I do all of my shopping online, so I'm not buying anything on Friday regardless of how cheap it is or how badly I want it. I'm going to wait for Cyber Monday!
The average viewer would probably notice little difference on a 4K TV even if corresponding content were readily available (which, at this time, it is not).
You'd have to qualify that with screen size. The average viewer sitting 10 feet away from his 40" TV wouldn't notice a different with 4K content, but give him a 70" or 80" screen, and he will.
Before I had an HD TV, I had a 30" CRT - if it had been 1080p capable, I wouldn't have noticed much (if any) difference between that and 480p. It wasn't until I upgraded to a 37" 720P LCD TV, and later to a 55" 1080p TV that I could take advantage of the higher resolutions. 4K is the same - users will need much bigger displays (or sit much closer to their TV) to really take advantage of it.
I replaced it with a paperwhite kindle a few months ago because I wanted a backlight
Joke's on you, you got a frontlight!:P
Yeah, you've got me there, it is a frontlight, but it acts like a backlight in that I can read in bed without my clip-on booklight disturbing my partner.
Personally I read my books on 4 different devices... a laptop, galaxy s2, nexus 7, and a kindle paperwhite. It's very rare I'm not within 10ft of one of these.
Back when I was commuting by train/bus, I read a lot on my cellphone (which was convenient for one handed reading while standing), but now that I do most of my reading where I can sit down, I much prefer the kindle.
First off: Why would they need to prove it? Not in a sense of "proving it's true", but in a sense of "accomplishing their goal of discrediting the target."
NSA leaks Joe Radical's porn habits to FOX News.
If that's their goal, why would they need to collect any actual information at all? What's the difference between releasing private data that can't be verified and releasing made-up data that can't be verified?
At first glance I was shocked at the acceptance of ebooks this implies. On further thought however (and without reading the article) this could as well mean that 38% don't read at all. Or have a more complex opinion than can be stated as a preference.
I refuse to believe that 38% of any population actually prefers those slow to flip through ebooks.
Without more details on their testing methodology, the survey may mean nothing more than any other "online survey". Were the participants chosen at random, or were they self-selected (maybe people that prefer paper books are more likely to answer a survey about paper vs ebooks)? Were participants really a random sampling, or were they all in the same demographic (i.e. were they all wealthy white college students?). Were the answers randomized, or was the first answer always "I prefer paper books" meaning that participants that just wanted to click through the survey quickly as possible would chose it?
Printed books don't break when shoved into luggage.
My 4 year old kindle (with keyboard) has been shoved in luggage countless times and hasn't broken. I replaced it with a paperwhite kindle a few months ago because I wanted a backlight, but I still use the old one from time to time. An eBook reader may be more fragile than a paper book, but it can withstand the rigors of daily life just fine.
The kindle is especially nice for reading at the beach or hot tub -- I just put it in a ziplock baggy to keep out the sand and water, and can read with ease. If I drop it in the water, it floats on the surface -- no need to wait days to dry it before continuing to read (if it's possible at all, and the pages aren't stuck together)
Printed books have infinite "battery life".
I'm still averaging a month of battery life on my kindle, and I can read while charging. It's not infinite, but it may as well be.
Printed books don't get stolen like electronic devices.
Someone broke into my car once and took my backpack with several books (and dirty gym clothes), they rifled through the glove compartment, but they didn't take the kindle that was tucked into a door side pocket. I'm not aware of any anti-theft devices built-in to books, so they can get stolen like everything else. Admittedly if I left the kindle on the seat next to a book, they'd likely have taken the kindle before the book.
I break a book, I just lost that particular book - well, no. I can still read it. I lose it, all I lost is one book - not an electronic device and all the other books on it.
I buy most of my books through sources other than Amazon, and I have a backup copy of all of them, if my kindle breaks or someone steals it, I don't lose any books, not even the one I was currently reading. And Amazon can have a replacement kindle at my door in 2 days.... or I can run the Kindle app on my phone and pick up right where I left off.
At least some poor slobs (printers, packagers, truckers, etc...) are making a living making these things (at no extra cost to me) as opposed to content creators who knock this off and make an infinite number at no additional cost (put it into the computer and infinite copies without any effort.).
Why do you think that you're not paying to support the entire print industry when you purchase a book? Where do you think the money comes from to pay them if it's not built-in to the price of a book?
