You still pay more (0.55 EUR vs. 0.44 USD), but the US service is definitely worse. In Germany, mail is delivered within half a day 99% of the time (drop it off at 5pm, get it in the mail at 9am), in the US it is two to three business days.
Never mind that Germany, sizewize, is only about as large as Montana:
Montana: 140042 sq. mi.
Germany: 137847 sq. mi.
That's just one state, and not even the largest (it's #4). I'd expect they'd be able to deliver mail from point A to point B the next day most of the time because it's not traveling nearly as far; even if most mail ended up on a truck or train, it's small enough that you can cross most of the country in a few hours.
If I put something in the mail to be delivered across town, it gets there the next day (this is why Netflix has distribution facilities in most major cities). If I send it across the country, it's going to take a few days. If I drove across country, it'd take a few days as well.
Single density disks weren't that commonly used. The only reasonably common system I can think of that used them was the Atari 8-bit machines, and even then only if you had the original 810 5.25" disk drive.
The TI-99/4A used single-density as well. The drive is also single-sided, and since it actually uses the index hole, you can't just punch a notch to make a "flippy" out of it and double your capacity. Fortunately, double-density floppies work in single-density drives at reduced capacity (as opposed to high-density floppies, which don't work in double-density (or single-density, I'd presume) drives).
I'm still looking for a TransWarp GS accelerator board for my GS... I'd like to get it beyond the default max of 2.8mHz. Maybe some day I'll find one on eBay. *sigh*
They tend to be kinda spendy when they do turn up. Same applies to the ZipGS as well, which is what I have in one of mine (bought mine used back in '92 or '93 for a whole lot less than they tend to fetch now).
Speaking of which, the ZipGS tends to turn up more frequently. I think it's also supposed to be easier to upgrade (bumped mine from 16K cache to 64K...haven't been quite as successful at cranking up the clock speed, even with a 14-MHz processor installed). You might want to expand your search a bit to include it.
Are you saying that AOL coaster CDs couldn't have useful things put on top of them?
You don't (or didn't) need coasters nearly as much as you needed floppies. I never used AOHell, but I didn't need to buy floppies for a few years because they kept sending them out. Peel off the label, reformat it, and you're good to go.
I eat almost 1lb of pasta to myself in a single sitting when I make it, any less than 1/2 - 3/4 of a pound and I'm left feeling EXTREMELY hungry, so this 8 servings stuff is a bunch of bs.
Unless you're something like a biker or swimmer, that sounds like a recipe for bloating up into a balloon in no time. 1/4 lb. of spaghetti/angel hair/etc. covers most of an average dinner plate. Throw some sauce and parm on it, cook up some garlic bread to go with it, and I'm done...and I could stand to lose more than a little weight myself. I couldn't imagine putting away 2-4x that amount at a time.
A pound of hamburger is about $2, depending on quality (how lean do you suppose that McDonalds beef is?), and a bag of 8 buns can be had for about 99 cents. So that's $3 and you can make 4 "quarter pound" burgers. Of course, the dollar menu burgers aren't quarter pounders, they are probably about 1/2 that.
If I remember right, their burger patties run somewhere around 80-82% lean. The patties used in the McLean Deluxe (remember those?) were somewhere around 90% lean, but about 1% was a binder (carrageenan, derived from seaweed) to keep them from crumbling apart.
The two sizes of patties McDonald's uses are known internally as 4:1 and 10:1, for how many of them make a pound. From that, you can see that the double cheeseburger has a bit less meat to it (1/5 lb.) than the Quarter Pounder.
I don't know where you're getting ground beef for $2/lb...are you buying in bulk and divvying it up into usable amounts? I paid somewhere closer to $3.50-$4/lb. the other day, but that was admittedly for only 1 lb. of 96% lean to go into a batch of spaghetti sauce. You wouldn't use that to make a burger unless you were to add fat or other ingredients to hold it together. 80% lean is somewhere in the neighborhood of $2.75-$3/lb. if you're buying a pound at a time.
One reason I love dd-wrt is that I can choose a channel that isn't approved in the states by the FCC, so I know there is going to be less interference from all my neighbors in the complex.
It's all fun and games until the FCC comes knocking on your door, wondering why you're interfering with the authorized user of a frequency you're not supposed to be using. DDWRT and friends (I use OpenWRT) are nice, but I'd stick to channels 1-11 if I were you.
(I'm not the original poster, but I'll take a stab at this.)
Possibly dumb question, but... how did you bike only one way?
Around here (Las Vegas), the buses have fold-down bike racks up front. The catch is that they only hold two bikes. If you live near the end of the line, you stand a good chance of getting space for your bike. If you live somewhere in the middle, getting rack space is a bit of a crapshoot...and you can't bring your bike on the bus, even if the rack is full.
Not that they don't invent anything themselves. Who else has a magneticly-attached power cord?
Anyone with an Asian-branded kitchen water heater from the last 20 years?
