I never bought books when I was a student, but always borrowed them from the library.
A semester lasts 16 weeks. Undergrads only get to check out books for 2-3 weeks at a time, with maybe one renewal allowed before you have to check it back in. On top of that, the library will only have one or two copies of any given book. It seems like it'd be way too much of a hassle to go through when you can just buy the thing and sell it at the end of the semester (or maybe keep it...I kept most of the CS books I bought).
it seems impossible to find any of these models (or any other new stand-alone ATSC set-top box, for that matter) for sale anywhere, in person or on the internet
I picked up a few of these a while back for a project at work. They work well, even if they run a bit warm...it's much easier to get a clean digital signal from the local stations than to get a clean analog signal.
It's still more than $40, but the prices still have time to come down.
Looks like Baghdad Jim McDermott (C-WA) will have to find another way to dig for dirt on his opponents...if the dirty bastard doesn't run out of money first:
McDermott's legal troubles began roughly a decade ago, when a Florida couple using a police radio scanner taped the cell phone conference call of Republican leaders after recognizing Gingrich's voice.
The couple, John and Alice Martin, ultimately delivered the tape to McDermott while on a trip to the nation's capital in January 1997. They later pleaded guilty to violating a federal anti-wiretapping law and were fined $500 each.
McDermott gave the contents of the tape-recording to reporters with The New York Times and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Boehner sued McDermott a year later, claiming that the lawmaker had violated his right to privacy by turning over the tape recording to the news media. Boehner asked for damages of $10,000.
You can't eavesdrop on digital cellphones with a scanner, so bored Commun^WDemocrats will have to find something else with which to occupy their time.
The summary says the exploit just corrupts Windows' kernel files.
So how does the owner of a PC that did not come with a recovery CD get the kernel file back?
HPs and Compaqs are the topic of TFA. These have either come with a set of recovery media or (more recently) a program that will burn them to CD-R or DVD-R. If the former is the case, you're all set. If the latter, and you didn't bother to make recovery discs, whose fault is that? (IIRC, it'll nag you to make them until you get around to it.)
Lately, they've taken to putting an installable copy of Windows on one disc and installable copies of drivers and apps on the other disc(s)...that's nice for controlling how much shovelware gets loaded back on. It's not as fast as a Ghost (or whatever) image, but it's much more controllable.
Those weren't structural elements of the car. Saturn still used a steel (?) frame underneath to hold everything together. While they probably saved a little weight with plastic panels, the main selling point for them was improved dent resistance (as seen in the commercial where a shopping cart bounced off a door).
Plastics != composites. IIRC, Saturn used a thermoplastic of some sort, which could easily have been injection-molded.
Breeding means you're evolutionarily fit, passing IQ tests or learning Klingon or Vi doesn't. The right people are breeding, by definition. Elitist nerds aren't breeding, but that's not a problem with evolution, just for them.
Speaking of stupid people, let's introduce alcohol to the situation and instead we get stupid, drunk, inhibitions-diminished desperate people instead! Great fun!
Yeah, it is actually.
Wow...sounds like Idiocracy may have hit a little too close to home for you.
Anybody who has held a soldering iron and done something digital with single transistors please raise your hand ? Vacuum tubes ? Relays ?
Transistors? Yes. Relays? Not soldered, but ISTR there were some digital-logic projects that used the relay in Radio Shack's 150-in-1 kit. Tubes? Not digital, but I've gotten some old radios running again. (One only needed a couple of tubes replaced, but I recapped another one.)
Telling statement, that. But as they say, your rights end the second your fist hits my nose. When your "preferences" means that your vehicle burns enough fuel for three or four other high-efficiency cars, and your "preferences" drive up fuel consumption and prices correspondingly, then, quite frankly, I could care LESS about your "preferences".
...and the above is proof that you only have to scratch a liberal to find a communist underneath.
...and in related news, what full-size pickup just had all of its 2007 4WD production recalled for some sort of driveshaft problem?
It wasn't the Silverado.
It wasn't the F-150.
It wasn't the Ram, either.
Both the truck model and its manufacturer have names beginning with the letter T.
ISTR there being another recall earlier this year that involved the same truck and some engines that weren't put together right, or something like that.
Meanwhile, the six GM vehicles in my family (model years from 1973 to 2004) all run like champs. You fools who think imports are better...keep on telling yourselves that. I'm not buying it for a second.
Because station wagons were effectively legislated out of existence by the last round of fuel-efficiency hikes and large families still needed something big enough to haul around all the crap for which they previously used station wagons.
