10.0 --> 10.1 wasn't $20 for everyone. You could walk into an Apple store and they'd give you the CDs for free.
Or, just about any other Apple retailer. It would, however, have been nice if Apple had shipped it free the Apple Store customers. I'm sure the extra profit of having made the sale direct would have allowed them to provide a higher level of service.
I was in a car once where the computer malfunctioned and the fuel-injector was locked full-on. This is equivalent to flooring the accelerator.
No, it's not. Your car should have flooded. Your fuel mixture would have gone way rich, and your car would have either stopped running or run like a dog. Something else must have happened, either in addition to, or instead of the fuel-injector locking open.
No. Not anymore. As long as the average amount of a transaction far exceeds the value of the lowest-denomination non-coin, this will be separated from inflation. i.e. $2.55 and $293,453,231.55 are the same for the coin distribution question. Relatively few transactions occur below $1.00 mark. Some influence may be felt by the shift in prices of very low cost items that are bought singly with cash: Soda, snacks, video games, fast food, and to a lesser extent, payphone calls.
Here's the problem, specifically.
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Okay, when I'm working with change, I'm not really actively calculating much of anything.
Quick: What's 5*5? Did you move around 25 units magically in your head? No, you knew the answer. With a decimal system, I seldom do any math when giving change. I'm horrific with math, actually.
Here's how it goes:
Remember the quarters numbers:.00.25.50.75
The dimes are stupid obvious.
For nickels, I've come to associate numbers separated by five:
0/5 1/6 2/7 3/8 4/9
And you obviously count ones on pennies.
Half dollars are simple: Use the quarter system.
Start at the quarters, work down. Just keep adding coins at the current level until you exceed the amount you're shooting for. So $1.47: Pull a $1.00 (who uses the coins for this?) Quarters: 1=.25 2=.50 : 1 quarter Dimes: 1=.35 2=.45 : 2 dimes Nickels: 1=.50 : 0 nickels Pennies: ".46,.47" : 2 pennies
Now, the.18. Pull a $1.00. Quarters: 1=.25 2=.50 : 1 quarter .18: 1=.43 : 1 eighteen cent piece Dimes: 1=.53 : 0 Dimes Nickels: 1=.48 : 0 Nickels Pennies: ".44,.45,.46,.47"
The extra thought required will slow the change process. It's not that the cashier can't do it, it's that it takes more time to do. If the.18 comes out, it will either not get used, (think of all the machinery not built for four coins - pennies usually aren't accepted now) or it will slow things down.
Another thing to consider: Most register tills have five coin trays. The unused tray generally holds a couple of rolls of coins. Think about the holdups involved in keeping less extra change in the register.
Both Best Buy and the judge were off their rocker. Best Buy can ask him to leave. The store is private property. If he is a customer, they should have allowed him to continue to calculate prices. If Best Buy asked him to put his laptop away, he should have complied. Further, the article mentions other stores that claim to not have a policy against Mr. Kahlow's behavior. I know for a fact that one of them actually is okay with Mr Kahlow's behavior, but does have a policy (and not just an "unwritten" one)against competitor's doing what Mr. Kahlow was doing. (Which is a different thing - and more on topic - one means a potential sale for them, the other means potential sales for their competition) Their policy is to ask the suspected competitor what they are doing, and then if confirmed as a competitor, they are to make a specific statement essentially revoking that individual's right to visit the store, and then, they are to ask them to leave. When that store shops a competitor, policy compels them to wear normal street clothes, to not use any automated devices, and to admit their affilliation and leave if asked.
I have an NX-2420 Rainbow. If you aren't getting better results out of an Inkjet, you need to get the inkjet fixed. By the time the printer finished layering the colors on, the paper had been thorougly pummeled, and was in rather poor shape. I did get decent results if the image was very light, but even then, colors were flat.
Yes. Many printers today are junk. It's the same thing we're seeing across the consumer electronics industry. Printers shouldn't cost $50. It's only because printer manuafacturers have moved to a business model based on accessory profits. They recognize what many other businesses have before them - that people will shop for a printer price, but then not shop for a low price on a printer cable, paper and ink cartridges. In today's market, retailers, and in turn, manufactuers have themselves painted in a tight corner. Most people look at new technology today and instead of saying that they have to have it, they decide to wait until it goes on sale or gets cheaper. The end result is that new products have to see a few generations pass before the developmen costs can be defrayed and prices can fall. That means cheap printers are made cheaply. If you buy a printer under $150, you're getting a printer that will provide beautiful pictures, great web page performance, and will likely piss you off or just fall into bits shortly thereafter. You'll then buy a new printer with the same or lower quality and do it again. If you spend a little more - $200 to $400 in most cases, you'll get slightly better performance and much better build quality. Look at Lexmark's consumer products, and then contrast them with their enterprise products. The former has the image of being junk, while the latter actually seems to be some high-quality products.
