Folks, this is an Urban Legend! I am really surprised y'all were taken in by a submission pointing to a website that marked it as a USER SUBMITTED article with no newspaper reference!
from http://www.snopes.com/business/money/tacobell.asp
Mike Bolesta, a 57-year-old Baltimore County resident, stated that in February 2005 he purchased a radio/CD unit for his son's automobile at Best Buy (a chain of retail electronics stores). Bolestra said in order to rectify a mix-up they'd made in selling him the wrong unit, the store initially waived the installation charges for the stereo, then called him back the next day and threatened to report him to the police if he don't come in and pay the $114 installation fee. Irked that Best Buy had gone from "them admitting a mistake to suddenly calling the police," Bolestra decided to stage a mini-protest by paying the charge with fifty-seven $2 bills. He described to the Baltimore Sun what happened next:
"I'm just here to pay the bill," Bolesta says he told a cashier. "She looked at the $2 bills and told me, 'I don't have to take these if I don't want to.' I said, 'If you don't, I'm leaving. I've tried to pay my bill twice. You don't want these bills, you can sue me.' So she took the money. Like she's doing me a favor."
Nonetheless, police were summoned when a Best Buy employee noticed that the ink on some of the $2 bills was smeared, and after one officer noted that the serial numbers on the bills ran in sequential order, Bolesta was handcuffed and taken to the county police lockup. Police reportedly kept him handcuffed to a pole for three hours while they notified the Secret Service, but when an investigator from that agency (which is tasked with handling counterfeiting cases) determined that the currency was legitimate, Bolesta was finally released.
Now that SciFi has shown it's commitment to the miniseries-format adaptation of SciFi classics, I am waiting for the day they announce the first chapter of the Foundation series...
It seems to me the short-term answer is to start putting batteries into the peripherals rather than running everything on the laptop's battery. The printer, scanner, even external storage, could all have their own batteries, and maybe a way to recharge them all at once via the single charger on the laptop.
My RCA TV has this neat little gizmo they call GLink. It is 2 little IR emitters on long wires that you put in front of the VCR and the cable box. It allows the TV to control the other 2 for single-remote programming. This needs to be extended to a single controller box that could take the new integration and extend it to the older technology. This new "brain" would be the nexus that all the gizmos plug into, allowing the new features on the old hardware. Just a thought... ymmv
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Folks, this is an Urban Legend! I am really surprised y'all were taken in by a submission pointing to a website that marked it as a USER SUBMITTED article with no newspaper reference! from http://www.snopes.com/business/money/tacobell.asp Mike Bolesta, a 57-year-old Baltimore County resident, stated that in February 2005 he purchased a radio/CD unit for his son's automobile at Best Buy (a chain of retail electronics stores). Bolestra said in order to rectify a mix-up they'd made in selling him the wrong unit, the store initially waived the installation charges for the stereo, then called him back the next day and threatened to report him to the police if he don't come in and pay the $114 installation fee. Irked that Best Buy had gone from "them admitting a mistake to suddenly calling the police," Bolestra decided to stage a mini-protest by paying the charge with fifty-seven $2 bills. He described to the Baltimore Sun what happened next: "I'm just here to pay the bill," Bolesta says he told a cashier. "She looked at the $2 bills and told me, 'I don't have to take these if I don't want to.' I said, 'If you don't, I'm leaving. I've tried to pay my bill twice. You don't want these bills, you can sue me.' So she took the money. Like she's doing me a favor." Nonetheless, police were summoned when a Best Buy employee noticed that the ink on some of the $2 bills was smeared, and after one officer noted that the serial numbers on the bills ran in sequential order, Bolesta was handcuffed and taken to the county police lockup. Police reportedly kept him handcuffed to a pole for three hours while they notified the Secret Service, but when an investigator from that agency (which is tasked with handling counterfeiting cases) determined that the currency was legitimate, Bolesta was finally released.
Kelly used the Fly pen this morning on their show. It is real, and it works, and looks like it will be THE kewl toy for XMas 2005. :)
Now that SciFi has shown it's commitment to the miniseries-format adaptation of SciFi classics, I am waiting for the day they announce the first chapter of the Foundation series...
It seems to me the short-term answer is to start putting batteries into the peripherals rather than running everything on the laptop's battery. The printer, scanner, even external storage, could all have their own batteries, and maybe a way to recharge them all at once via the single charger on the laptop.
I am sure that if you wanted to, we would have no problem with you wearing a skirt. :)
And remember, "If it's not Scottish, it' crap!"
My RCA TV has this neat little gizmo they call GLink. It is 2 little IR emitters on long wires that you put in front of the VCR and the cable box. It allows the TV to control the other 2 for single-remote programming. This needs to be extended to a single controller box that could take the new integration and extend it to the older technology. This new "brain" would be the nexus that all the gizmos plug into, allowing the new features on the old hardware.
Just a thought... ymmv