Quote: Originally Posted by turtle777 Keyword: ONLY. I don't think the worlds manufacturing capacity right now would suffice to make this happen anytime soon. And at what price…

I think people who are always talking about "alternative energy" don't understand the logistics involved. Do you know that ~50 barrels of oil go into producing 1 car, between trans…

Meelk, your numbers are a little misleading. It takes far less than a single barrel to produce all the transportation fuels needed for production of a single car. It's about one …

Quote: Originally Posted by ghporter Meelk, your numbers are a little misleading. It takes far less than a single barrel to produce all the transportation fuels needed for prod…

I do not think there is any chance in the world to recall EVERY CAR IN THE WORLD and replace it with an energy-intelligent unit. I don't think its necessary, either. Instead, the…

The biggest misconception that people have is that the ones promoting solar/wind/water whatever are stating it must happen now and 100%. Well, some probably are, but a more ration…

I couldn't make out the third sentence at all, but I think the thing is that the PowerBook allows desktop spanning: the external display is NOT mirroring the built-in one. Try it: …

got it - Thanks

I would like to point out that I have uninstalled iTunes and the iPod programs from the Control Panel, and then reinstalled them fresh. This did not help solve the problem. I am go…

If it doesn't work on other computers I would call Apple. This happened with my wife's shuffle. I had to send it in to be fixed. But all is good now! Mike

Have you tried doing a factory reset? Sounds like something might have gotten bunged-up, but a lot of times, if it's a software issue, a restore can fix the problem.

If there is no sound when the ipod is plugged in and you do not get a notification that a device has been plugged in then there may be something wrong with the connection. If you d…

There aren't any inkjet printers these days that AREN'T photo printers. But most of them, and all HPs belong to this category, make great all-purpose printers, too. (In fact, of al…

Great, now see how much ink it goes through and how much it costs.

Ink is the big issue with any inkjet printer. Many (maybe all) inkjet manufacturers work on the Gillette principal: sell the printer (or razor) for cheap, then make a profit on th…

I know epson makes about $10 on the midrange printers, they rape you when it comes to the ink. It is the smart way to do it as it seemed to work for this guy, he walks into a stor…

Quote: Originally Posted by Severed Hand of Skywalker I know epson makes about $10 on the midrange printers, they rape you when it comes to the ink. Not really - Staples se…

Quote: Originally Posted by itguy05 Not really - Staples sells the BCI6 for my old i960 at $13/cartridge. For the R1800 it's $14. They both seem to print about the same per ca…

yeah I realize ink prices are sometimes more than half the cost of the printer, but I slack off enough so I dont do a whole lot of assignments, so I end up rarely printing large do…

Quote: Originally Posted by Severed Hand of Skywalker Tests have shown that HP and lexmark have the highest cost per page. Canon is usually the lowest (another reason I own one…

Quote: Originally Posted by itguy05 I've had 3 Epsons: 880 : hardly clogged except when I used the $1.50 generics in it, then it only clogged on cartridge changes (???). Bit t…

1. Palms can play MP3's. I believe they also have an iTunes compatible player. 2. Adobe makes a Palm Reader for PDFs. 3. Palms sync with Mail, Address-book. 4. Palm OS is defini…

ill give you a copy of panther if you buy my ipod 20gb 4g new accessories $300 shipped (thats panther included also)

Quote: Originally Posted by duncan007 Having not up-graded to OS "X" still using OS 9.2.0 on my mac I cannot link up to an i-pod...been using a Creative Labs unit which broke, t…

I found this by googling (os 9.2 compatible mp3 player) http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/AS...004409-3991055 its a 512mb sandisk mp3 player. Hope that helps, or at least gives …