Actually, the real thieves are the companies that sell the converter boxes. Do you really think that a converter box would cost $45-$60 if it wasn't for the $40 government coupons? The things are more expensive than a DVD player, which basically does the same thing (convert a digital MPEG2 source to analog) but doesn't have to deal with reading the DVD. I predict that once the coupon program is over, we'll see the price of a converter box drop to $15-$25 or so.
It's the design of the reflector in the headlight that's focuses the light where it's needed, not any difference between the two headlights (on older cars, maybe no longer true for newer cars). This is true for the older sealed beam headlights too, the square ones are keyed so that you can't install the headlight upside-down so that beam is directed the wrong way. The round ones may not be keyed, it's been a while since I had to deal with those.
About the only thing you can do is to see if there was ever a bios update for the motherboard to allow for larger sticks. Alternatively, if you have the stick handy or can borrow it, throw it in the computer and try it as some will accept larger memory sticks even though it's not offiically supported. Otherwise, you're pretty much stuck. You could try a 7200RPM drive if the computer is stuck with a 5400RPM drive. I just did that recently on a 800Mhz Dell that's stuck at 512MB - not intentionally - the 5400RPM drive was dying and the spare on the shelf happened to be a 7200RPM drive. The computer was noticably quicker after that. It's probably not worth trying anything exotic, since you can get a cheap motherboard, a budget processor, and 2-4GB of ram for like $100 nowadays.
If there is another directory - say, the user has a root directory named just "Documents", then "Documents and Settings" could be named "Docume~2", so you have to be careful if you use that method.
If the other driver is uninsured, or in the case of a hit-and-run where the other driver is never caught, your insurance will only pay out if you have collision coverage, and even then you still have to pay the deductable. At least your rates won't go up, which is what usually happens when you collect on your collision insurance. I found this out when it happened to me, but luckily for me the police caught up with the hit-and-run driver and they were insured so in the end my repairs were 100% covered.
A mega-corp I used to work for also did this, but just internally for employees. The reward- a $50 gift certificate if your idea was chosen by the exec's. Participation and the quality of the ideas was awful. Within a few months they shut down the website since the exec's were tired of filtering through all the crappy ideas.
With a reward of a $50 gift card, is it any wonder the ideas were terrible? If I had a brillant idea that could make tons of money, it's not like I would post it there. The only thing I would bother with would be good-sounding bad ideas, in the hope that management would be fooled enough to give me the gift card.
I think most 3.5" SATA drives only consume 10W or so, maybe more when they spin up. The 12V power adaptor for my external is rated for 2A so that's 24W, if that helps.
I would guess that a typical XP Home machine is probably more problematic than an XP Pro machine, because it's administered by more clueless home users, less locked down, bloated with crap that OEMs put on the machine, and usually runs on lower quality hardware than the enterprise-class machines businesses buy. None of that's the fault of XP Home though, as XP Pro run the same way would be just as unreliable, and XP Home on a properly configured and administered machine can be just as reliable as XP Pro.
The thing is, it's corporate profits that are taxed, not corporate revenue. Profits come from additional money that is collected from the consumer above and beyond what it costs to provide the good/service to the consumer. So in that sense, taxes are not a cost of doing business, as a corporation that is not turning a profit (as in, the money they take [revenue] matches their expenses - not that the business is unhealthy) would pay few taxes. In an efficient marketplace, most corporations are going to be very close to that position, since a free market works to eliminate inefficiencies. So really, corporate taxes are really a penality paid by corporations who operate in an inefficient marketplace, where they can jack the price up above what it costs them to produce their products. Since many of these inefficient marketplaces are created by the corporations that operate in them (cartels, monopolies, patent trolls, etc.) I really don't have a problem with them paying taxes on their profits.
The basic Logitech optical wheel mouse. No-nonsense, no extra useless buttons, symetric, comfortable to use with either hand. It's normally about $15, but I've seen it under $10 quite often. In my opinion, it's better than any of those in the article.
There's another trick for stocks that you can do if you're not in a tax-protected account like an IRA. You sell your stocks when they're down, but then you buy roughly equivalent stocks with the proceeds. You can then claim the loss as a deduction. This is apparently a big driver of stock sales at the end of the year. (Which means the market may be under less pressure by February or so.)
But wouldn't that mean you would have to pay capital gains on the 'roughly equilivent' shares when you go to sell them (assuming that they have increased in value)? Though it wouldn't surprise in the least if there was some loophole here people are exploiting.
I've seen LED upgrade kits for the popular Maglites, so that's one route you can go with. Also, I would bet the LED light must last forever in the 4 D-cell model.
It seems N64, in my case, was a victim of its "technical merits", with almost every game using the same, nice, "high quality" effects...which didn't really fit AT ALL! (mostly bi/trilinear filtering applied to low resolution textures, making every game soap-like) So one could question if those merits were merits at all...
