Have you ever noticed the dit-dit-dit dah-dah dit-dit-dit of some phones' SMS alarms? Well, that's what it is -- Morse for "SMS".
I'd heard that before, and wondered why a - went missing, as I know that...---... is SOS. I've made a couple of attempts at learning Morse code, but have never gotten all the way through.
The last time I used a KDE based distro (Kubuntu 7.10) it was a joke. Applications crashed (Konqueror, amaroK, RKWard, among others) very often and the system overall felt fragile compared to Gnome and yes... even to Windows XP.
KDE has been stable enough for me for the past few years on Gentoo. It's my primary environment on my notebooks, home desktops, and MythTV boxen, and the machines in my office at work dual-boot between it and WinXP (lately, I've kept one booted into Linux and the other booted into Windows). These are running a mix of x86 and AMD64 hardware (mostly AMD64 these days). Maybe it's your choice of distro that's at fault.
I remember downloading drivers from HP as early as 1989.
After calling their technical support department and being given a location and temporary name and password, of course
Odd that they'd bother with access controls. Apple allowed anonymous FTP back then, with which you could download system-software updates, tech notes, and whatever else would've been on there at the time. ftp.apple.com is still up and running and still accepting anonymous logins, but most of its contents got moved to their website long ago.
The key word in my post was "some." As for WinDVD, I used that as an example because the last version I tried had locked codecs. Maybe that's changed in newer versions.
I wish there would have been something like this when I was in high school...
True, but there were other opportunities back then that aren't available now. I sold a couple of Apple II programs (and the articles describing them) to Nibble, one of which was published. Magazines like that don't even exist anymore.
As such, they only include it in Home Premium and Ultimate, the editions that have Media Center. On any other SKU, just download a 30-day trial of a DVD Player, install it, and forget. Even after the trial expires, the codec doesn't.
Some codecs are locked to the app that installed them. IIRC, the MPEG-2 decoder installed by WinDVD behaves in this manner...other apps can't use it. If the codec is locked and the app that installed it expired, the codec is useless.
ffdshow includes an MPEG-2 decoder and is free-as-in-speech. It also goes beyond MP@ML to allow HD decoding; the decoders bundled with DVD players often don't handle HD.
Major car manufacturers have been electronically enforcing a speed limit (electronic speed cutoff) - check
The limit they set is usually far beyond any speed limit. About 20 years ago, I knew someone with a Ford Aerostar that'd cut out at 95 mph. You'll never (legally) approach that speed on any highway here; the only reason it became an issue at the time was that it was being driven on the Autobahn.
My understanding of the matter is that on newer vehicles that have a cutoff set in them, it's almost always higher. My daily driver is an Oldsmobile Alero; if it has a cutoff, it's somewhere above 100 mph. I had it up to that speed for a couple of minutes on an empty road one night, and it didn't cut out.
I suspect, though, that the day some car company comes up with a car that reads speed-limit signs and then enforces that limit is the day it signs its own death warrant. Current limits seem to be set around what the manufacturer considers safe for its design. The side view of most cars bears more than a little resemblance to an airfoil; at a high-enough speed, the body will start producing enough lift to negatively affect traction. At just 100 mph, the steering in my Alero felt like it was getting a little bit lighter than usual. Losing control at triple-digit speeds is usually regarded as a Bad Thing.
The last movie-theater chain around here that didn't run ads (other than the usual trailers and "visit our snackbar" messages) appears to have been bought out by another chain that does. I've not been back to the theater since, and probably won't be for the foreseeable future. Netflix gets most movies a few months after they're in theaters, and MythTV's DVD player doesn't enforce PUOs. (My old Apex AD610A doesn't, either, but it's still packed up as I don't really need it anymore.)
Guess this means I shouldn't buy that VonageLinksys router gizmo on clearance at Wal-Mart?
Or maybe I can flash it into something useful when Vonage dies?
Depends on the price. I recently switched from Packet8 to Gizmo Project; after bricking my DTA310 trying to get it working with Gizmo, I ordered one of these earlier this week. I already have a WRT54GL (running OpenWRT Kamikaze), so I don't need router functionality in an ATA. I might try unbricking the DTA310 at some point, but that's a low priority now.