Don't know what such a device would be (isn't your water heater usually in the garage or a closet?), but most deep fryers use magnetically-attached power cords nowadays. Someone tripping on a cord that's inexplicably run across the floor won't then send hot oil flying across the kitchen to burninate everything in its path.
Remember back when the auctions were secondary at ebay.com, and you had to click through their main site to get to them?
I still have the email (dated 6 May 1997...am I a packrat or what?) sent out by AuctionWeb (as it was then known) when I first signed up. IIRC, eBay was the name of the ISP that hosted AuctionWeb. A few months later, it had grown enough that eBay was associated more with the auction service it was hosting than with whatever else it was offering at the time, so they started using that name (a listing confirmation from 24 September 1997 identifies the service as eBay instead of AuctionWeb). Some time in late 1997 or early 1998, auctions moved to the root at www.ebay.com (mail dated 22 June 1998 is the earliest I have that leaves off the "/aw" you previously needed to tack on).
Then you just pay for the storage you are using and the processor clock cycles that are used.
Is this how they're actually billing for usage? I've used Amazon S3 for backup for a little while now, and I know S3 bills for storage used and bandwidth in/out. What I'm not clear on is whether EC2 is billed by processor time used or wall-clock time. Amazon's description makes it sound like it's billed by wall-clock time, in which case a VM left running for 24 hours will cost $x, whether it's idle or at 100% load. Billing by processor time used would be a much more attractive option, as a web/mail server spends most of its time twiddling its thumbs.
Since HTTP 1.1 sends the requested hostname along with the path (it's how a server can offer up multiple websites from one IP address), your proposal, serious though it isn't, wouldn't actually save bandwidth.
If your car feels like molasses when the A/C is running, it must be woefully underpowered. I think A/C in my first car (a Chevette) would've been a bad idea, but it only had maybe 70 hp to play with. By comparison, you really can't tell the difference between the A/C being on or off in the Alero that I'm driving nowadays. (It's good for maybe 170 hp, which is probably middle-of-the-pack for cars nowadays.)
You could do this with a Palm III(1998) so I'd assume any of the PalmOS based phones had this ability as well.
True, but the IR transmitter in most Palm devices is too weak to control things from more than a couple or three feet away. This makes remote-control software on Palm OS little more than a curiosity. (There were hardware add-ons to boost the IR signal on some devices, but I've never tried one.)
Isn't that great - to be sent to prison by someone who isn't that sharp.
Considering that juries are mostly made of people not quite clever enough to get out of jury duty, that's most likely what's happening.
(Say what you will about jury service being a responsibility...given the financial disadvantage it imposes on the sorts of people who you'd rather have on a jury, it's more than a little bit of an imposition. I've received more than one jury summons. If I could afford the time off, I wouldn't have minded sitting on a jury. Unfortunately, my employers at the various times wouldn't have paid me while I was pulling jury duty and the compensation offered by the court amounts to less than minimum wage.)
Think back to when you were ten, you put a random term into Google, and clicked the first link.
When I was ten, Google was still 16 years in the future. For the vast majority of users here, I suspect you can substitute some sort of positive integer for 16.
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Never mind that Germany, sizewize, is only about as large as Montana:
That's just one state, and not even the largest (it's #4). I'd expect they'd be able to deliver mail from point A to point B the next day most of the time because it's not traveling nearly as far; even if most mail ended up on a truck or train, it's small enough that you can cross most of the country in a few hours.
If I put something in the mail to be delivered across town, it gets there the next day (this is why Netflix has distribution facilities in most major cities). If I send it across the country, it's going to take a few days. If I drove across country, it'd take a few days as well.
The TI-99/4A used single-density as well. The drive is also single-sided, and since it actually uses the index hole, you can't just punch a notch to make a "flippy" out of it and double your capacity. Fortunately, double-density floppies work in single-density drives at reduced capacity (as opposed to high-density floppies, which don't work in double-density (or single-density, I'd presume) drives).
What I want to know is whether you have to think in Russian^H^H^H^H^H^H^HJapanese to control this thing.
Usage: Immanuel Kant was a real pissant who was very rarely stable...
They tend to be kinda spendy when they do turn up. Same applies to the ZipGS as well, which is what I have in one of mine (bought mine used back in '92 or '93 for a whole lot less than they tend to fetch now).
Speaking of which, the ZipGS tends to turn up more frequently. I think it's also supposed to be easier to upgrade (bumped mine from 16K cache to 64K...haven't been quite as successful at cranking up the clock speed, even with a 14-MHz processor installed). You might want to expand your search a bit to include it.
You don't (or didn't) need coasters nearly as much as you needed floppies. I never used AOHell, but I didn't need to buy floppies for a few years because they kept sending them out. Peel off the label, reformat it, and you're good to go.
At least if you put a million monkeys on a million typewriters, you might eventually reproduce the works of Shakespeare. A million /.ers? Not so much.
I didn't have a Windows box 17 years ago, you insensitive cl...oh wait, that'd be a good thing.
