Yes, they do price match Amazon. I picked up a Motorola Bluetooth car speaker, BB had it at the list $99, Amazon had it for $68, I pulled it up on my phone and the checkout girl matched it right there without even having to call a manager.
The intersection between people who want to drive pickup trucks and people want to who drive electric cars is close to zero.
I disagree with that totally. I have an F150 in the driveway, sitting next to a nearly worn out mid-size sedan which makes a lot of sense to me to replace with an EV. I think there are lots of households just like mine which a pickup and an EV would be a great combination, the best of both worlds.
Seems to me the #1 problem with EV batteries is the time it takes to charge them. We need to get to the point that it is possible to re-fuel/recharge an EV in 5 minutes or less, like it takes to fill up at a gas station.
How about spending time and money researching something like a exchangeable battery pack, something standard sized which you could pull in to an EV station, drop out your used battery and exchange for a set of fully charged ones?
That would solve so many problems. I know Tesla is working on something like this, but they don't go far enough to make it usable in any car, like gas stations are today.
How bout something simple like Google Groups? Excellent support for.....just about everything. Tie it up to your domain (Also excellent support to do that) and it all works.
There is a practical difference: When you're talking to a person in the car, that person understands the context of the conversation. If traffic gets gnarly in front of you, or you have to shift the car, or make a U-Turn, or really anything.....they can see that and understand and respect the fact that it's important to put the conversation on hold until the situation is resolved...it may save both of your lives! A person on the other end of a phone doesn't see the situation, and can't prioritize it nearly as well.
I can't imagine working for a company that wouldn't shell out cash within reason for an IDE that I was comfortable with. What's a few grand in the grand scheme of employee-related costs? Currently I work with an IDE that costs $10k, not because I asked for it but it is the only choice for the proprietary ETL solution that we use. But certainly I don't get resistance when my license is up for renewal...
Software developers really have it easy. Generally speaking we get free laptops, free software, free coffee, everything we need to do our jobs, and the guys who fix our cars have a $1000/month Snap-On tools bill that they pay out of their own pockets.
I never understood, why bother trying to start the cars at all when you're stealing them for parts? Isn't it a lot easier and quicker to just hook up a tow truck and off you go, 20 mins later it's a pile of parts anyway. Seems like a waste of time and effort to start it.
I can see if you're a teen going for a joyride. but not a "pro"
>Until everyone gets tired of playing the same old unimaginative crap over and over.
In related news, people are getting tired of having sex in the missionary position. They also seem to be tiring of drinking beer, walking upright, and talking on the phone.
Seriously. How can you possibly tire of playing first-person shooters? It's just not possible.
I listen to radio in my car. I don't have access to a computer in my car. Sure I guess I could set up an ipod or whatever and play it in my car, but IMHO that's a LOT of work and expense. I have to really work at identifying new music that I like, purchasing it, downloading it, transferring to an iPod, etc.
I don't like to listen to music while I'm working on my computer.
So really until they figure out how to connect my car radio to the internet in some seamless fashion, I have no use for internet radio.
Today I was in need of a new photo printer, and had decided on an HP Photosmart 8750. Several area stores listed it, none in stock. I was about to give up and have it delivered, but then signed on to Gaim and there was "ShoppingBuddy" I figured, what the heck, I'll give him/her/it a try. Well about 4 IMS, a couple clicks, and a phone call later, I found my beloved printer at my local OfficeDepot, a store I hadn't thought of checking previously. An hour later and my new printer is churning through a stack of 8x10's I needed to produce.
So there you have it. ShoppingBuddy is in fact useful.
I write financial reporting software for my company. Before anything is installed, even the most minor one-line bug fix, I have to sign a Sarbanes-Oxley statement of compliance. There are criminal consequences for not performing these steps properly. My QA person also has to sign this. My CIO is also held personally responsible, in that he/she could go to jail if something I wrote caused inaccurate financial reports to be released.
I suspect many people who write software, like myself, are already personally responsible. And so we should.
Well I do believe Motorola did their homework when they engineered the original black startac phones.
