4) Some of these frequencies have been heavily used in the past by high-channel UHF television stations with MUCH greater power (like 10,000 times). Ever wonder where channels above 70 went when cell phones started showing up? If it was something to do with these frequencies, all bees would have been gone back in the 70's.
Well... the FCC in their wisdom realocated the high end of the UHF for cell phone use. I suspect it's because no bugger used them. If you are old enough to remember knob TVs, did you start turning the nob at 14 or at 83? The highest station I remember using was channel 43 in the early 80s, to watch reruns of Battlestar Galactica, and for the life of I can't can't remember if it was actually channel 43, but I do remember the station was about 40 miles away, and I could only watch it at night, on a 12 inch B&W tv.
So, why is it that the US is suffering this major disappearance of bees when the UK isn't?
I would reccomend you look at respective nations and how much honey they import, vs how much they produce domestically. The UK might be a place where local honey is cheaper than import, and local demand for honey pays for bee farms, where in the US based on personal observation only, import honey is very much cheaper. If this is so, then why become a bee farmer?
There was a time that it was conisdered to be patriotic to buy honey, as 200 years ago sugar was not produced in the US but honey was.
I don't want to discount any notion that excessive RF use has an impact on the enviroment, but I would think exploring the obvious first would be a good idea.
Audio should not be done inside a PC. Well, not the analog portion, anyway. Ever looked at anything inside a PC with an oscilloscope? The noise environment is awful. You should not be trying to clean up the power the PC provides to the point you can use it for analog work; it's just not worth it. Especially when you'll just get hit by all the radiated EMI inside the case.
You don't need an oscilloscope to notice the noise. You can hear it even on headphones. It makes me wonder why sound cards are not shielded.
As for your advice, it is sound. However, given the relative low cost of 2 channel amplifiers, and the relative noise level generated from a PC, you have what I like to call "good enough".
Because at first glance I seriously thought that this article was going to be about smoking pot...
Getting High - Quality Audio from the pc. I thought it was going to be about someone releasing an extended dance remix of In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida by Iron Butterfly.
(of which I have to admit there are plenty in Texas that turn from yellow to red much too unreasonably quickly).
My complaint wasn't so much the short blipped yellow. My complaint was no yellow... as in triggered by either the neighboring firestation, or emergency vehicels in route. I say it was triggered as the lights went 4 way red.
Even at 40mph, thinking distance of 40 feet is not unreasonable. A braking distance of 80feet is not unresonable. The fact that I was at 45, I had one car length of thinking time, and stopped between 50 and 70feet (the length of the intersection), I did well. It actually sugests that I was probally going 40mph by the time I hit the intersection.
This is why we need a human to evaluate whether or not the driver was at fault and should get a ticket, or not. In the case I pointed out, the fault was the light, and who ever designed that blasted thing. A human at any highway speed needs adquate warning to a light change to take into account thinking time. While I agree the firestation should have control over the intersection, in this field of work every second counts. However, their control should not trigger a light to go from green to red, but rather give some yellow. But even so, i'm sure it was the design to switch in the event of an emergency, and anyone who's not technicaly able to stop is already clear of firetrucks so it's not an issue.
Whether it be Texas or where I live, the laws of physics remain the same. You can quote matters of law, but if law is absolute, there is no justice.
Why should Microsoft care if companies are producing windows XP machines? They are still get money for the sale of Windows XP.
Well, they shouldn't care, idealy. You are right a sale of an old product which costs the same to reproduce as the new product is still income. Except
*1) The purpose of Vista seems to be geared tward the multimedia experence, and the licensing of content{power point document}. The ability to lock users out of stuff they put on the drive seems to be the purpose of vista, and the ability to sell media in their licensed windows media format, would seem to be the money maker. PlaysForSure
In order to complete the licensing process you will need to request and execute several license agreements with Microsoft. This is a complex process, but the detailed steps below will walk you through it.
Also see Windows Media Licensing Program 2) Not only do you have Vista sales, but you have the approperate sales for upgrades to premium or ultimate, plus additional sales of new machines because the old one can't do premium or ultimate. *3) They really bet the farm on Vista taking off. This sort of mistake gets CEOs canned. 4) They wanted to phase out xp in a year, continued sales means they are obligated to support it further.
So you see, it's not really about software sales, it's probally mainly about license sales.
I can't speak for other states, but California's speed law places the posted limit as an upper bound, but also makes it speeding to at any time exceed the speed that is safe for the conditions and circumstances even where that is lower than the posted limit; if you are going too fast to respond to a red light at an intersection, you are also going too fast to respond to the traffic that has the green light and therefore the right of way in that intersection and are, ipso facto, speeding.
45 was the speed limit, and 45 was a safe speed considering the conditions. Problem being the light didn't shift from green, to yellow, to red. It shifted from green directly to red. I was aware of the intersection, aware of a fire station whose doors just opened. It was IMPOSSIBLE for me to stop at the red light as the warning on a highway with a posted limited on 45 was under a car length.
The light was too fast for traffic which may or may not have had a green light, as noted emergency vehicles obviously triggered a quick light change, and still where still at a full stop. My stopping distance at 45mph was between 50ft and 70ft, as in I was in a skid until after the intersection banking ever so slightly to glide into the shoulder.
The problem, with all due respect, wasn't with me nor the speed I was traveling. It was with the light, the light which was clearly geared to go directly to red when triggered. It was clearly the city's choice to make it that way. Clearly police who were near by were aware of it, saw how I reacted, and didn't bother to ticket me.
