If you want to learn Linux, take an old machine and install Slackware. That's how I did it in the mid 90s. It took me about a month. If you want to learn how to use linux, I'd say try Mint KDE. It's flexible, user adjustable (enough to drive you crazy), but can be used from the first install, before you learn how t do much with it.
Boy did that bring back memories. In the mid 60s, when I was a university student, I sold encyclopedias. I didn't do too well, though I never jumped out of any windows. I knew two fellow students who did very well at it, actually, and never bothered with graduating.
If you have a bank branch for your business' bank close by and it's during most of the business' open hours, you just go get more change - takes a few minutes, tops (you notice it's running low, you go get more...)
Most businesses pay their bank a fee for handling coin, both on deposit and on withdrawal.
Your debit card is not protected from fraudulent purchases. Your credit card is.
That depends oin your debit card supplier. For example, here in the US, many banks (including the ones from which I have debit cards), and PayPal, protect in full against fraudulent use of debit cards.
What I'd be most interested in is how merchants who run Debit transactions as a Credit(signature) will fair - will they all switch payment processors to someone who does (cheaper) debit transactions, or will they end up charging more for Debit as well? Only time will tell.
I can't speak for the big chains, but I'm a small businessman who takes card. When the rules for Debit Cards changed (some time in the past year) my rates didn't change. When I asked my Merchant Provider they told me they had no intention of changing their debit-card rate to reflect their new costs. I've looked elsewhere but I can't find anyone else who will either.
I'm wondering a bit about interstate vendors not located in California. Will they be required to not charge me the rate when I buy from them using credit, since I'm in California?
AM/PM (Arco) is all over Las Vegas, NV & Phoenix, AZ...
Some of them in Phoenix do not charge an extra fee for plastic. Though, those are the exception unfortunately.
Here in California, Arco always charges a surcharge (flat fee) for debit, but never for credit (most, however, don't take credit cards).
On the other hand, swap meet vendors generally charge a percentage charge (often as high as 10%) for taking any card. And they seem to get away with it in spite of California law. Sometimes, if you you walk away, they'll call you back and waive the fee, but they always try to get it.
I've got the impression that those are most of the states in which U-verse is even offered.
Here in So Cal, U-verse is available in my apartment complex, but only in two of the seven buildings. Go figure. I use Charter, the lesser of two evils.
When I had an RFID badge (in my dark days of doing phone desktop technical support), you had to essentially touch it to the reader to get it to register.
I think they've gotten a bit better now; otherwise I wouldn't get charged on the toll-road.
Pictures are not the only threat that this policy would seek to avoid. Would you allow people to bring a laptop into your datacenter? probably not.
I'm sure our situation is different from that of many others, but in fact we do allow it.
We provide colocation services and many of our clients need to log into their servers from inside the datacenter, but outside our network. So we allow laptops and even supply wifi from both within and without our network. Sure we could provide multiple work stations but to use them effectively many of our clients would need to bring in data (for example passwords), and while you can do that on USB memory, that would multiple encryption/decryption methods on our workstations to handle the USB memory, and could in worst case situations encourage insecurity if clients opt to use easy-to-remember passwords or no encryption at all.
We vet our clients as carefully as possible, we use locking cabinets, escorts, and video monitoring, and I'm not sure what you can with a laptop inside a datacenter that you can't do from your car parked outside, with suitable connectivity.
I think the major impediment to the US adopting the metric system for 'everything'...is most of us wonder how this would benefit us at all in the every day life of the common citizen?
The problem is 'the tingling ache that [comes] from extending my right arm to manipulate that screen for hours, an affliction that has earned the nickname of gorilla arm.
Disclosure: I don't use W8 or any other touch interface on either laptop or desktop, only on my smartphone and tablet. I saw this technology being sold on either QVC or HSN; I don't remember which, but you can likely see it this week at CES in Las Vegas.
Gorilla arms need not be the problem. All we need is hardware with a 3" to 5" multi-touch touchpad and agreement on what to use on screen to represent finger position. It won't be easy at first to know where to touch the pad to match the screen, but it won't be long before our brains figure this out and then we'll be productive again.
Remember the first time you used a mouse? It's not much different, and we learned the mouse.
I suppose there's a good reason you're publishing only on Amazon. And I suppose there's a reason you don't have any reviews yet. But I don't think I'm alone when I write that I don't buy unreviewed eBooks from unknown authors because some eBooks are poorly written, others poorly edited.
I don't subscribe to Amazon prime so I can't borrow it from them; is your book available from public libraries?
