>>>huh, I just talk to the manager and they take care of me in no time.
You're assuming the manager is not a dick. I've run into them in various stores. Example: At Walmart I returned a $10 CFL pack that did not work. The manager refused to refund my money. So I had to call my credit card and they said *per the contract walmart signed* with the credit company, they have to take back the item.
Signed, The People of the 50 Republics of these United States. Signed, The People of the 27 Member States of the European Union Signed, The People of the Russian Federation. Signed,.....
It wasn't the tax that reduced smoking. It was education campaigns showing blackened lungs, plus the fact smoking is simply not fashionable anymore. People used to smoke because it was "cool", but that's not the case anymore. It had NOTHING to do with the imposition of the tax. Correlation is not causation.
"From time to time the Tree of Liberty must be watered with the blood of patriots and tyrants. Civil disobedience is its nature manure." - Thomas Jefferson, 1790s. Of course what Jefferson ACTUALLY did was to form a new party called the Democrat-Republicans, and takeover the government in 1800. They dominated politics for the next three decades. WE need to take back our government(s) in Canada, the EU and the US.
Apparently you missed the/. article about how, even with a strong science education, climate change deniers still..... deny. They use the science to backup their belief that the earth is either (a) not warming or (b) going through a natural cycle that would happen even if mankind did not exist.
>>>You can buy a used car every 4 years at even the low rates of car insurance.
Nationwide insures me for just $110 a month. So that would be $880 over four years..... not enough to buy a car, unless it's a really old one (like 1997).
Apparently the government does it: "The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Aviation Insurance Program provides products that address the insurance needs of the U.S. domestic air transportation industry not adequately met by the commercial insurance market. The FAA currently is providing war risk insurance under two separate programs; 1) Premium War Risk Insurance, and 2) Non Premium War Risk Insurance."
Just reading wikipedia's description: " CentOS exists to provide a free enterprise class computing platform and strives to maintain 100% binary compatibility with its upstream source, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)." - Why not just use Red Hat directly?
More plankton "eat" the carbon from the air..... that is true. But when the plankton die and rot, the carbon is released back into the air. It's a carbon neutral process, not a carbon sink.
>>>"Sequestering" carbon in any way is about the same as "squestering" trash by burying it in the dump. Just gets it out of sight for awhile, you gotta think about the future.
Disagree. The carbon was VERY well sequestered for ~700 million years..... until humans came-along and start digging it out of coal mountains/oil wells and burning it. If humans had not done that, the carbon would still be sequestered under the ground and GW not an issue.
Sometimes Facebook shoots themselves in the foot. I browse facebook using my Kindle, which has a full-sized web browser just like a tablet, and loads all of Facebook's ads (which generate revenue). About a week ago facebook started redirecting my kindle to mobile.facebook which has NO ads. So basically facebook is losing money every time I visit. If they had any sense they'd turn-off the redirect to the ad-free site.
There are ways around stores that refuse to issue a refund on a broken item: - Put the item for return in an envelope w/ delivery confirmation. - Mail it back to store. - Wait 30 days and then call the credit card company & file a dispute that you returned the item but never received a refund. - CC company issues refund.
I haven't bought a Best Buy product in a long time. As I recall it was an eMachine desktop discounted to $FREE if I signed a 2 year MSN Dialup contract. So that gives you an idea of how long ago that was. (It's a shame ISPs no longer offer contract deals on PCs... like cellproviders do with phones.)
I've found the best bargains are through Staples: I paid $250 for a desktop and $300 for a laptop. Bestbuy charged about one hundred more... no wonder they are losing customers. Maybe in another year they'll have a Circuitshitty-type selloff, and I can acquire more PS3/Xbox/Wii games for $5.
Probably not because they have to compete with the Internet too. If the highly-efficient Circuit City or Best Buy could not do it, it's doubtful some mom/pop store could do it.
Small stores might fill the same roll as 7/11 does (quick gratification for purchases needed immediately), but will also have the same higher prices on goods that 7/11 has.
In essence I guess that's what they are saying: Intel will develop improved multicore handling for Android, but keep the ideas they develop in house. Nothing wrong with that I guess.
Unfortunately expanding-out the acronyms doesn't make the summary any clearer:
"CERT/CC has called out AMD for having insecure video drivers. AMD/ATI video drivers are incompatible with system-wide Address space layout randomization (ASLR).
'Always On' Data Execution Prevention (DEP) combined with 'Always On' ASLR are effective exploit mitigations. However, most people don't know about 'Always On' ASLR since Microsoft had to hide it from the Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit with an 'EnableUnsafeSettings' registry key â" because AMD/ATI video drivers will cause a Blue Screen Of Death on boot if 'Always On' ASLR is enabled."
"Charlottesville VA, Lafayette IN, Anchorage AK, Madison WI, and the San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose"??? Yes maybe SF/Oakland but not Charlottesville which is redneck territory. Or Anchorage.
The place with the highest concentration of iPhones and iPads is located between Baltimore and D.C. That's where I would expect to find the most intelligent people. Also Silicon Valley CA and Seattle WA.
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>>>huh, I just talk to the manager and they take care of me in no time.
You're assuming the manager is not a dick. I've run into them in various stores. Example: At Walmart I returned a $10 CFL pack that did not work. The manager refused to refund my money. So I had to call my credit card and they said *per the contract walmart signed* with the credit company, they have to take back the item.
>>>No. Kids will find that boring.
I was reading magazines (NatGeo World/Kids and Astronomy) when I was the same age as this kid: 10. And sci-fi long before that.
DEAR UN:
No taxation without direct representation!
Signed, .....
The People of the 50 Republics of these United States.
