Most phones will be able to dial 911 (or 999 or 112) without a SIM card (tho my current phone only can do 999 or 112 not 911) some phones don't acknowledge your button presses, until you press 911 or 999 in its entirely then it might show something. Some phones even show "Insert SIM card" for a little while and later on pop up "Emergency calls only" with a soft button labelled "SOS". That's true for all my phones I've owned.
Most modern DVD players that has been region cracked, also have Macrovision cracked as well - my parents recently wanted to buy a DVD player, plug the VCR into that, and output to the TV, but due to shortage of SCART plugs on the player (nowadays it's nearly impossible to find a DVD player with dual SCART plugs to pipe the VCR through) so they decided to pipe the DVD via the VCR instead and I warned them a lot about Macrovision, but they ignored me, brought a cheap region cracked DVD player and piped it through the VCR. No problem. No fading or whatever. Had to explain why there wasn't a problem. The DVD player wasn't even advertised with Macrovision being cracked at all.
5kg = 200 pounds? Ye gods... so using your system, I weight 3,000 pounds - I knew I was a bit heavy but not *that* heavy! 5kg roughly equals 11 pounds.
Not sure. Considering fuel tax makes up 6% of the govt's budget, I'd suspect some goes back to roads but most don't. I don't know I'm afraid - did a bit of googling, but there's a massive response of websites against fuel tax, so hard to find:) Here's a vaugely interesting PDF document about the effects of fuel tax on the general populace, you might want to read it or not. Not really revelant to this subject tho.
Oh yeah we do have vehicle excise duty (more generally called "road tax") in which we have to pay a lump sum per year (depending on engine size) and get a "tax disc" and display it on the car. I currently pay £110 per year (the minimum possible for old cars) but it goes up to £160 IIRC. The money raised from that goes back to the roads. Lorries et al pay much more but I don't know the figures for them. Anyway my point is that I think VED pays for the roads while fuel tax doesn't.
Older car gets worse gas milage? My car can easily get 450 miles out of 35 liters of petrol (~50mpg) and it's a cheap crappy 12 year old car with 122,000 miles on the clock. I could buy this car for £400 easily. Engine is actually worth £20 2nd hand. Admittingly that's when I drive at 55mph on motorways, it's realistically more like 350 miles at 75-80mph on motorways (~40mpg). Urban mileage sucks at 250 miles from 35 liters though (~30mpg). My car's engine was designed with only fuel economy in mind and it's still true today. After all, I once accidentally left the engine running overnight for 10 hours (don't ask me how...) and it only used less than 1/12th of a tank - around 3 liters.
I drove from Bristol to Inverness and back in July, total 1,100 miles and only had to fill up two times - total 105 liters of petrol, average 47mpg. I only paid £30 return as 2 other people came with me. Not bad really.
We in the UK already pay much more than $1 per gallon in fuel tax. I paid 82.9p a litre a few days ago to fill up my car. Converting that to US gallons, 3.79 liters into 1 US gallon, so that's £3.14 an US gallon and in dollars that's $5.82 USD per US gallon. IIRC, 75% of the petrol price is tax, that's around $4.40 a gallon fuel tax. And do we have alternative fuels? Do we hell.
Fair enough, we have LPG and the like but petrol stations supplying them are still rare and prices are around 38 to 40p a litre, cars needs to be converted into LPG (around £2,000 but then again in the long run it will pay itself off and there's government grants for that) and LPG isn't that much better your-run-of-the-mill petrol.
No hydrogen powered cars, electric cars are still painfully rare, etc etc.
Heh carbon canister... can't be new as my 1992 Vauxhall Nova - cheapest possible Vauxhall car in 1992, mine was also bog standard, no extras etc, has one The engine was introduced in 1990 I think.
But yeah the Prius does sound good, just wish it was affordable:) Although the govt has a grant for people who buy those cars - it's only £700 but still.
Actually there are bone conducted hearing aids being used - my friend has one - info here about BAHA (BAHA = bone anchored hearing aid). Of course it is only useful in some situations, it isn't in mine but for me, a cochlear implant helps.
Huh? Of course they still sell them - I've even got one of those in my shed and I find it useful, as my garden is small and very irregular, I had a wheeled mower and it pissed me off to no end as I couldn't go straight very far and was very heavy as I had to go up and down steps to put it in the shed compared to the hover mower where it is very light and easily carried around. And I've used it for many years and it hasn't moved on it's own. It has a kill switch, if I let go, it powers down. All lawn mowers I've used has it anyway.