If the NSA said that an influential person that you follow watches some porn fetish site and that guy denies it and claims that the NSA is trying to discredit him, who are you going to believe? The guy that you already follow and believe, or the government agency that has a real incentive to try to discredit this person? This policy could backfire and make people more devoted to a person that they now believe is targeted by the government.
It doesn't matter whether the information is true or not, it's a question of who you trust more.
Why would one lose ones credibility because of that?
If anything I wouldn't trust someone who doesn't watch porn..
And what possible "proof" could the NSA provide that anyone would believe?
NSA: Hey, look everyone, Joe Radical watches donkey-porn! Joe: I do not. NSA: You do too - look at these report we created that shows every dokey-porn video you watched Joe: That's fake, you made it up NSA: It's true! We swear it and everyone knows we have no incentive to make it up just to look you look bad!
How would the NSA prove that the "private" browsing activity that they are exposing is really their activity and not something they made up?
It's also the availibility of food. I'm currently working a temp job in a semi-urban area (suburb of my state's capitol city). I get an hour for lunch. Unless I make lunch the night before or morning of, I'm stuck getting fast food. With an hour for lunch, the timeframe is essentially 15 minutes max of driving to and from, and 30 minutes to order food, wait for it to be prepped, and eat it.
The only non sit-down restaurants within that radius are a McDonalds, a Wendy's, a Burger King, and a Taco Bell. There are also some pizza/italian places but those usually don't sell by the slice. The pizza places deliver, but most of them have a $15 minimum and I'm making $13 an hour.
Even if you had 2 hours for lunch, you're not likely to find a sit-down restaurant that serves you a truly healthy meal. If you really want a healthy meal at work, you should pack your own.
But if you're looking for a quick meal and don't want fast-food, check out your local supermarket. My supermarket makes decent sandwiches, salads (they have a salad bar and pre-made grab-and-go salads), and even fresh sushi (that is surprisingly good for supermarket sushi).
Let's say you bought those 3 items on 3 separate occasions...and only those 3 items all year. Here's what you spent:
Samsung 10.1" tablet in white - $299 on NewEgg (free 5 day shipping), $325.33 on Amazon ($299 + $26.33 Prime shipping)
Intel Core i5-3570K Ivy Bridge 3.4GHz - $199 on NewEgg (free shipping), $224.32 on Amazon ($197.99 + $26.33 Prime)
ASUS RT-AC66U Dual-Band Wireless-AC1750 - $179.99 on NewEgg (free shipping), $206.33 on Amazon ( $179.99 + $26.34 Prime)
Total Cost NewEgg: 677.99
Total Cost Amazon: 755.98
Also note that the 3-5 day is just when NewEgg Guarantees that the items will arrive. It also depends on your proximity to the Distribution centers. I live close enough that free shipping is usually here within 2 days and 2 day ship is always here next day.. Amazon's 2 day ship option has quite often wound up having the carrier eating the shipping cost to me because they're almost always a day or two late; especially when it goes by DHL.
If you really want to see if you're actually saving anything using prime figure it this way: Deduct the difference of the Prime price from the Non-Prime price of each book you get through prime. Do the same for movies you watch through prime. Add the Non-Prime cost of any TV series you watch on Prime. Then tally up all the shipping you would have otherwise had to pay for if you didn't use Prime. Add all of that together. If the amount comes to $79 or greater, you're getting a good deal. If it doesn't, you're getting ripped off. For my habits, I'd have been getting ripped off.
Why would you sign up for Prime if you're only going to make 3 purchases? Just use Amazon free Super-saver shipping. When Prime started offering free streaming I dropped my $7.99/month netflix streaming subscription because the Amazon streaming catalog isn't notably worse than Netflix for the movies/tv shows I watch. So that alone pays for Prime.
Prime shipping is not free. Last I checked it was $75 a year. So factor that in.
For many people the Prime Shipping cost ($79/year) is a sunk cost that they've already paid (and which pays for itself with a few purchases, not including the other benefits like movie streaming and kindle lending library). The more they use Prime, the lower the cost per package.
If you're making jokes about your hiring practices -- particularly after you just did not hire somebody -- you're setting yourself up for a lawsuit.
By the books: of course you're right.
