The VA system provides healthcare to people who put their lives on the line for the sake of the US. People wouldn't put up with a small fraction of the corruption and graft that would go on in a national system (though there's plenty enough of that as it is)
Your used car will likely be worth 10-20k and will be taxed at a goodly percentage of that. Your used gun is chickenfeed in comparison and the numbers traded on the used market are likely much less than for cars.
You may want to check those disks again. I wanted to play half life (that I never finished) that I had bought on CD but it would not install/play on XP. So I put the CD code into steam and lo and behold, not only did I get Half Life, I also got Blue shift, Opposing Force, Counter Strike and a few other bits and pieces. Quite a deal.
I agree. I do have Valve games because they are great and I usually only single-player and I look at it as a sunk cost. If I lose the games because of DRM failure, I got the value out of it already. However, the DRM does irk me and definitely decreases the value of the game (I tend to buy them during Steam sales though so...). I wasn't too happy with having to sign up for Windows Live after buying Bioshock 2 through Steam though.
You're incorrect. It was a first computer for many and paved the way for the Spectrum which was where a whole lot of British people got their start in computers and allowed the UK to have a large technical skill base. Several software companies got their start on the Spectrum and many are still around today.
The problem they have is that you have business users, who can typically be soaked for tons of cash and home users who you typically can't. Price discrimination has the problem that the home users typically have higher bandwidth requirements then the business users. Thus they end up overcharging home users and undercharging business users (in terms of maximizing revenues). Perhaps the better answer would be to charge business users for other features that they would find useful but that would require some effort and innovation on the part of the carriers.
Interestingly, with AT&T you can backdate changes you make to your dataplan. I'm seriously considering a small program that would downgrade the dataplan at the end of the month if I hadn't reached the 200MB limit (some months I don't). If someone has already done that, I'd love to know (there's no reason AT&T couldn't do it automatically, of course).
The main problem with pests and bugs is not contamination of the product but that they can devastate crop yield. That's as important for biofuel crops as food crops.
Personally, I think burning food for fuel is pretty disgraceful in-and-of itself.
Why the hysteria? It works, here and now which means that the "problems" you have brought up have been considered and dealt with and it's an open protocol which means if you really want to know how it works, you can actually go and find out how.
And, to compete against Bing, "lots of work to do" means to create an OS running on the vast majority of the world's workstations, bundle a web browser that's used by default and "can't be removed from the operating system" and make their search engine the default in the search box or if you make a typo in the address bar.
Make no mistake, I'm not fan of Yahoo but the rise of Bing is certainly not due to the quality of its search results, real or imagined.
Good luck with that "simple hinge redesign". If you manage to come up with something robust enough without changing the form factor and a way to ensure that the monitor connection isn't quickly shredded by constant twisting and bending, that's one thing that I would say *does* deserve a patent.
However, even at those companies, a change of management, a buyout or even just a shift in the market can change things completely and you can be out on your ear in no time. Simply put, expecting anything to long term is not a good survival strategy and let's not forget that landing a job is a skill in itself.
Though one issue is that the storing server may have a quite severe backoff plan. For might retry the email every hour for the first few hours then back off to every 4, 8 or more. This could lead to potentially long delays in receiving important emails (I've been there, believe me).
OTOH, I'm sure that's not what VW are literally doing anyway,
Having halfway developed a Facebook app, I have to say that it was a most painful experience with terrible documentation and at least two, possibly three APIs that would sometimes be used interchangeably, in concert or conflicting. A lot of the documentation contained outdated information using deprecated functions and features. Halfway through development, I found an important feature that would have been very useful to my app had been discontinued and that another feature which would be essential to my app was potentially on the chopping block with no adequate replacement.
I'd have to say that it's not a good place to start for novice coders.
Next to a straightforward disk lock or chain, generally considered the best and most cost-effective "in event of theft" option amongst the motorcyclists I regularly converse with.
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The VA system provides healthcare to people who put their lives on the line for the sake of the US. People wouldn't put up with a small fraction of the corruption and graft that would go on in a national system (though there's plenty enough of that as it is)
Your used car will likely be worth 10-20k and will be taxed at a goodly percentage of that. Your used gun is chickenfeed in comparison and the numbers traded on the used market are likely much less than for cars.
