As someone who is at the gym 5 days a week working out - let me tell you that nobody listens to the TV's throught he FM broadcast. Nobody. Everybody just reads the subtitles.
and everyone (except that one dork nobody likes) has an ipod. A few regular iPods, tons of people with mini's, and i'm the only one with a shuffle. I'm assuming that's because it's relatively new and no major holidays have passed for people to get one as a gift.
Actually, Bank of America is starting to offer this to their customers. If you've seen their new ATM's with the big screens you might have noticed that it says "Retrieving personalizations" after you insert your card. Once you've entered your pin and are in the system there's a button you can press on the screen (something like "other options") and can set preferences, like language, and whether you want receipts for certain types of transactions. Pretty handy, but not something you'd know about unless you decided to just randomly click through the menus or someone told you about it.
I'm suprised you're having good luck with the 5m. I avoid them like the plague. I've found most of them have horrible network cards, and they just aren't very robust. The 4 series were tanks. I've got one in my home office and the only way i'll replace it is when i pick up a color laser. When we want to get rid of the 5m's at work we put them in the hallway with signs saying "Free to a good home". They're still there.;-}
PS: If anybody in the DC area wants a free 5m let me know...
Any survey where people are allowed to choose to respond is inherintly flawed. "Self-Selection" changes a neutral survey into a skewed set of results. Therefore any sort of survey you ever see on a website is not accurate.
Yes, your cellphone does depend on a subscription with one particular supplier. Not only is it locked into a certain network technology, the phone has a "lock code" to prevent it from being used with another provider. Not to mention cell phone providers won't activate phones that aren't their own.
Of course - that is in the US. I hear over in europe people aren't so locked in, with SIM cards and all.
Microsoft Active Directory makes use of SRV records to let clients know where the domain controllers are. So a client can issue a DNS query for SRV records for ad.foobar.org and they'll find out the IP addresses of all the domain controllers for "ad.foobar.org"
Use WebEx. They make online meeting software that works pretty seamlessly. Get a "pay as you go" account. The pricing is pretty reasonable. At $.33/user/minute, you're looking at $.99/minute with 3 pubs. An hour long show would cost 60 bucks - not bad. Check them out and give them a call.
It's even worse than that. Tsunami warning systems would generally increase the number of casualties. When the Tsunami warning horn goes off - people either a) wonder what that strange horn they've never heard before is or b) run to the beach to see the really big wave since it's must be pretty cool.
It's like putting a sign on a condemned building saying "Warning - people entering this building may have the most exciting adventure of their life!"
When you talk about the 6 week average i'm assuming you are talking about an A1C. You can get that test in a take home version at any drugstore. It's called an A1CNow. Costa about 24 bucks, give you your A1C number (which is an average of the last 2-3 months), and is one use. Just give it a drop of blood and you get back your A1C. A lot easier than going to the Dr's to get blood drawn to check.
A word of advice - just make sure that when you pick it up the pharmacist gets it out of the fridge. I heard they need to be stored in a fridge, and i've seen a couple CVS' in my area just keeping them on the counter.
Only a diabetic can go into a diabetic coma. A diabetic coma is caused by ketoacidosis. This occurs when your body does not produce insulin, and your muscle cells have to burn fat since they can't use sugar without insulin. The fat burning produces ketones, which acidify the blood. And that's what causes someone to go into a coma.
Before a cell phone could fit in your hand, it fit in a bag. There was the big transciever, and a handset on a cord. Most people couldn't afford the batteries for them, so you used it plugged into your car's cigarette lighter. I recall my family having one in 1989 i think.....
They're analog, and usually 3 or 6 watts, so you've got a much better chance of getting a signal out in BFE.
I used to raise animals for my 4-H projects. I raised swine, chicken, heifers, steers, lambs... you name it. And i won quite a few prizes at the fair.
One year I was raising a steer named Bobby. Bobby was a bad bad animal. He was being raised on a nice farm, with tender loving care, and really good food, yet he showed nothing but malice toward everyone. Basically everybody got kicked, head butted (hard enough to send a grown 200lb man over a fence), and hurt. In the show ring he kicked me hard enough that people heard a cracking sound and thought I had broken some bones.
But when it was all over, man was he tasty. I've never ever had steaks that tasted soo good.
Actually with the new ipods you can make playlists on the ipod. Just create your on-the-go playlist and save it. No computer neccesary. And the playlist uploads to the computer when you sync!
FUD - don't listen to this guy. ATA133 drives work just as well under an ATA100 interface. The 138GB limit (if applicable) is imposed by your bios, and both windows and linux have workarounds.
Besides - if you actually looked around you'd see that their HW supports Drives up to 144 PetaBytes. So i thnk you little 160GB or 250GB drives will work just fine
Actually the just have to change out battery packs occasionally. It's kinda like the little automatic flushers on toilets. No wires - just occasionally the batteries have to be replaced.
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As someone who is at the gym 5 days a week working out - let me tell you that nobody listens to the TV's throught he FM broadcast. Nobody. Everybody just reads the subtitles.
and everyone (except that one dork nobody likes) has an ipod. A few regular iPods, tons of people with mini's, and i'm the only one with a shuffle. I'm assuming that's because it's relatively new and no major holidays have passed for people to get one as a gift.
yeah - but the OP mentioned rs232. So yeah, bashing serial in this context is well justified.