Composites are the way to go (look at SpaceShipOne and the 777 Dreamliner). They're strong and light. The problem is they can't be recycled well.
The bigger problem is that they're also hellaciously expensive. Want to spend $40-50k (warning: this is a wild-ass guess and may be off a fair bit one way or the other) on a dinky 4-cylinder shitbox because it's the most you can afford when the body is made of composites? Didn't think so.
Worse, vehicles get a 50% milage "credit" if they're ethanol-friendly. Add $50 or so worth of corrosion-resistant fittings and seals to that Chevy Subdivision so it can burn E85, and bingo: that 20MPG land bruiser now gets 30MPG in the eyes of the bill, raising fleet averages considerably.
The ostensible goal of this increased mileage standard is to reduce demand for oil, is it not? If a flex-fuel vehicle allows the fraction of ethanol in fuel to be increased from a maximum of 10% (what most conventional vehicles will tolerate) to a maximum of 85%, it follows that we'll need to pump less oil out of the ground to keep it running. That should count for something, shouldn't it?
By the tone of your post, though, I suspect that that isn't good enough for you, and that you really won't be happy until we're all forced to drive Piouses and Hindsights instead of the cars and trucks we prefer.
Flashing green means the opposite side still has a red. You can make left turns without waiting for them.
It's bothering me how few people know common traffic signals.
"Common?" Before today, I'd never heard of it. Red-and-yellow a couple of seconds before green is more common than that (the Brits and Germans use that to tell you the light's about to go green). I've lived, driven in, or traveled through a fair chunk of the United States and western Europe, and I've never seen a flashing green light.
One time when I ordered a pizza, I had to spell out my name to the order taker. I said one of the letters was "T, as in Tom." When it arrived and I looked at the bill, it had been transcribed as D instead of a T...presumably as in Dom, given the context. I started using "T, as in Thomas" after that, but "T, as in tango" would probably be better still.
Yes, but some people don't have any hard-wired phone service at all. I know, I know. But they made that choice.
Why should I pay for a phone I'd never use when all my neighbors have POTS?
Besides, the cable network also has backup power. As long as I keep my cable modem, router, and ATA on a UPS, my VoIP line will keep running in a power outage. Since that equipment doesn't draw much power, even a small UPS would keep it running for some time.
MacOS Classic adopted a different behaviour; the Mac designers removed the eject button from the floppy disk drive, making it impossible to eject a disk without the OS having a chance to unmount it first. I'm not quite sure how they dealt with network drives, however.
A popup tells you that the network volume is no longer available...probably a bad thing to have happen when you're running a program from a network volume, but that's how it works on older Macs (and the Apple IIGS, too).
Also, did anyone notice the "Omni Consumer Products" logo at the bottom left of the Brawndo site? It looks a lot like the OCP logo from the Robocop movies.
I'm surprised I had to scroll this far down to find someone else who noticed the same thing.
But the only reason why they CAN do it is CDMA. You cannot do it with GSM, because the only device directly related to the operator is the SIM card, and not the mobile phone itself.
That makes no sense...you're not saying that all of a GSM cellphone's firmware resides in the SIM, are you? If AT&T, T-Mobile, or whoever can apply a theme to a phone's UI (and they do...my T610 had a magenta-colored theme that screamed "T-Mobile"), there's nothing stopping them from mucking around elsewhere in the phone's firmware to switch features on and off. The most common restriction, of course, is to refuse to operate with another network's SIMs, but it shouldn't be much of a leap from that to disable Bluetooth OBEX, data tethering, and other nastiness that's aimed at generating more money for the service provider. Why do you think different firmware files exist for phones on different networks? There's also unlocked, vendor-neutral firmware available, but 99.99% of the time, you're not getting that when you buy a phone, regardless of whether it's GSM, CDMA, or some other technology.
But then I went to Argentina for a weekend and the Tower Records there was a total mess. I'd never heard of half the bands in their inventory and the clerks couldn't even speak English! I was so disappointed that I never went to another Tower back in the USA.
What kind of idiocy is this? Last time I checked, they speak Spanish in Argentina. Expecting their sales staff to speak English is about as boneheaded as when some Mexican walks into a store here and expects to be able to carry on business in Spanish.
Someone else already addressed the different tastes in music between different countries, so I won't go into that.
Fry's is about the same distance from me as they were, but I've never felt comfortable with their wares. I could get in and out quickly, not like the long lines at Fry's.
