"If only I didn't desperately crave HD content on my TV!" If you want HD content on your TV, get a DirectTV HD Tivo. If you want to watch blu ray discs, buy a stand-alone drive for $1000 and watch those 3 or 5 blu movies. If you want to watch HD movies on your tv/plasma/lcd/projector screen using your pc w/ blu ray drive as the source - don't! For $1000 you can buy TWO terabytes of storage, dump it on your pc and watch HD content for the next 3 or 5 years without upgrading anything. bittorrent and newsgroups should be more than enough. If you are still on a dial-up...well, then you probably can't afford that blu ray to begin with nor the expensive blanks.
In other news, Lenovo is NOT concerned - it's just a matter of time before US State Department employees' jobs are outsourced to China...where chinese workers will use Lenovo computers to perform their daily tasks. While US government can't contract the work out to a chinese company directly I am 100% sure they will have no problems giving the contract to IBM who will ship the work to where the work is cheaper (China, India, Brazil, etc)
I am sure he'll have no problems finding work - with Sony PS3 coming out in November and xbox360 already out, one of the modchip mfgs will snap him up. He may not be a genius that he claimed he was but he already has two primary qualifications - reverse engineering skills and flexible morals.
That explains why they had that 30% off EVERYTHING on-line sale last week of December. (trying to make their numbers look better) Dell does the same thing every quarter.
I almost always buy from Newegg and recommend to others. Even though their prices are slightly higher, I know they will take any doa hardware back without asking too many questions or making me jump through hoops. One time I ordered a refurb aopen cube pc from newegg(for $100 less than new) and it arrived with everything included, manuals, cables, etc. No scratches on the case or any broken or missing parts. A month later I ordered a "NEW" barebones system from Tiger Direct and it came banged up so bad that I couldn't even close the case properly. Cardboard box was not damaged so it was definitely broken when they shipped it. Never got my rebate either. The moral of the story is stick with the good guys, even if it costs $3 or $5 more per item. The last thing you want to do is get stuck with a lemon pc accessory because you get "sorry, we can't take it back once it's opened, try the manufacturer" from some crappy dealer or "that will be 15% restocking fee" or "contact UPS, they probably broke it during shipping"
Oh, they are giving away several AMD X2 4800 CPUs (RTFA, click on TFL) so put your email address and wait. (don't use your work address since they will send some spam - newegg newsletter)
Bluetooth (A2DP) would be the way to go and in fact VW's other brand, Audi, offers it. I have a Motorola cell phone w/ 2GB sd memory card but will have to either another head unit that will support it or get an adaptor that will go into the currently unused tape slot. (for bt a2dp) I guess there are going for the lowest common denominator - USB - since everyone has it on their pc AND allow charging of the ipod using the same cable....I would hate to go on a long trip in my car w/ ipod full of music just to have the batteries die 30 mins into the trip.
Take a job in NC, making 2/3 of what you make in NYC. Buy a house for 1/3 NC of what it would cost to get a 2 bedroom apartment in NYC or a small house in Northern NJ or LA.
Stupid cell runs Windows! Why would anyone want to steal THAT? If you want real performace, get the "E" class (Mercedes ref.)-- Motorola E680i. It runs Linux and has an sd slot, FM tuner,J2ME apps, etc.
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From the horse's mouth: "Turn-by-Turn navigation. There just isn't anything out there for Linux." Why even bother? w/o turn by turn, gps (and this guy's linux carpc) is pretty much useless.
Music? I have a Motorola E685i cell phone that has gprs (internet access), bluetooth (sends audio to any a2dp enabled car stereo receiver), plays mpeg4 movies, syncs with my home pc (usb or bt), has web browser and FM radio. Oh, it runs LINUX and is blazing fast. No, it won't do turn by turn gps navigation BUT neither does his. So if you insist on running Linux in your car, get a phone that does. The best part is that it's very small (smaller than sidekick) and I can take it with me....If you get lost easily, like me, turn by turn navigation is a must-have.
yeah, manuscripts... too bad you didn't bring up the Shroud of Turin...because that was proven to be a fake...made by a brilliant artist who had a sense of humor and a pair of balls. and the apostles? please, this world is full of weak-minded people who will follow just about anyone.. like Osama bin Laden. He promised them eternal life and added a bunch of virgins as a bonus. I guess religion and more importantly the belief that if they are good they are going to live forever keeps most religious people going. worse than christians are the agnostic bunch that thinks aliens came to earth and built or helped build pyramids... They are worse because they claim to be men and women of science (more like sci-fi) but then completely disregard rational explanation - egyptians understood geometry and applied physics...just like the guy who built the Coral Castle. Sure, it took him 30 years but I guess with 20,000 slaves one can build something faster or a lot bigger.
