Double check... I'll freely admit when I travel by car I hit starbucks. I generally prefer localy run coffee stops, but starbucks coffee isn't too bad and it sure beats having to hunt around a town ya don't know for coffee.
The smaller ones might only have a small collection CDs by the register on a 10-15 high wire stack. Not that I don't believe it's possible that a starbucks doesn't sell CDs, I've just never seen it.
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It's kinda funny as when I first read this, I thought you were refering to the Animated series, which actually wasn't too bad as they pretty much took decent short stories and re-wrote them for the star trek universe.
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I'm the first to admit, the concept of the transformers was cool, but the TV show was not. I guess I was a touch too old to enjoy it as other did, but I couldn't look past the fact that it was simply the same plot over and over again. Good guys see the bad buys doing bad things. Good guys get ass whiped, then regroup, and whip the bad guys ass, followed by some post resolution joke, laugher, and the same thing all over agian.
I have a vague memeory of someone at one time robbing a bank with the Megatron Transformer, and after this all faux-guns sold in america were requried to have an orange tip to denote the fact they were toys.
Now if you were to talk about Starblasers, it at least had a story arc to follow, sub plots, as well as a representation of imperial Japan. Transformers was pretty low on the redeming quality scale... as with things like Thundercats and Voltron.
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I remember as a child, I did enjoy watching The Greatest American Hero. Thanks to P2P file sharing systems, I was able to watch the entire series including The Greatest American Heroine... and I fear I lost a few brain cells.
It's nice to know my TV wasn't screw nor am I nuts for thinking they mispelt Hinkley on the blackboard in the 2nd season, and the fact that they seemed to add in some car noise when ever they were about to say "Hinkley" rather then "Hankley. It gives me some comfort that my memory was correct, but I really had to force my self to continue watching this particular brand of cheese in the hopes of getting some enjoyment out of it. I failed.
I don't know of anyone, assuming we are talking 1980-1985 (too lazy to look up when a-team aired) who didn't own a color tv. I have to admit, I had a drug store $99 B&W for my room at the time, which I used for saturday morning cartoons and such. While B&W TVs were still sold, they seemed more common in the sub 14inch size.
I don't remember A-team being that remarkable, only the fact that Mr. T seemed to gain popularity for some odd reason... and continue to spy him on 1010-987 comercials.
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Because coffee stores don't sell stamped music CD's. Music stores do sell stamped music CD's.
I don't know about your local starbucks, but my local starbucks sells stamped CDs, assuming you mean non-burn offical release CDs. I don't know of a Starbucks that doesn't have music during business hours, sometimes after, and offer the CD. Some even have listening stations as well.
Besides, I thought music stores were loosing out to walmart rather then burn on demand systems.
If computer techs started pulling the same shit that mechanics have been pulling, taking severe advantage of their greater knowledge of the subject, computer techs are going to be just as disrespected.
What this has not happeend already? I got my Sony 17SE monitor because it was fuzzy and a computer tech reccomended replacement. I just adjusted the convergence on the front controls and perfect. I was most annoyed because I bought it for $15 or with the BNC cable, and I actually needed a BNC cable, and I got a freaking working monitor and still needed a god damned BNC cable.
Also the fact that hotmail works perfectly with outlook express. I guess one could get a free mail account with someone who supports a more conventional non-web based interface.
And not to speak of the fact that microsoft passports are rather useful at times. It's just as easy to create a snotmail account as it is to create a passport.
It could be a couple of people posting. It could be someone on a dynamic IP releasing and renewing his lease after dumping out 50 posts. It could be someone with a script and access to a large cluster, or it could be someone controlling a number of compromised hosts.
Dynamic IP is very possible. I've noticed that some broadband provider's dhcp servers take no nevermind to the end user defining their own IP. I have in fact done this rather then update my DNS entry. Worked just fine with comcast, and worked just peachy using qwest on a cisco 675 via a PPPoA connection.
