The Coolpix 850 used standard AA batteries (rechargable or otherwise). The later cameras now use a "custom" Nikon battery and battery charger.
The Coolpix 995 can also use 2CR5 lithium batteries. I keep a couple of them with mine as backup (the rechargeables are crapping out on me again and need to be replaced). They're not quite as common as AAs, but they're a standard camera battery type that you should be able to find near the film at a well-stocked tourist trap or in a Wal-Mart-type of store.
At Wal-Mart recently (at least here in Oklahoma), they've had "special edition" six-packs of Dr. Pepper with cane sugar.
The Wal-Mart one block away from my office (in Las Vegas) was (maybe still is) selling 12-oz. glass bottles of Mexican Coke (with sugar, bottle markings en español with an English-language sticker added on) for about $1 each. I normally stick with Diet Coke, but bought a bottle for sh*ts and grins.
What do you think American children do during school recess?
What is this "recess" of which you speak?
(That was a rhetorical question. Last time I recall there being a time in the middle of the school day when the kids got to go out onto the playground and do whatever for a while, I was in 1st grade...and that was back in 1978. Nowadays, instead of letting them burn up all of that energy they've built up sitting around in class, we dope them up to make compliant little drones out of them if they get too restless. My experience was with four schools (in as many states) in six years from kindergarten to 6th grade (skipped half each of 1st & 2nd grade), and only one of them did recess.)
Truth be told, though, the ultimate safest vehicle design might well be an early 70's American luxury sedan, albiet one updated with better seatbelts and airbags.
A handful of them actually had airbags back in the day. According to Wikipedia, "airbags were made available to the public in November 1973 when General Motors began offering dual airbags as an extra-cost option on several 1974 model full size cars made by the Buick, Cadillac and Oldsmobile divisions." The article shows the interior of an airbag-equipped '75 Electra. ISTR another source that said the first car to ship with them was a '73 Toronado, but I don't have a source for that.
OTOH, the fold-up, non-retractable shoulder belts in my father's '73 Cutlass are enough of a PITA that they've never been used, and he's been a believer in the usefulness of seat belts since long before their use became mandatory.
We're going to have to go get them and take their weapons away from them.
Bring it, bitch...but before you do, you might want to remember who has the guns (us) and who doesn't (slimy little communist shitstain twinkle-toed cocksuckers like you).
Apple still doesn't officially support more than 1 mouse button.
So you're telling me that the context menu that pops up when I click the right button on the (Microsoft) mouse plugged into my Mac mini is a figment of my imagination? How much more support is needed than that?
I suppose if I had a MacBook (or whatever), lack of a right button on the trackpad would be a minor annoyance, but I rarely use the trackpads on my notebooks anyway. With the one that gets lugged around, I haul a Bluetooth mouse around with it.
1080p works pretty well at 3-4 megabits with H.264 High Profile. You can fit a full-length movie on a DVD5 that way. Of course, it'll be completely unplayable without CoreAVC.
mplayer works well enough playing HD H.264 on my MythTV box, and it's just an Athlon 64 3700.
Microsoft, perhaps? I didn't see any popup when I went there, but then I'm also using Firefox.
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(it was not 360K, more like 128K, right?)
140K, or 280K if you made it a "flippy" and used the other side. (I should still have a notcher around here someplace...not a cheap single-hole punch, either, but the gadget that made a rectangular cutout in the right place.)
My DuoDisk was able to reliably seek over 38 tracks instead of the usual 35, so I had more than a few disks formatted that way for 152K per side. IIRC, you didn't even need to patch ProDOS; you just needed a disk formatter that would go beyond 35 tracks.
Umm...Notepad, anyone? That one won't cost you a dime
Yup, it won't cost you a dime. I'll cost you $150+. You do get a free copy of Vista with that purchase, though.
Given that the author of TFA was looking at a bunch of Windows apps already, I figured it was a safe assumption that his office's computers already had Windows on them.
Well, this is because all-in-one devices are almost universally shit. They're an example of cut-rate hardware/software engineering. They almost always tend to use proprietary interfacing schemes, making them inseparable from their Windows drivers, and usually the drivers are genuine turd piles anyway. The world would be a better place if they just went away.
Most (all?) of the current HP all-in-ones are fairly easy to set up with either Mac OS X (with the included driver CD) or Linux (with hplip). Mine is fully functional with both.
Are they on crack? 256 Kbps is quite a high bitrate for a lossy CODEC.
...especially for advanced codecs such as AAC or Vorbis. Even for MP3, 256 kbps is close enough to transparent for most people. I used to encode MP3s at 192 kbps and had no issues with the quality. Nowadays, I'm using AAC at 192 kbps for most of my stuff, whether ripped from CD or vinyl. I figure it's the same amount of storage I would've used with MP3, but I'm getting better quality for it as a "freebie."
