First, a clerk would be better off stealing a credit card - higher limits.
Second, as others have pointed out, you aren't liable for more than $50 anyway, although there's more hassle with debit since it's your checking account.
Third, what clerk actually takes your card these days? I can't remember the last store I was in that didn't have the scanners that I used, so the card never even leaves my hand. (Exception: restaurants. But even there #1 and #2 still apply.)
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The Micro Innovations SK-7100 is nice. They're PS/2-PS/2 or PS/2-Serial (for the mouse). They use infrared instead of radio.
I don't think they're made any more, but I just ordered one off eBay yesterday for $50.
I find it interesting that some of the best episodes of Enterprise and Next Generation were in the last season, as if the writers knew what was coming and suddenly weren't afraid to take risks.
Sometimes I feel like Kramer on Seinfeld - like I should get an intern to do my laundry, pay bills, go to jail for me, etc., so that I can concentrate on the fun stuff I want to do.
I work for the US Census Bureau. Our DC buildings are located on the Suitland Federal Center, which is actually pretty nice when it isn't under construction, and it'll be a lot nicer when the construction is finished. Before the construction started, I took a laptop or just documents to read outside several times - away from the distractions, enjoying the sunlight. We do not have a wireless network at all, but having one on campus would be a nice perk, as long as the security issues could be resolved. (We take the security of our data very seriously.)
It'd also be useful for people who are trying to work in places like the cafeteria or library, where there aren't any available network drops.
You say I'm generalizing, but then you say: "power steering was a lot newer in 70's and 80's and therefore a lot more conservative in it's effect." Care to back that generalization up?
For what it's worth the Buick was a late-80s car, but I don't remember how late. If I could do it without damaging something, I'd encourage you to somehow rig the power steering on either of my late-model cars (a 1999 and a 2004 model, from different manufacturers) to go out randomly. I'll be just fine, I promise you.
If you're driving a car that simply cannot be driven without power steering, you need a different car. It's not safe. If you ever run out of gas or have it stall for some reason at highway speeds, you're going to have a serious problem.
The '87 Escort I had did not have power steering from the factory. Other Escorts of that era did.
However, and I hoped not to bring up this example, but here we go:
My dad's Buick, for a while, had intermittent power steering. It would go out sometimes (randomly) when you tried to make a right turn. We never once hit another car or ANYTHING as a result of this. That's about as bad as a power steering problem can get and it STILL made no practical difference.
Yeah, this is basically a non-story. Cars have been stalling at highway speeds since day one. The source of the problem is different (maybe - I'm sure there's at least conventially powered car out there that would stall due to a glitch in its computer), but the effects are quite similar.
It's harder to steer at slow speeds, yes, but at any appreciable speed you won't notice the difference. (I had a 1987 Escort that didn't have power steering, and I did just fine with it. The worst time I had with it was when I was in a really tight parking lot once - hardly a life or death situation.)
As others have pointed out - the brakes should still work just fine without power - you need to push harder but that's it. There's a reason for that: manufacturers have realized that cars occasionally do stall, and you need braking ability at all times. And of course the parking brake should always work - as others have mentioned it's just a cable, so unless you've been neglecting your maintenance (or you panic), you'll be fine.
We had a DOS-based commercial program for learning to type that had a game in it where a red ASCII lobster would chase you across the screen. If you typed the line quickly enough to stay ahead of the lobster, you'd keep going and it'd get a bit harder. It was a lot of fun! I wish I could remember the name of it...it may have come with the IBM PCjr.
I was actually starting to write a database program for it that would use the Memo feature to store the albums I owned. It wasn't long before I realized that program + data >>> 16K. (Where >>> is "much greater than".) Still, it was really cool that you could write programs to interact with the memo pad - it was, as we say now, integrated!
I still have my PC-6! I don't think it works any more though - I think the connector between the two halves separated.
The PC-6 was actually made by someone else before it got the Tandy brand name. I think Sharp made it, but I'm really not sure.
I believe it came standard with 8K, but there was an additional 8K module available for it. I also have the cassette adaptor to allow cassette tape backups.
Now I want to go play the horse race game on it...I killed a lot of boring class time that way...
They already had it - the game was Hard Drivin', and it was about as close as you could come to actually being in a car while in an arcade (think of the limitations: space in the arcades, cost to transport, etc). The sit-down version of Hard Drivin' was pretty good, too, but the game was really just driving around on a course as fast as possible - I don't think the CPU power was there to have other cars and scenery.
Where are you getting Office for $130? Educational discount, maybe? Those of us outside education without access to bulk discounts have to pay $400-$500 (depending on version). For that price difference, I'll deal with a slow load time. Which brings me to my second point:
Have you removed the Office Startup feature from your start menu? That program preloads parts of Office so the full apps start more quickly. I think OO.org still loads more slowly than Office, but comparing apples to apples is only fair.
A lot depends on how much time you spent on the highway and what the weather conditions were. Also, how often is someone ahead of you at the light? For me, it's rare to be first in line, and you can't accelerate any faster than the car ahead of you does...
Or, you could just not use Google services and have no problem. No one has a gun to your head. I don't have Gmail, Google Toolbar, Google blog (I didn't even know they had blog services), nor Google accelerator, and my life is just fine.
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First, a clerk would be better off stealing a credit card - higher limits.
Second, as others have pointed out, you aren't liable for more than $50 anyway, although there's more hassle with debit since it's your checking account.
Third, what clerk actually takes your card these days? I can't remember the last store I was in that didn't have the scanners that I used, so the card never even leaves my hand. (Exception: restaurants. But even there #1 and #2 still apply.)
Nice keyboards.
The Micro Innovations SK-7100 is nice. They're PS/2-PS/2 or PS/2-Serial (for the mouse). They use infrared instead of radio.