I'd say a proxy is far more likely, if using a pool of them, it's not likely they checked to see if the x-forwarded for field was passed along. assuming that field is logged here on/.
That's because nobody would go to see a movie with a Mexican lead. For some inexplicable reason they keep making Jennifer Lopez movies although they all tank at the box office.
I'm not up on current prejustices. Jennifer Lopez is an American born in America unless i'm sadly mistaken. I've never actually seen her picture so I have no idea what she looks like, nor do I care really. I'm not up on current pop icons i'm sorry to say.
I can think of no logical reason not to see a film with a Mexican lead, or a Argentian lead for that matter. I can imagine some prejustice around here regarding a Brazilian lead due to the massive amounts of spam from that country, but it would be silly to assume you'll get viagra spam in the theater.
I'm going by vague memory here and the simple fact that while I have read some of his intros, I usually don't make it a point to note date of publication.
The time period I would have read this would have been circa 1990 or so, about the time that I actually started to order the "Issiac Asimov's Robot City" series, mental note of them being indexed under "Asimov" rather then multiable author series at Tower Books. It also could have been later when I was reading a newly compiled collection of his short stories.
It's hard for me to site the book as it most of Asimov's introductions tended to be free from ramblings not nessicarly directly related to the book. I do seem to recall that he spoke of him self being old... and this being the cause for his change of attitude tward the use of his 3 laws.
If I were to take the time too look for this, i'd start with Robot City, followed by short story collections published between 1985-1992. I'm too lazy, but it's my belief that his attitude did change in his later years.
Generally speaking, It makes no damn diffrence to me what color skin characters in a book have. Specificly it's often impossible to determine the geographical roots of a person unless it's specificly stated, or geography has encouraged specific traits to become dominate. I'm one of those people who didn't bother to take note in the film starship troopers one of the lead characters was not of latino decent dispite being form Buenos Aires, it's been so long since I read the book that I wouldn't remember, nor am I likely to care.
I forget which book it was that asimov said the three laws of robotics were to be released into public domain, or rather anyone can use so long as a credit is sited. I know I'm probally one of the few people who actually has read any of his introductions. But near as I'm aware this is the only restriction he's placed on quoting his rules of robotics.
I'm not sure I get the general Gateway-hate among geeks
The year was 1997 or so, and someone I knew was silly enough to buy one of the gateway premium systems. We're talking the 27inch monitor / TV, Harmon Karmon audio, and video digitizer. In excess of $4000 was spent on this set.
The system core was a pentium II 266 with 72pin simms, that one chipset that was common among among the pentium pro so not even a 440bx nor 440lx... I believe it was the 440fx as seen in the intel portland motherboard. No agp video.
For your $4000 you got a system that was far too slugish to record video in realtime, bought by users who really didn't have the experence base to resolve the problem. You got a monitor who's resolution was piss poor, not really readable at 640*480, and it's not like vga TVs didn't exist at the time, they just didn't sell you one. It's not like they couldn't have sold you a i440bx or even an i440lx with pc66 / pc100 memory. I assume they were so hip in the idea of getting rid of their stock of 72pin EDO memory they didn't even consider that it might be too slugish for some of the as advertised application for said pc.
There was a time that I wanted the sci-fi channel, but my local cableco wouldn't carry it. It took alot of navigation through their staff to get an honest answer, but it was basicly due to the fact that they them selves couldn't just buy one channel off the link, but they had to get also get a package which included things like bravo. It took a year or so of people like my self sending letters to the cable company basicly saying, "look, we are willing to pay extra for these channels you don't carry, what's the problem". It was the digital age after all, all we need do is phone up a special phone number and poof, we got the channels we've been asking for.
I see this as being a very much diffrent case. Sci-Fi may not be worth extra bucks, but Bravo and IFC on the other hand are worth extra bucks. This is also a diffrent case because we the consumer made it clear we were willing to pay for something extra.
