Skip over the Scanning of the actual photo, and get a negative scanner.
They work faster, better, and have some automation to them. Unfortunately, most 35mm negatives are chopped into blocks of four, but that will at least 1/4 your time spent monitoring the machine.
If you switched to the newer APS film, the negative scanner can run through the whole row.
Here is one that does both 35mm and APS. There are also other reviews on that site of different models.
I've actually suggested this exact thing on the Mandrake Forum.
Mandrake could increase market share by offering other resellers a "branded" OS, while making money on the support of the machines and the O.S.
Take Mandrake 8.2 and brand it to say, WalMart.
During Boot-up, Walmart gets screen space. They get a link on the desktop to Walmart.com. And Mandrake gets 30 bucks or so to do tech support for the OS.
If the big retailers pick up on this, Linux will be poised for a several percentage point growth. Combine this with an AOL client for Linux, and this could easily propel Linux into the mainstream desktop.
Is anyone else irritated because the Slashdot icon in the upper right hand corner no longer sends you back to "www.slashdot.org" but instead to the topic page (Example: "science.slashdot.org" or "ask.slashdot.org)? It's bugging the shit outta me.
Or he's a mutant wolverine with fingers of steel who can't ever have a casual beer with his pals.
Obviously, you're talking out of your ass again. Wolvie has adamantium claws and frequents bars quite often, usually enjoying a brewsky or two. Hell, he's Canadian and if you don't drink at least two beers a day, they'll deport your ass faster than you can say "Hockey Night in Canada".
This movie is an obvious ripoff of two highly successful movies from two different eras: Strange Brew and Spiderman
Let's Compare.
Strange Brew : Star Wars EP II Flying Dog : Flying Green Muppet Plot to take over world : Plot to take over universe Evil hockey players : Stormtroopers Beer is source of power : "Midichlorion" microbrew Bob and Doug : Obi and Anakin Based on Hamlet : Based on ancient myths Max von Sydow : Ian McDiarmid
Clearly, this movie is just a poor-rehash of Strange Brew with one twist - Spiderman special effects and the "spider sense" redone in an effort to trick the viewer into liking this poor-rendition of the greatest movie ever made, Strange Brew.
Even more Damaging would be this inventive scheme.
All it would take would be a couple of bogus addresses run by a few people in different locations. Let these things become well-known spam-sluts.
Collect the addresses of the spammers for the first few months. Then, change the account so that, with each spam it recieves, it sends an email out to a well-known usenet spam-harvest list with emails of the spammers, as well as randomly generated addresses from the spammers domain.
To further make this evil, though it might cost you that account, have a.forward that uses this aforementioned spam-legit-list and forward all spams to them, as well as the randomly generated email addys at the spammers domain.
Might cause more problems than it's worth
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Besides having the really annoying "Can You Hear Me Now" commercials, this will probably end up being a bad idea.
The way these things work is that it can allow 1 phone to use up to 6 phones worth of airway resources. Now, during peak times, it's hard to get cell phones out. Now imagine that a large portion of the population is using more than one share worth of resources. I wonder how much incentive Verizon will have to increase their resources by 3-6x.
I bet this will be damn expensive for about 5-10 years, then we'll get "unlimited downloads" on weekends/nights, etc, until cellular data rates approach current voice deals..
Given an infinite amount of processing power and memory, could someone "solve" the game of chess?
The obvious answer is yes...
As for the practical answer, maybe... It will largely depend upon quantum computers. If you've been here a while, you might remember this story . Sometimes it's good to revisit old friends.
Or, I could just resubmit the story and watch it get on the main page. It's not like that's never happened before..;)
No computer currently in existence, or even conceivable in design could solve the problem in the time remaining before the sun burns out. I'm going to make the bold assertion that Go as a game will never be solved.
I believe you're probably wrong on this one. No current applied design could solve Go, or chess for that matter. But there's those really annoying quantum computers that can solve for every case at once that may, in the next 20 years, provide us for the "solution" to chess, and possibly Go.
We're always on the brink of destruction because it sells.
When was the last time you read an article with the title:
"Congratulations! We're still not glowing!"
hell, this could be a great Onion Piece.
By. R. Jason Valentine.
Today, the world rejoiced. It's been 45 years since nuclear weaponry had reached numbers and yield to destroy all life on earth at least one time over, and we haven't done it yet. Senior level officials at Norad and the Pentagon were seen slapping each other on the back and smoking large cigars. Said one high-ranking official, "Man, I've never done my job - which basically involves blowing up the wholeworld - and I'm glad! I hear I'm even getting a bonus this year!"
Meanwhile, in Moscow, an unprecedented run on vodka was reported. One senior staff member noted, "Well, the Americans are getting hammered about not blowing up the world, so why shouldn't we?" Grumblings about no bonuses were quickly silenced, for fear of being "party-poopers".
Meanwhile, Tree-hugger doomsdayers were a bit more glum. Not only have they proven to be as reliable as Clinton's testimony, but if news of this celebration gets out, they could lose a significant portion of their funding. Some of the better amongst them have come up with a great new spin, proving that American ingenuity is still alive and well. The spin? "Doomsday nears as weapons controllers man stations with horrid hangover."
