Buy a home soda maker from Soda Club. It's basically a plastic case around an aluminum CO2 canister. There's a good selection of flavors with near-replacements for the big ones: coke, dr pepper, mountain dew, root beer. You screw the bottle of tap water on, press the button a few times until it buzzes, unscrew it, and pour in a capful of syrup.
I bought one because the drinks are flavored with Splenda and have 1/3 the calories. The regular ones still have some high fructose corn syrup in. Because you're mixing the syrup and selzter yourself you can adjust the carbonation and sweetness to your taste. I make it quite a bit less sweet and with less carbonation than store-bought, and I've been really happy with it.
There is also a cost savings argument. I haven't sat down and checked it myself, but it's on the site somewhere. Cheaper or not, I'm glad I don't have to deal with recycling two-liter bottles and aluminum cans all the time. Although I mostly drink the diet mountain dew flavor, it's nice that I can make some root beer, orange drink, or something obscure when I feel like it.
Anyway, I love the thing. But let me assure you they are not kidding when the warning says to add syrup only after carbonating the water. God help you if you put any syrup in first. You get a real nice soda fountain when you unscrew it to the great and undying hilarity of everyone around.
I had this problem at work, where I had some cheap $20 speakers I bought at Office Depot or OfficeMax. The buzzing annoyed me so I took the speakers back and bought some $30 ones. Not too much more expensive, but a huge difference in quality. I still put my cell phone in the usual place, right next to the left speaker, but I've never had the buzzing problem since.
At home I tend to put my cell on my desk next to one of the speakers. The speakers are just a $50 2.1 set I bought a few years ago. They've never done the buzzing thing.
So overall, I have only encountered the problem with cheap speakers. Just a slight upgrade made a huge difference, not just with this problem but in sound quality and general sturdiness. Obviously there are a thousand phone models, and mine is just one of them. I thought I'd put my experience out there at least.
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Just go into Gmail options and turn on POP3 access. Somewhere (maybe help) it also gives detailed instructions on how to configure about 20 different email clients for it. To Outlook or anything else, Gmail is just another POP3 account to check - nothing special about it at all.
I concur. I use Java at work and for the most part I like it. But the development time for any app is several times longer than it would take in a scripting language. Any of your choice of PHP, Perl, Ruby, or Python will give you much faster development and a more nimble codebase for future changes.
benefits no one except politicans wanting to play social engineering!
Well there you go. You nailed it! Oh, and I do agree with you. I hadn't thought about the current tax systems interfering with class mobility, but I see your point. Every tiny change to your income or investments distribution forces you to relearn the tax code every single year. That's the complaint most people would identify with, I think: every year you spend hours of work to turn in something that you hope is right but don't really know. You just don't know if you made an honest mistake and will be in trouble or if you are missing something and paying far too much.
Family members are people you just might not like
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So why go? Seriously. They are your family, but if you don't like being around them, then don't spend your time around them! To my mind, the fact that they are family gives them slightly more leeway about being jerks than the rest of the population, but not a free license. But it sounds like it's a truly unpleasant experience and in that case just tell them that no, you're not coming. Or if you go, make it a short visit. Stay one day or just Christmas eve/morning and get out.
Family is something you are born with, but you can outgrow it. Maintain cordial but distant relations with them at whatever level is comfortable or tolerable to you.
Well the unspoken assumption you're making is that the law won't be changed to cover them. I assume the concept of "common carrier" will be abolished or twisted to cover whatever these companies want to do. When these companies and industries start moving in some obviously illegal direction, you can bet they are already working on subverting the legal controls. Many of the laws governing corporate behavior are becoming little more than a document of current business standards, subject to change with the companies' interests.
That's the best assessment I've seen of the AI situation. I'm going to remember and use that if you don't mind. You really captured the frustration and sadness of watching the total lack of progress and the wasted effort in the silly little projects going on.
Are gamers such a homogenous group that they all demand these same things? I know a lot of gamers do like the super-intense state of the art games, but surely there are segments of the market other than this! A lot of gamers are getting older too, and more older people are starting to play, and I think they would be very happy with good graphics (rather than superb) and good gameplay. I think only the small independent developers are providing these games, though. The internet lets gamers and developers find each other easier. It's a market the big players don't bother with, and they apparently don't know it exists or believe it is unimportant.
