Now, mailing in a rebate then returning an item is unethical on the customer's part (didn't think it was possible since most require original UPC).
However, it's been my experience that BB more often then occasionally won't have a rebate item on stock/shelves right when the store opens on the first day of the rebate sale. 3 cases where I've tried to get a rebate item (modem, HD, monitor) I'd get there and be the first few when the doors open only to find the item NOT on the shelf. Ask a salesperson and they'll say there's no more in stock. When questioned about the promotion, it's the usual B.S. "The item has been on sale for the past week, so we ran out".
I see rebate sales going out of popularity soon. I won't dare touch BB, and once great-for-quick-rebates-turnaounds OfficeMax has gone down the crapper recently for denying legitimate rebate submissions. The second "denied" rebate from OM, I really let the guy on the other end have it on the phone. (got approved after "resubmitting") Since that day, OM's made it on my shitlist along with BB. My sanity and karma isn't worth it. There's only so much crap people in general will take, and more will start to ignore them and not care as word-of-mouth spreads. Perhaps that's the goal of some retailers...
I've yet to place a serious bet with any Windows(tm) fanboy, but lets say you just loaded to the harddrive 300 vacation photos from the digital camera and the task is to scale them all to say, 800x600 pixels. Under Linux, with ImageMagick installed (usually is), all one has to do is:
cd/path/to/photos/ mogrify --resize 800x600 *
and get a cup of coffee while the computer churns away for a few minutes.
Now, under windows, what other option do you have besides opening all 300 photos in a photo editing program and issue the rescale command for each and every photo?
If in any case HP offers you to download the "home" or "corporate" driver, you'll have a better change of getting less-bloated drivers. Example, I once downloaded and installed the "home" version of one of their inkjet printers. Every time windows (2000) booted up, the cpu would be 100% utilized for a minute or so because of the tray icon/app that I couldn't figure out how to disable. Ended up reinstalling Windows and used the "corporate" printer driver. Works fine.
two words: tilt(or inclinometer) sensor. Once the unit detects enough tilt against the horizontal, it cuts off. Redundancy is also available from underbelly photo sensor, assuming you keep the cutting bay dark in normal operations.
I'll agree L-shaped desks are nice since you can keep up with what's going on around you, and still have some privacy. It also serves as a great lookout/hideout bunker during an office Nerf gun shootout!
Put a "buffer" between the windows computer and the cable modem, either a hardware firewall/router or a linux/*BSD gateway server with iptables or pf running.
But before you go (re)install windows, download the "network install" of the service pack with another computer and copy it to a CD for use when you reinstall windows. Load up the firewall, AV, and SP before giving it the network connection. I personally haven't dealt with win XP-SP1, but just leave the software firewall on.....or doesn't matter if it's behind the buffer.
What resentment? The guy would rather work with code and hardware and let someone else deal with the paper shuffling. The incoming boss probably wouldn't like the 'engineering' work enough to do it 8hrs/day, although he/she should know at least a bit of what's going on.
You want to go out any buy a new USB printer be my guest. A lot of the laser printers from the early 90s still work like new.
I also take it you don't work with microcontrollers. The JTAG Flash Emulation Tool for the MSP430 is parallel. (yes, there is a USB available). If you ever have to work with the HC12, you need that serial.
You sound like one of those "All USB" types, including USB for keyboard and mouse. Well, good luck to you when you ever have to boot up the OS for troubleshooting and the USB driver doesn't get loaded. USB is great for memory keys, cameras, external drives..things that get plugged in and out frequently but it's not for everything.
I hope this Mr. Coffee you speak of, dispenses coffee from a sealed container into the brewing chamber and not rely on the user to put coffee grinds it the night before. I'm sure you lose quite a bit of coffee flavor and aroma in the latter case.
I once had to make a long distance call to a company to order a development board, and being a bit paranoid at the time I wanted to ask my provider (T-Mobile) about cell phone security. (I don't have long distance service on my landline) Here's how it went down from what I remembered:
Me: Yes, I'd like to know if your cell phone service is secure for making an order over the phone?
Support: Ah, you want to buy a new phone?
Me: (?!!) No. I'm asking about the security of cell phone usage. See, I'm planning on placing an order over the phone from a company.
Support: You have a phone from another company?
Me: No. I want to know if someone can intercept my cell phone call.
Support: T-Mobile does not record and monitor your calls.
Me: Thanks.....have a nice day.
