A moon rock is supposed to cost ~$50,800/g*. A quick Google search shows that platinum costs $35.85/g and gold costs $37/g. The most valuable thing on the moon are the rocks themselves. I guess their price will come down dramatically if mining begins and there becomes a legal moon rock market.
I remember years ago when Slashdot had links to SourceForge or something about VA Linux, which owned Slashdot at the time. I believe there was always a disclaimer stating their relationship. Shouldn't there be a disclaimer if linking to Dice?
It looks like they updated the page. It now says this in two other places: "This product supports very fast cellular networks. It is not compatible with current Australian 4G LTE networks and WiMAX networks."
Give SWFUpload a try. It uses JavaScript and a Flash Upload Library. It is open source. I tried it on a site and it worked really well. I became aware of it when I noticed Flickr using it. Unfortunately, I haven't seen any code samples in Perl, only PHP and ASP.NET.
Sorry for replying to myself, but it looks like there is a little more to the story. The first story left out some important information, but I did like that part at the end about the ATF agent involved leaving her handgun in the restroom within the secured section of the airport.
Since I already own all of Radiohead's CDs (I'm a huge fan) and have them ripped to iTunes, I'm happy that iTunes should now retrieve all their album artwork. I never even knew that Radiohead wasn't available in the iTunes store until recently when I noticed all of their songs on my iPod were missing the album artwork.
The problem I have with this is Apple forces you to buy the $1,299.00 MacBook if you want a DVD burner. The cheaper MacBook has only the combo drive and it can't burn DVDs. Even Dell's cheapest $399 laptop comes with a DVD burner. I'm a big Apple fan, but this is crap. Who now a days wants a laptop without an internal DVD burner? The versions of iDVD and iMovie that come with it will come in very handy when you can't even burn a DVD.
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I found a free Photoshop plug-in that lets you open and save ICO files and you can even download the GPL source. It doesn't work as well as most of the Shareware icon editors which I gave up using after I found this tool, but it does a good enough job. I'll probably send the author $5 eventually.
On a side note, anyone remember the icons on SGI's Irix? I loved how they were vector based and would scale to any size. I'm surprised that many of the newer OSes don't use this idea, but I guess designing those icons are much more time consuming than filling in blocks on a 16x16 or 32x32 sized matrix.
I just wish Yahoo would fix their spell checker when using Firefox with Yahoo Mail. It almost always mangles up the words it is correcting.
i.e. Original Message: "\nThis is spelled uncorrectly."
It should change it to this: "\nThis is spelled incorrectly."
But instead it changes it to this: "This is spelled unincorrectly"
Notice it mangles the word "incorrectly" and it even removed the period. I can live with it removing the blank line ("\n"), but after spell checking my emails, they usually end up worse than the original email with the spelling mistakes. Many times I end up pasting them into a word processor to check them before hitting Send.
Ignoring the privacy concerns, if these taxes are substantial enough I bet people living on the state's borders will just buy their gas out of state to save money. This is just like in the Philadelphia area where many people drive down to Delaware to do tax free Christmas shopping and buy cheaper booze by avoiding PA's state run liquor stores. I also thought that in many states you send in your vehicle registration to the DMV every year and write down your odometer reading. Wouldn't using the yearly odometer reading be an even easier way to tax drivers rather than installing GPS in every new car bought (or even worse, existing cars) in the state? I don't like the idea of paying taxes on how many miles I drive, but installing GPS seems like the most expensive and worst solution to something that can easily be solved through an alternative means.
Does anyone know what operating system is running on these things? I assume the Google search appliances use Linux, but I can't find any information to confirm this. If it does run Linux, do they publish their modified source code for these (minus the searching functionality obviously) like Linksys ended up doing?
I had a Comcast technician out to my house yesterday because their new dual tuner HD DVR box (Motorola 6412) broke again (this is literally the 5th time!). He was telling me the perks of working for Comcast like free cable, pay channels, internet, etc. and he mentioned that Comcast employees are piloting their new phone service. He was quick to say how awful it was and how many problems he had with it like not always getting a dial tone. He also told me a story about some emergency that happened at his coworker's house and when his daughter went to pick up the phone to dial 911, there wasn't a dial tone and she had to run next door to her neighbor's house to call 911 from there. If their phone service is even half as bad as their new dual tuner DVR box which I get replaced an average of once every three weeks, I would steer clear of any new Comcast services for at least a year before they iron out all the bugs.
I know these cars will need a driver for user intervention at first, but once everyone has a car like this the driver might not even need to be in the car. I imagine that if you share a car between family members, you could send the car home after you get to work so your family can use it all day and then they can send it back in time for you to leave work to go home.
