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Not news to me. I've known for years that most lawyers are engineering and med school dropouts. It pisses me off that lawyers make more despite engineering being a harder profession to break into. As to the quality of instruction, I have to say my teachers at Bronx HS of Science were way...

Best of luck riding out the storm, Gary. I hope it's not as bad as they say and you find something left to return to. I don't know what I would do if I had to pick which of my possessions to take on short notice. If you can check in after Rita passes.

Note the units here, Tim- litres per 100 km. If you're using fewer litres per every 100 km then that means you're getting better fuel economy, not worse. Smaller numbers are good here. Miles per gallon is just the opposite. For example, 10 miles per gallon = 23.6 litres per 100 km and 50...

I'm happy for you that she came back. :D Believe me, cats know where home is. Even though she was feral earlier in her life, I'm sure she is quite attached to you by now so it's no surprise she seems happy to be back. Cleo had a similar background. Some of my brother's friends found her in...

Maybe he died of natural causes a long time ago. Anyone here remember the Ayatollah Khomeini in Iran in the 1980s? IIRC he was dead, having lived to well over 100 (and looked it too), but for many years they paraded his preserved corpse and even motorized it to make it seem like he was waving...

Yes, Dave, I'm still following this thread. As to your question, driving LEDs directly off 120 VAC is fairly easy. You need a capacitor which functions as the reactive element to limit the current to the LED, a bridge rectifier, a filter capacitor, and a few other parts. You can easily make...

My brother's cat ran away in April 2004. I went by his house that night looking everywhere but she was nowhere to be found. He put some food out. Next day she was outside his door. Two months later my brother moved in with us. In January he moved to his new house but didn't take his cat...

Tannin, do Aussies use "straight away" instead of "right away", and do they pronounce aluminum as "a-lu-mi-ni-um"? Just curious because those are some of the more charming parts of British English which I use myself on occasion. You should see the looks on people's faces when I say "Can I have...

I actually find the use of last more confusing as relating to months rather than days of the week. If someone says something happened in July, then we can safely assume that they meant July 2005 because July 2006 hasn't occurred yet and they're (their :mrgrn: ) using the past tense. However...

While on the subject of improper usage newscasters drive me nuts. For example, they'll refer to yesterday as "last Sunday", assuming that today is Monday. Now the way I learned it "last Sunday" means the Sunday before the one that just passed, and you simply say Sunday when referring to the...

I give up. :evil: When unemployed/underemployed US consumers have no more money to buy all these good and services which are outsourced the asininie CEOs will realize that they shot themselves in the foot. Oh wait a minute. They don't care because they have their golden parachutes.

I actually read the whole article, mubs. As much as the doctors are emerging as heroes now, the public is fickle. In a few weeks it will all be forgotten and they'll be back to the usual celebrity worship. It's a shame that the public can't appreciate those who sacrifice to have a career...

I had considered contacts a while back but decided against it because of the expense and having to take them in and out each day. I rarely remember to do anything on a daily basis except eat so with me it's likely the contacts would stay in for several days. Also, outside of when I watch TV I...

Funny, the exact same thought occurred to me, and the more I read about it the more I think this is exactly what they had in mind but will never publicly admit. And it seems like they succeeded in doing just what they wanted. Most of the poor in New Orleans are spread out among other states...

Even assuming that I'm willing to uproot my entire life and move, most places I'd be willing to live in are far worse than NYC, jobwise and amenity-wise. At least in NYC I don't have to provide my own transportation, plus I get physically ill from car travel of more than a few minutes anyway...

I never said money is what it's all about, but it's about the only thing that is going to get me or most other people to give up the ten years or more of our life that being a doctor might require. The last time I was idealistic enough to think otherwise I was in high school. No matter how...

I agree with some of what you're saying bahngeist but I have yet to meet anyone who would go through all that being a doctor requires solely for job satisfaction, helping their fellow man, etc. There has to be some perk, perhaps not necessarily monetary, in order to go through all that. Don't...

I thought this was interesting about Norway: Now where exactly is the incentive to do all the years of schooling and sacrifice it takes to be a doctor if you end up earning what a factory worker does? Maybe I'm missing something here. Also, in a country where many necessities are practically...

Let my niece use the computer for a few hours. My sister had her computer cleaned about four times already (three by me and once by someone else for $100) and the junk keeps coming back. They all swear that they don't go to any sites that have spyware (yeah, right). I don't know what my niece...

$40 billion?! Well, I really hope they have a good system of accountability on how and where it's spent. Louisiana and Mississippi are the 3rd and 1st most corrupt states in the union. You think the looting in New Orleans was bad? Well, you ain't seen nothing yet! On another note, I don't...

I wrote this on CandlePowerForums when someone asked the question "How do you call up the National Guard when the power is out, phone service is gone and most roads are blocked in LA, AL, and MS?" It seems very relevant to Tannin's rant about the lack of leadership in the US (which is true on...

You want to hear something completely odd, Merc? Maybe it has to do with the circles of people I usually end up hanging out with, but I've never personally known a gay or lesbian, at least not one who would openly admit it. Given that I live in an area of the country which probably has an...

I still definitely want your old stuff Merc just in case something else in my system goes. The combo you mentioned sounds good. I should be able to spring for the 184-pin RAM once I get paid for some work I did recently. Once you get it all together just PM me for the shipping address, and...

