The Plug's performance can be greatly improved with some simple modifications. This can also improve the fit. I couldn't get my set of Plugs to comfortably stay in my ears with any of the standard cushons, so I replaced them with some "Earplanes" (Sold at Target and Walgreens) which are much more comfortable and improve the sound.
Public institutions are more likely to attract "non-traditional" students. That is, older, employed students taking a lighter courseload because they have jobs, families to support, etc. This would tend to skew the graduate times upwards.
Not every engineering student is a 19 year-old with a trust fund.
RRID for this does seem like overkill, but to be able to seamlessly select individual preferences would be a big selling point.
TiVo probably could make a lot more money selling personalized remotes. Each remote could be coded by something like a dipswitch in the battery compartment. This would make it possible, but somewhat inconvenient, to have personal prefs.
A lot of people would just buy additional remotes for all of their family members, and even faceplates like the ones used on cellphones. This leads us to step 3: PROFIT!!!
I beg to differ. I actually tried this prank back in the 80s during the initial cube fad, and invariably anyone who had memorized any of the cookbook solutions would notice something wrong after just a couple of twists.
I found this to be disappointing as I was expecting to supply at least ten or fifteen minutes of frustration with my cube...
Hmm. Sounds like a weenie in marketing came up with that. Wonder how long it is until he gets his own daytime TV show, or a website like that wiener with his Men are from Mercury and Women are from Uranus or whatever...
The linux version of Real Player doesn't have any of the annoying junk that the windows users are constantly whining about. It's pretty much just helix player with the real codecs included.
I even use it as my default mp3 url handler because it loads so much more quickly than xmms.
If you drop your keys onto the pad then they won't electrocute you when you pick them up. And they won't heat up. If you drop electronics that's not enabled onto the pad, then it won't get electrocuted either.
And if you drop your wallet onto the pad all of your credit cards' magstripes will be degaussed.
PuTTY is a wonderful program. Unfortunately, it uses the windows registry to store its configuration settings.
In a worst case this would mean leaving sensitive information behind on a untrusted machine. Most likely you would have to put up with the inconvenience of having to re-enter any non-default settings every time you use the program.
Either way it is at a disadvantage for portable use.
I don't know where you people get these wacky ideas. EMP is a myth, propagated by science fiction and kept alive by idiots like yourself.
EMP effects were observed at a distance of 1500 km during the Starfish Prime test blast. Quoting the linked article:
the EMP created by the explosion was felt as three hundred street lights failed, television sets and radios malfunctioned, burglar alarms went off and power lines fused.
This was in 1962, so we're talking about vacuum tubes and electro-mechanical systems. Modern semiconductors would be significantly more sensitive to EMP effects.
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Brilliant!
You could make a fortune making those things and selling them to Audiophiles at outrageous prices.
The Sennheiser phones you mentions are the earbud type, not canal phones like the Plugs.
I have a pair of MX-500s, they have a very good sound but nowhere near the isolation of my modded Plugs.
The Plug's performance can be greatly improved with some simple modifications. This can also improve the fit. I couldn't get my set of Plugs to comfortably stay in my ears with any of the standard cushons, so I replaced them with some "Earplanes" (Sold at Target and Walgreens) which are much more comfortable and improve the sound.
The correct phonetic pronounciation of the word "Gigawatt", or 10^9 Watts (Not 2^20 watts).
But it's great fun trying!
Public institutions are more likely to attract "non-traditional" students. That is, older, employed students taking a lighter courseload because they have jobs, families to support, etc. This would tend to skew the graduate times upwards.
Not every engineering student is a 19 year-old with a trust fund.
So if I brew a batch, does thiss make my urine a derivitive work?
Yes, it's fortunate THAAD is built by Lockheed...
RRID for this does seem like overkill, but to be able to seamlessly select individual preferences would be a big selling point.
TiVo probably could make a lot more money selling personalized remotes. Each remote could be coded by something like a dipswitch in the battery compartment. This would make it possible, but somewhat inconvenient, to have personal prefs.
A lot of people would just buy additional remotes for all of their family members, and even faceplates like the ones used on cellphones. This leads us to step 3: PROFIT!!!
Talk about a crowded coffee table, though...
Mapopolis comes in palmos and wince versions. If Nokia has any sense at all they would send them a couple of evaluation units.
I beg to differ. I actually tried this prank back in the 80s during the initial cube fad, and invariably anyone who had memorized any of the cookbook solutions would notice something wrong after just a couple of twists.
I found this to be disappointing as I was expecting to supply at least ten or fifteen minutes of frustration with my cube...
That's exactly why nobody would ever even consider building a powerplant in New Mexico to provide power to California.
You might try this to address that problem.
The government has a large interest in finding deadbeat dads because a lot of their kids end up on welfare and food stamps.
Looks like you didn't RTFA (or you did so before the goatse redirect got installed)
No, no, no!
Women are from Venus.
Farts are from Uranus.
Jeez...
Enough whith the cheesy puns, already.
The linux version of Real Player doesn't have any of the annoying junk that the windows users are constantly whining about. It's pretty much just helix player with the real codecs included.
I even use it as my default mp3 url handler because it loads so much more quickly than xmms.
And if you drop your wallet onto the pad all of your credit cards' magstripes will be degaussed.
Oops.
PuTTY is a wonderful program. Unfortunately, it uses the windows registry to store its configuration settings.
In a worst case this would mean leaving sensitive information behind on a untrusted machine. Most likely you would have to put up with the inconvenience of having to re-enter any non-default settings every time you use the program.
Either way it is at a disadvantage for portable use.
EMP effects were observed at a distance of 1500 km during the Starfish Prime test blast. Quoting the linked article:
This was in 1962, so we're talking about vacuum tubes and electro-mechanical systems. Modern semiconductors would be significantly more sensitive to EMP effects.
BURMA!
How Long?
Cripes, doesn't anyone even read the summary anymore?
26 feet.
Jeez.
Wrong, it's a publicly held corporation.
I'm a monkey, you insensitive clod!