Nokia 6010--like a Shure microphone--tough enough to hammer nails [well,
brads or #4 finishing nails]--great phone, but doesn't do well inside a
Big Gulp.
I gave my 6010 to my husband after unlocking it. He pays about $50 a
year with 7-11 SpeakOut. All of their refills $25 and above expire in
Both iTunes and Firefox work well on our old Dell with W2000 Pro and a
2007 Compaq notebook with Vista. Keep both programs up to date and
they'll be fine.
After using Firefox for a short time, you'll be glad to make it your
default browser instead of IE.
Betty
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Click on Prepaid at the top of http://www.t-mobile.com/shop/plans/, you
go here, http://www.t-mobile.com/shop/plans/#Prepaid. Then click on "See
Rates"
http://www.t-mobile.com/shop/plans/Default.aspx?plancategory=4.
Click on Pay As You Go, expand, and you'll see the cheapest rates around
with
There isn't one app that works for all streams. Although I prefer to use
a standalone player, usually iTunes, WM Player or RealPlayer, many radio
streams open in pop-up windows in a browser, using Flash as an envelope
for WM or MP3 streams. That way you can bookmark each stream. A useful
resour
I upgraded to Safari 3.1.x on my MacBook yesterday. It crashes every
time I try to get contextual menus. I have Safari 3.1.2 on my G4 and it
doesn't crash. How do I fix the version on the MacBook?
When I did a crash report, I told Apple that I was going back to Firefox
and SeaMonkey until Saf
After being overseas since early June, it's a delight to come home to
gems like this. I was reading a novel about the Minotaur, and now it's
the Furies. Sometime being a little off-topic is a wonderful thing.
Now, I'll have to scan the archives to see what else I missed.
Thanks, Constance, et
>> >Thanks for checking, but did you try Satellite mode?
>> >No matter what zoom level I try, it gives me the we don't have that
zoom
>> >level message.
>
> Nice and clear. I can even count the windows in my office building.
>
> I only get blocked when I zoom in on the nude beach.
I use Googl
> I look at all kinds of places with Google maps almost daily. The
problems I've had lately are with all areas of this country and others,
at literally any zoom level in satellite mode. In other words, even
zoomed out to a view of the whole country, it may give me a "zoom level
not available" m
WARNING: Rant
I just got a notice from T-Mobile. They raised their fees for SMS/text
to 20 cents incoming/outgoing. That's outrageous! Is this a reaction to
a US market that doesn't complain when prices are raised for no reason?
Or is this to counter the European Union's actions to reduce pric
I dumped Dot Mac when they started charging for services that I could
get free from Yahoo or elsewhere. .Mac was slow and not particularly
reliable. MobileMe is not up to prime time either.
More about MobileMe's failure to launch:
MobileMe Fails to Launch Well, But Finally Launches,
http://db
I think the 7-11 SpeakOut phone service uses Rogers in Canada.
Canada does not have as big a problem as we do as they have less
vendors covering their cell phones. (Rogers and Bell are the two
biggest if I remember)
Plus we pay more for our cell phone coverage because we get discounts
on our p
> 22 public interest groups roast FCC smutless broadband plan
> By Matthew Lasar | Published: July 29, 2008 - 08:55AM CT
>
> They may not agree on net neutrality or the Fairness Doctrine, but
almost half a dozen advocacy groups from liberal to libertarian do
concur on one issue: they hate Fede
How do I delete the empty but invisible active cells at the end of an
Excel spreadsheet? How do I even know the cells are there?
Instead of deleting empty cells, select the active cells that contain
your data. Then set print area [File>Print Area>Set Print Area]. When
you print or export, onl
> -Original Message-
> ISP's are shutting off USENET because of Andrew Cuomo, Secretary of
> State
> for New York State.
Ah, the proud New York tradition of electing power mad, publicity whoring,
thuggish assholes as their Attorney General. (He is actually the AG, not
the SoS)
As oppo
When the ISPs remove a service that has been included in their package
of services, what's the odds that they'll reduce the monthly/yearly
charges?
I remember back in the good old days when I was in grade school, we read
my best friend's church newsletter every Sunday, starting with the back
I have the DSL service through Verizon. Every time there is lightning in
the area, the DSL connection resets. The modem then takes about a minute or
so to re-establish the DSL connection and all is happy ... (until the next
lightning during the dark and stormy night, that is.)
