On my existing Cingular service, I had a 17% Discount through my employer's contract with them. I'm sure companies that do more business could negotiate a 20% discount. On a usual phone, Cingular subsidizes the cost in exchange for a 2 year contract.
They remove both of these discounts for an iPhone. Say 10% Subsidy and a 20% Max discount on a $60 plan, they give Apple $18 but don't lower their margins more then they previously did for preferred customers.
The car, a Mini, actually started production in 1959: http://www.mini35.co.uk/history.php/ the Mini skirt was named after the car, and the rest is history. Including adding the model (not brand) Cooper, after John Cooper in the 60's.
By the generally agreed upon definition of the word, Yuppies would be the ones that live in the city itself.
And as a professional city dweller myself, I find it amazingly irritating that the traffic lights here in Cleveland never seem to agree. Especially since much of the East side is devoid of freeways, so you're required to take local roads to get anywhere.
People who come in on a direct route generally live much farther out and take the freeways, at least around here.
I took a class in forensic anthropology one summer as an elective. The professor had a Master's degree from the University of TN, and was the forensic anthropologist for a huge swath of western NY (at least a few million in population, not to mention lots of lakes a forests for things to be found in). Her day job was as a pathologist's assistant, because she only worked as a forensic anthropologist a few days a month when there was something to be done. Sure there were several full-time so called CSI's but they usually did very boring stuff.
I wouldn't compare a giant bag full of hydrogen to a modern car engineered by a company well known for its safety engineering.
Here's an older article that discusses their safety (scroll a bit) on CNN
Messages that fail the check will not be rejected, but will be further scrutinized and filtered, said Craig Spiezle
A failed PRA check will be a "factor" that Microsoft's SmartFilter technology will use to determine whether a given message is spam, according to George Webb
If you're planning on getting a GSM phone with ATT(which I'd think you were, since they're the cool ones) you end up on whatever network you can find now without roaming. If your phone works in the US, its just normal usage. I've taken my ATT phone and had it say 'Cingular' when I was 'roaming' but since roaming doesn't exist, I got the benefit of the cooler ATT phone, though I have a cheaper plan then they currently offer.
Aparently MINIUSA was quite annoyed that VW and the New Beetle beat them to the punch with the iPod promotion. Especially since as others have said, '03 and newer MINIs can take a $40 acessory from the dealer and get an aux input, or you can use the cd changer wiring with a DenisonIce Link which allows control of the ipod through the head unit + steering wheel audio controls.
Next time you're standing in front of one (assuming you're male) you can read the specifics, but toilets are required to use 1.6 Gallons, new urinals use less. However it does make the calculations easier, 40,000 flushes is 110 flushes/day, which with 1440 minutes/day is only a flush every 13 minutes in a 24 hour facility.
So if the energy cost is lower, what about the other things. My not very good understanding of RO implies there's filters involved, which would get consumed in the process. Especially since salt is very small, they'd need to be quite fine filters, and thus expensive. And at millions of gallons a day, replacing them regularly wouldn't be cheap.
I have popup blocking with the google toolbar, that works fine, but still got the chat invite - in a popup. They must use some non-standard popup method.
Check out this week's "This Old House"
on
DIY HVAC
·
· Score: 5, Informative
According to my schedule the episode of This Old House on PBS this week will show how in Bermuda it is standard practice to collect rainwater for all a house's water needs - in fact if a family uses too much water, they're forced to buy water from the government.
Show info here shows up to last week's episode:
This Old House
In the UK (as far as I know) all speed tracking things, which is mostly permanant installs are required to be listed publicly before they go live. So GPS only and GPS + detector units just alert you to where the traps are, you just update with your computer. Here's the newest one I found no mention of Wifi updating though, seems to need a wired connection.
"It's been said that bringing a Macintosh into a corporate environment dominated by Windows-based PCs is not an easy task. Once you cut through the corporate red tape, then get through ignorant IT staff you still have to connect and gain access to all the services on the network. osViews editorial contributor Kevin Ledgister took on this challenge and passed the test with flying colors." ---
For the last two years, I have had to use a Dell laptop at work running Windows 2000 in a mid size company with 300-400 employees. After suffering through several complete rebuilds, blue screens, as well as dealing with patches and security upgrades, I decided that enough is enough.
