Clearly the hummer is charged a higher rate per mile and per pound than both the Accord and Prius. My question is what the hell is wrong with that? California traditionally has been very aggressive with pollution legislation, so much so that some import automakers used the -C designation for cars sent to the Americas. A rate based on miles traveled makes no since if you are considering smog control.
I have a good one, after updating a suit of PC's to service Pack 2 (XP), I now can no longer install office 2000
That's odd. On a recently purchaced Compaq with XP home and SP2 I was able to install office 97 without issues, well save one. Outlook Express when getting a.doc attachment wants to open the demo of Word 2003 even when I manualy point it to office 97.
Yeah... it's racist.... that's why we call one of our pro hockey teams the Canucks. Not that it matters this year....:-(
Yes, it would unheard of to call any professional team something that could be considered to be racially derogatory. Oh wait, the Washington Redskins. D'oh!
That must be some weird thing that you yanks thought up.
Another case in point. I my self am not offended by being called a Yank, and like the Canuck's there is a team named the Yankees.
Yank is a funny case though. From a Southern American standpoint it technically refers to people from states that didn't break off to form the Confederate States of America, I.e. New England and other northern states. While states that border Canada are populated by people who typically don't mind the term Yank/Yankee, I imagine there are people in *The South* who might be offended. After all, they still call other non-Southerners Yankees as well and do NOT consider them selves to be Yankees.
I have met Canadians who take offence to the term Canuck. They were all from nortern Manitoba. I'm unclear of any historical reasons behind this.
Neither one should be considered a racial or even ethnic slur as both nations are too multi-cultural.
Modern electronics have millions, if not billions, of active components to get the job done. Not that long ago, some of these jobs were done with two or three dozen active components. Pretty amazing, if you asked me.
old analog frequency generator and the AM radio in my 1960 dodge dart
You have to imagine the culture of the 50s and 60s. When Billy and Sally hopped in dad's car to make out, they always picked a place that offered the best vista. Not only was it scenic but practical too. Those old tube radios drained your battery in a matter of hours. If you were not on a hill you were fucked.
Obviously you haven't read up on the history of the proximity fuze. Deak Parsons and team found out how to make a vacuum tube survive in the nose of a 5 inch naval shell - with initial acceleration of several thousands g's.
I had two amplifiers, one solid state receiver and one vacuum tube amp by Magnavox. When moving the box was dropped. I now have one solid state receiver and one shattered state amp by Magnavox.
I know for a fact that you can make tubes that can take some serious abuse. But that doesn't do me a hell of a lot of good because:
1. I don't know anyone who sells them
2. If I did they would cost too damn much
3. I don't live in a war zone. I don't have 5 inch naval shells flying around.
Our only hope in case of an EMP (/nuclear). Vacuum tubes may be ugly and power hungry, but they are much more likely to withstand huge electromagnetic pulses (malicious or otherwise)....but far less likely to survive a fall of 6 inches.
i find it interesting that vacuum tubes are considered _modern_ electronics. wouldn't the transistor be a better first milestone in modern electronics
You couldn't have the transistor unless you had a pair of diodes.
what sort of electronics existed before 1904 anyway??
Just a few of trivial things like the telegraph, telephone, and radio.
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First of all, most Walmarts don't primarily sell food
Super Wal-Marts sell groceries. You see those in places like Florida. I was in Orlando and it was frustrating the simple fact that there was no where else to buy groceries where I was at. Ok there was a Win Dixie just across the parking lot, but its prices were insane and the quality of the produce was not so good. There were other grocery stores and a Costco but all were about 15 miles away. Trust me I did my best to stock up with Costco goods but for staples like milk, bread, eggs Wal-Mart was the only practical solution.
Regular Wal-Marts I don't believe sell groceries. I don't honestly know because I don't shop there. Super Wal-Marts have a very respectable grocery.
My approach was thus: I created a presentation, using slides of about 80 photos, on a windoze computer with Lotus Freelance (better than Powerpoint, if you ask me, but either will work). The screen transitions were random, but I made sure they were fast. The photos were the show, not the transitions!
I've done similar things using a camcorder + magnifying lens with ring light and tripod. I couldn't do any transitions that way, and as I didn't own an edit deck I had to time things by hand. Toss on some music, I believe Kingston Trio's Seasons in the Sun, and poof VHS slideshow. I also used this technique to copy photographs to negatives.