You can look at nearly every consumer electronics category and find this. The easiest is to compare the VCRs that early adoptors owned with the VCR of today. Modern VCRs have HiFi stereo, Super-Quasi playback, VCR+ Plus Gold, Commercial Skip, Commercial Advance, and cost about the same as a low end DVD player. Older models cost close to $1500, were mono and often had wired remotes. They also tend to still work for those few that didn't get bored with them in the late 80's.
Here's why. New technology costs money. Let's say it would have cost $1300 to make that VCR in 1980. Well, the sort of person that drops $1300 on a VCR doesn't want a piece of crap like you can buy a Best Buy for $79.99. They want a quality piece of kit. Besides, bad reviews can kill a new product line, while everyone expects the first models to be expensive, the question is, "do they work?" So, the answer is simple. Build it like a tank. Add $200 to the price, and build it like there's no tomorrow. It's a flagship product, so over the top is good. Dodge sells Vipers not only to sell Vipers, but also to sell Neons. The price of metal and machining hasn't changed too radically since then. Let's say today that the upgrade to that quality wouldn't have been $200, but instead $125. Also add market forces from DVD players - which are mechanically simpler than VCRs - meaning they should cost less than a VCR. Now you have a $80 VCR that has most every feature anyone would need. It would cost $125 to upgrade it to the high quality they "used to" have, so you now have a $205 VCR in an $80 market.
The same thing is happening right now in DVD players and recorders. Keep in mind that the transport hardware's task is almost identical between the player and recorder. You'll see on the same shelf at your local retailer a DVD recorder for $500 and a DVD player for $100. Compare the finish on the two models. Look at how the remote controls are made. Compare the overall feel of the two units.
Or, maybe it's like some person set up an access point in a manner that allows for access freely by all in range. Everyone wants an analogy. Seriously, one could argue that this situation is like a number of others. The truth is that you can't judge it as being like car theft, boxes in a stranger's living room, or the empty can of Red Bull (which I don't drink) I found in my garbage can when I brought it from the street last week. The way I see it, you have to go by what the user did not what the user meant to do. (Maybe the access points should just have a big red toggle switch on the front labeled "Access" with two positions: "Me only" and "Everyone.") What the user did was configure a system that was capable of access control to allow free access from all clients. I consider that permission to use the access. That having been said, I've never transmitted one packet out over the net through one of these mystery APs. Try to think of context. If I found an open AP in a public place, like a school, library, mall, resturaunt or coffee shop, I'd consider it a resource for the patrons. In my admittedly limited war driving (I might have ten miles of it) I've not found such an AP. If I go into a coffee shop next week and discover an open AP, I'm surfing. I'll have also just found my new favorite coffee shop.:)
Whenever I get one of these pitches, I generally respond with, "If you think it needs that kind of warranty, maybe I shouldn't buy it to begin with. You think maybe I should just put it back?"
"Heh,heh. I understand, and that's a fair question. You have selected a very good product. Actually, the value in the plan is that not only do we cover your product against manufacturer's defects, we also guarantee that the product will work just like brand new. What's more, power surges are covered. It doesn't matter how well a product is made, a power surge will take it out. That's why I recommend this plan to all my customers. Add the peace of mind, and the yearly cleanings - something your manufacturer recommends, but doesn't pay for - and you have what I believe is an excelent value. So, with that in mind, would you like to cover the item for five years, or only three?"
Yes, that is interesting. Interesting in a way that might make one wonder if this story is total fabrication to conceal the existence of higher-quality images from the "professional" scopes at that site.
Not saying I believe that's the case, but it is simply more fodder for the anti-NASA conspiracists
Or perhaps it's a little backpedaling to cover up the failure of an over-budget, underachieving program that's yielded only very poor images.
Does the key have a serial number? If so, you may launch a script that authenticates off that as well. Of course, usb keys are for storage. There is hardware designed for what you want to do.
I was watching the coverage yesterday on Fox. For those unfamiliar with Fox News, they have a ticker at the bottom of the screen that keeps viewers up to date with the most moronic news bits:
NASA: Investigation will follow.