By reality: I'm walking to coffee with my coworker and saying outside the earshot of anyone else. People tell inappropriate jokes under these circumstances. And often times those jokes are self-deprecating, like "ewww, she went to a state school" (just like I did) or "what kind of nerd wears [same kind of glasses he and I both have]?" They're jokes, they're intended as jokes, and everyone does this.
These days, unless you're using the cones of silence, you're *never* out of earshot or someone that may post your "private" comment to the world:
And be careful even around coworkers, one of them may notice that you made the same "perl" joke about the last 3 female candidates, but you didn't make the same observation about the male candidates. Whether you meant it or not, your words may come back to bite you some day.
Not only older people. When I was young we used to play with Lego in the winter and be outside when it was warm. Many of today's youth just play computer games all day long, on their playstations or what have you and outside on their phones. They only move their thumbs.
My guess would be that they are just following America's lead and are becoming fatter.
The article even says:
And yet this increasing lifespan masks a dark secret. Many developed countries are suffering an epidemic of chronic diseases such as diabetes and heart disease thanks to poor diets and sedentary lifestyles. The numbers are such that they must inevitably influence the health of nations as a whole but by how much?
Then the authors go on to blame it on the weather.
Of course not everything is on prime and if you compare the prime vs. non-prime price you will find that, no, the shipping isn't really free.
Let's look at a few examples from Newegg's Pre-black-friday sale:
Samsung 10.1" tablet in white - $299 on NewEgg (free 5 day shipping), $299 on Amazon (Prime shipping) Intel Core i5-3570K Ivy Bridge 3.4GHz - $199 on NewEgg (free shipping), $197.99 on Amazon (Prime) ASUS RT-AC66U Dual-Band Wireless-AC1750 - $179.99 on NewEgg (free shipping), $179.99 on Amazon (Prime)
So Amazon is the same price or cheaper with faster shipping. Sure, the shipping may be built-in to the prime price, but I don't care if it matches the competitors.
Is there anywhere else you should buy computer parts from? Their hardware all seems to be competitively price, and their customer service is outstanding. My buddy bought a mouse at Best Buy that didn't work. When they didn't take it back, Newegg did and gave them a full refund.
Lately, I've found that Amazon usually meets or beats Newegg's pricing for most things I buy, with free 2 day shipping (for Prime members). Even when NewEgg does offer free shipping, it's their "Standard 5 -7 days shipping" - I don't purchase enough things that Newegg carries to make it worth signing up for their $79/year "Shoprunner" service that provides 2 day shipping on many items.
That should be a shooting offence. I recall working for a company who had a new director of marketing. She did everything -- everything -- in PPT, even memos. Her preferred font was Comic Sans and the concept of a colour space for documents was basically science fiction to her.
Yeah, the company went under. How did you guess?
I guessed it went under because if the company went on to be wildly successful, then this anecdote wouldn't confirm your belief that the marketing director's memo style was a sign that the company was doomed to fail so you wouldn't have told it.
.... most American legal jurisdictions have Rules of Civil and Criminal Procedure, that specify the format legal pleadings are supposed to take. They're usually quite specific on the allowable fonts, font sizes, line spacing, the format they expect for the numbering of paragraphs, and so on. Lawyers and pro-say litigants ignore these rules at their own peril, as doing so is liable to get your case dismissed outright and at the very least will seriously annoy the Judge. Of course, most Judges don't take this annoyance, combine it with a bunch of other rants, then post it on Facebook....
It does amuse me that so-called higher educated professionals just as liable to open mouth and insert foot on Facebook as the immature uneducated brats (I was, like, at work, and like, you know that patient, like, from the other day? He's, like, a total asshole.) I have the misfortune of calling co-workers.
It's not clear that the hearing officer was ranting about a formal legal document. He called it a "letter", so it could just be some letter that the defendant was required to write without any specific formatting requirements.
Is it a surprise the NYT has managed to get even 10% of revenue from online sources? Or that it is so small a figure after years of trying?
I'm surprised that a company that apparently gets 90% of its revenue from non-digital sources is held up as an example of how to get money from digital sources.
That's not necessarily a sign of trouble at the company - they probably just wanted to spend more time with their families and maybe pursue some hobbies, just like all top executives that leave a company.
I work for a company who would love to hire good coders. They pay well, hire permanently, and have no problem sending people to a few training courses.
All employees have to work on a 4 month contract first though, as a sort of test. The vast majority are useless, as is evident during that trial phase. We have no trouble finding resumes, but have significant trouble finding good coders.
