Japan's tourism authority will lend the PDAs containing Chinese, Korean and English software, to selected tourists who land at Narita Airport near Tokyo from February through March to test the response, the transport ministry said.
Woo hoo! That's exactly when I'll be going to Japan and through Narita airport. Hope I get one of these to play with. If I do, I'll submit a review.
Not a single mac user here at work can tell me which F-key to hit to show all the windows of the current app without trying a bunch of them. F11? F10? F9?
It's whatever F key you want. It's user selectable. Unfortunately, I'm at work on a Windows box so I can't walk you through it.
Too bad they couldn't just put a Show Desktop icon in the menubar
You can do this with an Expose F key, too. I use it all the time to move one project out of the way and start on a second. To say that "the only thing anyone seems to use it for is to show the desktop" is incorrect. Just because you haven't been able to understand it/grasp it/warm up to it doesn't mean it isn't very useful to other people doing other things. Not every person has the same workflow. For what I do, Expose is a Godsend. It may not be the best thing for you. That doesn't mean the rest of us shouldn't have it.
According to the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, a monopoly is defined as:
It doesn't matter what the dictionary says. It matters what the law and the courts say. Running to a dictionary to prove a point only proves that you don't understand the law.
The problem is that most forecasts cover a huge area, especially ones designed for broadcast radio and television. Some TV markets have both desert and sub-tropical parts. Some cover mountains and sea. If the weatherman says it's going to rain, it's probably going to rain in some part of that market area.
Look at a market like Chicago. The forecasters are serving an audience from Michigan to Indiana to Wisconsin to Iowa in addition to their home audience of Illinois. If they say it's going to rain, it may not rain at your house in the northern suburbs, but someone in the south suburbs could be getting a gully-washer.
Unless your kid compared the predictions with the actual weather in every microclimate in the forecast area, the project was worthless.
2. You can carry as many tapes as you want with you. If you need more storage, you stick in another tape. The same can't be said for hard drive based cameras.
Actually, there are hard-disk based cameras on the market that allow you to swap out drives. They hold five or six drives at once and when one fills up, you can pop it out and put in a new one.
I know this isn't exactly what you're talking about -- but it's pretty close.
I have a microdrive in my Sony F-828. It records 640x480 video at 30fps. You get about 30 minutes on a 2GB drive, or a lot more if you reduce the picture size or frame rate.
There are professional video cameas that utilize hard drives. The ads I've seen are mostly from Panasonic. I assume they cost more than your typical professional video camera, which is about US$50,000. But at least you don't have to digitize the video before you edit.
There are some transactions that cannot be done with a debit card. For example, many car rental agencies won't take a debit card. Only a credit card. I'm not sure how they know the difference, but they do. I got caught by this once.
I know it's not exactly convenient, but is it possible to buy an iTunes card/gift certificate at an Apple store and then use it online without a credit card?
Of course, at that point you'd might as well go to the record store, but it's still a thought.
the US government has invaded a sovereign country based on lies, tortures people, tries to play world-policemen.
Sounds like just about every other major country at some point in history -- Portugal, England, Germany, Russia, Japan, China, India, The Netherlands, Austria, Argentina, etc... Even France has done this in the fairly recent past (or currently, depending on how you view the situation in Côte d'Ivoire). You should crack a hisory book.
The U.S. does not want to be the world's policeman. That is a role the European nations created for it during Soviet times. It costs money and it costs lives. But the European states keep asking the United States to step in over and over again in places the U.S. would rather stay out -- Yugoslavia, for example; Bosnia, for another -- because the U.S. has the biggest military with the best technology.
Then we come to Iraq, which is one of the few times the Americans decided to fetch without being told to by the Europeans. This is a problem for them because for the first time in one of these conflicts the U.S. didn't agree to some leash approved by someone else. The Europeans are worried about what might happen with the dog out on its own. Who knows what will happen. It's too soon to tell.
France was more than happy to turn a blind eye when Saddam Hussein was slaughtering thousands of Kurds for fun, as long as the French oil tankers could still load up. Is that more or less troublesome than the Americans picking up a United Nations mandate and executing it when no one else will?
So they'll have a friend copy it to a usb flash card keychain.
Not everyone has a friend, espeically when you also have a disability.
I've only known two blind people in my life, and both of them seemed pretty focused on the concept of self-sufficency, rather than asking friends to do piddly tasks for them all the time. They want to live like anyone else does, and (aside from my mom asking me to wire the house for cable TV) that generally means doing thing on their own.
While I detest Sprint, the events you mention are very likely not connected to Sprint in any way.
Sprint stores are all owned by local small businessmen who re-sell Sprint service. Sprint does not own the store in Williamsport.
Further, most cell phone towers are not owned by cell phone companies. They are sited, built, and maintained by independent companies like Crown Castle who rent space on their towers to cell phone companies. It's one of the reasons you may see three or four sets of cell phone antennae on a single mast -- they're leasing space to more than one company.
From where do you get your "understanding?"
This happened to me once. State Farm Insurance did the automatic-debt thing anyway two months after I had cancelled it. They ended up bouncing my rent check for me. Gee, thanks.
