Roads are for road users. I ride a bike, I obey the laws (ALL of them - way better than ANY car I ever see on the road) and I pay at least as many taxes to pay for the roads as anyone else on the road. If the road isn't designed for my use, it's because the designers screwed up. Bikes were here before cars and they'll be here after cars.
I don't LIKE Win98, but I still have a VM copy to run some games that wouldn't run on 2K or XP. My main box is still XP. I actually like 7 as an OS but I can't stand the GUI so even though I own a legal copy of 7, I wiped it and moved back to XP.
I'm doing my part reducing the IE6 market share by running Firefox.
It's also bad because the thermoresistive technology pretty much guarantees that the cart won't last past about 2 or 3 refills. It's designed to fail.
I've owned Epson and Canon printers that had piezo printheads, and they both lasted the life of the printer (until something else in the printer broke).
I can believe it. I once bought a computer at CompUSA (it's been a few years) and the salesperson grabbed a printer and said "It comes with this printer for free." I looked, it was a Lexmark. I told him he could keep it. That model sold new for $25, I sure as heck wasn't going to use it, and it wasn't worth my time to sell it on eBay.
Maybe I could have taken it and given it to the first guy I saw after the checkout.
Over the years I've owned HP, Epson and Canon inkjet printers. I refill as much as possible (with the HP, you can only refill so many times before the cartridge fails). One thing I've found to be true across the board; if you buy from a reputable source, 3rd party refill inks are AT LEAST as reliable, the output looks as good if not better, and they're typically about 1/20th the price.
It seems that all that quality is only expensive from the OEM; 3rd party ink manufacturers can deliver the same quality for a tiny fraction of the price.
I finally switched to laser when color lasers got cheap. Now that I've given up on printing my own photos (even with refill inks, it's cheaper to just let CVS or some other local store print my photos), I print so little that with inkjet, the nozzles would clog up between print jobs. With laser, I can let it sit for 6 months, print a job and get perfect results.
Well, I suppose it does if you don't have enough of a vocabulary to already know what the word means. It's not all that uncommon of a word. I quite like it myself.
I read BoingBoing, SlashDot, The Register and a few others all via RSS, and I'm very interested in Facebook alternatives, yet the first I heard of this was after they'd already reached their funding goals. Did I just miss the story here?
I currently have about 8 1.5TB drives in use for data (plus another 6 as mirror backup - some of the stuff I don't back up since I wouldn't cry much if I lost it). Several of them are completely full and I'm in the process of splitting them. There's a hell of a variety in there; my entire collection of movies (about 1200), all the photos that my wife and I have ever taken (the negatives have been scanned at 24 megapixels) - this is in the tens of thousands of frames, and is the better part of a TB itself. All the video I've ever shot - the older stuff shot on Hi8 or MiniDV is in DV AVIs (I don't trust tapes anymore, I've lost precious footage to tape rot), the newer stuff is shot in h.264 on an AVCHD camcorder, so every time the kids have a concert or something, there's another 3 or 4 GB.
All the irreplaceable stuff (family photo and video) has THREE copies - hot, mirror, and offsite mirror.
Add to that audiobooks (several hundred MB), all kinds of collections, both my and my wife's music (she has probably close to 3000 purchased audio CDs, so there are high quality rips of all of those online), and the stuff adds up.
I have a lot of storage for the same reason that the OP does, and I PREFER 5400 RPM drives. They run cooler and are still faster than what I need. I prefer WD Greens, but Samsung EcoGreen works well too. I buy the green ones because, again, they run cooler.
1.5TB drives have been cheapest $/GB for a while now, though I suspect 2TB will take its place, especially after the 3TB drives hit the shelves.
You're not really guaranteed the right to use unlicensed radio equipment. The FCC basically says if it works for you, and you're not bothering anyone, great, but if it doesn't work the way you want it to, or you're interfering with anyone else, tough rocks.
