I dont believe that you are right with your claim that two pieces of hand luggage are against a general policy. Some airlines officially allow you to carry two pieces, or one piece and a laptop, or...
AFAIK, it's always been one carry-on item (up to 28 lbs. and within certain dimensional requirements) and one "personal item" (something smaller than your carry-on, like a notebook bag, backpack, or whatever) on every airline I've ever flown. Generally, the carry-on needs to be able to fit in an overhead bin, while the personal item needs to be able to fit under the seat in front of you.
Then there's checked baggage, but with many airlines charging for that, more people are trying to avoid it. (Southwest lets you check two bags for free. JetBlue lets you check one bag for free. Pretty much everybody else charges for all checked baggage.)
I don't think a 1xxx will fulfill his needs, the 1xxx series are almost all win-printers (host based).
The 1020 on my desk here at work is, but the 1320 at home speaks PostScript and PCL. It also does 20-someodd ppm and comes with a duplexer. I've run I don't know how many thousands of pages through it without a hitch...don't think I've ever had to do so much as clear a jam from it. Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux all work flawlessly, and all of them have access to the full range of the printer's features (mine's plugged into a G4 Mac mini, which serves it up to the rest of my machines). I'd recommend it to anybody.
Heh, i made the mistake of taking my iPhone on roaming mode through Europe. I knew it was going to cost me SOME... but I got an $875 bill for four weeks - and that was making about 10 calls. The rest.... internet usage.
Add an international data plan before you head out of the country. They're still kinda spendy (starting around $20-$25 for 20 MB), but not as bad as the pay-as-you-go rate. You can drop the plan as soon as you're home. I did that for a recent trip up to Canada, and it worked out fairly well.
(Now that my iPhone is unlocked, though, I'd be more inclined to look into buying a SIM in-country and popping that in.)
I want my MP3 player separate from the phone thanks very much.
Why? Separate devices might well have a leg up on combined devices in some way (my iPod photo has about 4x the storage capacity of my iPhone), but it's hard to argue against the convenience of only carrying one gadget instead of several.
The operators, having to send lots of messages tended to get lazy and use sequences on the keyboard, eg if they had been using the QWERTY keyboard, they would use keys like: QWE, QAZ, WSX, ZAQ, XSW, EWQ, etc.
Since we're talking about Enigma, "QAZ" would've been "QAY." Enigma used the QWERTZ layout, which is fairly common in German-speaking countries. (It also moved P from the upper right to lower left, presumably to simplify the mechanical design.) A pretty good photo of an Enigma is here.
As an experiment I once put her T-Mo SIM into my unlocked AT&T phone (AT&T Tilt). It didn't work, and even after putting my SIM back in, my phone's IMEI was blacklisted by the tower for 15-20 minutes - no coverage even with my AT&T SIM for that period!
Didn't know they had that capability. I unlocked my iPhone over the weekend and swapped SIMs with my boss (his CrackBerry uses T-Mobile) earlier today to see if the unlock worked. It took a while for my phone to connect to T-Mobile once it was booted up, but it eventually got through. After making a test call, I put the AT&T SIM back in; it connected back to AT&T as quickly as it normally does.
(The unlock wasn't so that I could switch over to T-Mobile; doing that with an iPhone 3G is pointless for the reasons given above by plenty of others. It's mainly so I have the capability to stick in a foreign SIM if I head out-of-country so I don't get bent over paying AT&T's international rates.)
Money spent since 2002 on OS X 10.x - about $400. (Else my G4 Mac would stop functioning properly.)
What kind of horsesh*t is this? In what way would anything that was working on your Mac stop working if you didn't upgrade? My G4 mini shipped with Tiger; it's still running Tiger, and everything is as functional as when I bought it (maybe a little more, as I maxed out the RAM a while back). Updates from 10.4.[some-small-num] to 10.4.11 didn't cost a dime. Upgrading to Leopard would cost money, but I've not seen any reason to do that yet.
The last O2 bottles I had were 3000psi. Hardly low pressure.
3000 psi, that is just over 20 MPa. That is indeed relative low pressure for gas cylinders. Safe, inert gases such as helium, carbon dioxide and nitrogen come in 200 MPa cilinders.
The high-pressure gauge on the carbon-dioxide tank feeding my kegerator usually reads only somewhere around 800-850 psi. Carbon dioxide can exist in liquid form at room temperature with that pressure over it. As gas is drawn out, more gas boils out of the liquid until equilibrium is restored. It's only when the liquid runs out that the pressure starts to fall (and you'd better plan on getting a refill Real Soon Now when that happens).
Think "Microsoft Word's autocorrect" and you'll get a fair idea how it might happen.
or the iPhone's autocorrect, for that matter. "Its" converted to "it's" (when "its" is actually the correct usage) FTL. Considering how it seems to hinder almost as much as it helps, I'm going to switch it off and see how it goes.
