64MB of memory has always been 65,536 bytes. 360KB floppies have always been 362,496 bytes (after file system.) 20MB hard drives were always well above 20,000,000 bytes (after file system.) Just because the folks that brought us the metric system decide to change things, doesn't mean that we should get short changed now.
Same here. I have the crappiest looking car stereo you'd never want to steal, but it has a CD-in jack on the front. The iPod comes with me, and no CD's in the car to get stolen or heat-warped.
I used to work for the 'local' computer store. People would come in and I would spend an hour with them, explaining processors and video cards, hard drives and options. They would get a price quote and leave.
A week later, I'd get a call on the phone. The user got his machine from Walmart because it was a couple hundred dollars cheaper, and now he's having a problem with it, and would I help him out over the phone.
I wonder how this will affect Toyota Prius owners. The car comes with a video screen that shows the status of the motor assist system. In fact, pretty much any color "video" screen, such as those that house navigation, climate and radio controls on more expensive cars, would be banned, at least according to the text on the DMV site.
If she hadn't admitted to the pictures, she probably could have used the Photoshop defense. Get a photo of the prosecutor and paste on a naked body with a public place in the background.
To fit the space available, Apple went with a custom-sized Lithium Polymer battery (picture). These are of a size and shape that you're not going to be able to easily put together with Lithium Ion cells like a standard cellphone battery, so it's going to cost more.
That said, since a 600mAh Lithium polymer cell phone battery costs $34.95, the 850mAh or 1200mAh iPod batteries aren't a bad deal at $49.00, and Apple will even do the labor and return shipping for $50 more.
It sucks having to explain to people running credit card processing software why bank modems are all 1200 or 2400 bps. 56kbps may be faster for sending a 140 byte message, but not when you spend 20 seconds listening to the stupid thing bong-bong back and forth trying to decide on a protocol and speed.
In fact, so few modem makers even care to test their equipment at 1200 bps that we collected old Smartmodem 1200 and 2400 modems to send out to people who couldn't find a decent 'slow' modem.
I could go for pay-to-view programs. Play a few episodes at the beginning of a series for free and if I like it, I'll continue to pay for it for as long as the series lasts. Make an occasional episode free to keep me coming back. Better yet, let ME choose which CHANNELS I want to pay for. Let's face it: it's better than paying $55 per month for dozens of channels I don't watch to get the four that I do.
We felt the same way looking through a dozen jigsaw puzzles downstairs. My wife and I don't do the puzzles, but in a couple of years, our son will be ready for puzzles. So we'll just donate them to the Salvation Army, and when we need them in a a year or two, we'll go down and buy them back for $1.00.
In the meantime, we'll be able to actually FIND stuff.:-)
In case you're wondering how TLC's Clean Sweep works, and you don't want to spend an hour watching the drama, here goes:
Organization is only a small part of the show. The biggest part is that everything in the affected rooms gets taken out and stacked in the driveway. That's furniture, papers, everything.
The homeowners go through the pile with an unbiased third party and sort their stuff into a "Keep" pile, a "Toss" pile and a "Sell" pile. By talking packrats out of stuff they really don't need, they usually end up putting less than 10% of the stuff back in the house. That's the big secret: get rid of crap.
Aside: While we were evacuated during the SoCal fires, my wife and I sat in a motel room, with our photo albums, laptops, hard drives from our desktop and important papers in the car, and realized that we weren't really 'out' anything if the house burned down. The insurance company would buy us new TV's, DVD players, furniture, dishes, etc., but all that stuff in the basement that took a 26' U-Haul and four trips with a longbed pickup to get there didn't mean a thing.
So Thanksgiving is Clean Sweep day. Everything goes onto the patio, and 90% of it goes to the dump or to Salvation Army. We have our Home Depot card ready to get some shelving and clear bins, and we will pare the pile down to what we actually need. Looking forward to it.
And for most consumer electronics, it's not the batteries that suck, it's the chargers. Motorola, despite years of manufacturing cell phones, still can't be bothered to put in the 5 cents' worth of circuits to shut off their cell phone chargers when the charge is complete. My i1000 actually says, "Shut off charger" when the charge is complete, and if I don't, it will continue to overcharge. WTF?
Some laptops are the same way. We had some Toshiba laptops that sat on docking stations since they were new, and less than a year later, the batteries were completely shot. A call to Toshiba confirmed that they continuously overcharge their batteries when on the dock--even though Windows, the laptop and the battery itself know that the battery is full.
Interesting, I never had that problem. Just minimize Software Update until you're ready to reboot, then bring it back up and click "Restart." I've never had it force me to restart.
How about if they make the lights go red in all directions when somebody triggers them? All cars stop, and the emergency vehicle can go through the red. This defeats the purpose of the traffic switcher for normal drivers.
That's funny; our Fox station was exactly the opposite. It was KCAL 9 and NBC 4 who provided the best coverage, while FOX 11 went back to the Simpsons in no time.
They all have their problems with certain routes. Plot your route on two different sites. If the results aren't strikingly similar, go for a third opinion.