Pardon me for thinking in pre 1990s terms, and not having direct experence with audioCDs that won't play on the PC. For the moment, I'm going to assume you can't play audio CDs on your PC digitaly, and assume you can either play them on your CD drive just with the analog output, or get an external portable CD player jacked into your sound card.
In theory, one can do a digital to analog copy, and have it considered to be fair use. I'm not sure where you live, you'll have to check to see if it's legal to copy a CD to cassette for example. While the process is slow, as in you have to record in real time, you can get a very decent copy via digital to analog back to digital. You'll need an application to either record.mp3 in real time, or convert.wav to.mp3. You can use "windows recorder" and "save as 44.1 stereo" before you start recording. I think that feature is supported pre win2k, but don't quote me, i'm not sure.
Things I don't know. 1. Can you do this even with a new protected CD, as in will your average CDrom drive play it independent of the PC, or must one do this with an external player.
2. Can one record CD content via an analog to digital converter, or are there new forms of copy protection that prevent this.
3. Would this be legal if the intended application is to get the damn music on the ipod.
1. Release video media on game machines 2. ????? 3. Profit!!
I know with one of my sister's kids, they were glued to the laptop watching Lord of the Rings, not that they haven't seen it before, but because it was on a laptop, and that was just so cool. But just as soon as the laptop had to be used for laptopy things and it was moved to the TV, they walked away because it was no longer so neet.
What if they were to bundle a theme based game along with a show. This way they can actually get the damn kids to watch video media in a new way and regain that market share.
we are not really used to that. cd's never had that. we were always allowed to downcopy (like from cd to cassette) and lately, even direct rip cd to uncompressed.wav 44.1/16 files. playback was never limited to actually using the single copy of the media that you bought. you bought the right to legally view/hear the content - there was nothing specific about 'licensed vendors' and such.
The term rip it self was created because you couldn't copy the CD's tracks digitaly on a PC. A copy protection bit exists on all store bought CDs i've encountered that prevent you from a direct copy, as in copy track #1 to HD. I own one toshiba 2x drive that was pre-copybit that allowed me on the amiga to copy cd0:track 1 hd0:music.wav.
Now I'm not saying it was never possible to copy the data, nor copy the entire CD. But due to the protected bit, you can't just treat the CD as if it was a data disk and copy tracks as if they were files. In fact, I don't know how one would actually disable this copy protection bit, as none of the burning software I have allow you to alter that. I thought it would be a spiffy system for bands to establish which track they want for radio play, and which they want exclusivly for CD play. And it would be great if anyone knew about this feature.
so... because i can buy that cd on casette i can't make a tape of it for home use?
Two points...
1: But I can't buy John Denver's greatest hits volume 2 on 8 track anymore. But I can e-bay an 8-track recorder and make my own damn copy.
2: Can you buy that CD on cassette? Name a store near you that sells new cassettes. Tower Records was the only store I knew of, but they went out of business. I'm not saying it's not possible, i'd actually like to who who sells them.
While monitors have a somewhat limited lifespan... I think it would be more likely to encourage users to keep their monitors unless their current one is inadaquate. I'm on an old Sony 20se for example, one of my favorites, older but still pretty damn good. I know of many people who just get new monitors with their new pcs just because it doesn't cost all that much when their older monitor will do the trick.
At least in America, there has not really been a compelling reason to upgrade TV sets more then once a decade, unless the old set broke. Not that we didn't get new spiffy TVs with AV inputs, fancy svideo inputs, remote controls, or the new HDTVs with 3 inputs
Sadly, any thrift store that I frequent will not accept a monitor as a donation, or a TV set for that matter. It makes me sad as even a 14inch monitor for $20 = one step closer to a PC for some.
I also have a old Panasonic KX-somthing or other that is noisy as hell but will print my obiturary, I'm sure. Which will most likely be soon, as I can't afford food after buying Lexmark supplies.
