You're right. I got a CD Walkman for Christmas and I attached some sentimental value to it. Well, the cheap plug-into-your-ears earphones broke and wanted "Best" Buy to honor their "Service" Plan and give me a replacement headset. They told me to call such and such number and give my details and the service plan number. I gave it all to them and they said they would mail a box to me to return the items with. What they neglected to mention was that I also had to send the CD player back - which worked just fine. Since I liked the way the player worked I was reluctant to give it because who know *what* the heck BB would have given as a replacement.
I just broke down and got a good set of head phones for $30.
After a few more problems with the way BB treats its customers I don't shop there anymore. There is a Circuit City right across the street.
I used to fly model rockets as a kid and I loved it - especially when my 'Wizard' rocket disintigrated on its 8th (or so) flight at about 1000' using a C6-7 rocket engine.
Truthfully, I think that that was my last launch. I built a rocket a few years ago but never launched it and I bought another one a few months ago but still haven't put it together.
Anyway, Estes (online) has the worst interface of any webpage I've ever used. It's probably geared toward kids as old as 15; but, still. Give me those old Estes Catalogs any day of the week.
Yeah, I know. But I do the editing (unpaid) and only in my free time. We're a small caving club and can't afford a nice DTP app. Word works fine for our purposes.
So There!;) (No offense taken.)
Although, the Kansas City Area Grotto newsletters are all designed by a real-life DTP; therefore, their newsletter is top notch. I won't burn their server via/. effect. Search for KCAG if you're interested.
I feel their pain. I'm an editor for a newsletter and I've had to completely redo an entire newsletter because word is just playing games with me.
When I theorize that Word is playing its games again that require a complete re-work, to remove all the tags I'll paste the textual contents into a plain-text editor, create a new document, then re-copy the contents from the plain-text editor and re-paste it back into my new word doc. Whoe unto thee if there are any graphics involved. Each one has to be brought back in one at a time.
I looked it all up and Yahoo!'s maximum mail filter count is 15 for the free service - not 10 as I had originally indicated.
When the user signs up for the 'Yahoo! Mail Plus' service, they get bumped to 50 filters. Which is nice; but, it's still not very effective for a long term solution.
I went for 2.5 years without getting any SPAM. Why? Because I set the account preferences turning off any options to receive third party mailings from the time I initially signed on.
There's a catch, though. Yahoo! reserves the right to change their policies at any time - whereby they probably reset everyone's options and no one realizes it until they've received 80billion SPAM messages.
I think the only SPAM I get is because I released my e-mail address while on a message board and a bot grabbed it.
Practice web safety and you'll pretty much be in the clear. I still have one account that only receives 1 SPAM a month and that is because some generator guessed it correctly.
I began using Yahoo! Mail years ago and I've had 6MB per email address (I've got two) ever since. When I signed my mother and father up to have Yahoo! Mail accounts two years later they were given 4M accounts.
The first thought I had though since being notified of the increase was, "How the heck am I going to keep track of all the junk I'll eventually have to delete?" My answer was, "To never allow it to clog in the first place by removing immediately any e-mails that I may want to save." The obvious answer.
IIRC, Yahoo only allows you to set up 10 rules for handling the email you receive. This is troublesome because now that we've been given so much free space, I know people will want to seperate their space by using folders - ideally, automatically - for just about everything and everyone they know. But, if 10 rules are the limit, I see in the future that limitations on space won't be the driving factor in attracting customers. Once again, it will all boil down to service and services available (options, rules, etc.) to the end user.
OK. Say the business owner thinks that way, too. Instead of saying, "Forget it! Too much up-front capital required."
He says instead, "OK, Fine. I'll only buy 7 or 8 Segways until I've payed them off, then I'll buy the other two."
The gain? If his van breaks down, he's out 1 - 5 days revenue. If a Segway breaks down, he out 1 segway with the other 6-7 making him money so he can repair his $4,000 investment vs his being out totally against $29,685 for the cost of the van + the revenue he *would* have created for the days the van was inoperable.
Not to mention the fact that one or two segways are probably scheduled as backups so no one or two people have to miss the rest of their ride due to some breakdown. Insert the backup segway and viola - the show must go on!
I'm sure the fellas would feel some mechanical snap when hit with this keyboard.
Build a system
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· Score: 3, Informative
I just built a system using some of the high end hardware on their System Configuration Page. The cost? Over $8700 using a 19" CRT instead of their ~$1500 21" LCD.