As a child, I don't ever remembering wanting a pop tart. I do remember wanting to experiment with some of the more colorful sugar breakfast cereals that were on the market. I saved up my pennies, walked to the store, had a bowl of sugar coated sugar, and barfed in rainbow colors.
After that I was afraid of pop tarts. I know many people who are afraid of pop tarts.
Pop Tarts can go a long way to quieting a kid whining about breakfast.
What about an egg? Grilled cheese sandwich? Ramen Noodles? Mac and Cheese? Stovetop Cornbread? Stuffed Pockets? 7-eleven burrito? Jo-Jos? Fried Potato? Yogurt? Sunflower seeds? Peanut butter & Jelly sandwich? Pickled herring with sour cream on top of dark rye bread?
I would really have to hate a kid to feed 'em a Pop Tart. For $2.50/pound I can find stuff that actually has nutritional value and is edible. I would only consider feeding a kid a pop tart in the event of a natural disaster.
Also, you don't need an microwave or conventional oven to prepare them. They just need to be toasted
Do they need to be toasted? I've never actually had a pop tart in my life. I don't know anyone who has actually had one. I know what they are and that they are chucked full of preservatives. Would toasting them actually make them edible?
Though I would be interested to read more on the pop-tart to hurricane correlation
I would GUESS that any form boxed or canned food sales increase during a hurricane or any form of natural disaster that affects a wide area. Pop Tarts cost roughly $2.80/lb Tomato soup costs about $1.00/lb. For some odd reason both of these seem to be the first thing offered during food drives.
Back in the days when there wasn't any video recorders...
You mean video tape recorders. 50 years ago was not so different than 2000, except you used film rather than magnetic tape.
I had this dialog with a friend not too long ago. He was planning a presentation for his wedding and was considering renting a LCD projector. I highly recommended going slides due to its low cost high quality. Unfortunately he wanted to do a Power Point presentation, which would include silly animation. While one could convert Power Point to film using a good easel and movie camera 8mm isn't exactly decent quality, 16mm isn't made anymore, and 35mm would be cost prohibitive.
In 50 years we've gained convenience of not having to pay to develop film, but we have lost a good deal of quality.
I don't understand. Why ask people to keep a diary? Isn't the whole idea of a DVR that your viewing habits are being digitally tracked automatically? A diary is weak since it depends on people keeping up with it, filling it out accurately, and so on. So why use that here? Just get the cable companies to release the data that they must be collecting in the aggregate (if not in the specific, for all I know).
Near as I'm aware, a Nielson household is more than just some Joe/Jane with a TV. They are trying to gain demographic data on who watches what. Raw data of when something watched isn't enough. They want to know if it's Little Billy, Sally, Ma or Pops.
I did participate in something similar once. I can't remember what they called it, but it was some form of television show preview where they send you out "tickets" to catch a couple of upcoming pilot shows. Basically you sat down in some hotel conference room and watched some gawd awful turnkey sit-coms with commercials. Imagine all the worst aspects of Threes Company, Dharma and Greg, Friends, and Mad About You all rolled into one. The data they wanted to collect was more than whether you liked the show or not, but whether you remember what was being advertised between commercials. Needless to say they wanted all sorts of subjective data that couldn't just be collected by machine.
Doesn't it strike you that such a design would be rendered useless if a bird smashed dead center on the window? Isn't that the way it is with America's goal of technology superior defense? It tends to be designed to defend against very high tech attacks, but is totally useless against lower tech attacks like a flock of birds, a huge amount of flying rocks, or a fog machine?
I don't find this at all shocking. Lexmark makes those lovely OEM Dell printers that you sometimes can get free with a PC. Not only is the software a commercial to buy ink from Dell but the cartages are keyed so you have to mail order the ink. Now Lexmark can track you by serial number and possibly detect if you've been a naughty user and used 3rd party cartages or refilled you cartages. Can anyone say warranty void? Even better still, they can collect enough information on your printing habits and offer you bigger and better printers.
There are good reasons to object to this. What we need are some solid facts as to what exactly is reported to Lexmark, and how to prevent this. Would adding "www.lxkcc1.com 127.0.0.1" to the hosts file be effective?
With all the BILLION$ of dollars M$ has they can't even pony up the money for Sound Forge?
Have you tried getting management to buy the software required for a project? At times it's damn near impossible. You have a deadline and your request is moving at the speed of bureaucracy. Finally you say *fuck it* and get the damn software. This becomes a vicious circle when management asks, "Oh you didn't need us to buy this software before why do you need it now? Just do what you did before."
