks driving around with cameras taking pictures of businesses for A9 a while ago. There are services for real estate agents to take pictures of houses, as well as it being common practice for appraisers. Google has sat images, local.live has aerial shots, many MLS services have "neighbor photos" sections with pictures of surrounding homes. Your house has probably been photographed before, and it'll probably happen again. I do like the idea of a banner though ;)
See this article for details. They have sensors on buildings which pinpoint the location of any shots fired & alert dispatchers. The police have to respond slightly differently to these - they're used to getting there after the perp has fled, with this system they can get there so fast that it's likely that the shooter is still there.