woops forgot to add it's direction finding skills are weak.
This could be fun. My mail account is in another country (DL from POP3 or webmail) and my ISP rents POP's, so who has any idea where I'll show up. Would it be the CO-LO POP, the ISP home, or the webmail out of country?
I agree with someone else who posted a reply that a cycle does not work in a pool and doesn't cary a weeks worth of grocies for a family of 6 very well let alone dealing with bad weather. I know the initial outlay is quite a bit more, but for the same gas milage, you can seat 4, cary the groceries for a month, and enjoy your favorite CD's, heat/AC, and have less risk of getting road rash. A 250cc bike gets more than 50 miles per gallon and is nice and flexible. Shameless plug, I love my Prius. Have you seen the EPA estimates for the 2004?
Also, once you have switched to electric or hydrogen, you have a much wider choice of energy sources (e.g., solar becomes an option; it isn't if you burn gasoline).
I love that myth. People dream about free energy from the sun. The problem is the small amount provided vs the large amount needed.
A large solar panel is typicaly 100 watts. (8A @ 14V) It produces this while facing the sun and not shaded. While parked in your sunny parking lot at work a 6 panel array on the roof of a van would produce about 600W X 8 hours = 4.8 KWH. The panels needed will set you back about $500 per panel. Here is a source; http://www.bitterrootsolar.com/solar/pw10 0.htm
A small car (not van) uses about 20KW of electric power to go freeway speeds. In short, a full day charging in the sun will give you less than a 15 minute runtime. It won't make the commute to home and back to work the following morning. Now factor the cost of 6 100 watt panels (500 X 6 = $3000, the electric motor and enough batteries to store 10 KWH of power (Weekend charge). The battery in the hybrid Toyota Prius stores only about 1KWH and is in the $5k price range. Needless to say, the investment in a solar storage system for an electric vehicle is not currently cost effective. Storing a small amount for getting on freeway on-ramps and a place to store power from regenerative braking does make sense. Shutting off the gas engine at stoplights, metered on-ramps, and in parking lots also makes sense. This is why I drive a hybrid, not an electric. Why carry the extra weight of a huge short life bad for the environment battery? A hybrid is a compromise to the limitations of gas only and electric only.
Curently, the juce you get from the local utility is cheaper by far than solar collection, storage, and use.
Solar electric is viable only where utility power is not convienent and for low power aplications (calculators, emergency radios, cell phone charger, remote telemetry, gate openers, fish pond pumps, etc.), not high power aplications such as transportation, cooking, air conditioning, television, computers, laundry, refrigeration, etc.
Actualy if you want simplicity, stick with a flat database. It's designed for that kind of thing. Searches are simple when the index is set up.
Don't overlook using the barcode on many items. Knowing which IBM drive was removed from service due to random loss of formatting is good. If you are like me, you might have a few marginal parts that you just can't seem to part with because they mostly work.
Keep a comments section in your database. Notes like temporary loan to patch XXX helps recover lost inventory so temporary can remain temporary. I have had the bad expensive habit of forgetting just who borrowed what.
Many free ringtones are not 30 second cut down samples. They are full length MIDI songs. On a good synth, some sound great. This is expecialy true on many songs that don't have lyrics. I hope the cellphone ringtone fight doesn't kill the free MIDI files that are mostly under the radar now.
Even more fun can be had with.KAR songs. Lyrics are included if you want to sing them yourself. Wow, the melody and lyrics together. SSShhhh. Don't let the lables know they are there.
Note: The awful MIDI's you heard a few years ago on the original SB 16 cards with the Yamaha basic synth chip is not what the current generation of Roland Sound Canvas and Yamahs XG MID's and Synths sound like. This is expecialy true of good insturmentals. (Star Wars themes, Axel F theme, X-Files, Jazz, Piano solo's etc.)
My question is "is it a hardware fault, or engineering fault?"
The reason I ask is electrolitic capacitors for the most part are a low frequency device. They charge and discharge to smothe out DC voltage. Because they are a wet electrolyte design, they have some internal series resistance. When used in a switch mode power supply, the series resistance can see a lot of high frequency current if it is not externaly shunted. This high current can cause the component to overheat and fail.
