When someone taps their brakes in front of me I try to either go around them or, if possible, back off. From the comments I've been reading here, it looks like I'm in the minority.
Spoiled eggs...INSIDE the car!? Back in High School I left ONE spoiled egg after a science project in my locker until the end of the semester about 3.5 months or so. The entire floor smelled like rotten eggs. I'd rather not store any spoiled foods in my car thank you very much ^_^
The htm file that you find is normally the correct file just with the wrong extension. However I just use the Orbit Downloader function called Grab++ it works quite well with Firefox. You just activate it before visiting a streaming video page and it will list the page elements that it can grab.
Well, the cable companies still have to provide analog signals for OTA stations over their cable lines, at least for the basic channels, until 2012. Only the OTA stations themselves are being forced to switch to digital only in February 2009.
My 10 year old VCR has given up the ghost now unfortunately. I guess time-shifting about 6 hours of TV per week will do that though. I guess I'll finally break down and build that MythTV box that I've been procrastinating about for a couple years.
I will often see a movie in the theater, if I liked the movie of course, after watching a downloaded cam version. I watch the cam to get the plot and then I go to the theater for the 'experience'. Where I live, after all, the matinee prices are only about 5.75 a ticket after sales tax. Even the evening price is only 6.75 for a regular adult ticket. I just sneak in my own food and drinks ^_^
Yeah, I meant that I was recycling the entire phone. I tend to be slightly evil to my devices (1 Motorola T-720 with a screen that is no longer attached to the base and one with a badly cracked inside LCD) so many of them couldn't be donated however, the ones that could still be used were donated to charity.
I only keep my current phone and the one just before it as a backup. All of the ones that are older than that get recycled. I try to avoid the landfill since I know those ancient Nickel-Cadmium or to a lesser extent the newer Lithium Ion batteries do a number on the environment if disposed of improperly.
To speak on your first analogy, when I was in college and coming home for the summer I did something stupid and tried to mail my unused bleach back home. Since the college mail room didn't have the little graphic about what FedEx doesn't let you ship I didn't think anything about it. My package arrived at my house resealed and the only thing missing was my bleach. Nothing else was touched and they didn't even include a not telling me that it had been removed. Before it arrived I had learned that shipping bleach was a no-no but I must admit that I was intrigued that I wasn't even informed about the removal of about a quarter of the total package weight. I didn't even get a refund for that part of the weight. Oh well, live and learn ^_^
Hmm...my house in a mid-sized city in Michigan has a wood burning fireplace. I will admit however that this house was built in 1929 and originally had a wood burning boiler to provide the house with heat too.
Personally I remember that back on the 'original' AT&T Wireless (my first cellular provider) they offered free incoming text messages to all of their users. That deal unfortunately went by the way-side when Cingular bought the wireless department from the old AT&T unless you never wanted to get any more free phone upgrades. The Cingular SIM cards wouldn't work in old SIM-locked AT&T branded phones so, either you bought unlocked phones at retail or you had to change to a Cingular plan. It was a sad time for those of us in the US who didn't want to pay when someone sent us a text message against our will....
I know that when my family was a 'Nielsen family' for a week that whenever I wasn't at home for a show that I normally watch and subsequently downloaded the episode to watch it, I just listed my viewing where it asked about VHS or DVR recording of shows to watch later.
Those people who upload almost exclusively are the ones who allow the 'hit-and-run' peers to operate. Since the total up to down ratio on any given tracker MUST be 1:1, if you have 5 users three of which are at 1:1 ratios and one at 5:1, then the fifth user can't be any better than.2:1. For each massive uploader, there must be someone who doesn't make it to a 1:1 ratio. My example is quite extreme and on most semi-popular torrents anyone with a respectable upload speed should be able to make it to at least.9:1 but everyone can't be at 1:1 because, at the very least the original seeder with have an infinite ratio for the torrent.
I have to agree with the issues on in-house wiring too. However, my issue was a combination of the drop line from the pole to my house getting eaten by squirrels and the fact that even though they should have known better, they sold us service with 3 Digital Cable boxes and internet service. Needless to say, if we tried to watch different on-demand programs on two boxes at once, that would end our internet connection or the signal on the third box would get blocky. Now that we've gotten the drop line replaced, it's not quite as bad but we still can't use on-demand on more than one box at a time without suffering through some problems.
The article says that his mother is the school librarian. Many private schools offer reduced or free tuition to the children of faculty. Also, according to the article, he stepped up when the school dropped this on his mothers lap after the IT guy left. So, it started with him helping out his mom and just went from there. I don't think there's too much exploitation here but I hope that after this media exposure that he gets at least a token or something.
