my cell phone is the same as my USERNAME! (and my hobby too!)
yes, Area Code hidden, my cell phone is:
xxx-MICROCARS
This also seems to weed out people who I don't want calling me. I will occassionally hear back: "I couldn't figure out how to dial it, there were too many letters, its more than Seven Letters...whine complain.....
However- I have found recently that people trying to dial this from some cellular services can't make it work as the cell service doesn't drop off the last 2 digits.
The Li-ion batteries used nowadays have a finite life span and unless you plan to store them in a cool place at 40% charge for max life span you will find that after a year or so, they will begin to lose (or should I say: loose) their ability to accept a charge- JUST LIKE the one you are using on a daily basis.
I bought an extra battery for my iBook almost 2 years ago and hardly ever used it, but occassionally gave it a full charge cycle every few months (when I remembered...) Now it only accepts an 85% charge, just like my daily use battery that is installed in the iBook.
YMMV, but that's my experience.
Get as many AC adapters as you can afford and stick them all over the house where-ever you plan to sit. We have 2 iBooks and Wireless in the house and its great to go anywhere in the house and be able to plug in without UNplugging a power adapter and lugging it around.
just the other day I took my mother-in-law in to (unamed Office Supply store that sounds like a Home Center...) to replace her old HP 190 color copier with an HP 7110 color copier
As we were standing there talking to the salesperson, he brought up the subject some recent news event where some local kids were caught after using counterfit bills to pay for stuff.
"They used THIS COPIER!" he said proudly! "That's how good it is!"
I'm sure they could, but based my experience over the past year they don't bother. As has been mentioned before, why would a spammer bother with the extra work when SO MANY email addresses are already out in plain sight on web pages?
I've been using ENKODER for doing this on a few websites and I always include a few "control" addresses that do NOT forward to my primary email (which is filtered by Brightmail).
It seems to work VERY well, I have received ZERO spam at any of the "control" email addresses obfuscated with this Javascript:
from the article: "...U.S. law, which allows color reproductions of U.S. bank notes so long as the reproductions are smaller than 75 percent or larger than 150 percent of actual size. The reproduction must be one-sided, and all materials, including graphic files that were used to make the reproduction, must be destroyed afterward. "
I used to work on Television Commercials and the Ad Agencies would all go nuts over those rules anytime we did a commercial that showed ANY US Currency (think Lottery Commercials...)
Fairly Realistic "Fake" Money Exists that can be used for showing huge piles of Cash and it's handy when you do need to have the appearance of money blowing around all over the place.
But sometimes the job entailed filming a SINGLE US banknote and the Ad Agency would insist we use "Fake" money because they did not want to get in trouble with the Treasury dept. Never mind that the image was going to appear on a TV screen, it existed on 35mm film before going to videotape.
What really pissed me off one day was when -on set- the Art Director was complaining that the "Fake"Money we were using did not look "real" enough. *sigh*
The "fake" money we were using was as real as the US Treasury allowed. There is a printing company in California that comes up with this stuff for the Film Biz and they had been through many generations of "fake" styles. Each generation looked better than the previous one. Apparently one of their "styles" of "fake" bills went too far and the US Treasury confiscated the printed bills AND the plates used to print them.
I've made a bunch of "REAL" money over the years in overtime and other things thanks to the Ad Agencies confusion over the interpretation of this law.
back in college, I had the same problem and I found the only solution was to have to physically GET UP out of bed and GO TO ANOTHER ROOM to turn off the alarm.
normal alarms did not work, it had to be something I found very annoying or embarrassing.
So I took out my LP record of the STAR WARS theme, set it up on the turntable, put the needle down on the record to start at the "MAIN THEME" which is extremely grande and pompous (and embarrassing to hear very loudly at 7am...I was a fan, but not THAT big a fan...).
I used the nice manual timer that came with my Betamax SL8200 to turn ON my stereo and turntable at 7am.
a few nights of this and I would be UP and RUNNING into the living room when I heard the distinctive *click* of the Betamax timer go off.