Anyone know offhand how they do the photo tagging? I use Picasa and do my tagging manually. I have a few hundred photos I just scanned and I don't want to manually tag them with names if there's an automatic way. Do any of these tagging programs use the same tagging format? I think Picasa uses data files in each directory and some kind of central database. I imagine each program does something proprietary so none of it carries over between programs, but I could be wrong and I haven't looked into it yet.
Perhaps someone more knowledgeable than me can say something about this? Thanks!
Doesn't seem that rude to me. As I was reading the article I clicked Help on the toolbar and it said it was in the process of downloading at that moment. You're free to come over and discuss it with my browser, but apparently the mozilla servers and firefox clients felt it was time to roll.
I haven't noticed shading toward Catholicism in media coverage. Most of the media coverage I've seen is that the ID people are normal, right-thinking, protestant, patriotic Americans and they are fighting the bumbling absent-minded professors.
Thanks for the tip! I just did this and OO really is flying now. I can see it being usable now, whereas every time I've tried it in the past it was agonizingly slow. I'll definitely have to play with it more of then now.
Congratulations on your city's achievement of connected libraries with cooperative lending! The rest of us welcome you to the 20th century. You'll have a great time!
I disagree. The yahoo client is ad-free, nice looking, and has a lot of great features. I try trillian for a while because I like the better chat logging (to plain text files), but I always end up back on Yahoo Messenger for a variety of reasons.
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Organize an uprising in the US? Good luck motivating the sheeple. I mean that wholeheartedly. You'll need lots and lots of luck.
domain name owners who have 'no legitimate claim for the name' can be evicted by people who do
And your legitimate claim is that you want it? That you want it really really bad? I know domain names are very important, but if you have no claim to it other than desire and the owner isn't cybersquatting (even if he is totally wasting it), why do you think you should get it?
I can see good arguments for both sides of this, but using legal pressure to take things away from their owners is disgusting to me. I hate it when the government does it and when people or companies do it. Ownership is [should be] ownership, whether some stranger likes it or not. Taking it is theft, whether you take it physically or through legal manipulation.
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It's not that you women are good at faking. It's just that we men don't care!
Buy a home soda maker from Soda Club. It's basically a plastic case around an aluminum CO2 canister. There's a good selection of flavors with near-replacements for the big ones: coke, dr pepper, mountain dew, root beer. You screw the bottle of tap water on, press the button a few times until it buzzes, unscrew it, and pour in a capful of syrup.
I bought one because the drinks are flavored with Splenda and have 1/3 the calories. The regular ones still have some high fructose corn syrup in. Because you're mixing the syrup and selzter yourself you can adjust the carbonation and sweetness to your taste. I make it quite a bit less sweet and with less carbonation than store-bought, and I've been really happy with it.
There is also a cost savings argument. I haven't sat down and checked it myself, but it's on the site somewhere. Cheaper or not, I'm glad I don't have to deal with recycling two-liter bottles and aluminum cans all the time. Although I mostly drink the diet mountain dew flavor, it's nice that I can make some root beer, orange drink, or something obscure when I feel like it.
Anyway, I love the thing. But let me assure you they are not kidding when the warning says to add syrup only after carbonating the water. God help you if you put any syrup in first. You get a real nice soda fountain when you unscrew it to the great and undying hilarity of everyone around.
Mine's the biggest!
Now, what were we talking about?
I had this problem at work, where I had some cheap $20 speakers I bought at Office Depot or OfficeMax. The buzzing annoyed me so I took the speakers back and bought some $30 ones. Not too much more expensive, but a huge difference in quality. I still put my cell phone in the usual place, right next to the left speaker, but I've never had the buzzing problem since.
At home I tend to put my cell on my desk next to one of the speakers. The speakers are just a $50 2.1 set I bought a few years ago. They've never done the buzzing thing.
So overall, I have only encountered the problem with cheap speakers. Just a slight upgrade made a huge difference, not just with this problem but in sound quality and general sturdiness. Obviously there are a thousand phone models, and mine is just one of them. I thought I'd put my experience out there at least.
Just go into Gmail options and turn on POP3 access. Somewhere (maybe help) it also gives detailed instructions on how to configure about 20 different email clients for it. To Outlook or anything else, Gmail is just another POP3 account to check - nothing special about it at all.
I concur. I use Java at work and for the most part I like it. But the development time for any app is several times longer than it would take in a scripting language. Any of your choice of PHP, Perl, Ruby, or Python will give you much faster development and a more nimble codebase for future changes.
