"Foreign countries are allowed to have weapons, as LONG as they're not as powerful as our own." which is obviously okay with me, as an American, however, so much for a fair playing field.
Screw that. As an American, I don't want a fair playing field. I want every advantage I can get.
And on the subject of zoom, don't worry too much about the digital zoom. Go for one that has a high optical zoom. Digital zoom will just pixelate everything beyond a certain point, and all you'll see is huge pink squares on your screen where the nipples should be.
Get one with a low LUX number. The lower the number, the better it will record in low light situations like indoors.
A lot of camcorders ***cough***Sony***cough*** advertise having things like "Night Vision", but have a really crappy LUX rating, which makes them useless unless you are outdoors in the bright sun or in total darkness.
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There was a show on the History Channel this week about the autobahn. They did a short piece on some lucky bastard who works for a Porche tuner. His job? Take each new, handbuilt car onto the autobahn late at night, and certify just how fast it can go.
We have Charter Cable in Long Beach, Ca. Basic cable tv for us costs $16/month, and includes History Channel, Learning Channel, Discovery Channel, Court TV, Tech TV, Spike, ESPN, and many more. Cable internet service through them costs us $40/month, for 2mb downstream. So far, I've been extremely happy with them. We were paying for the 756k down, but a few months ago they bumped all current subscribers to 2mb down free for 6 months.
My only complain is that they limit newsgroup download speed to 256k, and block port 80.
Over all, their downtime has been minimal over the past year, and service has been excellent.
We use them with Vonage for our phone service. For what our POTS cost at our last apartment, we now get the phone, Cable TV, and broadband, and it is still a little cheaper than the POTS was.
The Mercedes 450SEL6.9 made from 1977-1980 also has the hydro-pneumatic suspension. I own a 1979 6.9, and it rides far better than any other car I've ever driven. At one point, I was thinking of purchasing a new E class, but the test drive felt very rough compared to what I was used to in the 6.9.
Maintenance on the system is very easy too. I had to replace two of the nitrogen spheres in the rear of the car. It took about an hour to do both, and the car rode like new again afterwards.
I've never understood why this system never caught on more. It is simple to work on, cheap to maintain, and rides very nice.
Yeah, I had to have the fuel pump replaced about a year ago. The piece of crap would stall every time I would get on the freeway (The clover leaf style onramps, with the long sweeping turns) every time I had less than 1/4 tank. We just got the recall notice for it about a week ago.
I also had that problem where there would be a loud thump when going over bumps or dips at less than 5mph. Part of the front suspension was about to come off. If that had happened on the freeway, who knows what would have happened.
We bought ours because of all of the praise from auto reviewers too. I still haven't seen any bad review of them, except for Consumer Reports. The last time I looked, the new Focus' had a lower predicted reliability than every single Kia and Hyundai.
And good luck getting rid of it... If you really want to cry go take a look at the Kelly Blue Book value. Our 2001 Focus, with just under 50,000 miles had a wholesale value of about $3,500.
I mentioned the Focus in a thread a little farther down. We had a 2001, and it was nothing but trouble. We just traded it in, and ate the remaining year's lease payments so we could get rid of that little death trap.
We've had nothing but trouble with the one we had. There was something like 9 recalls on the model we had, and countless other problems that Ford claims is "normal for a Focus". One of the service reps at the dealer even had the balls to sit there and laugh at how bad the Focus' brake system is, then try to charge me a few hundred bucks to repair it.
Any time I load one using Firebird, it loads fine, but when I try to leave the pdf file, Firebird freezes. I have to kill the reader, then restart Firebird. It seems to have started this when I upgraded Acrobat Reader to 6.0.
Does anyone else have this issue? I'm running Windows XP Pro, Firebird 0.7, and Acrobat Reader 6.0.
I think the Little People are a little more advanced. My son loved the Baby Lego for about a year. He would chew on them and shake and rattle them, but now he's playing with the Little People and Duplos more (He's 18 months now). About all he uses the Baby Lego for now is throwing. They're heavy enough to make a nice bang when they hit something:)
And better than Duplo (For babies anyway) is the Baby Lego. They are rounded so your son can't get poked or scratched with it. Most of them have rattles in them, and some have a little music box.