I'm not saying this is good or bad, this is just the way it happens. Management holds no accountability because it's their job to be a dumb ass. Being a dumb ass isn't illegal and saves the company money. They didn't pirate the software, some peon did.
When I think about early broadband access, I think about how it was nice to have an account on a smaller ISP. But then without any warning at all they get gobbled up by a bigger ISP. Sometimes they went under and sold their customers to EarthLink for example, other times they got an offer they couldn't refuse. While this was frustrating, you at the very least didn't typically notice any downtime.
Why wouldn't AOL sell off their unwanted customer base to someone else?
If so I kind of think they're being a bit optimisitc in their estimates. I just cannot see a public push towards the new energy, without government intervention (i.e. higher fuel taxes etc.) which I feel would be highly unpopular.
Keep in mind the ease to convert a gasoline engine to a gaseous fuel. The last time I looked into a natural gas conversion it was about $2000 or so installed. The idea was simple, once you cut off the liquid fuel supply just your gas with air and suck it in your air intake. You do have to change your timing but they offered a box that would do this, and you need tanks and an air regulator.
2010-2020 optimistic? This is hard to say. I've been waiting 14 years for a natural gas filling station to open near me. I'd convert but the nearest place to get the fuel is 40 miles away.
Pin hole lenses are the most simple form of lens to make. But if you are too lazy you can always buy one. A machined pin hole lens is likely to produce more consistent results, all you really need is a tube, black primer, a cover, and a pin. First year photography students are often taught to make pinhole cameras from a Quaker Oatmeal box. Spy Cameras are often just pinhole cameras but these tend to be piss poor quality.
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MPG 51 - $52.94/yr 2004 Toyota Prius 2,890 lbs
MPG 24 - $112.50/yr 2004 Honda Accord 3,265 lbs
MPG 11 - $245.45/yr 2004 Hummer H1 6,814 lbs
Prius = 1.83 cents/lb yearly
Accord = 3.44 cents/lb yearly
Hummer = 3.60 cents/lb yearly
Clearly the hummer is charged a higher rate per mile and per pound than both the Accord and Prius. My question is what the hell is wrong with that? California traditionally has been very aggressive with pollution legislation, so much so that some import automakers used the -C designation for cars sent to the Americas. A rate based on miles traveled makes no since if you are considering smog control.
...then outlaws will just buy cameras.
I have a good one, after updating a suit of PC's to service Pack 2 (XP), I now can no longer install office 2000
.doc attachment wants to open the demo of Word 2003 even when I manualy point it to office 97.
That's odd. On a recently purchaced Compaq with XP home and SP2 I was able to install office 97 without issues, well save one. Outlook Express when getting a
Yeah... it's racist.... that's why we call one of our pro hockey teams the Canucks. Not that it matters this year.... :-(
Yes, it would unheard of to call any professional team something that could be considered to be racially derogatory. Oh wait, the Washington Redskins. D'oh!
That must be some weird thing that you yanks thought up.
Another case in point. I my self am not offended by being called a Yank, and like the Canuck's there is a team named the Yankees.
Yank is a funny case though. From a Southern American standpoint it technically refers to people from states that didn't break off to form the Confederate States of America, I.e. New England and other northern states. While states that border Canada are populated by people who typically don't mind the term Yank/Yankee, I imagine there are people in *The South* who might be offended. After all, they still call other non-Southerners Yankees as well and do NOT consider them selves to be Yankees.
I have met Canadians who take offence to the term Canuck. They were all from nortern Manitoba. I'm unclear of any historical reasons behind this.
Neither one should be considered a racial or even ethnic slur as both nations are too multi-cultural.
Modern electronics have millions, if not billions, of active components to get the job done. Not that long ago, some of these jobs were done with two or three dozen active components. Pretty amazing, if you asked me.
But both can crash. That's not progress.
old analog frequency generator and the AM radio in my 1960 dodge dart
You have to imagine the culture of the 50s and 60s. When Billy and Sally hopped in dad's car to make out, they always picked a place that offered the best vista. Not only was it scenic but practical too. Those old tube radios drained your battery in a matter of hours. If you were not on a hill you were fucked.
Obviously you haven't read up on the history of the proximity fuze. Deak Parsons and team found out how to make a vacuum tube survive in the nose of a 5 inch naval shell - with initial acceleration of several thousands g's.
