Man, that's one thing I wish I could do on my iPhone. Whenever I see a phone number that looks familiar, I'd like to be able to search for it in my contacts list.
Bring up the dialpad in the phone app. Key in the number. If it's in your contacts, it'll tell you which entry contains the number.
Inadequacies of British household plumbing (assumed, as I've not seen them anywhere else) have led to development of workarounds such as powered showers, which are basically a combination of an instant hot-water heater and a pump to deliver a proper shower. Without them, you have a disappointingly weak shower. They seem to have some sort of phobia about connecting household plumbing directly to the water main; instead, the main dumps into a large tank in the attic through a float valve, not unlike a larger version of the tank on your toilet. From there, gravity delivers cold water to the hot-water heater, and from there to faucets around the house. With only a few feet of descent from the water tank to an upstairs shower, you're not going to get much pressure. Powered showers pull water from the tank with a pump, heat it up, and spray it out the showerhead. As with other instant hot-water heaters, they need to draw lots of power while they're in use to heat up water as it's needed; electric whole-house instant hot-water heaters can need 60A, 80A, or more (vs. 30A for the typical 40- to 50-gallon electric water heater).
Or Fry's Electronics. Go to their components section where you buy memory and bare drives. You technically might have to buy a component to make it a system purchase, just buy the cheapest HD that they have and you'll still save a bucket.
IME, a $2 disk-drive power-splitter cable (or some other similarly cheap internal cabling) is sufficient. If you want or need a hard drive, though, you might as well pick one up.
...and in the other corner, the regressives have the backing of Nazi collaborator George Soros. Wake me when the Kochs and Murdoch have this sort of blood on their hands:
KROFT: (Voiceover) To understand the complexities and contradictions in his personality, you have to go back to the very beginning: to Budapest, where George Soros was born 68 years ago to parents who were wealthy, well-educated and Jewish.
When the Nazis occupied Budapest in 1944, George Soros' father was a successful lawyer. He lived on an island in the Danube and liked to commute to work in a rowboat. But knowing there were problems ahead for the Jews, he decided to split his family up. He bought them forged papers and he bribed a government official to take 14-year-old George Soros in and swear that he was his Christian godson. But survival carried a heavy price tag. While hundreds of thousands of Hungarian Jews were being shipped off to the death camps, George Soros accompanied his phony godfather on his appointed rounds, confiscating property from the Jews.
(Vintage footage of Jews walking in line; man dragging little boy in line)
KROFT: (Voiceover) These are pictures from 1944 of what happened to George Soros' friends and neighbors.
(Vintage footage of women and men with bags over their shoulders walking; crowd by a train)
KROFT: (Voiceover) You're a Hungarian Jew...
Mr. SOROS: (Voiceover) Mm-hmm.
KROFT: (Voiceover)...who escaped the Holocaust...
(Vintage footage of women walking by train)
Mr. SOROS: (Voiceover) Mm-hmm.
(Vintage footage of people getting on train)
KROFT: (Voiceover)... by -- by posing as a Christian.
Mr. SOROS: (Voiceover) Right.
(Vintage footage of women helping each other get on train; train door closing with people in boxcar)
KROFT: (Voiceover) And you watched lots of people get shipped off to the death camps.
Mr. SOROS: Right. I was 14 years old. And I would say that that's when my character was made.
KROFT: In what way?
Mr. SOROS: That one should think ahead. One should understand and -- and anticipate events and when -- when one is threatened. It was a tremendous threat of evil. I mean, it was a -- a very personal experience of evil.
KROFT: My understanding is that you went out with this protector of yours who swore that you were his adopted godson.
Mr. SOROS: Yes. Yes.
KROFT: Went out, in fact, and helped in the confiscation of property from the Jews.
Mr. SOROS: Yes. That's right. Yes.
KROFT: I mean, that's -- that sounds like an experience that would send lots of people to the psychiatric couch for many, many years. Was it difficult?
