As gay as SpiderWoman? Spiderwoman aka Jessica Drew also accidently got a spider bite, trully amazing to see the same effect in two people on diffrent sides of the US. To be honest I know very little about this character other then there was a comic and a short lived cartoon. I can read up on her and see references to characters i've seen randomly in the newer Spiderman cartoon that was on fox. I saw SpiderWoman as a blatent attempt to attract the women with balls market as Wonder Woman did, but alas the idea of being tied up by Wonder Woman with her magic lasso seems to be a hell of alot more plesent then being spewed with spidergoo.
People who secretly videotape movies when they are shown in theaters could go to prison for up to three years under a bill approved unanimously by the U.S. Senate on Friday. ---TFA
This is good! It looks like if you blatently go in a theater and tape you are free in clear. Fuck this secret business, I want my cam download to look like MST3k with heckling. Oh, and the shadows of heads holding camcorders is a bonus for those of us who want that black space filled with something when we view in letterbox format.
Very few superheros can afford the teenage mutent ninga lawyers required for an IP lawsuit. It's that whole pesky issue of keeping your identity a secret as well as finding a job that doesn't mind you taking off at random hours to put a mask on. Unless said superheros get coroperate sponcerships, but then we'd have a superhero universe with characters like IBM Man(Ibbem Man), The Microsoft Marvel, The Starbucks Avengers, The SafeCo Crackers, The Boeing Bombers, and the BurgerKing Whoppers. This would be a very horrid and tacky universe, not like current comic book heros are not already garish.
Why would it be pressurized? methanol exists as a liquid at standard temperature & pressure. It would be like refilling a zippo, or a lawnmower
A zippo doesn't store methanol for as long as naptha as it evaperates far more quickly at room temps. I'm probally the only person who uses methanol or ethanol in his zippo, but hey I like it. IIRC its boiling point is 65C/150F. Pressure would help keep it from evaporating if vapor lock is an issue, or perhaps it's easier to use presure rather then a pump.
Would you mind awfully just calling it "American"?
We can't be held accountable for the fact that the English decided it was a pretty good idea to colonize the world, specificly the Americas, before a comprehensive dictionary was developed. Robert Cawdrey's I believe was first published in 1604.
Horrible I know! And to think, for years we've had to own an NTSC tuner to be able to watch analog tv broadcasts. Same goes for AM and FM radio, free broadcasts provided you can listen.
Well, you buy your spiffy $3500 60inch LCD HD projection TV with DVI ports because of this fancy HDTV you've been hearing about, and as it turns out you also need a HDTV tuner to actually watch HDTV. You have the HD, just no tuner.
This isn't the 20th century, when you could buy a turntable, cassette player, VCR, and TV and they will just do their job. It's the 21century where the only way you can convience the public to buy new electric goods is to slowly offer trivial new features progressivly over a period of years.
And every foot e-brake i've seen either had a pull lever under the dash to release it, or you had to push it down all the way to get it to release.
It's why they are not called e-brakes, they are called parking brakes. Even the dash style hand brake as seen in the 1960s ford products like the f-truck series (f-100/250/350) and the mustang had a pull brake that would lock into place until you twisted it. Even these are not great for emergency stopping, but they are better then nothing. But the manual calls this a parking brake.
I believe the term e-break only refers to the hand operated lever style that can be used in a pinch to make the car stop without loosing control. Dash parking brakes are less practical because you have to use your whole body as a lever to stop the car. But bench seats were the style at the time, and where else were you going to put it. Foot parking brakes are just awful, and i've seen these in autos with bucket seats and manual transmisions.
Not to speak of how impractical it is to have four foot controls, even with three the user sometimes makes an error and accidently presses two controls with one foot like clutch and brake, or brake and gas. With four you can have p-brake and clutch, clutch and brake, gas and brake.
you fucking retard. a keyboard has over 100 keys, yet your not too busy "typing" to use them are you? no. a car has 3 pedals, a steering wheel, gear stick, multiple functions on the indicator stick thangs, and you have 2 feet and 2 hands, yet you can drive.. well fuck me, that cant be possible.
