That's where you get reasonable connections, not through your cable provider, who has always done nothing but consumer-grade products.
Until you get RoadRunner Business Class. I've called them at 3 am EST and got the local support team. Since they have stopped giving me garbage Cisco routers (Cisco makes the worst crap ever, but that's another story), I haven't had a loss of connection in 3 months now.
I don't know how the other cable providers fare, as I've never lived in another providers area. I've never used DSL, either, but I don't imagine that I can get a better deal with any DSL provider, other than Speakeasy, for my business connection.
More garbage on 800 mHz is not needed. I hope the FCC isn't allowing 800 mHz for blackberries in the US. The FCC already blew it by allowing Nextel to use 800 for cells, which really hinders emergency services usage. I'm just hoping the FCC allows emergency services to keep 40 mHz and 150 mHz all to themselves.
Your blackberry is not as important as my portable radio!
Lead-acid batteries rock, as long as they're not small enough for someone to carry around. The 7000 pound lead-acid batteries in the forklifts at work go for a week without a charge, and a 10k GWP forklift moves a ton faster than a wheelchair. Donuts in forklifts rock, man.
Of course I'm not an MBA, so I could just be blowing smoke;)
And even if you were an MBA, you could be blowing smoke.:)
Anyway, the best part of having a niche market (selling things to hardcore geeks instead of the luser population, see thinkgeek.com) is the ability to easily inflate prices. Remember your price/supply/demand curves, people!
I combined AllAdvantage and GoToWorld (I think that was the name, too lazy to look in the cd archives for the software) on three of my windows machines back in the day. The first few months checks rocked, then they caught on. I think I pulled a grand or so for no effort at all in about 3 months of 24/7 fake-surfing. Heh, D'oh!
AKs will disappear when they cost more than $4US on the streets of the third world. It's still sad that I can't import them to my home in NY. I'd like a couple hundred. And about a million rounds of ammo too. The ammo *might* last a week, but dammit, I'd have some fun. There are a lot of cans and bottles that need a lesson taught to them by being hit with 30 rounds of 7.62 goodness.:)
Of course the indications are the NI's(natural intelligence) in soldiers in Iraq are pretty bad at it too since they are routinely bathing innocent cilivians in machine gun fire everytime there is a loud bang in the area.
If you were in An Nas, as my bro was for 6 months, you wouldn't give a flying fuck about wasting an unruly underground populace (that blends in with the decent people) who wants nothing more than to see you dead. Until you've been in combat, or have seen first hand video taken from a Marine's rifle sights (not this shit liberal news), STFU.
I can't find the press release for 2k3 sales numbers because I'm not behind the firewall right now.
The average geek has a tendency to have the newest, most shiny stuff. OLED panels will be out within 5 years, which will replace the dual 17" LCDs on my desk right now.
The health imaging market is becoming almost completely digital(see here). Movie theatres are slowly, but surely moving to digital projection, in which Kodak is a major player. Digital capture is moving along at a brisk pace, also.
Argh, you're right. Too many lenses to fix and not enough sleep has made me lose my mind.
Although, "In April, the company unveiled the KODAK DIGITAL SCIENCE DC120 Zoom Digital Camera, the first point-and-shoot megapixel quality digital camera under $1,000"(from here) is more in line with what I should have said.
How can someone claim that the company with the largest CCD on the market, the company that holds all the patents on the display tech that you will have on your desk in the next five years, has an ever increasing segment of the health imaging market and still sells more motion picture film (while quickly converting theatres to digital) than everyone else on the planet, combined, be lagging in the digital world.
I hear all this garbage talk from critics, but it just doesn't make any sense. The fact of the matter is, EK is doing just fine transitioning from consumer film to consumer digital sales. IIRC, they sold more consumer digital cameras than anyone else did last year. EK knew consumer film was dying before the world did, considering they invented the CCD.
Blah... Everyone says that EK is dying, but I'm working overtime this weekend... HAH!
That would be the problem with the stock market. Stock price rarely ever indicates true market value of a company. Stock price is determined by one thing and one thing only: emotion of traders. If stock price was actually an indicator of value, it'd wouldn't change on the whims of investors and how they feel on a given day.
That's not exactly true. I am a Kodak camera/printer tech. There's a chance I'll get fired for this, but since I'm not at work, I have some recourse.
It is true that some of the early EasyShare cameras did not have DC in to charge and required a dock or the wall charger, but neither of the models you talked about fit that. The DX6340 has DC in, along with the CX4230 (the 4220 you mentioned doesn't exist, the 4210 was only sold outside the US).
