I live in Oregon and I've never seen a dual-flush cistern, but I do know that alot of places are encouraged (if not required) to install low-flow toilets that use alot less water.
If you've ever seen that King of the Hill episode you'll know that sometimes it takes 3 or 4 flushes to get rid of all the solid waste remnants which completely negates any water savings.
I heard once that there was a bill in Washington to get rid of the penny, but lobbyists from some small mining town in Pennsylvania (or thereabouts) shot it down because their entire economy was based on the copper mine that most of the US pennies are made from.
They sell alot of close-out and discontinued LCD products. It looks like most of the ones they sell are meant for TV signals and not RPG computer signals, but if you can get TV Out it might be worth your while.
For example, on their front page they have a Gateway 2000 Solo LCD 12.1" TFT display. It looks like it was meant to go into a laptop, but if you can get a controller for it, it should take an RGB signal as well.
As one who's had his 20GB Series 1 TiVo modded to 80GB for a couple of years now, I can tell you that they do NOT use the same screws as PCs do. At least not on the outside cover. They are some sort of torx head screw that are bitches to get off and may or may not be covered by "Void your warrantee" stickers (its been a while.)
I had to think long and hard before I opened my TiVo because I did not want to lose that warrantee. In the end I'm not sorry I did. My modem DID fry as many do, but that only forced me to upgrade to a TivoNet card and go the ethernet route.
Perhaps the Series 2 machine uses standard phillips-head screws, but my machine certainly does not.
Speaking of Full Metal Challenge, maybe they have had a much higher level of ratings internationally with that show because they feature teams from different countries.
For example, they've had Chinese, Australians, Indians, etc.
Maybe they want to have some of the same sort of success with JW as they have with FMC.
(This is assuming they HAVE had international success with it. I dunno.)
Hey are both of the Rogers girls on those two shows sisters? I could go for a good Rogering right about now.
Couldn't one argue that the demise of the AOL monster could cause a boom in the ISP industry as 36 some-odd million people desperately search for a new ISP? Mom-and-pop ISPs could stay in business, mid-level ISPs could afford to roll out more and better broadband, and lowly tech support personnel will be able to keep their jobs and continue to teach old ladies how to reconfigure their Dial-Up Networking.
This could also have an evolutionary effect. The less capable ISPs will crumble under the huge increase in bandwidth and modem usage, while the ones better suited to survive will prosper and flourish in their influx of new capital and customers.
The bankruptcy and shut-down of AOL would also release thousands of IT geeks into the newly-created job market to help these smaller ISPs to ride the wave and help create the next generation of the Internet.
Perhaps one day, with a little help from AOL, the world will be a better place. At least the online one.
I'd be much more interested in the Friction behind Bond's women. Or in front of them. Or underneath them. Or anywhere there's a good spot to rub up against.
For a very enlightening and interesting discussion of the various similarities and differences of Babylon 5 and Deep Space 9, I guess you guys check out the thread titled "Who Are You?" and "What Do You Want?": The BABYLON 5 / STAR TREK Comparison at the Home Theater Forum, inside the TV and HDTV Programming forum. I would link to it, but HTF is a little miffed at Slashdot for linking to their forum postings and they block links from Slashdot.
Rex Bachmann is doing a bang-up job of formulating some ideas with people regarding these two masterful shows. I am personally a huge fan of both shows and think this is something all fans should check out.
As a tribute to one of the great scientific minds of our time (Arthur C. Clarke), all radio waves used in space contruction should be derivatives of Also Sprach Zarathustra
Thusly ACC would be a part of the space exploration movement that he himself helped to bring about. I'm sure everyone by now has heard about the Jupiter slingshot effect that he devised and was then used by NASA.
How about we just boycott all International websites while we're at it? If they're not running in the US they're obviously trying to hide something. Even if the people don't live here they should still put their servers on our soil so that we have a nice geographical location to send the smart bombs. The range isn't quite to the point of an trans-Atlantic flight so if they'll kindly move their machines over to, let's say, Wisconsin, we can start sending over some volleys.
If I recall correctly, this password originally came from an old text-adventure game that I used to play on my mom's word processor (KayPro or something). It was very similar to Zork. It might even have been Zork, but its been 15 years since I played it.
Screw Paypal indeed. They just recently started requiring all High-Risk merchants to pay upwards of $1500 to continue processing credit cards with Visa and Mastercard, when they have been free in the past. They are going to lose a ton of clients (including me) because of this change. They say this change was instituted directly by Visa and Mastercard, but it still stinks.