I think the point is the hand brake can be engaged/disengaged with one limb. Foot breaks can not, they require your left foot and one hand to operate the release. If you drive a car with stick in a hilly area like Seattle or San Francisco, you will notice the drawback of the foot brake. With a hand brake you can stop your car on a hill, pull out your clutch, hit the gas, and release the brake slowly. There are those who can master the foot on the brake and toes on the gas, but to reduce roll back I personaly use the hand brake.
As far as emergencies go, the foot brake is actually awful because it locks your wheels and you skid, where with a hand brake you can actually make a correction with brake presure with your thumb.
Besides, this isn't an issue of brainpower at all but manual dexterity. Good eye hand coordination requires years of practice and the moment you use an unfamilar control in an emergency situation the results can be unexpected. For example try using your left foot to operate your gas and see what happens. You can have much in the way of brain power but that doesn't change the fact you never trained that foot to operate that control. Foot brakes are only used for parking where hand brakes are often used by at least people with manual transmisions. If you have no brakes, and you are smart enough to use the mechanical one, I believe a person with the hand brake who has trained them selves to use it would be able to stop safely, where you can stop a car with a foot brake it would not be what one considered to be a safe stop.
First off, from what I've read, it says ON THE CD that it contains copy protection and that it's doing so in conjunction with Windows and Mac operating systems.
This is an ambigious statement at best. There is an existing standard for redbook discs for copy protection in the form of a copy-prohibit bit. This is why you need ripping programs rather then using the OS to copy track x to the HD. While this form of protection is worthess as we have good workarounds to allow digital transfer of audio ignoring the CD-rom's firmware, near as i'm aware it still exists. Further, Windows won't allow you to copy track x to the HD, it automacticly creates a link to the CD. This could the the copy protection that works in conjunction with Windows. Not sure about the mac. The way I read your statement, I would have naturaly assumed that it refered to the existing Redbook standard and Windows and Mac not letting you copy it.
I can't blame anyone for not understanding the meaning of this disclaimer because it says nothing about installing 3rd party software. Further, if they were to admit it is software rather then a licensed music entertainment disk, then the law according to the SIAA states while licenses are diffrent you are allowed to make one backup of your software. By making a release on what is clearly a hybrid disk I would argue that stops being a music record and becomes software as we know and love it and subject to the same laws and regulations. My belief isn't law, but it makes a very valid arugument.
I don't know that I like wifi being used for real substantive critical things like emergency services. It's still just a little too unreliable, signal can get messed up by whatever..
I'm not sure I like the idea of being dependent on wired technology in a region that is earthquake prone.
The funniest thing about this, is at the end, he ends up using a casette output converter.... the SAME EXACT ONE YOU CAN USE ON AN iPOD OR $50 MP3 PLAYER!
This is what I was thinking, but I wasn't thinking Ipod but rather a portable DVD player. It's hard to say whether this unit referenced would do DVD-mp3, I sorta take it for granted I own a stand alone player that just does it. But given the starting price of in-dash DVD players = about the same cost as the starting price of indash mp3 players, well the choice is clear.
A second hand SCSI drive is relatively cheap, last I bought a 10k drive, it was $50 for a 9GB. SCAs are even cheaper since the need for an adaptor for anything that doesn't have a backplane ups the cost in other systems. It looks like E450 has one.
I'm not going to discount the cheep scsi drives... they are indeed cool. But we are talking shell script driven MP3 here, no real need for 10k drives nor SCSI when a DVD+r will do. $100 for the drive to do dvd(-/+)r9, and we are talking 8.5gig/disc. We are talking $15/disk presently, but that is far better then any used scsi drive as far as cost/meg.
But if we were to not talk about the DVD-/+R9 and stick to the more common DVD-/+R, we are talking 4.7gig/disc@about $2.00 a pop and a nice indash DVD player. Or if you really want more in the way of tracks at your fingertips, then a nice 6-10disc auto changer. Far more space effective then a stack of 3.5inch HDs.
I was under the impression that a 400W power supply was capable of outputing 400W of power, not that it took as input 400W of power.
Based on my understanding, a 400W power supply is rated to suck up to 400watts of power. What is actually outputs in terms of watts is often not documented.
