$47k is about average, yes. My sis teaches music at a public school and makes $50k with six years in that district and a master's degree + twelve credits.
The higher paid public schoolteachers around me make up to about $90k/year. And they deserve more.
You've never had any problems with Dell service or support? As somebody who used to work at a 2,000 employee firm that gave nearly every employee a Dell laptop, I can assure you that you're lucky. We often had several dozen machines that were stuck in a cycle of us->dell->us->dell->us...
Their business level machines are alright, the personal machines are pretty much shit, and the service and support requires a lot of patience. Sad to say, they're one of the better PC manufacturers despite their shoddy service department.
Well, there are a number of other prizes as well, but yes, the house take on a lottery is completely insane, usually somewhere in the neighborhood of 50%.
If you actually want to win $25k, you're better off going to Vegas, putting $25 down on black, then hoping black comes up ten times in a row. The odds of that working are only about one in 1200 or so, depending if you're playing on a single zero or double zero wheel.
Sure you can't do it as often, but that's for the best anyway, isn't it?
for what it's worth Consumer Reports gives this information, and an annual website subscription is only $20 or $25. It's not free, but it's a great reference to search any number of purchases.
Or as another superior alternative, check out Weitse Venema's mailer, Postfix. It was built from the ground up to be fast and secure, and it benefits from not being maintained by the notoriously finicky djb. (if you've never dealt with him, he's much like a Theo De Raadt, except he doesn't even have a good cause.)
I think you and I have differing abilities to comprehend the English language. For example, I understand that a sentence which states 'doing X is old news, as is doing Y or Z' means that actions X, Y and Z are all old news. You on the other hand, seem to think that sentence means that Y and Z are all X.
Surely there are more interesting things that have been done with doom other than poorly recreating a computer-generated battle scene.
That's been done before, what with the Bond WADs, the Gotham City WAD and such.
Even improving Doom's 3d is old news, as is making Doom playable on a terminal, or turning it into a white power supremacy war simulation.
What's the best Doom mod you've used? Personally, I always dug the twilight zone mods!
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I had a slightly different first reaction. My reaction, after a little thought, was to conclude that the poster is either a troll or a fucking retard.
Seriously, I have a hard time imagining how you could design a storage system with a worse unneccessary cost/MB or lower reliability.
That's not how it works in Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland or New Jersey. In those states, most of the EZ-passes just flash a light or a sign at you, and there's nothing you can do if it fails to register you, except drive through it and hope they properly make the manual match. If they don't (which in my experience, they don't always do very well), then you get a notice saying you owe the maximum toll.
Oddly enough, they do this even if you have a defective EZ-Pass. (Apparently large numbers of the 1st gen New York-issued EZ-Pass tags are failing. Mine failed last spring, and I know of at least three other people who've had the same problem.)
Trust me, it's not driver error, it's ez-pass error.
I've seen a large number of supermarkets where you check yourself out. You scan it, you bag it, you shove your cash into the slot, you leave.
I have mixed feelings on it, since clearly they're shifting the labor to me without providing me with a financial reward, however on the plus side I don't have to hear the checkout girl say 'ewww' when I purchase tampons and condoms simultaneously.
Firstly, the strips don't all line up, they vary in position depending on the denomination. Secondly, the mylar strips don't show up on x-rays. Thirdly, the current method customs uses to detect large quantities of unauthorized cash is the cash-sniffing dog.
Fortunately for people who are travelling abroad and forgot to declare the $50k in their carry-on, cash-sniffing dogs are few and bar between
That's a great way to handle your email. Assuming of course you don't run a business, or have a job. And assuming that all of your friends are completely virus-conscious. And assuming that you have the preview pane turned off.
Face facts, your "solution" is as bad as the problem. If you can't use your email client to read all your email, then your client is broken.
For what it's worth, I use Entourage and mutt for my email.
Actually, that part is mentioned to some degree in the extraordinarily verbose firstmonday article. It goes (and goes and goes) into detail about drafting, and other aerodynamic tactics (fanning, slingshots, etc).
As for how to tell if somebody is passing, the firstmonday article notes that for a pass, the trailing car will drop about 1 1/2 to 2 car lengths back, then run up for a slingshot, whereas they get air on their radiators by merely dropping back about 1/2 of a car length.
