Tie the envelope to a brick. Yes, the USPS will actually deliver that and charge for it.
According to This (pdf) the USPS just trashes them:
When heavy items such as bricks, 2 x 4s, etc., are found in the mails with a BRM card or envelope pasted, stapled, or taped on them as an address label, the pieces should be treated as are other nonmailable items found loose in the mails. If the sender cannot be identified, the matter should be disposed of as waste. If the misused BRM card or envelope is affixed as an address label to a sealed parcel or container, the piece should be treated as dead mail. Please note that these procedures should be followed when a BRM card or a BRM envelope is attached to such heavy items. It is obvious in such cases that the piece is being used in a manner other than that intended by the distributor.
It's probably more effective to be more subtle and send back the original shredded material as other posters have suggested.
I fully expect that when Digital TV is fully rolled out, we will see little, if any HDTV broadcasting. The broadcasters will be more likely to use the bandwidth for multicasting.
Imagine, one channel of network TV and four of Info-Mercials.
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Of course, what I'd really like is a simple USB -> SPDIF converter - no other I/O, just USB in and SPDIF co-ax out.
Well, if you don't mind optical thrown in as well, how about the Edirol UA-1D?
Seriously, laptops don't work for many of us. Too many kids, dogs, cats, etc., at home. An easily transportable laptop would be left out, then damaged. A "big" pc doesn't move, & thus easier to geographically protect (ie, "don't go near that, junior/sparky/whatever!"). My kids would certainly take offense if I sat down with the laptop on my lap's top, instead of one of them! And if it was after the kids' bedtime, my cats would be offended...
As I read this I am sitting in the living room halfway watching TV with my kid instead of disappearing into the basement to use the desktop... I do miss having a proper mouse, though.
This won't work on a toll-free number. WATS lines can have something called ANI which always passes your number. Plus, your number will show up on their monthly bill.
Well, in my razor-caught inbox I have 15 legitimate posts from the debian-user mailing list, and one spam from my new pal COL.ABRAHAM MAKOKO of the Congo with a sure-fire business proposition. This isn't very reassuring.
No, you spend your $300 so that when you do decide to watch TV after getting home from your ride you will have a choice of watching the small percentage (maybe even ppm-age) of decent programming that may have been on rather than whatever slice if the 'massive piles of horseshit that pass for "entertainment"' that happens to be showing at the time.
Sure, you can use a VCR to do this, but the PVR makes it orders of magnitude more convenient. Plus, Tivo's suggestion feature is actually pretty good at finding interesting stuff that you wouldn't otherwise be aware of.
The federal govt already has a mechanism for this, the FIPS program:
Under the Information Technology Management Reform Act (Public Law 104-106), the Secretary of Commerce approves standards and guidelines that are developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for Federal computer systems. These standards and guidelines are issued by NIST as Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) for use government-wide. NIST develops FIPS when there are compelling Federal government requirements such as for security and interoperability and there are no acceptable industry standards or solutions. See background information for more details.
If you do the math using the numbers for mean cummute time and distance from http://www.hcd.ca.gov/hpd/hrc/rtr/ex48.pdf
you get an average 36 mph for non-CA metro areas.
I would assume that the average speed is raised by commuters who travel longer distances on freeways. These drivers might be persuaded to use a park-n-ride facility for the more congested urban portion of their trip and still save time.
There's a fairly active AJB mailing list at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/archosjukebox6000. The email to subscribe is archosjukebox6000-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
You could ask there or maybe at http://forums.funmp3players.com/forum/
There used to be an undocumented CONFIG.SYS setting called SWITCHAR which would change this behaviour. Unfortunately, a lot of programs and dos commands had \ hardcoded in them, so setting
SWITCHAR could lead to unpredictable results.
For more info see the msdos programmer faq at http://www.faqs.org/faqs/msdos-programmer-faq/part 4/section-19.html
One useful thing Tivo could do with ethernet ports would be clustering. (No, this isn't the obligitory "imagine a Beowulf cluster of these things" comment)
Take 2 Tivos and a crossover cable, now you can record 2 shows at once, watch shows recorded on one Tivo in on the TV connected to the other Tivo, use 1 phone call to update both units, etc.