I was hoping for a "Yes, the service is encrypted" or something. Guess that's what I get for being lazy to research myself.
Applied 10 to 20 minutes before sex, the company says the device's gentle, pulsating current brings its wearer to a state of sexual readiness, where the "slightest touch" can trigger an orgasm
Women must be some slow systems to take up to 20 minutes to reach "steady-state". 5 minutes is an awfully long time constant.
I think if you do a bit of research, you can find microcontrollers and the sensors needed to accomplish the task. Not to simplify the Grand Challenge, the objective is to have a vehicle traverse through a desert terrain while avoiding other vehicles and obstacles. Given enough time, any good electrical enginnering student(s) can come up with some good ideas on solution with some possible hardware choices.
The Challenge to DARPA isn't the technology, but the testing phase, or lack there of. How many of the schools who participated last year had practical access to a desert of similar circumstance? (I'm in north Florida and I can't think of a place) You can put together an autonomous vehicle for the competition, and maybe test it in a large open field with some 'simulated' obstacles but won't come close to the real deal.
Another thing is 300+ miles might be pushing the limit for how far gasoline vehicles (especially the trucks and SUVs) can travel on one tank of fuel. Keeping in mind that there would most likely be frequent go and brake driving, if any vehicle were to make it across the finish line the fuel gauge would be below the slash.
If I'm not mistaken, Minolta DiMAGE Z1/Z2 are EVF cameras, which are no match for the optical viewfinders of SLRs. I have a G2, which isn't an SLR, but still occasionally use the optical 'tunnel' viewfinder for panning and continuous shooting. I don't think any EVF can be used for continuous shooting while knowing for sure where your subject is in the frame of each shot since they either black-out between shots or get choppy.
If you're really into photography, a general rule for lenses is that the difference between wide and telephoto for zoom should not be more than ~3x-4x. The ultra-zooms (F828,Powershot Pro1, Z1, etc) that have 7x-10x lenses suffer from significant barrel distortion and chromatic aberations. Plus, you can't get the Image Stabilation thats available from some SLR lenses.
A bit of research will indicate to you that SLRs shine at low noise due to the larger sensor size (and in Canon cameras) CMOS. Most fixed-lens CCD cameras use smaller sensors, and employ image noise-reduction algorithms.
Would you really want a woman explaining UNIX commands? See, man, however overly-complex it may be, will tell you everything you need to know, with no subtile details left for you to figure out/guess on your own. Now, woman, would just give you *hints*, and assumes that you're *sensitive* to those hints and figure it out. It doesn't help very much when you need to know a specific option to pass to the command.
Well, eventually it'll weed out all the bad drivers who like to use their cell phones while driving. Take your example where Driver A cuts off Driver B:
Driver A: (taps onto phone) YOU CUT ME OFF Then waves phone, then (clears existing message and taps onto phone) YOU MOTHER (screams) AHHH! Truck Tire in the middle of the road! [...] (Crash).
Driver B: (taps into phone, then waves arms) HA HA HA HA
HTML isn't a "programming" language, but through use it does demonstrate some "programming concepts. When you start using HTML POST/GET forms you start learning about variable naming. Then, moderate use of JavaScript introduces if/else, loops, as well as more variable concepts. So, with those experiences learning C, JAVA, or whatnot will mostly be learning syntax. Getting more advanced, you could venture into data structures and OOP.
Generally most rob attempts involve threat of life or harm. With that in mind, if you're able to, you have every right to kick the shit out of the con, throw him across the street, bang him up with a couple of trash cans, and give a few swift kicks when he's in the puddle on the street. Then call the cops to pick up the banged-up body.
Hopefully when he get released from the police station 24-hours later he'll think twice before trying to rob someone else.
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Best Buy was pretty adament against fatwallet.com for posting their BlackFriday specials last year if that's any indication.
Now, mailing in a rebate then returning an item is unethical on the customer's part (didn't think it was possible since most require original UPC).
However, it's been my experience that BB more often then occasionally won't have a rebate item on stock/shelves right when the store opens on the first day of the rebate sale. 3 cases where I've tried to get a rebate item (modem, HD, monitor) I'd get there and be the first few when the doors open only to find the item NOT on the shelf. Ask a salesperson and they'll say there's no more in stock. When questioned about the promotion, it's the usual B.S. "The item has been on sale for the past week, so we ran out".