This is a know failure mode in the electronics service industry. (consumer electronics) This is the main reason for vertical sweep problems in older televisions (top of picture folded over, short picture, etc.). To combat these failures, there are some more expensive capacitors that are high temprature (105 degree instead of 85 degree) and/or high frequency (marked HF). The high frequency capacitors are designed to have low effective series resistance so they don't fail due to high current high frequency use.
I could not tell from the photos if the caps were high temp and/or high frequency. If they were not high temp/HF, it may simply have been a failure due to either engineering fault, or parts substitution at the board stuffing plant.
This is a case where a 220uF 5V cap can not be substituted with a 220uF 5V cap. One is not rated for the high frequency current generated by the CPU and switch mode low voltage supply. The manufacture of the capacitor might not have been at fault.
One thing I noticed is DELL wants your old printer. My wife got a new DEL with an all in one printer. They included instructions to use the printer box to ship your old printer for re-cycling. They even included a pre-paid return shipping label. I think they want you to buy the ink from them.
I decided to do research on it. The cartridges do not state how much ink they hold or estimated page yield. You can't buy DELL ink in any retail store. The prices were about the same as HP cartridges. HP cartridges were about 4X in size. With shipping the DELL cartridges were more expensive than the HP. With an estimated (guess by much smaller tank) page yield of 1/4 that of an HP, the DELL cost per page would be over 4X the price. I showed this to my wife. We set the default printer to a better solution.
The DELL printer drivers are WIN XP and WIN 2K only. This meant the new printer was incompatible with all other machines on my network.
Somehow I think they wanted me to ship my compatible printer to them before I found out the price of supplies and it's incompatibility.
I'm tempted to ship the new printer to them to be re-cycled when it runs out of ink. It is not set-up to be the default printer so it doesn't use much ink. The wife does use the scanner. It's faster at lower resolution than my flatbed scanner but is OK for sending a FAX.
I wondering if the scanner will die when it runs out of ink due to some error code. That's the next thing to find about regarding the DELL all in one. The wife still uses some ink using the printer as a copier now and then so I will be able to find out.
1 Don't tresspass on me. 2 Be there when I look for you.
When I'm at home enjoying my evening, I'm not shopping. Don't bug me.
When I'm searching for a product, I'm shopping. Be there where I'm looking. Don't tresspass. Don't advertise viagra under wireless routers. Invalid results are despised by all. I don't check my mailbox and inbox or wait for the phone to ring when I'm shopping. This is posted at my phone for everyone to see...
Prevent Fraud. Place orders only with people you call.
The same thing applies to any un-solicited advertisement.
Find a spot in the Yellow Pages, Froogle, or Yahoo Shopping. I'll find you if you are reputable and have a quality product at a reasonable price.
You may have a great rate for a re-finance, but I locked in my rate at the bottom of the dip. You may have a great on-line casino. I've taken a statistics class and know the long term range of the bell curve (narrow and centered below break-even). The long term chance of ever being ahead is very slim. Don't bug me. If and when I want a product you sell, (inexpensive laser-engraving equipment, Low cost printer consumables, Laptop Batteries, etc.) be in the proper search. I never search my inbox for the best deal.
Leave the car unlocked with the keys in it.
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This security is about the same as leaving your car unlocked at the curb with the keys in it so you can beat the photo radar ticket since you have no idea who was driving at the time.
I think its best to keep control and make sure that it doesn't attract attention of the monitoring for illegal activity. It may give you some protection if you are a regular violator, but keeping out of the pedeophile, underage porn, hosting copyright content, etc. should help reduce the need for expensive lawyers. Running a MAC that won't run KAZA and having no IM client helps.
This is something all banks do as well. However they charge you an overdraft fee whether they cover the difference or not.
I've learned my lesson. I've dropped the checking and use a savings account. For almost everything, it's cash. For bills it's credit union online bill pay. Checks are not used. I asked to never clear a check. A check is a sure sign of fraud. I'm done with the expensive free checking gotcha's. With cash, there is no overdraft charges ever.
Taking your CREDIT CARD out of your WALLET in your suit pocket to pay for the fucking gasoline.
Most of us either pre-pay and are done with the card before pumping, or post-pay and have little reason to deal with items in the pocket while pumping except deal with a ringing phone.