Of course, if I wanted to park something that costs as much as a compact car on my desk I'd let Billy Joel do it.
The original poster is not trying to point out that Chinese or American people do or don't have personal identification. She or he is pointing out that the system could be abused.
If the imposter was able to make a fake ID he could impersonate someone and commit "crimes against the state" - in this case, crimes against Chinese law. Meanwhile, some victim who'se never seen a computer is doing their daily routine while the police are looking for them to prosecute them for "computer crimes" they didn't commit.
I swear when I first read this I read, "Space Technology to Conquer Everquest."
Now, where'd I put those caffeine molecules?
Mountain Biking with a GPS
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· Score: 3, Interesting
I've been moutain biking with my Garmin eTrex Vista for a couple of years now. The best way to create trail maps with your GPS is to bike after the leaves have fallen to get good reception. I upload my tracks to TopoMap 4.0. (Worst. UI. Ever.) Get a GPS with plenty of memory!
The experience is fun and challenging.
Set your GPS to collect current position every 1 sec if biking and every 5 seconds if walking/running. You can get going pretty fast on a mountain bike and long collection intervals make the track on your map seem jagged.
There are helmet cams you can buy from pricepoint for about $200.00(US) as well as lighting systems to light your way in the dark.
I realize this is an April Fools Joke (Hopefully) but is there any software (OSS, Preferably) that phones home (via email or some such mechanism) if it determines if it has been given a different IP address from some DHCP server? It could mail it's current IP address and maybe the real owner could give this info to the authorities (who have the real power) to go get it and track down the perps.
Of course, this may fire off someone's AV software, too; which would alert the unsavey theif (or fooled buyer) to the activity.
It could also be configured to accept a few known IP addresses to ignore so it's not firing off emails when you switch between home, work or the local coffee shop.
Anyone?
Now that I've planted the idea if it doesn't exist...
All the information I *want* is right there at my fingertips - not just the stuff the media wants to either shove down my throut or not give me enough information on.
Then there's the quality of the movies and other tv shows that are just poor. Very few channels have anything that's worth scheduling a night for - like 'The Shield,' 'CSI,' or something on the Discovery or History Channel.
Information wise, the Internet brings what I want, when I want and at what level I want 24/7/365(6).
While I agree that all this is going to do is cost consumers more I'd like to see this happen, too, in the hopes that it won't cost us consumers more.
Until that time, I've learned how to program my TV to step-over the channels I don't like. Whereas my tuners goes from 2 through 98 or so, I only actually *see* 20 or so of them while I only actually watch 4 or 5 actively.
Newer TV's (within the last 10 years) have the ability to filter, by your command, which channels to actually show.
Here's to wishing the prices will drop on us though.
What I find profound is the fact that the months are labeled from left to right (Horizontally) while the days of the month are labeled top to bottom (Vertically).
I RTFA and all it is (according to one of the diagrams on the page) is a Powerbook G4 in a small backpack with two 802.11b antenna's stickout out of the back. The cartoon person holding a PDA isn't even looking at the PDA. There is some text touting the use of the PDA for GPS directions and such but bug deal! Garmin already makes a PDA with GPS unit w/ mapping software built in for ~$700.00 (US) and you don't have to radiate yourself to use it.
As someone already stated above, they seem to be trying to solve a non-existant problem which no one needs resolved.
I wanted to say something originally after RTFA but I was hit with a such a lack of interest that I just clicked away.
I just did the same thing for my parents. I set them up with the latest tightVNC, AVG Antivirus (which they'll have to register), adaware, zonealarm and Moz 1.6.
They live 800 miles away and as much as my father *thinks* he knows what he's doing you can tell when someone does not. I bought them both new computers and told each of them that if the other's PC breaks that *no one* (including them!) is allowed to try to fix it. Surprisingly enough, they don't mess with the other's computer; but, my father does teach my mother how to use some of the applications she uses.
I've got to say that the best advice to tell your parents is to not tell the other when they are having problems with their PC. Fathers usually like to fix things - lets face it, it makes us feel usful - but when parents get older they get testy. And two testy people arguing over a PC is an ugly affair.
My advice to the parent topic: buy your parent's their own individual PCs - you'll never have been happier!
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You're right. I got a CD Walkman for Christmas and I attached some sentimental value to it. Well, the cheap plug-into-your-ears earphones broke and wanted "Best" Buy to honor their "Service" Plan and give me a replacement headset. They told me to call such and such number and give my details and the service plan number. I gave it all to them and they said they would mail a box to me to return the items with. What they neglected to mention was that I also had to send the CD player back - which worked just fine. Since I liked the way the player worked I was reluctant to give it because who know *what* the heck BB would have given as a replacement.