I think the model number of my old Panasonic was a kx-4500i, presently have the smaller kx-6500 but 600dpi in theory. Both take raw toner, the 4500 you just lift the paper reciever and pour it in. The kx-6500 is slightly more messy, but can also be done with ease. The cost of the toner is in the sub $30.00 class. The only reason that the kx-6500 is no longer in service is because the drivers cause a BSoD under win2k with sp4.
Otherwise, I strongly support the use of older lasers that are designed to accept raw toner due to their relativly low cost to operate.
It's rather annoying the fact that now it's 2004 and just about anyone can go online in yahoo and say, "hello, my name is gwen, and this is my vagina"
Before 1998 a person had to have some skill to do that sorta thing, and you asked them what they were using. Now it's like, "Good vagina, that's a very nice vagina, now go play" thinking to your self they must have gotten their webcam in a box of fruit loops or something.
Before cars, there were both boots and trunks. Trunks were big cases used for storing things, like clothing. Boots were the things you put your feet inside. Which one of those two better describes how the storage area in your car is used?
I don't think of the boot being any more silly then the glove box. I'd have to check on auto history, but I do remember there was a time where it was one indeed wore gloves when driving a car. Before paved roads, I don't think it would be any more stilly to store boots in the car. Why boot became popular to describe the rear storage of an auto is beyond me... but no more odd then booting up a computer IMHO.
Why it's still called a glove box I have no idea, I don't typicaly store gloves in there. In fact, I typicaly use it to hold my drink holder, store my car manual, perhaps a map or two. Map box would probally be a more accurate term.
Hood is the only one that doesn't have a strong case for it. Both hoods and bonnets are typically head coverings. Neither makes much sense when it comes to describing part of a car, but neither is better than the other.
Yes, head coverings. Engines have a head, makes perfect sence to me to cover the head so people don't see it. No more or less silly then bras and panties for autos.
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Double check... I'll freely admit when I travel by car I hit starbucks. I generally prefer localy run coffee stops, but starbucks coffee isn't too bad and it sure beats having to hunt around a town ya don't know for coffee.
The smaller ones might only have a small collection CDs by the register on a 10-15 high wire stack. Not that I don't believe it's possible that a starbucks doesn't sell CDs, I've just never seen it.
It's kinda funny as when I first read this, I thought you were refering to the Animated series, which actually wasn't too bad as they pretty much took decent short stories and re-wrote them for the star trek universe.
I'm the first to admit, the concept of the transformers was cool, but the TV show was not. I guess I was a touch too old to enjoy it as other did, but I couldn't look past the fact that it was simply the same plot over and over again. Good guys see the bad buys doing bad things. Good guys get ass whiped, then regroup, and whip the bad guys ass, followed by some post resolution joke, laugher, and the same thing all over agian.
I have a vague memeory of someone at one time robbing a bank with the Megatron Transformer, and after this all faux-guns sold in america were requried to have an orange tip to denote the fact they were toys.
Now if you were to talk about Starblasers, it at least had a story arc to follow, sub plots, as well as a representation of imperial Japan. Transformers was pretty low on the redeming quality scale... as with things like Thundercats and Voltron.
I remember as a child, I did enjoy watching The Greatest American Hero. Thanks to P2P file sharing systems, I was able to watch the entire series including The Greatest American Heroine... and I fear I lost a few brain cells.
It's nice to know my TV wasn't screw nor am I nuts for thinking they mispelt Hinkley on the blackboard in the 2nd season, and the fact that they seemed to add in some car noise when ever they were about to say "Hinkley" rather then "Hankley. It gives me some comfort that my memory was correct, but I really had to force my self to continue watching this particular brand of cheese in the hopes of getting some enjoyment out of it. I failed.
