In my drivers ed, they didn't define what a drink is. They only showed us car accidents and body clean up. Those images to me were convincing enough to never drink and drive.
The small business owners could revert to the old 1997 methodology where they can display a logo "Site works best with Firefox" AND make a buck on the download instead of those older "Works best with IE" logos.
I loved that movie (Doc Savage) as a kid. I've only seen it on the spanish channels recently. As horrible as it is, I'd still like to see it again uncut and in english.
The "Gas was much more expensive than electric." quip was in reference to the appearance of out of pocket expenses to the utility companies for those winter months during the deregulation and the setup of gas marketers.
It was common for a normal household usage to be 3x the regulated amount as there was also a shortage of product.
Actually it was probably that and the fact that where I lived, the gas companies were de-regulated and that was a clusterF*K of mess right there.
You had to pay for the use of gas which was cheaper wholesale (which benefited business that pushed for deregulation) but marked up well over the original prices for residential customers and you had to pay for the billing of gas from the gas marketer which was a new charge. The deregulation was sold as cheaper gas for all but it ended up costing way more than they imagined, Natural gas prices rose insanely on top of that, and people that couldn't pay for the increase of both had to freeze in the winter.
My wife switched us completely to compact flourescents a few years ago. It has saved a bunch of money.
Not trying to be facetious but I must call your bluff. Please correct me.
How much is a bunch of money? Do you know how much kWH you used per month with incandescents vs now and how that relates to cents per day?
I know in my case that when I switched, I targeted the highest amount of kWH usage bulbs which was about 4 bulbs in my home that came to just under 1kWH which is 2 cents a day where I live. I think that is enough to feed a starving child in Ethiopia. Instead of 1kWH a day, I now use 1kWH every 5 days.
At that rate, it will take me 2 and half years to pay for the added cost I paid for the bulbs.
If the kWH rate goes up, then I may feel good about it as I use 800 watts less a day but it still is expensive nonetheless.
I seem to remember that in 2000/2001 in the SouthEast, there was a gas shortage and price per therm went through the roof. Gas was much more expensive than electric.
I had gas heat and a gas stovetop and my highest gas bill for the month was over $400 and that was for a small 1800sqft house. The year before and cooler, it was no more than $150. The gas companies were looking for handouts for people to pay for the people who couldn't afford to pay their bill.
I prefer NG over eletric for heat but that really put a sour taste in my pocketbook for NG.
what does an IPOD have (other than after market accessories) that the Zune does not?
-The ability to act as an external hard drive in a pinch. -A software client that runs on Windows and Macintosh. -Seasons in the market.
Is Microsoft really going to go the distance with this or will the Zune become another MSNtv(WebTv) type of product where all the R&D is done and it just festers?
5. Birds that fly into my large window that either die from impact or get their knocked out carcasses picked up by larger, predatory birds : approximately 15 a year.
I know when it's time to clean the window then the outline of said bird is left on the window.
Time Travel episode Evil Twin episode Alternate Universe episode Current Earth visit (may also be the Time Travel episode) Episodes spread where one of the major characters dies but comes back to life.
Getting rid of the penny has got to be the most ridiculous ideas that is popular amongst those that are `inconvienced` by a penny.
First of all, we're not on the gold standard so we won't even go there.
Secondly, what would you base the dollar on? It can't be worth 100 cents once you remove the penny. You might as well get used to a new decimal system based on 20ths. $100.99 can't exist so we'll call it $101.00 or $100.95. Well $100.95 can't exist since 95 percent of a dollar doesn't really exist anymore so we'll call it $100.19. Then that makes $100.20 = $101.00.
Credit card companies would have a field day with it and interest rates would be false unless they were adjusted to a 20th system.
You've got to have a lowest common denominator and the penny is it.
If you're tired of lugging around your pennies, save them and buy stamps. The post office vending machines take pennies. Once a year I deposit all my pennies to get stamps.
If you have a large organization and you're backing up terabytes+ daily, then yes with incremental. You can probably afford the $37,000+ for a TB storage solution. A good bit of small businesses really don't have more than a couple hundred gigs that need to be backed up and the nightly stuff is probably under a gig unless you're in the media business.
Tape backup for archival is a horrible solution. You're dependant upon the media and the media player and in the case of Microsoft, the OS as well. BackupExec issues anyone? How many of you had that backup you made to tape take forever to retrieve where that happenstance copy you made to another server work just fine?
Tape backup for `backup` is a fine solution but not for long term storage. When marketing companies are finished with projects and they need to be removed from the server, they are archived on CD/DVD media.