I just broke down and got a good set of head phones for $30.
After a few more problems with the way BB treats its customers I don't shop there anymore. There is a Circuit City right across the street.
I used to fly model rockets as a kid and I loved it - especially when my 'Wizard' rocket disintigrated on its 8th (or so) flight at about 1000' using a C6-7 rocket engine.
Truthfully, I think that that was my last launch. I built a rocket a few years ago but never launched it and I bought another one a few months ago but still haven't put it together.
Anyway, Estes (online) has the worst interface of any webpage I've ever used. It's probably geared toward kids as old as 15; but, still. Give me those old Estes Catalogs any day of the week.
Yeah, I know. But I do the editing (unpaid) and only in my free time. We're a small caving club and can't afford a nice DTP app. Word works fine for our purposes.
;) (No offense taken.)
/. effect. Search for KCAG if you're interested.
So There!
Although, the Kansas City Area Grotto newsletters are all designed by a real-life DTP; therefore, their newsletter is top notch. I won't burn their server via
I feel their pain. I'm an editor for a newsletter and I've had to completely redo an entire newsletter because word is just playing games with me.
When I theorize that Word is playing its games again that require a complete re-work, to remove all the tags I'll paste the textual contents into a plain-text editor, create a new document, then re-copy the contents from the plain-text editor and re-paste it back into my new word doc. Whoe unto thee if there are any graphics involved. Each one has to be brought back in one at a time.
Very painstaking process.
See my previous post.
I looked it all up and Yahoo!'s maximum mail filter count is 15 for the free service - not 10 as I had originally indicated.
When the user signs up for the 'Yahoo! Mail Plus' service, they get bumped to 50 filters. Which is nice; but, it's still not very effective for a long term solution.
Here is the info.
I went for 2.5 years without getting any SPAM. Why? Because I set the account preferences turning off any options to receive third party mailings from the time I initially signed on.
There's a catch, though. Yahoo! reserves the right to change their policies at any time - whereby they probably reset everyone's options and no one realizes it until they've received 80billion SPAM messages.
I think the only SPAM I get is because I released my e-mail address while on a message board and a bot grabbed it.
Practice web safety and you'll pretty much be in the clear. I still have one account that only receives 1 SPAM a month and that is because some generator guessed it correctly.
I began using Yahoo! Mail years ago and I've had 6MB per email address (I've got two) ever since. When I signed my mother and father up to have Yahoo! Mail accounts two years later they were given 4M accounts.
The first thought I had though since being notified of the increase was, "How the heck am I going to keep track of all the junk I'll eventually have to delete?" My answer was, "To never allow it to clog in the first place by removing immediately any e-mails that I may want to save." The obvious answer.
IIRC, Yahoo only allows you to set up 10 rules for handling the email you receive. This is troublesome because now that we've been given so much free space, I know people will want to seperate their space by using folders - ideally, automatically - for just about everything and everyone they know. But, if 10 rules are the limit, I see in the future that limitations on space won't be the driving factor in attracting customers. Once again, it will all boil down to service and services available (options, rules, etc.) to the end user.
OK. Say the business owner thinks that way, too. Instead of saying, "Forget it! Too much up-front capital required."
He says instead, "OK, Fine. I'll only buy 7 or 8 Segways until I've payed them off, then I'll buy the other two."
The gain? If his van breaks down, he's out 1 - 5 days revenue. If a Segway breaks down, he out 1 segway with the other 6-7 making him money so he can repair his $4,000 investment vs his being out totally against $29,685 for the cost of the van + the revenue he *would* have created for the days the van was inoperable.
Not to mention the fact that one or two segways are probably scheduled as backups so no one or two people have to miss the rest of their ride due to some breakdown. Insert the backup segway and viola - the show must go on!
I never pay my bills on time and ...
[NO CARRIER]
It's .NET source.
...
From the vcproj file:
VisualStudioProject
ProjectType="Visual C++"
Version="7.10"
Name="Shareaza"
Ugh.
From the PDF:
FEEDBACK: Tactile with mechanical snap
I'm sure the fellas would feel some mechanical snap when hit with this keyboard.
I just built a system using some of the high end hardware on their System Configuration Page. The cost? Over $8700 using a 19" CRT instead of their ~$1500 21" LCD.
