Probably because those non-impact printers are pure shit when it comes to making carbon copies.
Not to mention envelopes.
My circa 10-years-old HP Laserjet had a front-mounted adjustable auxiliary input which made printing envelopes actually easy, my newer (but approx five year old) HP OfficeJet Pro 7600 made it a lot harder, but it was still possible (biggest problem was envelopes getting caught in the U-turn paper-path). My brand new HP OfficeJet Pro 8600 Premium (yeah, note that; this is the so-called premium model with the most features) makes it completely impossible.
Movie theaters are pricing *themselves* out of business.
Running a movie theater is a lot more expensive than you think. Pricing is determined mostly by the studios, who also get close to all of the admission price.
The concession sales are the only real source of gross income for the theater after the rental to the studio is paid. And out of that income comes the building rent, the utilities (air-conditioning a movie theater is not cheap), the staff (always a high and repeating expense, hence less people all the time), the insurance (also not cheap), the miscellaneous, and nowadays, the almost required conversion to digital projection.
That said, I live walking distance from a six-plex, and yet I hardly ever go. I bought a 65" Mitsubishi projection system (3D included but I haven't bothered buying glasses) and a Panasonic sound system that puts out all the quality I can hear (and feel) about 18 months ago, and I just bought two power recliners; for a geek it's the start of a home theater.
You pay your money and you take your choice. As I did.
Back in (I think) the 70s (hopefully changed by now) I couldn't buy drinking alcohol in Kansas on Sunday, couldn't buy anything stronger than 3.2% alcohol beer anywhere but in state run stores.
A few years earlier while driving through South Carolina in a Volkswagen camper I could buy food in a supermarket on Sunday, but they wouldn't let me buy a can opener.
P.S.: We just shoplifted one, with the manager's full knowledge and consent.
All this makes me really want to do is build a Raspberry Pi powered toaster.
It's also very likely that the dash computer (navigation/audio) runs some form of Linux.
The on board entertainment system on my 2013 Kia Soul is powered by Microsoft. I bought the car in spite of that, not because of it. But because the jukebox function won't allow me to upload protected music, I play music by connecting my Android-powered tablet. Same USB port powers my tablet and passes the data.
I've tried to put the Linux on my CTS. I think they've restricted the bootloader or something because it doesn't go.
I also am outraged that my 4-slice toaster seems to be restricted, it will NOT run Linux. This is clearly M$0ft's doing.
But you can buy toasters which will run on Linux; you just need to know where to look.
Google's Californian employees have no need for Australian roads, schools and hospitals.
Google's California employees have no need for roads, school, or hospitals subsidized either by California or the USA; They can live their whole life at the office.
Creditors simply cannot "hound" you, at least not legally. And you can always say "I dispute these charges, refuse to pay, don't contact me anymore," and the creditor's only recourse after that is to file a suit.
You're right. They can't do it legally, but they certainly do it. I've been hounded by many collection agencies, over the years, for a debit I do not owe, I never owed, and which would have been years beyond the statute of limitations by now if I ever had.
Here's what they do: One collection agency buys the account, perhaps for a penny or two on the dollar, uses overseas callers to try to collect for a year. When I tell them I want them to cease and desist they tell me I need to contact them by mail to tell them that, and then they hang up without giving me a mailing address. Their entire intent is to trick me into affirming a debt I don't owe, so then they can sue me to collect it. After a year, sometimes more, sometimes less, they sell it to another agency for the same few pennies on the dollar.
Sure I can talk to them and try to trick them into getting the information I need to stop them from calling me, but if I do, I risk the chance of accidentally affirming the debt (they record all calls), and if I succeed they simply sell the account to another agency.
For years now I've been telling them that "Mr. X isn't available; may I take a message", hoping to get a good address or phone number for them (the Caller ID is always phoney, in spite of the laws against that). Now I'm trying something else: "This is an answering service, Mr. X is never at this number." The first time I tried it, the idiot (sorry, no other way to discribe him) spent a few minutes asking me things like "does he live with you" but appeared to finally get the message. However, the next day I got another call. However this time the lady who called said "Okay, I'll remove your number from our system." Let's wait a week and see if she did.