I'm glad you always wear cotton and don't live in a dry climate. Some people never wear synthetic or wool fabric. I know this is slashdot and not the suit and tie bunch so we have limited enounters with static cling. I guess that is why nobody here has personal experiance with fires related to answering the phone.;-)
I did note the articles mentioned as urban legend did not say a ringing phone caused a fire. A ringing phone being answered caused the fire. (Verifiable reports are hard to find either due to urban legend or supression by threat of litigation)
I always touch the gas pump or the vehicle when I get out at a gas station...
Fine, that can ground the vehicle. Now what are you doing to stop the static cling and discharge when you pull the ringing cell phone out of your suit pocket? Most pocket combs are not pulled out of a pocket at a gas pump. However a ringing cell phone is seldom ignored, even when at a gas pump. The test performed only tested if the ringing of a cell phone created a spark that could ignite vapors. It didn't. They didn't test if handeling a plastic cased item in synthetic clothing could ignite vapors.
My conclusion of the story.. If your phone rings while at the pump, leave it where it is. Don't move it and create a static discharge.
They did a thing about this on Mythbusters on Discovery, and were unable to start a fire this way.
The conditions may not have been met. The cell phone could have played a part in the static generation even if it did not ring. All it takes is a dry climate, a polycarbonate cell phone case, and a polyester shirt, slacks or lined ladies handbag. The phone rings and static is generated when the phone is removed from a pocket.
You know the static cling that sticks acrylic socks to the polyexter shirt? (If you don't remember static cling, stop using dryer sheets) Same thing can happen removing a phone from a synthetic fabric container (pocket/handbag). Not all experiments come out the same due to variables that may be different. Getting different results does not invalidate the original results.
Isn't this just a distributed denial of service attack on my inbox?
False positives kill about 1/3 of my e-mail. I used to converse with family by e-mail by replying. Now the lost mail is enough to keep a mail thread going. I wait for weeks for the reply that is never comming. Most e-mail threads are now dead in 2-3 replies before it gets lost.
"Surely," I thought, "even MS wouldn't try to pull such a major re-writing of history as to claim that they invented the first programming language."
Hmm.. Has someone got a timeline for IBM's PC DOS? I thought IBM shipped their PC's with IBM PC DOS. I thought MS DOS got traction on PC clones that followed the IBM PC. Did PC DOS come from Microsoft and they re-named it MS DOS for their timeline but originaly was sold to IBM and sold as PC DOS?
your full account balance plus whatever the bank will cover for you.
I've got a beef with my bank regarding this. I got checking and did NOT sign up for overdraft protection to limit my fraud liability. But guess what, they covered one that created an overdraft and charged me $32 for covering it. Hey guys, how about bouncing the fraud transfer? Hmmm? Then I did a quick draw from an ATM of $40. They ran that also and charged me another $32. That was when I noticed a negative avaliable funds and asked questions. It's very expensive overdraft protection on an account without overdraft protection. By the way the bank is US bank. I hope they resolve my complaint soon.
Now, many banks, unfortunately, use this data, Social Security Number and mother's maiden name, to identify customers
Prevent fraud! Think of Mother's Maiden name as PASSWORD. Talk to your credit folks. Most will allow the use of a password consisting of alphanumeric text instead of your mother's maiden name. Use something like telephone5649. It makes it easier to fight fraudulant accounts (ID theft). Call the suspect account holder and ask if a password or name is being used. Tell them if it's a common name, then it's an ID theft account. Let them know you use a password instead. Do it for all your accounts. I found most CC companies and banks permit this. It makes seperating the legit from the fraud simpler.
We had a kid who used our hosting service but never paid us.
A simple 401 page for accounts 30 days past due does the trick. Do not make the mistake of carrying non-paying accounts for months hoping to get paid. Get paying customers instead.
I'm more interested in the economy they get while queued up in the landing pattern. You think the freeway is bad with 50 on and off ramps, try an arial traffic jam with only 3 or 4 off ramps (landing strips in the destination area) where the traffic can't slow down or stop.
They won't be too popular simply because of the problem of not being able to park close to you place of employment. You get much closer to the door in your SUV.
I've even seen some fools come to a complete stop in the middle of the freeway so they can hopefully work across 3 lanes to exit. They should have either sped up and pulled in front, or if that took too long, gradually worked their way over, missed their exit, and looped back.