The only series based accessories are the docks/printer docks, as the dock interface is different between the two models. I can tell you why, but that would definitely result in the loss of my paycheck. Sorry, but I need the checks to keep coming in.
And if you email me (naz@NOSPAMyclan.net) with the serial number of the 4230, I can tell you exactly why it quit charging. I'm going to guess that you inserted the battery backwards and smashed the battery detection switch. I bet that camera is sitting 5 feet from my bench, if Best Buy has returned it through channel returns and it was really broken.
As far as the the $15 EasyShare batteries, you can use non-Kodak replacements. And any AA batteries will work, just don't use alkaline, as they blow for quick discharge use. I prefer LiIon AAs to test with at my bench, as I can use them for an entire 12 hour shift without recharging them.
Most of this is in the user manual, but email me with any questions you have, I'll gladly answer them. I can help you a lot more than phone support can. I have to get some sleep though. I've got 100 LS443 lens rebuilds to do tomorrow (why do people drop my precious cameras?:( )
But I wear jungle boots almost all the time. My bro gave me a pair the day he got out of bootcamp, and other than sneakers for when I'm wearing shorts (the looks I receieved when wearing jungle boots, shorts, a Bad Religion t-shirt and my shaved head were not pleasant:), I don't wear anything else.
I also have a tendency to wear BDUs everywhere that other people are not, but that's besides the point.
Now these are Vietnam Jungle Boots. Cost ya half as much, last you twice as long, and they're great for stomping queers! Of course, when you're done you've got to clean out the waffle with a stick, but what the hell, you can't have everything, right? Am I right or wrong? - Nick in Falling Down
In the last five years I've been able to get down to writing out 2 checks a month (rent and my net connection - time warner sux and I can't pay it online.) Everything else (I have a ton of bills) gets paid online, and I don't get statements sent.
I went through my filing cabinet last week and rid myself of all past credit card statements (so many cards in 5 years, all at lower and lower rates). When I was done, I had shredded an entire drawer full of garbage. The best part is that I can't fill it back up because I don't get paper sent to me. The only thing I kept were the account closed notices, but only until I order a new credit report to verify closed accounts.
Save a tree, man. Get rid of the paper (and recycle your shredded stuff!)
Use a 1-2 splitter at the wall to get the 2 coax lines. Whether the line is split at the incoming point or at the wall shouldn't matter for signal loss, as long as you use a quality splitter.
Thats the CVA (card verification ??). Its a good way to prove you actually have the card, because you hae to have at least seen the card, you can't get it electronically unless you can sniff & decode someone's SSL transfers.
What any consumer with a brain should notice is that over the past decade or two, banks have continuously reduced their operating costs thanks to ATMs, and yet the amount of money customers tend to shell out for banking services has not decreased-- it has consistently risen. ATM fees are a big part of that.
Until you get a real bank / credit union that doesn't charge any fees. Never once have I given my bank any fees other than interest on loans, which is perfectly acceptable. I don't even pay ATM fees from machines off the network besides the machine owner's charges. And even those are refunded sometimes. Oh yeah, owners dividends yearly are a nice bonus. Banks are supposed to pay you for the chance to earn interest of the collective funds of their clients, not the other way around. Get a real bank that doesn't screw their customers.
They did just that on Court TV's Safety Challenge Holiday Alert last night...
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VISA branded debit cards (maybe MC ones too, I don't have experience with them) in an effort to be friendly and accepted everywhere act as a credit card unless you've specified to use the debit option.
One track of the card has the CC number linked to the primary account, another has a checking account number, and a third has a savings account number. I forget the order as I haven't had access to a magstripe reader/writer since I left my sysadmin job at college (used for the student IDs). It was nice to clone my debit card when the real one got trashed by a minimum wage counter-jockey who snapped it down the magstripe while swiping the card. BTW, the account info is plaintext on the card, if you know your account numbers, you can clone a card without actually having it available.
Next time you go to the gas pumps, select the credit option with your debit card. It won't prompt you for your PIN. It will, if you select the debit option.
I'm guessing its a legacy holdover, it would be nice if PIN usage was required on CC transactions. I think its sad that the local CompUSA here still uses the imprint machines to do CC transactions. Legacy always wins in business...
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That's where you get reasonable connections, not through your cable provider, who has always done nothing but consumer-grade products.
Until you get RoadRunner Business Class. I've called them at 3 am EST and got the local support team. Since they have stopped giving me garbage Cisco routers (Cisco makes the worst crap ever, but that's another story), I haven't had a loss of connection in 3 months now.
