yeah, that's the annoying thing about disposable razors. I clip the beard as much as a I can with regular scissors, but that still leaves a fair amount for a disposable razor blade to hack through.
Back to the timepiece thing, I do like not having to fish the phone out, especially if I've got it in music-player mode (which doesn't show the clock) if I need to take the watch off so it's not in the way of mouse/keyboard use, then I can look at the computer clock.
However, even if you're perfectly capable of reading analog clocks, it still takes a small amount of time to process as opposed to looking at a digital readout. Analog does look better, though. Watchband closure? I like metal clasps/clips as opposed to beltlike
then again, Boston has an odd road network (particularly in some older sections of the city laid out long before the automobile). Is that just another tihng that the natives get used to?
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maybe they have different policies in different regions. I need to contact them soon to figure out how they measure that (and where I can check that), as well as what precisely happens when I go over.
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to the offtopic mod: I thought it was quite ontopic, since ISP caps interfere with making full use of BitTorrent (and other potentially-high-bandwith Internet uses, for that matter).
to the reply posts: no, I can't really move just to get better Internet. this is still an improvement over the crap DSL I had in my previous location. (my current building, otherwise a good location, doesn't happen to be wired for DSL or FIOS, else I would have checked out those options; any mobile internet probably would have been even worse, especialyl since I'm not mobile.)
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Definitely wasn't going to take an unpaid internship; it just seems like common sense. Even if "useful experience" was applicable (i.e. you don't end up as a copier grunt or something), I'm not going to let a third-party use that as an excuse to screw me out of money.
All of the co-ops for RIT students seem to be paid.
My current position actually pays quite well (even accounting for the sky-high apartment rents around here), and the work & work environment seem quite relevant to my field.
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I'm not too pleased with Cox's 200GB cap that amounts to only a few percent of what my 15mbps down/2mbps up is theoretically capable of.
Yeah, sometimes if I'm amongst the last to download a big torrent, I don't even bother to seed it because I'm not really needed - I'd rather my uploading be focused on the rare/unpopular stuff and/or the torrents I make.
I've written 11 reviews, all of which have been accepted (most on CDs I liked or mostly liked and why) a 1-star, which I later revised to a 2-star. (so that's not a "wish i could give zero" case), a 3, 3 4-stars and 6 5-stars 22 out of 25 people found my reviews helpful.
My reviews are fairly detailed and on-topic; less-detailed but still on topic is fine by me.
I've seen well-done bad reviews and well-done good reviews.
sometimes I see stuff 1-starred for irrelevant reasons
Then again, this is for pretty common CD's; anything with a low volume of reviews is a problem.
Suggestion: a 10-star system: allows for more fine-grained reviews, and halving the can't-give-zero skew (Sometimes I've wondered whether I want to mark that 7/10 as 3/5 or 4/5, for instance.)
Also, that kind of obsessive enthusiasm is highly associated with Aspergers'. I've long since figured that geek/nerd * had to do with an obsessive enthusiasm, yet does it have to be enthusiasm for computer-tech or something else intellectual? For instance, a lot of pop culture seems to engender a love/hate relationship, so what about people who are particularly enthusiastic about some aspect of that?
* (don't want to get into a terminology discussion over the differences of those two)
Do the good-looking who get by on their looks make those who are good-looking and smart look worse via association? I'd guess that there are a lot of both.
I suppose it's smart (or at least a form of smarts) to know how to leverage your looks effectively.
Perhaps some of us feel threatened by the smart and pretty ones.
Also, as for the "(some) beautiful people do have to work at it" theme seen in several comments on this thread, I can't help but be reminded of Russel Brand twittering that picture of wife Katy Perry in the morning before she prettied up.
I like the AP strategy (maybe could have done more with that), and had thought of #3, but I particularly like #4. Though I like my field (not a computer technology one), I most enjoyed the assorted one-of electives outside of my major.
I figure that for all the flak "da gubmint" gets, there's an awful lot of nonsense in large private organizations that isn't seen in nearly the same light.
there seems to be a Stormfront-inspired AC post on Slashdot every so often...
As for most peoples' strident disapproval thereof, I admit it's an interesting question as to whether it's right to shout down any viewpoints, even those that are this extreme. (Westboro Baptist Church would be another example.)
I also recognized that "Greater Southeast Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere" was Japan's name for their WWII-era empire. I took the post title as cinnamon colbert implying that the Chinese might be up to something similar.
I got interested in silver, so I paid attention to those happenings. (I only bought a couple dozen ounces' worth of silver coins, and not on credit)
Silver already slid, from high 40s to high 30s. People who did borrow/buy on margin may well have been part of the spike to the high 40s.
Since the silver market is a lot smaller than the gold market, it's easier to mess with silver. Gold's still around 1500, but yeah, who knows if that's next?
Yeah, I've sometimes suspected that horrid Nazi regime aspects such as the virulent anti-Semitism make Hitler's better ideas look bad via guilt-by-association
Honestly, the horror stories about PayPal have not really affected me; although I don't doubt that the crazy stuff sometimes happens, I don't get too worked up about it. The fees can be annoying, but that's at least predictable.
One minor questionable claim went against me (maybe the item really didn't arrive); a few other disputes went amicably I once used a debit card through PayPal to buy a ticket to an event that later got canceled; it was too far after the transaction date to use the PayPal dispute process (which naturally can happen when buying tickets months in advance). However, I was able to, without incident, dispute it through the bank that issued the debit card.
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yeah, that's the annoying thing about disposable razors.
I clip the beard as much as a I can with regular scissors, but that still leaves a fair amount for a disposable razor blade to hack through.
Back to the timepiece thing, I do like not having to fish the phone out, especially if I've got it in music-player mode (which doesn't show the clock)
if I need to take the watch off so it's not in the way of mouse/keyboard use, then I can look at the computer clock.