For example, an old cheepo 230 watt compusa AT power supply says that it's it's output rating is 115V@1A... so this 230 watt supply is actually rated to *supply* about 115watts. 50% efficent. It sucks, but it was cheep, and I was only powering a low end pentium with one drive.
I believe also that it's required that all electrical components are marked how much power they consume. This way you have a somewhat accurate idea of how much load you are putting on your circuit. Helps prevent tripping the breaker, or more importantly *FIRE*.
According to the stuff article, the meteorite could be worth $10,000. That would be one expensive conversation piece. I'd sell it if I had an offer like that, without hesitation.
Really? If you're talking USD then we are not talking *alot* of bread. $10,000 could get you a very nice used car, or a very moddest new one. It may cover morgage payments for a year perhaps two. You could get a decent 60 inch TV with DVI inputs as well as some pretty spiffy home theater accessorires and a laptop. Or you can keep this chunk of rock that is not of this earth.
Now, if the IRS came in and wanted me to pay a few grand in taxes for this rock, then I would sell it without hesitation.
Actually, the Pop vs Soda thing isn't Canadian vs American
Yes, I noticed this when I travled to the south east of America. I asked "where do you keep your pop" and every small corner shop owner said "In such and such cemitary". However I have not found one place where they didn't know what a soda was. I gave up a long time ago and ask people if they want a "carbonated soft-drink".
Now if I can convience supermarkets that marmite doesn't belong next to the flour i'd be a happy person.
You might be right... I guess setting your modem software to autodial a pager / mobile number isn't stalking in the traditional sense. You are not exactly tracking their movements or are trying to pursue them for a confrontation. However this could be considered a form of harrassment since you said your self you basicly wanted charge up their cell phone bill.
Not like I don't understand and haven't felt this way tward someone before... just when you do it and tell people about it it makes you look like a foofoo head. Not only that, but there is a record of one looking like a foofoo head. Not exactly a smart thing to do when you are doing that divorce thing. It just gives someone an excuse to slap a restraining order on your ass so you are forced pay bucks to talk through lawyers to deal with trivial things like I want my Young Fresh Tape back. Besides, you can talk to support and tell them you have a wacko harrassing you and often times those charges get removed, at least from my experence.
Phone companys have to pay the other phonecomapanys for sending an SMS though there network..... Its not like that internet backbone monopoly Ameriaca has over the rest of the world where all ISPs share there bandwidth for next to noting.
If you are talking *America*, you're wrong. Phone companies don't have to actually pay to use someone else's network. Every mobile website in america that I'm aware of has a nice option of doing it over IP directly to their website. All you would need is a script that would convert the sms into a url, access their website, and poof the text is sent. Assuming the telco still has a modem line setup for this you can send it to their network for free.
In the past, i've used such techniques with pagers to communicate to machines, to provide them with simple commands like disable the alarm, reboot the machine, export xeyes to the staff's computer.
I think this entire 'unlimited' offering is silly..
We're talking SMS messaging here. When you can get phones with internet access and support for msn / yahoo / aim-icq you tend to expect it's all covered in your monthly fee, because it is. Unless you would have me believe it's more costly to offer SMS messaging rather then yahoo over mobile.
10,000 text messages a day is nothing like 20gig a day on an ISP. assuming your average message is 128 bytes this is 1.25MB a day. At 110 baud a reasonable typing speed this would be all day. At 2400 baud that's like an hour of use, at phone speeds this is squat. 20gigs a day on an ISP for your average joe cable user would be all day use. Filling up a hard drive in a matter of days is excessive, but typing speeds are not likely to max out network speeds that are measured in KB/sec.
Yep, you can overclock your car if you so wish. It's a touch more complex then overclocking a pc. Chances are it's not going to be any form of complex magic, you can a more agressivly programed ECU. This can be a whole bunch of fun... there was a group I knew of who delt exclusivly with software mods on a dodge colt of all things.
Even if you can get more agressive ECU you have to take other factors into account like are the heads the same, crack shafts / cam cafts, intake exhost size, headers, EFI units, turbos, a whole bunch of stuff that others have already gotten into. It's cool go get more power out of your engine, but won't make a hill of beans diffrence if you blow your 1/2 shafts trying to impress someone.