Has anyone else e
Bill L'Hommedieu escribió:
> I live here in Arlington and will be moving into an apartment from a
> single family home. I want to get Fios (TV, internet, phone) service and
> wonder if its available in apartment complexes (all, some or none) or
> only single family homes. I'm doing my best to avoi
>He's also tried it in several different drives. What about os's?
>Would trying it on linux or os x perhaps help?
Plextor drives are reputed to be better than most for reading problem
discs.
Does Plextor make its own drives, or only the box and drivers. What's
inside?
**
Hmm... no, in my case, the DSL modem is on a UPS, so the power
doesn't reset. It is the signal (DSL) that resets.
Send me an email at [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the phone number
of the line the DSL is riding, assuming you get your dialtone from us.
I'll do a quick facilities check and place a trou
snip...
Apple's actual solution? Here is a nice, new, latest and greatest
MacBook Pro, 17 inch, 2.5 GHz, 2 gig of memory with a 250 gig hard
drive and a Super Drive for you. They are even sending my broken
machine back so that I can get data off the hard drive. An awesome
outcome is about all
Often, I think, it boils down to the person with whom the customer is
dealing. That's why I want to take the time to praise the woman who
helped me, and to make sure that Apple realizes the value they have
in good and responsive employees such as her.
With this in mind, it makes me wonder why
> >Anyone know how they work? I made a folder (with the idea
> >of organizing them) but the folder doesn't show up
> >anywhere useful.
Firefox 3.x - Bookmarks menu > Organize Bookmarks
You can view your choice of columns, sort, move, delete, backup,
restore. Much better than last version.
Bet
> Many lists, this one included, go silent for days, weeks, or months at
> a time. Sending test messages to the list just to see if it's working
> is SPAM.
>
> Two solutions. One, just wait until someone else starts a new thread.
> Second, try to start one yourself with any list-related comment or
My 20GB iPod's hard drive died. Since the Toshiba 40/60/80GB 1.8-inch
drives are very close to the same dimensions, could the mobo in the old
iPod handle a bigger drive? I have several dead or dying iPods, mostly
due to abuse [dropped into water, held/swung by cable instead of in
hand, left out
> Report: US falling further behind on broadband speeds, reach By John
> Timmer | Published: August 14, 2008 - 08:00PM CT
>
> The latest measure of the state of the US broadband market is now
> available and, like many other takes on the subject, the picture it
> paints is a bit depressing. The re
The Internet and broadband both are the result of many years of our
government investing in science/technology R&D, giving research and
implementation grants to university and private research labs while
providing huge tax breaks to the broadband providers. Those providers
promised to get their
If I were using a peecee and wanted to transfer my music, I'd probably
burn mp3s/AACs to CDRW, and import into the new music program. Or I'd
find all the music where it's stored on my computer, remove from
folders, and drag them to the other music program.
For encrypted music that's purchased,
AT&T made a lot of money because they were allowed to have a monopoly.
They used that money for some very good things like Bell Labs, a hotbed
of primary research that was applied to lots of good inventions, and for
Telstar. The Telstar satellites were developed with private AT&T funds
that the
Naiveté is the attitude that the government is bad or can't do things
right. It's neither all bad nor all good--depends on the people involved
in that government, the strengths of checks and balances, and open
media/press to report on it. Of course I remember fruitcake JEdgar
Hoover's spying, a
I received an email from Verizon about changes in TOS. One item is:
"4. Modifications to AUP. We have added language to our AUP making
clear (a) that we may monitor our subscribers' compliance with our Terms
of Service and AUP; and (b) that we have the right, but not the
obligation, to pre-sc
Tom Piwowar escribió:
p.s. I haven't received any CGUYs posts since Sunday at midnight. The
archives and cguys.org include posts from yesterday and today. I have
email today from friends and other subscriptions. Is it my email, ISP,
or AOL? Ghosts? thx
We are still here and chattering away. M
>
> Actually, Verizon was one of the first to cave. They deleted all their
> binary newsgroups a while back. A real hit for their customers, as it
> was one of the best free servers around.
There are a lot of good newsgroups at alt.binaries. Lists I see in my
client go from 3d.bryce to zines. T
The United States has the lowest corporate tax rates in the
industrialized world. That's effectively subsidizing just about all
corporations.
Never mind. You don't get it.
