I can't remember when/where i heard it, but I was told that it's illegal to do things like flipping off drivers or swearing at them from your own vehicle. Some sort of aggressive driving law or something. That was in Virginia though, I don't know if it's applicable elsewhere.
I text while I drive all the time, but I follow similar rules. If I've got a passenger who is familiar with my friend and my phone, I hand them my phone and they text for me. I never text in situations that involve merging, turning, or low speeds where stopping is more likely. I also drive a manual, so that increases when I cannot text.
My life comes before my phone, I've dropped my phone with no regard when I suddenly hit a patch of bad traffic. I picked it up when it was appropriate and apologized to the person. I get quiet when I am in traffic that involves concentration, and when I do text, I don't look down. I hold the phone by the wheel with traffic in the background. This way, my hand is already by the wheel should I need to drop the phone and grab it, and I don't have a delay in switching my viewing plane. It helps to know the keypad and all it's shortcuts too.
It does annoy me that there are drivers who put their phone before their driving, I've seen it, and I've taken their phones as passengers to make them focus. It's cheaper than dying.
You probably used a diluted bottle too. I've used 100% isopropyl on a plastic window I had lying around, trying to clean off some latex paint. It turned the clear plastic to a nice rough matte. Needless to say I don't do that anymore.
Where does "Journey - Ask The Lonely" fall in your list?
I'm a nice guy though, my phone is on vibrate whenever I am in a public place or expecting it to ring. The ringtones are for when my phone is across the room or walking around, since I can't feel the vibrations while standing.
For some reason, I find posts like this absolutely fasinating. Are these actually typed out or generated? I'd totally put ideas against a test like this. It's like organized criticism!
A lot of people are saying it's going to be vastly expensive beyond the 30M. What did it cost NASA to do back in the day?
My laptop probably has more computing power than that first mission did, so it can't be impossible to put a robot on the moon with today's hardware. I honestly think the only expensive part of the project will be the costs of fuel and contracting the production of various parts. This mission doesn't have to have the large amount of safety features the lunar mission did, since we aren't carrying people, just machines. If you didn't want to retrieve the equipment, you could build a rocket, launch it at the moon and jettison a landing pod when aligned. Obviously more complicated in practice than in concept, but it's actually less complicated than what we did in the space race.
I welcome anyone who can prove otherwise, this is just my speculation.
I agree. I have a friend with MythTV and I hated using it. I personally have an identical system running Vista for the Media Center and it works great. It had a few kinks that got ironed out over the past 6 months (XviD encoded movies would crash Media Center when loading a more than 10 or so preview icons). Out of the box, it has worked great. The only issue I have with the entire system is that Vista has this annoying file that runs from time to time at puts my CPU at 100%, causing my movies to lag, which i'm hoping gets fixed in SP1. Outside of that issue, it works really well.
I've got a similar outlook. If I'm in the mood to listen to a band's CD, I look to buy it. It's over $12 before taxes, I don't buy it. Instead, I acquire it through other means. Fortunately, the bands I really like are the ones I actually got for less than $12.
With books, if I really like a book, I buy it and keep it on the shelf, and every now and then people notice it and ask, and I offer to let them borrow it. I still do all my reading on the computer because reading from a book gives me a headache (no idea why). I do enjoy having a collection of books I can reference or loan out though.
Out of curiosity, what's wrong with Memory Sticks? I have a Cybershot and haven't had any problems with it for years. Plus my laptop came with a memory card reader slot so I never have to dig out the transfer cables.
This is a great advance for my own usages! I'm not nearly advanced enough to fix mistakes that I make on a Ubuntu box. I had attempted to install Nvidia drivers on my box once and for some reason, it fried X, and I was left with only a command line to work with. I was able to ftp the log with my limited knowledge, but it didn't help me fix the issue in the end. I ended up just wiping the drive and starting over. I would have loved a fail-safe GUI to work with.
Coooool, it worked.
Now, just post this on every website with a note that says "This website is best viewed with Firefox" and tah dah, the fall of IE!:P
I listen to music constantly while on my computer. It took me several hours to figure out how to install MP3 support when I first tried Linux. Even then, I couldn't play my videos either, which annoyed me. I dropped it because i had no reason to switch yet.
My sister was forced to use linux when I lost my windows disks. The only reason she gave me for not wanting to keep it? She couldn't use flash on 64bit linux, which prevented her from listening to music on Purevolume. She even told me today that she misses the OS, but wished she could use flash. Music means a lot to some people.
I got one of those a few years back. My friend had downloaded, at his home, a game demo. The demo was not what it was labeled to be though, and it was actually marked as UT2K3, which it wasn't. When he came over, he told me about the demo, and tried to download it using the same method, clicking on the UT2K3 file in Kazaa. Turned out to really be UT2K3, and I got a C&D email. So I complied, slapped my friend for the mess, and have never downloaded a game since.