Car makers unlike other forms of hardware are typicaly cheap bastards and will go out of their way to make sure you don't get features you don't pay for, even if it costs them extra. Just take a look at the car audio scene. First of all radios are not nessicarly standard equipment, though they should be, given that radio is used for traffic adviseries. Even on cars that come with a radio, cassette or CDs are not standard equipment, which is most odd as many of the radios, specificly Ford and Crystler, specificly have the ability to take a cassette transport mechnism, but just removed the mechnism and covered it up with a face plate. You can plop in a transport and boom you have a factory radio with cassette. CD players are definatly not standard equipment. It would make perfect sence to just plop a single mass produced unit on all the cars and get people to pay extra for more premium options, but then the dealer wouldn't be able to mark up for trivial things after you agree on a price for a damn car. After all, the average car buyer is going to want at least a radio.
After looking at the car radio scene, one should think twice about the very idea of getting something extra for free.
Sure, it's a copyright violation, but is it really hurting the distributor, since they aren't even trying to make money off of it?
I couldn't agree with you more. I've always felt that the term on software should be shorter then the term of other forms of published works simply because the only way to access abandoned media is by getting a copy from amature libraries. I remember actually *trying* to get a copy of Agent USA or M.U.L.E the legit way in the 21st century. It can't be done.
There is a REAL need for high-school and adult-education classes to teach how to do basic real cooking and more importantly, how to store multiple portions for later eating!
I couldn't agree more. I remember in my highschool you had your choice between home economics or auto mechanics, but NOT both. When asking about the schedualing, the logic was that anyone interested in one wouldn't be at all interested in the other.
What happens when the paint inside the computer starts to peel and flake off?
I don't know what sorta paint the gent is using. I've had good experences with paint to metal. And long as your surface is free of dirt/grime it shouldn't be an issue at all. It's that pesky paint to plastic that I find slightly more prone to flackage. Often times a flex adhesive is added to paint to make it stick to bendy plastic. You can see examples of this in the current automobile trend to paint plastic bumpers. Older vehicels painted the steering wheel and i've seen the paint stay for about 20 years before your grip rubs off segments.
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Come to think about it, the 70s live action Spiderman series did have a few episodes that took place in Hong Kong.
As gay as SpiderWoman?
Spiderwoman aka Jessica Drew also accidently got a spider bite, trully amazing to see the same effect in two people on diffrent sides of the US. To be honest I know very little about this character other then there was a comic and a short lived cartoon. I can read up on her and see references to characters i've seen randomly in the newer Spiderman cartoon that was on fox. I saw SpiderWoman as a blatent attempt to attract the women with balls market as Wonder Woman did, but alas the idea of being tied up by Wonder Woman with her magic lasso seems to be a hell of alot more plesent then being spewed with spidergoo.
This is good! It looks like if you blatently go in a theater and tape you are free in clear. Fuck this secret business, I want my cam download to look like MST3k with heckling. Oh, and the shadows of heads holding camcorders is a bonus for those of us who want that black space filled with something when we view in letterbox format.
What, Spiderman never made it to Niagra Falls, Ottawa, Torronto, or Montreal? I'd find that shocking.
Very few superheros can afford the teenage mutent ninga lawyers required for an IP lawsuit. It's that whole pesky issue of keeping your identity a secret as well as finding a job that doesn't mind you taking off at random hours to put a mask on. Unless said superheros get coroperate sponcerships, but then we'd have a superhero universe with characters like IBM Man(Ibbem Man), The Microsoft Marvel, The Starbucks Avengers, The SafeCo Crackers, The Boeing Bombers, and the BurgerKing Whoppers. This would be a very horrid and tacky universe, not like current comic book heros are not already garish.
Why would it be pressurized? methanol exists as a liquid at standard temperature & pressure.
It would be like refilling a zippo, or a lawnmower
A zippo doesn't store methanol for as long as naptha as it evaperates far more quickly at room temps. I'm probally the only person who uses methanol or ethanol in his zippo, but hey I like it. IIRC its boiling point is 65C/150F. Pressure would help keep it from evaporating if vapor lock is an issue, or perhaps it's easier to use presure rather then a pump.
