Search results

Fushigi: you're only looking at things from our (common man) point of view. Don't forget that the rich are getting richer, and the few percent in this country that are rich are very, very rich. They will pay (without feeling any pain of the monetary kind) for dental and surgical work.

It was designed and made several years ago by a Korean auto firm, I think Daewoo.

In the near term, professions that provide personal service will be ok. In the future, those will be at risk too. Local physicians are already being replaced by remote physicians using telemedicine. In the medium term (maybe 30 years?) your massage therapist and the waiter at your favorite...

It's happening. Students in the U.S.A. being tutored by teachers in India. News.com story.

I should try these on my p-3 900 / Radeon 9000 system :mrgrn:

i, thanks for the explanation of dryness / corneal problems. I think that's exactly what happened to me. Now I remember, the opto told me to use artificial tears when I first started having problems, but things just kept getting worse. I couldn't wait to get home and pluck those nasty contacts...

You can either handle it or you can't. I tried them in 1989 and almost went blind - corneal scarring because of hypersensitive corneas. I had to go to a specialist who said I could continue using them if I wanted to go blind. On the other hand, there are others in the family who have been...

Doctors Emerging As Heroes of Katrina jtr, at least read the second block in that news item.

Barbara Bush: It's Good Enough for the Poor

The unbelievable has happened! FEMA Chief replaced And only a few days ago, Bushie publicly said "Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job".

Apaprently after Miami Zoo anilams wandered around after a recent hurricane, the NO zoo upgraded its precustions. That's good. The sad news is that along ith the human suffering, up to 50,000 pets are slowly dying from starvation and lack of potable water in NO.

Here. A side of the former Chief Justice I didn't know; anti-semetic, etc.

JSF: in all fairness, I didn't fully read your post, just skimmed through it. But something to know: fully 1/3 of the population was below poverty line. Fully 1/2 of the children were below the poverty line. Those are pretty grim statistics. Granted, there are always no-gooders in every sample...

No you're not, Merc. Todays' L.A. Times Editorial starts off thus: Bolding mine. I like the way they skewered him on leadership.

I'm afraid, sir, you've missed your true vocation in life!

jtr, you answered your own question, and Fushigi's post explains it as well. Fushigi, your photo op link made me sick to the stomach. I actually turned green. Don't want to puke... In it the author says "You are being lied to, and lives have been lost because of it." It wouldn't be the first...

Net beats Feds in hurricane response. How bloggers, ham radio operators, tech-savvy people swung into action while the powers that be fiddled. Thank you for that post, Fushigi. It's amazing what 5 years can do to the country.

You think so? Bush to Seek $40B in More Katrina Relief Emphasis mine. Must have already spent a fortune on the botched ops so far.

Exactly what I was thinking. For all the money and effort sunk into "Homeland Insecurity", the response has been utterly and totally apalling. There was enough warning of the hurricane. The levee problems were known. What would happen if the bearded-turbaned-one-that-must-not-be-named is...

:rotfl:

My Antec SX 1030 is made of 1mm steel, and I stuck Dynamat (tar-based sound deadening they put in cars) all over the inside. It really weighs a lot - 50+ pounds. It's very difficult to carry from one room to another. But it's very quiet.

Ben's Bargains: ZipZoomFly.com has the MSI RX800-TD128E Radeon X800 PCI Express 128MB DDR Video Card w/HDTV-Out & DVI for $149 - $30 rebate [Exp 9/30] = $119 with free shipping.

Tannin, this may interest you: Power lines may provide a haven for bees.

My W2k system shuts down and restarts properly, but has major problems with standby. Device Mangler info: ACPI Multiprocessor PC Driver Details: 5.00.2195.7006 hal.dll 5.00.2195.7006 kernel32.dll 5.00.2195.7006 ntdll.dll 5.00.2195.7045 ntkrnlpa.exe 5.00.2195.7045 ntoskrnl.exe 5.00.2195.7034...

