Got a receiver a few months back for $400. Last night I broke my headphones, so I just spent another $150. That's about $50 I've saved in sales tax.
Not to mention, to me it's the principle of the thing. We have the some of the highest taxes in the country, yet the bozos in Sacto can't balance a budget. Fark that. I haven't had a raise in 3 years, and I'm lucky to have a job. It doesn't help me a bit that Uncle Jerry and his band of bozos are doing all they can to encourage employers to move out of state.
J&R is based in NYC, website www.jr.com. No tax, several items have free shipping. I've been buying from them for decades with no problem. Amazon sometimes has a lower price, but now that they charge sales tax (almost 10% here in CA) it's worth it to switch.
I don't work for J&R, nor am I paid to shill for them. Just doing my best to keep Uncle Jerry from getting more money.
Back in the mid-90s I worked with a hella great, hella smart guy. One of the best software engineers I've ever run across. He also believed every conspiracy out there. The hot one at the time was the face on Mars. He had every book on it, followed all the Usenet groups, and, given the chance, would talk your ear off about it. Not to mention the Kennedy assassination and every other whacko theory you can think of.
But he wasn't a jerk about it. If you didn't ask he didn't bring it up.
Wonder what ever happened to him? He went to work for HP, then transferred to one of their Colorado divisions because he didn't want to raise his kids in California. Hi John if you're out there.
Err, no. My daughter was an EMT for a few years (quit when she got preggers with the best twins in the world:). She went through a pretty intense schooling period of about a year. It was all about anatomy and saving lives. None of it was how to drive.
When I was young and just discovered computers, I taught myself to program and then started to program professionally. In those days, late teens/early 20s, I prolly put in 80-100 hours on a computer. Figure 50 hours work, 10 hours school (work full time, college part time), and the rest of my free time programming my TRS-80. I was "working" a lot of hours, but considered it playtime.
The thing was, my boss expected 40 hours a week from me, was very flexible in letting me go to a class or two in the middle of the day, and was very supportive.
When I hit my 30's I'd gotten my BS, was a couple generations removed from my TRS80, wasn't as passionate about it, but my boss suddenly expected 50 hour weeks without caring about my outside life.
Now that I'm in my 50s idle time is 45 hrs/week, when things are happening it goes to 50 and tops out there. I've realized anything past 50 hours a week is counter productive. First, my code sux when I'm tired. Second, my resentment skyrockets and, the more I resent my job, the more time I spend thinking of sticking pins into voodoo dolls of my boss than I do coding. So my ass is in the chair, but my brain is in the cloud.
Came here to say this. I have all the speed I need, but I don't have the ping I need.
My choices are ATT Uverse (which I have, and the ping varies from 25 ms to 65 day to day), Cox (which I had for 6 weeks and threw back at them due to seriously crappy DVR misfeatures), and DISH (not worth trying, I can do the math with lightspeed bouncing off satellites, not to mention my upload).
That said, my understanding is that with Modern Warfare 3 multiplayer, the worse your lag the better your game experience due to a horribly botched lag compensation system. For me the online component is unplayble. Good idea, horrible implementation.
Slackware on floppies ('94), then Yggdrasil for a few releases, then the first release of Red Hat, which I've up until a few months ago when I installed Ubuntu.
When these came out my company made avionics testers, the GRID was used to drive them. For about 6 months sales went gangbusters to the Navy and Air Force, then died down. A sales guy went to Edwards AFB to see why, and saw a bunch of our testers in a cabinet but no laptops.
Turned out the officers all wanted laptops, but they couldn't buy them. $40,000 avionics testers, on the other hand,.......
A trend I've been noticing for a month or so. Left side of the screen is obscured by the links to Twitter, FB, etc. Bottom is obscured by telling me I don't allow cookies and cajoling me into accepting them, helpfully giving me a button to allow cookies from all sites.
Might be a money making opportunity for someone to make plate-sized magnetically attached doohickeys we could slap on our license plate as we exit the car. Make even more money by selling advertising on the things. Just don't forget to remove it when you get back in your car.
Doesn't solve the problem of getting caught heading down the highway, but does solve the problem of parking in a strip club parking lot.
