I have been a reseller of many things. A profit margin of 10% is amazing in the computer business, Dell being no exception. I sold a lot of Dell stuff (*shudder*). And I am not talking about net, but gross profit. Sometimes 4% was considered worth it. It all comes down to volume, ease of delivery, and credit. Everything else is just a guideline at best. If you worked at a company that only made a 1% net profit, but invested in its people, its infrastructure and its goals, would that be worth it? Supermarkets operate at low margin, but have high volume.
Dude, if you know the question they *meant* to ask, then just answer it. Unless it is your child, and you want to help them learn. Or your wife, where vagueness is your friend, and answering what they actually asked is safer.
Moose are more coordinated than you are giving them credit for. I know this personally, having seen them scramble up hillsides and stomp through swamps. Not sure about giraffes personally, but I have seen some video shots where they were running quite well. Both fast and with agility.
Hang out with more kids. They'll give it to you straight up, they'll say "hey, I'm [Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Agnostic, Atheist, or other] this is what I believe, mainly because my parents tell me too, but still...
Look, I know all you snow-hating people think snow is bad, but snow is one of the best things that has EVER happened. Meanwhile I will think about the snow that is occurring at my house, heated by Fuel Oil #2 (not as cheap relative to gas as one would suppose...) with a propane fake woodstove and a real woodstove. 3 sources of heat, 2 aesthetic, 2 clean for the interior, 2 work in a power outage, and 2 don't require hauling by me. Anyway, sorry for the rant, but snow is good. Snow is fun. Snow makes everything much prettier. And it is fun to ski, snowboard, sled, slip, throw, look at and eat.
I support the non-driving to the library guy only to a certain percent, though, as you don't just rock up to the circulation desk and ask for goatse...which, sadly, accounts for too much rainforest defoliation than one would ever hope for.
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I am in Guatemala right now and won't be home to the cold for another month. For the first time I am missing it.
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The weird thing is Card wrote one of the gayest, and I mean that in a good way, books in Songmaster, which was basically a story about an old dude and his young, chemically castrated boy-lover. Also, as far as I know, Card is a Mormon, not a straight-mainline Evanagelical Christian. See his book Saints to see how he pretties up some of the weirdness of the Mormon founders (I'm looking at you Joseph Smith!)
Anyway, Xenocide was almost unreadable, and the Shadow series devolved into moralistic children pretending to be adults. His ability to talk about how teenagers think or feel is remarkably repressed. No urges or desires here, thank you! Bean doesn't even have sex with Petra. Card seems to place celibacy as some sort of purifying state, but has a hard time reconciling that with the need to pro-create.
Where Card seems to be at his best is when telling the story of a young boy (Ender's Game, Alvin series 1-3, first Shadow book). He doesn't seem to really understand politics as practiced by mature, and slightly less pure, adults.
Anyway, give Songmaster a read and you might start wondering why Card gets all huffy about gay people, maybe some sublimated feelings there, Mr. Happily Married Man? Still there are worse authors out there.
Not if you bought Neverwinter Nights, admitedly, the graphics are way outdated, but the best modules created by the community are better than most, if not all, the storylines you find in most RPGs. You can buy the Neverwinter Nights Gold edition for $20 and really never have to pay anything else again. Also, you can play multi-player (I never have, but apparently you can), but the best thing is being able to play off-line or at your own leisure. No one is waiting for someone else to go on the raid with them....
Anyway, sorry to appear like I am dissing WoW, I am not, but $800 on almost anything is a lot.
Dude, have you taken any Cisco Exams? Most of them are horrible. I have taken 7 of them, so maybe my sample is too small to comment on them all, but if you don't give them the answer they want, it is considered wrong. This is specifically true in instances where they are promoting their products and methodology.
Granted, some of them are quite difficult, but I would be very careful basing someone's expertise based on those babies. I passed every one the first time because I resisted the urge to go with the correct answer and chose the ones that fit their party line.
Yeah, your epee or my sword cane I keep at home in case anyone bad shows up. That thing is lethal, but unlikely to kill by accident, like a gun. Surprise plays a factor as well.
Peter Gabriel, don't have anything on a female flautist, but my nine year old daughter plays the flute. She loves it. I have no musical talent, so it all seems cool and mysterious to me.
Why tap it now? How about we leave it in the ground and watch as it's value rises, and if the sh*t really hits the fan, then you use it. If someone had called $135 per barrel oil three years ago, they would have been laughed at. What if it goes to $200 or more? ANWR just would not produce enough volume to materially impact supply/price. This isn't a resource like timber that needs to be harvested within a certain time frame, so the downside to not busting into your piggy bank is what? A fractional impact on supply?