Spotters around the track tell the drivers what's going on around them, so it's not so much a game of mirrors as it is a game of spotters giving radio contact.
Yes, Clinton may have lied about a question which shouldn't have been asked. Good thing we've brought honor to the whitehouse by selecting a president who'll kill for oil, who is starting a new mini-vietnam in the Phillipines, who is willing to put American lives in grave danger rather than allow the inspections to work, and who spent less investigating the whole of 9/11 than was spent investigating each individual inch of Clinton's penis.
Yep... thank god we got rid of that perjurous Clinton, now life is wonderful, what with our roaring economy, our feelings of comfort and safety at home and our fantastic new international reputation.
Yes, but the banks are claiming that the system contains no vulnerabilities at all. The presence of any vulnerability demonstrates that the banks are being less than honest with the courts.
Last I checked, it's significantly illegal to be less than honest with the courts.
I have also seen a bottle rocket set an entire BLOCK on fire.
Do you live in the thatched roof district or something? Seriously, there's just no damned way this can happen unless the block was soaked in gasoline in advance, and even then it'd be iffy.
For what it's worth, I'm not claiming the story to be a fabrication, and in fact I believe it to be true. But I feel it's irresponsible to continue the spread of a story without proof of veracity, even if it does paint Gates as a complete dickhead who doesn't care about consumers.
I suggest that anybody wondering about the source of the text in this slashdot article follow Omnifarious's link. It is indeed clear that the comp.risks post was the original source for the article in question.
Unfortunately, comp.risks is not an ACM Journal, it's an ACM moderated newsgroup, so it must be considered to have the reliability of a newsgroup posting. It would be excellent if somebody found an alternate source with greater verisimilitude, as the current source consists of a hearsay translation of an unreferenced article.
I bought the above article. It's not about the Focus article, although it does recount Bill Gates throwing a tantrum, calling an interviewer a liar, for recounting the well-documented allegation that competitors have been required to reveal their business plans to Microsoft in order to get access to a Microsoft developer's conference. It also notes that Gates used to brag that Microsoft "doesn't talk to users."
It also touches upon a currently unused business plan (to be used in Palladium?) whereby Microsoft wants to make a small cut of money from every computerized transaction that you engage in.
Other than that, it talks about anti-trust issues, the fact that users think the software is bloated, that other companies are sick of being taken captive by Microsoft, and that Microsoft is rich and powerful. It talks about how Microsoft gets customers to use their products by simply making SOMETHING, even if it sucks, because customers are more likely to use something v2 if something v1 sucked than the are to try someotherthing.
It's not a terrible read, but it's not the Focus article, and it's not really worth $2.50 either.
Why buy cables that cost more than your components?
Could you please show me an HD DirecTV receiver that costs less than $125? Hell, I'll purchase one for you if you can show me where I can get an HD receiver for $125. (After I purchase the rest of their stock, and sell it on eBay)
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As the economy recovers, corporate spending is again on the rise, and with it will come the rise of the Segway. Truly, the Segway will change the way we walk to the cafeteria and the bathroom!
I don't know what I was thinking when I bought those nice speakers, a quality receiver, or a nice BIG television. I could've saved a fortune by watching TV on my flat panel display in my office! That'd be so much better than the big TV that I have in my living room. After all, my office chair ensures much better posture than my couch or my recliner.
Okay, so you don't NEED to have a big TV... as long as you don't have, y'know... friends... or family... or a desire to watch TV from a distance greater than six feet.
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The higher paid public schoolteachers around me make up to about $90k/year. And they deserve more.
Their business level machines are alright, the personal machines are pretty much shit, and the service and support requires a lot of patience. Sad to say, they're one of the better PC manufacturers despite their shoddy service department.
If you actually want to win $25k, you're better off going to Vegas, putting $25 down on black, then hoping black comes up ten times in a row. The odds of that working are only about one in 1200 or so, depending if you're playing on a single zero or double zero wheel.
Sure you can't do it as often, but that's for the best anyway, isn't it?
for what it's worth Consumer Reports gives this information, and an annual website subscription is only $20 or $25. It's not free, but it's a great reference to search any number of purchases.
