Why the hell is this offtopic? And can some 'foreigner' with insight into how vending machines in other countries work flawlessly with different sized money? I was speaking with my co-worker about this, and the massive cost of redesigning and implementing new vending machines were the first response out of his mouth. I was thinking more along the lines of 'not folding nicely in a wallet', 'can't people read numbers' etc.. I've used vietnamese, jamaican, and british money, and the first two I never wanted coins, because of their low value, and in England hated waking up with a pocket full of pounds after a night of drinking, not to mention wondering how many had fallen out of my pocket on the subway/taxi/couch I had passed out on/in.
Will you allow gamers to come in and set up lan games as well? Personally I would define the 'internet' as too broad to give access to, you would be better off running a proxy for limited 'www access', and creating logins for everyone based on their library card info/etc..
I prefer blowing into my NES cartridges to make them work as opposed to keeping my C64 disks in my comic book safe. A camera is a portable device, why use media that is so damn sensitive to the environment. It's not like photographers roll their film out in their Land Rovers by hand.
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" And I had NO idea how to administrate my machine! Just trying to partition my drives was a huge hassle; I used to be able to open up the disk management node in the control panel and now... well, I found it; it's in "administrative tools -> computer management." "
You really want the rest of us to have to deal with worthless shortcuts to 7 year old applications because you didn't have the intuition to click on the 'Administrate' button? Come on, there are only 25 icons in the default control panel, and if System didn't have it in there, what else could you have clicked on? Clicking through each icon on a Win2000 machine takes a hell of a lot less time than trying to find how-tos and reading man pages on a linux machine.
I lost all my fishing pictures on a day when I was fishing without a license, and received a $190 fine. I took it in stride, taking a picture of the cop, my buddy and I with our tickets, etc..
Also lost pictures of this hot ass Peruvian girl I met in San Jose smashed out of her gourd.
While I was in vietnam, I didn't even bother taking any pictures because I figured they wouldn't survive the trip back to my desktop. I was able to take one movie clip of a good friend in Korea, but for someone who loves pictures of friends I may never see again, I will once again have to slam Smart.
The main reason to go to wall drug is self serve coffee for a nickel on the honor system. Also hit up Thermopolis public bath house, and Bighorn National Forest in Wyoming. The 'scenic bypass' is not to be missed.
If you will be camping, stay another night for free (you already paid to get into the park) in the Badlands western campground, strange colored grasshoppers are everywhere and it's nice to wake up with bison across the creek from you.
"Sadly, the Net seems to be the favored medium of the terrorists who planned the attacks as well. (Countless sites sprung up to detail what Islam is really about, and how diverse opinions in the Arab world are at play in this disaster)."
Is it sad that JonKatz makes his self look like he hates Arabs and Muslims by placing this sentence at the end and not before the preceding statement?
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Arabs play video games too moron. I went to Indiana University and there were 40 kids from United Arab Emirates there taking an English program in my dorm who did nothing but play pirated Playstation games 24 hours a day.
How do you expect Joe Blow to download anything without clicking on an Internet Explorer icon? Or even used web-based e-mail if he has no Outlook Express? If anything, MS should bloat the hell out of Windows with alternatives, not be forced to remove things. Imagine a 2-7 cd Windows, with 200 apps built into the image. Reminds me of the first install of SuSE I did years back. People who sit and complain about inclusion of pretty basic things into an OS should be focusing their time and effort into developing the next killer app, not complaining because Microsoft allows a person with the courage to click on The Internet Icon the ability to do so. I for one would have been awfully disappointed when sticking a music CD into my brand new computer back in 1995 if it sat there and did nothing because I had to go out and make an ill-informed (and possibly expensive) decision due to some people/government complaining that 'they didn't have a chance to compete'. Why don't all of you MS haters combine your efforts into something constructive and let those less technologically able go on with their discovery of the electronic world out there.
from their website:
Pacifica urgently needs your support. The vast share of its operating revenue depends on the generosity of its listeners.
from KKUP's:
KKUP is a non-profit organization, beholden to no one but the listeners, who by their subscriptions alone have kept the station on the air for over 28 years.
By maintaining this separation from corporate backing, grants, or any other money source that would place demands on our programming, we're free to express opinions and offer music heard nowhere else in mainstream radio.
Nobody gets paid at KKUP -- be it the General Manager, the DJ, the Web Mistress, or the person behind the scenes stamping envelopes. As believers in free expression, we work there for the love of it!
They (Pacifica) have a board of directors, and multiple stations, and quite an agenda, so compared to my KKUP 'the people's radio' it is close, but not the same thing!
How many times in the past 2 months have I seen people with no clue what Windows 2000 actually does claim that IIS is installed on their computers without knowledge? Any 'Admin' should know 'why' their OS is called Server/Advanced Server, same as Red Hat Linux installs many 'server' applications when you choose a 'Server' install. Windows 2000 Professional (the OS that anyone who doesn't know should be using) does NOT install IIS by default, it must be selected from the Add/Remove programs menu. Windows 2000 Pro does not have a custom install option, it only installs TCP/IP, no servers.
