I think the suppliers are trying to dump their VHF/UHF/FM stock as most everything is old stock.
VHF isn't going away any time soon, so I'd hope that antennas to pick it up will remain in stock. Five of the local broadcasters (yes, I'm in Las Vegas) broadcast HD on VHF channels. One of them is even using low-band VHF (channel 2).
It's up to me to decide whether to tell people I took a photo. I sometimes like to take photos discretely, because some people in public get agitated when there's a camera click.
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Yeah...it's hard to get those upskirt pics when the "subjects" hear camera noises. </sarcasm>
KOK, It was needed on the old Mac because they made a design choice to have no disk access lights anywhere
Something like that would be handy on newer Macs. My mini has exactly one idiot light on the front; it indicates whether it's on or off. Floppy drives for the Apple II had "in use" lights on them; who at Apple thought it'd be a good idea to eliminate that from the Mac, and what was he smoking at the time?
It's a more polite version of YGBSM. Google it and you'll see why it's been sanitized further. It has a history in the Air Force going back to at least Vietnam, so I'd be more careful with that "n00b" label if I were you.
I tolerate it for OpenOffice because nobody's figured out anything better yet, but since Firefox is buildable from source, that's what I do.
emerge openoffice builds it just fine from source here...
Yeah, I learned of the existence of regular source ebuilds maybe five minutes after my post. When I first started running AMD64 Gentoo, binary packages were the only game in town.
If I remember correctly, the first portable mp3 players were portable CD players that could play CDs and mp3-encoded CD-ROMs.
Not all of them, though my first one was: a Rio Volt SP90. It doesn't see much use anymore, but it came in handy last summer providing background music for a convention booth...rather than risk getting my iPod swiped, I threw a few hours' worth of music on a CD-RW and played it on a boombox through a tape adapter.
Should've held off a bit on that last post, as it looks like app-office/openoffice now builds on AMD64. Last time I checked (which was sometime back in the days of v1.x), it didn't.
It's easy get 32-bit firefox on Gentoo AMD64 - just emerge firefox-bin .
See my previous comment about binary packages not being the Gentoo way. I tolerate it for OpenOffice because nobody's figured out anything better yet, but since Firefox is buildable from source, that's what I do.
I find that very odd. I thought almost all houses had basements.
Not in Vegas. The ground's too hard to dig down deep enough, and blasting would be too expensive and imprecise (and also risks damage to nearby buildings).
What's wrong with the two parties getting to choose their candidates without interference from outsiders?
It's not fair to independents.
Nobody's stopping them from joining a party in order to participate in its caucus and/or primary. If they're unwilling to make that commitment, why should I (or anyone else who's affiliated with one of the parties) care what they think? They'll have their opportunity to vote in November.
I have a 64-bit laptop that runs Flash on Linux just fine. Admittedly, it uses the 32-bit version of Firefox, but does the 64-bit version really get you anything?
I run the 32-bit Flash plugin in 64-bit Firefox with nspluginwrapper, and it's been fairly solid for a while now. (It's good enough for YouTube, anyway, which is about all that I allow...Flash ads get terminated with either NoScript or Adblock Plus.)
64-bit Firefox is less of a pain to get running. Gentoo will build it from source like any other app; to get a 32-bit Firefox, you'd either have to download a binary package (not the Gentoo way) or set up a 32-bit chroot and build a binary package within that (too much of a hassle). If you're still using a binary distro instead of a source distro, YMMV.
A ton of republicans crossed over last night and voted for clinton on Rush Limbaugh's suggestion. They are all crowing about it on the Laura Ingram show this morning. And none of them will vote for clinton in the real election.
It's a very cynical and effective move. It drains both campaigns of cash- keeps both candidates hammering at each other- and may even force a brokered convention (which I view as a good thing).
Serves the Democrats right for crossing over and voting for McCain in Republican primaries. They have no right to complain after they stuck us with one of our weakest possible candidates (the only way it could've been worse would've been if that idiot Ron Paul ended up winning).
In the long term, maybe this clusterfrak of an election will demonstrate the folly of open primaries. What's wrong with the two parties getting to choose their candidates without interference from outsiders?
