World Backup Day immediately precedes April Fools Day... Is someone going around deleting files in the office again? (That or maybe it's the large number of April 1st-activated virii/worms/whatnot, IE Conficker?)
The ARRL has a page set up against HR-607 as well as sample letters. Apparently, if you send them to Chwat & Co (info on previous link(s)), they will hand-deliver it to Congressional office.
Last.fm has been requiring a subscription in other "less-civilized" countries (for all devices, computers included) like Canada for a while now. $3/month isn't bad for premium services. Additionally, Pandora won't even show us Canadians their home page, let alone stream music to us.
I'd rather pay $3 to have music than try to search around for stuff I want.
No, it's just a statistical improbability. There was a story on FARK once about someone who came out of the mall, unlocked a car that looked identical to hers, and drove it home.
IIRC, about halfway home, she realized it wasn't hers, and took it back. In the meantime, the other woman had called police. I don't think charges were laid because it was an honest mistake.
GRAMPS is the best OSS piece of software I've found so far. You can also export it to PhpGedView (a very nice OSS web-based application)
Pro tip: *Always* record your sources, for every scrap of info (GRAMPS lets you do this), that way when (Not "If") you have conflicting pieces of information, you can figure out which one to trust. GRAMPS also lets you assign a 'reliability' to each piece of information.
The only problem is that exporting to GEDCOM format loses a lot of this kind of 'extra' data. (IE, exporting is a lossy process, so use GRAMPS as a master, and if you want to put your tree online, use that as a secondary source for family members to add to.)
As far as resources go, Ancestry.com has a bad habit of suggesting that they have a ton of matches in all these different databases, when in fact most of the matches returned don't have any relation to the names you entered. Don't base your decision to subscribe solely on that. That being said, many public libraries offer free access to some, or many, census records and other public databases.
If you have Swedish ancestors, GenLine is EPIC: Digitized church records (Swedes often had data recorded annually instead of every 5 or 10 years, and also recorded moves into and out of parish districts.)
Outlet plate covers with a little place to put your cell phone already exist. Just not a 'shelf', it's more of a 'bowl' or a 'cup'. We've got a couple of them.
Printing calculators were awesome toys, I can attest to that. Later on, when it didn't work anymore, I disassembled it to see how it (used to) work.
Reader Rabbit, Math Blaster, etc were all epic learning games.
Of course, the first thing I had to be taught was how to start programs from the 5 1/4" floppies. (Stuffing carts in the back of VIC-20s came earlier.. Required less setup:P insert cartridge and joystick, flip RF converter to 'computer', turn on, play whack-a-mole, etc.) but I digress.
My HP 4M+ is still going strong at 205,000 pages. I just bought a 4+ off of eBay for ~$70 (+$100 shipping to Canada, mind you) that had the duplexer and extra paper tray, and that printer has 850,000 prints on it. The only thing wrong with it was that the stepper motor in the additional paper tray (a $30 part) had fried, and wouldn't let the printer boot without setting a "Paper Jam" error. The 4+'s LCD is a bit faded, but with a new toner, it runs like new. (I will likely use the 4+ as a parts machine if needed)
My cost per page is about $0.007 with off-brand toner, and $0.015 with HP-brand. Either way, it's a win. 10,000 pages for $70-$140? Sure. To get a printer with that kind of cost/page nowadays, you're looking into business-class printers that are worth a few grand. These things are built like tanks, with repair kits commonly available.
"Besides Wi-Fi signals, could there possibly be any other logical explanation for kids having more symptoms of illness on school days than at home on weekends or in the summer?"
Industrial soaps/cleaners? Fluorescent lighting? Being around your peers instead of family? And in the case of "headaches to dizziness and nausea and even racing heart rates", how about stress from studying/tests/exams/etc? As for the allergy part, what about mould, dust and fungi in the ductwork? Have those buildings had an air quality test recently?
Also... Insomnia? All of the "wifi allergy" reports I read noted that the afflicted could tell when a router was turned on/off. Unless they're sleeping in class (or trying to), and it was infact a "wifi allergy", how would this be noticeable?
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World Backup Day immediately precedes April Fools Day... Is someone going around deleting files in the office again? (That or maybe it's the large number of April 1st-activated virii/worms/whatnot, IE Conficker?)
The ARRL has a page set up against HR-607 as well as sample letters. Apparently, if you send them to Chwat & Co (info on previous link(s)), they will hand-deliver it to Congressional office.
Sounds like a router issue on your end. I have no problems whatsoever on a semi-lousy (Canadian) 4-5Mbit aDSL connection with 3 users.
Last.fm has been requiring a subscription in other "less-civilized" countries (for all devices, computers included) like Canada for a while now. $3/month isn't bad for premium services. Additionally, Pandora won't even show us Canadians their home page, let alone stream music to us.
