I don't fly a huge amount--in 2006-2007 so far I've flown maybe 5-6 roudtrips. I have absolutely no doubt that there are some TSA people who are jerks. But in all my flying I don't think I've ever run into a one of them who wanted to "fuck up my day" or that I would "describe as a petty tyrant"
I haven't personally run across them, but in addition to the other stories people have already brought up, you might want to take a look at this.
Did you try just plugging the printer in and letting 'doze ask you where the drivers for it were when it found it by PNP means?
Doing that with some types of USB devices under Windows has been known to wedge things badly enough that you'll never get it working without a wipe-and-reinstall. There's a reason why many gadgets have a "make sure you install the driver first" sticker on them. In my own experience, I had a flash reader screw up a Win2K install a few years ago because I dared to plug in the reader first.
Hey, just use your restore disk to replace the files.
When was the last time you saw an OEM computer come with restore disks? For me, it was about 6 years ago.
The HP notebook I bought about a year ago came with a CD with an installable copy of WinXP (Home, unfortunately) and a DVD with all of the other preinstalled stuff on it, all of it independently installable. After wiping the hard drive and putting Windows back on, you can reinstall as much (or as little) of the shovelware as you want.
(You could also get off the Microsoft upgrade treadmill and put Linux on it. The only bits not working now are the SD-card reader (BFD...multi-format card readers that plug into a USB port are cheap) and the modem (BFD...haven't used dial-up in I don't know how long). This is starting to veer offtopic, though.)
Their newer stuff comes with a restore partition on the HD, but there's also an app to burn a set of CDs or DVDs. From what I saw of the discs burned by one such machine, it's still a collection of installable apps.
Don't you need a vent for smoke produced by the roasting?
I've never seen roasting coffee beans produce smoke. Has anyone here ever experienced this?
I was told that the smoke produced by the type of roaster I use (a Fresh Roast hot-air type) will set off household smoke alarms. I haven't tested the theory, but the couple of times I roasted in the bathroom (to avoid roasting outside) left a distinctive sweet smell in there for a couple of days. Something is getting cooked out of the beans...mostly water (which gets driven off as steam), but they get hot enough that some of the compounds will start burning in a longer roast. (I don't try to emulate Charbucks with my roasting, but there's a reason why Charbucks is called "Charbucks.":-P )
Fuel cells are a dead end. They require hydrogen, the majority of which is currently produced by cracking natural gas.
That may be the most economical method to produce hydrogen today. Who's to say it'll stay that way? A fuel-cell propulsion system doesn't care how the hydrogen that powers it is created. If someone comes up with a cost-effective way to create industrial quantities of hydrogen by some other means, a fuel-cell-powered vehicle will be able to take advantage of it.
An electric drivetrain (whether powered by a fuel cell (as in the Sequel) or an engine and battery pack (as in the Volt)) presents opportunities for drivetrain simplification (with attendant improvements not only in fuel economy, but in manufacturability and maintainability) that will never happen as long as there's still a mechanical linkage between an internal-combustion engine and the driven wheels. Long-term, it is the hybrid that is a technological dead-end. At best, it's a stopgap measure that trades significantly increased drivetrain complexity for marginal fuel-economy improvements that could be achieved by other means (such as the more widespread adoption of diesel engines).
Particularly if you have relatives regularly calling you from OS, it's pretty rude to give them a cellphone number and expect them to pay 10x as much to call you.
Why would they be paying more to call your cellphone? Aren't you paying for incoming calls? That's how most rate plans work. (Nextel offered unlimited incoming calls a while back on some of its rate plans...don't know if they still do that.)
Here's a simple approach: When a car comes in for an oil change, read the mileage rating stored inthe on-board computer and upload it to an EPA database.
That's going to be an indeterminate mix of city and highway driving, which is somewhat less than useless for their purposes. There are also those of us who do our own maintenance, so if getting everybody's stats is your goal, that isn't going to work either.
What did people do 20+ years ago before this truck and SUV thing happened? Did people just not pull trailers?
Cars used to be big enough and strong enough that you could pull trailers with them. I have a '77 Cutlass Supreme that I could use this way if I added a hitch. It has a V8 bigger than you'll find in many trucks, and its body-on-frame construction is scaled down from what you'd see in a truck (the El Camino used a fully-boxed version of the same frame; the boxed frame was also used for convertibles and station wagons). Few (if any) cars are built this way anymore, and there's not really a good place to attach a hitch on a unibody car that won't get ripped apart trying to pull more than 1000 lbs. or so.
Around here, you can dial 118 for the time and temperature (I think they've added some more detailed weather info as well). Many business phone systems require you to dial 9 to get an outside line.