Heavily populated cities with traffic problems would obviously benefits from this, but what about parking? These cities could have huge parking lots on the outskirts of town which the cars can drive themselves to after dropping off the "driver". Obviously public transportation solves both of these problems, but this is America and Americans love our cars and the feeling of freedom that goes with owning one.
It would also convenient if you were out drinking and the car can take you home legally if you are impaired.
When I was in the Middle East working on a DoD project, I helped setting up a network that used a satellite for the Internet connection. The ISP the satellite company uses just happened to be a German company. Whenever anyone went to www.google.com it always got redirected www.google.de. I figured out how to make google.de display in English, but I never could figure out how to make it not redirect to www.google.de and use www.google.com instead. How does Google know which site to use depending on your location?
This is ironic you mentioned that because I installed it this morning. There is a nice little free utility for Internet Explorer which also blocks Flash. I've been using it for a while and one of the reasons I never completely switched to Mozilla Firebird was because I didn't think it was possible to block Flash in Mozilla until today. No! Flash: http://www.geocities.jp/baryonlee/noflash/
I bought an A500 a few months ago because SprintPCS was temporarily offering unlimited Vision service. On my old phone I used WAP on it every day and relied on it to read my Yahoo mail. There were hundreds of great WAP sites (sprint even added new ones to the list every week), but now with the Vision I can't even use most of them because "WAP browser on the A500 sucks". I thought using the internet on the phone it would be just like before, but including access to nice colorful mobile sites in addition to the old WAP sites. I was wrong and now I'm out $300. I can still access Yahoo mail, which is what I use the phone for most of the time, but now I have to enter my user name and password every single time, which is a pain to do on a keypad (the old WAP browsers stored these before). I can't wait until next November when I can change cell phone companies and keep my phone number.
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A moon rock is supposed to cost ~$50,800/g*. A quick Google search shows that platinum costs $35.85/g and gold costs $37/g.
The most valuable thing on the moon are the rocks themselves. I guess their price will come down dramatically if mining begins and there becomes a legal moon rock market.
* - http://www.space.com/11804-nas...
I remember years ago when Slashdot had links to SourceForge or something about VA Linux, which owned Slashdot at the time. I believe there was always a disclaimer stating their relationship. Shouldn't there be a disclaimer if linking to Dice?
Apple buys these app companies or their technology too. That's how we ended up with Siri.
It looks like they updated the page. It now says this in two other places:
"This product supports very fast cellular networks. It is not compatible with current Australian 4G LTE networks and WiMAX networks."
Current spec page:
http://www.apple.com/au/ipad/specs/
Google cache of the page without the message:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?sourceid=navclient-ff&ie=UTF-8&q=cache%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.apple.com%2Fau%2Fipad%2Fspecs%2F
Give SWFUpload a try. It uses JavaScript and a Flash Upload Library. It is open source. I tried it on a site and it worked really well. I became aware of it when I noticed Flickr using it. Unfortunately, I haven't seen any code samples in Perl, only PHP and ASP.NET.
Sorry for replying to myself, but it looks like there is a little more to the story. The first story left out some important information, but I did like that part at the end about the ATF agent involved leaving her handgun in the restroom within the secured section of the airport.
More info:
http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=750464
More information about his case:
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=65455
Since I already own all of Radiohead's CDs (I'm a huge fan) and have them ripped to iTunes, I'm happy that iTunes should now retrieve all their album artwork. I never even knew that Radiohead wasn't available in the iTunes store until recently when I noticed all of their songs on my iPod were missing the album artwork.
The problem I have with this is Apple forces you to buy the $1,299.00 MacBook if you want a DVD burner. The cheaper MacBook has only the combo drive and it can't burn DVDs. Even Dell's cheapest $399 laptop comes with a DVD burner. I'm a big Apple fan, but this is crap. Who now a days wants a laptop without an internal DVD burner? The versions of iDVD and iMovie that come with it will come in very handy when you can't even burn a DVD.
http://www.channelweb.com/sections/allnews/article .jhtml?articleId=188701694&cid=ChannelWebNews
I found a free Photoshop plug-in that lets you open and save ICO files and you can even download the GPL source. It doesn't work as well as most of the Shareware icon editors which I gave up using after I found this tool, but it does a good enough job. I'll probably send the author $5 eventually.
http://www.telegraphics.com.au/sw/
On a side note, anyone remember the icons on SGI's Irix? I loved how they were vector based and would scale to any size. I'm surprised that many of the newer OSes don't use this idea, but I guess designing those icons are much more time consuming than filling in blocks on a 16x16 or 32x32 sized matrix.
I just wish Yahoo would fix their spell checker when using Firefox with Yahoo Mail. It almost always mangles up the words it is correcting.
i.e.
