The trouble with web pages on the Kindle is that the eInk is greyscale and very, very, very slow to update (so animated gifs would be teh suck). That, and because it's expected that you're going to spend most of the time looking at static pages of text, the battery would walk the plank in a universe where you were surfing over wifi on it.
Real men grill in a raincoat. And unless it takes 6 hours, they grill, they don't BBQ.:)
And for your other reply, I am actually considering exactly what you suggest - setting up a natural gas "burner" just to use as the fire source for the chimney starter.
I'd actually have a plumber come and plumb a valve in the line. I'm comfortable dealing with flexible NG piping so long as there's an easy to use shut-off valve within easy reach. And the way things are configured, it should be relatively easy for him to replace an elbow in the existing line with a T, then use a reducer and add the valve.
You may as well just use lighter fluid at that point
Yuck. Lighter fluid makes the steak taste like Vaseline.
Works better than a chimney starter
How, exactly? My chimney starter + propane torch method is 100% effective, and is ready in 10 minutes. Are you suggesting lighter fluid meets or exceeds that criteria without any negative side effects?
(if you do it right - not the stereotypical drench and light method) anyway.
The "if you do it right" part is also easier with chimney + torch.
How do you figure that we humans are better off, collectively, that a dozen of us have walked on the moon?
Now, before the flame fest begins, let me say that I do indeed agree that the space program has brought to mankind tremendous benefits in terms of knowledge and technology and on and on. That's not what I'm saying.
Apart from the political statement, what was achieved by sending a human to the moon that we could not have achieved some other way?
Neil Armstrong himself, is much better off. But there are more than 300,000,000 americans who are not Neil Armstrong. We're supposed to be satisfied with "You had to be there"?
Fortunately, the end of newspapers arrived almost a decade ago at our house. The workaround I use for the chimney starter is that I hold a propane plumbing torch under it for a minute or so. It's actually more reliable than the paper was anyway.
Now if only I could come up with something like a "charcoal starter stand" that would hold the chimney starter over a natural gas flame for a minute (plumbed from the house gas lines), that would be really convenient.
Leather for the whips diverted to other things and whale bones are as well.
Not so much the whale bones. Whale bones were never the primary reason for hunting whales. It just happened that they could be economically used for some purposes because they were plentiful as a side effect of the hunting. With the rise of more economical replacement products for most of the other products of whaling, combined with the increased costs of whaling leading to the eventual (nearly) worldwide ban, there hasn't been any repurposing of whale bones beyond as a source material for scrimshaw.
I think something else was going on. I had two machines, one with the beta, one without. The one with the beta couldn't connect while the other one worked just fine.
Um, did you miss the part where I said I was running gigabit over that line?
I'm well aware that you can combine 100bt with two phone lines. Our master bedroom is wired that way, but that line doesn't require gigabit, so I can get away with piggybacking the phone lines.
I bought a set of 3 of these for my parent's house and they worked really well for what we needed them to do - namely, to hook up the TiVos to the home network (these were the newer TiVos that only support the TiVo branded WiFi adapter, unfortunately). As I don't live in their town and was only there for the weekend to help, this was the quickest thing Fry's could arrange.
It worked so well, that when I got home I was inspired to feed a phone line to our tv satellite receiver over a powerline box. That way, all 4 pair in the one cat5 run going to that spot could be used for Gigabit and the phone could go elsewhere. So I bought a set of the RCA phone line over power gizmos. The resulting phone line was so shitty-noisy that I wouldn't want to make a phone call over it myself, much less ask the DirecTV receiver to attempt it.
I wound up buying a set of RTX DualJacks to solve the problem. They use 2.4 GHz to move the phone line and work perfectly, but they're nearly impossible to find anymore. I had to get them used on eBay.
I'm a little annoyed that nobody has made a similar box to transport a phone line over Ethernet. Yes, there are VoIP solutions, but they're way too expensive and over-engineered for what I want. Just two boxes that talk to each other with raw Ethernet frames to move a phone line from here to there oughtn't to be too much to ask, but apparently is.
I'm not a crisis hotline volunteer and can already think of several scenarios where it would be important for the crisis hotline volunteer to call the party back, ranging from the guy hanging up the phone and downing a bottle of pills to the guy using a cell phone and the call being dropped.