The shortfall isn't in occupation, it's in talent. At least my own job security is good.
Maybe your 4 month contract requirement is weeding out the good coders that don't want to give up a full-time job for a 4 month test that may leave them without a job if they don't live up to some hard to quantify metric of "good enough". And apparently most people fail your test and end up out on the street after the 4 months.
A full time job is no guarantee of future employment, of course, but I doubt I'd be willing to take a contract job that "might" turn into a full time job in 4 months.
Gas stations will also provide this service, but I figure they will mostly go extinct once the entire country converts to electric (assuming this actually happens).
Probably not. Gas stations make almost no money on gas. Cigarettes, soda, candy, coffee, etc. People will still buy that. Gas gets people to come in, but they will still stop if they want that coffee.
But there just won't be one on EVERY corner. Probably will move to less expensive locations and be replaced by more drug stores, but convenience stores will still exist and do fairly well.
So you're saying that gas stations will still exist, but there will be less of them and they'll become convenience stores and drug stores. Isn't that the same as saying that they'll no longer exist?
I live in an apartment building. I've discussed the matter with the building management but we haven't come up with an answer. While new buildings must have electrical hookups for electric cars, there is no incentive to retrofit old buildings.
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I've got the same problem, but I live in a Condo. I have a detached garage with an assigned space that's about 40 feet from my electric meter and main panel. I'd have to run conduit under a driveway and 2 sidewalks to get power to my parking space. Needless to say, it wouldn't be cheap.
I heard that Palo Alto is considering requiring new construction to put in appropriate provisions to install a charge station in the garage. (no need to run wires, just rough in penetrations and/or conduit to allow wires to be run later if desired). If they had done that here, then putting in a charge station would be trivial, just pulling wires through conduit. At least, trivial if only one or two people want a charge station. I'm not sure that the utility feed is sized to handle 30 charge stations since no one here has central air conditioning and has gas heat + cooking.
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I do all of my shopping online, so I'm not buying anything on Friday regardless of how cheap it is or how badly I want it. I'm going to wait for Cyber Monday!
The average viewer would probably notice little difference on a 4K TV even if corresponding content were readily available (which, at this time, it is not).
You'd have to qualify that with screen size. The average viewer sitting 10 feet away from his 40" TV wouldn't notice a different with 4K content, but give him a 70" or 80" screen, and he will.
Before I had an HD TV, I had a 30" CRT - if it had been 1080p capable, I wouldn't have noticed much (if any) difference between that and 480p. It wasn't until I upgraded to a 37" 720P LCD TV, and later to a 55" 1080p TV that I could take advantage of the higher resolutions. 4K is the same - users will need much bigger displays (or sit much closer to their TV) to really take advantage of it.
I replaced it with a paperwhite kindle a few months ago because I wanted a backlight
Joke's on you, you got a frontlight! :P
Yeah, you've got me there, it is a frontlight, but it acts like a backlight in that I can read in bed without my clip-on booklight disturbing my partner.
Personally I read my books on 4 different devices... a laptop, galaxy s2, nexus 7, and a kindle paperwhite. It's very rare I'm not within 10ft of one of these.
Back when I was commuting by train/bus, I read a lot on my cellphone (which was convenient for one handed reading while standing), but now that I do most of my reading where I can sit down, I much prefer the kindle.
First off: Why would they need to prove it? Not in a sense of "proving it's true", but in a sense of "accomplishing their goal of discrediting the target."
NSA leaks Joe Radical's porn habits to FOX News.
If that's their goal, why would they need to collect any actual information at all? What's the difference between releasing private data that can't be verified and releasing made-up data that can't be verified?
At first glance I was shocked at the acceptance of ebooks this implies. On further thought however (and without reading the article) this could as well mean that 38% don't read at all. Or have a more complex opinion than can be stated as a preference.
I refuse to believe that 38% of any population actually prefers those slow to flip through ebooks.
Without more details on their testing methodology, the survey may mean nothing more than any other "online survey". Were the participants chosen at random, or were they self-selected (maybe people that prefer paper books are more likely to answer a survey about paper vs ebooks)? Were participants really a random sampling, or were they all in the same demographic (i.e. were they all wealthy white college students?). Were the answers randomized, or was the first answer always "I prefer paper books" meaning that participants that just wanted to click through the survey quickly as possible would chose it?