Man. That's some military-grade RDF. I see you still haven't connected the
dots as to why there is no significant compe
>
> I only know what I've read, as I don't live in Verizon territory.
>
> http://www.giganews.com/verizon-sprint-special.html
> "According to a recent announcement, Verizon will stop providing
> access to alt.binaries newsgroups on their internal Usenet systems as
> of June 24, 2008. Sprint will s
Same for the monopolies that exist in cable and telco broadband that allow them
to set rates based on whatever they can get away with instead of letting the
market determine rates with competition, or providing quality broadband service
[and choice] without gouging the customers, as it is today
"AMERICANS today spend almost as much on bandwidth --- the capacity to
move information --- as we do on energy. A family of four likely spends
several hundred dollars a month on cellphones, cable television and
Internet connections, which is about what we spend on gas and heating oil.
Just as
> That is why the original assertion is scary. The assertion was made
> that profits not collected via taxation were a subsidy. A subsidy is
> when you give something that is yours by right to another party to
> encourage action by that party. For profits not claimed via
> taxation to be a sub
> My question: the gmail account is a POP address; I'm using
> Thunderbird. When I get messages via Thunderbird from this listserv,
> what happens to the messages at gmail? Are they saved on gmail, or
> are they erased when I view them in Thunderbird?
>
> The reason that I ask is for an archiva
> i should also point out to you that a very large number of these
> auctions end at 9 or 10pm..pacific time. i am a very elderly
> person living in gmt-5. i am long in bed when these auctions end.
We've been using online auctions since there were online auctions. It
was fun when there
Our house has old phone wiring that has a short circuit somewhere
between the box and the outlet for the DSL modem. We've decided to
replace the wire with new, and have dedicated lines for the computers.
Is it better to attach phone and data lines together at the outside box
and run each to ph
> It's true--iPhoto has a number of annoying features. Most annoying, it
> puts all your photos in a single folder such that individual images are
> not accessible EXCEPT within iPhoto. You can't just open a folder and
> access individual pictures. If you want to get an image or throw it
> away
Two approaches here. One is put a filter at the metwork interface
(where the phone line comes into the house) and rig dedicated DSL
loops off the unfiltered side.
What kind of box do I need here? Any photos/illustrations for this?
Second approach is to just plug in a filter at each phone out
I would have to agree with Eric's first approach.
That approach served my family well prior to the fios install.
Phone line ---filter--house phones
|
|--DSL Modemethernet
Is there a box inside to split phone and data?
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Sometimes the page isn't coded well and links might get lost, often when
using a script or nonstandard code.
Try using Firefox to get the exact embedded link for the video. Select
Tools>Page Info then the Media tab. Scroll down until you find an embed.
Click on it, then select the Location lin
Is there a box that splits the RJ-11 to RJ-45 for data? I've done
ethernet networks but don't know about the hardware for telephone data
lines.
Your last question makes me think that you don't exactly understand the virutes of DSL...
Actually,
I've used my son's iPod Touch and I really like it. I've used an iPhone
and like it but it's missing features advertised on other phones. I like
the touch-screen, although there are other good WiFi phones that don't
have it.
Does anyone have experience or own a WiFi phone other than the iPhone
Must be GSM, unless there's a combo GSM/CDMA for the Japanese market.
There are a lot of very good CDMA phones but they're not as versatile
for travel except in the US and Canada.
Betty specify which format. I assume you want GSM.
There have been some decent ones on CDMA, but not many symbian
> WOW! This is a big deal. Google is developing its own web browser,
called
> "Chrome." It is chock full of important new features.
>
> Even more WOW! is that Chrome will be based on the WebKit browser
> framework. WebKit is a fork of the KDE KHTML browser engine that was
> started by Apple (Safa
ffmpegX - http://ffmpegx.com/
It's a GUI wrapper for a collection of Unix tools. Converts lots of AV
formats.
Betty
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>
> I am a netflix subscriber, and recently a new box was introduced.
>
> Netflix allows you to watch movies on your puter, but then again I
don't want to watch a movie sitting there either.
>
> This box allows you to download the movie and watch it on your TV.
Netflix also has movies that you
You need two solutions--backup and archive. They're different. Backup is
for day to day tasks to keep current files on hand. Archives are for the
files you need to keep but may not look at until next year or later.
