Well, you can also strip the DRM off of the Kindle book and share to as many friends as you want but frankly it's a hassle...
It's not too bad if the book is DRM'd.mobi. I scp it off my iPhone (after finding where it was stored first) and pass it through mobidedrm. I already have the UDID and Kindle PID cached; obtaining them is a minor hassle, but only has to be done once. Once that's done, I use Calibre to convert to ePub which gets stashed in a number of different places (including back onto my iPhone for reading in Stanza).
Conversion of Topaz books is a bit more of a hassle, but that's as much the nature of the format as it is of the DRM. The OCR that Amazon uses in the production of Topaz books isn't the greatest, so you're better off doing it yourself. The last time I did one, it involved a set of steps somewhat like this:
from the topazscripts package, use cmbtc_dump, genxml, and gensvg to strip DRM and render the book as a set of SVG files
use Inkscape to convert SVGs to PDFs
use Ghostscript to concatenate the PDFs
feed the PDF into the OCR program of your choice
add HTML and CSS markup to the OCR'd text to format it however you want
feed this into Calibre to get an ebook in whatever format you need
I've only had to do this for one book so far; everything else has been DRM'd.mobi.
I pay $2.00 each time I use an ATM that belongs to my bank, and up to double that for an ATM that doesn't belong to my bank.
Sounds like you need to change banks. Charging you if you use another bank's ATMs is one thing (regrettable, but nearly universal). Charging you if you use theirs is insane. What would they rather have you do...go in and waste a teller's time for everyday transactions?
Since a generic HDMI capture and compress device would be so useful, I think that some (Chinese) company actually may make one. I want HDMI input, and Ethernet output, although it will probably be USB output. I would hope it would generate something better than MPEG-2 streams, but I'll see.
This captures component video (up to 1080i) and spits out H.264. It's been available for a while now and works with Linux; MythTV includes support for it. I'd think it wouldn't be too big a deal to design a workalike that replaces component-video capture with HDMI capture.
I guess the iphone breaks them up and puts them together on each end to just keep it looking like one long message?
It does...and that one message you thought you sent ends up getting billed as three or four messages. I got bit in the *ss with that about a year and a half ago...went from hardly ever using text to running up about $150 in text-message charges in one month from chatting back and forth with a new girlfriend. The 200-message allotment I paid for was nowhere near adequate for that kind of demand.
I for one don't consume sugar unless it has been processed by the pet yeast I keep in the fridge. Right now they are working on some apple juice and honey.
A quick read of the wikipedia article describing the industrial process used to make HFCS describes such lovely terms as:
"Cornstarch is treated with alpha-amylase..."
If that bothers you, I hope you don't drink beer (or other alcoholic beverages produced from grain). Alpha amylase is an enzyme present in barley (and in some other grains, but the concentration is highest in barley) that breaks down starch into sugar. It's formed during germination, which happens either when the seed is planted in the ground or when it's malted for brewing or other alcohol production. Read this for more details...look under "Starch Conversion."
Another place you'll find alpha amylase is in your mouth. Chew on a piece of bread for a bit. After a few seconds, it picks up a somewhat sweet taste. Alpha amylase in saliva is responsible for that effect.
Have you been to Japan lately? I went to buy a USED CD and it was over $20 US. a new one was over $30 US at that point i figured i would just make playlists in youtube for the music i find i want to hear. there is a plugin for firefox to download the videos which i havent used yet because technically i just want the audio.
Once you've downloaded it, demux it (MPlayer can do this) and save the audio...it'll be either AAC or MP3. If it's AAC, you'll probably need to remux it (MP4Box can do this); MP3 audio should be usable as-is. Throw away the video if you don't want to keep it around and you're good to go.
That said, I'd like to have a bluetooth remote for my (future) HTPC
I use a Playstation 3 remote with one of my MythTV frontends. It took a bit of fiddling to get it working, but once it was paired up and the right software was installed, it works pretty well. Cost for the remote and a Bluetooth dongle (if you don't already have one) should be about $30.
This is why some devices have a 'no rechargeable batteries' warning - nicads and li-ions have lower internal resistance than the common zinc-carbon or alkaline, so they can burn out LEDs even though they have a slightly lower cell voltage.
How about the opposite warning? I bought one of these a while back...it's a couple of Li-ion CR123A cells with a charger. The package says not to use them in flashlights, but I've used them in an LED flashlight for several months with no issues. Is there some reason they'd recommend against using them in flashlights?
IIRC, Windows isn't so keen on multi versions of libs.
An app that needs its own version of foo.dll can have foo.dll copied into the application's install directory. When app.exe launches, it'll look for foo.dll in its home directory before looking in %SYSTEMROOT%\system32 and whatever other directories are in the DLL search path.