Some people blame in-car navigation as a driver distraction. I use mine to keep out of these situations. It's nice to get a 2 mile warning (voice prompt) that exit 64 is on the left. It gives a couple minute warning you need to get over. Having the NAV interupt the tunes to remind me of an upcomming lane change is a good thing. The idiots that suddnly decide at the last minute they need the exit in 100 feet could definately use a NAV system.
I don't see any cost or enerty consumption studies. There are lots of ways to make or keep a keg cool. How many BTU's have to be removed from a warm keg to get it from say 80 degrees F ambient at the beach party down to say 40 degrees for the party. What rate does the thermal tansfer happen. (in other words, will it be cold in time for the party?) Would it be faster to fill a trash can full of bags of ice.
Reality check.. Does this solve any issues other than how long you can keep it cold? If the idea is to keep it cold, is this going to use more or less power to do the job. TCO includes the purchase price and the operation cost. Buying bags of ice is a high operating cost, but fast. An insulated container may decrease your ice consumption rate for long term storage but increases the initial purchase price of a container. How about some comparisons of short and long term TCO studies.
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Well, whatever you call them, it's highly unlikey they will need something waterproof; a ziplock baggie will keep the GBA dry if they have to wander the streets while it's raining.
Those who are pedestrians on city streets rarely would have need of a GPS. I assumed backpacking meant no street signs and through streets. Oh well, that's what I get by posting on/. and assuming that someone here gets out of cell tower range now and then.;-)
This creates a bias in the market because everyone wants "the market" to go up-
Actualy I like the stock to move both ways. Remember, buy low, sell high. When stock drops (glitch not company issue) then I buy when it's on sale. When it is too rich for my blood, sell, not buy more.
Again-- Buy Low Sell high. Stock that is never low, never gets bought. Stock that's never high never gets sold. Moving stock makes money.
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woops forgot to add it's direction finding skills are weak.
This could be fun. My mail account is in another country (DL from POP3 or webmail) and my ISP rents POP's, so who has any idea where I'll show up. Would it be the CO-LO POP, the ISP home, or the webmail out of country?
I agree with someone else who posted a reply that a cycle does not work in a pool and doesn't cary a weeks worth of grocies for a family of 6 very well let alone dealing with bad weather. I know the initial outlay is quite a bit more, but for the same gas milage, you can seat 4, cary the groceries for a month, and enjoy your favorite CD's, heat/AC, and have less risk of getting road rash.
A 250cc bike gets more than 50 miles per gallon and is nice and flexible.
Shameless plug, I love my Prius. Have you seen the EPA estimates for the 2004?
Also, once you have switched to electric or hydrogen, you have a much wider choice of energy sources (e.g., solar becomes an option; it isn't if you burn gasoline).
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I love that myth. People dream about free energy from the sun. The problem is the small amount provided vs the large amount needed.
A large solar panel is typicaly 100 watts. (8A @ 14V) It produces this while facing the sun and not shaded. While parked in your sunny parking lot at work a 6 panel array on the roof of a van would produce about 600W X 8 hours = 4.8 KWH.
The panels needed will set you back about $500 per panel. Here is a source;
http://www.bitterrootsolar.com/solar/pw1
A small car (not van) uses about 20KW of electric power to go freeway speeds. In short, a full day charging in the sun will give you less than a 15 minute runtime. It won't make the commute to home and back to work the following morning. Now factor the cost of 6 100 watt panels (500 X 6 = $3000, the electric motor and enough batteries to store 10 KWH of power (Weekend charge). The battery in the hybrid Toyota Prius stores only about 1KWH and is in the $5k price range. Needless to say, the investment in a solar storage system for an electric vehicle is not currently cost effective. Storing a small amount for getting on freeway on-ramps and a place to store power from regenerative braking does make sense. Shutting off the gas engine at stoplights, metered on-ramps, and in parking lots also makes sense. This is why I drive a hybrid, not an electric. Why carry the extra weight of a huge short life bad for the environment battery? A hybrid is a compromise to the limitations of gas only and electric only.
Curently, the juce you get from the local utility is cheaper by far than solar collection, storage, and use.
