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  1. Conversion kits for regular bikes on E-bike E-xperiences? · · Score: 1

    Zapworld.com sells a do-it-your-self kit to attach a battery pack and motor to your bicycle.

    It turns a regular bike into a battery-assisted bike for going faster, going up hills, etc.

    I would have gotten one years ago except I'm too short and the frame size of my bike isn't large enough to accommodate the batter pack.

  2. Re:only see half of it.. on Origins Mini-Series Airs Tonight · · Score: 1

    It's been a few days now and it doesn't appear to have shown up on any torrent sites yet.

  3. Re:Why weren't the children taught sign language? on Deaf Children Invent Language · · Score: 1

    The US-backed dictator of Nicaragua was given the boot by the people of his country and the Americans were sore losers and imposed sanctions against the country and it's people.

  4. hard core nerd stuff on Windows to Mac Migration Guide/Advice? · · Score: 1

    Once you've gotten through Mac OS X GUI boot camp and are ready to delve into the guts of OS X, the best site around is macosxhints.com.

    PS - welcome to family.

  5. My Experience on 2.4GHz-Friendly Phones? · · Score: 1

    I had a 2.4 GHz phone that I really like, unfortunately, I also really like my 802.11g base station. They didn't get along and I replaced my phone with an 800 MHz model.

  6. Re:Tee Hee on Birth of the iPod · · Score: 1

    It's also worth noting that the ./ community dumped all over the ipod mini when it was released, claiming that no one would buy them, for an extra $50 you could get triple the drive space, etc...

    Check it out here.

    As we've since discovered, the mini was even more popular that the maxi ipod. I guess this is proof that the ./ community is not representative of the world at large (gasp! horrors!)

  7. What The F*CK? on U.S. Navy to Deploy Rail Guns by 2011 · · Score: 1, Troll

    It is stunningly stupefacting that the American military-industrial complex is still so deeply entrenched in the power structures, that even without the merest shadow of a credible enemy (for well over a decade), the warmongers are able to gobble up billions of dollars to continue to improve the ability to slaughter and destroy.

  8. Re:I've got an idea to save Trek... on Babylon 5 Creator Pitches Trek · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Please make sure there's room left over for Brannon Braga as well. These doofuses have managed to suck out of Trek any real sci-fi and replace it with moralistic, namby-pamby, lowest common denominator, techno-babble, pablum crap!

  9. Re:Canada, too! on Apple Music Store Coming to Europe & iTunes in China · · Score: 1

    Given the exchange rate of the Canadian dollar I can't imagine how they could possibly affort to do this. As of this moment, it costs a Canadian $1.31CDN to buy $0.99 US.

  10. Re:Attitude Is Important on The Urban Geek As A Mugger Magnet? · · Score: 1

    Perhaps the problem is one of latitude, not attitude.

    I've got an iPod, and not only do I still use the trademark white earbuds, but I also carry my ipod around in an iPod case on the strap of my bag, with the cover unflapped so I can get easy access to the controls. I've also got a 15" TiBook that I schlep around with me and have never had reason to be concerned. I live in Edmonton Alberta Canada, population 750,000.

  11. Move to Canada on The Urban Geek As A Mugger Magnet? · · Score: 1

    Perhaps the problem is one of latitude, not attitude.

    I've got an iPod, and not only do I still use the trademark white earbuds, but I also carry my ipod around in an iPod case on the strap of my bag, with the cover unflapped so I can get easy access to the controls. I've also got a 15" TiBook that I schlep around with me and have never had reason to be concerned. I live in Edmonton Alberta, population 750,000.

  12. Re:don't be dumb billy. on Mac Trojan Horse Disguised as Word 2004 · · Score: 1

    Indeed. And while we're calling people dummies, just what the heck do you suppose a virus scan would have revealed, dummy?

  13. Re:Really how fast is this 1.25GHz machine on Apple Revises eMac · · Score: 1

    It ships with Panter (10.3) not Jaguar (10.2).

  14. Is Robert X Cringely in on this? on A Black Box for People · · Score: 2, Informative

    A couple of years ago, the oft-quoted PBS techno-pundit Robert X Cringely lost his son to sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS).