Consider using network drives for backup. Buy the most reliable brand
bare driv
The main reason to get one in Europe is to
have it unlocked from the start.
H.
When I was looking over phones during my stay in France I was informed that the
rule was: locked for the first 6 months, then French law insists that they must
be unlocked. That 6 month wait when I was there le
>The iPhone camera is lame, and it doesn't do video. I need a new camera. Nokia
>[and other] phones have 5+ megapixel cameras and do very good video.
No they do not do "very good" video. Have you been watching too much of
the political conventions? The lenses in these phones are of miserable
q
I never could figure out what the dual sim thing allows ...my razrV3
apparently will support "dual nam" but that,of course, would be on the same
service. ...is it that the dual sim allows you to do it with say a couple
of gsm cards from different providers? ...like if one is for your work and
on
No they require a subscription. Part of that is to pacify Hollyweed and the
copyright nazis.
One of my friends has a Tivo he got a few years ago with a lifetime
subscription--no monthly fees ever. Tivo honors those original contracts
but eliminated them for new customers--until this year. Ti
I'm looking for instructions as to how to upgrade (to a larger
capacity) the hard drives on a G-5 iMac (now running OS 10.3.9) and a
two-year old MacBook (running 10.5 and Windows XP via Boot Camp).
Can anyone point me to step-by-step instructions - particularly how
to transfer the contents of the
Must be talking about Microsoft. They never had a real desktop anyway.
The browser metaphor in XP and Vista adds yet another layer between you
and your play or work. How do I turn off the MS browser? Chrome can't
help but be an improvement, although online applications remind me of
the nightmar
We are not ALL computer geeks. We've mostly come along with the
> various OS's since Win95. Now we're facing a huge learning curve, unlike
any
> other that MS has hit us with before.
I don't think there is a HUGE learning curve, but there are changes. Some
make sense, some don't. I'm used
The Search function is on the menu bar (just like before) and you can also
type ANYTHING in the old command line bar and it will execute a search.
Unless you have added NOTHING to the Dell Machine, do NOT convert to Vista.
It reformats the drive and installs Vista. You will lose any apps and data
> Does anyone know if there is an application out there for the Mac
that would allow me to remap a Logitech keyboard? Awhile back I
ruined yet another Mac keyboard, and in a crunch for both time and
money, opted for the logitech wireless keyboard and mouse that was
only $35 at Fred Meyer's. It
>This illustrates a very fundamental difference in culture between the 2
>platforms: choice vs. dictates. I'll take choice every time.
Jeff has been thoroughly re-educated. Microsoft is double-plus good!
Maybe Jeff got excited by the kinky new M$ ads.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,23
> BTW, that article you posted was Q1 2007...
Crap, you are correct. It seems I pulled a Bloomberg (read about United
Airlines this AM for the reference). I have seen numbers quoted for 1Q 2008
of WM sales a 4.5 million and iPhone sales of 1.8 million.
There are dozens of WM smart phones, co
How pathetic. Smart Blackberry users can't figure out how to lock their
keyboards. Flip phones are pointless. RIM is rolling down.
RIM keeps on rolling along. They think and anticipate and get into the right
items.
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> There are dozens of WM smart phones, compared to Apple's iPhone.
Which was exactly my original point. You seemed to have missed that.
You can either enjoy choice or being told what to do. I promise to
act surprised as to what decision you make.
Ah, statistics! How many manufacturers' phon
> Hey don't laugh I had two of those cars. They were not as bad as
many made them out to be.
>
> Stewart
>
>
> At 04:19 PM 9/11/2008, you wrote:
>> So, you won't go near GM because of experiences with a car over 30 years
>> ago? You should check out what GM has to offer. You'll find they in
>>
Is there a link that doesn't require buying a new computer or OS? I
think I'll buy that new iMac and get the free iPod.
What's that Silverlight crap? Is it a wrapper that breaks Flash? Forget
it. Never liked Seinfeld--nothing personal.
I think I get it. This is a $300M ad campaign about nothi
>I live in Big Business country and with the exception of maybe 2 other
>people in a neighborhood of over 100 families, I am vastly outnumbered.
The world is full of people who are not paying attention or with
ideologically clouded minds. Ironically, your "Big Business" neighbors
will probably
Your broadband speed on cable will slow down as more people use it.