I had two amplifiers, one solid state receiver and one vacuum tube amp by Magnavox. When moving the box was dropped. I now have one solid state receiver and one shattered state amp by Magnavox.
I know for a fact that you can make tubes that can take some serious abuse. But that doesn't do me a hell of a lot of good because:
1. I don't know anyone who sells them
2. If I did they would cost too damn much
3. I don't live in a war zone. I don't have 5 inch naval shells flying around.
Our only hope in case of an EMP (/nuclear). Vacuum tubes may be ugly and power hungry, but they are much more likely to withstand huge electromagnetic pulses (malicious or otherwise). ...but far less likely to survive a fall of 6 inches.
i find it interesting that vacuum tubes are considered _modern_ electronics. wouldn't the transistor be a better first milestone in modern electronics
You couldn't have the transistor unless you had a pair of diodes.
what sort of electronics existed before 1904 anyway??
Just a few of trivial things like the telegraph, telephone, and radio.
First of all, most Walmarts don't primarily sell food
Super Wal-Marts sell groceries. You see those in places like Florida. I was in Orlando and it was frustrating the simple fact that there was no where else to buy groceries where I was at. Ok there was a Win Dixie just across the parking lot, but its prices were insane and the quality of the produce was not so good. There were other grocery stores and a Costco but all were about 15 miles away. Trust me I did my best to stock up with Costco goods but for staples like milk, bread, eggs Wal-Mart was the only practical solution.
Regular Wal-Marts I don't believe sell groceries. I don't honestly know because I don't shop there. Super Wal-Marts have a very respectable grocery.
My approach was thus: I created a presentation, using slides of about 80 photos, on a windoze computer with Lotus Freelance (better than Powerpoint, if you ask me, but either will work). The screen transitions were random, but I made sure they were fast. The photos were the show, not the transitions!
I've done similar things using a camcorder + magnifying lens with ring light and tripod. I couldn't do any transitions that way, and as I didn't own an edit deck I had to time things by hand. Toss on some music, I believe Kingston Trio's Seasons in the Sun, and poof VHS slideshow. I also used this technique to copy photographs to negatives.
obviuosly you had a deprived childhood.
As a child, I don't ever remembering wanting a pop tart. I do remember wanting to experiment with some of the more colorful sugar breakfast cereals that were on the market. I saved up my pennies, walked to the store, had a bowl of sugar coated sugar, and barfed in rainbow colors.
After that I was afraid of pop tarts. I know many people who are afraid of pop tarts.
Pop Tarts can go a long way to quieting a kid whining about breakfast.
What about an egg? Grilled cheese sandwich? Ramen Noodles? Mac and Cheese? Stovetop Cornbread? Stuffed Pockets? 7-eleven burrito? Jo-Jos? Fried Potato? Yogurt? Sunflower seeds? Peanut butter & Jelly sandwich? Pickled herring with sour cream on top of dark rye bread?
I would really have to hate a kid to feed 'em a Pop Tart. For $2.50/pound I can find stuff that actually has nutritional value and is edible. I would only consider feeding a kid a pop tart in the event of a natural disaster.
Also, you don't need an microwave or conventional oven to prepare them. They just need to be toasted
Do they need to be toasted? I've never actually had a pop tart in my life. I don't know anyone who has actually had one. I know what they are and that they are chucked full of preservatives. Would toasting them actually make them edible?
Though I would be interested to read more on the pop-tart to hurricane correlation
I would GUESS that any form boxed or canned food sales increase during a hurricane or any form of natural disaster that affects a wide area. Pop Tarts cost roughly $2.80/lb Tomato soup costs about $1.00/lb. For some odd reason both of these seem to be the first thing offered during food drives.
Back in the days when there wasn't any video recorders...
You mean video tape recorders. 50 years ago was not so different than 2000, except you used film rather than magnetic tape.
I had this dialog with a friend not too long ago. He was planning a presentation for his wedding and was considering renting a LCD projector. I highly recommended going slides due to its low cost high quality. Unfortunately he wanted to do a Power Point presentation, which would include silly animation. While one could convert Power Point to film using a good easel and movie camera 8mm isn't exactly decent quality, 16mm isn't made anymore, and 35mm would be cost prohibitive.
In 50 years we've gained convenience of not having to pay to develop film, but we have lost a good deal of quality.