I ordered the brand new 12" PowerBook on my own and decided that this would be my daily computer to replace my Dell. Quite a few people were curious at this silver beauty compared to the generic charcoal laptops on their desks -- and some even said that their next system will be a Mac too.
As I've come to learn however, integrating a Mac into an all PC world is not without its challenges.
IT Ignorance
The first challenge was dealing with an IT department that was completely ignorant of the Mac platform. Although they were helpful and curious about the Macintosh, they really couldn't offer much help so I was on my own. At my place of employment, they use Active Directory and after doing a lot of reading on the subject, I realized that it was not going to be the easiest transition.
When my PowerBook arrived, I immediately plugged a network cable into it, but for some reason, it was not being assigned an IP address. I checked all the settings and they were correct. I even plugged my laptop into a router outside of our network and it worked fine. But inside our corporate network, I would only get a 169... number which meant that I wasn't getting one from the network server.
I downloaded ADmitMac from Thursby hoping that it would help connect me to the laptop but that required a valid IP address as well so I still was left out in the cold.
Frustrated, I connected my PowerBook using the phone line by my desk and dialed into our corporate network, which was slow, but at least I could browse the Internet and check email to our Exchange servers running Outlook for Windows under Citrix. No one was able to help explain why this was happening. Not Apple, nor our IT department.
Ups and Downs
After two days of this, I got disconnected again from the phone connection but iChat stayed active and I was still getting messages! I opened up the System Preferences and suddenly I had an assigned IP address. I ran to the IT department asking for an explanation for what they did, to which they replied, "Nothing."
So now I had high-speed access to the network but not all was solved.
I still couldn't browse network shares and I tried joining our Active Directory domain using Admit Mac but it wouldn't let me join. So, I fired up Virtual PC, installed Windows 2000, and asked an IT person to join Win2k to the domain and it worked. I was also able to browse the network using a Citrix client but this was still hokey.
Little did I know that ADmit Mac didn't work because I didn't have rights to join a computer to the domain. But a week after I got all this up and running, I accidentally chose the Connect to Server function when I meant to go to a folder and Voila! I could see network shares!
I don't know when this happened but I could now browse through the servers and mount them on my desktop. I ran back to IT again asking if they had turned on Services for Mac, which I had asked them to consider. Again they said that no changes were made to the network at all.
Another unsolved mystery perhaps but I didn't care. No longer would I need to go through a Windows interface for network shares. As a side benefit, I uninstalled the evaluation copy of ADmit Mac and everything still worked fine which saved
I bought the 1430 that's mentioned in the original article after looking at a 1210 but noticing the new model, it too has linux + OS X drivers on the cd and on the front page of samsung's printer site and prints according to the box 3 ppm iirc faster then the 1210, so it's at least a minor upgrade and costs exactly the same. Much better deal then any of the cheap HP's which are Windows only and reviewed highly by magazines and such.
Well, about 5 people had RSVP'd, and two showed up. Neither of us actually suggested the location, so we were both a bit puzzled and still have this sneaking thought that the rest of the group was huddled in a corner avoiding us. Anyway, we talked for a good 3 hours (8 beers) and it worked out well considering how it nearly fell apart.
Its not as easy as it looks to go meet at a bar when you have no idea who you're meeting and don't want to walk in and say "So where's the/. crowd?"
Couldn't one single an atom of Iron in a railroad track in Maine theoretically diffuse to California given enough time if they were connected?
I'm always leery of the term "Certain" when a key premise is time on the order of billions of years.
Program schedule service?
on
PVR For Linux
·
· Score: 1
It looks nice, but would it work in the states without some subscribed service to feed it schedules so you can select program names instead of times? I think that's what it refers to as EPG in Germany
Slashdot Mirror
The US isn't even consistent. Puerto Rico has distance on the roads in Kilometers, and sells gas by the Liter, but speed limits in MPH.