No one had the green, it turned ALL RED. If it had not, I would have still had the green.
This is why blind enforcement is a bad idea, because you can not be a reasonable person and think that every time a condition is violated it's the fault of the driver. The fault was a traffic signal which was programmed to go from green directly to red in the event of an emergency. Given it was a very rural road, I'm sure they saw no problem with it. Anyone who couldn't stop in time wasn't in the way of a firetruck as it seemed to go red with the door half open, so they were out of the way, and anyone else was either already stopped or would stop.
Sometimes you are simply going too fast to stop in time. Speeding.
Not always. I can think of one case where I was going the legal limit, 45 IIRC, and the light suddenly changed. I hit the brakes, but skid all the way across the intersection. It happened to suddenly change as fire crews and police were approaching the intersection.
What if there is rain or snow on the ground? Unsafe driving for conditions.
The worst time to drive in my experence is after a small sprinkle, or when the rain starts. This is where road oil floats to the surface and makes the roads more slick. Slamming on the brakes would be "unsafe driving for conditions". Safe driving would be to extend your estimated stopping distance. This IS a reasonable explanation.
Among the worst is black ice, which is something that even the best of drivers can't always take into account.
You might also run a red light if someone is following too closely to you and you don't want to get rear-ended when you slam on the brakes. Good point. Of course, having the photo as evidence would help you when you go to court to contest the ticket.
Well, I think the point is the human factor, any reasonable cop would possibly accept that it was a judgement call on part of a driver to avoid an accident.
Probally worse than talegating are cases where you are taking a left hand turn at a controled intersection with a bus, large van, or other tall or overlong vehicle, where it's not possible to see the indicator. But odds are a photograph won't yield your license if taken from the front in that case. Even keeping a following distance of one car length, perfectly safe at 5mph, I have run a light or two.
But not included in this list are deserted intersections at night which offer some form of flacky motion control which doesn't work right. Those, after waiting the length of one song, I have run. Most notable in my experence are toll booths in Florida which don't accept the money you throw at them, which isn't an issue if you have a rental car. The ticket goes to the rental company and there does not seem to be a procedure to ticket the correct person if they are out of state.
I know that Microsoft has often included drivers for some of HP's oldest laserjet printers, but I'm pretty sure that doesn't extend to HP's entire product line (and certainly not to their all-in-one devices). For that matter, I'm not even sure that those were Microsoft-written drivers. I'm pretty sure that they were drivers provided by HP for WHQL testing that were subsequently included on the Windows installation CD.
Well... that's the thing. It's perfectly normal for a 3rd party to develop the drivers, and Microsoft does accept this sort of work.
As for their AIO... I can say from experence that the HP psc 950 AIO drivers were included with with either XP or win2k, in fact HP made a point of pointing that out. In fact the drivers were for a time only available on CD, not for download even for win2k/win9x. The only way to get them at the time the printer was released and at least 6 months afterwards if they were NOT in the box was to either buy them, or copy them from someone who has the same model.
I do not have a complete list of drivers developed by HP, and those "co-developed" by Microsoft, nor is one likely to actually have a list.
It's funny, that even the compusa and bestbuy salespersons are telling me that I should latch onto any secondhand xp copies I can get my hands on simply because Vista is causing them and their customers nothing but headaches.
Is it just me, or is Microsoft shooting themselves in the foot by pushing this new, and somewhat unpopular product into the marketplace?
Well, that new pc with vista if you slap on a pirated edition of windows onto it is still a vista sale. You may not be using vista, but it still counts as a sale which can be used as legit demographic data when microsoft desides to promte their new unique DRM system.
It's only if you buy a legit copy of xp, and take the time to get a refund, that microsoft feels the burn.
But more to the point, Vista has been in development for years. There were betas and technical previews available for almost a year before it was released. If there are companies out there who, by the end of 2007, still do not have compatible software or device drivers then it is simply because of laziness. Either that, or they have no intention of supporting Vista. Either way, the problem is with the third parties, not Microsoft.
What if the drivers which are not vista ready are made by microsoft? This "was" the case with HP with at least some of their products, I can't say for a fact this still is the case. My recent vista experence was brought to a halt by the HP Laserjet 3390. What's the point in buying an all in one, which often is the cheapest way to get a document feeder based scanner, when it won't work under the OS your new machine shipped with.
The only reason I care about a tld is when I'm shopping. For us Brits Amazon.co.uk has lower shipping costs and a faster delivery time than Amazon.com where the goods have to come all the way from the USA.
Knowing this, what's to stop someone from getting a.eu domain and selling crap from overseas? Near as I can tell the only way it's enforced is when you register they ask for a billing address in the EU. What you do with it seems to be unregulated.
In the UK, free-pour of spirits is not common. Most bars use optics, a picture of one is here. If the bar has a large range of spirits, the less frequently used ones may be poured into a measuring glass (a small steel cylinder), before being put into the customer's glass.
I haven't seen optics or measuring glasses being used in The States, are they common?
{I'm sure my post seemed to be off topic, but I rather thought the statement those who don't understand a product shouldn't regulate it was at least relevant. The following is off topic}
As for the states, near as i'm aware alcohol is state regulated not federal goverment regulated. For example I know some states had a legal drinking age of 18/19. 21 was adopted AFAIK based on pressure from the federal goverment, and near as i'm aware required 21 to be the minimum age for alcohol to get federal road funding. It's rather why Utah could require small sample bottles for mixed drinks, and states like california can sell spirts in grocery stores where other states require they be sold in state controled liquor stores. There lacks a single unified system regarding alcohol.
