You must not have much of a commute if you're only paying $30 a month for gas. I drive about 15 miles each way, and lately it's costing me somewhere around $80-$100 per month. That's a somewhat longish commute for Las Vegas, but I don't doubt that even 15 miles is relatively short for some other parts of the country.
Probably 15 or so years ago, an Iomega rep popped a Bernoulli cartridge out of the drive he'd brought along for a demo. He threw the cartridge out into the audience (probably a couple or three hundred), which then tossed the cartridge around for a bit until he asked for it to be thrown back at him. Once he got it back, he put it back in the drive and continued with the demo. IIRC, the cartridge got bounced off the wall once or twice. Fortunately for the rep, the cartridge still worked.
For video - you'll have to find a program called "requiem" - the official distirbution site is on Freenet though, so I suggest you grab a copy off a torrent and grab the freenet link contained in the readme file. Just to avoid a malware infested download.
Last time I checked, this didn't work with the latest version (8.0.2) of iTunes. You'll need to find iTunes 8.0.1 somewhere and install that. I haven't checked to see if you can downgrade iTunes from 8.0.2 to 8.0.1 and get Requiem working; I have only one video download in my collection, and it was a freebie that could probably be replaced through BitTorrent easily enough. (I had already fixed my music files, though I recently upgraded most of them to iTunes Plus anyway to get higher-bitrate versions.)
Ever think things may have changed in a few hundred years or that you got some things wrong? Its not some higher powers will, you are allowed to question it.
That's why the Constitution provides for amendments. We've ratified 27 of them over the past 220+ years. You don't just start ignoring the parts you find inconvenient, as Democrats (with their blather of a "living Constitution") are wont to do; that way lies madness (or, more specifically, lawlessness). If it's not getting the job done, you propose an amendment. Get two-thirds of the House and Senate and three-fourths of state legislatures to sign off on it, and it becomes part of the highest law of the land. (Those supermajority requirements keep the Constitution from being amended for trivial purposes.)
Given that our form of government has far outlasted most others in existence at the time of its founding, I kinda suspect that the founding fathers actually were a bit smarter than the average bear. They're certainly a damn sight better than the chuckleheads who infest DC nowadays.
The lowest octane fuel you'll find in the US is rated 87
I've seen 85 octane in northern Nevada, Utah, and Colorado. I have no idea what vehicles will run adequately on such low octane, though...a flathead Ford or some other pre-OHV configuration, perhaps? When I'm in those areas, I end up paying extra for mid-grade, which ends up only being 87 (vs. 89 most other places).
I would post the URL to his site but I hate to see his server get trashed
With stupidity like what you described earlier in your post, don't you think he deserves whatever happens? Perhaps learning that he's running an unstable pile of shite would serve as motivation to figure out what he's doing wrong and get it squared away.
I had a phone that had all those things back in 2005
What phone was that? My Treo sure as hell didn't, and if my father's work phone is any indication, CrackBerries still don't either. I hope you're not referring to something running Windows Mobile; IE on the desktop is bad enough.
A drive formatted with NTFS only works with Windows
Read/write support on Linux with ntfs-3g, read-only support built into both Linux and Mac OS X. (ntfs-3g uses FUSE, so if someone's ported it to work with MacFUSE, it'd also add read/write support to Mac OS X. I haven't looked into whether that is the case.)
Digital cameras and iPods could be considered hosts in that sense, and they probably already have FAT32 licensed.
iPods can use either FAT32 or HFS+ (with or without journaling). Mine started out syncing to a Windows box and was thus FAT32-formatted; when I shifted it over to a Mac, I switched it to HFS+ (without journaling so Linux could still access it...I don't care at this point if Windows can access it. Large file support is more useful.)
FWIW, all iPhones use either HFS or HFS+ (probably the latter) internally, but this isn't usually exposed to the end user (unlike the iPod, you can't normally use extra space on an iPhone for other files). It's visible through a jailbreak, though:
But I think raytracing will be a bit beyond its capabilities.
If an Apple LaserWriter, which used a 12-MHz 68000, can do raytracing, this gadget (which is clocked two orders of magnitude faster, just for starters) should be more than up to the task.
With the iPhone, there's an option to disable data roaming. It might even be disabled by default; I don't remember. That would prevent something like what TFA describes.
There is no similar option to restrict voice roaming, but that's likely not nearly as hazardous to your wallet.