I got to the point where I could lift the needle off the turntable just before the receiver warmed up enough to play the first note.
"...One night, I was working on a project, when all of a sudden it went berserk, the screen started flashing, and the whole project just disappeared. All of it."
Did it start going Beep Beep Beep ?
"...Needless to say, my rushed project wasn't nearly as good, and I blame that iBook for losing the account."
How do you Backup your work nowadays? Same way? It's not a question of IF something will fail, it's WHEN.
They don't hide the SSID , there is no password and if you don't have a laptop, or don't want to sit on the floor outside the store, feel free to use any of the BRAND NEW computers set up in the store!
I'm always amazed at how people/companies will spend ungodly amounts of time/money on something just to avoid paying a "fee".
In this case, to avoid paying Google for an Ad Word fee, they spend piles of money and time setting up cross-linking websites hoping to "beat the system".
This is the same mentality that alot of people who tried to scam DirecTV have/had. I know people who spent MORE MONEY on Hacked DirecTV cards (that constantly needed to be updated...) than it would have cost to have purchased a full-blown monthly subscription! All they got was Bragging Rights that they "beat the system". "Look", one of my friends would say, "I'm getting EVERY CHANNEL FOR FREE!". uh huh. not anymore.
hmmm, I had some sort of a point with this post, but now I've lost it. sorry.
Hope it doesn't have that "crack"....
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that was reported on a number of these.
otherwise, its nice lookin'
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yes, Area Code hidden, my cell phone is:
xxx-MICROCARS
This also seems to weed out people who I don't want calling me. I will occassionally hear back:
"I couldn't figure out how to dial it, there were too many letters, its more than Seven Letters...whine complain.....
However- I have found recently that people trying to dial this from some cellular services can't make it work as the cell service doesn't drop off the last 2 digits.
*sigh*
The Li-ion batteries used nowadays have a finite life span and unless you plan to store them in a cool place at 40% charge for max life span you will find that after a year or so, they will begin to lose (or should I say: loose) their ability to accept a charge- JUST LIKE the one you are using on a daily basis.
I bought an extra battery for my iBook almost 2 years ago and hardly ever used it, but occassionally gave it a full charge cycle every few months (when I remembered...) Now it only accepts an 85% charge, just like my daily use battery that is installed in the iBook.
YMMV, but that's my experience.
Get as many AC adapters as you can afford and stick them all over the house where-ever you plan to sit.
We have 2 iBooks and Wireless in the house and its great to go anywhere in the house and be able to plug in without UNplugging a power adapter and lugging it around.
I can see Microsoft telling British Telecom:
"We're not paying you any license fees, we'll just have our users MANUALLY TYPE THE URLS"
Normally we can get one engine done in half a day, then we pack up and move on to the next jet engine in the next hangar.
It goes on like this all day, every day, 5 days a week.
I look at the other people sitting inside the buildings and think how lucky they are to only have to put up with this for 1/2 a day once a week.
As we were standing there talking to the salesperson, he brought up the subject some recent news event where some local kids were caught after using counterfit bills to pay for stuff.
"They used THIS COPIER!" he said proudly! "That's how good it is!"
We bought it anyways.
I'm sure they could, but based my experience over the past year they don't bother. As has been mentioned before, why would a spammer bother with the extra work when SO MANY email addresses are already out in plain sight on web pages?
I've been using ENKODER for doing this on a few websites and I always include a few "control" addresses that do NOT forward to my primary email (which is filtered by Brightmail).
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It seems to work VERY well, I have received ZERO spam at any of the "control" email addresses obfuscated with this Javascript:
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&nb sp; }
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and that is an unrealistic expectation?
At the office my wife works in, she was lauded by the IT guy because she was the only one there who actually knew how to "cut and paste".
These are the kind of people that are USING the technology. They really do not understand how or why it works.
And they don't want to hear a lecture about it. They just want it to work.
read my post here for the answer to your question.