My experence base with mixed drinks is limited, but based on my limited experence, a mixed drink is a crap-shoot which depends on the bar, the bartender, how well you typicaly tip, and their mood. The last time I ordered a mixed drink was when pitchers of margaritas were onsale cheeper than beer, and I have to say the end result was mostly tequila with just a splash of mixers. I.e. almost a full bottle in a pitcher sold for $3.00 or less than the cost of a single shot. Other times, the drink was about right to a tad weak. Gin/Tonics could be anywhere on the map, which IMHO is a drink which is best when a proper mixed is achieved. Free pour from what i've seen doesn't use any measuring glass typicaly speaking.
So, when states like Utah decided to go for the small bottle metering system, it was a decent idea to address an exisitng problem, if it wasn't for the fact that they essentally doubled the size of a shot in the process. So, those in power had a reasonably OK idea, but lacking personal experence with drinking, made a mistake, which is rather why I bought up this glitch in logic in the first place. Those in power should not try to regulate a product they don't have personal experence with, whether it be alcohol or google.
Tune in to next week's installment of "Adventures in Utah" - you never know what those wacky Mormons are going to do next! Will they fight off evil by taking away its beer, or will the sight of a boobie in Manti bring about the apocalypse? Find out in next week's hilarious episode!
Well... I do have family in Utah. It's true it's strongly a Mormon state with people in office who employ strong mormon values, among which is an aversion to drinking. I was told there was a law passed where all mixed drinks had to be made from small bottles. On the one had, it was good these drinks were metered in a consistent way. On the other hand, small bottles typicaly are two shots. So not only was the taste of a gin and tonic thrown off, but those who thought they only had two mixed drinks at dinner actually had four.
So, the moral of the story is, those who have no experence with a product should not regulate it.
Hummm, let see, I have no skills so I can make minimum wage at Circuit City or I can make $10000 per month selling crack. What will I do? Can you say no-brainer?
Try 10,000/year. I lack direct experence... but from what i've observed and read... drug dealers don't really make that much in the way of money, probally onpar with a part time job. The only difference is this is undisclosed income, so someone can be on disability, wellfare, or be a student and suppliment their income with dealing of drugs.
According to this site crack's value is pretty low, between 3.50 and 10.00 per 1/10th gram in 1998 depending on city and other factors. Given this street price includes profit... one would have to sell to 5.5 people every day @ $5.00 per 1/10th gram to gross about $10,000. To quote StrongBad, "This isn't a good prize".
I could be naive in such matters. I couldn't find 5.5 people to sell crack to, hell, I don't know anyone who smokes crack. Nor would I want to. It's rather illegal, adictive, distructive, and the sort of thing that puts you into prison.
You would be better off selling macrame coathangers.
4000? Man, are you a heavy lifter, or are you just planning to die earlier and with a belly the size of a 21" CRT?
Actually... I lost weight last year. The funny thing about being underweight is you start burning fat, in your butt. You don't get your butt back. I'm "8 pounds" above the "ideal" weight listed in charts. However, I have reached my goal 180lbs, hince downgrading my caloric intake to 4000. I'd rather be 10 pounds over than any pounds under.
Good rule of thumb, a person who claims to put tofu and seaweed in their diet and has a goal of an above average caloric intake isn't likely to to have a belly the size of a crt.
I usually don't buy anything major for daily meals except milk, cereal, potatoes/spaghetti/rice(not instant) and hot-dog sausages ($0.79/8 pieces). And I don't eat out at all, as I consider it a waste of money.
I looked at my eating habbits...
Up until september of last year, I was drinking 1/2 gal of cow's milk a day. Part of this was not wanting to waste money, and the simple fact that I can not drink old milk. I could be lactose intolerant, but regardless it would have not been cost effective for me to buy smaller bottles of milk in most cases, except when 1/2 gals were on sale. I did switch to soy milk, which does in all fairness have a longer shelf life, and I have to say it works out better for me, but that costs no less than $1.50 a quart on most days, where switching to green tea over coffee, I don't consume less than 5 quarts / week. So there's $7.50, almost 1/2 of your monthly alotment.
Green tea I consume no less than 4 bags/day, in fact 8 bags/day is typical. The best I can find is $1.50/20 bag box. I could buy the cheeper stuff, but I question it's health value, so that's easily $2.00/week, brining this figure up to 9.50.
Stirfried Hijiki seaweed again is another staple in my diet as of late. Again doctor's orders and it has a great shelf life. A box costs about $2.00 for what works out to be 1 liter of seaweed, which brings us up to 11.50. This does not include fancy extras, like a broth. For me this includes Vegitable broth and AnSung KukMul soup mix. Vegi broth is like 2ish/liter where the KukMul IIRC is like $3.00/10 pack, where two are used in my mix, so let's just aproximate $2.50. Added to the mix, Kimchi radishes which have a great shelf life, or I could go regular radishes, neglable cost. A hand full of snowpeas, again neglagable cost. I can go with either a thin sliced baked tofu, a deep fried tofu, or just plain old tofu microwaved a moment to make extra firm. The best I can hope for in terms of cost is $2.00/pack, though $4.00 for the baked seasoned stuff makes great snack food. Either way, i'm already above your $15/month budget, and i've not even added the kelp, dried squid/cuttlefish.
I broke your monthly allowance without even touching other staples like eggs, meat/fish, rice, noodles, bread, cheese/yogurt, vegitables/fruits and other things one could consider part of a well balanced diet.
