After checking bestbuy.ca and futureshop.ca I found 1 1080P HDTV and it was not 1000 bucks, it wasn't even close.. I've only seen a 1080p TV in a super high end audio/video store.
One 1080p TV from Outpost.com (Fry's Electronics) for under $1000 right here.
Too bad it won't take a 1080p signal. You've fallen for one of the great wonders of the video world, advertising scalled inputs resolutions while actual native input resolution being something different hidden amongst the fine print.
True 1080p does exist without needing to go to a super high end store. Westinghouse has a 37" 1080p LCD panel that takes 1080p input -- the LVM-37w3. It's not under $1k, but it's pretty close: $1299 from Crutchfield. I bought mine from BestBuy after having them match the price at my local store.
Assuming you are taking photos while in the air, why bother removing the compact flash card at all or mounting anything inside the helicoptor? Use the Nikon D2H for taking your pictures and add on the WT-1A wireless transmitter. You'll need to be patient though, as the products have been announced, but not yet released. It uses FTP over 802.11b to transfer the images.
If you really object I suggest a list of every site you have or have had and dates with a request to remove everything. Then you only need to notify them when you put up a new site that that whould also be excluded. That would not be such a nuisance, would it?
Well, if you only consider the one archive, maybe not. But how do you know there aren't others now or in the future? What happens when ever medium to large company starts maintaining one to get "background" information on job applicants?
Talk about nuisance.
Buy some kind of cheap color printer that works under Linux (most mainstream printers will probably work).
Buy a pair of scissors.
Buy a lamination machine with some ID sized laminating sleeves.
Print. Cut. Laminate.
I don't know how often you'll be making IDs, but if you're willing to buy one of those id making machines, it's probably still cheaper to pay some student a cheap wage to handle the paper cutting and laminating than it would be to have the machine do it for you.
I've gotten numerous letters from various registrars trying to get me to renew with them. None of them were very straightforward about the fact that they weren't my current registrar. Luckily, I know better (what's weird is that my domain is registered for the next 10 years, and some registrars still think it was expiring this year).
On a slightly related issue, I got a phone call a month or so ago from "The Domain Support Group". They tried telling me that since I owned a.com domain, I had early access to a.info or something like that. They repeatedly implied that they were just a support group calling, and not a company named "The Domain Support Group".
Paraphrasing a bit...
Who would be the registrar for the domain? "We would be"
And who are you? "We're your friendly Domain Support Group"
So you're not my current registrar? "We're the domain support group".
Are you the same company as my existing registrar? "Uh, no."
That university woulddn't happen to have been Purdue, would it? I remember the dorm radiators with 2 settings: "off" and "surface of the Sun".
You had off??? Consider yourself lucky! Over at Carnegie Mellon, in some dorms that was impossible -- and opening the windows only brought the room temperature down to about 85!
I don't use RR, but my mom does. She called me after receiving an email from Road Runner, frantically asking me what she needed to do. She was worried she was spreading this new "virus." They probably would have mentioned that they were planning on shutting down port 80 since they were already sending out a mass email on this topic.
Here's a copy of that customer email:
----- Original Message -----
From: <security@cfl.rr.com>
To: <Our Valued Customers>
Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 9:21 AM
Subject: Security Notification
ROAD RUNNER ALERT
VIRUS ALERT. YOUR IMMEDIATE ACTION IS REQUIRED.
Dear Road Runner Subscriber:
Road Runner, like many other ISPs and, indeed, the entire Internet, has
experienced an attack on its network that apparently is attributable to a
strain of the Code Red virus. It is possible that this virus has infected
the PCs of Road Runner customers using the Microsoft Windows NT Server or
Microsoft Windows 2000 Server operating systems. Infected PCs may
continue to flood the Internet and the Road Runner network with
virus-generated messages (even without your being aware of it).
Road Runner is working to alert all of its subscribers to this problem
and to instruct them on where to find and install the patch necessary to
eliminate the virus. In the meantime, Road Runner customers may
experience slow network response, flashing data lights on their cable
modems, and other symptoms (such as unusual port scan log activity or
increased firewall activity) while Road Runner and the Internet community
work to control the impact of this virus.
IF YOUR PC IS RUNNING WINDOWS 2000 SERVER OR WINDOWS NT 4.0 SERVER,
PLEASE IMMEDIATELY DOWNLOAD THE CODE RED PATCH FROM MICROSOFT'S WEBSITE
(www.microsoft.com/security) AND RESTART YOUR PC.
IF YOUR PC IS RUNNING WINDOWS 98, WINDOWS 95, OR WINDOWS ME, OR IF YOUR
ARE A MACINTOSH USER, NO ACTION IS REQUIRED ON YOUR PART.