For $250 (for new customers) I got a DishNetwork DVR with 250GB hard drive, 2 HD satellite and 1 off-air HD tuners, two-room viewing, HDMI/DVI,etc. There are only several off-air HD tv channels in my area so I can't justify spending $1000 on a home-grown box that won't pick up any satellite channels. If you have $$$, get one of these and start hacking. I would love to be able to add an extra 250GB hd and make use of the USB ports (not being used for anything now)
That's why a lot of companies (health insurance, financial,etc) are switching from using your SSN to Personal IDs as the unique identifier in the system. HOWEVER, they will still need your SSN for reporting stuff to the government. At least your SSN won't be listed on the health insurance card when you go to the doctor. Right now your doctor's office has enough info about you - SSN, home address, "emergency contact info", phone numbers and even possibly bank routing and account number (if you pay by check) Person who's handling all this can easily make copies and apply for new credit cards,etc. There's absolutely no reason why they need your SSN, your health insurance card (with non-ssn personal ID should be enough)
Do what the bastard operator from hell would do - unplug the switch that the security eggspert is plugged into and go to lunch. If he tries to break into the wiring closet, have him severly beaten by PHYSICAL security guards and thrown out for trying to compromise and possibly expose your WIRED network to external attacks via 802.11b. (have a wireless router or an access point planted in his enormous laptop bag for that no-further questions needed factor...helps if the brand matches his wireless pcmcia card)
Seriously, they should not be plugging their own equipment into your network. If they lose that laptop, all your internal secrects will be exposed and may end up posted on the web.
Work with the consultant every step of the way - give them a pc, install their scanning software, etc. Don't let them use pirated or downloaded from the web scanning tools - it may contain a keystroke logger or some other nasty trojan.
I think we can all agree that selling, or "bundling" a crippled version of Windows is idiotic. HOWEVER, it will discourage slick businessmen from bringing these PCs back to US since no one here would buy a crippled yet legit OS + PC package, no matter how low the price. Also, I am sure Dell, etc. wouldn't be too happy having to compete with some manufacturer of PCs that got a break on a full version of windows where Dell would have to pay a lot more for the same copy. By making it different, they are solving that problem. I am sure you'll be able to hack it and make it normal again... Does ANYONE remember Windows NT Workstation 4.0/3.51? By making 2 registry changes, you could have made your workstation ($200?) behave and appear to other apps as a SERVER version of Windows ($1000?) Different pricing points in different countries for identical goods are very common for electronics manufacturers - I know one person who went on vacation to another country for a week and brought back a "gray market" plasma TV. It cost him $7,000 there and it sells here for $15,000. Even with flight and hotel expenses he still came out ahead. He doesn't have a US warranty for that TV but that's the risk he was willing to take.
If Thomas was smart, he would have talked to an accountant who works with small businesses BEFORE he started that job (telecommuting from home in one state for a company in ANOTHER) I know it's not always possible, but he should have formed an LLC (limited liability company) and asked his "employer" to pay his company instead of making checks out to him directly. At the end of the year his company, based in TN, would get a 1099 instead of him. His SSN would be off NY's radar and he wouldn't be dealing with this shit - $5k tax bill plus possible penalties.