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If that URL doesn't work, just go to www.flymo.com and have a look around.
It's an opposite experience for me actually. Had 4 cats in my life, one was already owned by my parents when I was born, when she died, my parents got another 2 (long story), then both died and I moved out and got my own who's still alive, and my parents got 2 more also still alive still. Anyway all 3 cats that died in my life lived to 13/14 (mainly estimated as one was a stray and another was a rescued cat) and died of kidney failure due to old age and had to be euthanised. Point is that they all are outdoor cats. I know of lots of people with outdoor cats and they all live up to the normal lifespan (14-15) or is quite old and still alive. and I don't know of someone who has an indoor cat. I know of two cats that got run over by a car though. My cat enjoys going outside, but she's a really nervous cat and doesn't go very far - only into the neighbours garden and that's it. I think it helps living in a quiet area with big gardens (big for a typical British city garden) and away from main roads. Parents lives in the middle of the countryside and one of their cats hunts a lot, catching something like 4 or 5 animals a week obviously enjoying it a lot. If she was an indoor cat, that'd be a little unfair. For my own cat, I don't think she'd be bothered if she was an indoor cat as she sleeps inside all the time:) Also she doesn't like going outside much apart from going to the toilet. But I prefer them to have the freedom going outside. I prefer to think of the cat not myself, but I agree, losing a cat is painful and hard. I'm not condeming your decision, just putting my view here that's all.
My cat has been vaccinated against all preventable diseases that is possible, and I make sure she gets her booster injections every year, also she has been microchipped in case she gets lost, and I refuse to put a collar on her as cats sometimes fall from trees and get strangled on branches. Injections are expensive, but worth it. No NHS for cats;)
In fact, the animal sactunary we got our cats from refuses to allow them to be indoor cats, saying we *have* to have cat flaps and inspects our houses to check that along with other reasons such as if we live next to a main road and stuff.
The average life span of indoor cats is about 14 years - though this is reduced to 4 years in cats that are allowed to roam free, exposing themselves to the hazards of outdoor life. ) for various reasons.
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Actually I find that the bigger the TV is, the more likely that it has teletext memory. My very cheap 6 year old 25" has a simple teletext memory - it stores around 3 pages next to the current one, and 3 pages before, along with the fastext pages, but yeah still poor. My fairly expensive 14" TV of around the same age didn't have any teletext memory not even for fastext. European TV's had much better teletext memory - I remember when I went to Sweden, the TV I watched there could store every page and subpages on the current magazine (i.e. 100-199, or 200-299 and so on) and you could select the subpage - and flip between them manually, and backwards too which was a godsend. I wish British TV's had that feature:/
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Lucky you've got a shop that sells dimmable CFL's - I need dimmable CFL for every light socket in my house as I'm deaf and so have a house light flashing system, but it doesn't turn the lights off, but dims them, so CFL's are out. Was pleased to see that there are a such thing as a dimmable CFL's, but as I'm a Brit, and I require BC not ES fittings (bayonet rather than screw in), can't find dimmable CFL's with BC fittings anywhere on Google:/
Acutally, while I follow your philosophy, I find that mobiles are actually getting smaller - my first phone was a 9000i which, basically, is a brick in 1998. Progressed to the Panasonic G520, Nokia 5110, 7110, 6310, 5100 and now a Samsung E700, and the E700 is the smallest of them all. I loved my 7110, it was the best phone I ever had, but when I lost the charger for my E700, I went back to my 7110 and was absouetly amazed how massive it was in comparasion, and the E700 can do pretty much everything. But then again, the 7110 does everything I want to do, same as the E700, I just ignore the extra features although the E700 has a much nicer LCD screen which is far easier to look at than the 7110. I'm surprised your phone doesn't do WAP, all the above phones I have apart from the 9000i, G520 and 5110 can do WAP.
I guess the plus thing for me was that my plan offers free WAP minutes, used to be unlimited but now limited to 500, although while I used to use WAP lots, I rarely do so anymore bascially because I'm never too far away from a computer all the time:)
In the UK, plates stay with the car, not with the person. Hence you can work out the age of the car and where it was registered (very difficult with the old system, very easy with the new system) from the numberplate. For example, my old car was F111 SLO - F being H2 1988/H1 1989, and SLO being the location of the issuing authority, and 111 is just random characters. New system slightly different, but has the same idea. So in the UK, there's almost no reason to change plates unless the plate itself is broken, or the car's identity has been copied (and put on other cars) but is in perfectly driveable state, and needs a new identity, but this is pretty rare and serious anyway..