If is probably cheaper to buy about 20 500 Gig Hard Drives and run a backup scheme using that media than to spend $2,000 on a 120Gig DLT tape drive that will take 6 hours to make a backup.
I'm not really discounting the usefulness of tape backup, I just question if it is relevant today when disk storage is cheaper.
Part of it, not all of it, part of it is also perception.
Tube televisions also take about 5-15 seconds to come up especially the >27" models. It's just that you hear the "click" and you immediately think it's on at that point, it is but the picture isn't bright enough or in focus yet.
I have a 19" tube that takes 7 seconds to come on and a 27" tube that takes 12 seconds. I also have a 27" LCD that takes 10 seconds to come on but in a different fashion than tubes. First you hear the "click", then the picture, then the audio. All that takes 10 seconds.
The only reason I see a need for the RIAA or any other type of group body is for the protection of the artists.
Without some sort of organization, what is to stop Sally Sandbone from taking the Latest Madonna (or other) song and calling it her own? Who is going to go after the protection of content for the content provider?
I can place a recording device in a piano at Nordstroms, record the pianists' recording, and sell it as my own or a "Christmas Special" collection. What is to stop me?
Indeed the motivation of people migrating from Win3.1 to Win95 was that 95 "sucked less" and the remark was so common that I swear it became a Microsoft marketing line.
They say each successive version is "more stable and secure!"
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Tell that to the boom stick.
Part of it is to junk your spam filter if you mark it as spam.
The generic Thunderbird spam/junk filter is useless on these.
In my day, 18 WAS the drinking age.
I still think it should be.
Making it illegal isn't going to save anybody.
Responsible people will be responsible.
Idiots will still be idiots.
In my drivers ed, they didn't define what a drink is. They only showed us car accidents and body clean up. Those images to me were convincing enough to never drink and drive.
I'm pretty confident that games of this era used 100% of the hardware capabilities.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swordquest
How can you NOT use 4k of memory?
The small business owners could revert to the old 1997 methodology where they can display a logo "Site works best with Firefox" AND make a buck on the download instead of those older "Works best with IE" logos.
"it's a shame they have so much input into what others' business rules look like"
Yeah like E-commerce sites hosted with IIS will be favored over Apache hosted sites.
Well if you really want to feel insignificant, view this little ditty on size:
t icsu/powersof10/
http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceop
I loved that movie (Doc Savage) as a kid. I've only seen it on the spanish channels recently. As horrible as it is, I'd still like to see it again uncut and in english.
The "Gas was much more expensive than electric." quip was in reference to the appearance of out of pocket expenses to the utility companies for those winter months during the deregulation and the setup of gas marketers.
It was common for a normal household usage to be 3x the regulated amount as there was also a shortage of product.
Actually it was probably that and the fact that where I lived, the gas companies were de-regulated and that was a clusterF*K of mess right there.
/ gasderegfaq.asp
You had to pay for the use of gas which was cheaper wholesale (which benefited business that pushed for deregulation) but marked up well over the original prices for residential customers and you had to pay for the billing of gas from the gas marketer which was a new charge.
The deregulation was sold as cheaper gas for all but it ended up costing way more than they imagined, Natural gas prices rose insanely on top of that, and people that couldn't pay for the increase of both had to freeze in the winter.
http://www.psc.state.ga.us/consumer_corner/cc_gas
Not trying to be facetious but I must call your bluff. Please correct me.
How much is a bunch of money?
Do you know how much kWH you used per month with incandescents vs now and how that relates to cents per day?
I know in my case that when I switched, I targeted the highest amount of kWH usage bulbs which was about 4 bulbs in my home that came to just under 1kWH which is 2 cents a day where I live. I think that is enough to feed a starving child in Ethiopia.
Instead of 1kWH a day, I now use 1kWH every 5 days.
At that rate, it will take me 2 and half years to pay for the added cost I paid for the bulbs.
If the kWH rate goes up, then I may feel good about it as I use 800 watts less a day but it still is expensive nonetheless.
No, they did this 10 years ago - they're just folowing SOP, rehash what's been done but call it new.
Gaming 10 years ago (specifically for Windows) had online communities. Remember DOOM? Duke Nukem? The Star Wars games?
When IE4 hit the playing field, coupled with the Zone (the MS online community) it was a booming community.
This is just market spin to keep mindset so that the Windows platform is synonymous with games and gamers will not venture off elsewhere.