Signed,
The People of the 27 Member States of the European Union
Signed,
The People of the Russian Federation.
Signed,
It wasn't the tax that reduced smoking.
It was education campaigns showing blackened lungs, plus the fact smoking is simply not fashionable anymore. People used to smoke because it was "cool", but that's not the case anymore. It had NOTHING to do with the imposition of the tax. Correlation is not causation.
"From time to time the Tree of Liberty must be watered with the blood of patriots and tyrants. Civil disobedience is its nature manure." - Thomas Jefferson, 1790s. Of course what Jefferson ACTUALLY did was to form a new party called the Democrat-Republicans, and takeover the government in 1800. They dominated politics for the next three decades. WE need to take back our government(s) in Canada, the EU and the US.
Apparently you missed the /. article about how, even with a strong science education, climate change deniers still..... deny. They use the science to backup their belief that the earth is either (a) not warming or (b) going through a natural cycle that would happen even if mankind did not exist.
>>>Math fail?
No word fail. I meant to type: Nationwide insures me for just $110 every 6 months. Or $880 over 4 years.
>>>You can buy a used car every 4 years at even the low rates of car insurance.
Nationwide insures me for just $110 a month. So that would be $880 over four years..... not enough to buy a car, unless it's a really old one (like 1997).
Apparently the government does it: "The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Aviation Insurance Program provides products that address the insurance needs of the U.S. domestic air transportation industry not adequately met by the commercial insurance market. The FAA currently is providing war risk insurance under two separate programs; 1) Premium War Risk Insurance, and 2) Non Premium War Risk Insurance."
http://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/apl/aviation_insurance/
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Just reading wikipedia's description: " CentOS exists to provide a free enterprise class computing platform and strives to maintain 100% binary compatibility with its upstream source, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)." - Why not just use Red Hat directly?
Good point(s).
More plankton "eat" the carbon from the air..... that is true. But when the plankton die and rot, the carbon is released back into the air. It's a carbon neutral process, not a carbon sink.
>>>"Sequestering" carbon in any way is about the same as "squestering" trash by burying it in the dump. Just gets it out of sight for awhile, you gotta think about the future.
Disagree.
The carbon was VERY well sequestered for ~700 million years..... until humans came-along and start digging it out of coal mountains/oil wells and burning it. If humans had not done that, the carbon would still be sequestered under the ground and GW not an issue.
That would only be true if the plankton were buried and did not rot. Same as trees.
Fixed Link:
http://www.sciencenews.org/
http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/ (Formerly World magazine) These magazines are where I discovered my love of science and learning (and reading).
Via these magazines he can learn to read AND learn science at the same time:
http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/prior/
http://www.astronomy.com/
http://www.sciencenews.com/
AND audio/video courses on chemistry (a lot of this stuff you can download for free off isohunt.com) http://www.thegreatcourses.com/tgc/search/search.aspx?searchphrase=chemistry
>>>Revenue per user is down.
Sometimes Facebook shoots themselves in the foot. I browse facebook using my Kindle, which has a full-sized web browser just like a tablet, and loads all of Facebook's ads (which generate revenue). About a week ago facebook started redirecting my kindle to mobile.facebook which has NO ads. So basically facebook is losing money every time I visit. If they had any sense they'd turn-off the redirect to the ad-free site.
There are ways around stores that refuse to issue a refund on a broken item:
- Put the item for return in an envelope w/ delivery confirmation.
- Mail it back to store.
- Wait 30 days and then call the credit card company & file a dispute that you returned the item but never received a refund.
- CC company issues refund.
Same reason I don't import brides.
(Do you really need to "touch" your new PC or laptop? It's just a generic device nowadays. Like my new $30 microwave I bought sight unseen.)
I haven't bought a Best Buy product in a long time. As I recall it was an eMachine desktop discounted to $FREE if I signed a 2 year MSN Dialup contract. So that gives you an idea of how long ago that was. (It's a shame ISPs no longer offer contract deals on PCs... like cellproviders do with phones.)
I've found the best bargains are through Staples: I paid $250 for a desktop and $300 for a laptop. Bestbuy charged about one hundred more... no wonder they are losing customers. Maybe in another year they'll have a Circuitshitty-type selloff, and I can acquire more PS3/Xbox/Wii games for $5.
Probably not because they have to compete with the Internet too. If the highly-efficient Circuit City or Best Buy could not do it, it's doubtful some mom/pop store could do it.
Small stores might fill the same roll as 7/11 does (quick gratification for purchases needed immediately), but will also have the same higher prices on goods that 7/11 has.
In essence I guess that's what they are saying: Intel will develop improved multicore handling for Android, but keep the ideas they develop in house. Nothing wrong with that I guess.
Unfortunately expanding-out the acronyms doesn't make the summary any clearer:
"CERT/CC has called out AMD for having insecure video drivers. AMD/ATI video drivers are incompatible with system-wide Address space layout randomization (ASLR).
'Always On' Data Execution Prevention (DEP) combined with 'Always On' ASLR are effective exploit mitigations. However, most people don't know about 'Always On' ASLR since Microsoft had to hide it from the Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit with an 'EnableUnsafeSettings' registry key â" because AMD/ATI video drivers will cause a Blue Screen Of Death on boot if 'Always On' ASLR is enabled."
What?
Southwest, rural Georgia.
"Charlottesville VA, Lafayette IN, Anchorage AK, Madison WI, and the San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose"??? Yes maybe SF/Oakland but not Charlottesville which is redneck territory. Or Anchorage.
The place with the highest concentration of iPhones and iPads is located between Baltimore and D.C. That's where I would expect to find the most intelligent people. Also Silicon Valley CA and Seattle WA.