I don't know how the other cable providers fare, as I've never lived in another providers area. I've never used DSL, either, but I don't imagine that I can get a better deal with any DSL provider, other than Speakeasy, for my business connection.
More garbage on 800 mHz is not needed. I hope the FCC isn't allowing 800 mHz for blackberries in the US. The FCC already blew it by allowing Nextel to use 800 for cells, which really hinders emergency services usage. I'm just hoping the FCC allows emergency services to keep 40 mHz and 150 mHz all to themselves.
Your blackberry is not as important as my portable radio!
Lead-acid batteries rock, as long as they're not small enough for someone to carry around. The 7000 pound lead-acid batteries in the forklifts at work go for a week without a charge, and a 10k GWP forklift moves a ton faster than a wheelchair. Donuts in forklifts rock, man.
Of course I'm not an MBA, so I could just be blowing smoke ;)
:)
And even if you were an MBA, you could be blowing smoke.
Anyway, the best part of having a niche market (selling things to hardcore geeks instead of the luser population, see thinkgeek.com) is the ability to easily inflate prices. Remember your price/supply/demand curves, people!
I combined AllAdvantage and GoToWorld (I think that was the name, too lazy to look in the cd archives for the software) on three of my windows machines back in the day. The first few months checks rocked, then they caught on. I think I pulled a grand or so for no effort at all in about 3 months of 24/7 fake-surfing. Heh, D'oh!
AKs will disappear when they cost more than $4US on the streets of the third world. It's still sad that I can't import them to my home in NY. I'd like a couple hundred. And about a million rounds of ammo too. The ammo *might* last a week, but dammit, I'd have some fun. There are a lot of cans and bottles that need a lesson taught to them by being hit with 30 rounds of 7.62 goodness. :)
Of course the indications are the NI's(natural intelligence) in soldiers in Iraq are pretty bad at it too since they are routinely bathing innocent cilivians in machine gun fire everytime there is a loud bang in the area.
If you were in An Nas, as my bro was for 6 months, you wouldn't give a flying fuck about wasting an unruly underground populace (that blends in with the decent people) who wants nothing more than to see you dead. Until you've been in combat, or have seen first hand video taken from a Marine's rifle sights (not this shit liberal news), STFU.
I can't find the press release for 2k3 sales numbers because I'm not behind the firewall right now.
The average geek has a tendency to have the newest, most shiny stuff. OLED panels will be out within 5 years, which will replace the dual 17" LCDs on my desk right now.
The health imaging market is becoming almost completely digital(see here). Movie theatres are slowly, but surely moving to digital projection, in which Kodak is a major player. Digital capture is moving along at a brisk pace, also.
Argh, you're right. Too many lenses to fix and not enough sleep has made me lose my mind.
Although, "In April, the company unveiled the KODAK DIGITAL SCIENCE DC120 Zoom Digital Camera, the first point-and-shoot megapixel quality digital camera under $1,000"(from here) is more in line with what I should have said.
Feel free to slap me some...
they just didn't react to the new paradigm that rendered complex proprietary film and chemical processes obsolete...
No, EK didn't react to the new paradigm, they just invented it.
How can someone claim that the company with the largest CCD on the market, the company that holds all the patents on the display tech that you will have on your desk in the next five years, has an ever increasing segment of the health imaging market and still sells more motion picture film (while quickly converting theatres to digital) than everyone else on the planet, combined, be lagging in the digital world.
I hear all this garbage talk from critics, but it just doesn't make any sense. The fact of the matter is, EK is doing just fine transitioning from consumer film to consumer digital sales. IIRC, they sold more consumer digital cameras than anyone else did last year. EK knew consumer film was dying before the world did, considering they invented the CCD.
Blah... Everyone says that EK is dying, but I'm working overtime this weekend... HAH!
That would be the problem with the stock market. Stock price rarely ever indicates true market value of a company. Stock price is determined by one thing and one thing only: emotion of traders. If stock price was actually an indicator of value, it'd wouldn't change on the whims of investors and how they feel on a given day.
Wang, HaX0r Wang. Man, I wish the HaXor Bros. newsletters were still being produced, that stuff was hilarious.
The 6340 is pretty nice, but the 6490 is the bomb, currently the best consumer camera we sell.
I still use a DC4800 personally, its my favorite acmera out of the entire line. Too bad it's not manufactured anymore.
Mr. Eastman. George Eastman. :)
At least we still repair digital cameras here in roch. I get to keep my paycheck coming a little longer... :)
That's not exactly true. I am a Kodak camera/printer tech. There's a chance I'll get fired for this, but since I'm not at work, I have some recourse.