Or as another superior alternative, check out Weitse Venema's mailer, Postfix. It was built from the ground up to be fast and secure, and it benefits from not being maintained by the notoriously finicky djb. (if you've never dealt with him, he's much like a Theo De Raadt, except he doesn't even have a good cause.)
Learn to read before you get all huffy.
Even improving Doom's 3d is old news, as is making Doom playable on a terminal, or turning it into a white power supremacy war simulation.
What's the best Doom mod you've used? Personally, I always dug the twilight zone mods!
Seriously, I have a hard time imagining how you could design a storage system with a worse unneccessary cost/MB or lower reliability.
Oddly enough, they do this even if you have a defective EZ-Pass. (Apparently large numbers of the 1st gen New York-issued EZ-Pass tags are failing. Mine failed last spring, and I know of at least three other people who've had the same problem.)
Trust me, it's not driver error, it's ez-pass error.
I have mixed feelings on it, since clearly they're shifting the labor to me without providing me with a financial reward, however on the plus side I don't have to hear the checkout girl say 'ewww' when I purchase tampons and condoms simultaneously.
Firstly, the strips don't all line up, they vary in position depending on the denomination. Secondly, the mylar strips don't show up on x-rays. Thirdly, the current method customs uses to detect large quantities of unauthorized cash is the cash-sniffing dog.
Fortunately for people who are travelling abroad and forgot to declare the $50k in their carry-on, cash-sniffing dogs are few and bar between
Face facts, your "solution" is as bad as the problem. If you can't use your email client to read all your email, then your client is broken.
For what it's worth, I use Entourage and mutt for my email.
What if that web form acts as the general ledger for a fully web-enabled accounting system?
Not every web form consists of 'vet some posted variables then put them into a database with no alteration'.
As for how to tell if somebody is passing, the firstmonday article notes that for a pass, the trailing car will drop about 1 1/2 to 2 car lengths back, then run up for a slingshot, whereas they get air on their radiators by merely dropping back about 1/2 of a car length.
Spotters around the track tell the drivers what's going on around them, so it's not so much a game of mirrors as it is a game of spotters giving radio contact.
HDTV pixels are square (HD resolutions 143 1920x1080 and 1280x720 on 16:9 screens). I haven't a damned clue why those screenshots are screwy.
Yep... thank god we got rid of that perjurous Clinton, now life is wonderful, what with our roaring economy, our feelings of comfort and safety at home and our fantastic new international reputation.
Last I checked, it's significantly illegal to be less than honest with the courts.
Want to see this flexibility removed? Get the history of a law enforcement agency with a thing for vintage porn.
For what it's worth, I'm not claiming the story to be a fabrication, and in fact I believe it to be true. But I feel it's irresponsible to continue the spread of a story without proof of veracity, even if it does paint Gates as a complete dickhead who doesn't care about consumers.
Unfortunately, comp.risks is not an ACM Journal, it's an ACM moderated newsgroup, so it must be considered to have the reliability of a newsgroup posting. It would be excellent if somebody found an alternate source with greater verisimilitude, as the current source consists of a hearsay translation of an unreferenced article.
It also touches upon a currently unused business plan (to be used in Palladium?) whereby Microsoft wants to make a small cut of money from every computerized transaction that you engage in.
Other than that, it talks about anti-trust issues, the fact that users think the software is bloated, that other companies are sick of being taken captive by Microsoft, and that Microsoft is rich and powerful. It talks about how Microsoft gets customers to use their products by simply making SOMETHING, even if it sucks, because customers are more likely to use something v2 if something v1 sucked than the are to try someotherthing.
It's not a terrible read, but it's not the Focus article, and it's not really worth $2.50 either.
As the economy recovers, corporate spending is again on the rise, and with it will come the rise of the Segway. Truly, the Segway will change the way we walk to the cafeteria and the bathroom!
I don't know what I was thinking when I bought those nice speakers, a quality receiver, or a nice BIG television. I could've saved a fortune by watching TV on my flat panel display in my office! That'd be so much better than the big TV that I have in my living room. After all, my office chair ensures much better posture than my couch or my recliner.
Okay, so you don't NEED to have a big TV... as long as you don't have, y'know... friends... or family... or a desire to watch TV from a distance greater than six feet.