When I get around to them, I might rip cassettes at a lower rate (128 or 160) because there's so much missing already compared to the other source formats...or maybe not. (I haven't even gotten around to patching the tape deck back into the stereo yet, not that that's much of a hassle.)
The fuel system is going to need a complete redesign, so there's nothing to stop them from putting a funnel with a vibrating channel to the tank to keep it moving.
An auger would be simpler and more reliable. Breweries use them to move their base malt around from the silo to the mill to the mash tun. It's just a really big screw inside a pipe, driven by a motor.
(I kid! and no, I don't know how to put the symbol in slashcode)
It's easy. Type "£".
I can't seem to find that on my keyboard...might it be next to the Any key?:-)
In general, cutting-and-pasting infrequently-used symbols from Character Map (Windows), kcharselect (Linux), or whatever will get the job done...as long as it's one of the handful of characters that Slashcode won't filter out.
No, sir, I'm sorry that we don't have any more of the $350 E-Machine computer in stock. Perhaps when you see a computer deal that's insanely cheap, you shouldn't presume that you are the only person within 50 miles that will want to purchase it. Yes, sir, we did have them in stock. Yes, sir, we got a shipment of 30 of them last Friday, and we anticipate getting another 15 Wednesday, and probably some more this Friday. No sir, I can't hold one for you.
That's when you offer a raincheck for the item in question. If the product comes back into stock at some point (it doesn't always, but if it does), you go through the accumulated rainchecks and start calling people. They're usually still somewhat miffed that you don't have the product in stock, but if you make a good-faith effort to get product to them when it's available, it keeps you (not you personally, but the store) out of trouble with the law.
That's how Best Buy did things when I was there, anyway (1994-1999 at the first two stores in Las Vegas, #289 and #122). This was during their insane-growth phase in which they dethroned Circuit City, so they may have been more willing to go the extra mile for customers than is the case today.
If it wasn't a microsoft product, and Apple made it... NOBODY would have a problem with it.
Apple would at least have had the sense to not make the Zune look like a turd. Brown? WTF were the people at Microsoft smoking when they came up with that idea? Were they going for the UPS-driver demographic?
um... what can you do with an ipod aside from plug their dirty headphones in your ear?
Um...plug it into my car stereo? Dock it with the speakers on my office desk? (The adapter for the car stereo pipes line-level audio straight into the head unit, delivers power to keep it charged, and carries control signals from the head unit so you can use the tuning knob to scan forward/backward through a song and use the seek buttons to skip between songs. Good luck finding that level of integration for any other audio player, let alone for the Zune. Mine is in an '04 Alero, but most domestics and imports built in the past 10 or so years are supported.)
I haven't had to rebuild my zune because of data corruption or sync error...
I've never needed to do that with my iPod, either. Your point?
I can move my music back to the pc or anyone's pc for that matter, without having to have special software...
I can do the same thing with my iPod. Again, what's your point, other than that you're making it clear that your problems with the iPod were mostly of the PEBKAC nature?
It has radio which I use often at work...
FM-only is useless. You might as well not have it; the reason you carry an iPod (or whatever) is that there's nothing worth listening to on FM. If it supported AM, you could at least tune into talk radio. An FM-only tuner is about as useful as tits on a mule, as far as I'm concerned.
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The Coolpix 995 can also use 2CR5 lithium batteries. I keep a couple of them with mine as backup (the rechargeables are crapping out on me again and need to be replaced). They're not quite as common as AAs, but they're a standard camera battery type that you should be able to find near the film at a well-stocked tourist trap or in a Wal-Mart-type of store.
The Wal-Mart one block away from my office (in Las Vegas) was (maybe still is) selling 12-oz. glass bottles of Mexican Coke (with sugar, bottle markings en español with an English-language sticker added on) for about $1 each. I normally stick with Diet Coke, but bought a bottle for sh*ts and grins.
What is this "recess" of which you speak?
(That was a rhetorical question. Last time I recall there being a time in the middle of the school day when the kids got to go out onto the playground and do whatever for a while, I was in 1st grade...and that was back in 1978. Nowadays, instead of letting them burn up all of that energy they've built up sitting around in class, we dope them up to make compliant little drones out of them if they get too restless. My experience was with four schools (in as many states) in six years from kindergarten to 6th grade (skipped half each of 1st & 2nd grade), and only one of them did recess.)
A handful of them actually had airbags back in the day. According to Wikipedia, "airbags were made available to the public in November 1973 when General Motors began offering dual airbags as an extra-cost option on several 1974 model full size cars made by the Buick, Cadillac and Oldsmobile divisions." The article shows the interior of an airbag-equipped '75 Electra. ISTR another source that said the first car to ship with them was a '73 Toronado, but I don't have a source for that.