I don't know of anyone, assuming we are talking 1980-1985 (too lazy to look up when a-team aired) who didn't own a color tv. I have to admit, I had a drug store $99 B&W for my room at the time, which I used for saturday morning cartoons and such. While B&W TVs were still sold, they seemed more common in the sub 14inch size.
I don't remember A-team being that remarkable, only the fact that Mr. T seemed to gain popularity for some odd reason... and continue to spy him on 1010-987 comercials.
Because coffee stores don't sell stamped music CD's. Music stores do sell stamped music CD's.
I don't know about your local starbucks, but my local starbucks sells stamped CDs, assuming you mean non-burn offical release CDs. I don't know of a Starbucks that doesn't have music during business hours, sometimes after, and offer the CD. Some even have listening stations as well.
Besides, I thought music stores were loosing out to walmart rather then burn on demand systems.
If computer techs started pulling the same shit that mechanics have been pulling, taking severe advantage of their greater knowledge of the subject, computer techs are going to be just as disrespected.
What this has not happeend already? I got my Sony 17SE monitor because it was fuzzy and a computer tech reccomended replacement. I just adjusted the convergence on the front controls and perfect. I was most annoyed because I bought it for $15 or with the BNC cable, and I actually needed a BNC cable, and I got a freaking working monitor and still needed a god damned BNC cable.
Also the fact that hotmail works perfectly with outlook express. I guess one could get a free mail account with someone who supports a more conventional non-web based interface.
And not to speak of the fact that microsoft passports are rather useful at times. It's just as easy to create a snotmail account as it is to create a passport.
From that we can see in a few very brief clips that some robots run amok
But robots are not qualified to run moks!
It could be a couple of people posting. It could be someone on a dynamic IP releasing and renewing his lease after dumping out 50 posts. It could be someone with a script and access to a large cluster, or it could be someone controlling a number of compromised hosts.
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Dynamic IP is very possible. I've noticed that some broadband provider's dhcp servers take no nevermind to the end user defining their own IP. I have in fact done this rather then update my DNS entry. Worked just fine with comcast, and worked just peachy using qwest on a cisco 675 via a PPPoA connection.
I'd say a proxy is far more likely, if using a pool of them, it's not likely they checked to see if the x-forwarded for field was passed along. assuming that field is logged here on
That's because nobody would go to see a movie with a Mexican lead. For some inexplicable reason they keep making Jennifer Lopez movies although they all tank at the box office.
I'm not up on current prejustices. Jennifer Lopez is an American born in America unless i'm sadly mistaken. I've never actually seen her picture so I have no idea what she looks like, nor do I care really. I'm not up on current pop icons i'm sorry to say.
I can think of no logical reason not to see a film with a Mexican lead, or a Argentian lead for that matter. I can imagine some prejustice around here regarding a Brazilian lead due to the massive amounts of spam from that country, but it would be silly to assume you'll get viagra spam in the theater.
I'm going by vague memory here and the simple fact that while I have read some of his intros, I usually don't make it a point to note date of publication.
The time period I would have read this would have been circa 1990 or so, about the time that I actually started to order the "Issiac Asimov's Robot City" series, mental note of them being indexed under "Asimov" rather then multiable author series at Tower Books. It also could have been later when I was reading a newly compiled collection of his short stories.
It's hard for me to site the book as it most of Asimov's introductions tended to be free from ramblings not nessicarly directly related to the book. I do seem to recall that he spoke of him self being old... and this being the cause for his change of attitude tward the use of his 3 laws.
If I were to take the time too look for this, i'd start with Robot City, followed by short story collections published between 1985-1992. I'm too lazy, but it's my belief that his attitude did change in his later years.
Generally speaking, It makes no damn diffrence to me what color skin characters in a book have. Specificly it's often impossible to determine the geographical roots of a person unless it's specificly stated, or geography has encouraged specific traits to become dominate. I'm one of those people who didn't bother to take note in the film starship troopers one of the lead characters was not of latino decent dispite being form Buenos Aires, it's been so long since I read the book that I wouldn't remember, nor am I likely to care.
