You can do USB with the 1150, using a program called GEB Librarian. Ebookwise was promoting it when they first released the 1150, but I don't think they link to it any more. Development seems to have stopped back in 2005, but it does work (for me anyway). It also converts to 1150 format from text, html, doc, and opf (conveniently what you get when you break open a.lit file). I really can't imagine using the 1150 without it.
Don't be taken in by the commercials. Alpacas are a bubble commodity right now. Nothing in their economics justifies these animals selling for 30K - 100K, other than people hoping to get rich selling animals to new suckers like you.
Get it all down on paper before you start anything. Besides being a good idea, having all the terms of a business arrangement spelled out in writing gives everybody a reason to stop and think before they do anything rash.
This is the best advice my partners and I received from anyone before opening our business. We've all had disagreements over the years, but having a contract in place which spells out how and to whom I can sell my part of the business (the company has the first right to any shares for sale, at a price agreed upon once a year by the directors, then the other shareholders have a chance to buy, etc.) has given me an incentive to back off and work things out rather than just walk away.
Also, find yourself good advisors (CPA, lawyer, etc), and use them. If you plan to have employees, be sure to get help handling administrative and tax issues. It seems like there are at least 10 million laws employers have to abide by, and ignorance of them will not excuse you if you mess something up.
Good luck. If it works out for you it's defintely better working for yourself than working for the man.
Imagine downloading and printing a new bowl for your food processor, or a new toy for your kid.
Please don't make me imagine that. My boy already has way too many toys as it is without being able to print more. Every floor in the house is covered with little bits and pieces or puzzles, blocks, etc.
What I'd rather have is a Mr. Fusion on my desktop where I can drop whatever annoying electronic toy of the week he's playing with and recover some of the energy that went into making it.
I'll second this. I have the Gateway branded version of the M1200, and I use it all the time. It's not my primary desktop, but it's much better for surfing from various places around the house than a laptop. Battery life seems to be about as mentioned, 4 hours or so with power saving enabled. MS's journal note taking program is (although I hate to say it here) great. I loaned it to a student friend to try in class, and he loved it. Buy yours as a refurb on ebay like I did. $1200, and it came without the MS office crap you'd want to uninstall anyway. I put mozilla and staroffice on there and it runs just fine. For use as a desktop, there's an easel to prop it up, and a USB keyboard/trackpad combo. Definitely underpowered for games, but if browsing, note taking and word processing is what you want, it's a great machine.
Here's your counterexample, from http://www.privacyrights.org/fs/fs2-wire.htm
Is it legal to intercept other people's cordless or cellular phone calls?
The Federal Communications Commission (www.fcc.gov) ruled that as of April 1994 no radio scanners may be manufactured or imported into the U.S. that can pick up frequencies used by cellular telephones, or that can be readily altered to receive such frequencies. (47 CFR Part 15.37(f)) The law rarely deters the determined eavesdropper, however.
Another federal law, the Counterfeit Access Device Law, was amended to make it illegal to use a radio scanner "knowingly and with the intent to defraud" to eavesdrop on wire or electronic communication. (18 USC 1029) Penalties for the intentional interception of cordless and cellular telephone calls range from fines to imprisonment depending on the circumstances. (18 USC 2511, 2701)
Don't scoff. I made some decent pocket change selling those ASCII centerfold printouts to horny 9th graders back in the day. It literally was printing my own money!
Have to disagree with you on that one. All our local big box stores (Walmart, Target, Lowes, etc.) had all their xmas crap out starting in mid October this year. It's like a chain reaction; one of them starts it, and then all the others jump in so they don't miss the boat.
There are plenty of free public domain roms out there which are not illegal to play. Plus the flash carts also make a good development system if you want to try your own game on something other than an emulator.
Actually, I own both, and the first RCA model (REB1100) is far superior to the original RocketBook. It's lighter, has a comfortable rubber handgrip, better backlight, USB connection instead of serial, and smartmedia memory card slot.
You can still upload your own content to it, although you have to use the original RocketLibrarian (1.3) to do the conversion from html, and then copy the files into your Gemstar library. It takes an extra 30 seconds or so, but it's totally worth it.
Islands of Adventure has the most expensive system... if you stay at one of the in-park hotels, your room key allows you to skip the line for almost all rides. Sa-weet!
This is totally worth it. No other way can you ride the Hulk 3 times, Spiderman twice, Dr. Doom, Dueling Dragons twice all in 3 hours or so. I live in about 15 minutes from the park, and having used it once, if I was going back to IOA I would stay at one of their hotels just to use this system. You get so much more out of your day than just lots of standing in line.
The types of messages he proposes spammers will use to get past a Bayesian filter might themselves be so necessarily vague (to get past the filters) as to become classifiable as spam based on a *lack* of interesting content.
Thanks for the link. I chose to explore their site in depth to be sure I used my full allotment of bandwidth.
Found the following humorous grammatical error on one of their example pages...
Anti-Leech Java Demo's download page: Anti-Leech Java Demo has chosed not to allow any other browsers than Internet Explorer to download files from this page. If you want to download here, please go here and get a free copy of the latest Internet Explorer.
For windows users, check out powermarks (www.kaylon.com). It includes a free net-sync system which lets you synchronize your bookmarks on all your machines. (No affiliation, just a satisfied customer for years)
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I haven't used this program, just saw a ref to it on a mailing list, but it sounded like it would do what you want. (probably Windows only, though).
