If you don't trust wikipedia, then change it! That's the whole idea behind wikipedia.
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Tip: Do not change it using your home/work computer. It is best to change it from a public library in a city far far away. Tip #2: Don't buy a plane ticket to travel to this far far away city. It is best to hitchhike so you can save on travel $$$ and not leave a paper trail.
I have a 1 gig Sandisk Cruizer Plastic (non-titanium) from about 2 years ago. It's been thrown around and even through the washer/dryer - and it still works,
If you want cheap flash drives, Microcenter has bulk OEM ones for very cheap. I picked up a 4 gig drive for ~40 bucks when the avg for them was about 50-60. (about 7 months ago)
Reminds me of this old joke. Probably first heard it 14 years ago (when I was 14ish)
Bill Gates, Andy Grove, & Jerry sanders (CEOs of Microsoft, Intel & AMD) were in a high-powered business meeting. During the serious, tense discussions, a beeping noise was suddenly emitted from where Bill was sitting.
Bill said : "Oh! that's my emergency beeper. Gentlemen, excuse me, I really need to take this call.: So Bill lifted his wrist-watch to his ear and began talking into the end of his tie. Having completed the call, he noticed the others were staring at him. So Bill explained : "Oh, this is my new emergency communication system. I have an earpiece built into my watch and a microphone sewn into the end of my tie. That way, I can take a call anywhere." The others nodded, and the meeting continued.
5 min later, the discussion was again interrupted when this time round, from Andy started a beeping sound. "Oh that's my emergency beeper" he said. "Excuse me gentlemen, this must be an important call." Andy tapped his earlobe and began talking into thin air. When he completed the call, he noticed the others staring at him and thus explained, "I also have an emergency communication system. But my earpiece is actually implanted in my earlobe, and the microphone is embedded in this fake tooth, isn't that neat?"
The others nodded and the meeting continue.jerry was however feeling that how technically unadvanced he is. Later still, the discussion was again interrupted when he emitted a thunderous fart. He looked up at the others staring at him and said, "Uhh, somebody get me a piece of paper..... I'm receiving a FAX."
Yes, it does make phone calls. However, I can't imagine holding something that sized to your ear for 30 minutes would be comfortable. Guess it's strictly bluetooth calls then.
how about just dig in a geothermically active area like yellowstone or death valley and use the hot water/ steam you get to run a turbine(or heat isobutane/isopentane to drive a turbine)
oh, have fun trying to get permits to explore/drill for geothermal resources and then you also to deal with regulation for emision of various toxic gases such as H2S, ammonia, and hydrocarbons such as benzene
Mom had a drapery business then. She'd drag me off to client's houses and talk window dressings with them, and I'd hide in the corner with this portable 386 and play games on it's orange screen. mmm reader rabbit.
oh you mean a modern day computer? I don't know. I have this 10 pound dell from work and love the 1920x1200 pixel display. 2 hour battery is enough for most purposes but when I travel I'll bring 2-4, depending on the location.
Just give them away for free and you'll have an army of walking billboards.
Yep. That's right! People wear free shirts and give away free advertisement space. Imagine the annoyance/positive marketing impact with animated shirts!
Grump
Note: I am not responsible if people choose to boycott your company instead.
One time at the great wall, I was coming down and walking through the tourist trap. Saw a chairman mao watch where mao would wave to you. Thought it was cute.
The thing with tourist traps is they all sell the same stuff. Don't like one vendor, move on to another! I asked the first vendor how much it was, she says like 40 RMB. I say 25. She gets upset and tells me I'm unreasonable. I move on. I get to the bottom of the hill and ask the vendor how much. he says 80. How about 25? He proceeds to tell me how it's leather and a wind-up, etc. Well, the lady up the hill opens at 40, so how about 30? He agrees. All that for 10 RMB (which is ~1.25US).
So there you go. Don't trust the price they give you (esp if it's at the end of the street b/c those are the first you see and tend to be the most expensive. But decide how much hassle is a dollar or 2 and the bargaining hassle. Sometimes it's just easier to not fight the price as much.
1. I'm remodeling my house. I go down to Home Despot/Slowes and buy a dozen smoke detectors. Would I get pulled over for being a suspected terrorist?
2. I'm a cancer patient undergoing radiation therapy. What can be done to prevent the horror of being pulled over by the KGB? Would it be reasonable to issue "radiology patient" tags, like they issue handicapped tags for the handicapped?
3. What is the false positive rate of such monitoring? Here, we have a cute example of a sick cat setting off a false positive. What about other incidents like this that fail to get into the newspaper?
I discovered TPB a couple years ago on the intarweb. Fell in love with it and ended up spending ~250 CDN a couple years ago importing the first couple seasons and puppets who kill. I plan on picking up the movie and later seasons this summer when I go for my cousin's wedding.
