How does one excpect the tons of waste to get to Nevada? In trucks. For years, there will be trucks from current repositories around the country. The canisters have gone through testing, and are supposedly safe.
Do you suppose it's hard to steal a truck from a long haul trucker on a 2500 mile trip?
This shit may wind up in a hole in the desert, but it has to go through your town to get here.
A couple years ago, before this golden era of Java Script, they used to have simple GIF ads on teh sides of pages, in particular on ZDNET. Anyhow, the ads featured girls from porn magazines, and did not show anything, but were suggestive. What I objected to was not the suggestive nature of the picture, but the fact that they were using someone else's images, presumably without consent.
Like you, I emailed X-10 and got no response. So, I emailed the VP of marketing at ZDNET at the time. And surprise, a week later the ads no longer featured the stolen images.
On a side note, I bought a camera kit from X-10, a couple years ago. They took a MONTH to ship, and customer service was completely unhelpful. They told me on numberous occasions that my order would ship "in a couple days." Well, screw X-10 to hell.
I'm fron Nevada, and our DMV still uses Polaroid based, heat laminated ID's. CA, NT, AZ, etc. use digital camera, high tech things with magnetic stripes on the back. If these are going to be some form of national ID, it seems like the various states would have to agree on a standard format. Sounds like another excuse to waste money, lenghthen lines, and increase fees. Hooray.
There's a guy who's been lined up here in Vegas for some time. He is at the freeway offramp with a sign saying "Please help, God Bless." Talk about a super-fan! He even dresses in Tatonoonie Bounty hunter clothes, and looks like an alien.
Come on, like he wasn't a pop figure. And he had a pretty major part. So, who cares if N'Sync is in it. it's not like they are gonna sing. Nobody would have a problem if they were on Futurama. Give the movie a chance to suck before you criticize it.
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For years (since 1992) Cuba has been valuing their money to the US Dollar, but they are no going to use th Euro as their model. 45% of their international trade is with Europe, so this actually makes sense.
This story was running on the ticker of CNBC Europe at 11am GMT.
When I check the exchange rate, it's still 1 Peso to 1 US Dollar. Anybody else got any info on this?
I bet there's enough room in the palmrest of the Microsoft Natural keyboards (and other similar ones) to get some sort of airflow going. Maybe I'll break out the dremel and go to work...
It can't be denied, because as part of my programming, I'm unable to learn that I'm simply an AI construct. You can use the "read: neuromancer" command to learn more, in one of the simulated simulation simulations out there (in here)
I left some DNA on one of my dirty socks last night, can I hook up a power supply and hard drive to it now?
In a way, it would be self-upgrading, since I use the computer to get porn, so I can expell more DNA, so I can get more porn so I can...
Remember when Chromium was all the rage? I can't wait for some comic to come with a light up cover. Spawn 200, anybody? Maybe it will recreate the boom that we last saw in 1993, and we'll actually get some good titles coming out.
I'm sure this will prove useful for toys and trading cards too. Maybe cards with a docking station that makes them light up so you can see them? I'm sure it can be made into the gimmicky toy that many other good technologies wind up as.(Like 3-D, rotary engines, and Polaroid Cameras)
Just what we need the Edsel of the 00's! This thing also comes with a theft deterrent system: It's looks. After the interaction I had with a 1985 Nissan Maxima (Lights are on, Lights are on) I really don't want to have any verbal feedback from my car, let alone a Tomagotchi(sp?) with wheels.
Polaroid is a cheap way to take pictures in the short term. The camera's never get outdated (I'm using a 1968 Land camera witht he peel apart 669 film). Yeah, a $1 a shot is a lot, but compared to the bleeding edge Casio QV-10 that I paid $450 in 96 (320x240), I think the initial $20 laydown for a Polaroid camera is well worth it.
I think form factor is really the biggest limitation of the format. Quality is acceptable, and with the right film, you can do some really artistic things to the print. (Emulsion/Negative transfers for 669, swirly-Van-Gogh effects with SX-70).
