Sound to me like the free market in action, the average libertarian slashdotter should be just fine with it. Tickets are pretty damned scarce, the market will sort it out.
To be fair, reading through this whole thread, you do sound awfully defensive of your job. Don't get me wrong, I'm grateful for you (I manage a coffee shop that lives and dies by its milk shipments), but take it easy, we're not all after you.
Can someone clue me in on where I can get that? I live in a big metro area (Denver) and I'm paying comcast $45 a month for cable internet, and thats with a deduction for owning my own cable modem and another for bundling with their Cable TV service.
I'm not saying AOL is a good value or anything for dialup, but in my experience thats a pretty lowball estimate for "exact same per month as broadband".
What the hell do people do in the bathroom to make the premise for that joke funny? I'm sure he would put it down before wiping, then pick it up after washing his hands. Where does the cell become "contaminated"?
I'm savin' all of those back issues of "Byte" Making the micro conversion I gotta handle text just right Ya know what I mean?
I took you to a local computer store Then to a compu-fair shopping spree There's nothing left to purchase now 'less it's, programmability...
[BEGIN Chorus (invoked later)] Let's get VisiCalc*, VisiCalc I wanna get Visi-Calc, let's invoke VisiCalc Let me hear your modem talk, your floppies squawk Let me hear your I/O rock... [END Chorus]
I've used paper, I've used wood Tried to keep my pen on the table It's getting hard, this hardware stuff Ya know what I mean?
I'm sure you understand what eleven's* do You know the software intimately You gotta know, you're bringing out the VisiPlot* for me...
[Invoke Chorus]
* VisiCalc, VisiPlot are TM's of VisiCorp, Inc.
Eleven is a trademark of Digital Equipment Corp.
Yeah, but its been my observation that people will then go in and see a 27" CRT for $199 and walk out with that. Or if they really have $400 to blow, they'll walk out with a massive 36" CRT instead.
It would be a great game man, but it would need to be heavily moderated or the griefers would overrun it. People can be really destructive assholes on the internet.
My laptop lasts 3.5-4 hours on a battery charge, even while constantly running bittorrent or somesuch requiring near constant Wifi. It's an ASUS M3000N that I got from ibuypower.com. 14" screen, and a Pentium M 1.4 proc.
I could tell you about some problems with it (don't even get me started on linux installs!) but battery life is not one of them.
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Will I be able to get an unsold seat at a never-sold-out event like a Minnesota Twins baseball game for $1?
Sound to me like the free market in action, the average libertarian slashdotter should be just fine with it. Tickets are pretty damned scarce, the market will sort it out.
Doesn't the wifi at Starbucks run somewhere in the range of $6 an hour? That seems hardly free to me.
To be fair, reading through this whole thread, you do sound awfully defensive of your job. Don't get me wrong, I'm grateful for you (I manage a coffee shop that lives and dies by its milk shipments), but take it easy, we're not all after you.
Can someone clue me in on where I can get that? I live in a big metro area (Denver) and I'm paying comcast $45 a month for cable internet, and thats with a deduction for owning my own cable modem and another for bundling with their Cable TV service.
I'm not saying AOL is a good value or anything for dialup, but in my experience thats a pretty lowball estimate for "exact same per month as broadband".
no kidding. It was a shitty meme in the first place, as it was a rehash of Bill Brasky, which was and continues to be funny to this day.
Area man constantly mentioning that he Doesn't own a Television
Those shows we love to watch--they aren't free, ya know. Advertisers don't like paying big $$$ for an ad that will just get fast forwarded through.
Maybe they should figure out a way to make do off of the freaking $79.99 that I pay each month for cable service....
What the hell do people do in the bathroom to make the premise for that joke funny? I'm sure he would put it down before wiping, then pick it up after washing his hands. Where does the cell become "contaminated"?
Well the event does have its origins in San Francisco...
I'm savin' all of those back issues of "Byte"
Making the micro conversion
I gotta handle text just right
Ya know what I mean?
I took you to a local computer store
Then to a compu-fair shopping spree
There's nothing left to purchase now
'less it's, programmability...
[BEGIN Chorus (invoked later)]
Let's get VisiCalc*, VisiCalc
I wanna get Visi-Calc, let's invoke VisiCalc
Let me hear your modem talk, your floppies squawk
Let me hear your I/O rock...
[END Chorus]
I've used paper, I've used wood
Tried to keep my pen on the table
It's getting hard, this hardware stuff
Ya know what I mean?
I'm sure you understand what eleven's* do
You know the software intimately
You gotta know, you're bringing out
the VisiPlot* for me...
[Invoke Chorus]
* VisiCalc, VisiPlot are TM's of VisiCorp, Inc.
Eleven is a trademark of Digital Equipment Corp.
{ Original material by Randal L. Schwartz }
Considering the sweeping implications, I'd say it falls squarely under "stuff that matters".
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Grand Forks representin'
You buy land, and invest in Raw Materials.
You say "Stuck with Tecmo Bowl for life" like its a bad thing....
hey, as I recall the red ones were smart enough to not walk off a cliff, and rather turn around.
fine.. use mario, or Pac-Man. I'd wager more people could identify Pac-Man than a name John Lennon from his picture. Seriously.
could someone translate this post into English for me?
you haven't waited long enough. The hippie's parents are still alive and the biggest voting block.
ticked me off too.. what an asshole.
To be pedantic, the character "farve" will probably exist forever as an unlockable. But your point stands.
Yeah, but its been my observation that people will then go in and see a 27" CRT for $199 and walk out with that. Or if they really have $400 to blow, they'll walk out with a massive 36" CRT instead.
It would be a great game man, but it would need to be heavily moderated or the griefers would overrun it. People can be really destructive assholes on the internet.
My laptop lasts 3.5-4 hours on a battery charge, even while constantly running bittorrent or somesuch requiring near constant Wifi. It's an ASUS M3000N that I got from ibuypower.com. 14" screen, and a Pentium M 1.4 proc.
I could tell you about some problems with it (don't even get me started on linux installs!) but battery life is not one of them.
Say what you will, but small towels suck. I love our American "Bath Sheets", being able to wrap yourself in dry towel is a wonderful thing.