Joy should be part of a well balanced diet. Something which might not be the best in terms of diet, might have a great emotional value. I am a frugle person, but I have to say I could not depend on hotdogs for my meat.
A key difference is at present, to cook for my self, a real meal, I need Vicoden. Weight of my groceries outweighs raw cost, and it just so happens that much in the way of asian food is excelent in terms of weight/nutritional value. Others might live in a big city like L.A. where time outweighs raw cost and delivery food such as thai, indian, chinese, floats at $4.00 to $6.50/plate.
I do eat out a bit, I just so happen to have decent indian food with an all you can eat lunch special of $5.00.
Sorry, try reading my post. I was responding to a comment about how there is NO poverty in the USA. If one cannot put 2000 calories (on average) in one's belly every day that is poverty. I've met many such people.
This guy has a point, a big one. The problem about thinking of poverty in the USA vs other places is you have to take the cost of groceries into account. Take milk for example. On a good day I pay $3.00/gal for milk or 37.5c/pint. This would be about $137 if one drank a pint a day, about $274 if at two pints, or 4 pints about $548. To a single person, this is not such a big deal. If making $10 / hour full timeand drinking 4 pints/day which isn't unusual for a family with 2 kids, that's about 2.6% of one's income to milk, about 5% at $5.00. At income levels below this, you can easily see where 1 pint a day of milk, per person in a given family can easily represent a large percent of one's income, without even taking into account other food and, clothing, and shelter, not to speak of electricity to keep the milk, where the cost of milk would double or tripple.
1 pint of milk represents 200 to 300 calories depending on fat content, it can represent about 10% to 15% of a minimal diet in terms of raw calories. And a diet requires more than milk. A family of four making $18,850/year was considered to be the poverty in 2004 according to the HHS were 4 pints a day where a basic staple would be about 3% of that income, not taking into account electristy and taxes.
Only downside was she'd burned her school uniform before we met.
Near as i'm aware, these are not issued by the school it self, but rather are sold by uniform shops like this one. I only have childhood memories about the quest for the perfect school uniform shirt. But it's not a problem getting a cathlic school uniform. I don't understand the fetish, but if it brings you joy... that's your business.
Are you sure you're supposed to be here? It's bad enough a slashdotter claiming to know a woman but actually, you know, touching their toilet parts? Wow!
I imagine most slashdot users have had sex. Your average slashdot user can program a VCR, hook up a stereo, and run spyware removal software. The real question is
a) do you want to share a bed with someone who after sex asks you to program their DVR b) do you want to share a bed with someone who's only interest in you is the fact that you can program a DVR
Inkjets are better than laser for photos, but on the other hand how often do you closely inspect a photo after buying the printer? And if you do, there are photo printer services that can outdo your inkjet. I've found my color laser to be fine for snapshots and even some framed stuff, because I don't put my nose to the photo when looking at it.
There are photoservices which will outdo an inkjet, but they are actually few and far between. Inkjet on the right paper does a superb job.
Also, I expect the toner will outlast the ink (as in color fading), but I haven't really checked into that.
I lack data my self. http://www.wilhelm-research.com/ doesn't seem to address color lasers. Epsons Durabright last time I checked had really decent archival life. Ultrachrome less so but well worth the exchange. But this is to be expected with pigments.
In response to the gp poster, last I checked LaserJets were laser and OfficeJets, DeskJets and DesignJets were ink. And JetDirect is their line of internal and external print servers.
In response to the gp poster, last I checked LaserJets were laser and OfficeJets, DeskJets and DesignJets were ink. And JetDirect is their line of internal and external print servers.
I'm sure HP has some pigment based solutions for their high end inkjets. Canon has some in their wide models, and plans to release an a3+ pigment printer, but it was slated for release last october and has been delated for spring 2007 the last time I checked. Epson is the way to go if you want archival inkjet, but I find the printers fickle and prone to clog.
With the cost of ink these days, one might as well use it to print sheets of money...
TFA - Silverbrook has forecast printing costs for the 60 page per minute desktop printer at below $0.02 for black text, and under $0.06 for color pages (with 20 percent ink coverage), according to Lyra Research, which had early access to prototypes.
This is pretty reasonable, and actually is onpar with many lasers. This is slightly cheaper than US model Canons which used the BCI-3e pigmented black cartridge and the HPs which used the #45a pigmented black cartridge.
TFA - The desktop printer's individual color ink cartridges hold 50ml of ink, an almost unprecedented amount in a consumer product, and will sell for less than $20 each, the company predicts.
Again, this is pretty dang reasonable. While you can not accuratly judge output volume by tank size alone. Canons for example tend to be ink hogs, where epsons tend to print more efficently but waste ink with their pump suction action... a hazzard of using micropiezo heads rather than thermal. But volume wise this is up there with the HP Business Jet class.
It's not clear in TFA if this is thermal or micropiezo, but given the price point, odds are it's a thermal, which in all fairness is somewhat limiting in the ink used. Odds are it's water based dye, which does a good enough job.
But like others i've switched to using bulk ink. That would be the real question... whether they would permit bulk refills.
Well, Madonna was raised Catholic, and baptised her children in a catholic church. I don't know if she's been offical excommunicated from the church like Sinéad O'Connor, but if she has not she's likely still a Catholic. I can't say for a fact that she has good sex, but she does have alot of it and has published a couple of books on the subject of her sex life. I am not a fan of Madonna... and in fact use her as an example of how unhealthy attitudes imposed by the Cathlic church really are. It would seem that people, men and women alike, who were raised full blown Catholics from my observation tend to end up either prudish or hyper-sexual. While I would have serious reservations having a serious relationship with someone raised Catholic, I can say I have had great sex with Catholics.
