Further more, the global flyer has been designed for a speed record attempt, and so must be at the bleeding edge to beat what's gone before.
No. This is incorrect.
Global Flyer is not designed for speed, it is designed for maximum flight economy. Time is not the enemy. The challenge is getting all the way around the world with the fuel they launched with.
6) Online arcade games. Diamond Mine and Alchemy come to mind.
7) Online Poker. www.holdempoker.com runs free online poker tables with play money, and no software to download and install (it's a Java applet). They only let you visit the play money cashier's window for $1000 twice per day, so you don't get griefed by nearly as many chip tossers like at the other online poker sites. (If there is no limit to free cashier's window visits, then people go all-in every hand at any full table they can get a seat at, then leave and return over and over until they get lucky. It isn't any fun to play seriously against.)
Although playing with a keyboard is faster, the game can be played with only a mouse.
Hmm. I picked up a LaserJet 4M+ and a refurbished toner cartridge on e-Bay for $40 ($15 for the printer, $25 for the toner), plus $30 for shipping. The shipping was much more than the price of the printer, but the net price of $70 is still less than half what you paid.
Oh, and the printer is big, ugly, noisy and pumps out nice printouts at decent speed day in and day out, and I have absolutely no doubt that it will keep on doing it for many years to come. Works great with Linux, too.
Same here. About a year ago, I bought a used HP4M+ with under 15k pages on it ($89, shipped) for the office. Used it for 30k pages, put new rollers (about $22, shipped) in it to fix intermittent paper jams, and I'm now near 90k pages. Since putting the rollers in, I haven't had even one error, misfeed, or other problem with it, and I feed a variety of paper, envelopes, checks and cardstock through it.
Since then, I've bought two more, and never had any trouble at all with either of those two.
If you get a 4 series, get a "plus" model. The original 4 series doesn't go into low power standby mode when idle.
It doesn't hurt that new, off brand toner cartriges are dirt cheap as well.
unfortunately Girls Gone Wired appears to be exactly what you'd expect: Guys ogling video game characters in a beauty pageant.
I want to state publicly, that this is FAR, FAR BELOW my lowest expectations. And I thought they were low already. Now I can appear in a public nerd forum and state "I've never watched TechTV or G4 TechTV" without losing my geek license.
so by your logic it is like a genetic disease and in the future parents should be able to screen for it or possibly cure it in the womb?
That's a really disgusting take on it. Like calling blue eyes, or left handedness a genetic disease.
It may be that parents will be able to screen for homosexuality in the womb, and perhaps even change it, but that doesn't make it a disease.
The world doesn't need people like you homogenizing every detail of our differences to have happy, productive lives. And just because you don't like one of those differences does not make it a disease.
so 1024 MB in a gig. 40 x 1024 = 40960 MB. Assuming each picture is 2 MB in size, you plan on taking 20480 pictures? Doesn't that seem a bit high, even for a one month trip to a strange land. What do you plan on doing, taking a picture of every square inch of Kerbleckistan?
I have a Canon Digital Rebel/300D. I shoot everything in RAW format. It takes about 6.7MB per shot.
If I had a Canon 20D (probably by this time next year, if I don't switch brands) I would use about 8MB per shot, shooting in RAW format.
In that case, I'd need to shoot fewer than 167 pictures a day. It sounds like a lot, but that's fewer pictures per day than many professionals shoot, and they'll be using higher-end cameras that take even more space per shot (like 10-22MB per shot.) Personally I think that would be plenty of storage for me, since my average while on vacation is about 60 shots per day.
There have been vacation days when I've shot over 400 in a single day. I usually shoot between 400 and 800 at weddings and similar social events. Even that is too many for the flash cards I own. I have to carry a laptop with me to offload them to.
If this trip to Kerbleckistan were a "once in a lifetime" trip, even 167 per day could make me feel like I was cramping myself.
No, in the old days, you would have two projectors, and switch between them at each reel change. Some places still do this. If it's done right, the audience doesn't notice.
No, that was the "not-so-old-days". In the "real" old days, many movie theaters couldn't afford two projectors, or their owner wouldn't be bothered with the expense of a second projector.
If you went to a theater in rural America twenty five or thirty years ago, you'd still have a decent chance of finding a single projector screen.
I remember being refused both a refund or a replacement ticket by one grizzled old bastard theater owner when his only projector broke down ten minutes before the end of some crappy Disney movie and he couldn't get it fixed after what seemed like an hour of him fussing with it. (The movie was Witch Mountain, Love Bug, or Digby the dog, or some tripe like that.) It didn't end pretty, but it sure was more entertaining than the end of the Disney film!
