I remember buying 5.25" floppy disks with Lifetime guarantees. I forget the name of the company, being pretty young back then, but they used to have an elephant head on their logo. I guess maybe they figured people might take the term "lifetime guarantee" seriously.
They just didn't make clear that "lifetime warranty" referred to their lifetime, not yours.:-)
But it ain't free. They'll be happy to bill you for each and every KB you send - unless you're on the $19.95 / month unlimited plan.
Explain, then, why I've never been billed anything extra for data usage. You might want to read the messages at the previously-mentioned AnandTech Forums link (which in turn links to more info).
In the US, T-Mobile does unlimited WAP GPRS for about $5/mo (in addition to your normal talk plan.) There's also unlimited unfettered GPRS (eg no port blocking) for $20 per month, or $30 without a talk plan, if you plan to use it with your laptop.
Actually, you should be able to get that GPRS Internet access at no extra cost. It's not something they advertise, but if you set up a connection through the phone that dials *99***1# (or maybe just *99#) and logs in with no username and no password, you'll have full 'net access at dialup-equivalent speeds. I use it to browse websites and log into my home server (over SSH) to check mail and news.
...as much as I love the internet, and new technologies...interent on cell phones is too small to do anything with!
That's why you use Bluetooth or infrared to connect your notebook or PDA to your phone. Instead of having your phone do everything, it just shovels bits back and forth. I spent the second half of last week in a hotel for this event, and having 'net access through my phone saved a small fortune in phone charges. (The speed is equivalent to dial-up, but with higher latency. It didn't cost me anything beyond what I'm already paying for voice service, though, so I'm not complaining.)
I've found, that if you go into IE's securty preferences (TOOLS > INTERNET OPTIONS > SECURITY > CUSTOM LEVEL) and set all of the options that are set on "prompt" to "disable" keeps a PC from contracting spyware (that propagates through web browsing).
Better yet, you can set up the less technically-inclined with Mozilla and sidestep the spyware problem altogether. My parents and grandparents have been running it for a while now, and I've heard no complaints...machines that had been clogged with worms and spyware are now clean and have stayed clean.
It only takes one mouse button to open the terminal
Mozilla's a pain to use with a one-button mouse...yes, you can hold it down to get a context menu, but right-clicking is faster. The wheel's also nice to have for opening links in new tabs as well as for scrolling...too bad the Mac OS X version of Mozilla doesn't support this functionality, but the Windows and Linux versions do. (FWIW, you can add USB Overdrive (or something similar) to add it back in, but this is basic functionality that ought to be built in.)
I have 5 remote controls for 5 different products, and I'll be damned if I can find a way to successfully use just for all!
The remote that came with my Kenwood VR-6060 does a pretty good job of controlling my stuff: the TV, the DVD player, the VCR, the TiVo, and even the MythTV box (had to learn codes from both the WinTV PVR350 remote and the IR keyboard for that). The other remotes just gather dust now. For bundled hardware, it's not bad at all. (In particular, I like that it had no trouble learning the TiVo remote codes...an X10 8-in-1 learning remote I bought a while back wouldn't learn TiVo codes for some strange reason.)
Fried potatoes, actually ("potato" in french is "pomme de terre.") Context is everything...I thought we all learned long ago that machine translation is far from perfect.
More useless trivia: "french fries" aren't french. They're Belgian. Because they came from the french-speaking part of Belgium, they ended up getting stuck with a french name.
blackholes.us maintains lists of address blocks known to belong to certain countries. Add china.blackholes.us (for instance) to the list of RBLs your SMTP server checks and most mail from China will be cut off.
(Note that I said "most," not "all"...a fair bit of the spam that still gets through is from IP addresses that I've traced back to China that aren't listed at blackholes.us. I'm beginning to wonder if I should set up a private RBL to which I can add the netblocks in China, Brazil (another big spam source that's not mentioned in the article), etc. that still get through.)
