During my last movie theater visit, Cinemark had a new warning right before the feature film began.
"Thank you for your courtesy" doesn't cut it any more. Now they make it clear that they will remove people from the theater. Whether they actually do or not, who knows.
Nannies aren't just for kids any more! Thanks to you grandpas, grandmas, parents, other adults, and your kids who can't refrain from tweeting or facebooking for an hour and a half. Now we all get to be treated like babies.
Because I haven't the technical knowledge that the long time LInux users have.
If the majority was always voting for what they wanted, Linux could very well have remained rather obscure. Thankfully, some people decided to make Linux more available to users like myself.
It seems to me that Linux is far bigger nowadays due to a few people opening the door wider. I'm thankful for that.
I don't have an Apple device and never have specifically because I'm not given enough control over them. This is nothing new. If this device doesn't offer me the openness that I want, I'll pass without letting it hurt my feelings.
Each year there seems to be more whiners and squeakers complaining that some new device isn't what they wanted it to be or doesn't have this or that. The iPad is what is is! You now know what it is! Acknowledge that and move on!
Geez, don't stand next to a Porsche and bitch about the mileage! Don't stand next to a Kia and bitch about its lack of performance!
And please tell me that so many "smart" people didn't really expect some miracle, magic bullet device that executed all other Apple products?! LOL
I don't own a smartphone and probably never will. Why? I don't care for doing much of anything on a tiny screen and I'm certainly not going to spend an extra $30 a month for a data plan that gives me a window of that size to the internet.
I do own a laptop which is great to have but it's just too clunky to carry around and to deploy in any random wifi hotspot that I come across. Sure I did that at first but eventually got tired of it.
A tablet hits a perfect middle ground for me. It's large enough for me to read any ebooks, etc that I have and gives me a screen large enough to provide a laptop-like internet experience.
couldn't figure out if this was hazardous? Clear container, no solid or liquid substance to be seen.
Doesn't speak much for the teachers imo
Maybe they thought it was a remote det. Who knows what kind of bs comes to people's frightened minds nowadays.
Why do I upgrade? That's the question that I've asked myself for at least the last four versions. I spend six months ironing out all the trouble to the point where it mostly works then I upgrade and start all over again.
A year and a half for my mic to work, USB drives that transfer at absolutely crawling speeds (solving in Koala for the first time ever tho!), disk to disk transfer at an absolute crawl (seems much better in Koala), flickering screens, disappearing mouse cursors (happens every time on bootup in Koala - a simple CR in any terminal window brings it back), and a host of little this and that's.
The worst issue though by a mile has been sound. There is always a problem with sound. Without exception. I almost had my sound working perfectly in Jaunty but now something is glitched in Pulseaudio or Firefox or Alsa or something cuz padsp now won't wrap around Firefox.
Ya know, I bought an original sound blaster for a 286 in '89-90 and it blows my mind that something like sound can be such a problem 20 years later. Everyone really needs to get on the same page.
Anyway, despite the problems I continue to use Ubuntu. It still seems the best for my needs out of all the distros that I've tried. And I'd certainly still be wasting far more time in Windows dealing with the anti-virus and mal-ware nightmares that are found there.
I'll keep using Ubuntu. And although I'll probably keep asking myself why I upgrade I'll still do it.;)
resembles a real rifle. The first thing I thought of when I saw it was the Barrett 82A1.50 cal rifle. Take a look and compare. I think this person was justified to be concerned. I do doubt that the game geek that was carrying it looked very menacing though.
http://www.barrettrifles.com/home/rifle_82.aspx
Back in the day, my friend and I would co-op in GTA2. Our mission was to steal as many cars as possible then jam them next to each other for as far as we could go. Then we'd blow one up and create a massive chain reaction which on occasion would crash our machines. It was great fun.
When I was a kid, my step-brother and I would spend hours playing this game "co-op." One of us would take charge of the movement joystick while the other took the firing one. It was great fun yelling back and forth about where to go and what to shoot. Try it with a friend some time.
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I dunno if you're a geek or not when you can't figure out how to switch "(neglect due to interest in sports, etc.)" to "(neglect due to interest in Linux/gaming, etc.") Sorry to break your "Geek" heart but you don't need special books because you're a geek.
I hope your marriage works out. Really, I do. I've just had my fill of people that need "Tags" and live their lives around them.
It seems every day now I end up stopped behind some idiot who's too busy texting on the phone to realize he's sitting at a damn green light. Or I watch some soccer mom weaving around in her SUV with the telltale hand to the head posture.
