And in fact, you can't protect cities in this way, because they tend to put airports near cities. Yeah, think of National in DC - the main approach is right down the Potomac, & there are lots of buildings just off the flight path. It would be very tricky (though I guess not impossible) to create a safe narrow corridor with this scheme to allow landing there. Still, if the bugs could be worked out it might provide some safe zones in some areas. Worth a try, anyway.
FYI, I just installed a Trendware wireless card in a W98 laptop to replace the D-Link which got smashed when my baby pushed it off the table... It's not just Linux, they don't seem to work too well under Windows either. It was cheap, but I wish I'd read some reviews before getting it.
Umm, I doubt it. Say a truck gets 10mpg (probably high) that's 200 gallons just to start the thing. I don't see firetrucks idling 24/7, as I'm sure they would if that were the case.
I've set up pdf printers for my users using redmon and ghostscript - with a little configuration it works great & all they see is a save as box. From the redmon directions:
PostScript written to a RedMon port can be converted to a PDF file using Ghostscript. Install a printer driver for a colour PostScript printer, e.g. Apple Color LaserWriter 12/600. If you select a black and white printer such as Apple LaserWriter II NT you will end up with your colour images becoming greyscale.
To use RedMon and Ghostscript to create a PDF writer, you need to use the Ghostscript device pdfwrite. c:\aladdin\pdfwrite.rsp would contain:
@c:\aladdin\pdfwrite.rsp -sOutputFile="%1" -c save pop -f -
Make sure you include the space and dash at the end of the line. Failure to do this could result in Ghostscript stalling the print queue. Output should be set to
Prompt for filename
All other settings should be the same as the previous examples.
You may wish to rename the printer from Apple Color LaserWriter 12/600 to Ghostscript PDF writer.
Once they get used to typing doc.pdf instead of just doc in the save as box you're done.
He mentions that his stucco house has metal lathe in it; my old house has this too, and it's hard to get decent coverage through it. It's like a big farraday cage in every room. I couldn't reach from my basement to the other end of the house reliably, had to move my ap more central.
Palm Pilots never seem to have enough storage to keep whole books Really? Even the 2mb models can hold a bunch of books - right now I have Treasure Island (reading to my daughter) & 100 years of Solitude on my palm, the two together take up only 750k. The longest book I ever read on my Palm, Cryptonomicon, was 1.5mb; the paper version is 800+ pages. I've found that I'm always able to have an assortment of interesting books on hand. My first gen 512k Palm was a bit tight, but even that would hold shorter books or I'd just load a few chapters at a time. I think that reading books is the main reason I still use my Palm regularly, though I'd keep it just as an address book.
I have to agree. Every time I have been quoted on something, or people I know have been, the reporter got it wrong. There may be ones who get it right, but I haven't found 'em yet.
My best ever rebate was when I lived in the UK. Hoover had a deal where you could get a free round trip plane ticket to NY or FL if you bought a vacuum cleaner. Since the cost of the vacuum was far less than the cost of a plane ticket it was a no brainer. Unfortunately everyone else thought so too, and there was a run on vacuums, followed by layoffs at the Hoover plant when demand plummeted at the end of the promotion. Also, they had screwed up when contracting with the travel agent handling the bookings; instead of the large agency they'd intended, they signed up with a small agency with a similar name who couldn't handle the flood of mail. There was huge bad publicity and in the end only people who had sent by certified mail (like me) got their tickets. It's a textbook case of how to screw up a promotion royally, and the person responsible was fired.
Yeah, I used to have a '75 ElDeBoato convertible with one of those engines in it - that was a sweet engine. Of course I only got 7mpg around town in it and I had a huge pang of guilt whenever I'd pass a bicyclist - you didn't want to breathe that exhaust!
I know that the cable services available to home users around here specifically does not allow you to use a VPN, I guess because it's a "business" service. So, if I let a user who's home with a sick kid make a PPTP connection so they can VNC to their desktop the cable company could argue that that user defrauded them by using the service without buying the businees level service (which, last I checked, they won't provide to residences). Which is one reason I've stuck with my speakeasy dsl connection so long even though I get a lot less speed than my cable buddies get, for more money. They let you run servers etc with no problems.
I agree. If you read the article the system requires you to walk the intended route setting checkpoints & then specifying times to reach each one. This is a way for parents to make sure junior gets to/from school safely, not to track their every move. When my daughters are old enough I'll be happy to use some system like this, not because I don't trust them but because I'm concerned for their safety. In fact, a system like this might tip the balance in favor of more freedom, in that I would feel comfortable letting them do things by themselves where otherwise I would accompany them.
"Oil is not universally cheap. I pay 4-5x more for petrol than you do. I think Europe has a similar high price for oil." As others have said, you're paying more because your government is taxing it. When I lived in Britain, electricity was also much more expensive than in the US, due again to taxes. So I don't think you'll save a lot using an electric car, unless the government decides to provide incentives in the form of lower taxes on electricity. The increased efficiency, though, may be worth it from a pollution standpoint.
