I agree with you, except on what to use. Dynamat is basically a cheap sheet of asphalt, that somehow goes up 10X in price when they silkscreen "Dynamat" on it. If you know where to get it, you can save a lot of money for the same thing.
Check out McMaster-Carr. Use the search box on the left to look for (page) 3302, and that will take you to the sound damping materials. The "white box Dynamat" is the Polymeric Mastic, stock # 9709T19, at $14.62 for 12sq feet. Shipping might cost a bit due to weight, but it should still come out cheaper than Dynamat brand sheets (at ~$12/sq foot).
I can't belive you didn't mention the best part about the Collins Rd. Theatre, the Midnight Movies! (nearly) Every friday and saturday night, he shows a movie the customers have requested, which generally means they're a good movie. Ones he's shown lately are Army of Darkness, The Big Lebowski, Blazing Saddles, Spaceballs, and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. The lack of commercials, real butter at the concession, and good prices are just icing on the cake.
And actually, there are commercials, but the difference between these, and ones at Carmike, are that the ones at Carmike start showing AT the ticket time, whereas the ones at Collins show UNTIL the ticket time.
I was looking for the same thing you were, except also cheap. I found http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/products/details /US/EN,CRID=2282,CONTENTID=6636 this Logitech NetPlay Gkeyboard at a Gamerz store, and finally bought one when I saw it at a Best Buy for 19.95. It recognizes as a standard USB HID keyboard, feels like a laptop KB, and has an 8 foot cord. Most of the keys are normal sized, except for the top 2 rows (number keys and Function keys). Also, not being a "windows" keyboard, there is no "menu" button between the right hand Alt & Ctrl. The most important feature for me is a native Delete key, for getting into BIOSs.
Eh. I'm a geek, post here (occasionally), studying for a LAN Mgmt. AA degree so I have a piece of paper to prove I'm edgoomakated....and I've been working at a McD's for going on 4 months now. It's not so bad, except for being only $7.00/hr.
I have an Athlon XP 2500+ (Barton), 1024MB of DDR333, and an older card than you, an ATI Radeon 8500 with 64MB SDRam. I've been playing it at 1024x768x16, and it's not bad at all. Motion is pretty smooth, no noticable slowness or jerkiness. Obviously with only 64MB of video ram the textures aren't as complicated, and it's not a DX9 card, so given those facts it's not as pretty as it could be with a better card, but I'm still quite impressed. The worst thing are the autosave/load times at each chapter.
What your parent poster is likely referring to is a big difference between Series1 TiVos and Series2 TiVos. The Series1 could be used as a HDD based VCR, with a great visual interface, and (in many folks' opinion), a great remote. Series2 on the other hand, can not. After the initial setup call, it will effectively stop working after 30 days. You can still watch TV, pause, rewind, etc...but it will not record shows. Unfortunatly, this happens after 30 days, which is after the limit of most stores' return policy.
This may have been changed by now, but before I got my TiVo Series2, I had read on the tivo.com page that you ARE able to use a TiVo as a HDD VCR, without the guide data. They just don't recommend it. So when I discovered this "30 day gotcha", I was slightly pissed.
I couldn't tell you a percentage, but I often have bought open box items to save money, especially when it indicates "No parts missing." If anything IS missing, or it's broken, I'll bring it back, pay the difference, and get a NIB one. Both my TV and HT reciever were open item, and I saved at least 20 bucks on each one (10%). The TV has case warpage, (a bulge top center) but functions just fine. The A/V switchbox I got was open, and with a coupon ended up 50% off!
OTOH, I will admit to often passing over an open package, for a "fresh" one.
Warez or porn sites. Turn off images, and they're not nearly as bad for shock value. However, you'll still get IE popup after popup after popup, whereas Firefox goes only where you tell it. Of course, you'll want to follow up the IE surfing with an AV and ad/spyware scan.
At least that's been my experience when getting a pr0n fix.
Buy a UPS? Wouldn't it be cheaper to just buy the replacement bulbs?
That doesn't necessarily mean a huge UPS, just *a* UPS; merely something to keep a nice clean flow of power to the projector. This should be do-able for less than $100.
Bulbs, OTOH, can be quite expensive. Moreso than $100 a pop.
If you mean, "I want to open.exe files with two clicks", then I believe you to be correct.
However, you can download, then double click them in the download manager to open. It will pop up a warning saying 'Are you sure you want to launch "__.exe"?'. Check "Don't ask me this again", then the "OK" button to save yourself a click each time. A little more work, but it does work.