I'd much prefer a 'hey... we saw that!' letter over a 'hey, we want your money!' letter.
This is basically a flashbang on a stick. It's probably meant to temporarily blind with a flash of light. Force dilation on the person, along with the reflex of bright light in the first place, it'll mess with your head. That's long enough for someone to come up and detain you in some form. If not that, it's good enough to make you an easy target!
I hate people who use that annoying shorthand in text messaging. When I message people, I use the T9 system that auto-completes words based on the keys pressed.
For those of you who are not familiar, to spell the word 'can' on a regular phone, it requires the key sequence of 222 2 66, while T9 will just require 226 and it builds a small list of words with that sequence. It cuts my text time in half, and I don't even have to double check what i'm writing, as long as the words are long enough. (of, me, on, no, get messed up a lot). The benefit to this system is that it builds complete and unmodified words. I write tonight, not 2nite. Sure, it takes up a lot of space in the message, but if I'm writing 160 characters in every message, I need to just make the damn phone call. Those kids who use the shorthand are cutting themselves short in the long run, and they'll learn it soon enough.
I'm not a homeowner, although I am looking to be one in the next year or so. I would like to do solar paneling on the home I do end up in, and I'm wondering, has anyone done this and gotten a solid price range on what it will cost? I see figures thrown on here and there, but none really state what it is for in terms of panel size, average electricity generated, etc.
I converted my family to Firefox by installing Firefox, then changing the icon to IE and renaming it Internet Explorer. Over about 6 months, I switched the titles, and then the icons back to the originals. They never noticed the difference in browsing, and I told them all individually about the icon. They now ask for it specifically and no longer use IE.
At my school, we've got access to Internet2, but I haven't really figured out a way to utilize it. Does anyone know of a way the network can be accessed for transfers? I ran a test on my machine that said it could access Abilene, but I haven't really found a way to know i'm using it.
I'm curious if it is automatic for some uses, like distros from other institutes. I downloaded Knoppix in a short length of time from Duke while in my dorm room, averaging speeds between 800-1500KB/s.
Anyone know how easy/hard it is to use the network? Or at least point me in the right direction?
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You've also got to remember that houses in New Orleans are very very very old, and the construction style is completely different. I live in a suburb outside of NO, and work in the CBD. The construction style differs greatly depending where the house is located. The Garden District has huge houses with odd layouts, many buildings are combination offices and apartments, even my building has apartments in the floors above us. You'll also run into a lot of shotgun houses, which are really odd if you haven't seen them before.
Shotgun houses, because there is no hallway, will make for an interesting problem. Nothing is 'private' in a shotgun house. If you put something important in 1 room, and a bedroom behind it, people have to go through that room to get to the bedroom. Decking a house like that out becomes more difficult because if you concentrate the usage of the room through technology, you restrict the way the home can be used by future owners in combination with your technology.
The more run down and poor areas just tend to have very small properties, 2 bedroom homes with a footprint of no more than 1200sqft. You'd be stupid to do a project like this in those neighborhoods, I get nervous just driving down them, and that's not because of stereotyping. Every time I have been down those streets, I've seen some form of police activity.
As for the insurance and stilts bit. Homes downtown are completely in a flood zone. As the city relies(and there is a severe emphasis on relies) on the water pumps, if anything fails, you may find yourself with water in your home. I'd first look for WHY the home was damaged and gutted. Obviously the hurricanes were the cause, but was it damaged because of rising water, or was it damaged because of wind more, etc. I deal with insurance claims all day at work, you'd be surprised how much the damage style can vary, and how much damage a single thing can cause. Also, I believe there is a requirement to get flood insurance in any are where your home is x feet below sea-level, and if I remember correctly, the highest point in New Orleans is 20ft above, with the lowest being -6ft. If you could, raise the house, but you'll also risk severe wind damage, as your house will be above the area of disrupted airflow, and much more susceptible to high wind speed.
All in all, good luck. If you do go through with it, and end up getting pwned by a Hurricane/flood, drop me a note and I'll give you some tips on how to document your damages so well that your insurance company will hate you. I've taken claims that adjusters put at 19k and tripled them with good documentation. You'd be surprised what you can get money for in an insurance claim.
holy crap, mod parent up, I haven't laughed that hard in ages.
Also, this one girl I'm courting is sexually active, but finds me to be better than any boyfriend she's ever had. I'm not well endowed, I just pay more attention to details. When we get to fooling around, I watch her reactions, I remember what sets her off, and I use that to my advantage. I don't have to be a sex god to please her, and she likes that. It's more foreplay, it's a lot of fun, and I'm not ripping her open just trying to get it in. Plus I make sure to move the niceties beyond the bedroom, and try to make her smile as much as possible. Even I'm proud of the compliments I get for my hard work, and it helps a LOT in the long run.
