For Silent Service II they gave you a massive manual and to start the game you had to ID a submarine correct out of said manual. It was really annoying.
I'm in London. I didn't feel it per-se, but.. it was felt by many in my office. I guess once you have train tracks in your back yard for a period of time, you tend to ignore little vibrations.
Well, I am in Canada. I'm on Telus. I have an unlimited data plan that actually is unlimited and it costs me $45/mo. I easily use 25GB of data a month (tethering included) and still just pay that $45 fee.
Good plans are out there, you just have to find them. Canadian carriers don't make it easy.
I don't have an iPhone, but I do have an HTC Touch. I use about 15GB/month of data (incoming/outgoing) on my phone. This is mostly because I stream music a minimum of 9 hours a day at work and while I'm driving. I also surf on the phone and tether for occasional web surfing on the go when I need the real web. I also get all my e-mail from several accounts, attachments too.
The oldest tech gear I use on a daily basis is the MPU board in my 1980 Stern Seawitch pinball machine. The serial number is quite low, so it was made in 1980 at some point and still works like the day it was made. It's received some TLC over the years, but.. rock solid reliable.
Before that, my oldest tech would have been the MPU in my 1978 Stern Lectronamo. It's since been sold to make way for other machines.
All my Unix machines/routers/etc are named after places or things in Kevin Smith movies.
-My MythTV machine is called RSTVideo
-My router is called Quickstop Groceries
-My Fileserver is called Postens Funeral Home
-My Hackintosh is called Mooby's
.. and last but not least, my NAS is called Quicker Stop
I don't know what to tell you. I use a fairly vanilla copy of Azureus with a Smoothwall box doing some basic QOS kinda stuff. No special tricks at all.
Get yourself your own customs broker. I ship things from the USofA to myself in Canada all the time via a private broker at a greatly reduced rate. DHL, FedEX and UPS'es rates really suck compared to what I can get.
Yeah, but they tried to do this with iPhoto too, and that pissed me right off. I want to have direct access to my photos, not use iPhoto to access them. Kinda OT, but who knows when this will happen to iTunes as well.
However, if either of these apps support.FLAC without needing Fluke, I'm so there.
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Well, I only paid $200 for the truck.
To get costs at that $7K number I completely rebuilt the ICE motor with some performance goodies that I had kicking around the garage and sold it for a pretty penny to someone who didn't know any better, sold the entire interior, box, ECU and wiring harness, etc. To get the weight down and make the truck get the range I'm shooting for I chopped a lot of the body away, tubbed and tubed with a full FIA approved safety cage the truck, replaced the dash with a lightweight aluminum dash, fiberglass race seats, and hand fabbed a lot of the new body from fiberglass. Basically the kind of prep work that goes into a race car to make it really light is the kind of stuff I've done. Two guys can lift the rolling chassis up with ease.
Of course, having all the tools, knowhow and patience to do everything myself DRASTICALLY brings the cost down.
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You make a very valid point about dumping the box.. However, I've chosen to hand fabricate a fiberglass box to get weight down and still have a way to keep the batteries sheltered.
It's a lot more work than most want to do, But my new box weighs less than 1/3rd the weight of the original and bolts up to the OEM mounting points. My next plan is to make a solar panel tonneau cover.:D
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Heck yes! I'm actually building an EV S-10 right now.. I'm coming in at around $7K total build costs after selling the ICE and other ICE related objects I don't need. However, my range is going to be around 150 miles.
My apologies on that.. As I stated at the top, I had posted that to another forum and just pasted it here. It was getting close to the end of a workday so hitting Preview was the furthest thing from my mind, and honestly I really don't post much here at Slashdot so I forgot all about how I have to manually format everything.
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For Silent Service II they gave you a massive manual and to start the game you had to ID a submarine correct out of said manual. It was really annoying.
I'm in London. I didn't feel it per-se, but.. it was felt by many in my office. I guess once you have train tracks in your back yard for a period of time, you tend to ignore little vibrations.
It would appear that Apple is already working towards that goal.
According to Bank Of Canada the Canadian dollar is worth $0.97USD.
Well, I am in Canada. I'm on Telus. I have an unlimited data plan that actually is unlimited and it costs me $45/mo. I easily use 25GB of data a month (tethering included) and still just pay that $45 fee.
Good plans are out there, you just have to find them. Canadian carriers don't make it easy.
Haven't you heard? Everything from Apple is awesome.