Sure it seems like GWB doesn't give a shit about the average person but he's far from the only leader to do so. In general politicians treat their constituents as cash cows to finance the programs which get them reelected. Both parties are guilty of this. The Dems were actually the champs at...

While it's convenient to blame GWB for the economic problems this country is facing, the fact is that there are long-term global forces at work here responsible for the rise in poverty. It's a fact that Americans can't compete with the $75 a month labor readily available in India and China. To...

Amen to that, Splash excepted of course.

Some good news. The guy who sold me this is actually taking care of the problem. I returned the processor today. He said it is likely that the adaptor board is bad. If so, he'll replace it a no charge. If it's the processor, he'll sell me a new one at his cost (~$40). Either way, this will...

At first it looked like New Orleans dodged a bullet but now I heard that the levees are leaking, slowly filling the city with water. They also said it might as long as two months before the water is drained. This isn't pristine lake water we're talking about, but fetid, filthy water resembling...

I know if I was spending good money to have a house built I would periodically drop by unannounced, maybe with a few "inspectors" in tow, just to make sure I was getting what I was paying for. Also, when you have any work done, you get someone reliable with lots of references. These people who...

Umm, that's what building inspectors are for. I firmly believe in the old adage trust but verify. Hurricane Merc? :lol: That's only two letters away but I think the next one will be the real bitch, especially if they name it after my sister. :mrgrn:

I agree, and one thing that I really don't think we should do is continue to give disaster aid to places which don't make reasonable preparations. The purpose of disaster aid to to help a place cope with the once every few hundred years anomalous disaster, not the ones which happen regularly...

I haven't been able to get through, either, for the last few hours. It looks like New Orleans was spared the worst of it but the damage looks pretty bad.

Just saw 40 feet on bouy 42040 and wind gusts to 83 knots on one of the other bouys. :o This is starting to remind me of The Day After Tomorrow.

Knowing what I know about fonts, which I'll grant isn't much, my guess is that the rendering engine in Firefox can't deal with some of your fonts so it defaults to what it considers the closest substitute. Of course, the substitute is wrong as you've discovered. I had a similar problem once in...

In that case then a board upgrade sounds even better! :) Don't sweat it too much on the four DIMM slots. If your boards only have three, then that'll do, so long as they support 512 MB DIMMs which I'm sure they probably do (and which my 440BX doesn't). I'll just use two of my 256 MB sticks...

There might be a monkey wrench in the works. Powerleap wants an order number for their RMA request form which I don't have because I bought it on eBay. I contacted the person I bought it from on the slim chance they might still have the number handy but I'm not holding my breath. It looks...

Buck: yes, it's a slot-1, and yes I did try cleaning the contacts. I can always try again, nothing to lose at this point. Handruin: I just checked the eBay auction date and it was early 2003, not 2004 as I thought. Time flies. I've had this then for over 2.5 years. Therefore, it is probably...

Ironically Greg my Powerleap died the day after you got yours.

About a year and half ago I upgraded my 440BX board with a 1.4 GHz Celeron Powerleap upgrade. Today when I went to my machine it was unresponsive. I tried hitting the reset button and it didn't even post. I opened it up, switched some of the DIMMs in the hope that maybe it was only bad...

Mr. K kind of reminds me of all the customers I used to encounter when I worked at the taximeter place. Not too bright, not too articulate. To add to it most couldn't even speak English that well. They would come in mumbling something in a thick Jamaican or West Indies accent like "$%&@#@...

Thought I'd bump this thread because I've been doing some output and efficiency tests on some white LEDs I've gotten from eBay. Here is the thread with my results at CandlePower forums. Two years and 2 months after starting this thread it seems even the cheap white LEDs available on eBay are...

If nobody else wants it before you're ready to throw it away you can throw the Aureal in with the other stuff I want.

I'm still waiting in New York. I probably wouldn't carry a gun even if it was allowed unless the crime rate started back up, but it would be nice to be allowed to if I wanted.

I'm interested in the Diamond S3 and the Hercules 3D.

75 on economic freedoms, 100 on personal freedoms. No surprise that I'm a libertarian.

My main concern would be the lifetime of the flex cable connecting the key's display. I highly doubt that it will last for millions of keystrokes. Other than that, and probably the cost, it's a nice idea.

Don't feel bad. The rear derailleur on my Raleigh is broke so combined with the heat wave it hasn't seen much use either. Hopefully in the fall I'll be able to do a good 1000 miles or so. Not riding makes me feel lethargic.

Generally it's only a problem if you have a fairing on the front wheel. I tried that, BTW. In crosswinds the handlebars were literally yanked right out from my hands so I decided to go with the rear fairing only. For a given amount of pedaling output, the rear fairing seems to offer about a...

Here's my wheels: Drive train: 14-speed manual shift, 12-23 7-gear rear sprocket, 42-53 front chainring Performance Specifications: Acceleration (level ground, no wind, rider feeling good): 0-20 mph.......4.5 seconds 0-30 mph......11.0 seconds Top Speed ~35 mph (level ground) 65 mph...

These will last all of a week on New York's wonderful potholed streets. Solid state storage is a much better choice. The cost and capacity will be here within a few years as well. The one electronic option I'd like to see in autos is still nowhere in sight. Namely, automated driving. I'd...