It used to be that here in the south that when you saw a car weaving around it was from good old fashioned drunk driving! WTF happened?!
Thank you for contacting Sprint regarding the Palm Pre handset. We
really appreciate your interest in our new products.
You can certainly purchase the Palm Pre handset without providing the
SSN Number. However, to use this handset you are required to add this
handset on any existing Sprint account of your family member or friend
(if any).
In case, you wish to open a new account on your account, then you need
to provide us the Social Security Number as per the FCC guidelines.
Thank you again for contacting Sprint and have a nice day."
So they claim it's an FCC guidelines requirement. True?
I was going to post a large list of things that piss me off about the industry but hell we all know what they are. Every policy is driven by greed. I won't pay anyone for that. So yeah if they gave me a reason to want to buy from them then I would gladly do so.
I will say that when I'm visiting Asia I buy music ALL THE TIME (admittedly from select labels) because the price is reasonable, the quality of mainstream music is better, you can get the music very easily and in many ways. I also buy movies there because of the same reason. I like that I can pick up a legit english version of a movie on VCD at the same time that the movie comes out.
Meh it's the same ole western greed system that's in place in about every industry. In Asia I can buy a killer mobile phone, pick whatever carrier I want, use prepaid or some sort of plan, not be forced into a multi-year contract just to get a decent phone or rate, have far better access to internet and other features, and get far, far, far more functionality out of the phone. Because the opposite is true here in the states, I don't even bother having a mobile.
I've used Linux on and off for a dozen years but it wasn't until I installed Ubuntu, after trying a dozen other distros, that I finally ditched my Windows partition. It's not perfect and it still takes some tweaking to get everything working but finally I can accomplish just about everything I want to.
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Maybe believing in a fantasy underworld just indicates paranoia which might not be conducive to being a criminal.
During my last movie theater visit, Cinemark had a new warning right before the feature film began. "Thank you for your courtesy" doesn't cut it any more. Now they make it clear that they will remove people from the theater. Whether they actually do or not, who knows. Nannies aren't just for kids any more! Thanks to you grandpas, grandmas, parents, other adults, and your kids who can't refrain from tweeting or facebooking for an hour and a half. Now we all get to be treated like babies.
I'll volunteer some of my destruction. nom nom nom
I went south a few turns til I found my bed. Then command: sleep
:D
Funny
Best site of the day!
Imma try it.
Because I haven't the technical knowledge that the long time LInux users have.
If the majority was always voting for what they wanted, Linux could very well have remained rather obscure. Thankfully, some people decided to make Linux more available to users like myself.
It seems to me that Linux is far bigger nowadays due to a few people opening the door wider. I'm thankful for that.
I don't have an Apple device and never have specifically because I'm not given enough control over them. This is nothing new. If this device doesn't offer me the openness that I want, I'll pass without letting it hurt my feelings.
Each year there seems to be more whiners and squeakers complaining that some new device isn't what they wanted it to be or doesn't have this or that. The iPad is what is is! You now know what it is! Acknowledge that and move on!
Geez, don't stand next to a Porsche and bitch about the mileage! Don't stand next to a Kia and bitch about its lack of performance!
And please tell me that so many "smart" people didn't really expect some miracle, magic bullet device that executed all other Apple products?! LOL
I don't own a smartphone and probably never will. Why? I don't care for doing much of anything on a tiny screen and I'm certainly not going to spend an extra $30 a month for a data plan that gives me a window of that size to the internet.
I do own a laptop which is great to have but it's just too clunky to carry around and to deploy in any random wifi hotspot that I come across. Sure I did that at first but eventually got tired of it.
A tablet hits a perfect middle ground for me. It's large enough for me to read any ebooks, etc that I have and gives me a screen large enough to provide a laptop-like internet experience.
couldn't figure out if this was hazardous? Clear container, no solid or liquid substance to be seen. Doesn't speak much for the teachers imo Maybe they thought it was a remote det. Who knows what kind of bs comes to people's frightened minds nowadays.
It's a fairly new Gateway laptop with Intel hardware. You may have heard of them.
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Why do I upgrade? That's the question that I've asked myself for at least the last four versions. I spend six months ironing out all the trouble to the point where it mostly works then I upgrade and start all over again.
;)
A year and a half for my mic to work, USB drives that transfer at absolutely crawling speeds (solving in Koala for the first time ever tho!), disk to disk transfer at an absolute crawl (seems much better in Koala), flickering screens, disappearing mouse cursors (happens every time on bootup in Koala - a simple CR in any terminal window brings it back), and a host of little this and that's.