    In subsequent articles, he proposed a distributed computing project to try to track down the cause of SIDS by outfitting infants with wearable computers that would gather all sorts of data in the hopes of determining the cause(s) of SIDS.

    He even had the brainwave of trying to sell the spare computing cycles of the devices to work on distributed processing tasks as a way to subsidize the development costs.

  15. A modest suggestion on Making A Better Browser History · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It would be really cool if TrailBlazer we able to integrate with Safari rather than act as a stand alone browser. If TrailBlazer was able to follow your trail by parsing Safari's cache it would be totally awesome. As it is now, TrailBlazer is a cool novelty, but as a browser it lacks many of the features most modern web users use.

  16. Proper URL for nVidia patch on Apple Fills Your Tuesday With Updates · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here's a link to the KB article that describes and links to the patch.

  17. Re:I want to do one too on Macintosh 2004 Case Mod · · Score: 1

    If I recall correctly, the file format isn't a PICT, it's something called 'StartupScreen'. There's an application called Graphic Converter that knows how to convert files into this format.

  18. Give someone else a chance on Star Trek: Enterprise in Danger of Being Cancelled · · Score: 1

    It seems that the same core group of people (Rick Berman and Brannon Braga?) have had their mitts all over the franchise for the last several series/movies, and they've all been pretty bland and formulaic. Maybe if they brought in some new blood they'd get some new and original ideas.

  19. Re:Need QuickTime for Linux ! on A Look Inside Virginia Tech's New Super Computer · · Score: 2, Informative

    It runs on 10.2 actually.

  20. Audiophile reviews on iPods are for Audiophiles · · Score: 1

    I once read an Audiophile review of mini disc media That's right, media. All of the high-falootin' language being applied to the improved sound coming from digital files being played back from one type of media versus another type of media, from the same player, recorded from same digital source.

    It's kind of like an art snob talking about the differences in the colours of identical image files burned onto different CDs, or emailed via different email clients.

    Mind you, we used to say it was impossible to get a computer virus by looking at a piece of email...

  21. Re:About $35 on New iMacs (and iPods) · · Score: 1

    True.

    I'm a happy iTrip user as well, so I'm expecting good things from it once it finally ships.

  22. Re:About $35 on New iMacs (and iPods) · · Score: 1

    If you read their web site you'll note that this product is not yet shipping. I pre-ordered mine months ago and am still waiting... I also just remembered that the credit card I used for my pre-order has had it's expiry date expire and I've now got a new card. I wonder if I'll have to cancel my order, re-order my pre-order and thus lose my place in line?

  23. Re:Ipod question on New iMacs (and iPods) · · Score: 1

    I have one of the second generation 20 gig iPods, and it's filled with music. I have about 40 gigs of music, and don't enjoy having to pick which half of my music not to have with me. I would have not problem filling a 40 gig iPod.

  24. Check out Zoe on How Do You Organize Your Data? · · Score: 2, Informative
    I've been using Zoe for a while. It's free, open source, and written in Java. Here is a description from the site:

    The goal here is to do for email (starting with your personal mailbox)
    what Google did for the web... The Google principle: It doesn't matter
    where information is because I can get to it with a keystroke.
    So what is Zoe? Think about it as a sort of librarian, tirelessly,
    continuously, processing, slicing, indexing, organizing, your messages.
    The end result is this intertwingled web of information. Messages put in
    context. Your very own knowledge base accessible at your fingertip. No
    more "attending to" your messages. The messages organization is done
    automatically for you so as to not have the need to "manage" your email.
    Because once information is available at a keystroke, it doesn't matter
    in which folder you happened to file it two years ago. There is no
    folder. The information is always there. Accessible when you need it. In
    context.


    It's worked well for me and my tens of thousands of email messages.
  25. Branch plant mentality on New Dell Clickthrough Software License · · Score: 1

    Something to keep in mind is that the authors tried to find satisfaction with Dell Canada. Dell Canada is completely sales-focused, and as a result does not make policy, does not influence policy, and does not even contain employees who are empowered to do anything other than obey orders from head office.