Don't like guns? Don't buy one. (Isn't that the argument the pro-abortion crowd likes to use?) Your irrational fear (one might call it a "phobia") of firearms is insufficient reason for the abrogation of the rights of those of us who choose to not be victims.
The armed man is a citizen. The unarmed man is a subject.
...and watch your power meter spin like a frisbee. Assuming that you don't just trip your main breaker first (200A service (what I have for a 2-bedroom condo with all-electric appliances) only delivers 48 kW).
There may be a higher-value resistor you could place across the two legs of split-phase 240V service that would bridge a powerline-netwoking signal while not burning obscene amounts of power. Then again, if you could break out a 240V circuit somewhere (behind the dryer, maybe?) to separate 120V outlets, you could just plug in a bridge on each outlet and use a short length of Cat5 to tie them together.
VHF-lo (channels 2-6, which will be reallocated. Good for LONG DISTANCE transmissions at high power (using the atmospheric bounce) but also vulnerable to EMI)
Some broadcasters are staying in low-band VHF even after the transition. I know of at least one that is transmitting ATSC on channel 2. (Don't know if they'll move it to channel 3 once they shut down their NTSC transmission or if they'll stay on channel 2...not that it matters much to me one way or the other since I pick up their signal over cable.)
The average telegraph could be transmitted at 30 words per minute (55 for exceptionally fast telegraphers). That's equivalent to a 2400 bit/s modem. Not bad for nearly 200 year old technology. It's faster than you can type an IM into your cellphone.
The iPhone will auto-correct for fat fingering, but it takes a while to get used to it (i.e., to stop the reflex delete action).
It's about 50/50 on accuracy. IME, it always seems to turn "its" into "it's," even when "its" is correct in the given context. There are some other words I can't recall offhand that get "corrected" to something I don't want.
Even assuming the recipient can get email on their phone
If a phone doesn't do email, it's hopelessly stuck in the past. Different priorities, I guess...I kinda like that my inbox is accessible anywhere (over IMAPS or HTTPS, from a computer, cellphone, or whatever), whereas text messages and such are only accessible through your cellphone.
(Crap...should've finished reading your post first so I wouldn't have to waste a second post responding to a second point.)
In the EU, completely average people have been surfing on their phones for a long time. In the US, everyone is pretending the iPhone invented mobile browsing.
Nobody here is under that misconception. What the iPhone brought to the table was mobile browsing that didn't suck. (I write from experience, having used a Treo 650 for over three years before picking up an iPhone a couple of months ago.)
Now, the examples. In the EU, it's routine to for example see something cool you want to buy and send a picture message to your wife. The iPhone was launched without such a feature and people didn't even blink.
Huh? The iPhone emails the pictures it takes just fine. At the other end of the connection, you fire up the email app on your phone/computer/whatever and view what was sent. What functionality is missing in that?
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You must not have much of a commute if you're only paying $30 a month for gas. I drive about 15 miles each way, and lately it's costing me somewhere around $80-$100 per month. That's a somewhat longish commute for Las Vegas, but I don't doubt that even 15 miles is relatively short for some other parts of the country.
As Dennis the Constitutional Peasant put it, "I'm 37...I'm not old!"
You forgot race-baiting and gun-grabbing in your list of adjectives. Looks like there's something for everyone to dislike!
Probably 15 or so years ago, an Iomega rep popped a Bernoulli cartridge out of the drive he'd brought along for a demo. He threw the cartridge out into the audience (probably a couple or three hundred), which then tossed the cartridge around for a bit until he asked for it to be thrown back at him. Once he got it back, he put it back in the drive and continued with the demo. IIRC, the cartridge got bounced off the wall once or twice. Fortunately for the rep, the cartridge still worked.
Last time I checked, this didn't work with the latest version (8.0.2) of iTunes. You'll need to find iTunes 8.0.1 somewhere and install that. I haven't checked to see if you can downgrade iTunes from 8.0.2 to 8.0.1 and get Requiem working; I have only one video download in my collection, and it was a freebie that could probably be replaced through BitTorrent easily enough. (I had already fixed my music files, though I recently upgraded most of them to iTunes Plus anyway to get higher-bitrate versions.)
That's why the Constitution provides for amendments. We've ratified 27 of them over the past 220+ years. You don't just start ignoring the parts you find inconvenient, as Democrats (with their blather of a "living Constitution") are wont to do; that way lies madness (or, more specifically, lawlessness). If it's not getting the job done, you propose an amendment. Get two-thirds of the House and Senate and three-fourths of state legislatures to sign off on it, and it becomes part of the highest law of the land. (Those supermajority requirements keep the Constitution from being amended for trivial purposes.)