NASA: We are all saddened.
I appreciate that Fox is trying to keep people informed. Who wouldn't expect that everyone at NASA is saddened? Same here. eBay auctions for Shuttle debris. Do you think? What is the most obvious thing to happen following a tragedy that drops bits of spacecraft debris over rural Texas and Louisiana?
Oh, and while they're at it, I think an awesome idea would be a mouse with a button on the side, for your thumb or something, that incorporates this new 'back' technology with a click of mouse button, to save valuable wrist moving time from this pixel to the upper left of my screen.
Well, just buy a good mouse then. It's a nice feature. My Kensington does it.
This sounds like an SDTV aka Digital SDTV. Next up are the 720p native sets. Zenith and Phillips have models in the $5000-$6000 range for a 42". These are EDTVs. 1080i native would be an HDTV. Circuit City just took $1000 off the Hitachi - it's $6999.99 now. It looks rather nice, but plasma tv sets really only shine at their native resolutions.
Re:1966 is the watershed?
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Keep in mind, Gen-X hates being labeled Gen-X. If you want to be Gen-X, you can't be, because you want it, thus excluding you from the group.
Try this: Pretend you never used a PET. Start a Blog. Pretend you bought Milli Vanilli. Now, act as if you hadn't. Deny that you might have owned it, but from the standpoint of someone who actually did. Rebel against Wal-Mart, things that are "New and Improved" or "Lemony Fresh." Buy good coffee.
Remember that big business is bad, but Starbucks is good. Nike is bad, except when it's good.
Read Wired. Try to use at least one of the new buzzwords every day.
Read Uber. Don't be offended. Know better than to email a link to your parents.
Do you feel shallow, and feel guilty about it? Do you lust for your younger days, eating pizza and watching bad audio-animationic mice sing? A little uncomfortable in your skin?
First: This is the largest front page post I've ever seen...
Second: HDTV has the Dolby AC-3 technology in the standard. That means Dolby will get a cut off of every TV with a built in digital tuner and every HDTV tuner box. It also means royalties on many broadcast tools. I don't know the license regulations, but it may also mean a cut on every show that uses AC-3. Sucky, but also, time to buy Dolby stock.
Just imagine if the web had turned out this way. Companies keep trying to move things into their corner, even without standards bodies helping. What is Quicktime became the video standard on the web? I love the format, but it's also been hell getting Linux to support it. The web has been burned this way before. Everything will be okay, as long as we burn back.
If he stalls, they have to run out with a laptop to reset the launch sequence.
This is the most asinine thing I've heard in a while. Are you sure? They can't put a freaking button in the car, or maybe setup some WIFI or something? They have to have a geek run out on the course to reset the computer??
I've had a support nightmare with Microsoft over features in XP. Without going into a tirade, I use the proper quoting, with my reply at the bottom. Microsoft customer service likes to type at the top. I refuse to cave, so we have trade back and forth a progressivly larger, more unwieldy and obfuscated email. It continues for about two to three months and then Microsoft stops replying. I honestly think the support drone gets overwhelmed by the message. I usually have to restart things again. Come to think of it, it's been ten months, I wonder if small claims court would help...
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I left it in my other pants.
No, it's not. Your car should have flooded. Your fuel mixture would have gone way rich, and your car would have either stopped running or run like a dog. Something else must have happened, either in addition to, or instead of the fuel-injector locking open.
Paint supports more file formats than it did in Windows 3.0 and Solitare got new card backs since 3.0.
No. Not anymore. As long as the average amount of a transaction far exceeds the value of the lowest-denomination non-coin, this will be separated from inflation. i.e. $2.55 and $293,453,231.55 are the same for the coin distribution question. Relatively few transactions occur below $1.00 mark. Some influence may be felt by the shift in prices of very low cost items that are bought singly with cash: Soda, snacks, video games, fast food, and to a lesser extent, payphone calls.
Remember the quarters numbers:
The dimes are stupid obvious.
For nickels, I've come to associate numbers separated by five:
0/5 1/6 2/7 3/8 4/9
And you obviously count ones on pennies.
Half dollars are simple: Use the quarter system.
Start at the quarters, work down. Just keep adding coins at the current level until you exceed the amount you're shooting for. So $1.47:
Pull a $1.00 (who uses the coins for this?)