They are putting alot of small business out of business.
I too have never had a problem with Washington Mutual's online banking using Mozilla or Phoenix. I use it for both personal checking and online bill payments, and have had nary a browser-related issue.
I had a $10 bid on a magazine that had the words "Kick Ass" on the cover (Dragon 275) and the bastards pulled it for no reason! Its gotta be a fraudulent conspiracy to rape me out of my money.
Until console gaming will allow me to play with 3 televisions simultaneously (ala my Matrox Parhelia setup) I will never change. It adds so much to the experience being able to see in a wide angle, there is no comparison.
My life has been affected in a very negative way due to the 9/11 legislations (I believe) because it caused my younger brother to be shipped off to Egypt for some "peace keeping" mission with the National Guard, when I suspect they are just trying to stockpile troops in problem areas so that they can quickly jump in and strike anything that they need to.
Its not a very good use of my brother's time or energy to sit in a bunker in the desert watching for "disturbances" or whatnot, when he could be here Guarding our country (which is the purpose of the National Guard I am guessing.)
This exact same scenario took place in an Outer Limits episode that I saw. The process involved making a copy and transporting that copy to another place, then destroying the original. But, as is standard Outer Limits fare, something went wrong and the transfer was unsuccessful. Therefore, the original was not destroyed. The next day they found out that the transfer WAS successful, but was reported incorrectly. So they had to destroy the orignal AFTER she'd already woken up and was told what happened. I'm not explaining it very well, but it was a good episode.
I have seen the fading-in-and-out first hand. I recently bought a DVD player, and since I have an older TV without any RCA inputs, I had to route it through my VCR. Well suffice it to say that didn't work. The VCR detected the Macrovision (I believe its called) protection and started fading my DVD movie in and out, and giving flickering blue screens like it was losing the video signal. I wasn't trying to record it or anything, just trying to output the DVD to my screen. Its annoying and I can see how it would keep someone from ripping a movie if it was corrupted in that way.
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I live in Oregon and I've never seen a dual-flush cistern, but I do know that alot of places are encouraged (if not required) to install low-flow toilets that use alot less water.
If you've ever seen that King of the Hill episode you'll know that sometimes it takes 3 or 4 flushes to get rid of all the solid waste remnants which completely negates any water savings.
They also said its mainly only used in the Eastern part of the country, which is not water-starved in the least bit.
Heh, that's possibly what I'm remembering. I have a hard time distinguising TV from reality.
I heard once that there was a bill in Washington to get rid of the penny, but lobbyists from some small mining town in Pennsylvania (or thereabouts) shot it down because their entire economy was based on the copper mine that most of the US pennies are made from.
I suggest you check out http://www.eio.com/
They sell alot of close-out and discontinued LCD products. It looks like most of the ones they sell are meant for TV signals and not RPG computer signals, but if you can get TV Out it might be worth your while.
For example, on their front page they have a Gateway 2000 Solo LCD 12.1" TFT display. It looks like it was meant to go into a laptop, but if you can get a controller for it, it should take an RGB signal as well.
Perhaps that is the audio encoding method for SVCDs and DVDs that use MPEG2 for their video encoding.
I believe you are mistaken. MP3 = MPEG-1 Layer 3, not MPEG-2.
As one who's had his 20GB Series 1 TiVo modded to 80GB for a couple of years now, I can tell you that they do NOT use the same screws as PCs do. At least not on the outside cover. They are some sort of torx head screw that are bitches to get off and may or may not be covered by "Void your warrantee" stickers (its been a while.)
I had to think long and hard before I opened my TiVo because I did not want to lose that warrantee. In the end I'm not sorry I did. My modem DID fry as many do, but that only forced me to upgrade to a TivoNet card and go the ethernet route.
Perhaps the Series 2 machine uses standard phillips-head screws, but my machine certainly does not.
Coming next season on Comedy Central: Battlebots on Mars!
Watch as the US and Europe clash in combat as their Martian rovers battle for planetary supremacy!
Speaking of Full Metal Challenge, maybe they have had a much higher level of ratings internationally with that show because they feature teams from different countries.
For example, they've had Chinese, Australians, Indians, etc.
Maybe they want to have some of the same sort of success with JW as they have with FMC.
(This is assuming they HAVE had international success with it. I dunno.)
Hey are both of the Rogers girls on those two shows sisters? I could go for a good Rogering right about now.