Ack, I meant to say none of the DJ's are PAID, quite a few are played, and if you pledge $91.5 as a donation you can DJ yourself for an hour any time in the year...
www.kkup.com for more details.. (they stream online too, some linux user with a car radio does it all for them)
This was designed for truckers!!
If you don't believe me, just look at the line up, the first 20 stations are all country.
It WILL not fail, the trucking industry is huge, and they WILL pay. $10 a month is nothing, I'm sure most truckers spend that on ephedrine and smokes a day...
"Why would someone pay for something that is moderately better when they have a perfectly acceptable *free* version already available? "
The same reason I run Windows on my desktop as opposed to linux..
The same reason some people use Opera..
The same reason use cars instead of walking..
Thankfully the Bay has one truly Public Radio station, KKUP. None of the DJ's are played, they have 15+ genres, and are 100% listener supported (quite possibly the only station in the country). Not that I would bet too many/.'ers are big reggae fans, but they have the most reggae hours on radio period. (XM just happens to have 1 reggae station I am streaming right now)
A point on XM radio, the trucking industry will be the first to take great use of this, on a trip to Mardi Gras from Indiana with my father, I failed to bring anything to read with me, and picked up all the free trucking magazines I could at local gas stations, and they were looking forward to XM in great force. It also interested me the amount of trucking companies who provided e-mail services built into their rigs to their employees so they could keep in touch with both their dispatchers and families.
Always remember not 'ALL' tech is created by geeks for geeks....
Are you serious? Just because a software is patent-free doesn't make the fact that you could possibly not be entitled to said files legal. Since when did.mp3 become illegal? And why on earth would you encode all your files to some format that has no player?
and the range is absolutely horrible on them. Using the regular in-house antennae that come with them, I couldn't get over 700 feet with Brand C, (dropped down to 1Mbit) 800 feet with Brand L, and 1100 feet with Brand S. This was outside on a non-used farming road. Not to mention the spectrum isn't regulated, and you can only repeat 2 times without wires. However one of our engineers said he went 16 miles with some insane antenna and could still associate to the access point....
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Why the hell is this offtopic? And can some 'foreigner' with insight into how vending machines in other countries work flawlessly with different sized money?
I was speaking with my co-worker about this, and the massive cost of redesigning and implementing new vending machines were the first response out of his mouth. I was thinking more along the lines of 'not folding nicely in a wallet', 'can't people read numbers' etc.. I've used vietnamese, jamaican, and british money, and the first two I never wanted coins, because of their low value, and in England hated waking up with a pocket full of pounds after a night of drinking, not to mention wondering how many had fallen out of my pocket on the subway/taxi/couch I had passed out on/in.
Will you allow gamers to come in and set up lan games as well?
Personally I would define the 'internet' as too broad to give access to, you would be better off running a proxy for limited 'www access', and creating logins for everyone based on their library card info/etc..
I prefer blowing into my NES cartridges to make them work as opposed to keeping my C64 disks in my comic book safe. A camera is a portable device, why use media that is so damn sensitive to the environment. It's not like photographers roll their film out in their Land Rovers by hand.
" And I had NO idea how to administrate my machine! Just trying to partition my drives was a huge hassle; I used to be able to open up the disk management node in the control panel and now... well, I found it; it's in "administrative tools -> computer management." "
You really want the rest of us to have to deal with worthless shortcuts to 7 year old applications because you didn't have the intuition to click on the 'Administrate' button? Come on, there are only 25 icons in the default control panel, and if System didn't have it in there, what else could you have clicked on? Clicking through each icon on a Win2000 machine takes a hell of a lot less time than trying to find how-tos and reading man pages on a linux machine.
Smart Media sucks.
I lost all my fishing pictures on a day when I was fishing without a license, and received a $190 fine. I took it in stride, taking a picture of the cop, my buddy and I with our tickets, etc..
Also lost pictures of this hot ass Peruvian girl I met in San Jose smashed out of her gourd.
While I was in vietnam, I didn't even bother taking any pictures because I figured they wouldn't survive the trip back to my desktop. I was able to take one movie clip of a good friend in Korea, but for someone who loves pictures of friends I may never see again, I will once again have to slam Smart.
Stick with CF.
The main reason to go to wall drug is self serve coffee for a nickel on the honor system. Also hit up Thermopolis public bath house, and Bighorn National Forest in Wyoming. The 'scenic bypass' is not to be missed.
If you will be camping, stay another night for free (you already paid to get into the park) in the Badlands western campground, strange colored grasshoppers are everywhere and it's nice to wake up with bison across the creek from you.
No, I think you really are ANAL
"Sadly, the Net seems to be the favored medium of the terrorists who planned the attacks as well. (Countless sites sprung up to detail what Islam is really about, and how diverse opinions in the Arab world are at play in this disaster)." Is it sad that JonKatz makes his self look like he hates Arabs and Muslims by placing this sentence at the end and not before the preceding statement?