I forget which book it was that asimov said the three laws of robotics were to be released into public domain, or rather anyone can use so long as a credit is sited. I know I'm probally one of the few people who actually has read any of his introductions. But near as I'm aware this is the only restriction he's placed on quoting his rules of robotics.
I'm not sure I get the general Gateway-hate among geeks
The year was 1997 or so, and someone I knew was silly enough to buy one of the gateway premium systems. We're talking the 27inch monitor / TV, Harmon Karmon audio, and video digitizer. In excess of $4000 was spent on this set.
The system core was a pentium II 266 with 72pin simms, that one chipset that was common among among the pentium pro so not even a 440bx nor 440lx... I believe it was the 440fx as seen in the intel portland motherboard. No agp video.
For your $4000 you got a system that was far too slugish to record video in realtime, bought by users who really didn't have the experence base to resolve the problem. You got a monitor who's resolution was piss poor, not really readable at 640*480, and it's not like vga TVs didn't exist at the time, they just didn't sell you one. It's not like they couldn't have sold you a i440bx or even an i440lx with pc66 / pc100 memory. I assume they were so hip in the idea of getting rid of their stock of 72pin EDO memory they didn't even consider that it might be too slugish for some of the as advertised application for said pc.
There was a time that I wanted the sci-fi channel, but my local cableco wouldn't carry it. It took alot of navigation through their staff to get an honest answer, but it was basicly due to the fact that they them selves couldn't just buy one channel off the link, but they had to get also get a package which included things like bravo. It took a year or so of people like my self sending letters to the cable company basicly saying, "look, we are willing to pay extra for these channels you don't carry, what's the problem". It was the digital age after all, all we need do is phone up a special phone number and poof, we got the channels we've been asking for.
I see this as being a very much diffrent case. Sci-Fi may not be worth extra bucks, but Bravo and IFC on the other hand are worth extra bucks. This is also a diffrent case because we the consumer made it clear we were willing to pay for something extra.
Pardon me for thinking in pre 1990s terms, and not having direct experence with audioCDs that won't play on the PC. For the moment, I'm going to assume you can't play audio CDs on your PC digitaly, and assume you can either play them on your CD drive just with the analog output, or get an external portable CD player jacked into your sound card.
In theory, one can do a digital to analog copy, and have it considered to be fair use. I'm not sure where you live, you'll have to check to see if it's legal to copy a CD to cassette for example. While the process is slow, as in you have to record in real time, you can get a very decent copy via digital to analog back to digital. You'll need an application to either record
Things I don't know.
1. Can you do this even with a new protected CD, as in will your average CDrom drive play it independent of the PC, or must one do this with an external player.
2. Can one record CD content via an analog to digital converter, or are there new forms of copy protection that prevent this.
3. Would this be legal if the intended application is to get the damn music on the ipod.
1. Release video media on game machines
2. ?????
3. Profit!!
I know with one of my sister's kids, they were glued to the laptop watching Lord of the Rings, not that they haven't seen it before, but because it was on a laptop, and that was just so cool. But just as soon as the laptop had to be used for laptopy things and it was moved to the TV, they walked away because it was no longer so neet.
What if they were to bundle a theme based game along with a show. This way they can actually get the damn kids to watch video media in a new way and regain that market share.
we are not really used to that. cd's never had that. we were always allowed to downcopy (like from cd to cassette) and lately, even direct rip cd to uncompressed .wav 44.1/16 files. playback was never limited to actually using the single copy of the media that you bought. you bought the right to legally view/hear the content - there was nothing specific about 'licensed vendors' and such.
The term rip it self was created because you couldn't copy the CD's tracks digitaly on a PC. A copy protection bit exists on all store bought CDs i've encountered that prevent you from a direct copy, as in copy track #1 to HD. I own one toshiba 2x drive that was pre-copybit that allowed me on the amiga to copy cd0:track 1 hd0:music.wav.