I'm afraid I was guilt of that once, a long time ago. Some (cheap) drives are very easy to force the wrong way, due to the flimsy plastic connector. I zapped a SCSI drive containing a lot of important data by plugging it in backwards. (Hey, it was mounted in the case underneath other drives, so I was working entirely by touch.) Fortunately we had an identical drive nearby, and a quick swap of the controller got things moving again.
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Depends on your priorities. I fly Southwest because they haven't killed anyone yet.
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They lied to me. My 20GB drive is only 18.6GB.
Same here. I have the crappiest looking car stereo you'd never want to steal, but it has a CD-in jack on the front. The iPod comes with me, and no CD's in the car to get stolen or heat-warped.
A week later, I'd get a call on the phone. The user got his machine from Walmart because it was a couple hundred dollars cheaper, and now he's having a problem with it, and would I help him out over the phone.
No thanks.
I wonder how this will affect Toyota Prius owners. The car comes with a video screen that shows the status of the motor assist system. In fact, pretty much any color "video" screen, such as those that house navigation, climate and radio controls on more expensive cars, would be banned, at least according to the text on the DMV site.
If she hadn't admitted to the pictures, she probably could have used the Photoshop defense. Get a photo of the prosecutor and paste on a naked body with a public place in the background.
That said, since a 600mAh Lithium polymer cell phone battery costs $34.95, the 850mAh or 1200mAh iPod batteries aren't a bad deal at $49.00, and Apple will even do the labor and return shipping for $50 more.
Here. Mmmm, vacuum-fluorescent. I still have one in my basement.
In fact, so few modem makers even care to test their equipment at 1200 bps that we collected old Smartmodem 1200 and 2400 modems to send out to people who couldn't find a decent 'slow' modem.
I have a nice piece of black construction paper that says you're wrong. :-)
I could go for pay-to-view programs. Play a few episodes at the beginning of a series for free and if I like it, I'll continue to pay for it for as long as the series lasts. Make an occasional episode free to keep me coming back. Better yet, let ME choose which CHANNELS I want to pay for. Let's face it: it's better than paying $55 per month for dozens of channels I don't watch to get the four that I do.
In the meantime, we'll be able to actually FIND stuff. :-)
Organization is only a small part of the show. The biggest part is that everything in the affected rooms gets taken out and stacked in the driveway. That's furniture, papers, everything.
The homeowners go through the pile with an unbiased third party and sort their stuff into a "Keep" pile, a "Toss" pile and a "Sell" pile. By talking packrats out of stuff they really don't need, they usually end up putting less than 10% of the stuff back in the house. That's the big secret: get rid of crap.
Aside: While we were evacuated during the SoCal fires, my wife and I sat in a motel room, with our photo albums, laptops, hard drives from our desktop and important papers in the car, and realized that we weren't really 'out' anything if the house burned down. The insurance company would buy us new TV's, DVD players, furniture, dishes, etc., but all that stuff in the basement that took a 26' U-Haul and four trips with a longbed pickup to get there didn't mean a thing.
So Thanksgiving is Clean Sweep day. Everything goes onto the patio, and 90% of it goes to the dump or to Salvation Army. We have our Home Depot card ready to get some shelving and clear bins, and we will pare the pile down to what we actually need. Looking forward to it.
Bastard! That song'll be in my head for a week!
Some laptops are the same way. We had some Toshiba laptops that sat on docking stations since they were new, and less than a year later, the batteries were completely shot. A call to Toshiba confirmed that they continuously overcharge their batteries when on the dock--even though Windows, the laptop and the battery itself know that the battery is full.
Novell's had it since at least version 4. Accidentally deleted or corrupted a file? Go back and recover any of the last few saves.
Interesting, I never had that problem. Just minimize Software Update until you're ready to reboot, then bring it back up and click "Restart." I've never had it force me to restart.
Why not go visit your local minor league team, then? Then you'll pay $8 for a seat in the exec box at a home game and $3 for parking.
Ah, Hercules. Nothing like playing Starflight on a vertically compressed screen. Anybody remember SETCGA and SIMCGA? Sopwith II with ghosting, mmmmm.
How about if they make the lights go red in all directions when somebody triggers them? All cars stop, and the emergency vehicle can go through the red. This defeats the purpose of the traffic switcher for normal drivers.
That's funny; our Fox station was exactly the opposite. It was KCAL 9 and NBC 4 who provided the best coverage, while FOX 11 went back to the Simpsons in no time.
Ah, so that's why they're in the Axis of Evil.
They all have their problems with certain routes. Plot your route on two different sites. If the results aren't strikingly similar, go for a third opinion.
I'm afraid I was guilt of that once, a long time ago. Some (cheap) drives are very easy to force the wrong way, due to the flimsy plastic connector. I zapped a SCSI drive containing a lot of important data by plugging it in backwards. (Hey, it was mounted in the case underneath other drives, so I was working entirely by touch.) Fortunately we had an identical drive nearby, and a quick swap of the controller got things moving again.