Only found out recently that in the States, plates stay with the person which cleared up lots of things for me;) How do you deal with two or more cars that you owe anyway?
Then don't use Redhat. Use something like Debian - I mean the base install to get you up and running is something like 80Mb - it'll prompt to install more stuff, but I just cancel the installation at that point and I can install things as I need as I go along.
Even the PSILinux project has created a 50Mb Debian Woody install for the Psion 5mx that has a fully working X server (though not properly set up).
Parent poster did say that he runs his server without X - I quote: "I install all my servers with out any kind of X environment" but he was moaning about redhat installing X as default.
To my experience, having an AMD K6-3 400 with 256MB RAM, XP really drags on and on, while Debian with Windowmaker is a whole lot faster and responsive, but still a little too slow for my liking.
Also, I have Debian and Windowmaker on my 486 laptop with 20Mb RAM which is just about usable though like treacle - I can't even install any of the NT operating systems on that due to lack of CDROM drive, and Windows 95/98 (copied via parallel port and laplink) is much slower. 3.11 works nicely though, shame it's useless;)
But yeah I agree, Windows 2000 is a lot more stable, but I find Linux to be more stable, the last time I saw a kernel panic that wasn't a boot disk problem was 2 years ago on my K6-3 with the stock kernel being unable to turn off the PC after shutting down, recompiling the kernel fixed it. Win2k, OTOH, BSOD's a few times, and refuses to even run on my XP PC like I mentioned before.
Prob with that idea - subtitles are never included with downloaded programs/movies - the only torrents I can download and enjoy are japanese anime's which already has subtitles. As I'm deaf, I require subtitles to watch TV/films, and the only platform that gurnatees at least some subtitles are TV and DVD's.
There's already a communication method employed by deaf people that works very well in loud environments and over very long distances - that's called sign language.
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Most phones will be able to dial 911 (or 999 or 112) without a SIM card (tho my current phone only can do 999 or 112 not 911) some phones don't acknowledge your button presses, until you press 911 or 999 in its entirely then it might show something. Some phones even show "Insert SIM card" for a little while and later on pop up "Emergency calls only" with a soft button labelled "SOS". That's true for all my phones I've owned.
Most modern DVD players that has been region cracked, also have Macrovision cracked as well - my parents recently wanted to buy a DVD player, plug the VCR into that, and output to the TV, but due to shortage of SCART plugs on the player (nowadays it's nearly impossible to find a DVD player with dual SCART plugs to pipe the VCR through) so they decided to pipe the DVD via the VCR instead and I warned them a lot about Macrovision, but they ignored me, brought a cheap region cracked DVD player and piped it through the VCR. No problem. No fading or whatever. Had to explain why there wasn't a problem. The DVD player wasn't even advertised with Macrovision being cracked at all.
5kg = 200 pounds? Ye gods... so using your system, I weight 3,000 pounds - I knew I was a bit heavy but not *that* heavy! 5kg roughly equals 11 pounds.
Not sure. Considering fuel tax makes up 6% of the govt's budget, I'd suspect some goes back to roads but most don't. I don't know I'm afraid - did a bit of googling, but there's a massive response of websites against fuel tax, so hard to find :) Here's a vaugely interesting PDF document about the effects of fuel tax on the general populace, you might want to read it or not. Not really revelant to this subject tho.
Oh yeah we do have vehicle excise duty (more generally called "road tax") in which we have to pay a lump sum per year (depending on engine size) and get a "tax disc" and display it on the car. I currently pay £110 per year (the minimum possible for old cars) but it goes up to £160 IIRC. The money raised from that goes back to the roads. Lorries et al pay much more but I don't know the figures for them. Anyway my point is that I think VED pays for the roads while fuel tax doesn't.
I've got Crossover version 3 and I can run IE6 just fine in it...? No JVM support though.
Older car gets worse gas milage? My car can easily get 450 miles out of 35 liters of petrol (~50mpg) and it's a cheap crappy 12 year old car with 122,000 miles on the clock. I could buy this car for £400 easily. Engine is actually worth £20 2nd hand. Admittingly that's when I drive at 55mph on motorways, it's realistically more like 350 miles at 75-80mph on motorways (~40mpg). Urban mileage sucks at 250 miles from 35 liters though (~30mpg). My car's engine was designed with only fuel economy in mind and it's still true today. After all, I once accidentally left the engine running overnight for 10 hours (don't ask me how...) and it only used less than 1/12th of a tank - around 3 liters.