To give some arguments that I don't see:
Printed books don't break when shoved into luggage.
My 4 year old kindle (with keyboard) has been shoved in luggage countless times and hasn't broken. I replaced it with a paperwhite kindle a few months ago because I wanted a backlight, but I still use the old one from time to time. An eBook reader may be more fragile than a paper book, but it can withstand the rigors of daily life just fine.
The kindle is especially nice for reading at the beach or hot tub -- I just put it in a ziplock baggy to keep out the sand and water, and can read with ease. If I drop it in the water, it floats on the surface -- no need to wait days to dry it before continuing to read (if it's possible at all, and the pages aren't stuck together)
Printed books have infinite "battery life".
I'm still averaging a month of battery life on my kindle, and I can read while charging. It's not infinite, but it may as well be.
Printed books don't get stolen like electronic devices.
Someone broke into my car once and took my backpack with several books (and dirty gym clothes), they rifled through the glove compartment, but they didn't take the kindle that was tucked into a door side pocket. I'm not aware of any anti-theft devices built-in to books, so they can get stolen like everything else. Admittedly if I left the kindle on the seat next to a book, they'd likely have taken the kindle before the book.
I break a book, I just lost that particular book - well, no. I can still read it. I lose it, all I lost is one book - not an electronic device and all the other books on it.
I buy most of my books through sources other than Amazon, and I have a backup copy of all of them, if my kindle breaks or someone steals it, I don't lose any books, not even the one I was currently reading. And Amazon can have a replacement kindle at my door in 2 days.... or I can run the Kindle app on my phone and pick up right where I left off.
At least some poor slobs (printers, packagers, truckers, etc
Why do you think that you're not paying to support the entire print industry when you purchase a book? Where do you think the money comes from to pay them if it's not built-in to the price of a book?
Lol you think they would even need to prove it
If the NSA said that an influential person that you follow watches some porn fetish site and that guy denies it and claims that the NSA is trying to discredit him, who are you going to believe? The guy that you already follow and believe, or the government agency that has a real incentive to try to discredit this person? This policy could backfire and make people more devoted to a person that they now believe is targeted by the government.
It doesn't matter whether the information is true or not, it's a question of who you trust more.
Why would one lose ones credibility because of that?
If anything I wouldn't trust someone who doesn't watch porn..
And what possible "proof" could the NSA provide that anyone would believe?
NSA: Hey, look everyone, Joe Radical watches donkey-porn!
Joe: I do not.
NSA: You do too - look at these report we created that shows every dokey-porn video you watched
Joe: That's fake, you made it up
NSA: It's true! We swear it and everyone knows we have no incentive to make it up just to look you look bad!
How would the NSA prove that the "private" browsing activity that they are exposing is really their activity and not something they made up?
It's also the availibility of food. I'm currently working a temp job in a semi-urban area (suburb of my state's capitol city). I get an hour for lunch. Unless I make lunch the night before or morning of, I'm stuck getting fast food. With an hour for lunch, the timeframe is essentially 15 minutes max of driving to and from, and 30 minutes to order food, wait for it to be prepped, and eat it.
The only non sit-down restaurants within that radius are a McDonalds, a Wendy's, a Burger King, and a Taco Bell. There are also some pizza/italian places but those usually don't sell by the slice. The pizza places deliver, but most of them have a $15 minimum and I'm making $13 an hour.
Even if you had 2 hours for lunch, you're not likely to find a sit-down restaurant that serves you a truly healthy meal. If you really want a healthy meal at work, you should pack your own.
But if you're looking for a quick meal and don't want fast-food, check out your local supermarket. My supermarket makes decent sandwiches, salads (they have a salad bar and pre-made grab-and-go salads), and even fresh sushi (that is surprisingly good for supermarket sushi).
Let's say you bought those 3 items on 3 separate occasions...and only those 3 items all year. Here's what you spent:
Samsung 10.1" tablet in white - $299 on NewEgg (free 5 day shipping), $325.33 on Amazon ($299 + $26.33 Prime shipping)
Intel Core i5-3570K Ivy Bridge 3.4GHz - $199 on NewEgg (free shipping), $224.32 on Amazon ($197.99 + $26.33 Prime)
ASUS RT-AC66U Dual-Band Wireless-AC1750 - $179.99 on NewEgg (free shipping), $206.33 on Amazon ( $179.99 + $26.34 Prime)
Total Cost NewEgg: 677.99
Total Cost Amazon: 755.98
Also note that the 3-5 day is just when NewEgg Guarantees that the items will arrive. It also depends on your proximity to the Distribution centers. I live close enough that free shipping is usually here within 2 days and 2 day ship is always here next day.. Amazon's 2 day ship option has quite often wound up having the carrier eating the shipping cost to me because they're almost always a day or two late; especially when it goes by DHL.