No, definitely not the oldest movies. The newest ones; the ones everyone gets from those red boxes outside the supermarket. Instead concentrate on the old, the niche, and the hard to find.
In fact, the only reason I subscribe to the Netflix DVD service is all those movies you can find there which you can't find (legally) anywhere else.
They will never give the answer on the forum. They will always ask you to contact them offline.
Which means of course that it's all GPL, and you can use it all freely under the terms of the GPL license, and they don't want to tell you that on the forum, probably because they believe it will impact their revenue.
Our software is 100% GPL (General Public License); if yours is 100% GPL compliant, then you have no obligation to pay us for the licenses. This is a great opportunity for the open source community and those of you who are developing open source software.
Federal mandates are taking effect that will require all newly hired pilots to have at least 1,500 hours of prior flight experience — six times the current minimum.
I'd rather not be able to fly because of a pilot shortage than fly in a plane piloted by someone with only 250 hours experience.
A Place can sit without broadband for teen years then get the best internet in the country within weeks of a small ISP having completed their new installation.
I didn't have Internet access for any of my teen years; it wasn't until I was over fifty that mere mortals could get Internet access.
That whole part about items not enumerated were left to the people or states also includes privacy. I wish the government would mind it's own fucking business.
The government does mind it's own fucking business. The problem is it also wants to mind your fucking business. Or perhaps your fucking pleasure.
got paper ballot and black pen; had to draw lines between two sides of an arrow; one thin line for each vote. The stuck the whole thing into a slot on an old fashined plastic ballot box.
Almost no one there. No one ahead of me. Only two others came in before I left. This section of Riverside is a College community (UCR); maybe students not from China were voting absentee ballots for their home, maybe high vote-by-mail turnout here, but it seemed like much less people lhere than in prior years.
Google realized that the so-called cold aisle in front of the machines could be kept at a relatively balmy 80 degrees or so—workers could wear shorts and T-shirts instead of the standard sweaters. And the “hot aisle,” a tightly enclosed space where the heat pours from the rear of the servers, could be allowed to hit around 120 degrees.
Our Los Angeles DataCenter does similarly; I haven't had to wear a sweater in a datacenter in at least twelve years. We use air, though, rather than water since we do colocation and a water-cooled system isn't as friendly to standard racks and servers which clients often want to install.
We benefit from the Los Angeles outside air temperature; we don't need to run chillers unless the outside temperature is over 72 degrees, and while it's often over that during summer days it's almost always below that at night; I don't believe we ever go over 24 hours in a row with chillers on (but I haven't looked at the data recently, so I'm not sure).
I'm also in Riverside, and GeoIP says I'm in Riverside. I use Charter. Who do you use for your connection?
Replying to my own post to point out that the GeoIP tools I found on the 'net also show the location of my datacenter IPs as being in Riverside, though the datacenter is in Los Angeles. It appears that at least in my case, GeoIP may be relying on whois information, which is more than ridiculous.
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Probably because those non-impact printers are pure shit when it comes to making carbon copies.
Not to mention envelopes. My circa 10-years-old HP Laserjet had a front-mounted adjustable auxiliary input which made printing envelopes actually easy, my newer (but approx five year old) HP OfficeJet Pro 7600 made it a lot harder, but it was still possible (biggest problem was envelopes getting caught in the U-turn paper-path). My brand new HP OfficeJet Pro 8600 Premium (yeah, note that; this is the so-called premium model with the most features) makes it completely impossible.
So yeah, a typewriter would serve me well.
Movie theaters are pricing *themselves* out of business.
Running a movie theater is a lot more expensive than you think. Pricing is determined mostly by the studios, who also get close to all of the admission price.
The concession sales are the only real source of gross income for the theater after the rental to the studio is paid. And out of that income comes the building rent, the utilities (air-conditioning a movie theater is not cheap), the staff (always a high and repeating expense, hence less people all the time), the insurance (also not cheap), the miscellaneous, and nowadays, the almost required conversion to digital projection.