I especially liked the part of the artcile where Rosen complains that people will spend "thousands of dollars" on hard drives but won't pay for music. Makes me wonder where she buys her hard drives??
Well, hard drives are cheaper per MB than CDs now. In fact, besides tape, the cheapest thing to back your HD up to is...another HD.
And for 1000 bucks, I can set up a 5 Disk IDE RAID 5 linux box and have about a terabyte of easily accessible storage that is crash-resistant.
For about 1000 bucks, I can get merely 985 CDs (at a bargain price of 15 bucks a pop). If Hillary is reading this, she's probably blowing an aneurysm...
It's not as bad as you think. During my medical school training, one of the hospital sites I rotated through had, from the description in the article, the exact same robot. And it does improve floor supplies, and in turn, patient safety and satisfaction.
Most hospital floors stock the most commonly used drugs on that floor in a safebox of some sort (Pyxis, etc). These safeboxes need to be restocked regularly, and that was the role the bot I worked with did. He rolled around once or twice a day and brought the new supplies to refill the on-floor safebox. If a patient needed an urgent med not normally stocked on the floor, then someone would hand-deliver that. It seemed to work rather well. The regular supplies weren't urgently needed, so the bot could deal with crochety old disabled vets in wheelchairs slowing it down, because it was only refilling a non-urgent floor supply rather than running urgent meds.
As far as medical records, this could deliver those as well, provided you didn't need to see them stat. He's basically a rolling lock-box, so there would be a safe place to put everything. It wouldn't even phase me.
Except that when he tried to fly back to Toronto, they ripped all the stuff off of him and he's now drooling on the side of a hospital while doctors experiment on him.
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90 miles from a city of 1+ million is as desolate as you can get? Hardly.
You're worried about some radioactive shit under a slab of granite 90 miles away from a city that doesn't even have a Trauma Center?
Whatever floats your boat. I, for one, will not be going to Vegas until that Trauma Center re-opens.
Skip over the Scanning of the actual photo, and get a negative scanner.
They work faster, better, and have some automation to them. Unfortunately, most 35mm negatives are chopped into blocks of four, but that will at least 1/4 your time spent monitoring the machine.
If you switched to the newer APS film, the negative scanner can run through the whole row.
Here is one that does both 35mm and APS. There are also other reviews on that site of different models.
I've actually suggested this exact thing on the Mandrake Forum.
Mandrake could increase market share by offering other resellers a "branded" OS, while making money on the support of the machines and the O.S.
Take Mandrake 8.2 and brand it to say, WalMart.
During Boot-up, Walmart gets screen space. They get a link on the desktop to Walmart.com. And Mandrake gets 30 bucks or so to do tech support for the OS.
If the big retailers pick up on this, Linux will be poised for a several percentage point growth. Combine this with an AOL client for Linux, and this could easily propel Linux into the mainstream desktop.
A law set forth in a podunk Arizona county
Yeah, Maricopa is a podunk county. Not much there, considering it's the fourth largest county in the U.S. Oh, and it's the fastest gaining county in the U.S. as well.
Hell, If I paid $1 a song, most CD's would be under 12 bucks.
Is anyone else irritated because the Slashdot icon in the upper right hand corner no longer sends you back to "www.slashdot.org" but instead to the topic page (Example: "science.slashdot.org" or "ask.slashdot.org)? It's bugging the shit outta me.
Can't spell
Can't conjugate
Can't proofread
and now...
Can't keep consistency.
You mean the back library of movies, songs, etc that is supposed to be released to the public after its copyright expires?
What server?
there is a good paradise client for linux. It's easy to install - just unzip it and copy the .netrekrc file to your home directory and off you go.
www.procyon.com/~usacom/Netrek/
There's also a mirror at www.procyon.com/~usacom/Netrek . Has several clients.
Or he's a mutant wolverine with fingers of steel who can't ever have a casual beer with his pals.
Obviously, you're talking out of your ass again. Wolvie has adamantium claws and frequents bars quite often, usually enjoying a brewsky or two. Hell, he's Canadian and if you don't drink at least two beers a day, they'll deport your ass faster than you can say "Hockey Night in Canada".
Nothing to see here, move along.
This movie is an obvious ripoff of two highly successful movies from two different eras: Strange Brew and Spiderman
Let's Compare.
Strange Brew : Star Wars EP II
Flying Dog : Flying Green Muppet
Plot to take over world : Plot to take over universe
Evil hockey players : Stormtroopers
Beer is source of power : "Midichlorion" microbrew
Bob and Doug : Obi and Anakin
Based on Hamlet : Based on ancient myths
Max von Sydow : Ian McDiarmid
Clearly, this movie is just a poor-rehash of Strange Brew with one twist - Spiderman special effects and the "spider sense" redone in an effort to trick the viewer into liking this poor-rendition of the greatest movie ever made, Strange Brew.
I don't buy it.
Kooookokokokokokokooooooo!
Even more Damaging would be this inventive scheme.
.forward that uses this aforementioned spam-legit-list and forward all spams to them, as well as the randomly generated email addys at the spammers domain.