It's psychological projection: Fox News actually does this for Republicans
{{citation needed}}
It's much more likely that you are the one engaging in projection. Unlike you, I have proof. It happens often enough when the Drive-By Media attempts to cover for Democrats that it's picked up a name in the dexrtosphere: "Name That Party!"
eSata doesn't hubs or daisy-chains, making it much more rigid.
USB doesn't do daisy-chaining, either. Some devices (Apple keyboards and the Xbox 360 HDDVD drive are a couple I know about) contain hubs through which other devices can be connected, which gives the appearance of daisy-chaining. SATA, meanwhile, has port multipliers available for it that behave in a manner similar to a USB hub.
Juror # 106 [Jo Ann Chiakulas], a black female believed to be in her 60s, is a retired state public health director who has ties to the Chicago Urban League. She has handed out campaign literature for a relative who ran for public office. She listens to National Public Radio and liberal talk radio shows.
Let a few years go by and we can find Mr. Lumpkin and Ms. Obama on the same page, literally if not metaphorically - on p. 36 of the annual report for the University of Chicago Hospitals, we see that Mr. Lumpkin is on the Board of Trustees and when Ms. Obama was Vice President for Community and External Affairs.
Which means what? Maybe nothing - Chicago is not that big a city if you restrict the world to black community activists such as Ms. Chiakulis or the Obamas. But it is the sort of coincidence that may or may not be a coincidence. Fortunately, we can rest easy knowing that our tireless watchdog press will ferret out the truth.
MY TIRED EYES FAIL ME... Time does not permit, but it seems from the picture and bio that Dr. Lumpkin may also be black. I only care because it increases the odds that he took a professional interest in both Ms. Obama and Ms. Chiakulis.
They're going the way of broken cell phones, nobody repairs those.
Depends on the phone. The $20 prepaid phone you picked up at 7-Eleven probably isn't worth fixing when it craps out, but your average smartphone costs a bit more than that; repair could be worthwhile. I'm considering getting the volume-up button on my iPhone 3G fixed; I saw a sign for a local company the other day that claims to fix most of the things that can break in an iPhone for about $50. Before that, I replaced the keyboard in my Treo 650 after I had spilled a beer on it; that cost me about $20 or so in parts. For phones that cost me somewhere around $300 each when new, it's worth it.
Isn't it kinda funny how the Democrat Party goes on and on about "the sanctity of life" in regards to the death penalty but they have no problem with abortion?
Not to mention half the applications for something of this size are equally well filled by a reflashed OpenWRT wifi access point you can fish out of a dumpster for free. You don't need 512M of flash/ram to run an ssh gateway.
I'm kinda wishing I had more than the 16 MB (IIRC) that's in my WRT54GL, though...blocklists implemented as iptables rules need a bit more RAM than that. The model with a couple of GigE ports looks like it'd make a decent router.
The classic example I've seen was the Handicapped parking spaces next to a fighter squadron Ops building. There are no handicapped F-16 fighter pilots.
Aren't there any handicapped office workers in the buildings?
Given that those "office workers" are mostly Air Force personnel themselves, I strongly doubt it.
(Especially so when used against Communists, Jihadists, and others not worthy of preservation.)
You just equated a person with different political views to a violent terrorist. Nice.
Considering how the communists have racked up a bodycount that's higher by multiple orders of magnitude than the jihadists, it's hardly an inappropriate grouping.
But are there actually any phones that accept standard batteries?
I don't know about cellphones that do, but I have a couple of Panasonic cordless phones at home that each run on a pair of AAAs. I don't see why you couldn't build a cellphone that would work on AAAs (or, better yet, AAs...up to 3 Wh from some of those). My Palm III ran on AAAs, so there's precedent for a roughly smartphone-sized device having them.
The main holdup I can see is that if they were to start using standard battery types, cellphone manufacturers wouldn't have you over a barrel when you need replacements.
In Germany (and most other west european countries), the current price for regular gasoline is $7/gallon.
It's only that expensive because Europeans allow their governments to levy obscenely high taxes on gasoline (and on nearly everything else, for that matter). We'd never tolerate such nonsense here. (At least I'd hope we wouldn't.)
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Bureaucrats have worked out so well for California, haven't they? Oh, wait...
Because CableCard tuners don't work with Linux, perhaps?
It's not too bad if the book is DRM'd .mobi. I scp it off my iPhone (after finding where it was stored first) and pass it through mobidedrm. I already have the UDID and Kindle PID cached; obtaining them is a minor hassle, but only has to be done once. Once that's done, I use Calibre to convert to ePub which gets stashed in a number of different places (including back onto my iPhone for reading in Stanza).
Conversion of Topaz books is a bit more of a hassle, but that's as much the nature of the format as it is of the DRM. The OCR that Amazon uses in the production of Topaz books isn't the greatest, so you're better off doing it yourself. The last time I did one, it involved a set of steps somewhat like this:
I've only had to do this for one book so far; everything else has been DRM'd .mobi.