"Long lines?" Checking out there is usually faster than just about anywhere else, since they have just one line that gets fanned out to all of the open registers and you get directed to the next available register. Even this past Black Friday, it didn't take more than a couple of minutes to get through the line. I don't know why more businesses don't operate this way; the only other place I've seen it is in commissaries on military bases. It beats taking a gamble on which register is going faster.
I felt that Computer City was better than CompUSA but they were always in bad locations and in smaller cities.
Neither of them were in ideal locations in Las Vegas (Sahara & Valley View for CompUSA, Charleston & Decatur for Computer City), but something about CompUSA always rubbed me the wrong way. Given a choice between the two, I picked Computer City every time, even though it was a (slightly) longer drive.
In the early '90s, I ran a BBS and needed lots of offline storage for backup. I had a tape drive that put 60 MB on a DC600A cartridge, but getting to one or two files in the middle of the tape could be slow. What I thought was the killer deal of the time was 5.25" double-density floppies at Computer City for a dime each. In a high-density drive, you could format them with 80 tracks instead of 40, doubling their capacity to 720K. For somewhere around $13-$15, you could get over 70 MB of space, plus a box to hold them. Tape cartridges, 5.25" high-density floppies, and 3.5" floppies (of either type) were nowhere near that cheap. Back when a used 120-MB hard drive cost over $200 and CD-Rs were unheard of, $15 for 70 MB was dirt-cheap. If someone wanted an offline file, I'd fetch it and put it up for download.
(To make optimal use of the space on each disk, I had some batch files (or maybe it was an AppleWorks spreadsheet and some macros...I don't remember) that sorted the files that needed to be written by size and picked files to write to each disk so they'd be as full as possible. With a large-enough group of files to write, there was usually enough variety of file sizes to write full disks most of the time.)
Verizon is the carrier with the most restrictions in their devices, which are due to the closed nature of CDMA networks...
I don't think you can blame CDMA for Verizon crippling features on its phones. Sprint uses CDMA too, and it doesn't pull any of the crap that we hear about Verizon.
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If you're going to correct someone, at least be correct yourself: the conversion is approximately 3.785 liters per gallon.
A semester lasts 16 weeks. Undergrads only get to check out books for 2-3 weeks at a time, with maybe one renewal allowed before you have to check it back in. On top of that, the library will only have one or two copies of any given book. It seems like it'd be way too much of a hassle to go through when you can just buy the thing and sell it at the end of the semester (or maybe keep it...I kept most of the CS books I bought).
I picked up a few of these a while back for a project at work. They work well, even if they run a bit warm...it's much easier to get a clean digital signal from the local stations than to get a clean analog signal.
It's still more than $40, but the prices still have time to come down.
You can't eavesdrop on digital cellphones with a scanner, so bored Commun^WDemocrats will have to find something else with which to occupy their time.
Funny that you'd bring up the ACLU, given that one of their people will be someone's prison bitch for seven years and that their policy goal is the legalization of kiddie porn.
You'd be hard-pressed to find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy than the ACLU.
HPs and Compaqs are the topic of TFA. These have either come with a set of recovery media or (more recently) a program that will burn them to CD-R or DVD-R. If the former is the case, you're all set. If the latter, and you didn't bother to make recovery discs, whose fault is that? (IIRC, it'll nag you to make them until you get around to it.)
Lately, they've taken to putting an installable copy of Windows on one disc and installable copies of drivers and apps on the other disc(s)...that's nice for controlling how much shovelware gets loaded back on. It's not as fast as a Ghost (or whatever) image, but it's much more controllable.
Wow...sounds like Idiocracy may have hit a little too close to home for you.
Transistors? Yes. Relays? Not soldered, but ISTR there were some digital-logic projects that used the relay in Radio Shack's 150-in-1 kit. Tubes? Not digital, but I've gotten some old radios running again. (One only needed a couple of tubes replaced, but I recapped another one.)
Die in a fire.
It wasn't the Silverado.
It wasn't the F-150.
It wasn't the Ram, either.
Both the truck model and its manufacturer have names beginning with the letter T.
ISTR there being another recall earlier this year that involved the same truck and some engines that weren't put together right, or something like that.
Meanwhile, the six GM vehicles in my family (model years from 1973 to 2004) all run like champs. You fools who think imports are better...keep on telling yourselves that. I'm not buying it for a second.
Because station wagons were effectively legislated out of existence by the last round of fuel-efficiency hikes and large families still needed something big enough to haul around all the crap for which they previously used station wagons.
The bigger problem is that they're also hellaciously expensive. Want to spend $40-50k (warning: this is a wild-ass guess and may be off a fair bit one way or the other) on a dinky 4-cylinder shitbox because it's the most you can afford when the body is made of composites? Didn't think so.