Now I'm not saying it was never possible to copy the data, nor copy the entire CD. But due to the protected bit, you can't just treat the CD as if it was a data disk and copy tracks as if they were files. In fact, I don't know how one would actually disable this copy protection bit, as none of the burning software I have allow you to alter that. I thought it would be a spiffy system for bands to establish which track they want for radio play, and which they want exclusivly for CD play. And it would be great if anyone knew about this feature.
so... because i can buy that cd on casette i can't make a tape of it for home use?
Two points...
1: But I can't buy John Denver's greatest hits volume 2 on 8 track anymore. But I can e-bay an 8-track recorder and make my own damn copy.
2: Can you buy that CD on cassette? Name a store near you that sells new cassettes. Tower Records was the only store I knew of, but they went out of business. I'm not saying it's not possible, i'd actually like to who who sells them.
While monitors have a somewhat limited lifespan... I think it would be more likely to encourage users to keep their monitors unless their current one is inadaquate. I'm on an old Sony 20se for example, one of my favorites, older but still pretty damn good. I know of many people who just get new monitors with their new pcs just because it doesn't cost all that much when their older monitor will do the trick.
At least in America, there has not really been a compelling reason to upgrade TV sets more then once a decade, unless the old set broke. Not that we didn't get new spiffy TVs with AV inputs, fancy svideo inputs, remote controls, or the new HDTVs with 3 inputs
Sadly, any thrift store that I frequent will not accept a monitor as a donation, or a TV set for that matter. It makes me sad as even a 14inch monitor for $20 = one step closer to a PC for some.
I also have a old Panasonic KX-somthing or other that is noisy as hell but will print my obiturary, I'm sure. Which will most likely be soon, as I can't afford food after buying Lexmark supplies.
I think the model number of my old Panasonic was a kx-4500i, presently have the smaller kx-6500 but 600dpi in theory. Both take raw toner, the 4500 you just lift the paper reciever and pour it in. The kx-6500 is slightly more messy, but can also be done with ease. The cost of the toner is in the sub $30.00 class. The only reason that the kx-6500 is no longer in service is because the drivers cause a BSoD under win2k with sp4.
Otherwise, I strongly support the use of older lasers that are designed to accept raw toner due to their relativly low cost to operate.
>I could seriously care less.
>>Which means you *do* care somewhat. I think you mean that you couldn't care less.
Anyone who argues with an idiom is an idiot!
It's rather annoying the fact that now it's 2004 and just about anyone can go online in yahoo and say, "hello, my name is gwen, and this is my vagina"
Before 1998 a person had to have some skill to do that sorta thing, and you asked them what they were using. Now it's like, "Good vagina, that's a very nice vagina, now go play" thinking to your self they must have gotten their webcam in a box of fruit loops or something.
Before cars, there were both boots and trunks. Trunks were big cases used for storing things, like clothing. Boots were the things you put your feet inside. Which one of those two better describes how the storage area in your car is used?
I don't think of the boot being any more silly then the glove box. I'd have to check on auto history, but I do remember there was a time where it was one indeed wore gloves when driving a car. Before paved roads, I don't think it would be any more stilly to store boots in the car. Why boot became popular to describe the rear storage of an auto is beyond me... but no more odd then booting up a computer IMHO.
Why it's still called a glove box I have no idea, I don't typicaly store gloves in there. In fact, I typicaly use it to hold my drink holder, store my car manual, perhaps a map or two. Map box would probally be a more accurate term.
Hood is the only one that doesn't have a strong case for it. Both hoods and bonnets are typically head coverings. Neither makes much sense when it comes to describing part of a car, but neither is better than the other.
Yes, head coverings. Engines have a head, makes perfect sence to me to cover the head so people don't see it. No more or less silly then bras and panties for autos.