I also recall hearing that George Lucas was one of the ones who helped eliminate single projector theaters by refusing to allow his films to be shown in them, so even if you hate him for cursing us lately, you should also thank him, too. (I could be wrong on that, though. I'll have to check.)
"Certainly if there is some flaw in the media then the publisher owes you a new disk. But it is more the normal perils of life that I think the average backup would be intended to protect."
If you're licensing the content, then how the damage occurs doesn't matter. You still own license to the content, and they should make good by replacing the media for a duplication fee. This is how driver's and vendor's licenses are handled in my state: once you've paid for the license, the card is just proof of license. You can have the card replaced for far less than the original cost of licensing. This is how software should be handled if we're truly licensing it rather than buying it. And any expiration should be disclosed before purchase.
One tiny nudge of a motorcycle by a distracted automobile driver can KILL the motorcycle operator. DUH. THAT is why Harley Davidsons are so loud... because they SHOULD BE.
If they "need" to be loud enough to disturb the peace everywhere they go, then the problem is THE RIDER, not the bike. If they "should be" as loud as a competition automotive stereo system at full volume to be safe, then the bike isn't safe enough be used on public roads.
If you need to be noticed, that's what your HORN is for.
I'm a careful rider with a quiet bike, yet I've NEVER in 12 years of riding ever PUT MYSELF INTO a situation where I needed to use my horn or felt I would've been safer with a louder bike.
Yes, I've dodged many distracted drivers, and people who were just not paying attention, but because I fully understand that my safety is in my own hands, I've never had these troubles straight pipe riders seem to think are so rampant... Is it because straight pipe riders think it's their duty to attempt to "enforce" their right to the road by not yielding to careless drivers? I've seen that enough times to give eyewitness reports to police as the ambulance drives away.
Always keep several exit routes open, and leave your ego at home. (With your testosterone.)
And no, I'm not a Harley-hater. I like their style, I like their resale value, and I like buying American products. My next bike will probably be one of the quietest Harleys on the planet by the time I put it on the road.
Their tagline says it all: "No Banners, No Popups, No Kidding".
You can customize a home page there very much like Excite (my prior favorite layout of the "portal" pages), and they carry Reuters, AP and CBS news feeds, among others.
On MyWay, I've seen text links to various features and programs that I don't trust to be free of spyware, such as a "speedbar" and "popswatter", but it's not like they try to auto-install anything or show a deceptive banner link.
Clean, simple, customizable and fast-loading. You can't get much better for dial up access.
The Harley folks make them loud on purpose so you can hear them coming.
I've had Harley riders insist that this is the reason why they have to have the "Look at me! I'm an attention whore!" straight pipes while cruising in residential neighborhoods; yet even while watching them come and listening for them, I never hear them from very far away. You can always hear them as they roar by, and as they rumble off, though. I think the whole "hear them coming" excuse is a crock.
One of these same Harley riders insisted, during the very same conversation when I asked him about the mental rider fatigue all that extra noise must put him through, that he never hears his own pipes while cruising. "Hmm..." I asked him, "How can you hear them coming if you can't even hear them from 3 feet away?" "The wind carries the sound away before it gets to my ears" was the answer.
They felt that being silent would make them invisible and thus even more ignored on the freeways.
I've found that quiet bikes are much easier to stay alert on, especially in routine rides such as to work and back, and also as the miles add up on long road trips, and that's a far bigger safety factor in this world of sound-insulated luxury cars and SUVs. Most anyone with their windows up won't hear you anyway, unless you're riding with a half dozen others with straight pipes.
I don't bitch about straight pipe riders much, but I don't have a positive opinion of them, either.
They can't dodge you like those who ride sport bikes can.
It's obvious to all but the most brain-dead that the GP is familiar with the song, and has changed the lyrics to fit the "in Soviet Russia" paradigm.
Thanks, second AC.
As a matter of fact, I still have the first dozen or so Rush albums on original vinyl, since replaced with CDs. I think I have more than a passing familiarity with "Tom Sawyer".
In Soviet Rush, today's Tom Sawyer gets high on you.
If you're gonna do the damned "Soviet" joke, at least get the meme right!
In Soviet Rush, YOU get high on today's Tom Sawyer!
See......reverse the subject and the object, emphasize the new subject, and end with an exclamation point as if you said something unbelievably clever.