I had a run-in with low memory on my MythTV box recently, when I was building a newer version. When building in a Konsole window under KDE, the build would eventually start thrashing the hard drive like crazy. The desktop would become non-responsive. I could still get in and get control back over ssh, but it shouldn't run out of memory when all it's doing is compiling a program.
This was on a system with 256 MB (other specs: Athlon XP 2400, Gentoo 2004.0, Linux 2.6.5), which should be enough for most uses. MythTV doesn't have any trouble running in 256 MB, anyway. Previous builds that had been done through an ssh connection or at the console never got bogged down.
I was about to buy some more memory (it's cheap enough), but switching from KDE to Fluxbox saved that expense. The MythTV build still slowed down a bit at about the same point, but the system was still responsive to keyboard/mouse input and was still usable.
Quite correct, they are a business. But US authorities still say "our populace is too fat" and yet continue to allow businesses like MacDonalds to sell sub-standard foods that contribute to this national trend.
Last time I checked, the government wasn't in a position to allow or disallow businesses and their customers from engaging in transactions that do neither of them harm. Maybe you've heard of the Constitution...more specifically, maybe you've heard of its 10th Amendment and how it keeps Uncle Sam from micromanaging your life (or would, if the nanny-state leftists hadn't abused the commerce clause to beat the 10th Amendment into nothingness).
Nobody's forced to eat at McD's. Nobody's forced to eat rabbit food, either. I'd rather leave people free to make their own decisions about what to eat (among other things). If you won't tell me I can't eat my steaks and burgers (the latter of which I rarely get at McD's, FWIW), I won't tell you you can't eat your rabbit food.
If there are any Gentoo folks reading, please get Bind 9.2.3 into portage properly. I got it installed on my machine by hand just fine, but emerge keeps trying to downgrade it to 9.2.2. That makes me unhappy.
You could write an ebuild and submit it to Bugzilla. You probably don't even have to write it from scratch...take the 9.2.2 ebuild, tweak it a bit if necessary, file it under/usr/local/portage, and try it out.
(I would do this, but I don't use BIND...I use djbdns. I put in ebuilds for MythTV 0.15 and a couple of smaller packages using the aforementioned method, though. A fair bit of the time, you can get by with just copying the ebuild without any changes (the program version frequently isn't hardcoded anywhere in the ebuild).)
What's really strange is that it takes about 8 minutes to broil chicken or fish, a cut of which probably costs less than most of his frozen meals, about 3 minutes to cook rice or thin pasta,
Where are you getting those times? I can't speak for fish as I don't eat much of it, but chicken cooked for only 8 minutes will still be clucking at you...and that's not counting the time it takes to preheat the oven, fire up the grill, or whatever. Rice takes a minimum of 30 minutes to cook (20 minutes on the stove, followed by a 10-minute rest), while you might get vermicelli done in 15 minutes if you start with hot water instead of cold (actual cooking time is somewhere around 6-7 minutes, but you have to bring the water to a boil first).
My local Chinese restaurant can disguise the most disgusting bits of leftover beef in a fantastic sauce. Makes all the difference. Just need to not think about what's underneath.
Did you ever think, when you eat Chinese
It ain't pork or chicken but a fat siamese?
Yet the food tastes great, so you don't complain.
But that's not chicken in your chicken chow mein.
Seems to me I ordered sweet-and-sour pork
But Garfield's on my fork.
He's purrin' here on my fork.
There's a cat in the kettle at the Peking Moon
The place that I eat every day at noon.
They can feed you cat and you'll never know
Once they wrap it up in dough, boys:
They fry it real crisp in dough.
Chou Lin asked if I wanted more
As he was dialin' up his buddy at the old pet store.
I said "Not today. I lost my appetite.
"There's two cats in my belly and they want to fight."
I was suckin' on a Rolaid and a Tums or two
When I swear I heard it mew, boys:
And that is when I knew...
There's a cat in the kettle at the Peking Moon
I think I gotta stop eatin' there at noon.
They say that it's beef or fish or pork
But it's purrin' there on my fork.
There's a hair-ball on my fork.
