A more symmetrical face is percieved as a more beautiful face. Symmetry is indicative of a person without obvious genetic defects, and hence a good prospect for mating and reproduction.
I realize that I'm probably feeding a troll, but I'll take the risk.
In my life I have bought 2 service plans and both of the companies went out of business before the end of the plans. In 1993 when I was a freshman in college I bought a new Macintosh Performa 550 from Silo and I bought the 5 year service plan for over $200. Silo later went out of business.
During the summer of 1994 I bought a car stereo from Sun TV and Appliance and I bought the replacement plan. Sun later went out of business.
It's a curse. I can't justify buying a replacement plan for an item that will be obsolete before the end of the plan.
In 1995 I bought an bridal set from Shaw's jewlers. I also paid the $50 for their Extended Service Plan (ESP) and every 6 months we had to take the engagement ring back to be inspected. We did this like clockwork. Once, one of the smaller diamonds was lost, guess what, it wasn't covered by the plan because one of the tines that held it in place was bent. After 3 years they tried to sell me a new plan saying that the plan I bought was only good for 3 years. There was no time limit mentioned in the agreement that I signed and the inspection form had about 12 blanks for the inspecting manager to sign. HOW IN THE FUCK can there be 6 years worth of blank spaces for a plan that was only supposed to be for 3 years? I never bought another piece of jewelery from Shaw's again. They are still in business, but they'll never get my business again.
When I was a linux n00b, I bought a software modem from Best Buy and tried to get it to work with a Red Hat 5.0 box I was using. After about 4 days I found out that I had 0 chance of making it work I returned it to Best Buy.
When I got to the customer service counter the clerk asked me why I was returning the modem, I told her, she had no idea what I was talking about but she then proceeded to tell me that there would be a restocking fee. I got loud. "You sign says that 'A 15% restocking fee will be charged on returns or exchanges of any opened notebook computer, camcorder, digital camera or radar detector, unless defective.' This is not a notebook, camcorder, digital camera or a radar detector. There will be NO restocking fee." Immediately she backed down and gave me a refund.
I bought my VooDoo 3 card open box from best buy, I used it for years without a problem. It is still working in a computer that I sold to a friend of mine.
Mixed results, but for now I'll continue to shop there.
By the UIDs, I can tell I registered here a little after you. My original name was "Lord Kano-The Gangster Of Love", but I had to shorten it when Rob lowered the maximum number of characters in the names.
Damn I miss Sig11. Also, I couldn't be happier that Jon Katz is gone. Right after the Hellmouth series I put clicked the Ignore checkbox. I got sick of the daily buzzword soup with a thinly veiled attempt to pimp his new book. I didn't know he had finally gone away until about a year ago when someone mentioned it in another thread.
Ahhh, the good old days. Before the GNAA, before 1.2.3 Profit jokes, when people were seriously imagining Beowulf clusters of E2K machines, Naked Petrified Natalie Portman, before Hot Grits in people's trousers, before goatse.cx links, when we had numeric karma, before the karma cap, when I was a rank n00b instead of the worldly/. veteran that I am today, when I actually got fucking mod points, and most importantly BEFORE JON FUCKING KATZ!
Just as an example, I wouldn't say the things that I'm about to in the midst of Apple zealots unless I was armed.
People who were the iPod's early adopters, people who were iTMS early adopters were Mac users. It simply wasn't an option for Linux or Windows users. Apple loyalists will get into a fist fight over someone slighting their beloved company.
If the tables were turned, If Real had developed the iPod and FairPlay and Apple Reverse engineered them, these same people who are flaming Real would be singing Apple's prasises for being so innovative.
It's like watching the bullshit of Washington politics. People are bitching when the "other side" does something that they ignore when their own side does it.
it was NOT OKAY for microsoft to assume blithly that users are all dunderheads who can't be educated, can't take responsibility, and can't be trusted to make choices.
Problem is that a LOT of users ARE dunderheads. They don't care about security, they don't care about anything but selling soap and emailing grandma.
I had this same problem over a year ago. I had an nVidia Geforce 2 card with a TV out, I not have a Geforce 4 and do not experience the problem. I am running SP2 and no problems thus far.
If he said that he wanted to build one for the fun of it or if he said that he wanted to build one for the experience, that would have been different; but he made the cost of the item an issue.
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It's currently too balanced. It's like a symetrically perfect face - it looks weird and awkward.
WTF are you talking about? It's pretty much that Symmetry and Beauty are interconnected
A more symmetrical face is percieved as a more beautiful face. Symmetry is indicative of a person without obvious genetic defects, and hence a good prospect for mating and reproduction.
I realize that I'm probably feeding a troll, but I'll take the risk.
LK
In my life I have bought 2 service plans and both of the companies went out of business before the end of the plans. In 1993 when I was a freshman in college I bought a new Macintosh Performa 550 from Silo and I bought the 5 year service plan for over $200. Silo later went out of business.
During the summer of 1994 I bought a car stereo from Sun TV and Appliance and I bought the replacement plan. Sun later went out of business.
It's a curse. I can't justify buying a replacement plan for an item that will be obsolete before the end of the plan.