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I can't remember when/where i heard it, but I was told that it's illegal to do things like flipping off drivers or swearing at them from your own vehicle. Some sort of aggressive driving law or something. That was in Virginia though, I don't know if it's applicable elsewhere.
My life comes before my phone, I've dropped my phone with no regard when I suddenly hit a patch of bad traffic. I picked it up when it was appropriate and apologized to the person. I get quiet when I am in traffic that involves concentration, and when I do text, I don't look down. I hold the phone by the wheel with traffic in the background. This way, my hand is already by the wheel should I need to drop the phone and grab it, and I don't have a delay in switching my viewing plane. It helps to know the keypad and all it's shortcuts too.
It does annoy me that there are drivers who put their phone before their driving, I've seen it, and I've taken their phones as passengers to make them focus. It's cheaper than dying.
You probably used a diluted bottle too. I've used 100% isopropyl on a plastic window I had lying around, trying to clean off some latex paint. It turned the clear plastic to a nice rough matte. Needless to say I don't do that anymore.
Where does "Journey - Ask The Lonely" fall in your list?
I'm a nice guy though, my phone is on vibrate whenever I am in a public place or expecting it to ring. The ringtones are for when my phone is across the room or walking around, since I can't feel the vibrations while standing.
For some reason, I find posts like this absolutely fasinating. Are these actually typed out or generated? I'd totally put ideas against a test like this. It's like organized criticism!
17 years for my Honda. Just thought I'd throw that out there. Donated it, didn't die.
My laptop probably has more computing power than that first mission did, so it can't be impossible to put a robot on the moon with today's hardware. I honestly think the only expensive part of the project will be the costs of fuel and contracting the production of various parts. This mission doesn't have to have the large amount of safety features the lunar mission did, since we aren't carrying people, just machines. If you didn't want to retrieve the equipment, you could build a rocket, launch it at the moon and jettison a landing pod when aligned. Obviously more complicated in practice than in concept, but it's actually less complicated than what we did in the space race.
I welcome anyone who can prove otherwise, this is just my speculation.
I agree. I have a friend with MythTV and I hated using it. I personally have an identical system running Vista for the Media Center and it works great. It had a few kinks that got ironed out over the past 6 months (XviD encoded movies would crash Media Center when loading a more than 10 or so preview icons). Out of the box, it has worked great. The only issue I have with the entire system is that Vista has this annoying file that runs from time to time at puts my CPU at 100%, causing my movies to lag, which i'm hoping gets fixed in SP1. Outside of that issue, it works really well.
I've got a similar outlook. If I'm in the mood to listen to a band's CD, I look to buy it. It's over $12 before taxes, I don't buy it. Instead, I acquire it through other means. Fortunately, the bands I really like are the ones I actually got for less than $12.
With books, if I really like a book, I buy it and keep it on the shelf, and every now and then people notice it and ask, and I offer to let them borrow it. I still do all my reading on the computer because reading from a book gives me a headache (no idea why). I do enjoy having a collection of books I can reference or loan out though.
Out of curiosity, what's wrong with Memory Sticks? I have a Cybershot and haven't had any problems with it for years. Plus my laptop came with a memory card reader slot so I never have to dig out the transfer cables.
This is a great advance for my own usages! I'm not nearly advanced enough to fix mistakes that I make on a Ubuntu box. I had attempted to install Nvidia drivers on my box once and for some reason, it fried X, and I was left with only a command line to work with. I was able to ftp the log with my limited knowledge, but it didn't help me fix the issue in the end. I ended up just wiping the drive and starting over. I would have loved a fail-safe GUI to work with.
Coooool, it worked. Now, just post this on every website with a note that says "This website is best viewed with Firefox" and tah dah, the fall of IE! :P
I listen to music constantly while on my computer. It took me several hours to figure out how to install MP3 support when I first tried Linux. Even then, I couldn't play my videos either, which annoyed me. I dropped it because i had no reason to switch yet. My sister was forced to use linux when I lost my windows disks. The only reason she gave me for not wanting to keep it? She couldn't use flash on 64bit linux, which prevented her from listening to music on Purevolume. She even told me today that she misses the OS, but wished she could use flash. Music means a lot to some people.
Was a great show, but yes, it was canceled.
I got one of those a few years back. My friend had downloaded, at his home, a game demo. The demo was not what it was labeled to be though, and it was actually marked as UT2K3, which it wasn't. When he came over, he told me about the demo, and tried to download it using the same method, clicking on the UT2K3 file in Kazaa. Turned out to really be UT2K3, and I got a C&D email. So I complied, slapped my friend for the mess, and have never downloaded a game since.
I'd much prefer a 'hey... we saw that!' letter over a 'hey, we want your money!' letter.
