In Canada, debit is not run by the credit companies, it's directly run by the banks themselves, and most credit cards are offered by banks. Most of the banks are actually pretty good about fraud, with fraud departments that will pro-actively look for any sign that either your credit or debit card was misused. My bank (TD), has been quick to alert me that my card MIGHT have been copied, calling to confirm transactions even if my card hasn't actually been copied, and getting a new [debit] card is free and takes about 3 minutes during any of their (quite long) banking hours. Credit cards might take a day or two to arrive in the mail, max.
They are also generally faster than their 4-6 week guideline for refunding fraudulent charges, especially for low amounts (I had about 13.40 or something of fraudulent charges on my debit once, they rushed it through by the end of business day).
Largely, this is because my bank does NOT assume that their security is perfect, and their fraud department often treats you with quite a bit of respect, assuming that you are likely being honest. I'm not sure if this is a regulation thing, having very little experience with other Canadian banks, or a matter of customer service, but there you have it. PIN on debit, PIN on credit, and I have never failed to have any fraudulent transaction, no matter how big or small reversed within the month, and generally they proactively call me before I might notice myself.
I have never once had a problem at self checkout, I ALWAYS self checkout whenever I shop, and it's always significantly faster when I do, except in the rare case where they have updated their system and I need to learn the new checkout pattern. So I don't know where you shop, but at least for my groceries, and my home improvement purchases, I swear by self checkout.
Marimbas (like xylophones) have the bars made out of wood (or a synthetic substitute). Marimbas have a lower range than xylophones. Both xylophones and marimbas in modern western form have resonator tubes.
Given the range, this is probably best called a metallophone... if it were chromatic, then maybe it could be called a glockenspiel.
- also a long time percussionist, especially wanting to note that marimbas have wood bars.
Bottom right - a) So you can hover over it quickly and easily, b) so you can click it easier with your finger in a touch screen/convertible tablet situation
Or hey, the "all apps must have a full screen mode" that just makes little to no sense with the applications Adobe and Microsoft are making... or most applications really...
OK - I'm in a band. We record our parts for our current album at our individual homes, and share them with each other, at full quality (24bit, 88.2KHz is what we are recording at) - and my drum set is oh, lets see, in some tracks upwards of 15 tracks at that sample/bit rate.
Hey look! Lots of legal bandwidth usage!
I seem to recall my blackberry bold 9000 being nicely upgradeable from OS4 to OS5, and there was quite a long time that both those OSs were current - and my current Bold 9700 (my old one was stolen, not made obsolete), is currently running OS6... which will probably be "current" for quite a while...
Not if you're going to run it through a matrix processor to send it to surround speakers, or listen to it in your recording studio... I mean, it's fine for my car, but even wrecking my ears with years of drumming I can still - by in large, with careful listening, on my GOOD speakers, tell the difference between 256AAC and CD audio... in that high end where they add the shaping noise, slightly - SLIGHTLY blurring the cymbals.
And to be incredibly fair, there are plenty of recordings where I can't tell the difference based on that - especially modern pop and modern rock - where the recording, even on the CD, has had some dithering applied at some point - largely from a digital limiter used to get the volume nice and high. But the albums I rate as 5* recordings, yeah, those I can tell a difference on. B.B. King and Eric Clapton's Riding With The King, and Bela Fleck and the Flecktone's Outbound are two where, in my studio, I can tell.
The "real" controller, the one most people are waiting for, won't come out until March 1, 2011. That'd be the actual Squire Strat that works with Rock Band. I know a lot of people holding off buying RB3 Pro-Mode DLC for a while, until around when this guitar comes out, and some are even waiting for a while to get the game. Hopefully stuff gets sorted out quickly with the future of the franchise, because a lot of people ARE still invested in the game, and the company, but the lack of details is making gamers more nervous than geeks were when Oracle bought Sun... because Rock Band actually does do a fair bit in terms of building transferable skills to real instruments - with Pro Drums, Pro Keys, and eventually Pro Guitar (and with Pro Guitar right now to an extent with their "pro controller" - good for hand positions... but not great).