Of course, if I wanted to park something that costs as much as a compact car on my desk I'd let Billy Joel do it.
The original poster is not trying to point out that Chinese or American people do or don't have personal identification. She or he is pointing out that the system could be abused.
If the imposter was able to make a fake ID he could impersonate someone and commit "crimes against the state" - in this case, crimes against Chinese law. Meanwhile, some victim who'se never seen a computer is doing their daily routine while the police are looking for them to prosecute them for "computer crimes" they didn't commit.
That's the problem with systems such as this.
Hrm, I went to http://hddcannon.ass-kicked.net/ and got the same result.
I swear when I first read this I read, "Space Technology to Conquer Everquest."
Now, where'd I put those caffeine molecules?
I've been moutain biking with my Garmin eTrex Vista for a couple of years now. The best way to create trail maps with your GPS is to bike after the leaves have fallen to get good reception. I upload my tracks to TopoMap 4.0. (Worst. UI. Ever.) Get a GPS with plenty of memory!
The experience is fun and challenging.
Set your GPS to collect current position every 1 sec if biking and every 5 seconds if walking/running. You can get going pretty fast on a mountain bike and long collection intervals make the track on your map seem jagged.
There are helmet cams you can buy from pricepoint for about $200.00(US) as well as lighting systems to light your way in the dark.
I realize this is an April Fools Joke (Hopefully) but is there any software (OSS, Preferably) that phones home (via email or some such mechanism) if it determines if it has been given a different IP address from some DHCP server? It could mail it's current IP address and maybe the real owner could give this info to the authorities (who have the real power) to go get it and track down the perps.
Of course, this may fire off someone's AV software, too; which would alert the unsavey theif (or fooled buyer) to the activity.
It could also be configured to accept a few known IP addresses to ignore so it's not firing off emails when you switch between home, work or the local coffee shop.
Anyone?
Now that I've planted the idea if it doesn't exist...
All the information I *want* is right there at my fingertips - not just the stuff the media wants to either shove down my throut or not give me enough information on.
Then there's the quality of the movies and other tv shows that are just poor. Very few channels have anything that's worth scheduling a night for - like 'The Shield,' 'CSI,' or something on the Discovery or History Channel.
Information wise, the Internet brings what I want, when I want and at what level I want 24/7/365(6).
While I agree that all this is going to do is cost consumers more I'd like to see this happen, too, in the hopes that it won't cost us consumers more.
Until that time, I've learned how to program my TV to step-over the channels I don't like. Whereas my tuners goes from 2 through 98 or so, I only actually *see* 20 or so of them while I only actually watch 4 or 5 actively.
Newer TV's (within the last 10 years) have the ability to filter, by your command, which channels to actually show.
Here's to wishing the prices will drop on us though.
What I find profound is the fact that the months are labeled from left to right (Horizontally) while the days of the month are labeled top to bottom (Vertically).
The point? There doesn't seem to *be* a point.
I RTFA and all it is (according to one of the diagrams on the page) is a Powerbook G4 in a small backpack with two 802.11b antenna's stickout out of the back. The cartoon person holding a PDA isn't even looking at the PDA. There is some text touting the use of the PDA for GPS directions and such but bug deal! Garmin already makes a PDA with GPS unit w/ mapping software built in for ~$700.00 (US) and you don't have to radiate yourself to use it.
As someone already stated above, they seem to be trying to solve a non-existant problem which no one needs resolved.
I wanted to say something originally after RTFA but I was hit with a such a lack of interest that I just clicked away.
It'll probably be very effective considering that a few spammers are responsible for most of the SPAM anyway.
I just did the same thing for my parents. I set them up with the latest tightVNC, AVG Antivirus (which they'll have to register), adaware, zonealarm and Moz 1.6.
They live 800 miles away and as much as my father *thinks* he knows what he's doing you can tell when someone does not. I bought them both new computers and told each of them that if the other's PC breaks that *no one* (including them!) is allowed to try to fix it. Surprisingly enough, they don't mess with the other's computer; but, my father does teach my mother how to use some of the applications she uses.
I've got to say that the best advice to tell your parents is to not tell the other when they are having problems with their PC. Fathers usually like to fix things - lets face it, it makes us feel usful - but when parents get older they get testy. And two testy people arguing over a PC is an ugly affair.
My advice to the parent topic: buy your parent's their own individual PCs - you'll never have been happier!
I don't believe you. Could you run that MythBusters?