Especially in the current atmosphere of you must be patriotic
You say that like it's a bad thing. There are plenty of other countries in the world where the ingrates who hate America can go live. Maybe while they're there, they'll gain an appreciation for the things that motivate the patriot...assuming that they don't end up killed or locked up in jail first.
Um, I don't know very many people who EVER booted linux without a windowing system
You must not know anyone who runs Linux on any servers. None of the four servers I control run X...why would you need a WIMP interface on a machine that you admin remotely? Only the people who drink the MS Kool-Aid would believe that.
(KDE 3's kicking my ass on the one machine (a workstation, not a server) on which it's installed...kicker won't run; something about some sort of DCOP error.)
Last time I checked, Las Vegas had more than a dozen. Only three or four of them are carried by the local cable system; you get to break out the rabbit ears if you want to tune in the rest. (When UPN moved to a different station a few years ago, Cox didn't bother carrying the new channel for a year or two after the move. If you wanted to watch Voyager, you had an antenna.)
So its "the revolutionary DiscT@2TM Laser Labeling System, pronounced as Disctatoo trademark LLS." How do normal people know how to pronouce this or non-english speaking people like me.
Hell, even some of us who do speak English found the name just a little too clever. "DiscT@2? HTF do you pronounce that?" Cleverness like that is OK on license plates, but I'm not sure it's a good idea for a product name.
Does anyone remember seeing some bills a long time ago printed with red ink? Am I dreaming?
I have a $2 bill somewhere that has the Treasury seal in red instead of green. It doesn't identify itself as a Federal Reserve Note; it's labeled as a United States Note.
whoever heard of a 'gold dollar' though.
those things are terrible. I lent a buddy of
mine a couple bucks a few weeks back, and he
tried to pay me back in gold dollars.
I wouldn't take the damn things.
Where are they circulating? I've never even seen one out here. Postal vending machines give out SBA dollars (which I get rid of ASAP...dollar coins as a replacement for bills are ghey), and I've seen more than a few $2 bills, but the new gold-colored dollar coins apparently haven't made their way westward.
(They could be worse...they could be like British £1 coins, which are about the size of two nickels stacked together. A small number of those will weigh your wallet down pretty badly.)
To phase out the penny, Kolbe said, cash transactions would be rounded up or down a nickel over a transition period before removing it from circulation. But Americans for Common Cents (ACC), a group dedicated to keeping the penny, said Kolbe's rounding proposal would hurt Americans, particularly the poor, because companies would round in their favor.
BXes, commissaries, and other retail outlets at military bases overseas haven't used pennies since at least the mid-80s...maybe earlier. When my parents returned from Germany in 2000, they had to start dealing with pennies again and didn't care much for them. There is a definition for rounding...if the price ends in 1, 2, 6, or 7, you round down, while if it ends in 3, 4, 8, or 9, you round up. In the long run, it all averages out. ACC sounds like some crank Naderite group that bashes anyone who has a dollar more than they do.
FWIW, it doesn't matter too much to me whether the penny stays or goes. I tend to get rid of them shortly after I get them, usually by throwing a few into the purchase to get quarters/nickels/dimes back and to see if I can confuse the minimum-wage clerk behind the counter ("The total is $2.87, so why did he give me $3.12?").
What's worse is that while many stores don't take $50's, the ATMs (at least TD Bank's) still give them out if you take more than $100 (which in Canadian dollars isn't that much) out.
That's different...here in the States, it's rare to find an ATM that dispenses anything other than $20s. (The two ATMs in front of the student union at UNLV dispense $5s last time I checked...those are the only ATMs I've ever run across that hand out something other than $20s.) If you withdraw $300 (which I've done maybe once or twice ever...I don't like to carry more than $20 or so), you get a stack of fifteen bills.
Well, no, actually. But it's probably because we know what the money looks like. I've been in England a couple times, where the paper money is a different size and has a different color scheme for each denomination; and I have a MUCH harder time differentiating between a 5 and 10 pound note versus a 5 and 10 dollar bill.
I lived in England and Germany for a couple of years each, and don't recall ever having used color or size to tell different bills apart. Hell, I'd clue in on "Zwanzig Deutsche Mark" before the color or shape would even register. I don't have a clue what color a DM 20 bill was...not that they're used anymore anyway.
I agree with everything in this post except the part about the case. Dell and Micron have some of the best designed cases I have every seen. Single screw or even push button to open designs with all the sharp edges removed. You just can't find these cases at places like Newegg, and the places you do find them, the prices are nuts.