...Or go and play poker, which is a different proposition altogether since you're playing against the other players at the table rather than the house.
This is why you want to play poker, not house games (like blackjack). In poker, the house has no interest in the outcome of the hand - they get paid for hosting the game by raking the pot. The competition is between you and the other players at the table. Meaning that good players, on average, take money away from bad players.
Nevada casinos hate poker, because they make a lot less money at it (you basically never get comped anything if all you play is poker). And to be successful at poker, you need to be a better than average player. And, of course, poker is like driving in that 80% of people believe they are above average at it. Which is why the 20% (or less) of truly profitable players can keep playing it.
The relevant standard in the US courts is "substantial non-infringing use".
How about using it outside the state of Nevada? There are places you can take your phone that are not regulated by the Nevada gaming commission and where blackjack is played (whether there are similar rules in those places is irrelevant). Ergo, there is a substantial use for this app that does not violate Nevada state law.
Which they don't do, for animals that are adoptable. From their FAQ:
Q: How long do you keep the animals before you euthanize them? A: Once an animal is made available for adoption, there is no set date for euthanasia. Our goal is to ensure that every animal in our adoption program is placed in a loving home. If an animal is healthy and behaviorally sound, we keep it for as long as we can to find it a good home, which sometimes can be months. Our staff and volunteers socialize and exercise our animals to help keep them happy and well adjusted during their stay at the shelter.
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That's a good word.
Actually, it's not. Appalling is a word, but not appaling.
The trouble with web pages on the Kindle is that the eInk is greyscale and very, very, very slow to update (so animated gifs would be teh suck). That, and because it's expected that you're going to spend most of the time looking at static pages of text, the battery would walk the plank in a universe where you were surfing over wifi on it.
You're quite right! So idle clearly is no less immune to dupe-a-philia than the rest of /.
I predict at least a nomination for this year's award for Medicine.
Man, I can't wait until BBQ seasons starts up.
Real men grill in a raincoat. And unless it takes 6 hours, they grill, they don't BBQ. :)
And for your other reply, I am actually considering exactly what you suggest - setting up a natural gas "burner" just to use as the fire source for the chimney starter.
I'd actually have a plumber come and plumb a valve in the line. I'm comfortable dealing with flexible NG piping so long as there's an easy to use shut-off valve within easy reach. And the way things are configured, it should be relatively easy for him to replace an elbow in the existing line with a T, then use a reducer and add the valve.
Like the other fellow who replied to me, you failed to notice that I am running gigabit.
Honestly, can nobody on /. actually read?
You may as well just use lighter fluid at that point
Yuck. Lighter fluid makes the steak taste like Vaseline.
Works better than a chimney starter
How, exactly? My chimney starter + propane torch method is 100% effective, and is ready in 10 minutes. Are you suggesting lighter fluid meets or exceeds that criteria without any negative side effects?
(if you do it right - not the stereotypical drench and light method) anyway.
The "if you do it right" part is also easier with chimney + torch.
How do you figure that we humans are better off, collectively, that a dozen of us have walked on the moon?
Now, before the flame fest begins, let me say that I do indeed agree that the space program has brought to mankind tremendous benefits in terms of knowledge and technology and on and on. That's not what I'm saying.
Apart from the political statement, what was achieved by sending a human to the moon that we could not have achieved some other way?
Neil Armstrong himself, is much better off. But there are more than 300,000,000 americans who are not Neil Armstrong. We're supposed to be satisfied with "You had to be there"?
How will we start beach bonfires?
Or, indeed, our charcoal grill chimney starters?
Fortunately, the end of newspapers arrived almost a decade ago at our house. The workaround I use for the chimney starter is that I hold a propane plumbing torch under it for a minute or so. It's actually more reliable than the paper was anyway.
Now if only I could come up with something like a "charcoal starter stand" that would hold the chimney starter over a natural gas flame for a minute (plumbed from the house gas lines), that would be really convenient.
Leather for the whips diverted to other things and whale bones are as well.