I really admire some of the cursive scripts some folks are able to produce. My parents have wonderful cursive handwriting, so it boggles my mind that mine is so illegible!
If you don't use it, you lose it. I tried writing out a letter by hand a while back and was having trouble just remembering how some of the letters are formed. If I'd hand-printed it or typed it, I wouldn't have had a problem, but the nature of the letter indicated that cursive script would've been more appropriate. I eventually got through it without too many crossed-out words, but it looked like it was written by someone with a bad case of arthritis.
There are plenty of family reasons to be tied to an area, typically they're called "kids." Having school age children makes it much harder to just up and move to a completely different area.
I don't know that kids would make moving any harder. I spent time in six states and on two continents before I hit 18. I went to nine different schools in 12 years. It's not at all an uncommon experience, especially if (like me) you're an Air Force brat (or some other sort of military brat).
My wife's sister has an account at First National Bank, and writes a check to my wife. So she (my wife) goes to a branch office of FNB, the bank upon which the check is drawn (not some random bank). She should be able to get cash straight away by presenting ID.
Do you mean to say that people should not be permmitted to cash checks unless they also have a checking account?
It's my understanding that there are various options for cashing checks that may or may not involve banks. Most of them charge fees of some sort.
Are you saying that neither you nor your wife have a checking account into which you can deposit checks you receive? Where do you keep your money...under a mattress? It's not like there aren't tons of ways to open an account that won't charge monthly fees, either, so you'd end up saving money instead of handing it over to other banks or check-cashing outfits.
In recent months, my wife has attempted to cash personal checks at the bank from which they were drawn. Since she does not also have an account there, they not only charge her a $1.50USD fee, but they insist on taking her thumbprint!
Why is she not using the bank at which she has an account? That'd make more sense than using some other random bank.
(FWIW, I deposit checks through my bank's ATMs. I'm not even sure that would work if I were to try using another bank's ATMs.)
Google Voice may use VOIP technology on its backend, but users do not interact with it via VOIP - it's all "regular" POTS or cell network, so, again, it may use VOIP internally, but it's not VOIP from the end-user
It can be...combine it with something like Gizmo (for which Google Voice has specific configuration options) and you end up with a VoIP link from your phone to Google, a free inbound number (vs. $35/year from Gizmo), and free calls within the US (vs. 1.9 cents/min for outbound calls from Gizmo). The only downside is that you need to place calls from your computer instead of from your phone's keypad, but since I have at least a couple of computers fired up all the time, that's not a problem for me.
Good luck getting flash to work on a 600 MHz linux computer... Even Mac users with 2.4 GHz Core 2 Duos have issues with Youtube videos and flash ads randomly deciding to take 60% CPU.
Flash on Mac OS X sucks, to not put too fine a point on it. It's a rare occasion when some random YouTube video plays within the browser at its full framerate on my G4 mini. If I take the same downloaded YouTube video and play it with VLC, though, it runs like a champ. Even when scaled up to fullscreen (1680x1050), VLC is still faster than Flash playing the same video within a browser window.
Omg, when I apply for a job they usually ask to make a copy of my passport and you're cautious about giving them your birth date!
Never heard of that happening, but then I suspect most people don't have passports...you don't need one unless you plan on traveling out of the country. (I had to renew mine recently before a trip to Canada; my last trip out of the country prior to that was to Germany in 1998, and that trip was also on a brand-new passport.) They do usually have driver's licenses (or other DMV-issued ID), though, and those have your DOB on them as well (how else are bars going to card you?). Employers usually ask for those so they can make a copy for their records.
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AFAIK, it's always been one carry-on item (up to 28 lbs. and within certain dimensional requirements) and one "personal item" (something smaller than your carry-on, like a notebook bag, backpack, or whatever) on every airline I've ever flown. Generally, the carry-on needs to be able to fit in an overhead bin, while the personal item needs to be able to fit under the seat in front of you.
Then there's checked baggage, but with many airlines charging for that, more people are trying to avoid it. (Southwest lets you check two bags for free. JetBlue lets you check one bag for free. Pretty much everybody else charges for all checked baggage.)
12) I cannot buy this record. It is scratched.
The 1020 on my desk here at work is, but the 1320 at home speaks PostScript and PCL. It also does 20-someodd ppm and comes with a duplexer. I've run I don't know how many thousands of pages through it without a hitch...don't think I've ever had to do so much as clear a jam from it. Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux all work flawlessly, and all of them have access to the full range of the printer's features (mine's plugged into a G4 Mac mini, which serves it up to the rest of my machines). I'd recommend it to anybody.
Add an international data plan before you head out of the country. They're still kinda spendy (starting around $20-$25 for 20 MB), but not as bad as the pay-as-you-go rate. You can drop the plan as soon as you're home. I did that for a recent trip up to Canada, and it worked out fairly well.
(Now that my iPhone is unlocked, though, I'd be more inclined to look into buying a SIM in-country and popping that in.)