Antec has some fairly decent cases at good prices...one of 'em here at work has a latch to hold the side panel on, another latch inside holding the 3.5" drive cage in place, and rails for 5.25" drives (with unused rails stored in the bottom of the case). I have a couple of Chieftec cases at home that are of similar design. Two of 'em were bought through Newegg; one of the Chieftec cases came from PC Club.
But remember, dell gives you non-standard parts. It may look like an atx, but it isn't.
Dell doesn't do AMD, either...if you want a dual Athlon, they'll tell you to get lost.
I've seen enough weirdness (glitches, non-standard behavior, etc.) with various Dells that there's no way in hell you'd get me to buy one. I'll roll my own, with parts obtained wherever (either PC Club or Newegg, depending on whether I need it Right Now or not).
But newegg does not ship by weight. -- Their shipping cost is good on a per-item basis, but when buying multiple items it's pretty bad IMO.
If you're only buying one or two items, they charge a fixed shipping rate per item. If you're buying a bunch of stuff (like all the parts to build a computer, or close to it), you get a break in the shipping rates. I put an order in a couple of months ago for parts for a dual Athlon MP system I built at work...everything except the hard drive, monitor, keyboard, and mouse, which I had on hand. On a subtotal of about $950, shipping was about $45. This was for three boxes, including a fairly heavy Antec mid-tower case, that arrived the next day. (FedEx Express Saver is sold as a three-day service IIRC, but it usually gets stuff from California to Nevada the next day.) $45 seems reasonable enough to me.
The last time I saw Limewire, it was the most spyware infested software I have ever but maybe that has changed?
If you pay for it (less than $10), you get no spyware. If you download the source (free, but I think it's an older version) and compile it, you get no spyware.
For me to run Linux on my main PC at work, I need specific things: A Groupwise client, a Novell client...
Can't help with GroupWise, but back when I was playing with NetWare 5, I had Linux accessing shares on a NetWare server. It's been a while, but IIRC you need IPX and NCP support compiled into the kernel (NCP over TCP wasn't supported...maybe it is now). There might've been some additional software involved, but I can't remember offhand. (I set up a server on some spare hardware, got my CNS, and toasted my setup when some hardware went screwy...haven't bothered putting it back on a machine since Linux will do for me what NetWare does, and then some.)
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Darn, and I still haven't started on my CD gun. It's based on the toy "phaser" that shot those little plastic disks.
Finally a good use for all those AOL discs eh? (The power source is the problem. A spring just doesn't cut it for a 100 CD magazine.)
Any chance of it being a portable railgun that would fling CDs, or is the aluminum layer in your average CD not sufficient for that idea to work? If it could work, you could get some pretty decent speed out of the business end of it...
Of course, you'd probably need a backpack power supply to drive the thing. You could go around flinging AOHell CDs at people with a contraption that looks like something out of Ghostbusters...
if any hacker has come up with a way of blocking forced recording let me know.
I read something a couple of days ago that describes how you can delete the recordings (which also gets rid of the starred item at the bottom of TiVo Central). With backdoors enabled, go into Now Showing and press Thumbs-Down Thumbs-Down Pause Instant-Replay. Scroll past the suggestion recordings and you should see a bunch of entries labeled "Teleworld" and/or "Teleworld Paid Programming." Delete those the same way you'd delete anything else. It doesn't keep them from being recorded, but it at least lets you delete them once they're on there. I deleted recordings that had been on my TiVo since November.
As far as Tivo is concerned, they're not losing out in any way. If someone goes out and buys a tivo with the intent of putting a 120gb drive in it, their stilling getting the inital payout of 300 bucks.
Those of us who've added Ethernet to our TiVos could even be said to have done them a little favor. A TiVo that pulls its data through its owner's cable-modem or DSL connection is a TiVo that isn't using a UUnet dialup. That has to have TiVo at least a little money, especially when upgrades get pushed out.
Now I just need to reinstall TivoWeb so that I can see what's saved on it again. 3.0's Ethernet support is slicker than all-get-out...as long as you have a DHCP server, it just works. If the upgrade hadn't killed telnet access to my TiVo, I wouldn't have had to open the box at all after the upgrade (other than to make a backup of the new software).
A peice of advice not mentioned, from personal experience. While the contractor and the sub-contractors may be who you deal with they are not the ones doing the work. The work crews are the ones that are acutally attaching things to other things. A $60 investment in pizza or beer dropped by the site one day will pay of huge in the long run.
