Now for service. $12.95 per month? DirecTivo service only went up from $5 to $6 over the basic DirecTV rate a year or two ago. I suppose they could charge more for the HD when it comes out (supposed to be sometime this year), but the basic satellite rate is already higher for HD.
Automatically search the listings and record stuff I might like? It didn't the last time I looked. I've had a TiVo since 2003 and never gotten any serious use out of that feature. Even when our second unit, with 215 hours, was new, it only took a couple of weeks to fill so that it never suggested anything, anymore.
Do you just set fewer season passes (my wife, my son and I each have several set), or do you go out of your way to delete old shows?
Papayas don't need to be ripe to be useful. Green papayas can be pickled and be just as tasty as sweet ripe ones. The only differentiation is the time of picking.
Private and charter schools don't have to accept the the challenged, disruptive, underperforming, or stupid students. Private schools don't, but charter schools do.
anyone who knows just enough about quantum theory to know that it does 'really weird things', but doesn't know enough to have a sense of the limits of that weirdness. I hate to admit it, but I'm probably in that group myself.
A good example of homeopathic remedy... is good old fashioned marijuana. No, that's not an example at all. Herbal medicine actually has ingredients, some of which will have real effects.
Homeopathy is based on the idea that if you dilute a substance by millions or billions of times, it retains a memory of what used to be in it (no one has really suggested a mechanism for that), and that somehow cures things.
despite how obviously it was NOT allowed or intended to be allowed at the signing. By Jefferson or Madison, it clearly wasn't intended to be allowed. Hamilton and some of the other Federalists would have wanted it allowed. The founders didn't agree with each other on such things.
Cochlear implants have basically destroyed deaf culture. Retinal implants will do the same thing for blind culture. It's cultural genocide No, genocide requires actually killing people. I don't understand where people get the idea that cultures have rights other than the rights of the people in them.
There's also a document camera that teachers can use to show their work while sitting at their desk. What happened to simply writing everything in big bold letters on the whiteboard? Or markers on one of those old overhead projectors with the scrolling transparency. My geometry teacher lived for hers in 1990.
On the other hand, if the students can watch it again later, when they run into trouble on their homework, that's a big win.
and are less likely to have the "encumbrace" of families to keep them from working OT I was 21 when my son was born (33 now). I've been wondering if, when I get to almost 40, I should be sure to casually mention in interviews that my only child is in college, just to head off the assumption that I have a school-age kid.
Do you turn yourself in to the police station when you accidentally run a red light and no police officers are around to witness it? The grandparent is not on the police payroll.
Can you even give an estimate of the ammount of time it would take to research that many local laws and be certain your shipment will not violate some local statute? Given that that *is* the situation with telecommunications taxes, and third-party software to handle it costs somewhere in the ballpark of $10k/month in maintenance fees, I'm going to guess four full-time employees.
when he founded the company he didn't put in $175 million of his own money. No, but he could have had a million shares that were each worth a nickel 20 years ago and were just sold for $175 each.
In the article, it is mentioned that one of the Sun executives is getting a severance package worth $175 MILLION dollars. Not exactly. That's just the increase in value of the stock McNealy already owned. For most people, I'd say the flaw was the earlier compensation that led him to own that much Sun stock, but he is a founder, and that could just be what he's owned for many years (always?).
I think all of the "be yourself" and "be an individual" message kids of my generation were raised on is an absolutely horrible idea for kids who are naturally a little weird socially. I don't know about that. I never really fit in when I was in school until around 10th grade when I stopped trying to. Trying and failing to follow the group norms for music and clothing was just making me bitter and looked desperate. Maybe it helped that my real taste in music settled mainly on heavy metal and not, say, ragtime, but I think it was more that I finally started coming off a genuine.
Atheists follow the evidence, we don't "hate" god. Only because it doesn't really make sense to. Still, I'd have a hard time following the genocidal maniac of The Old Testament even if I knew it was true. Fear of hell would be the only thing that might do it.
I was startled back in 2002 when a former governor of Michigan, who was a member of my company's board and also running for governor again, was talking campaign strategy on a cell phone in the office bathroom. You would think a reasonably major politician would have some clue about etiquette...
My wife tends to do the opposite to me. She'll call me before she's actually ready to talk, so I get to wait while she finishes her in-person conversation. She seems confused as to why this annoys me.
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Now for service. $12.95 per month?
DirecTivo service only went up from $5 to $6 over the basic DirecTV rate a year or two ago. I suppose they could charge more for the HD when it comes out (supposed to be sometime this year), but the basic satellite rate is already higher for HD.
Automatically search the listings and record stuff I might like? It didn't the last time I looked.