I don't understand. Why ask people to keep a diary? Isn't the whole idea of a DVR that your viewing habits are being digitally tracked automatically? A diary is weak since it depends on people keeping up with it, filling it out accurately, and so on. So why use that here? Just get the cable companies to release the data that they must be collecting in the aggregate (if not in the specific, for all I know).
Near as I'm aware, a Nielson household is more than just some Joe/Jane with a TV. They are trying to gain demographic data on who watches what. Raw data of when something watched isn't enough. They want to know if it's Little Billy, Sally, Ma or Pops.
I did participate in something similar once. I can't remember what they called it, but it was some form of television show preview where they send you out "tickets" to catch a couple of upcoming pilot shows. Basically you sat down in some hotel conference room and watched some gawd awful turnkey sit-coms with commercials. Imagine all the worst aspects of Threes Company, Dharma and Greg, Friends, and Mad About You all rolled into one. The data they wanted to collect was more than whether you liked the show or not, but whether you remember what was being advertised between commercials. Needless to say they wanted all sorts of subjective data that couldn't just be collected by machine.
Protected against bird and lightning strike
Doesn't it strike you that such a design would be rendered useless if a bird smashed dead center on the window? Isn't that the way it is with America's goal of technology superior defense? It tends to be designed to defend against very high tech attacks, but is totally useless against lower tech attacks like a flock of birds, a huge amount of flying rocks, or a fog machine?
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I don't find this at all shocking. Lexmark makes those lovely OEM Dell printers that you sometimes can get free with a PC. Not only is the software a commercial to buy ink from Dell but the cartages are keyed so you have to mail order the ink. Now Lexmark can track you by serial number and possibly detect if you've been a naughty user and used 3rd party cartages or refilled you cartages. Can anyone say warranty void? Even better still, they can collect enough information on your printing habits and offer you bigger and better printers.
There are good reasons to object to this. What we need are some solid facts as to what exactly is reported to Lexmark, and how to prevent this. Would adding "www.lxkcc1.com 127.0.0.1" to the hosts file be effective?
With all the BILLION$ of dollars M$ has they can't even pony up the money for Sound Forge?
Have you tried getting management to buy the software required for a project? At times it's damn near impossible. You have a deadline and your request is moving at the speed of bureaucracy. Finally you say *fuck it* and get the damn software. This becomes a vicious circle when management asks, "Oh you didn't need us to buy this software before why do you need it now? Just do what you did before."
I'm not saying this is good or bad, this is just the way it happens. Management holds no accountability because it's their job to be a dumb ass. Being a dumb ass isn't illegal and saves the company money. They didn't pirate the software, some peon did.
When I think about early broadband access, I think about how it was nice to have an account on a smaller ISP. But then without any warning at all they get gobbled up by a bigger ISP. Sometimes they went under and sold their customers to EarthLink for example, other times they got an offer they couldn't refuse. While this was frustrating, you at the very least didn't typically notice any downtime.
Why wouldn't AOL sell off their unwanted customer base to someone else?
Props to Siemens for being the first to jump on this bandwagon, but why still use the 'plain old phone'?
1: Cause a spiffy bluetooth headset doesn't have a keypad to dial a phone number.
2: Because the cost of a plane old phone is cheap. Hell a cordless phone start under $30.00.
3: A phone isn't going to fall off your desk and get run over by your chair.
In all fairness, a hydrogen tank is a gas under pressure.
A good deal of engery released in a very short period of time. *BOOM*
If so I kind of think they're being a bit optimisitc in their estimates. I just cannot see a public push towards the new energy, without government intervention (i.e. higher fuel taxes etc.) which I feel would be highly unpopular.
Keep in mind the ease to convert a gasoline engine to a gaseous fuel. The last time I looked into a natural gas conversion it was about $2000 or so installed. The idea was simple, once you cut off the liquid fuel supply just your gas with air and suck it in your air intake. You do have to change your timing but they offered a box that would do this, and you need tanks and an air regulator.
2010-2020 optimistic? This is hard to say. I've been waiting 14 years for a natural gas filling station to open near me. I'd convert but the nearest place to get the fuel is 40 miles away.
Agreed... But who has a pinhole video camera?
Pin hole lenses are the most simple form of lens to make. But if you are too lazy you can always buy one. A machined pin hole lens is likely to produce more consistent results, all you really need is a tube, black primer, a cover, and a pin. First year photography students are often taught to make pinhole cameras from a Quaker Oatmeal box. Spy Cameras are often just pinhole cameras but these tend to be piss poor quality.