Unless you're something like a biker or swimmer, that sounds like a recipe for bloating up into a balloon in no time. 1/4 lb. of spaghetti/angel hair/etc. covers most of an average dinner plate. Throw some sauce and parm on it, cook up some garlic bread to go with it, and I'm done...and I could stand to lose more than a little weight myself. I couldn't imagine putting away 2-4x that amount at a time.
If I remember right, their burger patties run somewhere around 80-82% lean. The patties used in the McLean Deluxe (remember those?) were somewhere around 90% lean, but about 1% was a binder (carrageenan, derived from seaweed) to keep them from crumbling apart.
The two sizes of patties McDonald's uses are known internally as 4:1 and 10:1, for how many of them make a pound. From that, you can see that the double cheeseburger has a bit less meat to it (1/5 lb.) than the Quarter Pounder.
I don't know where you're getting ground beef for $2/lb...are you buying in bulk and divvying it up into usable amounts? I paid somewhere closer to $3.50-$4/lb. the other day, but that was admittedly for only 1 lb. of 96% lean to go into a batch of spaghetti sauce. You wouldn't use that to make a burger unless you were to add fat or other ingredients to hold it together. 80% lean is somewhere in the neighborhood of $2.75-$3/lb. if you're buying a pound at a time.
It's all fun and games until the FCC comes knocking on your door, wondering why you're interfering with the authorized user of a frequency you're not supposed to be using. DDWRT and friends (I use OpenWRT) are nice, but I'd stick to channels 1-11 if I were you.
Around here (Las Vegas), the buses have fold-down bike racks up front. The catch is that they only hold two bikes. If you live near the end of the line, you stand a good chance of getting space for your bike. If you live somewhere in the middle, getting rack space is a bit of a crapshoot...and you can't bring your bike on the bus, even if the rack is full.
Don't know what such a device would be (isn't your water heater usually in the garage or a closet?), but most deep fryers use magnetically-attached power cords nowadays. Someone tripping on a cord that's inexplicably run across the floor won't then send hot oil flying across the kitchen to burninate everything in its path.
cd /etc ../usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/x86/2008.0 make.profile
rm make.profile
ln -s
emerge system
emerge world
That should work...can't say I have a system that old on which to test it as they've been upgraded on a more regular basis.
I still have the email (dated 6 May 1997...am I a packrat or what?) sent out by AuctionWeb (as it was then known) when I first signed up. IIRC, eBay was the name of the ISP that hosted AuctionWeb. A few months later, it had grown enough that eBay was associated more with the auction service it was hosting than with whatever else it was offering at the time, so they started using that name (a listing confirmation from 24 September 1997 identifies the service as eBay instead of AuctionWeb). Some time in late 1997 or early 1998, auctions moved to the root at www.ebay.com (mail dated 22 June 1998 is the earliest I have that leaves off the "/aw" you previously needed to tack on).
www.adultsheepfinder.com, perhaps?
Isn't that where TP usually ends up anyway?
(I'll be here all week. Try the veal.)
Is this how they're actually billing for usage? I've used Amazon S3 for backup for a little while now, and I know S3 bills for storage used and bandwidth in/out. What I'm not clear on is whether EC2 is billed by processor time used or wall-clock time. Amazon's description makes it sound like it's billed by wall-clock time, in which case a VM left running for 24 hours will cost $x, whether it's idle or at 100% load. Billing by processor time used would be a much more attractive option, as a web/mail server spends most of its time twiddling its thumbs.
strlen("216.34.181.45") > strlen("slashdot.org")
Since HTTP 1.1 sends the requested hostname along with the path (it's how a server can offer up multiple websites from one IP address), your proposal, serious though it isn't, wouldn't actually save bandwidth.
If your car feels like molasses when the A/C is running, it must be woefully underpowered. I think A/C in my first car (a Chevette) would've been a bad idea, but it only had maybe 70 hp to play with. By comparison, you really can't tell the difference between the A/C being on or off in the Alero that I'm driving nowadays. (It's good for maybe 170 hp, which is probably middle-of-the-pack for cars nowadays.)
True, but the IR transmitter in most Palm devices is too weak to control things from more than a couple or three feet away. This makes remote-control software on Palm OS little more than a curiosity. (There were hardware add-ons to boost the IR signal on some devices, but I've never tried one.)
Considering that juries are mostly made of people not quite clever enough to get out of jury duty, that's most likely what's happening.
(Say what you will about jury service being a responsibility...given the financial disadvantage it imposes on the sorts of people who you'd rather have on a jury, it's more than a little bit of an imposition. I've received more than one jury summons. If I could afford the time off, I wouldn't have minded sitting on a jury. Unfortunately, my employers at the various times wouldn't have paid me while I was pulling jury duty and the compensation offered by the court amounts to less than minimum wage.)
There's nothing so odd about that! Kemal Ataturk had an entire menagerie called Abdul!
My Treo did. It's a feature I miss on my iPhone.
When I was ten, Google was still 16 years in the future. For the vast majority of users here, I suspect you can substitute some sort of positive integer for 16.
Now get off my lawn!