Mr. SOROS: Not -- not at all. Not at all. Maybe as a child you don't -- you don't see the connection. But it was -- it created no -- no problem at all.
KROFT: No feeling of guilt?
Mr. SOROS: No.
KROFT: For example that, 'I'm Jewish and here I am, watching these people go. I could just as easily be there. I should be there.' None of that?
Mr. SOROS: Well, of course I c -- I could be on the other side or I could be the one from whom the thing is being taken away. But there was no sense that I shouldn't be there, because that was -- well, actually, in a funny way, it's just like in markets -- that if I weren't there -- of course, I wasn't doing it, but somebody else would -- would -- would be taking it away anyhow. And it was the -- whether I was there or not, I was only a spectator, the property was being taken away. So the -- I had no role in taking away that property. So I had no sense of guilt.
Can XBMC index a TV show that is available for streaming online, by episode, with episode summaries? Is there a repository of information on available TV shows?
I don't know about the streaming part (prefer to download and watch), but Sick Beard will manage metadata for TV shows in an XBMC-compatible way.
The first place to start would be to remove the Federal Government's ability to collect and levy income taxes by abolishing both the IRS and the 16th Amendment to the Constitution.
So, if the Federal Government has no ability to collect and levy income taxes, should I assume that. among other things, the Armed Forces would be dissolved?
No. The military predates the income tax by more than a century. It was obviously funded by other means during that time.
Can you absolutely 100% guarantee that your hotel or conference center will have a phone line to dial up and check your email etc when business traveling?
A phone line is useless if your notebook doesn't have a modem. My last one did, but I bought it back in '06 or so. I never used it; I always used either WiFi or a cellular-data connection. The notebook I bought for my fiancee a couple months ago doesn't have a modem at all IIRC. I still have a controller-based PC Card modem kicking around somewhere, but newer machines don't have PC Card slots and the phone-cord dongle got stolen along with my notebook (don't ask me why the modem and its dongle weren't in the same place).
Can you absolutely 100% guarantee that your hotel or conference center will have WORKING wifi?
No, but that's why you have a data plan on your cellphone. It costs a little bit more than what AOHell is charging for dial-up (less, if that $50/month you quoted is accurate), but (1) it's much faster (usually 1-2 Mbps in 3G service areas on my iPhone 4) and (2) it works nearly anywhere.
Even if WiFi is available, if a hotel/airport/whatever charges for it, I usually stick with cellular data as I've already paid for it and it's fast enough for most purposes.
I tried beta 8 earlier this week, as I noticed Firefox 3.6.whatever was getting awfully slow at loading/.. It crashed the VirtualBox VM in which it was running.
I'm using Chrome right now;/. works OK, but the Flash plugin tends to crash. Fortunately, YouTube can be set to offer up HTML 5 video (but it won't use HTML 5 for embedded video; you have to let Flash load up, then click through to get HTML 5 video in a new tab).
Last I checked it was non-trivial to do if all you had was a linux box and a Kindle, but trivial if you had a Windows box. Even then though, it required the right version of the Kindle app that was obfuscated in the way that your particular de-DRM script understood.
To some extent, ease of rendering a Kindle book to an unencumbered format depends more on the format than anything else. The decryption apps I've run across are written in Python and run anywhere you can get Python running.
Amazon uses two formats for Kindle books. One is basically ePub with their proprietary encryption scheme, which they can use if they receive ebook text from the publisher. Once the decryption is removed, you have a standard ePub file that can be read by a wide variety of apps. The other format, commonly called "Topaz," is used for books that Amazon receives in printed form. They're scanned, vectorized, and OCR'd. What gets displayed is the vector representation of the text in the book. Converting these to an ebook format involves considerably more work, as the embedded OCR text frequently has errors and isn't worth bothering to try to correct it. On the one book I bought that was in this format, I converted the book to PDF, brought the PDF into an OCR program, proofread the text as I copy/pasted it into some HTML, and then converted from HTML to ePub.