The worst issue though by a mile has been sound. There is always a problem with sound. Without exception. I almost had my sound working perfectly in Jaunty but now something is glitched in Pulseaudio or Firefox or Alsa or something cuz padsp now won't wrap around Firefox.
Ya know, I bought an original sound blaster for a 286 in '89-90 and it blows my mind that something like sound can be such a problem 20 years later. Everyone really needs to get on the same page.
Anyway, despite the problems I continue to use Ubuntu. It still seems the best for my needs out of all the distros that I've tried. And I'd certainly still be wasting far more time in Windows dealing with the anti-virus and mal-ware nightmares that are found there.
I'll keep using Ubuntu. And although I'll probably keep asking myself why I upgrade I'll still do it.
PM
resembles a real rifle. The first thing I thought of when I saw it was the Barrett 82A1 .50 cal rifle. Take a look and compare. I think this person was justified to be concerned. I do doubt that the game geek that was carrying it looked very menacing though.
http://www.barrettrifles.com/home/rifle_82.aspx
And haven't yet hacked out huge, popular parts of their game to combat RWT. Like Jagex did with Runescape.
Back in the day, my friend and I would co-op in GTA2. Our mission was to steal as many cars as possible then jam them next to each other for as far as we could go. Then we'd blow one up and create a massive chain reaction which on occasion would crash our machines. It was great fun.
When I was a kid, my step-brother and I would spend hours playing this game "co-op." One of us would take charge of the movement joystick while the other took the firing one. It was great fun yelling back and forth about where to go and what to shoot. Try it with a friend some time.
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I dunno if you're a geek or not when you can't figure out how to switch "(neglect due to interest in sports, etc.)" to "(neglect due to interest in Linux/gaming, etc.") Sorry to break your "Geek" heart but you don't need special books because you're a geek.
I hope your marriage works out. Really, I do. I've just had my fill of people that need "Tags" and live their lives around them.
It seems every day now I end up stopped behind some idiot who's too busy texting on the phone to realize he's sitting at a damn green light. Or I watch some soccer mom weaving around in her SUV with the telltale hand to the head posture.
It used to be that here in the south that when you saw a car weaving around it was from good old fashioned drunk driving! WTF happened?!
PM
Maybe the stockholders should be given a file about the donor what with the potential of genetic memory influencing Jobs' decisions now. ;)
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I don't want a democracy. I don't want a democratic republic. I want a REPUBLIC.
Too few people know the difference.
Arresting pot smokers is an incredibly lucrative business! That's why it's still banned.
From their support email:
"Hello,
Thank you for contacting Sprint regarding the Palm Pre handset. We really appreciate your interest in our new products.
You can certainly purchase the Palm Pre handset without providing the SSN Number. However, to use this handset you are required to add this handset on any existing Sprint account of your family member or friend (if any).
In case, you wish to open a new account on your account, then you need to provide us the Social Security Number as per the FCC guidelines.
Thank you again for contacting Sprint and have a nice day."
So they claim it's an FCC guidelines requirement. True?
PM
I'm with you there. This is one issue where it's very easy vote with your dollars. I won't support an industry that behaves like this.
It's all political.
I was going to post a large list of things that piss me off about the industry but hell we all know what they are. Every policy is driven by greed. I won't pay anyone for that. So yeah if they gave me a reason to want to buy from them then I would gladly do so.
I will say that when I'm visiting Asia I buy music ALL THE TIME (admittedly from select labels) because the price is reasonable, the quality of mainstream music is better, you can get the music very easily and in many ways. I also buy movies there because of the same reason. I like that I can pick up a legit english version of a movie on VCD at the same time that the movie comes out.
Meh it's the same ole western greed system that's in place in about every industry. In Asia I can buy a killer mobile phone, pick whatever carrier I want, use prepaid or some sort of plan, not be forced into a multi-year contract just to get a decent phone or rate, have far better access to internet and other features, and get far, far, far more functionality out of the phone. Because the opposite is true here in the states, I don't even bother having a mobile.
My $0.02. Cheap!
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this kind of idiocy pops up and sets me straight.
They'll never get a dime from me.
I've used Linux on and off for a dozen years but it wasn't until I installed Ubuntu, after trying a dozen other distros, that I finally ditched my Windows partition. It's not perfect and it still takes some tweaking to get everything working but finally I can accomplish just about everything I want to.