The baby bricks are larger than Duplo, and stack on top of the Duplos.
The main problem with standard XP is the stupid requirement to phone home to register before downloading the patches to make it safe to be on the net in the first place.
That's FUD. XP gives you 60 days to activate your copy of windows. During those 60 days, Windows is fully functional and allows you to connect without any activation related troubles.
We had a VIC-20 that my dad bought new. I would spend hours on it trying to figure out BASIC.
Later, my parents bought an Apple IIc with the orange monitor. I remember when my dad brought home a mouse, and I thought "Who the hell will ever use this crappy thing? This will never catch on."
I realize the batteries are custom for a reason, but why couldn't you buy a replacement battery that just snaps in, similar to a cell phone battery? Those are custom, and easily replacable.
That would make sense for iPod users, unless Apple was trying to make the device disposable.
Don't ALL batteries eventually lose their ability to hold a charge? I agree that Apple should have designed the iPod so it is easier to replace them, but consumers also should have thought about things like replacing the batteries before buying an MP3 player that costs that much.
As with almost all class action suits, the lawyers will more than likely end up being the only "winners".
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Don't be a jackass to your employees.
Treat them with respect.
Remember, that their job is not their #1 priority in life. Family life always comes first.
Watch Office Space so you know how the average worker feels. Seriously.
"Foreign countries are allowed to have weapons, as LONG as they're not as powerful as our own." which is obviously okay with me, as an American, however, so much for a fair playing field.
Screw that. As an American, I don't want a fair playing field. I want every advantage I can get.
If you can bite your pride and use closed source, Microsoft One Note sounds like exactly what you're looking for.
And on the subject of zoom, don't worry too much about the digital zoom. Go for one that has a high optical zoom. Digital zoom will just pixelate everything beyond a certain point, and all you'll see is huge pink squares on your screen where the nipples should be.
Get one with a low LUX number. The lower the number, the better it will record in low light situations like indoors.
A lot of camcorders ***cough***Sony***cough*** advertise having things like "Night Vision", but have a really crappy LUX rating, which makes them useless unless you are outdoors in the bright sun or in total darkness.
There was a show on the History Channel this week about the autobahn. They did a short piece on some lucky bastard who works for a Porche tuner. His job? Take each new, handbuilt car onto the autobahn late at night, and certify just how fast it can go.
I'm typically not condescending of other people's posts, but this is particularly ignorant.
not to mention that expensive cards != ( for all you vb6 guys) good at the game.
!= is not valid in VB6. You're thinking of <>.
We have Charter Cable in Long Beach, Ca. Basic cable tv for us costs $16/month, and includes History Channel, Learning Channel, Discovery Channel, Court TV, Tech TV, Spike, ESPN, and many more. Cable internet service through them costs us $40/month, for 2mb downstream. So far, I've been extremely happy with them. We were paying for the 756k down, but a few months ago they bumped all current subscribers to 2mb down free for 6 months.
My only complain is that they limit newsgroup download speed to 256k, and block port 80.
Over all, their downtime has been minimal over the past year, and service has been excellent.
We use them with Vonage for our phone service. For what our POTS cost at our last apartment, we now get the phone, Cable TV, and broadband, and it is still a little cheaper than the POTS was.
The Mercedes 450SEL6.9 made from 1977-1980 also has the hydro-pneumatic suspension. I own a 1979 6.9, and it rides far better than any other car I've ever driven. At one point, I was thinking of purchasing a new E class, but the test drive felt very rough compared to what I was used to in the 6.9.
Maintenance on the system is very easy too. I had to replace two of the nitrogen spheres in the rear of the car. It took about an hour to do both, and the car rode like new again afterwards.
I've never understood why this system never caught on more. It is simple to work on, cheap to maintain, and rides very nice.