FWIW, I've used a Windows box and a jailbroken iPhone (with its Kindle app) to decrypt downloaded books. I've run the decryption scripts from within Cygwin, so running them on something other than Windows shouldn't pose a problem.
Actually, I'd prefer only those who PAY income taxes be allowed to vote in Federal elections.
I agree. Only people who make more than $20k a year should have rights.
I've paid income tax on far less than $20k/year. If you're mooching off of those of us who pay taxes, you have no moral right to decide how those taxes get spent.
They're typically issued by your local elections department once you're registered to vote. Since they're not actually required to vote, it's more of an informational thing than anything else: it tells you which legislative districts you'll vote in. If you've chosen to affiliate with one of the two major political parties, that will be indicated on there as well.
When it comes time to actually vote, however, they have lists of registered voters that they'll check against. They don't actually require your voter ID, driver's license, or any other form of ID. They have you sign their logbook, but they have no way to tell that you really are who you say you are.
I have an 802.11b/g USB dongle kicking around somewhere that uses one of their chips; getting it working was almost trivial.
The worst, I had was an Atheros based chip, but on all machines I had wireless problems with this worked.
I've had fairly good luck with their chips. First one was a CardBus 802.11a/b/g card I used with one of my notebooks that didn't come with WiFi; I continued using it with a newer machine whose built-in Broadcom WiFi didn't start working right in Linux until more than a year after I bought it. Most recently, I picked up one of these for a MythTV frontend. 802.11n still doesn't work (not even with the carl9170 driver in the just-released Linux 2.6.37), but it's worked well enough at 802.11a to stream HD MPEG-2 (as well as less bandwidth-intensive formats) for the past few months. At some point, 802.11n will probably start working. It'd be nice to have it now, but it's not been a deal-breaker.
USSR did not have for-profit military contractors, it kept all production, including military one, in the hands of government. It couldn't run out of money even if it tried -- it didn't need to pay anything other than employees' salary, what was usually the same across all industries for the same type of work, and nothing astronomical by any measure.
They'd pretend to pay their employees. In return, their employees would pretend to work. That worked out really well for them, didn't it? Oh, wait...
The Bear was a literal, exact replication of a US aircraft, except for Russian tags and imperfections from inferior manufacturing capabilities.
I think you're confusing the Tu-95 with the Tu-4, which was a reverse-engineered copy of the B-29. Slightly thicker metal (from using the closest metric size available) gave it somewhat reduced capability compared to the B-29, but it was about as close to an exact copy as could be managed. Supposedly the Tu-4's rudder pedals still said "Boeing," since that's what was on the B-29's rudder pedals and they were ordered to make an exact copy.
* Keyboarding skills * Lots of practice - that's how you get up to speed, and how you get a decent looking letter out of a manual typewriter * The proper form for various business documents such as letters * How to properly fold a letter to get it into both sizes of envelope * How to annotate the bottom of the letter to indicate a copy went to someone else, and who actually typed the letter
In short, a bunch of (now largely obsolete) secretarial skills.
In mine, the proper usage of carbon paper and correcting fluid/tape were also covered, even though all of the typewriters (mostly IBM Correcting Selectric IIIs IIRC, with a smattering of newer daisy-wheel typewriters...this would've been back around '87) offered one-key correction (or was it two?). I've only had to use correcting tape once when writing a document, and that was when I had to hunt-and-peck a paper for 7th-grade English on Mom's typewriter...that would've been maybe three years before I took a typing class.
Still, after taking the class, I was a fair bit faster at typing programs into my Apple IIe from magazines, so it served its purpose. Nothing wrong with teaching typing, but (to bring this back on-topic) calling it "computer science" is a sick joke.
I never watched TV on the network schedule, even before Tivo. I think my first purchase when I got my first decent job and moved out of my mom's basement was a VCR.
