You've obviously never been bitten by a snake. They are real pussies. There isn't much force to the bite and their fangs (most of them) are like hollow tubes. I emerged from my apartment one day (some years ago) to find that my neighbor (a real brainiac) had a large brown snake pinned down under his foot. The head and about 8inches was loose and in full honey badger mode--it was pissed. Nonetheless, I decided it might be a good idea to grab the head of the snake whilst he had it pinned down. Of course, it struck at me in an attempt to sink its fangs into the plump part of my hand between the index finger and thumb (bible bump?). Upon screaming like a little girl, and yanking my hand away at lightning speed, the snake's fangs broke off after having penetrated my skin ever so slightly. I learned several things from that incident.
I would go with it if they eliminated this small bit of text: "use any electronic or digital device and"
Studying ancient China, which was well geared to foster a stabil society, I noticed they had strict laws with direct punishment for defaming or maligning anyone. Essentially, if you gave anyone shit, you would expect 10 times that heaped on you. In fact, you were not allowed to even rat on family members for legal transgressions, lest you would be publicly beaten. That society lasted for several thousand years--but they were also isolationist. Just sayin'
Contrast this with our society which allows any manner of workplace or social bullying to occur, most of it without any redress at all.
NewEgg will null-out the restock fee if you contact them. The first time I returned a defective part to newegg I complained that I was being charged a restock fee and they removed it without any bullshit. Amazon is equally responsive.
I used online shopping to buy my first TV in 15 years. I was able to determine the best brand and model by reading reviews. I could have never done this in-store, and price would have held more sway over my decision than it should. I got a 42" LG for $20 more than a 37" LG (same model--different size) on Amazon. I thought I could get a better idea by visiting a store to look at the display models but I left without making a decision. I almost went with a VISIO but was able to see many reviews that mentioned the sound going out at random on all of their models. With this kind of purchase you need to avoid the royal pain in the ass of mounting and returning the POS for a warranted repair when it goes out in three months. These companies will learn one day that you can no longer skimp on testing and components because the customer will ruin your name online.
Nope, reviews are better. Try buying a motherboard by holding, and petting it, and licking it. Doesn't work out.....now 70 reviews on NewEgg or Amazon; that is gold.
I knew I had you marked "friend" for a reason. Your my kind of guy hairyfeet. In all my years of working on PCs it had never crossed my mind to pull some of the shit that is going on at Best Buy and other repair shops. I'm actually shocked to learn of such things. The industry has certainly changed in the last decade. You mention mom&pop shops, but a lot of them are rip-off artists as well. In my town there is no one that I would recommend to work on someone's PC. In fact, the local businesses and home users call the college IT department where I work looking for help all the time--one of us usually lends a hand even though we really don't like to do side work.
Service, Service, Service. Amazon has awesome service, and unfortunately, Best Buy will probably never get it. Dump the sales goons, reduce the store size, and get out of the PC/electronics repair business unless you are going to do it right. A bankruptcy is in order to clear away the old leases and real-estate contracts. Wal-Mart is a shit-hole and it would not be hard to compete with them if there are good displays and a cozier atmosphere. Times have changed Best Buy, don't prove yourself a dinosaur, it can be fixed.
Suzie in Records doesn't need performance, and she doesn't need a USB pot to plug her iPod into, or a hard drive on which to install Weatherbug, or an Application Data folder in which to foothold a rootkit. She needs a fucking terminal. Why run around in circles supporting PCs with Windows and all the necessary infrastructure needed to dick with things that have nothing to do with the business. Use an application server, a terminal (thin-client), and walk away.
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It isn't about the purchase price, that is not the point. Thin clients should be plug and play--no administration. That is the real savings.
Wake-up call, you are not entitled to anything you little douche. Building companies takes a lot of dedication and risk. From your attitude it seems you are not cut out for it. Go back to your sure thing--wage slave.
Overnight successes never happen overnight. The media loves to peg them as instantaneous Cinderella stories though. Start up mode is most likely from five to ten years at the least--depending on the business. Entrepreneurship can be a harsh mistress. Anyone know if she is cute? I can't see through the crappy overlay. I swear I see boobies there but.....