And as a drummer myself - the drumming skills really aren't bad. I play on a stock RB2 kit, with the cymbal expansions - and even though my kit in real life lays out different, has a different number of parts, etc - Rock Band still holds you to a tempo, and builds limb independence. It's not everything you need to be a good drummer, but it helps - and the stock pedal, though nothing like the real thing, is actually pretty good at building leg muscle and if you can heel-toe on that, you can do it even better on the real thing. So... yeah.
Many books though aren't printed on the bleached paper one typically uses in printers though... I think the largest collection of B&W print on really "white" paper is my shelf of textbooks...
Yup, me.
I pay pretty high taxes since most of my income is investment rather than employment income. So from an income tax perspective, I pay a fairly high rate, as my income is grossed up by some percentage, before it is taxed. I also pay sales tax on almost everything (13% HST, I live in Ontario).
I'm young, healthy, I usually drive instead of taking public transportation, and when it comes to paying taxes, I'm all for it.
Of course I'm a left leaning person who believes that civic and social responsibility are important features of a functioning democracy.
Because phones are just chock full of the storage needed to replace a Bluray player.
Or wait... no... phones have very small amounts of storage. Even 64GB is small. Battlestar Galactica on Bluray is what, something like 800GB of data or something?
Why set a minimum text size value when (most browsers I use) remember the zoom settings for sites anyway? Visit site, zoom until it is legible, and then forget about it. Fractional font values make this work BETTER...
Run IE6 in "XP mode", available in Windows 7 Professional, Enterprise, and Ultimate.
Come on, is this really that hard? You can put the icon on the desktop and everything!
So how's your non Windows Vista/7 floating point audio stack with low latency and mixing by audio source going for you?
Additionally, if you look at the history of when Microsoft debuts features, you'll see that they aren't usually copying, they just aren't first to market. The reboot of Longhorn had a lot to do with that.
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Maybe you just need better banks.
In Canada, debit is not run by the credit companies, it's directly run by the banks themselves, and most credit cards are offered by banks. Most of the banks are actually pretty good about fraud, with fraud departments that will pro-actively look for any sign that either your credit or debit card was misused. My bank (TD), has been quick to alert me that my card MIGHT have been copied, calling to confirm transactions even if my card hasn't actually been copied, and getting a new [debit] card is free and takes about 3 minutes during any of their (quite long) banking hours. Credit cards might take a day or two to arrive in the mail, max.
They are also generally faster than their 4-6 week guideline for refunding fraudulent charges, especially for low amounts (I had about 13.40 or something of fraudulent charges on my debit once, they rushed it through by the end of business day).
Largely, this is because my bank does NOT assume that their security is perfect, and their fraud department often treats you with quite a bit of respect, assuming that you are likely being honest. I'm not sure if this is a regulation thing, having very little experience with other Canadian banks, or a matter of customer service, but there you have it. PIN on debit, PIN on credit, and I have never failed to have any fraudulent transaction, no matter how big or small reversed within the month, and generally they proactively call me before I might notice myself.
It's not a bad situation to be in.
I have never once had a problem at self checkout, I ALWAYS self checkout whenever I shop, and it's always significantly faster when I do, except in the rare case where they have updated their system and I need to learn the new checkout pattern. So I don't know where you shop, but at least for my groceries, and my home improvement purchases, I swear by self checkout.
Though on any other OS, you would have an offline word processor available.
So do most western xylophones.
Marimbas (like xylophones) have the bars made out of wood (or a synthetic substitute). Marimbas have a lower range than xylophones. Both xylophones and marimbas in modern western form have resonator tubes. Given the range, this is probably best called a metallophone... if it were chromatic, then maybe it could be called a glockenspiel. - also a long time percussionist, especially wanting to note that marimbas have wood bars.
Bottom right - a) So you can hover over it quickly and easily, b) so you can click it easier with your finger in a touch screen/convertible tablet situation
And some day, Steve Jobs will die. And without the cult of personality driving the marketing, slowly Apple will fall away...
Or hey, the "all apps must have a full screen mode" that just makes little to no sense with the applications Adobe and Microsoft are making... or most applications really...
