I had a shady experience with Adorama... I wanted to buy a Casio EX-S500 right after it was released. They emailed me after I placed the order requesting that I call them because they couldn't charge my credit card because there was a problem with my billing address (there wasn't). After about 3 or 4 tries, I eventually got the guy, who said that the battery it came with wouldn't work and tried to get me to buy another one for $40 as well as a case and a starter kit. I informed him that if he was trying to sell me something defective that I would dispute any charges against my credit card and reminded him that he had informed me earlier in the conversation that he was unable to charge it in the first place.
I ended up not getting charged and bought it from NewEgg for about $40 more, but I always get things shipped from them the next day on the standard shipping. And no hassles.
The statue in question is in Arlington, Virginia, on the bank of the Potomac, in sight of D.C. A quick reverse search says that the number is in Arlington. However, the USPTO office is in Alexandria, Virginia, a couple miles away. I've heard that this scene was scripted, then immortalized, which is a clever but probably unintentional connection.
Having built (and designed) a couple strawbale structures myself, I can tell you that the wire lathe used to hold the stucco on is going to turn your whole house into a Faraday cage. No real need to keep all of us out. The house itself will be quite a gadget- the R-values of the walls can be 3 times that of a regular frame construction wall. You will be able to heat it with a candle and cool it with an ice cube. Look into solar heating, energy, and radiant heat floors too. As for gadgets, try remote control or automatic control of blinds or shades to regulate solar heat gain.
I'm aware it's been said, but above all, run conduit. No other current solution is more easily upgradable or futureproof.
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned YesterdayLand yet. This website documented cultural artifacts such as toys, fashions, televion, and games by the decade going back to about 1900. Though they went bankrupt some time ago, the site is still accessable in some form through Archive.org's Wayback Machine. The site was a wealth of information with an active community; it is always disappointing to see sites like this go under.
President Spanier is getting this at a "signifigant discount" as part of a pilot program, and other schools will likely follow suit. Subscribing to a service and absorbing the cost was suggested about 9-12 months ago. He's such a fan of this that he won't let it affect the technology fee at all. There have been DC rings that were broken up and the MPAA and RIAA have sent Kazaa notices to students several times. This is being offered as a service that you can take or leave, just like how any PSU student can get the USA Today each day for free if they so choose. If you really aren't satisfied, every email sent to president@psu.edu gets a reply from a real person, more often than not from Graham Spanier himself.
(I can't get to this article, it's been/.ed, so I don't know how much of this is a repeat.) My friend and I ordered one just before it came out about 2.5 months ago and we got it after a few weeks of delays. The orange version is the Intel, and an AMD version is slated to come out (I'm pretty sure it will be green). The fan goes out the side, not the back like an XPC, but other than that it's a normal computer and can use any CD/DVD drive. The cords are cut to exactly the right lengths which makes assembling less than fun, for example, you need to mount the hard drive upside down.
The proprietary drives that they mention is so that you can play radio/audio CD/MP3 CD when the power to the computer part is off - the small amount of power that is drawn while the computer is plugged in is kept in a small area and used for the optical drives at low speeds, the LCD display in the front, and the audio. Those MSI drives that they recommend just use very little power (and give them more $$$).
We had it set up to act like a Windows Tivo (ATI AiW)/jukebox/internet console with a wireless network and monitor output (display 1) and directly to a tv (display 2) which worked really well (especially with ZoomPlayer), and we're going to try to put Linux on it next week or so along with MythTV. (The manual says that future versions will come with MSI's own media player/tv recorder software.)
It's pretty quiet and sitting in an air conditioned room - and thus hasn't overheated yet, but a review we saw before mentioned that cooling was definitely an issue. The PCI cards go directly in front of the cpu fan (brilliant) but if you get half-height cards it probably wouldn't be an issue at all.
The best part is that it looks much more like a home theater component than the XPC, but I think it was about US$50 more than a top Shuttle.