Cable is like a party line on telephones 50 years ago. We have basic
slow broadband, but it's as cheap or cheaper than dialup. Verizon gives
that choice, if you catch the deal on the right day. It still sucks,
just not as much
the genius bar, and just learned that the hard drive of my 2007
MacBook failed, and that's why I couldn't boot up. ¬ÝAnd, since
I'm 21 days past my warranty, I have to buy a new one. ¬ÝIs
replacing a hard drive something a layman can do? ¬ÝI I wanted
I' told the hard drive on new MacBooks is e
>Better yet, have your wife take it in to the genius bar. She can sweetly
>ask them to show her how it's done. Might get them to do it free...
Good thing it was a "Betty" writing this.
It works, too. Men are so easy.
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>> >For the tenth time, the $249 120GB Zune competes with the $249
120GB iPod
>> >Classic.
>
> That is a 7-year-old design. It is history. Apple has only one model
left
> in this format. Why are you clinging to it?
>
> Even then you are wrong. The iPod Classic 120 is 10.5 mm thick, the Zune
> 1
> Why are so many upset about stupid MP3 players?
Steve, it's not really about the MP3 players; it's about the biases of some
list members and their refusal to be rational where anything to do with
Microsoft is concerned.
If it were just about the players, I would have quit long ago. The proble
> Sometimes comparing technology feature by feature isn't
> enough. Personal preferences are important whether
> they're based on specs or price or the shocking pink
> case, or all three. Old tech--new tech, doesn't matter as
> long as it gets the desired result--or close to it.
Absolutely. I
I see that Adobe has a new reader out. Is there any reason I should up
grade? I currently have Adobe Reader 7. I have an iMac G4 running
10.4.11. I don't use Adobe's plugin, I use "PDF Browser Plugin"
instead.
I use the SchubertIt plugin for PDFs in browsers, and Preview for
everything
Right, and this brings up a pretty good example of what I'm talking
about.
Photoshop is in the same boat as Mathematica in this respect: it runs
perfectly well on both Windows and Mac, so the operating system is
irrelevant. Nevertheless, when Tom discovers that a few Microsoft print
ads
were don
Two questions...and I don't have a zune, I have an ipod. But I'm
wondering
what is missing on the zune for you?
Why did it take an hour on the HP? It sounds more like it is just
unfamiliar territory? It takes me less then an hour for me to
reinstall my
entire os and drivers on my pc then it
I'm using Thunderbird 2.0.0.17. For the most part it functions well
however when it comes to the junk filter, not so good. It keeps
putting legitimate email (some from important clients) in the junk
mail folder. No matter how many times I mark it as "not junk" and
making sure their email address i
When my son was at UMd, he used whatever computer was available. He had
a Mac iLamp of his own and bought his own copy of Mathematica for OS X.
In the lab at his job in the sub-sub-sub-basement of the Physics Dept,
and for class labs, I think he used both Unix and Windows computers. He
didn't m
Jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió:
Just ran across an article on macfixit.com which addresses a trojan horse which
seems to display similar, but not exact, symptoms to those in Chrpersons post.
Yes? and where's the link?
A trojan horse must be activated by the user. This shouldn't happen if
> True it is for paid subscribers if you want to look at past articles.
It is a great database of information. However the published info is
available for a time before it is archived to all.
>
>
> On Sep 28, 2008, at 5:03 PM, Jordan wrote:
>
>> Did you know that the article you linked to is f
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Vista Woes...
> Vista Home Premium seems more stable
than Ultimate but does not function well on a business network. So I
very much enjoyed this article:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/perlow/?p=9199&tag=nl.e539
Path Dependence I hope Vista will be improved
My friend Helene has a graphite CRT iMac, G3/500. Her CD/DVD player only
plays CDs and spits out DVDs. Is her player half broken? Is it
software/driver? Hardware? The drive itself is recognized in the System
Profiler.
The iMac has been working very well until last week. She said something
abo
>My friend Helene has a graphite CRT iMac, G3/500. Her CD/DVD player only
>plays CDs and spits out DVDs. Is her player half broken? Is it
>software/driver? Hardware? The drive itself is recognized in the System
>Profiler.
This Mac probably has a CD drive, not a DVD drive. Spitting is the norma
>Is there software that would make it not recognize DVDs while CDs mount OK?
Unlikely, but I never say never when it comes to software or driver
induced problems. Can you boot from a DVD containing the OS? That would
rule this out.