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4) Some of these frequencies have been heavily used in the past by high-channel UHF television stations with MUCH greater power (like 10,000 times). Ever wonder where channels above 70 went when cell phones started showing up? If it was something to do with these frequencies, all bees would have been gone back in the 70's.
Well... the FCC in their wisdom realocated the high end of the UHF for cell phone use. I suspect it's because no bugger used them. If you are old enough to remember knob TVs, did you start turning the nob at 14 or at 83? The highest station I remember using was channel 43 in the early 80s, to watch reruns of Battlestar Galactica, and for the life of I can't can't remember if it was actually channel 43, but I do remember the station was about 40 miles away, and I could only watch it at night, on a 12 inch B&W tv.
So, why is it that the US is suffering this major disappearance of bees when the UK isn't?
I would reccomend you look at respective nations and how much honey they import, vs how much they produce domestically. The UK might be a place where local honey is cheaper than import, and local demand for honey pays for bee farms, where in the US based on personal observation only, import honey is very much cheaper. If this is so, then why become a bee farmer?
There was a time that it was conisdered to be patriotic to buy honey, as 200 years ago sugar was not produced in the US but honey was.
I don't want to discount any notion that excessive RF use has an impact on the enviroment, but I would think exploring the obvious first would be a good idea.
Audio should not be done inside a PC. Well, not the analog portion, anyway. Ever looked at anything inside a PC with an oscilloscope? The noise environment is awful. You should not be trying to clean up the power the PC provides to the point you can use it for analog work; it's just not worth it. Especially when you'll just get hit by all the radiated EMI inside the case.
You don't need an oscilloscope to notice the noise. You can hear it even on headphones. It makes me wonder why sound cards are not shielded.
As for your advice, it is sound. However, given the relative low cost of 2 channel amplifiers, and the relative noise level generated from a PC, you have what I like to call "good enough".
Because at first glance I seriously thought that this article was going to be about smoking pot...
Getting High - Quality Audio from the pc. I thought it was going to be about someone releasing an extended dance remix of In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida by Iron Butterfly.
(of which I have to admit there are plenty in Texas that turn from yellow to red much too unreasonably quickly).
My complaint wasn't so much the short blipped yellow. My complaint was no yellow... as in triggered by either the neighboring firestation, or emergency vehicels in route. I say it was triggered as the lights went 4 way red.
Even at 40mph, thinking distance of 40 feet is not unreasonable. A braking distance of 80feet is not unresonable. The fact that I was at 45, I had one car length of thinking time, and stopped between 50 and 70feet (the length of the intersection), I did well. It actually sugests that I was probally going 40mph by the time I hit the intersection.
This is why we need a human to evaluate whether or not the driver was at fault and should get a ticket, or not. In the case I pointed out, the fault was the light, and who ever designed that blasted thing. A human at any highway speed needs adquate warning to a light change to take into account thinking time. While I agree the firestation should have control over the intersection, in this field of work every second counts. However, their control should not trigger a light to go from green to red, but rather give some yellow. But even so, i'm sure it was the design to switch in the event of an emergency, and anyone who's not technicaly able to stop is already clear of firetrucks so it's not an issue.
Whether it be Texas or where I live, the laws of physics remain the same. You can quote matters of law, but if law is absolute, there is no justice.
Well, they shouldn't care, idealy. You are right a sale of an old product which costs the same to reproduce as the new product is still income. Except
*1) The purpose of Vista seems to be geared tward the multimedia experence, and the licensing of content{power point document}. The ability to lock users out of stuff they put on the drive seems to be the purpose of vista, and the ability to sell media in their licensed windows media format, would seem to be the money maker. PlaysForSure
Also see Windows Media Licensing Program
2) Not only do you have Vista sales, but you have the approperate sales for upgrades to premium or ultimate, plus additional sales of new machines because the old one can't do premium or ultimate.
*3) They really bet the farm on Vista taking off. This sort of mistake gets CEOs canned.
4) They wanted to phase out xp in a year, continued sales means they are obligated to support it further.
So you see, it's not really about software sales, it's probally mainly about license sales.
I can't speak for other states, but California's speed law places the posted limit as an upper bound, but also makes it speeding to at any time exceed the speed that is safe for the conditions and circumstances even where that is lower than the posted limit; if you are going too fast to respond to a red light at an intersection, you are also going too fast to respond to the traffic that has the green light and therefore the right of way in that intersection and are, ipso facto, speeding.
45 was the speed limit, and 45 was a safe speed considering the conditions. Problem being the light didn't shift from green, to yellow, to red. It shifted from green directly to red. I was aware of the intersection, aware of a fire station whose doors just opened. It was IMPOSSIBLE for me to stop at the red light as the warning on a highway with a posted limited on 45 was under a car length.
The light was too fast for traffic which may or may not have had a green light, as noted emergency vehicles obviously triggered a quick light change, and still where still at a full stop. My stopping distance at 45mph was between 50ft and 70ft, as in I was in a skid until after the intersection banking ever so slightly to glide into the shoulder.
The problem, with all due respect, wasn't with me nor the speed I was traveling. It was with the light, the light which was clearly geared to go directly to red when triggered. It was clearly the city's choice to make it that way. Clearly police who were near by were aware of it, saw how I reacted, and didn't bother to ticket me.
No one had the green, it turned ALL RED. If it had not, I would have still had the green.