The casual gamer does not care what platform he plays on. He cares only if his chess game will work.
I seem to remember that in 2000/2001 in the SouthEast, there was a gas shortage and price per therm went through the roof. Gas was much more expensive than electric.
I had gas heat and a gas stovetop and my highest gas bill for the month was over $400 and that was for a small 1800sqft house. The year before and cooler, it was no more than $150.
The gas companies were looking for handouts for people to pay for the people who couldn't afford to pay their bill.
I prefer NG over eletric for heat but that really put a sour taste in my pocketbook for NG.
what does an IPOD have (other than after market accessories) that the Zune does not?
-The ability to act as an external hard drive in a pinch.
-A software client that runs on Windows and Macintosh.
-Seasons in the market.
Is Microsoft really going to go the distance with this or will the Zune become another MSNtv(WebTv) type of product where all the R&D is done and it just festers?
5. Birds that fly into my large window that either die from impact or get their knocked out carcasses picked up by larger, predatory birds : approximately 15 a year.
I know when it's time to clean the window then the outline of said bird is left on the window.
Time Travel episode
Evil Twin episode
Alternate Universe episode
Current Earth visit (may also be the Time Travel episode)
Episodes spread where one of the major characters dies but comes back to life.
Getting rid of the penny has got to be the most ridiculous ideas that is popular amongst those that are `inconvienced` by a penny.
First of all, we're not on the gold standard so we won't even go there.
Secondly, what would you base the dollar on? It can't be worth 100 cents once you remove the penny. You might as well get used to a new decimal system based on 20ths.
$100.99 can't exist so we'll call it $101.00 or $100.95. Well $100.95 can't exist since 95 percent of a dollar doesn't really exist anymore so we'll call it $100.19.
Then that makes $100.20 = $101.00.
Credit card companies would have a field day with it and interest rates would be false unless they were adjusted to a 20th system.
You've got to have a lowest common denominator and the penny is it.
If you're tired of lugging around your pennies, save them and buy stamps. The post office vending machines take pennies. Once a year I deposit all my pennies to get stamps.
Movie critic David Manning comes to mind.
That realy depends today.
.002 cents.
If you have a large organization and you're backing up terabytes+ daily, then yes with incremental. You can probably afford the $37,000+ for a TB storage solution.
A good bit of small businesses really don't have more than a couple hundred gigs that need to be backed up and the nightly stuff is probably under a gig unless you're in the media business.
Tape backup for archival is a horrible solution. You're dependant upon the media and the media player and in the case of Microsoft, the OS as well. BackupExec issues anyone?
How many of you had that backup you made to tape take forever to retrieve where that happenstance copy you made to another server work just fine?
Tape backup for `backup` is a fine solution but not for long term storage.
When marketing companies are finished with projects and they need to be removed from the server, they are archived on CD/DVD media.
If is probably cheaper to buy about 20 500 Gig Hard Drives and run a backup scheme using that media than to spend $2,000 on a 120Gig DLT tape drive that will take 6 hours to make a backup.
I'm not really discounting the usefulness of tape backup, I just question if it is relevant today when disk storage is cheaper.
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Ditto.
I live in semi-rural and Cingular has a presence where I live right down to their ~$100,000 naturally disguised cell tower.
I pay $25 every 3 months for my prepaid service.
Part of it, not all of it, part of it is also perception.
Tube televisions also take about 5-15 seconds to come up especially the >27" models.
It's just that you hear the "click" and you immediately think it's on at that point, it is but the picture isn't bright enough or in focus yet.
I have a 19" tube that takes 7 seconds to come on and a 27" tube that takes 12 seconds.
I also have a 27" LCD that takes 10 seconds to come on but in a different fashion than tubes.
First you hear the "click", then the picture, then the audio. All that takes 10 seconds.
I saw Waterworld and James Earl Jones said that the entire world will be covered in water.
At that time, it will be hip to have genetically modified ears that act as gills.
The only reason I see a need for the RIAA or any other type of group body is for the protection of the artists.
Without some sort of organization, what is to stop Sally Sandbone from taking the Latest Madonna (or other) song and calling it her own?
Who is going to go after the protection of content for the content provider?
I can place a recording device in a piano at Nordstroms, record the pianists' recording, and sell it as my own or a "Christmas Special" collection.
What is to stop me?
I am in no way a fan of the *AA.
Indeed the motivation of people migrating from Win3.1 to Win95 was that 95 "sucked less" and the remark was so common that I swear it became a Microsoft marketing line.
They say each successive version is "more stable and secure!"