I drove from Bristol to Inverness and back in July, total 1,100 miles and only had to fill up two times - total 105 liters of petrol, average 47mpg. I only paid £30 return as 2 other people came with me. Not bad really.
We in the UK already pay much more than $1 per gallon in fuel tax. I paid 82.9p a litre a few days ago to fill up my car. Converting that to US gallons, 3.79 liters into 1 US gallon, so that's £3.14 an US gallon and in dollars that's $5.82 USD per US gallon. IIRC, 75% of the petrol price is tax, that's around $4.40 a gallon fuel tax. And do we have alternative fuels? Do we hell.
Fair enough, we have LPG and the like but petrol stations supplying them are still rare and prices are around 38 to 40p a litre, cars needs to be converted into LPG (around £2,000 but then again in the long run it will pay itself off and there's government grants for that) and LPG isn't that much better your-run-of-the-mill petrol.
No hydrogen powered cars, electric cars are still painfully rare, etc etc.
Heh carbon canister... can't be new as my 1992 Vauxhall Nova - cheapest possible Vauxhall car in 1992, mine was also bog standard, no extras etc, has one The engine was introduced in 1990 I think.
:) Although the govt has a grant for people who buy those cars - it's only £700 but still.
But yeah the Prius does sound good, just wish it was affordable
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Actually there are bone conducted hearing aids being used - my friend has one - info here about BAHA (BAHA = bone anchored hearing aid). Of course it is only useful in some situations, it isn't in mine but for me, a cochlear implant helps.
Huh? Of course they still sell them - I've even got one of those in my shed and I find it useful, as my garden is small and very irregular, I had a wheeled mower and it pissed me off to no end as I couldn't go straight very far and was very heavy as I had to go up and down steps to put it in the shed compared to the hover mower where it is very light and easily carried around. And I've used it for many years and it hasn't moved on it's own. It has a kill switch, if I let go, it powers down. All lawn mowers I've used has it anyway.
Hovermowers If that URL doesn't work, just go to www.flymo.com and have a look around.Consider this:
House -> Work - 5 miles.
Takes a hour for me to drive to work
Takes me 30 mins to cycle to work
Why? Rush hour traffic. But yeah, it depends on different situations and stuff.
Zero - I don't own a piece of music. Seriously.
It's an opposite experience for me actually. Had 4 cats in my life, one was already owned by my parents when I was born, when she died, my parents got another 2 (long story), then both died and I moved out and got my own who's still alive, and my parents got 2 more also still alive still. Anyway all 3 cats that died in my life lived to 13/14 (mainly estimated as one was a stray and another was a rescued cat) and died of kidney failure due to old age and had to be euthanised. Point is that they all are outdoor cats. I know of lots of people with outdoor cats and they all live up to the normal lifespan (14-15) or is quite old and still alive. and I don't know of someone who has an indoor cat. I know of two cats that got run over by a car though. My cat enjoys going outside, but she's a really nervous cat and doesn't go very far - only into the neighbours garden and that's it. I think it helps living in a quiet area with big gardens (big for a typical British city garden) and away from main roads. Parents lives in the middle of the countryside and one of their cats hunts a lot, catching something like 4 or 5 animals a week obviously enjoying it a lot. If she was an indoor cat, that'd be a little unfair. For my own cat, I don't think she'd be bothered if she was an indoor cat as she sleeps inside all the time :) Also she doesn't like going outside much apart from going to the toilet. But I prefer them to have the freedom going outside. I prefer to think of the cat not myself, but I agree, losing a cat is painful and hard. I'm not condeming your decision, just putting my view here that's all.
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My cat has been vaccinated against all preventable diseases that is possible, and I make sure she gets her booster injections every year, also she has been microchipped in case she gets lost, and I refuse to put a collar on her as cats sometimes fall from trees and get strangled on branches. Injections are expensive, but worth it. No NHS for cats
In fact, the animal sactunary we got our cats from refuses to allow them to be indoor cats, saying we *have* to have cat flaps and inspects our houses to check that along with other reasons such as if we live next to a main road and stuff.
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The average life span of indoor cats is about 14 years - though this is reduced to 4 years in cats that are allowed to roam free, exposing themselves to the hazards of outdoor life.