I'd rather pay $3 to have music than try to search around for stuff I want.
I'd imagine airborne Prii (Priuses) are just as, if not more lethal. Some things were just not meant to fly.
No, it's just a statistical improbability. There was a story on FARK once about someone who came out of the mall, unlocked a car that looked identical to hers, and drove it home.
IIRC, about halfway home, she realized it wasn't hers, and took it back. In the meantime, the other woman had called police. I don't think charges were laid because it was an honest mistake.
[Citation needed]
If it's an older car, it's typically just a fuse on the fuse panel to disable power door locks, and by extension, keyless entry.
GRAMPS is the best OSS piece of software I've found so far. You can also export it to PhpGedView (a very nice OSS web-based application)
Pro tip: *Always* record your sources, for every scrap of info (GRAMPS lets you do this), that way when (Not "If") you have conflicting pieces of information, you can figure out which one to trust. GRAMPS also lets you assign a 'reliability' to each piece of information.
The only problem is that exporting to GEDCOM format loses a lot of this kind of 'extra' data. (IE, exporting is a lossy process, so use GRAMPS as a master, and if you want to put your tree online, use that as a secondary source for family members to add to.)
As far as resources go, Ancestry.com has a bad habit of suggesting that they have a ton of matches in all these different databases, when in fact most of the matches returned don't have any relation to the names you entered. Don't base your decision to subscribe solely on that.
That being said, many public libraries offer free access to some, or many, census records and other public databases.
If you have Swedish ancestors, GenLine is EPIC: Digitized church records (Swedes often had data recorded annually instead of every 5 or 10 years, and also recorded moves into and out of parish districts.)
Tin-Foil Laptop Sleeves are down Aisle 7.
Outlet plate covers with a little place to put your cell phone already exist. Just not a 'shelf', it's more of a 'bowl' or a 'cup'. We've got a couple of them.
Printing calculators were awesome toys, I can attest to that. Later on, when it didn't work anymore, I disassembled it to see how it (used to) work.
:P insert cartridge and joystick, flip RF converter to 'computer', turn on, play whack-a-mole, etc.) but I digress.
Reader Rabbit, Math Blaster, etc were all epic learning games.
Of course, the first thing I had to be taught was how to start programs from the 5 1/4" floppies. (Stuffing carts in the back of VIC-20s came earlier.. Required less setup
"But I don't *like* spam!"
Begun, the flame wars have.
What ever happened to the hybrid drives that were supposed to be the practical solution...
Seagate Momentus XT drives are available at your favorite computer part reseller in 250GB, 320GB and 500GB flavors.
See also: Wikipedia - Hybrid drive and Seagate's Momentus XT landing page.
But can he use https?
IANAL, but it sounds like they haven't been protecting their patent.
I think it's more like how Brown is a delivery service.
Mod parent +/-1 Cave Troll?
Roll for initiative.
I read somewhere that they might be intentionally ignoring us until we develop warp capability.
DartMUD's still around, too :)
"There's even additional bonus points on offer if a demo's code can fit inside a single tweet."
So that kid that made the self-posting Twitter worm the other day wins by default?
NoScript? What about Control+C? :)
Ouch, he told *Microsoft* to Google it? He might have had better luck if he told them to Bing it, no?
My HP 4M+ is still going strong at 205,000 pages. I just bought a 4+ off of eBay for ~$70 (+$100 shipping to Canada, mind you) that had the duplexer and extra paper tray, and that printer has 850,000 prints on it. The only thing wrong with it was that the stepper motor in the additional paper tray (a $30 part) had fried, and wouldn't let the printer boot without setting a "Paper Jam" error. The 4+'s LCD is a bit faded, but with a new toner, it runs like new. (I will likely use the 4+ as a parts machine if needed)
My cost per page is about $0.007 with off-brand toner, and $0.015 with HP-brand. Either way, it's a win. 10,000 pages for $70-$140? Sure. To get a printer with that kind of cost/page nowadays, you're looking into business-class printers that are worth a few grand. These things are built like tanks, with repair kits commonly available.
"Besides Wi-Fi signals, could there possibly be any other logical explanation for kids having more symptoms of illness on school days than at home on weekends or in the summer?"
Industrial soaps/cleaners? Fluorescent lighting? Being around your peers instead of family? And in the case of "headaches to dizziness and nausea and even racing heart rates", how about stress from studying/tests/exams/etc? As for the allergy part, what about mould, dust and fungi in the ductwork? Have those buildings had an air quality test recently?
Also... Insomnia? All of the "wifi allergy" reports I read noted that the afflicted could tell when a router was turned on/off. Unless they're sleeping in class (or trying to), and it was infact a "wifi allergy", how would this be noticeable?