Original Message:
"\nThis is spelled uncorrectly."
It should change it to this:
"\nThis is spelled incorrectly."
But instead it changes it to this:
"This is spelled unincorrectly"
Notice it mangles the word "incorrectly" and it even removed the period. I can live with it removing the blank line ("\n"), but after spell checking my emails, they usually end up worse than the original email with the spelling mistakes.
Many times I end up pasting them into a word processor to check them before hitting Send.
Ignoring the privacy concerns, if these taxes are substantial enough I bet people living on the state's borders will just buy their gas out of state to save money. This is just like in the Philadelphia area where many people drive down to Delaware to do tax free Christmas shopping and buy cheaper booze by avoiding PA's state run liquor stores. I also thought that in many states you send in your vehicle registration to the DMV every year and write down your odometer reading. Wouldn't using the yearly odometer reading be an even easier way to tax drivers rather than installing GPS in every new car bought (or even worse, existing cars) in the state? I don't like the idea of paying taxes on how many miles I drive, but installing GPS seems like the most expensive and worst solution to something that can easily be solved through an alternative means.
Overpopulation won't really be an issue. While men might remain fertile, women on the other hand have a set amount of eggs will run out.
Does anyone know what operating system is running on these things? I assume the Google search appliances use Linux, but I can't find any information to confirm this. If it does run Linux, do they publish their modified source code for these (minus the searching functionality obviously) like Linksys ended up doing?
-chris
I had a Comcast technician out to my house yesterday because their new dual tuner HD DVR box (Motorola 6412) broke again (this is literally the 5th time!). He was telling me the perks of working for Comcast like free cable, pay channels, internet, etc. and he mentioned that Comcast employees are piloting their new phone service. He was quick to say how awful it was and how many problems he had with it like not always getting a dial tone. He also told me a story about some emergency that happened at his coworker's house and when his daughter went to pick up the phone to dial 911, there wasn't a dial tone and she had to run next door to her neighbor's house to call 911 from there. If their phone service is even half as bad as their new dual tuner DVR box which I get replaced an average of once every three weeks, I would steer clear of any new Comcast services for at least a year before they iron out all the bugs.
I know these cars will need a driver for user intervention at first, but once everyone has a car like this the driver might not even need to be in the car. I imagine that if you share a car between family members, you could send the car home after you get to work so your family can use it all day and then they can send it back in time for you to leave work to go home.
Heavily populated cities with traffic problems would obviously benefits from this, but what about parking? These cities could have huge parking lots on the outskirts of town which the cars can drive themselves to after dropping off the "driver". Obviously public transportation solves both of these problems, but this is America and Americans love our cars and the feeling of freedom that goes with owning one.
It would also convenient if you were out drinking and the car can take you home legally if you are impaired.
When I was in the Middle East working on a DoD project, I helped setting up a network that used a satellite for the Internet connection. The ISP the satellite company uses just happened to be a German company. Whenever anyone went to www.google.com it always got redirected www.google.de. I figured out how to make google.de display in English, but I never could figure out how to make it not redirect to www.google.de and use www.google.com instead. How does Google know which site to use depending on your location?
This is ironic you mentioned that because I installed it this morning. There is a nice little free utility for Internet Explorer which also blocks Flash. I've been using it for a while and one of the reasons I never completely switched to Mozilla Firebird was because I didn't think it was possible to block Flash in Mozilla until today.
No! Flash: http://www.geocities.jp/baryonlee/noflash/
"Prevent copying" in Lotus Notes is only a deterrent not a security feature.
:= @DeleteField;
You can just create an agent and use this code to remove it from emails:
FIELD $KeepPrivate
I was also surprised that that www.bsa.org isn't running IIS, but Apache on FreeBSD.
http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=www.bsa.
I bought an A500 a few months ago because SprintPCS was temporarily offering unlimited Vision service. On my old phone I used WAP on it every day and relied on it to read my Yahoo mail. There were hundreds of great WAP sites (sprint even added new ones to the list every week), but now with the Vision I can't even use most of them because "WAP browser on the A500 sucks". I thought using the internet on the phone it would be just like before, but including access to nice colorful mobile sites in addition to the old WAP sites. I was wrong and now I'm out $300. I can still access Yahoo mail, which is what I use the phone for most of the time, but now I have to enter my user name and password every single time, which is a pain to do on a keypad (the old WAP browsers stored these before). I can't wait until next November when I can change cell phone companies and keep my phone number.
Because it won't work on DVD movies which use Macrovsion. Only some DVD players have hidden options which allow you to turn this feature off.
You have to submit this as a story for Slashdot. There are tons of suggestions you can get for this.
Sorry, I meant "7".