It wasn't so much giving people loans who could not pay them back as over-valued assets (houses). Bankers knew that the homes were over-valued, yet they were also aware of their insulation from the issue. The system failed. Bankers had no incentive to assure that anyone could repay. This must be treated as a system with assurances that everyone has something to lose should a failure occur. Philosophical personal responsibility is not a practical consideration, let alone an argument for engineering such a system or analyzing its failure. I have a liar loan, I "lied" about my income (legally), I still make my payments although they have increased 20% (through taxes and insurance) since the inception of my loan. Liar loans are great for people who are self-employed, as 99% of loan companies want to see slave wages or no deal. Although, I will never use a mortgage again--it is a bad deal unless you pay it off in a few years.
But you are missing the macro factors that affect private decisions (foodstamps). There is no way to validate the quoted statement since macro policy is saturated with factors that affect many many millions of private decisions, which in turn affect yet more private decisions. There is no vacuum with which to analyze private sector decisions save for the lowest levels.
Make use of the 20 year old Britannica THEN get on the web to update your knowledge. It's funny, at my college the most technologically inept are all jazzed about iPads to the extent of buying stacks of them and trying to use them. The tech savvy instructors prefer pencil and paper.
You want to know why school IT is "bottom of the barrel"? It's because the schools themselves are physically falling apart. Class sizes are 35 kids or larger now, up from 25 a decade ago, despite decades of studies showing that education quality declines with larger class sizes. Most schools have computers that are 6-7 years old and barely holding together, school infrastructure for email and web outreach is likewise a joke, and as likely as not it's all administered by the one tech-savvy teacher on staff who gets a measly 8-10 grand bonus per *YEAR* to spend an extra 20 hours a week trying to hold it all together with duct tape and baling wire.
There is no place in a school for Christmas, unless you are making a subjective academic study of the subject. I'm secular and I do not want to hear about Christmas, and I find it highly annoying when people assume that I like, revere, celebrate the holiday as they do. To me it is part of an old Nordic tradition of fellowship that has been corrupted and has nothing to do with trampling people at Wal-Mart--to others around the world it has other meanings. The "Holiday", rather the "Celebration," in the West sickens me--it is neither a holiday nor a celebration. I use the time to hang out with family--no shopping allowed.
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You've obviously never been bitten by a snake. They are real pussies. There isn't much force to the bite and their fangs (most of them) are like hollow tubes. I emerged from my apartment one day (some years ago) to find that my neighbor (a real brainiac) had a large brown snake pinned down under his foot. The head and about 8inches was loose and in full honey badger mode--it was pissed. Nonetheless, I decided it might be a good idea to grab the head of the snake whilst he had it pinned down. Of course, it struck at me in an attempt to sink its fangs into the plump part of my hand between the index finger and thumb (bible bump?). Upon screaming like a little girl, and yanking my hand away at lightning speed, the snake's fangs broke off after having penetrated my skin ever so slightly. I learned several things from that incident.
It is called the cosmic dirt spider. Don't stare at it too long or it will lose its specialness.
I think we're all forgetting yocto.
I would go with it if they eliminated this small bit of text: "use any electronic or digital device and"
Studying ancient China, which was well geared to foster a stabil society, I noticed they had strict laws with direct punishment for defaming or maligning anyone. Essentially, if you gave anyone shit, you would expect 10 times that heaped on you. In fact, you were not allowed to even rat on family members for legal transgressions, lest you would be publicly beaten. That society lasted for several thousand years--but they were also isolationist. Just sayin'
Contrast this with our society which allows any manner of workplace or social bullying to occur, most of it without any redress at all.
NewEgg will null-out the restock fee if you contact them. The first time I returned a defective part to newegg I complained that I was being charged a restock fee and they removed it without any bullshit. Amazon is equally responsive.
I used online shopping to buy my first TV in 15 years. I was able to determine the best brand and model by reading reviews. I could have never done this in-store, and price would have held more sway over my decision than it should. I got a 42" LG for $20 more than a 37" LG (same model--different size) on Amazon. I thought I could get a better idea by visiting a store to look at the display models but I left without making a decision. I almost went with a VISIO but was able to see many reviews that mentioned the sound going out at random on all of their models. With this kind of purchase you need to avoid the royal pain in the ass of mounting and returning the POS for a warranted repair when it goes out in three months. These companies will learn one day that you can no longer skimp on testing and components because the customer will ruin your name online.
Nope, reviews are better. Try buying a motherboard by holding, and petting it, and licking it. Doesn't work out.....now 70 reviews on NewEgg or Amazon; that is gold.
Damn....pwned!! Thanks for that perspective.
You're.......see, now I'm paranoid of the grammar nazis.