Sounds like you need to change banks. Charging you if you use another bank's ATMs is one thing (regrettable, but nearly universal). Charging you if you use theirs is insane. What would they rather have you do...go in and waste a teller's time for everyday transactions?
This captures component video (up to 1080i) and spits out H.264. It's been available for a while now and works with Linux; MythTV includes support for it. I'd think it wouldn't be too big a deal to design a workalike that replaces component-video capture with HDMI capture.
It does...and that one message you thought you sent ends up getting billed as three or four messages. I got bit in the *ss with that about a year and a half ago...went from hardly ever using text to running up about $150 in text-message charges in one month from chatting back and forth with a new girlfriend. The 200-message allotment I paid for was nowhere near adequate for that kind of demand.
Cyser?
If that bothers you, I hope you don't drink beer (or other alcoholic beverages produced from grain). Alpha amylase is an enzyme present in barley (and in some other grains, but the concentration is highest in barley) that breaks down starch into sugar. It's formed during germination, which happens either when the seed is planted in the ground or when it's malted for brewing or other alcohol production. Read this for more details...look under "Starch Conversion."
Another place you'll find alpha amylase is in your mouth. Chew on a piece of bread for a bit. After a few seconds, it picks up a somewhat sweet taste. Alpha amylase in saliva is responsible for that effect.
Once you've downloaded it, demux it (MPlayer can do this) and save the audio...it'll be either AAC or MP3. If it's AAC, you'll probably need to remux it (MP4Box can do this); MP3 audio should be usable as-is. Throw away the video if you don't want to keep it around and you're good to go.
Yes. They typically go in wherever a full-sized store would be overkill; here in Las Vegas, you see them mainly on the outskirts of town.
I use a Playstation 3 remote with one of my MythTV frontends. It took a bit of fiddling to get it working, but once it was paired up and the right software was installed, it works pretty well. Cost for the remote and a Bluetooth dongle (if you don't already have one) should be about $30.
How about the opposite warning? I bought one of these a while back...it's a couple of Li-ion CR123A cells with a charger. The package says not to use them in flashlights, but I've used them in an LED flashlight for several months with no issues. Is there some reason they'd recommend against using them in flashlights?
An app that needs its own version of foo.dll can have foo.dll copied into the application's install directory. When app.exe launches, it'll look for foo.dll in its home directory before looking in %SYSTEMROOT%\system32 and whatever other directories are in the DLL search path.
{{citation needed}}
It's much more likely that you are the one engaging in projection. Unlike you, I have proof. It happens often enough when the Drive-By Media attempts to cover for Democrats that it's picked up a name in the dexrtosphere: "Name That Party!"
USB doesn't do daisy-chaining, either. Some devices (Apple keyboards and the Xbox 360 HDDVD drive are a couple I know about) contain hubs through which other devices can be connected, which gives the appearance of daisy-chaining. SATA, meanwhile, has port multipliers available for it that behave in a manner similar to a USB hub.
You would be correct in your suspicions:
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Depends on the phone. The $20 prepaid phone you picked up at 7-Eleven probably isn't worth fixing when it craps out, but your average smartphone costs a bit more than that; repair could be worthwhile. I'm considering getting the volume-up button on my iPhone 3G fixed; I saw a sign for a local company the other day that claims to fix most of the things that can break in an iPhone for about $50. Before that, I replaced the keyboard in my Treo 650 after I had spilled a beer on it; that cost me about $20 or so in parts. For phones that cost me somewhere around $300 each when new, it's worth it.
FTFY.
I'm kinda wishing I had more than the 16 MB (IIRC) that's in my WRT54GL, though...blocklists implemented as iptables rules need a bit more RAM than that. The model with a couple of GigE ports looks like it'd make a decent router.
Given that those "office workers" are mostly Air Force personnel themselves, I strongly doubt it.
Considering how the communists have racked up a bodycount that's higher by multiple orders of magnitude than the jihadists, it's hardly an inappropriate grouping.
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Look up TouchTerm in the App Store. There's a paid version with some more features, but the free version has been adequate for my purposes.
I don't know about cellphones that do, but I have a couple of Panasonic cordless phones at home that each run on a pair of AAAs. I don't see why you couldn't build a cellphone that would work on AAAs (or, better yet, AAs...up to 3 Wh from some of those). My Palm III ran on AAAs, so there's precedent for a roughly smartphone-sized device having them.
The main holdup I can see is that if they were to start using standard battery types, cellphone manufacturers wouldn't have you over a barrel when you need replacements.
It's only that expensive because Europeans allow their governments to levy obscenely high taxes on gasoline (and on nearly everything else, for that matter). We'd never tolerate such nonsense here. (At least I'd hope we wouldn't.)