Pizza's a good idea, but I'm not so sure about the beer. There seemed to be plenty of that in the condo I bought (I saw empty beer cans all over the place during construction), and now all sorts of construction defects are popping up. All of the roofs were rebuilt earlier this year to fix leaks, there seems to be a fair amount of A/C work getting done in the past few months (my compressor and my neighbor's compressor were cross-wired when the place was built...that was fixed two years ago, but more A/C work was needed this year after the roof work), and there's more than likely some other stuff I don't know about.
Further digging also reveals that it only works with MacOS. That probably rules out 99.9% of the people here (and before you flame me for saying that, my Quadra 610 doesn't speak USB anyway).
All those people with PVRs boast about saving time watching TV by pausing the first 20 minutes and then skipping ads. Since DVDs don't have ads (at least not as interruptions), playing them substantially faster than 60 fields/second is the obvious step.
If you buy PAL DVDs and play them on your region-free DVD player, they should be sped up by about 4-5%. FilmNTSC transfers are telecined with a 3:2 pulldown that generates one extra frame for every four frames of film. Since film runs at 24 fps and NTSC runs at 29.97 fps, the film is actually slowed down just a little bit (to 23.976 fps). In a filmPAL transfer, though, they just speed up the film and telecine it at 25 fps.
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You say that like it's a bad thing. There are plenty of other countries in the world where the ingrates who hate America can go live. Maybe while they're there, they'll gain an appreciation for the things that motivate the patriot...assuming that they don't end up killed or locked up in jail first.
You must not know anyone who runs Linux on any servers. None of the four servers I control run X...why would you need a WIMP interface on a machine that you admin remotely? Only the people who drink the MS Kool-Aid would believe that.
(KDE 3's kicking my ass on the one machine (a workstation, not a server) on which it's installed...kicker won't run; something about some sort of DCOP error.)
Al Franken is a big fat idiot. Weird Al Yankovic, OTOH, is a comedic genius. :-)
Last time I checked, Las Vegas had more than a dozen. Only three or four of them are carried by the local cable system; you get to break out the rabbit ears if you want to tune in the rest. (When UPN moved to a different station a few years ago, Cox didn't bother carrying the new channel for a year or two after the move. If you wanted to watch Voyager, you had an antenna.)
Hell, even some of us who do speak English found the name just a little too clever. "DiscT@2? HTF do you pronounce that?" Cleverness like that is OK on license plates, but I'm not sure it's a good idea for a product name.
Maybe if you'd get a new fFscking keyboard, somebody might do that...WTF is up with your usage of the F key?
I have a $2 bill somewhere that has the Treasury seal in red instead of green. It doesn't identify itself as a Federal Reserve Note; it's labeled as a United States Note.
Where are they circulating? I've never even seen one out here. Postal vending machines give out SBA dollars (which I get rid of ASAP...dollar coins as a replacement for bills are ghey), and I've seen more than a few $2 bills, but the new gold-colored dollar coins apparently haven't made their way westward.
(They could be worse...they could be like British £1 coins, which are about the size of two nickels stacked together. A small number of those will weigh your wallet down pretty badly.)
BXes, commissaries, and other retail outlets at military bases overseas haven't used pennies since at least the mid-80s...maybe earlier. When my parents returned from Germany in 2000, they had to start dealing with pennies again and didn't care much for them. There is a definition for rounding...if the price ends in 1, 2, 6, or 7, you round down, while if it ends in 3, 4, 8, or 9, you round up. In the long run, it all averages out. ACC sounds like some crank Naderite group that bashes anyone who has a dollar more than they do.
FWIW, it doesn't matter too much to me whether the penny stays or goes. I tend to get rid of them shortly after I get them, usually by throwing a few into the purchase to get quarters/nickels/dimes back and to see if I can confuse the minimum-wage clerk behind the counter ("The total is $2.87, so why did he give me $3.12?").
That's different...here in the States, it's rare to find an ATM that dispenses anything other than $20s. (The two ATMs in front of the student union at UNLV dispense $5s last time I checked...those are the only ATMs I've ever run across that hand out something other than $20s.) If you withdraw $300 (which I've done maybe once or twice ever...I don't like to carry more than $20 or so), you get a stack of fifteen bills.
I lived in England and Germany for a couple of years each, and don't recall ever having used color or size to tell different bills apart. Hell, I'd clue in on "Zwanzig Deutsche Mark" before the color or shape would even register. I don't have a clue what color a DM 20 bill was...not that they're used anymore anyway.