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SteamInstaller.exe?
I agree with you, except on what to use. Dynamat is basically a cheap sheet of asphalt, that somehow goes up 10X in price when they silkscreen "Dynamat" on it. If you know where to get it, you can save a lot of money for the same thing.
Check out McMaster-Carr. Use the search box on the left to look for (page) 3302, and that will take you to the sound damping materials. The "white box Dynamat" is the Polymeric Mastic, stock # 9709T19, at $14.62 for 12sq feet. Shipping might cost a bit due to weight, but it should still come out cheaper than Dynamat brand sheets (at ~$12/sq foot).
I can't belive you didn't mention the best part about the Collins Rd. Theatre, the Midnight Movies! (nearly) Every friday and saturday night, he shows a movie the customers have requested, which generally means they're a good movie. Ones he's shown lately are Army of Darkness, The Big Lebowski, Blazing Saddles, Spaceballs, and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. The lack of commercials, real butter at the concession, and good prices are just icing on the cake.
And actually, there are commercials, but the difference between these, and ones at Carmike, are that the ones at Carmike start showing AT the ticket time, whereas the ones at Collins show UNTIL the ticket time.
I was looking for the same thing you were, except also cheap. I found http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/products/details /US/EN,CRID=2282,CONTENTID=6636 this Logitech NetPlay Gkeyboard at a Gamerz store, and finally bought one when I saw it at a Best Buy for 19.95. It recognizes as a standard USB HID keyboard, feels like a laptop KB, and has an 8 foot cord. Most of the keys are normal sized, except for the top 2 rows (number keys and Function keys). Also, not being a "windows" keyboard, there is no "menu" button between the right hand Alt & Ctrl. The most important feature for me is a native Delete key, for getting into BIOSs.
http://www.thinkcomputers.org.nyud.net:8090/v2/ind ex.php?x=articles&id=26&page=2
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http://www.thinkcomputers.org.nyud.net:8090/v2/ind ex.php?x=articles&id=26&page=3
If I hadn't just lost my mod points, you'd get them.
Eh. I'm a geek, post here (occasionally), studying for a LAN Mgmt. AA degree so I have a piece of paper to prove I'm edgoomakated....and I've been working at a McD's for going on 4 months now. It's not so bad, except for being only $7.00/hr.
Thank you for doing so too. The expression on his face, how it's being said...fucking hilarious. Thanks.
Whaaa? Wow, that's sweet. I don't know if I ever would have stumbled across that feature, so thanks for mentioning it!
coax, as in "coax the puppy." sounds like Cokes (the soda).
coax, as in "cable comes over coax" sounds like coe-axe.
Now if they could only make it in the form of a suppository!
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I have an Athlon XP 2500+ (Barton), 1024MB of DDR333, and an older card than you, an ATI Radeon 8500 with 64MB SDRam. I've been playing it at 1024x768x16, and it's not bad at all. Motion is pretty smooth, no noticable slowness or jerkiness. Obviously with only 64MB of video ram the textures aren't as complicated, and it's not a DX9 card, so given those facts it's not as pretty as it could be with a better card, but I'm still quite impressed. The worst thing are the autosave/load times at each chapter.
They seem to be saying "Our locks aren't suceptible to BIC pens. If you're still worried, we'll replace it anyway. You're welcome."
What's wrong with that?
This may have been changed by now, but before I got my TiVo Series2, I had read on the tivo.com page that you ARE able to use a TiVo as a HDD VCR, without the guide data. They just don't recommend it. So when I discovered this "30 day gotcha", I was slightly pissed.
OTOH, I will admit to often passing over an open package, for a "fresh" one.
At least that's been my experience when getting a pr0n fix.
In addition, myostatin blockers could be used as performance enhancers.
That doesn't necessarily mean a huge UPS, just *a* UPS; merely something to keep a nice clean flow of power to the projector. This should be do-able for less than $100.
Bulbs, OTOH, can be quite expensive. Moreso than $100 a pop.
However, you can download, then double click them in the download manager to open. It will pop up a warning saying 'Are you sure you want to launch "__.exe"?'. Check "Don't ask me this again", then the "OK" button to save yourself a click each time. A little more work, but it does work.
Well how else will we secure access to automated ATM machines?
For detecting the various gawkers trespassing on base property, perhaps? (or even before they get to the base border)
Unless they got that way because..*gasp*..you wore them! Then, it's ok.