I've had a TiVo since 2003 and never gotten any serious use out of that feature. Even when our second unit, with 215 hours, was new, it only took a couple of weeks to fill so that it never suggested anything, anymore.
Do you just set fewer season passes (my wife, my son and I each have several set), or do you go out of your way to delete old shows?
Most of his stuff is kinda dull to listen to, yes. It's all great fun to play, though.
Universities teach about something called "coupling".
Not really. I learned that from my fellow students.
The database is there to store data
The database is there to organize data. Any old file can store it.
Papayas don't need to be ripe to be useful. Green papayas can be pickled and be just as tasty as sweet ripe ones. The only differentiation is the time of picking.
What in the fuck are you talking about.
Jailbait, apparently.
Private and charter schools don't have to accept the the challenged, disruptive, underperforming, or stupid students.
Private schools don't, but charter schools do.
anyone who knows just enough about quantum theory to know that it does 'really weird things', but doesn't know enough to have a sense of the limits of that weirdness.
I hate to admit it, but I'm probably in that group myself.
A good example of homeopathic remedy... is good old fashioned marijuana.
No, that's not an example at all. Herbal medicine actually has ingredients, some of which will have real effects.
Homeopathy is based on the idea that if you dilute a substance by millions or billions of times, it retains a memory of what used to be in it (no one has really suggested a mechanism for that), and that somehow cures things.
despite how obviously it was NOT allowed or intended to be allowed at the signing.
By Jefferson or Madison, it clearly wasn't intended to be allowed. Hamilton and some of the other Federalists would have wanted it allowed. The founders didn't agree with each other on such things.
Cochlear implants have basically destroyed deaf culture. Retinal implants will do the same thing for blind culture. It's cultural genocide
No, genocide requires actually killing people. I don't understand where people get the idea that cultures have rights other than the rights of the people in them.
There's also a document camera that teachers can use to show their work while sitting at their desk. What happened to simply writing everything in big bold letters on the whiteboard?
Or markers on one of those old overhead projectors with the scrolling transparency. My geometry teacher lived for hers in 1990.
On the other hand, if the students can watch it again later, when they run into trouble on their homework, that's a big win.
and are less likely to have the "encumbrace" of families to keep them from working OT
I was 21 when my son was born (33 now). I've been wondering if, when I get to almost 40, I should be sure to casually mention in interviews that my only child is in college, just to head off the assumption that I have a school-age kid.
Do you turn yourself in to the police station when you accidentally run a red light and no police officers are around to witness it?
The grandparent is not on the police payroll.
Can the Goatsex picture really be considered gay? I'm pretty sure it wasn't a penis that did that.
Can you even give an estimate of the ammount of time it would take to research that many local laws and be certain your shipment will not violate some local statute?
Given that that *is* the situation with telecommunications taxes, and third-party software to handle it costs somewhere in the ballpark of $10k/month in maintenance fees, I'm going to guess four full-time employees.
when he founded the company he didn't put in $175 million of his own money.
No, but he could have had a million shares that were each worth a nickel 20 years ago and were just sold for $175 each.
In the article, it is mentioned that one of the Sun executives is getting a severance package worth $175 MILLION dollars.
Not exactly. That's just the increase in value of the stock McNealy already owned. For most people, I'd say the flaw was the earlier compensation that led him to own that much Sun stock, but he is a founder, and that could just be what he's owned for many years (always?).
Makes sense. I've never received a fax, though, only sent them. I thought all that was what the cover sheet was for.
It was news to me that one direction is considered more correct than the other.
I think all of the "be yourself" and "be an individual" message kids of my generation were raised on is an absolutely horrible idea for kids who are naturally a little weird socially.
I don't know about that. I never really fit in when I was in school until around 10th grade when I stopped trying to. Trying and failing to follow the group norms for music and clothing was just making me bitter and looked desperate. Maybe it helped that my real taste in music settled mainly on heavy metal and not, say, ragtime, but I think it was more that I finally started coming off a genuine.
Atheists follow the evidence, we don't "hate" god.
Only because it doesn't really make sense to. Still, I'd have a hard time following the genocidal maniac of The Old Testament even if I knew it was true. Fear of hell would be the only thing that might do it.
Where's xaxa's brain?
For some reason, pronouns have different apostrophe rules than any other nouns. The exception is a little wider than just "it", but it's still goofy.
I was startled back in 2002 when a former governor of Michigan, who was a member of my company's board and also running for governor again, was talking campaign strategy on a cell phone in the office bathroom. You would think a reasonably major politician would have some clue about etiquette...
My wife tends to do the opposite to me. She'll call me before she's actually ready to talk, so I get to wait while she finishes her in-person conversation. She seems confused as to why this annoys me.