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Actually I find that the bigger the TV is, the more likely that it has teletext memory. My very cheap 6 year old 25" has a simple teletext memory - it stores around 3 pages next to the current one, and 3 pages before, along with the fastext pages, but yeah still poor. My fairly expensive 14" TV of around the same age didn't have any teletext memory not even for fastext. European TV's had much better teletext memory - I remember when I went to Sweden, the TV I watched there could store every page and subpages on the current magazine (i.e. 100-199, or 200-299 and so on) and you could select the subpage - and flip between them manually, and backwards too which was a godsend. I wish British TV's had that feature :/
Lucky you've got a shop that sells dimmable CFL's - I need dimmable CFL for every light socket in my house as I'm deaf and so have a house light flashing system, but it doesn't turn the lights off, but dims them, so CFL's are out. Was pleased to see that there are a such thing as a dimmable CFL's, but as I'm a Brit, and I require BC not ES fittings (bayonet rather than screw in), can't find dimmable CFL's with BC fittings anywhere on Google :/
I just want a PDA with a keyboard like the Psions.
Acutally, while I follow your philosophy, I find that mobiles are actually getting smaller - my first phone was a 9000i which, basically, is a brick in 1998. Progressed to the Panasonic G520, Nokia 5110, 7110, 6310, 5100 and now a Samsung E700, and the E700 is the smallest of them all. I loved my 7110, it was the best phone I ever had, but when I lost the charger for my E700, I went back to my 7110 and was absouetly amazed how massive it was in comparasion, and the E700 can do pretty much everything. But then again, the 7110 does everything I want to do, same as the E700, I just ignore the extra features although the E700 has a much nicer LCD screen which is far easier to look at than the 7110. I'm surprised your phone doesn't do WAP, all the above phones I have apart from the 9000i, G520 and 5110 can do WAP.
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I guess the plus thing for me was that my plan offers free WAP minutes, used to be unlimited but now limited to 500, although while I used to use WAP lots, I rarely do so anymore bascially because I'm never too far away from a computer all the time
Don't have enough hard drive space for that - only got 500Mb.
In the UK, plates stay with the car, not with the person. Hence you can work out the age of the car and where it was registered (very difficult with the old system, very easy with the new system) from the numberplate. For example, my old car was F111 SLO - F being H2 1988/H1 1989, and SLO being the location of the issuing authority, and 111 is just random characters. New system slightly different, but has the same idea. So in the UK, there's almost no reason to change plates unless the plate itself is broken, or the car's identity has been copied (and put on other cars) but is in perfectly driveable state, and needs a new identity, but this is pretty rare and serious anyway..
;) How do you deal with two or more cars that you owe anyway?
Only found out recently that in the States, plates stay with the person which cleared up lots of things for me
Then don't use Redhat. Use something like Debian - I mean the base install to get you up and running is something like 80Mb - it'll prompt to install more stuff, but I just cancel the installation at that point and I can install things as I need as I go along.
Even the PSILinux project has created a 50Mb Debian Woody install for the Psion 5mx that has a fully working X server (though not properly set up).
Parent poster did say that he runs his server without X - I quote: "I install all my servers with out any kind of X environment" but he was moaning about redhat installing X as default.
To my experience, having an AMD K6-3 400 with 256MB RAM, XP really drags on and on, while Debian with Windowmaker is a whole lot faster and responsive, but still a little too slow for my liking.
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Also, I have Debian and Windowmaker on my 486 laptop with 20Mb RAM which is just about usable though like treacle - I can't even install any of the NT operating systems on that due to lack of CDROM drive, and Windows 95/98 (copied via parallel port and laplink) is much slower. 3.11 works nicely though, shame it's useless
But yeah I agree, Windows 2000 is a lot more stable, but I find Linux to be more stable, the last time I saw a kernel panic that wasn't a boot disk problem was 2 years ago on my K6-3 with the stock kernel being unable to turn off the PC after shutting down, recompiling the kernel fixed it. Win2k, OTOH, BSOD's a few times, and refuses to even run on my XP PC like I mentioned before.
Prob with that idea - subtitles are never included with downloaded programs/movies - the only torrents I can download and enjoy are japanese anime's which already has subtitles. As I'm deaf, I require subtitles to watch TV/films, and the only platform that gurnatees at least some subtitles are TV and DVD's.
There's already a communication method employed by deaf people that works very well in loud environments and over very long distances - that's called sign language.