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... really ought to just close up and be done with it. Really. I drop in this afternoon to ask how much for one of the more intricate services on my car... $350. My eyes pop... here's what's involved: - Oil and oil filter, tire rotation, $130 - Engine and cabin air filters, $90 - Transmission oil change, $130 So I'm standing there in disbelief, and the PFY helpfully adds that labor is $90/hr. Now I'm no Warren Buffett, but I'm pretty sure that a moderately trained kid making even $15/hr probably has, after accounting for taxes, Social Security, profit, and all that crap, a carriage cost of maybe $40/hr. But $90???!? Pure :bs:. I can buy a Chilton's and the official service manual for that much!

Threadjack.... are you giving them RAWs, JPGs, or something else?

Depends on who we sell it to. Japan, Israel, and a couple others are all working together with USAF on keeping the electronics packages of the F-16 going until at least 2020.

I actually do my ripping in a couple of steps... 1. On my Windows box, use Media Player Classic - Home Cinema to find out which title the movie is contained in (there are a lot of disks out there that have totally fucked up TOC's and structures now... not all rippers make the correct choice when set to auto-rip mode). 2. Switch over to my Linux system and use dvd::rip to grab the VOBs. 3. If I just want to have it saved on my server, that's as far as I go. If I need a physical disk, I go back to Windows (cause that system's got a much stronger CPU) and use HandBrake to convert to MPEG4 in a Matroska container, highest quality. Compress (if needed) and burn with Nero 10. Nero 6 is a problem... Ahead either screwed something up in one of their very last patches for it, or there's a subtle bug in how it interacts with Windows Vista or Windows 7. I dunno how many coasters N6U turned out on me before I finally upgraded.

Yep, back during the days of the Shah. The Ayatollahs are now scrounging the third-hand aftermarket junkyards attempting to keep them flying.

http://andre.stechert.org/weird_japanese_shit/only_in_japan.jpg

Because while it sounds like a great idea, the novelty wears off quickly since you generally have to manually turn the thing off anyways (or deal with it shutting down due to inactivity at inopportune moments).

To do WOL, you need a network card that is capable of it, and a motherboard BIOS that is also able to accept that event. You'll need to get a separate program on the remote computer to send a "magic packet" to the computer that's turned off. To turn the other one off, your best bet is probably just to use the power management built into whatever OS you have to send it into either standby/sleep/off mode (as appropriate) after n minutes of inactivity. Keep in mind that since you're never going to be using the keyboard/mouse, that inactivity timer will always be running.

I'd have to look, but I think about 70% of the parts that went into my Honda were made in the US, with only the hybrid components and final assembly being done in Japan.

And here I was, expecting to find .

Stop smurfing!!!

Your initial tax assessment will likely be at whatever the last assessment was. You can then request a re-assessment based on your purchase price, but it will still be listed as 6br (because that's what it is). After the renovations are complete, you can ask for another reassessment based on the new configuration, but at this point, it may or may not be to your advantage, given that, in many ways, it will be a totally new house. There may also be a limit as to how often you can request reassessment.

Doc, I think it's mostly a matter of scale... you point out how he had a $432k bonus from Lehman, but when you put that up against what the other moneychangers were taking, well, it's peanuts by comparison. He's also got the whole late 90's budget surplus halo, so that works in his favor as well. That said, and as others have said, advertisements are so damned negative and vicious that I don't even bother to read/listen/watch them anymore. I can't handle it anymore.

How much of a difference does this make?

Things have changed? That was how it was explained in the articles written about it during my college days. Do elaborate, it'd be nice to update my learnings!

TL;DR version: Yes and no... DSL is indeed shared at the upstream module, but the way it's shared is quite different from the way cable (DOCSIS) is shared. More techie version... The difference between DSL and DOCSIS is rather like the difference between UTP-based Ethernet (what we all know and love today with CAT5 twisted pair) and thin-coax based Ethernet (aka 10Base2). With DSL, it's store-and-forward, and if more than one computer wants to talk at the same time, the DSLAM, much like an Ethernet switch, just stores the extra packets until the appropriate line is open, then sends them on their way. With DOCSIS, if one computer is talking, all the others have to shut their mouths, otherwise, the two signals will overlap and create noise which the processors can't interpret. When this collision is detected, each modem waits some random amount of milliseconds, then attempts to transmit again. That's why just a handful of kids downloading torrents on cable can bring the entire neighborhood to a crawl, while DSL users don't even realize the rest of the neighborhood is watching "Avatar HD" at the same time. So why don't we see DOCSIS coming to a crawl more often, and able to offer both higher baseline and "turbo" speeds? Because the tech behind coax cable makes it more efficient at transmitting gobs of data, while twisted pair telephone is, well, almost as old as the telephone itself.

... light blue, free to a good home if you come pick it up. Just doesn't seem to pick things off the carpet as well as it used to, and I'd like an excuse to upgrade to one of the new bagless models. http://www.dirtdevil.com/products/details.aspx?id=M085500

Hope you remember your factor-label (as my hs called it) or dimensional analysis (as college called it) . . . 1B. .1024k 5Mb x -- x ----- = 640kB . . . 8b. . 1M

QFT If you're getting 650kB/sec on a line provisioned for 6Mb and testing at 5, you're doing pretty well.

Rectangular or corner/curved/bowfront?

Anybody who clicks on a Linn link without first asking themselves, "Am I mentally prepared and in a place where seeing 'Two girls, one cup' again won't get me in trouble" deserves what they get.

It's there, you have to remember that each performance is unique unto itself, so while the version I've had since (I think) high school, a recording of Arturo Toscanini leading the NBC Symphony, has that theme less than 30 seconds in, and again at 5:50 (just before the operatics start), the version Doc's got may be arranged differently and have different time references. Then there's also the issue of "directly lifting" versus "borrowing." If you want to get into the semantics of that, see David Bowie vs. Vanilla Ice

How about I just post video? 2008 Chinese New Year's festival, Worthington-Kilbourne HS: (with my elbow just offstage at the very end... just after this performance, we had to rush to Youngstown State for another show) 2010 Cleveland Chinese Women Business Association "party", her students playing hulusi: (skip to 0:40 if you want to see just her)

Big Ten mascots aren't allowed to mix it up, probably as a result of