Antec has some fairly decent cases at good prices...one of 'em here at work has a latch to hold the side panel on, another latch inside holding the 3.5" drive cage in place, and rails for 5.25" drives (with unused rails stored in the bottom of the case). I have a couple of Chieftec cases at home that are of similar design. Two of 'em were bought through Newegg; one of the Chieftec cases came from PC Club.
Dell doesn't do AMD, either...if you want a dual Athlon, they'll tell you to get lost.
I've seen enough weirdness (glitches, non-standard behavior, etc.) with various Dells that there's no way in hell you'd get me to buy one. I'll roll my own, with parts obtained wherever (either PC Club or Newegg, depending on whether I need it Right Now or not).
If you're only buying one or two items, they charge a fixed shipping rate per item. If you're buying a bunch of stuff (like all the parts to build a computer, or close to it), you get a break in the shipping rates. I put an order in a couple of months ago for parts for a dual Athlon MP system I built at work...everything except the hard drive, monitor, keyboard, and mouse, which I had on hand. On a subtotal of about $950, shipping was about $45. This was for three boxes, including a fairly heavy Antec mid-tower case, that arrived the next day. (FedEx Express Saver is sold as a three-day service IIRC, but it usually gets stuff from California to Nevada the next day.) $45 seems reasonable enough to me.
If you pay for it (less than $10), you get no spyware. If you download the source (free, but I think it's an older version) and compile it, you get no spyware.
Can't help with GroupWise, but back when I was playing with NetWare 5, I had Linux accessing shares on a NetWare server. It's been a while, but IIRC you need IPX and NCP support compiled into the kernel (NCP over TCP wasn't supported...maybe it is now). There might've been some additional software involved, but I can't remember offhand. (I set up a server on some spare hardware, got my CNS, and toasted my setup when some hardware went screwy...haven't bothered putting it back on a machine since Linux will do for me what NetWare does, and then some.)
Any chance of it being a portable railgun that would fling CDs, or is the aluminum layer in your average CD not sufficient for that idea to work? If it could work, you could get some pretty decent speed out of the business end of it...
Of course, you'd probably need a backpack power supply to drive the thing. You could go around flinging AOHell CDs at people with a contraption that looks like something out of Ghostbusters...
How do you explain this Linux counter entry, then?
I read something a couple of days ago that describes how you can delete the recordings (which also gets rid of the starred item at the bottom of TiVo Central). With backdoors enabled, go into Now Showing and press Thumbs-Down Thumbs-Down Pause Instant-Replay. Scroll past the suggestion recordings and you should see a bunch of entries labeled "Teleworld" and/or "Teleworld Paid Programming." Delete those the same way you'd delete anything else. It doesn't keep them from being recorded, but it at least lets you delete them once they're on there. I deleted recordings that had been on my TiVo since November.
Those of us who've added Ethernet to our TiVos could even be said to have done them a little favor. A TiVo that pulls its data through its owner's cable-modem or DSL connection is a TiVo that isn't using a UUnet dialup. That has to have TiVo at least a little money, especially when upgrades get pushed out.
Now I just need to reinstall TivoWeb so that I can see what's saved on it again. 3.0's Ethernet support is slicker than all-get-out...as long as you have a DHCP server, it just works. If the upgrade hadn't killed telnet access to my TiVo, I wouldn't have had to open the box at all after the upgrade (other than to make a backup of the new software).
Pizza's a good idea, but I'm not so sure about the beer. There seemed to be plenty of that in the condo I bought (I saw empty beer cans all over the place during construction), and now all sorts of construction defects are popping up. All of the roofs were rebuilt earlier this year to fix leaks, there seems to be a fair amount of A/C work getting done in the past few months (my compressor and my neighbor's compressor were cross-wired when the place was built...that was fixed two years ago, but more A/C work was needed this year after the roof work), and there's more than likely some other stuff I don't know about.
I know of someone who wanted spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, and spam...
Further digging also reveals that it only works with MacOS. That probably rules out 99.9% of the people here (and before you flame me for saying that, my Quadra 610 doesn't speak USB anyway).
If you buy PAL DVDs and play them on your region-free DVD player, they should be sped up by about 4-5%. FilmNTSC transfers are telecined with a 3:2 pulldown that generates one extra frame for every four frames of film. Since film runs at 24 fps and NTSC runs at 29.97 fps, the film is actually slowed down just a little bit (to 23.976 fps). In a filmPAL transfer, though, they just speed up the film and telecine it at 25 fps.