I own a Sony SAT-T60 DirecTV receiver that is also a tivo unit. Since I will never go back to cable (well, maybe only when Verizon starts offering it via fiber) because of crappy signal and few channels, buying a satellite receiver with Tivo built-in was a logical choice: 1. Signal from satellite comes in digital format and is saved that way to tivo's internal hard drive. Try doing that with your home-grown video capture; going from digital to analog to digital defeats the purpose of getting satellite in the first place! 2. With directTV tivo you can tape TWO channels at the same time while watching something else that was "taped" before. 3. You can pause live tv, go answer the phone, door, microwave your dinner, etc. and then resume play from where you paused it. 4. Wife or girlfirned rudely interrupted you? (while you were watching the game winning goal/shot/touchdown?) NO problem! don't get mad, just rewind - Tivo always keeps 30 mins of the channel(s) you are watching in a buffer. 5. Tivo units run Linux and are very hackable, software and hardware-wise. You can add or replace its hard drive to increase capacity, add network card to use broadband to pull down guide data snf updates via the Internet (instead of telephone call) Many people have modded their Tivo boxes to display weather, run webserver so you can connect from work and schedule stuff and view other stats...like what your kids are watching right now:) 6. With that network card installed on series 1 and wireless 802.11 usb adapter on series 2 tivo you can pull down shows to your desktop, laptop or xbox (with minor changes to os on tivo) 7. You can skip all those annoying commercials - you will save about 15 minutes per 1 hour show. Once you get used to this feature (takes about 5 minutes) you will not understand why your inlaws' tv cannot do this... 8. Ecellent search capability - want to see a movie with Angelina Jolie or Harrison Ford? Type it in and let tivo search up to two weeks of programming guide data. Found it but it's playing at 3am on Friday? No problem, with a click of a button you can add it to be taped for you. 9. Small form factor and lower power consumption. Sure, you can probably get most of these features by taking a small pc and adding two tuner cards, sound card or mobo with optical out jack for sound, another dedicated hard drive, rd receiver and remote control but you will still need another box to get the satellite singal. Less hardware, especially the ugly pc kind is a plus. Finally, the money you'll save by using a low power device vs 300W pc will probably be enough to offset the $5 Tivo fee that DirectTV charges their customers. (A LOT of people bitch and moan about five bucks but ignore how much power and $ their home grown pc/tivo-clone will waste. Building something that will look attrative in your living room will cost quiet a bit as well.
P.S. Person who designed Sony SAT-T60's remote control is a genius!...I can't say the same about other mfg's remotes.
wow, with capacity like that, it will definitely give the mini run for its money. (i don't expect nerds to have good "grammer" or use there and their appropriately, but come ON! Gigabytes and Megabytes is something this article's poster should be familiar with)
My brother-in-law is getting a PHAT fiber pipe right to his house in January! He just happens to be a tech who is rolling out the same fiber for Verizon in NY State. They are making these guys work from 6am until 6pm every single day. Verizon is betting EVERYTHING they have on this because if they don't deliver in time, cable companies will be the only ones standing. VOIP will be here in-mass and Verizon will lose tons of money if they don't adapt. That's why they are coming up with alternative money making schemes, like video on demand (movies), internet, voip, videophone, etc. all over ONE fiber. They are also working hard to prevent other companies from getting access to these fiber lines. Right now the law says Verizon has to give access to their copper (DSL) at cost and they don't want the same to happen to their fiber lines.
it's 25 bucks, not 15 per month. 15 only gets you 500 minutes. I guess that's enough if you have a cell phone or live in your parents's basement and have no friends. Both plans come with callerID, 3-way calling,repeat redial,etc. The BEST feature that I actually use is making Vonage ring my landline AND cell phone at the SAME TIME when I am receiving an incoming phone call. What's the big deal? You will never miss an important phone call and will have the option to answer landline (save cell minutes) if you are near your phone or use your cell as a remote caller id - no need to answer, just look to see who is calling. And of course you can just answer the cell if you are nowhere near your house.
Houses that burned down were made out of redwood trees...they were native to SF. Now if you KNEW there were no more huge redwood trees available locally to rebuild your house or mansion, would you still burn it down? What would you use to rebuild your house with? Pine is piece of crap that warps, rots and is basically no good. Jim McCoy is 100% correct - they dynamited houses on Van Ness to prevent the spread of fire. That's why it's so wide and there are hundreds of Victorian houses on other side that survived.
It must have been horrible to be so close to water and not be able to use it because of broken pipes.
was that supposed to be sarcastic? IBM's "quality" has been falling at terminal velociy for at least the last 3 years. Their laptops used to kick ass but starting with model T21 we started having so many failures and problems with them that we purchased 3 spare units just to give out to clients while their broken units were sent for repairs or awaiting replacement parts.
Does anyone know when they stopped making all their parts in Japan and outsourced to Malaysia?
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Step 1 - clone yourself Step 2 - inject clone with your/its cells and "dead" virus. Step 3 - see if T-cell count continues to drop in your clone. Step 4 - If it's up, inject yourself. if not, go to Step 2. [new "deader" batch]
P.S. i don't know if your clone will have any immune system..I guess pumping it with dead viruses is one way to develop it...or kill your clone.
you forgot the OWN part. You have to extract your own cells and kill your own virus. This means it cannot be mass produced and would require a trip to your doctor and possibly the lab.
could this explain why some people with HIV never develop full-blown AIDS?
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"If only I didn't desperately crave HD content on my TV!"
If you want HD content on your TV, get a DirectTV HD Tivo.
