You'd like IE 5.0 for the Mac. You can collapse the navigation down to the left side of the window, taking up only about 25px of horiztontal screen real estate. It's really quite handy. Check out a screendump.
Man... some people's children just can't be good moderators. *sigh*
Anyway, to answer the questions:
1. Openbox refers to anything which has been purchased, opened, and returned to the store. Most merchants will give you a discounted price on Openbox stuff and, for major things like electronics, appliances, etc---stuff which could conceivably be broken as opposed to a shirt someone just didn't like and returned---is marked as openbox.
2. BBB = Better Business Bureau, an organization which collects complaints about businesses and makes them publically available. Check out their site
Actually you can forget the display---all current Apple displays use the ADC connector which powers through the tower, not through a separate transformer in the display.
I once helped my girlfriend return a POS Compaq (she wanted to make all the decisions herself, so I let her...) to BestBuy. (the case literally fell apart as soon as we got it out of the box. The plastic bezel in the front sheared off entirely and, when you turned it on, the whole case shimmied like a washing machine because one of the cooling fans had already eaten its bearings. Nice, high quality workmanship there...) Hauled the cursed thing from Grand Forks all the way down to Fargo, and then waited for nearly two hours for their "technician" to ensure that it worked---basically plug it in and see if it boots. About 90 minutes into this ordeal, the tech pops his head out and asks if we'd reimaged the hard drive. My response, "No, but thank you for inserting your foot in your mouth as we're now going to file a complaint with the BBB stating that you sold us an openbox computer without marking it as such---and actually I think that fits under the definition of 'consumer fraud' in North Dakota."
The return went smoothly from then on.:-)
FWIW, my girl ended-up buying an iMac used from a guy who does development research for Adapatec. Sweet little iMac and she's had nary a problem and loves it.
I listen to books on tape when I multitask, often when laying a page, writing HTML or driving. But someone who just sits down and listens to a book on tape... that's just not right. Buy the book.
It's been noted in a few photography magazines that some new xray machines showing up at airports will streak film. Certain types of film are more EMF sensitive than others (like IR film or other high-speed films), but streaks are showing up on standard b&w/color chrome and negative films and at relatively slow speeds like 200 and 400. One magazine actually suggested that you ask for your film to be hand-inspected. (Which I did on a recent jaunt from Minneapolis to LAX.) This suggests that we're dealing with a new beast, one which is kicking out more EMF than its predecessors.
What I'm not sure of, though, is if these new machines produce sufficient EMF to screw with a hard drive. I know that most of the problem spots are electric motors, but I still wouldn't toss a laptop to chance like that. (And definitely not Zip disks, etc. Anymore it seems like a Zip will corrupt if you look at it wrong.)
Oh come on. Walmart and Target are not the only record stores in the freaking Fargo-Moorehead metro area.
As far as finding non-mainstream stuff in Fargo, High Plains Reader? It's better than nothing.
I'm more uncomfortable with NSI having my contact info than the public in general. They've shown themselves willing to spam; what but "honor" keeps them from pulling email addresses out of the whois database?
Anyone have any idea how long you could actually play the thing before it dies? The screen is run off a separate power supply, presumably the same as when it was still a portable TV.
But the Atari itself seems to run off of a single 9V battery.
Adobe and Macromedia do run on an OS other than Windows. It's called the Macintosh, and most Adobe products actually tend to be better behaved on the Mac than under windows
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Interesting you sya that. The Green Party is running a ficus tree in some distrcits/precincts as a sign of contempt for the system. I can't remember where, but supposedly one of the ficus trees is really messing with a state legislature election. It's drawing about 2-3% of the vote in a very tight race.
I'm sorry.... I disagree with you. Quite often in social activism you get better, further results by concentrating your efforts on a single symptom of a larger problem, and using that single incident as both a rallying point for the loyal and as an example stick with which one can beat down the opressors, so to speak.
This kid is representative of just how fucked up the social hierarchy and abuse of power in american high schools has gotten. No, it's not poverty, war, famine, etc. --- but it is exemplative of intolerance and freedom.
One of my friends almost got kicked out of a college hockey game two weeks ago. He's diabetic and had with him a can of pepsi in case he went into diabetic shock. Asst. Athletic Director saw the pepsi and went nuts---my campus is a Coke campus. The head athletic director even admitted as much: he told my friend it would have been just fine if it had only been a Coca Cola product.
Then again, this is the same university that's still using a racist name and logo to support its teams... and the same university which took $100 million from a man who has held not one but two birthday parties for Hitler.
The FBI confiscated the guy's coffee maker? Now I know that IP-enabled appliances are the thing of the future but it's not here yet. What are they trying to do, deprive him of his '1337 hax0r c0ff33 m@k3r' so he doesn't have the caffeine needed to "0wn y0u d00dz"?
Contet doesn't matter in this instance. The FTC is concerned because some (most...) of those dialer programs dial numbers in foreign countries, usually somewhere in the Caribbean. It's very much like long distance slamming, where you get shunted from the service you expect to be using to one with incredibly high rates.
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You'd like IE 5.0 for the Mac. You can collapse the navigation down to the left side of the window, taking up only about 25px of horiztontal screen real estate. It's really quite handy. Check out a screendump.
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Man... some people's children just can't be good moderators. *sigh*
Anyway, to answer the questions:
1. Openbox refers to anything which has been purchased, opened, and returned to the store. Most merchants will give you a discounted price on Openbox stuff and, for major things like electronics, appliances, etc---stuff which could conceivably be broken as opposed to a shirt someone just didn't like and returned---is marked as openbox.