This is why blind enforcement is a bad idea, because you can not be a reasonable person and think that every time a condition is violated it's the fault of the driver. The fault was a traffic signal which was programmed to go from green directly to red in the event of an emergency. Given it was a very rural road, I'm sure they saw no problem with it. Anyone who couldn't stop in time wasn't in the way of a firetruck as it seemed to go red with the door half open, so they were out of the way, and anyone else was either already stopped or would stop.
Sometimes you are simply going too fast to stop in time.
Speeding.
Not always. I can think of one case where I was going the legal limit, 45 IIRC, and the light suddenly changed. I hit the brakes, but skid all the way across the intersection. It happened to suddenly change as fire crews and police were approaching the intersection.
What if there is rain or snow on the ground?
Unsafe driving for conditions.
The worst time to drive in my experence is after a small sprinkle, or when the rain starts. This is where road oil floats to the surface and makes the roads more slick. Slamming on the brakes would be "unsafe driving for conditions". Safe driving would be to extend your estimated stopping distance. This IS a reasonable explanation.
Among the worst is black ice, which is something that even the best of drivers can't always take into account.
You might also run a red light if someone is following too closely to you and you don't want to get rear-ended when you slam on the brakes.
Good point. Of course, having the photo as evidence would help you when you go to court to contest the ticket.
Well, I think the point is the human factor, any reasonable cop would possibly accept that it was a judgement call on part of a driver to avoid an accident.
Probally worse than talegating are cases where you are taking a left hand turn at a controled intersection with a bus, large van, or other tall or overlong vehicle, where it's not possible to see the indicator. But odds are a photograph won't yield your license if taken from the front in that case. Even keeping a following distance of one car length, perfectly safe at 5mph, I have run a light or two.
But not included in this list are deserted intersections at night which offer some form of flacky motion control which doesn't work right. Those, after waiting the length of one song, I have run. Most notable in my experence are toll booths in Florida which don't accept the money you throw at them, which isn't an issue if you have a rental car. The ticket goes to the rental company and there does not seem to be a procedure to ticket the correct person if they are out of state.
I know that Microsoft has often included drivers for some of HP's oldest laserjet printers, but I'm pretty sure that doesn't extend to HP's entire product line (and certainly not to their all-in-one devices). For that matter, I'm not even sure that those were Microsoft-written drivers. I'm pretty sure that they were drivers provided by HP for WHQL testing that were subsequently included on the Windows installation CD.
Well... that's the thing. It's perfectly normal for a 3rd party to develop the drivers, and Microsoft does accept this sort of work.
As for their AIO... I can say from experence that the HP psc 950 AIO drivers were included with with either XP or win2k, in fact HP made a point of pointing that out. In fact the drivers were for a time only available on CD, not for download even for win2k/win9x. The only way to get them at the time the printer was released and at least 6 months afterwards if they were NOT in the box was to either buy them, or copy them from someone who has the same model.
I do not have a complete list of drivers developed by HP, and those "co-developed" by Microsoft, nor is one likely to actually have a list.
It's funny, that even the compusa and bestbuy salespersons are telling me that I should latch onto any secondhand xp copies I can get my hands on simply because Vista is causing them and their customers nothing but headaches.
Is it just me, or is Microsoft shooting themselves in the foot by pushing this new, and somewhat unpopular product into the marketplace?
Well, that new pc with vista if you slap on a pirated edition of windows onto it is still a vista sale. You may not be using vista, but it still counts as a sale which can be used as legit demographic data when microsoft desides to promte their new unique DRM system.
It's only if you buy a legit copy of xp, and take the time to get a refund, that microsoft feels the burn.
But more to the point, Vista has been in development for years. There were betas and technical previews available for almost a year before it was released. If there are companies out there who, by the end of 2007, still do not have compatible software or device drivers then it is simply because of laziness. Either that, or they have no intention of supporting Vista. Either way, the problem is with the third parties, not Microsoft.
What if the drivers which are not vista ready are made by microsoft? This "was" the case with HP with at least some of their products, I can't say for a fact this still is the case. My recent vista experence was brought to a halt by the HP Laserjet 3390. What's the point in buying an all in one, which often is the cheapest way to get a document feeder based scanner, when it won't work under the OS your new machine shipped with.
The only reason I care about a tld is when I'm shopping. For us Brits Amazon.co.uk has lower shipping costs and a faster delivery time than Amazon.com where the goods have to come all the way from the USA.
.eu domain and selling crap from overseas? Near as I can tell the only way it's enforced is when you register they ask for a billing address in the EU. What you do with it seems to be unregulated.
Knowing this, what's to stop someone from getting a
In the UK, free-pour of spirits is not common. Most bars use optics, a picture of one is here. If the bar has a large range of spirits, the less frequently used ones may be poured into a measuring glass (a small steel cylinder), before being put into the customer's glass.
I haven't seen optics or measuring glasses being used in The States, are they common?
{I'm sure my post seemed to be off topic, but I rather thought the statement those who don't understand a product shouldn't regulate it was at least relevant. The following is off topic}
As for the states, near as i'm aware alcohol is state regulated not federal goverment regulated. For example I know some states had a legal drinking age of 18/19. 21 was adopted AFAIK based on pressure from the federal goverment, and near as i'm aware required 21 to be the minimum age for alcohol to get federal road funding. It's rather why Utah could require small sample bottles for mixed drinks, and states like california can sell spirts in grocery stores where other states require they be sold in state controled liquor stores. There lacks a single unified system regarding alcohol.