Owning a car accessory that requires you to disable required safety equipment to install it doesn't mean that you actually get to disable that equipment, it means you aren't allowed to use that accessory.
We don't lock anything. House, car, or even bike parked at stores. OK, we lock the house if we're going to be away more than a day or so. My "key ring" contains a pocket knife, an 8GB thumb drive and a flashlight.
I used to follow several newsgroups, but gave up on them years ago because the spam was simply unbearable. In the groups I was hanging out in, probably 70% of the messages were spam.
Same here. I've had a Sony ereader for almost 2 years now, and the only content I've actually paid for is the DRM-free stuff from Baen. Apart from that, everything's come from Gutenberg or the library.
I finally gave in and settled for 1680x1050 in a 19" monitor. That's it though, I just do not want a bigger monitor. I'd like to have about 2Kx1200 or 2kx1600 in about 19", max.
I am still using a CRT at work - they keep trying to take it away from me, and I say "fine, if you replace it with an equivalent LCD - this is 19" at 1600 x 1200.
The standard deploy here is 1280x1024 - seriously, that's horrible res. Yeah, the LCD lines are really sharp, but I need to get a lot of windows on the screen.
When the CRT dies, I'll probably just have to move to 3 or 4 monitors on my desk to place enough windows (I currently have the CRT and one 1024x1280 LCD (portrait mode) as my browser monitor). Those extra 2 or 3 monitors will draw more power than the CRT.
Actually, talking to a passenger has been shown to be somewhat distracting and as contributing to accidents as well. I try not to talk to drivers when I'm a passenger.
It's probably not nearly as dangerous as talking on a phone, but neither is it either as safe or even advantageous to have a passenger there talking to you.
How is that worse than any ticket? Hell, my phone isn't even turned on for weeks at a time. Why would I care if I had to stop by the police station to pick it up later? I probably wouldn't even bother for a day or two, until it was convenient to get there. I've only had two tickets in my life, both for left turn on red where it was (badly) marked as not permitted, and neither of those were at all pleasant experiences. If given the choice I'd happily give them my phone for a few hours. Hell, I'd give it to them permanently, and go buy a new one for $20, to have the ticket waived.
Forgot to say...but if you kill someone while merely distracted, not drunk, people will more than half the time think of YOU as the victim ("Gee, I bet he feels awful" - "I can't imagine having to live with that the rest of my life") - people immediately think "that could happen to me - I could kill someone accidentally" but they never think of themselves as being killed, because people tend to think of these things as always happening to someone else.
Therefore when someone kills someone else on the road, they tend to want to be lenient on the killer instead of the victim, because they know that they are sometimes distracted themselves and don't pay proper attention.
Drunk driving is only as demonized as it is due to the actions of MADD and some other crusaders.
In the US, you MIGHT lose your license if you get a string of DUIs, or if you kill someone while drunk (unless you say you're really sorry). And if you lose your license and get caught driving anyway, they'll fine you a few bucks and tell you not to do that again, boy, or we'll get really mad and tell you not to do it yet again.
After you kill your 2nd or 3rd person, they might start getting tough with you.
Seriously, there are people who have killed people on more than one occasions after multiple DUI convictions in the US and STILL are not in jail and have only gotten a year or two ban.
Driving is, for some stupid reason, considered almost a basic human right in the US, and we can't seem to get laws passed that are properly protective of what IS a basic human right - the right to move around legally in public spaces and not get killed by morons. Or at least, we can't get them enforced.
For people driving too close, I suggest a few 1" steel ball bearings in your pocket. When bounced off the ground next to you, they should hit the windshield of anyone driving too closely behind and let them know of their error.
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Roads are for road users. I ride a bike, I obey the laws (ALL of them - way better than ANY car I ever see on the road) and I pay at least as many taxes to pay for the roads as anyone else on the road. If the road isn't designed for my use, it's because the designers screwed up. Bikes were here before cars and they'll be here after cars.