On my existing Cingular service, I had a 17% Discount through my employer's contract with them. I'm sure companies that do more business could negotiate a 20% discount. On a usual phone, Cingular subsidizes the cost in exchange for a 2 year contract. They remove both of these discounts for an iPhone. Say 10% Subsidy and a 20% Max discount on a $60 plan, they give Apple $18 but don't lower their margins more then they previously did for preferred customers.
The car, a Mini, actually started production in 1959: http://www.mini35.co.uk/history.php/ the Mini skirt was named after the car, and the rest is history. Including adding the model (not brand) Cooper, after John Cooper in the 60's.
By the generally agreed upon definition of the word, Yuppies would be the ones that live in the city itself. And as a professional city dweller myself, I find it amazingly irritating that the traffic lights here in Cleveland never seem to agree. Especially since much of the East side is devoid of freeways, so you're required to take local roads to get anywhere. People who come in on a direct route generally live much farther out and take the freeways, at least around here.
I took a class in forensic anthropology one summer as an elective. The professor had a Master's degree from the University of TN, and was the forensic anthropologist for a huge swath of western NY (at least a few million in population, not to mention lots of lakes a forests for things to be found in). Her day job was as a pathologist's assistant, because she only worked as a forensic anthropologist a few days a month when there was something to be done. Sure there were several full-time so called CSI's but they usually did very boring stuff.
I wouldn't compare a giant bag full of hydrogen to a modern car engineered by a company well known for its safety engineering. Here's an older article that discusses their safety (scroll a bit) on CNN
Messages that fail the check will not be rejected, but will be further scrutinized and filtered, said Craig Spiezle
A failed PRA check will be a "factor" that Microsoft's SmartFilter technology will use to determine whether a given message is spam, according to George Webb
If you're planning on getting a GSM phone with ATT(which I'd think you were, since they're the cool ones) you end up on whatever network you can find now without roaming. If your phone works in the US, its just normal usage. I've taken my ATT phone and had it say 'Cingular' when I was 'roaming' but since roaming doesn't exist, I got the benefit of the cooler ATT phone, though I have a cheaper plan then they currently offer.
Aparently MINIUSA was quite annoyed that VW and the New Beetle beat them to the punch with the iPod promotion. Especially since as others have said, '03 and newer MINIs can take a $40 acessory from the dealer and get an aux input, or you can use the cd changer wiring with a Denison Ice Link which allows control of the ipod through the head unit + steering wheel audio controls.
Next time you're standing in front of one (assuming you're male) you can read the specifics, but toilets are required to use 1.6 Gallons, new urinals use less. However it does make the calculations easier, 40,000 flushes is 110 flushes/day, which with 1440 minutes/day is only a flush every 13 minutes in a 24 hour facility.
So if the energy cost is lower, what about the other things. My not very good understanding of RO implies there's filters involved, which would get consumed in the process. Especially since salt is very small, they'd need to be quite fine filters, and thus expensive. And at millions of gallons a day, replacing them regularly wouldn't be cheap.
I have popup blocking with the google toolbar, that works fine, but still got the chat invite - in a popup. They must use some non-standard popup method.
According to my schedule the episode of This Old House on PBS this week will show how in Bermuda it is standard practice to collect rainwater for all a house's water needs - in fact if a family uses too much water, they're forced to buy water from the government. Show info here shows up to last week's episode: This Old House
In the UK (as far as I know) all speed tracking things, which is mostly permanant installs are required to be listed publicly before they go live. So GPS only and GPS + detector units just alert you to where the traps are, you just update with your computer. Here's the newest one I found no mention of Wifi updating though, seems to need a wired connection.
This comment seems oddly familiar
Contributor: Kevin Ledgister :: Open Content
"It's been said that bringing a Macintosh into a corporate environment dominated by Windows-based PCs is not an easy task. Once you cut through the corporate red tape, then get through ignorant IT staff you still have to connect and gain access to all the services on the network. osViews editorial contributor Kevin Ledgister took on this challenge and passed the test with flying colors."