Here's hoping the software can recognize when there is a piece of duct tape over your mouth
Actually, Bank of America is starting to offer this to their customers. If you've seen their new ATM's with the big screens you might have noticed that it says "Retrieving personalizations" after you insert your card. Once you've entered your pin and are in the system there's a button you can press on the screen (something like "other options") and can set preferences, like language, and whether you want receipts for certain types of transactions. Pretty handy, but not something you'd know about unless you decided to just randomly click through the menus or someone told you about it.
I'm suprised you're having good luck with the 5m. I avoid them like the plague. I've found most of them have horrible network cards, and they just aren't very robust. The 4 series were tanks. I've got one in my home office and the only way i'll replace it is when i pick up a color laser. When we want to get rid of the 5m's at work we put them in the hallway with signs saying "Free to a good home". They're still there. ;-}
PS: If anybody in the DC area wants a free 5m let me know...
Any survey where people are allowed to choose to respond is inherintly flawed. "Self-Selection" changes a neutral survey into a skewed set of results. Therefore any sort of survey you ever see on a website is not accurate.
Sorry.
Yes, your cellphone does depend on a subscription with one particular supplier. Not only is it locked into a certain network technology, the phone has a "lock code" to prevent it from being used with another provider. Not to mention cell phone providers won't activate phones that aren't their own.
Of course - that is in the US. I hear over in europe people aren't so locked in, with SIM cards and all.
Except the tivo handles that. Who turns off their cable box? Nobody I know who has cable ever turns it off.
And the tivo includes a serial cable and an IR blaster. If your cable box has a port -the serial control is better, but both work just fine.
The TiVo is not a dumb VCR. It knows how to take care of itself, and you.
Microsoft Active Directory makes use of SRV records to let clients know where the domain controllers are. So a client can issue a DNS query for SRV records for ad.foobar.org and they'll find out the IP addresses of all the domain controllers for "ad.foobar.org"
It was right before he starting imagining his mother talking about beowulf cluster of social security numbers....
Yes - it's probably a thousand feet huge ;-}
Use WebEx. They make online meeting software that works pretty seamlessly. Get a "pay as you go" account. The pricing is pretty reasonable. At $.33/user/minute, you're looking at $.99/minute with 3 pubs. An hour long show would cost 60 bucks - not bad. Check them out and give them a call.
It's even worse than that. Tsunami warning systems would generally increase the number of casualties. When the Tsunami warning horn goes off - people either a) wonder what that strange horn they've never heard before is or b) run to the beach to see the really big wave since it's must be pretty cool.
It's like putting a sign on a condemned building saying "Warning - people entering this building may have the most exciting adventure of their life!"
When you talk about the 6 week average i'm assuming you are talking about an A1C. You can get that test in a take home version at any drugstore. It's called an A1CNow. Costa about 24 bucks, give you your A1C number (which is an average of the last 2-3 months), and is one use. Just give it a drop of blood and you get back your A1C. A lot easier than going to the Dr's to get blood drawn to check.
A word of advice - just make sure that when you pick it up the pharmacist gets it out of the fridge. I heard they need to be stored in a fridge, and i've seen a couple CVS' in my area just keeping them on the counter.
Only a diabetic can go into a diabetic coma. A diabetic coma is caused by ketoacidosis. This occurs when your body does not produce insulin, and your muscle cells have to burn fat since they can't use sugar without insulin. The fat burning produces ketones, which acidify the blood. And that's what causes someone to go into a coma.
I'm guessing you're young......
Before a cell phone could fit in your hand, it fit in a bag. There was the big transciever, and a handset on a cord. Most people couldn't afford the batteries for them, so you used it plugged into your car's cigarette lighter. I recall my family having one in 1989 i think.....
They're analog, and usually 3 or 6 watts, so you've got a much better chance of getting a signal out in BFE.
some of them deserve it. really.
I used to raise animals for my 4-H projects. I raised swine, chicken, heifers, steers, lambs... you name it. And i won quite a few prizes at the fair.
One year I was raising a steer named Bobby. Bobby was a bad bad animal. He was being raised on a nice farm, with tender loving care, and really good food, yet he showed nothing but malice toward everyone. Basically everybody got kicked, head butted (hard enough to send a grown 200lb man over a fence), and hurt. In the show ring he kicked me hard enough that people heard a cracking sound and thought I had broken some bones.
But when it was all over, man was he tasty. I've never ever had steaks that tasted soo good.
I think you are off a few decimal places......
Where are you located. In most areas of the US electricity is around 8c/KWH
You know you spend too much time in front of the computer when you automagically spell pearl as "perl"...
Actually with the new ipods you can make playlists on the ipod. Just create your on-the-go playlist and save it. No computer neccesary. And the playlist uploads to the computer when you sync!
FUD - don't listen to this guy. ATA133 drives work just as well under an ATA100 interface. The 138GB limit (if applicable) is imposed by your bios, and both windows and linux have workarounds.
Besides - if you actually looked around you'd see that their HW supports Drives up to 144 PetaBytes. So i thnk you little 160GB or 250GB drives will work just fine
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They also have a SATA version
"A 7 seater bike that goes nowhere"
Hello McFly - it's a bike - and it does go places, at around 10MPH.
And that's called Karma. It's a bitch, but so am I.
Actually the just have to change out battery packs occasionally. It's kinda like the little automatic flushers on toilets. No wires - just occasionally the batteries have to be replaced.