I see rebate sales going out of popularity soon. I won't dare touch BB, and once great-for-quick-rebates-turnaounds OfficeMax has gone down the crapper recently for denying legitimate rebate submissions. The second "denied" rebate from OM, I really let the guy on the other end have it on the phone. (got approved after "resubmitting") Since that day, OM's made it on my shitlist along with BB. My sanity and karma isn't worth it. There's only so much crap people in general will take, and more will start to ignore them and not care as word-of-mouth spreads. Perhaps that's the goal of some retailers...
Disable booting from CD, password protect the BIOS, and keep up-to-date with security patches.
All the kid has to do is then open the computer case and reset the BIOS.
To counter that, the parent installs a lock on the computer.
The kid then learns how to crack the lock.
So...instead of having a pr0n-hunting kid, you now have a lock-pickin', computer-crackin' pr0n hunting kid.
5. Efficiency.
/path/to/photos/
I've yet to place a serious bet with any Windows(tm) fanboy, but lets say you just loaded to the harddrive 300 vacation photos from the digital camera and the task is to scale them all to say, 800x600 pixels. Under Linux, with ImageMagick installed (usually is), all one has to do is:
cd
mogrify --resize 800x600 *
and get a cup of coffee while the computer churns away for a few minutes.
Now, under windows, what other option do you have besides opening all 300 photos in a photo editing program and issue the rescale command for each and every photo?
Gasp! You mean it features a top-loading DVD slot, simulated wood trim, and 20 segment LCD display? Cool!
An easy way to print out those "Powered by Linux" Stickers!
If in any case HP offers you to download the "home" or "corporate" driver, you'll have a better change of getting less-bloated drivers. Example, I once downloaded and installed the "home" version of one of their inkjet printers. Every time windows (2000) booted up, the cpu would be 100% utilized for a minute or so because of the tray icon/app that I couldn't figure out how to disable. Ended up reinstalling Windows and used the "corporate" printer driver. Works fine.
two words: tilt(or inclinometer) sensor.
Once the unit detects enough tilt against the horizontal, it cuts off. Redundancy is also available from underbelly photo sensor, assuming you keep the cutting bay dark in normal operations.
I'll agree L-shaped desks are nice since you can keep up with what's going on around you, and still have some privacy. It also serves as a great lookout/hideout bunker during an office Nerf gun shootout!
Put a "buffer" between the windows computer and the cable modem, either a hardware firewall/router or a linux/*BSD gateway server with iptables or pf running.
But before you go (re)install windows, download the "network install" of the service pack with another computer and copy it to a CD for use when you reinstall windows. Load up the firewall, AV, and SP before giving it the network connection. I personally haven't dealt with win XP-SP1, but just leave the software firewall on.....or doesn't matter if it's behind the buffer.
What resentment? The guy would rather work with code and hardware and let someone else deal with the paper shuffling. The incoming boss probably wouldn't like the 'engineering' work enough to do it 8hrs/day, although he/she should know at least a bit of what's going on.
You want to go out any buy a new USB printer be my guest. A lot of the laser printers from the early 90s still work like new.
I also take it you don't work with microcontrollers. The JTAG Flash Emulation Tool for the MSP430 is parallel. (yes, there is a USB available). If you ever have to work with the HC12, you need that serial.
You sound like one of those "All USB" types, including USB for keyboard and mouse. Well, good luck to you when you ever have to boot up the OS for troubleshooting and the USB driver doesn't get loaded. USB is great for memory keys, cameras, external drives..things that get plugged in and out frequently but it's not for everything.
I hope this Mr. Coffee you speak of, dispenses coffee from a sealed container into the brewing chamber and not rely on the user to put coffee grinds it the night before. I'm sure you lose quite a bit of coffee flavor and aroma in the latter case.
http://loban.caltech.edu/stickynotes/
It comes included with most Linux distros under Gnome. KDE has KNotes.
no...it's the Orinoco Classic Gold PC Card 8410-WD that you want.
You could put both pictures in an animated gif like shown here:o _hearth .html
http://www.well.com/user/jimg/stereo/stere
I believe there are some stereoscopic glasses you can use to view the two images as one 3D picture.
I once had to make a long distance call to a company to order a development board, and being a bit paranoid at the time I wanted to ask my provider (T-Mobile) about cell phone security. (I don't have long distance service on my landline) Here's how it went down from what I remembered:
Me: Yes, I'd like to know if your cell phone service is secure for making an order over the phone?