Given that our form of government has far outlasted most others in existence at the time of its founding, I kinda suspect that the founding fathers actually were a bit smarter than the average bear. They're certainly a damn sight better than the chuckleheads who infest DC nowadays.
I've seen 85 octane in northern Nevada, Utah, and Colorado. I have no idea what vehicles will run adequately on such low octane, though...a flathead Ford or some other pre-OHV configuration, perhaps? When I'm in those areas, I end up paying extra for mid-grade, which ends up only being 87 (vs. 89 most other places).
With stupidity like what you described earlier in your post, don't you think he deserves whatever happens? Perhaps learning that he's running an unstable pile of shite would serve as motivation to figure out what he's doing wrong and get it squared away.
That's why I use 5 characters.
What phone was that? My Treo sure as hell didn't, and if my father's work phone is any indication, CrackBerries still don't either. I hope you're not referring to something running Windows Mobile; IE on the desktop is bad enough.
Read/write support on Linux with ntfs-3g, read-only support built into both Linux and Mac OS X. (ntfs-3g uses FUSE, so if someone's ported it to work with MacFUSE, it'd also add read/write support to Mac OS X. I haven't looked into whether that is the case.)
iPods can use either FAT32 or HFS+ (with or without journaling). Mine started out syncing to a Windows box and was thus FAT32-formatted; when I shifted it over to a Mac, I switched it to HFS+ (without journaling so Linux could still access it...I don't care at this point if Windows can access it. Large file support is more useful.)
FWIW, all iPhones use either HFS or HFS+ (probably the latter) internally, but this isn't usually exposed to the end user (unlike the iPod, you can't normally use extra space on an iPhone for other files). It's visible through a jailbreak, though:
$ ssh root@my.iphone
/dev/disk0s1 on / (hfs, local, noatime) /dev (devfs, local)
/dev/disk0s2 on /private/var (hfs, local, noatime)
root@my.iphone's password:
iPhone:~ root# mount
devfs on
iPhone:~ root#
If an Apple LaserWriter, which used a 12-MHz 68000, can do raytracing, this gadget (which is clocked two orders of magnitude faster, just for starters) should be more than up to the task.
There is no similar option to restrict voice roaming, but that's likely not nearly as hazardous to your wallet.
Don't like guns? Don't buy one. (Isn't that the argument the pro-abortion crowd likes to use?) Your irrational fear (one might call it a "phobia") of firearms is insufficient reason for the abrogation of the rights of those of us who choose to not be victims.
The armed man is a citizen. The unarmed man is a subject.
Could've been worse...he could've used the New York Times instead. :-P
...and watch your power meter spin like a frisbee. Assuming that you don't just trip your main breaker first (200A service (what I have for a 2-bedroom condo with all-electric appliances) only delivers 48 kW).
There may be a higher-value resistor you could place across the two legs of split-phase 240V service that would bridge a powerline-netwoking signal while not burning obscene amounts of power. Then again, if you could break out a 240V circuit somewhere (behind the dryer, maybe?) to separate 120V outlets, you could just plug in a bridge on each outlet and use a short length of Cat5 to tie them together.
Some broadcasters are staying in low-band VHF even after the transition. I know of at least one that is transmitting ATSC on channel 2. (Don't know if they'll move it to channel 3 once they shut down their NTSC transmission or if they'll stay on channel 2...not that it matters much to me one way or the other since I pick up their signal over cable.)
Here's proof.
It's about 50/50 on accuracy. IME, it always seems to turn "its" into "it's," even when "its" is correct in the given context. There are some other words I can't recall offhand that get "corrected" to something I don't want.
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding what to have for dinner. :-P
FTFY.
If a phone doesn't do email, it's hopelessly stuck in the past. Different priorities, I guess...I kinda like that my inbox is accessible anywhere (over IMAPS or HTTPS, from a computer, cellphone, or whatever), whereas text messages and such are only accessible through your cellphone.
Nobody here is under that misconception. What the iPhone brought to the table was mobile browsing that didn't suck. (I write from experience, having used a Treo 650 for over three years before picking up an iPhone a couple of months ago.)
Huh? The iPhone emails the pictures it takes just fine. At the other end of the connection, you fire up the email app on your phone/computer/whatever and view what was sent. What functionality is missing in that?