You could probably do this with 10BaseT bandwith, it would be trivial with 100BaseT.
If Tivo included this in their units it would be a HUGE selling point
There's also a little commercial addon called the FITALY keyboard (http://fitaly.com)which is a pop-up keyboard with the letters arrainged for the most efficient stylus input. Sort of like the Dvorak keyboard for hunt and peck typing. It has gotten a lot of good comments on usenet. I haven't played with the demo enough to decide if I want to spring the $25 though.
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Well duh!
Because when he rolled away the stone and came out from that cave, he saw his shadow and there were six more weeks of winter.
Get some "Bitter Apple" spray from the pet store and spray your next remote with it. This has saved several of my remotes.
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Did you notice if it has a 6-pin JP1 interface inside the battery door?
The JP1 hackers have done an amazing job of reversing other UEIC remotes.
XML comes to mind almost immediately. That's probably why openoffice.org uses zipped xml for its file format.
Java JAR files are zipfiles as well.
According to This (pdf) the USPS just trashes them:
It's probably more effective to be more subtle and send back the original shredded material as other posters have suggested.
I fully expect that when Digital TV is fully rolled out, we will see little, if any HDTV broadcasting. The broadcasters will be more likely to use the bandwidth for multicasting.
Imagine, one channel of network TV and four of Info-Mercials.
Edirol UA-1D?
Reference: http://web.textfiles.com/phreak/beatcid.txt
If it's a girl that doesn't leave very many options.
You're just assuming that the coin that they are comparing it with is smaller than a CD. Maybe they are refering to these coins.
Well, in my razor-caught inbox I have 15 legitimate posts from the debian-user mailing list, and one spam from my new pal COL.ABRAHAM MAKOKO of the Congo with a sure-fire business proposition. This isn't very reassuring.
No, you spend your $300 so that when you do decide to watch TV after getting home from your ride you will have a choice of watching the small percentage (maybe even ppm-age) of decent programming that may have been on rather than whatever slice if the 'massive piles of horseshit that pass for "entertainment"' that happens to be showing at the time.
Sure, you can use a VCR to do this, but the PVR makes it orders of magnitude more convenient. Plus, Tivo's suggestion feature is actually pretty good at finding interesting stuff that you wouldn't otherwise be aware of.
Think teflon. Nylon was developed during the 30s by DuPont.
I would assume that the average speed is raised by commuters who travel longer distances on freeways. These drivers might be persuaded to use a park-n-ride facility for the more congested urban portion of their trip and still save time.
Excellent!!!
It doesn't stand for anything... It's an emoticon!
There's a fairly active AJB mailing list at. The email to subscribe is archosjukebox6000-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/archosjukebox6000
You could ask there or maybe at
http://forums.funmp3players.com/forum/
There used to be an undocumented CONFIG.SYS setting called SWITCHAR which would change this behaviour. Unfortunately, a lot of programs and dos commands had \ hardcoded in them, so setting SWITCHAR could lead to unpredictable results. For more info see the msdos programmer faq at http://www.faqs.org/faqs/msdos-programmer-faq/part 4/section-19.html
Of course, a True Geek would recover the camera even after being told that it is disposable. Gotta take that thing apart and look inside, after all!
One useful thing Tivo could do with ethernet ports would be clustering. (No, this isn't the obligitory "imagine a Beowulf cluster of these things" comment)
Take 2 Tivos and a crossover cable, now you can record 2 shows at once, watch shows recorded on one Tivo in on the TV connected to the other Tivo, use 1 phone call to update both units, etc.
You could probably do this with 10BaseT bandwith, it would be trivial with 100BaseT.
If Tivo included this in their units it would be a HUGE selling point
There's also a little commercial addon called the FITALY keyboard (http://fitaly.com)which is a pop-up keyboard with the letters arrainged for the most efficient stylus input. Sort of like the Dvorak keyboard for hunt and peck typing. It has gotten a lot of good comments on usenet. I haven't played with the demo enough to decide if I want to spring the $25 though.