Solar electric is viable only where utility power is not convienent and for low power aplications (calculators, emergency radios, cell phone charger, remote telemetry, gate openers, fish pond pumps, etc.), not high power aplications such as transportation, cooking, air conditioning, television, computers, laundry, refrigeration, etc.
Actualy if you want simplicity, stick with a flat database. It's designed for that kind of thing. Searches are simple when the index is set up.
Don't overlook using the barcode on many items. Knowing which IBM drive was removed from service due to random loss of formatting is good. If you are like me, you might have a few marginal parts that you just can't seem to part with because they mostly work.
Keep a comments section in your database. Notes like temporary loan to patch XXX helps recover lost inventory so temporary can remain temporary. I have had the bad expensive habit of forgetting just who borrowed what.
Don't tell anyone, but;
.KAR songs. Lyrics are included if you want to sing them yourself. Wow, the melody and lyrics together. SSShhhh. Don't let the lables know they are there.
Many free ringtones are not 30 second cut down samples. They are full length MIDI songs. On a good synth, some sound great. This is expecialy true on many songs that don't have lyrics. I hope the cellphone ringtone fight doesn't kill the free MIDI files that are mostly under the radar now.
Even more fun can be had with
Note: The awful MIDI's you heard a few years ago on the original SB 16 cards with the Yamaha basic synth chip is not what the current generation of Roland Sound Canvas and Yamahs XG MID's and Synths sound like. This is expecialy true of good insturmentals. (Star Wars themes, Axel F theme, X-Files, Jazz, Piano solo's etc.)
Nice link.
My question is "is it a hardware fault, or engineering fault?"
The reason I ask is electrolitic capacitors for the most part are a low frequency device. They charge and discharge to smothe out DC voltage. Because they are a wet electrolyte design, they have some internal series resistance. When used in a switch mode power supply, the series resistance can see a lot of high frequency current if it is not externaly shunted. This high current can cause the component to overheat and fail.
This is a know failure mode in the electronics service industry. (consumer electronics) This is the main reason for vertical sweep problems in older televisions (top of picture folded over, short picture, etc.). To combat these failures, there are some more expensive capacitors that are high temprature (105 degree instead of 85 degree) and/or high frequency (marked HF). The high frequency capacitors are designed to have low effective series resistance so they don't fail due to high current high frequency use.
I could not tell from the photos if the caps were high temp and/or high frequency. If they were not high temp/HF, it may simply have been a failure due to either engineering fault, or parts substitution at the board stuffing plant.
This is a case where a 220uF 5V cap can not be substituted with a 220uF 5V cap. One is not rated for the high frequency current generated by the CPU and switch mode low voltage supply. The manufacture of the capacitor might not have been at fault.
full of Dell desktop and laptop machines
One thing I noticed is DELL wants your old printer. My wife got a new DEL with an all in one printer. They included instructions to use the printer box to ship your old printer for re-cycling. They even included a pre-paid return shipping label. I think they want you to buy the ink from them.
I decided to do research on it. The cartridges do not state how much ink they hold or estimated page yield. You can't buy DELL ink in any retail store. The prices were about the same as HP cartridges. HP cartridges were about 4X in size. With shipping the DELL cartridges were more expensive than the HP. With an estimated (guess by much smaller tank) page yield of 1/4 that of an HP, the DELL cost per page would be over 4X the price. I showed this to my wife. We set the default printer to a better solution.
The DELL printer drivers are WIN XP and WIN 2K only. This meant the new printer was incompatible with all other machines on my network.
Somehow I think they wanted me to ship my compatible printer to them before I found out the price of supplies and it's incompatibility.
I'm tempted to ship the new printer to them to be re-cycled when it runs out of ink. It is not set-up to be the default printer so it doesn't use much ink. The wife does use the scanner. It's faster at lower resolution than my flatbed scanner but is OK for sending a FAX.
I wondering if the scanner will die when it runs out of ink due to some error code. That's the next thing to find about regarding the DELL all in one.
The wife still uses some ink using the printer as a copier now and then so I will be able to find out.
Don't forget the Keep It Simple Stupid aproach.
This will make a very short list.
1 Don't tresspass on me.
2 Be there when I look for you.
When I'm at home enjoying my evening, I'm not shopping. Don't bug me.