Y! Music already streams over 3G (not sure if EDGE is fast enough, mainly because I haven't tried), so why would Rhapsody be any different?
Why? Separate devices might well have a leg up on combined devices in some way (my iPod photo has about 4x the storage capacity of my iPhone), but it's hard to argue against the convenience of only carrying one gadget instead of several.
Dammit.../. ate my link. Let's try again...Enigma photo here.
Since we're talking about Enigma, "QAZ" would've been "QAY." Enigma used the QWERTZ layout, which is fairly common in German-speaking countries. (It also moved P from the upper right to lower left, presumably to simplify the mechanical design.) A pretty good photo of an Enigma is here.
FTFY.
Gunny Hartman? Is that you?
So they replaced the black guy with Michelle 0bama...what's the difference? :-)
Didn't know they had that capability. I unlocked my iPhone over the weekend and swapped SIMs with my boss (his CrackBerry uses T-Mobile) earlier today to see if the unlock worked. It took a while for my phone to connect to T-Mobile once it was booted up, but it eventually got through. After making a test call, I put the AT&T SIM back in; it connected back to AT&T as quickly as it normally does.
(The unlock wasn't so that I could switch over to T-Mobile; doing that with an iPhone 3G is pointless for the reasons given above by plenty of others. It's mainly so I have the capability to stick in a foreign SIM if I head out-of-country so I don't get bent over paying AT&T's international rates.)
What kind of horsesh*t is this? In what way would anything that was working on your Mac stop working if you didn't upgrade? My G4 mini shipped with Tiger; it's still running Tiger, and everything is as functional as when I bought it (maybe a little more, as I maxed out the RAM a while back). Updates from 10.4.[some-small-num] to 10.4.11 didn't cost a dime. Upgrading to Leopard would cost money, but I've not seen any reason to do that yet.
The high-pressure gauge on the carbon-dioxide tank feeding my kegerator usually reads only somewhere around 800-850 psi. Carbon dioxide can exist in liquid form at room temperature with that pressure over it. As gas is drawn out, more gas boils out of the liquid until equilibrium is restored. It's only when the liquid runs out that the pressure starts to fall (and you'd better plan on getting a refill Real Soon Now when that happens).
or the iPhone's autocorrect, for that matter. "Its" converted to "it's" (when "its" is actually the correct usage) FTL. Considering how it seems to hinder almost as much as it helps, I'm going to switch it off and see how it goes.
If you don't use it, you lose it. I tried writing out a letter by hand a while back and was having trouble just remembering how some of the letters are formed. If I'd hand-printed it or typed it, I wouldn't have had a problem, but the nature of the letter indicated that cursive script would've been more appropriate. I eventually got through it without too many crossed-out words, but it looked like it was written by someone with a bad case of arthritis.
I don't know that kids would make moving any harder. I spent time in six states and on two continents before I hit 18. I went to nine different schools in 12 years. It's not at all an uncommon experience, especially if (like me) you're an Air Force brat (or some other sort of military brat).
It's my understanding that there are various options for cashing checks that may or may not involve banks. Most of them charge fees of some sort.
Are you saying that neither you nor your wife have a checking account into which you can deposit checks you receive? Where do you keep your money...under a mattress? It's not like there aren't tons of ways to open an account that won't charge monthly fees, either, so you'd end up saving money instead of handing it over to other banks or check-cashing outfits.
Why is she not using the bank at which she has an account? That'd make more sense than using some other random bank.
(FWIW, I deposit checks through my bank's ATMs. I'm not even sure that would work if I were to try using another bank's ATMs.)
It can be...combine it with something like Gizmo (for which Google Voice has specific configuration options) and you end up with a VoIP link from your phone to Google, a free inbound number (vs. $35/year from Gizmo), and free calls within the US (vs. 1.9 cents/min for outbound calls from Gizmo). The only downside is that you need to place calls from your computer instead of from your phone's keypad, but since I have at least a couple of computers fired up all the time, that's not a problem for me.
Flash on Mac OS X sucks, to not put too fine a point on it. It's a rare occasion when some random YouTube video plays within the browser at its full framerate on my G4 mini. If I take the same downloaded YouTube video and play it with VLC, though, it runs like a champ. Even when scaled up to fullscreen (1680x1050), VLC is still faster than Flash playing the same video within a browser window.
How about Gen. Protection Fault? Generals tend to be more well-known than colonels.
I have better-than-20/20 vision, you insensitive clod!
Oh, wait...
Never heard of that happening, but then I suspect most people don't have passports...you don't need one unless you plan on traveling out of the country. (I had to renew mine recently before a trip to Canada; my last trip out of the country prior to that was to Germany in 1998, and that trip was also on a brand-new passport.) They do usually have driver's licenses (or other DMV-issued ID), though, and those have your DOB on them as well (how else are bars going to card you?). Employers usually ask for those so they can make a copy for their records.