Could a terrorist do it? THEN IT IS ILLEGAL. It is that simple, my friend.
You are letting the facts get in the way of a good argument!
benefits no one except politicans wanting to play social engineering!
Well there you go. You nailed it! Oh, and I do agree with you. I hadn't thought about the current tax systems interfering with class mobility, but I see your point. Every tiny change to your income or investments distribution forces you to relearn the tax code every single year. That's the complaint most people would identify with, I think: every year you spend hours of work to turn in something that you hope is right but don't really know. You just don't know if you made an honest mistake and will be in trouble or if you are missing something and paying far too much.
So why go? Seriously. They are your family, but if you don't like being around them, then don't spend your time around them! To my mind, the fact that they are family gives them slightly more leeway about being jerks than the rest of the population, but not a free license. But it sounds like it's a truly unpleasant experience and in that case just tell them that no, you're not coming. Or if you go, make it a short visit. Stay one day or just Christmas eve/morning and get out.
Family is something you are born with, but you can outgrow it. Maintain cordial but distant relations with them at whatever level is comfortable or tolerable to you.
Well the unspoken assumption you're making is that the law won't be changed to cover them. I assume the concept of "common carrier" will be abolished or twisted to cover whatever these companies want to do. When these companies and industries start moving in some obviously illegal direction, you can bet they are already working on subverting the legal controls. Many of the laws governing corporate behavior are becoming little more than a document of current business standards, subject to change with the companies' interests.
That's the best assessment I've seen of the AI situation. I'm going to remember and use that if you don't mind. You really captured the frustration and sadness of watching the total lack of progress and the wasted effort in the silly little projects going on.
Are gamers such a homogenous group that they all demand these same things? I know a lot of gamers do like the super-intense state of the art games, but surely there are segments of the market other than this! A lot of gamers are getting older too, and more older people are starting to play, and I think they would be very happy with good graphics (rather than superb) and good gameplay. I think only the small independent developers are providing these games, though. The internet lets gamers and developers find each other easier. It's a market the big players don't bother with, and they apparently don't know it exists or believe it is unimportant.
I thought I was too old to be further psychologically damaged. How wrong I was!
Anyone know offhand how they do the photo tagging? I use Picasa and do my tagging manually. I have a few hundred photos I just scanned and I don't want to manually tag them with names if there's an automatic way. Do any of these tagging programs use the same tagging format? I think Picasa uses data files in each directory and some kind of central database. I imagine each program does something proprietary so none of it carries over between programs, but I could be wrong and I haven't looked into it yet.
Perhaps someone more knowledgeable than me can say something about this? Thanks!
Doesn't seem that rude to me. As I was reading the article I clicked Help on the toolbar and it said it was in the process of downloading at that moment. You're free to come over and discuss it with my browser, but apparently the mozilla servers and firefox clients felt it was time to roll.
I haven't noticed shading toward Catholicism in media coverage. Most of the media coverage I've seen is that the ID people are normal, right-thinking, protestant, patriotic Americans and they are fighting the bumbling absent-minded professors.
scan results were burned to a CD with a handy little viewer app
torrent?
Thanks for the tip! I just did this and OO really is flying now. I can see it being usable now, whereas every time I've tried it in the past it was agonizingly slow. I'll definitely have to play with it more of then now.
Don't forget the tasty penguin! mmmmmmm penguins....
Congratulations on your city's achievement of connected libraries with cooperative lending! The rest of us welcome you to the 20th century. You'll have a great time!
I disagree. The yahoo client is ad-free, nice looking, and has a lot of great features. I try trillian for a while because I like the better chat logging (to plain text files), but I always end up back on Yahoo Messenger for a variety of reasons.
Organize an uprising in the US? Good luck motivating the sheeple. I mean that wholeheartedly. You'll need lots and lots of luck.
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I wonder why facts and discussion presently coherently was marked troll. How weird
domain name owners who have 'no legitimate claim for the name' can be evicted by people who do
And your legitimate claim is that you want it? That you want it really really bad? I know domain names are very important, but if you have no claim to it other than desire and the owner isn't cybersquatting (even if he is totally wasting it), why do you think you should get it?
I can see good arguments for both sides of this, but using legal pressure to take things away from their owners is disgusting to me. I hate it when the government does it and when people or companies do it. Ownership is [should be] ownership, whether some stranger likes it or not. Taking it is theft, whether you take it physically or through legal manipulation.