I'll pipe up with the others here & say that Speakeasy has been great for me for about 3 years now - periodically I'm tempted to save the $10-20 per month & go to some other ISP, but I just can't do it.
It's cool, but I wouldn't go getting one just yet. The quality of MPEG4 is lower than DV (DV is about 12Gb / hour of video, a lot less compressed). Also, MPEG4 is much harder to edit. Tapes are pretty cheap storage for archive purposes, I imagine you'd need a DVD burner pretty quick with this (which is also not a bad value).
"there is a reason you get a price break buying them instead of a dv cam" I have a D8 camcorder, my impression was that the reason that they were cheaper (at least 3 years ago when I bought mine) is that Sony had the tape transport mechanism all depreciated - it's just a Hi8/8mm transport running at double speed. The DV mechanism was all new & therefore more expensive. Hi8 tapes, again, have been mass produced for years and are naturally cheaper than DV tapes. I doubt that they're any worse for archive purposes, though.
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You'll want to get it from Buy.com then... four bucks less than Amazon & free shipping.
I built just such a box for about $250, which is about what you'd pay for an XBox + modchip. Athlon 850, plays everything just fine. If you shop carefully for components you can build a very powerful box for not much money.
Really body armor can do a pretty good job already on injuries to your torso. A full face helmet is also a must. The real worry is head/spinal cord injuries - a system to hold your helmet in a safe position would be more effective in my opinion, but difficult and inconvenient. Even better is training and awareness and not riding drunk - a huge percentage of motorcycle fatalities are single vehicle crashes where the rider is drunk. By not being an idiot and wearing conventional protective gear you're really in pretty good shape.
I just switched to Mozilla 1.1 a month or so ago (W2K) & it hasn't crashed on me yet. I'd switched to IE 5 from Netscape years ago, & this has been the first release that's made me happy leaving IE again.
This is a great project, I always try to correct texts on my Palm but it's much better to have them correctly proofed in the first place. I just did a couple of pages - fun & easy!
I think you're confusing taxes on a business (which online merchants are subject to) with the obligation for that business to collect the sales tax for each state they have customers in. Mail order merchants have never had to collect this (execept for local sales) and "e-tailers" are in the same situation.
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And in fact, you can't protect cities in this way, because they tend to put airports near cities.
Yeah, think of National in DC - the main approach is right down the Potomac, & there are lots of buildings just off the flight path. It would be very tricky (though I guess not impossible) to create a safe narrow corridor with this scheme to allow landing there. Still, if the bugs could be worked out it might provide some safe zones in some areas. Worth a try, anyway.
FYI, I just installed a Trendware wireless card in a W98 laptop to replace the D-Link which got smashed when my baby pushed it off the table... It's not just Linux, they don't seem to work too well under Windows either. It was cheap, but I wish I'd read some reviews before getting it.
Umm, I doubt it. Say a truck gets 10mpg (probably high) that's 200 gallons just to start the thing. I don't see firetrucks idling 24/7, as I'm sure they would if that were the case.
I check /. from my Audrey all the time! That was my first experience of QNX & I have to say, it's pretty rockin'.
I've set up pdf printers for my users using redmon and ghostscript - with a little configuration it works great & all they see is a save as box.
From the redmon directions:
PostScript written to a RedMon port can be converted to a PDF file using Ghostscript.
Install a printer driver for a colour PostScript printer, e.g. Apple Color LaserWriter 12/600. If you select a black and white printer such as Apple LaserWriter II NT you will end up with your colour images becoming greyscale.
To use RedMon and Ghostscript to create a PDF writer, you need to use the Ghostscript device pdfwrite. c:\aladdin\pdfwrite.rsp would contain:
-Ic:\aladdin\gs6.0\lib;c:\aladdin\fonts
-sDEVICE=pdfwrite
-r300
-dNOPAUSE
-dSAFER
-sPAPERSIZE=a4
The Ghostscript command would be
c:\aladdin\gs6.01\bin\gswin32c.exe
and the arguments
@c:\aladdin\pdfwrite.rsp -sOutputFile="%1" -c save pop -f -
Make sure you include the space and dash at the end of the line. Failure to do this could result in Ghostscript stalling the print queue. Output should be set to
Prompt for filename
All other settings should be the same as the previous examples.
You may wish to rename the printer from Apple Color LaserWriter 12/600 to Ghostscript PDF writer.
Once they get used to typing doc.pdf instead of just doc in the save as box you're done.
He mentions that his stucco house has metal lathe in it; my old house has this too, and it's hard to get decent coverage through it. It's like a big farraday cage in every room. I couldn't reach from my basement to the other end of the house reliably, had to move my ap more central.
Palm Pilots never seem to have enough storage to keep whole books
Really? Even the 2mb models can hold a bunch of books - right now I have Treasure Island (reading to my daughter) & 100 years of Solitude on my palm, the two together take up only 750k. The longest book I ever read on my Palm, Cryptonomicon, was 1.5mb; the paper version is 800+ pages. I've found that I'm always able to have an assortment of interesting books on hand. My first gen 512k Palm was a bit tight, but even that would hold shorter books or I'd just load a few chapters at a time. I think that reading books is the main reason I still use my Palm regularly, though I'd keep it just as an address book.