After abusing the phone in my pocket, dropping it hundreds of times, etc., I finally attempted (unintentionally) to finally drestroy it. Riding in the pocket of my jeans, the phone went through an entire cycle in the washing machine. Not being aware that this had happened, I dutifully placed the load into the dryer, and sent it through the entire cycle there as well.
Upon finding the phone still in my pocket, I turned it on and it worked perfectly. I ended up selling it on ebay after my contract expired, for nearly what I originally paid for it.
Patents have nothing at all to do with products. Patents are granted on ideas, all you have to do is describe the idea and method, prove that you were the first to have it, and your patent is granted.
We've had Tivo for a while now, and we always skip commercials when possible. We were at a hotel room, of course without it, watching TV and a commercial came on and we all just sat there watching. Our three year old daughter yelled out "Daddy, rewind it" (being three she didn't know the difference between rewind and fast forward, but she DID know we didn't need to watch commercials)
They have linux , windows, and mac clients, and our implementation uses SecurID for authentication, so at least it seems secure. (not being a security expert I have no idea if it actually is.)
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I purchased the game for my kids for xmas, they seem to like it ok and I figgered I'd give it a try, I popped in the CD and installed, but they wouldn't set me up a new account because the serial number had already been used. I called them on the phone and they will not even sell me a new serial number, all I can do is buy a new CD.
This is poor marketing, and they just lost a potential customer. I'm not shelling out another 50 bucks for something I already have.
Canto has done something similar for windows/mac, this is a database-driven metadata storage system for digital assets of any type. It's also extensible through custom plug-ins. It goes a big step furthur by adding a server component for group/enterprise wide asset storage.
eBay uses it. But not this eBay user. I've noticed that the passport button has decreased in prominance on that site, it now is underneath the main login prompts, and requires an extra pageview to use. eBay also doesn't say anything about why a user should use it rather than the regular sign in.
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Yes, they do price match Amazon. I picked up a Motorola Bluetooth car speaker, BB had it at the list $99, Amazon had it for $68, I pulled it up on my phone and the checkout girl matched it right there without even having to call a manager.
The intersection between people who want to drive pickup trucks and people want to who drive electric cars is close to zero.
I disagree with that totally. I have an F150 in the driveway, sitting next to a nearly worn out mid-size sedan which makes a lot of sense to me to replace with an EV. I think there are lots of households just like mine which a pickup and an EV would be a great combination, the best of both worlds.
Seems to me the #1 problem with EV batteries is the time it takes to charge them. We need to get to the point that it is possible to re-fuel/recharge an EV in 5 minutes or less, like it takes to fill up at a gas station.
How about spending time and money researching something like a exchangeable battery pack, something standard sized which you could pull in to an EV station, drop out your used battery and exchange for a set of fully charged ones?
That would solve so many problems. I know Tesla is working on something like this, but they don't go far enough to make it usable in any car, like gas stations are today.
How bout something simple like Google Groups? Excellent support for.....just about everything. Tie it up to your domain (Also excellent support to do that) and it all works.
And BuddyCloud.org
There is a practical difference: When you're talking to a person in the car, that person understands the context of the conversation. If traffic gets gnarly in front of you, or you have to shift the car, or make a U-Turn, or really anything.....they can see that and understand and respect the fact that it's important to put the conversation on hold until the situation is resolved...it may save both of your lives! A person on the other end of a phone doesn't see the situation, and can't prioritize it nearly as well.
Huge practical difference, IMO.
I can't imagine working for a company that wouldn't shell out cash within reason for an IDE that I was comfortable with. What's a few grand in the grand scheme of employee-related costs? Currently I work with an IDE that costs $10k, not because I asked for it but it is the only choice for the proprietary ETL solution that we use. But certainly I don't get resistance when my license is up for renewal...
Software developers really have it easy. Generally speaking we get free laptops, free software, free coffee, everything we need to do our jobs, and the guys who fix our cars have a $1000/month Snap-On tools bill that they pay out of their own pockets.
I never understood, why bother trying to start the cars at all when you're stealing them for parts? Isn't it a lot easier and quicker to just hook up a tow truck and off you go, 20 mins later it's a pile of parts anyway. Seems like a waste of time and effort to start it.
I can see if you're a teen going for a joyride. but not a "pro"
>Until everyone gets tired of playing the same old unimaginative crap over and over.