This truthfully makes sense to me. I don't think that there are any real technical limitations to having very long symbolic pass phrases anymore so why are we often limited to 8 or 16 characters? My Windows password is a long sentence with correct grammar, punctuation, and one or two non-dictionary based proper nouns. Much easier to remember than a random string or even, in some cases, a password.
I wouldn't edit out the responses unless the accused wasn't under arrest yet and just being questioned or if the accused hadn't been read his Miranda rights. Don't forget, "Everything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law." If the accused is aware of that right then anything said during the interrogation can be used as evidence.
Where I live (Genesee County, Michigan), all of our county's District Libraries have free WiFi. Just bring a laptop (or other 802.11 b/g enabled device) and you're good. Also, while some of the branches have quite...interesting hours due to the budget concerns you mentioned, two locations (on in a local mall and the headquarters) are open for 6 and 7 days per week. All of this in an area that's not exactly known for being well-off economically. If our area can do it I certainly believe that areas with a larger (or higher income) tax base could definately do it.
Don't forget, most of that $2 trillion is debt. Which means that this point is moot unless there is some great need, don't spend what you don't have. The money isn't there to spend, we (the government of the United States) borrowed it to fund the war. No war means MUCH less borrowed money.
Umm...Windows 98 and 98SE were on the Win9x Kernel and Windows 2000 and XP were the NT Kernel. IIRC Windows 2000 wouldn't upgrade to Windows ME at all. So I consider 98 > 98SE > ME to be a separate product line from NT4 > 2000 (NT 5.0). Windows XP just put the two together using the NT Kernel (Windows XP being version 5.1).
I know a girl, smart girl, manufacturing engineering student at a top US engineering school but, she often texts while driving. I'm not completely sure that I'll ever be riding in her car now that I know that though...
People, please remember that the RIAA doesn't sue anyone. The actual labels are the named plaintiffs in the file sharing lawsuits. You know, Sony BMG, EMI, etc.
I know that this will sound like one of those 'friend of a friend' things but, I must agree about that "...their various departments just cannot talk to each other." statement. A friend of mine had a $2500 unpaid (to this day) cellular bill to Verizon from when he was just out of High School and a few years later he moved to another state and started to work for Verizon's FiOS tech support. About half a year later he left the job but, the fact that they never put two-and-two together to figure out that he was the same guy with the same SSN that owed them money is something we joke about to this day.
Don't forget General Motors is backing this startup. Even with all of it's current troubles GM is still quite a large company with many expensive lawyers ^_^
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When someone taps their brakes in front of me I try to either go around them or, if possible, back off. From the comments I've been reading here, it looks like I'm in the minority.
Spoiled eggs...INSIDE the car!? Back in High School I left ONE spoiled egg after a science project in my locker until the end of the semester about 3.5 months or so. The entire floor smelled like rotten eggs. I'd rather not store any spoiled foods in my car thank you very much ^_^
The htm file that you find is normally the correct file just with the wrong extension. However I just use the Orbit Downloader function called Grab++ it works quite well with Firefox. You just activate it before visiting a streaming video page and it will list the page elements that it can grab.
Well, the cable companies still have to provide analog signals for OTA stations over their cable lines, at least for the basic channels, until 2012. Only the OTA stations themselves are being forced to switch to digital only in February 2009.
My 10 year old VCR has given up the ghost now unfortunately. I guess time-shifting about 6 hours of TV per week will do that though. I guess I'll finally break down and build that MythTV box that I've been procrastinating about for a couple years.
I will often see a movie in the theater, if I liked the movie of course, after watching a downloaded cam version. I watch the cam to get the plot and then I go to the theater for the 'experience'. Where I live, after all, the matinee prices are only about 5.75 a ticket after sales tax. Even the evening price is only 6.75 for a regular adult ticket. I just sneak in my own food and drinks ^_^
Yeah, I meant that I was recycling the entire phone. I tend to be slightly evil to my devices (1 Motorola T-720 with a screen that is no longer attached to the base and one with a badly cracked inside LCD) so many of them couldn't be donated however, the ones that could still be used were donated to charity.
I only keep my current phone and the one just before it as a backup. All of the ones that are older than that get recycled. I try to avoid the landfill since I know those ancient Nickel-Cadmium or to a lesser extent the newer Lithium Ion batteries do a number on the environment if disposed of improperly.
To speak on your first analogy, when I was in college and coming home for the summer I did something stupid and tried to mail my unused bleach back home. Since the college mail room didn't have the little graphic about what FedEx doesn't let you ship I didn't think anything about it. My package arrived at my house resealed and the only thing missing was my bleach. Nothing else was touched and they didn't even include a not telling me that it had been removed. Before it arrived I had learned that shipping bleach was a no-no but I must admit that I was intrigued that I wasn't even informed about the removal of about a quarter of the total package weight. I didn't even get a refund for that part of the weight. Oh well, live and learn ^_^
Hmm...my house in a mid-sized city in Michigan has a wood burning fireplace. I will admit however that this house was built in 1929 and originally had a wood burning boiler to provide the house with heat too.