Came to post this. The article throws about "hi power", "mows down about anything", without ever specifying the caliber. 7.62x51 (not x56) is a standard NATO round, about 10% less powerful than a 30.06.
And as someone above said, the gun is probably worth twice what the TV he ordered is.
Ya, I mispoke. These are the ones who think they're elite. I suspect half the attendees are like the script kiddies in MW who load a cheat onto their PS3, then brag about how good they are.
from survivors of organ trafficking, sex trafficking
Survivors of Organ trafficking? You mean people are really waking up in ice filled bathtubs? Or are the syndicates making the 3 breasted prostitutes from Total Recal?
Back in the day we made an avionics tester with a Grid laptop controlling it. Suckers sold like hotcakes. About 6 months later a sales droid did a follow up sales visit and found all the avionics testers in a corner. Seems the bigwigs all wanted laptops, but they weren't allowed to buy them. 30k avionics testers, on the other hand....
/ remind me again why the guv'mint spends so much?
When I was in school, from jr high to college, we always asked "is this gonna be on the test?". If it wasn't we didn't pay attention. The only difference is that now the teacher doesn't get to make up the test, it's done for them, so they can't have BS tests that measure seat time more than learning.
Nobody has mentioned Jack Ganssle or Embedded Systems Magazine? Visit http://www.ganssle.com/, subscribe to The Embedded Muse, and if possible go to one of his Seminars.
I'm lucky, I started as an electronic tech in the late 70's. I learned to write software to wiggle wires for troubleshooting, engineering found out about it and drafted me. Went to school for my degree (math), and haven't had much trouble working since.
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Got a receiver a few months back for $400. Last night I broke my headphones, so I just spent another $150. That's about $50 I've saved in sales tax.
Not to mention, to me it's the principle of the thing. We have the some of the highest taxes in the country, yet the bozos in Sacto can't balance a budget. Fark that. I haven't had a raise in 3 years, and I'm lucky to have a job. It doesn't help me a bit that Uncle Jerry and his band of bozos are doing all they can to encourage employers to move out of state.
J&R is based in NYC, website www.jr.com. No tax, several items have free shipping. I've been buying from them for decades with no problem. Amazon sometimes has a lower price, but now that they charge sales tax (almost 10% here in CA) it's worth it to switch.
I don't work for J&R, nor am I paid to shill for them. Just doing my best to keep Uncle Jerry from getting more money.
Back in the mid-90s I worked with a hella great, hella smart guy. One of the best software engineers I've ever run across. He also believed every conspiracy out there. The hot one at the time was the face on Mars. He had every book on it, followed all the Usenet groups, and, given the chance, would talk your ear off about it. Not to mention the Kennedy assassination and every other whacko theory you can think of.
But he wasn't a jerk about it. If you didn't ask he didn't bring it up.
Wonder what ever happened to him? He went to work for HP, then transferred to one of their Colorado divisions because he didn't want to raise his kids in California. Hi John if you're out there.
Err, no. My daughter was an EMT for a few years (quit when she got preggers with the best twins in the world :). She went through a pretty intense schooling period of about a year. It was all about anatomy and saving lives. None of it was how to drive.
When I was young and just discovered computers, I taught myself to program and then started to program professionally. In those days, late teens/early 20s, I prolly put in 80-100 hours on a computer. Figure 50 hours work, 10 hours school (work full time, college part time), and the rest of my free time programming my TRS-80. I was "working" a lot of hours, but considered it playtime.
The thing was, my boss expected 40 hours a week from me, was very flexible in letting me go to a class or two in the middle of the day, and was very supportive.
When I hit my 30's I'd gotten my BS, was a couple generations removed from my TRS80, wasn't as passionate about it, but my boss suddenly expected 50 hour weeks without caring about my outside life.
Now that I'm in my 50s idle time is 45 hrs/week, when things are happening it goes to 50 and tops out there. I've realized anything past 50 hours a week is counter productive. First, my code sux when I'm tired. Second, my resentment skyrockets and, the more I resent my job, the more time I spend thinking of sticking pins into voodoo dolls of my boss than I do coding. So my ass is in the chair, but my brain is in the cloud.