What's wrong with infrared? Back when I bought the keyboard I'm now using with my MythTV box, RF wasn't really an option because none of the RF keyboards available at the time had sufficient range. Yes, you need line-of-sight to the receiver for the keyboard to work, but that's true of all of your other remotes too. The 30' range is nothing to sneeze at, and it runs for months on a couple of AAs. It looks like a notebook keyboard with a thumbpad on the right and a couple of mouse buttons on the left.
(I bought mine 4 years or so ago at the local PC Club. It looks like some vendors are still selling them, too...this one is selling them for just $20.)
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They just didn't make clear that "lifetime warranty" referred to their lifetime, not yours. :-)
BTW, here's an Elephant disk sleeve.
You could, but it's currently slashdotted...no doubt by people like you and me wondering WTF the article is about.
Has Netcraft confirmed it yet?
Explain, then, why I've never been billed anything extra for data usage. You might want to read the messages at the previously-mentioned AnandTech Forums link (which in turn links to more info).
Actually, you should be able to get that GPRS Internet access at no extra cost. It's not something they advertise, but if you set up a connection through the phone that dials *99***1# (or maybe just *99#) and logs in with no username and no password, you'll have full 'net access at dialup-equivalent speeds. I use it to browse websites and log into my home server (over SSH) to check mail and news.
That's why you use Bluetooth or infrared to connect your notebook or PDA to your phone. Instead of having your phone do everything, it just shovels bits back and forth. I spent the second half of last week in a hotel for this event, and having 'net access through my phone saved a small fortune in phone charges. (The speed is equivalent to dial-up, but with higher latency. It didn't cost me anything beyond what I'm already paying for voice service, though, so I'm not complaining.)
Actually, it's closer to 5.7 L. 2.54^3*350/1000=5.7354724. 5.7 L is also the number GM has used for years in reference to its 350s.
It's all the far left has, since they don't have the facts on their side.
Better yet, you can set up the less technically-inclined with Mozilla and sidestep the spyware problem altogether. My parents and grandparents have been running it for a while now, and I've heard no complaints...machines that had been clogged with worms and spyware are now clean and have stayed clean.
Mozilla's a pain to use with a one-button mouse...yes, you can hold it down to get a context menu, but right-clicking is faster. The wheel's also nice to have for opening links in new tabs as well as for scrolling...too bad the Mac OS X version of Mozilla doesn't support this functionality, but the Windows and Linux versions do. (FWIW, you can add USB Overdrive (or something similar) to add it back in, but this is basic functionality that ought to be built in.)
The remote that came with my Kenwood VR-6060 does a pretty good job of controlling my stuff: the TV, the DVD player, the VCR, the TiVo, and even the MythTV box (had to learn codes from both the WinTV PVR350 remote and the IR keyboard for that). The other remotes just gather dust now. For bundled hardware, it's not bad at all. (In particular, I like that it had no trouble learning the TiVo remote codes...an X10 8-in-1 learning remote I bought a while back wouldn't learn TiVo codes for some strange reason.)
You'd expect him to use a more secure password...like 12345. :-)
Fried potatoes, actually ("potato" in french is "pomme de terre.") Context is everything...I thought we all learned long ago that machine translation is far from perfect.
More useless trivia: "french fries" aren't french. They're Belgian. Because they came from the french-speaking part of Belgium, they ended up getting stuck with a french name.
blackholes.us maintains lists of address blocks known to belong to certain countries. Add china.blackholes.us (for instance) to the list of RBLs your SMTP server checks and most mail from China will be cut off.
(Note that I said "most," not "all"...a fair bit of the spam that still gets through is from IP addresses that I've traced back to China that aren't listed at blackholes.us. I'm beginning to wonder if I should set up a private RBL to which I can add the netblocks in China, Brazil (another big spam source that's not mentioned in the article), etc. that still get through.)