Personally I remember that back on the 'original' AT&T Wireless (my first cellular provider) they offered free incoming text messages to all of their users. That deal unfortunately went by the way-side when Cingular bought the wireless department from the old AT&T unless you never wanted to get any more free phone upgrades. The Cingular SIM cards wouldn't work in old SIM-locked AT&T branded phones so, either you bought unlocked phones at retail or you had to change to a Cingular plan. It was a sad time for those of us in the US who didn't want to pay when someone sent us a text message against our will....
I know that when my family was a 'Nielsen family' for a week that whenever I wasn't at home for a show that I normally watch and subsequently downloaded the episode to watch it, I just listed my viewing where it asked about VHS or DVR recording of shows to watch later.
Those people who upload almost exclusively are the ones who allow the 'hit-and-run' peers to operate. Since the total up to down ratio on any given tracker MUST be 1:1, if you have 5 users three of which are at 1:1 ratios and one at 5:1, then the fifth user can't be any better than .2:1. For each massive uploader, there must be someone who doesn't make it to a 1:1 ratio. My example is quite extreme and on most semi-popular torrents anyone with a respectable upload speed should be able to make it to at least .9:1 but everyone can't be at 1:1 because, at the very least the original seeder with have an infinite ratio for the torrent.
I have to agree with the issues on in-house wiring too. However, my issue was a combination of the drop line from the pole to my house getting eaten by squirrels and the fact that even though they should have known better, they sold us service with 3 Digital Cable boxes and internet service. Needless to say, if we tried to watch different on-demand programs on two boxes at once, that would end our internet connection or the signal on the third box would get blocky. Now that we've gotten the drop line replaced, it's not quite as bad but we still can't use on-demand on more than one box at a time without suffering through some problems.
You went through all the trouble to 'fix' his post but you left the word I in lowercase. Horrible repair job there ^_^
The article says that his mother is the school librarian. Many private schools offer reduced or free tuition to the children of faculty. Also, according to the article, he stepped up when the school dropped this on his mothers lap after the IT guy left. So, it started with him helping out his mom and just went from there. I don't think there's too much exploitation here but I hope that after this media exposure that he gets at least a token or something.
This truthfully makes sense to me. I don't think that there are any real technical limitations to having very long symbolic pass phrases anymore so why are we often limited to 8 or 16 characters? My Windows password is a long sentence with correct grammar, punctuation, and one or two non-dictionary based proper nouns. Much easier to remember than a random string or even, in some cases, a password.
I wouldn't edit out the responses unless the accused wasn't under arrest yet and just being questioned or if the accused hadn't been read his Miranda rights. Don't forget, "Everything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law." If the accused is aware of that right then anything said during the interrogation can be used as evidence.
Where I live (Genesee County, Michigan), all of our county's District Libraries have free WiFi. Just bring a laptop (or other 802.11 b/g enabled device) and you're good. Also, while some of the branches have quite...interesting hours due to the budget concerns you mentioned, two locations (on in a local mall and the headquarters) are open for 6 and 7 days per week. All of this in an area that's not exactly known for being well-off economically. If our area can do it I certainly believe that areas with a larger (or higher income) tax base could definately do it.
Don't forget, most of that $2 trillion is debt. Which means that this point is moot unless there is some great need, don't spend what you don't have. The money isn't there to spend, we (the government of the United States) borrowed it to fund the war. No war means MUCH less borrowed money.
Umm...Windows 98 and 98SE were on the Win9x Kernel and Windows 2000 and XP were the NT Kernel. IIRC Windows 2000 wouldn't upgrade to Windows ME at all. So I consider 98 > 98SE > ME to be a separate product line from NT4 > 2000 (NT 5.0). Windows XP just put the two together using the NT Kernel (Windows XP being version 5.1).
I know a girl, smart girl, manufacturing engineering student at a top US engineering school but, she often texts while driving. I'm not completely sure that I'll ever be riding in her car now that I know that though...
People, please remember that the RIAA doesn't sue anyone. The actual labels are the named plaintiffs in the file sharing lawsuits. You know, Sony BMG, EMI, etc.
I know that this will sound like one of those 'friend of a friend' things but, I must agree about that "...their various departments just cannot talk to each other." statement. A friend of mine had a $2500 unpaid (to this day) cellular bill to Verizon from when he was just out of High School and a few years later he moved to another state and started to work for Verizon's FiOS tech support. About half a year later he left the job but, the fact that they never put two-and-two together to figure out that he was the same guy with the same SSN that owed them money is something we joke about to this day.
Don't forget General Motors is backing this startup. Even with all of it's current troubles GM is still quite a large company with many expensive lawyers ^_^