When I visit Canadia this summer, you know what I'll be downloading 24/7! CBC episodes of Canada's Next Great Prime Minister!!! (and I'll be going down to Future Shop for Trailer Park Boys DVDs).
Contrary to popular belief, Sasquatchians are NOT fictional. Sasquatch is actually the proper term for those who live in the Canadian providence of Saskatchewan.
I don't download music. It's too much "work" for some stuff to listen to when I'm looking for mindless entertainment while driving around, etc. Instead, I pay my money to XM radio (77/yr...google forums for it).
As for having something with me when I'm not in the car? That's why I have Phil Hendrie clips on my phone and a bluetooth headset.
Actually 43k per acre isn't so bad if you compare it to silicon valley back before the bust. What were people paying then? like a million for a 1/4 acre lot? And alot of the time they would tear down the house and rebuild. Of course, that's silicon valley and not middle of nowhere michigan or wherever I'm selling.
Haha FedEx it there/back. Yea, I did that once actually-using the work fedex account.
I was kept me out there for 4 months. When I went it was summer. When I came back it was snowing. I bought alot of crap (scarf, gloves, toys, etc) and had some equipment sent (terminal server, cables) out.
Southwest's policy is 3 checked in items- I had 3 bags/boxes of stuff to bring back. I could check it all in, but the box of terminal server/couple hundred feet of cables was really bulky and would be a pain to carry from the rental car to airport checkin-so I fedexed it. Now, what to do with my 3rd item credit? So I checked in a small box with an ice scraper and coat hanger in it. Hope I gave some bag screener a laugh over that.
Fedexing the bulky box 2500 miles overnight turned out to be like 10 bucks. Heak, if I'm sent out there for months again, I'm going to fedex everything except the laptop and myself (on their dime).
Slashdot Mirror
Correction:
I don't think even slashdot.org's FF3 mirrors would survive for long.
If you don't trust wikipedia, then change it! That's the whole idea behind wikipedia.
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This insightful comment brought to you by Forest Grump -
Tip: Do not change it using your home/work computer. It is best to change it from a public library in a city far far away.
Tip #2: Don't buy a plane ticket to travel to this far far away city. It is best to hitchhike so you can save on travel $$$ and not leave a paper trail.
Damn interesting indeed! you should submit this to damninteresting.com!
First it was "15 minutes delayed" stock quotes being all the rage.
Now people are getting excited over "real time"? bah!
Give me "In 10 Minutes" stock quotes and I'll pay for that!
I have a 1 gig Sandisk Cruizer Plastic (non-titanium) from about 2 years ago. It's been thrown around and even through the washer/dryer - and it still works,
If you want cheap flash drives, Microcenter has bulk OEM ones for very cheap. I picked up a 4 gig drive for ~40 bucks when the avg for them was about 50-60. (about 7 months ago)
Grump
I think slashdot slashdotted themselves.
Reminds me of this old joke. Probably first heard it 14 years ago (when I was 14ish)
Bill Gates, Andy Grove, & Jerry sanders (CEOs of Microsoft, Intel & AMD) were in a high-powered business meeting. During the serious, tense discussions, a beeping noise was suddenly emitted from where Bill was sitting.
Bill said : "Oh! that's my emergency beeper. Gentlemen, excuse me, I really need to take this call.: So Bill lifted his wrist-watch to his ear and began talking into the end of his tie. Having completed the call, he noticed the others were staring at him. So Bill explained : "Oh, this is my new emergency communication system. I have an earpiece built into my watch and a microphone sewn into the end of my tie. That way, I can take a call anywhere." The others nodded, and the meeting continued.
5 min later, the discussion was again interrupted when this time round, from Andy started a beeping sound. "Oh that's my emergency beeper" he said. "Excuse me gentlemen, this must be an important call." Andy tapped his earlobe and began talking into thin air. When he completed the call, he noticed the others staring at him and thus explained, "I also have an emergency communication system. But my earpiece is actually implanted in my earlobe, and the microphone is embedded in this fake tooth, isn't that neat?"
The others nodded and the meeting continue.jerry was however feeling that how technically unadvanced he is. Later still, the discussion was again interrupted when he emitted a thunderous fart. He looked up at the others staring at him and said, "Uhh, somebody get me a piece of paper..... I'm receiving a FAX."
Yes, it does make phone calls. However, I can't imagine holding something that sized to your ear for 30 minutes would be comfortable. Guess it's strictly bluetooth calls then.
how about just dig in a geothermically active area like yellowstone or death valley and use the hot water/ steam you get to run a turbine(or heat isobutane/isopentane to drive a turbine)
oh, have fun trying to get permits to explore/drill for geothermal resources and then you also to deal with regulation for emision of various toxic gases such as H2S, ammonia, and hydrocarbons such as benzene
My mom had one of these orange screened Compaq monsters.