I knew I had you marked "friend" for a reason. Your my kind of guy hairyfeet. In all my years of working on PCs it had never crossed my mind to pull some of the shit that is going on at Best Buy and other repair shops. I'm actually shocked to learn of such things. The industry has certainly changed in the last decade. You mention mom&pop shops, but a lot of them are rip-off artists as well. In my town there is no one that I would recommend to work on someone's PC. In fact, the local businesses and home users call the college IT department where I work looking for help all the time--one of us usually lends a hand even though we really don't like to do side work.
Service, Service, Service. Amazon has awesome service, and unfortunately, Best Buy will probably never get it. Dump the sales goons, reduce the store size, and get out of the PC/electronics repair business unless you are going to do it right. A bankruptcy is in order to clear away the old leases and real-estate contracts. Wal-Mart is a shit-hole and it would not be hard to compete with them if there are good displays and a cozier atmosphere. Times have changed Best Buy, don't prove yourself a dinosaur, it can be fixed.
Is this even difficult? Someone please tear into these weirdos.
Suzie in Records doesn't need performance, and she doesn't need a USB pot to plug her iPod into, or a hard drive on which to install Weatherbug, or an Application Data folder in which to foothold a rootkit. She needs a fucking terminal. Why run around in circles supporting PCs with Windows and all the necessary infrastructure needed to dick with things that have nothing to do with the business. Use an application server, a terminal (thin-client), and walk away.
It isn't about the purchase price, that is not the point. Thin clients should be plug and play--no administration. That is the real savings.
Wake-up call, you are not entitled to anything you little douche. Building companies takes a lot of dedication and risk. From your attitude it seems you are not cut out for it. Go back to your sure thing--wage slave.
Overnight successes never happen overnight. The media loves to peg them as instantaneous Cinderella stories though. Start up mode is most likely from five to ten years at the least--depending on the business. Entrepreneurship can be a harsh mistress. Anyone know if she is cute? I can't see through the crappy overlay. I swear I see boobies there but.....
It wasn't so much giving people loans who could not pay them back as over-valued assets (houses). Bankers knew that the homes were over-valued, yet they were also aware of their insulation from the issue. The system failed. Bankers had no incentive to assure that anyone could repay. This must be treated as a system with assurances that everyone has something to lose should a failure occur. Philosophical personal responsibility is not a practical consideration, let alone an argument for engineering such a system or analyzing its failure. I have a liar loan, I "lied" about my income (legally), I still make my payments although they have increased 20% (through taxes and insurance) since the inception of my loan. Liar loans are great for people who are self-employed, as 99% of loan companies want to see slave wages or no deal. Although, I will never use a mortgage again--it is a bad deal unless you pay it off in a few years.
But you are missing the macro factors that affect private decisions (foodstamps). There is no way to validate the quoted statement since macro policy is saturated with factors that affect many many millions of private decisions, which in turn affect yet more private decisions. There is no vacuum with which to analyze private sector decisions save for the lowest levels.
A Nobel prize is not a fraud! It is an arbitrary award.
Agreed, Oracle is probably going to have their asses handed to them. They are often irrational whereas Google certainly is not.
Not everyone who grew up with a c64 became a Linus Torvalds
Thank God! That's all we need, more people regurgitating an ancient OS.
Make use of the 20 year old Britannica THEN get on the web to update your knowledge. It's funny, at my college the most technologically inept are all jazzed about iPads to the extent of buying stacks of them and trying to use them. The tech savvy instructors prefer pencil and paper.
Archimedea ??
You want to know why school IT is "bottom of the barrel"? It's because the schools themselves are physically falling apart. Class sizes are 35 kids or larger now, up from 25 a decade ago, despite decades of studies showing that education quality declines with larger class sizes. Most schools have computers that are 6-7 years old and barely holding together, school infrastructure for email and web outreach is likewise a joke, and as likely as not it's all administered by the one tech-savvy teacher on staff who gets a measly 8-10 grand bonus per *YEAR* to spend an extra 20 hours a week trying to hold it all together with duct tape and baling wire.
Gotta love the invisible hand.
There is no place in a school for Christmas, unless you are making a subjective academic study of the subject. I'm secular and I do not want to hear about Christmas, and I find it highly annoying when people assume that I like, revere, celebrate the holiday as they do. To me it is part of an old Nordic tradition of fellowship that has been corrupted and has nothing to do with trampling people at Wal-Mart--to others around the world it has other meanings. The "Holiday", rather the "Celebration," in the West sickens me--it is neither a holiday nor a celebration. I use the time to hang out with family--no shopping allowed.