More info on the 450SEL6.9 at m-100.org.
And more information on the 6.9's suspension is here.
Yeah, I had to have the fuel pump replaced about a year ago. The piece of crap would stall every time I would get on the freeway (The clover leaf style onramps, with the long sweeping turns) every time I had less than 1/4 tank. We just got the recall notice for it about a week ago.
I also had that problem where there would be a loud thump when going over bumps or dips at less than 5mph. Part of the front suspension was about to come off. If that had happened on the freeway, who knows what would have happened.
We bought ours because of all of the praise from auto reviewers too. I still haven't seen any bad review of them, except for Consumer Reports. The last time I looked, the new Focus' had a lower predicted reliability than every single Kia and Hyundai.
And good luck getting rid of it... If you really want to cry go take a look at the Kelly Blue Book value. Our 2001 Focus, with just under 50,000 miles had a wholesale value of about $3,500.
I mentioned the Focus in a thread a little farther down. We had a 2001, and it was nothing but trouble. We just traded it in, and ate the remaining year's lease payments so we could get rid of that little death trap.
I wrote a review of it on epinions.com.
http://www.epinions.com/content_120641719940
We've had nothing but trouble with the one we had. There was something like 9 recalls on the model we had, and countless other problems that Ford claims is "normal for a Focus". One of the service reps at the dealer even had the balls to sit there and laugh at how bad the Focus' brake system is, then try to charge me a few hundred bucks to repair it.
Read my full review of it at http://www.epinions.com/content_120641719940
And more horror stories at http://www.fordfocusbrakeproblems.com
Women are from Venus and Men from Mars
:)
So that explains why most women are so hot headed and full of hot air?
I use Gentoo at home, with no problems. At work I'm stuck with XP.
A side note about pdf's...
Any time I load one using Firebird, it loads fine, but when I try to leave the pdf file, Firebird freezes. I have to kill the reader, then restart Firebird. It seems to have started this when I upgraded Acrobat Reader to 6.0.
Does anyone else have this issue? I'm running Windows XP Pro, Firebird 0.7, and Acrobat Reader 6.0.
I think the Little People are a little more advanced. My son loved the Baby Lego for about a year. He would chew on them and shake and rattle them, but now he's playing with the Little People and Duplos more (He's 18 months now). About all he uses the Baby Lego for now is throwing. They're heavy enough to make a nice bang when they hit something :)
And better than Duplo (For babies anyway) is the Baby Lego. They are rounded so your son can't get poked or scratched with it. Most of them have rattles in them, and some have a little music box.
The baby bricks are larger than Duplo, and stack on top of the Duplos.
Baby Lego
The main problem with standard XP is the stupid requirement to phone home to register before downloading the patches to make it safe to be on the net in the first place.
That's FUD. XP gives you 60 days to activate your copy of windows. During those 60 days, Windows is fully functional and allows you to connect without any activation related troubles.
We had a VIC-20 that my dad bought new. I would spend hours on it trying to figure out BASIC.
Later, my parents bought an Apple IIc with the orange monitor. I remember when my dad brought home a mouse, and I thought "Who the hell will ever use this crappy thing? This will never catch on."
I realize the batteries are custom for a reason, but why couldn't you buy a replacement battery that just snaps in, similar to a cell phone battery? Those are custom, and easily replacable.
That would make sense for iPod users, unless Apple was trying to make the device disposable.
Don't ALL batteries eventually lose their ability to hold a charge? I agree that Apple should have designed the iPod so it is easier to replace them, but consumers also should have thought about things like replacing the batteries before buying an MP3 player that costs that much.
As with almost all class action suits, the lawyers will more than likely end up being the only "winners".
A lot of private pilots follow the freeway system to help them navigate.
Many places have family restrooms for nursing moms. They usually have a couch so the mom can relax and feed her baby.
Although I have no idea why a theater would be catering to nursing moms...
Do you have a link to a story or something about this ad? I'm curious.
And get your spiel ready for when the 11 o'clock news is there asking what it sounded like.