I have places around here that will do it quickly, but every single one screws up the colors no matter what I do. I used Winkflash, 8 cents for a 4x6, 99 cents for shipping as long as the order is all normal prints (something big like a card board poster I think is two bucks to ship) and the colors always come out perfect.
At work, I do have access to two different dye sub printers. We have a HiTouch (5x9s and 4x6s) and a Kodak (8.5x12) that both do a great job, but the cost per page is a lot higher than 8 cents. So if I'm printing a ton of personal stuff, I just send away. At least with either way (our printers or Winkflash) I know I'm getting what I want.
Btw, the HiTouch is actually better than the Kodak for one main reason, it doesn't collect a ton of dust inside if you don't use it for an hour. The Kodak will ruin prints if you don't blow it out every time you're going to use it.
As a previous owner of a seafoam green 1995 Ford Escort I can say that comparing Windows to the Escort is very unfair to the Escort. It ran everyday and cost much less to maintain.
Considering how most people on Slashdot use the term hacking so loosely, it could be something artful (as in "hacking the stove" when you create a recipe you like), scientific (as in "hacking an egg" by cracking it on the pan) or dastardly (as in "hacking a building" by using the back door).
And don't forget as pornographic as in "I hacked her back door."
The other day I had to slam on my breaks in my car to avoid some guy running a stop sign, and my clam shell style phone flew out of my cupholder where it was happily sitting, landing on the floor, opened up, and went under my break petal. Half the hinge was crushed, because stopping was much more important than having a working phone. Phone still works, I'll replace it once the hinge completely breaks (it's damn close now, though.)
Now if I can do something about the drivers around here and the fact they seem to all like driving 60 on city streets.
Pride Kills Choking Victim / Leftover Crack Agnostic Front (and Roger Miret's side project) NYC Darkside Toxic Narcotic The Bullys The 4skins The Ducky Boys Blood for Blood Ramallah Converge Madball All Out War Terror
There's more, but that's just what flowed off the top of my head. Those are mostly easier to find bands (NYC Darkside may not be so easy.) On the other hand of my local stuff I've been listening to things like John Wayne's Severed Head and Plastic Jesus.
I ran some radio ads a while back and didn't get any hits off of them. Even my older client base doesn't really listen to the radio anymore.
I also agree about music on the radio. I use a tape adapter for my iPod. If my batteries die, I have some old mix tapes stashed in my glove box. I haven't bought a major lab CD in years, and it's not because of anything to do with the RIAA. It's because of the crap that's released. I do the same thing, go to small shows, and buy the CD right off of the band. But then, I listen to mostly hardcore, Oi, and punk. Not stuff you're likely to hear on the radio.
I took French for 3 years to meet the requirments, and this is the first time of heard of this rule. It really would have helped. For some reason I could never grasp the language; no matter how hard I tried it completely eluded me!
My first year French teacher was a woman from Canada with a serious attitude. She did teach us how to insult people, which was fun, but beyond that I had a miserable time with it. I think it was even more frustrating because I taught myself a decent amount of German playing around with mods for the RA BBS software.
That would have made French class so much easier! I did excellent in all my studies except for French which I passed with the lowest grade possible every year, no matter how hard I studied. I think my teachers felt bad for me and then saw my other grades.
The hard drive started going on my last iPod (20 gig original U2 model) and I ended up going into the local Apple store and getting a new one. Cost me $30.00, but I think I only got so lucky because we know people that work there (owning a PC repair shop has helped us meet a lot of the other tech people locally.) It had a dent in the back, so I would probably have been SOL otherwise. And the dent happened about 2 days after I bought it, and it lasted around a year after that. It still sorta worked, only played like half my songs, and crashed my machine anytime I plugged it in and iTunes loaded. My notebook without iTunes installed could see it, but the drive came up as unstable.
I just hope this doesn't force Apple to change the interface for their iPod. When I was shopping for an MP3 player a bit back, the iPod won because it did what I needed, and was easy to operate. I use it 90% of the time in my car with a tape adapter, and I wanted something easy to switch around songs with. I'm sure a Nomad would have ended up with me hitting a tree.
I use a PC 99% of the time. Mostly Windows, because of my line of work, but also Linux on some of my home systems. I have such a difficult time everytime I try to do something on the one Mac we keep at my shop. I don't hate the machine, but I really don't enjoy using it, either. The one thing I do like about it is the launch bar, but I've been using objectdock for quite some time on my PC, also. Like to have the taskbar free for running apps.