(As an aside, flashing your DTA310 with Packet8's v11.11 firmware is a bad idea. It won't work with Packet8 anymore, it won't work with other VoIP providers, and you won't be able to return to a firmware version that does work.)
(As another aside, Twinkle works great on AMD64 Linux and is less of a hassle to get running that Gizmo's Linux client. Theroetically, KPhone should also work, but I could only get it to work with inbound and toll-free outbound calls.)
Watch out if you switch to a diesel. "I was only doing 4500rpm officer" might not cut it.
If you're anywhere near 4500 rpm in top gear for any length of time and you're not on the Autobahn or a racetrack, you deserve to be arrested. A car whose engine does 2000 rpm in top gear at 70 mph would be hauling along at 158 mph at 4500 rpm.
Well by that token Fred Phelps and his "God Hates Fags" protesters are the face of the conservative movement.
You are aware that Fred Phelps is a Democrat, right? There's not a dime's worth of difference in the tone of the rhetoric of the Phelps k^Hclan and your average Kos kiddie or DUmmie: they both have an unabiding hatred of "them" (whoever "they" are, though there's considerable overlap nowadays) and they want all of "them" dead.
just reminds me of the black knight from quest for the holy grail who refuses to admit defeat until finally admitting a draw when he's a quadriplegic.
You need to watch the movie again. The Black Night wants to continue the fight ("I'll bite yer legs off!") and it is Arthur that says to call it a draw and walks around him.
"First of all, it wants to put Google search on a phone. It wants to do this because it is obvious to the folks at Google that people need to do Web searches from their phone, so they can, uh, get directions to the restaurant? Of course, they can simply use the phone itself to call the restaurant and ask!"
Sounds like the parody I did of Dvorak a while back...
Besides, you're even less likely to know a restaurant's phone number than its location. If you're going to call them for directions, you're going to need their phone number first. How are you going to get their phone number?
You're going to search for it, of course.
If you're already firing up Google (or whatever) on your cellphone to look up the restaurant's phone number, you might as well get directions while you're in there. You'll have the directions where you can read them, without having to transcribe them from someone who may or may not be able to give directions worth a damn. You're also not wasting money on "directory assistance."
...at least they'll never be able to take away from us the fact we never elected George Bush.
You can't blame us for Chirac and Schröder...they were all you. I wouldn't be too proud of that if I were you.
(To your credit, you finally kicked them to the curb where they belong. Hillary (or whoever the Democrats end up nominating...but she's most likely) needs to join them there.)
I guess my point is is that $20k/year is certainly a living wage.
Been there, done that: $400/month for rent, $150/month for a payment on an older used car (only because some dumbass cut me off and totaled a car that was fully paid for), $100/month for car insurance, maybe $30-$40 each for the cell phone and cable. That adds up to $730 per month, and I was probably clearing $1200 per month after taxes, so utilities (maybe $150 in the summer, maybe half that the rest of the year), food, etc. comes out of the remaining $470. On that income, I eventually shifted another $200 toward housing to pay the mortgage and HOA dues on a 1-bedroom condo...it was small, but it was mine.
This wasn't in some tiny village out in BFE, either, but in Las Vegas. (Las Vegas before real-estate investors from California drove prices through the roof, but still...)
I'm now substantially better off, and as soon as I finish moving the rest of my stuff out of that condo I bought on a $20k-per-year income, it's getting rented out so someone else can pay the mortgage on it.