However, even if you're perfectly capable of reading analog clocks, it still takes a small amount of time to process as opposed to looking at a digital readout. Analog does look better, though.
Watchband closure? I like metal clasps/clips as opposed to beltlike
then again, Boston has an odd road network (particularly in some older sections of the city laid out long before the automobile). Is that just another tihng that the natives get used to?
maybe they have different policies in different regions.
I need to contact them soon to figure out how they measure that (and where I can check that), as well as what precisely happens when I go over.
to the offtopic mod:
I thought it was quite ontopic, since ISP caps interfere with making full use of BitTorrent (and other potentially-high-bandwith Internet uses, for that matter).
to the reply posts:
no, I can't really move just to get better Internet.
this is still an improvement over the crap DSL I had in my previous location. (my current building, otherwise a good location, doesn't happen to be wired for DSL or FIOS, else I would have checked out those options; any mobile internet probably would have been even worse, especialyl since I'm not mobile.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_War ;)
I thought the Finns and the Soviets didn't get along.
I don't think you want viral distribution of your penis and anything it gets involved with. ;)
I think it makes sense to stay away from those kinds of sites while on the job anyway.
Definitely wasn't going to take an unpaid internship; it just seems like common sense.
Even if "useful experience" was applicable (i.e. you don't end up as a copier grunt or something), I'm not going to let a third-party use that as an excuse to screw me out of money.
All of the co-ops for RIT students seem to be paid.
My current position actually pays quite well (even accounting for the sky-high apartment rents around here), and the work & work environment seem quite relevant to my field.
I'm not too pleased with Cox's 200GB cap that amounts to only a few percent of what my 15mbps down/2mbps up is theoretically capable of.
Yeah, sometimes if I'm amongst the last to download a big torrent, I don't even bother to seed it because I'm not really needed - I'd rather my uploading be focused on the rare/unpopular stuff and/or the torrents I make.
I've written 11 reviews, all of which have been accepted (most on CDs I liked or mostly liked and why)
a 1-star, which I later revised to a 2-star. (so that's not a "wish i could give zero" case), a 3, 3 4-stars and 6 5-stars
22 out of 25 people found my reviews helpful.
My reviews are fairly detailed and on-topic; less-detailed but still on topic is fine by me.
I've seen well-done bad reviews and well-done good reviews.
sometimes I see stuff 1-starred for irrelevant reasons
Then again, this is for pretty common CD's; anything with a low volume of reviews is a problem.
Suggestion: a 10-star system: allows for more fine-grained reviews, and halving the can't-give-zero skew
(Sometimes I've wondered whether I want to mark that 7/10 as 3/5 or 4/5, for instance.)
Also, that kind of obsessive enthusiasm is highly associated with Aspergers'.
I've long since figured that geek/nerd * had to do with an obsessive enthusiasm, yet does it have to be enthusiasm for computer-tech or something else intellectual?
For instance, a lot of pop culture seems to engender a love/hate relationship, so what about people who are particularly enthusiastic about some aspect of that?
* (don't want to get into a terminology discussion over the differences of those two)
or, the related-to-geek/nerd word "hacker"
Do the good-looking who get by on their looks make those who are good-looking and smart look worse via association? I'd guess that there are a lot of both.
I suppose it's smart (or at least a form of smarts) to know how to leverage your looks effectively.
Perhaps some of us feel threatened by the smart and pretty ones.
Also, as for the "(some) beautiful people do have to work at it" theme seen in several comments on this thread, I can't help but be reminded of Russel Brand twittering that picture of wife Katy Perry in the morning before she prettied up.
I like the AP strategy (maybe could have done more with that), and had thought of #3, but I particularly like #4.
Though I like my field (not a computer technology one), I most enjoyed the assorted one-of electives outside of my major.
I figure that for all the flak "da gubmint" gets, there's an awful lot of nonsense in large private organizations that isn't seen in nearly the same light.
do surge protectors do any good in this case? { I have a desktop system hooked up through one of those.}
there seems to be a Stormfront-inspired AC post on Slashdot every so often...
As for most peoples' strident disapproval thereof, I admit it's an interesting question as to whether it's right to shout down any viewpoints, even those that are this extreme. (Westboro Baptist Church would be another example.)
Yeah, around here, bicycling often seems time-competitive compared to taking the bus.
I also recognized that "Greater Southeast Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere" was Japan's name for their WWII-era empire.
I took the post title as cinnamon colbert implying that the Chinese might be up to something similar.
I got interested in silver, so I paid attention to those happenings. (I only bought a couple dozen ounces' worth of silver coins, and not on credit)
Silver already slid, from high 40s to high 30s.
People who did borrow/buy on margin may well have been part of the spike to the high 40s.
Since the silver market is a lot smaller than the gold market, it's easier to mess with silver.
Gold's still around 1500, but yeah, who knows if that's next?
Sarcasm noted, but I wonder what kind of market there would be for sexy stuff that's actually well-written and well-acted?
Yes, the PayPal account balance is what's in the red.
Yeah, I've sometimes suspected that horrid Nazi regime aspects such as the virulent anti-Semitism make Hitler's better ideas look bad via guilt-by-association
Honestly, the horror stories about PayPal have not really affected me; although I don't doubt that the crazy stuff sometimes happens, I don't get too worked up about it. The fees can be annoying, but that's at least predictable.
One minor questionable claim went against me (maybe the item really didn't arrive); a few other disputes went amicably
I once used a debit card through PayPal to buy a ticket to an event that later got canceled; it was too far after the transaction date to use the PayPal dispute process (which naturally can happen when buying tickets months in advance). However, I was able to, without incident, dispute it through the bank that issued the debit card.