In related news, people are getting tired of having sex in the missionary position. They also seem to be tiring of drinking beer, walking upright, and talking on the phone.
Seriously. How can you possibly tire of playing first-person shooters? It's just not possible.
I listen to radio in my car. I don't have access to a computer in my car. Sure I guess I could set up an ipod or whatever and play it in my car, but IMHO that's a LOT of work and expense. I have to really work at identifying new music that I like, purchasing it, downloading it, transferring to an iPod, etc.
I don't like to listen to music while I'm working on my computer.
So really until they figure out how to connect my car radio to the internet in some seamless fashion, I have no use for internet radio.
From the "for what it's worth" department....
Today I was in need of a new photo printer, and had decided on an HP Photosmart 8750. Several area stores listed it, none in stock. I was about to give up and have it delivered, but then signed on to Gaim and there was "ShoppingBuddy" I figured, what the heck, I'll give him/her/it a try. Well about 4 IMS, a couple clicks, and a phone call later, I found my beloved printer at my local OfficeDepot, a store I hadn't thought of checking previously. An hour later and my new printer is churning through a stack of 8x10's I needed to produce.
So there you have it. ShoppingBuddy is in fact useful.
I write financial reporting software for my company. Before anything is installed, even the most minor one-line bug fix, I have to sign a Sarbanes-Oxley statement of compliance. There are criminal consequences for not performing these steps properly. My QA person also has to sign this. My CIO is also held personally responsible, in that he/she could go to jail if something I wrote caused inaccurate financial reports to be released.
I suspect many people who write software, like myself, are already personally responsible. And so we should.
RSA SecurID is the example most implemented: http://www.rsasecurity.com/node.asp?id=1156
AOL and E*Trade both offer this to the public, and many corporate customers use it to secure private nets.
No, the patent only applies to BASIC language.
So the article mentioned has excerpts from 5 articles.
Google News Has links to 617 complete articles related to this.
Proving googles's entire philosophy....some things are better left to an algorithm than a human.
Well I do believe Motorola did their homework when they engineered the original black startac phones.
After abusing the phone in my pocket, dropping it hundreds of times, etc., I finally attempted (unintentionally) to finally drestroy it. Riding in the pocket of my jeans, the phone went through an entire cycle in the washing machine. Not being aware that this had happened, I dutifully placed the load into the dryer, and sent it through the entire cycle there as well.
Upon finding the phone still in my pocket, I turned it on and it worked perfectly. I ended up selling it on ebay after my contract expired, for nearly what I originally paid for it.
Patents have nothing at all to do with products. Patents are granted on ideas, all you have to do is describe the idea and method, prove that you were the first to have it, and your patent is granted.
Thanks for the information, a small correction, the site is: donotcall.gov (not .org)
Actually, the author is a graduate and teacher at MIT. Not sure what he's doing over at Harvard, as his blog appears to have been slashdotted.
We've had Tivo for a while now, and we always skip commercials when possible. We were at a hotel room, of course without it, watching TV and a commercial came on and we all just sat there watching. Our three year old daughter yelled out "Daddy, rewind it" (being three she didn't know the difference between rewind and fast forward, but she DID know we didn't need to watch commercials)
They have linux , windows, and mac clients, and our implementation uses SecurID for authentication, so at least it seems secure. (not being a security expert I have no idea if it actually is.)
I purchased the game for my kids for xmas, they seem to like it ok and I figgered I'd give it a try, I popped in the CD and installed, but they wouldn't set me up a new account because the serial number had already been used. I called them on the phone and they will not even sell me a new serial number, all I can do is buy a new CD.
This is poor marketing, and they just lost a potential customer. I'm not shelling out another 50 bucks for something I already have.
Canto has done something similar for windows/mac, this is a database-driven metadata storage system for digital assets of any type. It's also extensible through custom plug-ins. It goes a big step furthur by adding a server component for group/enterprise wide asset storage.
eBay uses it. But not this eBay user. I've noticed that the passport button has decreased in prominance on that site, it now is underneath the main login prompts, and requires an extra pageview to use. eBay also doesn't say anything about why a user should use it rather than the regular sign in.