My water supplier also charges an extra $2.50 "convenience fee" for paying online. This comes to about 10% of the total bill most months. It's a pain in the ass because the only other form of payment they accept is checks and I don't own a checkbook (I prefer to use credit cards for everything possible... yay cashback).
The Chinese Borg use lead-based nanoprobes and the eye lasers have a tendency to blow up.
Actually, the Chinese do have a lot of parallels with the Borg... steal technology rather than develop it themselves, a large supply of cheap labor, putting the collective ahead of the individual, funny colored skin...
I've heard a lot of great things about Namecheap from customers and third party reviewers. I'm considering moving one of my domains there to give them a try.
I've heard a lot of bad things about GoDaddy from customers and third party reviewers. I'd never consider giving them business - however, I do use them to find if a domain I want is already registered because their domain search is faster than a lot of other sites. I also used to work for a company that purchased SSL certificates from GoDaddy. Using their website is not fun and their customer service less so.
All things considered, I'd have to believe Namecheap over GoDaddy, regardless of how hot Danica Patrick is.
That was my first thought - you are generally allowed to keep a firearm in your home but you can't take it with you wherever you please regardless of permits. Xbox Live could be analagous to a mall or other large, privately owned public space - if the mall bans guns then the second amendment can't stop them. If Xbox Live somehow banned you from having gun avatars on your own personal machine while not connected to Live, that would be closer to a second amendment issue. However, because we're talking bits and bytes and not real firearms, isn't this more of a first amendment issue than a second amendment anyway? Not that the first amendment applies to a private corporation much more than the second amendment would...
As mentioned with another poster, there's a huge difference between two legitimate businesses competing for the same domain name and a competitor using a domain with your name against you. It's not like Foobar Technologies and Foobar Food Co competing for Foobar.com for their own use, it's more like Hello World Technologies buying Foobar.com and then using it to criticize their competitor, Foobar Technologies.
This has nothing to do with trademarks or businesses or legality. It has more to do with ethical/moral behavior and deceptive practices. While this is certainly a much higher profile case than two high school kids doing the same thing (Kid A registers KidB.com and uses it to criticize Kid B), it's still the same issue.
I think there is a big difference between cases like Apple where its two legitimate entities competing over the same domain name for their own use and someone taking a domain for the express purpose of damaging another entity. This would be like Apple Computer using apple.com expressly for the purpose to criticize Apple Corps.
I'd have to agree. If you go to Walmart.com, you expect it to be Walmart's site. Same with Microsoft.com, Sears.com or Chrysler.com. If a site is against it, you'd expect something more like walmartsucks.com or antiwalmart.com. It'd be sort of like finding some kind of trademark loophole where you could build a store, put Walmart's logo out front but then have the inside be expressly anti-walmart. If nothing else, it's deceptive.
Yes, put it all in the public domain without strings, and then charge an arm and a leg for the strings. Brilliant! After all, what good is a guitar without strings?
Safari runs on Windows?
Any time I've tried running Apple software (iTunes, Safari, Quicktime) on Windows, it just takes forever to load, wants to spend all day updating, chews up my memory and craps on my processor. If someone is running Safari on Windows intentionally then they might be masochistic enough to welcome this 'feature'
But in this analogy, you'd be allowed inside the cabin because it's the expected and normal usage of the car - you don't generally change/upgrade things from within the cabin beyond those the manufacturer/dealer approves (IE: swapping out a radio is pretty simple on most cars and doesn't usually void warranties). To "lock the cabin" of a tablet would be like the update changing the password/PIN and not letting the user in at all.
Since the last update to the Nook Color let me watch Netflix (it works really well, although subtitles could be slightly larger) and fixed a few oversights like not being able to read books in landscape mode, I really don't have a reason to root it anymore. It may just be my perception, but overall performance seems to have improved slightly as well. Does anyone know if this affects dual-booting the Nook Color off of a microSD card?
I used to get a lot of calls that one of our four LaserJet 4250's was "printing in Chinese" again. Most of the characters were simple ASCII squares, arrows, smiley faces, etc... not even a resemblance to Chinese but that's what people called it since it didn't use the standard English alphabet.
I did a lot of my textbook buying/selling on Amazon. Unfortunately, there's always that one professor who insists on some special edition that can only be found in the school bookstore. I hate that guy. It usually seems to be business law professors too.
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My water supplier also charges an extra $2.50 "convenience fee" for paying online. This comes to about 10% of the total bill most months. It's a pain in the ass because the only other form of payment they accept is checks and I don't own a checkbook (I prefer to use credit cards for everything possible... yay cashback).
The Chinese Borg use lead-based nanoprobes and the eye lasers have a tendency to blow up.