Quarters: 1=.25 2=.50 : 1 quarter
Dimes: 1=.35 2=.45 : 2 dimes
Nickels: 1=.50 : 0 nickels
Pennies: ".46,.47" : 2 pennies
Now, the .18.
.18 : 1=.43 : 1 eighteen cent piece .18 comes out, it will either not get used, (think of all the machinery not built for four coins - pennies usually aren't accepted now) or it will slow things down.
Pull a $1.00.
Quarters: 1=.25 2=.50 : 1 quarter
Dimes: 1=.53 : 0 Dimes
Nickels: 1=.48 : 0 Nickels
Pennies: ".44,.45,.46,.47"
The extra thought required will slow the change process. It's not that the cashier can't do it, it's that it takes more time to do. If the
Another thing to consider: Most register tills have five coin trays. The unused tray generally holds a couple of rolls of coins. Think about the holdups involved in keeping less extra change in the register.
Both Best Buy and the judge were off their rocker. Best Buy can ask him to leave. The store is private property. If he is a customer, they should have allowed him to continue to calculate prices. If Best Buy asked him to put his laptop away, he should have complied. Further, the article mentions other stores that claim to not have a policy against Mr. Kahlow's behavior. I know for a fact that one of them actually is okay with Mr Kahlow's behavior, but does have a policy (and not just an "unwritten" one)against competitor's doing what Mr. Kahlow was doing. (Which is a different thing - and more on topic - one means a potential sale for them, the other means potential sales for their competition) Their policy is to ask the suspected competitor what they are doing, and then if confirmed as a competitor, they are to make a specific statement essentially revoking that individual's right to visit the store, and then, they are to ask them to leave. When that store shops a competitor, policy compels them to wear normal street clothes, to not use any automated devices, and to admit their affilliation and leave if asked.
I have an NX-2420 Rainbow. If you aren't getting better results out of an Inkjet, you need to get the inkjet fixed. By the time the printer finished layering the colors on, the paper had been thorougly pummeled, and was in rather poor shape. I did get decent results if the image was very light, but even then, colors were flat.
You can look at nearly every consumer electronics category and find this. The easiest is to compare the VCRs that early adoptors owned with the VCR of today. Modern VCRs have HiFi stereo, Super-Quasi playback, VCR+ Plus Gold, Commercial Skip, Commercial Advance, and cost about the same as a low end DVD player. Older models cost close to $1500, were mono and often had wired remotes. They also tend to still work for those few that didn't get bored with them in the late 80's.
Here's why. New technology costs money. Let's say it would have cost $1300 to make that VCR in 1980. Well, the sort of person that drops $1300 on a VCR doesn't want a piece of crap like you can buy a Best Buy for $79.99. They want a quality piece of kit. Besides, bad reviews can kill a new product line, while everyone expects the first models to be expensive, the question is, "do they work?" So, the answer is simple. Build it like a tank. Add $200 to the price, and build it like there's no tomorrow. It's a flagship product, so over the top is good. Dodge sells Vipers not only to sell Vipers, but also to sell Neons. The price of metal and machining hasn't changed too radically since then. Let's say today that the upgrade to that quality wouldn't have been $200, but instead $125. Also add market forces from DVD players - which are mechanically simpler than VCRs - meaning they should cost less than a VCR. Now you have a $80 VCR that has most every feature anyone would need. It would cost $125 to upgrade it to the high quality they "used to" have, so you now have a $205 VCR in an $80 market.
The same thing is happening right now in DVD players and recorders. Keep in mind that the transport hardware's task is almost identical between the player and recorder. You'll see on the same shelf at your local retailer a DVD recorder for $500 and a DVD player for $100. Compare the finish on the two models. Look at how the remote controls are made. Compare the overall feel of the two units.
Or, maybe it's like some person set up an access point in a manner that allows for access freely by all in range. Everyone wants an analogy. Seriously, one could argue that this situation is like a number of others. The truth is that you can't judge it as being like car theft, boxes in a stranger's living room, or the empty can of Red Bull (which I don't drink) I found in my garbage can when I brought it from the street last week. The way I see it, you have to go by what the user did not what the user meant to do. (Maybe the access points should just have a big red toggle switch on the front labeled "Access" with two positions: "Me only" and "Everyone.") What the user did was configure a system that was capable of access control to allow free access from all clients. I consider that permission to use the access. That having been said, I've never transmitted one packet out over the net through one of these mystery APs. Try to think of context. If I found an open AP in a public place, like a school, library, mall, resturaunt or coffee shop, I'd consider it a resource for the patrons. In my admittedly limited war driving (I might have ten miles of it) I've not found such an AP. If I go into a coffee shop next week and discover an open AP, I'm surfing. I'll have also just found my new favorite coffee shop. :)
I loved Dancer in the Dark! Office Space is a great one too, but underappreciated? Not by this crowd.