:( )
It is true that some of the early EasyShare cameras did not have DC in to charge and required a dock or the wall charger, but neither of the models you talked about fit that. The DX6340 has DC in, along with the CX4230 (the 4220 you mentioned doesn't exist, the 4210 was only sold outside the US).
The only series based accessories are the docks/printer docks, as the dock interface is different between the two models. I can tell you why, but that would definitely result in the loss of my paycheck. Sorry, but I need the checks to keep coming in.
And if you email me (naz@NOSPAMyclan.net) with the serial number of the 4230, I can tell you exactly why it quit charging. I'm going to guess that you inserted the battery backwards and smashed the battery detection switch. I bet that camera is sitting 5 feet from my bench, if Best Buy has returned it through channel returns and it was really broken.
As far as the the $15 EasyShare batteries, you can use non-Kodak replacements. And any AA batteries will work, just don't use alkaline, as they blow for quick discharge use. I prefer LiIon AAs to test with at my bench, as I can use them for an entire 12 hour shift without recharging them.
Most of this is in the user manual, but email me with any questions you have, I'll gladly answer them. I can help you a lot more than phone support can. I have to get some sleep though. I've got 100 LS443 lens rebuilds to do tomorrow (why do people drop my precious cameras?
But I wear jungle boots almost all the time. My bro gave me a pair the day he got out of bootcamp, and other than sneakers for when I'm wearing shorts (the looks I receieved when wearing jungle boots, shorts, a Bad Religion t-shirt and my shaved head were not pleasant:), I don't wear anything else.
I also have a tendency to wear BDUs everywhere that other people are not, but that's besides the point.
Now these are Vietnam Jungle Boots. Cost ya half as much, last you twice as long, and they're great for stomping queers! Of course, when you're done you've got to clean out the waffle with a stick, but what the hell, you can't have everything, right? Am I right or wrong? - Nick in Falling Down
In the last five years I've been able to get down to writing out 2 checks a month (rent and my net connection - time warner sux and I can't pay it online.) Everything else (I have a ton of bills) gets paid online, and I don't get statements sent.
I went through my filing cabinet last week and rid myself of all past credit card statements (so many cards in 5 years, all at lower and lower rates). When I was done, I had shredded an entire drawer full of garbage. The best part is that I can't fill it back up because I don't get paper sent to me. The only thing I kept were the account closed notices, but only until I order a new credit report to verify closed accounts.
Save a tree, man. Get rid of the paper (and recycle your shredded stuff!)
Sorry, was thinking of cable, not sat. I don't know a thing about satellite, so I don't know where you can toss a multiswitch in.
Use a 1-2 splitter at the wall to get the 2 coax lines. Whether the line is split at the incoming point or at the wall shouldn't matter for signal loss, as long as you use a quality splitter.
Thats the CVA (card verification ??). Its a good way to prove you actually have the card, because you hae to have at least seen the card, you can't get it electronically unless you can sniff & decode someone's SSL transfers.
What any consumer with a brain should notice is that over the past decade or two, banks have continuously reduced their operating costs thanks to ATMs, and yet the amount of money customers tend to shell out for banking services has not decreased-- it has consistently risen. ATM fees are a big part of that.
Until you get a real bank / credit union that doesn't charge any fees. Never once have I given my bank any fees other than interest on loans, which is perfectly acceptable. I don't even pay ATM fees from machines off the network besides the machine owner's charges. And even those are refunded sometimes. Oh yeah, owners dividends yearly are a nice bonus. Banks are supposed to pay you for the chance to earn interest of the collective funds of their clients, not the other way around. Get a real bank that doesn't screw their customers.
They did just that on Court TV's Safety Challenge Holiday Alert last night...
VISA branded debit cards (maybe MC ones too, I don't have experience with them) in an effort to be friendly and accepted everywhere act as a credit card unless you've specified to use the debit option.
One track of the card has the CC number linked to the primary account, another has a checking account number, and a third has a savings account number. I forget the order as I haven't had access to a magstripe reader/writer since I left my sysadmin job at college (used for the student IDs). It was nice to clone my debit card when the real one got trashed by a minimum wage counter-jockey who snapped it down the magstripe while swiping the card. BTW, the account info is plaintext on the card, if you know your account numbers, you can clone a card without actually having it available.
Next time you go to the gas pumps, select the credit option with your debit card. It won't prompt you for your PIN. It will, if you select the debit option.
I'm guessing its a legacy holdover, it would be nice if PIN usage was required on CC transactions. I think its sad that the local CompUSA here still uses the imprint machines to do CC transactions. Legacy always wins in business...