This. I went so far as to pick up a second VCR so I could record two shows at once and edit commercials out of the shows I wanted to keep (mostly STTNG and B5, IIRC). I got about four years' use out of a first-generation TiVo before building a MythTV box...nothing was wrong with the TiVo (I'd upgraded the hard drive and added a network interface so I could rip shows from it), but MythTV looked like a better way forward than a newer TiVo.
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Bring up the dialpad in the phone app. Key in the number. If it's in your contacts, it'll tell you which entry contains the number.
Inadequacies of British household plumbing (assumed, as I've not seen them anywhere else) have led to development of workarounds such as powered showers, which are basically a combination of an instant hot-water heater and a pump to deliver a proper shower. Without them, you have a disappointingly weak shower. They seem to have some sort of phobia about connecting household plumbing directly to the water main; instead, the main dumps into a large tank in the attic through a float valve, not unlike a larger version of the tank on your toilet. From there, gravity delivers cold water to the hot-water heater, and from there to faucets around the house. With only a few feet of descent from the water tank to an upstairs shower, you're not going to get much pressure. Powered showers pull water from the tank with a pump, heat it up, and spray it out the showerhead. As with other instant hot-water heaters, they need to draw lots of power while they're in use to heat up water as it's needed; electric whole-house instant hot-water heaters can need 60A, 80A, or more (vs. 30A for the typical 40- to 50-gallon electric water heater).
IME, a $2 disk-drive power-splitter cable (or some other similarly cheap internal cabling) is sufficient. If you want or need a hard drive, though, you might as well pick one up.
...one which is easily handled (and better handled) by email.
If you value honest journalism, why would you give your hard-earned money to the frauds at the NYT?
fsarchiver has worked pretty well for me. It's one of the packages included with SystemRescueCD.
I don't know about the streaming part (prefer to download and watch), but Sick Beard will manage metadata for TV shows in an XBMC-compatible way.
No. The military predates the income tax by more than a century. It was obviously funded by other means during that time.
...but will you have to think in Russian to make it work?
FTFY.
A phone line is useless if your notebook doesn't have a modem. My last one did, but I bought it back in '06 or so. I never used it; I always used either WiFi or a cellular-data connection. The notebook I bought for my fiancee a couple months ago doesn't have a modem at all IIRC. I still have a controller-based PC Card modem kicking around somewhere, but newer machines don't have PC Card slots and the phone-cord dongle got stolen along with my notebook (don't ask me why the modem and its dongle weren't in the same place).
No, but that's why you have a data plan on your cellphone. It costs a little bit more than what AOHell is charging for dial-up (less, if that $50/month you quoted is accurate), but (1) it's much faster (usually 1-2 Mbps in 3G service areas on my iPhone 4) and (2) it works nearly anywhere.
Even if WiFi is available, if a hotel/airport/whatever charges for it, I usually stick with cellular data as I've already paid for it and it's fast enough for most purposes.
You'd better plan on more than just a 1-TB disk if you keep at it for a while, too:
janeway:~ salfter$ df -k
//salfter@inara/media 4370984960 2482499316 1888485644 57% /Volumes/media
Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on
[...]
Of that 2.4 TB used, about 1.4 TB is movies and TV shows.
I tried beta 8 earlier this week, as I noticed Firefox 3.6.whatever was getting awfully slow at loading /.. It crashed the VirtualBox VM in which it was running.
I'm using Chrome right now; /. works OK, but the Flash plugin tends to crash. Fortunately, YouTube can be set to offer up HTML 5 video (but it won't use HTML 5 for embedded video; you have to let Flash load up, then click through to get HTML 5 video in a new tab).
Amazon uses two formats for Kindle books. One is basically ePub...
s/ePub/Mobipocket/g
Last I checked it was non-trivial to do if all you had was a linux box and a Kindle, but trivial if you had a Windows box. Even then though, it required the right version of the Kindle app that was obfuscated in the way that your particular de-DRM script understood.
To some extent, ease of rendering a Kindle book to an unencumbered format depends more on the format than anything else. The decryption apps I've run across are written in Python and run anywhere you can get Python running.
