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  1. Bill Slack

    website showing how much snow we just received?

    http://cache.boston.com/bonzai-fba/G...11501_0328.gif Looks like ~ 18 inches here. Thank god for the snowblower!
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    Im Hooked On Burgers.

    Try O'Sullivans in Sommerville. That and Mr. Bartley's are two of the best in the area...
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    I got a speeding ticket. Need advice if I should go to court?

    Don't admit to going over 35mph. This may require you to lie; if you're not comfortable with that, just pay the ticket. Do point out that if the officer could mis-read the the posted limited (31mph??) then he could certainly mis-read what the gun displayed. Of course, if there is some sort of...
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    Mistaken identity: Bill Pullman vs. Bill Paxton

    About Dateline Hollywood Dateline Hollywood was founded in 360 BC as "Gladiators Weekly" to cover the booming entertainment industry in the coliseums of ancient Rome. Its pioneering analysis of the statistics of lion mauls and emperor thumbs up/down made it the original publication to take...
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    Paycheck Taxes & Deductions

    Just be glad you don't live in Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Belgium, France Austria, Italy, Norway Luxembord, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Canada, Germany, the UK, Greece, Poland, the Slovak Republic, Iceland, New Zealand, Switzerland, Spain, Portugal, Ireland, or Turkey... All...
  6. Bill Slack

    My toilet is clogged. I have issues.

    I'd just go this route : http://www.inquiry.net/outdoor/shelter/toilet.htm
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    Is this the end of Home Theater for me for a long time?

    I've lived in apartments for the last 4 years or so. Buying a condo around here is often just buying an apartment... A decent house of your own in the city is over a million, so that's out... I bought a smaller sub, and don't turn the volume all the way up, and it's never been much of a...
  8. Bill Slack

    I was robbed!!

    In the purest sense of the word, burglary is entering a premise (or perhaps a car), at nightime with the intent to commit a felony (e.g., theft,robbery,larceny, murder etc.) Robbery is theft with intimidation or force. ... and theft is taking something away from someone else that doesn't...
  9. Bill Slack

    I HATE PDFs!!!!!!

    When it's in a browser, it's not emulated. The problem is that the ENTIRE PDF has to be downloaded for Acrobat to do anything with it, and it doesn't load up in the background, it just hangs the UI.
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    I HATE PDFs!!!!!!

    PDF is just a super version of EPS aka PostScript which is somewhat familiar to a lot of folks here, I'm sure. It's made to be printed, and looks the same on every screen and printer, which is the point of it all. Add to the fact that everyone has Acrobat Reader installed, and you can see why...
  11. Bill Slack

    Online Used Book Store?

    http://www.priceowl.com will search a bunch of stores and includes the cost of shipping in what it displays too.
  12. Bill Slack

    ISF Calibration / Imaging Science?

    Oops. I think I've got the wrong John S!!
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    ESPN - Welcome To The Vengeance Scale

    The Clemens game was awesome. IIRC, Kelvim Escobar, then a rookie, game in a closed it out with another 2 K's. An 18K game! And I got tickets the week before on the hope it would be Clemens 1st game back, and drove out from western mass with some friends when I was ~ 17. We were happy to...
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    ISF Calibration / Imaging Science?

    John, Getting is ISFed is a no-brainer to me. I'd get all the inputs that you use done too. And getting the focus done was a pretty huge thing to me too. I had Michael Chen do it like 3 or 4 years ago, and have Gregg touch it up when he's in town usually (I get the...
  15. Bill Slack

    Pirates Pitcher Kris Benson's Wife

    Jose Lima is doing alright for himself too : http://www.passedball.com/modules/xc...album=25&pos=1
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    How Long Is Your Commute?

    Carlo: Amen to that. Near the top of my list is an easy commute. Even my short surface road drive to work kind of annoyed me. Sometimes it would take 20 minutes on the way home (it's ~7-8 minutes with no traffic) and it was aggravate me. Not having to deal with the stress of being in...
  17. Bill Slack

    How Long Is Your Commute?