If you want to watch blu ray discs, buy a stand-alone drive for $1000 and watch those 3 or 5 blu movies.
If you want to watch HD movies on your tv/plasma/lcd/projector screen using your pc w/ blu ray drive as the source - don't!
For $1000 you can buy TWO terabytes of storage, dump it on your pc and watch HD content for the next 3 or 5 years without upgrading anything. bittorrent and newsgroups should be more than enough. If you are still on a dial-up...well, then you probably can't afford that blu ray to begin with nor the expensive blanks.
In other news, Lenovo is NOT concerned - it's just a matter of time before US State Department employees' jobs are outsourced to China...where chinese workers will use Lenovo computers to perform their daily tasks.
While US government can't contract the work out to a chinese company directly I am 100% sure they will have no problems giving the contract to IBM who will ship the work to where the work is cheaper (China, India, Brazil, etc)
I am sure he'll have no problems finding work - with Sony PS3 coming out in November and xbox360 already out, one of the modchip mfgs will snap him up.
He may not be a genius that he claimed he was but he already has two primary qualifications - reverse engineering skills and flexible morals.
They may have won the ground but what about the sky?!
That explains why they had that 30% off EVERYTHING on-line sale last week of December.
(trying to make their numbers look better)
Dell does the same thing every quarter.
I almost always buy from Newegg and recommend to others.
Even though their prices are slightly higher, I know they will take any doa hardware back without asking too many questions or making me jump through hoops.
One time I ordered a refurb aopen cube pc from newegg(for $100 less than new) and it arrived with everything included, manuals, cables, etc. No scratches on the case or any broken or missing parts.
A month later I ordered a "NEW" barebones system from Tiger Direct and it came banged up so bad that I couldn't even close the case properly. Cardboard box was not damaged so it was definitely broken when they shipped it. Never got my rebate either.
The moral of the story is stick with the good guys, even if it costs $3 or $5 more per item. The last thing you want to do is get stuck with a lemon pc accessory because you get "sorry, we can't take it back once it's opened, try the manufacturer" from some crappy dealer or "that will be 15% restocking fee"
or "contact UPS, they probably broke it during shipping"
Oh, they are giving away several AMD X2 4800 CPUs (RTFA, click on TFL)
so put your email address and wait. (don't use your work address since they will send some spam - newegg newsletter)
Bluetooth (A2DP) would be the way to go and in fact VW's other brand, Audi, offers it. ...I would hate to go on a long trip in my car w/ ipod full of music just to have the batteries die 30 mins into the trip.
I have a Motorola cell phone w/ 2GB sd memory card but will have to either another head unit that will support it or get an adaptor that will go into the currently unused tape slot. (for bt a2dp)
I guess there are going for the lowest common denominator - USB - since everyone has it on their pc AND allow charging of the ipod using the same cable.
Take a job in NC, making 2/3 of what you make in NYC. Buy a house for 1/3 NC of what it would cost to get a 2 bedroom apartment in NYC or a small house in Northern NJ or LA.
Stupid cell runs Windows! Why would anyone want to steal THAT?
If you want real performace, get the "E" class (Mercedes ref.)-- Motorola E680i. It runs Linux and has an sd slot, FM tuner,J2ME apps, etc.
From the horse's mouth: "Turn-by-Turn navigation. There just isn't anything out there for Linux."
...If you get lost easily, like me, turn by turn navigation is a must-have.
Why even bother? w/o turn by turn, gps (and this guy's linux carpc) is pretty much useless.
Music? I have a Motorola E685i cell phone that has gprs (internet access), bluetooth (sends audio to any a2dp enabled car stereo receiver), plays mpeg4 movies, syncs with my home pc (usb or bt), has web browser and FM radio. Oh, it runs LINUX and is blazing fast.
No, it won't do turn by turn gps navigation BUT neither does his.
So if you insist on running Linux in your car, get a phone that does. The best part is that it's very small (smaller than sidekick) and I can take it with me.
yeah, manuscripts... too bad you didn't bring up the Shroud of Turin...because that was proven to be a fake...made by a brilliant artist who had a sense of humor and a pair of balls.
and the apostles? please, this world is full of weak-minded people who will follow just about anyone.. like Osama bin Laden. He promised them eternal life and added a bunch of virgins as a bonus.