Actually, the problem with the N64 was that it was fairly ram-starved for a system of it's power, with 4MB total memory if I remember right, which was only slightly more than the older Playstation. This meant that there wasn't much room for fancy sprites and textures, so that's why everyone used low resolution textures and sprites and used the high-powered (at the time) graphics processor to do fancy things to them to try to make them look nice. Or they went the simplier route and made everything uniform colors with a gradient on them. This worked well for games like Super Mario 64, but ended up giving other games a cartoon-like feel to them when that wasn't the intent.
To be fair, in Vista the big Microsoft logo in a globe is used as the start button, so if you consider Office 2007/Vista as contemporaries they are at least consistent with each other.
Not to mention the fact that any word processing I had to do for high school involved nothing that Wordpad (or it's predecessor Write) couldn't handle. All I needed was basic formatting, and the ability to bold/underline/italicise words and occasionally adjust the font size. In a way, Wordpad was nicer as I didn't have to deal with Clippy or have to fight Word's autoformatting.
Even if you work all the software bugs out, you still have other potential problems. For example, sometimes a piece of debris gets on my optical mouse sensor which seems to fool the mouse into thinking it's moving every so often so my computer doesn't go to sleep. Or sometimes the cat jumps on the keyboard. And the list goes on.
Probably because the Jeep Cherokee (introduced 1984) was not the first SUV by any means. The Ford Bronco, International Harvester Scout, Land Rover, and others predate it by many years. I guess you could argue the Jeep Cherokee was one of the first "modern" SUVs that helped kicked off the whole SUV craze, but it seems to me that Ford Explorer (introduced 1990) was really the vehicle that got that rolling.
Modern trucks are actually some of the most comfortable vehicles to travel in.
What? Most trucks still ride and drive like a truck. If you want a comfortable vehicle for long road trips, try something like a Lincoln Town Car. A conversion van would be a close second.
I bet many do get high miles. Many trucks/SUVs when they get to be about 7-10 years old get picked up by construction crews and the like, and get used as work trucks. It's hard on them, but they tend to get repaired when they break so they last a while. It's the typical V6 American sedan that seems to get scrapped at about 140-150k miles, not the trucks.
Sounds like a slight variation on those people who have TB's of movies/music/videos/TV episodes/etc that they will never have the time to watch/listen to.
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Actually, the real thieves are the companies that sell the converter boxes. Do you really think that a converter box would cost $45-$60 if it wasn't for the $40 government coupons? The things are more expensive than a DVD player, which basically does the same thing (convert a digital MPEG2 source to analog) but doesn't have to deal with reading the DVD. I predict that once the coupon program is over, we'll see the price of a converter box drop to $15-$25 or so.
It's the design of the reflector in the headlight that's focuses the light where it's needed, not any difference between the two headlights (on older cars, maybe no longer true for newer cars). This is true for the older sealed beam headlights too, the square ones are keyed so that you can't install the headlight upside-down so that beam is directed the wrong way. The round ones may not be keyed, it's been a while since I had to deal with those.
About the only thing you can do is to see if there was ever a bios update for the motherboard to allow for larger sticks. Alternatively, if you have the stick handy or can borrow it, throw it in the computer and try it as some will accept larger memory sticks even though it's not offiically supported. Otherwise, you're pretty much stuck. You could try a 7200RPM drive if the computer is stuck with a 5400RPM drive. I just did that recently on a 800Mhz Dell that's stuck at 512MB - not intentionally - the 5400RPM drive was dying and the spare on the shelf happened to be a 7200RPM drive. The computer was noticably quicker after that. It's probably not worth trying anything exotic, since you can get a cheap motherboard, a budget processor, and 2-4GB of ram for like $100 nowadays.
Are you sure it wasn't a case of price dumping by the taxi drivers, done in an attempt hurt their already weak busing competition even more?
If there is another directory - say, the user has a root directory named just "Documents", then "Documents and Settings" could be named "Docume~2", so you have to be careful if you use that method.
But maybe he can do it in an hour?
If the other driver is uninsured, or in the case of a hit-and-run where the other driver is never caught, your insurance will only pay out if you have collision coverage, and even then you still have to pay the deductable. At least your rates won't go up, which is what usually happens when you collect on your collision insurance. I found this out when it happened to me, but luckily for me the police caught up with the hit-and-run driver and they were insured so in the end my repairs were 100% covered.
With a reward of a $50 gift card, is it any wonder the ideas were terrible? If I had a brillant idea that could make tons of money, it's not like I would post it there. The only thing I would bother with would be good-sounding bad ideas, in the hope that management would be fooled enough to give me the gift card.