To their credit, with a couple of days, State Farm had put the money back, plus my bounced check charges and late rent penalty. They even faxed a letter to my landlord saying it was all their fault. But still, it shouldn't have happened in the first place.
A couple of months ago, the company I work for switched all the staff phones from Cingular to Nextel, and we've had nothing but problems in the Chicago area. Dropped calls. Garbled speech. And more often than not, we can't reach these people at all. They all have to carry a pager so we can page them to let them know we can't reach them on their Nextels. Disaster.
I wouldn't categorize wind power as being entirely green. There is much evidence to suggest the impact windmills have upon migratory bird populations can be devastating. Migrating birds tend to like strong winds, which often place them in the same geography as wind farms.
It would seem to me that windmills would work well in urban environments where migratory birds aren't likely to be. I live on the 25th floor, and it's always windy outside my windows, and I never see any birds up this high. It would seem a perfect place for some wind turbines.
The Monitor is one of the most highly respected publications in America. It ranks with the New York Times and Wall Street Journal in journalistic circles. Because they know they're being watched by people who think they're nuts, they work extra hard to present even-handed unbiased treatment of the news.
While I personally believe the whole Christian Science thing is a hybrid of nuts and pyramid schemes, I cannot deny that the newspaper is one of the best. I've been reading them off an on for a few years, and they are one of the world's great news resources.
I never said that anything a business did was OK, especially abusing people. In fact, I specifically said as long as they acted within the law.
And your line about "responsible governments" versus "the American gov't" shows your ignorance.
I know I shouldn't feed a troll, but which one is the responsible government? The British who fought a war to continue making money off drug addiction in China? The Canadains who persecuted and slaughtered their native people, then invaded a soverign nation? The Germans who... well, no point going there.
So, answer the question -- which one is the reponsible government? Every government has blood on its hands. Some more than others. That's the history of the world.
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I know people have talked about this before, but why aren't the cell phone companies listening?
I'd guess it's because you're talking to the wrong people, or there aren't enough people who share your point of view.
Gee, that wasn't so hard.
In fact there are still lots of things you can do with AppleWorks that you can do with no other single program out there.
As a relative newcomer to the Mac scene, I'd like to know what those features are. It sounds potentially cool.
Here's something interesting to note:
The 1.x version of the TiVO desktop is 8.1mb for Windows, and just 236k for the Mac.
What's up with that?
Japan's tourism authority will lend the PDAs containing Chinese, Korean and English software, to selected tourists who land at Narita Airport near Tokyo from February through March to test the response, the transport ministry said.
Woo hoo! That's exactly when I'll be going to Japan and through Narita airport. Hope I get one of these to play with. If I do, I'll submit a review.
Please don't feed the jealous trolls.
Not a single mac user here at work can tell me which F-key to hit to show all the windows of the current app without trying a bunch of them. F11? F10? F9?
It's whatever F key you want. It's user selectable. Unfortunately, I'm at work on a Windows box so I can't walk you through it.
Too bad they couldn't just put a Show Desktop icon in the menubar
You can do this with an Expose F key, too. I use it all the time to move one project out of the way and start on a second. To say that "the only thing anyone seems to use it for is to show the desktop" is incorrect. Just because you haven't been able to understand it/grasp it/warm up to it doesn't mean it isn't very useful to other people doing other things. Not every person has the same workflow. For what I do, Expose is a Godsend. It may not be the best thing for you. That doesn't mean the rest of us shouldn't have it.
According to the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, a monopoly is defined as:
It doesn't matter what the dictionary says. It matters what the law and the courts say. Running to a dictionary to prove a point only proves that you don't understand the law.
If by "much faster" you mean "not working at all, either" then, yes, it's much faster.
I keep seeing people post these "Coral Caches" to Slashdot. I've never seen one work, though. What's the point?
The problem is that most forecasts cover a huge area, especially ones designed for broadcast radio and television. Some TV markets have both desert and sub-tropical parts. Some cover mountains and sea. If the weatherman says it's going to rain, it's probably going to rain in some part of that market area.
Look at a market like Chicago. The forecasters are serving an audience from Michigan to Indiana to Wisconsin to Iowa in addition to their home audience of Illinois. If they say it's going to rain, it may not rain at your house in the northern suburbs, but someone in the south suburbs could be getting a gully-washer.
Unless your kid compared the predictions with the actual weather in every microclimate in the forecast area, the project was worthless.
2. You can carry as many tapes as you want with you. If you need more storage, you stick in another tape. The same can't be said for hard drive based cameras.
Actually, there are hard-disk based cameras on the market that allow you to swap out drives. They hold five or six drives at once and when one fills up, you can pop it out and put in a new one.
I know this isn't exactly what you're talking about -- but it's pretty close.
I have a microdrive in my Sony F-828. It records 640x480 video at 30fps. You get about 30 minutes on a 2GB drive, or a lot more if you reduce the picture size or frame rate.
There are professional video cameas that utilize hard drives. The ads I've seen are mostly from Panasonic. I assume they cost more than your typical professional video camera, which is about US$50,000. But at least you don't have to digitize the video before you edit.