That said, I live walking distance from a six-plex, and yet I hardly ever go. I bought a 65" Mitsubishi projection system (3D included but I haven't bothered buying glasses) and a Panasonic sound system that puts out all the quality I can hear (and feel) about 18 months ago, and I just bought two power recliners; for a geek it's the start of a home theater.
You pay your money and you take your choice. As I did.
We could elect Linus Torvalds and everyone on /. would complain.
But we couldn't elect Linus Torvalds, not even if we (U.S.A. citizens) were all Linux fanboys; he wasn't born in the U.S.A.
and volunteer fire departments since the beginning.
FTFY.
Seriously? You can't buy alcohol after 2 am? Wow.
Back in (I think) the 70s (hopefully changed by now) I couldn't buy drinking alcohol in Kansas on Sunday, couldn't buy anything stronger than 3.2% alcohol beer anywhere but in state run stores.
A few years earlier while driving through South Carolina in a Volkswagen camper I could buy food in a supermarket on Sunday, but they wouldn't let me buy a can opener.
P.S.: We just shoplifted one, with the manager's full knowledge and consent.
All this makes me really want to do is build a Raspberry Pi powered toaster.
It's also very likely that the dash computer (navigation/audio) runs some form of Linux.
The on board entertainment system on my 2013 Kia Soul is powered by Microsoft. I bought the car in spite of that, not because of it. But because the jukebox function won't allow me to upload protected music, I play music by connecting my Android-powered tablet. Same USB port powers my tablet and passes the data.
I've tried to put the Linux on my CTS. I think they've restricted the bootloader or something because it doesn't go. I also am outraged that my 4-slice toaster seems to be restricted, it will NOT run Linux. This is clearly M$0ft's doing.
But you can buy toasters which will run on Linux; you just need to know where to look.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toaster_%28software%29
here's hoping he's living happily in a nice $1.5 million home somewhere, with a few nice high-end cars and 60" TVs scattered around
Way too small a screen:
http://news.cnet.com/Sharp-unveils-108-inch-LCD-television/2100-1041_3-6147881.html
I love it! Where can i buy one of those?
Not sure if you still want it, but you can find it (you can find almost anything) on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gqePmO_w1A
It is a good excuse to finally limit access to guns
Okay, you've convinced me. I no longer have the right to bear arms. I'm heading out now to the local Walmart to buy long-sleeved shirts.
...we have NASA. I was really beginning to think it was The End.
It is the end. I'm positive. Even Slashdot knows it's the end; my current inventory of moderator points ends on... the 21st.
Google's Californian employees have no need for Australian roads, schools and hospitals.
Google's California employees have no need for roads, school, or hospitals subsidized either by California or the USA; They can live their whole life at the office.
This whole "overpopulated" is clearly perpetuated by someone who wants increased quotas.
It's not the overpopulation of the lobster; it's the underpopulation of their food.
Creditors simply cannot "hound" you, at least not legally. And you can always say "I dispute these charges, refuse to pay, don't contact me anymore," and the creditor's only recourse after that is to file a suit.
You're right. They can't do it legally, but they certainly do it. I've been hounded by many collection agencies, over the years, for a debit I do not owe, I never owed, and which would have been years beyond the statute of limitations by now if I ever had.
Here's what they do: One collection agency buys the account, perhaps for a penny or two on the dollar, uses overseas callers to try to collect for a year. When I tell them I want them to cease and desist they tell me I need to contact them by mail to tell them that, and then they hang up without giving me a mailing address. Their entire intent is to trick me into affirming a debt I don't owe, so then they can sue me to collect it. After a year, sometimes more, sometimes less, they sell it to another agency for the same few pennies on the dollar.
Sure I can talk to them and try to trick them into getting the information I need to stop them from calling me, but if I do, I risk the chance of accidentally affirming the debt (they record all calls), and if I succeed they simply sell the account to another agency.