I expect prices to have gone up a bit, but $10,000?
While what you say is true of most generic stand-up game cabinets, the "sit-in coin-op driving game with a real gearshift, pedals, speakers blasting into your ears, and a 50" screen in front of you" referred to in the original post almost certainly cost more than $10,000.
When Sega's Daytona USA came out in 1994, the US version ran upwards of $18,000, and some of the other deluxe cabinets of that type cost as much as $25,000. Even a plain stand-up Virtua Fighter cost about $4000.
This is one reason for the big drop in diversity of arcade content around that time, because arcade owners who paid close to $40,000 for a two-seat linked Daytona couldn't afford non-hit games which weren't as likely to pull in the quarters.
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You can do USB with the 1150, using a program called GEB Librarian. Ebookwise was promoting it when they first released the 1150, but I don't think they link to it any more. Development seems to have stopped back in 2005, but it does work (for me anyway). It also converts to 1150 format from text, html, doc, and opf (conveniently what you get when you break open a .lit file). I really can't imagine using the 1150 without it.
Don't be taken in by the commercials. Alpacas are a bubble commodity right now. Nothing in their economics justifies these animals selling for 30K - 100K, other than people hoping to get rich selling animals to new suckers like you.
Mod parent UP!
You can pick up the ebook version on Baen's webscriptions site (www.webscription.net), that's where I found it. Good read.
"The Web Between the Worlds" by Charles Sheffield
Get it all down on paper before you start anything. Besides being a good idea, having all the terms of a business arrangement spelled out in writing gives everybody a reason to stop and think before they do anything rash.
This is the best advice my partners and I received from anyone before opening our business. We've all had disagreements over the years, but having a contract in place which spells out how and to whom I can sell my part of the business (the company has the first right to any shares for sale, at a price agreed upon once a year by the directors, then the other shareholders have a chance to buy, etc.) has given me an incentive to back off and work things out rather than just walk away.
Also, find yourself good advisors (CPA, lawyer, etc), and use them. If you plan to have employees, be sure to get help handling administrative and tax issues. It seems like there are at least 10 million laws employers have to abide by, and ignorance of them will not excuse you if you mess something up.
Good luck. If it works out for you it's defintely better working for yourself than working for the man.
Please don't make me imagine that. My boy already has way too many toys as it is without being able to print more. Every floor in the house is covered with little bits and pieces or puzzles, blocks, etc.
What I'd rather have is a Mr. Fusion on my desktop where I can drop whatever annoying electronic toy of the week he's playing with and recover some of the energy that went into making it.
I'll second this. I have the Gateway branded version of the M1200, and I use it all the time. It's not my primary desktop, but it's much better for surfing from various places around the house than a laptop. Battery life seems to be about as mentioned, 4 hours or so with power saving enabled.
MS's journal note taking program is (although I hate to say it here) great. I loaned it to a student friend to try in class, and he loved it.
Buy yours as a refurb on ebay like I did. $1200, and it came without the MS office crap you'd want to uninstall anyway. I put mozilla and staroffice on there and it runs just fine.
For use as a desktop, there's an easel to prop it up, and a USB keyboard/trackpad combo. Definitely underpowered for games, but if browsing, note taking and word processing is what you want, it's a great machine.
Don't scoff. I made some decent pocket change selling those ASCII centerfold printouts to horny 9th graders back in the day. It literally was printing my own money!
Have to disagree with you on that one. All our local big box stores (Walmart, Target, Lowes, etc.) had all their xmas crap out starting in mid October this year. It's like a chain reaction; one of them starts it, and then all the others jump in so they don't miss the boat.
You, sir, are a BOFH. Bravo!
There are plenty of free public domain roms out there which are not illegal to play.
Plus the flash carts also make a good development system if you want to try your own game on something other than an emulator.
Actually, I own both, and the first RCA model (REB1100) is far superior to the original RocketBook. It's lighter, has a comfortable rubber handgrip, better backlight, USB connection instead of serial, and smartmedia memory card slot.
You can still upload your own content to it, although you have to use the original RocketLibrarian (1.3) to do the conversion from html, and then copy the files into your Gemstar library. It takes an extra 30 seconds or so, but it's totally worth it.
The types of messages he proposes spammers will use to get past a Bayesian filter might themselves be so necessarily vague (to get past the filters) as to become classifiable as spam based on a *lack* of interesting content.
Found the following humorous grammatical error on one of their example pages...
For windows users, check out powermarks (www.kaylon.com). It includes a free net-sync system which lets you synchronize your bookmarks on all your machines. (No affiliation, just a satisfied customer for years)
you might want to check out http://www.geocities.com/mp3gain/
I haven't used this program, just saw a ref to it on a mailing list, but it sounded like it would do what you want. (probably Windows only, though).
While what you say is true of most generic stand-up game cabinets, the "sit-in coin-op driving game with a real gearshift, pedals, speakers blasting into your ears, and a 50" screen in front of you" referred to in the original post almost certainly cost more than $10,000.
When Sega's Daytona USA came out in 1994, the US version ran upwards of $18,000, and some of the other deluxe cabinets of that type cost as much as $25,000. Even a plain stand-up Virtua Fighter cost about $4000.
This is one reason for the big drop in diversity of arcade content around that time, because arcade owners who paid close to $40,000 for a two-seat linked Daytona couldn't afford non-hit games which weren't as likely to pull in the quarters.