Sigh. This happened to me a week ago. Tried to hook up a USB-B connector to the back of a laserprinter blind. It fit in but wouldn't be detected by the host computer at all. The computer was running Linux Mint so I thought it was a compatibility problem (even though I just moved the printer from another computer running the exact same version of Linux Mint).
After 20 minutes I decided to turn the printer around and noticed (for the first time) that a USB-B connector would quite easily fit snugly into an ethernet port.
I have a few friends that drive GTs and one who has a GT RS. All of them emphasized that they "worked their way up" to the GT. First a BMW 3 series, then a BMW M3, then a Porsche Boxster, then a Carrera, and finally (in one case) a 911. They all said that the step-up to their first Porsche was the biggest difficulty, and when they went to professional racetrack driving lessons.
YouTube is littered with videos of these things crashing in inexperienced hands.
I recently had to get a home mortgage. I had to identify every deposit into my bank account of more than a couple hundred dollars.
The only way I could do that was to wait a month and not deposit any checks into the account during that time to get a "clean" statement.
Another thing: Try withdrawing $10K from a bank account that you own in the U.S. They'll give you the third degree. Apparently they have to report large withdrawals of cash to the Feds.
I have a colleague who makes mid 6 figures and still can't manage to save more than what's put in automatically to his 401k equivalent by our employer. I also know several friends making ~80K a year that are on the verge of bankruptcy.
It's called living below your means. If you can afford a 1200/month rent, pay 1000/month and put the rest away in long term savings. Put it into an ETF (exchange traded fund) and get an average 5% per year growth.
1 year - $2454 2 years - $5031 3 years - $7737 4 years - $10579 10 years - $30873
I started migrating to protopage.com about 1-2 months ago. Took me an hour to get all the RSS feeds in correctly (could have probably done it quicker if I had exported from iGoogle). Took me another hour to get the color scheme to something close to iGoogle.
Now I have more flexibility than I ever did with iGoogle. My only complaint is that the protopage Google Calendar widget only shows a single calendar, while I like to show all my calendars. But I'm an outlier - I have 8-9 active calendars to keep things separate in work and home lives.
Most police work means they can make up whatever they want if cases of your word vs theirs (which is very often). However, most traffic cops aren't going to bother with you if you don't do something to catch their attention in the first place, such as going much faster than traffic, changing lanes often, swerving within or between lanes, not signaling, tailgating, etc.
Like most humans, cops are lazy. And this is California, not Texas. You're probably not going to get pulled over for Driving While Black. If the cop sees something that catches their attention, however, they'll find an excuse to pull you over.
And, no, I highly doubt that wearing Goggle Glass is going to do it. It probably looks like a hair band or fancy glasses to someone in the next car over.
Actually, I'm pretty sure everywhere I've driven on a highway (in the U.S. at least) there's a Speed Limit sign just after every entry point to the highway.
If I don't see a speed limit sign and I'm on a highway, I just assume it's the limit for the State (usually 55mph, but higher in quite a few).
Dammit. You actually made me feel bad for getting my dad an iMac. He hasn't called me for 'service calls' in ages. In retrospect, it's after I set up that system for him that I started visiting him less often...
Current Slashdot flows to my display and still looks good. New Slashdot is yet another "cramped canyon".
It'll be sad if Slashdot succumbs to the "looks good on our iPad so it's done" mentality.
Actually, looking at the beta again, I bet this is exactly what happened.
Someone was tasked to make/. look good on a tablet and came up with this. That being said,/. mobile version actually looks pretty good on tablets, so I think they just had a bad batch of crack when they were making the decision.
WTF does "Load More Comments" do? Load 5 comments at a time?
If you really don't want people to comment, just disable comments. I'll just go to another website to read comments. I sure as heck don't come here to read the articles.
While we're at it, any other sites have good comment sections that you guys (users, not DICE) recommend?
Alt-GR would be great in the US to allow people to realize that these characters were available.
While we're at it, how about bringing back window management keys. When I used a Sun Sparc, we had keys for front, back, forward, backward to allow us to management windows appropriately..
Is the Fed going to increase the rate? This is a question with two possible answers, yes and no. You get the answer in D.C. and mark a particle there. The entangled particle in Chicago would get the appropriate mark at the speed of light (or instantly?) where it is read and triggers a buy or sell appropriately.
If 100 adults were seen in a liquor store with children in tow, what percentage would you expect to be serving alcohol to their children?
FYI, I take my kids to the liquor store all the time. They're 6 and 9 and know what alcohol is but have never tasted it. They know it's not for them and they have no interest in it. Maybe I'll let my older one have a sip when she hits 12... at a time and place where I can control it. After all, that's about the age I had my first sip.
As for bringing children into liquor stores, the store just has a sign up that children must be accompanied by an adult all the time in the store. (And if you have young kids, you'll know that it's hard to run errands and leave them home.)
If they could release just the Surface Pro and market it as a touch pad that ran all Windows software that could dock to a keyboard +/- mouse and secondary screen for "real" work, I think they would have a real hit on their hands. Why get a desktop at all if you could carry it along wish you and just dock as needed?