Actually, the Chinese do have a lot of parallels with the Borg... steal technology rather than develop it themselves, a large supply of cheap labor, putting the collective ahead of the individual, funny colored skin...
Whew, the .xxx TLD was made available just in time. Now we can register 570millionyearoldporn.xxx
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Here's the video: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/31/bob-parsons-godaddy-ceo-elephant-hunt_n_843121.html
I've heard a lot of great things about Namecheap from customers and third party reviewers. I'm considering moving one of my domains there to give them a try.
I've heard a lot of bad things about GoDaddy from customers and third party reviewers. I'd never consider giving them business - however, I do use them to find if a domain I want is already registered because their domain search is faster than a lot of other sites. I also used to work for a company that purchased SSL certificates from GoDaddy. Using their website is not fun and their customer service less so.
All things considered, I'd have to believe Namecheap over GoDaddy, regardless of how hot Danica Patrick is.
Iowa has electricity and computers? You really can make anything out of corn.
That was my first thought - you are generally allowed to keep a firearm in your home but you can't take it with you wherever you please regardless of permits. Xbox Live could be analagous to a mall or other large, privately owned public space - if the mall bans guns then the second amendment can't stop them. If Xbox Live somehow banned you from having gun avatars on your own personal machine while not connected to Live, that would be closer to a second amendment issue. However, because we're talking bits and bytes and not real firearms, isn't this more of a first amendment issue than a second amendment anyway? Not that the first amendment applies to a private corporation much more than the second amendment would...
$40 per paycheck (if being paid bi-weekly as most people are) does come out to roughly $1000/yr
So... what does this mean for consumers? Better AT&T coverage? Cheaper wireless? Somehow I get the feeling the opposite is going to happen...
As mentioned with another poster, there's a huge difference between two legitimate businesses competing for the same domain name and a competitor using a domain with your name against you. It's not like Foobar Technologies and Foobar Food Co competing for Foobar.com for their own use, it's more like Hello World Technologies buying Foobar.com and then using it to criticize their competitor, Foobar Technologies.
This has nothing to do with trademarks or businesses or legality. It has more to do with ethical/moral behavior and deceptive practices. While this is certainly a much higher profile case than two high school kids doing the same thing (Kid A registers KidB.com and uses it to criticize Kid B), it's still the same issue.
I think there is a big difference between cases like Apple where its two legitimate entities competing over the same domain name for their own use and someone taking a domain for the express purpose of damaging another entity. This would be like Apple Computer using apple.com expressly for the purpose to criticize Apple Corps.
I'd have to agree. If you go to Walmart.com, you expect it to be Walmart's site. Same with Microsoft.com, Sears.com or Chrysler.com. If a site is against it, you'd expect something more like walmartsucks.com or antiwalmart.com. It'd be sort of like finding some kind of trademark loophole where you could build a store, put Walmart's logo out front but then have the inside be expressly anti-walmart. If nothing else, it's deceptive.
Yes, put it all in the public domain without strings, and then charge an arm and a leg for the strings. Brilliant! After all, what good is a guitar without strings?
Safari runs on Windows? Any time I've tried running Apple software (iTunes, Safari, Quicktime) on Windows, it just takes forever to load, wants to spend all day updating, chews up my memory and craps on my processor. If someone is running Safari on Windows intentionally then they might be masochistic enough to welcome this 'feature'
Then why do shipments come by car and cargo by ships?
But in this analogy, you'd be allowed inside the cabin because it's the expected and normal usage of the car - you don't generally change/upgrade things from within the cabin beyond those the manufacturer/dealer approves (IE: swapping out a radio is pretty simple on most cars and doesn't usually void warranties). To "lock the cabin" of a tablet would be like the update changing the password/PIN and not letting the user in at all.
Since the last update to the Nook Color let me watch Netflix (it works really well, although subtitles could be slightly larger) and fixed a few oversights like not being able to read books in landscape mode, I really don't have a reason to root it anymore. It may just be my perception, but overall performance seems to have improved slightly as well. Does anyone know if this affects dual-booting the Nook Color off of a microSD card?
Sort of like being able to open the hood on your car is a security risk.
I used to get a lot of calls that one of our four LaserJet 4250's was "printing in Chinese" again. Most of the characters were simple ASCII squares, arrows, smiley faces, etc... not even a resemblance to Chinese but that's what people called it since it didn't use the standard English alphabet.
And I read it in the autobiography of that Jules Verne guy. He did a lot of cool stuff in all his autobiographies. Changed his name a lot too...
I did a lot of my textbook buying/selling on Amazon. Unfortunately, there's always that one professor who insists on some special edition that can only be found in the school bookstore. I hate that guy. It usually seems to be business law professors too.
And AC would be correct, I graduated in 2010. 1 YEARS AGO.
I'm not seeing the bad.