While at home, I accidentally punched in 9118 instead of 118, thinking I'd get the time. I must've forgotten that I was at home and not work. When the 911 operator came on the line, I had an "oh sh*t" moment and hung up.
A cop rolled by the next day. I explained what had happened and that was the end of that.
I knew a guy who had a 1998 Camaro with a 6 speed manual. The car is rated at 27MPG highway, and he would regularly get this mileage and quite often even more. He installed a vacuum gauge on the A pillar which showed vacuum at the intake manifold, keeping him more aware of his driving habits.
That's basically all that the fuel-economy gauges GM (and maybe others) offered back in the '70s were...high vacuum at idle or when you're foot's barely on the throttle, low (or no) vacuum at WOT. Instead of a scale ranging from 30" to 0", it was broken into "good," "fair," and "poor" segments (or something like that).
You've got a moderately large normally aspirated V6, moving over 3000 lbs of less-than-spectacular aerodynamics via an AWD drive train. Yes, that's as good as it gets.
I'd expect AWD to drag down mileage figures a bit (maybe 1-2 mpg), but that much? For another datapoint, I'll throw in my 2004 Oldsmobile Alero. Its weight is somewhere around 3400 lbs. It's powered by a 3.4L V6, connected through a 4-speed automatic to the front wheels only. Around town, I usually get 22-24 mpg. On the highway, at 75-80 mph with cruise control and A/C, I usually get 28-30 mpg (maximum so far has been 30.8 mpg). The car doesn't track this info by itself, but it's easy enough to divide the distance driven on the last tank by the fuel put in, and I have this info going back to when I bought it in September 2005.
The site's blantant biases are well documented. I'm not going to rehash it here.
That's the standard argument that we see from people who, despite all of their insistence to the contrary, don't have the facts on their side. If you're going to make an extraordinary claim, the onus is on you to prove it, not on others to do your research for you.
H.R. 1592 does not regulate speech in any form. (It only prohibits actually physically assulting someone because of their race, religion, etc.)
There are already laws against assault that apply to everybody in every circumstance. If this bill were a Slashdot post, it'd deserve to be modded -1, Redundant.
Finally, does Kucinich this this will help him get elected President?
It's red mea^H^H^H^H^H^H^Htofu for his moonbat base, but Joe Lieberman's pwnage of Ned Lamont in 2006 is proof that hitching yourself to the hate-America bandwagon is hardly a guarantee of victory.
On Linux/BSD/etc., it hardly integrates with GNOME (similar to how it "integrates" with Windows, just using the graphical toolkit and UI guidelines doesn't count as integration), and when it comes to KDE, you might as well use Konqueror because Firefox is Peter Griffin in the Million Man March.
(The necessary files may be in a slightly different location; they are on Gentoo, which is what I use. You can also use this fix with Thunderbird to the same effect.)
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I haven't personally run across them, but in addition to the other stories people have already brought up, you might want to take a look at this.
Recent releases (both fiction and nonfiction) turn up in the warehouse stores for less than that.
Doing that with some types of USB devices under Windows has been known to wedge things badly enough that you'll never get it working without a wipe-and-reinstall. There's a reason why many gadgets have a "make sure you install the driver first" sticker on them. In my own experience, I had a flash reader screw up a Win2K install a few years ago because I dared to plug in the reader first.
The HP notebook I bought about a year ago came with a CD with an installable copy of WinXP (Home, unfortunately) and a DVD with all of the other preinstalled stuff on it, all of it independently installable. After wiping the hard drive and putting Windows back on, you can reinstall as much (or as little) of the shovelware as you want.
(You could also get off the Microsoft upgrade treadmill and put Linux on it. The only bits not working now are the SD-card reader (BFD...multi-format card readers that plug into a USB port are cheap) and the modem (BFD...haven't used dial-up in I don't know how long). This is starting to veer offtopic, though.)
Their newer stuff comes with a restore partition on the HD, but there's also an app to burn a set of CDs or DVDs. From what I saw of the discs burned by one such machine, it's still a collection of installable apps.
Not on digital-cable boxes. The FireWire ports on mine spit out MPEG transport streams with MPEG-2 video and AC3 audio.
Wouldn't it be simpler (and cheaper) to just hit Pause before you go answer nature's call, and hit Play when you get back?