Amazon uses two formats for Kindle books. One is basically ePub with their proprietary encryption scheme, which they can use if they receive ebook text from the publisher. Once the decryption is removed, you have a standard ePub file that can be read by a wide variety of apps. The other format, commonly called "Topaz," is used for books that Amazon receives in printed form. They're scanned, vectorized, and OCR'd. What gets displayed is the vector representation of the text in the book. Converting these to an ebook format involves considerably more work, as the embedded OCR text frequently has errors and isn't worth bothering to try to correct it. On the one book I bought that was in this format, I converted the book to PDF, brought the PDF into an OCR program, proofread the text as I copy/pasted it into some HTML, and then converted from HTML to ePub.
FWIW, I've used a Windows box and a jailbroken iPhone (with its Kindle app) to decrypt downloaded books. I've run the decryption scripts from within Cygwin, so running them on something other than Windows shouldn't pose a problem.
I've paid income tax on far less than $20k/year. If you're mooching off of those of us who pay taxes, you have no moral right to decide how those taxes get spent.
They're typically issued by your local elections department once you're registered to vote. Since they're not actually required to vote, it's more of an informational thing than anything else: it tells you which legislative districts you'll vote in. If you've chosen to affiliate with one of the two major political parties, that will be indicated on there as well.
When it comes time to actually vote, however, they have lists of registered voters that they'll check against. They don't actually require your voter ID, driver's license, or any other form of ID. They have you sign their logbook, but they have no way to tell that you really are who you say you are.
I have an 802.11b/g USB dongle kicking around somewhere that uses one of their chips; getting it working was almost trivial.
I've had fairly good luck with their chips. First one was a CardBus 802.11a/b/g card I used with one of my notebooks that didn't come with WiFi; I continued using it with a newer machine whose built-in Broadcom WiFi didn't start working right in Linux until more than a year after I bought it. Most recently, I picked up one of these for a MythTV frontend. 802.11n still doesn't work (not even with the carl9170 driver in the just-released Linux 2.6.37), but it's worked well enough at 802.11a to stream HD MPEG-2 (as well as less bandwidth-intensive formats) for the past few months. At some point, 802.11n will probably start working. It'd be nice to have it now, but it's not been a deal-breaker.
"5, Informative," please...was trying to do some stuff in TouchTerm recently and couldn't find ` no matter what I did.
Darwin runs on ARM, x86, and PowerPC (the former as iOS, the latter two as Mac OS X).
They'd pretend to pay their employees. In return, their employees would pretend to work. That worked out really well for them, didn't it? Oh, wait...
I think you're confusing the Tu-95 with the Tu-4, which was a reverse-engineered copy of the B-29. Slightly thicker metal (from using the closest metric size available) gave it somewhat reduced capability compared to the B-29, but it was about as close to an exact copy as could be managed. Supposedly the Tu-4's rudder pedals still said "Boeing," since that's what was on the B-29's rudder pedals and they were ordered to make an exact copy.
In mine, the proper usage of carbon paper and correcting fluid/tape were also covered, even though all of the typewriters (mostly IBM Correcting Selectric IIIs IIRC, with a smattering of newer daisy-wheel typewriters...this would've been back around '87) offered one-key correction (or was it two?). I've only had to use correcting tape once when writing a document, and that was when I had to hunt-and-peck a paper for 7th-grade English on Mom's typewriter...that would've been maybe three years before I took a typing class.
Still, after taking the class, I was a fair bit faster at typing programs into my Apple IIe from magazines, so it served its purpose. Nothing wrong with teaching typing, but (to bring this back on-topic) calling it "computer science" is a sick joke.
This. I went so far as to pick up a second VCR so I could record two shows at once and edit commercials out of the shows I wanted to keep (mostly STTNG and B5, IIRC). I got about four years' use out of a first-generation TiVo before building a MythTV box...nothing was wrong with the TiVo (I'd upgraded the hard drive and added a network interface so I could rip shows from it), but MythTV looked like a better way forward than a newer TiVo.