There are some transactions that cannot be done with a debit card. For example, many car rental agencies won't take a debit card. Only a credit card. I'm not sure how they know the difference, but they do. I got caught by this once.
I know it's not exactly convenient, but is it possible to buy an iTunes card/gift certificate at an Apple store and then use it online without a credit card?
Of course, at that point you'd might as well go to the record store, but it's still a thought.
the US government has invaded a sovereign country based on lies, tortures people, tries to play world-policemen.
Sounds like just about every other major country at some point in history -- Portugal, England, Germany, Russia, Japan, China, India, The Netherlands, Austria, Argentina, etc... Even France has done this in the fairly recent past (or currently, depending on how you view the situation in Côte d'Ivoire). You should crack a hisory book.
The U.S. does not want to be the world's policeman. That is a role the European nations created for it during Soviet times. It costs money and it costs lives. But the European states keep asking the United States to step in over and over again in places the U.S. would rather stay out -- Yugoslavia, for example; Bosnia, for another -- because the U.S. has the biggest military with the best technology.
Then we come to Iraq, which is one of the few times the Americans decided to fetch without being told to by the Europeans. This is a problem for them because for the first time in one of these conflicts the U.S. didn't agree to some leash approved by someone else. The Europeans are worried about what might happen with the dog out on its own. Who knows what will happen. It's too soon to tell.
France was more than happy to turn a blind eye when Saddam Hussein was slaughtering thousands of Kurds for fun, as long as the French oil tankers could still load up. Is that more or less troublesome than the Americans picking up a United Nations mandate and executing it when no one else will?
Another irrationnal (and unjustifiable) hatred for the french gets modded up? How suprising!
Seems fair, since so much irrational (and unjustifiable) hatred for the Americans gets modded up.
So they'll have a friend copy it to a usb flash card keychain.
Not everyone has a friend, espeically when you also have a disability.
I've only known two blind people in my life, and both of them seemed pretty focused on the concept of self-sufficency, rather than asking friends to do piddly tasks for them all the time. They want to live like anyone else does, and (aside from my mom asking me to wire the house for cable TV) that generally means doing thing on their own.
While I detest Sprint, the events you mention are very likely not connected to Sprint in any way. Sprint stores are all owned by local small businessmen who re-sell Sprint service. Sprint does not own the store in Williamsport. Further, most cell phone towers are not owned by cell phone companies. They are sited, built, and maintained by independent companies like Crown Castle who rent space on their towers to cell phone companies. It's one of the reasons you may see three or four sets of cell phone antennae on a single mast -- they're leasing space to more than one company. From where do you get your "understanding?"
This happened to me once. State Farm Insurance did the automatic-debt thing anyway two months after I had cancelled it. They ended up bouncing my rent check for me. Gee, thanks.
To their credit, with a couple of days, State Farm had put the money back, plus my bounced check charges and late rent penalty. They even faxed a letter to my landlord saying it was all their fault. But still, it shouldn't have happened in the first place.
A couple of months ago, the company I work for switched all the staff phones from Cingular to Nextel, and we've had nothing but problems in the Chicago area. Dropped calls. Garbled speech. And more often than not, we can't reach these people at all. They all have to carry a pager so we can page them to let them know we can't reach them on their Nextels. Disaster.
I wouldn't categorize wind power as being entirely green. There is much evidence to suggest the impact windmills have upon migratory bird populations can be devastating. Migrating birds tend to like strong winds, which often place them in the same geography as wind farms.
It would seem to me that windmills would work well in urban environments where migratory birds aren't likely to be. I live on the 25th floor, and it's always windy outside my windows, and I never see any birds up this high. It would seem a perfect place for some wind turbines.
I know this is being tried on the Freedom Tower in New York that's replacing the Twin Towers, and the New York Sports and Convention Center. Though I imagine there will be lots of birds in that riverfront location.
Maybe there's a way to do it on a smaller scale over a larger number of buildings.
Listing a title isn't proof. You'll have to do better than that.
If you had done that in 1862, you would have been hung for treason.
Prove it.
The Monitor is one of the most highly respected publications in America. It ranks with the New York Times and Wall Street Journal in journalistic circles. Because they know they're being watched by people who think they're nuts, they work extra hard to present even-handed unbiased treatment of the news.
While I personally believe the whole Christian Science thing is a hybrid of nuts and pyramid schemes, I cannot deny that the newspaper is one of the best. I've been reading them off an on for a few years, and they are one of the world's great news resources.
I never said that anything a business did was OK, especially abusing people. In fact, I specifically said as long as they acted within the law. And your line about "responsible governments" versus "the American gov't" shows your ignorance. I know I shouldn't feed a troll, but which one is the responsible government? The British who fought a war to continue making money off drug addiction in China? The Canadains who persecuted and slaughtered their native people, then invaded a soverign nation? The Germans who... well, no point going there. So, answer the question -- which one is the reponsible government? Every government has blood on its hands. Some more than others. That's the history of the world.
Is it time to update your .sig, or are you being ironic?