2. BBB = Better Business Bureau, an organization which collects complaints about businesses and makes them publically available. Check out their site
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Actually you can forget the display---all current Apple displays use the ADC connector which powers through the tower, not through a separate transformer in the display.
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I once helped my girlfriend return a POS Compaq (she wanted to make all the decisions herself, so I let her...) to BestBuy. (the case literally fell apart as soon as we got it out of the box. The plastic bezel in the front sheared off entirely and, when you turned it on, the whole case shimmied like a washing machine because one of the cooling fans had already eaten its bearings. Nice, high quality workmanship there...) Hauled the cursed thing from Grand Forks all the way down to Fargo, and then waited for nearly two hours for their "technician" to ensure that it worked---basically plug it in and see if it boots. About 90 minutes into this ordeal, the tech pops his head out and asks if we'd reimaged the hard drive. My response, "No, but thank you for inserting your foot in your mouth as we're now going to file a complaint with the BBB stating that you sold us an openbox computer without marking it as such---and actually I think that fits under the definition of 'consumer fraud' in North Dakota."
:-)
The return went smoothly from then on.
FWIW, my girl ended-up buying an iMac used from a guy who does development research for Adapatec. Sweet little iMac and she's had nary a problem and loves it.
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Actually this already exists to an extent with LINK REL
The Dancing Jakob Nielsen wrote a short paper on its implementation in iCab.
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What happened to that big, redundant connection that we were all bantering about a few days past?
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I listen to books on tape when I multitask, often when laying a page, writing HTML or driving. But someone who just sits down and listens to a book on tape... that's just not right. Buy the book.
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Entrails. It'd be a better word for the context, seeing as AOL is out to gut whoever it comes in contact with.
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It's been noted in a few photography magazines that some new xray machines showing up at airports will streak film. Certain types of film are more EMF sensitive than others (like IR film or other high-speed films), but streaks are showing up on standard b&w/color chrome and negative films and at relatively slow speeds like 200 and 400. One magazine actually suggested that you ask for your film to be hand-inspected. (Which I did on a recent jaunt from Minneapolis to LAX.) This suggests that we're dealing with a new beast, one which is kicking out more EMF than its predecessors.
What I'm not sure of, though, is if these new machines produce sufficient EMF to screw with a hard drive. I know that most of the problem spots are electric motors, but I still wouldn't toss a laptop to chance like that. (And definitely not Zip disks, etc. Anymore it seems like a Zip will corrupt if you look at it wrong.)
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Ummmm yes... but p0rn isn't illegal trade, is it?
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It hasn't been submitted for peer review. They're running NT4. *shudder*
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Oh come on. Walmart and Target are not the only record stores in the freaking Fargo-Moorehead metro area. As far as finding non-mainstream stuff in Fargo, High Plains Reader? It's better than nothing.
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I'm more uncomfortable with NSI having my contact info than the public in general. They've shown themselves willing to spam; what but "honor" keeps them from pulling email addresses out of the whois database?
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FTR, IE 5.0 for the Mac doesn't use Microsoft's Java libraries. Uses Apple's just-as-out-of-date libraries. ;)
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Anyone have any idea how long you could actually play the thing before it dies? The screen is run off a separate power supply, presumably the same as when it was still a portable TV.
But the Atari itself seems to run off of a single 9V battery.
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Salon has an electoral vote map here . They've been sluggish about updating it though.
NPR also has ongoing coverage, and it's quite good. You can just turn on your local NPR affiliate, or listen to it on the web NPR
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Interesting. Now the situation's reveresed: Drunken, under-21 UND students coming back across the border after a weekend in Winnipeg.
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Flash is on its way out---I'm guessing that Macromedia is going to start nudging Flash in the way of SVG, and hype the editor, not the format.
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Adobe and Macromedia do run on an OS other than Windows. It's called the Macintosh, and most Adobe products actually tend to be better behaved on the Mac than under windows [/goodnaturedribbing]
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Interesting you sya that. The Green Party is running a ficus tree in some distrcits/precincts as a sign of contempt for the system. I can't remember where, but supposedly one of the ficus trees is really messing with a state legislature election. It's drawing about 2-3% of the vote in a very tight race.
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I'm sorry.... I disagree with you. Quite often in social activism you get better, further results by concentrating your efforts on a single symptom of a larger problem, and using that single incident as both a rallying point for the loyal and as an example stick with which one can beat down the opressors, so to speak.
This kid is representative of just how fucked up the social hierarchy and abuse of power in american high schools has gotten. No, it's not poverty, war, famine, etc. --- but it is exemplative of intolerance and freedom.
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One of my friends almost got kicked out of a college hockey game two weeks ago. He's diabetic and had with him a can of pepsi in case he went into diabetic shock. Asst. Athletic Director saw the pepsi and went nuts---my campus is a Coke campus. The head athletic director even admitted as much: he told my friend it would have been just fine if it had only been a Coca Cola product.
Then again, this is the same university that's still using a racist name and logo to support its teams... and the same university which took $100 million from a man who has held not one but two birthday parties for Hitler.
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Shaggy from Scooby Doo was almost our student council rep. once. Lost by two freaking votes. Man....
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The FBI confiscated the guy's coffee maker? Now I know that IP-enabled appliances are the thing of the future but it's not here yet. What are they trying to do, deprive him of his '1337 hax0r c0ff33 m@k3r' so he doesn't have the caffeine needed to "0wn y0u d00dz"?
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Contet doesn't matter in this instance. The FTC is concerned because some (most...) of those dialer programs dial numbers in foreign countries, usually somewhere in the Caribbean. It's very much like long distance slamming, where you get shunted from the service you expect to be using to one with incredibly high rates.
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