My experence base with mixed drinks is limited, but based on my limited experence, a mixed drink is a crap-shoot which depends on the bar, the bartender, how well you typicaly tip, and their mood. The last time I ordered a mixed drink was when pitchers of margaritas were onsale cheeper than beer, and I have to say the end result was mostly tequila with just a splash of mixers. I.e. almost a full bottle in a pitcher sold for $3.00 or less than the cost of a single shot. Other times, the drink was about right to a tad weak. Gin/Tonics could be anywhere on the map, which IMHO is a drink which is best when a proper mixed is achieved. Free pour from what i've seen doesn't use any measuring glass typicaly speaking.
So, when states like Utah decided to go for the small bottle metering system, it was a decent idea to address an exisitng problem, if it wasn't for the fact that they essentally doubled the size of a shot in the process. So, those in power had a reasonably OK idea, but lacking personal experence with drinking, made a mistake, which is rather why I bought up this glitch in logic in the first place. Those in power should not try to regulate a product they don't have personal experence with, whether it be alcohol or google.
Tune in to next week's installment of "Adventures in Utah" - you never know what those wacky Mormons are going to do next! Will they fight off evil by taking away its beer, or will the sight of a boobie in Manti bring about the apocalypse? Find out in next week's hilarious episode!
Well... I do have family in Utah. It's true it's strongly a Mormon state with people in office who employ strong mormon values, among which is an aversion to drinking. I was told there was a law passed where all mixed drinks had to be made from small bottles. On the one had, it was good these drinks were metered in a consistent way. On the other hand, small bottles typicaly are two shots. So not only was the taste of a gin and tonic thrown off, but those who thought they only had two mixed drinks at dinner actually had four.
So, the moral of the story is, those who have no experence with a product should not regulate it.
There's no way this story is more interesting than Julianne Moore!
It is when you mistake grams for moles and wonder why your reaction produces mass in excess of that of the Andromeda Galaxy.
Hummm, let see, I have no skills so I can make minimum wage at Circuit City or I can make $10000 per month selling crack. What will I do? Can you say no-brainer?
Try 10,000/year. I lack direct experence... but from what i've observed and read... drug dealers don't really make that much in the way of money, probally onpar with a part time job. The only difference is this is undisclosed income, so someone can be on disability, wellfare, or be a student and suppliment their income with dealing of drugs.
According to this site crack's value is pretty low, between 3.50 and 10.00 per 1/10th gram in 1998 depending on city and other factors. Given this street price includes profit... one would have to sell to 5.5 people every day @ $5.00 per 1/10th gram to gross about $10,000. To quote StrongBad, "This isn't a good prize".
I could be naive in such matters. I couldn't find 5.5 people to sell crack to, hell, I don't know anyone who smokes crack. Nor would I want to. It's rather illegal, adictive, distructive, and the sort of thing that puts you into prison.
You would be better off selling macrame coathangers.
4000?
Man, are you a heavy lifter, or are you just planning to die earlier and with a belly the size of a 21" CRT?
Actually... I lost weight last year. The funny thing about being underweight is you start burning fat, in your butt. You don't get your butt back. I'm "8 pounds" above the "ideal" weight listed in charts. However, I have reached my goal 180lbs, hince downgrading my caloric intake to 4000. I'd rather be 10 pounds over than any pounds under.
Good rule of thumb, a person who claims to put tofu and seaweed in their diet and has a goal of an above average caloric intake isn't likely to to have a belly the size of a crt.
I usually don't buy anything major for daily meals except milk, cereal, potatoes/spaghetti/rice(not instant) and hot-dog sausages ($0.79/8 pieces). And I don't eat out at all, as I consider it a waste of money.
I looked at my eating habbits...
Up until september of last year, I was drinking 1/2 gal of cow's milk a day. Part of this was not wanting to waste money, and the simple fact that I can not drink old milk. I could be lactose intolerant, but regardless it would have not been cost effective for me to buy smaller bottles of milk in most cases, except when 1/2 gals were on sale. I did switch to soy milk, which does in all fairness have a longer shelf life, and I have to say it works out better for me, but that costs no less than $1.50 a quart on most days, where switching to green tea over coffee, I don't consume less than 5 quarts / week. So there's $7.50, almost 1/2 of your monthly alotment.
Green tea I consume no less than 4 bags/day, in fact 8 bags/day is typical. The best I can find is $1.50/20 bag box. I could buy the cheeper stuff, but I question it's health value, so that's easily $2.00/week, brining this figure up to 9.50.
Stirfried Hijiki seaweed again is another staple in my diet as of late. Again doctor's orders and it has a great shelf life. A box costs about $2.00 for what works out to be 1 liter of seaweed, which brings us up to 11.50. This does not include fancy extras, like a broth. For me this includes Vegitable broth and AnSung KukMul soup mix. Vegi broth is like 2ish/liter where the KukMul IIRC is like $3.00/10 pack, where two are used in my mix, so let's just aproximate $2.50. Added to the mix, Kimchi radishes which have a great shelf life, or I could go regular radishes, neglable cost. A hand full of snowpeas, again neglagable cost. I can go with either a thin sliced baked tofu, a deep fried tofu, or just plain old tofu microwaved a moment to make extra firm. The best I can hope for in terms of cost is $2.00/pack, though $4.00 for the baked seasoned stuff makes great snack food. Either way, i'm already above your $15/month budget, and i've not even added the kelp, dried squid/cuttlefish.
I broke your monthly allowance without even touching other staples like eggs, meat/fish, rice, noodles, bread, cheese/yogurt, vegitables/fruits and other things one could consider part of a well balanced diet.