Then again, I graduated in '76.
Oh yeah, we also learned hex in a new math class. But they never mentioned why we should care.
Came here to say this. I have all the speed I need, but I don't have the ping I need.
My choices are ATT Uverse (which I have, and the ping varies from 25 ms to 65 day to day), Cox (which I had for 6 weeks and threw back at them due to seriously crappy DVR misfeatures), and DISH (not worth trying, I can do the math with lightspeed bouncing off satellites, not to mention my upload).
That said, my understanding is that with Modern Warfare 3 multiplayer, the worse your lag the better your game experience due to a horribly botched lag compensation system. For me the online component is unplayble. Good idea, horrible implementation.
Slackware on floppies ('94), then Yggdrasil for a few releases, then the first release of Red Hat, which I've up until a few months ago when I installed Ubuntu.
I, snotnose, am the author of the horror story above. I thought I was logged in.
Don't bother contacting me via Herb Utsmelz, I won't be using it any more.
When these came out my company made avionics testers, the GRID was used to drive them. For about 6 months sales went gangbusters to the Navy and Air Force, then died down. A sales guy went to Edwards AFB to see why, and saw a bunch of our testers in a cabinet but no laptops.
Turned out the officers all wanted laptops, but they couldn't buy them. $40,000 avionics testers, on the other hand, .......
5. Let me bring my car with me so I don't have to rent a crappy one at exorbitant prices at my destination.
A trend I've been noticing for a month or so. Left side of the screen is obscured by the links to Twitter, FB, etc. Bottom is obscured by telling me I don't allow cookies and cajoling me into accepting them, helpfully giving me a button to allow cookies from all sites.
No thanks, I see this shit and I leave.
Might be a money making opportunity for someone to make plate-sized magnetically attached doohickeys we could slap on our license plate as we exit the car. Make even more money by selling advertising on the things. Just don't forget to remove it when you get back in your car.
Doesn't solve the problem of getting caught heading down the highway, but does solve the problem of parking in a strip club parking lot.
Came to post this. The article throws about "hi power", "mows down about anything", without ever specifying the caliber. 7.62x51 (not x56) is a standard NATO round, about 10% less powerful than a 30.06.
And as someone above said, the gun is probably worth twice what the TV he ordered is.
Ya, I mispoke. These are the ones who think they're elite. I suspect half the attendees are like the script kiddies in MW who load a cheat onto their PS3, then brag about how good they are.
Still, how many of these peeps fell for it?
The only newsworthy chunk of info here is, How many of these peeps fell for it? These are the elite, what percentage fell for it?
from survivors of organ trafficking, sex trafficking
Survivors of Organ trafficking? You mean people are really waking up in ice filled bathtubs? Or are the syndicates making the 3 breasted prostitutes from Total Recal?
Back in the day we made an avionics tester with a Grid laptop controlling it. Suckers sold like hotcakes. About 6 months later a sales droid did a follow up sales visit and found all the avionics testers in a corner. Seems the bigwigs all wanted laptops, but they weren't allowed to buy them. 30k avionics testers, on the other hand....
/ remind me again why the guv'mint spends so much?
1. Leave cellphone on coffee table
2. ???
3. ???
4. Profit!
Think of the dust cloud as a kid with a magnifying glass, and Japan as the ants.
Switched to Chrome about 2 weeks ago because FF was just too bloody slow. Now I have no desire to switch back.
Same here, BS in Applied Math and I do embedded software.
I never actually use the math I learned, except when I go off on a tangent....
When I was in school, from jr high to college, we always asked "is this gonna be on the test?". If it wasn't we didn't pay attention. The only difference is that now the teacher doesn't get to make up the test, it's done for them, so they can't have BS tests that measure seat time more than learning.
Nobody has mentioned Jack Ganssle or Embedded Systems Magazine? Visit http://www.ganssle.com/, subscribe to The Embedded Muse, and if possible go to one of his Seminars.
I'm lucky, I started as an electronic tech in the late 70's. I learned to write software to wiggle wires for troubleshooting, engineering found out about it and drafted me. Went to school for my degree (math), and haven't had much trouble working since.