Timing the car's travel time between two objects, quite often. That's how helicopter patrols used to work too.
How is that offtopic? Crazy mods.
I don't LIKE Win98, but I still have a VM copy to run some games that wouldn't run on 2K or XP. My main box is still XP. I actually like 7 as an OS but I can't stand the GUI so even though I own a legal copy of 7, I wiped it and moved back to XP.
I'm doing my part reducing the IE6 market share by running Firefox.
It's also bad because the thermoresistive technology pretty much guarantees that the cart won't last past about 2 or 3 refills. It's designed to fail.
I've owned Epson and Canon printers that had piezo printheads, and they both lasted the life of the printer (until something else in the printer broke).
I can believe it. I once bought a computer at CompUSA (it's been a few years) and the salesperson grabbed a printer and said "It comes with this printer for free." I looked, it was a Lexmark. I told him he could keep it. That model sold new for $25, I sure as heck wasn't going to use it, and it wasn't worth my time to sell it on eBay.
Maybe I could have taken it and given it to the first guy I saw after the checkout.
Actually, back when I had an Epson printer, the quality with refill ink was BETTER with refill than with Epson ink.
With Canon, it was about the same.
I'm talking photos, print color was fine either way.
Over the years I've owned HP, Epson and Canon inkjet printers. I refill as much as possible (with the HP, you can only refill so many times before the cartridge fails). One thing I've found to be true across the board; if you buy from a reputable source, 3rd party refill inks are AT LEAST as reliable, the output looks as good if not better, and they're typically about 1/20th the price.
It seems that all that quality is only expensive from the OEM; 3rd party ink manufacturers can deliver the same quality for a tiny fraction of the price.
I finally switched to laser when color lasers got cheap. Now that I've given up on printing my own photos (even with refill inks, it's cheaper to just let CVS or some other local store print my photos), I print so little that with inkjet, the nozzles would clog up between print jobs. With laser, I can let it sit for 6 months, print a job and get perfect results.
Well, I suppose it does if you don't have enough of a vocabulary to already know what the word means. It's not all that uncommon of a word. I quite like it myself.
I read BoingBoing, SlashDot, The Register and a few others all via RSS, and I'm very interested in Facebook alternatives, yet the first I heard of this was after they'd already reached their funding goals. Did I just miss the story here?
FWIW, I think Diaspora is an awesome name.
I currently have about 8 1.5TB drives in use for data (plus another 6 as mirror backup - some of the stuff I don't back up since I wouldn't cry much if I lost it). Several of them are completely full and I'm in the process of splitting them. There's a hell of a variety in there; my entire collection of movies (about 1200), all the photos that my wife and I have ever taken (the negatives have been scanned at 24 megapixels) - this is in the tens of thousands of frames, and is the better part of a TB itself. All the video I've ever shot - the older stuff shot on Hi8 or MiniDV is in DV AVIs (I don't trust tapes anymore, I've lost precious footage to tape rot), the newer stuff is shot in h.264 on an AVCHD camcorder, so every time the kids have a concert or something, there's another 3 or 4 GB.
All the irreplaceable stuff (family photo and video) has THREE copies - hot, mirror, and offsite mirror.
Add to that audiobooks (several hundred MB), all kinds of collections, both my and my wife's music (she has probably close to 3000 purchased audio CDs, so there are high quality rips of all of those online), and the stuff adds up.
I have a lot of storage for the same reason that the OP does, and I PREFER 5400 RPM drives. They run cooler and are still faster than what I need.
I prefer WD Greens, but Samsung EcoGreen works well too. I buy the green ones because, again, they run cooler.
1.5TB drives have been cheapest $/GB for a while now, though I suspect 2TB will take its place, especially after the 3TB drives hit the shelves.
You're not really guaranteed the right to use unlicensed radio equipment. The FCC basically says if it works for you, and you're not bothering anyone, great, but if it doesn't work the way you want it to, or you're interfering with anyone else, tough rocks.