Speaking on anecdotes, I personally think that Sony stereo equipment is shit.
That's probably true for their newer stuff (had to get a head unit in one of my cars fixed after only a year or two), but their older stuff was better. My father has an open-reel tape deck (a TC-730, IIRC) that's probably somewhere around 35 years old now. It doesn't see much use anymore (I don't even think it's been unboxed after my parents' last couple of moves), but it was in like-new condition the last time it was up and running.
As for Trinitrons, my Color Classic has a 10" that still works.
Trouble is, I'm not someone who likes to get to the airport 2 hours early and hang around. That pretty much dooms me to a middle seat someplace unpleasant, doesn't it?
You don't have to do that anymore. They've not yet put in all of the gate-area improvements mentioned (at least not at LAS and CMH, the last two airports I've been through), but as long as you get a sufficiently low boarding-pass number (they start at 21 unless you pay full fare, and hardly anybody does that) and as long as you're not boarding a flight that's continuing from somewhere else, you can get a good seat without "camping out." Setting an alarm on your cellphone so you can check in right at 24 hours before the flight definitely helps, especially if you can check in from your phone (works like a champ from my Treo).
Call me crazy, but why not board from the overwing and rear entrances too?
Others have already addressed the rear entrance not being used. As for overwing, that's usually an emergency exit that's not intended for regular use. I don't think you could build a jetway that'd work with it, and without a jetway, you'd have to keep a close eye on the passengers to make sure some idiot doesn't toss his trash over the wing and FOD an engine.
"Climate change" means that we will see more extreme weather, including more regional snowfall in some places. So yes, more snowfall in North America actually shows that global warming IS occurring.
...and now we get to the core of the Grünsturmabteilung's argument: the unfalsifiable hypothesis. It's the intellectual equivalent of "heads we win, tails you lose." What's next? Are you going to tell us that anthropogenic global warming turned you into a newt, but that you got better?
This conversation reminds me of the old flame wars on 1980s-era BBSes. "68020 is better. No 80286! You're wrong! No you are." Heh. Seems kinda pointless now.
True, but what's wrong with a little mindless diversion for old times' sake?:-)
(FWIW, I have a VIC-20 and some of those Commodore 64-in-a-joystick thingys to go along with my Apple IIs. Still don't have anything from Atari (other than a 2600), but that's mostly because I haven't gone looking for one yet. I wouldn't mind having one, though. While most school districts stuck with Apple IIs, DoDDS put Atari 800s in its schools, so that's what I ended up playing with in 8th and 9th grade.)
I can't understand what were thinking the Commodore engineers, really.
By comparison :
How to start floppy on an ATARI 800 XL ?
-Just hold the start function key at Power On.
No instruction to type
No funky parameter "*" to remember
No obscure sequence of number 8,1 to remember
...and on the Apple II, you don't even need to do that. It'll automatically boot (or try to boot) from the storage device (could be a floppy drive, hard drive, CD-ROM, or even a LocalTalk network) in the highest-numbered slot as soon as you flip the switch.
Transparently altering data is permissible according to RFC 2616 (the HTTP specification) unless you include the Cache-Control: no-transform header, which virtually nobody has ever heard of.
This needs to be nominated for Slashdot Post of the Year.:-)
It's a one-line fix in your Apache config to get this header added to each virtual host you serve up. In the top-level directory block (usually for/var/www/foo/htdocs, or something like that), add this:
Header append Cache-Control "no-transform"
I've verified that it shows up in the HTTP header for static pages, SSI, and PHP. It's applied to all content types (checked with HTML, PDF, and JPEG so far).
(Of course, none of this guarantees that some scumware ad-inserting proxy vendor won't go ahead and ignore this header, but I suspect there are some applications (web-hosted office apps, for instance) where silent rewriting could wreak havoc with a website's functionality, so hopefully that possibility will keep scumware vendors from going there.)
It's sold badly but compatibility is fine- blame Creative and ATI for being lazy and not making drivers on time.. Microsoft is definitely not at fault at all there, and anyway compatibility is fine now.