When I'm searching for a product, I'm shopping. Be there where I'm looking. Don't tresspass. Don't advertise viagra under wireless routers. Invalid results are despised by all. I don't check my mailbox and inbox or wait for the phone to ring when I'm shopping. This is posted at my phone for everyone to see...
Prevent Fraud. Place orders only with people you call.
The same thing applies to any un-solicited advertisement.
Find a spot in the Yellow Pages, Froogle, or Yahoo Shopping. I'll find you if you are reputable and have a quality product at a reasonable price.
You may have a great rate for a re-finance, but I locked in my rate at the bottom of the dip. You may have a great on-line casino. I've taken a statistics class and know the long term range of the bell curve (narrow and centered below break-even). The long term chance of ever being ahead is very slim. Don't bug me. If and when I want a product you sell, (inexpensive laser-engraving equipment, Low cost printer consumables, Laptop Batteries, etc.) be in the proper search. I never search my inbox for the best deal.
This security is about the same as leaving your car unlocked at the curb with the keys in it so you can beat the photo radar ticket since you have no idea who was driving at the time.
I think its best to keep control and make sure that it doesn't attract attention of the monitoring for illegal activity. It may give you some protection if you are a regular violator, but keeping out of the pedeophile, underage porn, hosting copyright content, etc. should help reduce the need for expensive lawyers. Running a MAC that won't run KAZA and having no IM client helps.
This is something all banks do as well. However they charge you an overdraft fee whether they cover the difference or not.
I've learned my lesson. I've dropped the checking and use a savings account. For almost everything, it's cash. For bills it's credit union online bill pay. Checks are not used. I asked to never clear a check. A check is a sure sign of fraud. I'm done with the expensive free checking gotcha's. With cash, there is no overdraft charges ever.
The only serious iginitiion on a phone is drop damage resulting in battery shorts.
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It could be coicidance, but check this CBS news story.
http://cbs2.com/water/watercooler_story_1351114
Taking your CREDIT CARD out of your WALLET in your suit pocket to pay for the fucking gasoline.
;-)
Most of us either pre-pay and are done with the card before pumping, or post-pay and have little reason to deal with items in the pocket while pumping except deal with a ringing phone.
I'm glad you always wear cotton and don't live in a dry climate. Some people never wear synthetic or wool fabric. I know this is slashdot and not the suit and tie bunch so we have limited enounters with static cling. I guess that is why nobody here has personal experiance with fires related to answering the phone.
I did note the articles mentioned as urban legend did not say a ringing phone caused a fire. A ringing phone being answered caused the fire. (Verifiable reports are hard to find either due to urban legend or supression by threat of litigation)
I always touch the gas pump or the vehicle when I get out at a gas station...
Fine, that can ground the vehicle. Now what are you doing to stop the static cling and discharge when you pull the ringing cell phone out of your suit pocket? Most pocket combs are not pulled out of a pocket at a gas pump. However a ringing cell phone is seldom ignored, even when at a gas pump. The test performed only tested if the ringing of a cell phone created a spark that could ignite vapors. It didn't. They didn't test if handeling a plastic cased item in synthetic clothing could ignite vapors.
My conclusion of the story.. If your phone rings while at the pump, leave it where it is. Don't move it and create a static discharge.
The only serious iginitiion on a phone is drop damage resulting in battery shorts.
How about ignition from the plastic case being removed from the pocket of a synthetic garment or the brushes of the motor used for silent alert?
They did a thing about this on Mythbusters on Discovery, and were unable to start a fire this way.
The conditions may not have been met. The cell phone could have played a part in the static generation even if it did not ring. All it takes is a dry climate, a polycarbonate cell phone case, and a polyester shirt, slacks or lined ladies handbag. The phone rings and static is generated when the phone is removed from a pocket.
You know the static cling that sticks acrylic socks to the polyexter shirt? (If you don't remember static cling, stop using dryer sheets) Same thing can happen removing a phone from a synthetic fabric container (pocket/handbag). Not all experiments come out the same due to variables that may be different. Getting different results does not invalidate the original results.
Isn't this just a distributed denial of service attack on my inbox?
False positives kill about 1/3 of my e-mail. I used to converse with family by e-mail by replying. Now the lost mail is enough to keep a mail thread going. I wait for weeks for the reply that is never comming. Most e-mail threads are now dead in 2-3 replies before it gets lost.