The problem could be accumulated dust or a hairball inside t
I had one of Cavan's dance competition videos that I was going to give
him yesterday to put on his iPod Touch. When he attached it to both my
Mac and MacBook it not only didn't appear in iTunes, it didn't appear on
my desktop either. I know that unauthorized iPods don't always appear in
iTunes. I
I wouldn't buy a combo recorder. It's better to have separate devices.
When [not if] one fails, you don't have to replace both as in a combo.
We have a Samsung DVD recorder that works very well. It recognizes and
records on DVD-R/RW disks, and plays CDs/MP3s. Picked up a JVC VCR
cheap, connected
Test it with a used envelope. It's confusing to figure out which side,
which direction, face up, face down. Do a test--or two. If that fails, RTFM.
b ><>
Here's a really stupid question:
How/where does one put the envelope in a Deskjet 6940 printer to print an address? When
printing the add
What is the name of the DVD recorder? When I Google "Samsung DVD
recorder" I get only links to camcorders. When I visit the Samsung
web site, there is no product there that looks like a digital VCR
using DVD disks or hard drives.
It's a DVD player/recorder, Samsung DVD-R135. That's last year'
Use the term DVR. Google "Samsung DVR"
It's not a DVR. Those have hard drives. Not a pointless DVD camcorder.
It's a DVD player and recorder. Try 'upconverting DVD recorder'
Ours is connected to the DirecTV satellite box and records excellent
disks. There's very little broadcast TV that has
>They're a start, they do have a built-in bias against Mac's,
>it's silly but just realize the bias exists and try to account
>for it. Watch the opinions at cnet & amazon.com as well.
They had strange biases long before there were Macs. Way back when I was
in college we electrical engineering
Anyone buy one yet? Do they get decent signals? Am looking at a list of
converters, but don't know which to choose. We live 25-50 miles from
broadcast towers and have 2 analog TVs.
Artec Digital-to-Analog Converter Box, Model T3AP, Analog RF Signal
Pass-Through
Sunkey SK-801 ATSC Digital TV C
> GPS? Don't need it. I always carry a Suunto compass, and pick up maps
> as I travel. [strange bias?]
Maps are great (I love studying maps), but they don't show the nearest B&B,
Thai restaurant, or gas station. :)
That's the thing, there's a whole lot more to a decent GPS than just
directio
I applaud all of your instincts, they are good. However, when on the
road for a client, finding obscure sites to make photographs, the
"locals" haven't much to say, but the GPS works beautifully.
Restaurant suggestions, etc, take second place to my getting to the
right place, and on time.
GPS
> Ask PEOPLE.
Good idea, sometimes hard to do. Example, went to Va. Beach
to walk in the sand. I get directions to my sisters house,
take a left on this road, make a right on Second street to
Pacific Avenue, stay on this road, it changes names a half
dozen times but eventually it winds up at .
OpenOffice 3.0 is out and there is a native version for Intel-based
Macs. No need to run X11 anymore.
http://blogs.chron.com/techblog/archives/2008/10/openofficeorg_becomes_an_even_better_alternat_1.html
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On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 8:52 AM, Steve Rigby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The auto industry will have to undo decades of pushing the concept that
> driving is an enjoyable experience and is part and parcel, perhaps even most
> of the reason for choosing one car over another for purchase. That'l
A follow-up on my question about finding a replacement device for my
broken VCR that will work with both broadcast digital signals and
satellite signals. After much searching, I have concluded there is
no replacement for a VCR.
That's right. You don't need a VCR. Get a DVD recorder [use DVD-RW
>I don't understand why you would then throw the driver into prison for
>leaving the highway.
Human control of a vehicle has proven to be extremely dangerous. It has
killed more people than all wars put together. We want this dangerous
weapon of mass destruction under reliable control as soon
To be fair, you are overlooking:
1.) Nuclear
2.) Wind
3.) Solar*
and with regard to transmission loss, don't forget that home solar
power generators are already becoming practical, it wouldn't surprise
me to see them in widespread use within 10 years.
*see
http://www.abengoasolar.com/sites/sol
There is no such thing as clean coal. New plants may pollute less, but
coal miners still get black lung and die.
Germany's assistance with solar rooftops has a payback period of 5 years
and produce up to 80% of electricity, often 100%. The power companies
are required to buy back excess power
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