Getting an Autographed Polaroid, and knowing that there is only one, and that it's unique has value to me as well (unless they used a slide enlarger to run off a few hundred)
Having only one copy is part of the beauty. I'm sure others have use a Polaroid to take pictures of 'sensitive' material, which the subject was much more comfortable with knowing that there would be only one copy in existance.
In a multi bladder system, this seems like it would give good absorption of energy, and add structure and weight to the system, which would be useful in an outdoor/windy/explosion prone environment. The article doesn't mention that as part of their plan, but I wonder if it would be of any sonic benefit.
I bought a 15GB 5400RPM Deskstar and parititioned it into 6 drives. Things went well for about 8 months. Then the drive crashed, with some severe problems on my application partition. I ran IBM's diag utility, and it came back with some error (0x70, I think). I called tech support, and they sent me another drive right away.
The replacement was a refurb from Malaysia. When I opened the static bag, the drive was covered in fingerprints, which sort of bugged me. Anyway, I got that drive all set up with the same configuration, and it died 2 weeks later. Diags gave the same error. Scandisk from DOS showed a diagonal pattern of bad blocks all across the drive.
IBM replaced that drive with a 7200RPM 20gb Deskstar from their Hungary plant which I've had no problems with. I reconfigured my paritions a little, and eventually changed the power supply (after about 6 months of use with this drive) I don't know what caused the failures, but I'm leaning towards heat. The current setup had the HD bolted to the bottom of the case, with the case fan blowing right over the top of it. The old configuration had it sanswiched under the floppy, which seemed to prevent heat dissipation.
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How does one excpect the tons of waste to get to Nevada? In trucks. For years, there will be trucks from current repositories around the country. The canisters have gone through testing, and are supposedly safe.
Do you suppose it's hard to steal a truck from a long haul trucker on a 2500 mile trip?
This shit may wind up in a hole in the desert, but it has to go through your town to get here.
A couple years ago, before this golden era of Java Script, they used to have simple GIF ads on teh sides of pages, in particular on ZDNET. Anyhow, the ads featured girls from porn magazines, and did not show anything, but were suggestive. What I objected to was not the suggestive nature of the picture, but the fact that they were using someone else's images, presumably without consent.
Like you, I emailed X-10 and got no response. So, I emailed the VP of marketing at ZDNET at the time. And surprise, a week later the ads no longer featured the stolen images.
On a side note, I bought a camera kit from X-10, a couple years ago. They took a MONTH to ship, and customer service was completely unhelpful. They told me on numberous occasions that my order would ship "in a couple days." Well, screw X-10 to hell.
I'm fron Nevada, and our DMV still uses Polaroid based, heat laminated ID's. CA, NT, AZ, etc. use digital camera, high tech things with magnetic stripes on the back. If these are going to be some form of national ID, it seems like the various states would have to agree on a standard format. Sounds like another excuse to waste money, lenghthen lines, and increase fees. Hooray.
Not bad, and certainly cheaper than a Docking station and PCI Audigy EX, which has been my plan up until now.
So, just ALT+TAB to bring it to the front and ALT+F4 to kill it. I get that tricky webcam ad a lot as well.
There's a guy who's been lined up here in Vegas for some time. He is at the freeway offramp with a sign saying "Please help, God Bless." Talk about a super-fan! He even dresses in Tatonoonie Bounty hunter clothes, and looks like an alien.
Come on, like he wasn't a pop figure. And he had a pretty major part. So, who cares if N'Sync is in it. it's not like they are gonna sing. Nobody would have a problem if they were on Futurama. Give the movie a chance to suck before you criticize it.
For years (since 1992) Cuba has been valuing their money to the US Dollar, but they are no going to use th Euro as their model. 45% of their international trade is with Europe, so this actually makes sense.
This story was running on the ticker of CNBC Europe at 11am GMT.
When I check the exchange rate, it's still 1 Peso to 1 US Dollar. Anybody else got any info on this?
I bet there's enough room in the palmrest of the Microsoft Natural keyboards (and other similar ones) to get some sort of airflow going. Maybe I'll break out the dremel and go to work...