Absolutely SPAM=DDOS
"Surely," I thought, "even MS wouldn't try to pull such a major re-writing of history as to claim that they invented the first programming language."
Hmm.. Has someone got a timeline for IBM's PC DOS? I thought IBM shipped their PC's with IBM PC DOS. I thought MS DOS got traction on PC clones that followed the IBM PC. Did PC DOS come from Microsoft and they re-named it MS DOS for their timeline but originaly was sold to IBM and sold as PC DOS?
your full account balance plus whatever the bank will cover for you.
I've got a beef with my bank regarding this. I got checking and did NOT sign up for overdraft protection to limit my fraud liability. But guess what, they covered one that created an overdraft and charged me $32 for covering it. Hey guys, how about bouncing the fraud transfer? Hmmm? Then I did a quick draw from an ATM of $40. They ran that also and charged me another $32. That was when I noticed a negative avaliable funds and asked questions. It's very expensive overdraft protection on an account without overdraft protection. By the way the bank is US bank. I hope they resolve my complaint soon.
Now, many banks, unfortunately, use this data, Social Security Number and mother's maiden name, to identify customers
Prevent fraud! Think of Mother's Maiden name as PASSWORD. Talk to your credit folks. Most will allow the use of a password consisting of alphanumeric text instead of your mother's maiden name. Use something like telephone5649. It makes it easier to fight fraudulant accounts (ID theft). Call the suspect account holder and ask if a password or name is being used. Tell them if it's a common name, then it's an ID theft account. Let them know you use a password instead. Do it for all your accounts. I found most CC companies and banks permit this. It makes seperating the legit from the fraud simpler.
We had a kid who used our hosting service but never paid us.
A simple 401 page for accounts 30 days past due does the trick. Do not make the mistake of carrying non-paying accounts for months hoping to get paid. Get paying customers instead.
I'm more interested in the economy they get while queued up in the landing pattern. You think the freeway is bad with 50 on and off ramps, try an arial traffic jam with only 3 or 4 off ramps (landing strips in the destination area) where the traffic can't slow down or stop.
They won't be too popular simply because of the problem of not being able to park close to you place of employment. You get much closer to the door in your SUV.
I've even seen some fools come to a complete stop in the middle of the freeway so they can hopefully work across 3 lanes to exit. They should have either sped up and pulled in front, or if that took too long, gradually worked their way over, missed their exit, and looped back.
Some people blame in-car navigation as a driver distraction. I use mine to keep out of these situations. It's nice to get a 2 mile warning (voice prompt) that exit 64 is on the left. It gives a couple minute warning you need to get over. Having the NAV interupt the tunes to remind me of an upcomming lane change is a good thing. The idiots that suddnly decide at the last minute they need the exit in 100 feet could definately use a NAV system.
I don't see any cost or enerty consumption studies. There are lots of ways to make or keep a keg cool. How many BTU's have to be removed from a warm keg to get it from say 80 degrees F ambient at the beach party down to say 40 degrees for the party. What rate does the thermal tansfer happen. (in other words, will it be cold in time for the party?) Would it be faster to fill a trash can full of bags of ice.
Reality check.. Does this solve any issues other than how long you can keep it cold? If the idea is to keep it cold, is this going to use more or less power to do the job. TCO includes the purchase price and the operation cost. Buying bags of ice is a high operating cost, but fast. An insulated container may decrease your ice consumption rate for long term storage but increases the initial purchase price of a container. How about some comparisons of short and long term TCO studies.
Well, whatever you call them, it's highly unlikey they will need something waterproof; a ziplock baggie will keep the GBA dry if they have to wander the streets while it's raining.
/. and assuming that someone here gets out of cell tower range now and then. ;-)
Those who are pedestrians on city streets rarely would have need of a GPS. I assumed backpacking meant no street signs and through streets. Oh well, that's what I get by posting on
This creates a bias in the market because everyone wants "the market" to go up-
Actualy I like the stock to move both ways. Remember, buy low, sell high. When stock drops (glitch not company issue) then I buy when it's on sale. When it is too rich for my blood, sell, not buy more.
Again-- Buy Low Sell high. Stock that is never low, never gets bought. Stock that's never high never gets sold. Moving stock makes money.