This was on a system with 256 MB (other specs: Athlon XP 2400, Gentoo 2004.0, Linux 2.6.5), which should be enough for most uses. MythTV doesn't have any trouble running in 256 MB, anyway. Previous builds that had been done through an ssh connection or at the console never got bogged down.
I was about to buy some more memory (it's cheap enough), but switching from KDE to Fluxbox saved that expense. The MythTV build still slowed down a bit at about the same point, but the system was still responsive to keyboard/mouse input and was still usable.
TiVo doesn't, either. Next troll, please...
(FWIW, I use both.)
You do not talk about your passwords.
The sample size I can present is only one, but the Nikon Coolpix 995 offers speed settings from 100 to 800 (IIRC), as well as an automatic setting.
Last time I checked, the government wasn't in a position to allow or disallow businesses and their customers from engaging in transactions that do neither of them harm. Maybe you've heard of the Constitution...more specifically, maybe you've heard of its 10th Amendment and how it keeps Uncle Sam from micromanaging your life (or would, if the nanny-state leftists hadn't abused the commerce clause to beat the 10th Amendment into nothingness).
Nobody's forced to eat at McD's. Nobody's forced to eat rabbit food, either. I'd rather leave people free to make their own decisions about what to eat (among other things). If you won't tell me I can't eat my steaks and burgers (the latter of which I rarely get at McD's, FWIW), I won't tell you you can't eat your rabbit food.
You forgot to mention that the DRM that is there is also relatively simple to remove.
You could write an ebuild and submit it to Bugzilla. You probably don't even have to write it from scratch...take the 9.2.2 ebuild, tweak it a bit if necessary, file it under /usr/local/portage, and try it out.
(I would do this, but I don't use BIND...I use djbdns. I put in ebuilds for MythTV 0.15 and a couple of smaller packages using the aforementioned method, though. A fair bit of the time, you can get by with just copying the ebuild without any changes (the program version frequently isn't hardcoded anywhere in the ebuild).)
Where are you getting those times? I can't speak for fish as I don't eat much of it, but chicken cooked for only 8 minutes will still be clucking at you...and that's not counting the time it takes to preheat the oven, fire up the grill, or whatever. Rice takes a minimum of 30 minutes to cook (20 minutes on the stove, followed by a 10-minute rest), while you might get vermicelli done in 15 minutes if you start with hot water instead of cold (actual cooking time is somewhere around 6-7 minutes, but you have to bring the water to a boil first).
Did you ever think, when you eat Chinese
It ain't pork or chicken but a fat siamese?
Yet the food tastes great, so you don't complain.
But that's not chicken in your chicken chow mein.
Seems to me I ordered sweet-and-sour pork
But Garfield's on my fork.
He's purrin' here on my fork.
There's a cat in the kettle at the Peking Moon
The place that I eat every day at noon.
They can feed you cat and you'll never know
Once they wrap it up in dough, boys:
They fry it real crisp in dough.
Chou Lin asked if I wanted more
As he was dialin' up his buddy at the old pet store.
I said "Not today. I lost my appetite.
"There's two cats in my belly and they want to fight."
I was suckin' on a Rolaid and a Tums or two
When I swear I heard it mew, boys:
And that is when I knew...
There's a cat in the kettle at the Peking Moon
I think I gotta stop eatin' there at noon.
They say that it's beef or fish or pork
But it's purrin' there on my fork.
There's a hair-ball on my fork.
You'd get in trouble with the revenuers if you did that...and telling them "it's not for me, it's for my car" most likely won't get you off the hook.
What's wrong with infrared? Back when I bought the keyboard I'm now using with my MythTV box, RF wasn't really an option because none of the RF keyboards available at the time had sufficient range. Yes, you need line-of-sight to the receiver for the keyboard to work, but that's true of all of your other remotes too. The 30' range is nothing to sneeze at, and it runs for months on a couple of AAs. It looks like a notebook keyboard with a thumbpad on the right and a couple of mouse buttons on the left.
(I bought mine 4 years or so ago at the local PC Club. It looks like some vendors are still selling them, too...this one is selling them for just $20.)