Couldn't one argue that the demise of the AOL monster could cause a boom in the ISP industry as 36 some-odd million people desperately search for a new ISP? Mom-and-pop ISPs could stay in business, mid-level ISPs could afford to roll out more and better broadband, and lowly tech support personnel will be able to keep their jobs and continue to teach old ladies how to reconfigure their Dial-Up Networking.
This could also have an evolutionary effect. The less capable ISPs will crumble under the huge increase in bandwidth and modem usage, while the ones better suited to survive will prosper and flourish in their influx of new capital and customers.
The bankruptcy and shut-down of AOL would also release thousands of IT geeks into the newly-created job market to help these smaller ISPs to ride the wave and help create the next generation of the Internet.
Perhaps one day, with a little help from AOL, the world will be a better place. At least the online one.
I'd be much more interested in the Friction behind Bond's women. Or in front of them. Or underneath them. Or anywhere there's a good spot to rub up against.
For a very enlightening and interesting discussion of the various similarities and differences of Babylon 5 and Deep Space 9, I guess you guys check out the thread titled "Who Are You?" and "What Do You Want?": The BABYLON 5 / STAR TREK Comparison at the Home Theater Forum, inside the TV and HDTV Programming forum. I would link to it, but HTF is a little miffed at Slashdot for linking to their forum postings and they block links from Slashdot.
Rex Bachmann is doing a bang-up job of formulating some ideas with people regarding these two masterful shows. I am personally a huge fan of both shows and think this is something all fans should check out.
As a tribute to one of the great scientific minds of our time (Arthur C. Clarke), all radio waves used in space contruction should be derivatives of Also Sprach Zarathustra
Thusly ACC would be a part of the space exploration movement that he himself helped to bring about. I'm sure everyone by now has heard about the Jupiter slingshot effect that he devised and was then used by NASA.
How about we just boycott all International websites while we're at it? If they're not running in the US they're obviously trying to hide something. Even if the people don't live here they should still put their servers on our soil so that we have a nice geographical location to send the smart bombs. The range isn't quite to the point of an trans-Atlantic flight so if they'll kindly move their machines over to, let's say, Wisconsin, we can start sending over some volleys.
Down with spyware!
Up with weapons of mass destruction!
But can it play Quake?
If I recall correctly, this password originally came from an old text-adventure game that I used to play on my mom's word processor (KayPro or something). It was very similar to Zork. It might even have been Zork, but its been 15 years since I played it.
Screw Paypal indeed. They just recently started requiring all High-Risk merchants to pay upwards of $1500 to continue processing credit cards with Visa and Mastercard, when they have been free in the past. They are going to lose a ton of clients (including me) because of this change. They say this change was instituted directly by Visa and Mastercard, but it still stinks.
They are putting alot of small business out of business.
Screw Paypal in their bitch asses.
I too have never had a problem with Washington Mutual's online banking using Mozilla or Phoenix. I use it for both personal checking and online bill payments, and have had nary a browser-related issue.
I was able to view it using Mozilla 1.2b on Win32, so perhaps it will load on other versions of Mozilla/Phoenix.
Just like I remembered it from my Colecovision.
I had a $10 bid on a magazine that had the words "Kick Ass" on the cover (Dragon 275) and the bastards pulled it for no reason! Its gotta be a fraudulent conspiracy to rape me out of my money.
Until console gaming will allow me to play with 3 televisions simultaneously (ala my Matrox Parhelia setup) I will never change. It adds so much to the experience being able to see in a wide angle, there is no comparison.
Yeah.
That's it.
Its not a very good use of my brother's time or energy to sit in a bunker in the desert watching for "disturbances" or whatnot, when he could be here Guarding our country (which is the purpose of the National Guard I am guessing.)
This exact same scenario took place in an Outer Limits episode that I saw. The process involved making a copy and transporting that copy to another place, then destroying the original. But, as is standard Outer Limits fare, something went wrong and the transfer was unsuccessful. Therefore, the original was not destroyed. The next day they found out that the transfer WAS successful, but was reported incorrectly. So they had to destroy the orignal AFTER she'd already woken up and was told what happened. I'm not explaining it very well, but it was a good episode.
I have seen the fading-in-and-out first hand. I recently bought a DVD player, and since I have an older TV without any RCA inputs, I had to route it through my VCR. Well suffice it to say that didn't work. The VCR detected the Macrovision (I believe its called) protection and started fading my DVD movie in and out, and giving flickering blue screens like it was losing the video signal. I wasn't trying to record it or anything, just trying to output the DVD to my screen. Its annoying and I can see how it would keep someone from ripping a movie if it was corrupted in that way.