We can't be held accountable for the fact that the English decided it was a pretty good idea to colonize the world, specificly the Americas, before a comprehensive dictionary was developed. Robert Cawdrey's I believe was first published in 1604.
Horrible I know! And to think, for years we've had to own an NTSC tuner to be able to watch analog tv broadcasts. Same goes for AM and FM radio, free broadcasts provided you can listen.
Well, you buy your spiffy $3500 60inch LCD HD projection TV with DVI ports because of this fancy HDTV you've been hearing about, and as it turns out you also need a HDTV tuner to actually watch HDTV. You have the HD, just no tuner.
This isn't the 20th century, when you could buy a turntable, cassette player, VCR, and TV and they will just do their job. It's the 21century where the only way you can convience the public to buy new electric goods is to slowly offer trivial new features progressivly over a period of years.
And every foot e-brake i've seen either had a pull lever under the dash to release it, or you had to push it down all the way to get it to release.
It's why they are not called e-brakes, they are called parking brakes. Even the dash style hand brake as seen in the 1960s ford products like the f-truck series (f-100/250/350) and the mustang had a pull brake that would lock into place until you twisted it. Even these are not great for emergency stopping, but they are better then nothing. But the manual calls this a parking brake.
I believe the term e-break only refers to the hand operated lever style that can be used in a pinch to make the car stop without loosing control. Dash parking brakes are less practical because you have to use your whole body as a lever to stop the car. But bench seats were the style at the time, and where else were you going to put it. Foot parking brakes are just awful, and i've seen these in autos with bucket seats and manual transmisions.
Not to speak of how impractical it is to have four foot controls, even with three the user sometimes makes an error and accidently presses two controls with one foot like clutch and brake, or brake and gas. With four you can have p-brake and clutch, clutch and brake, gas and brake.
you fucking retard. a keyboard has over 100 keys, yet your not too busy "typing" to use them are you? no.
a car has 3 pedals, a steering wheel, gear stick, multiple functions on the indicator stick thangs, and you have 2 feet and 2 hands, yet you can drive.. well fuck me, that cant be possible.
I think the point is the hand brake can be engaged/disengaged with one limb. Foot breaks can not, they require your left foot and one hand to operate the release. If you drive a car with stick in a hilly area like Seattle or San Francisco, you will notice the drawback of the foot brake. With a hand brake you can stop your car on a hill, pull out your clutch, hit the gas, and release the brake slowly. There are those who can master the foot on the brake and toes on the gas, but to reduce roll back I personaly use the hand brake.
As far as emergencies go, the foot brake is actually awful because it locks your wheels and you skid, where with a hand brake you can actually make a correction with brake presure with your thumb.
Besides, this isn't an issue of brainpower at all but manual dexterity. Good eye hand coordination requires years of practice and the moment you use an unfamilar control in an emergency situation the results can be unexpected. For example try using your left foot to operate your gas and see what happens. You can have much in the way of brain power but that doesn't change the fact you never trained that foot to operate that control. Foot brakes are only used for parking where hand brakes are often used by at least people with manual transmisions. If you have no brakes, and you are smart enough to use the mechanical one, I believe a person with the hand brake who has trained them selves to use it would be able to stop safely, where you can stop a car with a foot brake it would not be what one considered to be a safe stop.
First off, from what I've read, it says ON THE CD that it contains copy protection and that it's doing so in conjunction with Windows and Mac operating systems.
This is an ambigious statement at best. There is an existing standard for redbook discs for copy protection in the form of a copy-prohibit bit. This is why you need ripping programs rather then using the OS to copy track x to the HD. While this form of protection is worthess as we have good workarounds to allow digital transfer of audio ignoring the CD-rom's firmware, near as i'm aware it still exists. Further, Windows won't allow you to copy track x to the HD, it automacticly creates a link to the CD. This could the the copy protection that works in conjunction with Windows. Not sure about the mac. The way I read your statement, I would have naturaly assumed that it refered to the existing Redbook standard and Windows and Mac not letting you copy it.
I can't blame anyone for not understanding the meaning of this disclaimer because it says nothing about installing 3rd party software. Further, if they were to admit it is software rather then a licensed music entertainment disk, then the law according to the SIAA states while licenses are diffrent you are allowed to make one backup of your software. By making a release on what is clearly a hybrid disk I would argue that stops being a music record and becomes software as we know and love it and subject to the same laws and regulations. My belief isn't law, but it makes a very valid arugument.