I was told that the smoke produced by the type of roaster I use (a Fresh Roast hot-air type) will set off household smoke alarms. I haven't tested the theory, but the couple of times I roasted in the bathroom (to avoid roasting outside) left a distinctive sweet smell in there for a couple of days. Something is getting cooked out of the beans...mostly water (which gets driven off as steam), but they get hot enough that some of the compounds will start burning in a longer roast. (I don't try to emulate Charbucks with my roasting, but there's a reason why Charbucks is called "Charbucks." :-P )
That may be the most economical method to produce hydrogen today. Who's to say it'll stay that way? A fuel-cell propulsion system doesn't care how the hydrogen that powers it is created. If someone comes up with a cost-effective way to create industrial quantities of hydrogen by some other means, a fuel-cell-powered vehicle will be able to take advantage of it.
An electric drivetrain (whether powered by a fuel cell (as in the Sequel) or an engine and battery pack (as in the Volt)) presents opportunities for drivetrain simplification (with attendant improvements not only in fuel economy, but in manufacturability and maintainability) that will never happen as long as there's still a mechanical linkage between an internal-combustion engine and the driven wheels. Long-term, it is the hybrid that is a technological dead-end. At best, it's a stopgap measure that trades significantly increased drivetrain complexity for marginal fuel-economy improvements that could be achieved by other means (such as the more widespread adoption of diesel engines).
Why would they be paying more to call your cellphone? Aren't you paying for incoming calls? That's how most rate plans work. (Nextel offered unlimited incoming calls a while back on some of its rate plans...don't know if they still do that.)
Same as it would with a carburetor. A throttle body has the same effect on manifold vacuum as a carburetor.
That's going to be an indeterminate mix of city and highway driving, which is somewhat less than useless for their purposes. There are also those of us who do our own maintenance, so if getting everybody's stats is your goal, that isn't going to work either.
Cars used to be big enough and strong enough that you could pull trailers with them. I have a '77 Cutlass Supreme that I could use this way if I added a hitch. It has a V8 bigger than you'll find in many trucks, and its body-on-frame construction is scaled down from what you'd see in a truck (the El Camino used a fully-boxed version of the same frame; the boxed frame was also used for convertibles and station wagons). Few (if any) cars are built this way anymore, and there's not really a good place to attach a hitch on a unibody car that won't get ripped apart trying to pull more than 1000 lbs. or so.
Smug Alert!
While at home, I accidentally punched in 9118 instead of 118, thinking I'd get the time. I must've forgotten that I was at home and not work. When the 911 operator came on the line, I had an "oh sh*t" moment and hung up.
A cop rolled by the next day. I explained what had happened and that was the end of that.
That's basically all that the fuel-economy gauges GM (and maybe others) offered back in the '70s were...high vacuum at idle or when you're foot's barely on the throttle, low (or no) vacuum at WOT. Instead of a scale ranging from 30" to 0", it was broken into "good," "fair," and "poor" segments (or something like that).
I'd expect AWD to drag down mileage figures a bit (maybe 1-2 mpg), but that much? For another datapoint, I'll throw in my 2004 Oldsmobile Alero. Its weight is somewhere around 3400 lbs. It's powered by a 3.4L V6, connected through a 4-speed automatic to the front wheels only. Around town, I usually get 22-24 mpg. On the highway, at 75-80 mph with cruise control and A/C, I usually get 28-30 mpg (maximum so far has been 30.8 mpg). The car doesn't track this info by itself, but it's easy enough to divide the distance driven on the last tank by the fuel put in, and I have this info going back to when I bought it in September 2005.
That whooshing sound you just heard was the joke flying over your head.
It was less of a waste of time and money than the ten seconds your parents spent conceiving your worthless carcass, asshole.
That's the standard argument that we see from people who, despite all of their insistence to the contrary, don't have the facts on their side. If you're going to make an extraordinary claim, the onus is on you to prove it, not on others to do your research for you.
Looks like the Grünsturmabteilung have arrived in this thread. :-P
Also, it only offers composite output. It doesn't even do S-video, let alone component or DVI/HDMI. Lame.
If either of those assclowns had won, we'd all be sticking our asses in the air five times a day, bowing toward Mecca.
There are already laws against assault that apply to everybody in every circumstance. If this bill were a Slashdot post, it'd deserve to be modded -1, Redundant.
It's red mea^H^H^H^H^H^H^Htofu for his moonbat base, but Joe Lieberman's pwnage of Ned Lamont in 2006 is proof that hitching yourself to the hate-America bandwagon is hardly a guarantee of victory.
There is a way to get Firefox to use its own file dialogs instead of the sucky GNOME dialogs. It's still not KDE, but at least it's more usable than GNOME.
(The necessary files may be in a slightly different location; they are on Gentoo, which is what I use. You can also use this fix with Thunderbird to the same effect.)