Note, none of the above reflects a traditional environmentalist viewpoint, just a rational use of scarce resources analysis. However, the tree-hugger argument is not that this piece of land is so much better than any other, but rather it is one of the LAST really protected places on the planet, and that has a value.
Thank you for the info. Small time publisher. Still working the kinks out. They don't want me to do layout, they just want the pages to match up exactly as it is a non-linear narrative with lots of jumping around. Easiest probably for me is to use my kid's Clamshell iBook. I prefer OSX anyway to XP, but XP is fine for what I am doing these days...as long as I don't let anyone else in the house touch it.
Ah MS Word! I am a writer, both free lance articles for magazines, as well as young adult novels. As I write this I am caught in a formatting war between my Lenovo PC with MS Word 2003 with HP LJ3300 drivers getting its pagination all messed up when my publisher looks/prints it using OSX, Word for Mac, and a Phaser 8500N. Any solutions for transfering it easily would be appreciated (PDF is out). I have installed the Phaser print drivers..
Anyway, enough of my trolling for help. Word for PC sucks, but it is the standard for the existing momemnt. However, the spell check functions of the word processor are by far the most valuable, and that is something that no manual typewriter ever had.
But they have to actually re-record the song. Impossible for most/many/some of the artists. The labels own the master tape rights, with some exceptions.
True. I bought the X-Men Ultimate CD_ROM which has all of the issues on one disk (only about $8 or so). It displays as a PDF that is unreadable when made to fit my 15" laptop screen and way too big when put at readable resolution. Hopefully they will take care of this for the online version, but I couldn't even get through the first issue....
Agreed, but they left off one very important geek. Jeff "Skunk" Baxter. He doesn't have a degree, but he "chairs a Congressional Advisory Board on missile defense"
He's actually using his self-taught knowledge, and people listen. -A
From Wikipedia: Jeff "Skunk" Baxter (born December 13, 1948 in Washington, D.C.) is an American guitarist best known for his stints in the rock bands Steely Dan and The Doobie Brothers during the 1970s. More recently, he has been working as a defense consultant, and he chairs a Congressional Advisory Board on missile defense.
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Wow. That was pretty thorough. Not sure about the last two options...maybe one where there is possibly an answer (not that I have it)
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I have been a reseller of many things. A profit margin of 10% is amazing in the computer business, Dell being no exception. I sold a lot of Dell stuff (*shudder*). And I am not talking about net, but gross profit. Sometimes 4% was considered worth it. It all comes down to volume, ease of delivery, and credit. Everything else is just a guideline at best. If you worked at a company that only made a 1% net profit, but invested in its people, its infrastructure and its goals, would that be worth it? Supermarkets operate at low margin, but have high volume.
-A
Dude, if you know the question they *meant* to ask, then just answer it. Unless it is your child, and you want to help them learn. Or your wife, where vagueness is your friend, and answering what they actually asked is safer.
-A
Moose are more coordinated than you are giving them credit for. I know this personally, having seen them scramble up hillsides and stomp through swamps. Not sure about giraffes personally, but I have seen some video shots where they were running quite well. Both fast and with agility.
-A
Hang out with more kids. They'll give it to you straight up, they'll say "hey, I'm [Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Agnostic, Atheist, or other] this is what I believe, mainly because my parents tell me too, but still...
-A
Look, I know all you snow-hating people think snow is bad, but snow is one of the best things that has EVER happened. Meanwhile I will think about the snow that is occurring at my house, heated by Fuel Oil #2 (not as cheap relative to gas as one would suppose...) with a propane fake woodstove and a real woodstove. 3 sources of heat, 2 aesthetic, 2 clean for the interior, 2 work in a power outage, and 2 don't require hauling by me. Anyway, sorry for the rant, but snow is good. Snow is fun. Snow makes everything much prettier. And it is fun to ski, snowboard, sled, slip, throw, look at and eat.
I support the non-driving to the library guy only to a certain percent, though, as you don't just rock up to the circulation desk and ask for goatse...which, sadly, accounts for too much rainforest defoliation than one would ever hope for.
-A
I am in Guatemala right now and won't be home to the cold for another month. For the first time I am missing it.
The weird thing is Card wrote one of the gayest, and I mean that in a good way, books in Songmaster, which was basically a story about an old dude and his young, chemically castrated boy-lover. Also, as far as I know, Card is a Mormon, not a straight-mainline Evanagelical Christian. See his book Saints to see how he pretties up some of the weirdness of the Mormon founders (I'm looking at you Joseph Smith!)
Anyway, Xenocide was almost unreadable, and the Shadow series devolved into moralistic children pretending to be adults. His ability to talk about how teenagers think or feel is remarkably repressed. No urges or desires here, thank you! Bean doesn't even have sex with Petra. Card seems to place celibacy as some sort of purifying state, but has a hard time reconciling that with the need to pro-create.