Actually the best odds in the house come from Blackjack and craps. With either one if you know what you are doing the house only has around 1-2% advantage over you. Also its not 50% chance, you forgot about the 0 and 00.
The BEST "naked" odds (as in 'walk up to the table and drop a bet') in casino gambling come with betting the bank to win in Baccarat. With a 5% win commission (typical), the house edge is 1.17% on banker bets, and a 1.36% on player bets. Nothing else comes near.
Craps is for occasional adrenaline rushes and fools. The house edge for the boring Pass/Don't Pass bets is 1.4%, and everything else on the table 5.6% or worse in favor of the house, with up to a 16% edge against you. Sure, craps is fun, but don't think any amount of skill is going to get you consistent wins.
Counting cards in Blackjack is the only reliable way to have odds in your favor, and as we all know, if you're either found actually using those odds, or suspected of using them, you'll be asked to leave every casino in the world.
Good Blackjack players who don't count cards face a long term house edge of about 0.5%. Individual bets are worse, but occasional opportunities in Blackjack (split, double down), when played correctly, can bring the odds back under a percent in favor of the house. That's why the "naked" odds on baccarat are better.
Typical blackjack players face house edge of around 3.5%.
(I have heard there are some Video Poker games that have slight negative house edge for perfectly executed play, but don't find that game interesting enough to find them.)
You're right, and that's another reason why the geeks-for-geeks free wireless web won't work. You've got to be geeky enough to put all the firewalls and other protection in place, and configure them properly. Otherwise, the ISP will cut you off when you get 0wnXord. And even then, you'd still have to be willing to accept the small (but non-zero) risk of having to stand up in court and say "it wasn't me, Mr. Ashcroft!"
That assumes you'll even have access to the courts, which in today's "war on terrorism" world is not at all a safe assumption.
If you're unlucky, your wireless net access will get jacked for porn and you'll face the prosecutor.
But if you're really unlucky, you'll be declared an "enemy combatant" because you've aided al Qaida by giving them free anonymous net access, and you'll be jailed without the right to habeas corpus until the end of the "war on terrorism". Care to bet we'll win that war before the end of your natural life?
My favorite adventure I sent my group on involved them getting used as the out-of-town patsy for a murder. The political intrigue was a much better motivator than combat, and as I recall, the players rolled dice maybe three or four times the entire adventure.
Are you trying to equate pop-ups with art?
Or are you claiming there is some artsy web page out there that uses pop-ups as its medium? (If so, what is it? I am a fan of concept art.)
I use Mozilla or Firebird/fox/bat/weasel on every system I use or admin.
If a pop-up dependent (or IE dependent, for that matter) page refuses to load when I enter, I go elsewhere. When I've been interested enough, I've gone back later to view a few of them with IE, but I didn't try to force my way in with a browser they don't welcome.
I don't think there's a contradiction here where you're trying to find one.
Just give the enduser the ability to censor, and leave the original signal/movie untouched. Example: When the little tikes are in the room, switch to G rated, when they leave, switch to whatever rating you want. Heck, maybe with this tech, you could have a setting to make it all "Naughty-Bits". I don't see it as censorship if it's selectable by the end-user then it's selective viewing. The problem comes in when/if you are mandated to keep the settings at a certain level, or required to have it self-censor. Beyond that, this could help eliminate censorship at the original broadcast.
All three of the DVD players I now have, all of which are over two years old, have the built in ability to refuse to play movies according to their MPAA ratings. I leave mine set to refuse to play anything beyond "R" because I frequently have the children of family around and don't want them "accidentally" viewing some of the other DVDs around the house.
I don't think it's right or ethical to create a device to automatically alter someone else's art to suit one's own personal morality.
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No. This is incorrect.
Global Flyer is not designed for speed, it is designed for maximum flight economy. Time is not the enemy. The challenge is getting all the way around the world with the fuel they launched with.
7) Online Poker. www.holdempoker.com runs free online poker tables with play money, and no software to download and install (it's a Java applet). They only let you visit the play money cashier's window for $1000 twice per day, so you don't get griefed by nearly as many chip tossers like at the other online poker sites. (If there is no limit to free cashier's window visits, then people go all-in every hand at any full table they can get a seat at, then leave and return over and over until they get lucky. It isn't any fun to play seriously against.)
Although playing with a keyboard is faster, the game can be played with only a mouse.
Oh, and the printer is big, ugly, noisy and pumps out nice printouts at decent speed day in and day out, and I have absolutely no doubt that it will keep on doing it for many years to come. Works great with Linux, too.