The ostensible goal of this increased mileage standard is to reduce demand for oil, is it not? If a flex-fuel vehicle allows the fraction of ethanol in fuel to be increased from a maximum of 10% (what most conventional vehicles will tolerate) to a maximum of 85%, it follows that we'll need to pump less oil out of the ground to keep it running. That should count for something, shouldn't it?
By the tone of your post, though, I suspect that that isn't good enough for you, and that you really won't be happy until we're all forced to drive Piouses and Hindsights instead of the cars and trucks we prefer.
"Common?" Before today, I'd never heard of it. Red-and-yellow a couple of seconds before green is more common than that (the Brits and Germans use that to tell you the light's about to go green). I've lived, driven in, or traveled through a fair chunk of the United States and western Europe, and I've never seen a flashing green light.
...and your parents obviously spawned a humorless boor. Lighten up, Francis.
One time when I ordered a pizza, I had to spell out my name to the order taker. I said one of the letters was "T, as in Tom." When it arrived and I looked at the bill, it had been transcribed as D instead of a T...presumably as in Dom, given the context. I started using "T, as in Thomas" after that, but "T, as in tango" would probably be better still.
Besides, the cable network also has backup power. As long as I keep my cable modem, router, and ATA on a UPS, my VoIP line will keep running in a power outage. Since that equipment doesn't draw much power, even a small UPS would keep it running for some time.
A popup tells you that the network volume is no longer available...probably a bad thing to have happen when you're running a program from a network volume, but that's how it works on older Macs (and the Apple IIGS, too).
I'm surprised I had to scroll this far down to find someone else who noticed the same thing.
That makes no sense...you're not saying that all of a GSM cellphone's firmware resides in the SIM, are you? If AT&T, T-Mobile, or whoever can apply a theme to a phone's UI (and they do...my T610 had a magenta-colored theme that screamed "T-Mobile"), there's nothing stopping them from mucking around elsewhere in the phone's firmware to switch features on and off. The most common restriction, of course, is to refuse to operate with another network's SIMs, but it shouldn't be much of a leap from that to disable Bluetooth OBEX, data tethering, and other nastiness that's aimed at generating more money for the service provider. Why do you think different firmware files exist for phones on different networks? There's also unlocked, vendor-neutral firmware available, but 99.99% of the time, you're not getting that when you buy a phone, regardless of whether it's GSM, CDMA, or some other technology.
What kind of idiocy is this? Last time I checked, they speak Spanish in Argentina. Expecting their sales staff to speak English is about as boneheaded as when some Mexican walks into a store here and expects to be able to carry on business in Spanish.
Someone else already addressed the different tastes in music between different countries, so I won't go into that.
"Long lines?" Checking out there is usually faster than just about anywhere else, since they have just one line that gets fanned out to all of the open registers and you get directed to the next available register. Even this past Black Friday, it didn't take more than a couple of minutes to get through the line. I don't know why more businesses don't operate this way; the only other place I've seen it is in commissaries on military bases. It beats taking a gamble on which register is going faster.
Neither of them were in ideal locations in Las Vegas (Sahara & Valley View for CompUSA, Charleston & Decatur for Computer City), but something about CompUSA always rubbed me the wrong way. Given a choice between the two, I picked Computer City every time, even though it was a (slightly) longer drive.
In the early '90s, I ran a BBS and needed lots of offline storage for backup. I had a tape drive that put 60 MB on a DC600A cartridge, but getting to one or two files in the middle of the tape could be slow. What I thought was the killer deal of the time was 5.25" double-density floppies at Computer City for a dime each. In a high-density drive, you could format them with 80 tracks instead of 40, doubling their capacity to 720K. For somewhere around $13-$15, you could get over 70 MB of space, plus a box to hold them. Tape cartridges, 5.25" high-density floppies, and 3.5" floppies (of either type) were nowhere near that cheap. Back when a used 120-MB hard drive cost over $200 and CD-Rs were unheard of, $15 for 70 MB was dirt-cheap. If someone wanted an offline file, I'd fetch it and put it up for download.
(To make optimal use of the space on each disk, I had some batch files (or maybe it was an AppleWorks spreadsheet and some macros...I don't remember) that sorted the files that needed to be written by size and picked files to write to each disk so they'd be as full as possible. With a large-enough group of files to write, there was usually enough variety of file sizes to write full disks most of the time.)
I don't think you can blame CDMA for Verizon crippling features on its phones. Sprint uses CDMA too, and it doesn't pull any of the crap that we hear about Verizon.