As far as viewing movie times, there's a project on sourceforge called JavaHMO which is a Java-based replacement for TiVo's Home Media Option server. In addition to the normal functionality of playing mp3s and viewing photos, it allows you to view local movie times and weather forcasts through your TiVo's HMO menu. I played around with it a while ago and though it was rough around the edges at the time, it showed some nice promise. I'm not sure what it's like with current versions.
The problem with that system for US elections is that pretty much everything up for election for a year occurs on same day--local, state, and national elections are all on the same ballot. You could have 20 or so things to vote for among all of the candidates and referendums, meaning that you'd have to pick 20 different preprinted papers to put into your envelope. That could be very messy.
My Packard Bell Pentium 75 from 1995 doesn't boot from CD. I was using up to last year as a linux-based home web server. It was always a pain to have to create boot disks to install linux distros rather than just popping in the CD.
Before the Enron inplosion, the back cover of the Houston Astros media guide from Enron Field was an ad for Enron with the caption: "Sometimes, it's the things you don't see that have the biggest impact."
What's funny about that commercial is the little disclaimer at the bottom that says something like "Please obey all park rules", just in case we were really planning on dumping fiber drinks into geysers.
Instant messaging definitely should have more lenient grammatical rules, if the person you are talking with doesn't mind. Since it's such a personal type of conversation (typically only one member of your audience), you generally have a good feel of what kind of grammatical hangups your audience has. However, the problem occurs when people allow the lax instant messaging grammar to overflow into their other writings. If you want the maximum number of people to listen to what you are saying, you should probably follow standard grammar rules. Few people will fault you for good grammar, while many will take poor grammar as a sign of at best that you don't care about what you are saying and at worst that you an idiot.
Parent poster, none of that was directed personally at you.:)
I was in a similar situation. I was laid off from a large telecommunications firm whose stock went from around $80 when I started to about $1 when I left. (I'm pretty sure it wasn't my fault!) Anyway, I got another job at a small web development company, making less than I did at my aforementioned previous job, with the promises that there will definetely be raises down the road. Two and half years later, I'm making the same amount and all raises have been put on hold for who knows how long. It sucks when they tell you you're doing a great job, but they can't afford to give you a raise. But at least the company's still around and I'm still getting paid.
Ok, I'm replying to myself, but I just did some more research and figured out that if you "Turn on full keyboard access" in the Keyboard Shortcuts tab in the Keyboard & Mouse section in System Preferences, it will allow you to tab through drop down menus, checkboxes, etc. I'm assuming that's been there all along and I never noticed.:)
This release didn't fix my pet peeve with Safari: being able to tab through all form elements. Having to click on checkboxes, radio buttons, drop-down selection boxes, etc, is a huge pain when you're testing complicated forms for web applications, especially when every other browser tabs through every element type. I was hoping the this Safari update would address that issue.
Speaking of cell phones without cameras, can anyone suggest a good one? I have T-mobile as my cell phone provider and am currently using the free Motorola 330 that I got for signing up. Either it's just a crappy phone or I've dropped it too many times, but it constantly disconnects in the middle of phone calls. I'm planning on getting a new phone, but all I'd use it for is plain-old phone calls. Any suggestions?
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For Christmas, my wife finally gave me permission to buy a powerbook:)
When my wife was a medical student, she was told that the cell phone ban in hospitals is really because doctors don't like being interrupted by patients with cell phones. Wether that's true or not, it could at least be part of the reason.
One thing I remember from when I was a little kid was complaining about how I didn't like the book I was reading and my mom told me "Well, you don't have to finish reading it." For some reason, that was sort of an epiphany for me. I was the one who was in control of what entertained me. I guess for a 7-year-old, being in control of something is a big deal.
I'm pretty sure they did that on an episode of MacGyver. There were some oil well fires and he had to bring a bunch of dynamite to the wells in a very exciting way to blow them up and suck the oxygen from the fires. It probably also involved some generic white bad guys chasing him around a generic warehouse, guns blazing and missing with every shot, like every espisode of every action show from the eighties did.
I'd say just about any sportscaster would. I've watched a lot of baseball this season and in almost every game one of the announcers will say that something is "due" because it hasn't happened in a while. For example, in last night's Mariner's game, the announcer was going on and on about how the Tampa Bay pitcher was due to walk a batter "any time now", since he hadn't walked many yet during the game and he usually walks several per game.
Heh, sounds familiar. I had a boss once who was like, "It's not spam, it's opt-in email." And by "opt-in" email, he meant it was sent to anyone he had ever corresponded with over email (or anyone who happened to be CC'd on any email he had sent or received), asking them to opt-in to his mailing list. Needless to say, we got a large number of complaints and a few black list reports after that went out.
Nope, what is hillarious is that all that is required to prevent this is legislation requiring any american company to pay any employee US equivalent wages for the job they do, regardless of the work they are doing.