We ask for your patience while Road Runner continues to work with the
Internet community to address this virus.
The first candidate to appoint a *qualified* Technology Advisor will win my vote, until then I'm not voting.
You should still vote... you don't have to vote for anyone, but you should still go into the poll booth and register your abstention by not turning any of the knobs or flicking any switches or pulling any levers (anyone else think those voting booths are kind of funny looking?). By not even showing up, you're registering your apathy, not your disapproval with the candidates.
Out of all the Slashdot, kuro5hin, and advogate readers, fewer than ten bothered to submit comments on the most important act of Congress in our generation?
Slashdot Mirror
It was called Google Q&A. Here's the announcement in the Official Google Blog back on April 7, 2005.
Assuming you are taking photos while in the air, why bother removing the compact flash card at all or mounting anything inside the helicoptor? Use the Nikon D2H for taking your pictures and add on the WT-1A wireless transmitter. You'll need to be patient though, as the products have been announced, but not yet released. It uses FTP over 802.11b to transfer the images.
Buy some kind of cheap color printer that works under Linux (most mainstream printers will probably work).
Buy a pair of scissors.
Buy a lamination machine with some ID sized laminating sleeves.
Print. Cut. Laminate.
I don't know how often you'll be making IDs, but if you're willing to buy one of those id making machines, it's probably still cheaper to pay some student a cheap wage to handle the paper cutting and laminating than it would be to have the machine do it for you.
Maybe that's why my mom always toasted my white bread until it turned black? Never could figure out her thing with burnt toast....
I've gotten numerous letters from various registrars trying to get me to renew with them. None of them were very straightforward about the fact that they weren't my current registrar. Luckily, I know better (what's weird is that my domain is registered for the next 10 years, and some registrars still think it was expiring this year).
.com domain, I had early access to a .info or something like that. They repeatedly implied that they were just a support group calling, and not a company named "The Domain Support Group".
On a slightly related issue, I got a phone call a month or so ago from "The Domain Support Group". They tried telling me that since I owned a
Paraphrasing a bit...
Who would be the registrar for the domain?
"We would be"
And who are you?
"We're your friendly Domain Support Group"
So you're not my current registrar?
"We're the domain support group".
Are you the same company as my existing registrar?
"Uh, no."
Yeah... so, I filed a complaint with the FTC.
You had off??? Consider yourself lucky! Over at Carnegie Mellon, in some dorms that was impossible -- and opening the windows only brought the room temperature down to about 85!
Here's a copy of that customer email:
----- Original Message -----
From: <security@cfl.rr.com>
To: <Our Valued Customers>
Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 9:21 AM
Subject: Security Notification
ROAD RUNNER ALERT
VIRUS ALERT. YOUR IMMEDIATE ACTION IS REQUIRED.
Dear Road Runner Subscriber:
Road Runner, like many other ISPs and, indeed, the entire Internet, has experienced an attack on its network that apparently is attributable to a strain of the Code Red virus. It is possible that this virus has infected the PCs of Road Runner customers using the Microsoft Windows NT Server or Microsoft Windows 2000 Server operating systems. Infected PCs may continue to flood the Internet and the Road Runner network with virus-generated messages (even without your being aware of it).
Road Runner is working to alert all of its subscribers to this problem and to instruct them on where to find and install the patch necessary to eliminate the virus. In the meantime, Road Runner customers may experience slow network response, flashing data lights on their cable modems, and other symptoms (such as unusual port scan log activity or increased firewall activity) while Road Runner and the Internet community work to control the impact of this virus.
IF YOUR PC IS RUNNING WINDOWS 2000 SERVER OR WINDOWS NT 4.0 SERVER, PLEASE IMMEDIATELY DOWNLOAD THE CODE RED PATCH FROM MICROSOFT'S WEBSITE (www.microsoft.com/security) AND RESTART YOUR PC.
IF YOUR PC IS RUNNING WINDOWS 98, WINDOWS 95, OR WINDOWS ME, OR IF YOUR ARE A MACINTOSH USER, NO ACTION IS REQUIRED ON YOUR PART.
We ask for your patience while Road Runner continues to work with the Internet community to address this virus.
Thank you.
Road Runner Security
Too late... already happens... This is the whole basis for GoTo. Check out the "What We Do" section on their Our Company: Who We Are and What We Do page.
You should still vote... you don't have to vote for anyone, but you should still go into the poll booth and register your abstention by not turning any of the knobs or flicking any switches or pulling any levers (anyone else think those voting booths are kind of funny looking?). By not even showing up, you're registering your apathy, not your disapproval with the candidates.
DOH...
uh... wise county doesn't exist? how do you explain this or this?