I'm also not trashing OS X, but it isn't for me, either.
You're right, U.S. schools won't let students in until parents show proof of vaccinations. And even colleges require proof, I had to run around and find proof of my vaccinations as a child, which wasn't easy because the doctors office that had done them isn't around anymore.
I was 6 when my family bought a NES in 1985. Bought it for Christmas, I turned 7 less then a month after they gave it to me. It's been a long time. Today's teenagers probably feel the same way about the NES as I do about Pong. I remember Pong, but it was before my time and I thought it was so dated, but my first real memories of games are the C64 and our Atari 2600 followed pretty quickly by a NES.
I own that t-shirt, actually. I grew up with an Atari in my house, but when *I* first really got into video games was with my NES. My family bought it the Christmas right before my 7th birthday, so to me the NES is my gaming root.
I remember fighting with my mom to play it all the time, too. We were both in love with Dragon Warrior. Having a geeky mom wasn't always a good thing. We fought over the NES and the C64 constantly.
I remember a girl getting treated like a drug dealer because she a)bought aspirin to the school and didn't hand it over to the school nurse (so that she could subsequently go back to the school nurse when it's time to take them - talk about being treated like a 5 year old) and b)giving one to her friends that had a headache.
A bit over ten years ago when I was in high school yet, I was kicked out for a short time (it was later reversed because of how stupid it was) because I brought in a pair of heavy scissors and had them in my bag. OH, these scissors were required for a class I was taking, and we weren't allowed to leave them in the class. But I was charged with bringing a dangerous weapon into the school. It all happened because an x-gf was mad at me and told someone in the administration I had a weapon, when in reality all I had was the scissors, books, and some pens/pencils and paper. (I don't believe she knew I even had the scissors, she just thought me getting hassled by the school cop would be funny. I hadn't talked to her in months at this point, I have no idea why she decided to do this out of no where, besides the fact we were stupid high schoolers.) Talk about sane policies, though. Can't let kids have the proper supplies for class! I'm surprised I didn't get 5-10 for every pen or pencil, I mean, I could stab someone with them, right?
I was in a serious car accident last October (and somehow walked away with just a cut finger.) I had the entire account pretty accurate from what the other witnesses said, except for one thing. I remember sitting in the car for less than 5 seconds before asking my passenger if he was okay, him asking the same of me, and us both getting out of the car (which actually required me kicking the door open.) According to the witnesses, we sat there for at least 3 minutes.
I do remember waiting for the impact, though, almost like it was slow motion. I was driving into an intersection, had the green light, and this guy ran the red light right into my driver side door going around 70-80 mph. This is in a 30 mph zone. After the impact with me, he went through a fence, over a lawn and up a hill, caught a bit of air and landed on the edge of their garage roof, then fell down on top of a car parked in their driveway (the driveway is cut into the hill.) He managed to wreck 3 vehicles, my car which was only 3 months old, his own, and the car he landed on. He was seriously injured, but did recover.
I guess I was a bit of a late comer to the BBS scene. I started in 1990, and started running my own in 1994 (and it ran until 1997.) I do miss those days, though, everything was a lot more personal with everything being so localized. We used to arrange a lot of 2600 meetings on my BBS. I actually knew a large amount of my user base, at least as associates if not being pretty friendly with them.
In the collective mind of the older generation, video games are always for kids. Any rating system therefore exists inside that box -- In their minds, M isn't for adults, it's for mature children.
I agree completely with this. I worked at a video game retailer for some time while I decided what I wanted out of life after school, and actually had parents basically say "Oh, but Johnny is mature!" when he's really a 12 year old.
Hopefully enough adults in the under 30 catagory don't fall into the believe that video games are just for children. I'm sure I'll still be gaming when I have children, and I'll sure as hell know what games contain that I purchase for them and for myself. (I'm 26, btw, and am planning to start a family in the next few years.)
In celebration of this most wonderful and perfect day, I'm going to read/. ALL day and then reset the network right before I leave so everyone flips out till it's back on. I think I left my cell phone off by accident, too.
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I have places around here that will do it quickly, but every single one screws up the colors no matter what I do. I used Winkflash, 8 cents for a 4x6, 99 cents for shipping as long as the order is all normal prints (something big like a card board poster I think is two bucks to ship) and the colors always come out perfect.