What are US equivalent wages, anyway? I think I should get paid what Silicon Valley programmers get paid while I live in Middle-of-Nowhere, Ohio. Sure, the cost of living is only a third of what it is in California, but it's only fair.
My fiance, a soon-to-be radiologist, and also a woman:), just told me that one reason why there are few women in radiology is that they generally have a harder time taking 2D images (i.e., x-rays) and visualizing them in 3D to see the spatial relationships between the things in the 2D image. Of course there are probably many other reasons for the last of women in the field of radiology: lack of patient interaction and historical general roles in medicine that are still somewhat in place are a couple.
I tried using these fonts in Mozilla, but my problem with them is that the serif font is much larger than Times New Roman on my Windows machine (actually, my problem is that Times New Roman seems to be smaller than most other fonts). Many web designers seem to do their work, font-size-wise, with the default size of Times New Roman as their basis. So when using other fonts (Verdana, for example since it's very popular on the web), they size it down a bit so its comparable to TNR. Before CSS became widespread, TNR would default size="3", and Verdana would usually be set by a designer at size="2", or now with CSS some set Verdana at size=80%. So, when changing out your Serif font to one that's larger, like this new Bitstream one, the pages using the browsers default font seem huge. I moved the default font size down a bit, but then on other pages with relative font sizes everything was tiny.
Since I can't change the web designing habits of people everywhere, I changed it back to Times New Roman.
Actually, I heard that story on NPR (Cheney/Haliburton/Brown & Root getting govt. contracts) while I was driving home from work last week, so it's not absolutely unreported in the States.
not talking drinks, which is not really their primary income product, is it?
Not sure how true it is, but I've heard that many fast food places make a lot of their money off of drinks. It only costs them a nickel or dime to fill one of those huge cups they charge your over a dollar for. They just have the food there so you'll buy more drinks.
But then everyone will complain that they weren't able to kill the orc leader, too, to get the loot that he drops. People always ask for dynamic content, but from playing Everquest for quite a while, I got the feeling that many people like to be able to go to some website, download maps and quest walkthroughs, so they know exactly how to get what everyone else says is the best loot.
One problem with dynamic content is that only a few get to be the "hero" for that content. People don't play games so they can be the grunt soldiers, clearing out all of the regular orcs, just so someone else can come in an kill the orc leader (unless they are all in a guild or something, working together).
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You could do what I did and marry a doctor. :)
As far as viewing movie times, there's a project on sourceforge called JavaHMO which is a Java-based replacement for TiVo's Home Media Option server. In addition to the normal functionality of playing mp3s and viewing photos, it allows you to view local movie times and weather forcasts through your TiVo's HMO menu. I played around with it a while ago and though it was rough around the edges at the time, it showed some nice promise. I'm not sure what it's like with current versions.
Now your PC won't release as many noxious fumes when it burns with the rest of your house.
The problem with that system for US elections is that pretty much everything up for election for a year occurs on same day--local, state, and national elections are all on the same ballot. You could have 20 or so things to vote for among all of the candidates and referendums, meaning that you'd have to pick 20 different preprinted papers to put into your envelope. That could be very messy.
My Packard Bell Pentium 75 from 1995 doesn't boot from CD. I was using up to last year as a linux-based home web server. It was always a pain to have to create boot disks to install linux distros rather than just popping in the CD.
Before the Enron inplosion, the back cover of the Houston Astros media guide from Enron Field was an ad for Enron with the caption: "Sometimes, it's the things you don't see that have the biggest impact."
What's funny about that commercial is the little disclaimer at the bottom that says something like "Please obey all park rules", just in case we were really planning on dumping fiber drinks into geysers.
Instant messaging definitely should have more lenient grammatical rules, if the person you are talking with doesn't mind. Since it's such a personal type of conversation (typically only one member of your audience), you generally have a good feel of what kind of grammatical hangups your audience has. However, the problem occurs when people allow the lax instant messaging grammar to overflow into their other writings. If you want the maximum number of people to listen to what you are saying, you should probably follow standard grammar rules. Few people will fault you for good grammar, while many will take poor grammar as a sign of at best that you don't care about what you are saying and at worst that you an idiot.
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Parent poster, none of that was directed personally at you.
I was in a similar situation. I was laid off from a large telecommunications firm whose stock went from around $80 when I started to about $1 when I left. (I'm pretty sure it wasn't my fault!) Anyway, I got another job at a small web development company, making less than I did at my aforementioned previous job, with the promises that there will definetely be raises down the road. Two and half years later, I'm making the same amount and all raises have been put on hold for who knows how long. It sucks when they tell you you're doing a great job, but they can't afford to give you a raise. But at least the company's still around and I'm still getting paid.