Where Card seems to be at his best is when telling the story of a young boy (Ender's Game, Alvin series 1-3, first Shadow book). He doesn't seem to really understand politics as practiced by mature, and slightly less pure, adults.
Anyway, give Songmaster a read and you might start wondering why Card gets all huffy about gay people, maybe some sublimated feelings there, Mr. Happily Married Man? Still there are worse authors out there.
Just my 2Cents,
A
Not if you bought Neverwinter Nights, admitedly, the graphics are way outdated, but the best modules created by the community are better than most, if not all, the storylines you find in most RPGs. You can buy the Neverwinter Nights Gold edition for $20 and really never have to pay anything else again. Also, you can play multi-player (I never have, but apparently you can), but the best thing is being able to play off-line or at your own leisure. No one is waiting for someone else to go on the raid with them....
Anyway, sorry to appear like I am dissing WoW, I am not, but $800 on almost anything is a lot.
My .02
-A
Dude, have you taken any Cisco Exams? Most of them are horrible. I have taken 7 of them, so maybe my sample is too small to comment on them all, but if you don't give them the answer they want, it is considered wrong. This is specifically true in instances where they are promoting their products and methodology.
Granted, some of them are quite difficult, but I would be very careful basing someone's expertise based on those babies. I passed every one the first time because I resisted the urge to go with the correct answer and chose the ones that fit their party line.
-A
Technically, it went down on her....
-A
Yeah, your epee or my sword cane I keep at home in case anyone bad shows up. That thing is lethal, but unlikely to kill by accident, like a gun. Surprise plays a factor as well.
-A
Peter Gabriel, don't have anything on a female flautist, but my nine year old daughter plays the flute. She loves it. I have no musical talent, so it all seems cool and mysterious to me.
-A
Why tap it now? How about we leave it in the ground and watch as it's value rises, and if the sh*t really hits the fan, then you use it. If someone had called $135 per barrel oil three years ago, they would have been laughed at. What if it goes to $200 or more? ANWR just would not produce enough volume to materially impact supply/price. This isn't a resource like timber that needs to be harvested within a certain time frame, so the downside to not busting into your piggy bank is what? A fractional impact on supply?
Note, none of the above reflects a traditional environmentalist viewpoint, just a rational use of scarce resources analysis. However, the tree-hugger argument is not that this piece of land is so much better than any other, but rather it is one of the LAST really protected places on the planet, and that has a value.
-A
I think he meant 'rollable' like, cough, smokable. Multi-purpose paper.
-A
Funny troll caught to0 Grammer nazis.
Thank you for the info. Small time publisher. Still working the kinks out. They don't want me to do layout, they just want the pages to match up exactly as it is a non-linear narrative with lots of jumping around. Easiest probably for me is to use my kid's Clamshell iBook. I prefer OSX anyway to XP, but XP is fine for what I am doing these days...as long as I don't let anyone else in the house touch it.
-A
What about barrels of radioactive tools/equipment? Yucca mountain?
-A
Ah MS Word! I am a writer, both free lance articles for magazines, as well as young adult novels. As I write this I am caught in a formatting war between my Lenovo PC with MS Word 2003 with HP LJ3300 drivers getting its pagination all messed up when my publisher looks/prints it using OSX, Word for Mac, and a Phaser 8500N. Any solutions for transfering it easily would be appreciated (PDF is out). I have installed the Phaser print drivers..
Anyway, enough of my trolling for help. Word for PC sucks, but it is the standard for the existing momemnt. However, the spell check functions of the word processor are by far the most valuable, and that is something that no manual typewriter ever had.
-A
But they have to actually re-record the song. Impossible for most/many/some of the artists. The labels own the master tape rights, with some exceptions.
-A
Yeah, I tried that, but the resolution was still too low to make the words legible.
In answer to the other question below, I believe it is an official release.
-A
True. I bought the X-Men Ultimate CD_ROM which has all of the issues on one disk (only about $8 or so). It displays as a PDF that is unreadable when made to fit my 15" laptop screen and way too big when put at readable resolution. Hopefully they will take care of this for the online version, but I couldn't even get through the first issue....
-A
What's your problem? Read the one with more nudity! Really...or just bring in Vanity Fair...
-A
So you are going to hack him? He asked you not to....
-A
Agreed, but they left off one very important geek. Jeff "Skunk" Baxter. He doesn't have a degree, but he "chairs a Congressional Advisory Board on missile defense"
He's actually using his self-taught knowledge, and people listen.
-A
From Wikipedia:
Jeff "Skunk" Baxter (born December 13, 1948 in Washington, D.C.) is an American guitarist best known for his stints in the rock bands Steely Dan and The Doobie Brothers during the 1970s. More recently, he has been working as a defense consultant, and he chairs a Congressional Advisory Board on missile defense.