I have to agree. Every time I have been quoted on something, or people I know have been, the reporter got it wrong. There may be ones who get it right, but I haven't found 'em yet.
My best ever rebate was when I lived in the UK. Hoover had a deal where you could get a free round trip plane ticket to NY or FL if you bought a vacuum cleaner. Since the cost of the vacuum was far less than the cost of a plane ticket it was a no brainer. Unfortunately everyone else thought so too, and there was a run on vacuums, followed by layoffs at the Hoover plant when demand plummeted at the end of the promotion. Also, they had screwed up when contracting with the travel agent handling the bookings; instead of the large agency they'd intended, they signed up with a small agency with a similar name who couldn't handle the flood of mail. There was huge bad publicity and in the end only people who had sent by certified mail (like me) got their tickets. It's a textbook case of how to screw up a promotion royally, and the person responsible was fired.
Yeah, I used to have a '75 ElDeBoato convertible with one of those engines in it - that was a sweet engine. Of course I only got 7mpg around town in it and I had a huge pang of guilt whenever I'd pass a bicyclist - you didn't want to breathe that exhaust!
It seems that only the NA mirror linked above has the newer build 71. Most of the others have 46.
I know that the cable services available to home users around here specifically does not allow you to use a VPN, I guess because it's a "business" service. So, if I let a user who's home with a sick kid make a PPTP connection so they can VNC to their desktop the cable company could argue that that user defrauded them by using the service without buying the businees level service (which, last I checked, they won't provide to residences). Which is one reason I've stuck with my speakeasy dsl connection so long even though I get a lot less speed than my cable buddies get, for more money. They let you run servers etc with no problems.
I agree. If you read the article the system requires you to walk the intended route setting checkpoints & then specifying times to reach each one. This is a way for parents to make sure junior gets to/from school safely, not to track their every move. When my daughters are old enough I'll be happy to use some system like this, not because I don't trust them but because I'm concerned for their safety. In fact, a system like this might tip the balance in favor of more freedom, in that I would feel comfortable letting them do things by themselves where otherwise I would accompany them.
"Oil is not universally cheap. I pay 4-5x more for petrol than you do. I think Europe has a similar high price for oil."
As others have said, you're paying more because your government is taxing it. When I lived in Britain, electricity was also much more expensive than in the US, due again to taxes. So I don't think you'll save a lot using an electric car, unless the government decides to provide incentives in the form of lower taxes on electricity. The increased efficiency, though, may be worth it from a pollution standpoint.
I'll pipe up with the others here & say that Speakeasy has been great for me for about 3 years now - periodically I'm tempted to save the $10-20 per month & go to some other ISP, but I just can't do it.
It's cool, but I wouldn't go getting one just yet. The quality of MPEG4 is lower than DV (DV is about 12Gb / hour of video, a lot less compressed). Also, MPEG4 is much harder to edit. Tapes are pretty cheap storage for archive purposes, I imagine you'd need a DVD burner pretty quick with this (which is also not a bad value).
"there is a reason you get a price break buying them instead of a dv cam"
I have a D8 camcorder, my impression was that the reason that they were cheaper (at least 3 years ago when I bought mine) is that Sony had the tape transport mechanism all depreciated - it's just a Hi8/8mm transport running at double speed. The DV mechanism was all new & therefore more expensive. Hi8 tapes, again, have been mass produced for years and are naturally cheaper than DV tapes. I doubt that they're any worse for archive purposes, though.
You'll want to get it from Buy.com
then... four bucks less than Amazon & free shipping.
I built just such a box for about $250, which is about what you'd pay for an XBox + modchip. Athlon 850, plays everything just fine. If you shop carefully for components you can build a very powerful box for not much money.
For further clarification:
5. IE 5 was way better than Netscape 4.
It's only recently that Mozilla has become good enough to tempt me back.
Really body armor can do a pretty good job already on injuries to your torso. A full face helmet is also a must. The real worry is head/spinal cord injuries - a system to hold your helmet in a safe position would be more effective in my opinion, but difficult and inconvenient. Even better is training and awareness and not riding drunk - a huge percentage of motorcycle fatalities are single vehicle crashes where the rider is drunk. By not being an idiot and wearing conventional protective gear you're really in pretty good shape.
I just switched to Mozilla 1.1 a month or so ago (W2K) & it hasn't crashed on me yet. I'd switched to IE 5 from Netscape years ago, & this has been the first release that's made me happy leaving IE again.
I just bought a mini atx board with ATI card on board, I'll have to see if I can get the tv out working under Linux.
This is a great project, I always try to correct texts on my Palm but it's much better to have them correctly proofed in the first place.
I just did a couple of pages - fun & easy!
I think you're confusing taxes on a business (which online merchants are subject to) with the obligation for that business to collect the sales tax for each state they have customers in. Mail order merchants have never had to collect this (execept for local sales) and "e-tailers" are in the same situation.