Owning a car accessory that requires you to disable required safety equipment to install it doesn't mean that you actually get to disable that equipment, it means you aren't allowed to use that accessory.
We don't lock anything. House, car, or even bike parked at stores. OK, we lock the house if we're going to be away more than a day or so.
My "key ring" contains a pocket knife, an 8GB thumb drive and a flashlight.
I used to follow several newsgroups, but gave up on them years ago because the spam was simply unbearable. In the groups I was hanging out in, probably 70% of the messages were spam.
Same here. I've had a Sony ereader for almost 2 years now, and the only content I've actually paid for is the DRM-free stuff from Baen. Apart from that, everything's come from Gutenberg or the library.
I'd buy elsewhere if the stuff didn't use DRM.
Seriously, this is news? Come on, 2 minutes looking at how the protocol works is enough to know this wouldn't be hard to do.
Try portrait mode. It helps.
I finally gave in and settled for 1680x1050 in a 19" monitor. That's it though, I just do not want a bigger monitor. I'd like to have about 2Kx1200 or 2kx1600 in about 19", max.
I am still using a CRT at work - they keep trying to take it away from me, and I say "fine, if you replace it with an equivalent LCD - this is 19" at 1600 x 1200.
The standard deploy here is 1280x1024 - seriously, that's horrible res. Yeah, the LCD lines are really sharp, but I need to get a lot of windows on the screen.
When the CRT dies, I'll probably just have to move to 3 or 4 monitors on my desk to place enough windows (I currently have the CRT and one 1024x1280 LCD (portrait mode) as my browser monitor). Those extra 2 or 3 monitors will draw more power than the CRT.
Actually, talking to a passenger has been shown to be somewhat distracting and as contributing to accidents as well. I try not to talk to drivers when I'm a passenger.
It's probably not nearly as dangerous as talking on a phone, but neither is it either as safe or even advantageous to have a passenger there talking to you.
How is that worse than any ticket? Hell, my phone isn't even turned on for weeks at a time. Why would I care if I had to stop by the police station to pick it up later? I probably wouldn't even bother for a day or two, until it was convenient to get there.
I've only had two tickets in my life, both for left turn on red where it was (badly) marked as not permitted, and neither of those were at all pleasant experiences. If given the choice I'd happily give them my phone for a few hours. Hell, I'd give it to them permanently, and go buy a new one for $20, to have the ticket waived.
Forgot to say...but if you kill someone while merely distracted, not drunk, people will more than half the time think of YOU as the victim ("Gee, I bet he feels awful" - "I can't imagine having to live with that the rest of my life") - people immediately think "that could happen to me - I could kill someone accidentally" but they never think of themselves as being killed, because people tend to think of these things as always happening to someone else.
Therefore when someone kills someone else on the road, they tend to want to be lenient on the killer instead of the victim, because they know that they are sometimes distracted themselves and don't pay proper attention.
Drunk driving is only as demonized as it is due to the actions of MADD and some other crusaders.
In the US, you MIGHT lose your license if you get a string of DUIs, or if you kill someone while drunk (unless you say you're really sorry). And if you lose your license and get caught driving anyway, they'll fine you a few bucks and tell you not to do that again, boy, or we'll get really mad and tell you not to do it yet again.
After you kill your 2nd or 3rd person, they might start getting tough with you.
Seriously, there are people who have killed people on more than one occasions after multiple DUI convictions in the US and STILL are not in jail and have only gotten a year or two ban.
Driving is, for some stupid reason, considered almost a basic human right in the US, and we can't seem to get laws passed that are properly protective of what IS a basic human right - the right to move around legally in public spaces and not get killed by morons. Or at least, we can't get them enforced.
Standard terminology for people in steel cages on the road. You've not heard it before?
For people driving too close, I suggest a few 1" steel ball bearings in your pocket. When bounced off the ground next to you, they should hit the windshield of anyone driving too closely behind and let them know of their error.