Not so much the whale bones. Whale bones were never the primary reason for hunting whales. It just happened that they could be economically used for some purposes because they were plentiful as a side effect of the hunting. With the rise of more economical replacement products for most of the other products of whaling, combined with the increased costs of whaling leading to the eventual (nearly) worldwide ban, there hasn't been any repurposing of whale bones beyond as a source material for scrimshaw.
I think something else was going on. I had two machines, one with the beta, one without. The one with the beta couldn't connect while the other one worked just fine.
Follow the support discussion thread.
Um, did you miss the part where I said I was running gigabit over that line?
I'm well aware that you can combine 100bt with two phone lines. Our master bedroom is wired that way, but that line doesn't require gigabit, so I can get away with piggybacking the phone lines.
I bought a set of 3 of these for my parent's house and they worked really well for what we needed them to do - namely, to hook up the TiVos to the home network (these were the newer TiVos that only support the TiVo branded WiFi adapter, unfortunately). As I don't live in their town and was only there for the weekend to help, this was the quickest thing Fry's could arrange.
It worked so well, that when I got home I was inspired to feed a phone line to our tv satellite receiver over a powerline box. That way, all 4 pair in the one cat5 run going to that spot could be used for Gigabit and the phone could go elsewhere. So I bought a set of the RCA phone line over power gizmos. The resulting phone line was so shitty-noisy that I wouldn't want to make a phone call over it myself, much less ask the DirecTV receiver to attempt it.
I wound up buying a set of RTX DualJacks to solve the problem. They use 2.4 GHz to move the phone line and work perfectly, but they're nearly impossible to find anymore. I had to get them used on eBay.
I'm a little annoyed that nobody has made a similar box to transport a phone line over Ethernet. Yes, there are VoIP solutions, but they're way too expensive and over-engineered for what I want. Just two boxes that talk to each other with raw Ethernet frames to move a phone line from here to there oughtn't to be too much to ask, but apparently is.
I shouldn't have to reveal my number just because the other party wants it,
If you knock on someone's door, do you put your thumb on the peephole too?
I'm not a crisis hotline volunteer and can already think of several scenarios where it would be important for the crisis hotline volunteer to call the party back, ranging from the guy hanging up the phone and downing a bottle of pills to the guy using a cell phone and the call being dropped.
Casinos do not make the laws
You really must be new here.
...Or go and play poker, which is a different proposition altogether since you're playing against the other players at the table rather than the house.
Why indeed?
This is why you want to play poker, not house games (like blackjack). In poker, the house has no interest in the outcome of the hand - they get paid for hosting the game by raking the pot. The competition is between you and the other players at the table. Meaning that good players, on average, take money away from bad players.
Nevada casinos hate poker, because they make a lot less money at it (you basically never get comped anything if all you play is poker). And to be successful at poker, you need to be a better than average player. And, of course, poker is like driving in that 80% of people believe they are above average at it. Which is why the 20% (or less) of truly profitable players can keep playing it.
If they'd have called it Rain Man, they're highly likely to incur the wrath of the MPAA for infringing the trademark of MGM/UA.
There. Fixed that for you.
The relevant standard in the US courts is "substantial non-infringing use".
How about using it outside the state of Nevada? There are places you can take your phone that are not regulated by the Nevada gaming commission and where blackjack is played (whether there are similar rules in those places is irrelevant). Ergo, there is a substantial use for this app that does not violate Nevada state law.
Which they don't do, for animals that are adoptable. From their FAQ:
Q: How long do you keep the animals before you euthanize them?
A: Once an animal is made available for adoption, there is no set date for euthanasia. Our goal is to ensure that every animal in our adoption program is placed in a loving home. If an animal is healthy and behaviorally sound, we keep it for as long as we can to find it a good home, which sometimes can be months. Our staff and volunteers socialize and exercise our animals to help keep them happy and well adjusted during their stay at the shelter.
Modifying the software - that is, creating a derivative work - is unauthorized and may well represent a breach of copyright law.
Um, no.
distributing a derivative work that is unauthorized is a breach of copyright law. Making one for yourself is not.
DNA providers such as ICANN, ORG, and NeuStar
Hey, I'm a DNA provider too, baby.
Don't look at me. I just remember that on the form when we adopted our kitties. You might consider contacting them and asking: http://www.hssv.org/