I guess religion and more importantly the belief that if they are good they are going to live forever keeps most religious people going.
worse than christians are the agnostic bunch that thinks aliens came to earth and built or helped build pyramids... They are worse because they claim to be men and women of science (more like sci-fi) but then completely disregard rational explanation - egyptians understood geometry and applied physics...just like the guy who built the Coral Castle. Sure, it took him 30 years but I guess with 20,000 slaves one can build something faster or a lot bigger.
http://www.coralcastle.com/
For $250 (for new customers) I got a DishNetwork DVR with 250GB hard drive, 2 HD satellite and 1 off-air HD tuners, two-room viewing, HDMI/DVI,etc.
There are only several off-air HD tv channels in my area so I can't justify spending $1000 on a home-grown box that won't pick up any satellite channels.
If you have $$$, get one of these and start hacking.
I would love to be able to add an extra 250GB hd and make use of the USB ports (not being used for anything now)
That's why a lot of companies (health insurance, financial,etc) are switching from using your SSN to Personal IDs as the unique identifier in the system. HOWEVER, they will still need your SSN for reporting stuff to the government. At least your SSN won't be listed on the health insurance card when you go to the doctor. Right now your doctor's office has enough info about you - SSN, home address, "emergency contact info", phone numbers and even possibly bank routing and account number (if you pay by check)
Person who's handling all this can easily make copies and apply for new credit cards,etc.
There's absolutely no reason why they need your SSN, your health insurance card (with non-ssn personal ID should be enough)
Here's the real thing!
http://bofh.ntk.net/Bastard_1995.html
Do what the bastard operator from hell would do - unplug the switch that the security eggspert is plugged into and go to lunch.
If he tries to break into the wiring closet, have him severly beaten by PHYSICAL security guards and thrown out for trying to compromise and possibly expose your WIRED network to external attacks via 802.11b. (have a wireless router or an access point planted in his enormous laptop bag for that no-further questions needed factor...helps if the brand matches his wireless pcmcia card)
Seriously, they should not be plugging their own equipment into your network. If they lose that laptop, all your internal secrects will be exposed and may end up posted on the web.
Work with the consultant every step of the way - give them a pc, install their scanning software, etc. Don't let them use pirated or downloaded from the web scanning tools - it may contain a keystroke logger or some other nasty trojan.
I think we can all agree that selling, or "bundling" a crippled version of Windows is idiotic. HOWEVER, it will discourage slick businessmen from bringing these PCs back to US since no one here would buy a crippled yet legit OS + PC package, no matter how low the price.
Also, I am sure Dell, etc. wouldn't be too happy having to compete with some manufacturer of PCs that got a break on a full version of windows where Dell would have to pay a lot more for the same copy.
By making it different, they are solving that problem.
I am sure you'll be able to hack it and make it normal again... Does ANYONE remember Windows NT Workstation 4.0/3.51? By making 2 registry changes, you could have made your workstation ($200?) behave and appear to other apps as a SERVER version of Windows ($1000?)
Different pricing points in different countries for identical goods are very common for electronics manufacturers - I know one person who went on vacation to another country for a week and brought back a "gray market" plasma TV. It cost him $7,000 there and it sells here for $15,000. Even with flight and hotel expenses he still came out ahead. He doesn't have a US warranty for that TV but that's the risk he was willing to take.
If Thomas was smart, he would have talked to an accountant who works with small businesses BEFORE he started that job (telecommuting from home in one state for a company in ANOTHER)
I know it's not always possible, but he should have formed an LLC (limited liability company) and asked his "employer" to pay his company instead of making checks out to him directly.
At the end of the year his company, based in TN, would get a 1099 instead of him. His SSN would be off NY's radar and he wouldn't be dealing with this shit - $5k tax bill plus possible penalties.
I own a Sony SAT-T60 DirecTV receiver that is also a tivo unit. Since I will never go back to cable (well, maybe only when Verizon starts offering it via fiber) because of crappy signal and few channels, buying a satellite receiver with Tivo built-in was a logical choice: :)
...I can't say the same about other mfg's remotes.
1. Signal from satellite comes in digital format and is saved that way to tivo's internal hard drive. Try doing that with your home-grown video capture; going from digital to analog to digital defeats the purpose of getting satellite in the first place!
2. With directTV tivo you can tape TWO channels at the same time while watching something else that was "taped" before.
3. You can pause live tv, go answer the phone, door, microwave your dinner, etc. and then resume play from where you paused it.
4. Wife or girlfirned rudely interrupted you? (while you were watching the game winning goal/shot/touchdown?) NO problem! don't get mad, just rewind - Tivo always keeps 30 mins of the channel(s) you are watching in a buffer.