Support: Ah, you want to buy a new phone?
Me: (?!!) No. I'm asking about the security of cell phone usage. See, I'm planning on placing an order over the phone from a company.
Support: You have a phone from another company?
Me: No. I want to know if someone can intercept my cell phone call.
Support: T-Mobile does not record and monitor your calls.
Me: Thanks.....have a nice day.
I was hoping for a "Yes, the service is encrypted" or something. Guess that's what I get for being lazy to research myself.
Perhaps advice for anyone planning to let go of a hard drive:
Use the shred utility, with a good number of iterations (25 sounds good). Go to the root directory and issue
shred -n 25 -u -v *
Then when you're done with that, low level format the drive using a disk utility such as the ones that come with Maxtors and Western Digital drives.
Applied 10 to 20 minutes before sex, the company says the device's gentle, pulsating current brings its wearer to a state of sexual readiness, where the "slightest touch" can trigger an orgasm
Women must be some slow systems to take up to 20 minutes to reach "steady-state". 5 minutes is an awfully long time constant.
I think if you do a bit of research, you can find microcontrollers and the sensors needed to accomplish the task. Not to simplify the Grand Challenge, the objective is to have a vehicle traverse through a desert terrain while avoiding other vehicles and obstacles. Given enough time, any good electrical enginnering student(s) can come up with some good ideas on solution with some possible hardware choices.
The Challenge to DARPA isn't the technology, but the testing phase, or lack there of. How many of the schools who participated last year had practical access to a desert of similar circumstance? (I'm in north Florida and I can't think of a place) You can put together an autonomous vehicle for the competition, and maybe test it in a large open field with some 'simulated' obstacles but won't come close to the real deal.
Another thing is 300+ miles might be pushing the limit for how far gasoline vehicles (especially the trucks and SUVs) can travel on one tank of fuel. Keeping in mind that there would most likely be frequent go and brake driving, if any vehicle were to make it across the finish line the fuel gauge would be below the slash.
If I'm not mistaken, Minolta DiMAGE Z1/Z2 are EVF cameras, which are no match for the optical viewfinders of SLRs. I have a G2, which isn't an SLR, but still occasionally use the optical 'tunnel' viewfinder for panning and continuous shooting. I don't think any EVF can be used for continuous shooting while knowing for sure where your subject is in the frame of each shot since they either black-out between shots or get choppy.
If you're really into photography, a general rule for lenses is that the difference between wide and telephoto for zoom should not be more than ~3x-4x. The ultra-zooms (F828,Powershot Pro1, Z1, etc) that have 7x-10x lenses suffer from significant barrel distortion and chromatic aberations. Plus, you can't get the Image Stabilation thats available from some SLR lenses.
A bit of research will indicate to you that SLRs shine at low noise due to the larger sensor size (and in Canon cameras) CMOS. Most fixed-lens CCD cameras use smaller sensors, and employ image noise-reduction algorithms.
Would you really want a woman explaining UNIX commands? See, man, however overly-complex it may be, will tell you everything you need to know, with no subtile details left for you to figure out /guess on your own. Now, woman, would just give you *hints*, and assumes that you're *sensitive* to those hints and figure it out. It doesn't help very much when you need to know a specific option to pass to the command.
Well, eventually it'll weed out all the bad drivers who like to use their cell phones while driving. Take your example where Driver A cuts off Driver B:
Driver A: (taps onto phone) YOU CUT ME OFF
Then waves phone, then (clears existing message and taps onto phone) YOU MOTHER (screams) AHHH! Truck Tire in the middle of the road! [...] (Crash).
Driver B: (taps into phone, then waves arms) HA HA HA HA
HTML isn't a "programming" language, but through use it does demonstrate some "programming concepts. When you start using HTML POST/GET forms you start learning about variable naming. Then, moderate use of JavaScript introduces if/else, loops, as well as more variable concepts. So, with those experiences learning C, JAVA, or whatnot will mostly be learning syntax. Getting more advanced, you could venture into data structures and OOP.
I'm not sure how the laws are in Britain, but...
Generally most rob attempts involve threat of life or harm. With that in mind, if you're able to, you have every right to kick the shit out of the con, throw him across the street, bang him up with a couple of trash cans, and give a few swift kicks when he's in the puddle on the street. Then call the cops to pick up the banged-up body.
Hopefully when he get released from the police station 24-hours later he'll think twice before trying to rob someone else.