Same here. About a year ago, I bought a used HP4M+ with under 15k pages on it ($89, shipped) for the office. Used it for 30k pages, put new rollers (about $22, shipped) in it to fix intermittent paper jams, and I'm now near 90k pages. Since putting the rollers in, I haven't had even one error, misfeed, or other problem with it, and I feed a variety of paper, envelopes, checks and cardstock through it.
Since then, I've bought two more, and never had any trouble at all with either of those two.
If you get a 4 series, get a "plus" model. The original 4 series doesn't go into low power standby mode when idle.
It doesn't hurt that new, off brand toner cartriges are dirt cheap as well.
I want to state publicly, that this is FAR, FAR BELOW my lowest expectations. And I thought they were low already. Now I can appear in a public nerd forum and state "I've never watched TechTV or G4 TechTV" without losing my geek license.
That's a really disgusting take on it. Like calling blue eyes, or left handedness a genetic disease.
It may be that parents will be able to screen for homosexuality in the womb, and perhaps even change it, but that doesn't make it a disease.
The world doesn't need people like you homogenizing every detail of our differences to have happy, productive lives. And just because you don't like one of those differences does not make it a disease.
I have a Canon Digital Rebel/300D. I shoot everything in RAW format. It takes about 6.7MB per shot.
If I had a Canon 20D (probably by this time next year, if I don't switch brands) I would use about 8MB per shot, shooting in RAW format.
In that case, I'd need to shoot fewer than 167 pictures a day. It sounds like a lot, but that's fewer pictures per day than many professionals shoot, and they'll be using higher-end cameras that take even more space per shot (like 10-22MB per shot.) Personally I think that would be plenty of storage for me, since my average while on vacation is about 60 shots per day.
There have been vacation days when I've shot over 400 in a single day. I usually shoot between 400 and 800 at weddings and similar social events. Even that is too many for the flash cards I own. I have to carry a laptop with me to offload them to.
If this trip to Kerbleckistan were a "once in a lifetime" trip, even 167 per day could make me feel like I was cramping myself.
No, that was the "not-so-old-days". In the "real" old days, many movie theaters couldn't afford two projectors, or their owner wouldn't be bothered with the expense of a second projector.
If you went to a theater in rural America twenty five or thirty years ago, you'd still have a decent chance of finding a single projector screen.
I remember being refused both a refund or a replacement ticket by one grizzled old bastard theater owner when his only projector broke down ten minutes before the end of some crappy Disney movie and he couldn't get it fixed after what seemed like an hour of him fussing with it. (The movie was Witch Mountain, Love Bug, or Digby the dog, or some tripe like that.) It didn't end pretty, but it sure was more entertaining than the end of the Disney film!
I also recall hearing that George Lucas was one of the ones who helped eliminate single projector theaters by refusing to allow his films to be shown in them, so even if you hate him for cursing us lately, you should also thank him, too. (I could be wrong on that, though. I'll have to check.)
If you're licensing the content, then how the damage occurs doesn't matter. You still own license to the content, and they should make good by replacing the media for a duplication fee. This is how driver's and vendor's licenses are handled in my state: once you've paid for the license, the card is just proof of license. You can have the card replaced for far less than the original cost of licensing. This is how software should be handled if we're truly licensing it rather than buying it. And any expiration should be disclosed before purchase.
If they "need" to be loud enough to disturb the peace everywhere they go, then the problem is THE RIDER, not the bike. If they "should be" as loud as a competition automotive stereo system at full volume to be safe, then the bike isn't safe enough be used on public roads.
If you need to be noticed, that's what your HORN is for.
I'm a careful rider with a quiet bike, yet I've NEVER in 12 years of riding ever PUT MYSELF INTO a situation where I needed to use my horn or felt I would've been safer with a louder bike.
Yes, I've dodged many distracted drivers, and people who were just not paying attention, but because I fully understand that my safety is in my own hands, I've never had these troubles straight pipe riders seem to think are so rampant... Is it because straight pipe riders think it's their duty to attempt to "enforce" their right to the road by not yielding to careless drivers? I've seen that enough times to give eyewitness reports to police as the ambulance drives away.
Always keep several exit routes open, and leave your ego at home. (With your testosterone.)
And no, I'm not a Harley-hater. I like their style, I like their resale value, and I like buying American products. My next bike will probably be one of the quietest Harleys on the planet by the time I put it on the road.
Their tagline says it all: "No Banners, No Popups, No Kidding".
You can customize a home page there very much like Excite (my prior favorite layout of the "portal" pages), and they carry Reuters, AP and CBS news feeds, among others.