I don't think they're made any more, but I just ordered one off eBay yesterday for $50.
I completely missed that when I read the article (before posting, even). Thanks.
Let's make a list here:
Fire
Gasoline
Flying glass
I think they were going for a Jimi Hendrix version of Star Wars. Were they trying to make the scene as dangerous as possible?
Lyndsey Nagle: Do I detect a note of sarcasm?
Frink: (With sarcasm detector) Are you kidding? This baby is off the charts mm-hai.
CBG: A sarcasm detector, that's a _real_ useful invention.
(Sarcasm detector explodes)
http://www.snpp.com/guides/cbg.file.html#6
You'd be the original - the one in the middle.
I find it interesting that some of the best episodes of Enterprise and Next Generation were in the last season, as if the writers knew what was coming and suddenly weren't afraid to take risks.
Yes, but that never stopped /. posters before. :)
Sometimes I feel like Kramer on Seinfeld - like I should get an intern to do my laundry, pay bills, go to jail for me, etc., so that I can concentrate on the fun stuff I want to do.
Thanks! Not that I had anything to do with that decision, of course. :)
TIGER is VERY cool. I love playing around with it, and I think it's great there are a number of open source programs that can access it.
3 hour lunch? Yeah, right. That would seriously screw up my 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. work day. ;)
I work for the US Census Bureau. Our DC buildings are located on the Suitland Federal Center, which is actually pretty nice when it isn't under construction, and it'll be a lot nicer when the construction is finished. Before the construction started, I took a laptop or just documents to read outside several times - away from the distractions, enjoying the sunlight. We do not have a wireless network at all, but having one on campus would be a nice perk, as long as the security issues could be resolved. (We take the security of our data very seriously.)
It'd also be useful for people who are trying to work in places like the cafeteria or library, where there aren't any available network drops.
You say I'm generalizing, but then you say: "power steering was a lot newer in 70's and 80's and therefore a lot more conservative in it's effect." Care to back that generalization up?
For what it's worth the Buick was a late-80s car, but I don't remember how late. If I could do it without damaging something, I'd encourage you to somehow rig the power steering on either of my late-model cars (a 1999 and a 2004 model, from different manufacturers) to go out randomly. I'll be just fine, I promise you.
If you're driving a car that simply cannot be driven without power steering, you need a different car. It's not safe. If you ever run out of gas or have it stall for some reason at highway speeds, you're going to have a serious problem.
The '87 Escort I had did not have power steering from the factory. Other Escorts of that era did.
However, and I hoped not to bring up this example, but here we go:
My dad's Buick, for a while, had intermittent power steering. It would go out sometimes (randomly) when you tried to make a right turn. We never once hit another car or ANYTHING as a result of this. That's about as bad as a power steering problem can get and it STILL made no practical difference.
Yeah, this is basically a non-story. Cars have been stalling at highway speeds since day one. The source of the problem is different (maybe - I'm sure there's at least conventially powered car out there that would stall due to a glitch in its computer), but the effects are quite similar.
It's harder to steer at slow speeds, yes, but at any appreciable speed you won't notice the difference. (I had a 1987 Escort that didn't have power steering, and I did just fine with it. The worst time I had with it was when I was in a really tight parking lot once - hardly a life or death situation.)
As others have pointed out - the brakes should still work just fine without power - you need to push harder but that's it. There's a reason for that: manufacturers have realized that cars occasionally do stall, and you need braking ability at all times. And of course the parking brake should always work - as others have mentioned it's just a cable, so unless you've been neglecting your maintenance (or you panic), you'll be fine.
We had a DOS-based commercial program for learning to type that had a game in it where a red ASCII lobster would chase you across the screen. If you typed the line quickly enough to stay ahead of the lobster, you'd keep going and it'd get a bit harder. It was a lot of fun! I wish I could remember the name of it...it may have come with the IBM PCjr.
I was actually starting to write a database program for it that would use the Memo feature to store the albums I owned. It wasn't long before I realized that program + data >>> 16K. (Where >>> is "much greater than".) Still, it was really cool that you could write programs to interact with the memo pad - it was, as we say now, integrated!
I still have my PC-6! I don't think it works any more though - I think the connector between the two halves separated.
The PC-6 was actually made by someone else before it got the Tandy brand name. I think Sharp made it, but I'm really not sure.
I believe it came standard with 8K, but there was an additional 8K module available for it. I also have the cassette adaptor to allow cassette tape backups.
Now I want to go play the horse race game on it...I killed a lot of boring class time that way...
I don't remember the oncoming cars, but how could I have forgotten about the cow? :)
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They already had it - the game was Hard Drivin', and it was about as close as you could come to actually being in a car while in an arcade (think of the limitations: space in the arcades, cost to transport, etc). The sit-down version of Hard Drivin' was pretty good, too, but the game was really just driving around on a course as fast as possible - I don't think the CPU power was there to have other cars and scenery.
Where are you getting Office for $130? Educational discount, maybe? Those of us outside education without access to bulk discounts have to pay $400-$500 (depending on version). For that price difference, I'll deal with a slow load time. Which brings me to my second point:
Have you removed the Office Startup feature from your start menu? That program preloads parts of Office so the full apps start more quickly. I think OO.org still loads more slowly than Office, but comparing apples to apples is only fair.
A lot depends on how much time you spent on the highway and what the weather conditions were. Also, how often is someone ahead of you at the light? For me, it's rare to be first in line, and you can't accelerate any faster than the car ahead of you does...
Yep, just like Klingon and the Swedish Chef tranlations they offer. It's been there for years.
--RJ
Or, you could just not use Google services and have no problem. No one has a gun to your head. I don't have Gmail, Google Toolbar, Google blog (I didn't even know they had blog services), nor Google accelerator, and my life is just fine.