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Try scouring the net for an older version of BVRP Phone Tools.
I believe the question was "How can the net amount of entropy of the universe be massively decreased?"
(a la Asimov: http://adin.dyndns.org/adin/TheLastQ.htm)
I had a shady experience with Adorama... I wanted to buy a Casio EX-S500 right after it was released. They emailed me after I placed the order requesting that I call them because they couldn't charge my credit card because there was a problem with my billing address (there wasn't). After about 3 or 4 tries, I eventually got the guy, who said that the battery it came with wouldn't work and tried to get me to buy another one for $40 as well as a case and a starter kit. I informed him that if he was trying to sell me something defective that I would dispute any charges against my credit card and reminded him that he had informed me earlier in the conversation that he was unable to charge it in the first place.
I ended up not getting charged and bought it from NewEgg for about $40 more, but I always get things shipped from them the next day on the standard shipping. And no hassles.
The statue in question is in Arlington, Virginia, on the bank of the Potomac, in sight of D.C. A quick reverse search says that the number is in Arlington. However, the USPTO office is in Alexandria, Virginia, a couple miles away. I've heard that this scene was scripted, then immortalized, which is a clever but probably unintentional connection.
If he's reverse engineering it, I believe Oboe would suck.
Cingular charges US$0.10 for messages sent and received. (source)
If you were grandfathered-in with AT&T however, incoming messages are free. (source)
I'm aware it's been said, but above all, run conduit. No other current solution is more easily upgradable or futureproof.
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned YesterdayLand yet. This website documented cultural artifacts such as toys, fashions, televion, and games by the decade going back to about 1900. Though they went bankrupt some time ago, the site is still accessable in some form through Archive.org's Wayback Machine. The site was a wealth of information with an active community; it is always disappointing to see sites like this go under.
President Spanier is getting this at a "signifigant discount" as part of a pilot program, and other schools will likely follow suit. Subscribing to a service and absorbing the cost was suggested about 9-12 months ago. He's such a fan of this that he won't let it affect the technology fee at all. There have been DC rings that were broken up and the MPAA and RIAA have sent Kazaa notices to students several times. This is being offered as a service that you can take or leave, just like how any PSU student can get the USA Today each day for free if they so choose. If you really aren't satisfied, every email sent to president@psu.edu gets a reply from a real person, more often than not from Graham Spanier himself.
(I can't get to this article, it's been /.ed, so I don't know how much of this is a repeat.) My friend and I ordered one just before it came out about 2.5 months ago and we got it after a few weeks of delays. The orange version is the Intel, and an AMD version is slated to come out (I'm pretty sure it will be green). The fan goes out the side, not the back like an XPC, but other than that it's a normal computer and can use any CD/DVD drive. The cords are cut to exactly the right lengths which makes assembling less than fun, for example, you need to mount the hard drive upside down.
The proprietary drives that they mention is so that you can play radio/audio CD/MP3 CD when the power to the computer part is off - the small amount of power that is drawn while the computer is plugged in is kept in a small area and used for the optical drives at low speeds, the LCD display in the front, and the audio. Those MSI drives that they recommend just use very little power (and give them more $$$).
We had it set up to act like a Windows Tivo (ATI AiW)/jukebox/internet console with a wireless network and monitor output (display 1) and directly to a tv (display 2) which worked really well (especially with ZoomPlayer), and we're going to try to put Linux on it next week or so along with MythTV. (The manual says that future versions will come with MSI's own media player/tv recorder software.)
It's pretty quiet and sitting in an air conditioned room - and thus hasn't overheated yet, but a review we saw before mentioned that cooling was definitely an issue. The PCI cards go directly in front of the cpu fan (brilliant) but if you get half-height cards it probably wouldn't be an issue at all.
The best part is that it looks much more like a home theater component than the XPC, but I think it was about US$50 more than a top Shuttle.