Joy should be part of a well balanced diet. Something which might not be the best in terms of diet, might have a great emotional value. I am a frugle person, but I have to say I could not depend on hotdogs for my meat.
A key difference is at present, to cook for my self, a real meal, I need Vicoden. Weight of my groceries outweighs raw cost, and it just so happens that much in the way of asian food is excelent in terms of weight/nutritional value. Others might live in a big city like L.A. where time outweighs raw cost and delivery food such as thai, indian, chinese, floats at $4.00 to $6.50/plate.
I do eat out a bit, I just so happen to have decent indian food with an all you can eat lunch special of $5.00.
My target caloric intake is 4000 presently.
Sorry, try reading my post. I was responding to a comment about how there is NO poverty in the USA. If one cannot put 2000 calories (on average) in one's belly every day that is poverty. I've met many such people.
This guy has a point, a big one. The problem about thinking of poverty in the USA vs other places is you have to take the cost of groceries into account. Take milk for example. On a good day I pay $3.00/gal for milk or 37.5c/pint. This would be about $137 if one drank a pint a day, about $274 if at two pints, or 4 pints about $548. To a single person, this is not such a big deal. If making $10 / hour full timeand drinking 4 pints/day which isn't unusual for a family with 2 kids, that's about 2.6% of one's income to milk, about 5% at $5.00. At income levels below this, you can easily see where 1 pint a day of milk, per person in a given family can easily represent a large percent of one's income, without even taking into account other food and, clothing, and shelter, not to speak of electricity to keep the milk, where the cost of milk would double or tripple.
1 pint of milk represents 200 to 300 calories depending on fat content, it can represent about 10% to 15% of a minimal diet in terms of raw calories. And a diet requires more than milk. A family of four making $18,850/year was considered to be the poverty in 2004 according to the HHS were 4 pints a day where a basic staple would be about 3% of that income, not taking into account electristy and taxes.
Here's an even better Mac/PC/Linux video. Truth hurts.
Here is what I would consider to be my experance.
Only downside was she'd burned her school uniform before we met.
Near as i'm aware, these are not issued by the school it self, but rather are sold by uniform shops like this one. I only have childhood memories about the quest for the perfect school uniform shirt. But it's not a problem getting a cathlic school uniform. I don't understand the fetish, but if it brings you joy... that's your business.
So long as I don't see madonna in one.
Are you sure you're supposed to be here? It's bad enough a slashdotter claiming to know a woman but actually, you know, touching their toilet parts? Wow!
I imagine most slashdot users have had sex. Your average slashdot user can program a VCR, hook up a stereo, and run spyware removal software. The real question is
a) do you want to share a bed with someone who after sex asks you to program their DVR
b) do you want to share a bed with someone who's only interest in you is the fact that you can program a DVR
Inkjets are better than laser for photos, but on the other hand how often do you closely inspect a photo after buying the printer? And if you do, there are photo printer services that can outdo your inkjet. I've found my color laser to be fine for snapshots and even some framed stuff, because I don't put my nose to the photo when looking at it.
There are photoservices which will outdo an inkjet, but they are actually few and far between. Inkjet on the right paper does a superb job.
Also, I expect the toner will outlast the ink (as in color fading), but I haven't really checked into that.
I lack data my self. http://www.wilhelm-research.com/ doesn't seem to address color lasers. Epsons Durabright last time I checked had really decent archival life. Ultrachrome less so but well worth the exchange. But this is to be expected with pigments.
In response to the gp poster, last I checked LaserJets were laser and OfficeJets, DeskJets and DesignJets were ink. And JetDirect is their line of internal and external print servers.
In response to the gp poster, last I checked LaserJets were laser and OfficeJets, DeskJets and DesignJets were ink. And JetDirect is their line of internal and external print servers.
I'm sure HP has some pigment based solutions for their high end inkjets. Canon has some in their wide models, and plans to release an a3+ pigment printer, but it was slated for release last october and has been delated for spring 2007 the last time I checked. Epson is the way to go if you want archival inkjet, but I find the printers fickle and prone to clog.
This is pretty reasonable, and actually is onpar with many lasers. This is slightly cheaper than US model Canons which used the BCI-3e pigmented black cartridge and the HPs which used the #45a pigmented black cartridge.
Again, this is pretty dang reasonable. While you can not accuratly judge output volume by tank size alone. Canons for example tend to be ink hogs, where epsons tend to print more efficently but waste ink with their pump suction action... a hazzard of using micropiezo heads rather than thermal. But volume wise this is up there with the HP Business Jet class.
It's not clear in TFA if this is thermal or micropiezo, but given the price point, odds are it's a thermal, which in all fairness is somewhat limiting in the ink used. Odds are it's water based dye, which does a good enough job.
But like others i've switched to using bulk ink. That would be the real question... whether they would permit bulk refills.
I dont think Christians can really Rock.
Thats like saying Catholics have good sex.
Well, Madonna was raised Catholic, and baptised her children in a catholic church. I don't know if she's been offical excommunicated from the church like Sinéad O'Connor, but if she has not she's likely still a Catholic. I can't say for a fact that she has good sex, but she does have alot of it and has published a couple of books on the subject of her sex life. I am not a fan of Madonna... and in fact use her as an example of how unhealthy attitudes imposed by the Cathlic church really are. It would seem that people, men and women alike, who were raised full blown Catholics from my observation tend to end up either prudish or hyper-sexual. While I would have serious reservations having a serious relationship with someone raised Catholic, I can say I have had great sex with Catholics.