If you really want to see if you're actually saving anything using prime figure it this way: Deduct the difference of the Prime price from the Non-Prime price of each book you get through prime. Do the same for movies you watch through prime. Add the Non-Prime cost of any TV series you watch on Prime. Then tally up all the shipping you would have otherwise had to pay for if you didn't use Prime. Add all of that together. If the amount comes to $79 or greater, you're getting a good deal. If it doesn't, you're getting ripped off. For my habits, I'd have been getting ripped off.
Why would you sign up for Prime if you're only going to make 3 purchases? Just use Amazon free Super-saver shipping. When Prime started offering free streaming I dropped my $7.99/month netflix streaming subscription because the Amazon streaming catalog isn't notably worse than Netflix for the movies/tv shows I watch. So that alone pays for Prime.
Prime shipping is not free. Last I checked it was $75 a year. So factor that in.
For many people the Prime Shipping cost ($79/year) is a sunk cost that they've already paid (and which pays for itself with a few purchases, not including the other benefits like movie streaming and kindle lending library). The more they use Prime, the lower the cost per package.
If you're making jokes about your hiring practices -- particularly after you just did not hire somebody -- you're setting yourself up for a lawsuit.
By the books: of course you're right.
By reality: I'm walking to coffee with my coworker and saying outside the earshot of anyone else. People tell inappropriate jokes under these circumstances. And often times those jokes are self-deprecating, like "ewww, she went to a state school" (just like I did) or "what kind of nerd wears [same kind of glasses he and I both have]?" They're jokes, they're intended as jokes, and everyone does this.
These days, unless you're using the cones of silence, you're *never* out of earshot or someone that may post your "private" comment to the world:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2013/03/22/was-it-appropriate-for-adria-richards-to-tweet-a-photo-of-two-men-at-pycon-and-accuse-them-of-being-sexist/
And be careful even around coworkers, one of them may notice that you made the same "perl" joke about the last 3 female candidates, but you didn't make the same observation about the male candidates. Whether you meant it or not, your words may come back to bite you some day.
Not only older people. When I was young we used to play with Lego in the winter and be outside when it was warm. Many of today's youth just play computer games all day long, on their playstations or what have you and outside on their phones. They only move their thumbs.
But they move them really really quickly.
My guess would be that they are just following America's lead and are becoming fatter.
The article even says:
And yet this increasing lifespan masks a dark secret. Many developed countries are suffering an epidemic of chronic diseases such as diabetes and heart disease thanks to poor diets and sedentary lifestyles. The numbers are such that they must inevitably influence the health of nations as a whole but by how much?
Then the authors go on to blame it on the weather.
Of course not everything is on prime and if you compare the prime vs. non-prime price you will find that, no, the shipping isn't really free.
Let's look at a few examples from Newegg's Pre-black-friday sale:
Samsung 10.1" tablet in white - $299 on NewEgg (free 5 day shipping), $299 on Amazon (Prime shipping)
Intel Core i5-3570K Ivy Bridge 3.4GHz - $199 on NewEgg (free shipping), $197.99 on Amazon (Prime)
ASUS RT-AC66U Dual-Band Wireless-AC1750 - $179.99 on NewEgg (free shipping), $179.99 on Amazon (Prime)
So Amazon is the same price or cheaper with faster shipping. Sure, the shipping may be built-in to the prime price, but I don't care if it matches the competitors.
Also who the heck uses Discover cards?
Discover offers some good rewards deals.
Is there anywhere else you should buy computer parts from? Their hardware all seems to be competitively price, and their customer service is outstanding. My buddy bought a mouse at Best Buy that didn't work. When they didn't take it back, Newegg did and gave them a full refund.
Lately, I've found that Amazon usually meets or beats Newegg's pricing for most things I buy, with free 2 day shipping (for Prime members). Even when NewEgg does offer free shipping, it's their "Standard 5 -7 days shipping" - I don't purchase enough things that Newegg carries to make it worth signing up for their $79/year "Shoprunner" service that provides 2 day shipping on many items.