I don't have an iPhone, but I do have an HTC Touch. I use about 15GB/month of data (incoming/outgoing) on my phone. This is mostly because I stream music a minimum of 9 hours a day at work and while I'm driving. I also surf on the phone and tether for occasional web surfing on the go when I need the real web. I also get all my e-mail from several accounts, attachments too.
It adds up quick.
The oldest tech gear I use on a daily basis is the MPU board in my 1980 Stern Seawitch pinball machine. The serial number is quite low, so it was made in 1980 at some point and still works like the day it was made. It's received some TLC over the years, but.. rock solid reliable.
Before that, my oldest tech would have been the MPU in my 1978 Stern Lectronamo. It's since been sold to make way for other machines.
Check out Seawitch:
http://ipdb.org/search.pl?searchtype=advanced&mpu=34#2089
Money does grow on trees.. Didn't you know this?
I thought Costco was the next up and coming university.
I'm not running Boxee, but.. I am running MythTV on a machine I built and it's REALLY quiet. Specs are:
Asus M2N-E
AMD Athlon x2 5000+BE
GeForce 8400GS Silent Edition
2GB OCZ DDR2 PC6400 RAM
WD 1TB HDD x2
Works fantastic, you'd never know it's running while watching TV.
All my Unix machines/routers/etc are named after places or things in Kevin Smith movies.
.. and last but not least, my NAS is called Quicker Stop
-My MythTV machine is called RSTVideo
-My router is called Quickstop Groceries
-My Fileserver is called Postens Funeral Home
-My Hackintosh is called Mooby's
Setup a quick and dirty MythTV server with an analogue TV tuner and run live discs throughout the school.
I don't know what to tell you. I use a fairly vanilla copy of Azureus with a Smoothwall box doing some basic QOS kinda stuff. No special tricks at all.
Maybe Bell likes me today.
You mean like this?:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTFEwXi1Pnk
You can download a smaller version here. It's a 176MB .MKV file.
http://www.vuze.com/details/2OQKU47Y56JSCE6RXQ2W5JNDSL3KBEM7.html
I'm also on Bell for DSL and I'm currently torrenting it at 600KBps.
Get yourself your own customs broker. I ship things from the USofA to myself in Canada all the time via a private broker at a greatly reduced rate. DHL, FedEX and UPS'es rates really suck compared to what I can get.
You're Canadian, aren't you?
Yeah, but they tried to do this with iPhoto too, and that pissed me right off. I want to have direct access to my photos, not use iPhoto to access them. Kinda OT, but who knows when this will happen to iTunes as well.
.FLAC without needing Fluke, I'm so there.
However, if either of these apps support
Well, I only paid $200 for the truck.
To get costs at that $7K number I completely rebuilt the ICE motor with some performance goodies that I had kicking around the garage and sold it for a pretty penny to someone who didn't know any better, sold the entire interior, box, ECU and wiring harness, etc. To get the weight down and make the truck get the range I'm shooting for I chopped a lot of the body away, tubbed and tubed with a full FIA approved safety cage the truck, replaced the dash with a lightweight aluminum dash, fiberglass race seats, and hand fabbed a lot of the new body from fiberglass. Basically the kind of prep work that goes into a race car to make it really light is the kind of stuff I've done. Two guys can lift the rolling chassis up with ease.
Of course, having all the tools, knowhow and patience to do everything myself DRASTICALLY brings the cost down. .
You make a very valid point about dumping the box.. However, I've chosen to hand fabricate a fiberglass box to get weight down and still have a way to keep the batteries sheltered.
:D
It's a lot more work than most want to do, But my new box weighs less than 1/3rd the weight of the original and bolts up to the OEM mounting points. My next plan is to make a solar panel tonneau cover.
Heck yes! I'm actually building an EV S-10 right now.. I'm coming in at around $7K total build costs after selling the ICE and other ICE related objects I don't need. However, my range is going to be around 150 miles.
Tim Hortons in Canada has them. And there's a hell of a lot of Timmies in this country.
I wish I had mod points as I've never read a more truthful statement on Slashdot. Nothing beats a bowl and some GoW.
My apologies on that.. As I stated at the top, I had posted that to another forum and just pasted it here. It was getting close to the end of a workday so hitting Preview was the furthest thing from my mind, and honestly I really don't post much here at Slashdot so I forgot all about how I have to manually format everything.
Either way, the info's all there.