Unfortunately, they are causing confusion in their target market by having two products with very similar names that are not software compatible with each other.
A subsidized iPhone 4S is free. My guess is that when most people have the option of a "free" phone and staying with your carrier for 2 years (which you're likely to do anyway), they take the free phone.
In other words, I would hazard a guess that not many people in the U.S. are using an iPhone 3G. I would love some statistics to prove me either right or wrong.
I agree, this is exactly how I want my movies/video. But I don't see what this has to do with a TV, i.e. a combo of display with a tuner and toy speakers. Think about the VCR/TV combos of the past; do you want to replace a perfectly good display only to update the source format? This is what many people did when TV broadcasts switched from analog to digital.
Don't try to apologize for the GP post. Just about any TV created in the last 5 years is essentially a monitor with cheap tuner and speakers hooked up. Almost no one uses the built in tuner. That's what the cable box is for. Speakers are there for those that don't appreaciate (or cannot afford) a richer sound experience (I have some tone deaf friends that really cannot appreciate the difference between 5.1 surround sound and L/R computer speakers.).
Calling modern TVs different from monitors is essentially scemantics at this point.
Got myself a 50" 1080p DLP TV in 2005. I've replaced the bulb twice so far, and told my wife that the next time it needs replacing we'll give it to anyone that's willing to take it. (It runs a little warm and the fan makes it less than quiet for about a half hour after I turn it off. Also the newer TVs are likely much more energy efficient.)
The TV has good picture quality, but the HDMI ports don't work particularly well. Truthfully, I didn't try an HDMI source until about 2-3 years ago. It works fine with component video and VGA.
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Sigh. This happened to me a week ago. Tried to hook up a USB-B connector to the back of a laserprinter blind. It fit in but wouldn't be detected by the host computer at all. The computer was running Linux Mint so I thought it was a compatibility problem (even though I just moved the printer from another computer running the exact same version of Linux Mint).
After 20 minutes I decided to turn the printer around and noticed (for the first time) that a USB-B connector would quite easily fit snugly into an ethernet port.
I have a few friends that drive GTs and one who has a GT RS. All of them emphasized that they "worked their way up" to the GT. First a BMW 3 series, then a BMW M3, then a Porsche Boxster, then a Carrera, and finally (in one case) a 911. They all said that the step-up to their first Porsche was the biggest difficulty, and when they went to professional racetrack driving lessons.
YouTube is littered with videos of these things crashing in inexperienced hands.
Bingo.
I recently had to get a home mortgage. I had to identify every deposit into my bank account of more than a couple hundred dollars.
The only way I could do that was to wait a month and not deposit any checks into the account during that time to get a "clean" statement.
Another thing: Try withdrawing $10K from a bank account that you own in the U.S. They'll give you the third degree. Apparently they have to report large withdrawals of cash to the Feds.
[...]Also, it's x86, so it's compatible with a totally different set of programs/OSes.
I'm sure someone will manage to compile a Debian based distro that can handle x86.
Anyone can live paycheck to paycheck.
I have a colleague who makes mid 6 figures and still can't manage to save more than what's put in automatically to his 401k equivalent by our employer. I also know several friends making ~80K a year that are on the verge of bankruptcy.
It's called living below your means. If you can afford a 1200/month rent, pay 1000/month and put the rest away in long term savings. Put it into an ETF (exchange traded fund) and get an average 5% per year growth.
1 year - $2454
2 years - $5031
3 years - $7737
4 years - $10579
10 years - $30873
The miracle of compounded interest.
You do realize that unless the cell phone knows where you are it's impossible for you to receive a call.
Or do you expect every cell tower to send out every call request to everyone in the world?
If you don't want to be tracked by your cell carrier, don't carry a cell phone.
Convention centers seem a better fit.
People do wander about convention centers, but not run from one end to the other.
The centers I've been to have excellent wifi. They probably already hired a good network engineer.
I started migrating to protopage.com about 1-2 months ago. Took me an hour to get all the RSS feeds in correctly (could have probably done it quicker if I had exported from iGoogle). Took me another hour to get the color scheme to something close to iGoogle.
Now I have more flexibility than I ever did with iGoogle. My only complaint is that the protopage Google Calendar widget only shows a single calendar, while I like to show all my calendars. But I'm an outlier - I have 8-9 active calendars to keep things separate in work and home lives.
Most police work means they can make up whatever they want if cases of your word vs theirs (which is very often). However, most traffic cops aren't going to bother with you if you don't do something to catch their attention in the first place, such as going much faster than traffic, changing lanes often, swerving within or between lanes, not signaling, tailgating, etc.
Like most humans, cops are lazy. And this is California, not Texas. You're probably not going to get pulled over for Driving While Black. If the cop sees something that catches their attention, however, they'll find an excuse to pull you over.
And, no, I highly doubt that wearing Goggle Glass is going to do it. It probably looks like a hair band or fancy glasses to someone in the next car over.
Actually, I'm pretty sure everywhere I've driven on a highway (in the U.S. at least) there's a Speed Limit sign just after every entry point to the highway.