I suspect that most people's inflated sense of what constitutes a "living wage" is a result of their own unwillingness to live within their means. They think that, right out of college (or maybe even right out of high school!), they should have the same standard of living as their parents. They think they're entitled to a new car every 2-3 years (and nothing so ordinary as a Chevy or a Ford, of course...nothing less than a C-class or a 3-series for these types), a 3000-square-foot house in a nice suburb on a quarter-acre lot, monthlong vacations to whatever faraway destination they prefer, eating out every day (or at least every weekday), etc. Never mind that their parents almost certainly didn't start out making the big bucks either...don't know about yours, but the Air Force was paying my old man $74 every other week when I came into this world. You can either make the numbers work by cutting out the frills, get a second job or a better-paying job so you can afford what you want (I had two jobs for a pretty fair chunk of the '90s to pay the bills), or you can live beyond your means and eventually go bankrupt. Unless you're a complete loser who keeps getting fired from one minimum-wage job after another, you can make it work.
there are still a few key combos that I use in windows/linux that I still haven't found a substitute for in os x, mainly changing tabs in a program like firefox (i'll give command ~ a try tonight, that's the first time i've heard of it).
Ctrl-Tab works in Firefox for Mac OS X the same way it does in Firefox for Linux or Windows. Unfortunately, that seems to be the only place where it works. I just stumbled across the OpenApple-~ (or is it OpenApple-`?) thing the other day...was frustrating to have to go to the mouse to switch between Terminal windows.
Dude I have never broken a record (haha). It's true you can scratch them with carelessness, but you have to be trying to break them.
That may hold for most LPs and singles, but 78s weren't made from vinyl. If you drop one of those, you own the hundreds of pieces into which it'll shatter.
Tubes are still out there but you have to find them and they are expensive
It's not the tubes themselves that are expensive (about $8 for a 12AT7, to use a type someone else mentioned), but the equipment in which they're installed that often sells for insane prices.
But do you realize that in the US, having interaction with the law is much worse than in Europe?
How do you figure that? In Europe, none of what's described in the article would be happening because you have no right to contest a ticket over there (except maybe in England since their legal system and ours have a common basis, but maybe not even there). When a speed camera snaps a picture of your license plate, they look up the registered owner and mail a ticket, and they don't care if you loaned your car to your speed-freak friend for a day. Your options are to either pay up or go to jail.
Here, generally speaking, as long as you don't mouth off to "Officer Friendly" and as long as you don't have someone banging from the inside of the trunk to be let out, a traffic stop will at most be an inconvenience that you can then hand off to a lawyer who'll get your ticket fixed. (Or not, in which case the money you saved by not hiring the lawyer will go toward increased insurance costs instead.) You can also take a chance on the cop not showing up for your court date...if he doesn't, the charge is dismissed and you're only out an hour or two of your time.
(Speed cameras ought to be regarded as unconstitutional here, but nobody has made a case of it yet AFAIK.)
I'm surprised weather satellites can't provide any information needed for firefighting?
Weather satellites orbit at over 22000 miles away. UAVs can fly at an altitude closer to 22000 feet (or less). They can see things in much greater detail than satellites in geostationary orbit.
Here is one example: The big game recorded off-air in pristine digital HD.
Borrowing from this post, why would you want to waste time watching a bunch of presumed adults with their IQs on their shirts moving a ball up and down a field?
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I'd heard that before, and wondered why a - went missing, as I know that ...---... is SOS. I've made a couple of attempts at learning Morse code, but have never gotten all the way through.
KDE has been stable enough for me for the past few years on Gentoo. It's my primary environment on my notebooks, home desktops, and MythTV boxen, and the machines in my office at work dual-boot between it and WinXP (lately, I've kept one booted into Linux and the other booted into Windows). These are running a mix of x86 and AMD64 hardware (mostly AMD64 these days). Maybe it's your choice of distro that's at fault.
Odd that they'd bother with access controls. Apple allowed anonymous FTP back then, with which you could download system-software updates, tech notes, and whatever else would've been on there at the time. ftp.apple.com is still up and running and still accepting anonymous logins, but most of its contents got moved to their website long ago.
The key word in my post was "some." As for WinDVD, I used that as an example because the last version I tried had locked codecs. Maybe that's changed in newer versions.
True, but there were other opportunities back then that aren't available now. I sold a couple of Apple II programs (and the articles describing them) to Nibble, one of which was published. Magazines like that don't even exist anymore.