    ~ 25-30 mins. But I can veg out or play video games on the subway.. err.. trolley ride, so I prefer it to the 12 minute drive at my last job.
  18. Bill Slack

    VGA image is better than my Component.. WHY!! Help

    It's likely the cables... using three yellow video cables might help. The audio ones tend to be cheaper and should only be 50ohms instead of 75. You'd end up getting interference which is what you may be seeing. But, in the end, the VGA connector is a superior to component anyway, for the...
  19. Bill Slack

    British Streaker at Super Bowl May Serve Jail Time

    He wasn't even completely naked. I was there. It made me laugh. I think everyone involved in the half-time show should be fined though. Not for nudity, but because it was booooooring.
  20. Bill Slack

    British Streaker at Super Bowl May Serve Jail Time

    He wasn't even completely naked. I was there. It made me laugh. I think everyone involved in the half-time show should be fined though. Not for nudity, but because it was booooooring.
  21. Bill Slack

    internal usb cable?

    If you changed the connectors, sticking a hub inside the case would work fine (you'd also one to power it off an internal cable.) But just splicing the wires would cause problems. You'd think there would be card readers and internal hubs that integrated more USB headers into their design...
  22. Bill Slack

    Question about what car to rent for a romantic weekend.

    The Porsche will be the smoothest/easiest drive, in my experience. I've never driven a Viper, but they're supposed to be quite a bit of car to handle. And with a the Porsche being a rag top to boot, I say it's a no brainer. :)
  23. Bill Slack

    What's the most you've ever won on a scratch off?

    A guy my uncle works with won $100k. My great aunt one $5k-$10k once or twice. In both of these cases, they had spent a fair amount more than that over the years. In the former case, the guy makes quite a bit of money, and for some reason, just really liked playing scratch tickets! I...
  24. Bill Slack

    Car rentals - hours of operation 24/7? (Now Boston visit hints)

    If you're just planning on seeing sights in the city I'd highly recommend against a car. You can take the T (subway) for $1.25 to the center of town and it's pretty quick. Or you can take a cab for ~$20 or so. With the rental plus $20+ for parking you should save money, and save your sanity...
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    Car rentals - hours of operation 24/7? (Now Boston visit hints)

    Patrick: I assume you're planning on going out-and-about away from the city for a bit? The I90 connector out of the airport makes getting to the city a lot easier, regardless if you're actually using that road. If you need any suggestions on things to do/places to eat, let me know. :)...
  26. Bill Slack

    Architect Frank Gehry's Latest Creation

    Well, it keeps up the MIT tradition of random buildings that follow no similiar design pattern what-so-ever. :)
  27. Bill Slack

    What do you use a 9.48MB "TIFF" for???

    The USPTO uses Group 4 compression, which is the standard for faxes. So anything that can view multi-page faxes should be able to handle them. Try finding a free TIFF Abic viewer though; it's not really a consumer format, it's only used by IBM's check scanners... but most banks in the US use...
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    What do you use a 9.48MB "TIFF" for???

    TIFF can use compression. For this use, it's likely a lossless compression or maybe just RAW. The most common you'll see on color images are LZW (same as GIF), Flate (same as PNG), JPEG and uncompressed. TIFF itself is just a generic container with a fairly extensible set of properties that...
  29. Bill Slack

    Anyone try building a Portable NES?

    Well, not quite is geeky or neat... but I do have a NES emulator for my GBA. It's a lot more practical, in the end though. :) Nothing like playing Bionic Commando (one of my all times favs. too!), Zelda, SMB3 and Tecmo Bowl on the go. I've got a regular ol' NES hooked up in my living room too.
  30. Bill Slack

    The Truth About CRT (a.k.a., Black Level Ain't Everything)

    1. Geometry Agreed. But this is a problem with any CRT. Not just consumer grade RP CRT sets. 2. Convergence Same as above. 3. Internal reflections. Never seen a CRT RPTV without them. Agreed. But they can be somewhat compensated for, like you say... Beyond that, yes, it's...
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