Mom had a drapery business then. She'd drag me off to client's houses and talk window dressings with them, and I'd hide in the corner with this portable 386 and play games on it's orange screen. mmm reader rabbit.
oh you mean a modern day computer? I don't know. I have this 10 pound dell from work and love the 1920x1200 pixel display. 2 hour battery is enough for most purposes but when I travel I'll bring 2-4, depending on the location.
Just give them away for free and you'll have an army of walking billboards.
Yep. That's right! People wear free shirts and give away free advertisement space. Imagine the annoyance/positive marketing impact with animated shirts!
Grump
Note: I am not responsible if people choose to boycott your company instead.
True story.
One time at the great wall, I was coming down and walking through the tourist trap. Saw a chairman mao watch where mao would wave to you. Thought it was cute.
The thing with tourist traps is they all sell the same stuff. Don't like one vendor, move on to another! I asked the first vendor how much it was, she says like 40 RMB. I say 25. She gets upset and tells me I'm unreasonable. I move on.
I get to the bottom of the hill and ask the vendor how much. he says 80. How about 25? He proceeds to tell me how it's leather and a wind-up, etc. Well, the lady up the hill opens at 40, so how about 30? He agrees. All that for 10 RMB (which is ~1.25US).
So there you go. Don't trust the price they give you (esp if it's at the end of the street b/c those are the first you see and tend to be the most expensive. But decide how much hassle is a dollar or 2 and the bargaining hassle. Sometimes it's just easier to not fight the price as much.
1. I'm remodeling my house. I go down to Home Despot/Slowes and buy a dozen smoke detectors. Would I get pulled over for being a suspected terrorist?
2. I'm a cancer patient undergoing radiation therapy. What can be done to prevent the horror of being pulled over by the KGB? Would it be reasonable to issue "radiology patient" tags, like they issue handicapped tags for the handicapped?
3. What is the false positive rate of such monitoring? Here, we have a cute example of a sick cat setting off a false positive. What about other incidents like this that fail to get into the newspaper?
Grump
This would only be true if the FBI posted a link to your cable box's webcam
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/20/2323247
Grump
Thanks. Didn't know that.
I discovered TPB a couple years ago on the intarweb. Fell in love with it and ended up spending ~250 CDN a couple years ago importing the first couple seasons and puppets who kill. I plan on picking up the movie and later seasons this summer when I go for my cousin's wedding.
When I visit Canadia this summer, you know what I'll be downloading 24/7!
CBC episodes of Canada's Next Great Prime Minister!!! (and I'll be going down to Future Shop for Trailer Park Boys DVDs).
Grump
It looks like they loaded new SW (and all our cookies went bye bye.)
Number 1 is Bigfoot (also known as Sasquatch).
Contrary to popular belief, Sasquatchians are NOT fictional. Sasquatch is actually the proper term for those who live in the Canadian providence of Saskatchewan.
For more info see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sasquatch
Yea maybe you are happy, but I'm 3.14ssed!
I don't download music. It's too much "work" for some stuff to listen to when I'm looking for mindless entertainment while driving around, etc. Instead, I pay my money to XM radio (77/yr...google forums for it).
As for having something with me when I'm not in the car? That's why I have Phil Hendrie clips on my phone and a bluetooth headset.
Grump
Actually 43k per acre isn't so bad if you compare it to silicon valley back before the bust. What were people paying then? like a million for a 1/4 acre lot? And alot of the time they would tear down the house and rebuild. Of course, that's silicon valley and not middle of nowhere michigan or wherever I'm selling.
Hello everyone. This is a simple solution for "fixing" this problem - Move upstream!
I have 3000 acres of pure wilderness located at the head of a major river. If you are interested I am selling it off at 1 dollar per square foot.
Have a nice drug-free life there!
Grump
Haha FedEx it there/back. Yea, I did that once actually-using the work fedex account.
I was kept me out there for 4 months. When I went it was summer. When I came back it was snowing. I bought alot of crap (scarf, gloves, toys, etc) and had some equipment sent (terminal server, cables) out.
Southwest's policy is 3 checked in items- I had 3 bags/boxes of stuff to bring back. I could check it all in, but the box of terminal server/couple hundred feet of cables was really bulky and would be a pain to carry from the rental car to airport checkin-so I fedexed it. Now, what to do with my 3rd item credit? So I checked in a small box with an ice scraper and coat hanger in it. Hope I gave some bag screener a laugh over that.
Fedexing the bulky box 2500 miles overnight turned out to be like 10 bucks. Heak, if I'm sent out there for months again, I'm going to fedex everything except the laptop and myself (on their dime).
I'd hate to be working in the cockpit of those planes.
Damnit spilled coffee again! Why can't the last flight crew take their coffee when they leave?
Nifty idea. could you elaborate on how you make the case?
thanks