I don't know that I like wifi being used for real substantive critical things like emergency services. It's still just a little too unreliable, signal can get messed up by whatever..
I'm not sure I like the idea of being dependent on wired technology in a region that is earthquake prone.
The funniest thing about this, is at the end, he ends up using a casette output converter.... the SAME EXACT ONE YOU CAN USE ON AN iPOD OR $50 MP3 PLAYER!
This is what I was thinking, but I wasn't thinking Ipod but rather a portable DVD player. It's hard to say whether this unit referenced would do DVD-mp3, I sorta take it for granted I own a stand alone player that just does it. But given the starting price of in-dash DVD players = about the same cost as the starting price of indash mp3 players, well the choice is clear.
A second hand SCSI drive is relatively cheap, last I bought a 10k drive, it was $50 for a 9GB. SCAs are even cheaper since the need for an adaptor for anything that doesn't have a backplane ups the cost in other systems. It looks like E450 has one.
I'm not going to discount the cheep scsi drives... they are indeed cool. But we are talking shell script driven MP3 here, no real need for 10k drives nor SCSI when a DVD+r will do. $100 for the drive to do dvd(-/+)r9, and we are talking 8.5gig/disc. We are talking $15/disk presently, but that is far better then any used scsi drive as far as cost/meg.
But if we were to not talk about the DVD-/+R9 and stick to the more common DVD-/+R, we are talking 4.7gig/disc@about $2.00 a pop and a nice indash DVD player. Or if you really want more in the way of tracks at your fingertips, then a nice 6-10disc auto changer. Far more space effective then a stack of 3.5inch HDs.
I was under the impression that a 400W power supply was capable of outputing 400W of power, not that it took as input 400W of power.
Based on my understanding, a 400W power supply is rated to suck up to 400watts of power. What is actually outputs in terms of watts is often not documented.
For example, an old cheepo 230 watt compusa AT power supply says that it's it's output rating is 115V@1A... so this 230 watt supply is actually rated to *supply* about 115watts. 50% efficent. It sucks, but it was cheep, and I was only powering a low end pentium with one drive.
I believe also that it's required that all electrical components are marked how much power they consume. This way you have a somewhat accurate idea of how much load you are putting on your circuit. Helps prevent tripping the breaker, or more importantly *FIRE*.
According to the stuff article, the meteorite could be worth $10,000. That would be one expensive conversation piece. I'd sell it if I had an offer like that, without hesitation.
Really? If you're talking USD then we are not talking *alot* of bread. $10,000 could get you a very nice used car, or a very moddest new one. It may cover morgage payments for a year perhaps two. You could get a decent 60 inch TV with DVI inputs as well as some pretty spiffy home theater accessorires and a laptop. Or you can keep this chunk of rock that is not of this earth.
Now, if the IRS came in and wanted me to pay a few grand in taxes for this rock, then I would sell it without hesitation.
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Actually, the Pop vs Soda thing isn't Canadian vs American
Yes, I noticed this when I travled to the south east of America. I asked "where do you keep your pop" and every small corner shop owner said "In such and such cemitary". However I have not found one place where they didn't know what a soda was. I gave up a long time ago and ask people if they want a "carbonated soft-drink".
Now if I can convience supermarkets that marmite doesn't belong next to the flour i'd be a happy person.
And there was no stalking involved.
You might be right... I guess setting your modem software to autodial a pager / mobile number isn't stalking in the traditional sense. You are not exactly tracking their movements or are trying to pursue them for a confrontation. However this could be considered a form of harrassment since you said your self you basicly wanted charge up their cell phone bill.
Not like I don't understand and haven't felt this way tward someone before... just when you do it and tell people about it it makes you look like a foofoo head. Not only that, but there is a record of one looking like a foofoo head. Not exactly a smart thing to do when you are doing that divorce thing. It just gives someone an excuse to slap a restraining order on your ass so you are forced pay bucks to talk through lawyers to deal with trivial things like I want my Young Fresh Tape back. Besides, you can talk to support and tell them you have a wacko harrassing you and often times those charges get removed, at least from my experence.