For years now I've been telling them that "Mr. X isn't available; may I take a message", hoping to get a good address or phone number for them (the Caller ID is always phoney, in spite of the laws against that). Now I'm trying something else: "This is an answering service, Mr. X is never at this number." The first time I tried it, the idiot (sorry, no other way to discribe him) spent a few minutes asking me things like "does he live with you" but appeared to finally get the message. However, the next day I got another call. However this time the lady who called said "Okay, I'll remove your number from our system." Let's wait a week and see if she did.
take out a rack or two of the oldest movies
No, definitely not the oldest movies. The newest ones; the ones everyone gets from those red boxes outside the supermarket. Instead concentrate on the old, the niche, and the hard to find.
In fact, the only reason I subscribe to the Netflix DVD service is all those movies you can find there which you can't find (legally) anywhere else.
They will never give the answer on the forum. They will always ask you to contact them offline.
Which means of course that it's all GPL, and you can use it all freely under the terms of the GPL license, and they don't want to tell you that on the forum, probably because they believe it will impact their revenue.
Actually, they do tell you that here:
Our software is 100% GPL (General Public License); if yours is 100% GPL compliant, then you have no obligation to pay us for the licenses. This is a great opportunity for the open source community and those of you who are developing open source software.
Federal mandates are taking effect that will require all newly hired pilots to have at least 1,500 hours of prior flight experience — six times the current minimum.
I'd rather not be able to fly because of a pilot shortage than fly in a plane piloted by someone with only 250 hours experience.
his copy will cost him £2,000 because the records are stored on an obsolete system that the current IT systems cannot access.
Paper copies? At £0.10/page that would only be 20,000 pages.
A Place can sit without broadband for teen years then get the best internet in the country within weeks of a small ISP having completed their new installation.
I didn't have Internet access for any of my teen years; it wasn't until I was over fifty that mere mortals could get Internet access.
That whole part about items not enumerated were left to the people or states also includes privacy. I wish the government would mind it's own fucking business.
The government does mind it's own fucking business. The problem is it also wants to mind your fucking business. Or perhaps your fucking pleasure.
Riverside, Calif, went yesterday about 10:15 am.
got paper ballot and black pen; had to draw lines between two sides of an arrow; one thin line for each vote. The stuck the whole thing into a slot on an old fashined plastic ballot box.
Almost no one there. No one ahead of me. Only two others came in before I left. This section of Riverside is a College community (UCR); maybe students not from China were voting absentee ballots for their home, maybe high vote-by-mail turnout here, but it seemed like much less people lhere than in prior years.
Want to be hurricane safe move to some where without hurricanes, now that's just plain common sense.
Like Manhattan seemed to be until less than two years ago.
Not to mention that he has zero ingrained habits about how to use a computer.
Not to mention that Windows 8 was designed for three year olds.
Google realized that the so-called cold aisle in front of the machines could be kept at a relatively balmy 80 degrees or so—workers could wear shorts and T-shirts instead of the standard sweaters. And the “hot aisle,” a tightly enclosed space where the heat pours from the rear of the servers, could be allowed to hit around 120 degrees.
Our Los Angeles DataCenter does similarly; I haven't had to wear a sweater in a datacenter in at least twelve years. We use air, though, rather than water since we do colocation and a water-cooled system isn't as friendly to standard racks and servers which clients often want to install.
We benefit from the Los Angeles outside air temperature; we don't need to run chillers unless the outside temperature is over 72 degrees, and while it's often over that during summer days it's almost always below that at night; I don't believe we ever go over 24 hours in a row with chillers on (but I haven't looked at the data recently, so I'm not sure).
I'm also in Riverside, and GeoIP says I'm in Riverside. I use Charter. Who do you use for your connection?
Replying to my own post to point out that the GeoIP tools I found on the 'net also show the location of my datacenter IPs as being in Riverside, though the datacenter is in Los Angeles. It appears that at least in my case, GeoIP may be relying on whois information, which is more than ridiculous.
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