Try telling that to my parents, whose HP printer and scanner won't work with the copy of Vista that was preinstalled on the Dell they bought a few months ago. There's nothing wrong with the hardware, but because the Win2K/XP drivers for those devices won't work with Vista and HP hasn't gotten around to writing Vista drivers for them (and, in the case of their ScanJet 4p, probably never will), they're stuck with some POS Dell all-in-one that should work with Vista, but usually doesn't because of the craptastic drivers that came with it.
(If there's a silver lining in here, it's that they won't ever buy a Dell again. I tried talking them into buying a Mac, but they wouldn't listen to me. Dad was worried about not being able to open Office files; that there are plenty of apps for the Mac that open Office files (including...um...Office itself) didn't appear to register.)
Have you seen the oil companies profits lately? They are setting records for most net income in successive quarters for any company *ever*.
That, of course, couldn't possibly be the result of record-high worldwide oil consumption, could it? Countries such as China and India are scarfing down more of the stuff than ever before. Demand elsewhere is barely slacking off, if at all, so you have many more people interested in buying all the oil we can pull out of the ground. Anyone with even a rudimentary knowledge of economics knows that when demand for something increases but supply stays more or less constant, prices tend to go up.
Don't let those inconvenient facts get in the way of your Two Minutes Hate, though.
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VHF isn't going away any time soon, so I'd hope that antennas to pick it up will remain in stock. Five of the local broadcasters (yes, I'm in Las Vegas) broadcast HD on VHF channels. One of them is even using low-band VHF (channel 2).
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Yeah...it's hard to get those upskirt pics when the "subjects" hear camera noises.
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Something like that would be handy on newer Macs. My mini has exactly one idiot light on the front; it indicates whether it's on or off. Floppy drives for the Apple II had "in use" lights on them; who at Apple thought it'd be a good idea to eliminate that from the Mac, and what was he smoking at the time?
It's a more polite version of YGBSM. Google it and you'll see why it's been sanitized further. It has a history in the Air Force going back to at least Vietnam, so I'd be more careful with that "n00b" label if I were you.
Yeah, I learned of the existence of regular source ebuilds maybe five minutes after my post. When I first started running AMD64 Gentoo, binary packages were the only game in town.
Not all of them, though my first one was: a Rio Volt SP90. It doesn't see much use anymore, but it came in handy last summer providing background music for a convention booth...rather than risk getting my iPod swiped, I threw a few hours' worth of music on a CD-RW and played it on a boombox through a tape adapter.
Should've held off a bit on that last post, as it looks like app-office/openoffice now builds on AMD64. Last time I checked (which was sometime back in the days of v1.x), it didn't.
See my previous comment about binary packages not being the Gentoo way. I tolerate it for OpenOffice because nobody's figured out anything better yet, but since Firefox is buildable from source, that's what I do.
Not in Vegas. The ground's too hard to dig down deep enough, and blasting would be too expensive and imprecise (and also risks damage to nearby buildings).
Nobody's stopping them from joining a party in order to participate in its caucus and/or primary. If they're unwilling to make that commitment, why should I (or anyone else who's affiliated with one of the parties) care what they think? They'll have their opportunity to vote in November.
I run the 32-bit Flash plugin in 64-bit Firefox with nspluginwrapper, and it's been fairly solid for a while now. (It's good enough for YouTube, anyway, which is about all that I allow...Flash ads get terminated with either NoScript or Adblock Plus.)
64-bit Firefox is less of a pain to get running. Gentoo will build it from source like any other app; to get a 32-bit Firefox, you'd either have to download a binary package (not the Gentoo way) or set up a 32-bit chroot and build a binary package within that (too much of a hassle). If you're still using a binary distro instead of a source distro, YMMV.
Serves the Democrats right for crossing over and voting for McCain in Republican primaries. They have no right to complain after they stuck us with one of our weakest possible candidates (the only way it could've been worse would've been if that idiot Ron Paul ended up winning).
In the long term, maybe this clusterfrak of an election will demonstrate the folly of open primaries. What's wrong with the two parties getting to choose their candidates without interference from outsiders?