It can't be denied, because as part of my programming, I'm unable to learn that I'm simply an AI construct. You can use the "read: neuromancer" command to learn more, in one of the simulated simulation simulations out there (in here)
How much for a PERL necklace?
Wouldn't it be nice to hear "China forces ISP's to close 28,800 open SMTP ports."?
I left some DNA on one of my dirty socks last night, can I hook up a power supply and hard drive to it now? In a way, it would be self-upgrading, since I use the computer to get porn, so I can expell more DNA, so I can get more porn so I can...
Let's see, 1 Trillion computers performing 1 billion computations. So that's 1000 computers per 1 computation. Is this the next generation of Windows?
Remember when Chromium was all the rage? I can't wait for some comic to come with a light up cover. Spawn 200, anybody? Maybe it will recreate the boom that we last saw in 1993, and we'll actually get some good titles coming out.
I'm sure this will prove useful for toys and trading cards too. Maybe cards with a docking station that makes them light up so you can see them? I'm sure it can be made into the gimmicky toy that many other good technologies wind up as.(Like 3-D, rotary engines, and Polaroid Cameras)
And a KVM won't let me remote in from 2000 miles away, when I need to. Each has it's place.
If he could get Linux on a pinball machine, or a typewriter, you'd hear about it here first ;)/.
Just what we need the Edsel of the 00's! This thing also comes with a theft deterrent system: It's looks. After the interaction I had with a 1985 Nissan Maxima (Lights are on, Lights are on) I really don't want to have any verbal feedback from my car, let alone a Tomagotchi(sp?) with wheels.
There are some good reasons he might not want a Mac. #1 he's already got a PC and wants to keep his hardware. #2 ... Yeah, I guess #1 is good enough.
Polaroid is a cheap way to take pictures in the short term. The camera's never get outdated (I'm using a 1968 Land camera witht he peel apart 669 film). Yeah, a $1 a shot is a lot, but compared to the bleeding edge Casio QV-10 that I paid $450 in 96 (320x240), I think the initial $20 laydown for a Polaroid camera is well worth it.
I think form factor is really the biggest limitation of the format. Quality is acceptable, and with the right film, you can do some really artistic things to the print. (Emulsion/Negative transfers for 669, swirly-Van-Gogh effects with SX-70).
Getting an Autographed Polaroid, and knowing that there is only one, and that it's unique has value to me as well (unless they used a slide enlarger to run off a few hundred)
Having only one copy is part of the beauty. I'm sure others have use a Polaroid to take pictures of 'sensitive' material, which the subject was much more comfortable with knowing that there would be only one copy in existance.
How am I gonna get that $9 Isreali gas mask that I just paid $62 for emailed to me?
In a multi bladder system, this seems like it would give good absorption of energy, and add structure and weight to the system, which would be useful in an outdoor/windy/explosion prone environment. The article doesn't mention that as part of their plan, but I wonder if it would be of any sonic benefit.
With drives like that, no wonder they went out of business! A product that lasts forvere doesn't have to be replaced. Hah
I bought a 15GB 5400RPM Deskstar and parititioned it into 6 drives. Things went well for about 8 months. Then the drive crashed, with some severe problems on my application partition. I ran IBM's diag utility, and it came back with some error (0x70, I think). I called tech support, and they sent me another drive right away.
The replacement was a refurb from Malaysia. When I opened the static bag, the drive was covered in fingerprints, which sort of bugged me. Anyway, I got that drive all set up with the same configuration, and it died 2 weeks later. Diags gave the same error. Scandisk from DOS showed a diagonal pattern of bad blocks all across the drive.
IBM replaced that drive with a 7200RPM 20gb Deskstar from their Hungary plant which I've had no problems with. I reconfigured my paritions a little, and eventually changed the power supply (after about 6 months of use with this drive) I don't know what caused the failures, but I'm leaning towards heat. The current setup had the HD bolted to the bottom of the case, with the case fan blowing right over the top of it. The old configuration had it sanswiched under the floppy, which seemed to prevent heat dissipation.