Without this meaning to sound as snotty as it will -- huh? What are you talking about? It's an AUCTION. You bid the most you're willing to pay and then ignore the auction until it's over. If it tops what you're willing to pay, you've lost nothing.
Okay, lets say that 12 items are all ending at the same time and my budget is $120. I start by bidding $10 on all the items. If I'm outbit on all or most of them, I can bid up to $20 on half, or $30 on a third, and my maximum commitment is still $120. If I'm sniped on all of them, I don't have any opportunity to adjust my other bids within my budget.
To put it in perspective though, don't forget they're just one of the arms of eBay nowdays
Does anyone remember that PayPal was originally about small PDA-to-PDA payments, such as for splitting up the bill at the restaurant? Since they gave that up, has anyone else tried to fill the void?
Even supported countries get an "International Transaction Fee" whenever one or more parties to a transaction are outside of the US, even when the transaction in in US$. A little while after they brought that in I cancelled my account -- the added fees negated the last bit of profit I was getting after all the eBay fees. (I dropped eBay after being sniped out of more than a dozen auctions where I was leading until the last 15 seconds.)
Wasn't some sort of datacasting part of the original digital TV spec, but kicked out of the US implementation? That certainly happened here in Australia. So, instead of a range of digital TV braodcasting entities, some using HD, some using multiple camera angles and some datacasting, we have a boring set of official digital TV signals with some half-assed wireless networking or something show-horned in.
The many worlds theory explains this by saying that there is a different universe in which the photon lands in each of the bright strips. We see it land in whichever strip because we happen to be in one of those universes
Doesn't this break causality?
I read "Schrodinger's Kittens" recently (so I'm obviously an expert;) and I couldn't help but feel that photons sounded like they were riding a wave. The wave passes through both slits, but the thing we measure as a photon only goes through one. Since the wave is now interfering with itself, it affects where the photon lands. I'm sure I'm talking out of my arse, but I've always wanted to make this comment and get people's responses...
FWIW I still think the DS will tank. The description of how you use the touch screen is a worry; "the faster you tap, the faster you shoot"? will it also say "If I break, buy another"?
However, I am impressed with the PSP and I thought little of it last year.
Almost no access to the system itself, one of the most paranoid and user unfriendly content protection mechanisms I ever heard of
Huh? It's got two USB2 ports. CD/DVD drive in one, keyboard with daisy-chained mouse in the other. Plug it into a nice TV and you can do whatever you want -- heck, it's got wireless networking, just run VNC off a USB flash drive and setup whatever you want from the comfort of a normal PC.
One the surface, this sounds like the same whingy crap that I found in "Digital Hemlock". Some luddite doesn't understand how to use a computer and doesn't like the fact that they're "forced" to, so they compile a list of reasons why Computers Are Bad (mmmkay?). The author of Digital Hemlock pretty much called all the higher-ups at her university incompetent. I didn't get all that far through it, but there are echos of it in this review.
Now that Iron-(plays boths sides of the fence)-Port owns Spamcop, I don't care what happens to them. It's just a shame I renewed my account there only a couple of months before they were bought.
MMC is older. SD has more contacts and is slightly thicker. I have a Sandisk USB MMC reader/writer that pre-dates SD, therefore doesn't support it. Also, my (original, with the USB access to the flash card) N-Gage supports MMC but not SD.
Be surprised if someone says they have SD support but not MMC.
I was wandering around Perth city yesterday and I came across at least three kiosks designed specificly to burn flash cards to CD. And I didn't even go into an Internet Cafe, these were in and about camera stores.
Also, will you be staying with friends? I burnt some photos to CD for friends travelling with a Kodak CF-based camera. I don't know what most other people are like, but my home PC can read SM, CF and MMC, at work we can also read Memory Stick, and a couple of close friends can read SD.
The parent is underrated. The Sony Mavica cameras offer a single, simple solution to your problem, as they burn directly to 8cm CD. The first CD-based Mavica also had a 10x optical zoom. Newer ones will burn to CDRW.
Whacking malware is a fun diversion from the sometimes tedious coding that I spend much of my time doing. It gets me up from my desk and it keeps me at someone elses just long enough to have a conversation, but not so long that they feel the need to go and do something else. A quick AdAware scan, a dive into the registry, a check of the add/remove programs list and finally a reboot and we're all good again.
The worst, as in most annoying when it happens, tech support problem is viruses. I don't think I have a worst as in most common problem.
I think the tradeoff of speed vs storage space is well worth it, personally.
I agree. I own a Plexwriter Premium and it can fit almost a Gig on a normal 700MB blank CDr, but it will only burn at 4x speed when it does that. For archiving, who cares? I burn a CD once, it's burnt. I'll be getting a dual-layer DVD burner as soon as they hit Australian shores.
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Even supported countries get an "International Transaction Fee" whenever one or more parties to a transaction are outside of the US, even when the transaction in in US$. A little while after they brought that in I cancelled my account -- the added fees negated the last bit of profit I was getting after all the eBay fees. (I dropped eBay after being sniped out of more than a dozen auctions where I was leading until the last 15 seconds.)
Wasn't some sort of datacasting part of the original digital TV spec, but kicked out of the US implementation? That certainly happened here in Australia. So, instead of a range of digital TV braodcasting entities, some using HD, some using multiple camera angles and some datacasting, we have a boring set of official digital TV signals with some half-assed wireless networking or something show-horned in.
Your tax dollars at work.
I read "Schrodinger's Kittens" recently (so I'm obviously an expert ;) and I couldn't help but feel that photons sounded like they were riding a wave. The wave passes through both slits, but the thing we measure as a photon only goes through one. Since the wave is now interfering with itself, it affects where the photon lands. I'm sure I'm talking out of my arse, but I've always wanted to make this comment and get people's responses...
However, I am impressed with the PSP and I thought little of it last year.
If it plays Diablo II, it's a lot smaller than the thing I currently lug to LAN sessions.
One the surface, this sounds like the same whingy crap that I found in "Digital Hemlock". Some luddite doesn't understand how to use a computer and doesn't like the fact that they're "forced" to, so they compile a list of reasons why Computers Are Bad (mmmkay?). The author of Digital Hemlock pretty much called all the higher-ups at her university incompetent. I didn't get all that far through it, but there are echos of it in this review.
Now that Iron-(plays boths sides of the fence)-Port owns Spamcop, I don't care what happens to them. It's just a shame I renewed my account there only a couple of months before they were bought.
You mean I have to wait until December?
Be surprised if someone says they have SD support but not MMC.
Just cancel your AMEX if this the best service they can offer. There are heaps of alternatives. I should have a Virgin credit card in the mail soon.
My instincts point to liver failure. No way it could process all those disolving fat cells.
Also, will you be staying with friends? I burnt some photos to CD for friends travelling with a Kodak CF-based camera. I don't know what most other people are like, but my home PC can read SM, CF and MMC, at work we can also read Memory Stick, and a couple of close friends can read SD.
The parent is underrated. The Sony Mavica cameras offer a single, simple solution to your problem, as they burn directly to 8cm CD. The first CD-based Mavica also had a 10x optical zoom. Newer ones will burn to CDRW.
It's veja du, Hawkhead. Something you wish never happened.
The worst, as in most annoying when it happens, tech support problem is viruses. I don't think I have a worst as in most common problem.