Ok, I'm replying to myself, but I just did some more research and figured out that if you "Turn on full keyboard access" in the Keyboard Shortcuts tab in the Keyboard & Mouse section in System Preferences, it will allow you to tab through drop down menus, checkboxes, etc. I'm assuming that's been there all along and I never noticed. :)
This release didn't fix my pet peeve with Safari: being able to tab through all form elements. Having to click on checkboxes, radio buttons, drop-down selection boxes, etc, is a huge pain when you're testing complicated forms for web applications, especially when every other browser tabs through every element type. I was hoping the this Safari update would address that issue.
Speaking of cell phones without cameras, can anyone suggest a good one? I have T-mobile as my cell phone provider and am currently using the free Motorola 330 that I got for signing up. Either it's just a crappy phone or I've dropped it too many times, but it constantly disconnects in the middle of phone calls. I'm planning on getting a new phone, but all I'd use it for is plain-old phone calls. Any suggestions?
For Christmas, my wife finally gave me permission to buy a powerbook :)
When my wife was a medical student, she was told that the cell phone ban in hospitals is really because doctors don't like being interrupted by patients with cell phones. Wether that's true or not, it could at least be part of the reason.
One thing I remember from when I was a little kid was complaining about how I didn't like the book I was reading and my mom told me "Well, you don't have to finish reading it." For some reason, that was sort of an epiphany for me. I was the one who was in control of what entertained me. I guess for a 7-year-old, being in control of something is a big deal.
I'm pretty sure they did that on an episode of MacGyver. There were some oil well fires and he had to bring a bunch of dynamite to the wells in a very exciting way to blow them up and suck the oxygen from the fires. It probably also involved some generic white bad guys chasing him around a generic warehouse, guns blazing and missing with every shot, like every espisode of every action show from the eighties did.
I'd say just about any sportscaster would. I've watched a lot of baseball this season and in almost every game one of the announcers will say that something is "due" because it hasn't happened in a while. For example, in last night's Mariner's game, the announcer was going on and on about how the Tampa Bay pitcher was due to walk a batter "any time now", since he hadn't walked many yet during the game and he usually walks several per game.
Heh, sounds familiar. I had a boss once who was like, "It's not spam, it's opt-in email." And by "opt-in" email, he meant it was sent to anyone he had ever corresponded with over email (or anyone who happened to be CC'd on any email he had sent or received), asking them to opt-in to his mailing list. Needless to say, we got a large number of complaints and a few black list reports after that went out.
Nope, what is hillarious is that all that is required to prevent this is legislation requiring any american company to pay any employee US equivalent wages for the job they do, regardless of the work they are doing.
What are US equivalent wages, anyway? I think I should get paid what Silicon Valley programmers get paid while I live in Middle-of-Nowhere, Ohio. Sure, the cost of living is only a third of what it is in California, but it's only fair.
My fiance, a soon-to-be radiologist, and also a woman :), just told me that one reason why there are few women in radiology is that they generally have a harder time taking 2D images (i.e., x-rays) and visualizing them in 3D to see the spatial relationships between the things in the 2D image. Of course there are probably many other reasons for the last of women in the field of radiology: lack of patient interaction and historical general roles in medicine that are still somewhat in place are a couple.
I tried using these fonts in Mozilla, but my problem with them is that the serif font is much larger than Times New Roman on my Windows machine (actually, my problem is that Times New Roman seems to be smaller than most other fonts). Many web designers seem to do their work, font-size-wise, with the default size of Times New Roman as their basis. So when using other fonts (Verdana, for example since it's very popular on the web), they size it down a bit so its comparable to TNR. Before CSS became widespread, TNR would default size="3", and Verdana would usually be set by a designer at size="2", or now with CSS some set Verdana at size=80%. So, when changing out your Serif font to one that's larger, like this new Bitstream one, the pages using the browsers default font seem huge. I moved the default font size down a bit, but then on other pages with relative font sizes everything was tiny.
Since I can't change the web designing habits of people everywhere, I changed it back to Times New Roman.
Actually, I heard that story on NPR (Cheney/Haliburton/Brown & Root getting govt. contracts) while I was driving home from work last week, so it's not absolutely unreported in the States.
not talking drinks, which is not really their primary income product, is it?
Not sure how true it is, but I've heard that many fast food places make a lot of their money off of drinks. It only costs them a nickel or dime to fill one of those huge cups they charge your over a dollar for. They just have the food there so you'll buy more drinks.
Or, as someone said, the best firewall in the world is two feet of air.
:)
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Unless you have a wireless access point set up.
But then everyone will complain that they weren't able to kill the orc leader, too, to get the loot that he drops. People always ask for dynamic content, but from playing Everquest for quite a while, I got the feeling that many people like to be able to go to some website, download maps and quest walkthroughs, so they know exactly how to get what everyone else says is the best loot.
One problem with dynamic content is that only a few get to be the "hero" for that content. People don't play games so they can be the grunt soldiers, clearing out all of the regular orcs, just so someone else can come in an kill the orc leader (unless they are all in a guild or something, working together).