We stopped at EBR1 when I was doing a coast to coast bike ride 15 years ago. Was pretty cool, and you got to play with old manipulator arms. Don't know if it is still open in a post 9-11 world.
I'll do you one better. I feed them to my pet civet, and then carefully get the beans after they have been pooped out. I then slowly roast them over a fire fueled by imported Tibetan yak dung. Only then do I grind them.
A day of work will buy you a computer? 2 days for a fancy gaming machine? Not for most people. What kind of price points are you looking at? The average US wage is $20/hr, or $160/day. Take 20% off for taxes and you are at $128/day. I suppose $128 will get you a decent machine from Craig's list, but not retail.
Ounce for ounce, Coffee has more caffeine. Coffee, generic brewed 8oz. 133mg (range: 102-200) (16 oz. = 266) Mountain Dew, regular or diet 12 oz. 54mg (20 oz. = 90)
I just got my Fire Sale Touchpads I ordered a couple of months ago, and I have to say that WebOS is awesome. HP really shot themselves in the foot with getting rid of them. At $250-$300 they would have sold a ton of them. They were too much at iPad pricing levels though.
There is a rumor going around though, that they may keep making them, but put Windows 8 on them instead.
Same here. Local cable company is a small town co-op and they didn't want to pay for it. I dropped cable anyway since they just increased the cost again.
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Malda at LinuxWorld Boston 2006 Born May 10, 1976 (age 35) Other names CmdrTaco Known for founder of Slashdot Slashdot
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Rob Malda (born May 10, 1976. in Holland Michigan), also known as CmdrTaco, is founder and former editor-in-chief of the website Slashdot. He is a graduate of Hope College and Holland Christian High School.
In 1997 Rob Malda and Jeff Bates created Slashdot while undergraduates of Hope College.[1][dead link] After running the site for two years "on a shoestring",[2] they sold the site to Andover.net, which was later acquired by VA Linux Systems.[3] Malda ran the site out of the SourceForge, Inc. office in Dexter, Michigan.[4]
Rob Malda also wrote a monthly column for Computer Power User.[5][dead link] In 2002, he was named to the MIT Technology Review TR100 as one of the top 100 innovators in the world under the age of 35.[6]
On August 25, 2011, Rob Malda announced his resignation from Slashdot.[7]
I just dropped cable about 2 months ago, as they were raising their rates from 45/month to 60 and going digital, which would require the use of a cable box, which would not allow me to use my media center pc for tv. Now I get a dozen or so ota channel, and use netflix, hulu, etc. If I want to watch the local college football team, I watch it via pirate stream.
Not only that, Firefox has decent cookie management as well. Nothing else compares for the whole package.
Obviously IE and Chrome don't want to do that, as it cuts into ad revenue. It doesn't make much difference though, as most users go with browser defaults anyway.
I wouldn't call it expensive for everyone. My wife's phone, an old Blackberry, cost $120 with 2200 minutes and a year of time. In that year, she still has 700 minutes ($35) left. We had to add some more minutes (600/$30) to extend the time out another 6 months. Texts cost 2 cents each. Calls 5 cents a minute, and data is 10 cents a meg. It obviously doesn't work for everyone, but has worked out well for her.
Since the whole carbon footprint thing is so grim, what way of doing myself in has least impact on the atmosphere. I was thinking of getting sucked into a jet engine, killing two birds with one stone as it were.
I predict your first friend on Google+ will be one Larry Fine.
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It depends. I can see HD on my computer and it looks pretty decent. However, we really don't watch that much stuff. I just got back from a trip where the hotel room had 42" hd sets. I found that I usually preferred the video on my old 60in rear projection set (480p) I got for nothing on craig's list. We just ditched cable because they were going to require digital converter boxes along with an increase in rates. So now it's netflix for dvds and streaming, the xbox to stream content from the computer, and antenna for OTA digital.
That's why I buy a used car. It only averages 20mpg, but has 300hp. $55k new, cost me $5.9k used. I can afford the extra gas when I pay that kind of price.
I would assume by 2025, I could buy a used car with equivalent performance and price, but it might average 35mpg.
That may be due to dissimilar metals. The aluminum exhaust heatshield on my Saturn fell loose because they used steel screws to mount it without using fiber washers at the contact points. They all corroded neatly around each screw head.
Since I have not been able to take much vacation, I am always right around my workplace's maximum, 500 hours (62.5 days). That is also a pool for sick time too though. If you knock out the weekends which aren't counted, I am around 2.5 months of vacation in the bank. They only allow you to cash in 50 hours a year.
I went ahead and made my google profile public. All it has is nonsense for name and other for gender. My gmail account is only used as a spam catcher/signer upper for web sites.
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We stopped at EBR1 when I was doing a coast to coast bike ride 15 years ago. Was pretty cool, and you got to play with old manipulator arms. Don't know if it is still open in a post 9-11 world.
I'll do you one better. I feed them to my pet civet, and then carefully get the beans after they have been pooped out. I then slowly roast them over a fire fueled by imported Tibetan yak dung. Only then do I grind them.