On MyWay, I've seen text links to various features and programs that I don't trust to be free of spyware, such as a "speedbar" and "popswatter", but it's not like they try to auto-install anything or show a deceptive banner link.
Clean, simple, customizable and fast-loading. You can't get much better for dial up access.
I've had Harley riders insist that this is the reason why they have to have the "Look at me! I'm an attention whore!" straight pipes while cruising in residential neighborhoods; yet even while watching them come and listening for them, I never hear them from very far away. You can always hear them as they roar by, and as they rumble off, though. I think the whole "hear them coming" excuse is a crock.
One of these same Harley riders insisted, during the very same conversation when I asked him about the mental rider fatigue all that extra noise must put him through, that he never hears his own pipes while cruising. "Hmm..." I asked him, "How can you hear them coming if you can't even hear them from 3 feet away?" "The wind carries the sound away before it gets to my ears" was the answer.
They felt that being silent would make them invisible and thus even more ignored on the freeways.
I've found that quiet bikes are much easier to stay alert on, especially in routine rides such as to work and back, and also as the miles add up on long road trips, and that's a far bigger safety factor in this world of sound-insulated luxury cars and SUVs. Most anyone with their windows up won't hear you anyway, unless you're riding with a half dozen others with straight pipes.
I don't bitch about straight pipe riders much, but I don't have a positive opinion of them, either.
They can't dodge you like those who ride sport bikes can.
They can if they're alert, competent riders.
Thanks, second AC.
As a matter of fact, I still have the first dozen or so Rush albums on original vinyl, since replaced with CDs. I think I have more than a passing familiarity with "Tom Sawyer".
If you're gonna do the damned "Soviet" joke, at least get the meme right!
In Soviet Rush, YOU get high on today's Tom Sawyer!
See... ...reverse the subject and the object, emphasize the new subject, and end with an exclamation point as if you said something unbelievably clever.
The BEST "naked" odds (as in 'walk up to the table and drop a bet') in casino gambling come with betting the bank to win in Baccarat. With a 5% win commission (typical), the house edge is 1.17% on banker bets, and a 1.36% on player bets. Nothing else comes near.
Craps is for occasional adrenaline rushes and fools. The house edge for the boring Pass/Don't Pass bets is 1.4%, and everything else on the table 5.6% or worse in favor of the house, with up to a 16% edge against you. Sure, craps is fun, but don't think any amount of skill is going to get you consistent wins.
Counting cards in Blackjack is the only reliable way to have odds in your favor, and as we all know, if you're either found actually using those odds, or suspected of using them, you'll be asked to leave every casino in the world.
Good Blackjack players who don't count cards face a long term house edge of about 0.5%. Individual bets are worse, but occasional opportunities in Blackjack (split, double down), when played correctly, can bring the odds back under a percent in favor of the house. That's why the "naked" odds on baccarat are better.
Typical blackjack players face house edge of around 3.5%.
(I have heard there are some Video Poker games that have slight negative house edge for perfectly executed play, but don't find that game interesting enough to find them.)
That assumes you'll even have access to the courts, which in today's "war on terrorism" world is not at all a safe assumption.
If you're unlucky, your wireless net access will get jacked for porn and you'll face the prosecutor.
But if you're really unlucky, you'll be declared an "enemy combatant" because you've aided al Qaida by giving them free anonymous net access, and you'll be jailed without the right to habeas corpus until the end of the "war on terrorism". Care to bet we'll win that war before the end of your natural life?
Ahh, but was it THEIR favorite adventure?
Are you trying to equate pop-ups with art? Or are you claiming there is some artsy web page out there that uses pop-ups as its medium? (If so, what is it? I am a fan of concept art.)
I use Mozilla or Firebird/fox/bat/weasel on every system I use or admin. If a pop-up dependent (or IE dependent, for that matter) page refuses to load when I enter, I go elsewhere. When I've been interested enough, I've gone back later to view a few of them with IE, but I didn't try to force my way in with a browser they don't welcome. I don't think there's a contradiction here where you're trying to find one.
All three of the DVD players I now have, all of which are over two years old, have the built in ability to refuse to play movies according to their MPAA ratings. I leave mine set to refuse to play anything beyond "R" because I frequently have the children of family around and don't want them "accidentally" viewing some of the other DVDs around the house.
I don't think it's right or ethical to create a device to automatically alter someone else's art to suit one's own personal morality.
"My uncle has a country place
That no one knows about..."