All it would take would be a couple of bogus addresses run by a few people in different locations. Let these things become well-known spam-sluts.
Collect the addresses of the spammers for the first few months. Then, change the account so that, with each spam it recieves, it sends an email out to a well-known usenet spam-harvest list with emails of the spammers, as well as randomly generated addresses from the spammers domain.
To further make this evil, though it might cost you that account, have a
Besides having the really annoying "Can You Hear Me Now" commercials, this will probably end up being a bad idea.
The way these things work is that it can allow 1 phone to use up to 6 phones worth of airway resources. Now, during peak times, it's hard to get cell phones out. Now imagine that a large portion of the population is using more than one share worth of resources. I wonder how much incentive Verizon will have to increase their resources by 3-6x.
I bet this will be damn expensive for about 5-10 years, then we'll get "unlimited downloads" on weekends/nights, etc, until cellular data rates approach current voice deals..
You buy a PCMCIA laptop 3G card and have nation-wide high-speed internet access.
Two Words:
ROAD TRIP!
You forgot the most important step - the tinfoil hats!
For that matter - sure, the WD 5400RPM 40G drives are down to $52 - but what are office PCs doing that requires 40G?
40Gs are cheaper than 20Gs, and forgettabout finding anything smaller than 20Gs new these days.
Given an infinite amount of processing power and memory, could someone "solve" the game of chess?
;)
The obvious answer is yes...
As for the practical answer, maybe... It will largely depend upon quantum computers. If you've been here a while, you might remember this story . Sometimes it's good to revisit old friends.
Or, I could just resubmit the story and watch it get on the main page. It's not like that's never happened before..
No computer currently in existence, or even conceivable in design could solve the problem in the time remaining before the sun burns out. I'm going to make the bold assertion that Go as a game will never be solved.
I believe you're probably wrong on this one. No current applied design could solve Go, or chess for that matter. But there's those really annoying quantum computers that can solve for every case at once that may, in the next 20 years, provide us for the "solution" to chess, and possibly Go.
Isn't the new wording on the 1040 as follows?
1: How much did you make last year? _____
Instructions: Send amount listed on line 1 to IRS.
We're always on the brink of destruction because it sells.
When was the last time you read an article with the title:
"Congratulations! We're still not glowing!"
hell, this could be a great Onion Piece.
By. R. Jason Valentine.
Today, the world rejoiced. It's been 45 years since nuclear weaponry had reached numbers and yield to destroy all life on earth at least one time over, and we haven't done it yet. Senior level officials at Norad and the Pentagon were seen slapping each other on the back and smoking large cigars. Said one high-ranking official, "Man, I've never done my job - which basically involves blowing up the wholeworld - and I'm glad! I hear I'm even getting a bonus this year!"
Meanwhile, in Moscow, an unprecedented run on vodka was reported. One senior staff member noted, "Well, the Americans are getting hammered about not blowing up the world, so why shouldn't we?" Grumblings about no bonuses were quickly silenced, for fear of being "party-poopers".
Meanwhile, Tree-hugger doomsdayers were a bit more glum. Not only have they proven to be as reliable as Clinton's testimony, but if news of this celebration gets out, they could lose a significant portion of their funding. Some of the better amongst them have come up with a great new spin, proving that American ingenuity is still alive and well. The spin? "Doomsday nears as weapons controllers man stations with horrid hangover."
I especially liked the part of the artcile where Rosen complains that people will spend "thousands of dollars" on hard drives but won't pay for music. Makes me wonder where she buys her hard drives??
Well, hard drives are cheaper per MB than CDs now. In fact, besides tape, the cheapest thing to back your HD up to is...another HD.
And for 1000 bucks, I can set up a 5 Disk IDE RAID 5 linux box and have about a terabyte of easily accessible storage that is crash-resistant.
For about 1000 bucks, I can get merely 985 CDs (at a bargain price of 15 bucks a pop). If Hillary is reading this, she's probably blowing an aneurysm...
Well, you can ask it to play that as long as you can use the Tic-Tac-Toe Override sequence.
It's a WHOPR. We're not talking BK here...
It's not as bad as you think. During my medical school training, one of the hospital sites I rotated through had, from the description in the article, the exact same robot. And it does improve floor supplies, and in turn, patient safety and satisfaction.
Most hospital floors stock the most commonly used drugs on that floor in a safebox of some sort (Pyxis, etc). These safeboxes need to be restocked regularly, and that was the role the bot I worked with did. He rolled around once or twice a day and brought the new supplies to refill the on-floor safebox. If a patient needed an urgent med not normally stocked on the floor, then someone would hand-deliver that. It seemed to work rather well. The regular supplies weren't urgently needed, so the bot could deal with crochety old disabled vets in wheelchairs slowing it down, because it was only refilling a non-urgent floor supply rather than running urgent meds.
As far as medical records, this could deliver those as well, provided you didn't need to see them stat. He's basically a rolling lock-box, so there would be a safe place to put everything. It wouldn't even phase me.
Except that when he tried to fly back to Toronto, they ripped all the stuff off of him and he's now drooling on the side of a hospital while doctors experiment on him.
Or am I thinking of someone else?