Phone companys have to pay the other phonecomapanys for sending an SMS though there network..... Its not like that internet backbone monopoly Ameriaca has over the rest of the world where all ISPs share there bandwidth for next to noting.
If you are talking *America*, you're wrong. Phone companies don't have to actually pay to use someone else's network. Every mobile website in america that I'm aware of has a nice option of doing it over IP directly to their website. All you would need is a script that would convert the sms into a url, access their website, and poof the text is sent. Assuming the telco still has a modem line setup for this you can send it to their network for free.
In the past, i've used such techniques with pagers to communicate to machines, to provide them with simple commands like disable the alarm, reboot the machine, export xeyes to the staff's computer.
I think this entire 'unlimited' offering is silly..
We're talking SMS messaging here. When you can get phones with internet access and support for msn / yahoo / aim-icq you tend to expect it's all covered in your monthly fee, because it is. Unless you would have me believe it's more costly to offer SMS messaging rather then yahoo over mobile.
10,000 text messages a day is nothing like 20gig a day on an ISP. assuming your average message is 128 bytes this is 1.25MB a day. At 110 baud a reasonable typing speed this would be all day. At 2400 baud that's like an hour of use, at phone speeds this is squat. 20gigs a day on an ISP for your average joe cable user would be all day use. Filling up a hard drive in a matter of days is excessive, but typing speeds are not likely to max out network speeds that are measured in KB/sec.
Yep, you can overclock your car if you so wish. It's a touch more complex then overclocking a pc. Chances are it's not going to be any form of complex magic, you can a more agressivly programed ECU. This can be a whole bunch of fun... there was a group I knew of who delt exclusivly with software mods on a dodge colt of all things.
Even if you can get more agressive ECU you have to take other factors into account like are the heads the same, crack shafts / cam cafts, intake exhost size, headers, EFI units, turbos, a whole bunch of stuff that others have already gotten into. It's cool go get more power out of your engine, but won't make a hill of beans diffrence if you blow your 1/2 shafts trying to impress someone.
Car makers unlike other forms of hardware are typicaly cheap bastards and will go out of their way to make sure you don't get features you don't pay for, even if it costs them extra. Just take a look at the car audio scene. First of all radios are not nessicarly standard equipment, though they should be, given that radio is used for traffic adviseries. Even on cars that come with a radio, cassette or CDs are not standard equipment, which is most odd as many of the radios, specificly Ford and Crystler, specificly have the ability to take a cassette transport mechnism, but just removed the mechnism and covered it up with a face plate. You can plop in a transport and boom you have a factory radio with cassette. CD players are definatly not standard equipment. It would make perfect sence to just plop a single mass produced unit on all the cars and get people to pay extra for more premium options, but then the dealer wouldn't be able to mark up for trivial things after you agree on a price for a damn car. After all, the average car buyer is going to want at least a radio.
After looking at the car radio scene, one should think twice about the very idea of getting something extra for free.
Sure, it's a copyright violation, but is it really hurting the distributor, since they aren't even trying to make money off of it?
I couldn't agree with you more. I've always felt that the term on software should be shorter then the term of other forms of published works simply because the only way to access abandoned media is by getting a copy from amature libraries. I remember actually *trying* to get a copy of Agent USA or M.U.L.E the legit way in the 21st century. It can't be done.
There is a REAL need for high-school and adult-education classes to teach how to do basic real cooking and more importantly, how to store multiple portions for later eating!
I couldn't agree more. I remember in my highschool you had your choice between home economics or auto mechanics, but NOT both. When asking about the schedualing, the logic was that anyone interested in one wouldn't be at all interested in the other.
What happens when the paint inside the computer starts to peel and flake off?
I don't know what sorta paint the gent is using. I've had good experences with paint to metal. And long as your surface is free of dirt/grime it shouldn't be an issue at all. It's that pesky paint to plastic that I find slightly more prone to flackage. Often times a flex adhesive is added to paint to make it stick to bendy plastic. You can see examples of this in the current automobile trend to paint plastic bumpers. Older vehicels painted the steering wheel and i've seen the paint stay for about 20 years before your grip rubs off segments.