Right, and as more people begin to realize this over the next couple of years. ( even now, i have friend that bought LCD readers the other day and wondered 'why cant i buy books and stuff from the other place' 'that is stupid' ) they will slowly demand more universal formats and open ecosystems. It will take time, but it will happen.
I also don't think the OP really appreciates what an e-reader can do for them, even in the current state.
I bought the Nook Tablet when it first came out. Was immediately disgusted by the device's consumer orientation, by the fact you could only (easily) buy books from B+N, and that their store had few of the apps I was used to on my phone.
So I returned it. Soon after I got an HTC Evo View tablet. It's got access to the Google Play store where I downloaded both the Nook app and the Kindle app. Google Play already gave me access to lots of books as well. I've got access to books from lots of stores, and all the apps available on Google Play you don't see on either the Nook or Kindle.
A tablet is not an eReader, and it does have limitations such as less battery life and difficulty of reading in bright environments. And if you're looking for one, make sure the one you buy has access to the Google Play store for best access to apps; while anyone can create and sell a ltablet using Android, not all of those cheaper tablets or consumer-oriented tablets are certified by Google (necessary for them to include Google Play) and without Google Play you may still find yourself in a walled garden.
I realise there are lots of reasons this solution may not work for everyone, but it works for me.
Oh, you want a hard copy? Go this this and click print. No I'm not going to mail you one, you want hard copy use your own paper and ink.
That works in my office except for some clients, businesses who still use a paper trail for invoices, and issue and snailmail checks. We accept this process because since so few other companies do in our business space (webhosting) that it gives us added business.
I use about a a square foot and a half of paper a year. Mostly writing very short grocery list and perhaps the odd phone number.
Slashdot Mirror
Ramen.
What, that isn't a valid pun for Amen? ;-)
This is Slashdot... if you need to explain it, don't bother.
If you want to learn Linux, take an old machine and install Slackware. That's how I did it in the mid 90s. It took me about a month. If you want to learn how to use linux, I'd say try Mint KDE. It's flexible, user adjustable (enough to drive you crazy), but can be used from the first install, before you learn how t do much with it.
Since when has the NYT offered comic strips?
At least they didn't sell him an encyclopedia set
Boy did that bring back memories. In the mid 60s, when I was a university student, I sold encyclopedias. I didn't do too well, though I never jumped out of any windows. I knew two fellow students who did very well at it, actually, and never bothered with graduating.
And then you have a password that you won't readily remember, because you haven't seen the word "turgid" since the SAT.
Poor guy. I pity you.
kjh8037 @ school.tld was the fucker I got in college... completely useless.
Say what you want, but I bet you got a lot less spam than someone whose name was, for example, john.jones @ school.tld
If you have a bank branch for your business' bank close by and it's during most of the business' open hours, you just go get more change - takes a few minutes, tops (you notice it's running low, you go get more...)
Most businesses pay their bank a fee for handling coin, both on deposit and on withdrawal.
Your debit card is not protected from fraudulent purchases. Your credit card is.
That depends oin your debit card supplier. For example, here in the US, many banks (including the ones from which I have debit cards), and PayPal, protect in full against fraudulent use of debit cards.
What I'd be most interested in is how merchants who run Debit transactions as a Credit(signature) will fair - will they all switch payment processors to someone who does (cheaper) debit transactions, or will they end up charging more for Debit as well? Only time will tell.
I can't speak for the big chains, but I'm a small businessman who takes card. When the rules for Debit Cards changed (some time in the past year) my rates didn't change. When I asked my Merchant Provider they told me they had no intention of changing their debit-card rate to reflect their new costs. I've looked elsewhere but I can't find anyone else who will either.
I'm wondering a bit about interstate vendors not located in California. Will they be required to not charge me the rate when I buy from them using credit, since I'm in California?
AM/PM (Arco) is all over Las Vegas, NV & Phoenix, AZ... Some of them in Phoenix do not charge an extra fee for plastic. Though, those are the exception unfortunately.
Here in California, Arco always charges a surcharge (flat fee) for debit, but never for credit (most, however, don't take credit cards).
On the other hand, swap meet vendors generally charge a percentage charge (often as high as 10%) for taking any card. And they seem to get away with it in spite of California law. Sometimes, if you you walk away, they'll call you back and waive the fee, but they always try to get it.
The Kindle edition is available for only $2.99 on Amazon; you can get the Kindle app freely for almost any smartphone or tablet.
I've got the impression that those are most of the states in which U-verse is even offered.
Here in So Cal, U-verse is available in my apartment complex, but only in two of the seven buildings. Go figure. I use Charter, the lesser of two evils.
How Do I Get My Spouse To Start Gaming With Me?