Arabs play video games too moron. I went to Indiana University and there were 40 kids from United Arab Emirates there taking an English program in my dorm who did nothing but play pirated Playstation games 24 hours a day.
How do you expect Joe Blow to download anything without clicking on an Internet Explorer icon? Or even used web-based e-mail if he has no Outlook Express? If anything, MS should bloat the hell out of Windows with alternatives, not be forced to remove things. Imagine a 2-7 cd Windows, with 200 apps built into the image. Reminds me of the first install of SuSE I did years back. People who sit and complain about inclusion of pretty basic things into an OS should be focusing their time and effort into developing the next killer app, not complaining because Microsoft allows a person with the courage to click on The Internet Icon the ability to do so. I for one would have been awfully disappointed when sticking a music CD into my brand new computer back in 1995 if it sat there and did nothing because I had to go out and make an ill-informed (and possibly expensive) decision due to some people/government complaining that 'they didn't have a chance to compete'. Why don't all of you MS haters combine your efforts into something constructive and let those less technologically able go on with their discovery of the electronic world out there.
Apparently they should have said Star Trek Enterprise instead, or as a trailer attached to Natalie Portman. (from what I know about 'hackers' and /.)
from their website:
Pacifica urgently needs your support. The vast share of its operating revenue depends on the generosity of its listeners.
from KKUP's:
KKUP is a non-profit organization, beholden to no one but the listeners, who by their subscriptions alone have kept the station on the air for over 28 years.
By maintaining this separation from corporate backing, grants, or any other money source that would place demands on our programming, we're free to express opinions and offer music heard nowhere else in mainstream radio.
Nobody gets paid at KKUP -- be it the General Manager, the DJ, the Web Mistress, or the person behind the scenes stamping envelopes. As believers in free expression, we work there for the love of it!
They (Pacifica) have a board of directors, and multiple stations, and quite an agenda, so compared to my KKUP 'the people's radio' it is close, but not the same thing!
How many times in the past 2 months have I seen people with no clue what Windows 2000 actually does claim that IIS is installed on their computers without knowledge? Any 'Admin' should know 'why' their OS is called Server/Advanced Server, same as Red Hat Linux installs many 'server' applications when you choose a 'Server' install. Windows 2000 Professional (the OS that anyone who doesn't know should be using) does NOT install IIS by default, it must be selected from the Add/Remove programs menu. Windows 2000 Pro does not have a custom install option, it only installs TCP/IP, no servers.
Ack, I meant to say none of the DJ's are PAID, quite a few are played, and if you pledge $91.5 as a donation you can DJ yourself for an hour any time in the year...
www.kkup.com for more details.. (they stream online too, some linux user with a car radio does it all for them)
This was designed for truckers!!
If you don't believe me, just look at the line up, the first 20 stations are all country.
It WILL not fail, the trucking industry is huge, and they WILL pay. $10 a month is nothing, I'm sure most truckers spend that on ephedrine and smokes a day...
"Why would someone pay for something that is moderately better when they have a perfectly acceptable *free* version already available? "
The same reason I run Windows on my desktop as opposed to linux..
The same reason some people use Opera..
The same reason use cars instead of walking..
Thankfully the Bay has one truly Public Radio station, KKUP. None of the DJ's are played, they have 15+ genres, and are 100% listener supported (quite possibly the only station in the country). Not that I would bet too many /.'ers are big reggae fans, but they have the most reggae hours on radio period. (XM just happens to have 1 reggae station I am streaming right now)
A point on XM radio, the trucking industry will be the first to take great use of this, on a trip to Mardi Gras from Indiana with my father, I failed to bring anything to read with me, and picked up all the free trucking magazines I could at local gas stations, and they were looking forward to XM in great force. It also interested me the amount of trucking companies who provided e-mail services built into their rigs to their employees so they could keep in touch with both their dispatchers and families.
Always remember not 'ALL' tech is created by geeks for geeks....
Are you serious? Just because a software is patent-free doesn't make the fact that you could possibly not be entitled to said files legal. Since when did .mp3 become illegal? And why on earth would you encode all your files to some format that has no player?
Can you please tell me where to get a guru certification?
Switzerland 'harbors' criminals' money. Who would attack them and risk that?
Thomas Jefferson was in Wing Commander?
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and the range is absolutely horrible on them. Using the regular in-house antennae that come with them, I couldn't get over 700 feet with Brand C, (dropped down to 1Mbit) 800 feet with Brand L, and 1100 feet with Brand S. This was outside on a non-used farming road. Not to mention the spectrum isn't regulated, and you can only repeat 2 times without wires. However one of our engineers said he went 16 miles with some insane antenna and could still associate to the access point....
Ahhhh! So the PCMCIA cards for Ricochet have no linux support?
128k is fast? My crappy pacbell uploads that fast.