At work, I do have access to two different dye sub printers. We have a HiTouch (5x9s and 4x6s) and a Kodak (8.5x12) that both do a great job, but the cost per page is a lot higher than 8 cents. So if I'm printing a ton of personal stuff, I just send away. At least with either way (our printers or Winkflash) I know I'm getting what I want.
Btw, the HiTouch is actually better than the Kodak for one main reason, it doesn't collect a ton of dust inside if you don't use it for an hour. The Kodak will ruin prints if you don't blow it out every time you're going to use it.
As a previous owner of a seafoam green 1995 Ford Escort I can say that comparing Windows to the Escort is very unfair to the Escort. It ran everyday and cost much less to maintain.
Considering how most people on Slashdot use the term hacking so loosely, it could be something artful (as in "hacking the stove" when you create a recipe you like), scientific (as in "hacking an egg" by cracking it on the pan) or dastardly (as in "hacking a building" by using the back door).
And don't forget as pornographic as in "I hacked her back door."
Last thing I put in a batch file:
prompt [$T][$D]$_[$P] #$S
Won't be the last thing, but the prompt was pissing me off and I do way too much in the CLI.
The other day I had to slam on my breaks in my car to avoid some guy running a stop sign, and my clam shell style phone flew out of my cupholder where it was happily sitting, landing on the floor, opened up, and went under my break petal. Half the hinge was crushed, because stopping was much more important than having a working phone. Phone still works, I'll replace it once the hinge completely breaks (it's damn close now, though.) Now if I can do something about the drivers around here and the fact they seem to all like driving 60 on city streets.
I named mine Oops because of the whole eye poking thing ;D Now, time to go for some of that HCOxy!
Tiny Plastic Sword, of course!
http://www.kingdomofloathing.com/
Oh, and let me add Clenched Fist to that list. I recommend them highly, excellent hardcore.
Here's what I've been listening to lately:
Pride Kills
Choking Victim / Leftover Crack
Agnostic Front (and Roger Miret's side project)
NYC Darkside
Toxic Narcotic
The Bullys
The 4skins
The Ducky Boys
Blood for Blood
Ramallah
Converge
Madball
All Out War
Terror
There's more, but that's just what flowed off the top of my head. Those are mostly easier to find bands (NYC Darkside may not be so easy.) On the other hand of my local stuff I've been listening to things like John Wayne's Severed Head and Plastic Jesus.
I believe you're thinking of Inermux PSU's, not Enermax.
I ran some radio ads a while back and didn't get any hits off of them. Even my older client base doesn't really listen to the radio anymore.
I also agree about music on the radio. I use a tape adapter for my iPod. If my batteries die, I have some old mix tapes stashed in my glove box. I haven't bought a major lab CD in years, and it's not because of anything to do with the RIAA. It's because of the crap that's released. I do the same thing, go to small shows, and buy the CD right off of the band. But then, I listen to mostly hardcore, Oi, and punk. Not stuff you're likely to hear on the radio.
I took French for 3 years to meet the requirments, and this is the first time of heard of this rule. It really would have helped. For some reason I could never grasp the language; no matter how hard I tried it completely eluded me!
My first year French teacher was a woman from Canada with a serious attitude. She did teach us how to insult people, which was fun, but beyond that I had a miserable time with it. I think it was even more frustrating because I taught myself a decent amount of German playing around with mods for the RA BBS software.
That would have made French class so much easier! I did excellent in all my studies except for French which I passed with the lowest grade possible every year, no matter how hard I studied. I think my teachers felt bad for me and then saw my other grades.
The hard drive started going on my last iPod (20 gig original U2 model) and I ended up going into the local Apple store and getting a new one. Cost me $30.00, but I think I only got so lucky because we know people that work there (owning a PC repair shop has helped us meet a lot of the other tech people locally.) It had a dent in the back, so I would probably have been SOL otherwise. And the dent happened about 2 days after I bought it, and it lasted around a year after that. It still sorta worked, only played like half my songs, and crashed my machine anytime I plugged it in and iTunes loaded. My notebook without iTunes installed could see it, but the drive came up as unstable.
I just hope this doesn't force Apple to change the interface for their iPod. When I was shopping for an MP3 player a bit back, the iPod won because it did what I needed, and was easy to operate. I use it 90% of the time in my car with a tape adapter, and I wanted something easy to switch around songs with. I'm sure a Nomad would have ended up with me hitting a tree.