The problem isn't just parents, it is also that we allow sociopaths to pass the bar exam.
But can't we blame the parents for raising a sociopath?
That should be a shooting offence. I recall working for a company who had a new director of marketing. She did everything -- everything -- in PPT, even memos. Her preferred font was Comic Sans and the concept of a colour space for documents was basically science fiction to her.
Yeah, the company went under. How did you guess?
I guessed it went under because if the company went on to be wildly successful, then this anecdote wouldn't confirm your belief that the marketing director's memo style was a sign that the company was doomed to fail so you wouldn't have told it.
.... most American legal jurisdictions have Rules of Civil and Criminal Procedure, that specify the format legal pleadings are supposed to take. They're usually quite specific on the allowable fonts, font sizes, line spacing, the format they expect for the numbering of paragraphs, and so on. Lawyers and pro-say litigants ignore these rules at their own peril, as doing so is liable to get your case dismissed outright and at the very least will seriously annoy the Judge. Of course, most Judges don't take this annoyance, combine it with a bunch of other rants, then post it on Facebook....
It does amuse me that so-called higher educated professionals just as liable to open mouth and insert foot on Facebook as the immature uneducated brats (I was, like, at work, and like, you know that patient, like, from the other day? He's, like, a total asshole.) I have the misfortune of calling co-workers.
It's not clear that the hearing officer was ranting about a formal legal document. He called it a "letter", so it could just be some letter that the defendant was required to write without any specific formatting requirements.
Is it a surprise the NYT has managed to get even 10% of revenue from online sources? Or that it is so small a figure after years of trying?
I'm surprised that a company that apparently gets 90% of its revenue from non-digital sources is held up as an example of how to get money from digital sources.
That's not necessarily a sign of trouble at the company - they probably just wanted to spend more time with their families and maybe pursue some hobbies, just like all top executives that leave a company.
I work for a company who would love to hire good coders. They pay well, hire permanently, and have no problem sending people to a few training courses.
All employees have to work on a 4 month contract first though, as a sort of test. The vast majority are useless, as is evident during that trial phase. We have no trouble finding resumes, but have significant trouble finding good coders.
The shortfall isn't in occupation, it's in talent. At least my own job security is good.
Maybe your 4 month contract requirement is weeding out the good coders that don't want to give up a full-time job for a 4 month test that may leave them without a job if they don't live up to some hard to quantify metric of "good enough". And apparently most people fail your test and end up out on the street after the 4 months.
A full time job is no guarantee of future employment, of course, but I doubt I'd be willing to take a contract job that "might" turn into a full time job in 4 months.
Let me know when a used one is in my working-class budget range, and we'll talk.
What is your working-class budget?
I see plenty of working class people in shiny $30K F250's. The average car price in the USA is around $30K.
Gas stations will also provide this service, but I figure they will mostly go extinct once the entire country converts to electric (assuming this actually happens).
Probably not. Gas stations make almost no money on gas. Cigarettes, soda, candy, coffee, etc. People will still buy that. Gas gets people to come in, but they will still stop if they want that coffee.
But there just won't be one on EVERY corner. Probably will move to less expensive locations and be replaced by more drug stores, but convenience stores will still exist and do fairly well.
So you're saying that gas stations will still exist, but there will be less of them and they'll become convenience stores and drug stores. Isn't that the same as saying that they'll no longer exist?
It's as simple as that.
I live in an apartment building. I've discussed the matter with the building management but
we haven't come up with an answer. While new buildings must have electrical hookups
for electric cars, there is no incentive to retrofit old buildings.
...laura
I've got the same problem, but I live in a Condo. I have a detached garage with an assigned space that's about 40 feet from my electric meter and main panel. I'd have to run conduit under a driveway and 2 sidewalks to get power to my parking space. Needless to say, it wouldn't be cheap.
I heard that Palo Alto is considering requiring new construction to put in appropriate provisions to install a charge station in the garage. (no need to run wires, just rough in penetrations and/or conduit to allow wires to be run later if desired). If they had done that here, then putting in a charge station would be trivial, just pulling wires through conduit. At least, trivial if only one or two people want a charge station. I'm not sure that the utility feed is sized to handle 30 charge stations since no one here has central air conditioning and has gas heat + cooking.