Not true. There are options to : a) produce a "mirror-image" in the destination, which means if you delete something in the source, Syncback will delete the same thing in the destination (what you're afraid of). IIRC, Syncback calls this "sync" b) make a "backup". In this mode, Syncback will...

Just noticed your sig. Yeooow!

Yup, pretty solid. The free stuff is adequate for me, so never tried the SE version. IIRC, you are the one that made a post about it (when you were looking for a similar tool); that's how I heard about it and started to use it.

TMD - long, long ago, far, far away.... Just where are you guys seeing this nick anyway?? Did he just sign up but hasn't posted yet?

Maybe.. But with this Feng Shui Motherboard, your system will never crash... I've lost the original link, but here are the details:

VLK = Greek. Will the key they stick on the machine's side work with this VLK thing? Thanks!

Thanks Pradeep. I had a senior moment and forgot to respond to Greg.

Tannin, now that Carly is gone, email that link to Mark Hurd here.

Thanks, i. That's what I figured I'd do.

Because I'm on W2k. This was for a Dell I inherited with a failed hdd. I made it my daughter's game machine, transferring the W98 install from the older machine she had. Wanted to install the Dell Win-XP CD (pre-SP1) so she could dual boot (Enacrta etc. on XP). Wanted to make it current first...

They're talking about reconstruction & rebuilding. Why can't they just let go? Most everything there is ruined anyhow. If it's that vulnerable, with a massive lake on one side and the ocean on the other, rebuilding is a disaster waiting to happen.

Rep. Jim McDermott: One Nation – Two Countries

That's awfully interesting. How do they do that? One would think that for earthquake safety, they'd use wood to build the houses. But for hurricanes, you need brick/cement/concrete. So as Handy says, are they hybrids, with the solid stuff only going up to about 8 feet, and the first ceiling...

Where on earth can you buy cables with ferrites on 'em? I've tried to buy such USB and Firewire cables, and could never find any. Is Granite Digital one source? Any others? Thanks, Splash.

L.A. Times: Strategizing a Christian Coup d'Etat: A group of believers wants to establish Scriptures-based government one city and county at a time. It's interesting that the country is coming full circle. The founders left England to have religious freedom, now religion is being shoved down...

Truly, the Dark Ages are being revived. I really, really don't understand what is happening to this country.

Nasty. There was a report a few months ago that hurricanes are increasing in strength over the last few years, and will continue to do so. The blame being laid on - what else - GW. (that's global warming, not Dubya).

Sorry to hear of your problems, i. Sometimes with all the research and care you put in, things still end up being a mess. What else can you do but move on? Since the overall product quality and experience is so bad, can you not ask SpeakEasy to terminate the contract without penalty to you and...

News.com

AFAIK, Via had always been trouble for these kinds of things; connection issues, throughput issues, whatever. NEC & TI have always been considered the gold standard for USB & Firewire. Maybe things have changed now with VIA; I don't know. Given Sanitlli's luck, I thought he'd want a...

Sechs: you forgot to clarify. IIRC, this comment was made at Clinton during the Bosnia/Serbia et al timeframe. Several other Repubs and Repub leaders made similar comments then. Now nobody, including the testicle-less Dems, is saying anything.

DisplayPort: New display interface standard inches closer

If you're not in a hurry, keep an eye on Bens Bargains. An NEC-chipset 5-port card pops up there from time to time. If you're in a hurry, buy an Adaptec, Belkin or Orange Micro; you can't go wrong. Buying a Syba / Sheba whatever is going to cause more grief than it's worth it.

Interesting that the SAS versions gulp more power, operating and idle. Wonder if it is because the parallel SCSI versions have been honed over the years (I didn't think they cared a whole lot about heat/power issues till now, notwithstanding their use in blade servers). Max 73GB capacity, 10k...

That's good work you're doing there, Tony (I don't mean only the websites). Less wise folks like me better get involved and help the planet before it's too late.