This is basically a flashbang on a stick. It's probably meant to temporarily blind with a flash of light. Force dilation on the person, along with the reflex of bright light in the first place, it'll mess with your head. That's long enough for someone to come up and detain you in some form. If not that, it's good enough to make you an easy target!
Methinks that guy deserved a raise, or at least an award. That's dedication.
I hate people who use that annoying shorthand in text messaging. When I message people, I use the T9 system that auto-completes words based on the keys pressed.
For those of you who are not familiar, to spell the word 'can' on a regular phone, it requires the key sequence of 222 2 66, while T9 will just require 226 and it builds a small list of words with that sequence. It cuts my text time in half, and I don't even have to double check what i'm writing, as long as the words are long enough. (of, me, on, no, get messed up a lot). The benefit to this system is that it builds complete and unmodified words. I write tonight, not 2nite. Sure, it takes up a lot of space in the message, but if I'm writing 160 characters in every message, I need to just make the damn phone call. Those kids who use the shorthand are cutting themselves short in the long run, and they'll learn it soon enough.
I'm not a homeowner, although I am looking to be one in the next year or so. I would like to do solar paneling on the home I do end up in, and I'm wondering, has anyone done this and gotten a solid price range on what it will cost? I see figures thrown on here and there, but none really state what it is for in terms of panel size, average electricity generated, etc.
I just typed that into my calculator (Vista Ultimate 32bit) and it worked without a problem.
I converted my family to Firefox by installing Firefox, then changing the icon to IE and renaming it Internet Explorer. Over about 6 months, I switched the titles, and then the icons back to the originals. They never noticed the difference in browsing, and I told them all individually about the icon. They now ask for it specifically and no longer use IE.
At my school, we've got access to Internet2, but I haven't really figured out a way to utilize it. Does anyone know of a way the network can be accessed for transfers? I ran a test on my machine that said it could access Abilene, but I haven't really found a way to know i'm using it.
I'm curious if it is automatic for some uses, like distros from other institutes. I downloaded Knoppix in a short length of time from Duke while in my dorm room, averaging speeds between 800-1500KB/s.
Anyone know how easy/hard it is to use the network? Or at least point me in the right direction?
You've also got to remember that houses in New Orleans are very very very old, and the construction style is completely different. I live in a suburb outside of NO, and work in the CBD. The construction style differs greatly depending where the house is located. The Garden District has huge houses with odd layouts, many buildings are combination offices and apartments, even my building has apartments in the floors above us. You'll also run into a lot of shotgun houses, which are really odd if you haven't seen them before.
Shotgun houses, because there is no hallway, will make for an interesting problem. Nothing is 'private' in a shotgun house. If you put something important in 1 room, and a bedroom behind it, people have to go through that room to get to the bedroom. Decking a house like that out becomes more difficult because if you concentrate the usage of the room through technology, you restrict the way the home can be used by future owners in combination with your technology.
The more run down and poor areas just tend to have very small properties, 2 bedroom homes with a footprint of no more than 1200sqft. You'd be stupid to do a project like this in those neighborhoods, I get nervous just driving down them, and that's not because of stereotyping. Every time I have been down those streets, I've seen some form of police activity.
As for the insurance and stilts bit. Homes downtown are completely in a flood zone. As the city relies(and there is a severe emphasis on relies) on the water pumps, if anything fails, you may find yourself with water in your home. I'd first look for WHY the home was damaged and gutted. Obviously the hurricanes were the cause, but was it damaged because of rising water, or was it damaged because of wind more, etc. I deal with insurance claims all day at work, you'd be surprised how much the damage style can vary, and how much damage a single thing can cause. Also, I believe there is a requirement to get flood insurance in any are where your home is x feet below sea-level, and if I remember correctly, the highest point in New Orleans is 20ft above, with the lowest being -6ft. If you could, raise the house, but you'll also risk severe wind damage, as your house will be above the area of disrupted airflow, and much more susceptible to high wind speed.
All in all, good luck. If you do go through with it, and end up getting pwned by a Hurricane/flood, drop me a note and I'll give you some tips on how to document your damages so well that your insurance company will hate you. I've taken claims that adjusters put at 19k and tripled them with good documentation. You'd be surprised what you can get money for in an insurance claim.
holy crap, mod parent up, I haven't laughed that hard in ages. Also, this one girl I'm courting is sexually active, but finds me to be better than any boyfriend she's ever had. I'm not well endowed, I just pay more attention to details. When we get to fooling around, I watch her reactions, I remember what sets her off, and I use that to my advantage. I don't have to be a sex god to please her, and she likes that. It's more foreplay, it's a lot of fun, and I'm not ripping her open just trying to get it in. Plus I make sure to move the niceties beyond the bedroom, and try to make her smile as much as possible. Even I'm proud of the compliments I get for my hard work, and it helps a LOT in the long run.
So you're that bastard who shanked me in July... That crap hurts, even for a vampire. Can I at least get an apology?