Some codecs are locked to the app that installed them. IIRC, the MPEG-2 decoder installed by WinDVD behaves in this manner...other apps can't use it. If the codec is locked and the app that installed it expired, the codec is useless.
ffdshow includes an MPEG-2 decoder and is free-as-in-speech. It also goes beyond MP@ML to allow HD decoding; the decoders bundled with DVD players often don't handle HD.
The limit they set is usually far beyond any speed limit. About 20 years ago, I knew someone with a Ford Aerostar that'd cut out at 95 mph. You'll never (legally) approach that speed on any highway here; the only reason it became an issue at the time was that it was being driven on the Autobahn.
My understanding of the matter is that on newer vehicles that have a cutoff set in them, it's almost always higher. My daily driver is an Oldsmobile Alero; if it has a cutoff, it's somewhere above 100 mph. I had it up to that speed for a couple of minutes on an empty road one night, and it didn't cut out.
I suspect, though, that the day some car company comes up with a car that reads speed-limit signs and then enforces that limit is the day it signs its own death warrant. Current limits seem to be set around what the manufacturer considers safe for its design. The side view of most cars bears more than a little resemblance to an airfoil; at a high-enough speed, the body will start producing enough lift to negatively affect traction. At just 100 mph, the steering in my Alero felt like it was getting a little bit lighter than usual. Losing control at triple-digit speeds is usually regarded as a Bad Thing.
The last movie-theater chain around here that didn't run ads (other than the usual trailers and "visit our snackbar" messages) appears to have been bought out by another chain that does. I've not been back to the theater since, and probably won't be for the foreseeable future. Netflix gets most movies a few months after they're in theaters, and MythTV's DVD player doesn't enforce PUOs. (My old Apex AD610A doesn't, either, but it's still packed up as I don't really need it anymore.)
Depends on the price. I recently switched from Packet8 to Gizmo Project; after bricking my DTA310 trying to get it working with Gizmo, I ordered one of these earlier this week. I already have a WRT54GL (running OpenWRT Kamikaze), so I don't need router functionality in an ATA. I might try unbricking the DTA310 at some point, but that's a low priority now.
(As an aside, flashing your DTA310 with Packet8's v11.11 firmware is a bad idea. It won't work with Packet8 anymore, it won't work with other VoIP providers, and you won't be able to return to a firmware version that does work.)
(As another aside, Twinkle works great on AMD64 Linux and is less of a hassle to get running that Gizmo's Linux client. Theroetically, KPhone should also work, but I could only get it to work with inbound and toll-free outbound calls.)
How about these 11 inaccuracies that have been identified in court? That's just for starters.
Most of the shit-slinging I've observed on this matter has been from the Grünsturmabteilung (or "Al Gore fanbois," as someone else called them).
Maybe it'd sound like this.
If you're anywhere near 4500 rpm in top gear for any length of time and you're not on the Autobahn or a racetrack, you deserve to be arrested. A car whose engine does 2000 rpm in top gear at 70 mph would be hauling along at 158 mph at 4500 rpm.
You are aware that Fred Phelps is a Democrat, right? There's not a dime's worth of difference in the tone of the rhetoric of the Phelps k^Hclan and your average Kos kiddie or DUmmie: they both have an unabiding hatred of "them" (whoever "they" are, though there's considerable overlap nowadays) and they want all of "them" dead.
Time for you to turn in your geek card...it's the Black Knight who calls for a draw after he's had his arms & legs hacked off.
"The Black Knight^W^W^WSony always triumphs!"
Besides, you're even less likely to know a restaurant's phone number than its location. If you're going to call them for directions, you're going to need their phone number first. How are you going to get their phone number?
You're going to search for it, of course.
If you're already firing up Google (or whatever) on your cellphone to look up the restaurant's phone number, you might as well get directions while you're in there. You'll have the directions where you can read them, without having to transcribe them from someone who may or may not be able to give directions worth a damn. You're also not wasting money on "directory assistance."
You can't blame us for Chirac and Schröder...they were all you. I wouldn't be too proud of that if I were you.
(To your credit, you finally kicked them to the curb where they belong. Hillary (or whoever the Democrats end up nominating...but she's most likely) needs to join them there.)