---
For the last two years, I have had to use a Dell laptop at work running Windows 2000 in a mid size company with 300-400 employees. After suffering through several complete rebuilds, blue screens, as well as dealing with patches and security upgrades, I decided that enough is enough.
I ordered the brand new 12" PowerBook on my own and decided that this would be my daily computer to replace my Dell. Quite a few people were curious at this silver beauty compared to the generic charcoal laptops on their desks -- and some even said that their next system will be a Mac too.
As I've come to learn however, integrating a Mac into an all PC world is not without its challenges.
IT Ignorance
The first challenge was dealing with an IT department that was completely ignorant of the Mac platform. Although they were helpful and curious about the Macintosh, they really couldn't offer much help so I was on my own. At my place of employment, they use Active Directory and after doing a lot of reading on the subject, I realized that it was not going to be the easiest transition.
When my PowerBook arrived, I immediately plugged a network cable into it, but for some reason, it was not being assigned an IP address. I checked all the settings and they were correct. I even plugged my laptop into a router outside of our network and it worked fine. But inside our corporate network, I would only get a 169... number which meant that I wasn't getting one from the network server.
I downloaded ADmitMac from Thursby hoping that it would help connect me to the laptop but that required a valid IP address as well so I still was left out in the cold.
Frustrated, I connected my PowerBook using the phone line by my desk and dialed into our corporate network, which was slow, but at least I could browse the Internet and check email to our Exchange servers running Outlook for Windows under Citrix. No one was able to help explain why this was happening. Not Apple, nor our IT department.
Ups and Downs
After two days of this, I got disconnected again from the phone connection but iChat stayed active and I was still getting messages! I opened up the System Preferences and suddenly I had an assigned IP address. I ran to the IT department asking for an explanation for what they did, to which they replied, "Nothing."
So now I had high-speed access to the network but not all was solved.
I still couldn't browse network shares and I tried joining our Active Directory domain using Admit Mac but it wouldn't let me join. So, I fired up Virtual PC, installed Windows 2000, and asked an IT person to join Win2k to the domain and it worked. I was also able to browse the network using a Citrix client but this was still hokey.
Little did I know that ADmit Mac didn't work because I didn't have rights to join a computer to the domain. But a week after I got all this up and running, I accidentally chose the Connect to Server function when I meant to go to a folder and Voila! I could see network shares!
I don't know when this happened but I could now browse through the servers and mount them on my desktop. I ran back to IT again asking if they had turned on Services for Mac, which I had asked them to consider. Again they said that no changes were made to the network at all.
Another unsolved mystery perhaps but I didn't care. No longer would I need to go through a Windows interface for network shares. As a side benefit, I uninstalled the evaluation copy of ADmit Mac and everything still worked fine which saved
Its a perfect example. IBM lives in NY. Apple lives in sleek silicon valley. Maybe Dell can start supporting a computer that has longhorns.
I bought the 1430 that's mentioned in the original article after looking at a 1210 but noticing the new model, it too has linux + OS X drivers on the cd and on the front page of samsung's printer site and prints according to the box 3 ppm iirc faster then the 1210, so it's at least a minor upgrade and costs exactly the same. Much better deal then any of the cheap HP's which are Windows only and reviewed highly by magazines and such.
I wonder if MS will just raise the license fees for windows to makeup for the lost business, so the consumer would still pay the same.
Well, about 5 people had RSVP'd, and two showed up. Neither of us actually suggested the location, so we were both a bit puzzled and still have this sneaking thought that the rest of the group was huddled in a corner avoiding us. Anyway, we talked for a good 3 hours (8 beers) and it worked out well considering how it nearly fell apart. Its not as easy as it looks to go meet at a bar when you have no idea who you're meeting and don't want to walk in and say "So where's the /. crowd?"
I'm always leery of the term "Certain" when a key premise is time on the order of billions of years.
It looks nice, but would it work in the states without some subscribed service to feed it schedules so you can select program names instead of times? I think that's what it refers to as EPG in Germany