I use a PC 99% of the time. Mostly Windows, because of my line of work, but also Linux on some of my home systems. I have such a difficult time everytime I try to do something on the one Mac we keep at my shop. I don't hate the machine, but I really don't enjoy using it, either. The one thing I do like about it is the launch bar, but I've been using objectdock for quite some time on my PC, also. Like to have the taskbar free for running apps.
I'm also not trashing OS X, but it isn't for me, either.
You're right, U.S. schools won't let students in until parents show proof of vaccinations. And even colleges require proof, I had to run around and find proof of my vaccinations as a child, which wasn't easy because the doctors office that had done them isn't around anymore.
I was 6 when my family bought a NES in 1985. Bought it for Christmas, I turned 7 less then a month after they gave it to me. It's been a long time. Today's teenagers probably feel the same way about the NES as I do about Pong. I remember Pong, but it was before my time and I thought it was so dated, but my first real memories of games are the C64 and our Atari 2600 followed pretty quickly by a NES.
I own that t-shirt, actually. I grew up with an Atari in my house, but when *I* first really got into video games was with my NES. My family bought it the Christmas right before my 7th birthday, so to me the NES is my gaming root.
I remember fighting with my mom to play it all the time, too. We were both in love with Dragon Warrior. Having a geeky mom wasn't always a good thing. We fought over the NES and the C64 constantly.
I remember a girl getting treated like a drug dealer because she a)bought aspirin to the school and didn't hand it over to the school nurse (so that she could subsequently go back to the school nurse when it's time to take them - talk about being treated like a 5 year old) and b)giving one to her friends that had a headache.
A bit over ten years ago when I was in high school yet, I was kicked out for a short time (it was later reversed because of how stupid it was) because I brought in a pair of heavy scissors and had them in my bag. OH, these scissors were required for a class I was taking, and we weren't allowed to leave them in the class. But I was charged with bringing a dangerous weapon into the school. It all happened because an x-gf was mad at me and told someone in the administration I had a weapon, when in reality all I had was the scissors, books, and some pens/pencils and paper. (I don't believe she knew I even had the scissors, she just thought me getting hassled by the school cop would be funny. I hadn't talked to her in months at this point, I have no idea why she decided to do this out of no where, besides the fact we were stupid high schoolers.) Talk about sane policies, though. Can't let kids have the proper supplies for class! I'm surprised I didn't get 5-10 for every pen or pencil, I mean, I could stab someone with them, right?
I was in a serious car accident last October (and somehow walked away with just a cut finger.) I had the entire account pretty accurate from what the other witnesses said, except for one thing. I remember sitting in the car for less than 5 seconds before asking my passenger if he was okay, him asking the same of me, and us both getting out of the car (which actually required me kicking the door open.) According to the witnesses, we sat there for at least 3 minutes.
I do remember waiting for the impact, though, almost like it was slow motion. I was driving into an intersection, had the green light, and this guy ran the red light right into my driver side door going around 70-80 mph. This is in a 30 mph zone. After the impact with me, he went through a fence, over a lawn and up a hill, caught a bit of air and landed on the edge of their garage roof, then fell down on top of a car parked in their driveway (the driveway is cut into the hill.) He managed to wreck 3 vehicles, my car which was only 3 months old, his own, and the car he landed on. He was seriously injured, but did recover.
I guess I was a bit of a late comer to the BBS scene. I started in 1990, and started running my own in 1994 (and it ran until 1997.) I do miss those days, though, everything was a lot more personal with everything being so localized. We used to arrange a lot of 2600 meetings on my BBS. I actually knew a large amount of my user base, at least as associates if not being pretty friendly with them.
In the collective mind of the older generation, video games are always for kids. Any rating system therefore exists inside that box -- In their minds, M isn't for adults, it's for mature children.
I agree completely with this. I worked at a video game retailer for some time while I decided what I wanted out of life after school, and actually had parents basically say "Oh, but Johnny is mature!" when he's really a 12 year old.
Hopefully enough adults in the under 30 catagory don't fall into the believe that video games are just for children. I'm sure I'll still be gaming when I have children, and I'll sure as hell know what games contain that I purchase for them and for myself. (I'm 26, btw, and am planning to start a family in the next few years.)
Actually, Acer makes the Ferarri notebook =D
In celebration of this most wonderful and perfect day, I'm going to read /. ALL day and then reset the network right before I leave so everyone flips out till it's back on. I think I left my cell phone off by accident, too.