"...U.S. law, which allows color reproductions of U.S. bank notes so long as the reproductions are smaller than 75 percent or larger than 150 percent of actual size. The reproduction must be one-sided, and all materials, including graphic files that were used to make the reproduction, must be destroyed afterward. "
I used to work on Television Commercials and the Ad Agencies would all go nuts over those rules anytime we did a commercial that showed ANY US Currency (think Lottery Commercials...)
Fairly Realistic "Fake" Money Exists that can be used for showing huge piles of Cash and it's handy when you do need to have the appearance of money blowing around all over the place.
But sometimes the job entailed filming a SINGLE US banknote and the Ad Agency would insist we use "Fake" money because they did not want to get in trouble with the Treasury dept. Never mind that the image was going to appear on a TV screen, it existed on 35mm film before going to videotape.
What really pissed me off one day was when -on set- the Art Director was complaining that the "Fake"Money we were using did not look "real" enough. *sigh*
The "fake" money we were using was as real as the US Treasury allowed. There is a printing company in California that comes up with this stuff for the Film Biz and they had been through many generations of "fake" styles. Each generation looked better than the previous one.
Apparently one of their "styles" of "fake" bills went too far and the US Treasury confiscated the printed bills AND the plates used to print them.
I've made a bunch of "REAL" money over the years in overtime and other things thanks to the Ad Agencies confusion over the interpretation of this law.
We have an old huge Library Table for the "dining room" but it ALWAYS gets covered with projects.
hey, its comfortable.
normal alarms did not work, it had to be something I found very annoying or embarrassing.
So I took out my LP record of the STAR WARS theme, set it up on the turntable, put the needle down on the record to start at the "MAIN THEME" which is extremely grande and pompous (and embarrassing to hear very loudly at 7am...I was a fan, but not THAT big a fan...).
I used the nice manual timer that came with my Betamax SL8200 to turn ON my stereo and turntable at 7am.
a few nights of this and I would be UP and RUNNING into the living room when I heard the distinctive *click* of the Betamax timer go off.
I got to the point where I could lift the needle off the turntable just before the receiver warmed up enough to play the first note.
Did it start going Beep Beep Beep ?
"...Needless to say, my rushed project wasn't nearly as good, and I blame that iBook for losing the account."
How do you Backup your work nowadays? Same way?
It's not a question of IF something will fail, it's WHEN.
this show only lasts about 2 minutes per week, but you can hear some good examples of it at NPR at anytime.
Go to NPR and search for "Jim Nayder" (use the quotes)
you will find many examples of archived Weekend Edition shows with "special" Annoying Music Show sets you can listen to (Real Audio or WMP, sorry...)
Find One near you!
They don't hide the SSID , there is no password and if you don't have a laptop, or don't want to sit on the floor outside the store, feel free to use any of the BRAND NEW computers set up in the store!
???
What does a Triangle on its side look like anyways?
I don't see a button that looks like this: -
Get as many Submarine StandBy Batteries as needed to run this for the expected period of time. (months, years...)
Now you have the Rack powered with no external wiring!
here's a LINK and here's ANOTHER. I'd love to see the Video of him using the Microwave!
minutes of fun.
is it compatible with my ham radio? If not, I'll just keep using SlowScan TV?
start stocking up on toilet paper and gold coins!
as opposed to Windows, where a lot of human suffering goes into using it.
Do you think the Pirated version has "new" Longhorn Startup Sound in it ?
(sorry, repost, but I like it, :P )
Then why is it the best selling MP3 player?
In this case, to avoid paying Google for an Ad Word fee, they spend piles of money and time setting up cross-linking websites hoping to "beat the system".
This is the same mentality that alot of people who tried to scam DirecTV have/had. I know people who spent MORE MONEY on Hacked DirecTV cards (that constantly needed to be updated...) than it would have cost to have purchased a full-blown monthly subscription!
All they got was Bragging Rights that they "beat the system".
"Look", one of my friends would say, "I'm getting EVERY CHANNEL FOR FREE!". uh huh. not anymore.
hmmm, I had some sort of a point with this post, but now I've lost it. sorry.
that was reported on a number of these. otherwise, its nice lookin'