5. Tivo units run Linux and are very hackable, software and hardware-wise. You can add or replace its hard drive to increase capacity, add network card to use broadband to pull down guide data snf updates via the Internet (instead of telephone call) Many people have modded their Tivo boxes to display weather, run webserver so you can connect from work and schedule stuff and view other stats...like what your kids are watching right now
6. With that network card installed on series 1 and wireless 802.11 usb adapter on series 2 tivo you can pull down shows to your desktop, laptop or xbox (with minor changes to os on tivo)
7. You can skip all those annoying commercials - you will save about 15 minutes per 1 hour show. Once you get used to this feature (takes about 5 minutes) you will not understand why your inlaws' tv cannot do this...
8. Ecellent search capability - want to see a movie with Angelina Jolie or Harrison Ford? Type it in and let tivo search up to two weeks of programming guide data. Found it but it's playing at 3am on Friday? No problem, with a click of a button you can add it to be taped for you.
9. Small form factor and lower power consumption. Sure, you can probably get most of these features by taking a small pc and adding two tuner cards, sound card or mobo with optical out jack for sound, another dedicated hard drive, rd receiver and remote control but you will still need another box to get the satellite singal. Less hardware, especially the ugly pc kind is a plus.
Finally, the money you'll save by using a low power device vs 300W pc will probably be enough to offset the $5 Tivo fee that DirectTV charges their customers. (A LOT of people bitch and moan about five bucks but ignore how much power and $ their home grown pc/tivo-clone will waste. Building something that will look attrative in your living room will cost quiet a bit as well.
P.S. Person who designed Sony SAT-T60's remote control is a genius!
wow, with capacity like that, it will definitely give the mini run for its money.
(i don't expect nerds to have good "grammer" or use there and their appropriately, but come ON! Gigabytes and Megabytes is something this article's poster should be familiar with)
My brother-in-law is getting a PHAT fiber pipe right to his house in January! He just happens to be a tech who is rolling out the same fiber for Verizon in NY State. They are making these guys work from 6am until 6pm every single day. Verizon is betting EVERYTHING they have on this because if they don't deliver in time, cable companies will be the only ones standing. VOIP will be here in-mass and Verizon will lose tons of money if they don't adapt. That's why they are coming up with alternative money making schemes, like video on demand (movies), internet, voip, videophone, etc. all over ONE fiber.
They are also working hard to prevent other companies from getting access to these fiber lines. Right now the law says Verizon has to give access to their copper (DSL) at cost and they don't want the same to happen to their fiber lines.
it's 25 bucks, not 15 per month. 15 only gets you 500 minutes. I guess that's enough if you have a cell phone or live in your parents's basement and have no friends.
Both plans come with callerID, 3-way calling,repeat redial,etc.
The BEST feature that I actually use is making Vonage ring my landline AND cell phone at the SAME TIME when I am receiving an incoming phone call. What's the big deal? You will never miss an important phone call and will have the option to answer landline (save cell minutes) if you are near your phone or use your cell as a remote caller id - no need to answer, just look to see who is calling. And of course you can just answer the cell if you are nowhere near your house.
Houses that burned down were made out of redwood trees...they were native to SF. Now if you KNEW there were no more huge redwood trees available locally to rebuild your house or mansion, would you still burn it down? What would you use to rebuild your house with? Pine is piece of crap that warps, rots and is basically no good.
Jim McCoy is 100% correct - they dynamited houses on Van Ness to prevent the spread of fire.
That's why it's so wide and there are hundreds of Victorian houses on other side that survived.
It must have been horrible to be so close to water and not be able to use it because of broken pipes.
was that supposed to be sarcastic? IBM's "quality" has been falling at terminal velociy for at least the last 3 years.
Their laptops used to kick ass but starting with model T21 we started having so many failures and problems with them that we purchased 3 spare units just to give out to clients while their broken units were sent for repairs or awaiting replacement parts.
Does anyone know when they stopped making all their parts in Japan and outsourced to Malaysia?
Step 1 - clone yourself
Step 2 - inject clone with your/its cells and "dead" virus.
Step 3 - see if T-cell count continues to drop in your clone.
Step 4 - If it's up, inject yourself. if not, go to Step 2. [new "deader" batch]
P.S. i don't know if your clone will have any immune system..I guess pumping it with dead viruses is one way to develop it...or kill your clone.
you forgot the OWN part. You have to extract your own cells and kill your own virus. This means it cannot be mass produced and would require a trip to your doctor and possibly the lab.
could this explain why some people with HIV never develop full-blown AIDS?