I think most 3.5" SATA drives only consume 10W or so, maybe more when they spin up. The 12V power adaptor for my external is rated for 2A so that's 24W, if that helps.
I would guess that a typical XP Home machine is probably more problematic than an XP Pro machine, because it's administered by more clueless home users, less locked down, bloated with crap that OEMs put on the machine, and usually runs on lower quality hardware than the enterprise-class machines businesses buy. None of that's the fault of XP Home though, as XP Pro run the same way would be just as unreliable, and XP Home on a properly configured and administered machine can be just as reliable as XP Pro.
the fact is that, IE6 is WAY outdated now, is not supported anymore
IE6 is still supported on Windows 2000 until 2010 as it's considered part of the OS. I don't think that Microsoft supports it on XP anymore though.
The thing is, it's corporate profits that are taxed, not corporate revenue. Profits come from additional money that is collected from the consumer above and beyond what it costs to provide the good/service to the consumer. So in that sense, taxes are not a cost of doing business, as a corporation that is not turning a profit (as in, the money they take [revenue] matches their expenses - not that the business is unhealthy) would pay few taxes. In an efficient marketplace, most corporations are going to be very close to that position, since a free market works to eliminate inefficiencies. So really, corporate taxes are really a penality paid by corporations who operate in an inefficient marketplace, where they can jack the price up above what it costs them to produce their products. Since many of these inefficient marketplaces are created by the corporations that operate in them (cartels, monopolies, patent trolls, etc.) I really don't have a problem with them paying taxes on their profits.
The Mac Mini already uses a (rather bulky) external power supply so that's a non-issue.
The basic Logitech optical wheel mouse. No-nonsense, no extra useless buttons, symetric, comfortable to use with either hand. It's normally about $15, but I've seen it under $10 quite often. In my opinion, it's better than any of those in the article.
But wouldn't that mean you would have to pay capital gains on the 'roughly equilivent' shares when you go to sell them (assuming that they have increased in value)? Though it wouldn't surprise in the least if there was some loophole here people are exploiting.
I've seen LED upgrade kits for the popular Maglites, so that's one route you can go with. Also, I would bet the LED light must last forever in the 4 D-cell model.
It seems N64, in my case, was a victim of its "technical merits", with almost every game using the same, nice, "high quality" effects...which didn't really fit AT ALL! (mostly bi/trilinear filtering applied to low resolution textures, making every game soap-like) So one could question if those merits were merits at all...
Actually, the problem with the N64 was that it was fairly ram-starved for a system of it's power, with 4MB total memory if I remember right, which was only slightly more than the older Playstation. This meant that there wasn't much room for fancy sprites and textures, so that's why everyone used low resolution textures and sprites and used the high-powered (at the time) graphics processor to do fancy things to them to try to make them look nice. Or they went the simplier route and made everything uniform colors with a gradient on them. This worked well for games like Super Mario 64, but ended up giving other games a cartoon-like feel to them when that wasn't the intent.
To be fair, in Vista the big Microsoft logo in a globe is used as the start button, so if you consider Office 2007/Vista as contemporaries they are at least consistent with each other.
It's true. It all started back when President Eisenhower submitted exactly 1 byte to the National Archives when he left office.
Not to mention the fact that any word processing I had to do for high school involved nothing that Wordpad (or it's predecessor Write) couldn't handle. All I needed was basic formatting, and the ability to bold/underline/italicise words and occasionally adjust the font size. In a way, Wordpad was nicer as I didn't have to deal with Clippy or have to fight Word's autoformatting.
Even if you work all the software bugs out, you still have other potential problems. For example, sometimes a piece of debris gets on my optical mouse sensor which seems to fool the mouse into thinking it's moving every so often so my computer doesn't go to sleep. Or sometimes the cat jumps on the keyboard. And the list goes on.
Probably because the Jeep Cherokee (introduced 1984) was not the first SUV by any means. The Ford Bronco, International Harvester Scout, Land Rover, and others predate it by many years. I guess you could argue the Jeep Cherokee was one of the first "modern" SUVs that helped kicked off the whole SUV craze, but it seems to me that Ford Explorer (introduced 1990) was really the vehicle that got that rolling.
Modern trucks are actually some of the most comfortable vehicles to travel in.
What? Most trucks still ride and drive like a truck. If you want a comfortable vehicle for long road trips, try something like a Lincoln Town Car. A conversion van would be a close second.
I bet many do get high miles. Many trucks/SUVs when they get to be about 7-10 years old get picked up by construction crews and the like, and get used as work trucks. It's hard on them, but they tend to get repaired when they break so they last a while. It's the typical V6 American sedan that seems to get scrapped at about 140-150k miles, not the trucks.
Sounds like a slight variation on those people who have TB's of movies/music/videos/TV episodes/etc that they will never have the time to watch/listen to.