OK - I'm in a band. We record our parts for our current album at our individual homes, and share them with each other, at full quality (24bit, 88.2KHz is what we are recording at) - and my drum set is oh, lets see, in some tracks upwards of 15 tracks at that sample/bit rate. Hey look! Lots of legal bandwidth usage!
cough blackberry cough BES cough
I seem to recall my blackberry bold 9000 being nicely upgradeable from OS4 to OS5, and there was quite a long time that both those OSs were current - and my current Bold 9700 (my old one was stolen, not made obsolete), is currently running OS6... which will probably be "current" for quite a while...
To see the viewscreen on his starship. Duh. Now as to what God needs with a starship...
No, but your blackberry already will...
Not if you're going to run it through a matrix processor to send it to surround speakers, or listen to it in your recording studio... I mean, it's fine for my car, but even wrecking my ears with years of drumming I can still - by in large, with careful listening, on my GOOD speakers, tell the difference between 256AAC and CD audio... in that high end where they add the shaping noise, slightly - SLIGHTLY blurring the cymbals. And to be incredibly fair, there are plenty of recordings where I can't tell the difference based on that - especially modern pop and modern rock - where the recording, even on the CD, has had some dithering applied at some point - largely from a digital limiter used to get the volume nice and high. But the albums I rate as 5* recordings, yeah, those I can tell a difference on. B.B. King and Eric Clapton's Riding With The King, and Bela Fleck and the Flecktone's Outbound are two where, in my studio, I can tell.
I have to agree here - I mean, I spent a year out in Saskatchewan, and it definitely got colder than -40 outside...
The "real" controller, the one most people are waiting for, won't come out until March 1, 2011. That'd be the actual Squire Strat that works with Rock Band. I know a lot of people holding off buying RB3 Pro-Mode DLC for a while, until around when this guitar comes out, and some are even waiting for a while to get the game. Hopefully stuff gets sorted out quickly with the future of the franchise, because a lot of people ARE still invested in the game, and the company, but the lack of details is making gamers more nervous than geeks were when Oracle bought Sun... because Rock Band actually does do a fair bit in terms of building transferable skills to real instruments - with Pro Drums, Pro Keys, and eventually Pro Guitar (and with Pro Guitar right now to an extent with their "pro controller" - good for hand positions... but not great). And as a drummer myself - the drumming skills really aren't bad. I play on a stock RB2 kit, with the cymbal expansions - and even though my kit in real life lays out different, has a different number of parts, etc - Rock Band still holds you to a tempo, and builds limb independence. It's not everything you need to be a good drummer, but it helps - and the stock pedal, though nothing like the real thing, is actually pretty good at building leg muscle and if you can heel-toe on that, you can do it even better on the real thing. So... yeah.
Where were all these genius hackers when all I wanted to do was install Rockbox on my iPod Classic?
Many books though aren't printed on the bleached paper one typically uses in printers though... I think the largest collection of B&W print on really "white" paper is my shelf of textbooks...
At least come up with examples that exist. It's LOT and his two daughters, not NOAH. Noah had sons.
Yup, me. I pay pretty high taxes since most of my income is investment rather than employment income. So from an income tax perspective, I pay a fairly high rate, as my income is grossed up by some percentage, before it is taxed. I also pay sales tax on almost everything (13% HST, I live in Ontario). I'm young, healthy, I usually drive instead of taking public transportation, and when it comes to paying taxes, I'm all for it. Of course I'm a left leaning person who believes that civic and social responsibility are important features of a functioning democracy.
Probably about the same point where they've successfully turned the tide and don't need American help anyway.
Because phones are just chock full of the storage needed to replace a Bluray player. Or wait... no... phones have very small amounts of storage. Even 64GB is small. Battlestar Galactica on Bluray is what, something like 800GB of data or something?
Why set a minimum text size value when (most browsers I use) remember the zoom settings for sites anyway? Visit site, zoom until it is legible, and then forget about it. Fractional font values make this work BETTER...
Run IE6 in "XP mode", available in Windows 7 Professional, Enterprise, and Ultimate. Come on, is this really that hard? You can put the icon on the desktop and everything!
So how's your non Windows Vista/7 floating point audio stack with low latency and mixing by audio source going for you?
Additionally, if you look at the history of when Microsoft debuts features, you'll see that they aren't usually copying, they just aren't first to market. The reboot of Longhorn had a lot to do with that.