A day of work will buy you a computer? 2 days for a fancy gaming machine? Not for most people. What kind of price points are you looking at? The average US wage is $20/hr, or $160/day. Take 20% off for taxes and you are at $128/day. I suppose $128 will get you a decent machine from Craig's list, but not retail.
What a thread! Douglas Adams and SpınÌal Tap all in one!
Ounce for ounce, Coffee has more caffeine.
Coffee, generic brewed 8oz. 133mg (range: 102-200) (16 oz. = 266)
Mountain Dew, regular or diet 12 oz. 54mg (20 oz. = 90)
I just got my Fire Sale Touchpads I ordered a couple of months ago, and I have to say that WebOS is awesome. HP really shot themselves in the foot with getting rid of them. At $250-$300 they would have sold a ton of them. They were too much at iPad pricing levels though.
There is a rumor going around though, that they may keep making them, but put Windows 8 on them instead.
All our BES phones were down for a day for Email and BBM. They worked fine for texts and calls.
Same here. Local cable company is a small town co-op and they didn't want to pay for it. I dropped cable anyway since they just increased the cost again.
Rob Malda
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rob Malda
Malda at LinuxWorld Boston 2006
Born May 10, 1976 (age 35)
Other names CmdrTaco
Known for founder of Slashdot
Slashdot
Rob Malda (CmdrTaco)
Jeff Bates (hemos)
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Rob Malda (born May 10, 1976. in Holland Michigan), also known as CmdrTaco, is founder and former editor-in-chief of the website Slashdot. He is a graduate of Hope College and Holland Christian High School.
In 1997 Rob Malda and Jeff Bates created Slashdot while undergraduates of Hope College.[1][dead link] After running the site for two years "on a shoestring",[2] they sold the site to Andover.net, which was later acquired by VA Linux Systems.[3] Malda ran the site out of the SourceForge, Inc. office in Dexter, Michigan.[4]
Rob Malda also wrote a monthly column for Computer Power User.[5][dead link] In 2002, he was named to the MIT Technology Review TR100 as one of the top 100 innovators in the world under the age of 35.[6]
On August 25, 2011, Rob Malda announced his resignation from Slashdot.[7]
I just dropped cable about 2 months ago, as they were raising their rates from 45/month to 60 and going digital, which would require the use of a cable box, which would not allow me to use my media center pc for tv. Now I get a dozen or so ota channel, and use netflix, hulu, etc. If I want to watch the local college football team, I watch it via pirate stream.
An added bonus, I watch less TV!
My current list of scripts not allowed to run on slashdot includes google-analytics.com, twitter.com, facebook.net, and doubleclick.net.
They can't hear you as their ears are blocked by piles of Microsoft cash.
This proves it! It's all a lie. Fox news is right! ;)
This is all a plan.. Like the Hudsucker Proxy!
Not only that, Firefox has decent cookie management as well. Nothing else compares for the whole package.
Obviously IE and Chrome don't want to do that, as it cuts into ad revenue. It doesn't make much difference though, as most users go with browser defaults anyway.
I wouldn't call it expensive for everyone.
My wife's phone, an old Blackberry, cost $120 with 2200 minutes and a year of time. In that year, she still has 700 minutes ($35) left. We had to add some more minutes (600/$30) to extend the time out another 6 months. Texts cost 2 cents each. Calls 5 cents a minute, and data is 10 cents a meg.
It obviously doesn't work for everyone, but has worked out well for her.
That's assuming they fabricate a new one. ;)
Since the whole carbon footprint thing is so grim, what way of doing myself in has least impact on the atmosphere. I was thinking of getting sucked into a jet engine, killing two birds with one stone as it were.
I predict your first friend on Google+ will be one Larry Fine.
It depends. I can see HD on my computer and it looks pretty decent. However, we really don't watch that much stuff. I just got back from a trip where the hotel room had 42" hd sets. I found that I usually preferred the video on my old 60in rear projection set (480p) I got for nothing on craig's list.
We just ditched cable because they were going to require digital converter boxes along with an increase in rates. So now it's netflix for dvds and streaming, the xbox to stream content from the computer, and antenna for OTA digital.
That's why I buy a used car. It only averages 20mpg, but has 300hp. $55k new, cost me $5.9k used. I can afford the extra gas when I pay that kind of price.
I would assume by 2025, I could buy a used car with equivalent performance and price, but it might average 35mpg.
That may be due to dissimilar metals. The aluminum exhaust heatshield on my Saturn fell loose because they used steel screws to mount it without using fiber washers at the contact points. They all corroded neatly around each screw head.
Since I have not been able to take much vacation, I am always right around my workplace's maximum, 500 hours (62.5 days). That is also a pool for sick time too though. If you knock out the weekends which aren't counted, I am around 2.5 months of vacation in the bank. They only allow you to cash in 50 hours a year.
I went ahead and made my google profile public. All it has is nonsense for name and other for gender. My gmail account is only used as a spam catcher/signer upper for web sites.
My hovercraft is full of eels! :(