In 1995 I bought an bridal set from Shaw's jewlers. I also paid the $50 for their Extended Service Plan (ESP) and every 6 months we had to take the engagement ring back to be inspected. We did this like clockwork. Once, one of the smaller diamonds was lost, guess what, it wasn't covered by the plan because one of the tines that held it in place was bent. After 3 years they tried to sell me a new plan saying that the plan I bought was only good for 3 years. There was no time limit mentioned in the agreement that I signed and the inspection form had about 12 blanks for the inspecting manager to sign. HOW IN THE FUCK can there be 6 years worth of blank spaces for a plan that was only supposed to be for 3 years? I never bought another piece of jewelery from Shaw's again. They are still in business, but they'll never get my business again.
LK
When I was a linux n00b, I bought a software modem from Best Buy and tried to get it to work with a Red Hat 5.0 box I was using. After about 4 days I found out that I had 0 chance of making it work I returned it to Best Buy.
When I got to the customer service counter the clerk asked me why I was returning the modem, I told her, she had no idea what I was talking about but she then proceeded to tell me that there would be a restocking fee. I got loud. "You sign says that 'A 15% restocking fee will be charged on returns or exchanges of any opened notebook computer, camcorder, digital camera or radar detector, unless defective.' This is not a notebook, camcorder, digital camera or a radar detector. There will be NO restocking fee." Immediately she backed down and gave me a refund.
I bought my VooDoo 3 card open box from best buy, I used it for years without a problem. It is still working in a computer that I sold to a friend of mine.
Mixed results, but for now I'll continue to shop there.
LK
This comes at the same time that Arlen Specter made the news in Pittsburgh for trying to get around air travel safety rules.
LK
Only a gay man would be interested in being involved with another man, but then they wouldn't need you.
LK
We need to teach more women the french phrase "Menage A Trois" early on in life.
LK
if you use WEP, you're screwed from the start if you want privacy, so why pretend.
Only if you never change the key. It takes a good bit of sniffed traffic to reconstruct a wep key.
LK
By the UIDs, I can tell I registered here a little after you. My original name was "Lord Kano-The Gangster Of Love", but I had to shorten it when Rob lowered the maximum number of characters in the names.
/. veteran that I am today, when I actually got fucking mod points, and most importantly BEFORE JON FUCKING KATZ!
Damn I miss Sig11. Also, I couldn't be happier that Jon Katz is gone. Right after the Hellmouth series I put clicked the Ignore checkbox. I got sick of the daily buzzword soup with a thinly veiled attempt to pimp his new book. I didn't know he had finally gone away until about a year ago when someone mentioned it in another thread.
Ahhh, the good old days. Before the GNAA, before 1.2.3 Profit jokes, when people were seriously imagining Beowulf clusters of E2K machines, Naked Petrified Natalie Portman, before Hot Grits in people's trousers, before goatse.cx links, when we had numeric karma, before the karma cap, when I was a rank n00b instead of the worldly
LK
Fellow Pittsburgher huh? Hook me up with a gmail invite. PLEASE!
LK
90%+ of people who use it aren't likely to go past 30 or 40mb
Maybe not at first, but as time goes on people WILL accumulate that much email.
LK
Relax chicken little. Every new DoS or exploit isn't cause for thinking that the sky is falling.
The world is now aware of the problem, Cisco will now fix it.
Nothing to see here. Move along.
LK
Slashdot ran for the first 7 or 8 months off an Alpha box.
If memory serves, Slashdot ran on a Multia.
LK
Was in underestimating the Mac Fanatics' loyalty.
Just as an example, I wouldn't say the things that I'm about to in the midst of Apple zealots unless I was armed.
People who were the iPod's early adopters, people who were iTMS early adopters were Mac users. It simply wasn't an option for Linux or Windows users. Apple loyalists will get into a fist fight over someone slighting their beloved company.
If the tables were turned, If Real had developed the iPod and FairPlay and Apple Reverse engineered them, these same people who are flaming Real would be singing Apple's prasises for being so innovative.
It's like watching the bullshit of Washington politics. People are bitching when the "other side" does something that they ignore when their own side does it.
LK
Since it can carry 5 grams for only 3 minutes, I can't imagine much practical use, but it's still neat.
Neighborhood weed delivery.
LK
He's a pretty funny guy and all of the fanboys can't wait to waste karma on him.
LK
Remember kids
Wil Wheaton thinks that Gator is Spyware!
LK
"The Post-Spyware Hellmouth Paradigm Principle"
it was NOT OKAY for microsoft to assume blithly that users are all dunderheads who can't be educated, can't take responsibility, and can't be trusted to make choices.
Problem is that a LOT of users ARE dunderheads. They don't care about security, they don't care about anything but selling soap and emailing grandma.
LK
I had this same problem over a year ago. I had an nVidia Geforce 2 card with a TV out, I not have a Geforce 4 and do not experience the problem. I am running SP2 and no problems thus far.
I was able to get around it with DVD Idle Pro.
It makes it work even with the macrovision protection.
LK
To be honest, if I were involved in something unsavory that day, I wouldn't return their recording device.
LK
If Chinese jobs are moved to the US would that be insourcing?
LK
"The American President"
LK
I wasn't even able to watch the whole thing.
LK
If he said that he wanted to build one for the fun of it or if he said that he wanted to build one for the experience, that would have been different; but he made the cost of the item an issue.
LK
I telecommute, so while the database is performing updates I get paid my normal hourly rate.
LK