That's probably true for their newer stuff (had to get a head unit in one of my cars fixed after only a year or two), but their older stuff was better. My father has an open-reel tape deck (a TC-730, IIRC) that's probably somewhere around 35 years old now. It doesn't see much use anymore (I don't even think it's been unboxed after my parents' last couple of moves), but it was in like-new condition the last time it was up and running.
As for Trinitrons, my Color Classic has a 10" that still works.
You don't have to do that anymore. They've not yet put in all of the gate-area improvements mentioned (at least not at LAS and CMH, the last two airports I've been through), but as long as you get a sufficiently low boarding-pass number (they start at 21 unless you pay full fare, and hardly anybody does that) and as long as you're not boarding a flight that's continuing from somewhere else, you can get a good seat without "camping out." Setting an alarm on your cellphone so you can check in right at 24 hours before the flight definitely helps, especially if you can check in from your phone (works like a champ from my Treo).
Others have already addressed the rear entrance not being used. As for overwing, that's usually an emergency exit that's not intended for regular use. I don't think you could build a jetway that'd work with it, and without a jetway, you'd have to keep a close eye on the passengers to make sure some idiot doesn't toss his trash over the wing and FOD an engine.
Guess where he gets his "offsets?" From someone else's earlier reply:
"Gore is chairman of Generation Investment Management, the company that he buys carbon offsets from (see here for details), so he is paying himself."
Quite a scam he's got going there, isn't it?
Consensus != science...and even if it were, it's hardly as universal as Algore and his Grünsturmabteilung would have you believe.
It's an easy retrofit for older tech, too, as this green Apple IIe demonstrates.
True, but what's wrong with a little mindless diversion for old times' sake? :-)
(FWIW, I have a VIC-20 and some of those Commodore 64-in-a-joystick thingys to go along with my Apple IIs. Still don't have anything from Atari (other than a 2600), but that's mostly because I haven't gone looking for one yet. I wouldn't mind having one, though. While most school districts stuck with Apple IIs, DoDDS put Atari 800s in its schools, so that's what I ended up playing with in 8th and 9th grade.)
Apple II FTMFW! :-)
This needs to be nominated for Slashdot Post of the Year. :-)
It's a one-line fix in your Apache config to get this header added to each virtual host you serve up. In the top-level directory block (usually for /var/www/foo/htdocs, or something like that), add this:
Header append Cache-Control "no-transform"
I've verified that it shows up in the HTTP header for static pages, SSI, and PHP. It's applied to all content types (checked with HTML, PDF, and JPEG so far).
(Of course, none of this guarantees that some scumware ad-inserting proxy vendor won't go ahead and ignore this header, but I suspect there are some applications (web-hosted office apps, for instance) where silent rewriting could wreak havoc with a website's functionality, so hopefully that possibility will keep scumware vendors from going there.)
Try telling that to my parents, whose HP printer and scanner won't work with the copy of Vista that was preinstalled on the Dell they bought a few months ago. There's nothing wrong with the hardware, but because the Win2K/XP drivers for those devices won't work with Vista and HP hasn't gotten around to writing Vista drivers for them (and, in the case of their ScanJet 4p, probably never will), they're stuck with some POS Dell all-in-one that should work with Vista, but usually doesn't because of the craptastic drivers that came with it.
(If there's a silver lining in here, it's that they won't ever buy a Dell again. I tried talking them into buying a Mac, but they wouldn't listen to me. Dad was worried about not being able to open Office files; that there are plenty of apps for the Mac that open Office files (including...um...Office itself) didn't appear to register.)
That, of course, couldn't possibly be the result of record-high worldwide oil consumption, could it? Countries such as China and India are scarfing down more of the stuff than ever before. Demand elsewhere is barely slacking off, if at all, so you have many more people interested in buying all the oil we can pull out of the ground. Anyone with even a rudimentary knowledge of economics knows that when demand for something increases but supply stays more or less constant, prices tend to go up.
Don't let those inconvenient facts get in the way of your Two Minutes Hate, though.
You should've threatened to cut his balls off if it wasn't written out a hundred times by sunrise.