I use checks, but I wish I didn't have to. Some places - school portrait companies, fund-raising efforts - demand checks to minimize 'leakage' of payment en route to the counting room; some state registries still require them for licenses and registrations; probably to avoid the fees the credit cards charge.
I wrote a check last Fall that was imaged imperfectly by a company that scans (and destroys) checks. As described above.
The company got paid when by my bank, but the bad image prevented reconciling the transaction. They sent my account to collections, and nasty letters started coming. The imaging fail rate is lower than their payment default rate, so from their POV I was trying to skip on a $34.00 bill. Everyone sounded suspicious and pissed as I tried to clear it up.
It took about a week to figure out what happened, and to get them to admit they'd been paid They were even grumpy when I asked them to call off the collectors. So I agree, checks have jumped the shark. If the banks stopped issuing them, I'd be happy.
Dude, you have a job. Why is it an issue for you whether the management supports their microsoft stock by making you use it?
You might want to consider also that as a 'public' operation they may get the licenses on the cheap. Are you using the latest and greatest M$ releases?
They're probably repelling people by playing it really loudly and with horrible quality. Classical music has a lot of high notes and when played poorly it's a lot like listening to nails on a chalkboard.
Why not use elevator music, instead? [reference: Kentucky Fried Movie]
I just came back from Supper and had to return to this.... would be nice if the tables were turned. If authors published serially in magazines then everyone would be happy, even the e-book retailers, since they support magazine subscriptions. With copies of each chapter in each magazine, there would be no incentive to hot-copy the content, and readership would be even more broad. And though the per-copy profit may be lower the chance to franchise a movie or two off of a good story line would be worth it.
[In the interest of disclosure, I have e-reader envy, as does my 10-year old. Until someone is handing them out on street corners, like "Frampton Comes Alive" LPs were in the mid 70's, we will continue to appreciate them from a distance. Don't know what an LP is? Ask CowboyNeil...]
The presence of an e-reader in someone's case may also be interpreted as "my owner can afford both the price of me, and the time to read books" I don't think authors need to worry about this trend, but folks who are more concerned with buying groceries than e-books should. There's a bar being set, where reading is becoming a privilege. And reading is a right.
There was no Israel until a people ignored by the British (yes, the Brits, read up on Palestine at the end of WW II) in Palestine declared they were going to TAKE land and set up a state. No one strong enough was interested enough to take action. So in your example, if Israel had lost, they would deserve total subjugation? "Too bad?" No, I suspect they'd have been martyred instead.
Trouble with Israel is the same as with any country fought over for many centuries. Americans don't have the history, so they have "all the answers." Count yerself lucky ya cowardly anon. Less to think about.
I've been rightfully accused of highfalutin', but this was pretty impressive. On principles, I don't normally recommend writing to the third-grade level, but there is such a thing as too smart.
Open source commentators are a serious lot, that's for sure. All this and not a single joke about ducks or their relevance to the other five senses.
[I probably *should* post anon, but here goes....]
In reading through the links, I think I may understand a bit... the process is expecting an internal [not found] to the external request?
OpenDNS users get a 'helpful' "sorry, couldn't find that address would you like to try again?" page when calling the above example. If I had not used OpenDNS and instead used Comcast's DNS, should I have gotten the spam-laden Comcast page?
I know this is an issue with Split VPN but I wonder who else gets the wonderful ad pages.
Without a moment's hesitation, given Microsoft's heavy push of it's web browser upgrade ahead of/concurrent with Bing, I'm going to call this "the QVC effect," wherein someone makes it oh so easy to purchase something before you even know you need it.
Your average slashdotter is not going to get a cheapy $550 computer. Your average Joe maybe, [snip]
Between Darkness404 and KillerBob (and my own scots ethic) I have to disagree. I think the average slashdotter is going to purchase only the equipment he or she can't scam from the office, and when they do the niceities of convenience is not going to attract them over lower price.
I snipped the broad generalization about complaints because folk will complain about everything. Doesn't matter the price; consider the high number of complaints which followed the first-year sales of Hummers. The vehicles, I mean.