If I don't see a speed limit sign and I'm on a highway, I just assume it's the limit for the State (usually 55mph, but higher in quite a few).
Dammit. You actually made me feel bad for getting my dad an iMac. He hasn't called me for 'service calls' in ages. In retrospect, it's after I set up that system for him that I started visiting him less often...
Sure. It starts off as a simple project to have fun with his engineers (probably worth the money, just to keep the engineers happy).
Then a couple years down the line he comes out with something that is marketable.
My dad always wanted to buy a boat but just couldn't justify it. Imagine having the option of an electric car that could turn into a submarine?
My thought: Next he's going to invest in biosphere research. Then a completely self-sufficient underwater biodome. Then a moon dome.
We may be in the middle of the origin story of a Bond villain here...
Current Slashdot flows to my display and still looks good. New Slashdot is yet another "cramped canyon".
It'll be sad if Slashdot succumbs to the "looks good on our iPad so it's done" mentality.
Actually, looking at the beta again, I bet this is exactly what happened.
Someone was tasked to make /. look good on a tablet and came up with this. That being said, /. mobile version actually looks pretty good on tablets, so I think they just had a bad batch of crack when they were making the decision.
WTF does "Load More Comments" do? Load 5 comments at a time?
If you really don't want people to comment, just disable comments. I'll just go to another website to read comments. I sure as heck don't come here to read the articles.
While we're at it, any other sites have good comment sections that you guys (users, not DICE) recommend?
Is there a way to filter by score?
I liked how I could view all +5 comments and abbreviate +3 - +4 comments and hide everything else.
If I got bored, I would move the slider over a bit and read more of the raw comments.
Well, no one expected her apple dandies to be laced with Polonium-210.
Can't wait to see what she hits these guys with.
Can I pay them an extra $1000 and buy directly from amazon? Why get a dealer involved?
(Not that I'm interested in a Nissan Versa. But my point is the same. Car dealers are the scum of the Earth.)
Alt-GR would be great in the US to allow people to realize that these characters were available.
While we're at it, how about bringing back window management keys. When I used a Sun Sparc, we had keys for front, back, forward, backward to allow us to management windows appropriately..
(I am not a physicist...)
How about a couple quantum entangled particles?
Is the Fed going to increase the rate? This is a question with two possible answers, yes and no. You get the answer in D.C. and mark a particle there. The entangled particle in Chicago would get the appropriate mark at the speed of light (or instantly?) where it is read and triggers a buy or sell appropriately.
If 100 adults were seen in a liquor store with children in tow, what percentage would you expect to be serving alcohol to their children?
FYI, I take my kids to the liquor store all the time. They're 6 and 9 and know what alcohol is but have never tasted it. They know it's not for them and they have no interest in it. Maybe I'll let my older one have a sip when she hits 12 ... at a time and place where I can control it. After all, that's about the age I had my first sip.
As for bringing children into liquor stores, the store just has a sign up that children must be accompanied by an adult all the time in the store. (And if you have young kids, you'll know that it's hard to run errands and leave them home.)
If they could release just the Surface Pro and market it as a touch pad that ran all Windows software that could dock to a keyboard +/- mouse and secondary screen for "real" work, I think they would have a real hit on their hands. Why get a desktop at all if you could carry it along wish you and just dock as needed?
Unfortunately, they are causing confusion in their target market by having two products with very similar names that are not software compatible with each other.
Most people get their phones subsidized.
A subsidized iPhone 4S is free. My guess is that when most people have the option of a "free" phone and staying with your carrier for 2 years (which you're likely to do anyway), they take the free phone.
In other words, I would hazard a guess that not many people in the U.S. are using an iPhone 3G. I would love some statistics to prove me either right or wrong.
No. People with this sort of money realize that just having the money is enough to attract more women than they want.
They buy the cars because they want the status symbols among their (predominately male) peers or even just to themselves.
I agree, this is exactly how I want my movies/video. But I don't see what this has to do with a TV, i.e. a combo of display with a tuner and toy speakers. Think about the VCR/TV combos of the past; do you want to replace a perfectly good display only to update the source format? This is what many people did when TV broadcasts switched from analog to digital.
Don't try to apologize for the GP post. Just about any TV created in the last 5 years is essentially a monitor with cheap tuner and speakers hooked up. Almost no one uses the built in tuner. That's what the cable box is for. Speakers are there for those that don't appreaciate (or cannot afford) a richer sound experience (I have some tone deaf friends that really cannot appreciate the difference between 5.1 surround sound and L/R computer speakers.).
Calling modern TVs different from monitors is essentially scemantics at this point.
Got myself a 50" 1080p DLP TV in 2005. I've replaced the bulb twice so far, and told my wife that the next time it needs replacing we'll give it to anyone that's willing to take it. (It runs a little warm and the fan makes it less than quiet for about a half hour after I turn it off. Also the newer TVs are likely much more energy efficient.)
The TV has good picture quality, but the HDMI ports don't work particularly well. Truthfully, I didn't try an HDMI source until about 2-3 years ago. It works fine with component video and VGA.