Been there, done that: $400/month for rent, $150/month for a payment on an older used car (only because some dumbass cut me off and totaled a car that was fully paid for), $100/month for car insurance, maybe $30-$40 each for the cell phone and cable. That adds up to $730 per month, and I was probably clearing $1200 per month after taxes, so utilities (maybe $150 in the summer, maybe half that the rest of the year), food, etc. comes out of the remaining $470. On that income, I eventually shifted another $200 toward housing to pay the mortgage and HOA dues on a 1-bedroom condo...it was small, but it was mine.
This wasn't in some tiny village out in BFE, either, but in Las Vegas. (Las Vegas before real-estate investors from California drove prices through the roof, but still...)
I'm now substantially better off, and as soon as I finish moving the rest of my stuff out of that condo I bought on a $20k-per-year income, it's getting rented out so someone else can pay the mortgage on it.
I suspect that most people's inflated sense of what constitutes a "living wage" is a result of their own unwillingness to live within their means. They think that, right out of college (or maybe even right out of high school!), they should have the same standard of living as their parents. They think they're entitled to a new car every 2-3 years (and nothing so ordinary as a Chevy or a Ford, of course...nothing less than a C-class or a 3-series for these types), a 3000-square-foot house in a nice suburb on a quarter-acre lot, monthlong vacations to whatever faraway destination they prefer, eating out every day (or at least every weekday), etc. Never mind that their parents almost certainly didn't start out making the big bucks either...don't know about yours, but the Air Force was paying my old man $74 every other week when I came into this world. You can either make the numbers work by cutting out the frills, get a second job or a better-paying job so you can afford what you want (I had two jobs for a pretty fair chunk of the '90s to pay the bills), or you can live beyond your means and eventually go bankrupt. Unless you're a complete loser who keeps getting fired from one minimum-wage job after another, you can make it work.
Ctrl-Tab works in Firefox for Mac OS X the same way it does in Firefox for Linux or Windows. Unfortunately, that seems to be the only place where it works. I just stumbled across the OpenApple-~ (or is it OpenApple-`?) thing the other day...was frustrating to have to go to the mouse to switch between Terminal windows.
That may hold for most LPs and singles, but 78s weren't made from vinyl. If you drop one of those, you own the hundreds of pieces into which it'll shatter.
It's not the tubes themselves that are expensive (about $8 for a 12AT7, to use a type someone else mentioned), but the equipment in which they're installed that often sells for insane prices.
How do you figure that? In Europe, none of what's described in the article would be happening because you have no right to contest a ticket over there (except maybe in England since their legal system and ours have a common basis, but maybe not even there). When a speed camera snaps a picture of your license plate, they look up the registered owner and mail a ticket, and they don't care if you loaned your car to your speed-freak friend for a day. Your options are to either pay up or go to jail.
Here, generally speaking, as long as you don't mouth off to "Officer Friendly" and as long as you don't have someone banging from the inside of the trunk to be let out, a traffic stop will at most be an inconvenience that you can then hand off to a lawyer who'll get your ticket fixed. (Or not, in which case the money you saved by not hiring the lawyer will go toward increased insurance costs instead.) You can also take a chance on the cop not showing up for your court date...if he doesn't, the charge is dismissed and you're only out an hour or two of your time.
(Speed cameras ought to be regarded as unconstitutional here, but nobody has made a case of it yet AFAIK.)
-- Tom Wolfe
Weather satellites orbit at over 22000 miles away. UAVs can fly at an altitude closer to 22000 feet (or less). They can see things in much greater detail than satellites in geostationary orbit.
I read the article you linked...for her part at least, it sounds like sour grapes at having been caught doing something she shouldn't have been doing.
From what I've heard about it, it sounds like it'll be a Good Thing...good to know that theory and practice are more alike than not.
As long as you're not trying to score an exit-row seat when I'm flying, it's all good. (Seat 11C FTW! :-) )
Borrowing from this post, why would you want to waste time watching a bunch of presumed adults with their IQs on their shirts moving a ball up and down a field?