Just several unconnected "mugging gone wrong"s then?
You may want to check those disks again. I wanted to play half life (that I never finished) that I had bought on CD but it would not install/play on XP. So I put the CD code into steam and lo and behold, not only did I get Half Life, I also got Blue shift, Opposing Force, Counter Strike and a few other bits and pieces. Quite a deal.
I agree. I do have Valve games because they are great and I usually only single-player and I look at it as a sunk cost. If I lose the games because of DRM failure, I got the value out of it already. However, the DRM does irk me and definitely decreases the value of the game (I tend to buy them during Steam sales though so...). I wasn't too happy with having to sign up for Windows Live after buying Bioshock 2 through Steam though.
You're incorrect. It was a first computer for many and paved the way for the Spectrum which was where a whole lot of British people got their start in computers and allowed the UK to have a large technical skill base. Several software companies got their start on the Spectrum and many are still around today.
The problem they have is that you have business users, who can typically be soaked for tons of cash and home users who you typically can't. Price discrimination has the problem that the home users typically have higher bandwidth requirements then the business users. Thus they end up overcharging home users and undercharging business users (in terms of maximizing revenues). Perhaps the better answer would be to charge business users for other features that they would find useful but that would require some effort and innovation on the part of the carriers.
Interestingly, with AT&T you can backdate changes you make to your dataplan. I'm seriously considering a small program that would downgrade the dataplan at the end of the month if I hadn't reached the 200MB limit (some months I don't). If someone has already done that, I'd love to know (there's no reason AT&T couldn't do it automatically, of course).
I have no idea and I'm not going to check but possibly the stuff used to make HFCS is a byproduct of making corn for ethanol?
The main problem with pests and bugs is not contamination of the product but that they can devastate crop yield. That's as important for biofuel crops as food crops.
Personally, I think burning food for fuel is pretty disgraceful in-and-of itself.
Why the hysteria? It works, here and now which means that the "problems" you have brought up have been considered and dealt with and it's an open protocol which means if you really want to know how it works, you can actually go and find out how.
Well, P is basically 6 upside down. And if we take the I and put it after the v, we have vI or VI, the roman numeral for 6 and the final 6 is 6 so...
And, to compete against Bing, "lots of work to do" means to create an OS running on the vast majority of the world's workstations, bundle a web browser that's used by default and "can't be removed from the operating system" and make their search engine the default in the search box or if you make a typo in the address bar.
Make no mistake, I'm not fan of Yahoo but the rise of Bing is certainly not due to the quality of its search results, real or imagined.
Good luck with that "simple hinge redesign". If you manage to come up with something robust enough without changing the form factor and a way to ensure that the monitor connection isn't quickly shredded by constant twisting and bending, that's one thing that I would say *does* deserve a patent.
+5 Informative? More like -5 mis-informative. You have about completely misrepresented what RP stands for.
My 2000 TDI Jetta has more-than-adequate performance. Though it is starting to feel its age.
However, even at those companies, a change of management, a buyout or even just a shift in the market can change things completely and you can be out on your ear in no time. Simply put, expecting anything to long term is not a good survival strategy and let's not forget that landing a job is a skill in itself.
Though one issue is that the storing server may have a quite severe backoff plan. For might retry the email every hour for the first few hours then back off to every 4, 8 or more. This could lead to potentially long delays in receiving important emails (I've been there, believe me).
OTOH, I'm sure that's not what VW are literally doing anyway,
Fine. How about we stop raising taxes until we determine exactly what that level should be?
Having halfway developed a Facebook app, I have to say that it was a most painful experience with terrible documentation and at least two, possibly three APIs that would sometimes be used interchangeably, in concert or conflicting. A lot of the documentation contained outdated information using deprecated functions and features. Halfway through development, I found an important feature that would have been very useful to my app had been discontinued and that another feature which would be essential to my app was potentially on the chopping block with no adequate replacement.
I'd have to say that it's not a good place to start for novice coders.
Completely agree. That is why I rename 'kill' to 'terminate' on every *nix machine I have access to.
You forgot to tell us to get off of your lawn.
Gotta love the ones that use the US flag for "English"
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Marriage?
Next to a straightforward disk lock or chain, generally considered the best and most cost-effective "in event of theft" option amongst the motorcyclists I regularly converse with.