OTOH, the fold-up, non-retractable shoulder belts in my father's '73 Cutlass are enough of a PITA that they've never been used, and he's been a believer in the usefulness of seat belts since long before their use became mandatory.
Bring it, bitch...but before you do, you might want to remember who has the guns (us) and who doesn't (slimy little communist shitstain twinkle-toed cocksuckers like you).
Do you suppose that a goatse.cx reference getting modded 5, Troll would qualify as a sign of the apocalypse?
So you're telling me that the context menu that pops up when I click the right button on the (Microsoft) mouse plugged into my Mac mini is a figment of my imagination? How much more support is needed than that?
I suppose if I had a MacBook (or whatever), lack of a right button on the trackpad would be a minor annoyance, but I rarely use the trackpads on my notebooks anyway. With the one that gets lugged around, I haul a Bluetooth mouse around with it.
mplayer works well enough playing HD H.264 on my MythTV box, and it's just an Athlon 64 3700.
Fixed that for you. :-)
Microsoft, perhaps? I didn't see any popup when I went there, but then I'm also using Firefox.
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140K, or 280K if you made it a "flippy" and used the other side. (I should still have a notcher around here someplace...not a cheap single-hole punch, either, but the gadget that made a rectangular cutout in the right place.)
My DuoDisk was able to reliably seek over 38 tracks instead of the usual 35, so I had more than a few disks formatted that way for 152K per side. IIRC, you didn't even need to patch ProDOS; you just needed a disk formatter that would go beyond 35 tracks.
That'd be less than useless...how are you going to do mail, SSH, VNC, or whatever if everything but HTTP traffic is blocked?
Given that the author of TFA was looking at a bunch of Windows apps already, I figured it was a safe assumption that his office's computers already had Windows on them.
Most (all?) of the current HP all-in-ones are fairly easy to set up with either Mac OS X (with the included driver CD) or Linux (with hplip). Mine is fully functional with both.
Umm...Notepad, anyone? That one won't cost you a dime, and it won't produce fscked-up HTML like FrontPage does.
Much more often than not. If you have the number in your head already, it's faster to just punch it in than to search for it.
When I get around to them, I might rip cassettes at a lower rate (128 or 160) because there's so much missing already compared to the other source formats...or maybe not. (I haven't even gotten around to patching the tape deck back into the stereo yet, not that that's much of a hassle.)
Yes.
An auger would be simpler and more reliable. Breweries use them to move their base malt around from the silo to the mill to the mash tun. It's just a really big screw inside a pipe, driven by a motor.
You'd finally have a use for the mega-sized box of starch at Costco...you'd need only 11 of those. :-)
I can't seem to find that on my keyboard...might it be next to the Any key? :-)
In general, cutting-and-pasting infrequently-used symbols from Character Map (Windows), kcharselect (Linux), or whatever will get the job done...as long as it's one of the handful of characters that Slashcode won't filter out.
That's when you offer a raincheck for the item in question. If the product comes back into stock at some point (it doesn't always, but if it does), you go through the accumulated rainchecks and start calling people. They're usually still somewhat miffed that you don't have the product in stock, but if you make a good-faith effort to get product to them when it's available, it keeps you (not you personally, but the store) out of trouble with the law.
That's how Best Buy did things when I was there, anyway (1994-1999 at the first two stores in Las Vegas, #289 and #122). This was during their insane-growth phase in which they dethroned Circuit City, so they may have been more willing to go the extra mile for customers than is the case today.
Apple would at least have had the sense to not make the Zune look like a turd. Brown? WTF were the people at Microsoft smoking when they came up with that idea? Were they going for the UPS-driver demographic?
Um...plug it into my car stereo? Dock it with the speakers on my office desk? (The adapter for the car stereo pipes line-level audio straight into the head unit, delivers power to keep it charged, and carries control signals from the head unit so you can use the tuning knob to scan forward/backward through a song and use the seek buttons to skip between songs. Good luck finding that level of integration for any other audio player, let alone for the Zune. Mine is in an '04 Alero, but most domestics and imports built in the past 10 or so years are supported.)
I've never needed to do that with my iPod, either. Your point?
I can do the same thing with my iPod. Again, what's your point, other than that you're making it clear that your problems with the iPod were mostly of the PEBKAC nature?
FM-only is useless. You might as well not have it; the reason you carry an iPod (or whatever) is that there's nothing worth listening to on FM. If it supported AM, you could at least tune into talk radio. An FM-only tuner is about as useful as tits on a mule, as far as I'm concerned.
Thank you, Captain Obvious. :-|