"Heh,heh. I understand, and that's a fair question. You have selected a very good product. Actually, the value in the plan is that not only do we cover your product against manufacturer's defects, we also guarantee that the product will work just like brand new. What's more, power surges are covered. It doesn't matter how well a product is made, a power surge will take it out. That's why I recommend this plan to all my customers. Add the peace of mind, and the yearly cleanings - something your manufacturer recommends, but doesn't pay for - and you have what I believe is an excelent value. So, with that in mind, would you like to cover the item for five years, or only three?"
Or perhaps it's a little backpedaling to cover up the failure of an over-budget, underachieving program that's yielded only very poor images.
Does the key have a serial number? If so, you may launch a script that authenticates off that as well.
Of course, usb keys are for storage. There is hardware designed for what you want to do.
I was watching the coverage yesterday on Fox. For those unfamiliar with Fox News, they have a ticker at the bottom of the screen that keeps viewers up to date with the most moronic news bits:
NASA: Investigation will follow.
NASA: We are all saddened.
I appreciate that Fox is trying to keep people informed. Who wouldn't expect that everyone at NASA is saddened? Same here. eBay auctions for Shuttle debris. Do you think? What is the most obvious thing to happen following a tragedy that drops bits of spacecraft debris over rural Texas and Louisiana?
Well, just buy a good mouse then. It's a nice feature. My Kensington does it.
-mike
This sounds like an SDTV aka Digital SDTV. Next up are the 720p native sets. Zenith and Phillips have models in the $5000-$6000 range for a 42". These are EDTVs. 1080i native would be an HDTV. Circuit City just took $1000 off the Hitachi - it's $6999.99 now. It looks rather nice, but plasma tv sets really only shine at their native resolutions.
Keep in mind, Gen-X hates being labeled Gen-X. If you want to be Gen-X, you can't be, because you want it, thus excluding you from the group.
Try this:
Pretend you never used a PET.
Start a Blog.
Pretend you bought Milli Vanilli.
Now, act as if you hadn't. Deny that you might have owned it, but from the standpoint of someone who actually did.
Rebel against Wal-Mart, things that are "New and Improved" or "Lemony Fresh." Buy good coffee.
Remember that big business is bad, but Starbucks is good. Nike is bad, except when it's good.
Read Wired. Try to use at least one of the new buzzwords every day.
Read Uber. Don't be offended. Know better than to email a link to your parents.
Do you feel shallow, and feel guilty about it? Do you lust for your younger days, eating pizza and watching bad audio-animationic mice sing? A little uncomfortable in your skin?
Good. Welcome.
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First:
This is the largest front page post I've ever seen...
Second:
HDTV has the Dolby AC-3 technology in the standard. That means Dolby will get a cut off of every TV with a built in digital tuner and every HDTV tuner box. It also means royalties on many broadcast tools. I don't know the license regulations, but it may also mean a cut on every show that uses AC-3. Sucky, but also, time to buy Dolby stock.
Just imagine if the web had turned out this way. Companies keep trying to move things into their corner, even without standards bodies helping. What is Quicktime became the video standard on the web? I love the format, but it's also been hell getting Linux to support it. The web has been burned this way before. Everything will be okay, as long as we burn back.
This is the most asinine thing I've heard in a while. Are you sure? They can't put a freaking button in the car, or maybe setup some WIFI or something? They have to have a geek run out on the course to reset the computer??
Yes, and I know a doctor that learned his trade by playing Operation.
Be afraid.
Yes. At least one pops to mind, but I know there have been a few. Google for Samsung Uproar.
I agree. That is almost as bad as errors in capitalization.
I've had a support nightmare with Microsoft over features in XP. Without going into a tirade, I use the proper quoting, with my reply at the bottom. Microsoft customer service likes to type at the top. I refuse to cave, so we have trade back and forth a progressivly larger, more unwieldy and obfuscated email. It continues for about two to three months and then Microsoft stops replying. I honestly think the support drone gets overwhelmed by the message. I usually have to restart things again. Come to think of it, it's been ten months, I wonder if small claims court would help...