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I wrote a check last Fall that was imaged imperfectly by a company that scans (and destroys) checks. As described above.
The company got paid when by my bank, but the bad image prevented reconciling the transaction. They sent my account to collections, and nasty letters started coming. The imaging fail rate is lower than their payment default rate, so from their POV I was trying to skip on a $34.00 bill. Everyone sounded suspicious and pissed as I tried to clear it up.
It took about a week to figure out what happened, and to get them to admit they'd been paid They were even grumpy when I asked them to call off the collectors. So I agree, checks have jumped the shark. If the banks stopped issuing them, I'd be happy.
Dude, you have a job. Why is it an issue for you whether the management supports their microsoft stock by making you use it? You might want to consider also that as a 'public' operation they may get the licenses on the cheap. Are you using the latest and greatest M$ releases?
They're probably repelling people by playing it really loudly and with horrible quality. Classical music has a lot of high notes and when played poorly it's a lot like listening to nails on a chalkboard.
Why not use elevator music, instead? [reference: Kentucky Fried Movie]
Hmmm. Dangerous, delicious AND low cholesterol.
Heh heh Bull that's funny.
I know some politicians [and middle managers] who would be interested
Ooooohhhhhh. Aaaaaaaaahhhhhhh.
same goes for Apple's tablet
Oh yeah I forgot. The batteries must have died again.
I just came back from Supper and had to return to this.... would be nice if the tables were turned. If authors published serially in magazines then everyone would be happy, even the e-book retailers, since they support magazine subscriptions. With copies of each chapter in each magazine, there would be no incentive to hot-copy the content, and readership would be even more broad. And though the per-copy profit may be lower the chance to franchise a movie or two off of a good story line would be worth it.
The presence of an e-reader in someone's case may also be interpreted as "my owner can afford both the price of me, and the time to read books" I don't think authors need to worry about this trend, but folks who are more concerned with buying groceries than e-books should. There's a bar being set, where reading is becoming a privilege. And reading is a right.
Great Thanks micro$oft for making my life suck more. Oh, wait. I can't afford your game hardware anyway. You fail.
There was no Israel until a people ignored by the British (yes, the Brits, read up on Palestine at the end of WW II) in Palestine declared they were going to TAKE land and set up a state. No one strong enough was interested enough to take action. So in your example, if Israel had lost, they would deserve total subjugation? "Too bad?" No, I suspect they'd have been martyred instead. Trouble with Israel is the same as with any country fought over for many centuries. Americans don't have the history, so they have "all the answers." Count yerself lucky ya cowardly anon. Less to think about.
I've been rightfully accused of highfalutin', but this was pretty impressive. On principles, I don't normally recommend writing to the third-grade level, but there is such a thing as too smart.
Open source commentators are a serious lot, that's for sure. All this and not a single joke about ducks or their relevance to the other five senses.
[I probably *should* post anon, but here goes....] In reading through the links, I think I may understand a bit... the process is expecting an internal [not found] to the external request? OpenDNS users get a 'helpful' "sorry, couldn't find that address would you like to try again?" page when calling the above example. If I had not used OpenDNS and instead used Comcast's DNS, should I have gotten the spam-laden Comcast page? I know this is an issue with Split VPN but I wonder who else gets the wonderful ad pages.
Without a moment's hesitation, given Microsoft's heavy push of it's web browser upgrade ahead of/concurrent with Bing, I'm going to call this "the QVC effect," wherein someone makes it oh so easy to purchase something before you even know you need it.
Your average slashdotter is not going to get a cheapy $550 computer. Your average Joe maybe, [snip]
Between Darkness404 and KillerBob (and my own scots ethic) I have to disagree. I think the average slashdotter is going to purchase only the equipment he or she can't scam from the office, and when they do the niceities of convenience is not going to attract them over lower price. I snipped the broad generalization about complaints because folk will complain about everything. Doesn't matter the price; consider the high number of complaints which followed the first-year sales of Hummers. The vehicles, I mean.
It should be streamed from here: http://www.cspan.org/Watch/C-SPAN_wm.aspx