She's already gaming with you; just not in a way you'd like.
Did anyone else read that as sinus infection?
No, but by at least one definition, a sinus is any body cavity: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/sinus
What better way could they get across the message that no-one is safe from them? And yet...
For one good example see this past season finale of Homeland
and Ralph writing six different recipe algorithms.
Yeah, I knew a fat kid named Ralph, too.
When I had an RFID badge (in my dark days of doing phone desktop technical support), you had to essentially touch it to the reader to get it to register.
I think they've gotten a bit better now; otherwise I wouldn't get charged on the toll-road.
Pictures are not the only threat that this policy would seek to avoid. Would you allow people to bring a laptop into your datacenter? probably not.
I'm sure our situation is different from that of many others, but in fact we do allow it.
We provide colocation services and many of our clients need to log into their servers from inside the datacenter, but outside our network. So we allow laptops and even supply wifi from both within and without our network. Sure we could provide multiple work stations but to use them effectively many of our clients would need to bring in data (for example passwords), and while you can do that on USB memory, that would multiple encryption/decryption methods on our workstations to handle the USB memory, and could in worst case situations encourage insecurity if clients opt to use easy-to-remember passwords or no encryption at all.
We vet our clients as carefully as possible, we use locking cabinets, escorts, and video monitoring, and I'm not sure what you can with a laptop inside a datacenter that you can't do from your car parked outside, with suitable connectivity.
I think the major impediment to the US adopting the metric system for 'everything'...is most of us wonder how this would benefit us at all in the every day life of the common citizen?
It would make gasoline seem less expensive.
The problem is 'the tingling ache that [comes] from extending my right arm to manipulate that screen for hours, an affliction that has earned the nickname of gorilla arm.
Disclosure: I don't use W8 or any other touch interface on either laptop or desktop, only on my smartphone and tablet. I saw this technology being sold on either QVC or HSN; I don't remember which, but you can likely see it this week at CES in Las Vegas.
Gorilla arms need not be the problem. All we need is hardware with a 3" to 5" multi-touch touchpad and agreement on what to use on screen to represent finger position. It won't be easy at first to know where to touch the pad to match the screen, but it won't be long before our brains figure this out and then we'll be productive again.
Remember the first time you used a mouse? It's not much different, and we learned the mouse.
No DRM. "Machines of Easy Virtue."
I suppose there's a good reason you're publishing only on Amazon. And I suppose there's a reason you don't have any reviews yet. But I don't think I'm alone when I write that I don't buy unreviewed eBooks from unknown authors because some eBooks are poorly written, others poorly edited.
I don't subscribe to Amazon prime so I can't borrow it from them; is your book available from public libraries?
Right, and as more people begin to realize this over the next couple of years. ( even now, i have friend that bought LCD readers the other day and wondered 'why cant i buy books and stuff from the other place' 'that is stupid' ) they will slowly demand more universal formats and open ecosystems. It will take time, but it will happen.
I also don't think the OP really appreciates what an e-reader can do for them, even in the current state.
I bought the Nook Tablet when it first came out. Was immediately disgusted by the device's consumer orientation, by the fact you could only (easily) buy books from B+N, and that their store had few of the apps I was used to on my phone.
So I returned it. Soon after I got an HTC Evo View tablet. It's got access to the Google Play store where I downloaded both the Nook app and the Kindle app. Google Play already gave me access to lots of books as well. I've got access to books from lots of stores, and all the apps available on Google Play you don't see on either the Nook or Kindle.
A tablet is not an eReader, and it does have limitations such as less battery life and difficulty of reading in bright environments. And if you're looking for one, make sure the one you buy has access to the Google Play store for best access to apps; while anyone can create and sell a ltablet using Android, not all of those cheaper tablets or consumer-oriented tablets are certified by Google (necessary for them to include Google Play) and without Google Play you may still find yourself in a walled garden.
I realise there are lots of reasons this solution may not work for everyone, but it works for me.
Real openness?
That is going to depend on the carriers. Openness and the carriers tend to not get along. Good luck, Ubuntu.
I should point out that it is extraordinarily difficult to review several interrelated documents at once on a computer.
You must be using Windows 8
Oh, you want a hard copy? Go this this and click print. No I'm not going to mail you one, you want hard copy use your own paper and ink.
That works in my office except for some clients, businesses who still use a paper trail for invoices, and issue and snailmail checks. We accept this process because since so few other companies do in our business space (webhosting) that it gives us added business.
I use about a a square foot and a half of paper a year. Mostly writing very short grocery list and perhaps the odd phone number.
There are apps for that.